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Seek First the Kingdom of God - That All May Know | Pr Sandra Chin
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You're listening to a message to go from ext church. We hope this message
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will light up your tea. All right, I'm going to look at this
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verse with us together first, and we're gonna look at this verse. It's
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a very familiar verse. You know this verse by heart. I'm sure heard.
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Okay, here we go therefore, all right, therefore, do you
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want to read the Word of God with me? Yeah, let's read.
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Okay, can you can hear your voice? Then you remember you got a
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voice? Okay, have requiet? All right, let's read it together.
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But that can now, okay, let's read wonder dream. Therefore, do
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not worry, but Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things
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shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow or tomorrow
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we'll worry about its ownly sufficient, for the day is its own trouble.
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Amen. The reading, Oh God, Amen, hallelujah. Amen A.
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What a familiar verse this is? It goes. It starts off by well,
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it starts off earlier. If you read the verses before that Jesus was
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talking about. You know how the lilies are dressed even so beautifully, more
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beautiful than King Solomon's temple and don't worry how tall you will be. You
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can't add to your height. I wish I want to be taller. I
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always wanted to be taller. My dad's very tall, but I didn't end
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up having his height. Ah yeah, okay, And so you can't add
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to it. So saying don't worry, all right, it actually says do
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not worry about your life. It says, here, look at the birds
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of the air. Uh, and they never saw, nor reap, nor
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gather, and yet the heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more
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value? All right? Tell your friend you are valuable. Ah, tell
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your other neighbor. If you haven't had a neighbor, Jesus feeds you.
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Amen, So you are more valuable than sparrows, all right. The sparrows
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are so cute and they fly around, But as much as God cares for
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them, you are of more value. And then it goes on to say
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about this verse that we were reading, do not worry, and we worry
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about what we're gonna eat, what we're gonna drink, what we're gonna wear,
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because this is what the people who don't know Christ yet worry about these
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things. So this this is Jesus speaking to his church, speaking to us,
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we are worried about a lot of things, you know, our What
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will our future look like? Oh? What will my education be like?
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Which university I'm gonna go? What job am I going to? What will
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my child look like? What will my child turn out to be like?
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Okay, how many children will I have? You know, get marry or
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so you think? How many children will I have? Okay? So many
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things we could worry about. Oh, if I cross the road with the
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car back met, people worry about such things? All right? Why why
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don't will I ever get a car? Will I not get a car?
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So many things you and I can worry about. And so the Lord says,
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do not worry by asking such questions, because, uh, the Father
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knows that you need all these things. Hallelujah, brother sisters, I want
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to assure you this morning that our heavenly Father, and whether you want to
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believe it or not, but believe it or not, he knows that you
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need all these things. Oh okay, all the things that you need,
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our heavenly Father knows. But the whole prerequisite of knowing that you will get
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all these things, he says, it's to first seek the Kingdom of God
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and his righteousness. Amen, and all these things will be added to you,
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not minus added to you. Hallelujah, Say hallelujah. Okay, So
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don't worry about tomorrow. Are you worried about tomorrow? A lot of us
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worry about tomorrow? Okay, because he leaves you and I can face tomorrow.
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Amen, tomorrow, tomorrow. I love you. Tomorrow. It's only
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a day away. Okay, tomorrow, it's a good day. But he
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can only face tomorrow because of Jesus. We're so hopeful that we don't have
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to be in despair. Tomorrow have his own worries. So today we got
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enough worry. Just live for today, all right. We keep worrying about
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tomorrow, your health will be compromise. Yeah, don't know. If you
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keep worrying, your health will be compromised. You know, you might get
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stress, high blood pressure, not your mental health or soul like thinking so
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much is real. I'm not denying the Jesus is not saying this is not
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real. He's saying it's so real. But I want to give you the
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remedy. The remedy to your wellness is not to worry. And if we
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keep worrying. You know, can you solve the problem by worrying? And
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I realize cannot even if I excuse me, even if I sin and I
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worry about my sin. Also, can I help something I do something wrong?
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Like I worry, worry what a pos thing on me? What pos
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the thing of me? I worry whole day. Nothing's gonna change. I
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already seen. So what I do repent? First repent? And if I
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have to go say sorry, I must go and say sorry. You are
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worrying. If I don't know what my future is, I cannot keep worrying.
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I have to ask the Lord to keep to guide me to my future.
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Amen, I give you two pictures. Which time would you rather be
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in? Number one? Picture? Go to the beach? People nice to
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go to the beach. I love the beach. I'm not very good with
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the mountains. I'm better with the beach. I don't know why my mountains
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are quite nice? Or you'd rather be in this one? Yes, it's
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very exciting. That's an adventure, very exciting. Okay, okay, which
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it will be your choice? Picture one? Picture two? Some anybody wants
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to that? You know that's an adventure there? All right? The calmness
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or the tossing and turning of the storm. There we go. All right.
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If I'm looking at these two pictures, Wow, how will we?
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How do we? How do we live our lives? Do you want to
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live in the well? Both are not wrong and not both are not too
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bad. We'll have an adventure. Okay, very calm, very cool,
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like a cucumber. Everything's going well. Nothing to pray about. March.
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Actually, I said, joy the Lord. The shepherd leads you to the
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still waters and lie down. You cannot lie down the still waters for too
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long. After a while, you you gonna row your boat out. Come
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on, But then you row your boat suddenly got storm moreyo. You know,
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lives sometimes you have a storm. Many years ago, when I was
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still single and I was dating some guy and about dating my whole life and
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dating his banker, and then I knew it. I knew that this is
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not the man to marry. I knew it. I knew it. But
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because the pressure of getting married, you really don't know how I was like
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anyway, So I'm like, but I knew this is not the man.
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I knew it. I knew it. I knew it, And God was
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trying to tell me, but I just didn't want to listen. So one
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day this guy you jegged me to this pre marriage tounseling something love. You
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know who was running this counseling. I mean, he's no longer with us.
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Past the Raymond, go past the Raymond. Before he was doing all
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the work that he's doing, probably was doing past the Raymond. Was there.
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I saw Marlow to see pass the Raymond after I went into ministry with
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my husband, like actually he recognized me. But back then, then,
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a long time ago, he was doing a pre mariage counseling and I'm like,
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oh am I doing here? And so this passes sharing love And then
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you was a teacher about premagh counseling mana Tau suddenly moving into prophety, oh
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no, oh no. Pray then called me out some more. This prophecy
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proverty all embarrassing sometime. So he got up like okay, I'm fine,
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I'm cool, I'm good. And he said to me, wow, your
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life looks it's come. It's the waters, you know, in the lake,
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and like I got this right, so proud, right, like of
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course I love Jesus. And he said, but God's gonna allow you to
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be calm for too long. What there's going to be a storm? What
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storm? Oh? So you know sometimes the storm has an adventure. Well,
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the storm came, people and I broke up. Well, the storm
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came because I went for mission trip and it confirmed to me that the Lord
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said to go full time. And when I came back and told these men,
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now I'm gonna go full time. He's quoted me. Who told you
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that? Jesus? And I said, I'm gonna go full time. I've
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always wanted to go. I'm going for missions, going out little field,
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i will stop my corporate work. And he was so angry and he broke
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up with me. Like I said, I never nobody breaks up with me.
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I break up with them. But this guy broke up with me.
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So okay, okay, next then two days say let's make me. Let's
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come back to get a sorry you break up with me? No coming back?
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Okay? You so funny, But boy, was there a storm in
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my life or the calmness? Because I was too calm. I was too
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what's the word for it, just complacentler? Complacentler, you know, yes,
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serving the Lord doing this, but not doing what God it's calling me
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And I was thinking, maybe he won't call me anymore. We think so
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long not to go full. I really want to go to the mission,
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be waited and waited with really so like feelings were already later twenties is already
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and maybe I just get married, have kids and nothing else. But then
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the Lord stirred up that storm. Sometimes that storm causes you to sick.
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First the Kingdom of God and think and ask you what what is my portion
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in this life? Where's my priority? Amen? And church? Jesus is
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reason, and he's very much alive, and he's very much alive in us.
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And you know he can give you a calm as calm as that nice
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beach, and we need it. Sometimes it's good. But sometimes we may
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go into a storm. But that doesn't mean he has left us. It
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just means it's an opportunity to seek the lot first and his kingdom and get
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our priorities or get our eyes fixed on Jesus. So my question is what's
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our priority? What's our priority? As we carry on each day and walking
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with the lot? Friends, your life are you? Generally we have up
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to about seventy years old, kayse semty years old. Seventy Yet if you're
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extra. And my dad live under eighty. If your extra, like your
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great grandmother live under hundred. Yeah, my friend's grandma is one hundred years
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old. They just celebrator. Whose grandma is it? Anyone here? Somebody?
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My friend one hundred years old? Who happening with grandma? All right?
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So those are the extralla give you extra, But most of us were
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Bible say, it's about seventy plus plast years. Oh friends, I told
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the young people yesterday, seize the day, couped DM. Come on,
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seize the day and live the extraordinary. All right? I view you if
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you just live, get get born, and just walk every day worrying.
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Our God has h has a it's not a bad storm. It's it's something
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for you to live every day for the Lord. And I want to just
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remind us today what is our priority? And and and therefore the first thing
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I want to remind us that our priority is to seek first the Kingdom of
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God. All right, Just that's probably the title. And number one,
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stop worrying, number one, stop worrying. All right, maybe some of
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us don't worry at all. Very good. That means a okay Sarah sah,
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okay, whatever will be don't plan you know that kind of thing.
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I won't get married. You better plan, okay when I have wedding online
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or some people can't say, oh my girdfriend, my fiance will do everything.
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Hi. You gonna put some order into it, right. You can't
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just say I don't worry, don't worry, be happy. Yes, you
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can be happy, but he can put some order into it. Number One,
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if you're whatever it is that you are in your life right now,
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and there is a certain concern, the worrying is. The concern is I'm
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concerned about my child's education. I'm concerned about the health and welfare of my
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parents. I'm concerned about your Where am I at my job? Concerned?
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But Bible yea, the Lord Jesus says, please don't worry overly about your
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future about tomorrow, because he knows that when we continue to worry, it
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will be detrimental, very very not helpful to our health. Spiritual health,
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physical health, mental health, every kind of health. Cannot laugh anymore.
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You just worry and worry. And even when we speak to people, we
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speak worry words. We don't speak hopeful words. We cannot speak hopeful wards
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because we're filled with concern. I don't know if my boss likes me.
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You didn't smile at me that day. Boss. My boss didn't give me
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a promotion. I'm worried and I won't make it. How are you?
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Oh, then you worry about your ministry and you don't know. I know
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en not people to serve? How on your I only cook every week?
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Hola, No, I'm serving all these hundred old people. Oh, I'm
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the only musician. Worry. Worry in the house of the Lord, we
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cannot worry. Priority is we focus our eyes on Jesus and we praying.
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Now we've got the teen helpers and teachers for ex kids. Now we now
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bringing the kids. The lot prepare us bringing the kids. So worry is
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not a good. It's it's not healthy and health and worrying doesn't add to
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our height. It doesn't open the door there. The only thing that open
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the door is our praises, our thanksgiving, our gratitude. You know,
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stop worrying about what you can't change. I can't change the systems in this
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country. I can't do anything like by worrying. But I can't change it
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by voting or joining the party and do something I can pray, I can
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declare, I can do something, be involved in the community, to help
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our children, which we are so actively involved in the next church, to
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do something. Stop worrying of what we can't get. And if you choose
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to migrate somewhere else, it doesn't stop you from worrying because that other country
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will have their other problems. It doesn't help. So worrying about tomorrow will
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take away your joy, will take your health away. Well, and I
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think you kind of stop living. Amen. And when we share this with
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you, it's not only for you. It's for you to take it to
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someone you might know who's worrying. And where does our then hope come from?
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Amen? Because we want to point first to the Lord. First of
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all, we speak to the sheep. We speak to God's children on the
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thoughts of worrying, and we were I know a lot of times we worry
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about our future, about what things will I get promoted? How much money
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will we make? I can't you know how many kids will I have?
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It all depends how much money I make. You cannot let itla, all
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right, you've got blessed sake CLA. Okay, you've got license to make
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make LA. But then okay, okay, all right, but worry certain
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add anything to the answers that we want. And I believe when Jesus tell
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us to stop worrying is because he knows that it will affect our healthy friends.
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We don't want to live with high blood pressure with I don't know all
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the things that come in high blood pressure. It does cost you. Blood
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pressure will rise and then we have to breathe, and then you know,
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you get affected. And that's why the Lord tells us, don't worry,
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Amen, don't worry, but trust your heavenly father. Next point, trusting
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God doing stronger. We're trusting God. Okay, I just I just shared
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with our children, our students in school, how to trust God. I
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you know, one time we were just flying in and out of kl Singapore,
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kay el Singapore. I will do a service, like now, what
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time is this? Nine thirty? We're done by ten, and then I
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will get someone drive me to kl IA two and I hop on the next
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flight to Singapore. We did this for months and because I'm rushing from one
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service sooner, so I forgot that I'm actually flying, and I keep preaching,
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oh I have to go there with room room room all the way to
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kl i A and there. A few times I'll be running helter skelter to
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my gate, you know, my leg go going this way back or flinging
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everywhere, and then painting, and I'm thinking, I'm not there young anymore.
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I'm not thirty. I was in my forties running like I'm at the
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lead. Yeah, but lake going here, late, going there back,
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swinging here, back half everywhere. Then got wearing flats and then panting away.
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You know, like how long? What can I do this? Because
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you preacher me right off? You know, my time is good past the
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past the yod. I got so happy in my preaching and so enjoying my
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preaching, my own preaching too much that I forgot I have to fly,
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and I will get on the plane and then I'll just sit there and go
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like made it, and then like rest. Then I catch myself going the
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plane is taking off. Really, I catch myself way. I really trust
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the pilot that the plane will arrive safely. Sing up my trust in the
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pilot whom I don't even know his name, Asia, that I will get
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there in one piece. Where's my faith? Therefore, in my own Christian
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faith? Do I trust the way do. I just got the same way.
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I trust the pilot. I don't even know his name. I don't
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know him. I don't know really word it was he angry? It his
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white yesterday. I don't know right right, men mendal wellness in the pilots
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went button. I get there, I sit there. My husband good.
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He gets to the plane, he sits down, He'll start praying. Thank
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you Lord. Let's see it. Le's less every day does this all the
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time? You're so holy, and come pray the husband I have who leads
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like he leads me. Sometimes, like I'm doing here, I just roll
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my eyes. Okay, you know I'm your pastor. By on the days,
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I just have so much on our brain and I just just give me.
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And then and then you get at the time when seeing the plane and
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you start sharing Jesus with everybody, the Holy Man. So pray praying.
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No. When I'm on my own and I'm flying, I'm I'm breathing,
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catching my breath, and no time then thinking about the message. And I
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have to get there with this. I wantn't get to the church. You
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know better, I think a child, you know. Then that's when I
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caught myself thinking Lord, Do I really trust you, not just with the
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airplane, my life, my future, the ministry that I'm involved in.
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Do I love you? Just love you and trust you for everything? Because
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friends, you and I do trust the pilot one hundred and one percent,
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okay, one hundred and five percent, Then we will get to our destination.
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I want to say to us, that's why Jesus says, stop worrying,
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but trust God that he got you on his hands and you will get
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you to your destination. What's the destination? His plans that he has for
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you more than you have your plans for yourself. Trust your heavenly Father.
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Amen, Are you and I trusting our heavenly Father? This is a word
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a reminder. You can trust your heavenly Father. We trust a lot of
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things. We trust the grand driver to get us to our destination. You
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don't know when he even has a proper license, he pays license. Say
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do you trust you trust all these things? You trust this? You trust
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that you trust the doctor who's treating you, that he's giving you the right
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diagnosis? Why because he's drained. So if we can trust the doctor,
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how much more your heavenly Father. That's what breaks God's heart because we cannot
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trust him and we look for other help instead of looking to him for his
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help. Guilty sometimes just just trusting other things. But I want to constantly
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trust my heavenly Father. A man trusts him like there's no one else to
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trust but him. And truly, I do believe with all my heart that
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he holds my life, your life in his hands. Amen. If it
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is time for him to take us home, it is time for him to
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take us home. But if it's not time, he will guide us.
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True, he will deliver us. He will lead us. And life will
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have it's challenges, the storm sometimes, but we can trust a heavenly father
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that he will see us through. You have to believe that, otherwise your
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faith doesn't become real. It's based on someone else's testimony, not your own.
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We need to know that he wants to heal us. He wants to
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lead us to the green past just to steal waters. He wants to open
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that door for us. He wants to give you the adventure of your life.
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Yes, the stop will be there, but the adventure of your life
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is there. He wants to forgive us even when we made a mistake.
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You got to know that and trust that he forgives, and we must forgive
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ourselves. We trust that heavenly Father. You need to trust God, a
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heavenly father, that that when he's When we said that God's word is powerful,
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yes amen, you'll say yes amen, yes Amen. Then I ask
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you, if you are not well, spirit, soul, body, if
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you're not well, will you read the word of God by checkters in a
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day and allow the Living Word to heal you. You trust, you believe
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that God's word can heal you, spirit, soul and body. We know
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of somebody was very unwell and and and then it was she was told,
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will you read God's word? You just read God's word. Don't melready have
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to understand everything. Just read it. Just read it every day and tell
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you this person did it and God healed her of her infirmities completely. But
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she had to give time to read God's word. We cannot just say it
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and not experience it. Why because we want all to know Jesus. But
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if you and I don't experience it, we have no sharing of story to
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tell them what God has done for us. Amen. Amen. So trust
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the Lord rather than worry. Worry will not add anything to us prayer,
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trust, leaning on the lot one hundred percent, We'll get our hearts lifted
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up, our minds lifted up, our spirit refresh. Amen, our church.
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We have to share this and remind you because it's not in the great
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theology that will save your life. It is in practicing the Word of God
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that will save your soul. I'm on church, Amen, do I hear
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an? Amen? I cannot appreciate well if you don't say, Amen,
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I need some energy, I'm giving you a lot of energy. Really know
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how you sleeping? Okay, okay, stop worrying. Amen, I'm gonna
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do trust in our heavenly Father. And then number three, seek God's kingdom
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first and his righteousness. And we hear this all the time. Then you
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must ask what is the Kingdom of God? About? What is the Kingdom
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of God? Because Jesus went around preaching. He says repent for the Kingdom
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of God is at hand. The Kingdom of God is at hand. So
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don't just say when I die eternal life, then I experience the Kingdom of
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God. Now is the Kingdom of God for us? What is the I
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asked that question, Lord, what is this kingdom? What do I seek?
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First? The Kingdom of God. What is the kingdom and the kingdom
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of God is his righteousness, is the rightness of God. Is the hope
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that we have in God. Is the principles that God is sharing with us.
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And you find it in the Word of God. So when when you
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read Matthew, for example, any of the Gospels, you start with the
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Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mound, and he goes on chapter five,
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chapter six, chapter seven. He's telling us that the Kingdom of God is
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so precious. You want the Kingdom of God. You would sell your great
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treasures just to find the Kingdom of God. How precious God's kingdom. Why
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because the Kingdom of God is in you. And when he's in you,
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it's because Jesus lives in you. So his righteousness, his hope, his
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joy, he's healing the plans that He has for you, the future and
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the hope, the trust, the faith, the supernatural, the work of
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the Holy Spirit. This is the Kingdom of God. The principles that He
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gives to us, to his word is his kingdom in us. My flesh,
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my flesh will always be stubborn, but my spirit, my spirit needs
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to exercise the willingness and obedience. The flesh always will tell you, nollah,
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go and sleep. Listen. Yesterday I told the young people some people's
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will be here. I just found out. I didn't know there. Wake
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up, okay, some people's hobby. And adults were telling me. These
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adults, you know, I say, what's your hobby? Sleeping? I
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said, that's not a hobby, yes it is. No, it's not.
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You know, a hobby something you do. I do every every empty
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space. They sleep. Oh my world, I say, that's not a
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hobby. A hobby is something you like actively do. And you're a life
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like you're awake. So I said, stop sleeping. Sleep You're eight hours
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if you need to. But there's more to life than sleep. And I
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mean, I'm not a sleeper. If I don't sleep better still, but
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I have to sleep, so I sleep, but I sleep like your normal's
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time to sleep. But you're waking hours. I say, wake up early
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morning, you know. And Jesus saved me. And what what in the
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system? Okay, so yeah, don't make hobby. You're don't make sleeping
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your hobby. All right? Okay, all the men in black are here
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now, dang, I can use the white one yet, all right,
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so sink first. A king of God is righteousness. How to see God?
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You're sleeping? Leave leave sleep. Then when you need your miracle,
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you forgot how to pray because you haven't been practicing. Ye see God,
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I tell you it's very exciting when you seek God. I know that he
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Okay, the honest thing is, the truth is not every day He's going
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to give you an adventure la because you you start me something or to finish
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it first, then the next thing will come. The next thing will come.
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Uh. The Lord does lead us, though, I have to say
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I do. I always like all you're gonna say to me today? And
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you know what, Jesus has already spoken to us the red color words.
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If we can at least practice the red color words is very good. Do't
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worry about it's book. Yeah. So the Lord speaks to us to his
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word, and he will guide you steadily, steadily as you steadily read God's
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word. Friends, there's anyone in this room will will you if you are
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truly seeking the Lord? Would you give yourself time spend time reading God's word?
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No, really, I'm busy, You're busy, But I realized that
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if I will just spend time and I want to tell you when I first
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came to Christ as a sixteen year old. Every day I will come home
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after school and I will read the New Testament. I finished it. I
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have to say, there is power even in my ignorance, I meaning I
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don't know everything about God, in my ignorance of not knowing everything. But
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by reading the New test and cover to cover the Book of Revelation, the
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Lord changed me. Healed me of whatever sickness I had. But I read
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it cover to cover one time, the New Testament, not because someone told
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me. I just thought I should read this. I'm a new believer.
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I want to know more about Jesus, and so that's what I did.
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Friends, if you can give your time to watching TV, or if you'll
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play watch Netflix or play games, if you just fast that time, that
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one hour and you read one hour of Bible, something will change in your
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spirit. Your mind needs to be renewed. What you're doing, you're seeking
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the kingdom of God first two or not, and then his righteousness is part
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and put all of his kingdom. But I have to say it's not easy,
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because life is I don't know if I cannot sit still or whatever,
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I will always be doing something in the house, whether I'm cleaning or I'm
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baking, or i am cleaning some more. All right, so I'm on
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the line with somebody, right, But then the law will challenge me.
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You're talking to everybody about me? Have you come and talked to me?
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So have to make time to read by chapters, not just one verse and
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be happy, you know. I mean some of you are eat your vitamins
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even more religiously. Ten reading scripture, you know, ten vitamins in front
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of as fast supplements. When you get older you need supplements. When you're
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younger, you don't need like your mother. Just say take vitamin C and
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you swallowed it. We are you older? Viteamin D, vitamin B white,
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the mean C white, themIn a calcium? What what Q queue or
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cue for the heart? You know? And is a oil? Oh?
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Then you know? Then religiously you take it? I say, if we
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take us supplements religiously, can we also religiously come to the Word of God
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sick spiritual supplement SIK First the Kingdom of God. What is the Lord saying
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to us? And that's why so many believers don't know what the Bible says?
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And then they ask me, God Man, I say, wait,
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have you been reading your bible? God Man, God is there, but
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you must read now then you know, Oh, that's how it. Oh,
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that's how it's supposed to go about it. A principles are in the
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Word of God. So seek the Kingdom of God. You know, seek
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what it is the Kingdom about. It's about righteousness, living right. It's
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about trust, it's about hope. It's about joy. It's about God's healing.
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It's about God's home, the Kingdom. We live in it, and
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he wants to reveal to us. God wants to reveal himself to us,
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but we haven't made time to get to know him. But we spend a
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lot of our time worrying, worrying what Rachel thinks about me. Worry what
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mister Christina is thinking about me? She like me? Does she? Okay?
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We worry and worry and do nothing because what really meant us is what
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God thinks about you. And then if you need wisdom to do your project,
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your business also comes from here. He will reveal the truth that you
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need to do your business, to study, to do well in your whatever
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that you're doing. But we just give up on God. Actually, we
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give up because we think that the person is more blessed. How come I
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not bless different? God, same God, Jean, Jesus, Jesus,
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. But we were actually not trusting God. We're
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upset with the Lord because he didn't I didn't get the same thing as my
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friend. But that's why, Jesus says us. If you want to live
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healthy, you want to live well, seek first the Kingdom of God,
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Seek God's way, God's truth, God's life in and through his word,
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and then of course talking to him honestly, honestly saying this is how I
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feel, this is what I'm going through. What would you say? And
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I want to say to you it will not be an audible voice. Hello,
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Jason. Yes, this is never because Jason, the day you audibly
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hear it, you give up everything really right, not to couse. Jesus
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speak to you know, and you're like, okay, Jesus, I will
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serve you full time now because I warned the minds of God. I want
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to help everybody. I heard the voice of God. Amen. But God
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speaks to us in our spirit man, he he stirs our hearts. Amen.
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And you know that God is speaking to you. You know, He's
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giving you a direction. I know when I have to repent, or where
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i have to go and see someone, or where I'm being stirred up in
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my heart. Especially when you read his word or when you pray. He
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tells you Amen, you seek God's Kingdom first, and then his righteousness.
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You seek the Lord. That's just meaning, you seek the Lord God.
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And God's Kingdom has principles. Friends, A lot of us are living principles,
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either brought down from our grandfather or what we are used to. But
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there's kingdom principles that that things that we practice are not agreeable by the world's
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standards, but this is God's standards. Principle of forgiveness, forgive, principle
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of you know, being general us being having a big heart. These are
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principles you can find in the Word of God. Principle of asking for forgiveness.
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I wrong you, and I can't just walk away. I gotta go
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and say please forgive me. Not a flippant I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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Everyone can say right. But when I go to someone and say please forgive
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me, Now, that person can choose to like whatever, but you must
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ask the please forgive me better person forgives you that up to him, God
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would judge him and deal with him. But I must ask for your forgiveness,
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not just say I'm sorry, so flipp no, please forgive me.
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I allogize. This is what God is asking us to do. Principles here,
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God's Kingdom. This is it. I don't know. Don't lie,
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okay, stop lying it. Don't tell white lives, white lives, black
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lives, red color, lies, cropoiliz all lies loud. They're all lies.
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Now we all just say them. Mind exaggeration or so we exaggerate like
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crazy. The Lord tells you to stop it. You have to stop it.
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How I know because they were. God tells me, Amen, all
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right, So seek God's kingdom first. And you and I feel many of
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us don't know because we are not actually coming to the Lord. Okay,
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let's come to the Lord. He's word. Next. Be assured. He
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will add to your life what you need and more so there's what you need
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and what you want. You need a car, So he gives you Lah
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a car first car my V or something. I don't know. There you're
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going, Mom, can give me a better car? Ah? What guy?
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You want? No? I don't know you get it car? Just
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say thank you Jesus, you got a car. Okay, stop the monday.
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I want I tell you how to drive this kind of car. And
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now our Malaysian road. Put the bomb ready lot a car? Got a
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car? Prais a love for a car. You will promote. God will
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promote you and give you a better, stronger car. Protect your car.
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They will protect you. Laugh, okay, stronger car. Where do you
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get a Mercedes? I don't know, Lave. Of course, there is
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quite a difference. I have to say between my Keia and sitting in a
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MUK Wow. The Mercedes of his steady, you know, very steady,
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can be driving one and twenty you still steady. My father laws have a
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Mercedes. And when I my husband drove me a Necker to date me ate
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me, but I no annoy his carl anoys money. Steady, steady,
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very steady. But you know, a car is a collar. It gets
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you to a to see wherever you want to get to. I assure you
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there's an assurance the lower at your life. I'm not seeing God take away
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simply because he's evil and he takes it away if he doesn't give it to
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you. It means he loves you more. And that thing that you want
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is not good for you. It's not good for you, and you won't
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know it, but God knows it. And sometimes you say, yeah,
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I really thought, and you know, kick hate step and people's hat and
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get there only to find out cheers. Never for me. It was never
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bent for me. But I had to learn it the hard way. It's
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okay if we learn things so the hard way learn more important we learn.
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Amen, I that you know. We're all different, we are all made
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differently. We respond to God differently because of how we grew up. And
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the Lord also uniquely put a DNA in us, He's DNA. And so
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how how we will do certain things, how we will achieve, how we
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will or even in the way we drop fall, break the fall, even
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if we fail. It's different from a different person from another person. But
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God still loves us. Is our assurance, is our insurance. He will
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carry us through. He will add to us, because it is. If
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you worry and you try to add to it, you can't. But when
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you seek first God's kingdom and ask him and draw near to him, he
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the Lord, will bring that addition to you. Because he knows already what
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you need. You might have a I need, but I also know you
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might have a want, so you might need a car. But and you
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get a m V first. Not that it's a bad because it went through
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the very good car, you know, the X ninety then sunk in the
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flood. But my vie went through. Yeah. I don't want to stop,
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you know, go on boat. But but if even if you have
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a want, the Lord also can give you a want, he rewards you.
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He knows it's nice you can have it. God is not a gam
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god. No, I was the word for an English but the English word
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is stingy cingy. God is not a stingy Godam yeah, God like he's
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holding him his hand. I don't pry open to get the gift, you
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know, I see God be so generous. I will tell you how generous
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he is. I just like a silly pod, my silly pot. It's
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just a part, but he's a very expecsive part. I'm sorry. I
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won't lend you my pot, all right, it's a silly pod. I
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can't afford it. It's just a wand nice to have, but it's too
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much money to pay for it. But if my heavenly father wants to give
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me the pot, I gladly take la. Right dot. Can I say
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it's a killer God's name, my name, my name, you can give
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the pot. It's my silly pot. It's a part. It's just a
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pot. But God adds, he knows what you like, he knows what
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you also need. He knows what and that's like extra blessing. It's my
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silly pot, just a French made pot called like we say, it's just
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a pot. It's like your Mercedes, La. We can use the Zebra
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brand pot made from Thailand, or you can want a Francois made pot that
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looks like a Mercedes, not like Proton. So there's a Mercedes spot and
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a Proton pot. So I'm just saying, how's he got to do?
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Kingdom of God. I'm just saying, God is not stingy. He adds,
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but you don't have to run and worry, and I don't have and
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I want. He knows what you need. If you need it, you'll
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give it even if you don't need it. He's so generous. I give
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you one more Potla. I own all the pots in the whole of France
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now I give you one potla okay, right, it's my silly pod.
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But yeah, God bless me with a silly pot because I didn't want the
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one that I pot in the Chinese shop. AADs to us what we need
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and even a little bit more extra. He be assured that God knows.
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But I want to say, we're all at different faith walk, so you
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cannot compare we dead person or dead person. Amen. But you are uniquely
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made by the Lord, and you receive from the Lord uniquely what he has
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for you. The problem is we compare. We just keep one thing what
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the other person has because it's dangerous. Right, I want the wife you
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have. You say, danglah, But but happens. He can get there.
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But if you seek first God and his kingdom and his principles, be
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assured. God adds to your life what you need and what makes you shine.
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Amen, Because I can't do what you do. And the worst thing
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is, I want to be like you because I like what you do.
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You get to assure sisters you've been I don't, so I jealous. Right,
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we keep comparing, how can I don't? And he's a sicknessler that
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is in us. And then we suffer through it because we never live where
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God has wanted us to live. Amen, I want to say to us
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as I close, slowly, slowly coming to close, do you believe next
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life? Do you believe you have ever lasting life? John three sixteen?
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You all know John three sixteen. I can memorize it. Even close Eyesosode
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can say something, So of course, never say enough. John three sixteen
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says that God, God, for God so loved the world that he gave
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his only begotten son, that whosoever would believe in him would have ever lasting
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life and not perish. You will not perish, but have everlasting life.
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So I ask you, judge, do you believe you have everlasting life?
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Do you believe there is a life to live here on earth and you will
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continue to walk into heaven? You gotta believe it. Yesterday my friend passed
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away, the pastor of one of our churches, not one of the big
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churches here. He preached and he collapsed fifty seven years old. I can
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only say he walked into heaven, senior pastor, and he walked into heaven
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fifty seven? Do you believe you have everlasting life? We are sad to
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lose our friend someone I was just speaking to only recently. But if you
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believe you have eternal life, then live on earth seeking His kingdom first,
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and walk right into heaven because there's eternal life. Death only ist the flesh.
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But death doesn't kill your spirit. You live with Jesus. But if
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you know what your everlasting is, therefore the Kingdom of God must be lived.
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Now, he says it already. Don't just wait till when I get
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to heaven. Then I'll be good. Oh then I'll live. Live Now,
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live righteous. Now, seize the day and do the extraordinary. Now
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ask you if you have the what's the word the antidote or the way to
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get cancer healed? You have the medication for it, you have the discovery.
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You know what it is that can heal cancer. Do you keep it
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to yourself? I'm sure you like want to make lots of money with it
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and go and tell the whole world. I have the antidote for cancer and
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you will share it. You have the key to everlasting life? Have you
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and I shared it? Have you and I? I'm not talking to myself.
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Have I been so excited to share about my everlasting life? Shy?
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Scared? My friend will love it? Me that I have everlasting life.
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If you believe you have everlasting life, then seek the kingdom. That kingdom
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must live now with us. The impossible must happen for us to become possible.
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The supernatural that you've never experienced got to happen now, amen, you
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The supernatural is Holy Spirit working through us and living in and through us.
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Don't just wait for the big thing to happen. The little things happen.
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The small things make differences in people's makes a difference in people's life. Your
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story matters. That's why sometimes I look at some other I mean, I
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go to different. I just went for an event in a university just past
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week. They were saying, oh, we're gonna change the education. Don't
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know what. I don't know what. After you were shit, my husband
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asked me easy, very different. They're like, no, we used to
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do the same thing. Church also does we do that. We provide,
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but people learn to make a mountain out of a mole here, but we
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all price it. I am Zilah, Susie. You seems like share what
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God has done? Small thing. Don't want to share, no need la,
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don't tell me, no tell tell celebrate. Nobody thinks it's great.
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But my father in heaven thinks it's great, and somebody who didn't ever see
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that would think it's great. And wow, if you can, can you
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tell me how can you show me the way? Can you tell me how
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to get well from cancer? If you found the medicine. Please, if
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we know what the medication is to help people with AIDS, will we not
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tell Actually there is, but they're not telling us there is medication for AIDS.
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Patience, there is, but nobody is saying it. That's really really
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selfish because not everybody gets it's because because sometimes it's blood transfusion, da,
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da da, whatever it is, that there's some medication. Please help people
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love same thing. If you believe you have ever lasting life, then we
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have a message that people around us need to hear. Amen. You can
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go to my next light. We have a message that people around us need
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to hear. But you cannot share that message if you're not seeking first the
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Kingdom of God, because you don't know how to tell them what you are
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experiencing. Amen. And while we can all still worry, we can also
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share I am worried, but I also have the power and the strength of
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God to overcome my worry. My business may not be so great, but
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I will seek God to help me overcome this. There seems to be a
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closed door, but I will pray that a door will be open. I
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just got to believe because I have a father who loves me, and that's
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ever lasting life. Amen. We gotta live our faith loud, or at
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least make it louder so that someone would want what you have. You do
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have a message, and you're just telling them what you have experienced. Amen,
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You're not You're not convincing anyone. You're just telling them this is what
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experience. Because we do that all the time. You get a new supplement,
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you tell it. You know that we want, you must go take
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we want, we want the want. They want to know that don't know
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what brand. I don't know what brand, like brands and we all buying
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do it? Yes? Yes, oh you got problem. Take the supplement.
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Take disap doctor, doctor? Really how come we can share such good
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news but not the real good news because we haven't actually lived the kingdom and
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we are so shy that maybe you might not work. Maybe maybe God won't
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you. But that's not up to me to say where the go. He
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won't he I just need to know that he has done something for me.
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Amen, Amen, face the lot. Have you got something to say to
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somebody? Yes, you do, the fact that you have Jesus in your
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life, you have something to say. But if you want to say more,
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then come on seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. So
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stop worrying people. You're gonna have white gray hair, la. Stop worrying,
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las. Okay, the more worry more, come on, see you
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all coming already? Okay, the more the more I learn, my husband's
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here. Why you're here? Used to be very black? You know?
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But I think you're thinking too much, thinking too much. I have to
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think God always dropping ideas to him the other that Jesus stop dropping So worry
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why already that look at another? Pastor? Why I think you're all thinking
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together together? Last said sick. All right, I'm not thinking I have
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black already. I stop worrying and stop worrying because it can not help you.
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But you can trust your heavenly father. Let's trust God a little bit
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more. Remind me to trust God to when when you think that pass you're
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worried about this, the person't remember that word? You remind me you see
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God's kingdom first and his righteousness. What is the kingdom of God? All
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that the word of God represents? Read it, meditate on it. He
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did in you. On God's word and be assured He will add to your
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life. He will add what you need. As I said, God is
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not stingy. He's generous. He's very generous. Not more than you need.
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As I say it, it's just a silly pot that I want to
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cook in. But even that pot, God bless me with that pod.
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So big deal. Right. So all I'm looking at God, think,
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wow, my pot? Also you care? You provide for me? Then?
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How much more about the friend I'm praying for, my cousin that's not
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saved, the one that I want to meet? How about you know that
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person who's sick I'm praying for. I don't know God, what you want
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to do, but I'm willing to be used by you. Amen, hallelujah.
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So friends, we want to just look to the Lord. Amen.
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