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Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,

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I am the Lord your God who teaches you to profit.

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He leads you. He will give you a word.

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He will whisper into your spirit.

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He's leading you to a place of plenty, a place of prosperity.

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In the Psalms, they said, Lord, you have brought us into a wealthy place.

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He didn't say I'm the God of non-profit.

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He said, I'm the God that will cause you to profit, to increase.

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That's where he's leading you to.

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Welcome to the CityLight Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com

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that's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit

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is already working in our hearts and minds.

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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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Oh, welcome to those of you joining us online.

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Nice to have you with us.

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I hope you're in another state.

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As many of you are.

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For some reason, you couldn't come.

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You made it home from work at 10 a.m. or something.

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But I know those of you joining us online, it wasn't the rain that kept you away.

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Luke chapter one.

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Starting in verse 26, typically a Christmas passage.

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But it has nothing to do with Christmas for our purposes here this morning.

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Now in the six month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

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to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David,

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and the virgin's name was Mary.

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And having come in, the angel said to her, rejoice,

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highly favored one.

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The Lord is with you.

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Blessed are you among women.

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But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and considered what manner of greeting this was.

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Then the angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

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And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth the sun, and shall call His name Jesus.

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He will be great, and will be called the son of the highest, and the Lord God will give him

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the throne of his father, David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever,

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and of his kingdom there will be no end.

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And then Mary said to the angel, how can this be since I do not know a man?

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How am I going to have a divine child when I can't even have a natural child?

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I've never been physically intimate.

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And the angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you,

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and the power of the highest will overshadow you, therefore also that holy one who is to be born

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will be called the son of God.

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Now indeed Elizabeth, your relative, that's John the Baptist, mom,

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has also conceived the son in her old age, and this is now the sixth month for her who was called

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Baron. For with God, nothing will be impossible. Say that with me, for with God,

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nothing will be impossible. There are a few core passages in the Bible that have forever marked me

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and shaped the way I relate to the Lord, the way I go about living life, really the way I go about

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pastoring, and this would be one of those passages, specifically this verse right here.

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For with God, nothing will be impossible.

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In the Greek, that word for nothing is Rayma, which means word or spoken word.

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And let me also just say this, whenever you hear something and it sounds like it's a departure

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from a traditional way of it being taught, or it's the first time you're hearing or you wonder,

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you're skeptical. It's good to be skeptical. Just don't be cynical, and there is a difference.

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God doesn't mind skeptics. That just means you've been deceived a few times, you've learned some

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lessons and now you want to make sure that you're following the truth. There's a group called the

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Bereans in the book of Acts, and they listen to the apostles, and then it says they went home and

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searched the scriptures themselves to make sure that those things, the apostles preached were in

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there, whether these things were so, the Bible says. So it's okay to be skeptical, cynical, you've

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gone too far, the Pharisees were cynical, those religious leaders were cynical, and Jesus didn't even

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try to help or teach into or convert cynics. Skeptics good, cynics bad. So everybody should be

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somewhat skeptical. And what I'm about to share with you right now, I encourage you to go and ask,

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chat, ask, rock, dive into the Greek yourself. I don't know if any of you still Google. I certainly

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don't. What's Google? You know, I took my son to a movie. Fantastic four. And right before the

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movie, Google had a commercial before the movie, and I'm like, ah, you know, your time is up.

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That's why for the first time, all these years, you never advertised. Now remember that? I was like,

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look, they're on their way out. They have to, they have to go and now advertise their services,

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because no one's Googling. But put it in, and you'll find this. You'll find that that word for

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thing is reima, which means spoken word, because the Greeks had such an understanding of the power

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of words. And they believed words become things, that the word for thing is the word word. Here's

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a better rendition of that verse, a paraphrase, or really a more accurate translation.

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For no word, reima. Get familiar with that word, reima. It means spoken word. For no spoken word,

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no reima from God shall be without power. That's what this means. I know we love this verse in

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English. It's a good verse in English. There have been a whole songs. Oh, things are possible.

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Based off this verse, dozens of songs based off of this were verse. But it'll really bless you

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when you understand that what the Holy Scriptures are communicating here, what Gabriel,

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Gabriel, the messenger of God himself is saying is no spoken word from God, no word of the Lord

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will be impossible for him to perform. In other words, God's word is so pregnant. And as soon as he

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speaks it, it contains the power to fulfill that thing that he's promising to you. Mary has a

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legitimate question. Wow. Gabriel comes in. He doesn't like, you know, butter her up or anything.

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He doesn't do any small talk. He just goes right for it. You're blessed, you're highly favored.

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And you've heard about the Messiah. He's coming through you. How are these things going to be?

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This is hard to bear for with God. I know it's hard for you to bear, but no word of his will be

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impossible to perform. I'll read it one more time exactly as it comes. For no word from God,

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she'll be without power. This means that whenever God speaks, his word is self-fulfilling.

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He himself supplies the power to perform it. Why is it so important? This is so important because

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it means that one of the most important things we as believers can do is get a word from God.

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When you get a word from God, you can take it to the bank. When you get a word from God,

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you're unstoppable. When you have a word, not just from the scriptures, but a spoken word directly

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from you, which is always backed up and supported by the scriptures, in other words, a spoken word

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from the Lord can never contradict what's already in his written word. Amen. Somebody said,

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God spoke to me and they say something completely unbiblical. Rest assured God didn't speak to them,

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but this should make us value the word of God, prize the word of God, spoken to us, and hungry

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to hear from God. I can do anything if I just have a word from the Lord about it. I can go through

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anything as long as I'm hearing from heaven. The loneliest feeling as a Christian is going through

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something and you feel like there's silence. In fact, if you read the scriptures in the Old Testament,

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thank God this isn't in the New Testament, in the Old Testament, when it describes Israel in a

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cast-off or depressed state, it says, and the word of the Lord was scarce in those days. So,

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scarce word of the Lord equals depression, equals a right. Rich word of the Lord equals a prosperous

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life. So, 2021, for example, was a very, very rough year for me personally because it was a rough

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year for the church. We had just gone through 2020 and if you're not from New York City, you know,

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when I share with other friends from around the country, they really don't know what I'm talking

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about. They didn't know how bad it was here, but if you were in California or New York in 2020,

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some of you are looking at me like you still don't remember how bad it was. It's really funny

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about 2020 and COVID. It's like people have PTSD and they don't even want to think about it. They

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don't want to talk about it. Maybe they debated so much back then, they don't even want to bring it up.

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Maybe they're embarrassed at how they behaved. And they just, they wish you would go away. Yo,

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2020 was crazy. People lost their minds. Do you remember people walking around with purple gloves

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up to their elbows and N95 masks and, you know, if you're six feet away, you're okay, but if you're

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five feet away, I respect my boundaries. Step, it was nuts. We went from living a normal life to

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all of a sudden you can't come into church. That's when I realized we have to own our own building

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so that nobody could ever block us from having church again. And so the first thing that happened

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in 2020, we used to have four locations. Manhattan, East Village, Manhattan, Midtown,

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Brooklyn Williamsburg, and the Astoria here, location, six weekend services.

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COVID comes the first location to immediately get hit was the Manhattan location. You know why?

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Because the average lifespan, this is a fact, the average lifespan of a man hat night is three to

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five years. And don't think of your friend who lives on Avenue C or your grandma and somewhere where

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she's been, your average lifespan of a man hat night is they graduate college, they come to Manhattan,

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they get a job, three to five years they stay, make good money, then go buy a house in Texas.

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And so our phones start ringing off the hook, emails start coming in, all of our leaders,

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all of these precious people, they say, look, this was already by April and May. The moment they

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realized it wasn't going to be quote unquote two weeks to slow the spread. Remember that March 13th,

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March 13th, two weeks to slow the spread. After two weeks, it wasn't two weeks. We realized this

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is going on, they'll break a dawn, this is indefinitely. We start getting phone calls and emails saying,

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look, we're leaving, especially anybody with kids or those who were married, we're leaving and

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guess where they were going to, four main states, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Texas.

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So we lost a lot of people and we're realizing, wow, our church may never ever look the same.

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Then right around May, I started to kind of wake up a little bit going, huh,

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this really seems like a lot of government overreach and there really seems to be a lot,

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a lot to do about a virus that has a less than 1% mortality rate. I feel like it's 2020 the way

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people are quiet and looking at it. All right. First service I had doctors here nodding right at me

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agreeing with me. Now we had a internet scientist still looking at me sideways. All right, let me put it

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another way. If we did nothing, this is nothing to do with my message, but I like it if you're

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perturbed maybe because you can't be so deceived in one area of your life and then be honest in

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another area. Like if you're still in the matrix, if you're still believing everything you hear on

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the TV and you're trusting big daddy government and you're in a dangerous spot. You got to wake up.

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If we did nothing back in 2020, we would have still had the same exact mortality rate. If we did

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nothing, how can you remember? Well, good thing we have a control group and the control group is

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called the country of Sweden and they did nothing and they lost less than 1%. We did everything.

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Business is destroyed. Church is decimated. People lost their jobs. People went nuts. We had people

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in our church who lost their mind, single people who didn't couldn't leave their house. They could,

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but in their minds, they couldn't leave their house for I would call them in September and there

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was still Chlorox wiping their groceries. They lost their minds. They did all that and what do we

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get? Still less than 1% mortality. It's the same thing, but people don't want to admit, wow, I live

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like a fool all those months for nothing. They can't do that. Well, no, you know, we all had to do

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our part and love our neighbor and sorry, you did nothing. You know how I know? How any doctor

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who's honest, you say, well, I have my, you have your doctors. Let me tell you what my doctors say.

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Sorry, my doctors weren't given the whole backing of the media empire. They paraded around their

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doctors. An airborne respiratory virus, a corona, airborne respiratory, there's been others.

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You cannot mitigate it. You cannot manage it. The only way you could have mitigated is you put

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every single person in a bubble, hermetically sealed for a month. We couldn't do that. Like in space,

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you know, just cry gently, freeze everybody until the virus dies and then bring them back.

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So you could not manage it. You'd remember all of the fuss in trying to manage it.

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I didn't do this in the first service, but you asked for it. I love you. You asked for it.

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So,

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watch this. I'm talking about how bad it was in 21. I'm going to lose 50 people.

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So I start challenging the COVID narrative. You know, we opened up. We were the first church

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and you're excited to open up and they let us open. But with 25, we could only be a 25% capacity.

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And I said, look, we're not, I'm preaching. I'm not doing math every Sunday morning.

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25 could just open it up and whoever wants to come come. And then people came.

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Some people came. We haven't seen each other for months. I said, hey, how are you doing?

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Given them the pastoral side hug, you know, hey, how are you doing?

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Ah, people, you remember the people that we know for years, recoil. Like the pastures lava.

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The pastures lava. Ah, don't come near me.

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So, fine, you don't want to be side hugged. That's cool.

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But then they started pushing the vaccines. The vaccine. You got to get a Vax.

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If you were a big pro-vaxxer, like really big, I hope you got all eight boosters and stand by your

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convictions. I'm kidding. Relax. It's touchy still. See? See how sensitive it is still?

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I thought we could laugh about it. Now it's 2025. No, still not funny, huh?

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Well, imagine how unfunny it was back in 2020.

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And I, my wife and I, we just made a decision. We just, look, this new vaccine has been around

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all of 15 minutes. We just, we just don't want it. I don't feel like it. My body, my choice.

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Also, I had COVID. So now I'm full, full of antibodies, so I don't need a Vax.

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Especially your Vax that doesn't work.

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The only vaccine you got to get every year and you can still get the disease you're vaccinated for.

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So, we just said, and we, I just said, look, if anybody else doesn't want to get, because there

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was a bunch of people, they didn't want to be the guinea pig. I said, we'll provide a religious

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exemption. And if you're a place of employment, it receives a great, not every place did,

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but some colleges and some places did. And when I announced that, people went nuts.

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You know, that's how crazy it was. Like, if that's what I want to do, and you don't like it,

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then don't do it. But why get mad at me then? I know why, because the media brainwashed you and

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told you I was a grandma killer. That's why. I was the enemy. I was in loving my neighbor,

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the way they used the language, even pastors manipulating people into the Blasio up there.

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You all remember the Blasio with the burger and fries? He goes, going to give you a free burger

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and fries from Shake Shack, I think it was, if you got vaccinated. Sell your soul. I mean,

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for, you know, and then you wonder, what it would be like under the beast system and an anti-Christ

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number and Christian, I'll never take the mark of the beast. Wait, fries and a burger? Whoa,

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sounds good. So, I had people sitting right here in the second row glaring at me.

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And then we lost even more people. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you. I'm just having a thought here. Why, why even though, you know, I could have said this

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so much more diplomatically and not to potentially hurt others. And I don't, I don't do it because I

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don't like you. I just think it's actually healthy if I do hurt you a little. Because I'm going to

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work you one way or another sooner or later. That's just how it goes. I've learned, been doing this

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quite a while. And the ones who scare me the most, I'm not even preaching them, sharing random thoughts.

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But over 23 years, the ones who scare me the most are the ones who be lying towards me after

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service and tell me how much they love me. Great as sermon. I love how you preach. I love, where's

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this church been all my life? Because usually within 30 days they're gone. They love me, but then

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they instantly, I'll say one thing they don't agree with. And then if if you want someone who's

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always going to agree with you, you don't want me to be your pastor. You want you to be your pastor.

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Amen, Victor. But it came with pain. COVID did a number on most churches. Even two years after COVID,

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only had 50% of the people back that they lost. There were 50% 2019 levels. So we were hit.

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And we were hit emotionally. Remember Pastor Moses a rough time. It was just we're looking around and

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it feels like we went to war and it was just like pockets of empty seats, people left. And I needed

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a word from the Lord. And this is what he gave me. It was either in service or during a staff meeting.

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I forget now which one, but I just heard in my spirit, I'm going to prepare a ram in the thicket.

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I'm the God who prepares a ram in the thicket. And instantly I knew that it was calling back to

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Abraham and how he went up into the mountain to sacrifice Isaac, but then he didn't sacrifice Isaac,

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but he still needed a sacrifice. He looked in the thicket and the bush and there was a ram called

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there. And he was so grateful. And that's when we, that's where we get the name where he said,

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the Lord will provide Jehovah Jairah. The Lord will provide. That's what Jehovah Jairah means. The Lord

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will provide. He's the provider. And so in that mess, it was very difficult for me. We had healthy

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people who just sat there all day watching CNN. Remember that death counter? Just imagine what

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that does to the human psyche. If I showed you automobile deaths and a constant counter, you'd never

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step foot in a car. Well, that's what they did with COVID. They just show how many people are dying.

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I know it's terrible. I know we had amnesia. At the end of the day, it was still less than 1%.

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What kind of pandemic? People still call it the pandemic. Look at any historical pandemic. Look

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at a real pandemic like the bubonic plague. Took out 35% of Europe. And I'd be littering people who

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passed from COVID. But was it worth to destruction? Was it worth, there's, there's kids still who

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their math and reading comprehension skills are not up to par because of those devastating couple of

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years? Was it worth it when we would have most likely, I believe completely likely, gotten the same

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result? So the Lord says, I will provide. In other words, don't worry. Don't worry. By the way,

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when you lose that many people, you know, I have seven people on full-time staff.

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Many of them have children. These are thoughts that I get. Lord, are we going to have to downsize

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everything or what's going to happen? What is our future? He said, I will provide. When he said

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that to me, I knew that within that word was the power to fulfill that word. All of a sudden other

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people start coming to take their place. More people start coming from here, from there. Hey,

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how did you hear about this? Hear the craziest stories of how they heard about us. But the Lord

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just came and brought and brought and fulfilled his word. You can do anything that the word of the

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Lord tells you you can. You can go through anything as long as you have the word of the Lord.

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I watch. I'm hungry for you to get a real now word from God. Are you hungry for that? Amen.

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Lord, what will the end of 2025 look like for me? Lord, what is my best 2026 look like?

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And to get a word, a real word from the Lord. I say real word because I know there are people

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I'll get to that in a little bit. Usually they're the most vocal ones. Does anybody have the God

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told me, friend? Yes. You got them, right? Everything is God told me. God told me, God told me,

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I was crossing the street before that I was opening my sock drawer up. There were blue socks, yellow socks,

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God told me where the yellow socks today. Listen, if your life's a mess but you're constantly

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quoting God speaking to you, maybe sit down. Polish, polish your satellite dish because it's not

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receiving the right frequency. You got to do some internal adjustments. Christians are afraid of

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saying it like that, but they need to say it like that. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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I want to show you something from Isaiah.

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Isaiah 48, 17.

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Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the Lord your God who teaches you

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to profit, who leads you, who leads you. He's the good shepherd. He leads you. He will give you a

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word. He will whisper into your spirit. Where is he leading to? You too. He's leading you to a

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place of plenty, a place of prosperity. In the Psalms, they said, Lord, you have brought us into a

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wealthy place. He didn't say I'm the God of non-profit. He said, I'm the God that'll cause you to profit

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to increase. That's where he's leading you to. It's just our responsibility to get hungry and

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desperate enough to get a word from the Lord for our lives because that word you can take to the

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bank. Mary could and that by natural standards was an impossible word to see fulfilled. John 1027.

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My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. If you're hearing right now,

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you don't hear from God. If you're hearing a voice in your head saying you don't hear from God,

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that is not of God. Many Christians, especially those who are just starting out, they feel intimidated,

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they feel spiritually insecure, they feel like, oh, God talks to the select for you to the

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special. He won't talk to me. You need to stop that thought right now and combat it with the word

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of God. The word of God says that God will speak to me. Jesus said, you're my sheep, my sheep,

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hear my voice. He is your father and he delights in speaking to you. He delights in leading you and

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guiding you. And I'll tell you what I don't believe the Lord delights in at all is Christians running

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around all over the country from conference to conference seeking out profits and prophetic people

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asking them, give me a word. What should I do? What's, no, the best words don't come at a conference.

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The best words, I've had good encouraging words. I love it when someone with a prophetic edge speaks

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into my life, but the real life-changing words, they were always in a quiet time. They were

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always the Lord directly to me. Those are the ones that matter. Why should somebody else know more

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about your life and where you're going than you? Under the new covenant, under the old covenant

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that was so, under the new no, because you have the Holy Spirit inside of you. John 1613.

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However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak,

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please shout, speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will shout it. He will speak,

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he will speak. Does God still speak today? He will speak. He will speak and he will tell you things to

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come, so you don't have to be in the dark. So you, yes, you can get a word from the Lord. He

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actually has an idea of where he wants to take you. You may be confused, but he's not. I know where

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he wants to take you into a wealthy place, into a place that will bring you profit and increase

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and success. Yes. Hallelujah. Hebrews 116. I want to give you just some random practicals here.

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Practical thoughts. And I say random because there are no particular order of importance.

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But this is important to get. But without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he who comes

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to God must believe that he is and that he has a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

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Dilligently, seek him means inquire of. Ask him questions. Notice it says he's a rewarder,

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not a subtractor. He's an adder untur. He blesses you when you do what? Ask him questions.

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This is important because I found that the vast, vast majority of times, God will not offer up

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information. You have to ask him. Why? Because asking takes faith. Asking takes humility and asking

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shows submission. So you won't just be going around your own life and doing whatever and God's

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going to interrupt you and speak to you. Does it happen sometimes? Yes. Happen to Moses.

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Happen to Mary. But unless you've got like an international level call on your life that's

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going to shape the calendar for the next 2,000 years, probably he's not going to do that to you.

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You got to go to him because he's a God that must be sought. You have to do the uncomfortable

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thing and actually in prayer, ask God questions. Why do so few people ask God questions? I know

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because you feel silly because you don't get the answer right away. You usually don't get the answer

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right away. So you have to do it by faith. Then later that night ask again. Don't ask in the state

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of anxiousness but ask from just a posture of searching him. Every time you ask what you're saying

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is, Lord, you're my Lord. I'm not carrying my own life in my hands. I don't want what I want. I want

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what you want for me. What should I do? Should I take that job? Look, my wife and I are going to

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Poland. We're ministering in Poland. I wanted to, normally every, in a few weeks, but normally every

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summer I get to go away. Maybe if we had gone away, I wouldn't have wanted to minister in Poland.

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Maybe I was like enough traveling. Usually by the time I get back, if I see one more suitcase,

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you know. But now I could do that. But every time, so every summer we go away to Europe,

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this time when I would just go on kayak to look for flights, I'd just be like, no, no.

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And then again, I'd go, I feel like maybe it's just me. No, the Lord doesn't, Lord doesn't want us

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traveling. And I'm not going to go by myself. I forbid I go to another nation without the Lord. I only

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want to go where he wants me to go. That's the sweet spot. That's the blessed spot. Hallelujah.

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So ask those burning questions that you text people about that torment you. There's people who can

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be tormented, but they'll never actually vocalize the question to God. Ask him, will you hear the answer

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right away? No. Maybe, probably not. But keep asking. And maybe you'll hear an answer. This is how

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he works with me two days later, three days later, sometimes a week later, sometimes six months later.

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And I'll be doing something absolutely silly and unrelated, like going for a walk, driving my car,

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bending over to pick up a paper towel I dropped. And when I do, the Lord just, and I know it, and

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it's within a second, I got the complete answer, and I know it's the Lord speaking. Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. So in learning how to hear from God, it is imperative that you know that you are a

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tri-partite being. This will help you so much. I don't know if you want to get better at hearing from

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God. Yeah, that's awesome. And he loves you. And as we just read, he delights in talking to you.

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Delights in speaking to his people. The most essential thing to know is that you are a tri-partite being.

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Paul and Thessalonians says, I pray your whole spirit, soul, and body would be preserved

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blameless until the day of Jesus Christ. So know this, that the real you is a spiritual being.

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That's the spirit. You are a spirit. You have a soul. That's not the same as the spirit. The terms

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aren't interchangeable. That's completely different. The soul is from the Greek suke, where we get

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psyche from. It means your mind, your will, and your emotions. So you have a soul and you live in a

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body. So God is the Holy Spirit. Where does he speak? Into your spirit. You know how I joked

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last several weeks. He's not the Holy Brain. He's the Holy Spirit. You could only engage him with your

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human spirit. You have a spirit. That's where you hear from God. I'm kind of without even realizing

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I'm pointing at my belly. That's where Jesus said it is, out of your belly, out of your spirit.

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Even other faiths, even other religions that believe in a life force and energy, they've been

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able, they don't call it a spirit, but even people talk about the Chi and even demonic stuff.

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But they always know it's at the center of man. It's at the core of man. This is where your spirit,

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this is where God will speak to you. I never known someone who hears from God to say,

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you know, I heard this voice in my head. I've known a lot of troubled individuals say,

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you know, I heard this voice in my head. Get away. I don't want to know what the voice in your head

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is saying. We have a deliverance team over by the blue lights. Help you get rid of the voice in

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your head. No voices in your head. It's in your spirit. Deep down on the inside.

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And if you ever get deceived, if you ever get troubled, you hear something that can lead you

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astray. The devil really isn't the problem when it comes to mishearing God's voice. You know what

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the problem is? Your own soul. Because the Bible says your own soul, it's not fully regenerated yet.

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It's being renewed. It's in the process of being renewed. In the book of James, it says,

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to receive with meekness the ingrafted word of God, which is able to save our souls. Psalm 23,

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the Lord is my shepherd. He restores my soul. In other words, we need to have a brainwashing.

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The battlefield is in the mind and we have to undo a lot of old stinking thinking. But if we have

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an unrenewed mind, then we're going to mishear God if we're trying to engage him with our mind.

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You can have somebody who's been traumatized and when they go and pray and say, Lord, what should

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I do? They're never going to hear correctly because if he challenges them or tells them to take

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a risk, they'll just want to keep sitting and playing it safe. So what are they doing? They're

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trying to interpret the will of God but through their own broken soul. You can have somebody just,

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you can have a play come into the church, save five minutes, and all of a sudden God is telling

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him to date every girl in the church. No, that's not the Lord, that's your own broken soul from how

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you were raised and grew up, whatever you endured. That's not God's way, amen. I can go on with this

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list, shall I? There's a lot of weird ways we say, God is leading me, God told me, and it's really

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coming from a fragmented, broken, unrenewed mind. That's why it's so important to feast on the word

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of God. The word of God renews our soul and then we'll be able to hear more accurately and clearly

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in our spirit, man. Is this a very quiet this morning? I'm not going to be moved by quietness,

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but it's just helping you. At least let a pastor know, all right, it's helping someone, okay?

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Hallelujah. Honey, why am I so insecure? I just need to hear that validation and affirmation,

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it's my broken soul. In Proverbs it says, the spirit of man, the spirit of man is the candle of the

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Lord. He will guide you and illuminate you through your spirit, man. Hallelujah.

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And if you haven't heard from the Lord in a while, if you don't even know what I'm talking about,

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which I don't believe you don't know what I'm talking about, you all have heard from the Lord.

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If you're saved, if you've received him as your Lord and Savior, you've heard him calling you,

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you've sensed that nudge deep down in your spirit, him calling you to himself,

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him calling you to repentance, him revealing his face to you. Yeah. If you haven't heard from

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him in a while, you may need to repent because he doesn't offer up new information if you've

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disobeyed previous information. Some people treat God like a giant, not a roulette, but what's the

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the one on bandit, the slot machine? Yeah. They blew. Oh, I don't like that result. Let me just go

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again. You can't inquire of the Lord, him speak to you and you go, how about again? You can't. You

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got to instantly obey the voice of your spirit because if you don't instantly obey what the Lord

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is telling you to do, you will get what the Bible calls a seared conscience.

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You ever see a stake that's been too seared? It's all rough and tough and like your conscience

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needs to be tender before the Lord. But when you disobey and disobey and disobey,

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you can't hear the Lord anymore. My pastor tells us, my old pastor, he used to be a co-cat,

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then he got radically saved. And he tells the story of how, when he fell back into the sin,

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and he said, after he got saved, somebody offered him some cocaine and he heard his spirit went,

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no, don't take that. Like shook him. But somehow he said, nah, maybe a little bit.

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He rebelled. He said the next time he went for the cocaine, he heard, no, don't take that.

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He said a little bit more. He said the third time he heard, no, don't take that.

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And the fourth time he said he didn't hear a thing because he seared his conscience.

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And that's why you can get Christians who are totally in sin going, nothing's wrong with this.

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God doesn't even tell me it's wrong. Well, his word tells you it's wrong, that doesn't change.

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Here's what changes. Your conscience got speared. Now you don't even hear him talking to you about it.

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Dangerous place to be in. Hallelujah. So I want to tell you to make it easy,

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the number one way to hear from the Lord. This will help you because there's over 20 plus ways

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people hear from the Lord in the Bible. But the most, the most consistent way that he speaks

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is something called inward witness. The man by the name of Kenneth Hagen who's a prophet of God,

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we have some of his books in the front. He was caught up in visions and experienced the Lord and

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he even said, he said, the vast majority of the way the Lord speaks to me, the way he gives me

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instruction is the inward witness. Go to that verse in Romans. I believe it's Romans 9.

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I'll get the whole verse for you. Romans 9 1, I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience

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also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit. How many of you know you're saved? Look at that.

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The rest of you, boy, do I got a message for you when I'm done preaching.

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You know you're saved because the word of God declares you're saved, right? But also you have a

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witness in the Spirit, don't you? Just when you check on the inside, now you're not led by your

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feelings. The word of God says you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in your heart,

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you shall be saved, you've done that, you know you're saved. But also your spirit, it bears witness.

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I remember what it felt like in here before I got saved. It was lonely, it was empty, it was like a

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big giant void like in the cosmos in space. Any of you know what I'm talking about? You checking

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in, it's just like it would be like a bottomless swell but never ended. That's how felt. Now it's

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not like that. It's full. I know I'm saved. My spirit bears witness to it.

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The voice of your spirit is what the world would call conscience or the voice of your conscience.

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Even unbelievers can hear their spirit. How much more someone with a newly created born

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against spirit? This is where nine out of ten times I dare say the Lord will lead you and guide

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you through the inward witness. What is the inward witness? I don't like to say feeling because

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it sounds so fleshly and carnal. A better word would be sense. Sometimes I use the word I feel,

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I don't feel that from the Lord but really what I'm saying I spiritually I don't sense that's

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from the Lord. It's like I have a decision to make for example like going away this summer.

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Whenever I would think about traveling the summer I would sense like like sandpaper on the inside.

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When the Lord wants me to do something it's like a free velvety feeling like silk. Have you ever

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inquired of the Lord and you get a red light? Like an internal red light? Anybody? Yeah that's

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him saying no. You get a green light? That's him saying yes. And the more you do this and the more

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you inquire the better you'll get at discerning, at figuring it out. What's just your own soul?

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What's the Lord? You have to be willing to make some mistakes. That's why it's good to start

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practicing small. Don't start with Lord should I go into the bush of Africa? I think the Lord

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is sending me to the bush in Africa. I'm going to one way ticket. Start with small decisions.

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Get good and practice hearing him.

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Everybody wants to hear from an angel. Once the sky opens up and get a vision and they'll

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miss the supernatural because they're searching for the spectacular. Don't miss the supernatural

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because you're searching for the spectacular. One of the most life changing things was

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summer of 23 in my kitchen. 2020 was a great year minus COVID because I got into Bitcoin in 2019

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and it exploded in 2020. And then 21 was really good and then whoa I round tripped the majority

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of my profits. That's sad. When you start off with a few thousand dollars and watch you go to

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hundreds of thousands dollars and you watch you go to millions then you watch you go back down to

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hundreds of thousands and tens of thousands out. That's what happened to me. That's not fun.

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So it's the summer of 23. I'm in my kitchen and I'm talking to the Lord about let's do this again

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except now I'm not doing it in the middle of hype and euphoria and mania and now it's the middle

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of the bear market. Nobody wants to even talk about Bitcoin. That's when you buy. When there's

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blood in the streets. JP Morgan said that by the way. That's his quote. Buffett said be

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fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. Everybody was afraid in the

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summer of 23. I went to my kitchen and I just started playing around with some numbers on my phone

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and literally on an Appkin. And I got an idea. I said I'm going to get microstrategy.

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This is an investment that netted me more than 5,000 percent. It's a little better than a 5.5

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percent typical financial advisor will get you. I sat in the kitchen. I said Lord should I do this

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and in my spirit. I didn't hear him say a whole bunch of words. I didn't see a vision. Just in my

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spirit it was like a bell started ringing. That's a bingo. But more than normal it was like

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oh I knew I was on to something. Lord you really like this don't you. And then I did the math

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on if this trade worked out what it would bring me. And I thought this is in the millions. Lord

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is this. And I sensed. That's exactly what you're going to get. Please if you're just

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alert getting you getting started with hearing from the Lord don't start off with options trading.

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Please don't. Start out with should I get my coworker that sandwich.

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You're telling me or no you're saying Lord he likes sushi. Try that out and say if you like

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sushi. Okay I'm learning how to hear from the Lord. Hallelujah.

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Guys I got to say you're very quiet. I have a few more points that I'm actually debating on

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whether going through them or not. Yeah okay I'm just going to blame it on the ring.

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All right the three main ways to hear from the Lord number one inward witness. How many of

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you know what I'm talking about. Yeah go home this will change your life. The number one question

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Christians have statistically Barney Research Center the number one question is how can I

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learn to be led by the Lord. How can I interpret the will of God. I'm giving you the answer.

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How to hear him for yourself. How to be empowered because when you get that word.

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You know my wife said to me that blessed me so much she said it multiple times.

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She said I've learned to trust when you say God said I can trust I have peace I can relax.

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That was the greatest compliment she ever gave me because God forbid she would say

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and when you say God said who knows what that means you're always saying God said and sometimes

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you're a flake sometimes you're spot on and everything in between. Get good at hearing his voice

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and you're only going to get but making some mistakes but spending time in stillness and asking

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questions also what's really important is getting the word of God in you because the Bible says

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council and the heart of man is like deep water and a man of understanding will draw it out.

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The council of God the word of God is also known as the council of God when you put it inside

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of your well when you need it you will be able to draw it out. Sometimes we don't hear from the Lord

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because we don't have a written word deposit so he has nothing to draw from. The more written word

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you get inside of you the more spoken Ramag word he'll be able to deliver to you. Is this

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making sense? So number one is Romans 9-1 it's the inward witness. Number two is

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can you go to Romans 8-16 please. What the heck was Romans 9-1 then? How did I let that slip?

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Go to Romans 9-1. All right go to Romans 8-16 this is the verse for the inward witness the spirit

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himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. We have the witness of the spirit.

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Romans 9-1 that's the inward that's the still small voice so the number one way the Lord speaks to

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us is a sense he's not even speaking words yet have you ever heard somebody say God told me I

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hear this all the time especially in prophetic circles I was praying and God said son that's not

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what I want you to do what and they're like it's a paragraph long like wow you hear God so accurately

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you can write a whole paragraph they're not they're not hey I know real prophetic men of God they never

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claim to hear God that way when he speaks oftentimes it's like five words but in that five words

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it's like several books of inference just downloaded into you but you can't write whole paragraphs

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quoting him he's not people like like they're having this back and forth conversation they can

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quote with God doesn't happen that way there's a still small voice that's not the voice of God

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that's the voice of your own spirit that's the secondary way that God speaks the voice of your own

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human spirit worship team coming up let's get communion ready and number three is the voice of

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the Holy Spirit Acts 1019 while Peter thought about the vision the spirit said

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that is much stronger that is much louder that is much more authoritative than just the still small

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voice or the inward witness the only time I think I ever heard that was when I was deciding what

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Bible school to go to I was obsessing over it and second-guessing and doubting the whole time

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and finally I got this package and a brochure slipped out of it and it was for the River Bible

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Institute and I picked it up and I heard and this is where you will go and it was the voice of the

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Holy Spirit he had to tell me that loudly because I was being such a baby about it and second-guessing

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and doubting the whole time we're going to receive communion and I'm going to lead you in an exercise

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in hearing from the Lord in fact hold your communion elements please thank you thank you Jesus

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if you're happy and alive notify your face

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thank you Jesus that third week of September can't come soon enough

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I never worked so hard in my life listen the Lord's about to speak to you this is like

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hold the communion elements

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thank you Jesus

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I love you

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you

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jester you never get communion service anywhere like a city like personal service leave us a five-star review

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see how they all come up to you personally serve you I want you to close your eyes don't eat the

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communion yet I want you to say this with me and get ready to hear from God are you ready get

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ready for him to speak to you say this Lord Jesus I am your sheep I hear your voice

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I'm asking you to speak to me now please show me what is the biggest lie I'm believing about my life

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right now now listen in your spirit

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one more time for Jesus what's the biggest lie I'm believing about my life right now

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now I'm not I'm not going to give you like minutes and minutes of silence because usually the Lord

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answers that question within a few seconds how many of you look up at me how many of you you heard

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something in your spirit you saw something in your spirit or you sensed something and you know

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exactly what he's talking about let me see your hand I'm not going to ask you to share it let me

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see your hand yeah he's very quick to answer this question oftentimes we hear right away then

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we get tripped up in our mind it is very quick I already got texts from the first service people

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saying they immediately heard now let's ask him for the truth that'll dismantle that lie are you

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ready say Lord Jesus give me your truth what is the truth that will replace this lie

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how many of you heard the truth yeah and that's the truth by the way that's the word of the Lord

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and no word of God spoken will be impossible for him to perform

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go ahead and partake of the body of Jesus

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go ahead and partake of his blood

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so

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thank you Jesus

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thank you Lord

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most powerful thing you can have is a word from the Lord you can take it to the bank

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if you don't have one about your life in the short term get one ask him for one

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hunger for him to speak to you seek him with all of your heart he won't leave you high and dry

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he won't do it you're his sheep and you hear his voice well hallelujah let's give the Lord a praise

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hallelujah are you ready to honor the Lord with your tides and offerings let's worship him with our

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giving the giving information is on the screens to either side of me give with faith give with a

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glad heart give and expect him to multiply it back to you knowing that he's a God of abundance and

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a God of prosperity

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Lord I thank you that you multiply the gift back to every giver thank you for every seed in

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the ground that's been sewn that it comes back a mighty harvest Lord overwhelm your people

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with the goodness of God

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cause every cup to overflow hey Lord let holy spirit surprises reign on your people in Jesus name

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I just disrupts unbelief

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shake up doubt swampiness I break your power in Jesus name

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Lord I thank you for a soaking stopping wet end to 2025 I thank you Lord for adventures and God

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in Jesus name and thank you for your goodness let's all stand if you need to go go with great

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blessing if you need prayer make your way to my left you're right if you're new here and maybe

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you want prayer go to that blue lit area there'll be a ministry team there to pray with you and

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for you don't be shy don't be scared they won't hurt you they'll love on you that's Christian

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speak for you won't get hurt they're gonna love on you let's sing to the Lord one more song

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be blessed church this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's

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