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5 AREAS TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2024 | Pr Kenneth Chin
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You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message
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will light up your day. The lot put on my heart a message for
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the new year, and the title, if we have it is the five
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areas that I would like us to watch out four in twenty twenty four.
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Five areas I would like us to watch out for, to look out for,
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to invest in. And let's not only think about Oh I think past
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I say watch out for this means is negative. No, we want to
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invest in these five areas. Also, we would like to take control of
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these five areas because these five areas will be a blessing to you if you
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do it right. So let's begin Proverbs chapter four. We read the Word
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of God, and the official Bible for X Church is the New King James
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version, because we have found that to be the more accurate of all versions.
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But you know, sometimes we also like to read other versions to see
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the different angles. But NKJV. Let's read the Word of God, my
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son. Give attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings,
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do not let them depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of
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your heart, for they are alive to those who find them, and health
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to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of
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it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
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and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead,
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and your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet,
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and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or
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the left. Remove your foot from evil. All right, So these are
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the five areas that I would like to show you. Now. These five
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areas are the ears, the heart, the mouth, the eyes, the
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feet, five areas that we should take care of, invest in, watch
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out for. All right, Let's now read Proverbs chapter four of US twenty
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three seven, the same scriptures that we just read, but in the message
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message. Okay, dear friend, listen well to my words. Tune your
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ears to my voice. Keep my message in plain view at all times,
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concerned trade learn it by heart. Those who discover these words live really,
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live body and soul. They're bursting with health. Amen, keep vigilant watch
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over your heart. That's where life starts. Don't talk out of both sides
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of your mouth. Avoid careless banter, white lies and gossip. Keep your
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eyes straight ahead. You know all sight show distractions. You know they are
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a lot of sight show distractions. Watch your step and the road will stretch
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out smooth before you look neither right nor leave leave evil in the das.
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All right, So this is the word of the Lord, and I want
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to speak to you about it. But before I go into the five areas,
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let me say to you that these five areas are also escalating in nature.
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They are connected, and I will show you that what you allow into
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your ears will also begin to feel your heart, and what you allow to
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feel your heart will also begin to be your speech. The way you speak,
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and when you speak, things will happen, and you know it will
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even cause your eyes to begin to have a perspective, either right or wrong.
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You will have a perspective that will influence your future. And of course,
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as you begin to see, you will also begin to walk. And
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if you see right, you will walk right. If you see wrong,
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you will walk wrong. And so it's all connected. And when we invest
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in them, you will find that from your ears you will end up on
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your feet. I'll show you that in a while. Okay, So it's
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number one connected, number two escalating. So it just keeps going higher and
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higher, either for good or for evil. Okay, So I don't want
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any of you to experience evil or unproductive year. I want all of us
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to have a good year, a great year. And I should stop saying
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I want is God who wants this? And so God put it on my
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heart? Is this, Kenneth? I love as I love my people here,
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and I want them to prosper. I want them to be in good
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health. I want them to be in good health, not just bodily,
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but also financially. And all that's good, right, But there are biblical
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ways to do it, and God's ways. His word is a lamp to
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our feed, a light to our path. So we want to follow God's
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formula God's way? Is that okay? All right? So let's now look
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into the areas one by one. The next slide, let's begin years,
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all right? Yes, So improverts for that's how it starts. And let's
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just read it again in proverts for my son gives attention to my words.
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Give attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings, and do
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not let them depart from your eyes. So the first thing that the word
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of God deals with or I can read the message. The message is,
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dear friend, listen well to my words, tune your ears to my voice.
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You know, I don't know how many of you are old enough to
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remember the radio that has to be tuned. Now we just press button right.
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Once upon a time, you know, tuning was like this. You
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get into the I don't know, ninety whatever, ninety four point five or
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whatever, one hundred and four point nine whatever are your favorite channel, and
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it's not always you get it spot on. But as you're coming nearer to
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that channel, you already hear some voices. When you pass that channel,
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you still hear some voices, but it's not that clear what you and I
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want, because it's very irritating to have unclear buzzing, you know, static
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voice. You want it to be crystal clear. But to be crystal clear,
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you've got to be spot on, spot on with your tuning. And
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so maybe in our lives it's like that we walk twenty twenty two, twenty
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three, Z can here a bit. I think he said that. I
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think he meant that, you know, and it sudden you go past I
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said, I want to Oh, I think that's what God meant. You
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know why I want you to. I want to then go back now.
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So it's a constant discipline of trying to hear. And then when you gonna,
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when you get it, spot on, wow, it's like joy to
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the world the Lord. It's like wow, you rejoice because oh wow,
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you got it and now it's clear. And then you you take your hand
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off the dial and you're driving. You're smiling because it's all so clear.
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Now you can't get it wrong. And so that's what the Bible says in
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message right, just tune, got to tune. And so maybe in January
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start tuning. Yeah, tune in, tune in Lord, I really want
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to hear your voice clearer, clearer. So proverbs for okay, let's move
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on. So Romans ten seventeen says faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
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the word of God. So faith comes by hearing. So the way you
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and I are going to really overcome Romans eight thirty seven. Yet in all
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these things we are more than overcome us through Jesus who loved us. But
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the way to overcome is to walk by faith, live by faith. But
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before you can even live or walk by faith, you need to hear by
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faith. And it says faith comes by hearing, So it's so important to
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not just hear, but hear the word of God. Now, can I
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just release a statement to you here and you can say yes to it or
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you might not totally agree to it. But I can tell you right now
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that our lives right now, today, here and now is largely due to
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what we have allowed into our ears. Meaning whatever decisions that you've made,
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however you feel, whatever situation you're in, is because of what you've heard.
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In twenty twenty three, if you've lost money in the market, in
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the share market, before you even invested, you heard something, and you
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hear you invest rightly or wrongly. Maybe you thought about giving up ministry because
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you heard something that causes you to go, Yeah, you know this is
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my decision. Maybe you want to leave church? What have you heard?
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Will be my question to you? You see, yeah, maybe you change
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your mind about something. Uh, And then I'll ask you you look so
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discouraged and out of the discouragement you are making that decision. So before the
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discouragement is what have you heard? You see? Have you heard negative sayings,
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fearful sayings, ah, pity sayings. I don't know, you know,
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so many sayings. The world that we live in is full of voices,
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and some of these voices are even inside of us, and it speaks
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to us the devil. It was said of the devil by one, you
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know, old creature. He said, I believe the devil's strategy is to
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make so much noise in this world that we can't hear voice. But the
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Bible says faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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Now, so for this year, you need to understand you're gonna get victory
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and overcoming results by the decisions you make. Are we in agreement? How
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you treat your children, how you treat your marriage, how you treat your
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It's just decisions every day, right, But decisions would either be based on
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faith or fear. It would be either based on God's word or someone else's
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word. Right. So God is saying to us, start with your ears
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this year. Whatever that you have heard lasted, have caused you fear,
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that have caused you sadness, that have caused you to want to give up,
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They've got maybe change your hearing. How to change your hearing past tuna
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tune. I want to hear God's clear voice Lord, the sadness that I
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went through last year is causing me. This is the disappointment I went through
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last is causing me to you know this doubt. Doubt has come into my
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mind. But the Bible says here by faith, not here by doubt,
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not here by anger, not here by frustration, not here by what the
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markets are telling you. Amen, Because markets were up and down, volatile.
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But God's word is never volatile. And then he Jesus is the same
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yesterday, today and forever he Brews thirteen, verse eight, the same,
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steady, the true north that you're in. You're lost in the in the
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jungle, the compass. The north is always true, right, God's word.
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You can count it. Yeah. You might feel, oh, dark
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and cold and I'm lost. Yeah, given we are human beings, we
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will feel the emotions. But you're gonna get out of this year. Follow
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the north, follow the You're gotta get out. You're gonna get out your
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debt. This year, You're gonna get out of your anger. This year,
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you're gotta get out your frustrations. This year, you gotta get out
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of your pain. This year, you got to get out of your regrets.
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This year. I want to prophesy that to you. Because God gave
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me this word, I'm confident to say it to you. But you've got
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to start to hear by faith. Here by the word, because this word
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is faithful. It doesn't change. Amen. God is good. So start
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with your hearing. Let's move on Revelations to seven. Now I'm just going
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to show you very quickly the word of the Lord in Revelations to seven churches.
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Remember, God spoke to seven churches. In each of the churches when
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God spoke, the beginning of what he said was different to the faithful church.
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I think the Church of Philadelphia. He said something to the church in
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Sardis or you know, this just goes down. You read it for yourself.
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There's seven churches, and you know somewhere look warm. I will spew
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you up, my mother. The beginning of the seven churches. As he
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spoke to seven churches, the introductory was different, but I'm about to show
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you now the ending is all the same. He was an ear. Let
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him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. You know, Revelations is
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the last book read. You know, he didn't say he was an eye.
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Let him see. He didn't say those who have a heart. Let
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them feel the importance of the ear to God in Revelations the Last Book and
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found as a message to every seven church, every one of the seven churches.
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I should say sorry by my English A few nervous when I thought in
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front of a Pazza Gloria and an English teacher. So as as soon I
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say, I look at her and she's just like past, I will be
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leanient to you today. This this is the first Church. Okay, seven
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to eleven. I think I think it's two eleven. I'm not sure.
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Okay, So he who has an here let him hear. Okay, this
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is the Second Church. Different introduction to the second Church, but same ending.
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Like it's like this. No, all of us will have different situations,
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different challenges, but to all of us, the same ending, the
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same any meaning that as you all come to this at Cheras worship service today,
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you've got the same word from the Lord. Go make sure your hearing
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is right. You said your personal you know, I don't you not understand
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because the thing I've gone through is different. And then another person siting next
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to usually you you know the things I've gone through is so yeah, yeah,
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okay understood. Everybody has different challenges, different uh, you know,
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things to overcome, but the same word, your ear. Start with your
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ear. Okay, I think it's seventeen. Okay, sod Church. Now
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third Church, seventeen he who is an ear, Let him hear what the
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Spirit says to the churches. Move on. I think it's twenty nine.
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He's a fourth church. Now, same thing. Here is an ear,
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Let him hear. Revelations three, six fifth Church. Now, oh sorry,
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let me just read that tree six, just the one before. Yeah,
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he was an ear. Let him here, fifth church, sixth church,
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Revelations tree thirteen. Sixth church. Here is an ear. Let him
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here, seventh church, last one, he has an ear. Let him
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here. You hear what the Lord is trying to say to us, no
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matter what problems and troubles and challenges. Let it start with your ear,
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amen, because you will hear the Lord tell you what you need to do
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and how you need to walk. And yeah, maybe it'll be different answers
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or solution from the Lord, but he starts with hearing. Faith comes by
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hearing. It will be faith and hearing by the Word of God. That's
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going to be the similar solution to all of us. Start there, Start
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there. Okay. Now the last book of revelations is Revelations twenty two,
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and you still find that. As if God was not clear enough, he
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said before I finished the Bible, la by last chapter. I'm going to
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add it one more time, just in case you didn't catch it. How
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important the hearing is to me. All right, So the spirit and the
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bride say, come. Let him who hears say come. Let him who
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hears say come, not let him who season not, let him who has
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great faith, Let him who hears say come. So he really really starts
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without hearing. Stop hearing all those stuff that has caused you all those pain
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enough, stop hearing all those stuff that's caused you all those poverty. How
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am I always poor? Because maybe you're here. Stop hearing all tho stuff
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that's caused you all that anger and frustration and want to give up, give
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up, give up? No, no, no, hey enough? Amen?
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You know what training training for is gonna be different for you because you're
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gonna hear differently. And as soon as you say, God, help me
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to hear differently, it starts, It starts, and it will be a
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different year from training. Trainy tree, you can hear good? Amen?
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If you had. If you had a good year and training tatry year,
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it'll be better. If you had a bad year, it's gonna be great.
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It all starts with hearing, and I want to hear God's voice,
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and I want to hear by faith. Amen. All right, let's move
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on. So the heart. Ah, So Proverbs For we all start.
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We all go back to Proverbs For because that's the main text. What does
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it say here? He says, keep your heart with all diligence, for
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out of it spring the issues of life. Okay, what does the message
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say. The message says, keep vigilant watch over your heart. That's where
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life starts. Okay, all right, The heart is very important. God
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looks at the heart, even as man looks at that oar appearance. God
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loves your heart. He wants your heart. The heart is the center of
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your life. It's where all it all begins. Okay, So there is
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another translation in N I V. The n I V translation is God your
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Heart. I think a lot of us like that version because we even use
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it for each other. Hey, God, your horror, God your horror.
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You know, just don't just don't give it to any other guy,
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or don't don't give you to any girl. Okay, don't not just any
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girl. Choose the right one now. Okay. That's why he starts with
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hearing fir Us ah, and the Lord says it is this girl. Ah.
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Then you Ah starts with that here fir Us Oh Lord, okay,
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great, okay. So then to this person that God shows for me,
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I will give my heart. Okay, So let's move on. So,
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Philippines four, be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication,
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with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made known to God, and the peace
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of God, which surpasses all understanding. Will God your hearts and minds to
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Christ Jesus. You know why I love this two versus so much is because
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we just were told that we have to guard our hearts. But as you
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tell your friend got your heart, they don't know what to do. Passa
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Gloria, tell me how to God? Just what do I do? I
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can't even put my hand around my heart? I how do I? What
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do I do? Supplements? I can't imagine if I came out with new
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supplements a heart guarding supplements. Take this twice a day, I think I'll
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be rich. You know, because so many people would have got your heart,
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but don't know how to start. So take two, you know,
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one in the morning, one in the evening, and your heart will be
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guarded, you know, and as you go to the x ray or em.
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I guess what that's like, A like a seel. I I see
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you around your heart. Nick knows what I'm talking about, but no,
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so how do you do it? And I thank God? That's such a
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clear unsaying. The Bible is the peace of God that surpasses all understanding,
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that will God our heart and mind. I love it because it says the
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only peace, the kind of peace that surpasses all understanding, meaning to say
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that in your own understanding, it should be this way. And so that's
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why you don't know what to do. Because if something bad happens to your
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family, sure have to be you know, the result has to be this.
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It's all the natural. If something happened bad in your company, then
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the result is this. I have to lay off people. I have to
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you know, close down whatever you know. So many natural things that come
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from natural understanding, and even the world that does not have Jesus will will
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react that way too. But Christians, we don't have to always react we
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can respond by way of peace, meaning to say that when we surrender everything
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to God. See if if our understanding is at this level, maybe let's
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say at level two, we can only do level two things. Uh,
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that's why your child and he standard two or said it four. That's that's
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that's only said too. You don't expect your child is to do form two
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things. It won't be fair to put maths form two maths if I was
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said a two students, But in all our lives we have a certain understanding
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two trees and four form one form two, and according to our understanding,
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we see greater victories in our lives because we understand. Okay, I know
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after thirty years of walking with the Lord, we might say, I know
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this is how he works. And so in your understanding, you're able to
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respond and then see God move. When you're a child, you don't understand,
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so everything will so your panic right now, your promise a peace that
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surpasses even the understanding you have. That's really cool. And because of that,
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my heart and my mind is going to be guarded. You see it
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A really says that out of your heart will flow the issues of life,
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or this is where life starts meaning to say that if our hearts are not
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in the right place, we will begin to produce or react to different things
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in our lives. That may not be the reaction that God wants. That
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will not be the reaction that will bring breakthrough everybody. Okay, So but
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when when when the peace comes and it guards your heart, it then only
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allows your heart to begin to spawn the way God wants it to. Imagine,
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Now, if there's a lot of puppies here, puppies here, I
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like golden retrievers. There's like one hundred golden retrievers here, all right,
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and then there is no gate. Let's start with that first, okay,
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and you release one hundred puppies will be everywhere, right, I don't mind.
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You know. I really love God in retriever as the puppy one.
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Oh my word, you know, thank you Lord. And I had a
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golden retriever no until she went to heaven. Uh and so so so so
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so whatever the situation is in life, your puppies go everywhere without a gate.
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Right, Ah, you know, sell this, you know, leave
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the country. Uh, stop going there, you know, stop reading your
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Bible. No time for the good things. And you know let's you know,
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think of ending it all, you know, just everywhere. And then
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suddenly the peace of God comes, surpasses all understanding, puts a God over
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this right. And now that there's the piece of God becomes the god or
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the gate It only allows the puppiece that should go out. My my puppy's
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name was spring. Spring, your turn, and the rest of summer,
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winter, okay, come only spring account. So Spring comes up right and
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just giving you illustration, because this is how it works. That means the
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respond or the reaction that God wants to give you victory that will be allowed
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out. So Spring comes out and spring doesn't create a heavop because because God
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knows, or the gatekeeper knows that spring is mature enough for this, or
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spring is ready and we can manage this. But sometimes when our hearts are
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not guarded, we make all kinds of regretful decisions, and it's hard to
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bring all these hard puppies back into the cannot you're with me, But when
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it's God that God allows, okay, you you go. No, No,
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you stay, I'm angry and anger. Stay, I'm so frustrated and
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I want to end it all. You you stay, you know radio come
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out. Yet Yeah, I think I think I rather forgive him. You
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know, God, God said, so, okay, you come out,
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So then our decisions are guided. We leave no room for regret, and
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and and and and and and so that's how it is. That's a god.
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See, the God doesn't just uh you know, I mean I have
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a god uh in my estate. And the god does two things right.
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He gots from the wrong people coming in. He also guards let the right
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people go out, so the devil can't he wants to attack you with.
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I want to give Kenneth Chin another thought, you know of evil, you
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know, because there's a god standing there, caught piece you doubly myself,
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you know. You know, some person our mind can go into Koran movie.
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You know it's just over time when from a small thing become very,
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very big because he plays the movie two and a half hours, right and
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after that you want to diary, you know, and you go like how
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cover started with just the following? You want to give me a piece of
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his cake? How come can I end up wanting to die? One?
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I mean, the kick and die is two big things now, but I've
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been two different things. I should say. One's so very small one very
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big. But it's because what we allow in our hearts, we feel aub
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our hearts. We anger and pity. Maybe O pull me, pull me
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on, You might say, oh, come sub me down some money or
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okay, So the Koran movie is playing and it just becomes very drama.
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That's why some people are so we call them, I mean, not nice
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as you call him there, but drama queen, I know, but you
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know, yeah, what to do? I mean, it's not nice to
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come people with names are. But you know sometimes we say because I really
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low like it a little bit drama, you know, but because you allow
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it. So the peace of God will God our hearts. Because guarding of
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the heart is important. Issues of life flow out. This is where life
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starts, the Bible says, so you must must make sure it starts right.
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Move on for where you're all. I love this Matthew six twenty one.
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Where your treasure is there, your heart will be also. So this
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year, God what you treasure? Because I know if I just leave you
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with God your heart, you go away thinking how do I do it?
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So you God your priorities? Yeah, just I mean, that's easier to
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define treasure. My girlfriend as if she was number one in my life,
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then that's where your heart will be. And if she fails you, your
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heart will definitely be broken, broken in a way that you can never survive
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because God was not number one. She was number one. Now your girlfriend
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might even be number five, number seven. She can be on the list.
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Your boyfriend can be on the list, your family can be on the
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list, your job can be on the list, but it's not first on
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the list. God has to be on the list. Number one, always
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number one. So even when people fail you, and they will fail you,
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I don't love my wife beyond I mean, I love my wife.
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She's probably number two or number three in my life. But God is definitely
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number one and my wife, if you ask her, she also say my
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husband is not my number one. God is. And I thank God for
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that because I will fail her and I have failed her, and she will
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fail me and she has failed me. But we go back to God,
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who keeps bringing us back together. But if you was my God and she
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fails me, then who do I go to. That's why the world that
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does not have God always finds their lives broken to pieces when something happens,
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and then they don't have anyone to turn to, so they turn into crazy
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sometimes stupid things. We call it to pop up to them. It's very
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real. That's why we have to preach the gospel, tell them about Jesus
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so that they can look to him because life will fail you again and again.
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But we have the rock of our salvation, Jesus Christ, on which
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we stand and will never be shaken. So please, people, how do
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I get my heart? Paster just God your treasure and says like, God,
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what is your treasure? Maybe this year? Sit down and what are
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my priorities? Actually? And you can't bluff your someone. The one that
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you treasure, the mozart is the one that you give most time to.
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I'd be very honest with you. Care bluffer you give most time, most
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attention to. So I thank you all for coming to church on a Sunday.
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I mean some of you could have played golf and I would then know
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who is your God. You know it's not rocket science, it's not rocket
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sized, but you can see it. Of course, it's harder for someone
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else to tell you love. You know that is not God, but golf.
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That is your number one love. It's very hard that people can't can't
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take it from music? Oh what you mean? But actually, if you
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look in the mirror and honest, you know your first love right is your
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video games for example. So you have to be careful because where your treasure
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is there you're heart will be also. So you want to God your heart.
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Make sure you watch out for your treasures, as in like, what
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are your treasures? Go to the list, rework your priorit is this year?
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Is that okay? Red? What your priet is? Make sure that
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Jesus is number one. Let's move on too. Sorry, Do not be
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conformed with this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
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that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and the perfect will of
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God. Now there is know word heart in this scripture, but I want
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to tell you many times when you read the Bible, heart and mind are
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interchangeable. And so what mind or what heart really means. It means your
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internal person, your deepest thoughts, the real you. You can be here
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smiling, and you can be here looking like you' all right, But what
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are your most inner thoughts? That's your heart, that's really you. We
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can sometimes you know pr with people, but you know you now say,
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if you ask a question, what do you really think about him? In
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your heart or in your deepest thoughts? And then you've got to actually,
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I think I think this or that, and it could be totally different from
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when you actually shook his hand and smart in his face and you know wish
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you dead, And you got to those are your internal thoughts, your heart,
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the deep and deepest part of you, the real you. God is
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after that, so to love him with all your heart, your mind.
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So it's all this internal, deepest, in depth, the real you.
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Do you love him or do you just do this because you know you're afraid
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Pastor Gloria will call you for a meeting. Right, So even in the
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dressing, I got to believe this with all my heart, that God is
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worthy of me to dress my best. Then you realize that even when I'm
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not speaking, I will do this because it's not about showing people here,
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It's about Him and me. So in the depths of my heart, I
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believe that God deserves the best. So when I go to Japan and I'm
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not speaking, the Japanese pastors saying, pass your dress better than us.
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We are the speakers. We are the chairperson. I said, sorry,
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I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. But I didn't dress
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for anybody. I dress for the Lord every Sunday. I didn't want to
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give him my best. So I packed my suit and I packed my tie
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into my back, which is quite inconvenient to pack extra stuff in your back.
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It's quite inconvenient, but it's okay because in my heart of hearts,
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in my true self, I really believe that God deserves nothing less than my
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best. So I don't have to answer really to anyone. I answer to
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the Lord. Are you all with me? That is that's most important,
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And I think in heaven that would be what we will be judged by,
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not just external but really what did you really believe in? Who are you
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really? And? Uh, you know this is important, so it says
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mine meaning the heart is the spiritual mind. The heart is what you think
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deep inside you and how to be transformed this year to three for be renewed
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in that mind. Stop thinking the way you thought into a tree and you
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see such transformation happen. Amen, So you've got to change your the way
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you think. Okay, Earlier I said change the way you hear now I'm
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saying, change the way you think, renew, renew, renew or don't
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think like that. Don't think like that. Lord, help me not to
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think like that, not to go down that path, not to go on
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the corent movie that keeps ending with set you know news want to die one.
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Lord, No, I please change the script, change the script,
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change the script. Lord, help me to have really good, powerful,
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godly endings in my movie. You know, let me have you know,
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a powerful, powerful transformational movies. In my mind, it all starts with
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the way I think. Renew your mind. Okay, So our hearts need
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to be renewed, our minds to be renewed. Were we now XTV as
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a good man as good? Sorry, a good man out of the good
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treasure of his heart brings forth good, and an evil man out of the
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evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of
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the heart, the mouth speaks. So the next thing we've got to talk
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about is the mouth. But I want you to know where it starts.
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It starts with the abundance of the heart. Remember I told you earlier it
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was escalating. Your mouth won't really speak what your heart doesn't mean. And
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even if you are joking around, it's fine. You know some of us
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kidding around. So I was just, you know, casually say something.
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But some of your most strongest words, most effective words, most powerful speak
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comes from your heart. So if you will guard your heart, your mouth
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will be taken care of. That's what I'm trying to say. They were,
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okay, And the mouth is very very powerful, So the abundance of
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the heart. Okay, let me say something before I move into mouth.
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Many many years ago, I asked a lot. I said, Lord,
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why am I so scared to preach the gospel to my friends and family?
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And when I explain this to you, please don't get a friend with me,
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because it's a lot ministering to me. And I just have to tell
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you the truth of what God told me. And the Lot minises to me
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and said Kenneth, it is not that you're scared. It's not about fear.
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Even it's not about like sometimes you know, I ask a question to
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campus students once upon a time, what is stopping you from preaching the gospel?
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And the first on top of all the lists, I interviewed about one
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hundred students campus students, I think about eighty of them put fear of rejection
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as top. So fear or fear of rejection is the top. Okay.
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They want to hang out with this crowd, and to hang out this card,
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they have to be cool. So immediately when you say Jesus, it's
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not cool. So they're afraid they'll be rejected. This guy are yes,
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okay, all this Jesus free automatic, So they don't want to be different.
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Okay. So I thought it was fear. I thought, Lord,
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give me more bonness for my price, give me more boness to preach your
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word. Then the Lord says, no, Kenneth, I tell you I
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review something to you. Okay, the Lord didn't tell me. Don't get
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angreed, I think the Lord I won't say that they don't get angry,
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the poor thing. No, okay, the Lord isn't worry about getting angry
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away. Okay, But the Lord said to me, Kenneth, when your
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heart is filled with me, your mouth will speak automatically. Oh that was
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a real to my heart be goes like that means my heart is a feeler.
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Probably is half You need to feel it more so you watch people who
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can share. But Jesus everywhere your hearts are full with him, and so
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it just comes out. I won't. I don't want to call it verbal
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diarrhea like because it is it's gospel. But even if you think about diarrhea
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and verbal diarrhea, very hard to keep a diary inland? Are you only
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one? Your only thing? Even if you are keeping it in And because
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you're in church and you can only even past or let go at Homer,
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you will be keeping it. But when you get Homer, no choice,
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some of you are not enough time to take off your pants. Don't know
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so so sorry to be so grosser, but have you been in a direct
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situation before it has to come out? It has to. I pray no
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one is having that feeling, even right now. In Jesus name, everyone
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everyone here be healed. I had the Lord bless your stomach so that you'd
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be so fine. You'll be all right, you be able to have lunch
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later, et cetera. You know how it feels. Abundance has to come
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up. Have you been abundantly happy about something because you went to a holiday,
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you saw something that you said, I have to tell everybody. It
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comes out, and automatically people need to force you. Is he about fear
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of rejection. No, you can't wait, you know, to get home,
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to get to your office, to get your friends, tell them the
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best chuck with nou in jedis your heart is filled with abundance you because you
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taste it and seen that the Lord is good. Yeah, yeah, so
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fill your heart this year? How do you do it? Well? Here,
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keep listening to good things, because if you're listening to gossip and white
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lies and all this and that it will happen also your heart will get filed.
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And every meal that you have with your friend and family, are you
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say the same thing a day? Your family is so bodedly because your heart
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is so filled with anger and bitterness and frustration because you are Lama. Everywhere
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you go, so the same gossip, the same person you're gossipping about,
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the same church you're gossipping about. So everywhere you go it becomes that have
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you ever been in that situation? So our words have been there, but
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have you been among friends who talk about the same topic like, hey,
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come on, five years ago, I did get on with it and get
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on because and you don't understand that actually every time he's sitting down in the
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Mama shop talking but same thing. He's feeling his heart again. That's why
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it doesn't go down. It's supposed to go down when you feel it with
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different things. Have you ever put a Milo cup after you drink a day,
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put it under clean water, clear water. As a clean water goes
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in there, it's coming up, right, it's coming up, it's clearing
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the cup. But the first few seconds of half a minute, the Milo
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is still in there and your water is still chocolate. And then after that
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it clears, clears, so you have to feel more clear water to get
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the junk out. So why don't you and I this year just learned to
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come under his showers of blessing. Just come under this Lord, fill me,
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fill me with clear water. And the Bible says the word of God
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is like water washes, you know, just come yeah, first few seconds,
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first few days, first few weeks. You know you might still see
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your God. I don't know why I'm feeling myself with your word, but
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still I can't see chocolate, chocolate. Dooc come here? You no?
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No, no Zanella like the couple. You know, Yeah, but wait
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for a while. Let could you let the water flow flow, flow freely,
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flow into your heart? And then watch the color change. Oh,
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now it's clear water in the cup the Lord. So so if you've been
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feeling your heart in a way you shouldn't be feeling your heart twenty twenty three,
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uh, and speaking the way you shouldn't be speaking. Change okay.
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Next one mouth proverbs for it says, I all still okay, because I
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don't't be speaking and you're not being blessed. No, you're right. Okay,
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here we go. Put away from your deceitful from you a decitful mouth,
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and put perverse lips far from you. Okay. That's proverbs for the
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message says, don't talk out of both sides of your mouth. Wow,
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No one side you say something, yeah, side you say something else.
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Be consistent, avoid careless banter. White lives, the white lives a little
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bit of truth. The rest are just lies and gossip. All right,
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So let's look on for the next few words. So this one we start
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with this one. We ended with this at the heart point, and now
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we start with this at the mouth point. So out of the bundance of
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the heart, the mouth will speak. So if you got your heart,
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your mouth will do better. All right, But let's move on. Eighteen
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twenty one is our favorite verse. If you really want life in twenty twenty
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before beginning to speak life. If you want success in trade you before speak
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success. If you want achievement, if you want prosperity, if you want
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good health, speak speak it. I cannot overemphasize this, I'm telling you
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right now, I cannot overemphasize this. Of course, it comes from my
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heart first of all, because anything that doesn't come from your heart, that
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has no meaning. As though, right even when you love somebody, it's
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going to come up with your heart. When you're angry, you're alwa's going
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to come up from your heart, Then then you really mean something. If
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I just say to my wife in a joking way, I yeah, you
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are you know whatever? I ah, you know today? Are you dressed
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like a clown? Okay whatever? I never say that. I never say
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that. I'm just finding hard to find an example. Uh. Then you
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go like and like, what do you say? And might will be joking
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because she knows it's not from my heart. But some things from the heart
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or not. The other person that hears it knows it. They know,
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and then they don't know you want to want to say anything, they'll be
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turning away and go because things from the heart are very powerful, but it's
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not as powerful if you voice it up, because it doesn't say what you
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feel will change the world. It says what you say. So it's got
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to come out of this mouth boom, and it's either death or life,
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and you will eat the fruit of it. That means that if you keep
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confessing good health, you will eat the fruit of good health. Even Hey,
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hello, some things are like maybe some vegetables can kong maybe take very
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fast? Huh. Some of you want Durans in your life. Amen,
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Amen, so do I so do I. But longer? This all depends
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on what you want. All depends on what you're believing. For say,
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my friend have been confessing but kan Kong and you came Kong after one week.
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I've been confessing Duran and I you took three years or so. I
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know that's right, because it takes about three years, you know whatever I
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do know how long that grows by? Longer I think, I'm goo.
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All depends. Now you're praying for a dog and you're praying for a life
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partner, two different things. Hey, you know he got his golden retriever
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after two months. You know I'm still with you for two years. You
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know, haven't found the right one. The golden retriever can be with me
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for tive to fourteen years, but my life partner will be with me forever.
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So you better choose right. No, now, you better wait.
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Let's meet upon the Lord. Are you okay? So learn to speak because
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you will. Somebody say you will eat the food of it. It's not
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even my word. No, this is God's word. You gotta trust it.
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You you will eat the food of it. Okay, here, good,
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Amen, Let's move on. Romans for seventeen. I love it.
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I love it. I love this one so much. You know, God
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who gives life to the day and call those things which do not exist as
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though they did. Do you know? The Bible doesn't say God wish for
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it, doesn't say God thought about it. He says God called. That
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means even God Almighty. I have to call, Hey, you get it?
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Come? So how much more? We who are made in Got's image
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also have this privilege. But very seldom we call. Very often we complain,
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yeah, this one not good year, that we're not good. Yeah
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I don't have oh yeah, I don't have money. Oh yeah, I
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don't have stuff. Yeah, why don't you call? I call good stuff
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to join my company in Jesus name. Wherever you are, I don't even
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know your name, but I call you from the north. I call you
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from the south. I call you from the east. I call you from
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the west. Come to my company. You've got one hundred companies to choose.
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You will choose mine in Jesus name, speaker, caller. I call
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money, you know to come. I know some of you don't like this.
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I think is because it sounds like a prospectic or spell, you know.
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But don't you call money for money's sake. I have a bill to
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be paid. So I called forth the provision for this bill. So a
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lot of us don't know why we sit down in this wish I hope,
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I wish. Don't. It doesn't say wish and the things that are not
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there will come. No, It say's call. And part of it is
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prayer. Right when we are praying, we're calling. You know what intercession
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is. This is intercession. So in ex got the coping, I look
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at empty chairs, I will say God in Jesus Name, I call forth
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people who need to be in this church to fill up those chairs. You
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must have some authority when you pray, call them forth Lord today. I
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know when people wake up in the morning on Sunday, some of them are
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going to half thing. That never mind, I don't go to church.
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So I call them forth and when they wake up this morning, all they
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can think about this, you Lord, When they wake up this morning,
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they will have strength to get up from it. Push that pillow away,
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turn off the aircord it's too comfortable. I called for strength. I called
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for confidence. I called, you know, mouth man, tryler this year
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if you didn't try it last year. I didn't try this year. Of
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course last year. I'm sure you use your mouth as all. But what
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use your mouth for? I don't know. To mm hmm. Cannot this
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year. I love you enough to say, hey, this is gonna be
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a great year. But you've got you're given the authority those things that do
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not exist as though they were, And so they did. I've got a
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I've got a project now at the back of my house. It's a renovation
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project. And I didn't have money eleven years ago to finish it. So
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I said, okay, Lord, you know, I think I can live
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with this stuff. Some of us living with less, not less. See,
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God wants it for us. You know what happened. I prayed and
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one day, let me look out my window where I was praying. She's
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kind of looking at the outside. I look. I was like, I
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don't look at it because it's so ugly. You still got the metal rots
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going out from you know, you know how those unfinished projects, metal rods,
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you know, rebar whatever they call it, sticking out. I don't
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want to see, you know, I really like there's some pass in our
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lives that we don't to look at it one m h save for another day.
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Maybe you have bad tempt don't look at the right. So I didn't
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want to look at it. And God says, finish it. And then
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my mind was like, I don't have the money. Cut long story short.
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I had to hear La. Start with hearing right, if this of
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you Lord, then Faith tells me that it can be done because you can
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provide. Yeah, but I only had a couple of thousand ringing in my
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bag. You probably know that I leave by faith. I have no salary
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for the last three years. But the thing is, I live by your
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social God provides whatever I need. And so she finish it. I said,
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see what, you know what your neighbors have been putting up with for
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ten years and ugly neighbor's house, and you are supposed to be a child
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of God, the pastors and more finishing, LA give me the glory.
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I said, okay, God, I'm going to give you the glory,
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but I don't have the money. It rhymes God was the glory. I
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don't have the money. God says, I've been your provider all these years.
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I said, okay. To day, I say, yes, Lord,
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okay, right. I called a lot like me to call Daniel Slong.
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You know who's the architect who just only passed his papers and now is
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a fully licensed architect. Praise got he said to me, was I'll draw
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up the house. He drew a very nice picture. All that, and
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then now I got to call a contector. Contactor came told me it's one
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hundred and ninety thousand milliate to finish. Yeah, and I think I had
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about three thousand, five hundred game my bag. Very big difference. So
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the law says, you believe me or not, it did not exist.
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Nothing existed there. I said, yes, what? And then every day
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I think the drawings architect drawings. I lay my hand, it shall come
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to pass. I look out at the ugly outside. I said, you
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shall no longer be ugly, I said, neighbors, all of you will
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see my God at work again, and we shall give God the glory.
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Right, the project started, and our contractor said, pastor, I just
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need some money, and I just start without some money twenty nine thousand ringate
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to buy materials. I had how much three thousand five And by then when
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he asked me, he went down to tree thousand and two because I had
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to pay my tights, and so my money is going lower. His request
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is going higher. And so I said, Lord, he told me to
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do this. It's twenty nine thousand Ringit he thinks is small, but to
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me it's big. I don't have it, Lord, I call it forth.
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And a man two weeks later send me a text. I know this
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man, and he was so kind to have sent me a text of a
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picture of a banking slip. He said, this is for you as a
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carrier to build your house or I think, whether build your house or start
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on your house. It was for fifty thousand. I guess the way it
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works. The fifty thousand is really there in the air. The angel is
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probably carrying it ad for you. And sometimes we don't learn the principle of
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claiming it and calling it forth, and the devil doesn't want you have it,
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so you're gonna sold out in your mind. Mind. And you know
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when the devil sold out in your mind and your mouth starts to shut.
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Have you ever seen a depressed person talk. A depress person doesn't talk want
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to. It's very because the devil wants to stop your mouth from talking.
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It makes you depressed, doubtful. No, don't, don't. Don't live
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under the devil's lives. Don't let him shut your mouth up because your mouth
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was put there as an agent of God's miracle. It starts there, but
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no, you didn't start there, you say. It starts with your hearing.
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Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God, and then
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you fill your heart up with this faith. Ah, it gets filled up.
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Oh, you know, last week you didn't believe that much, but
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this week maybe you believe a little bit more. And then next week,
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hopefully you believe more, so much so that your mouth begins to speak it
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like it was natural. Yeah, sometimes it takes time to fill up a
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tank. Fill up a tank takes time to fill up a tank, but
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let the tank be filled up so that your mouth can speak. Let's move
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on. Okay, I don't think I need to go further this Romans ten
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ninety ten. The reason why we know we are saved is because the Bible
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says, if you confess and if you believe, See how powerful confession is.
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You confess. Confession just means that you speak what is true. There
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are three things about confession that makes it very powerful. Let me see that
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I can remember it. Number one is truth. I was a lawyer by
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training, and when we talk about interviewing people and getting the truth out of
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them, meaning getting a confession, because confession is very powerful. On that
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confession, the case can be made or break. Of course, there's also
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something called a confession out of duress. That's a legal term, so it
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means you force a person for confession and the person says I was forced it
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was. So basically you're going for the truth and finally the person will say
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I confess I killed her or whatever. So okay, fine, and of
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course I will ask you to please take me to the place where you true
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away the knife, so all evidence will back up that. Okay, fine,
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So no confession under the rest. Confession that is true is about a
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true confession. It's about truth. That's why it's so powerful because truth can
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set you free. But the second thing about confession is that it's a surrender.
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You know, if I was a lawyer and I was sitting in front
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of client and he was talking about all other things. No, no,
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I didn't do it, and then suddenly he found out that, you know,
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I don't think I can live like this. I'm gonna just tell the
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truth. Number one, truth very powerful. The court wants to hear this
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truth. You did it. But number two before you can even come to
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the truth that you had to surrender to like, Okay, I think I
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might be hung for this, I might go to jail for this, but
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I have to do it. I surrender to the process. I surrender to
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come what may some people say case you know, I surrender. But the
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number third one is expectation. Every confession has an expectation. Okay, I
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don't know, they'll give me five years, ten years in jail, twenty
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years life imprisonment. You expect a sentence after that. Now you apply it
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to God. Number One, truth when you confess something. Let's say you
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confess Jesus is Lord. That's truth. That's why it's powerful. Number two,
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you surrender because all these years you've been fighting. Who's Lord? I'm
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Lord. You fight, then you surrender. That's why confession is so powerful.
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You surrender. Okay, Lord, I've been fighting all these years,
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but I don't want to fight anymore. You are Lord. And number three,
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you expect, you expect God to move on your behalf. That's why
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confession is so important and so powerful. Confess the truth, confess God's word.
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Speak over your children, speak over your marriage. You know, I
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remember a two friends of miner. You know how their parents came to know
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the lot? The father is my head master, very strict man, who
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doesn't believe in anything else, saying himself. You know how you came to
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know the lot? The children told me only much later. I know the
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head master before I know the children. When I went to Fja, I
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saw the children there, I saw my hat master there, so all worshipping
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Jesus together as the roger. My friend, he said, bass again,
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he can call me Kenneth. Uh. You know how I think my dad
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came to know the Lord. I said, how me and my sister will
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go sneak into their room every day pray over the pillow. Every day,
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pray over the pillow because Daddy, Mammy going to sleep on this belower.
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So I hope the pillow will speak to them. The simple child like faith.
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They pray over the pillow, they confess Lord when they sleep. May
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they have dreams of you Lord when they sleep. May they hear your voice
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Lord when they you know? Two thirteen, fourteen year older child like faith
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on the pillow because every night Mammy, Daddy going to sleep on that pillow.
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I confess the word of God that doesn't change on the pillow. And
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then after a while the parents said, I also don't know why I am,
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but I just decided I want to know this Jesus. And then it
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might be the pillow. All right, very very powerful confession. So stop
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confessing. Ill health must be canceller. I think it must be cancellor because
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my grandmother had cancer and my mother had cancer, so I mustn't please please
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hold on, hello, stop confessing. I won't make it because my father
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was poor, La and my grandfather was poor, so I will always stop
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confessing that they are better things to confess that will bring about salvation. Move
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on, Thank you for XTV for helping me. And then of course it's
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wow. You know why gossip is so powerful? Gossip is very powerful.
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If you keep hearing it, guys, it becomes truth, you know.
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So why the words of a tale better are like tasty trifles. They go
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down into the inmost body. That's right, It goes right deep, mam.
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I told you the heart and the mind is inmost thoughts. So it
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goes in and then it becomes truth when it's actually a lie. Right if
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fervent lips with a wicked heart are like earthenware covered with silver draws. So
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enough enough. All these things that you've been listening to gossipler probably social media.
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They've been going to time and time again. You know it's not right,
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but it sounds very juicy. Everybody loves a good gossip. No,
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you stay away from it. Somebody say, man, okay, it's not
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tasty chapatia, it's tasty trifles, all right, Okay, let's move on.
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He who hates these guys is it with his lips? All right?
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Okay, I think we can move on. Let's move on a okay,
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let's move on. Because of time, I think i've you know, I've
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been explaining so many things with my heart to you because I really want you
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to get this. I really want you to be so blessed. So but
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I think time is really running okay, So I want to be honoring to
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you your time also, and lunch all right? So eyes proverbs for probles
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for again, back to the main thing. The main text. It says,
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let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eye let's look right before
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you are. Bible has something you say, but eyelids? Okay? Uh?
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And then what does message say? Message says, keep your eyes straight
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ahead. Ignore all sight show distructions, A lot of side show. That's
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why, you know what they put on horses the blinkers right, so the
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horse can keep running forward. No, no side show. The horses all
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get this. I think it's called blinkers are the site of their eyes,
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so the horse can keep going straight. And God sometimes wants us to put
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some blinkers in our eyes, you know, and stop concentrating. All these
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side shows are going on, all right, So let's move on to other
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scriptures, and then we'll try to finish this as fast as you can.
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I love this. The lamp of the body is the eye. The lamb
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of the lamb of your body is your eye. If therefore your eye is
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good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye
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is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore the light
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that the light is, that it is in you is darkness. How great
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is that darkness? I read to you another version. Uh, this version,
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I just copy it and put it on my iPad. The light of
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the body is the eye. Therefore the eye. What say the eye is
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good? Okay? This translation say is good. Another translation says if the
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eye is single, single focus. So the meaning is, your eyes must
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to be clear, your eyes must be undivided without hypocrisy. This is the
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Greek meaning your eyes must not be with hypocrisy. Thy whole body shall be
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full of light. But if thine eye are thine eye or sorry, this
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is as winna kind of a language. Okay, the yeah, yeah,
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king. But if thine eye be evil? And what does evil mean?
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Wicked? Malicious? All right, one thing bad for other people? Ah?
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Okay, So what is the Bible saying? Let's look at the next
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scripture, I think it's betthew seven. So Matthew six we read that,
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and then Matthew seven we read this. What is Jesus trying to tell us
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about the eye? He says, judge not that you be not judged,
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For with that what judgment you judge, you will be judged. And with
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the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why
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do you look at the spec in your brother's eye, but do not consider
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the plank in your own eye? Wow? Plank a big plank in your
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eye? Okay? And verse four, verse five, or how can you
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say to your brother, let me remove the spec from your eye, and
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look the plank is in your own eye? Hipocreate. Wow, what a
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way to start the year. First remove the plank from your own eye,
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and then you will see clearly to remove the spec from your brother's eye.
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Okay. So what I want to explain to you is this. I give
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you this message, and then you go away saying, oh, past the
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sitter, watch our eyes, be careful about what we see. And then
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you go away. The whole week you try to minimize your social media in
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all the gossip stuff. You try to watch less Coden movie in all the
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you know, the more not so good kind of input you try to manage
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those of you who watch pornography. When you stop watching pornography from this week
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almost praise God. Okay, so you think that Pastor Kennedy is just talking
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about that what goes in. Yes, I think it's very good to also
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make sure you watch what you watch. But I think the Bible is speaking
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about more than that. It's speaking about what goes out. So if I
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look at Nicholas right now, and I go like, I'm looking at you,
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Nick, it's always just what seeing you, which is what it's going
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in. I see you, and that's why I know your Nick. But
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how I see you is equally important. And the Lord is asking us not
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just watch what goes in, but watch what goes out. Because we can
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kill people with our eyes, right, judgment can come out of our eyes.
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We can look down on people with our eyes. And the way you
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are going to look at people or look at life, that is what comes
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out of your eyes. To what you see outside can change your life,
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not just because what goes in. It can be very personal that miss you
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the whole day. You don't meet people or the whole week. You don't
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mean people. You just watch what you watch on television. You just watch
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what you watch on social media. It can be but that's not myself.
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What is the power of that? It's just you only. But when you
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start meeting people and going out of face, society, church wherever, right,
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and you begin to watch what goes out of your eyes, that can
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make or break your life. You know that can help you make good decisions
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or bad decisions? Is what comes out anyway? Okay, what does the
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next? Uh? So? I was looking I google a okay, because
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the message came to mere. This message, this whole message came to me
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here at ten thirty at night on a Saturday last Saturday, and I had
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to speak in x Cotakebuning on the first Sunday of the year. I did
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have a message until ten the d that night, and a lot downloaded.
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I finished there thirty so some parts I went whatever that was on my heart,
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I googler. So I said, okay, find me this sentence and
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I heard it before. I just can't remember where it is. So the
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eyes are the window to the soul. Have you heard this take before?
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The eyes are the window to the soul. I thought I heard it from
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the Bible, right, so right, find me eyes our window to soul.
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And it brought me here to thirty seventeen. No, I don't want
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this one. So whatever variations I tried to google, doctor, google pastor
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google reverend, bishop, google pop Google brought me to this. So I
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go, like, Lord, why are you trying to tell me? He
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says, the eye has the power to mock his father. Just by the
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way you look at your dad, just by the way you look at your
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mom, you can scorn obedience. And I just I just waited upon the
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Lord for a while and said, God, all these years I've learned to
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God what I watch. Now you're asking me to God, how I watch,
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how I prepare for the message today? And I tell you what,
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I'm prepared with all my heart because I love you, guys, and Jesus
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loves you even more. But I should I only because I see you like
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that that it makes me want to give you my best. If I see
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you anything less and a waste of my time, do you know I will
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try to finish it in five minutes, ten fifteen. I can't wait to
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finish. And then who you join us? For lunch. No, you
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know my wife is in another place. No, because I love having lunch
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with you. Guys. This is the way you see that makes you decide
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or whether you give your best or not, or whether you want to stay
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back for people because you mean something to me. I want to stay back
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for lunch. I count it as fellowship with precious people here in Excherians.
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That's how I see you. But the way you see people is the way
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you deal with people, and the way you deal with people will sometimes determine
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whether you will be poor or rich. And I'm not just create my money,
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eyboy, Okay, it's like that. It's life for there. Have
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you ever seen someone look you down in the whole message is with you and
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look at you. You're laughing. He goes, you can't like, yeah,
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I don't even have say a thing or the judgment It comes up the
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eyes. Yeah yeah, so it says, and then it goes on to
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say the raven You know what ravens are, right, it's a big version
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of Croisler. When you go you travel overseas and the raven that look like
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eagles, but they're not eagles. Eagles when they search for food, they
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search they search for life animals right now they pick up the snake, they
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go for the rabbit. Ravens and crows are scavengers now they only go and
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take that which is dead most of the time from the rubbish. So the
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most I'm saying, like when you use your eyes and the way you treat
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people, the way you look at people, the way you judge people.
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Your eyes are the way you rubbish people in your eyes, the way you
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know you see that's dead, nous. There's so much deadness in your eyes.
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There's no life through your eyes that the raven will go after your eyes
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because they were dead in the first place. That's how I see it.
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I said to myself, I said, Lord, please don't give me dead
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eyes. Please don't give me judgmental eyes. Please don't give me eyes that
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are you know, rotten. I want life to come up my eyes,
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I said, Lord, the way I look at my wife. I'm going
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to be married now to twenty nine years. If I want to have my
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marriage fresh and always loving each other like the first day we met, then
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I must see my wife the way I saw her when I first saw her.
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And that's sometimes we joke my girlfriend she's my girlfriend. Yeah, yeah,
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my boyfriend. We try to keep things alive the way we see each
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other and marriage will start going down the drain where we begin to take for
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granted each other right and friendship and church. So Lord, God, my
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eyes the way I see Amen, praise a lot. Let's let's let's finish
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this. Feed okay, very easy, feed, so easy, feed,
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so easy, because why feed? This is your walk, your walk,
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and it says here the Bible improverts fall. Okay, let's me trying to
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finish this in five minutes. Poinder the path of your feet, and let
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all your ways be established, to not turn to the right or left,
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remove your foot from evil. In message, it says, watch your step
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and the road will stretch out smooth before you look neither right nor left.
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Leave evil in the dust. However, you know the famous word in second
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Coriningtians five seven. You, you and I are called to walk by faith,
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not by side. So but you know why this message I can finish
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it in a few minutes because it's not rocket science. It starts with your
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ears. If your ears start with faith, your feet doin you with faith.
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If your ears start with fear, your feet will be Oh God,
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deal with fear. So all God wants you and I to do is this
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year walk by faith. But before you can come to area number five,
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you got to deal with area number one. Lord, from this year onwards,
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now is January. You know mid January, only very early days in
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twenty twenty four. Help me to no longer listen to things that are unworthy.
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I want to listen to your word, your truth, your life.
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Lord, fill my ears, so that when my ears are filled, my
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heart will be felled. And when my heart is filled, my mouth will
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speak, and there will be life and calling forth of things that did not
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exist into existence. Then my eyes, Lord will begin to look the way
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you want me to look. I look at my future the way you want
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me to look at my future. I do not judge according to the world,
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but Lord, I look with the eyes of faith. And then automatically
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your feet begin to walk what your ears have been hearing, what your heart
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has been filling with, what your mouth has been speaking, what your eyes
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have been seeing. Your feet automatically walks, also by faith, and not
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by side. One more is there is there one more scripture? Your word
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is a lamb to my feet. How cool is that? Faith? Comes
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by hearing and hearing by the word. So is your word, Lord,
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There is a lamb to my feet and a light to my path. Is
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there one more verse? Yeah? This one? Secondary five seven, very
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very important, and I think we'll close with that. Okay, now,
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XTI, if you can you help me with the last five slights of summary.
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Here we go summary, people, and we'll do it in one minute.
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Watch not just what you hear, but how you listen. How many
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you know that you can be in this room and you say I heard pass
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this message, but I can't remember, means you didn't listen. So this
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year not just about hearing listen. Number two, watch not just what you
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feel, but how you feel, but perceive the play of words, the
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player of voices, feel and feel. It's not just about feelings in your
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heart. It's about what you feel your heart and your mind with amen.
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Number three, watch not just what you say, but how you confess.
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Because sometimes we can still be joking around. I love to joke around.
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I love joke around, even with my wife, and sometimes we don't mean
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it because I'm not confessing anything. I'm just joking with her. But then
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there's time when you confess and you must make sure that you confess life,
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last one, oh second, last one. Watch not just what you see,
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but how you perceive. Give you a quick story. There was a
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woman at a well, Johge upter four. Jesus went up to her,
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and you know, with her eyes she judged. Ready, you know what
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she said, What does a Jew have got to do with a Samerita?
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How did she know that he's a Jew? Well, she knew that because
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maybe they're different, Maybe Jesus, you know, different skin color, headed
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differently. So the first judgement of the eyes I see, I judge,
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not knowing who she's talking to. He says, can you give me some
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water? She says, why you ask me? We have nothing to do
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with each other. Do you know a lot of us where we see things
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like that in life? We already cancel our Miraclely you cancel the next great
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thing that God is about to do in your life just because the way you
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see. So stop seeing like that. But you know what the next thing
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she said? After he said, uh, call your husband, she says,
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I have no husband. Say, yeah, that's right. You know
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you had five husbands. The sixth one is not your husband. Praise God,
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Jesus as the man is the seventh one, the perfect one who's standing
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in front of her. And then she says, ooh, now her eyesight
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change. And now she says, I perceive that you're a prophet. Ladies
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and gentlemen, you and I have to go deeper this year, go beyond
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external the facade and begin to perceive with your spiritual eyes. What is God
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trying to do? And you know what finally happened. She says, Messiah
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is coming, and Jesus says, he who speaks to you is he?
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She was now from like, what does the Jew have to do with No?
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She almost missed her salvation. Stop it this year, you know,
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don't be so quick to judge. Perceive. And then finally speaking to the
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Messiah. And then she went to the city, called all the people come
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follow me. See meet a man I met who told me everything I ever
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did. The whole city was safe because her eyes changed. Your finances will
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change because of your eyes changed. Your marriage will change because the way you
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change, the way you see. The whole city was safe. And that's
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nothing possible with God. Last one, watch not just where you walk,
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it's but where you walk, it's how you walk, not where you walk.
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You think it's because you migrate to us everything will be fine. So
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where just because you my great to Australia, everything's will be fine. It's
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not where just because you change job, everything will be fine. Not where,
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because there'll be the same problems, sometimes different problems. It's how walk
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by faith. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more information
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week. I hit for you. God bless