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I'm not pasturing because I had nothing else to do. I got saved. I got delivered. My sins were

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forgiven. And the reason I got into this, of course the call of God, but I was excited was

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I want to share this with others because they're dying all around me. And we got to pull them out.

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Amen. And we got a lifeline. God forbid that we keep the truth to ourselves.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word

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and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church,

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feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our

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hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God,

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that you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you.

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Are you ready for the word this morning? Amen. I believe God really wants to get something to you.

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You're going to walk out of here better than how you came in. Let's begin in Matthew chapter 8

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verses 5 through 13. This is a familiar passage to many of you, but there's so much truth that can

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be withdrawn from this passage of Jesus encountering the centurion. It's really so rich. Of course,

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the whole word of God is rich for this passage. It's like pregnant pulsating with revelation.

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Now when Jesus had entered cappernum, a centurion came to him pleading with him,

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saying, Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.

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And Jesus said to him, and this is something that he often would say, I will. I will come.

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I will physically go there and he's establishing his will. I will come and heal him.

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One of the first encounters that Jesus had after his baptism was a leper coming down the mountain.

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And he said, Lord, if you're willing, you can make me clean. Because when life is

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clobbering you over the head with a hammer. And again, by life, I mean, I say life, the enemy is behind

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that. And the enemy is a person. He's a being. I feel like I have to say that now because I take

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for granted that everybody understands, but we're in New York City. There's so many different

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ideologies, so many different backgrounds into a lot of people. Satan is just like an abstract

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concept that just means darkness or negativity. No, he is a created being who fell from heaven.

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And Jesus said he wants to steal, kill, and destroy. He hates you. And when the enemy is clobbering

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you over the head, what happens to us is we don't doubt God's ability, but we doubt his willingness.

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Because the voice in the back of our minds is saying, well, Lord, if you're willing, why am I going

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through this? Why am I feeling this way? But the will of God clashes with our own faith level,

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with the enemy's attacks. He said, well, God wills it. It has to be no. He requires our cooperation.

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Amen. Hallelujah. But Jesus' answer was always, I will. Never once did he say, well, not for you,

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because my father is teaching a very special lesson. You're going to be sick a couple of more decades.

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He's really a long lesson. And so come back in 20 years. His answer is always, I'm willing. I'm

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willing. Amen. When it comes to your victory, he's willing. When it comes to your prosperity, he's

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willing. Anything he already bled for on the cross, he's willing. And you must be sure of the will of

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God if your prayer is to have confidence. Jesus said to him, I'm willing. I will come and heal him.

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And the centurion, this is where it gets very interesting. Because the centurion didn't ask him to

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physically come. But Jesus, because he had a very touchy ministry, if you notice, Jesus was always

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laying hands on people. He was transmitting, transferring the anointing via the laying out of

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hands through touch. He said, I will come and heal him. But the centurion says, Lord, I'm not even worthy

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that you should come under my roof. But only speak a word. You don't even have to physically be

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there. Only speak a word. And my servant will be healed. What what faith? And then the centurion

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explains why he believes this. He says, for I also am a man. Next verse, please. For I also am a man

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under authority, having soldiers under me. The centurion is saying, I'm under the authority of

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Caesar. And I've been given authority. And I have soldiers under me. And I say to this one, go.

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And he goes. And to another come. And he comes. And to my servant, do this. And he does it. Now,

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the centurion is saying, I recognize how this thing works. I'm under the authority of Caesar. And

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because I'm under this authority, I can command soldiers. And if I say go left, they go left. If I

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say go right, they go right. And I recognize you, Jesus, you're under the authority of God.

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So you don't even have to physically come. But only speak the word. If you command my servant to

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be healed, who's back at home paralyzed, he'll be healed. Amen. And that's why Jesus now in the

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next verse compliments his faith. But let me just say that that same authority Jesus has given you.

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Oh, man, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Oh, I hope I'm not talking to a bunch of

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quiet Christians because when you're quiet, you're going to be slowly dying. If you're not speaking,

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you're not creating. If you're not speaking, you're not releasing faith. This is not some new

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ageism. Faith is one half in your heart and one half in your mouth. Man, I feel like I had a

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wall compared to the first service. How do we get saved? Do we get saved in silence? No, we speak

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out. If you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50 percent in your

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heart. But if it's locked up in your heart, it does you know good. It has to be released when you

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open your mouth. Hallelujah. When Jesus heard it, when he heard the centurion understanding these

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deep spiritual concepts and he's even a Gentile and he's saying, I get how this works and there's

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commanding power in our mouth. I know it because I'm a captain of a hundred. That's what centurion

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means. And I see that your God's captain and you can speak and it'll be done. When Jesus heard

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it, he marveled and said to those who follow assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith,

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not even in Israel. And I say to you that many will come from east and west. He's prophesying

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about us Gentiles, non Jews from all over the world and sit down with Abraham. Isaac can

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Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom, not the kingdom of heaven, but the

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sons of the kingdom was a Jewish term for the Israelites. But the sons of the kingdom, those

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who won't believe, of course many did believe and all the original Christians were Jewish. But the

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sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of

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teeth. And surely there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. And just as Satan is a real being,

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not just a concept, hell is a real place. Jesus spoke of it often. He spoke about heaven twice

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as much as he did about hell. But he warned people about hell. And I didn't even get into this

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in there because this isn't even having anything to do with my points. I'm just breaking down this

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passage. But somebody here needs to hear this. Jesus didn't die on the cross to just give you a

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better life. Definitely didn't die to give you religion, didn't die to give you church service

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on Sundays. He died to take away your sins. That by believing in him through faith in him, your sins

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can be completely taken away and you would escape hell because sin must be punished. All sin must

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be punished. Jesus took that punishment on himself if you receive that. If you don't, then it's

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eternal punishment because the wages of sin is death. Somebody, if we don't warn people, we do

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them a great disservice. I'm not here for my health, amen? I'm not, I'm not pasturing because I

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had nothing else to do. I got saved. I got delivered. My sins were forgiven. And the reason I got

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into this, of course, the call of God, but I was excited was I want to share this with others

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because they're dying all around me. And we got to pull them out. Amen. And we got a lifeline.

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God forbid that we keep the truth to ourselves. Paul said, whoa, whoa, if I don't, whoa, a calamity.

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What an utter calamity it would be if I don't preach the gospel.

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Then Jesus, verse 13, really getting to my point now, then Jesus said to the centurion,

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go your way. And this is what's for us this morning. And as you have believed, so let it be done

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for you. As you have believed, as you believe, that's how it's going to be done for you.

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In proportion to your faith, that's how your life will go. In accordance with what you believe

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about God, his character, his nature, who he is, that's how it'll be for you.

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So I want to ask you an important question this morning. What are you believing?

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What are you believing about you right now and where you are in life?

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God's attitude towards you. God's plan for you. See if you're under that hammer of the enemy

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because there's people right now who are going through it. Your faith is being challenged.

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You never escape. Every single year, at least a dozen times, I have to build myself up and

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rise up in faith. If you think it's easy peasy when you come to a certain, like he's a pastor,

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it must be whoo, he's just, are you kidding? That hammer of life. And when I say life,

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you know what I mean. The journey of life, not the Zoe life of God, of course.

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And when you're under that hammer, it's very loud and it can cause you to forget some

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essential truths about who God is. See, the enemy wants to shake your confidence.

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Everything that I preach, everything is linked to the grace of God, the cross of Jesus,

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why so that you would have this precious thing called confidence before God.

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Sin or a sin consciousness makes cowards out of men. When you're conscious of sin,

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you'll be a coward. The very first thing that Adam did once he sinned was what? He ran behind

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the bushes, yeah, and hit himself. And it was the first time we hear that word fear. I was afraid,

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afraid of God because I was now aware of my nakedness. But when you're righteousness conscious,

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when you're aware that you're forgiven, that when God looks at you, he doesn't see one

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speck of sin in you, that there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ,

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you'll have a roar, you'll have a confidence, you'll have a boldness.

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And if you're going through it, I get it. And it's okay to admit, it's a challenge right now.

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I know God is good, but whoo.

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You're like that man in the Bible, Lord, I believe, helped out my numb belief.

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But in your heart of hearts, again, I ask you, what do you believe?

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Because in accordance with what you believe, that's what you're going to get. Jesus said so himself.

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In fact, I just want to show you just in the next chapter, chapter 9, verse 27,

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I want you to see that this was a common theme with Jesus.

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This idea that in accordance to your faith is common. When Jesus departed from their two blind men

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followed him crying out and saying, son of David have mercy on us. And when he had come into the house,

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the blind men came to him and Jesus said to them, do you believe that I'm able to do this?

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And they said to him, yes, Lord. Then he touched their eyes saying, according to your faith,

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led it be to you. Once again, do you see it? He's letting you know again.

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In proportion to your faith and in accordance with what you believe, this is why it's so important

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to know him. To really know him and the only way you can know him is through the word.

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Smith Wigglesworth famously said, I cannot know God through what I feel about him. I cannot know him

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through my emotions. I cannot know him through the opinions of others. Everybody's got an opinion,

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everybody's got an idea where New York City, to some people, God is a tree, is a hanging crystal,

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an energy force. We used to have a rule in our home groups. I'm hoping it's still in force,

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but it was just that when I used to do the teaching rather than Pastor Moe, it was just because I used to

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be a part of every life group. And there's always someone who says, well, how were they worded? It was

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like, well, I think, and again, we all have our thoughts and opinions, but let's replace, I think,

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with the Bible says. You can give me your thoughts on what you think, but the foundation has to be

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the word. The plumb line for everything we do, the measuring stick has to be the word of God.

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Always it was this way, but now when people are trying to recreate God in their own image and

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everything is so flimsy and emotional and I feel and however I feel, well, that's my truth. No,

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it's not. There's no such thing as my truth. There is the truth, the Bible truth. Amen.

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I didn't get saved because I was living according to my truth. My truth was sending me straight to

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hell. I was confused and messed up, but God's word is infallible forever settled in the heavens.

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Oh, and let God be true and every man a liar. Hallelujah. Second Timothy 112.

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Oh, glory to God. Paul, for this reason, I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not a shame

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for I know whom I have believed. I know whom I have believed and I'm persuaded that he is able to

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keep what I have committed to him until that day. That's what I want you to be able to shout out.

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I know whom I have believed. Once again, that's why we're preaching Christ and Christ crucified.

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Why we're preaching the glories of the new covenant. So you know him. So you know what belongs to you.

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Forgiveness of sins is yours. Healing is yours. Blessedness is yours. Victory is yours. And then when

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that hammer comes, there needs to be an adequate response. See, for too many, when the hammer comes,

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they just go, oh, what mean is this? And then the hammer doesn't go away and the response is all.

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And Satan comes and whispers, God, God, it's God doing it, testing you, growing you, is heaven so bankrupt

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that it must rely on the tools and resources of hell to mature the saints. You know how God

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matures me through his word. Amen. Not through unleashing the devil on me. Amen. So many people are

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going through hell and go, well, maybe God, no, you're supposed to resist that. Otherwise, we're

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just confused. And then when hell comes on my life, I go, Lord, send more. Please mature me,

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grow me. Lord, I really want to go high in you. And why don't you just kill me, Lord, then I

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can't get any higher. I'll just be right with you in heaven. There's got to be a cry out of our heart

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of what belongs to us and what doesn't belong to us. Sickness, disease does not belong to you.

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Confusion does not belong to you. Depression does not belong to you. Defeat does not belong to you.

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Amen. Luck does not belong to you. Hallelujah. And so it must be rejected.

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Not passively accepted. And that means that you are actually doing some talking. Hallelujah.

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I really feel like the Lord prepped me almost like I was going to be an evangelist in my own church.

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I saw it's like going with a hot poker and there's some people and I get my heart goes out

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there and the one side you're going through it. But also I see something you don't see in the spirit.

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You're actually so close to victory. You just don't know it because of the hammer. It's loud but you

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just keep going. Hallelujah. I go through stuff. I end up feeling when the word of the Lord is

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I feel recklessly transparent. This morning, this morning, and my wife is going to get a little bit nervous

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maybe. I don't know. This morning you saw, son, we pulled out of our driveway and the Holy Spirit hit the

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car and I started laughing and weeping and now listen. This is challenging for me to say but

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it's going to bless some people a week before Guatemala. Do you remember I had missed some services in

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January? I was hit. You say with what? Something physical. We're looking into it. I don't want to

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get into it. I believe it's related to gut health and whatever and it hit me and I mean the

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lethargy that was one service where I couldn't make it. Bonnie Andrews was preaching I couldn't

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make it through the second service. I was hit. This is a week before Guatemala. So we're talking about

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the first either last week of January or first week of February and so it's Saturday and we're

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going for a walk. I needed to get out of the house and move and we're going for a walk and this

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was my reality in that moment. I turned to Emily and I said you know because we have a home in the

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Poconos. I said we can just you know sell everything we have and live in the home in the Poconos

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and this was you're going to laugh. It's funny now saying it but this was my reality. I said

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and there's because I don't want to just sit in the Poconos. I want to be active. Minister to

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people. I said I can get a job at the Walmart Super Center. No but I meant it. I actually said it.

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Is it how bad did you have to know? It was like a spell and I said you thank you and I said you

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know nothing not for the money but at least then I'm not I can't be sitting at home collecting dust

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at least then I said it I said it to another pastor friend you know and he goes why Walmart's

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like do boat rentals or something and I'm like no no no no no that's this is what I said I said

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first of all that seasonal secondable that's too complicated. My mind was fried. I said no I

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Walmart because I could just stand there at the register smile bless people talk maybe engage

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but as to be real simple then we had a great oh then we now I remember we came here the next day

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and the Holy Spirit came in that was a service way came in here and you my wife started getting

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touched it was like one of the biggest touches ever she gets she gets touched internally I get

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touched externally but this time she got touched externally she's getting to and now so I was

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already getting blessed now I'm looking at her she's losing and she's crying I'm gonna even more

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blessed and it was like it was like something just got snatched right off of me just taking away just

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snatched and then that Wednesday we went to Guatemala and those of you who weren't Guatemala I was

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right as rain and past James noticed I shared this with the staff I said I can't believe that a few

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days ago I had the Walmart dream like how ridiculous is that I mean it's funny now but an Emily's face

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when I shared it with her because remember she's she's normal I'm going through it and I'm walking

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where then I say you know this is our future hun and you look at me and you're so good and what

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you've endured hanging around me thank you we're in the trenches and you get some of that

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when I wonder if in heaven they'll have awards like we have you know for our volunteers and like

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Gabriel will go and the long suffering award goes to Emily Janssen come on up the perseverance long

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suffering cross the finish line award goes to today God is good you know here's the thing

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and and right now it's like whatever I was going through that month of January we have in reverse

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the the blessings and I've said this before I feel like I feel like it's going to be a theme in my life

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quitting is a permanent solution to a temporary problem please remember that the devil is trying

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to get you to quit to tap out to move on to the next to just change things and

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and you got to just keep going with the Lord holding his hand when you're going through it it feels

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like it's going to be forever it will not be forever the sun come up tomorrow tomorrow it'll

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be a brighter day tomorrow hey man hallelujah so so today march the 17 is not just same Patrick's day

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for the one Irish person if any Irish people here this is are you okay Emily acts like she's

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100% Irish we're gonna get a 23 in me she just I want to she just doesn't trust the government

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enough to send her DNA by mail but I'm really I'm curious because she's not but she's excited I'm

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taking her to Dublin this summer for a few days but it's not just St Patrick's day today's the 20

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second birthday today march the 17th of city light church amen

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and I was reminiscing with the Lord and I was reminded about how when we began

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full of faith and also so full of silliness and presumption and goofiness

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I was 26 years old I was so ignorant I didn't even know what I didn't know yet

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I had preached six or seven times maximum in my life before I launched city light church

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half of those times were in the children's church and you guys are enduring two services in a row

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sitting in the same place you guys and the second long-suffering award goes to Andy and Whitley

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no you guys they sent me their mother was the children's pastor at the church where I had preached

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to the kids and they had the cassette of me from when I was 22 and 23 years old preaching and they

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blessed me with that cassette and we're so kind they also blessed me with a cassette player because

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who has one of those anymore so I could play it half the time was preaching to kids the other half

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was in a maximum security prison which it's not wow it's a captive audience it was very nice no

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one was going anywhere I had not I just could preach right but I preached like six seven times in

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my life maximum a no more than ten for sure and I'm launching a church and I have no money

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and I'm living back with my parents in the little Queens apartment and I rented a hotel ballroom

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and we started with a hundred people and saw a phenomenon called negative church growth

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where we started March the 17th and by August I'm preaching to three people

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and I'm still preaching actually actually stood up on the chairs like I was I was half upset half

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in faith that there was only three people so I got up in the chairs and I'm preaching like there's

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a thousand people and it's three people like this looking at me and so it's not it's not even a

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failed church it's a badly attended life group you know that's what I was pastoring a poorly

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attended whole house group and I went for a jog the next day like a prayer jog

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and I so I've been carrying the vision of city light church for ten years from when I got saved

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when I was 16 to 26 preparing praying fasting only to have what appeared to be the spectacular

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failure and I go for this prayer jog and in the middle of the jog I hear I'm the God of the turn

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around I'm the God of the turn around I will turn this thing around and the next Sunday I preach

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that message on the God of the turn around from 2nd Kings chapter 6 about how God turned the entire

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situation in this besieged city of Samaria that was struck by famine within 24 hours he turned it

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around completely only for me it wasn't 24 hours I like the biblical miracles that take 24 hours

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except for me I was being slow-basted and so he turned it or the first thing he told us was get

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out of midtown Manhattan there's nobody who lives there so I'm here with the he's to get him to

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a neighborhood and I'm a New Yorker I shouldn't own that but for it's just where the hotels were

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and where do you you're gonna start in a hotel ballroom you can't graduate right away to the

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Greek community center no no no that's gonna take time hotel ballroom he says go into the east

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village that's a real neighborhood people actually live there it's not just offices surrounding you

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and so some of you remember our seventh street location it was 20 feet wide by 80 feet long 20 feet

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about from where the pulpit is to that wall by 80 feet long we would jam 100 people in there when

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we actually got to 100 people but in the beginning I'm ministering now to 20 25 people and I'm

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living there window lists I live there for five and a half years and I just remember this very

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clearly as I was reminiscing with the Lord about her 22nd birthday laying in my bed people staying

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away by the thousands and I'm looking at the ceiling and I'm just pondering my life the church

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is broke I'm broke nobody even know you know what it feels like nobody even knows you exist nobody

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even knows I would preach on the subways and this interest was palpable nobody cares that you

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exist now you know New York City everybody's blowing a trumpet and clanging a symbol and making

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lots of noise nobody cares anymore I felt I mean I actually felt like Moses when he was like

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Lord have you brought us out here that we should die that's what I thought Lord did you bring

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and and I had to thought I just ruined my life you know I got good grades my parents wanted me

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to be a doctor I'm the one who had the bright idea of going into ministry that freaked them out

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I had to have my way and what have I done here now I'm just gonna like slowly

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fade away into nothingness no impact for the Lord no impact for the kingdom and the chairs were out

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because remember I'm living in the church sometimes I put the chairs away all against the wall

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and sometimes probably I was too depressed too and the chairs were out and now I'm pacing and I'm

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looking at all the empty chairs this isn't probably sometime in the middle of the week I'm alone

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all the empty chairs and the empty chairs are like mocking me we're empty and we're gonna stay empty

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and something from within me hint it was the Holy Spirit began to churn have you ever been at a place

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where you know that you stand at a fork in the road that's the place where Satan wants you to keep

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quiet to shut up and just go gently and fade into that good night but something from within me

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roared and I began to prophesy to the chairs prophesying isn't only fourth telling it's

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foretelling it or not only foretelling it's foretelling I'm commanding these things to be and I

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began to speak to the chairs and say be filled be filled I command people from the north south east

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and the west come to city light church come and hear the gospel may your eyes be opened may your

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heart be softened you will come and you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit hallelujah you are right

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there at the gate I'm trying to provoke you this morning God is not cheap he's not bad he doesn't

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have mixed feelings about you he is good he's the God of victory hallelujah hallelujah

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and I want you to know him but you can only know him through his word that way you have confidence

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and when you approach him so I'm gonna give you just real quick three steps real quick list

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but it's this is like if if somebody came to me and said listen I need a miracle

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tell me what do I need to do I need I need I need divine intervention yesterday

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this is what I would tell them number one first John 514

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here's a key to prayer

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now this is the confidence remember this is what we're looking for we got to be confident

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it's the first thing let me just say this it's the first thing that I noticed when I first got saved

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with the young Christians there were around me when they talked to God they talked to him as though

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he were a friend because he is me even just thinking about God in an unsaid state I would push him out

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of my mind because I was terrified I was afraid but they had this confidence not a callous familiarity

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but they had a confidence in believing that they were loved and that they were heard we need

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the confidence this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to

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his will he hears us now this verse really trips some people up depending on their angle their lens

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it either trips them up or greatly empowers them because if you read that part if we ask anything

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according to his will and your attitude is especially when you're under the hammer well the will

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of God who can know it who can fathom his ways his mysteries are beyond comprehension maybe what

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I'm going through is just something in his great plan meanwhile you're being beaten to a pulp

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that's not the plan of God it wasn't a plan of God that I be

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wistfully thinking about a job at the super center but life happens stuff happens

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people you know and I've got some stuff like this before and people would say you know it's demonic

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yeah I let it could be but I'm telling you it wasn't you know how I know because demons are

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not afraid of the gym I would go to the gym and that emotion would completely fade

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it was something happening internally but the moment I would break a sweat and the endorphins

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would be released that whole yucky thing we just fade that's just a ps for someone just saying

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to some people everything's a demon they're so devil conscious sure the devil can come in and

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press in but not everything is sometimes we just need to change our lifestyle

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so we have to know his will how do we know his will because we want to be confident when we pray

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the word of God so I want you to think of one thing that you need from the Lord

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one area is a physical healing is it financial help are you lonely and find scriptures

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that cover your need now this is what breaks my heart right now it's knowing that not everybody's

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going to take this advice almost everybody right now is nodding their heads and going this sounds

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really good but you're going to just go on and have a regular Monday through Saturday and come

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back here on Sunday and I've done nothing please don't let that be you please this actually requires

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you doing a little arts and crafts project summer camp at city light church you're going to find

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scriptures that cover your need if it's finances you're going to look up scriptures on prosperity

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there's hundreds of them and find the ones that that bring you joy find the ones that spark you

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and you're going to write them down or type them in and print them out and you're going to break out

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the scissors and the Scotch tape and you're going to cut them up and you're going to decorate

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you're going to decorate your bathroom mirror or your kitchen cabinet or something that your

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face is in front of a lot and you're going to get this wholly incorruptible powerful word of

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God through your eye gate and it's going to go down in your spirit where faith is produced faith

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doesn't come from encouragement faith doesn't come from a good song faith according to the Bible

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comes by hearing and hearing the word of God one way you get the word of God in you your spirit

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produces this substance called faith and faith is the invisible hand that grows into heaven and

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brings down what you need here to earth hallelujah hallelujah I'm not preaching theory I had 16

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credit cards then up to my eyeballs in debt and this is what I did I didn't wish that it would go

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away there was some practical things let me not be I had to I mean I had to stop spending more than

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I made that was good first step but at first yeah I mean though you got to do the practical stuff

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but even just to activate the discipline and the strength to do the practical stuff I got the

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scriptures out and whatever you're going through get the scriptures out so that they're feeding

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you and so that you know the will of God do not ever be going around going well you know what's

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the will of God his word is his will and you know him and know his character and his nature and his

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will through his word hallelujah step number two mark 1124

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Jesus said this so it's true and he said therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you

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pray believe that you receive them and you will have them this is your foundation for the prayer

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of petition asking God for something when are you supposed to believe that you have it when you get

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it when you pray when you ask you said but it's not there yet I know but he said it is as far as

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God's concerned it's as good as done here's something I've practiced for many years that actually the

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Lord himself taught me back in college when I was wrestling with him there's so many more resources

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available now than just even in the 90s I wanted to learn how to pray effectively you know what

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pray effectively means doesn't mean pray pretty it means pray and get results I want to not just be

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I want to see stuff happen when I pray and I'm wrestling with the Lord Lord teach me to pray I'm

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studying the scriptures and I remember one of the first times he really spoke to me in my heart

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and he said you're doing too much talking when you ask me for things and to this day I'm convinced

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that there is too much yacking you know why we talk so much because we don't really believe he's

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hurt us and that it's done and we're trying to pay him with our words and he got me to a place where

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he said 10 seconds tell me what you need in 102 sentences there is no need for oh Lord because you

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know how I feel and Lord you know I tried and just and you know the most frequent word God here is

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it's just oh I just I just Lord we just you don't know that you've never been to a prayer meeting huh

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we just say pastor you only pray for 10 seconds like only 10 seconds a day no I talk to the Lord

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all the time I have breakfast with him we have breakfast with him I go for walks with him I drive

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my car with him fine I'll say it I shower with him he's with me all the time I'm always talking

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I'm a sweet fellowship with him but when it comes when you need something make it succinct make it

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quick and release your faith and this isn't just my opinion this is something that Jesus himself

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addressed Matthew 6.7 this by the way has been a theme he's taught me this years ago and now I'm

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running into pastors got it was all last week they're saying the same thing and that's how I

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know there's a confirmation they're all saying you know the Lord is just bringing us back to

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we just forgot it's so easy to forget an essential truth and then you go off into emotionalism

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and anxiety does all weird things and you feel like you got a wrestle with God and talk to him but when

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it comes to his will you don't there's no convincing it's settled in heaven and again his word is

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as well I know that he wants me to have the victory you say where everywhere he's not the God of

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defeat he's the God of victory that's why we named our son Victor as a constant reminder it's

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true it was a accident he's the God of victory this is so important that Jesus actually brought it up

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when teaching people to pray and when you pray do not use vain repetitions I did you just think

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like half the prayer meetings you've attended in your life as the heathen do why do they use

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all these repetitions for they think that they will be heard for their many words a lot of the

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problem in the prayer of petition is too many words betray that you don't really believe he's hearing

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you you're talking so much because you don't believe that one sentence you can have such an

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intimacy with the Lord that you and you don't have to keep repeating it that he actually heard you

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and heaven is responding but Jesus paid a price with his holy blood that you would have that intimacy

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and his ear is bent down low and he hears you you won't distract him when you bring up your problem

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he's not going oh I forgot about you you're kidding you're going through that he's with you the

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whole time you've got to come to him with faith that's based on his word and then succinctly

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asked him what do you want remember this was with Jesus asked people all the time what do you want

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he went up to a man who was lame the man by the pool of Bethesda it says he was lame for 38 years

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and he said what do you want me to do for you

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and he's like well Jesus I don't have a headache you know I've been

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unable to walk for 38 years why why do you ask because I want you to tell me I want you to

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specifically tell me what do you want me to do for you and he's asking you that what do you want

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me to do for you tell him in one sentence two sentences release your faith which then leads us to

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number three and that's in Philippians 4.6 this is the natural flow if you actually believe

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that he's heard you and that's praise and thanksgiving be anxious for nothing but in everything by

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prayer and supplication with thanksgiving with thanksgiving see if you really believe that he's heard

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you and he's responding you're naturally going to be grateful aren't you then how come so many

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times when we finish our prayer we're just as depressed as when we started it that same span in

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college when God was teaching me the prayer was going through something I was aware of my countenance

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and it was you know the poop face and I went down I went down I'm an ease to pray and I poured out my

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heart and I asked right and I got up from I said in Jesus name amen after a couple of minutes and I

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got up and the Lord froze me and I still had the same poop face and he said you don't believe that

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I'm going to do anything that you just asked me your countenance is proof if you really believed

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you would now be grateful and I went Lord thank you

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Lord thank you thank you you're moving you heard me you're faithful to your word

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hallelujah hallelujah I praise you recover the lost art of praise praise is the language of heaven

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God no speak complaining God no speak whiny God speak praise amen praise him so much after you

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pray that you all praise that when it finally manifests you're like hey man let's not be like

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the people who were praying for Peter's release in the book of Acts they're praying for Peter's

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release Peter comes to them and they're like now that must be his angel hallelujah worship team come

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on up God he's moving in our church he's moving in your life you're going to be okay hallelujah

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and you're not just going to survive you're going to thrive hallelujah hallelujah

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we have a good good God I want you to just close your eyes for a minute

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and just ask the Lord what he wants you to believe him for and my prayers you would start that

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arts and crafts project tonight decorate with scripture verses that'll get inside your spirit

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that'll produce faith that'll make your prayers powerful and give you something to praise him about

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hallelujah Lord Jesus speak your servants are listening hallelujah hallelujah

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some of you don't have to pray long the Goliath has been looking at you waving at you taunting you

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you know exactly what you need let me tell you that uncircumcised Philistine is going to fall

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just like the lion and the bear hallelujah this is the city light church podcast

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