Sermon
The Secret Place | Pr Janaronson Nagarajah
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Da Good morning everyone that shanha, welcome back to X
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Church Nearli that you like.
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That you your week has been good, so it's you
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only since you call the.
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You know, Ex Melbourne just celebrated their twelve year and
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it was read just now because we are two hours
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behind of them, right yeah, we have two hours behind
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of them. So both our pastors uh kind of and
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passendra with them and the string to them.
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The more hunting, the Taman the Tonian chin.
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So they send their blessings and regards to all of you.
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So migranted.
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She won't hold twelve year is actually a very long time.
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So only.
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I pray that God will give Ex Melbourne many many
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more years.
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To come that she gave X more open.
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The calling that this church has is to be a
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church planting church.
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Who just don't tell her so X Church.
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We are called to pioneers. We are called to plant
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church as where the Lord the leaders.
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So Norman, I don't hear the defund woman and is.
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Part of this plan as well.
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So actually.
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I always tell people which is true. Ex London was planted
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out of life.
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So you know it's.
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She turned x money is planted out of.
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Downtown like don't.
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And I know we may be a young church, young
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meaning probably eighty percent of our people here campus students.
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They currently can't bus in syrt.
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But this morning it is a reminder that God can
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do great things through young people.
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So she wait.
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And uh other ones like me too.
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Oh yes you it's okay, young walk all.
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Right, So don't despise your youth. That's what the Bible say.
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So you doing some somethinging.
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God can use anyone who is willing.
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Son, okay, young fan Itteran.
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We always tell people that the greatest ability is your
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availability to God.
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Difference sounds just like you need thing.
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I may not be the most talented son to run
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I may not be the most exciting preacher.
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Sing thunder.
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I may not sing well what can I you tun
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the poor? I may not play the guitar or you
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cannot put. I may not know how to mix the sound.
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Well can atual nonager in shan.
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But one thing I know twenty years of walking with Jesus.
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As long as you awail yourself to him, he can use.
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You in the towns of sounding years to the you
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can you need the sing she's so youngly.
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He can and I imagine myself to be able to
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drive the church went went. I can be because from
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Alagian students, right, we go take our driving license or
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in Manuel back then.
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You marant you actually manus.
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After successfully got our license? What we do with that?
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We drive a doka?
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No no, no with her it was so easy in
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your title either.
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But many of the wins these days it's not automatic.
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Since I went also theos don't it's Manuel. So yeah.
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So back then, when the church has the need, you
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were calling up for volunteers to drive the church wind.
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So just childhood as a whole.
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I needed to learn a few rounds just to get
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the vent right.
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No, no, tansity, I want to go.
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You know the road as you go up to this
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Obama the seven eleven, there's always that slope deadfunt you
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you can see sound. The greatest fear for any manual
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car or van driver is that your wind will not
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go up and we'll go down.
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So just so much it's some other.
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Who is she does to each If you guys been
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to submit where our sa church plan is, it's all
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going up winding up right. The greatest fear is always
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the win. Go up and it can't come down. It
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will come down. You can go up.
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Some other SA.
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In the early years when I was just driving, I
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just gotta have faith. I say that God give me
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the wisdom to balance the clutch. Very well.
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That tells in concerns bound you treat the ping hunk.
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Now, what I'm trying to say is that make no excuses.
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Just don't have to take.
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When you say yes to God, he will give you
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the skill. When you say yes to God, he will
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give you the ability.
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You need to sound son like she's so you need
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to you again. Listen you again, negative China.
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And when you say no to God, you would not
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know how big your potential is.
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Sounds son so like like she told us to you.
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So always remember the greatest ability is availability to God.
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The gentleman y so no woman like you need the sing.
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The young cannot say I'm too young, therefore I cannot
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do okay, so singer, So you all cannot say I'm
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too old, therefore I cannot do someone in time you.
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So you will put.
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Everyone must have a candle.
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Spirit man, you cann't and so sing ti.
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Because the journey of faith is very exciting, and.
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The singing the face around and you're saying phony.
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Bible says that we should walk by faith and not
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by sight and.
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Opinion.
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So often it's not about knowing it all, Dan need
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we do? You know? Woman most of the time is
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not knowing about a lot of things. But we choose
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to do because we choose to have faith in the
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one who calls us.
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Moments I put union, can hear big amens, just.
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Big amen at the back.
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Rowing is that how mad.
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That I caught all of them by surprise? Amen? Praise
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the lot. Hey after church, Uh, express will be serving
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some cookies to all of you, so it's especial getting
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it wasn't big by me obviously you watch every year
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during the the Pabai period, my office cleaner will give
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me some cookies.
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And the sohona wan to.
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Is a pink this year, right. I no longer have
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a physical office, you know, because uh we all go
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hot desking.
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No wit or just the bank.
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I used to have an office or turning you Pan
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company decided to take away the face to convert it
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to other purposes. Pay young tool so it's so cute.
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Is a respectful term like we give to the cleaners.
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Keep on calling me, sir, Where are you, sir? Where
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are you?
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You're going to have you that.
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This block? Can you come to that block? After a
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few a couple of weeks of the I finally received
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the cookies.
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You don'ta been gune.
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And the one thing that I want us to remember
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is that if you can dine with the CEO, you
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should be able to dine with the janitor and cow
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like she is like honey and c and is she
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you can dine with kings. You should be able to
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dine with the gardeners.
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So can one like You're not gonna.
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Her. Especially as we are called to love Mason, we
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should treat everyone, regardless of raised religion creed with respect.
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I'm ignorant, quanti ignorant.
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That is a hard bit of the gospel. So not
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so I'm here to share with you the fruit of
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the labor of my love towards my office cleaners.
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You can even firn sound.
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And perhaps it is also a call to all of
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you who are you know on campus in offices. The
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next time and you pass by an office cleaner, the
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next time you pass by a janitor, the next time
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you pass by a security guard, how are you treating them?
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Are you indifferent towards their presence?
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Actually? So holy? Do it harmon the title.
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Because it's easy to be indifferent to people that are
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day to day there doing things for the community like
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cleaning and all. And yet we walk past them, not
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even saying hello, or not even taking the interest to
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know them by name.
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Hold on face and eat. She waits, You fool, couldn't think.
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So. Perhaps it's a reminder to all of us to
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next time when we walk around our community, be courteous today.
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Just downside, look what amon so hold on it, Hammon,
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just the mind they were.
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There because because of them, we have a clean place.
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To work in time and Norman Ganting the defunct.
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Because of them, we have a clean toilet to.
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Use in with Hamon Ganting the seas because of.
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Them, offices on campus, secure in bank.
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It's a gender.
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So you know Christmas is coming. It is also a
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good time to do good to the community. So don't
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put on the search be part of your homes Christmas chair.
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Like she told the need the home cells to the
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towns on the Christmas hip.
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I'm sure this coming December we can all make a
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difference in this festive time.
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So something that titles downs on make.
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And truly share the meaning of Christmas. Like she don't
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like fun, don't get offended. If you love Center, it's
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never about Center, It's always about Jesus. Also amen, Amen.
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So the topic for today is the secret place switch
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mean true? Everyone say the secret place making and so
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in mean true. How many of you, when you're growing
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up you're like to play hide and seek? Yeah, you
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like to play hide and sick? How many of you
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you're still finding the person you're supposed to find it? Even?
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Can I say eating children?
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Sally? You remember fifteen years ago I played this game
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and this person I couldn't find and just left the
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person there.
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Out her.
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Is a very easy game, do.
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You see?
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You just need to have to roll. One is a
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person who is hiding. Another one is the person who
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is sick.
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Just food.
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My nephew and niece loves high and sick, you see,
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So after they care, they'll be dropped at my house. Afterword,
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the parents will come and pick them up.
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Hammed go to Tai Hammond.
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I'm always the first one to arrive home because I'm
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the boss, meaning the boss is not constrained by work time,
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and the knees will always say, let's play hide and
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seek now because they are so afraid of my upper
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my sally, my english loss by second floor hyper and
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they say, okay, let's play at the ground floor.
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One.
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I always remember this instance when my niece will hide
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herself above the sofar, taking a big pillow to cover
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half a body. But you can still see the lake.
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So you knownada.
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That's the kid's version of high and sick. You're not
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just hi to the hung like all good parents, good anti,
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good uncle. What do we do? All right? We'll say
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where are you? We pretend we don't see them, do
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you know?
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So we can't how the annualia don't come down?
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Five minutes later we'll come and say, oh, there you
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are open. Don't then you say play again and again,
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time one time. So I have a few techniques. I
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get so bored I decided to go up do my
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own thing and come down and find them.
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No, no, no, you know do you guys? That's what
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I tal hamma, that's uh.
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Sick for you always tell them why don't you play
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my favorite game? Instead of playing their favorite game? You know,
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what's my favorite game?
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No you gramming John. So if we apparently like one
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was you on you see.
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I always tell them let's play, sit down and do nothing.
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No you, Gramma Jo say so boringmon by my reasons
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to because you're.
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All of us that we are very familiar behind six.
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See SUSI.
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It requires us to go to a secret place where
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hopefully no one will find us.
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Omen she like that woman.
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When the Bible says the secret place, no matter how
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secret it is, God will always.
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Be there, Ni kanting woman.
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Times we think that we can be running away from God,
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hiding from God. But no matter where we are and
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what stage of our life we are in, God will
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always be there.
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She told you.
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In Mario six six ver six. It says, but you,
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when you pray, go into your room, and when you
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have shot your door, pray to your father who is
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in the secret place, and your father, who sees you
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in secret, will reward you openly.
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That matter food and.
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The call of God for us, and the reminder for
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us is to come back to that secret place.
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In woman out take in me too.
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If you were to hide, we should hide from the
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distractions of the world and to start tuning to him.
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So she told she has in you need just sounds
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likes a wrong fundament.
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Not to hide away from God. But we are called
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to hide in Him in the secret place, you know.
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Unissen, Like she thought, Unison, that's what anament.
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We live in a society where, if you were to
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reflect your day to day life, we are getting more distracted.
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You fast enough omens I meencing.
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It's so difficult to sit still for just five minutes
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and do nothing. Hence my favorite game and you'll see
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because it reminds me about our ability to sit still
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and to really tune in to God.
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Around and bound Roman Tudizon actually intention.
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So when Jesus says, when you pray, go into your room,
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it basically means there must be a set location for you.
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Don't who are you? If you know?
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Many people, due to our lifestyle, we often associate to
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say that I do my quiet time and I'm driving.
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I do my quiet time when uh I am making breakfast?
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What you leave you?
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One person even told me I do my quiet time
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and I'm in the toilet.
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God, friends, and that's the links you.
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I think we need to come back to the place
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where we're got to put on more reverence in who
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we are meeting.
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Down. You w agency it will.
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Cost you something to really have an encounter with God.
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And let me tell you, your encounter will not be
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in the toilet. Your encounter will not be in the
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traffic jam. So because there seems to be a culture
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sipping in where we would rather be convenient in our
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worship and seeking God rather than paying the price in
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the secret place to have a set aside location to
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encounter God.
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Like when the funding found a person that you need,
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she sees what a food t im downtown.
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Like many of our expressions of worship, many of our
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approach in how to read the Bible, how to pray
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comes from our perception of God.
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You know, she thinks by general, she do something that
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doesn't light the woman her like you can't die.
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But if you would be guided by the word of God,
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you will see that every time people approach God, they
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will approach him in reverence.
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Sons, she does, you cannot, and you choose tammons that
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she turn us turns out huh, So to.
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Enter into that secret place, you're gonna have confidence that
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God loves you.
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So she does the immature downtown only contains a.
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Thousand I do you really believe that God loves you?
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Turn the sound things? I?
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Do you really believe that God wants to have communion
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with you?
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It's done, it's under sund thing, it's a thousen don't
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know who is you?
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Do you really believe that in that secret place God
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will reveal to you his heart.
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Something like intual son intuh lie she's sounding.
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Because sometimes we are not drawn into that secret place.
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It's because we lack that faith to believe that God
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is interested in what we have to say in.
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Like Inmitual sings in two thousand Sunaho that woman woman.
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So what we lack the faith to even have that
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encounter with God?
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Sonata sings, sings thou like that Inmiturencient to me?
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Hearing from God and hearing his voice, It's not as
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complex as you think. So because His voice for you
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and me is already recorded in the Bible. Eating everything
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is already recorded in the Bible.
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You may e can the searching tho eating.
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So the first step in recognizing the voice of God
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is to read the Bible.
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Do something.
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But many of us wants the fantastic, the bombastic voice
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of God. And you want to hear the audible voice
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of God. You want to see the vision of God.
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Young.
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He can do this, but we must first have the
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foundation of reading his words. Because Hawaii yesterday, I share
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a devotion to a group of people that we usually
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have devotion with. And I took it from some chapter ninety.
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I believe it was worth child so teachers to number
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our days that we may obtain wisdom.
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So you had the gun links you gun ordering the
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pan like she friends are not going, lin, friends are
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not going. That's a pain to you, jumped out. So
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you need the gent woman, So sontatin maintain the rules.
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How gentlemen, the.
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Thing the number our days that we may obtain wisdom.
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You need the woman like she eating the roots of
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Howraman turns out to the thing.
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That words that versus basically caused me to reflect on
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my own life.
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So I got the thing. Well, not be around or
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she doesn't that she's mean?
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And I assume if I have three months to live,
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how would I live my life differently?
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What you guys? What you sunk? Like she I don't
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want to like you mean?
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If I have one week to live, how would I
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live my life differently?
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What you, because since she had who her like, she
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wore to the same.
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And very gently. I want to put out caution to
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all of us that we should start really reflecting on
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our life and see how have you been spending our
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life on whether we are spending on things that are
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of eternal value or we're spending on things that are temporal.
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How much it is? I mean, sheout son, what is what?
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I what? What?
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I young?
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And then we should never fool around with our life
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because you never know in the next hour whether you
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will still be around.
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And you know, I'm putting she talks to how someone
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you see young put.
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I know it sounds very somber like, but are you
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scaring us?
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You know, settlement.
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I'm just saying that's my reflection yesterday. What that causes
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me to reflect that life can be shot.
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Just around.
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Thunder, But it's what we may do make use with
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our life that counts.
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A center. Woman threw her and she si, you know,
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the semine like she turns the gold minist I want
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to be counted in God, So why your patient canting?
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I don't want to be counted wasting my life away without.
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God, just the way I would. Semin is not patient,
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I just get a semina's land failure.
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So to build our life around the secret place, it
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requires discipline.
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So you around the semin and she told Dandling they
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gotta homes the home appreciar you.
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With you, because Ess says, when you go into the room,
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you gotta shut the door and ing ru.
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The manesonia guan sumon.
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In other words, you gotta shut out every distraction.
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So now why your pastor you're nice around in fundin
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the seat in the front time.
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Why can we live without our hand phone for one hour?
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Misterphone and go like she? Are you taucers to just
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see God? Just wait like she do?
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I use one hour? Okay. People sometimes ask me, so
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how long should I pray? No? Pray five minutes and
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then I'm gone, okay. Can I pray three minutes and
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then I'm gone? Okay? Wait signs know what you can?
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I pray when I and then I'm gone, okay.
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Waitus know what you do.
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There's no clear mention in the Bible how long you
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should prayer?
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Change you the coun.
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Right, Paul says, the Tessalonians pray without seizing no.
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Bots and see the town.
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If I were to use that as a guide. Means
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every second you gotta pray, pray without seizing.
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The dog out.
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Jesus told the disciples, could you not watch with me
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for an hour? Hour?
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No? Yes, that she don.
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For an hour. I always use one hour. The point is,
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as our life are consistently being impacted and influenced by technology,
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let not technology rob you from your quality time with God.
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So you known is down curty that Nickson who was
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the negative.
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Go back to the basic?
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Did you without negative?
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To All you need is just your physical Bible. That
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don't say no, you share your All you need is
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just to give time just like you Fulu read decision,
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sit still and the social read the word of God
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and she doesn't know why and then allow him to
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speak to you only like she so like she's doing
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it so Hart. God is not defined by timing in
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Candy the surgeon, He's from eternity. Also we are defined
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by timing our years. She can't die, so we cannot
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rush God. So Dowdy, we cannot rushok Taudi. I'm just
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speaking out of conviction because I go through this as well.
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That she pins sitting surching.
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The pace of our life is getting.
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Faster down on the profar that you are your quiet.
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But we must learn how to wind down and be
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stilled before God.
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Because she ruled her like she found my sie holds
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on the size. Don't actually unsing, because.
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If we don't know how to be patient, if we
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don't know how to be free from distraction, we may
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miss the very thing we need from God.
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But like she passes the first thing that she pawed woman,
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she to woman the samina so quickly.
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There are five things in the secret Place that's immutual
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down the secret Place often reveals and reinforces God's purpose
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for you.
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It's immutual Downtown's ties to the gunsown down in Mark.
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Chapter one, verses thirty five to thirty eight. Now in
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the morning, having reason a long while before daylight, he
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went out and departed to a solitary place, and there
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he prayed. So there's a time. There's a location where
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Jesus prayed and signon. And those who were with him
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search for him. When they found him, they said to him,
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everyone is looking for you. But he said to them,
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let us go into the next town that I may
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preach there. Also, because for this purpose I have come forth.
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The suj two o. Yes, sushi like kan def defund
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your sujin simon shi Yes, the suns way how was
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way too?
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Amen? Amen, it's getting a bit solemn here. Sorry, I'm
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not schooling you. I'm just speaking out of conviction. So
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it was a time when Jesus was getting very popular.
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Why suju, Yeah, you're Roman.
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Says, everyone is looking for you everywhere where. Jesus went
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to teach, preach, he healed, and he delivered.
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Many Yes, she eats on the run.
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Have you ever find yourself saying to yourself, I'm so busy,
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I have no time for God.
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It's like I got people just her mamly engage.
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My schedule is so full. I can't really, you know,
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give time?
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Is that what the surgeon belt her? Mad came back?
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When I look at the life of Jesus, he was
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really so busy, but he made no excuses. He woke
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up early, he went to a dedicated place, and he prayed.
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So she can't usu the same I used to the
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tongue the ruins because you tea out like no tap
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for my life.
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Has taught me there. If I were to fix my
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personal prayer altar, if I were to fix my own
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quiet time challenges. Whatever circumstances I'm facing is will be nothing.
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So sounding a surgeon like she like she, Then I
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say the necessary the yally in the water.
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Jesus didn't entertain them and ask who was looking for me?
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Like she sens. After prayer, he just said, let us
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go to the next town that I may preach there.
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Also because for this purpose I have come.
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For sous a two lighter, he just exited his prayer closet,
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and he reinforces to his disciples he had a purpose.
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Your secret place will keep you grounded in your purpose.
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In the pound the horse I need sending down on.
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The more popular you are, the more you should go
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to your secret place.
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Sonny, you're like, yeah, so to so, only you can't
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just like she can into.
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The more busier you are, the more you should go
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to your secret place.
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Yeah yeah, Manluda's can't just.
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Yet in our life, the more busier we are, our
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secret place tend to take a secondary focus.
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Since your Manluda inmit pins season your.
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Lost come back to your secret place and Ima, come
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back to the place where you want to encounter God. Defse,
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come back to the place where you will see God whoheartedly.
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Like she doesn't changing changing like she issuation, and.
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Come back to the place where you're not distracted.
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Got the inmitu down.
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So many years in my workplace, I have a secret place.
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That would go to the downtown citing the inmate.
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Every Friday, I will give up my lunch.
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Make us think she will she found you tan sit
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in and I'll go up.
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To a stair well somewhere, and then every Friday one
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to two I'll give my time to the Lord.
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Make us think she would eat our land. Incas, I can.
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Tell you one of the best experience so far is
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always at the secret place.
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Okay three? How three ballets you the inn.
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Many will say that, oh, coming to church, going for
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a conference, going for camp will give you that encounter
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with God.
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Okay, I got tones.
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God can give you the encounter in corporate worship. But
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often I find in my life the greatest encounter is
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always that one on one encounter with God in that
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secret place.
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Okay three, balating concern it easle.
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I learned a lot of things in that secret place.
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What for many years that Friday, I will climb up
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the stairwell look at the secret butts because a lot
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of these students are smoking, and what do they do?
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They usually will put the butt there and you know
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it becomes dirty. But that's the place the Lord has
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called me to.
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So it makes us think she would do.
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Or she consern that she So I pray, I pray
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for us, I pray for myself, I pray for my company.
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So do we're put on the the console away migrant cup.
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It keeps me grounded on my purpose even in my company.
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The console town on pollution Hua.
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So when people tell me, uh, what should I do
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for my campus, what should I do for my company,
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I'll tell them build an altar first, build a prayer altar.
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So it's not to tell you the console.
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The cons you know, the representation of you inviting God
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to come.
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In even Sydney, like she type, she yauch in.
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Defunt so the secret place can be built where you are.
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So in another image of it took her. You know,
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she doesn't need.
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Because if you're really serious in seeing change in your company,
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if you're really serious in seeing change even in your
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campus or even in your family, build a secret place,
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build that altar, and.
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You're going to know definantay to defang the inmitual.
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Many years ago, God told me to give that up
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to build now a corporate altar.
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No sense found the current.
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For four to five years now, I've been leading Wednesday
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prayers in my marketplace.
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So as I.
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She died, I gave up that the secret place to
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enter into the corporate place, hoping that the heart of prayer,
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the spirit of prayer will be caught by many.
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No, no c negatility. You know see one or.
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So who Every Wednesday we will pray one to two
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in a location time maga.
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Since she signed it, do.
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And thurst day we will have our chapel service.
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No, since you suit us all majoriyal Oman chapel service.
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So I thought about this, right, I know maybe we
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have bosses here, but don't stone me when I say
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this a lot. But that's we work forty hours a week.
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Just omen ec. Since she's Sugerl suger cells.
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What if we tithe that forty hours and you tied
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it as four hours to the lord.
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So you know you're born out of Roman powerment. The
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Sugerl Sugerls passing and fund to somewhere suger sells.
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In your marketplace, you tie four hours to the Lord.
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Just only on past. The sugar sells the education.
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Think about it?
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She how can can without bias? I think it's a
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very good thing than to males sign because.
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When you invite what in, he gives you a lot
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of ideas that will bless your company.
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That she chunks that she told Tonto sounds she's too
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fully the concern.
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Right, students, you take your timetable, you calculate your lecture time,
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your calculate your tutorial time, your total up and you
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tipe that ten percent? How would that always look like? So?
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What died you?
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Pany the Nuggart? I know your Panny the Nuggars passion
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And she says some kitchen.
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I know it sounds radical, but I've seen God moved
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with that other things I.
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Faced on the so create gunnys or contings and the ins.
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So the secret place reveals and reinforces God's purpose for you.
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So you not take the evening to know her arounding
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like she sounds roundso and she said ties to the
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gun chounsen our chapel.
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It's still very small.
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Moving.
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But to me I've come to understand that I don't
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know it's not about the numbers, because it is to
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the target down. It's about being obedient to God.
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Soon fulish, just this church.
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Will conte to exist. Is that tell her to insire
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even if let's say one day, that's only three. So
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just you et angle, we will still exist from my
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high inside. Because we started ex church in year two
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thousand pasta started with three. Today, by the grace of God,
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we have grown to multiple locations. And all I want
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us to understand that God doesn't move based on numbers.
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So that's an interesting endilment set I put on a defound.
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Whole is sometimes it's easy, you know, to say that
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wh in this gathering the hundreds, therefore God is moving.
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So it's so long you're working an inch and so
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know you're so majory con suicide.
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You mean God doesn't move even in a group of two.
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Only not the issues.
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So let's not be deceived by what the world will
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often measure in.
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So to be pagn sae cheapin even when there's one,
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God will still move. So it is the downtown's ignorant.
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How always that demonstration of faith is always the demonstration.
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Of obedience women and sing sing women issuful.
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I say this because one of the greatest challenges even
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in starting a corporate prayer group is numbers, you know, dancing.
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Sometimes we feel that we need to gether that tens.
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We need to get the twenties. Then we start.
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Sugar Sugar Roman.
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If you need to be the one to start, just
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be the one to start. You're going to.
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Ign.
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God will bring in the people.
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Here to the department thilight.
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Second thing about the secret place is that the secret
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place gives you strength as you abide in it.
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They didn't Jusa, you know the image negatively down the
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shinter Tusai honeymen, Tusa surney men.
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Isaiah forty was thirty, So this is the town this
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sorry was twenty nine, so is forty was twenty nine.
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He gives power to the weak and those who have
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no mic.
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He increases strength sun Judio, so that Piva.
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Even the youth shall feign and be weary, and the
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young men shall utterly fall. But those who wait on
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the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up
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with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary.
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They shall walk and not think.
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Jus soundly Pio Tama by ruins and Su Santana triple Piva.
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This US's very familiar to us. Those who wait upon
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the Lord shall renew their strength.
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Sushi. And I said, your heart.
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This morning, God is reminding you to wait on him
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so that he isn't don't give up. And where do
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you wait for him? Hannah to me, it's in the
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secret place, so soon that I need im. To me,
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it's in that place where you encounter him, just.
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Like they found and actually.
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Waiting without encountering God will not give you that strength
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to go through your day to day.
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Don't know doesn't mean she so Holda needs you may
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eat him.
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The key to our breakthrough is found in our perseverance
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in the secret place, So you know.
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Woman, to just tell you woman died like inmitun't I
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couldn't know the scene.
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Look even nine to ten. So I say to you
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us and it will be given to you sick and
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you will fine knock and it will be open to
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you for everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks fine,
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and to him who knocks it will.
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Be opened out En coleman Kimen, you will fine Titus
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out the guen coleman Kaimen.
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Your ability to be consistent in the secret Place will
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determine how persevering you are?
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Nights I need so I need to deter nizing down
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any sarvas.
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We have our favorite hobbies, right man? You is I
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how uh? And we take it with great pride and
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in good discipline.
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No, I said, I have no face face.
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You were out the discipline of going to the gym.
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Just cheetahs and found the knights on the jins.
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The discipline of baking.
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Nights on your next realize your homepay.
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The discipline of shopping your neg you go right, whatever
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your hobby is the discipline of Netflix. But the way
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I heard, they're increasing their subscription fees.
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Right, we got in the eye houses and model health.
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What about the discipline of persevering in seeking God?
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No, no, yea your parney, the take her your.
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Me too. Godly prosperity is found in the secret sing
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needed me too ISAA forty five S three. I will
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give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of
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secret places that you may know that I the Lord
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who called you by your name, am the God of Israel.
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So this is.
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About in me the type of teaming down in the
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juices war.
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Yeah, leaders, I don't know, sound like the world, but
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how many of you here you want to be prospering.
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Sous city around and so because down to the semi
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down to your daughter.
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Hong Kong, I want to be prospering, home Tongue. Who
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doesn't so he puts on. But let us not forget yet.
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Prosperity is not limited to just material and financial aspects, because.
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And down to you each, Hono, you need to you
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and gonned the tinking. Something in the early.
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One may be prospering in material health and material wealth.
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But is the person prospering in health.
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Something the nation? Hon Tong, I.
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Be prospering in our relationships, Hong Kong, I'll be prospering
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in the areas of our life.
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I mean she's had a Farmiing, Hong Kong.
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So God says there hidden riches in the secret places.
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Why are you not in me? The downs on who
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you nigger, the type out.
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When you seek God in that secret place, he will
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give you revelation and inside that no one else could
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have thought of.
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Uni like I was just in me to.
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The mill, and I like Dennis's testimony and Dennis the Jinson.
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You know I have for fourteen years in this church,
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I've seen campus students come and go No, no that
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she recently, ANGELI won an award in her convocation.
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Also and I had the bear down eagle and how
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the jam she.
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Wanted to award for the best practical is it or
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something like that?
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I had a sis downs on.
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In our leaders group.
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So how you when I link to the Tels infant
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which she part of it not tis down.
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I remember saying this the God, it's easy to graduate
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with a degree.
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No you canna do so that you you're face didn't searching.
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But not many can say they graduate with a degree,
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and they graduate with the testimony, knowing that in their
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campus years they have given God their best because.
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Okay, don't be in the UK actually wrong Yels and
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so sell will wrong your.
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I've seen that God has been faithful. He will never
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shot change people who put Him first.
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Okay, containers, And I said you need and found that
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certain things.
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Sometimes in exam time, half of the people will go
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missing because they say exam time is coming Sunday. I
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want to study. So you know those.
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What you like about the sings?
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She like? She does. So for every campus student who
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have graduated with a testimony, I've never seen them compromise
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their Sunday.
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Because fans some nice it be and she much like
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meal towards how many things she really.
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Don't get me wrong. Study is important. It just DoD
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will give you wisdom to manage your.
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Time so that she unpandy the sision.
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But you must not compromise your corporate worship.
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With God because you book her like she season the
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surgeon the negative way.
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So I like his testimony because at the point of
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seeking God, he will give.
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You answers, even even Downley, like the city.
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That no one could have just a mill case. I
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always tell people that you know time to solve a puzzle.
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To solve a challenge, it may require you ten.
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Hours into your house is a moment.
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But if you were to bring that challenge before God
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for one hour, what could have been solved in ten hours?
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Maybe it gets shortens to only one hour.
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So different sounds on me. Are your super CEU.
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Your so twenty twenty, no one would have expected COVID
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to come so early, so mirans, and no one would
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have expected that the government and force m c.
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O Mirrans one thousands for here you negatives.
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In don't quantzelin which was a form of a lockdown.
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Just don't quantulin.
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But weeks before the Malaysian government announces m c O.
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So it's not high miltons and basons for actually shuts.
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Now in the secret place. The Lord gave me an urgency.
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So it's like the emit put up TAUSI say, Ronson,
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sang so Ronson, you gotta start planning for your work.
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Everything to go online, honey, also saying sounder, all activities
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go online.
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No shampoo, And I said, hold on, sounder.
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I could have never thought about it, sound out never
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because everyone is like okay Malaysian so far a number
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of COREK cases. It's one and a few days later
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you hear it's two. So we weren't that. We weren't
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in that critical state.
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And it's that that's a prim.
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So I told my team, so team that handles student orientation,
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so s don't guys, we will have two plans down.
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So first plan status quo. Every student will be on
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campus going through the orientation, not just a maker sea
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any meaning she who. Second plan, we will do online orientation, no.
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Sound theos instant way.
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Everyone was like looking at me like Blank's deaths. We
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planned so hard for this physical orientation. What do you
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mean we planned for online orientation.
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Mother, than it's a cancel.
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But train a few weeks later, the government announces m
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c O.
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You don't know and don't control in the south, no
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woman also eating.
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And I remember a couple of I remember when, but
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one of the discussions, when we were just doing a
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post mortem. Up to today, my colleague, who is a
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non Christian, still talk about it.
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You know what the society and the township.
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She will always say, I remember back then, Ronson prepared
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us for this and we were already no, no, no,
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how do you go down so.
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Fast? And because he's able to seega facing two.
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But honestly, it's God who helps me to see.
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So you know what time banker, your son.
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The many examples I can give you how in the
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secret place God will reveal to you. Thinks that perhaps
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your lecturer even don't know, Perhaps your students don't know,
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perhaps your bosses don't know. But God knows, and God
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will give you that wisdom. God will give you that strategy.
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So okay, down.
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Initial area of relationships as well, especially when you're in conflict.
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Also something you turns how the downtown.
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Don't know how to reconcile you don't know how to
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patch up that relationship her. Like Guanci, entering the Secret place,
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God will reveal to you what what is it that
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exactly you need to do. As we close, we hope.
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