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Prayer | Elder Wong Kien Yiak
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message
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will light up your day. So in your Bible, would you turn to
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Matthew chapter six, verse nine. Matthew chapter six, verse nine, six
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verse nine. The Lord's prayer come on the Lord's prayer Matthew six, verse
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nine. In this manner, therefore, pray in this manner. Therefore pray,
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friends, the lot was encourage us and tell us, really, the
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power comes from praying. The power that nothing comes from praying. Many times
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our own journey, our own life, we try to do everything with our
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own strength, isn't it. It's not wrong because we are so used to
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it. We are so accustomed to it. We know how to tech of
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problems that tech us issue, and this stuff that based on resdom our own
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past experience. But the Bible encourages this morning in this manner, Therefore,
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pray. And I realized that many times in our own journey, right,
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besides applying what we know in terms of own degrees and stuff like that,
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is to seek the lor. What is it that you want me to do?
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Even though in the natural it seems all right, Even though in the
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natural it seems such a good deal, even though in the natural seems such
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a fantastic You know you saw p I c c if the convention center,
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right. We want to let you know. You know we know where we
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call it or not we we call I called the Chinese Assembly Hall. Rental
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very cheap. I took the rent is so cheap there right, iconic place,
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all right? If you already know that the battalion ship there the Chinese
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very nice cremating picture taking and stuff like that. Very grand. Nobody use
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it before. Let's go and use it. We call up you see Malaya,
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the horse was a bit smaller. We caught you be a much bigger
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hall. I even caught I'm not building. I put our word center.
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Hello, is this listen? If you rent out your hall or not?
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Yes, we do. I couldn't imagine what should be in front of the
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old Prime minister pictures in front there? All right? I would call them.
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I said, you want to do a church service in center? It
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be such a declaration, all right, And they say what event is this?
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I went like, I'll get back to you on the event, okay,
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But I just asked you are you open? Not right? We we
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caught human reason like, let's let's let's let's create history. Right, let's
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go. It's not just about creating history, is doing what the lot wants,
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it's really doing. So we caught many places, many places was available.
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We caught. I caught it called mc hall m hallay can but you
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have to turn around it. So they were open. But so so many
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proposers, so many options. What do you do? Pick the one with
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the lowest, lowest costs. Pick the one which is well community for people
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to come. Pick the one which is the by nicest building, the most
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iconic. What is it that the lot wants see? If you don't pray,
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we won't know. If we won't if we don't pray, we won't
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know. I have to sit down. No, so power my job or
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right, the power of my my position. Sometimes we get the counsel singer
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guys in our church liking girls in our church, which is normal, hallelujah.
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Please please if you're singer in our church, please all right. There
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are a lot of other singer people in another church. Plan So I was
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in exemoney ximoney had a lot of guys, singer guys. I say,
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please, okay, I want to let you know there are a lot of
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singer singer, very good ladies in XPG right straight bangan. Please remember,
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do not just put your name on coffee and bigger. Okay, don't put
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your your name in all the air, but just swipe left, all right.
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I don't know what swipe, but please pray ask God? All right?
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Then I said why anyway? So we get the counts, I say,
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hey, pray, I said, dog, I said, why is
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it that everyone only go after that one? Why is it that everyone just
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go after that one person? Like six guys going after the one? Okay?
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Can she share two stories with your So? Back then we were level
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two, right, there was a girl that was an expresso, so the
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expresso. So back then we're using folding tables. She's no longer, so
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I can say, so, I guess a lot because pretty girl are so
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a lot of guys came in. How about the four table? I can
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give it one table, one table that links here, four and a six
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guys clearing up to help? All right. There was another lady who has
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how do I see this without saying I'm just gonna see it? All right?
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She has one arm? I shore one up right, So you know
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how hard difficult you know how difficult it is at the four table, right,
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No guy came in. How side by side, side by side.
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Okay, it's not like one day. It's not like one one one.
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This Sunday one was next Sunday. This is like side by side. Albow
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wasn't there, Okay, Elbow was playing with toy somewhere, all right,
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And I was praying for Indonesia, right, so so sorry you're observing it.
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She was trying to manage to ford the fold, the banquet table and
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the other one thing. This guy helping, like how we don't pray for
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important things. We don't. We just go by what we see outside.
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And many times our decasion, we go by what we see in outside.
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Good, good? Do you go for it? Great? You go for
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And many times we are led to a place whereby after that, come on,
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after that, you'll like that. Wanna you are like that? Wanna.
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I can see this. We gonna becounseled. Is one of the future.
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Just to actually take time and invest in couples before they get married,
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called pre marriage counseling. We sit down there for six months, we walk
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to with them, we cry to them, We asked them the one key
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question why do you want one get married? Don't listen to the frontier.
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This is this is the the h people here our church. Why it's still
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very okay? Why do you still want to get married? And stuff like
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oh, because we have data for almost ten years, say what to do?
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Oh we did get married? Law. There was one answer that was
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given those me and my wife like huh what hight that we dat us?
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We did our next progressional like that low, like that low, and many
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times our preyer life doesn't exist because like that low is I'm here, I'm
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like that. Friends. So the next part is this and God is asking
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us our father in heaven. Friends, we have a father in heaven that
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we could run too, that we could call too many times as a child.
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We really don't understand our father's plans. We have our own plans.
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Yo. Our dad wanted us to be an accountant, but we want to
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be a graphic designer. Our that wanted us to be engineer. But we
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want behad stylists. Nothing wrot be behad stylist rest. I actually want to
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behave stylist their falcon head to work to work with. I wanted the weirdest
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profession. My dad said no, I will don't become a graphic this in
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my father say what on earth is dead? All right? You can you're
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you're good enough to become a contractor a mechanic and this stuff like that,
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And my dad said, wes come the worst, you become a countiner.
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See many times you don't engage our father in heaven because our father and heaven
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had to have her had the plan. Many times she does not know how
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to engage our dads come on. Most dead Asian deaths are very quite,
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very silent, right seeing and sometimes not heard. She's always there, strong
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figure, always provided, working very hard. But sometimes you do not know
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how to communicate. And many times right when they say, it feels like
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excoding and mayis our journey because of our earthly fathers are like that somebody,
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we don't know how to engage our heavenly father. But I want to let
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you know this why God has a plan. His plan is this that his
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kingdom come and his will be done on earth. Come on. His plan
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is his kingdom come and his will be done on earth. But we have
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a relationship with our dead, and therefore God is asking sick the Lord this
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moey because he already has a plan in your life, in your journey.
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We need to know what God's plan for the earth have too far, we
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all know this. Let the whole earth be filled with the glory and the
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knowledge of God. First, you and I this wanting. We need to
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seek the Lord because it is not our plans that we want to do.
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Our life is so short to do our own plans. Life is so short
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to do our own plans. And many times if you're not careful with God,
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Oh my God, bless us someone, we find so hard to move
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things along because it is our own plans. When we have to move out
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from so many places, we always ask God, what is your plan for
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us? Is it? This? Is it that? Before equals sanctuary?
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We were looking at key site more or we saw a space, we went
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there, we prayed about it. We just thought that could be the potential
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space, right, And sometimes we re use Christian words like this is it?
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God open these off for us, and you know, the understanding of
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God's plan is so important. But afterward we doesn't mean that first confirmation is
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confirmation all the way. We continue the confirmation and we found that it's not
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what it is. Thank God, let us this place. The managements say
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that you cannot open the church here. This is a retail space. No
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so no church. The management are not very favored to church, not very
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failed to church. So what do you do? So kill their mind?
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We say we are events space. Then all right, then I think about
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last year, had the opportunity to meet the top management of ECO. I
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just told them there we are church. Okay, I say, we like
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your space, very nice. One of the few spaces look out a tree.
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In fact, this is the only few spaces of friends. We have
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nice, nice facility. We have never invested like that before. So we
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told the man top management say we are a church. I the moment that
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wrent now from my lips, I went like, oh no, I gotta
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let the next month, please recid the minute, give back stuff like no,
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we're still here. You see, you need to seek the law out
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Father out in heaven. Hello be your name. See it's out responsibly to
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seek the lot of friends. God has a plan, a vision. But
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many times you want to run your own vision. You know why because if
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your own vision, we get the glory. Ma uh huh, our own
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vision, I won't desire we get the glory ma. We want to do
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masters. The God asked to do masters, a master degree, but we
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want to do so we get the glory Ma because we work so hard.
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I got a question, I w asked me for what do you do your
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MBA? I went, I was naive, I was, I was,
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I was. I was scammed by my friend Master's love. It's very easy
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one. It's a repeat of your third year university. Just buy. The
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more you study, you can pass on. In fact, I didn't research.
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It's the easiest mb you can do, so I do know, only
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the fun is not that easy because when you work and study is very different
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when your full time studying with so many times we want our own plans,
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we want the old man, but God's reminding us it is by God's plan,
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is for his glory. Fairy sometimes think everything evolves around us, but
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not necessarily, it's evolved around the Lord. So our father in heaven,
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Hello, be your name, your kingdom. Come, your will be done.
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Friends. Many times in our journey we fail to understand it is not
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our will, but God's will has to be done because he gets the glory,
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this building, this place that we have done because of us, because
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we give him money but friends, is because every inch of this space is
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for His glory. He provided for every thing our church around the globe.
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We just did the X. Sorry, our global passes retreat the Storbiries.
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You heard from them, friends, if you know our passes from overseas.
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Brisard Young, who is profession and accountant, decided to step up to become
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cognitive ex brister wasn't fully trained in theology, but he just God, if
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you can use anyone, can you in accounting? Right, man saying our
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collator in Edinburgh, you saw her the petitear little girl there came to ex
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kids who rolls out and say past her, if you want me to help
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our pray and God give you a confirmation, I will step up with the
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plate. Friends, God, condo confounders, who rises up in our chain?
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Because no human get the glory at the end of the day. We
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didn't mane saying no, none of your children go to exkis. One day
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you become a coordinator. One day you become a coordinator, one day you
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become a God. No, we did not do that. We just say
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grow in the Lord, allow the Lord to speak to you. Love God
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with all your heart, so and mind and see how God will bring you
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to. You can't come to this place where by God gets the glory in
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all that we do, because if human gets the glory, friends, there's
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no peace on nerve after that. Right, So it's not about competition,
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how many, how fast is grew and this stuff like that. No,
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it's not. It's case if you want us to win this place, we'll
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go. So when we first started our first church in overseas in Botswana.
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Right, if you have not been to Botswana, friends, you can.
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There's no direct flight. It's a flight you have to fly to South Africa,
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or you fly South Africa, South Africa, you fly in it.
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The pace of life is very slow. Think of it in Malaysia in nineteen
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sixties or ninety seventies. Very slow in this Bordern day of age. And
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if you want to buy a pair of pain, we go to the Harway
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shop. We just color you come up from the shop within five minutes.
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There is half an hour. So you want to buy five pair of pains,
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yes, please go to this department, get a purchased order. Then
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go to the department get it invoice, then go to this place for payment.
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Then go to the warehouse collect your stock five Nila in Malaysia. You're
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in and out within ten minutes. There's like, how I was waiting at
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the time that I say, I got to go back all the chairs,
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so we sell up the church over there. Everything was so slow. That's
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okay, you know, get buying the chair that pins the easiest, challenging,
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but easiest, the toughest. I can just share with your honestly,
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was the mindset of the people. I can be all very honest with you.
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Like to consume and leave everything behind. What do I mean by that?
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So we had a crosity back then or something like curiosity. So we
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ordered the fried chicken. So we order fried chicken. The guys who eat,
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you know, friends, not just one two pieces, allocate two pieces
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but person four pieces per person eat already the plate leaf on the floor,
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and the ladies and women cleans it up after that eat. They really just
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leave church. Nothing wrong with that, we hear the self. But as
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a person doing after, we go like, I'm wow, we feel like
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you tak it for all? Right? Then somebody the word is that if
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we don't pray, if we ask ourselves like God, what is your plan
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for Botswana? But we stuck to it. We we we we held on
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through it. I flew to Barcelona with thin one time. There was four
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times that year, flew into it just to help establish the church together without
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the question. Back then it was difficult. But you see, you have
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to seek the Lord because if it's us, we'll choose South Africa anytime,
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nicer place. You need have flight into one country. But God, say
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Botswana, low and behold. After so many years, so many people got
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touched. Communister too. You got to believe God has a plan for his
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glory. That's number one. Number two it is that the Kingdom of God
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has rules. Come on, you don't like the world rules. We have
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rules in the Kingdom of God. Yes, we have rules in the Kingdom
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of God. I won't say, amen, we have rules in the Kingdom
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of God, because if we are rules, how can the kingdom be managed
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without rules, without without loss? How can it be managed? So the
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king of God's government is lost? Okay, some someone I was in there
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forever? Oh Lord, your word is set in heaven forever, Oh Lord,
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your word is set in heaven. Right, So there's a Kingdom of
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God, your kingdom. Come, you will be done. But it's governed
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by laws, the word of God. Right, amen, So you understand
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that we understand the Kingdom of God under said govern by laws and another scripture.
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If you got convinced Isaiah four th, was it the grass beater?
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The flower fades, the pots and pants lose is shine? Thus eighty five
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eh, TV will die one day. Our tesla can't have to change battery.
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But the word of the loss says forever. Sorry all the other extra
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but the world of low stands forever. So the Kingdom of God is govern
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by the laws. So therefore passive us the leaders. Your devotion time is
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so important, Bible reading is so important. We know about the Kingdom of
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God, but many times we fail to understand about how it operates. We
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fail to understand how it operates because we make a lot of assumption. What
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do I mean by that? Meaning to say that just because the word love,
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we define love how we see love, but not how through the lens
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of God we define serving, and how we see serving, and not how
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God wants to see serving. We defy a lot of things to our own
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human eyes rather through God's lenses. And that's why sometimes in a Christian world
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we see very variation of believers. My parents used to if you want,
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they enter full time until you retire. Got out there, get your money,
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establish your career, your family. Then when you are with the Asian
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retirements, serve the lot, good human And why is that nothing wrong?
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Place? Please don't I'm not against it, right, But I also realized
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one thing. Why can't we serve the law while while we are working?
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Why can't we serve the Lord while we are working? Why can't we serve
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the lot as full time? We've got causes to be missioned. Why why
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not consider that this is the Lot calling us, giving them the opportune to
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serve him. So I say, why is it that you give the left
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overs? It's okay, I won't be speaking to yourself. I'm gonna be
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right direct. Why is it that we always give our left holds of strength
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to the lot? Right? For example, you know what we tell a
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couple of these. Okay, if you want to setter any disagreement, set
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it earlier in the morning, full of energy. Everybody is alert. Please
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those setter disagree Whoman argument at ten pm and night, because that's where your
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energy is at the lowest, Your patient is at the lowest if I no
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more patients, really, because your officer sucker all your patients. Right,
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those cet the disagreement and then those set up money issue at eleven PM and
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night because it will not be helpful. Right, So I tell people that
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don't give God the left or words. Friends, So therefore there are laws
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in God's kingdom. But we need to understand by reading his words. Therefore,
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your devotion is so important. Your devotion. Bible reading is so important,
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friends. Bible reading is not one verse that pops out or your Bible
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app Come on, it does not want the one scripture out there. I
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read my Bible, right, they see the scripture that pops out of my
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Bible app the worst of the day. We kill ourselves, like, come
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on, that can be just truel we are we are bluffing. Oh I
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read the Bible right. It's it's hard. The older we grow, the
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less you want to read. The older we grow, the less we want
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to read. We don't like reading because after a while we realized, because
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I would see them more than five minutes to read any book. After a
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while, it's hard, but we have to because we need to understand how
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it functions. Okay, so we want them supposed to energinner Now what nine
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fifty five? Okay, buss bustards my mentor so I follow his full step.
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Okay, all right, just find us. Finally, because it's Kingdom
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of God, there is loss. I just want to just want one more
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point, just for you. It's all about consistency at the end of the
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day, my final point, consistency. When I was preparing this message,
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lost spoke to me. Why is it only in the in the King of
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people be selective? Selective? Just because this happened to me. Therefore,
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it's not applicable to me. Now, before you think that I'm talking about
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anybody anything else, can I just put a full stop there and just share
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my journey. Even as a church elder about the anniversary giving last year,
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I was talking to past about said, okay, are you ready for a
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nursery giving? I say yes, right and and and let me share it
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past a hole I want to give pass just asked me a question, where
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is the faith? Now? I could take it the wrong way. This
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is my giving to the Lord, you know? Right? Come on,
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if I were to ask you, Albert, you need to give this an
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ex amounty I come on, can do better? Right? How many years
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of Christian really? Huh? If you give the same amount, no bu
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right like you got, I could take it the wrong way like question by
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giving I thought you was sa giving under we're not giving to Memma this question?
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Where is the fifth in the giving? So I went back to you
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to pray. Love, when you're finally seen the pass to speak to you
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first, it's not to spik you, and it's you know when when something
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that out of lover, you just have to go back and pray. So
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I went back to prayer and asked the Lord, like what is it?
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The Lord says, you know what it is. And I was going through
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this thing like I can just save up money, can save up money in
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case I tell you you did not, I had to stand down my heart.
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I had a heart attack, so I got civil money. Just make
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sure that I know everything is all Setima, And the Lord spoke to me,
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come on, did you save out even before you had a heart attack?
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Said Lord, no, full time a lot right now, not saying
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full time is batter or it just just in full time ministry. So our
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paid skill is very different from the normber Coppers pay skill right. People always
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share I always done with these other people. We always share that we've got
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three months of boners, right that look at our food stuff. We've got
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three months in heaven. We've got three more bricks in heaven. Hallelujah,
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praised a lot. Ah. So there's there's a joke that something I was.
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I will tell you other people, it's okay, three more bricks in
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heaven is better. Right. But anyway, so I went back to pray.
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God said, given a mile that you've never given before. I said,
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God, why do you need to squeeze the full time people, squeeze
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the corporate law because yeah, the one man excuseze. The other people got
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ten month bonus, they got gift, not give two to the load la
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twenty percent? Right, So a lot of things them because of what happened
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to me. Therefore, justify if I shrink back. God understand, people
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understand my right not come on, I'm just speaking by fully with love here
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It is okay, that's how we think. Rahab, the Bible says,
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Josh chapter two, come out rehab. Who's rehab? Rehab? In Josh
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chapter to the House of rehab Ah, the Bible says she worked as a
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hollered right, not a good profession. So many reasons that she can tell
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herself. I can betrayed the two spies that Joshaw said, because I need
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the money, I get failure, and many times in our life, because
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with a black consistency, we will tell ourselves it is okay because this happened
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to me. Therefore it's okay for me to shrink back. It is okay
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for me to create an exemption. It is all right for me to be
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there. But rehab, the Bible says, did not did not allow her
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profession to define how she should believe. Come on, she did not allow
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the profession to say, just because I'm hollered, therefore I'm like that two
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guys coming, or you're the two spiser. Therefore, let me tell the
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king. I get favored with the king, I get promoted, I get
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exemptions, I get money. I cant live in a bigger house. Would
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anyone say that, why are you so bad? Normalma? She's seen a
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lot of men in a life, Ma, But she she did not.
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So for me, it was that when God spoke to me the man,
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I looked at it and went like, God, why me? So?
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Anyway? I decided to obey the Lord. Sometimes when God speaks, you
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of doing it quickly. So they have looked back. I keep looking back.
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I keep looking back. Why why? Why? Why? Why?
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Why? Why? Consistency? Many times in a Christian world there is no
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consistency. We make exemption. Does it apply to me? Does not apply
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to me? Do you know? Sometimes there's no big chue because there's no
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consistency. There is no big true because there's no consistency. Friends, as
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I need to close soon because people are telling me to close. First Semuel,
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chapter thirty speaks about Samuel and Saul. Samuel was supposed to come to
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a place to make an offering to the Lord, but because he was delayed,
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Saul decided to do things in his own eyes, see for the Lord
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affairs, not for himself or for the Lord, thinking that it's okay.
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First severl Chapter thirteen. He repeated that again later. Why am I popping
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on this point consistency for some time? Because I find in my journey of
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twenty four years of being with ex church, I meet a lot of people,
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great people, some all right people. Some names are very funny.
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How what's your name? My name is Heavenly Okay, my name is Prince
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Fantastic, my name is Apple Good, my name is Pinky. We met
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a lot of good people, some good, some not so good, and
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stuff like that. Back then we had a lot of people said eyeing our
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girls. So we had the guys, all the guys. Time a guy
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going to talk to a girl like you know, for the longest time,
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all the guys who surround all the other partners of our churches surround the guy
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until we get blamed. We got rice before, a bit of rice before
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we got we got drinks specialists before that. This church is very controlling a
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lot of people to talk to other people consistency friends. Why am I sharing
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it? Because if we apply that into our life of friends, we will
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see a brick to one and don't make any exemption. So could have waited
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a few more because it's not his place to do the offering, but manditor,
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just because Christian mules can do it. I wish him leading, same
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as Carol Kea. It passes there. Think I can see even better.
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Maybe you can. But the question is the where's anoint thing? Oh there
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is preaching. I don't even know to tree scripture never make proper references I
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can appreciate better. Maybe you can. Home leaders are I've sit down with
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people saying, come on, what's wrong with homes? Why is it the
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people complaining the notes is not not deep enough? And just I'm just going
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to say this every friends, remeny, people can the preacher is not deep
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enough? Why is it that your diet is dictated by what the person preach
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Monday to Saturday? Have you have you been feeding yourself with a word?
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Have you been doing your own Bible study? And not? Tell me how
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many Bible references you have? H how many? Come on? Peace?
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True? Isn't a couple? Why is it that that that just because that
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you know that afterward this person here and gets all day? Then consistency?
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Come on? Or this this picture today? You didn't prepare well? Okay,
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fine, But the question is therefore consistency you apply to yourself? Have
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we been preparing well? On? Come on? Smile? Have we been
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preparing well? True? Or not? Come on? Come on? In
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a collection of books based your study Bible? Come on? You only go
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one man? Come on as a believer you least too. But now all
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right, those are all the type folks you got, at least four Bibles.
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Not I don't I know people got four? Okay, I got about
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five? Right, you know what I mean? You know what I mean
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by that? Why is it that all this happened to us so off the
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alawful sacrifice? Because semone do not show up on time? It's because of
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you. I have to do this friends, consistency and this with this last
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scripture, I'm just going to say. The Bible says in johnt up the
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fifteen right. Just let me just like I just turned to you right after
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it was not scheduled me to excot the communing anymore. June the fifteen US
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five. Yes, I am the wine. You are the branches. Those
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who mean in me and I am then will produce much food, and apart
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from me can do nothing. Find the scripture, gey, I promise I
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will end. Sorry. We always talk about ful fullness in Christianity. True,
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come on, you have this fulfulness? Right, I would say this
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to you, right, fruitfulness is not the angle. What do I mean
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by that? Okay, just hold your stones before you throw stones at me.
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Right, many Christians are fruitful, But the question is are you producing
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the fruit that's attached to the vine? Are you producing your own fruit?
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Are you producing your own fu meaning to see that we are fruitful? And
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come on, every person is frueful, and come on, whether you touch
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again your fruitful, you are fruitful. But the question that in this scripture
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say, I am the whine and you are the branches. Man. Therefore
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the fruit that we are supposed to bear at the end, they must be
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where we get our new trim from. Come on, not just because I
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am fruitful as a believer, exercise love, But this love that we exercise
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may not be the love that Christ wants. Exercise you think about it.
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Right, many times you're going to be fruitful. Yes we are fruitful,
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Yes you're fruitful. Right, I'm worshiping, Ma says, is that I'll
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re attached to the wine or not. Come on, and many times you
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try to produce our own fruit, our own fruit, our own fruit.
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What happens? Yes, I'm fruitful, but this fruit doesn't reflect where we
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get the nutrient from. And that's why many Christians are very disappointed because I
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am fruitful. More, they don't want to use my fruit and fruitful,
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MAA God has always been after our hearts, not a possession. Come on
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with this I'm going to close. I'm just gonna ship. I'm just going
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to encourage all of us here. God has a plan. This kingdom com
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is will be done. Come on his kingdom comis will be done. And
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God kingdom is gone. By his laws, his word. I want to
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courage your church to read his word. Whenever you can read this word,
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whenever you can open the Bible, read this word, because it so important
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to read this word. Without reading his word, sometimes you just go by
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the worst of the day, shot snippers of people's preaching. Try to read
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his word. People are trying to dub his word. But I want to
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encourage you believers, buy a Bible. Buy a Bible by a study Bible.
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Just try to study God's word. There's more books in the Bible besides
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Matthew, Lew Mark, and John. There are more chapters and the right.
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Try to just try. I'm not asking us to become Bible scol just
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try. Don't put your study study on this on Sunday or the homes.
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If you're really so hungry for God's word, you must I can when I
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busy a libry, I would know you must have at least bibius. I
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could be leader. You're hungry, you must have something to represent your hunger
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in your home. If you like cooking, you must have pots and pants
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and stuff like that commercial stuff. You understand. Finally, be consistent,
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friends, Please don't say that it doesn't apply to me. I'm not there
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yet. Sometimes I can't just be honest. Some time I just feel like
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shaking people like I'm not there yet, but on the way, on the
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way, friends, I know you're there. Not there. We got on
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the way one, you know what I mean. On the it's such a
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nice thing to to sit or I'm on the way. I'm not there yet.
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I wanted to be a leader, but I'm not not really on the
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way. So when will you know you arrive here? My heart? Friends?
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Twenty four years. Next year is twenty fifth. So I call up
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y ICC just after our event because this is the very first time a church,
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right I say church, a church being the words officier because again you
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understand the sensitivity and just I asked to ask this lady, but I very
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close to you, I say, hey, uh, everything okay, because
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she ended her texting me that I wish I could work with you again.
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I wish I could work with you how you go vote with this anymore?
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I cannot the upper mentions sake no to a church, So I have to
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call say you are right every day? Okay, you resigning? You're forced
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to resign? Say no, no, no, no, I want to
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work with you again. I'm not resigning. So can I book for next
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year or not? That's what I would put in. Want to put in
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your foot inside there. Nobody can say no, I can't pay money for
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next year or not? Can you got the this come? We want to
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have you back. Your fruits must show on friends consistent where you are from.
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We went from macam with the global pastor this restaurant, so we rest
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friends. We're the only customer city of us the foot cab, but our
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plus for everybody else the last play cable button hour and ten minutes last.
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She remember I was paying the bill, all right. We weren't complaining by
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this law. The lady, the Malay lady told us, where are you
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guys from? I say you are from a church. Oh no, from
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a I met here from church. Oh okay, you're the only first customer
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in my entire life, first customer in my entire life. You're doing this.
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They have never scored us, never scor us in my years of working
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here. Every time I guess golding one because she also admitted food comes up
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late. I guess golded every time. But you, guys are the first
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one to never score us. Thank you so much. Your fruit. Consistency,
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Come on, your fruit, Come on, consistency. If you draw
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from Christ, for you shall reflect Christ in all that you do. Whether
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or not, sometimes you feel that we are not good enough. Things happen
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to us doesn't mean there's any exemption. There is no diplomat when it comes
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to the Kingdom of God, only sons and daughters. And would you stand
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right now? I want to pray for all of us here, and I
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know that you understand what I'm trying to be across ready. But friends,
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do not leave this place really without experiencing the love of God. Don't leave
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this place deciding your own heart of hearts, friends, that God plans God's
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plans, God's vision is too hard to follow. Don't leave this place,
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friends, without without believing that it's so hard to read the Bible. Don't
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leave this place thinking that the Bible is so hot. And don't leave this
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place without a desire to be consistent in your work. Without consistency, we
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won't see twenty four years of God faithfulness in our church. Without consistency,
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friends, without trusting the Lord, we won't see his goodness. We hope
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you've been blessed by this message. For more information on our church, please
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We're believing that this week is going to be a good week ahead for you. God bless