Sermon
Be Still (revisited)
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Transcript
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Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don
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Noble of Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today
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with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. Last week I shared
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that I was going to bring a very special message tonight,
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and so I am, and I would like you to
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just be still, be quiet, and listen. Now you'll be
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listening with your natural ears, but I'm asking you to
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ask the Holy Spirit to help you listen with your
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spiritual ears so that you will fully get everything I'm
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about to say this evening, Amen. I have titled this
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message be Still Revisited. Six months ago, on January fifteenth
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of this year, twenty twenty four, I shared on this
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broadcast a prophetic word that the Lord gave me for
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the body of Christ for twenty twenty four and beyond.
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I now know why he spoke that to me. It
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was from Psalm forty six ten. Be still and know
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that I am God. And if you remember, I did
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a three part series on it. I said back then
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that I had never had so many confirmations, and now
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the crazy thing is that I'm still getting confirmations of
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that scripture, which tells me that the Lord is really
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really trying to get the attention of his church. So church,
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listen up. But it will only be for those who
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have an ear to hear. So if you're not hearing
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by the spirit, you won't hear what I'm really really saying.
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In part one, back on January fifteenth, I said, this
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scripture be still and know that I am God is
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carrying the weightiness of the Lord's glory. And what did
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I mean by waiting? I said, for this season of time,
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this scripture will carry you into the most profound piece
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you've ever experienced. I continued. It's weighty because of its
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importance pertaining to circumstances that will unfold this year and beyond.
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It's not a scary word, I said, And you shouldn't
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fear what's coming because here's the key. The weightiness of
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this word. In other words, the importance and spiritual value
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that this scripture carries will shift you into your secret
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place that will keep you and strengthen you for the
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days ahead. Remember that I just said back in January
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that these circumstances will unfold this year and beyond, So
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this scripture is going to help keep you and strengthen
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you for the days ahead, and not only that, it
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will cause you to experience an unprecedented moment of God's glory.
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The Hebrew word for glory is the word covode kavod covode,
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which has many meanings, one of which means weight or heavy.
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It's the heavy, weighty presence of the Lord that I'm
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talking about. That glory and the glory can be tangibly felt,
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as it was felt in the temple when the glory
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of the Lord filled the tabernacle and the priests could
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not stand to minister because of the cloud, And that
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is found in Second Chronicles, chapter five, verse fourteen. Now
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let's go back and look at the word still. We
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are given a directive by the Lord to be still.
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In Hebrew, the word still means a resting place, quiet, peaceful, silent, undisturbed, cessation.
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Most of us know that we cannot hear God without
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being quiet, silent, and undisturbed. When when any of us
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are in the midst of a lot of clamor or
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a lot of chatter, or a lot of voices, or
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a lot of noise, you will find that it's near
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impossible to hear the voice of the Lord. Now, on
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occasion he you know, he can speak through anything, right,
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He spoke through a donkey tabaylik and or tabalim rather,
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and so God can do anything. But typically if we
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are trying to hear the Lord, if we're trying to
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to receive information from him, we're not going to be
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able to do that unless we are in a quiet place,
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a resting place, a peaceful place, a silent place. And
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that's why it really sounds crazy, but it is a good.
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If you have a closet big enough, if you can
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just go in your closet and shut the door. It's
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dark in there and it's quiet, and you'll really hear
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the Lord. I know because I've done it many, many,
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many times. So I'm encouraging you to pay attention to
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this word or words. Be still now. It's in that stillness.
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It's in that place of quiet, an undisturbed space, that
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we get to know God. It's in the stillness with
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him that we get to know him. As we worship him,
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talk to him and wait on him, we come closer.
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That's just how it works. It's very simple. This is
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not complicated. If you just sit or kneel and just
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wait on the Lord and just begin to worship him,
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and really you don't have to say anything, just wait
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on him for his presence to come in your midst
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So we are drawing near to him, and it's a journey.
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It's a journey of a lifetime because once you have
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had this deep and lasting encounter with the Lord, you
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actually want to be with him more and more. Okay,
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let me go back to the word glory. Remember I
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said that the Lord is still speaking to me about
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this scripture. Now I have to say, this is odd. Okay.
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In all the years that I have received prophetic words
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for the following year, then the Lord always seems to
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begin in the month of November. That's when he really
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ramps it up, when I begin to hear the word
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in November for the following or the coming year. So
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for me to keep hearing this, be stilled and know
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that I am God. And we're six months well actually
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more than six months after the fact, because I heard
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that word before I shared it with you in January.
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So it's unusual, is I'm trying to get that across
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to you. It's unusual for me to hear that prophetic
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word continually like it has never stopped. But it's actually
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kind of ramped up in the last month, and it,
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you know, it finally got my attention. The Holy Spirit
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finally got my attention about hearing that word again. Okay,
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so several days ago I was watching a program on
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TV and it was talking about the Feast of Tabernacles.
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I have talked to you pretty much yearly about the
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Feast of Tabernacles, one of the three Great Feasts, one
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of the feasts that we will be celebrating forever and
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ever and ever. Scripture says, but it's a fall feast,
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so it'll be coming sometime September October, and it's a
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fall feast where the Lord told the children of Israel
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to build booths and rejoice before him for seven days,
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for one whole week. And so they would build that
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booth out of trees, you know, they would cut down trees,
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and they would cut down deciduous trees and pine trees,
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and they would actually make a space a place where
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they would go to meet the Lord every day. And
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they were invited to ask people to join them. Family
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members would come, even gentiles were invited to come, Foreigners
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were invited to come. So that place, that booth in
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Hebrew is called a suka, sukk ah a suka, and
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that word suka means booth, but it also means a
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place of protection and shelter, and it also means a covering,
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which kind of makes sense, you could think when you
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think about that booth and they're gathered in this well
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rather small area, and you know it's covered and protected.
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But when the children of Israel were in the wilderness,
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scripture says that the cloud, the cloud covered them by
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day as it protected them from the scorching desert heat
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and snakes and scorpions. And so the cloud or the
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glory was a suka. It was a place where they
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were sheltered and protected as they traveled during the day.
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So when you and I are still and when we're
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quiet and when we're undisturbed in the secret place, we
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are in God's suka. We are in that place, in
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that covering by the presence of the Lord. We are
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in that place that is divinely protected by the Lord.
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And if you read Psalm ninety one, which I would
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say during COVID, probably every Christian read Psalm ninety one
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during COVID, during the COVID days and years, and probably
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many who even who were not even Christian read Psalm
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ninety one, and of course it's talking about dwelling in
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the secret place under the shadow of the Most High God.
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Another in other words, it's a it's a suka, it's
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a place. It's a place of protection and shelter from
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the enemy, from the difficulties. Well, I won't say from
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the difficulties of life. That doesn't protect you, but but
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you're protected from the enemy. Then, So that happened just
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a couple days ago. Then I heard a message preached
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by my pastor yesterday, and in that very long message,
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one of the points he was addressing was about Obed Eaedam.
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Now Obed Eaedam was a man who had the Arc
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of the Covenant in his house for three months. He
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was not a Hebrew, he was a get tight. He
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was a foreigner or a gentile. And because the Ark
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of the Covenant was in his home, he had this protection.
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He had you know, provision, he had multiplication. He was
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being blessed over and over and over because of the ark.
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The Ark of the Covenant represented the actual presence of God.
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So I listened last week and heard about Asuka and
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the cloud. And yesterday I hear about the Ark of
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the Covenant, which represents the presence of the Lord. And
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I'm putting this all together, and I'm saying, Hm, the
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Lord is continuing to highlight information to me regarding protection,
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the protection we receive from his presence. Now you have
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to you have to get this. You have to get this.
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It's the protection that we receive from his presence. So
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in your home, you create your own so to speak,
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Ark of the Covenant, that that glory place, that abiding place,
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that secret place, that dwelling place with the Holy Spirit
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and the Lord. And you make that place a very
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special place. And that's where, in that moment of being
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still and quiet and undisturbed, where you come into his
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presence and you begin to meet him and talk with
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him or just be quiet and listen to what he
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has to say. First. Then what's going to happen. Is
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the glory's going to come. I assure you. I assure
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you it will come. You have to be intentional every day,
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every day you meet the Lord. Every day you set
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up an altar in your home somewhere a special place
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where you go to meet the Lord. And that's where
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you'll experience that glory. It will come and you'll be
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overwhelmed by it. Now we're going to see why this
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is all important. So, in the last month, I heard
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three prophets talk about the coming economic crash. Two of
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the prophets I was on familiar with these people, these men,
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and so their word didn't hold much weight with me
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because I don't know them. They're unproven, untested with me.
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I've been around prophets and the prophetic for twenty five years,
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so I haven't heard of these people, so I'm not
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gonna necessarily jump on what they say. But the third
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prophet I knew of, and I valued his strong belief
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in God's word and his prophetic words being backed by
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God's word. And I value that ministers who are aligned
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with him were ministers that I respected. So the ministers
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that I am personally aligned with and the ones that
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I follow, these are people of great integrity in all
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aspects of their lives. Okay, these aren't people that you're
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going to hear of all of a sudden the church closed,
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closing down and you know, all kind of crazy stuff. No, no, no,
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So this prophet has a very good track record, and
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he's a very very humble man. That's important. Here's what
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the Lord showed him that after the November election, regardless
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of whether President Trump wins or whether Kamala Harris wins,
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there will be a great economic downturn, very severe, and
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it will really shake things up, and it's really going
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to shake people, and it will last until June July
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of twenty twenty five. Now, I just want to go
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back and remind you what I said to you back
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in January that these It was that what I was
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getting giving you was weighty because of its importance pertaining
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to circumstances that will unfold this year and beyond. So
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that meant it was going to occur in twenty twenty four,
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but it was going to go into twenty twenty five.
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Is what the Lord told me, And so I'm sharing
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what he's now saying. The Lord told him this is
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going to last until June July of twenty twenty five.
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Then it will begin to smooth out. So if things
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aren't already bad to do to high the high inflation
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rate and the cost of everything being a great burden
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on people, this turn of events will frighten people, even Christians,
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and they will wonder how they're going to make ends meet.
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Put food on the table, and you might be one
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of them. You might be one of those people that
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are listening to me evening. Let me read Psalm forty six,
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verses one through seven in the amplified version Classic which
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I read to you back in January. It says h
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Psalm forty six, Verse one. God is our refuge and strength,
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mighty and impenetrable to temptation, a very present and well
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proved help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though
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the earth should change, and though the mountains be shaken
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into the midst of the seas, though its waters roar
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and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling and
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tumult se La, pause and calmly think of that there
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is a river whose streams make glad. The City of God,
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the holy place of the Tabernacles of the Most High God,
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is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved.
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God will help her right early at the dawn of
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the morning, the nations raged, the kingdoms tottered and were moved.
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He uttered his voice, and the earth melted. The Lord
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of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is
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our refuge, our fortress, and high tower. Selah, pause and
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calmly think of that. So things are going to shake.
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But Verse one says God is our refuge and strength,
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a very present and well proved help in the time
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of trouble. I am warning you, trouble is coming. What
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will you do? How will you respond? Now? Right now
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is the time to draw near to God. You know,
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I wish I could see your faces right now, because
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I would want to know who of you are drawing
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near to God? Who of you are serious about God?
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Or are you just a casual Christian or maybe a
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carnal Christian or a part time Christian. My friend, you're
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going to be in for a big shot if that's
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one of the categories you are in currently, and you
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will teeter like a drunken sailor, not knowing what to do.
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So I'm warning each of you you will see and
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it will become clear why I gave you this prophetic
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word clear back in January. Why did I give it
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to you? Then? It was to prepare you. But I
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wonder how many of you took me seriously? Even Donald
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Trump just last week, and Donald Trump is not a prophet.
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He said we're heading into hard times. Many people who
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are not Christian are saying we're heading into hard times.
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But the prophet said regardless of who becomes president. So
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President Trump kind of makes you think that once, if
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he becomes president, the hard times will be over. But
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that's not what the prophet said. It doesn't matter who
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wins the White House. Those very difficult times are coming
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to us period. I mean, we can't get away from that.
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It's going to be very difficult. So look, I'm a voice.
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I'm a voice crying in the wilderness. That's why this
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program is called Voice in the Wilderness. And I'm trying
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to get your attention. Rather, the Holy Spirit is trying
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to get your attention. Hey, I'm shouting from the rooftops.
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I can't make it any clear to you. I hope
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you have ears to hear, and I really really want
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you to take action. Don't be lasadaisical. Don't wait till
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this has come upon you, because then it'll be difficult
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for you, because if you don't already have that place
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with him, that's still quiet, undisturbed space, and place with
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the Lord, it's going to be pretty hard to try
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to pull that off. Once this toothpaste is out of
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the tube. Now I'm giving you the warning you have
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about six months. You have about six months, so spend
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time with the Lord. Be still and know that he
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is God. I am telling you as sure as I
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know my name. I have never had the Lord speak
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to me this prophetic word ongoing. Never he would speak
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it in November for the coming year, and that would
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be it. I wouldn't hear it again. But this has
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not stopped. And then when I heard to the program
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on Suka and I heard about obit Eatam, I'm like,
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oh my goodness, I hope you have ears to hear. Amen. So, Lord,
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I ask that you would open every heart tonight to
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receive and understand this scripture for themselves. Be still and
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know that I am God. Open their spiritual ears to
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know what you're speaking, and give them a heart to
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obey Father woo and draw them. And as they draw
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near to you, your word says you will draw near
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to them. I bless each person that's listening to this message.
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May you be filled to overflow with the love, mercy,
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and grace of the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name. Amen. Well,
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this is don Noble. You can go to www. Dot
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if you have a prayer need, if you just want
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to share what you think about what I said tonight,
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always ask and thank you in advance for praying for
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me and this ministry. It means a lot. Well, this
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is Don Noble. I hope you enjoyed this message tonight
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and I look forward to being with you again next week.
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Shall oam, shall oam, Peace be unto you