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Don’t Give Up! | Axl Tizon
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Tonight, I have an urgent plea.
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I desperately urge us now to pray.
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I believe on my own, the holy cry of God's heart tonight is to
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give us eternal urgency to pray, pray, and pray in the midst of
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this dying world and dying generation in light of the
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world's events. No internationally, nationally,
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locally, even in our community here, Sagdao, as we are living
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in the last days even and times we're near the return of our
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Lord and Savior. Who would agree with that?
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I believe as disciples, my son, as the Church of Christ, we got
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to pray now more than ever before.
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We got to pray now more than ever before.
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And the the holy burden in my heart is that after this word of
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exhortation, you and I would resolve to give our lives as a
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prayer to God. We would resolve to give our
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lives as a prayer to God, as Kit Green sang us.
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Make my life a prayer to you. For prayer is my son, number
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one, God's command. Who would agree with that?
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Prayer is God's command #2 prayer is God's call to every
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disciple of Jesus Christ. So if you are here tonight and
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you believe you are a child of God, you are called to pray.
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Do you agree with that third thing?
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Prayer is God's gift, God's gift of communication.
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Prayer is our mode of two way communication with the God of
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all creation. Hallelujah.
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Now God loves to communicate through His word, His word.
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He is the God who speaks in the beginning was the word, no, the
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word of God and is still speaking right now tonight, no.
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Those who have ears to hear Kunaga de Lungan, hear the voice
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of the Spirit for you tonight, Amen.
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Now I want to quote EM bounds anashanga.
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Air is not more necessary to the lungs than prayer is to the
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child of God. At one lungs need to hang in
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Tama in the same way to the child of God.
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Prayer is like the air that we breathe so on.
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Now my question to you is, are you breathing right now the air
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of prayer or second, are you suffocating right now?
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Because prayer is our spiritual thermometer.
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Now that is our basis of intimacy.
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Now my question to you is, what's your temperature right
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now? Once a bimong temperature,
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Caroto bangan saguino. Now let's hear the word of the
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Lord DKO McDougal. I can ask you about the short
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long Downey. No so open with me in Luke
Luke 18 chapter mention
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chapter 18, the parable of the persistent widow.
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And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought
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always to pray and not lose heart.
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He said in a certain city there was a judge who neither feared
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God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that
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city who kept coming to him and saying, Give me justice against
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my adversary. For a while he refused, but
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afterward he said to himself, Though I I neither fear God nor
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respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will
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give her justice so that she will not beat me down by her
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continual coming. And the Lord said, Hear what the
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unrighteous judge says, and will not give.
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Will not God give justice to his elect, who cried to him day and
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night? Will he delay long over them?
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I tell you He will give justice to them speedily.
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Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on
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earth, not on hima hima young man like son?
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He told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to
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pray and not lose heart. OK, other translation.
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It says not give up, or even in NLT it says never give up.
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In Emma Goba, never give up, keep praying, and so on.
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Now that makes sense now. Sultan, Apostle Paul, IBA, who
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remembers pray without ceasing, pray at all times in the Spirit,
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OK, praise the Lord, pray at all times, pray and pray and pray.
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It makes sense now because Jesus tells us here in the first verse
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that we always ought to pray and not lose heart.
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The Gantam of picturing zone. The widow here represents
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desperation. The widow here represents great
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need. My question to you is, how much
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do you need the Lord tonight? How desperate are you for the
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glory of God to come down tonight?
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For a while He refused. So not a picture during a widow.
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Siggy Balik Balik's a judge. Siggy Shahog hang you and man.
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This widow knows she had nothing.
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She had nothing in and through herself.
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That's why Bhaga Nagar Shagnamudo also judge in that
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mode of desperation because she had nothing.
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Yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her
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justice. OK, Give a big Yanch as a judge
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unjust the judge so that she will not beat me down by her
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continual coming. Here's the bomb like drop the
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Lord, hear what the unrighteous judge says on verse 6.
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And will not God give justice to his elect who cried to him day
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and night? Will he delay long over them?
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I tell you he will give justice to them speedily.
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As I said earlier, justice is mine, said the Lord.
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I say with Abraham right now, shall not the judge of all the
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earth do right? With all the evil, with all the
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suffering going on? Satwan communities, Adabao
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cities, the Philippines, Israel, the America, the Iran, the
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nations? I say with Abraham, shall not
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the judge of all the earth do right?
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Unjust judge young people began a widow Jesus tells us he will
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avenge speedily. But here's the thing, when I saw
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Nani monial I would consider the second most tragic statement in
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Jesus throughout the Bible. I tell you he will.
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And nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith
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on earth. As you can see, this parable
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like a sandwich Nisha, by prayer and faith.
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It starts with prayer, it ends with faith because they go hand
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in hand together. And when we pray with faith or
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by faith, God operates. Do you agree with that?
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Now I have three simple points #1 prayer is a humble expression
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of our absolute need for God. That's why humbling on prayer
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because it is showing that you need God.
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Kumu preika meaning in a pakita animala kinahaglantika Lord.
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So I will give you something here.
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That's why how much you pray shows how much you need God.
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When you pray much, meaning you need much of God.
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Tama congrabi ka MO meaning kinahaglante animosi Lord.
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Conversely or inversely, when you don't pray much, you don't
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need much of God. As simple as that.
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That's why prayer is our spiritual thermometer.
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Because again, when you pray much, you need much of God.
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You are telling God that. Now here's the thing.
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That's why, like the widow Sam, as a widow, we need to be
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persistent in prayer to show God how much we need Him.
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Did you hear that the persistent widow Naka Abut Gutsa say Young
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Justice Naginapangita? Now when we persist in prayer,
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we are saying God, we need you, you are all we need.
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Now in return he reveals himself.
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Who wants to know God tonight? Not about God, but the God of
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the world, Because the generation that knows the God of
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the world will never bow down to the gods of this world.
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Now who wants to know God tonight?
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Lord, reveal yourself. That's our cry.
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Now who wants to see God's mighty work in our midst?
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When we pray by faith, He shows his mighty work #2 Prayer is the
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mightiest agent to advance God's work.
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Now the Great Commission go and make disciples paired with
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unceasing prayer. The 1st Thessalonians 517
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Prayer, No, it releases God's power for his Kingdom to come
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and will to be done in heaven on earth, on Maranatha Family
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Church in Agdao, in Dabao, in Philippines, in Israel, the
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nations, His Kingdom come and his will be done on my heart.
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That's my prayer tonight. Let that be our prayer tonight.
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That's why when Jesus taught his disciples to pray in Matthew 6,
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Your Kingdom come, your will be done.
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OK #3 prayer is the application. So Sultani, Nerabin, Helena, key
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of faith that fits every luck to God's supernatural work.
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Now when we pray, we are like Kunkanasagawas, Imohanangi,
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Sousian and Portahan. But everyone, you will see my
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God's mighty work. Now who wants to see that?
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That's why I said I have said earlier, prayer and faith go
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hand in hand. Dil ISIL, a pretty Bullock, my
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son, because these two produces obedience that releases God's
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power. Do you want to see the power of
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God in your life? Pray by faith, pray with faith,
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pray through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And when we obey God operates kumu obeita exon mulihuksi Lord.
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The secret of revivalist obedience.
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Eternal perspective, quoting again.
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Rabin hill. And as a prayer grasp eternity.
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Now prayer goes beyond time. It goes beyond time that this is
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the this is the thing among a Tao.
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We are so bound in time and we serve an eternal God, Sultani
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Moses, Psalm 90 from everlasting to everlasting.
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You are God, you are our dwelling place, but us for the
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meantime, bound as a time. OK, but here's the argument.
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Prayer grasps eternity, meaning when you pray tonight, Pediga
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Gamitoni Lord, among prayer, 20 years from now because you
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prayed for someone, and 20 years from now, Gamitoni Lord, in a
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prayer and praise the Lord that you prayed, that you obeyed,
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because that soul will be saved forever.
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Mon among hearts a era saum. When we pray, I tell them let's
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pray in light of eternity. The language can pray, pray like
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5 minutes prayer. OK Lord we, we ask for
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supplication of our needs in Jesus name, Amen.
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No, we pray like this. Lord give us UM or give us
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nothing. Lord give us revival or give us
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nothing. God is looking now like Son for
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holy men and women, fully sold out to Jesus Christ.
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Are you sold out to Jesus tonight?
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Will you pray in that heart that Lord, I love you, I love you, I
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love you, and because I love you I will pray.
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Filled by the Holy Spirit who resolved to give their lives to
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prayer. These are the people who will
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turn the world upside down. If you see in the book of Acts,
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they turned the world upside down because they were praying
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men and women. Now to be much for God, we need
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to have much of God and prayer gets us much of God again.
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The more you pray the more you will have God because prayer is
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like grabbing a hold of God. Lord help us like that widow
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grabbing a persistent the guy called justice grabbing a it's
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amazing to me in the morning gambit in the Lord illustration
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now therefore, I desperately urge us now Maranatha family
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Church to pray pray and pray by persistent prayer through faith.
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Let there be an outpouring of God's spirit tonight revealing
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God's power, exalting nothing and no one else but Jesus Christ
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with this question, why did Jesus pray so much?
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You see like like wander Baba, don't grab him like a praise
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Jesus throughout throughout his earthly ministry.
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No, the simple answer to that question is this.
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He prayed so much simply because he loved his father Sabonago.
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He prayed so much simply because he loved his father.
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My question to you tonight is this do you love God tonight?
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We see it in John 17 favorite chapter Nikki Armand Carono, the
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ministry report. I would call this the greatest
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prayer ever recorded in the Bible.
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No, he always prays Jesus Mona Nagasian disciple.
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Lord, teach us to pray. Albert the gunman The gunman
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skills and talents Albert. Edit instrument drums, drums or
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KGG. My point is this because that's
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the very thing the very frequenting and Master he was
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praying John 17 the prayer before he got crucified.
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Do you you remember Gethsemane, the prayer that's so intense.
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Now the Bible tells us young young sweat or young young
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Singh. OK, it's like blood Nabut
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Nabatana prayer the the blood sweat on Gethsemane.
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Now my personal definition is of prayer is this prayer is the
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highest form of expressing my love to my Lord.
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When I pray, I tell God how much I love him.
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When I obey, I show God how much I love him again when I pray.
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So Lord, Lord, this is how much I love you and it is never
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enough, but but when I obey, I show God, Lord, I'm here to
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share your word because I love you.
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Just tell me you love me. Jolan, the Kosiki Armand, the
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Kosiki Armand guys, that's our that's our pastor.
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Now praise God for the great man of God that he is Now my
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challenge. I'm near the end.
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My question to you, Mike's own tonight is this.
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How much do you love Jesus? Namanti spiritual thermometer
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assess yourself right now. How much do you love him?
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How desperate are you for his presence?
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How much do you spend time with him?
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5 minutes in prayer, six hours in TikTok, 10 minutes in prayer,
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six hours scrolling, scrolling, scrolling with what's going on
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with the world. And you will tell me you love
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Jesus. Do you see your great need for
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Christ like that Widowbanga? Can you say, Lord, I have
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nothing, I am nothing apart from you, I have no good.
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Monikrani Davidna, apart from you I have no good.
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Do you believe that God is good? Everything in your life that's
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good is because of who God is in and through your life.
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Now let us examine ourselves, my friends.
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God our Father is calling us back tonight to the place of
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prayer where we grab a hold of him and never let him go.
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He's a by excited the Mugunitsaguino tonight, grabbing
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a hold of him and never letting him go.
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See lastly, lastly, I have such a holy burden for this
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generation. Listen to this Mike's own.
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I believe the generation that knows the God of the word
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Sultana Koniganina will never bow down to the gods of this
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world. I believe the generation that
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knows God is a praying generation.
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Sadly, that's not our generation.
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Our greatest tragedy is that's not our generation.
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I tremble to know that I am living in an idolatrous,
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adulterous, rebellious, sexually immoral, lawless, wicked, weak
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and dying generation. Because we don't know the God of
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the world. Because we don't know God.
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That's why we do not fear God. That's why Because we don't fear
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God, That's why we don't obey God.
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Because we don't know the God of the Word.
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Mona, tragedy, tragedy. I want you to catch that
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tragedy, that burden, holy burden.
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No, we are so sunk and look at us spiritually, morally.
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That's why we desperately need God to come down and breathe for
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this generation to live. Parama, Bohemian generation.
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So we need God to come down and breathe.
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That's why we need to pray. Is this making sense?
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Do you see the need now to pray the prayer that grasp eternity?
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Do you agree with that? The only hope of our generation
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is Jesus Christ, the living Word of God.
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Here, this burden Tragic. Here's the hope.
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God is more concerned and compassionate over our
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generation than we could ever be.
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What am I trying to say? John 316 is still for God.
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So love the world for God. So love the church for God.
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So love me. He gave himself for me, for you
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and I Mona concerned gehapunchi Lord Compassionate Gehapuncha,
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as He always is to our generation.
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Pillaka generationally Aghi Pillaka century God is ever
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concerned. You know why You want to know
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why? Because He is the same
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yesterday, today and forever. Do you agree with that?
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Now what's my evidence? He literally sent his son to die
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on the cross to save us. Praise the Lord, praise the
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Lord, Oh my soul. That's why an appetite like Son,
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because Jesus Christ is still ruling and reigning throughout
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the heavens and the earth. Give up the Lord, He has divine
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authority and He will never give it up.
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Hopefully that will encourage you when you are living in this
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broken world. Jesus Christ still rule and
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reigns forever in the heavens and on earth.
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The Bible tells us be still and know that He is God.
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That Word is still alive for us tonight.
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Do you agree with that? It's still alive, very much
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alive. He is still interceding for His
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church. Can you tell someone right now
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Jesus Christ is interceding for you?
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That's why in Luke 18 Jesus tells us never gave up because
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our High Priest is still at the face of God the Father
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interceding in our behalf. Then we can all enter in
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tonight. We can all enter into the Holy
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of Holies because of what Christ has done for us 2000 years ago.
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We have great hope because Jesus is alive.
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Jesus is Lord, and Jesus is alive.
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Therefore come to him now. Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord.
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LGBTQ, complete Catholic Muslim. That's why I tell this team, I
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tell my family. It's so relevant to say that
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Jesus is Lord and it will always be relevant.
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But in our context, I would still say that Jesus is Lord.
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Wherever my feet steps upon, I confess that Jesus is my Lord,
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my Savior. He is our living hope, and He
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shall soon return to redeem us. Praise the Lord, as Christians,
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we have our hope, our living hope.
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We are more than victorious through him who love us and gave
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himself for us. Are you victorious today?
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Do you want to be victorious tonight?
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You know, throughout the week, but I believe when you come to
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the throne of grace tonight, you will be refreshed and renewed in
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the presence of God when you come to him by faith.
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Speaking of victory testimony, Gapon, we had a great victory.
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Sahira, no serenade. Thank you so much picture, but
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thank you so much. Good.
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We thank this family antiboch church nakabak AB satua fully
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nakabak AB satua. That's why we are encouraged to
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keep going and going and going. Now Kuya Netan and church as a
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gospel happen very timely and very relevant because most of my
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unbelievers so they were like at least 70 to 80 people that
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happen know who heard the love of Jesus, who were serenaded by
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his love and now anonymous apartment.
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OK, it's time to disciple DBS Nata can goal is to serenade is
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preach the gospel and make disciples mogate on purpose.
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DBS Guinea Padolong Tanan Amen. DBS Nata In this dying world and
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generation, God is still absolutely in control inside a
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comfort. Anna, my God, my God is still in
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control. That's why we trust him.
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That's why we trust him and one, because he is still in control.
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Good news is still good news, because Jesus Christ is the same
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yesterday, today, and forever. Though the earth, though the
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heaven, though everything may fade away, the word of our God
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will stand forever. Mangahano Mantanktanan.
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If we were to be all faithless, unfaithful, the Lord will still
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be faithful, for He is faithful to His word, to every
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generation, forever and ever. That's why as a Christian, you
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have hope, Nah Tai paglaomic, so on.
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That's why I all give up double time takarun SA DBS, double time
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takarun to preach the gospel. Wherever you go, eat in graves
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in Maharna, whether you eat, whether you drink, whatever you
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do, you do it all for the glory of God.
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Naka unko. I'm doing it for the glory of my
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Lord. Naligo kuna pray nak bahi nak
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pray nak intercede. What I'm trying to tell you is
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this. Do it all for the glory of God.
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Whatever, whatever you doing soon.
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Now let's go back to God tonight, Can we?
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I believe, I really believe, the Lord will refresh and renew us
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tonight with His presence that changes everything it touches.
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When the presence of God touches you tonight, I want to tell you
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your life will change forever. All it takes, all it takes is
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the fringe of the garment, the presence, the glory of the Lord
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that will transform lives forever.
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He transformed my life. Praise the Lord, do you want to
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be refreshed and renewed tonight?
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Now let us go straight to God and believe He will meet us
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where we are right now. He desires intimacy with you
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more than you desire it. Mas gusto can the Lord quesa
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gusto nimosha. He loves you more than you love
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Him. He knows you more than you even
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know yourself. He knows me.
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Sultan David. Psalm 139.
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Kabaluka Kanosakamotindo Kanosakomo Lincode Kabaluka
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Asakomuato. Kabaluka salti before Panakonai
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salti. I want to tell you, God is
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beyond all of this. And this is the God that we are
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serving, my son. That's why.
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Get up. Get up Nagahulatnika generation,
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same obedience Ageno Imon workmate Imon classmate Naghulat
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Simon obedience his own. He died for you and he lived for
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you so that by faith in Jesus we can run to him and live with him
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forever and ever. Amazing God we serve to God be
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the glory. That's it, my soul.