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Papa Rules | Elder Mabel Atkinson
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You're listening to a message to go from as church. We hope this message
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will light up your team. You know that Passa has released. It's with
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a prophecy and and God has given us heaven rules for this year. This
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is our team. In one of the meetings in the in the in the
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pastor's meeting, in the leader's meeting, pastor actually went around the table and
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said, um, can you all please tell me what heaven means personally to
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you? So everybody had steven. Remember Passa asks everybody, you know,
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what does it mean to you? What does it mean to you? What
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does heaven mean to you? It's a big word, you know, Heaven.
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It's not a familiar, it's not we hear it in funerals most of
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the time. Heaven law, you know, it's mentions law. And then
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we comfort the family you know who's grieving and all don't worry. Is in
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a better place. You know it's in heaven. And most times heaven is
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spoken during funerals. You know, you don't see we talk about heaven,
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do you do you? You never speak about heaven? And this year God
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is actually saving saying to all of us Heaven rules. So it's an unfamiliar
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ram. It's not something that we talk about. And it's also seeing is
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believing at We don't see heaven all the time, do we. It's not
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here, it's not so close. Do we see heaven? No, we
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don't. We have our own lives, we have our own stuff to do,
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so we don't really see heaven. So it's natural life. You know.
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What we see is what we believe. You know, that's why God
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says, never go by what you see, Never go by your senses,
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never go by your feelings. No, not by sight, not what you
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hear, but what you believe. You draw out from what you believe.
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So okay, So Pastor went around the table and everyone had amazing thing.
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Oh tell you, our leaders are our elders, our pastors are they ask
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give them the mica. You give my husband the mic he will not give
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it back to you. Very good things to say. And I was like,
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and I knew that passers looking at me, and I said, I
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have to. But I was thinking to myself, what does heaven mean to
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me? I want to read to you this because this is what God told
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me, or what I was telling God. This is my thoughts, not
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what God told me, this is my thoughts. Okay. And I was
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telling God, God, I belong to the Father, and I'm cohersed with
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a son. I love God, I love his people, and I keep
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all his commandments. I try my best to keep all his commandments. God
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says, forgive, I quickly forgive. God says, don't be offended.
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I try not to get offended. I quickly try and move on. You
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know, I don't keep offense. And then heaven is where my Papa rules,
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It's my father's place. It's where my Papa rules. Then what do
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I need to fear? Remember, Stephen, you took that down. Papa
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rules. And when I send my message to Pastor, I haven't got actually
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a title for my message. Actually, when Pastor ready and he passes so
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encouraging, I tell you first class Pastor. And he said, and he
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ended off. He said, Papa rules. So I was like, oh,
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I got well, I don't know why it's so obvious. And I
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never thought of it. I never thought of giving my message. Uh wow,
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it's already. Time is passing, okay, Okay, So I want
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to if I were to put out God's word on the on the screen,
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it won't burst any bout because I want I don't want you to bring down
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God's Word. I wanted to be there until the next word comes. Can
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will it? Will it fuse anything? Because every time when I want to
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check out and write God's Word and the scripture before I can write it down,
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now it's gone, I'm thinking, like, hey, I wanted down
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God's word? What's cripture? Is it? I'm always talking what what?
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How? Come so far? Up there and down? So I always tell
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God God, when I am here, that's not going to happen. It's
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going to be there. They're going to It's going to be in everybody's face.
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So my first scripture is Luke seventeen twenty twenty one. Ah ah until
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twenty one, twenty to twenty one. I wanted twenty one there, So
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are you going to Can I have both twenty and twenty one together? It
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goes worse by worse. Okay. See that's how much I love God's word.
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You know why God's word is sweet. In the beginning, In the
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beginning was the Word, In the beginning was the world, The Bible says,
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The Book of John says, in the beginning was the Word, and
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the word was with God. And the word was God. That's why the
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Bible says the word is so sweet. No, it's sweet. Why it's
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Jesus you're tasting. Whenever you read the world, it's sweet. And I
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tasted that sweetness. And I told God in one of my quiet times,
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say God, it's so sweet. And I tasted that sweetness. And then
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God gave me the revelation. You're actually tasting Jesus. You know it's sweeter
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than honey. We've read that, right, Okay, So that earlier what
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I explained to you was what I thought. Hey, I am a cohere
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with Jesus. I am a child of God. I'm keeping his commandments,
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so I have nothing to fear Papa rules. But let's see what Jesus says.
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And he says, read with me. Yah. Now, when he
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was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered
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them and said, the Kingdom of God does not come with observation, nor
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will they say see here or see there. For indeed, the Kingdom of
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God is within you. It's within me, correct, Joshua, it's within
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us. So when I say the Kingdom of God, I'm talking about heaven.
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So let's get that. We gave it that understanding. The Kingdom of
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God is heaven. Okay, everything the ram, everything about God. The
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Kingdom of God is heaven. Okay. Do we have that understanding? So
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I will when I say the Kingdom of God, Heaven rules. Always.
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When I say, when I say the Kingdom of God, in your mind
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say Heaven rules. Okay. So Jesus says, the Kingdom of God is
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within you, it's within me. And Pastor preach this some time back,
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the Lord's Prayer, and he said, can we go to the second worst,
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which is I think you have it? I don't have it. Here
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the Lord's Prayer, Our Father in heaven, Hello, be your name,
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your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth. Has City is in
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heaven? Your will be done on earth? Has Citi is in heaven?
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Your will be done on earth? How will God's kingdom come? How will
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his will be done on earth as cities in heaven? In the earlier scripture
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we read the Kingdom of God is within us, It's within you. It's
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within you, it's in you, it's in me. Okay. But here
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it says your will be done on earth as cities in heaven. Your kingdom
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comes. So do you understand here that the Kingdom of God is within us?
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And who is going to bring the Kingdom of God to earth? It's
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us, It's you and me. Jesus came, Jesus thought us, Jesus
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gave his word. Jesus even taught us how to pray. Jesus is not
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going to come anymore. He will come again and and and truth to the
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whole earth who he really is. But he's not going to come back and
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teach us this given us his word. We are that people that are going
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to carry on now with that work. The Kingdom of God is in you
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as it is in me. Okay, So we are going to be carrying
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on the work of God. So the fulfillment of God's will on earth pastor
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share this, you have to get that message and and and here it is
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excellent. So you and I have a part to play. Okay. So
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let's go to our next verse second Quarrinthian six eighteen. So you say,
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so the Kingdom of God is within us? How does it relate to me?
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How what do I need to do? Okay? How is it is?
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It? Is it going to be real? How am I going to
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do this, and God says, I will be a father to you,
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and you shall be my sons and daughters. Says the Lord Almighty. This
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is a confirmation. This is a confirmation that we belong to the Lord.
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This is a confirmation that the Kingdom of God is within a Why because you're
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a son and you're a daughter of the Lord most High. So we cannot
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run away. Okay, we have a part to play, and we cannot
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run away. So the Kingdom of God is within me. Now what do
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we do. Let's go to the next work Matthew five fourteen to sixteen.
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So this is where it all happens. You are the light of the world.
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We always read this. A city that is set on a hill cannot
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be hidden. Nor do they light a lamb and put it under a basket.
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But on a lambstand and it gives light to all who are in the
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house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
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good works and glorify your Father in heaven. If you don't do those good
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works, if Joe, you didn't go and I like the world you seize,
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because I will be using some of that in my notes. I have
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that in my notes. If you and I don't shine. There was one
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person I met and I was discipling this person, and she is quite amazing
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in her own way. She's quite amazing, but she was afraid to serve
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God. She was afraid to come out. I said, you are a
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light? How can you shine? How can you hide? You see how
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the word says, how can you take a light that you know it's already
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littered up and put it under a basket? How can you hide a light?
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A light cannot be hidden? And you are an I are lights,
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little lights. I think you got a smiling face that so a light cannot
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be hidden you and I cannot. So what you did, Joe? Was
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you just in that darkness, in that hopefulness? You know, in that
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place that there was no hope, you brought light. You brought hope to
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those parents. And see what God did? You know? Sometimes we are
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just afraid. And I tell you I'm always frightened to do anything. Ask
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me to preach, either one, asked me to pray, either one.
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I don't want to do a lot of things. I don't want to be
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quiet, you know, but worship I'll go crazy, you know, I'll
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be like the one shouting, and you know you've heard my voice. Everyone
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said, Mom, I can hear your voice, my daughter. So I'm
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at the back and I can hear your voice. I say, I'm praising
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God, I'm blessing God. You know. But most of the time we
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are afraid to actually shine our light. But we all have lights. You
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know. We may not be very bright. But where your faith is,
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there is a light there. A light cannot be put out, a light
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that has to shine. And God made you to shine, So shine wherever
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you are. You know, I'll be sharing with you a testimony. But
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before they do that, let's go to Luke ten ninety. Another confirmation why
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you can do this, behole. I've given you authority to tremple on serpents
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and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. And nothing shall by
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any means hurt you. You know, sometimes when we see um, it
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scares us, you know, okay, deliverance, you know, if someone
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is UM. I know, I'm punk. Had once a problem like that,
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someone had really serious problems. And you know, we asked this person
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a question. The person couldn't speak the word Jesus. She was in such
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a bondage, you know, so we had to pray for her and and
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and help her. You know, sometimes you are afraid, But remember God,
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what God said. You have the authority. And these are promises you
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stand on. These are not promises put there to decorate the book, not
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promises put there to fill up the pages. These are things you take and
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run. These are things you stand by. These are things you remind God.
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God. But you wrote God, it is written, like Jesus.
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You know, I always said it is written. It is written. It
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is written. Every time I come to a place where you know that you
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know, I cannot, I say, God, it is written. It's
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in your word. And I remind the Lord not that God has forgotten.
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But you need to know, and you need to remember God's word. If
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you don't read God's word, if you don't understand God's word, then there's
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no way at a situation that you can bring into remembrance or take that word.
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So you need to study God's word. Okay, let's go to Luke
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nine one another confirmation, and here again God Jesus said he called his disciples
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together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure disease.
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Jose when did you pray for Lydia? You laid hands? Yeah? How
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old is Lydia? Thirty years old? Wow? Okay, amazing. See
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how God changed the whole thing because there was somebody that is a contact,
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you know, there's a Christian that but it was a teaching for you to
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rise up because God is going to use you. You know, God is
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going to use you. So if you didn't rise up, you would always
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be in that. You know, you'll be a light that is hidden under
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the basket lack. So what God wants you is to come out. You
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know you're a light shine. Don't don't hide yourself like me. I also
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always hide myself and that's why God gave me this message I think. So
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Okay, So I'm going to share with you a testimony. Don't show it
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yet and then I will tell you when to show it. So this testimony
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is about how I wanted to reach out in my neighborhood. I've been say
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in this neighborhood for what sixteen years? In this place it's called Sunway Kayanan.
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It's next to bookt Jeluton. That's our home. We've been staying there
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for sixteen years. And when we moved in this place. My husband and
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I worked from morning. No we go before the sun comes out, like
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six. We would leave the house, you know, because I work in
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CHAOLCC and shah Alam in CHAOLCC is really far. So I would leave when
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it's dark and I will come back in the night when it's dark. I
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do not know my neighbors. I literally do not. I have no time
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for my neighbors. Because I had children, I had family, I had
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worked, I had church. There was no time for neighbors. So but
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my neighbor on my right and my left work cousins our so high, Hello,
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bye, that's it, and everyone else I didn't know. And then
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the MCO came, you know, and in the pandemic, I had this
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every desire that you have a God gives you. You may say, you
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may think that it's you, but actually got you. But I wanted to
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do something. I wanted to share the word to the people in my neighborhood.
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And I didn't know how to. I am not the kind of that
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knock on the door and say hi, I'm Maybel, I want to get
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to know you. I'm not like that. I'm not so bold. So
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I'm thinking I was praying I said God, I wanted to know my neighbors.
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I wanted to share. I want to start and yeah, it was
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one of the during one of those times that when God gave us that conference.
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What conference is there when everyone comes back our partner's conference, that God
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spoke to me and my husband and said that to start at homes in Sunday
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Kayangan. We've never had a homes in sun Way Kayangan. So how can
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I start homes with nobody? Okause we had some people, but I wanted
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to start where the people around that place could come. But I didn't know
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anybody. So I was praying to the Lord. I said, God,
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I want to know, but I do not want to go and knock on
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the door and say I am able. I want to get to know you.
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I want to be your friend. You know I cannot do that,
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and God knew I couldn't. So what I did during that time was I
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prayed every day. I laid foundation. Don't ever think prayer is is something
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that is Yeah, nothing like prayer on me, it's nothing. Oh,
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prayer is so powerful. Prayer actually moves mountain open doors for you. You
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know, I was laying the foundation. I was praying I was praying,
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God, how do I do this? How do I break how do I
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break this wall? How do I go out? How do I do this?
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And then something happened. I've never been in the chat in my neighborhood,
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never, but I do not know how they got my number and they
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put me in the chat, and you know, if it is a housing
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estate, so many people in the chat, so many people, and everyone
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my cat lost my I need an contact. I'm like, oh, you
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know. But and then one message came. One message came, and I
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was so taken aback. When I was so taken aback when I saw this
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message, There's a message of a little puppy that was abused and thrown out.
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The tail was cut and she was scronied. She was like so small,
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she was like maybe about five months old. It's very small. I'm
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not an animal person. I'm really not an animal person, but my heart
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goes out to animals. I don't like anyone mistreating you know, people or
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animals. I cannot take it. I really cannot take it. But when
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I saw this picture, I was so moved, and I didn't know what
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I was doing. I actually went to find this neighbor that found this little
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puppy. I wanted to show support, you know, I wanted to go
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there and help and see how I could. But I didn't know what God
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was doing, you know, really, I had such compassion. So I
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went and I thought this was a Chinese neighbor because her name was k Kay.
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So I went to the house and I found that she is an Indian
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married to a Chinese. And then, you know, we made friends and
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we saw the puppy, and I was there to give whatever I could support
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and hold that. And later on they wanted to take this puppy and give
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it away to somebody, and I know what this puppy had already gone through.
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My husband and I were like, you know, what do we do?
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How do we help? I cannot look after doggies, you know,
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our lives is so full. There's no way we can look after doggies and
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and look after and feed and wet and injections and vaccines and oh yo,
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I don't have the time. So but long story, cut shot, we
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actually adopted this puppy, you know, and gave it a home, and
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everyone in the neighborhood came to my house and made friends with me. To
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say they wanted to find who actually adopted this puppy, because everyone had the
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same heart and compassion towards this puppy, because this puppy was so abused,
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you know, and thrown out to die. And I made friends with so
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many people, all my neighbors. Actually, what was wonderful is now today
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I have actually because of this, been close to people. And some of
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those neighbors came for our church function. Some of them. I have started
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a pray group in my neighborhood because of this puppy. Her name is Nala,
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Lion King, Lion, Lion King, Lion King, Nala. She's
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very very She's a shitzu. Actually she's not astray. She's a shitzu,
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a good breed. You know. I do not know what happened, but
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so we have started a prayer group last Thursday. Our pray group is every
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week. Me and my friend actually down and pray. This neighbor that I
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found, she said, Mabel, I'm going to introduce you to the other
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people in this neighborhood because she knows everybody. So she took me to another
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another person's house. She is seventy nine years old. This elderly lady stays
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on her own and she walks and she knows everybody in the neighborhood. When
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I went into the house, the house was filled with idols and altars and
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all kinds of stuff. So usually when I go into a house like that,
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I'm like, oh, I plead the blood. I plead the blood,
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you know, because I have had encounterss things like that, so I
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always plead the blood. And I went in and I tell you, God
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was doing an amazing work. This lady actually told me I want to join
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you. Call me for your prayer. So from one me praying, we
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are two. Now we're going to be three praying. And God already told
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me I'm going to do a work and a lot of people are going to
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join it. It's not just going to be two. More people are going
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to join you. I didn't know it was going to be dead fast.
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This person, who is a Buddhist full of altars, actually said call me,
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I will come and pray with you. And she said there is only
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one God. I don't know know all the things that when we were she
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was sharing me and my friend. She's a believer of my friend who I
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found also through because of this puppy is also a believer. I didn't know
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she was a believer. She was looking at me, I was looking so
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she said, Okay, we're going to pray and we're going to invite her.
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So this Thursday, we're going to have this elderly lady join us in
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prem My husband doesn't the first time I's hearing it because I didn't want to
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tell him. I didn't want to tell him. I wanted it to be
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a surprise. So that's what's happening in Salvekayan. I'm gonna show you a
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picture of Nala. This is Nala. She is one year, five months
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old. Now. She's a beautiful girl, very very brave, very very
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brave. Nothing can scare her. She's a small thing, small thing,
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but she has brought a lot of joy to my husband and me. And
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because of her, because of this puppy, a work has started. Don't
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ever think God cannot use God used a donkey to minister to his prophet.
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God can use her to minister and save a whole housing estate or a whole
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neighborhood. Yeah, a whole neighborhood. God can do that. And through
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this girl, isn't she so pretty? Melse your heart right, But she
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didn't look like that. When we took her five months old. She was
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so scared. She was you know, she was so abused. We had
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to take her and clean her and all that. So I just want to
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encourage you church. Don't look at the small things God can open. All
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God needs is your light to shine. And wherever God has placed you,
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you know, don't be afraid to shine that light. You know, no
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matter where your faith is, your faith can be small, your faith can
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be big. You know, I can look like a giant, but inside
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you do not know what my struggles are. We all have struggles, we
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all have challenges. But don't be afraid to let God use That is the
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difference, you know, it is God making a difference. Is God coming
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into our life like Gird and Doris. You know, I've spoken to Doris
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and she has said, you know this thing we're going to start ex Germany.
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It's not you know, it's it's a big thing. You know.
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You know I'm already at a later age. You know, I have grandchildren
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and there's now a church. You know. You know, when God comes
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into the picture, Gird and Doris, it's not going to be tough.
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All you need to do is go on your knees and pray. That's even
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a song that says and all the work is done on the knees. On
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your knees, it's where the work is done. And when you get up
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everything God takes over. So do it on the knees. You know,
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it's simple. It's so easy. In your room, wherever you are,
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in the garden, when you're doing your quiet time, that's where you do
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your work. It's on your knees when you're praying, that's where you're breaking
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down walls. Okay, so just do it. So Daniel purpose in his
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heart. Purpose in his heart. He told himself, I will not defile
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myself with the King's delicacy, all those beautiful things. I will not go
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and and go and get myself involved in it. He was deliberate. You
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know. Sometimes you need to be deliberate when you want to do something.
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You need to be intentional. You want to you want to be purposeful,
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you know. Okay, you want to start something in your neighborhood, you
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want to start a prayer group, you want to start something in your office.
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You have to be deliberate. First, pray pray, pray, pray,
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even if you don't fast. Now I might pray first, pray,
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lay the foundation, and then you see God work. God will just suddenly
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you just open doors for you, and God will open the door for you.
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It's twelve or five, okay, Philippians three, twelve to fourteen.
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My last worse for today. Okay, Paul says this, This is so
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beautiful. You know, this word that he says is so beautiful. Not
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that I have already attained, not that I have everything I have already achieved,
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he's saying, or I am already perfect. That No, I'm not.
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I'm not perfect. You are not perfect. We are not perfect.
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But I press on. The thing is in the pressing on. The thing
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is in the going on, and the thing is not going to give up.
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You know. It is in the pressing on that God looks and God
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rewards, that I may lay hold of that which Christ Jesus has also laid
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hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended,
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but one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to
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those things that which are hit behind. What is he talking about behind?
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We have failures, we have disappointments, we have fears. Put it behind
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you, and Paul says, but look forward to those things which I hate.
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I pressed towards the goal of the price, of the upward call of
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Christ, of God in Christ Jesus. Press forward to the goal is so
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important that we press forward to the goal. M That is what heaven is
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about. Heaven rules. Heaven is only going to rule through you. Heaven't
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rule in certain things, in small things. Heaven rules in your life.
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It may not be big. I'm not even touching the tip of the iceberg
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of what heaven means. It's so big. Like I said, we cannot
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understand heaven. Yeah, we read about it. We read about heaven.
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We read about how beautiful it is. And you know, I always tell
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God, God, I'm not interested in the mentions. I'm not interested in
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walking on the street of gold or then I'm not interested. I'm only interested
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in you telling me. Hey, Mabel, I know you imagine you go
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to heaven. And then she says, I don't know you. Hey,
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there's no running back. Really okay, way, way, way, I
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go and do some work. I send me back. Let me go and
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do some work. And then you know, I get into the lamb's book
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or life. It's it's over. So I told the Lord, all I
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want is for you to know who I am. Don't let that pass you
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by. Don't let the Lord tell you I do not know you. Okay,
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don't let that um, don't let that happen. Because salvation is what
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we are talking about. It's your life, it's eternity. You know,
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what you do on earth is a short time. What you can do in
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small areas, in wherever you are, it's going to be a big thing
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when you see the Lord. The Lord's going to tell you, hey,
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passes, Stephen, I know you, Hey, Joe, I know you,
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Hey good, I know you, Doris, I know you. And
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it's so important that God knows us. So let us run towards the finishing
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line. It's another thing that we, you know, we say, let's
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run towards the finishing line. It doesn't matter if you're walking, it doesn't
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matter if you're flying. It's very good. My husband always says, in
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all that song, what song is that love? They that weigh upon the
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Lord, you know, shall renew the strength. They shall mount uplings of
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eagles you know they're flying or run run that's the second one. And walk,
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but don't stand still. You're crawling was okay, you know, if
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you're crawling, our Lord is so tough. You know, it's okay.
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But always go towards the finishing line. Don't stop and say I give up.
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Lah, don't stop, don't ever stop whatever you're doing. Walks.
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If you're walking slowly, it's okay. God is okay with that. Walk
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slowly, but always towards the finishing line. Let that be that goal.
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You know, it says, here towards the goal of the price of the
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upward call of God in Christ Jesus. It's it's so amazing, you know,
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that's why we are here for Jesus showed us the way. You know,
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every time I'm not well, I always tell God, God heal me,
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and then there's total silence. I don't hear anything from God, total
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silence, and then the word comes. Have I not given you my son?
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Haven't I given you the stripes? I took the suffering, the blood?
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You know, it's like you know, I've given you the keys,
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you know, like I say, my father's given me a car, nice
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beautiful car with the keys, and said, you know, this is your
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car, this is the keys. Do as you won, you know,
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drive it, do whatever this is yours. And then I go to my
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father every time, can I have the car? Will you give me the
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car? But he said the car is mine. It is exactly like that
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for Mila. For me, I'm not saying, don't go to God and
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say, you know, heal me. But every time I tell God,
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God heal me, there's total silence, and then there's the Then I I
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feel like this word is coming to me. It's like, you know,
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take what's yours. It's yours. Healing is yours. It's given to you.
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Why are you asking God heal me? God heal me, Godli.
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But for Mila, I do not know how it works. For for me,
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I could never tell God, God heal me. I just have to
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say I'm healed, or by his stripes, I'm healed. I'm walking in
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in healing. I have been delivered and God has healed me. And how
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thin that's it done? He said it it's settled. It's done, fulfilling
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the Father's will on earth as it is in heaven. We can do this,
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Church, we can do this Bandautama, we can do this example,
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We can do this. Wherever you are shining, you're like walk, crawl,
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whatever, but don't stand still. We hope you've been blessed by this
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