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Do Not Be Deceived - You Reap So As You Sow | Elder Wong Kien Yiak
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You're listening to a message to go from X church. We hope this message
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will light up your day. Galacious, Chapter six, verse seven. Galacians,
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Chapter six, ver seven. The word I got was the word is
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that, don't grow weary, don't go tie it, don't go exhausted,
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don't grow at the place wherever you feel like fainting giving up because the coming
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days the world is challenging, it isn't it true? Right? The rising
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cost is really occupying a lot of our hearts and mind. And I was
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talking to one young working a doubt because I'm in food time for the I
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mean, I mean food time for almost twenty over years really, so I
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lost touch with a lot of corporate stuff. So I was asking this you,
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okay, dot, how do you beat inflation? How do you how
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do you beat inflation? You know you'll have bonuses us, Like I say,
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food time. We don't have bonuses, all right, And that's a
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lot opens up the windows of favor, but that we have direct access to
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the lot of no. I say it that how do you beat inflation?
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Just a general question? Is it that I've come to a conclusion, all
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right? After working ten years, investing in a lot is I come to
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one conclusion. You cannot out be inflation. All right, there's no no
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matter where you put your money, there's no one sure bet, safest bet
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nothing at all. He said. The best thing I have learnedly say that
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if the Law hasked me to give, I'll just give because I know in
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obedience is a written I know in obedience is a written And that's why he
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told me that this years and you will see giving. The Law asked him
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to give us some that He's like, sure, not a lot to say
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yes, just give and he sold. He sold that mound of money.
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Then five months later he got another bonus with the same amount. Just want
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to let you know, God knows what we go to and you know at
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the end of the day, because I just thought about it, it's true
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right that unless you believe, you will now come to the world to experience
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right. So Galacious chapter six, verse seven. Galacious chapter six, verse
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seven. I shall read it from the New Living Translation. So if you
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have any other translation, you could just follow true with me. But the
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New Living Translation says that do not be sled. Do not be be sled.
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Okay, I think this is or deceived. Do not be be sled
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at one translation, New King Jameson, do not be deceived. You know,
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sometimes we look at the scripture that you cannot mock the justice of God.
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You will always howards what your plan. You always read what you saw.
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I think as I look at this scripture, I thought to myself that
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maybe, and perhaps after the journey of being a believer for some time,
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we think that we one minimum effort, maximum return, minimum effort, minimum
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sewing, minimum giving, maximum return, because why wait, after all,
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it's between you and the Lord. After all, it's between you and the
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Lord. There is no policeman right now. There's good to the world is
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whether you give or you don't give. There is no one's going to the
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word is that our host. It's not that terry yet, all right,
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hold offering back, But then you put in the offering it hey where you're
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like, oh hey, just like a bit more? I think the Lord
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can should the Lord speak to you right now? Right? No one know
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what? No one knows, no one. No one is policing how much
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you give, how many times you serve, or whether you could do or
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quiet time or not. There is no police. There is no prefect guarding
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over your life. But in our in our innocence, in our understanding,
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sometimes we think that doing a five minute devotion would give us a maximum return
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of one hour Bible study. A five minute somehow already a really scripture for
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the day from your daily Bible app would enable you to have a better understanding
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of the Bible. Now we can come to a place whereby whereby we are
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rushing for different things in our life. I understand. But if our attitude,
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if our approach to the things of God by thinking, oh, maybe
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I just do five minutes, Maybe I just pray for five minutes, right,
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and therefore I have access to all the God has promised me the scripture,
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do not be be sled. I think it's good enough for us evaluate
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our own hearts. Have we come to a place whereby we are deceiving ourselves?
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This is a really tough crowd exclaim. Have we come to a place
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whereby we think that by doing this that minimum, that we can get a
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maximum return. Because deception is that I think I just do enough, or
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I just The word is that I just do a bit, I cow up
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with the rest. The word is I cow with with spiritual lingo. So
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that everyone know that I am still on fire for God and many times our
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journey, if you're not careful, we think that by doing that we can
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get God's attention. God's a blessing. But the Bible here is whatever they
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do not be misled. You cannot mon the juice for God. What you
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will always hawers. What your plant, you will always harvest what you plant.
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The scripture here says that you and I and the words that you and
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I need to plant something to harve us. There is no two ways about
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it. You have to plant something in order to harvest. But the question
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here is this is that what are you planting in your life? What are
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you sowing into your spirit? What are you so going into your mind?
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What are you sewing into your future? Many times you want the word is
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that we want God to bless us, try not come on. We want
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God to lead us and guide us. But the Bible heres is to not
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be be slept, because if we are not paying attention to the smallest of
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detail, then we will not give attention to the big details in our life.
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For example, I have got I got a message and prepared right now.
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It's got things I allow in my life, things I allow in my
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life. Now. Most of you who stay in terrace houses, you get
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cleaners, you get good neighbors. Sometimes true trash right along the road,
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and somehow the wind get blow the trash right in front of your git right
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not and in the midst of them the words in the midst of your business.
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It's o Kaila, it is only right now. The most thing that's
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get blown out in front of my gait is that your facial mass right somehow,
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oh right, there's some people show the mass somewhere, open the door,
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the masks felt out, Then the mass somewhere right there, the wind
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blow right in front of your dog git. I'm hoping that the mask is
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broodegradable, so I don't pick it up. But what I'm trying to say
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is that I have allowed different plastic men to get blown in my game because
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I'm so tired. I'm so tired a lot I just the world. I
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can walk in there and just ignore everything, But my wife can't praise a
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lot. That's why the lots so kind. I also know that my wife
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will pick it up the side I refused to look at it. But here's
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the thing, right, things allowed. After a while, I begin to
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notice that my weeds and my garden begin to grow. The world is like
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you're talking about being fruit food. I don't understand that we can be fruit
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food in reach, but not planting, not be fru food in the actual
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plant they want to plant. They can be your garden get me full full
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in reach. No, but the actual plant you want to plant. It's
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not for food. I got a pine apple that have grown for the longest
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time. I felt like killing it. Has one that's bad about food.
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Really, I was hoping the food to be huge so I can just share
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on internet say hey, look at me. You know I have I got
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green figures. But my min was like slightly be good than someone tumbled on
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it. That's all. That's all right. So I have things that I
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have allowed in my life that I look into my own house, the tapes,
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the takeaway tup wares, allowed to be kept in my house. Some
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of us here we got enough to take away the disposables or two generations because
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we allowed it. So here says that you will always harvest what you plant.
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So what have you been planting? What have we allowed in our lives
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that's been planted not by our own design but by other people Sowing's not b
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dc, friends, to be think that we want if we want to reap
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that you and I need to plant correctly. Worse it worse it those who
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live, those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will howards,
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decay and death. Those who live, those who leave to satisfy their own
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sinful nature. Now, what drives the sowing, what drives what you saw
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is the nature. Whether you're sow in the flesh or you're so in the
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spirit. Whether you're sow in the flesh or you're so in the spirit.
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It starts, friends, none of us us will start off in life we
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say we want to do bad things, but we never say that. If
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we grow up in life, you want to be the worst student ever.
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You go out to the working world, you want to be the worst employee
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ever. Right, none of us ever will see that. But it starts
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with the small little things that we allow in our life. It's okayla,
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right. And the more we think that it's acceptable, the more that will
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get goals bigger and bigger. So the Bible here says that those who live
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only to say the old sinful nature. But how is the care and death
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from its sinful nature. We're talking about sinful nature. But you know,
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to a Christian crowd and say, oh, but I'm not sinfu. I
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don't the words. I don't steal, I don't kill, you know,
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I don't. I don't jet people. But if this nature is not being
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renewed, if this nature is our minds not being renewed, we have come
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to a place whereby sin is at our door, knocking at our hearts.
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Because you're always going to lead us, because there will be temptation that come
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along your daily life. I don't know I should share this stuffout, Maybe
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I should look here. I'm not gonna make any reference against but so that
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so recently, um, there was a meeting that took place, all right,
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no name influential, Okay, there was a meeting that took place.
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And so I came back and I was given up about the meeting, all
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right, and uh, the ladies that way from the meeting came out to
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how do you know you should see you know this, This person that presented
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the presentation right addressing was so dast shot, right, was so low.
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I was so distracted. These are ladies up. I don't understand that there
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was a guy in the meeting. There was a guy in the meeting,
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but he didn't even bother at all looking at the lady. He was looking
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at the piece of paper, and and and here's a thing. How do
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you train yourself not to luka? How do you treat yourself not to be
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distracted? Then all these ladies asked his wife, how do you treat your
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house will not to look at other girls? Because clearly he wasn't distracted?
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Is it what was she wearing? I didn't know there was cccting. Those
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who saw in their own seafood nature will rip, deaf and decay. So
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why have we where have we been sewing? Friends? Where have you been
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saying? The next parb scarier? But those who live to please a spirit,
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we are howards an everlasting life from the spirit. Those who live to
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please a spirit will rip ever's lasting life. The words that we all want
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everlasting life, friends, We want the life that's free from pain, challenges
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one, the life that's free from diseases. The question, therefore, is
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and where are we sewing? So I'm going to sell of the message.
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Actually that's not my message, acuity. So by the man, So I
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took the messages throughout the window. But you know this is this is my
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key's text of scripture, which I'm going to read. Do it. So
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this part of the scripture here says it was dead or verse night. So
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let's not get let's not get tired of doing what's good. Come on right
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now, Xli, let's not get tired of doing what's good. All right
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now, the word good of friends, I've come to a conclusion. All
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right, it's very subjective. Just like getting good food. There are people
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in extras I will never ask for food recommendation, never, never, because
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they say all this place is good. I actually went, I went like
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it's an over glorified mama food. Really nothing wrong. We didn't know,
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but I was. He built my explanation up up here. I went there,
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it's just like mama food on the nicer plate. Nothing wrong with them,
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but just that you don't people expectation up here and just being like so
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good is very subjective, come on, right right, not very subjective.
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And I realized that many times our own Christian world, we use good.
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We interpret good based on what we understand, now what the Bible says,
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we interpret good based on what we understand. But not what the Bible says.
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And that's why sometimes we go weary, because the Bible he said,
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do not go weary in doing good. You can only the world is that
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be refreshed if you do things according to God's definition of what's good. If
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you're going to go by your own strength or your own definition what good is,
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that's where we can go tie it. That's where if I feel like
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giving up, I fe exhausted because you're going all all of the way for
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good. But that's not what actually what God defined goods. And just at
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the right time, you will reap a how's a blessing if you don't give
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up. So there's a couple of points here, right, So one translation
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put it this way. One translation put it this way. Do not That
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means it's really to you. It's new King James. Where's the new King
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James? Here we go. Let's not go wory in doing go worry about
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doing good for a new season. We shall reap if we do not lose
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heart. So the key text is going to be these friends, do not
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go worry in doing good for a new season. You shall reap. How
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do we not go weary? Friends? Point number one is that focusing on
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God's faithfulness. You and I today need to focus in on the faithfulness of
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our God. The only reason why sometimes you give up is because if you
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look at worse seven, the earlier worst we talk about sewing. You know
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we can get tired of sewing. You keep doing something, but you don't
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see results. You keep the words that you are on the I say,
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for example, you are serving in church, and after a while, right
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truth be told, it's the same face as maybe one to new visitors.
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The smile, the initious smile that you have in serving becomes a front because
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there's no more strength in your facial masterity. Same faces, same group of
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paper, the same group of paper. Sometimes you will leave things behind,
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which drives you up the war one. So in the earladays of church,
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right before all the technology came in, that I will try to wig up
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my way from One of the biggest responsibilities ever wishes to hold the keys to
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the church premises. Whoever hold the key to the church premises will always get
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phone call, phone call to open up because some innocent partner forgot to take
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things back. One of my worst we ever got so one. So earlier
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days of church, we used to run four services on Sunday. Four services
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on Sunday one Sunday, and we are in church by seven a m.
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In the morning. We leave ches by about five pm. About six thirty
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in the evening, I got a phone call, Hey, eld sorry,
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I left my things in church. I thought to myself killer, come back
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tomorrow or come on Tuesday? I thought, how things are come on?
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When you think about people living things back? When do you think water tumbler,
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bible o kailler by? Should people live byble believe the world of God?
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In church? Right? The notebook? Their pants, friends, handbag,
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la handbag. I don't know how many ladies who leave their hambag in
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church? How those this without touch and go without You can't survive without your
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wallet, your purse, money, this. I left my handbag in church.
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This is not like after church with this like after three couple of hours
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sold only to realize my handbag was still in church. I went like,
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I've really felt that day that that that my phone didn't work. I really
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felt that I would say I'm so sorry, I mean lucky right now,
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I can't tem bag take me three hours? I want to make also for
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excuses, really, because who leaves hambag? Come on, who leaves?
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Who leaves hambag? Come on? Any of your left hambag before in church?
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Huh okay, okay, don't say yes, so I was tired?
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Are you were tired? And stuff like? But friends, you got to
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remember God's faithfulness in our life because that will bring the world. Is that
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when you start remember what God has done, why He's allowing us to go
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through this pathway. It brings strength. Now many times in marriages, sometimes
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that it's it's the next fifty years or sixty years of your life long.
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There are some things that you like, somethings you have to pray about,
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something if you have to cast out the demons. There are some things only
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because that the things that you like brings excitement and joy. But sometimes really
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the journey of it's you. You have to do it. You go back
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or the other part your your your wife is busy, your husband is busy
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that you have to attend to it. And if you're not careful. Friends,
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we can come to a place where about your dread. It's always me
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when you think our eyes focus of the Lord and just focus on our own
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strength. Isn't this word keep playing on our lips. Why is it always
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me? It's always me serving, It's always me by many times, if
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you don't depend on the on God's faithfulness, remember God's faithfulness, we will
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always draw strength on our own. And it comes to a place whereby it
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is not healthy and it's not good. And God this one he wants to
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remind us again that do not be deceived. God is not more forever.
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Why we're ment so you will also reap if you're continue the word is so
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to so in our mind it's me, it is me the other, and
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it doesn't stop their friends. It is me that the person not doing his
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job, that the leader's not doing their job. It's always picking on me.
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What happens, you're gonna so see its Ultimately one day you reap,
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which a then you don't like to eat, and many creatures are eating food
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they they have never they don't like to eat. So God is good to
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whoever keep to his word. When the journey is long, we always want
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to take shortcut one. Have you ever get stuck in the traffic jam during
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the festive season, We're always look for a shot cut because we don't like
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a stencil traffic. We don't like when things are going so slowly. I
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have a lot of friends whereby they jump for one project or another project because
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excitement drives them. But what I put in life wherever the excitement all died,
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and now it's in cruise control that you cannot forcing to go faster.
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What happens then? It's almost like the journey of the churn of Isuel in
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the wilderness for forty years, same landscape, says Leandscape. It's almost like
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Earth's going to work, the same traffic jam, the same kind number plates.
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Roughly, you know who the people are on the streets, you know
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what, where or what you really but it's the same. But what's our
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attitude in the midst of that whole slowness is to remember God's still fitful at
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the end of the day. Because many times we want to engineer our own
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escape, we want to engineer our own deliverance, we want to engineer our
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own break show. We want to force things before it's time. I can't
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wait. I have to date, says the primary school kid. No so
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these days, because being older, I can ask bar so what issue you
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allow your daughter to day that I heard my mom say that thirty years old
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so over, yes, thirty years old. I say, well, that's
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let's let's talk about it, because I know you dated at fifteen. So
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I just right, when the journey stop, we run, take shortcut and
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get Chapter six or seven reminds us that our ripping is very much dependent on
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what we sold. Right. So the more shot cut we're taking our life,
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friends, the more shot cut we're taking our lives, which God and
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have never asked us to. We will rip stuff that we don't like.
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One we'll rip stuff that we don't like. All right, Now, let
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me go to the next scripture worse here Romans chapter eight thirty five to thirty
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seven. Romans Chapter eight thirty five to thirty seven, all right says that
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who, okay, you can just version right, whoever separates who, who
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can separate? Who shall separate us from love of Christ? Shall tribulation,
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distress, persecution, famine, nikedness, or per or sword? All right?
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But in modern contexts, okay, you won't face persecution or neither you
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face famine. But what we face is that can our daily challenges separators from
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the love of God? Can the lack of money in your bank account separately
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from the love of God? Can being singular age of twenty five separately from
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the love of God. And many times, if you don't put into context,
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we think that God don't favor me, God don't love me. It's
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very important for you and me to understand the scripture. Who can separate us
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from the love of Christ. When you are stuck go almost like increased contrary
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in a place whereby you're not, there's not much excitement on the outside.
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Remember that God still loves you, that He has never abandoned you. Because
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we like the truths, we like action. But when action or disappear,
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friends, remember that God is still in control. One day we will age
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and whereby things do not go as fast as how we like it to be,
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but God is still in control. You and I need to come to
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a place whereby God you're in control. Whether it's fast or you're slow,
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whether the situations can the break two are going to come tomorrow or the Briture
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come in in year's time. Call you're still faithful to me Lord, because
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why do we give up? Why we've grow tie, it's because we keep
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meditating. I want to break you by tonight there's some situation whereby you need
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to break you by tonight. But most time I know that God takes its
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time in terms of the right timing for us. God is never late.
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When he's just right on time. He knows when we need it and when
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the words when we can handle a blessing, He's never late. He is
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never late. Friends, So you and I need to focus it or good
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who can separates from love of Christ? Friends? Verse And yet in all
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these things we are more than conquerous to Him who loves us. For it's
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you and I can only experience that we are more than conquerous when we are
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in a situation, not without a situation. Many times you want to be
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a conquerors. We want to show that we can overcome, but don't like
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to be in a situation to overcome. Many many crisis say I am more
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than conquerus to Christ will prest a lot, But when you go through that
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fire, it's a different. It's a different story. After all, we
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claim that we are strong, but when you go to the fire, we
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are like thou food. We claim that we can overcome when we go to
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the temptation were given. You and I need to come to a place where
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God, if you'll lead me through the fire. I know that I am
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more than a conqueror, because it takes a spirit like that to go to
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something. Why do you think that God enable you to claim the scripture because
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He's a really preparing you to go treat. Now go around it, friends,
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many Christian please spare me, let me go around it. And God
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wants us to remind us today that I'm preparing you to go through the fire
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of your life because they come on, isn't it true? There are days
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whereby everything so slow right now doing the legacy project, friends, those are
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culture. There are days whereby nothing gets done slow, like really slow.
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We started this project somewhere in September, declaring it right now it's it's almost
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going to be one year. Friends, it's only three thousand square feet.
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Then they will know that three thousand to three months can count him very easily.
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But this is like slow. That this something my approval. So I
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went the number process, I mean, my proval to the local council somewhere
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in the I started the whole process somewhere in the October. By March or
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April, I got only the bomber sid I we prayed, we declare God
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Scripture shot of going around the local council to work all like seven times ago
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the walls of Jericho. Right, there are days where but I text he
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say, hey, how is our application? Do we like that? Low?
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It's in the system. You wait, And none of Christian likes waiting
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on friends, because we want it now because we believe God's God of now.
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But God's also got our patience. So friends, you and I need
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to believe that we are more than complas we can all come the impatience of
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our life. Friends, because to Christ who loves us, we can all
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come the anger in our life, because true Christ who loves us. So
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the next time, if you are in a situation whereby you want the engineer,
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you want the force, claim the scripture of God. I am more
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than conquerer. The next time, if any guy tells a girl they say
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that you're not good, just leave the guy. It's true. No girl
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should be put down that way, no one. In fact, if you
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said the other way, no guy should be told by the girl you are
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not good enough. This is could be the other way round because the guy's
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a more sensitive disease. But true friends, so friends. Therefore, yet
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in all these things come about come on, yet, in all these things
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we are, we are what come on, exc and you're so tough like
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this morning, work with me. Yeah, in all these things you are
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more than Amen. Come on to him who loves us. Friends, you
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have a girl who loves you. Do you know when God loves you?
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Friends, When you love something, you protect something. When you love your
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child, you protect your child. When you love your child, you feed
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your child. I think I think this is I think because I do understand,
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so sorry, side check, okay, I still want parents. One
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parent delling the child break first, Okay, what's this sausage? Sausage?
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What's this? Asking the dad asking Jod, what's this? I think it's
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five years old? What's this? It's pointing the sausage, bad food,
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And we're like, wow, what kind of childhood is dead? So very
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different right now they said cannot eat healthy? Freaking okay? All right,
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side check, sycheck okay, parents, and let the child a five years
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old sausage doesn't good for health? Okay, good for them, now right,
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I'll take all the sausage, friends I got, will go on,
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all right, Second, chronicers, so Corinthians fault? Was it to ten?
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Second Coritians fall it to ten. We are pressed on every side by
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troubles, but not crush. Come on right now, Why how can we
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survive and not grow tired? The Bible here says we are pressed on every
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side, but not crush. The ability to understand that even though we are
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surrounded by daily demands, it will not crush you. I pret you cash
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in your spirit though you're surrounded. You're surrounded by daily demands, but not
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crush. If you are a leader in our church, sometimes the messaging is
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overwhelming. It is true. I have to first of them say that I'm
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not very good with in some messages, especially group chats. It was one
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of the most evil things ever invented, ever serious act. That's me.
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Okay, I know some praised a lot. Okay, you help me to
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hand in my group chets, all right, But those are who don't like
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group chats. You understand. You wake up fifty messages and you're expected to
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read it, all right, blast all the other peoples up up, all
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right. But you can be pressed on all side. The moment you see
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an answer email, don't something the words that beef overwhelmed like you couldn't breathe
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and here biblesis it we can be pre pressed at all sides, demounts from
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work, debarms from ministry, demands from home, but not crush. That
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is a scripture that you and I need to claim and so into our spirit.
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It says that we are perplexed but not driven to despair, hunted down
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but never abandoned by God. Come, I explained you could be your boss
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could be looking for you. Also, Kay, the one wiva in our
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church. I say that house work although I got no breaks Sunday after service
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and to go back to work Saturday. It's a food days. And I
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can't come for prayers, I can't come for homes and everything like that.
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In fact, I have to apply leave to type my resonation at the I
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don't okay, it got this to the exaggeration point in the radio right seriously,
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so cut all right, so exaggeration, but I have to apply leave
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to a type by resonation letter. I'm sure exit resonation letter. You get
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this type right now? Interested with your type of radio? Right? This
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individual is telling me that elder, I have to apply leave to type a
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proper nice resonation letter, ex properly. So this maximum exeguation. Way hunted
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down, I said somewhere like brother, your faith, your faith, you
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can but so it didn't see it. Now, nothing wrong. He just
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couldn't see it. And sometimes that's the demand that the world puts on this.
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You're hunted down. If you've ever got hunted down, okay, I
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don't think so that. But you ever got chased by dogs before? You
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understand? Come on, you know your childhood days, you've got chased by
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dock before? Oh no, some people never okay, putting right, I
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got chase by Do you ever get chased? But you understand? You try
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to outrun. You cannot outrun the dog. You can't unless psycho. Yes,
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but it was sometimes Yeah, they could nap your your hue there right,
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unless hot dog. You can the hot dog anytime. So my wife,
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my wife, I keep taking her. When you see a dog coming
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at you, just don't move and just walk all right, trance to say
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now bike She panicked, She panicked, She started run. I see why
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you run? Then she felt out, Okay, she looking, why did
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you help me? I told you really don't run? I see the rule
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of the lawsuit applies is that if you're walking in a pair as soon as
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you outrun the other person, that the other dog chease, that the person
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of walking slower than you. But if you get will get chased, or
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you cannot outrun the demands of life or friends, the dogness chasing you,
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even your cycling friends. It will somehow whether you and you because you are
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in a state of panic. The Bible here says that God would never abandon
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you. God will never abandon you. And there's something we need to think
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in our spirit whereby when we are alone in our demands, our world or
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family, God will never abandon you. If you're having problems, you're marriage,
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you're crying all by yourself. God will never abandon you, never abandon
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your friends. He will carry you too. One of the things of being
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a chase that we cried to other with couples in our church whereby one partner
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is not Christian, who has an affair outside, a mistress outside. Sorry
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this to detail for your So we cry together with our church partners. I
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say, God will never abandon you say, I know. That's why I'm
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still at peace. I'm not killed my husband yet her words deside, I'm
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at peace right now, I'm I know, I'm angry, but to the
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point whereby I'm still like I know that my gods will loves me. I'm
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sad, I mean tears, I know my God still loves me for you
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and I need to come to this place where by a realization that this God
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that we serve and love will never abandon us. Because there are days and
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moments in your life you know that the bank account can never save you.
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You cannot show money to save a march. It can provide relief, but
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you never save a marriage. You can't just show money at every situation.
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Money will solve every problem. It can provide relief, but never solved the
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heart and colt issue of things. Knowing that our goal would never abandoned us
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helped us. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. The
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Bible says friends, even though you get knocked down, you're doubt on the
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floor, but you're not destroyed. I'm taking my time with this message because
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it's so important for us to understand it. If we have never got knocked
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down before by a car, I did. I was cycling back from school
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trying to cut a fallen just like that. Then halfway though, I thought
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there was no car halfway a proton came. I banged the door. I
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went bump up a few times. Everybody looked at me. I was all
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right, I was instead of shot, but I really thank god there was
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no on coming cut on my lane. The Bible says, you can get
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knocked down, friend, but you don't have to stay down. It's not
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a nice feeling to get nut down. Friends, think about it. None
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of us here. If you ever play a physical spot to get nte down,
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it's now a nice one. So recently I was talking to a non
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Christian um UH contact of mine. She was telling me that her son uh
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was playing basketball and trying to get the ball from the individual. The guy
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just lift up. It's hid it bang. Uh. My friend's son's eye
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hit and uh. He didn't think too much about it. He was in
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pain by continue playing. Didn't think too much. It was so he started
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rubbing his eye, rubbing, rubbing and stuff that after for eight hours it
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just felt exclusiating pain. Exclusiating pain. It's called a mom. Mom My
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eye right now is in pain. I think I need to doctor. The
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mom said, what happened to you? Then describe? You should have saw
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a doctor immediately, bought the son. Do see a doctor. Doctor,
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just say, look, I got set news for you. Your son has
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lost eighty percent of his eyesight. Eighty percent of his eyesight. Now every
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were the individual receiving the news, I felt the whole the whole word just
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crushed out you right, just collapse on you, just like what I was
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telling this. My friends said, I know, I understand the feeling.
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One day, twenty four hours ago for eyesight, twenty four hours later,
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eighty percent gone, but almost like almost blind new on one side, twenty
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year old. So I told this to my wife. My wife takes her
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and just say, look, I'm praying for your son. Just want to
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let you know. The next day she got up again, she prayed for
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the sun, say hey, I just want to let you know I just
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finished praying for your son, and I know your son's going to see full
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up doctor, praying for at least America to happen. Came back after that,
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saw the doctor, after hour, saw the doctor again. Doctor said,
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look, right now, I saw recovering out your sons at least for
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forty five percent to fifty percent of eyesight, but it's going to be a
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long process. When I saw this lady. She said, please thank your
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wife or praying for my son. Not Christian, please tank your wife or
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pray for my son, because I really appreciate the prayers, because I don't
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know what to do. Friends, you could be knocked down, but don't
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stay down. And too many Christians, I've been burned before. That's why
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I don't do it. I tried this before and I don't like it.
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And because of our experience, that's why we never experienced the other problem.
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Scripture not destroyed. We get knocked down, way stay down, but we
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never experience the fullness of the Scripture. We see that, but not destroyed.
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We avoid, we get known down, we woid. But friends,
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christ was abuse by the rare people he came to safe. He still went
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all the way to the cross in his hometown rejected him. But the healing
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also was meant for his hometown. You and I need to understand that we
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get knock down, but please don't stay down. Exclaim please don't stay down.
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Some of us I stay down in our spirit, but please don't stay
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down. I trust the past before and I got hurt. Please don't stay
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in the place the Bible here says we are not destroyed and true the suffering.
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Our bodies continue shared in the death of Jesus, so that the life
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of Jesus can be seen in our body's threats. Friends, you and I
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want the life of Christ, but do have the life of Christ. Our
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ambition has to be surrendered. God have your way. As I bring this
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to a close the next ten minutes, I think I'm supposed to end there
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m lamentations. Wow, this is the first ecuady From Lamentation Limitations Treat twenty
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two to twenty two to twenty three. We said, you know where limitation
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is like something the old testiment. All right, he's like looking would from
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Limentation before Limitations Treat twenty two to twenty three see anyway, okay, stays
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that the faithful love of the Lord never ends. Come on, explain the
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faithful love of the Lord. Oh you can read from the NLT Okay,
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and that it's easier to understand. Right, The faithful love of the Lord
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never ends. Is mercy never sees? Come on, the faithful love of
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the Lord never ends. That you and I as a close friends, how
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do we not grow weary and grow exhausted and continuing? Good? Is this
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that remember that the faithful love of the Lord now ends, heals our life.
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One preacher put it this way. You know, Christian sometimes we forget
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what it means to be a Christian. And he described this as Genesis chapter
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two said men are formed from the dust dirt. Dirt is just dirt,
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la right, But because it's God forming the dirt into man. God has
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ship and modest. God did not shape the tree through his fingers. He's
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spoken the thing came out animals, and he said, God shippers with his
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fingers, right, he said, is that the dirt became life and got
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brief into the dirt that you and I too, they need to understand.
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And God breathed in those becomes alive again. We have a soul in us
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and we become alive, a living being, not just being a living being.
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Because God give his breath to us as we remember the faithful love of
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the Lord, the words, it gives us a breath. God loves us.
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When you know God loves your friends even though you go through tough time,
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that you know that she never abandoned you. Physical abandonment is very real.
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Me and my wife. Sometimes you look at how preacher ministers in different
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settings, and one of thing she was highlighting to me was these that you
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know in the Mandarin circle, in the Mandarin language circle. She was saying
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that a lot of preachers like to use this word as they're praying for people.
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Is that the preacher will pray that people will experience the love of God
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and the often often spirit feeling abandoned, feeling it all by himself, being
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an often often spirit would be replaced by the adoption spirit, because many times
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a lot of people's just I'm just I'm just often I'm just all by myself.
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I'm just nobody cares, nobody loves me, I'm just neglected. And
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seeing the manusircle is very real. A lot of times they feel neglected,
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they feel all by himself, trying to find their own identity. We're so
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outworking and just go out there the world just to get money, just to
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put forth on the table. But insights so empty, and God wants he
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remind us the faithful love of a lot never ends, his mercy, never
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is his worse than the tree. In my last scripture from the day,
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great is his faithfulness, I want to exclaim, great is his faithfulness,
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not great, this is his power which is fantastic. But great is his
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faithfulness. How do we not go weary? Remember that our God is a
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faithful god. His fitful in his healing. He's faithful in his provision.
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He's also faithful with his protection. He is faithful in leading and guiding you.
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If only we allowed it, he says, His mercy begins afresh each
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morning. Very important for us to grabs us like close and one encouraged exclaim
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when we understand his mercies are new every morning. Friends, it's like having
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a reset button. God, thank you so much. I can have strength
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to start all work again, to face the fears that it's in front of
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me. See until unless we come to a place whereby we understand this are
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sometimes we can go tired. Same thing again, simboltine against simple So the
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Bible is encouraging. Do not go weary in doing good, for in due
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season you shall reap. That promise of ripping is not from the word of
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a man, but from word from the Lord. In new season you shall
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reap. I have a friend I know was praying for his parents salvation for
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almost thirty years of his life. Thirty years of his life, and at
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the end of the thirtieth year, the parents came to know the Lord.
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Thirty years friends, praying the same prayer everyday. God, please my parents
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who come to know you. Shelley, when she accepted Christ was in the
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ten started paying praying for a parents' salvation about I think ten years ago the
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mom came to know the Lord during Easter. The father true, the whole
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series of health came to know the Lord. Now it's at least open for
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Shelley to pray for him last time doing than anything. Way now is open.
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Friends. It may take a while for prayers to be answered, but
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it will surely be answered as a closer. Now, I want to encourage
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you sometimes the words that I said this, this is this part whereby there's
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a tightness in our spirit really because like or maybe I've seen the chest setting
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before, I've heard the same songs before. I've seen it before, I've
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done it before. Now I've been older already. Maybe it's for the young
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crowd, But if you cantinly have this mindset and this approach to what God
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wants us to do, we'll miss out a lot of stuff. So what
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is it that in our life that the word is that we have stopped doing
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which is good? What is it that in our lives we have stopped doing
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which is good? Because the Bible here says, did not go weary in
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doing what's good, for in due season you shall reap as I close right
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now, I know the scripture you have. You have did it many times
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before. But if you soon, if you keep sewing good seats, you
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shall reap good harves, good seed, good harvest. Friends, There is
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no two ways about it. We hope you've been blessed by this message.
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