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5 Areas To Watch Out For In 2024 | Pr Kenneth Chin
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You're listening to a message to go from at church. We hope this message
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will light up your day. I asked a lot in the beginning of the
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year what he has for ex church, and he spoke to me on a
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Saturday, and I had to preach it the first message on the Sunday,
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I preach you to excot the communing. And he spoke to me at ten
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o'clock at night, and he went on to about twelve thirty and the twenty
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a half hours of just you know, downloading what the Lord I wanted to
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give you. And so for the moment of January Pasasandra has scheduled me to
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be in as many churches as I can and as many church plans, so
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that I can give you this message from the Lord, a message for the
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new year. And if you take it to this word, I believe that
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you will do well, even better than twenty to eighty three. I want
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to prophesy that and speak that in confidence in the Lord. Because God gives
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you a message, and when he gives you a word, it will not
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return to you avoid but he will accomplish a purpose for which he sent it.
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So this is the title. If you have the slides, thank you
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so much. Who's Oh? Okay, I was gonna say ring Horn is
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the one president button. No, Wesley. Wesley is good to see you.
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Have you been playing badminton lately? Yeah? Yeah, West is a
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very good badminton player. Do you know that? Yeah? He represented his
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country. Yeah. Okay, So five areas to watch out four in twenty
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twenty four. That's the word that God gave me. So these five areas,
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our areas are important to look out for, to watch out for,
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and to invest in. If you saw in it, well you will read
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well. If you don't, then you won't. So I'm just gonna share
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it to you as a lot putting on my heart. Take control of these
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five areas, and you will probably take control of life itself. Okay,
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So let's read the word of God in the New King James version in Proverbs
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four twenty to twenty seven. The official Bible that extious users is the NKJV,
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because we have seen that it's the most accurate of all the translations.
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But sometimes we also like to look at other translations because they have different perspective.
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But let's read from the NKJAV. First. Is that, okay,
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my son give attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings.
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Do not let them depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of
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your heart, for they are live to those who find them, and health
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to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of
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it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
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and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead,
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and your eyelids look right before you ponder the path of your feet, and
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let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or to
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the left. Remove your foot from evil. So these are the five areas,
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the ears, the heart, the mouth, the eyes, and the
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feet. Okay, invest in these, investing well so the right seats,
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and do it, and you will definitely reap harvest. And so let's now
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read the message. I thought. After reading a couple of versions, I
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thought the message was pretty contemporary and cool. So let's read the same verses
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we read from the message. Translation, dear friend, listen well to my
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words. Tune your ears to my voice. Keep my message in plain view
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at all times, concentrate, learn it by heart. Those who discover these
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words live, really live. Body and soul. They're bursting with health.
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Keep vigilant, watch over your heart. That's where life starts. Don't talk
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out of both sides of your mouth. The avoid careless banter, white lines,
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and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead, ignore all sides, show
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distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you
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are what the promise. Look neither right nor left. Leave evil in the
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dust. Okay, so let's deal with the first thing that God wants to
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deal with. But before that, let's just talk about this. The five
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areas escalating in nature, meaning that it goes whatever you do with your ears
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will escalate to your heart, will escalate to your mouth, will escalate to
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the way you see life, and will escalate to the way you walk or
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live your life. It's all connected. It can either go up or it
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can go down. They all connected. So if you will take care of
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the first thing that I will say to you, the others will be easier
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to watch out for. If you don't take care of the first thing or
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the second thing, it will just go down the you know, go down
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the drain. But the Lord is very gracious, it's very kind. He
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wants to teach us to do it right. Somebody say amen, And when
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we do it right, we will prosper according to the promise of God.
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All right. So God has good of order, and every time we read
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the Bible we find that he's really when he says something first is first,
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and anyway second he means second, and then when it's fifth, he means
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fifth. And that's why I could share with you some years ago a message
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that says five steps to know when the Holy Spirit is hovering, and that
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comes from Genesis step to one. And then I shared with you from Genesis
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step to three, five steps to know when the serpent is slithering. And
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I even wrote a book on that. So if you really want to know
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how and when and what the Holy Spirit is doing in your life, you
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just follow the steps and you'll see it. And if you want to know
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that, whether the devil is working in somebody's life or in your life or
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in your situation, the devil also works in that kind of order. And
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God is the God of order. So I'm gonna tackle this today in order.
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Here we go the ears so problems for in the NKJV says incline your
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ear to my sayings. Incline your ear to my sayings. In the message,
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it says, tune your ears to my voice. Tune your ears to
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my voice. So, uh, those of you are old enough to remember
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that we used to use the radio with the dial. See some people in
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loading their head. Now, of course it's we use different kinds of gadgets.
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But I remember the time when we wanted to have ninety nine point four
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we we you know, and those days that it was also clear. So
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now it's digital, so it comes up very clearly. Those days it was
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just you know, there's a needle, yeah and yeah, analogue and it
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goes and and and whatever uh indication they had there. It was not that
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clear. So your only clarity is the voice. And so so you know,
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it was sound something like this, right, and I'm going to try,
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uh to to you know, mimic what we would have experienced. You
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know, we go closer to what we want to hear and goes and my
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mother said, I don't know I brought him, okay, and then you
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go backwards, right, and life is surprimes like this. We actually want
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to hear God's voice, but there are many other voices that comes away in
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our mamac sessions, in our golf sessions, in our free time. You
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know, we actually want to hear God's voice. And sometimes we settle and
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and get satisfied by what we think is God's voice, because just because you
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heard a little bit, I think it's God. I think it's God.
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I think it's God. But actually it's not that clear yet. I want
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to tell you right now, if you get the clear voice of God,
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you'll always get peace. If your heart is still not at peace, it's
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probably because you haven't heard him clearly. You heard him a little bit,
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yes, no, no, all right. So this year, I don't
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know, I don't know what happened last year twenty twenty three, But this
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year I want to encourage all of us, including myself, to tune to
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tune. I totally before us, maybe a year ago, that one of
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the devil's strategies is to create so much noise in this world that we can't
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hear God's voice. The devil doesn't even have to say anything to you.
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He just has to create enough noise, noise everywhere you look, noise,
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noise, noise, noise, noise, And sometimes we just have to pull
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away and open the Bible, spend some time with God. Turn on the
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worship music if you have to, but just God, I just really want
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to tune in. I don't just want to think is your voice. I
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want to know it's your voice. And one of the indications that there's going
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to be peace. And this is the thing, though, when you hear
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bad news and still walk away in peace, is because God's voice is clear
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in your heart that even though you get a bad report from the doctors,
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you remember that he's your healer. You see and and and peace. It's
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still in your heart even though what you see may not be what you want
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to see, and things you have been praying for may not yet come.
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But if you're really hearing God's voice, So that's an indication. If you
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go away from a Mama session and you go away and your heart is stirring,
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no peace, maybe whatever you guys have been talking about was not God.
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It's a very good indication. But when people come together and talk about
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God, talk about his word, talk about his testimonies, and talk faith,
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then you go away even though the situations have been changed, your heart
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has. You see, it's very very important when we all go away from
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this room today, I pray that the peace of God will go with you
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no matter what you're facing, no matter what you're going through. Everybody,
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okay, So the Bible says in Psalms, no, no, no,
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come sorry, let's let's do romans. Let's do romans. It's ten seventeen.
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So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
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So is what we are hearing and what we hear will either build fear or
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faith. I have a very strong statement. You can agree or not,
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but I want to share with you because I believe it came from the Lord.
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The Lord spoke to me, is it, Kenneth? Your condition where
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you are today is very much base or determined by what you have heard in
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twenty trade three. So you can sit on that for a while, malon
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over it. But if you're very angry on the first of January, it's
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probably because of what you heard on the thirty first of December, or what
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you choose to hear. If you're very happy today's probably of what you allow
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yourself to hear yesterday. So I realized that Wow, with God, hearing
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is very key and what we allow. If you lost money in the stock
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market, I'm guessing that you probably hurt something that caused you to buy into
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that. If you want money in the stock market, you probably hurt the
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right pundits or the right thing. Or maybe you heard the lord say bye,
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or you hurt the lords say don't buy. I don't know. It's
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basically where we are. The condition of where we are now is based usually
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usually mostly on what we hurt the day before, or the week before,
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or the month before. If you're frustrated, it's probably of what you allow
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your ears to keep hearing. And don't forget. When you allow your ears
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to keep hearing what you have been hearing, your heart will also be filled
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with what you're hearing. Okay, let's move on to I think it's Revelations
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now. I don't want to spend too much time on this, but if
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you have time, read Revelations. Revelations, of course, you know,
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is the last book in the Bible. And I pay close attention to the
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last things in anything. For example, like if someone is about to die,
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maybe all uncle or all grandma, and her time is up, and
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she says, I want to see you, tells your mom, I want
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to see Stephen, I want to see Kenneth, I want to know as
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he mentions your name when you come to that bedside of your dying relative.
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Because her time is up and she's going home to be with a lot.
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She's not going to tell you in the last ten minutes of her breath,
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her last breath, please remember to comb your hand the morning. I don't
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think she'll tell you that. I don't think she'll say a please, I
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don't forget to turn on the light outside the porch, sure, or to
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turn off the water heater. I don't think she or he is going to
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tell any things like that. Last words are usually very, very precious,
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and it might go like this, I haven't told you this, but I
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want to tell you that I love you. I've never said this to you,
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but in my dying breath, can I say, I'm so sorry for
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the things I've ever done that made you sad? You with me? So
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Revelations is the last book, and so I take heed to what he says,
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because God means it and he wants us. In all the books that
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we've read, from Genesis all the way to just before Revelations, you know
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he's trying to speak to us. But he's probably saying, this is my
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last chance Revelations, I'm going to tell you, and he spoke to seven
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churches. And when you read the Bible in Revelations, you will find that
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to all the seven churches there was a different introduction. So like, for
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example, Philadelphia Church, it was a faithful church. Another church was the
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Loopwarp Church. Another church was a church that had everything right except they left
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their first love, you know. And it goes on and on, seven
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churches. But while the introduction to every church is different, the ending is
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the same. And so I wanted you to take heat to this. He
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was an ear. Let him hear not here has an eyes. Yeah,
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the importance of guarding what we hear. That's not only applied to today,
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but even all the way to Revelations and the end times. You guard your
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ears, now you'll be able to guard it at the end, and you'll
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be able to be saved. I want to say that to you. Let's
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look at eleven to the second church, he says, he here is an
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ear, Let him here to the third church. In seventeen he says,
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he who has an ear, let him here to the fourth church. In
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chapter first twenty nine, sorry, here is an ear, Let him here
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to the fifth church, he says something else just before that, Can I
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see that just before that? Okay? Three six Relation Revelations three six,
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here is an ear, Let him here? Okay, to the sixth church.
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Three thirteen, he says, here he who is an ear, Let
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him hear. Uh. To the seventh and last church, he says,
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he here is an ear, Let him here. I want to just make
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sure you understand the the how important God sees our hearing. And if you
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want to see your life changes, change your hearing. A man, if
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you've been living listening to too many gossips and too many naysayers, change it.
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Change your mama's shop talk, change your golf talk, change you know,
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your your fellowship talk, change it. Let it be faith, not
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fear, and not gossip, but the gospel. So this is important.
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All right, let's move on. This is the final chapter, really,
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you know. And still he adds one more time, as if you didn't
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get it. So the spirit says, come, when the spirit of the
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bride say come, and let him hear who hears say come? So you
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realize that what comes out of your mouth will and can be in alignment with
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what comes out the spirit's mouth or not. So the Spirit says come,
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and you want to be able to say what the Spirit of Words say.
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You want to be aligned with him. You don't want to say things that
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the Spirit of God is not saying, otherwise you'll be misaligned and walking down
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the wrong path. So this year, I want to say what the Spirit
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says. But as the Spirit says come, the way I will also say
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come is where I hear, So you your mouth will only speak what you
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allow your ears to hear. Is what I'm trying to say to you.
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So if you really want to be aligned with the Holy Spirit, then make
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sure you're also hearing what God is saying. Everybody, Okay, this is
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important, So again, once once again, please watch what you hear and
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discipline yourself if you can, and not if you can, with God's help,
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please do it. Discipline your hearing, and that's how it starts,
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and you will be in the same alignment with God. How many have you
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wanted? I want what the spirit wants. I want to be aligned with
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God. I want his will to be done in my life. So I
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very rarely listen to nonsense. Although nonsense and gossip is actually very tempting,
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it's you know, the Bible actually says it's like trifle that goes down to
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the inward parts. You know. Basically, it's sweet, it's savory,
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it's I don't know what you want to call it. It's it's just tasty,
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you know. And that's why people love a good gossip. But the
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way it leads you at the end of the day is death and destruction.
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So don't go that way. Okay, how you ended up twenty two three
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is really how you or what you allow yourself to listen to. I'm going
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to encourage all of you. Twenty three four is going to be better,
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and it's going to start without ears. Let's go on now. The heart
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so proverse. For in NKJV it says it says, keep your heart with
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all diligence, for out of it bring the issues of life. Wow.
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In the message, it says, keep vigilant watch over your heart. That's
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where life starts. However, you know that there's a scripture that says Man
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looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. God is
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after the hearts. And we want to talk about this the n ivy.
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If you are using n IV translation of the Bible, it says, God
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your heart, and a lot of us like the word God. Passanda loves
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this phrase. When she's talking to young ladies. She says, ladies,
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God your heart, God your heart. Don't just let any guy come and
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take it away, all right. Don't let the six packs you know,
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or the eight packs you know get to you. Keep your eyes up,
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not down, my wife, God your heart. It's very easy to get
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offended these days now, every little thing we get offended. God your heart.
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Don't be so to get a friend. Just God. Actually I feel
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like I want to retell it. Got your heart, because out of it
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comes life is where it begins. God looks at the heart because heart is
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really really not only powerful, it's also deceiving. The Bible says, it's
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gotta guard it. Now. The question is how do we got our hearts?
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Is there a supplement for it? Is there a spiritual supplement for it?
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Well, hopefully we can find one today is found in Philippines four six
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to seven. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayers application.
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Let your requests we make known to God with thanksgiving, and the peace of
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God, which pass us all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds true
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Christ, Jesus, So God, it really gives you an answer of how
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you and I are going to got our hearts, because by ourselves and in
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our own strength, we find it hard to gout our hearts, especially when
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we're offended, especially when somebody says something that we didn't like, especially when
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we get rejected, forgotten. You know, birth day? How come you
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know you're got all the hole list there, but my birthday is not there?
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Right? And then we find out that actually you just came today,
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uh you know? Uh? And the names there are people who are part
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of our homes and part of us for some time. So we got to
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know that birthday and we're able to put it up. Actually, I was
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asked a question two Sundays ago from a newcomer to our supposed to my birthday
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is tomorrow, but my name is not up there. I said, welcome
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to Extan, brother, where you join our homes and when you are a
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longer part of us, you know we will have of course we that's how
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we get to know your birthday anyway. Oh, I see, I see,
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I see. Sorry Sorry I said no, no, no, happy
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birthday anyway, Happy birthday tomorrow. Uh So we gotta you know, we
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got got our hearts because you know, get offended and we get hurt so
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easily. These days, we we we are lacking a resilient generation. Now.
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I went to Japan before we start started ex Osaka, and they tell
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me that the Japan that we know today is built by people who went to
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the war, and they are so resilient that there's a statement that they say
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in Japan that they are they're unafraid of anything. Even if a tsunami comes
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out, we will build tomorrow again. And that's why it's so hard for
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them to give their lives to Jesus, because people in their needs, they
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will cry out. Japanese have learned not to cry out. They have learned
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to depend on themselves. And that's why I tell you it's not stopped when
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we talk to the pastes there. Japan has continuously come under bombardment, whether
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it be natural disasters or whether it be economy. Economy in Japan is still
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bad after twenty years. Maybe you might argue it's not as bad as Malaysia.
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I don't know, but the thing is it's not as good as they
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would want it to. Because God wants to show Japan that he is God.
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And as long as Japan continues to think they are God, uh,
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they're going to have to come to a place whereby God is gonna have to
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put them in the corner, whereby uh, he's gonna say this time around
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you you can't help yourself. You're gonna have to look up and you're gonna
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call me. Okay, But this is Japan, very resilient, don't care.
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Why no, so why tomorrow you bill? It's not that this is
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the attitude, but there's a generation that grew up when when their dads went
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out to build Japan, they grew up with their moms. So their moms
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did a great job raising them. But there is a softer side to them,
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all right, a more feminine, softer, gentler side to them.
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So not as hardy, not as strong. Uh. This is them telling
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me, and it is not my observation. And this is them telling me
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past this. This is what we're faced. And so I think in the
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spiritual realm, in the Christian realma, it is also like that those of
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us who are built things. Uh. And that's why this church believes in
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planting judges so that our people don't become soften, they become resilient because they
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get to be as well. Otherwise you're only hearing past the energy stories of
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how he built, and then you won't get to Bill. So we keep
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sending people out to Bill so that they can be strong and they can know
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what it means to carry instruments as well, and maybe getting rejected because oh,
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you know this place, I don't like you, I don't like your
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wish. I only want guitar on here. You know. Now, mind
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let them rub you the wrong way, because rubbing you the wrong way gets
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you stronger, all right, because I went through that, and I think
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that the Lot has made me stronger for for things that I can carry now,
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I can carry more because the Lot made my shoulders broader and stronger through
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the experience. But he's doing that for you as well. And that's why
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I love what I see is because you know. And then that's why we
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continue to plant. We want a resilient generation of believers in Christ who don't
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just give up this because it's raining outside it is rainy, or said,
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do you want to watch it? It's so hot that today thirty five degrees.
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I don't know, you know, no, come on, you know,
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don't don't get so soft on the lot. Amen. So so,
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but this is the thing. We do get hurt very easily this day.
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So how to get your hearts? You got your hearts the peace of God.
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I'm sorry, I'm just yeah, thank you so much. I'm still
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on this and I know I'm going longer than usual, but I just want
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to make sure you understand it's not you that will got your heart. Really,
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it's a peace of God that will got your heart. But how does
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your the peace that surpasses all understand income how it comes by you not being
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anxious, but in everything by prayers, application, with thanksgiving. Let your
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request be made so it comes with prayer. Peace comes with prayer. And
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I want to encourage you this year continue to trust in the Lord and grow
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deeper in your trust. Take prayer seriously, Bring everything to God before you
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bring anything to men. Sometimes people have to complain to man first. No,
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bring it to God first. And I tell you what, after the
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peace of God comes into your heart, you don't even want to complain to
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men anymore. You're like, actually got a thousand and one things to complete
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to you, But I went to God first. After I go to God
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and he put such peace in my heart. Okay, it's gonna be okay.
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And you come back to the person you want to complain to it.
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Actually I had a thousand things, but now they got one and even that
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one. So I just want to tell you construct constructive criticism. Uh,
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you know, my leader. Actually, if you could do this better,
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you know, and be all right. But Nola, you know I won't
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simply live church it because you don't do it better. You know. I
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know the Lord caught me to this church and I'm at peace, you know,
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So it's fine. Even if you don't change. I'm fine. I'm
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at peace. We cannot be at peace when people change one. I want
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the way, and the people change on peace, and then there's not real
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peace. If you change the way you do be you, then I will
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be at No. Your peace comes from God. And when that peace comes
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in God's your heart and mine through Christ. Thank you for the next one.
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Where your treasure is there, your heart will be also. So all
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these are practical tips. The next practical tip is that the reason why sometimes
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we're in a mess is because our treasure is not in the right place.
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Yeah, for the younger ones, maybe your treasure was your boyfriend twenty three
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eight three. He was higher than God. Right, You spend more time
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with your boyfriend or your girlfriend more than you spend with the Lord, okay
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for example. And so that's the where your treasure is. So when your
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boyfriend or your girlfriend that's something that you don't like, he or she will
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break your heart and you will end up in a place whereby you are a
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mess. Uh, maybe money is your God. Right. I remember hearing
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one person say he left the church, not my church, but not our
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church, but another church. And the pastor told me the story he left
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that church and then he he said, oh, yeah, I pray,
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pray, pray, pray, pray in this church, so I never get
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money in Yeah. I don't know what he was asking for. All he
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was asking for his first million, maybe first million. A God, never
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give me that my first million, and I pray eighty for two years.
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No first million, no break through, so he said, So he went
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to join another religion, another religion. No, no, another judger,
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because Jesus doesn't give you me his one minute. So you went and within
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six months that he became a multi millionaire, actually broke into his first million
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and then the pastor met him one day at the coffee shop, say,
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brother, how are you hi? Fine? Fine? Where you know?
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We church? No? No, no, I joined the temple. I
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won't say withala, but I said, oh okay, I mean you forgot
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Jesus. You don't love you anymore. You know. I pray, pray,
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prayer to him. He never give me. You know, my breakthrough
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one million? This one I joined six months gave me my first million.
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And the pastors look at him with love, but with sternness. Your God
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is not Jesus, and your God is not good. Your God is money.
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You will go wherever you can get the one million. You go wherever,
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and to wish ever god that can give you. So your God is
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not even just any Your God is money, and you will go where money
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dictates. Are you with me? A very quiet in this room. I'm
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not speaking to anybody right, I'm not speaking to anybody. I'm not right.
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Long times it's like, come no. So I don't know whether you
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want that one million on if you want one minut know, Lord please bless
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their please please? Yeah, it might it might not be in your time.
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God will bless you always. He will always make sure that He provides
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for all your needs. So I'm not against millionaires. A pleaser. You
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know, the more the merrier. Yeah, yeah, why why not?
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Right? That's all you're giving to the Lord God. Okay, So so
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watch your treasure. Sometime people just want to just want to get your hearts,
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but you don't know where to start. So now I'm not even saying
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hat you got your treasure your heart to be thinking of. So question is
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what is your treasure? So you watch your priorities, watch your priorities.
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God the treasure, what treasures? What do I really treasure in life?
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You treasure your family, that's that's okay, But also you must be careful,
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don't treasure your family. Above God, I have to remind you because
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for me, Passandra will tell you I'm not her first love. Jesus is
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and I will tell you the same, and we will tell you in front
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of each other, because if I was her first love, I will feel
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her for sure, and then she'll be broken. Then she'll be done.
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But when I feel her, because I'm not her first love, she has
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Jesus. And when I feel her, she looks up and say, Lord,
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I don't know why you make me marry this man. But I forgive
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him, and I forgive him because you forgive me. And Lord, I'm
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not asking you to change my husband, but just give me the strength to
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live with him. And I in my own room pray all. Lord,
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you know of all the women, you know you gave me Sandra. You
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must have a plan. Although sometimes I don't see it. I don't don't
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say that, you know, because my wife is just awesome. But the
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thing is, you know, there are days where I tell you, there
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are days where actually I'm right and she's wrong, and I still have to
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end up saying sorry, because I go to Jesus. Just if just you're
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just arguing with men, you just want to win the argument, but you
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come before the Lord. You don't argue. We've got one. You might
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lie, but he would always win. And then he says, Kenneth,
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you are the man. The man is the one. I know. God,
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I know what you're about to say, the leader, So leadler,
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lead if you want to wait for your wife to say sorry, yeah you're
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not leading. Aye, Yeah, there you go again. Open my prayer
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room door, knock on her door, and before I can knock, actually
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open the door, because she knew her husband was coming, heard his footsteps
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in the cool of the garden. It's got tears flowing from her eyes,
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really because she's spending time with God. And I my eyes, you know,
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I also welled up with tears, and I like, I just want
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to say, I'm sorry. Oh actually, no, no, no,
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I'm sorry. What did he safe for the has we then? The wife?
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Yeah? Actually I'm sorry. I I I was out of line and
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no, no, no, it's okay. I no, no, no,
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me me, no. No. It's like the time when you were,
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you know, calling your girlfriend. I mean, it's how you don't
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understand his line. You put down your phone first. I know you put
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down your phone first. No, you put that you say good night first?
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Do you say good night first time? That's why you know? You
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bore for it. And that's so late. So okay, So God your
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treasure, that's it. It's so difficult. I don't know how to get
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my heart God your priorities. Put God first this year. Family can come
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second. Yeah. Fine, you know, don't even put the money to
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the place, okay, because the love of money is the rude or what
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all? Even put it? Number five, number six? Okay, those
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things that money cannot buy. One put them first. Money cannot buy the
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relationship I have with my wife, You oldren maybe yeah, yeah, okay,
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so let's move on romans child too. Do not be conformed to this
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world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may
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prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Now I
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brought this scripture to you because in the Bible, very often the heart and
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the mind is interchangeable. Actually, when you talk about the heart, you're
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not talking about the one that be like, you're talking about the spirit of
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the heart. The heart means the inmost thoughts. His body is here in
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Xbu, but his heart is not. So you're sitting here, you're listening,
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but your heart is going elsewhere. That you're real you, the real
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inner thoughts of you. That's why it's interchangeable with mind. Uh. And
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the way we're going to be transformed this year is by the renewing of our
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minds, renewing of our hearts, the inner thoughts. Y. Okay,
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that means don't just in front of somebody here and think differently. You gotta
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know, Lord, help me, help the real me be transformed. Help
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the real me, start to think properly about people. How the don't let
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me not be double minded less. I don't even receive answers to my prayer
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because don't. The Bible says, right, he is a double minded man.
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He will not get what he's praying for. Is very clear right in
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book Book of James read that. So we don't be double minded. We
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want to be single minded, single hearted. And so what you see is
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what is me? Is that? Okay, what you see is what you
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get. What you see this is the real me. Uh. And it
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takes practice, but it's less stress because you don't have to be two persons
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in one church. You can just be you. And I pray that you
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will become more like God, become more like Jesus. And I think that's
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the that's the journey we all have to take, all right. And of
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course we also know the perfect will of God. So you maybe still struggling.
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Should I do this? Should I tell my business? Should I start
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another business? Should I migrate? Should I? And there's no peace right
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because you haven't really heard from God. But when you hear from God,
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there'll be peace. But the only peace you will know God's will He's perfect
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will. So how do you do it? You just change the way you
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think. Be renewed. The word renewed in the Greek is also the word
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renovate. Yeah, and so I have not heard even myself of anyone renovating
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any house or apartment. They have to make it smaller, have you.
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I'm going to renovate my apartment to make it smaller. I think my room
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is just to be. I'm just gonna really make it so small. I'm
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going to make it very rare, very rare. Maybe or twice. Because
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your room is so big, you're gonna you're gonna you want to make two
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rooms out of it. Most of the time renovations to make it bigger.
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So can I prophesy over all of you in Jesus name that this year,
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be a bigger person, be a bigger Christian, be a bigger believer,
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have a bigger heart, have a bigger faith, have a bigger hope,
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have a bigger love for the ones that are unlovable, renovate, renew So
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when you re how do I know that I'm actually renewing my mind or renovating
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my mind? My heart is when it's bigger. Maybe last year you didn't
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get all that God wanted you get because your heart was too small to receive
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it. Maybe, so train your heart and your mind to be bigger.
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Make more room. You see in that song, right, I will make
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room. Then remember this message, Lord, I want to make room,
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more room. How do you do it? You renovate your heart, You
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renovate your mind. Bigger room for you, God? What extra room for
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you? God. I'm gonna double two kitchens God, so you and I
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can cook in one. Okay, I don't know. I'm just just getting
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into some funny thoughts, but you know it's it's renovation. Come on,
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be bigger this year, Be bigger, be a larger Christians, larger than
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life. We will see you to go. Wow. I love that.
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And I want to come to the church that you're going to because they teach
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you to be a bigger person, not small, small minded, small heart.
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You know, no, be bigger, renovate, Amen, And you
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got more room now for the things of God that God wants to do in
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your life. Amen. Okay, let's move on. Thank you. XTV
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Luke six forty five. A good man of the good treasure of his heart
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brings forth good and evil man of the evil. Treasure of his heart brings
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forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
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So again we are about to go into mouth, because that's the third
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area. But I want to show you a scripture that shows you how does
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your mouth speak? It actually speaks. It's connected to your heart. And
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when your heart is full, your mouth begins to speak. So before the
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mouth speaks, the heart needs to be filed. Okay, so now let's
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move to a mouth. We will look at that scripture again in Luke six
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forty five, but in Problems for it says in the NKJAV put away from
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you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. In the
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message, it says, don't talk out of both sides of your mouth,
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avoid careless banter, white lives and gossip. What do you mean, I
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don't don't talk? How many of you know? We got two sides to
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our mouth. And I never quite understood that, you know, except that
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when I see some of us do it. You know, Actually, Steve
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Stephen, it's really quite good looking guy. But actually no, not really,
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yeah, he looks like that, you know, what's to you?
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And actually he's a pretty good leader. Actually, you made both sides of
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your mouth. And I tell you, when I'm doing that, most of
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you go like, yeah, I think I've seen that before. I've heard
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that before. I might even have done that before. M hm hm Wow.
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Look at her the dressfuliser you bought the sale on. She's a chief
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skid, you know. Okay, So don't talk both sides of Okay,
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So let's let's move on. Let's move on out of the abundance of the
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heart. His mouth speaks. Okay. Maybe about twenty years ago, when
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I heard from the church and I heard from the Lord how important it is
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to preach the gospel. I wanted to preach a gospel to my family and
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friends, and I seemed to always chicken out at a time when I should,
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you know, I go for family. Hey, family reunion coming up.
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A lot of Chinese New Year by uh visitations and reunions. It's a
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great time to share with your family about what God is doing for some of
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your families, are there not Christian? Majority of them? Some Christian easier
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right that you know that expects a testimony from you, So you know very
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quick boom share ah. All you know so all those are like Jesus again,
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the Holy roller you know, uh, goody two shoes coming, you
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know, see past the pasta coming. You're not bustard, but it calls
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you past because you you preach Jesus all the time. Huh did you get
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a bit worried? Right, a bit anxious? Scared? And I was
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like that, No, And then I asked the Lord for boldness and courage.
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I said, Lord, I'm so scared, I'm so shy. You
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know what the Lord told me. And I'm gonna tell you are free of
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church again. I want to go to church for this. It was my
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personal thing with a lot. So I'm just gonna say to you are if
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you agree, agree you don't agree, that might not too bad because it's
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my own personal revelation. Here here it is. God said to me,
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Kenneth is not baldness you need. But I'm scared, I'm shy. He's
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not courage you need. You just need. And he used this scripture to
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feel your heart with more of me. And when your heart is so full
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of me your mouth can't stop talking. He's not just boness and courageess,
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ah, because your heart full. Right, we do this for a lot
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of other things. If our heart is filled with our favorite sport and Liverpool
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one and you watch nineteen minutes of that game and wow, you go like
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you know, you're, you're, you're, You're so happy you think it
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can stop your mouth phone talking about it at every chance you have. When
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you're in love, your heart is full, right, and then you're And
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that's why for'm America supposed to be married for a long time. If you
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are not talking about your wife or your husband the same way you've been talking,
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you may have to check your heart. Now, what's so quiet?
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You know? This is this is my this is my way of of measuring
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it. Why don't I talk about my wife as much as I did before?
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Or you know, I mean, yeah, maybe because my heart is
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half full, maybe I have to feel it up again. You can be
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filled up again and it also can be empty. Maybe what maybe once upon
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a time you came to church and you were so overwhelmed with as in a
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good way wows you every Sunday you couldn't wait to come and after a while,
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no, maybe you've been hearing things and there's things that go in here,
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goes in here, and then it's getting filled up with different things,
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and now your mouth goes not really that great lie. And it can happen
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anywhere and in anything. If you find a really really good chocolate tale,
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I'm sure you're not, because you know a lot of people like a good
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chuck with tail here. And you were eating it with the you know,
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cockles, and with the eggs and with the you know whatever, and you
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were so your heart was so filled with love for this chocolateal and the chocolate
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chocotail seller. I want everybody to know. And just within twenty four hours,
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everybody knows. Because you are so in love with that which you just
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ate, you can't stop it. You you can. It's very hard to
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stop diary, you know, sooner or later you have to get to it
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and it has to come out. And uh, you know, sometimes it's
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like that, right is even bad news. It just comes out of the
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mouth and it's not that you want to say it, but because your heart
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is so filled with anger, maybe you're angry about that person, so you
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keep talking about that person because and the more you talk about the more it
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gets feeled. So the only way to actually not be angry with him anymore
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is to stop talking so much, then it will go down. You go
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down, I am you know the Chinese was gonna. My grandmother, don't
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know, used to have a very famous Cantonese word, yeah, yes see
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poon see yes see poone means like a little bit like here and then you
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know it's like uh a famous phrase my grandmother used to have her which my
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anti just reminded me. Eyes, I see dong suicie susie, tongue mousie.
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My grandmother lives in that big issue, make like small issue, small
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issue, make like no issue. That's why my grandmother lived there until a
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dying day. She was smiling, laughing, streaming. You know, swimming
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is my job. Ah can we live like that? Right? How do
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we live like that? So you got to feel your heart, allow your
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heart to be feel. It starts you're hearing. You're in. The more
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you hear, the more it feels if you're hearing is wrong. Change your
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hearing. Start to hear. Okay, Lord, this year, I want
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to hear good news. I want to hear good about people. I don't
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want to hear bad about people. And then you feel feel feel feel,
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feel feel filed the right, So the Lord said to me Kenneth feel,
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feel your heart with me, and watch your mouth speak. So I've been
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trying that all these years. Lord, I just want to feel. You
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don't have to just give me courage in bondness. No, you just feel
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my heart. You cannot stop a person who's totally loved for talking about the
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person he loves. Can't. He's trying to stop people or stop her cannot.
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All right? Is that cool? But but thankfully it can be added
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and it can be yeah, all right, subjected. So even if you
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are feel we hatred or feel with the frustration, good news is it can
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also go down. It can be reduced. Just watch what you hear,
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right, and and and and and it can also be feeled. If you
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think that old person, no wonder, I'm not preaching the goos because I
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don't love Jesus enough. He's not a condemn mission this year feel it more
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of you, Jesus, more of your Lord, more of you. Okay,
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let's let's go. Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
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So when your heart is feeled, your mouth speaks, and then you
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will speak either death or life. It's very important, very very powerful.
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You can really speak blessing on your life and family. You can and you
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can also speak cursus, so be careful how you speak. Let's move on.
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He says, Yeah, God gives life to the date and calls those
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things we do not exist as though they did, so even though it's not
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existing in your life yet, you can call it for I've been trying to
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speak to some young working adults who've got children who are either special needs or
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they just you know, just really really very active. Okay, let's just
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use that worder bouncing off the wall and you know, dancing with other people
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so far and stuff like that. So I don't know. I think I've
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been I've been given a very active child. I've been given this hand.
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I've been given this destiny too bad. I've been given this legacy so sad.
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I've been given this hereditary sickness. My father had diabetes. I've been
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so sometimes you feel like, oh, Heaven dealt you cruel hand. But
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I've been trying to say to my leaders, you can actually you don't really
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need to accept all of it. You accept what you accept. I will
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love this child anyway. That's acceptance. But you can also say every day
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I can speak into this being and call those things that don't exist as though
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they did. You can. Many years ago in FGA, when I was
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still young and not in ministry yet, I heard a pastor come and he
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preached. He told a story. I won't forget it until today, right,
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I won't forget it because he was like, I'm like, explain that
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again. But of course he was using the example in his message, so
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he was not going to explain it further. But he said, you know,
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my daughter was born with club feet. He's a pastor, he's a
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preacher. And she went on like that. I couldn't walk right for about
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four years. By the time she reached four years old. He said,
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I'm going to decide today to make a difference. I'm going to decide today
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to actually not just accept stuff that has shown at me. I'm going to
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make things happen because the Word of God tells me I can. I will
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speak out of my mouth life, and I will eat the fruit of it.
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The Bible says you will eat the fruit of it. So at four
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years old, he will go into her room every night, he said,
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it not mere. Every night you'll go into the room. She'll be asleep
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ready he'll take both her feet and he will rub it and massage it.
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And as he massages, he'll say, I command the toes to straightened,
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or I command the feet to straighten, and I command this, and I
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speak to this right, and long story short, by fourteen years old,
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she was like a normal child while walking and running and jumping and having a
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normal life. And after that he continue his message, right, hold on
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minute, Can I ask more? You know? And I didn't get to
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ask more, But years later I understand this. I understand that Xbu didn't
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just come. It was spoken into. And we met and we talked and
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we prayed, and then we couldn't find a space, and then we said,
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come on venue, you'll come, and the Lord says, have you
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tried one world? Right? And then we spoke into that. Now the
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Lord might have another plan in the days to come to another place. I
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don't know, but we speak into we speak into situations. Once upon a
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time there was no Xbu, and today there is because we've learned to speak
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into it. At Osaka, how do you plan a church in Japan?
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When Japan is like what it is, right, less than one percent Christian?
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Why do you want to plant there. Well, of course we want
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to plant there because it's less like one percent Christian. But it's tough.
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I know it's tough. But we have been given the authority and the power
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to speak. Don't give in so quickly. Don't give up so quickly.
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Learn to exercise the authority. But your heart must first believe, because out
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of the abundance of the heart speaks. Sometimes we try to control our mouth.
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Actually, don't control your wealth is making sure our heart first believes and
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really believes. Your mouth will go automatically. Okay, and we will speak
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life and you will speak things into being. All right, let's move on,
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all right, Romans ten nine to ten. I won't spend too much
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time. But it speaks about the assurance of our sulvation. Why do we
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know we are safe because we believe in our hearts and we confess with our
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mouth. See the combination of it. Believe in your hearts, confess your
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mouth. Let me tell you very quickly why confession is very important. And
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I know that when I was a lawyer. I was a lawyer, and
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there's something about confession that very powerful. Sometimes you can say confession out of
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due rest, and then you know that might not be MISSI willing court.
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You get walloped in the side of the room to get your confession and then
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they say, no, actually I was I was forced to get this confession
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out, and you know, the courts might throw it up. Okay.
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There are different situations where they might not. But the true confession. You
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know, why it's powerful is because number one is truth. You'll be fighting
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it, fighting, fighting it because you're scared to go to jas, scared
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to be hung for killing the men. Then finally, out of conviction in
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your heart, you say I'm going to confess and you said I killed him.
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Truth is very powerful and based on the truth that the case can be
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closer ready, okay. And number two why confession is very powerful is because
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there is a submission. To get to the place where you want to confess
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the truth is to be able to submit your life now into the hands of
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the authority of the courts. I submit. I think I'm going to be
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punished up, but I'd rather tell the truth. Truth. Submission Number three
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is acceptance. I accept whatever it is to callt dishous up to me.
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And then before there is expectations whatever is gonna happen, They're gonna give me
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a sentence, and they're gonna follow through with a sentence. I don't know
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how many years I have been in prison or whether I will go to the
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gallows. But if you reverse that into biblical truth is also the same.
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When you confess of your mouth doesn't go by your feelings, it goes by
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truth. And the word of God is truth, and the truth will make
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us free. So the doctor says one thing, but then the Bible says,
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by his stripes, you are heal. So that's truth. You confess
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that, and you submit now to God's timing and God's love and God's way.
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I won't demand God to do it tonight. God, I confess you
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are my healer, and I submit to whenever it is you want to heal
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me, because you see me, you know me. I accept God,
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your ways are higher than mind. I accept God that you are a loving
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father, that you are a good God. And even though I'm in pain,
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you see it. And finally, I expect you to move according to
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your promise, according to your word. I expect God to move you.
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See why how powerful confession is. It's not just saying anything nonsense, it's
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confessing the word confessing the truth, and you have those four things. Same
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as a criminal with the courts, same as a child of God with the
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Lord. Truth is very powerful. Submission is very powerful. I submit to
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God's will, accepting whatever that God wants to give you and expecting him to
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fulfill it. Amen. So that's important. Okay, so your mouth,
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Okay, let's move on. We're going to draw towards the close. I
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see this is one and I told you about right. The words of a
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tale better are like tasty trifles. If you thought I was joking, is
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in the word and they go down into the immo's body. Furthern lips with
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a wicked heart are like earthenware covered with silver drass. So basically, you
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know, gossip is very tasty and uh and all this so so that's why
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a lot of us buy into it this year. Please you can watch.
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You can watch over this, take control over it, over it and invested
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it properly. I guarantee you God will show you his blessing and what you
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show you will reap. So, so please stay away from tail bearers,
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stay away from gossipers, or maybe you would encourage them. It's not gossiping
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a brother sister, you've been talking like this the same way of one year.
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A right, come on, new year, New year? Knew you
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amen? All right, let's move on. Let's we draw. Okay,
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I think we can gone. Ah wow, okay, time is not on
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the outside, so I think I'll go on. Eyes eyes okay. So
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how far have you gone? Yes? Heart mouth watch these three now watch
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your eyes okay. So proverbs for keep your eyes straight ahead, ignore all
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sides show distructions, side show distractions in life as well, side show distructions
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to distract us. All right. A lot of cartoons going on left and
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right, a lot of comedy going on here, and then nonsense. And
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we are so caught up right because we are a generation that swipes right.
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So if we see something for too long, we want to we want to
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swipe. So when we when we live us swipe life, we always want
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to swipe left, swipe right kind of thing. And so the Lord is
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encouraging you. I know, se Yeah, the Bible's written many many,
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many many years ago. But the lot knew that Instagram will come out and
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Facebook will come out and say stop swiping, start getting your eyes on the
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Lord. The author and finish of our faith. Yeah, don't get so
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edgy. Uh, you know so impatient. Uh, don't be an entertainment
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generation that entertain me. You know, the Holy Spirit didn't come to entertainers,
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one preacher said to me many years ago. The Holy Spirit didn't come
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to entertainers. He came to empower us. I like that. Okay,
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let's move on. Okay, lamb of the body is the eye. If
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therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
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Wow, your eye is good? What does it mean? Good eye?
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Ladies German? This is my good eye and the left on the bad?
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No, I don't know. Hey, hold on, but if your eye
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is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. Or we don't
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want to be there. We don't want to be a person full of darkness.
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If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is
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that darkness? All right, let's move to betthew seven bed. This heaven
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says this judge, not that you be not judge. For with what judgment
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you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure you use,
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it will be measured back to you. Why do you look at the spect
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in your brother's I always laugh and I read this verse because it's so funny.
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If it's visualizer, it's that I'm coming to Stephen or to Josiah.
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Maybe I use you now, you know, I can see a few dusts
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on your eyes up, but there's a plan in my eye. You know,
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have you ever seen I don't know. I can't even imagine a plank
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kyu bala or your eye. And there we are trying to look at people's
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little faults, and we you know, I have become so judgmental. Anyway,
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do not consider the plank in your own eye. Let's look at the
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next one. Or how can you say to your brother, let me remove
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the spec from your eye and look, a plank is in your own eye?
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Hippo create? What a way to start the year by being called hipocret
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right. So it's not my intention to call anyone and Hipro created this room,
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But the word of God says it. So I'll say, hip create.
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First, remove the plank. See God, that's always he's very orderly.
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Do this first, and then watch what I'll do. So first remove
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the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove
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the spec from your brother's eye. Okay. Now, as I was preparing
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for this message, and especially for this point, I thought, I see
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you wh in ahead of God. I thought, okay, God, I'll
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just write the notes down because I think I know this part. I know
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this part. I've been speaking about the eye for many years. Uh.
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And you're gonna encourage the church to watch what they watch, right, So
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after I finish, I hope that no our people will watch less Netflix,
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watch less extro, watch less YouTube, watch less pornography. Actually it's not
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lesser. You should totally not watch pornography. I watch whatever, less K
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pop or okay, and then done, let's all pray. Let's go home,
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and then you go home, going going like Okay, Pasta taught us
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this year. Okay, I like the one on the ears. It's true.
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I've been letting too many nonsense go to my ear, and he's been
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feeling out my heart. That's right, and then my mouth speaks on on
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my heart. Okay, I got you, past I got you. So
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if I can control my hearing, control my my heart and all that's going
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inside, and then I'll control my mouth, I'll speak live. Wow,
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It's gonna be a great year, Lou. Yeah, and my eyes all
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very easy, okay, less extro less Netflix. No, No, this
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is not what the word of the Lord is saying. Yes, please go
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ahead and watch what you watch. Okay, be careful about what what you
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watch, because it's important as to what you let in. But the Lord
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said to me, Kenneth, why you're going ahead of me. You're writing
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notes that I didn't give you. Okay, what do you want to say
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a lot? He says. I want to say to the people is what
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goes out of their eyes? That's important? What does it mean? God?
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Yeah, you know I knew you're going to tell the people just watch
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what goes in. I want you to tell them watch what goes out because
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the way you judge people in twenty twenty three has also brought you to where
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you are today. And if you judge people wrongly, you alsoso also change.
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Suddenly. I uh, you know, I really like John and he's
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like best friends with me for years, and suddenly I hear some rumors,
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I hear some things. You know, I didn't check it out with him,
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and then you know, my eyes start to change. Do you know
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you can you can judge before your eyes. You can actually kill your eyes.
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Have you ever seen it? I'll show you, I show you.
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Do you know, your eyes tell a story, Your eyes judge, your
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eyes condemn. And And actually everything was going well with this relationship, you
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know. Then suddenly my eyes see you differently, even though it's not right.
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I didn't check it with you, I thought because somebody said they saw
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you outside smoking gie. He was a candy and it was a cold weather,
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so that who was smoke coming out here? You know what that hey
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don't smoke? Huh? I knew idea. I knew it was he with
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Adriance. You remember Adriance define was so good. He used to smoke a
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lot. So yeah, yeah, I knew it. And from they always
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my eyes, I don't even have to speak to you know. And then
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my attitude change towards him, and my life changes also. And actually you're
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supposed to be a blessing to me, and I don't receive the blessing.
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I don't receive the blessing because now now I change because the way I see
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you his perception. Perception is very powerful. Perception is very powerful. A
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speaker comes in here, you like you will receive everything. He says,
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Wow, yes, you don't like so much half you my uh sure no,
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and you don't even have to speak. You can just look your eyes.
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Your favorite preicature even if he say it wrong, he quote wrong scriptures
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of you. Amen. Another day is apologize the day I give you a
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scripture. It's not even found the Bible, so sorry, yeah uh.
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It was actually by Anthony Robbins. And because sometimes the Guru's I got such
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great quotations, it sounds like bioh sorry, yeah, I quote it wrongly,
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forgive me. Then you go it's okay, it's all right. Huh
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before you don't like what huh? I knew you're gonna quote wrongly because people
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told me about that about you. You know. It's like how I remember
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remember a story about how a piece of cake with two guys sitting next to
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you. One guy takes his fork cut straight into it without asking you,
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but because he's your friend is sharing. The person who don't know take the
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same his folk and cut straight into your cake because he's a stranger is stealing
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perception. How we see people will actually affect our life. You think it's
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affecting him, it's affecting you, And then we suddenly go like one whole
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year. We're supposed to this relationship is supposed to be so power that you
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can bring forth life. He didn't brought forth death because I refuse to work
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with you. And the devil is going to continue to mess people around that
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he's he's out to break relationships. God is out to building may Okay,
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are you getting something from this? So remove that plank? Loves. Yeah,
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sure, your brother also got some back in his eye God, which
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others are perfect. But when you judge like that, you got a big
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plank on your eye. You better get rid of that first. Hey man,
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okay, let's let's let'sdraw to a close. Guys. Uh wow,
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you see I I you know, I was googling because it was so late
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at night. I google something that I hurt many years before. The eye
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is the window to the soul, and I believe it was from the scripture.
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Google can't get no, Google another way can't get it always brings me
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back to this. I'm like, hey, this doesn't say the eye is
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the window to the soul. He just says the eye that mocks his father.
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So your eye can mock people. And you may have to say rich
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people come in, poor people come in sit in the back here. Yeah,
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we judge, we score on our mother. But you know, and
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then he says that the raven, you know, raven are like cross right,
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and they ask avengers. They don't go for life items, they go
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for dad items. So a raven goes for a dead eye. Because while
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we live, when we judge people, our eyes are as good as dead.
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So this year, let's not have any dead ice. Let's have life
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in our eyes, love in our eyes, faith in our eyes. Come
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on, okay, let's try to close fait last one. Somebody say last
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one? Hallelujah. It means lunches near all right, here we go.
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Watch your step and the road will stretch out smooth. What a promise,
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right, the road will stretch out smooth. Before you look neither right nor
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life. Don't swipe right, No swipe leave evil in the dust. Next
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scripture, I love this. Your word is a lamb to my feet and
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a light to my path. How do I start this message? I started
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with the year. What did I say about the year that faith comes by
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hearing and hearing by the word of God. And now we close it by
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also saying that it's God's word that should guide our steps and our path.
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The word of God never changes. It's it's truth that sets us free.
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It's life. When you talk about the feet, you talk about the walk.
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And so in second Conincience five seven, it says walk by faith,
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not by sight. Ladies and gentleman brothers, this is that I love.
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How have we been walking twenty twenty three? What path have you been taking?
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What road have you been journeying on? Has it brought you peace?
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Joy? Has it made you a bigger person or smaller feet? Is your
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walk? How have you and I been walking? Walking in frustration, fear
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or faith? And you go all the way back to the ears now,
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because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So you
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can start your ears and you end with your feet. So really I can
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see from your life and my life. We can see from people's life what
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they have been hearing. You know, yesterday those of us who went to
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homes, maybe the whole week, people who were going to homes Wednesday,
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Thursday, you know, And there was a scripture John fourteen six. I
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am the way, the truth and the life. Do you know if I
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look at this gentleman here, I won't be able to see truth, and
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I won't be able to see way. I can only see his life.
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I can only see his walk, the way we will have lunch later.
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I will be able to see his walk, the way he treats others right,
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and stuff like that, okay, and then not disappointed him. It
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can be yours, all right. I see from your life, from the
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way you do church, I see your walk. I don't know. I
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can't see truth, I can't see a way. But from your life I
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will know the truth that guides that life. And from that life I will
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know the way that you have chosen to walk in. That's how powerful the
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work is. The work actually reveals the walk, and the life reveals what
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it is that you have been seeing. I'm backing up now, why is
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it that you've been saying? Why is it that you've been filling your heart
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with? And finally, why is it that you've been hearing? So I
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know sometimes it sounds like, oh, this message is strong buster and because
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there's a lot of negative connotations and negative examples, but it doesn't have to
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end that way. It's meant to be good, it's meant to be positive,
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is meant to be that if you watch for these five things and invest
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into it, so into it properly you will prosper. That's the way you
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do it, all right. Don't have to go and do a master's degree
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for this and not a PhD. You don't have to Yeah, seriously,
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you don't have to go and visit a guru or counselor or psychiatrist for this.
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This is the word of the Lord. Watch your eares, okay,
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everywhere? Stand up? Please? Is there anything else? Yeah? Okay,
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all right, as you stand up, I'm just gonna give you five
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slides of summary this year. Watch not just what you hear, but how
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you listen, somebody say, amen. Next one, watch not just what
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you feel, but how you feel your heart and mind. Number three.
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Watch not just what you say, but how you confess. Number four,
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Watch not just what you see, but how you perceive. Remember the woman
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who said the well, Jesus came to her and immediately you know what she
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saw, Jue, what does the Jew have to do with a Samaritan?
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See, sometimes when we see things, we see things that cuts off on
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them the blessing. But no, Jesus spoke to her, spoke to her,
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spoke to her and She's like ah, And the next word she says,
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that I perceive that you are a prophet is to go beyond your sight
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and Jesus says yeah. And then she asked him a question, you know,
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where do we worship? And he says to her, you should worship
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in spirit and in truth. And then she says, the Messiah is coming,
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and he says he who speaks to you? And he so she goes
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from I see you as a Jew to now I see you as a Messiah,
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and she goes out to bring the whole city to hear. Do you
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see how she could have missed her blessing. She could have missed her breakthrough,
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but she didn't because sight went to perception and what you perceive is very
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very powerful. Last one, watch not just where you walk, but how
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you walk? And how are we to walk by faith not by side.
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