We serve a wonderful savior, a wonderful redeemer. His name is Jesus. And to him
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be the glory and honor and praise. And God's people said, "Amen." And amen. You
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know, I've just been sitting here just singing some beautiful songs from the
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70s. Oh, the Lord is so good. And my
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beautiful daughter, Natasha, sitting right there again. Can't see her tonight. She's just sitting wanting to
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listen to the word of the Lord. And I want to talk to you about how to walk in the spirit in these troublesome times.
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And I believe God is going to show you some wonderful things today to bless you. And Lord, I thank you for your
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blessed word. Oh precious Jesus, to you belongs the glory and the honor and the
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praise. Open our hearts, Lord, and reveal your precious word to us today.
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Blessed Lord, we give you the praise. And God's people said, "Amen." And remember, we're very close to the coming
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of the Lord. You know, how does this really work out?
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I'm looking at you. I'm looking at T at the same time. How does it work out to live in the spirit
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in troublesome times? You want to say hello so they can hear you? Hi. Yeah.
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Anyway, Lucas is here because he's taping us, you know, so he's laughing, too. You
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know, uh, the minute and and I want you sweet young people together, too.
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The minute you step out of the old life
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and walk into the new life in Jesus, you walk into a life of no limits.
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Now, you know what I mean by no limits? Like like no limitations. Like your past
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is gone. no past record.
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Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are new. And a lot of
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people don't get that. Like they say, well, what does that really mean? Well, it it really means what what it says.
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Katherine Khman was in her
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let's see she began in the ministry when she was 16 when she was young she married a man
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Mr. Walrip was his name. Then she divorced him. Her ministry almost fell
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apart. She was just a young lady in her 20s somewhere.
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And she repented. She came to a dead end road like a real
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dead end road. It would say dead end. And she repented.
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And the Lord said something powerful to her when she repented
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because she divorced him and you know and gave her life to the Lord completely
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surrendered completely to the Lord because that marriage should have never happened in the first place anyways and
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long story but I'm only giving you the headline. And the Lord said to us something
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amazing. He said in my books it never happened.
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Now God did not say I cannot remember. He said I will not
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remember. He made a decision. I will not remember your sins any longer.
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What a loving God to say that. I will not remember. Once you repent, once you
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come to Jesus, once you come out of the old life into the new one, or even after
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you're in the new life and you're young like she was, and you make a mistake,
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you know, we all have made mistakes. Who hasn't? And you go to the Lord and you
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make it right with him. He will forgive and he will forget.
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It's his word. And so we have now to begin living that
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kind of life to believe that God really has forgotten.
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He said, "I will not remember your sins anymore." And the longer you live, the more you
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understand his love and mercy and forgiveness
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and patience with all of us. Living in the spirit is a beautiful way to live
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because we we are in liberty.
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Satan comes to remind people about their past.
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God always points us to the future. Old things are passed away.
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Behold, all things are new. Think about Paul the Apostle, what he did before his salvation.
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Think about any of the saints. Even after
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Jesus called Peter, he denied him. What did Jesus say to Peter
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after the resurrection? He didn't say, "Ah, you bad man. You
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denied me." He said, "Do you love me?" First question, do you love me? He did
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not even rebuke him for denying him. He just asked him a question and it broke
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him. Do you love me? Wow. What a Lord. What a Lord.
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So the Lord we serve is love. Oh yes.
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You know if we do not repent, if we do not have a repentant heart, we will be punished. Absolutely.
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But if we know how to repent, God will always forgive us and make it right with
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us because we made it right with him. Now,
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limitations known in the old life disappear
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once you begin living in the spirit. You also see the world differently. Not only
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is you're in in a new life now. No past
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record. Now it's a beginning. It's a beautiful
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new life you have. But also you see the world differently. Example, here's Moses
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standing looking at the Red Sea.
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But did he really see the Red Sea?
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Pharaoh's army was behind them
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in the natural. They were trapped when Israel left Egypt.
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God led them led them right to the edge of the Red Sea knowing he will divide
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the Red Sea. But Israel did not know. They were not
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living in the spirit. So now imagine if this was you and here you are, the sea before you, the enemies
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behind you, as you can see in the natural, no way out.
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What did Moses see? He saw the Lord. And when he saw the Lord, and I repeat,
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he saw the Lord. He didn't just see nothing. He saw the Lord. What did he
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say? feared doubt and as a result God
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brought forth a miracle and that's in in the scriptures
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and that's why I think Paul said something amazing to us quite remarkable
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really when he said in 1 Corinthians 3:21 therefore let no man glory in men
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for all things are yours whether Paul or Apollos or Cphus or the
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world or life or death or things present or things to come. All are yours. No
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limit what God will give you. And ye are Christs and Christ is God's.
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That's these three verses are most amazing.
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But very few think about that. Don't glory in men. All things are
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yours. All things are yours. I think you you need to begin to say all things are
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mine. As a believer, whether Paul or Apollos or Casus or the world, think
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about he says the world is yours or life or death or things present or things to
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come. All are yours. Now wait.
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death and life. He says things present or things to
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come. All all are mine. There's no limit.
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And I know it's it's a mystery. Like what does it really mean?
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Well, when you live in the spirit, you are in that world of no limitations.
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You know, unbelief relies on feelings.
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Faith relies on the promises of God. Moses did not see the ocean. He saw the
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Lord. Israel saw the ocean and the Egyptians
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behind them. Moses did not see the Egyptians or the ocean. He saw the Lord.
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He only saw the Lord. And that is so powerful and you can read that for yourself in Exodus
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14 verse 15 right through 21.
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And you know to to to human logic feelings and all that
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it makes no sense. Like how can you ignore the ocean and the and the and the Egyptians behind you
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and say we're going to come through. God will divide the ocean.
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I mean, you know, in the natural to go forward you would drown. To go backwards
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that kill you. But not when you're in the spirit.
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What did Moses walk on then? Wait, wait. I want you to think about
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that. What did he walk on?
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This is very key. He did not walk on dry land when he
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walked through that ocean. He walked on the word of God.
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He walked on the word of God. What did Peter walk on on that Sea of
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Galilee? On the word come.
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On the word come. He didn't walk on the water. He walked on the word that Jesus spoke.
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People forget that. And then when his eye when when the wind blew and his eyes were taken off the Lord, he begin to
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drown. And now the Lord had told him up. We do not walk on the natural. We walk
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on the word of faith. We walk on the word of God.
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We see what he said and we go forward. And God said, "Lift the rod.
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Walk." And the the whole nation followed him.
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I think about the spies who went into the promised land to spy the land.
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10 of them saw giants and two of them saw the Lord.
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Then said, "There's giants in the land. No way. we we we we we can't win. And
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they said it they they they made a a a a very remarkable statement because in the
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book of Numbers, let's go there, chapter 13.
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And in verse 25, and after they they returned from
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searching the land, they they made a very like uh
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shocking statement. It says they brought up an evil report in verse 32
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and they talk about how these giants were so massive. And then they said something in verse 33 that is so so
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important. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anoch, which come of the giants. And we
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were in our own sight as grasshoppers. And so were we in their sight. The way
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you see yourself is the way the devil sees you.
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The way you see yourself is the way the enemy sees you. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers. And so were we in their
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side. The minute you see yourself as God sees
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you, you win. But the minute you see yourself as the
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enemy sees you, you lose. You have got to change your vision.
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What did God do with Abraham when he began to question? He said, "Come on, count the stars. Change your vision."
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Because he said, "What will you give me?" He's sitting in his tent in Genesis. What will you give me seeing?
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Seeing I go childless. He was seeing nothing.
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He was asking God, you know, all I have is, you know, Eleazar for an air. Read
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it there in Genesis 15. What will you give me
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seeing I'm childless? and he's thinking, you know, Elaz is
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going to take all his wealth and go with it. God said, "No, come
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let's look at the stars together. Look at look at the count the stars, Abraham."
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And and then God changed the sight, changed his vision.
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You've got to start seeing, right? Faith can be seen.
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Jesus seeing their faith, seeing their faith. Remember that story when they
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brought that man through the roof said he saw their faith.
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They acted seek their faith. He says to the man, "Arise."
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We've got to change what we see. Walking in the spirit will change the
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way you see yourself.
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All right. David in Psalm 23:4
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said something quite quite remarkable. Now, you know, I mean, you've got to
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think about this when when I give you these scriptures. And by the way, keep me, you know, aware of the time so I
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don't keep going. And frankly, if I do, I think people need it anyways a little bit now. Psalm 23:4.
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Let me just read it together with you. Yay, though I walk, Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
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death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Now wait, hold it.
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The valley of the shadow of death is a very terrifying reality.
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But he said, Lord, your reality is greater.
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The valley of death is a great reality and a terrifying
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reality. But God's reality is greater than the
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valley of the shadow of death. You don't see the shadow of death. You don't see
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the valley of the shadow of death. You see the Lord whose reality is greater.
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You know why I I in the crusades and to this day I love leading people in worship because worship
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helps them to see Jesus not their disease.
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The moment people see the Lord they forget their disease.
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And when they forget their disease he heals them.
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As long as they're focused on the sickness, no healing will come. When they start begging, "Oh Lord, heal me,
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heal me." They're focused on their disease. They're not focused on the Lord, the healer. When they see Jesus,
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they're healed. In his presence, in his presence means
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you see him. In his presence, no sickness will dwell.
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You come to that place of reality where he becomes more real to you than
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the crowds around you. He becomes more real to you than yourself.
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When the presence of Jesus becomes real to me on those platforms
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and that's when I rebuke sickness, that's when they get healed because he's real to me now.
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And that's when I sing hallelujah. We are there. By the time we sing al
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hallelujah, I'm already there. Sometimes I'll worship for a while
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lately because of the Lord's presence coming so quickly. I I just walked on
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the platform in Uganda and Zimbabwe and he was already on the platform. So there
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wasn't much waiting. But in the crusades and still in some meetings, you have to
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lead people. You have to to prepare them to come into God's presence.
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Jack Hayer told me something powerful. He said, "You don't have a healing ministry.
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You have a ministry to that brings people into the presence of the Lord." That's what he said to me. He He said,
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"People are not healed in your meetings because you give you have the gift of healing." I said, "Well, I've never said
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I have the gift of healing." He said they get healed because you bring them into the presence of the Lord.
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When they come into the presence of the Lord, they're healed. Or Roberts used to lay hands on the sick
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and others like him before and after. Miss Kumman did not lay hands on the sick. She let people into the presence
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of God. And sometimes she would have she would
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sing with the wrong key and nobody cared because God's presence was there. I've
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heard her sing when her voice would crack and break. It didn't matter to us. We were all weeping because Jesus is
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there. It's all about the presence of the Lord.
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So we live in this amazing reality. But
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what what do we do to have it this life in the spirit?
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Well, Paul gives us an amazing truth in Romans 13:14. He says, "Put on the Lord
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Jesus Christ. Put on the Lord.
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Wear him." These are amazing words.
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Romans 13:14, "And put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for
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the flesh. You cancel the flesh.
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You cancel the lust of the flesh." It says, "Make not provision for the flesh
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to fulfill the lusts thereof." You You're free from it. Now, how you
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put the Lord on. How do you do that? Surrender.
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You see him. What did David do? He surrendered. What did Moses do? Surrender. What did Caleb and Joshua do?
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Surrender. They didn't see those giants. They saw the Lord and they surrendered and saw
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the Lord. Moses surrendered to the Lord. He walked on his word.
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He He didn't walk through the Red Sea. He walked on the word of God on the sea divided and those giants.
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Did Caleb see him? No. Did Joshua see him? No. He saw the word.
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The giants disappeared. And David saw the Lord. He saw his word.
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He said, "Thou art with me. Thou for thou art with me. I I see you,
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Lord. I don't see the valley. And because I see you, I don't see the valley.
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And Paul tells us something powerful. Put on Christ
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and the flesh will go away.
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So here's the here's what what will cause
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people difficulties
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if you don't avoid the places. People sometimes go into places that
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trigger the flesh. If you go into a place that triggers the
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the flesh, you lose sight of the Lord. You you lose sight of the the the
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invisible. Do not go anywhere that triggers the flesh.
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Avoid the places that trigger the flesh and what the flesh craves
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because this is not who you are anymore.
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This is not who you are anymore. Old things are passed away. This is not who you are anymore.
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You don't need it. You don't want it.
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I You do not need the flesh. You don't want the flesh.
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You want the life of the spirit. You are a man of the spirit. You're a woman of the spirit. Our life is alive in the
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spirit. Everything we are, everything we do is
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is of the spirit. We don't Jesus said, "You're in but not of the world." Why? In the spirit.
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And so Paul makes it very clear.
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Let's go to Ephesians. And I'll go just a little over today just for a few minutes because I think this is so
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important. I want to I want to give you the the secret. I want to give you what to do. How do you walk in the spirit in
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these troublesome times? So in in Ephesians 4, if you look at
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verse, let's just go to verse 22. I hope you're learning on it.
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It says that you put off concerning the former conversation or conduct the old
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man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust. So it's it's our
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decision to say no to the flesh and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. How?
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Through the word. I've been saying it over and over and over and over again.
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And through the word that renews your mind spirit spiritually the spirit of
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your mind. It says now you can put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and through holiness.
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So a radical change begins to take place in your life
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and you begin to do something that is incredible.
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The next thing he says in Ephesians 5
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verse one, he said, "Begin to imitate God as dear children."
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How do you imitate God? Well, he he just told you how in chapter 4.
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He said, "Get the flesh off and walk in the spirit."
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And then he said, "Be," and cannot remember there were no no chapters when he wrote this.
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So you go on reading, "Be ye therefore." Ephesians 5:1, "Be therefore followers
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of God as dear children." Imitate God as dear children. Why?
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Because we've received his life. Now we draw from that life from within.
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We draw from within, not without.
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His life is in us and we draw from within. We look within.
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I read a profound book by Jin years ago
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and she talked about how we have to look within in prayer.
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Look within means you look within the spirit. You walk
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by living the life that puts the world out and is living that spiritual life.
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And so what he says here is imitate God and now you have his life. Draw from it.
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draw from, imitate him. You draw from his life that is within
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you. And by doing that, you become his children.
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You missed it. You missed it, too. And I think you missed it, too.
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By drawing from his life,
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you're able to follow him as children. You can't follow
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without that because you've received
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uh God's eternal life. You're joined to him in covenant.
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Listen to me. You we we we are walking
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it out from the spirit within.
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every every day you have to walk out from what is within,
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not the other way around. And you find that in quietness.
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In quietness, you're able to bring out
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what is in you. Otherwise, you can't do it.
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And finally when you do that something happens
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the flesh must be weakened and starved.
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And once the flesh is weakened and starved
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only then can the life of God flow flow out.
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So in 2 Corinthians 12
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uh verse 10 he said I take pleasure in infirmities in reproach in necessities
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in persecutions in distress for Christ's sake for when I
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am weak. When I am weak then am I strong.
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You you have to bring the flesh to a place of total starvation and weakness.
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So he said, "I rejoice in in in infirmities because that that's
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weakness. Reproach is weakness. Necessities and persecutions are weaknesses, distress. Because now in my
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weakness, I find his strength.
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I draw from within. I draw from within.
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I hope this is helping you. And sometimes trials come our way
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because God wants us to draw from within. Sometimes he allows them to come so we
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can start looking within ourselves.
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And this is so important. The minute you see the reality of what
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I'm talking to you about and what the Bible teaches, you begin to see trials
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as an opportunity to draw on the Lord to to to draw to
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draw and to grow
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because I think trials are the opportunities of the Holy Spirit.
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to produce the life of Jesus in in your life of mouth. And that's why the Lord said, "Ye shall have tri tribulation in
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this world, but rejoice. I've overcome the world. All who live godly will suffer." Why?
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Because we go within immediately and we become stronger. So the minute the minute trials come,
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there are opportunities that the Holy Spirit would use to bring
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forth the life of Jesus out.
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I think I've said enough and I pray the Lord today would use
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that. And one final advice,
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walking in the spirit will cause you to also do this. Colossians 3 1 through
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verse three. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above.
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That's what happened. By living in the spirit, you start looking above.
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God, how I love this. Well, Christ siteth on the right hand of God. Set
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your affections. your affection or mind here in Greek on
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things above, not on things on the earth. For you are dead
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and your life is hid with Christ. Man, this is such a powerful verse. You are
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dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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You are dead and your life is hid with
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Jesus in God. say my life is hid with Jesus and God
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that's within. There's a hiding place within. Withdraw
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from that life within. So when troubles come, don't look
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outward, look inward. And when you look inward, look for Jesus
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and you'll find him. And you'll draw the strength out.
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Out of your innermost being shall flow rivers of living water out of your
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innermost being. And you find that tranquility as you wait upon the Lord and renew your
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strength. It's time you do that. If you're troubled today, I have a
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wonderful piece of counsel for you. Wait upon the Lord. He will renew your
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strength. You'll mount up as wings as with wings of eagles. You'll run and not be weary.
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You'll walk and not faint. But you need the word of God to ignite all that in you.
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You see, I read my Bible and my and the word of God settles my spirit and
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settles my soul and I'm able to enter into this
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quietness of spirit.
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And yes, shut your phone off. Shut it off. Put it on plane mode or
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just shut it off. Don't let any any anybody call you while you're just in
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the presence of Jesus. Now, now uh uh this is this is key.
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Don't look for feelings. Look look for depth. Look for depth.
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And you won't understand what I mean till you're there. Spiritual depth is is not a feeling.
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It's the deep that calls onto deep. It's like oneness, union with the Lord that
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is not emotional. There's no emotions with it. The problem
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today is people look for emotional experience and they get in chaotic trouble. No, no. Jesus is in the
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stillness. He's found in the stillness. Be still and know. Be still and know I'm
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the Lord. He said, be still and know I'm the Lord. Do it today.
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But you cannot find stillness till you open your Bible and you read the
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precious word of God and you say, "Wonderful Jesus,
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show me your face today again. Show me your beauty again today, Lord.
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Oh sweet Holy Spirit, show me Jesus. Reveal to me the son of God." and you
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open your pipeline and next thing you know as you're reading oh the peace of God that will settle deep in your soul
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and then you start looking within and sometimes communion erupts within you
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deep communion not words not me mental words deep communion
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of love words of love now you speak to him words of love and
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you cherish him with your love and you just adore him and you thank him
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and it's there's no requests of selfish needs here.
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There's no prayer list of I need this ABCD FG. It's all about him, not you.
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It's all about him, not you. There's nothing to do with needing things from
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the outside. Now Jesus is all in all. And then you walk out
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and you think this is heaven. No, it's a taste of
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heaven. Imagine all this is just a taste. Think
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what the Lord's glory and heaven would be like. Wow. Lord, bring them into that
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place of rest. There is a place of quiet rest. That
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song said near to the heart of God, a place where sin cannot moles.
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Near to the heart of God. Bring them near to your heart, Lord.
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Bring them near to your heart, dear Jesus. Let them experience that life in
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the spirit so they won't they won't be affected by the troublesome times we're
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we're in. that nothing will affect them spiritually. They'll know your peace that passeth all
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understanding and your presence that will give them great joy. Give you all the glory.
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And God's sweet people said, "Amen and amen. Thank you for being with me." I'm loving this. I I just love talking to
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you about the Lord and his word. And I'm in California. I'll be going back to to Florida uh
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Thursday. So, I'll be back Friday, but we we take uh you know, a late flight,
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but then Friday, I'll I'll probably have to rest. I don't know if I can uh tape
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on Thursday. I'll try. I'll try. I may have to do it from the airport, but you know, with all the noise, I don't know that I can. But, I'm here now and I'll
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be with you again tomorrow. I'll be with you again tomorrow. And please share, you know, share these with people. Share
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this with your friends. They they people need to hear throughout this. Okay? And thank you again for your love, your
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support. I'm going to ask you to show sew your seed in the Lord's work so he can bless you. And let's do it for his
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glory. Much love. The information is on the screen for you.
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