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Lessons from a Baker | Pr Sandra
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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 team. I'm gonna be sharing. I don't know how
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many here, how many in this room, guys or girls? You like
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baking? Anybody here likes baking? Yeah? Okay, okay? Someone does
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someone do bread? In the pandemic? Everybody makes our dough bread? Can
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okay? Like making? Yeah? Okay? Um, So I'm gonna share
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with you today. I'm just drawing out lessons from a baker. Okay,
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what can we learn from a baker? Oh? Wow, thank you,
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thank you xtv um. You know engaged. You didn't know. For a
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season of my life, I had to run run a cafe, and running
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the cafe, we we I had to do it a lot of the baking.
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Uh and so we did a lot of baking. And then now that
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I stopped, I've forgotten how to bag la. You know how to make
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it nice? So learning from some thoughts here. If you like baking,
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maybe after today you can go home and bake your banana bread. Oh yo,
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banana low for whatever cake? Okay, So, lessons from a baker.
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I was listening to a baker, and as this person was sharing What
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three points would that person, would this baker tell the audience? And as
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I heard these three points, I thought, Hey, I think I can
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draw out some lessons for us. Okay, Albert bakes bread, so yeah,
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we're two different things. Yeah, lessons from the from a baker.
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Okay, so there are three points I'd like to share with us today.
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But before that, what has this lesson all these thoughts have to do with
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us in our Christian faith? I like to draw us to Hebrews chapter eleven
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and verse six. Hebrews, Chapter eleven and verse six. I didn't have
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it on the slide, but if you can turn to your Bible, this
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is a familiar verse to all of us. Amen, and may the Lord
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help us, help us as we continue in our walk with Jesus. So
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what does what does eleven? Hebrews Chapter eleven, verse six say? It
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says here but without faith it is amen to please him, And for he
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who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder
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of those who diligently seek him. This is a familiar of us, but
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to live it is something we must all strive to not as he strives to
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heart. But no one to experience this life of faith. Who wants to
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please God? All of us amen. We all want to please God.
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But it is the ingredient to please God. Faith faith. Amen. So
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I even I've been a Christian for so long in the before I married Master
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Kenneth, but I never knew about walking in faith, to take a step
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of faith, to walk by faith. At least I knew my faith in
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Jesus, but to believe God beyond what I every day experience was something new
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to me. But when I married my husband, I thought, this man
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is mad suddenly, because really where we were we got married, really am
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nothing nothing? Okay, yeah, he said, I and I bestow upon
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you when we took about was all my worldly riches. I actually looked behind
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and I there was no I knew what I was getting into. Don't let
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tell my mother. No. As I was full time, full full time
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in the church. He only earned five hundred ring gait the judge by him
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as a full time missions or girl. And I had left my corporate job
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and I became a I went out from missionary as a missionary and I came
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back and my pastor said, you go out and you work and see whether
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you can survived to be a teacher. So I had taken an English cause
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I went out to work as English teacher. So I had really finished normal
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corporate job. No, no normal or whatever you work for you live for.
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He left his corporate job and became full time worker and five hundred salary.
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He's gonna take care of wife. Were married on a five hundred ring
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it salary. But we still got married. Still can't get how are you
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can fine? Like? Hold on yo yo? We did get married.
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I had a guest of eight hundred people at my wedding. My husband says
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only one was his friend. The rest of mine nah terriblah yo. Yeah,
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but God is good, but this fail like wh how? And I
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did not pay the bill. My husband did, okay, tore all the
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bills. Praise the Lord, Amen, hallelujah. He's really a man of
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faith. So the first year he said to me, we shall, we
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shall because my my or my family, my grandma, my auntie's, my
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uncles, everybody lived in Australia. Nobody here in Malasia except for my mom.
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And he said, I'm gonna take you to Australia so you can see
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your grandma. Noah, I see, how are you going to go?
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Flies? He said, Let's pray. Let tell me you first married like
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everything, like I said, we shall pray and we will get the etiquette.
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I'm like, huh, already get up paid the rainfall, you said,
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and then I have to work, you know money, How are you
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gonna fly to austo? I said, We pray? Okay, I believe
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you okay. Um. That was my first experience of faith, tapping out
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in faith to ask God, ask God for etiquete, like godlet I mean
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I had already I have as a student, I had no money for education.
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My dad lost everything. And I did pray and yes, God provided
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for me to finish off my higher you know, for tertiary education. But
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now fly war like like howl, don't etiquette? You know. But as
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we prayed, there's my first time. My mom I probably thought I were
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met, like what how are you gonn flying? But true to God's work,
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when you take aust of fame and ask a lot, we would like
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to go, would you provide for us? But delude the money came.
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Just nice to buy the etiquette for two oha all right. In a long
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time, haven't been to see my grandma for the longest time. That was
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in ninety ninety six, nine ninety six to the day to the time my
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grandma passed away. My husband took me to Australia every year, almost every
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year to visit my grandma. I have no regrets because I've seen her and
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get to see her. And of course you know later we planted the church
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there. But the funds came for the etiquette and then the funds came also
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for paying for other bills. So I worked as a teacher and I will
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work part time. So I think all the relations ringe change to you Australian
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dollar, not much, but the Lord provides a provide a place for us
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to stay. And you know, that was my first step of actually living
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by faith. That's what you mean by living by faith, and it can
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be for everyone, not just for full time worker, for all of us.
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We have to take those steps of faith and that pleases God. You
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want to please God, we have to walk by faith. Everyone here wants
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to please God. No, please God only by Okay, I think I
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want to give God this, But God wants us to grow by faith and
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walk by faith and not by sight, right he Brews. No second Corinthians
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chapter five, verse seven and Second Corinthians, Chapter five or seven. We
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always hear this I walk. We walk by faith and not by sight.
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This is where the verse comes from. It's not just a song. I
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walk by faith each day a day, all right. We walk by faith,
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not by sight. This one did not become reality for me until I
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got married and has since twenty seven years. Walk by faith and not by
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sight. But a lot of times I lean on my husband's faith. I
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need to build my own faith, and that has also developed over the years.
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Amen. So I want to encourage us living by faith. It's not
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just for people a full time. It's for every child of God to see
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God's hand move for us in different circumstances to say, God, I'll go
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even before you show me the money, like show me the money, then
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I go, you know, like show me this man, I go,
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or I'll do this, but by faith. Sometimes it's something that you maybe
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like, wow, how to do this God? That you just want me
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to leave my job work. I don't know what it is. I don't
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know. Doesn't have been so drama like like some of us make those steps.
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But but we want a police God. So I just draw out some
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of the baking baking techniques and you can try it. Because I preach this
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message in another place, and I stayed away, went home and tried the
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technique because I've forgotten how to bake. And I think my Branana Chocto chip
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love turned out super fow. Follow your own medicine, right, follow your
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own one. Yeah, I try and say, okay, I need to
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bake a game. I haven't had time since, but yeah, so this
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will be just some thoughts for us, all right. Number one first point,
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Okay, undermix is a positive way of saying it. The negative way
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is saying, don't overmix. Okay, so we shall undermix our batter.
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So when we make when we make a cake, more so for cakes,
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um, you use you wet ingredients and you have dry drying ingredients will be
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your flour or your and your sugar okay, baking powder, maybe some of
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your fruit dry fruit, and your wet ingredients will be the milk, butter
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or oil, okay, your eggs, cream whatever. So you're going to
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have to mix these two together to get a batter. So they tell they
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say this particular famous baker who baked the wedding cake for Prince Harry and Megan.
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I hope they managed still together. I play okay, the wedding cake
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for royalty. Well, she says, please undermix everything, don't overmix,
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so that when you because generally a lot of people when we mix, WHI
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that's not your cake, very hard, la. Then you draw the all
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right. People like to make sure everything is mixed, like everything in the
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chocolate and the and the vanilla. Everything you know, well, nice,
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nice, la. We like to do because it looks nice. Man.
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But now remember we walk by faith and not by side. So when you're
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looking and you're better, like he got lumps of no lumps are like you
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got a bit of a bit chocolate here and then here a white color this,
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you're not nice. I must mix, mix very well. So he
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says. Mixing is good. We need to mix. But you don't want
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They say, don't make it so smooth. Under mix it a bit,
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but you're thinking, but look ugly. War. But I have to tell
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you the secret to great muffins, make muffins all time is under mixing.
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When you undermix, you're better. Your muffins will be fluffy and you know,
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very tasty and not hard. I've made hard ones or so, so
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do not have hard muffins. Is to only um mix it very few times,
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all right, and you still see some flower. It's okay one the
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will survive, all right, So undermike it alright. So just nice for
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the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients to come together so that you get a
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lighter cake, not a heartcake, all right, and then your cake won't
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deflate. Now you see your cake sink over mixing, over mixing, there
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have a few things. Don't undermix so that you will rise nicely, all
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right, especially if you're making flowless cakes. Now, some people cannot like
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a gluten free year or so you cannot. You have to lightly mix everything.
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Brownie is the same as well, so undermix. So what does that
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mean? Okay, give us recipes or now what? Okay? So I
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thought about this about mixing and how we live. My point, would you
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give space for God's work in your life if you don't undermix, if you
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undermix your life a bit? What do I mean? Planning is great,
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always good to plan, but would you give some room for Jesus to work?
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Amen? Because we like everything well mixed. I think all of us
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like everything to be in order. I know what I'm gonna do after from
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five. I know what I'm going to do after I get married. I'm
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going to have children one shot, not ten. You know like that.
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So you kind of like plan. So you like everything looking together like a
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nice jig saw everything nicely. Well, I want it that way. But
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if you peck it all up and you mix it all because you what you
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see is that all nicely, all nicely makes the cake will deflate, it
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will be hard, it won't be like. But when we leave some room
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under makes it a little bit step aside, Give some space for the at
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work. Give some space for Jesus to work in the plans that you have,
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because his plans are going to be even better than our plans. And
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I seen that happen in our own lives in church, in the lives of
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so many bros and sisters. When we give some space, I can't blame
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us for one thing to have everything in order, because we're used to that.
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If you and I have been non Christian, we don't know Jesus for
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say sixteen years, for twenty years, for what years? Suddenly we become
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a child of God. What we're excited with all that God has. But
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suddenly, when God touches the area of your life and say, would you
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give me space? Perhaps it could be in your work, your relationship.
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You know, are we ready to give God's space to shift things around,
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to move our hearts so that we can receive his love, receive the plans
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that he has for us. And we have read in God's work. God's
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plans for us are for hope and a future and a hope. Amen.
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But if you come back your life so tighter, you can't turn. No,
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so cannot not, God cannot. Don't touch. And I know we
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have say I don't, please, don't touch A lot already plan everything,
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plan everything already right in so many things. I am not an easy person.
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I figured out that my husband is a dreamer, and he dreams a
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lot. And actually I found that I really like things to go like normal.
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By over thirty seven years, as you can see, I've done beyond.
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So he will share idea with me and go like no, then he
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won't talk to me anymore. You share me out of people and then they're
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all so nice. Yes, it's a great idea, Like why didn't I
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say that? The early days I would say, yes, great idea I'm
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doing. You give me a break. But then the others who will share
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the vision the idea, because we've done it so well, we're so compact,
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you know. But would you give God space in a church setting like
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us? We would have just loved to be one service, all of us
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together, more people maybe that maybe get lost or so. Then we said
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one hundred and twenty we hit we're gonna plan new Wow, I tell you,
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everybody's sure uncomfortable. How law you cannot la mix basa, No,
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law cannot. But see if we don't allow for that space, how can
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God step in to do something more for us, to do the miracle,
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to do the extra, to give us, to give us an experience that
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our flesh sometimes says no. Usually it's our flesh the carnal person will saying
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no, God, we are already so comfortable. God is not here for
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our comfort. God is here for our eternity and for our growth. And
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so whatever fire you and I go through, whatever uncomfortable nous, you know,
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no matter how painful, be a little bit undermixed, so that your
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plans can can can allow for God to move and shape it. Can you
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imagine if the innkeeper on that night, had you know when when what's his
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name, Joseph? No knock? Who's there? That young Mary who was
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probably probably fifteen years old when we around there saying my wife needs a room,
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we need a room. And if that innkeeper had said yes, I
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would you know, make a space, had had made some room, he
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would be a famous inn who knows today he might be the in that Jesus
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was born. So if you go to Israel, you were in Bethlehem,
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you will see the ind that Jesus was born because everything that Jesus feed on
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the amount of olive. Also they put one print that Jesus stood here internet
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Jesus born. I don't know everything into an old term in history, but
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I'm just saying if we had made room, who knows what the innkeeper would
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have experienced. If we had made room in our marriage for Jesus, in
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our relationship, for Jesus to move. Who knows what kind of you know,
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miracles or even deeper depth of our workings that God would have done in
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our lives. If we even church, we can we can close the room
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for Jesus and say no, a Lord, We're very happy with the way
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we run things because we want to please everybody else, but no enacts.
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Be ready for change, always undermix, so that there will always be room
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for the supernatural. Amen. You and I want the supernatural. But if
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I want to see God do more, then I need to The uncomfortable thing
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is to give my time more to the Lord outside of just the ministry work.
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Amen. So a little bit of unmixing so that you give space for
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God to work. Why Collections to twenty a reminder to all of us we
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can we sing this song sometimes in the oldies views to have a chorus?
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Is I scared to sing this song sometimes because I feel I'm so naughty and
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I don't always uh, you know, get it right? So but never
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mind. It's to Jesus, word to us. Paul teaches us this,
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but twenty Galactians to twenty. I have been crucified with Christ. It is
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no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life
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that I now live I live by faith in the Son of God who loved
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me and gave his life for me. Capture the essence of this. I
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am crucified with Christ. Every one of us who received Jesus, we have
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been crucified with Christ. We died with Christ, and in water baptism we
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rise with Christ. But then who is the master of our lives? Then?
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Anybody who is the master of our lives? If it's no longer I
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that live, Jesus a man, Jesus is a lot of our lives no
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longer. Basically, I'm dead, La? Right? Have you ever been
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to a funeral? You and mine? Right? My father not mine?
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Lam? You can come to mind, do la, my father's being come
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to my funeral? Because I suppose I've had a funeral because I died in
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Christ. Have you ever seen a dead person get up? Seldom miracles supernatural
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the dead come life. But if we really died in Christ, then I'm
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dead. My flesh is dead, but my spirit is alive. Right.
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So even if someone comes out and say, hey, Sandra, you are
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you were skinny and I'm not very skinny in a loud last time you very
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well? Yo, how you will preach it out? Okay? If our
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dead I cannot I cannot get out its call you a hello? Who?
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If I'm did I'm dead, that's it right? Because the person is alive
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is living in Christ? Are we dead to the world? And a life
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to Christ. Do we make room like here, give space for God to
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just teach us and grow us. But if we keep one thing to make
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everything perfect, that means I must have a say in everything. But here
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it says, Jesus is our master in the life I now live. I
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live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his
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life for me. Amen. These are very powerful words I memorize sometimes in
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the morning, my quiet time, I will just declare this to remind myself
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I'm being crucified with Christ. So don't be boss, don't be so action,
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don't be so action. Jesus rain and rule. Amen. And and
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that verse reminds me of this, to give space because He truly is my
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master. Ah, it's tough some days. I want my own way.
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I want to rest the wreck and tell people off. I'll tell you all
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right. Being a woman, we always like to write and tell you what
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I think. Okay, Seriously, we cannot be like that. If you
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died in Christ, die, just be dead in Christ and alive to Him.
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Even we died in Christ, but we rose again. Don't give people
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pieces of your mind after normal mind reading God dimension Okay, all right,
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I'll give you a piece of my mind. I give you a piece you
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give all your mind? Normal, uh so, better undermike a little bit
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and say, Okay, Lord, I don't have to be in control of
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this. God will take over for us even hallelujah. Okay, time he's
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running. Next wine, I'll preach more on the other side. Okay.
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Number two, under whip, I'm not not whipper. Okay, the egg
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whites. Okay, teach you about egg whites. For the longest time that
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I've learned, egg whites actually makes your your cheesecake lighter. Are your macaroons?
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Are macaroons? I've done macaroons with with some person who learn macarons are
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also egg whites. And then you add your almond meal. But the whipping,
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okay, but the whipping of egg whites. We usually they say whip
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recipe, whip until stiff peaks, so then when you turn it around,
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it doesn't fall right. And it's like, okay, so the eggs white
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when you beat. So this person says, under whip, and like why
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every recipe says whip until stiff peaks, or you know, say no,
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underwhip your egg whites. Everybody like likes to just keep whipping it until it's
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really like that. You know, and uh, but but but the advice
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is whip it, but not until stiff, slightly soft, canny soft.
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Don't have to like make sure it turn upside down. You will, you
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will hot, you won't fall like. Whip it till a bit, just
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just about coming to stiff but soft a bit because the baker says, may
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let your egg whites have the same consistency as your batter. And I saw
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them doing it, and this was a flawless date chocolate cake. You're hungry,
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and then they whip it and they put it in and it and also
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undermix again and it was a very moist light kike. Why my thoughts for
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this? Because if you whip and become so stiff again related to the point
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number one, we become less flexible, so stiff that I cannot really make
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Can we be a bit flexible m so that we won't be so resistant to
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change. I think we're all very creatures of habit. Anytime there's a change,
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we will say no, especially when the change happens in church. I
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don't know about your workplace, because you're paid, you don't grumble so much
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you top behind your boss back Okay, when Kazana top guy said he wanted
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to change something, I don't know what happened back then, not now Kazana,
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but Bazana. Then Wow, the top boss said we're gonna make a
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change, then goes out of our team work there like are you? Oh?
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But nobody dare tell whatever turns to his name? Um? But in
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Christ for our personal life us if we whip until it becomes stiff. Same
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again, My point not too far away from that is, can we make
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room for change? Make room for change? Okay? Having space or understand
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that room is so that you can when you when you have a lighter egg
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white, it makes us easier. It can change its form and gets into
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the better better and you don't have to make so much. It can just
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get in. I feel there's a flexibility in our lives. Can we be
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a little bit more flexible, especially as the Lord wants to challenge us,
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speak to us through his word to the Maybe we're going through something. Is
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there a flexibility uh? To change? Um? Our lives is about a
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life of obedience to Christ. But when we are in obedience to Christ,
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it also means we need to be there has to be some flexibility la to
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move a bit. Okay, Well, if you are a student, okay,
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I remember being a student from five and I was really wanting to do
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well. But my flexibility was I would study, really put on my schedule
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to make my weekend free so that I could serve in church. I could
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go for youth whatever programs, and Sunday I could serve on worship team.
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And I flexible. That means I don't do any studies on the weekend.
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I worked really hard from Monday to Friday, but the weekend was for church
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or for whatever activity is flexible, so that God could also move in my
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life, and I give him the room to speak to my heart. Amen,
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to be aware? Can we be more aware, more conscious of how
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to respond to change or what God's doing in your life? Too many times
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we miss it because we are too busy, too tight schedule, no time
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to move, no time to say here, that's room for you, Lord,
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come in. Amen. So there's a flexibility. Who I look at
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Isaiah fifty five and verse eight to nine. If there is some flexibility and
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also allowing yourself to be aware, then we look at the verse in Isaiah
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chapter fifty five, verse eight to nine, that says you know, the
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Lord says, my ways are higher, my thoughts are higher. Amen.
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my way?
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Says the Lord. All right verse nine four. As the heavens are higher
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than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
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thoughts than your thoughts. Amen. Sometimes we need verses like this to remind
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us. That's why I like the Baker's lesson. God's thoughts are not our
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thoughts. Our thoughts are limited, but God's limitless. God's ways and God's
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thoughts. What are your plans for your future? Why are you planning?
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What are you desiring? Have you allowed God the space or the room more
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like the room to bring a change. Can He change a bit of your
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plans so that you get more not less? You get eternal plans, not
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earthly plans. Amen. Reminder, we walk by faith and not by sight,
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and that's a choice you and I have to make. Do you want
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to experience the supernatural, then you need to walk by faith and not by
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sight. Give that kind of room for change. If not, then you
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will never experience change. That means you will never experience the father heart of
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God for you, Father heart of God, for you? Why? God,
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why you want to change? Why? Why you do this? Why?
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Because his ways are higher and his thoughts are higher. And because he
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loves you more than you love yourself. He loves you enough to give his
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son. How will he not bring you to a higher place, to a
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better place where you will have life and life eternal? Amen, hallelujah underwhip.
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And then and the third point under bag? Has anyone under bag?
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You know? Right under baby's cake? Not ready laugh, but there is
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a point yeah, under big Why so if you're doing a brownie or a
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flowless cake, Yo, I will scared runner, I will look and I
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will look and I will look, and then I will test the cake and
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test the cake and say, yo, the thing is still stuck to my
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tester. But apparently and it is true. And try this. You have
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a certain time hundred eighty degrees about three hundred and fifty ferren heights about that
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heat to bake any cake and then harrd eighty soul should be about forty minutes,
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depending how big lah so for brownie? Right, some people like chewy
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brownies, some people very If you were like heart brownies lat I think I
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like heart brownies lave, but am I they like the chewy brownie and fagira.
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To get that consistency, you have to under bake. You gotta take
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it out at the time that they say thirty minutes bake. Take it out.
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Then you look at and going soft love not ready law. So I
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made a mistake for all of my banana loaf or my whatever, lemon,
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poppy seat loaf, whatever is to make sure everything is heart heart nice nice.
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Actually take it out by a certain time. As you take it out
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by a certain time, there's residual heat that will continue to cook and cook
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your cake. So I'll bake your cake. You take it out from the
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album. But if you live in an album, even say I switch off
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the album already and yo, the heat will over cook, over bake.
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So you take it out. I know you want to eat it, now
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hold on, let your cake cool down first. The residual heat will continue
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to bake your brownie or your flawless cake. All right. So this this
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this point was for me. It was to experience transformation. Why you know
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that anything that touches fire will change. Right if you put your finger through
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the fire. Gone all right, it will burn. Anything that touches fire
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changes. The Holy Spirit is fire. There is change when Holy Spirit comes
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into our lives. Not only the Holy Spirit coming into our lives. How
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about testings and trials. Life without testing and trials ain't gonna be life.
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Everyone goes to it. That's fire too. But let me bring that thought
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to us Job twenty three, verse ten. Job twenty three and verse ten
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says to us, what does job? I seldom like to read the book
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of Job. It's so sad. But some of us will come and say,
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past in my life, like job blaod is mine. Okay, even
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when you have chicken box, you feel like a job, blood right all
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over chicken box, chicken bowler. Terrible right that you feel like a job
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already so first senses. But he knows the way that I take. When
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He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. Wow. God
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wants us gold, not silver, not bronze, but goal. And when
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you know, goal goes to fire wall, very high heat to take away
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all the impurities, and our lives go full of impurities. We've been walking
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on earth for so long. God wants to make us grow, us to
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live his kingdom principles. But he knows the way that I take. When
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he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. Hey everyone,
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he wants to be like Gola. Anyone taking part in any you know,
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competition would love to have a Gola at least with Traila. Okay, but
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what happens for me every time you come into a time of testing and trial
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or when there's fire, you feel like, oh really love fire, you
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love? Are you in my life? Lah? Whailah? This thing happening?
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You know how is the roof liaking? Not only roof liaking, toilet
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also leaking toilet not linking. And then know the depth is leaking that they
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happened everything leaking in my house? Like what is there a demon in my
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house? My husband just gonna start the rebuking every spirit in the house Jesus
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name. And then you ask me, no, dla, can you stop
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spotting all the things? I said? Husband or light not working husband?
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There linking husband, the one husband where everything you see, uh, I
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got to see there is so fat where everything was so spoiled. Suddenly you
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know on the whole week are you and they have to you know, find
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the right plumber and some of you, know, I text all of you
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got plumber, plumber, plumber, no plumber, no, you know,
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I'm like, he already fat out with me, right, So I had
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to find my own plumber and uh, I tell you, I was like
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fire. And then it was terrible, a week of just everything breaking down.
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Past the rebuke that spirit and demon out of my house is Jesus name.
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I run away like it's strange, but sometimes maybe it is, you
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know, disturbing experience. You know, things come in, can be la,
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can be Sometimes they cannot get you. They're go and touch your things,
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touch your car to you know car, so something wllo, so you
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rebuke it. So whenever there is attesting a child, under bag for me
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to experience transformation. Without a fire, we cannot experience transformation. But to
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underbag is to allow for residual heat to cook and bake it for me.
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I'm thinking, when you're in the midst of your fire, you know,
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in that troubled time, there's this residual heat, and I call it the
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waiting period. You know how sometimes you just have to wait and not rush
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and just let the whole trouble move, the dark cloud move over, you
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know, just and I be live that. Many times when we wait on
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the Lord, he takes over there. Sometimes we have to step and do
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something. But after you've done everything, you just step back and you say,
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Lord, I'm gonna wait on you. The trouble is there, my
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face, my name is going down, ready to the drain, but I
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will wait. This residual heat, the workings of the fire of God in
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our lives will do something to us. What does it do? I think
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one of the first things that any trial testing does. It humbles us,
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isn't it. It's a step where we become more humble, or at least
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take a step of humility and say I don't know everything. It helps to
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mold us. Fire changes us. It teaches us. It teaches us from
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what we've make those decisions. We become wiser, hopefully not to decide like
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that or like that, but to wait on the Lord. This residual heat
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as we underback and take the cake out, same like our lives, as
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we come through all the testing, we step back a little bit and say,
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I don't have the answer, Lord, I'm going to wait on you.
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Wait on the Lord. Don't rush for a decision, don't rush,
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try to unlock all the answers. You wait, God will bring you through
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and then open that door the favor even no door win, dolla, no
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win, no hole or so canla and you can breathe again. Okay,
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But he will do something. Every time we surrender, he does his part.
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He will work in us, and you will experience the transformation from the
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inside. We won't grow dinner, we won't lose. I don't want to
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lose hair out. Okay, No, But something happens on the inside of
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us. It happens to all of us. Maybe it makes Maybe it just
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humbles us to a place where don't be so I don't be more thick,
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skinny, I don't know what. Just face our situations as is a man,
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because he brings the transformation. And then as time is given, the
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cake becomes nice and ready. How about our lives? When we give God
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time and we wait on him, he really works the miracle for us.
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Amen, and I have to continue. What does it speak there? For
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it speaks of this faith of ours. Two One to please God, we
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need to act in faith, faith to trust him, faith to wait on
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him, and also faith to take that step out when he tells you what
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to do, but do not walk by sight, because when you walk by
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sight, just as I say, I would keep looking at the keep looking
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at the cake. There's the kike hundred times and I don't like the way
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I want it like that, let it, but I'm looking how bad if
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I would trust the system and say, okay, you tell me like I
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just take it out enough time, let it wait, let it, don't
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overbeat, don't overbake, and then wait, and then God has his way
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to work in us. So dead it is truly a step of pleasing God
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and getting rewarded by the Lord, because you and I chose to take by
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faith, by faith, Amen. The Hebrews again, back to Hebrews eleven
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and verse six. It says, yeah, right, but without faith it
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is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that
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he is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
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And I'm just drawing that out to remind us of us diligently seeking him by
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taking some of this, well, I'm taking out of a baker la.
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But imagine in your own life. I ask you today, have you got
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enough room for God to work for a firstly, space for God to work,
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room for him to change you. And in that whole process, are
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you allowing for transformation because you are waiting on the lot, Amen, it
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will help us all to find rests in the Lord. Number one, give
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God space, or give him the space to work in our lives. Don't
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have to plan and pack everything up. Give a little room that space there.
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Secondly, make room for change by you know, don't whip everything up
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in your life, la, Just relax, relax a little bit. Don't
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have to be so uptight. Make room for change in our hearts, in
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our minds, in our attitude, perhaps so that we are flexible to go
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with the flow. And many of us are what we call very good planners.
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We are very top, top and main planners. Every time there's a
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change, you get upset. Whila, my plans all spoilt. At that
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time you just stop and say, Okay, Lord, what are you trying
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to say to me? I plan all these already, But now there's a
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little t God, what are you trying to say to me? Let me
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wait on the lot, and as you as if you pull back and get
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out of the oven for a little bit. Whatever that fire is going on
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it will cause the change or the transformation to take place in our lives.
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Amen. And that is truly our step, black our step and our walking
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in Jesus day to day to love him more. To you know, walk
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by faith, not by sight. Experience your supernatural. Otherwise, friends,
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why we become Christian if we're not experiencing the supernatural? Now and then be
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reminded. I'm only giving us a reminder of experiencing your supernatural. I see
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my husband walk like this every day. Some days it just irritates me.
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I'm like, whilla, no, no. But then I step back and
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I see that's why he's experiencing the supernatural. That's why he also has to
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go to the fire and experience the pain. But then I see change and
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see transformation. So in all things we say, Lord, you have the
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best cake to make in us, so we will. Lord, let me
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just submit, because your ways are higher, your thoughts are higher, and
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out of that the beauty of God's work will shine through your life and my
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life. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more
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