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So, you know, right now, college age kids are coming to Jesus like they have not done

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since the Jesus' people.

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We're in exciting days.

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So, it isn't just restore all things, there's a regime change coming.

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And King Jesus is about to return for his bride and get ready to set up his throne on

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earth.

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And welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth

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that He has for us.

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

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that citylightnyc.com.

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

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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, that you

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are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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Well, what a thrill it's been for me to be here in New York City for these last three

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days.

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I mean, I just enjoy it all.

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And one of my favorite things about New York is the accent.

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And so I said to Pastor Boyan, where is everybody that has the New York accent?

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I haven't run into them yet.

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Like, where is a cup of coffee and hot dog and stuff?

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Is anybody here talk like that?

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Yeah, okay, come on.

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Come and say hi to me after, right?

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Coffee, hot dog, yeah.

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Because we have a dear friend in Oklahoma Tulsa.

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He's from New York and he talks that way still after about 30 years of being away.

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But you know, the other thing is I love how straight everybody talks to each other.

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You know, there's no filters and beating around the bush.

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It just let them have it, so it's like how it is, you know, don't give me all the, you

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know, the be asked around it and all of this and that, just tell me straight.

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They seem to like that here, you know.

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That's amazing, isn't it?

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Anyway, I love who you are.

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It's kind of a very special place you have here.

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Very special pastors and leaders.

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Do you know we're living in the most exciting time that you could ever live on the face

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of the earth?

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There's all these things that are only one or two hundred years old.

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The automobiles, airplanes, nuclear bombs, computers, amazing watches, and Ellen, the horizon

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is a whole bunch of stuff and cars that drive themselves, if you ever heard of such a thing.

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And I don't think we've seen anything yet, I mean, all these AI programs, I'm just loving

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those, using them, but being a little wary at the same time because boy, people could

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use those to spin you something that would sound very convincing, but yet not be true

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or not right on.

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But it's a very exciting time, most importantly, because of the impending soon return of

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Jesus.

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Now nobody knows when that's going to be, it could be a hundred years from now, but it could

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be tomorrow.

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I know of nothing, no prophetic word that would stand in the way that would say, he can't

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come yet.

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And while I'm on that, I mean, we got more time this service, so.

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What's the difference if someone reading, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, reading it today

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versus someone reading it a thousand years ago?

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See, you read it then, you say, yeah, there's going to be earthquakes, diseases, famines,

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wars, problems, yeah, well, we have that today, okay, so what's the difference?

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Anybody have an answer?

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Israel is the difference.

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Israel had to become a nation again, say they've been scattered for two thousand years,

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1948 when I was a little boy, seven years old.

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Israel became a nation, I didn't know.

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I didn't know what a big deal it was, but it was an absolute fulfillment of prophecy from

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Isaiah and from Ezekiel and from many, many passages of Scripture.

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So the same ancient people were regathered to the same ancient land to practice the same

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ancient religion and speak the same ancient language.

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It has never ever happened before.

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And Jesus said it would be, and he said the fig tree would blossom, and the fig tree is

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a type and symbol of the nation is real.

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And when you see it putting out its sleeves, you know that the harvest is coming, summer

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is coming.

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And all that happened, then Jerusalem, Jesus said in Luke 21, it'll be occupied, trodden

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down by the Gentiles, the nations, until the time of the nations is fulfilled.

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And that was already 56 years ago when they took all the territory.

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So something is up, and then when I see war in the Middle East that's been going on

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for over a year, it makes me nervous in a good sense, could this be the time?

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So tell your friend, you know, we may be living on borrowed time here.

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We're about to have a big change.

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Isn't that exciting?

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If you were alive when he came for his bride, now your pastor will take you into it much

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deeper one of these days, but I just want you to hold that out there.

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Make sure that the coming of the Lord is in there somewhere on your 100-year plan about

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where your life is going, because you got to hold it in tension along with the everyday

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stuff.

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Where do I work?

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How do I pay the bills?

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What do we do?

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What do we do?

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We have to take care of that.

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You have to go to school, get your education.

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A lot of people missed it during the Jesus movement because they dropped out everything,

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saying, oh, the coming of the Lord is any moment, so why bother?

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But that turned out to be wrong.

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You got to hold it in tension.

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Do both.

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So I want to take us with a little reminder about the three journeys that were on before

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I like to realize that in all of our lives, my life yours, there's three areas that we

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need to cover.

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First of all, you, point yourself to you.

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You are important, so this is the inward journey.

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He wants, essentially, to take bad stuff out and put good stuff in, okay?

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The shame, the pain, the fear, the anger, the demons, all that hurt, it's got to go.

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What needs to come in is the love and the joy and the peace and the self-security and

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the salvation and the equipping and the imparting, impartation and the empowering of you becoming

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more and more like Jesus.

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That's for you.

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Next is now not about you at all, it's all about Him.

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Now, it's Him that we want to worship and Him, we want to praise and love and it's to

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Him we want to give thanks and glory and adoration.

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We have to appreciate that.

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I can remember thinking, God, what's up with you really, like, why are you demanding

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that people love you?

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Well, Jesus was asked one time, what's the greatest commandment?

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I remember that hesitation, He said, love the Lord with all your heart, put your hand

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in your heart.

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All your soul, put your hand in your soul, all your strength and all your mind.

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Love Him and then love your neighbor and love yourself.

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So it is so strong to love Him, I mean, why does He so hate idolatry and all these things?

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Because it's basically dishonest to honor someone else or other things instead of the one

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to whom the honor belongs.

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And so it's wrong to do that, it's a counterfeit, it's a fake to do that.

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Your Heavenly Father made you in His own image and His own likeness in many, many ways.

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And so the least you can do is say thank you.

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We're ever giving them thanks for being alive on the earth.

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But if you were never created, you wouldn't have known anything, you're just an oblivion.

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But now we're here and we can give thanks to Him.

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And that's really what worshiping Him is all about worship is kind of loving Him.

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So now it's not about you, it's about Him.

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And then when that reciprocates and you get filled up with Him, the focus will change again.

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What about them?

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What about others?

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What about other people?

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If you get filled up with the love of God and you have a heart now that cares about the

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outcome and the lives of people around you, that is a reflection of what He's like and

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He wants us to be that way.

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And so we focus on that.

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And many churches would say it's all about the mission.

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Let's go get the others.

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The main emphasis and I pray once in a while, you know, a focus on Him.

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But very little attention given to you as a person.

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And I think if we don't get filled up, emptied out of the bad stuff, filled up with the

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good stuff, there's a dysfunction that goes on inside our hearts that can cripple the

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rest of your spiritual life.

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So these three need to be in balance.

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Don't ever feel bad about you getting blessed and you getting filled up and you getting

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healed and you getting emptied out.

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We know it's not all about you.

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There's those three journeys that we're on and have a healthy balance of all three.

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Turn to your friends and say, I give you permission to get everything you can get from the Lord.

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Because our assignment is all about all three.

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So sanctification means clean hands and a pure heart, intimacy with Him, a divine love

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affair with all your heart, love Him with all your heart, and then go into the world

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as a witness to all nations that were lovers of God and shareers of good news.

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So wherever you go, wherever you work, that's your mission in life to tell them the best

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news ever.

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Boy, have I got good news for you?

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Do you know what?

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You've got the best future you could possibly imagine all because of Jesus and Holy Spirit

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encounters and able us to sustain that and maintain that and be overcomers.

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And I want to talk to you about being an overcomer, we're going to touch on it, not the

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full shot like they got in the first service, but how many want to be overcomers?

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Only about 10% of you, I think it.

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The rest are struggling with life's problems, right?

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Romans 8.28 says, all things, say that with me, all things work together for good to those

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who love Him.

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Now, if you don't love Him, that's not going to apply.

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But if you love Him, then all things are going to work together for good for you.

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And you need to realize that in your 100-year plan for life, there's plenty of time for

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the tragedies of the moment to resolve and work out and really turn out to be a blessing

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for you.

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We're getting prepared for eternity, friends, and the eternity is very close.

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He's getting your heart ready to rule over cities, and so you want to pass the tests of

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life and have a theology for adversity that is going to lend itself to character building

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for you.

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But as we look around, we see that something's going on in the world right now.

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You know, prophetic scriptures says, talked about birth pains, and as we get close to the

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time of the end, that life becomes more and more like birth pains.

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Now you ladies could tell us that birth pains start out rather insignificantly, kind of

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little, right?

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But then they get more and more intense and more and more frequent until, oh boy, you know,

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it's time, let's get to the hospital.

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And that's what we're watching in the world.

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Jesus said it would be like birth pains where trouble and strife in the world will start

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happening with increased frequency and increased intensity.

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So what are we looking at?

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Plagues, wars, weather, fires, government extreme, extreme politics, uncertainty, unrest, etc.,

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everybody's asking what's up?

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Is this God at work?

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Is this the devil?

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What is it?

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Life is this convoluted journey of good days and bad days and we're all called to be overcomers

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in Christ.

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And one of the points from the first service that I made was we all do well when everything's

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going your way, don't we?

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Don't you do well?

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Have you ever had a good week where it was just sweet, like everything's coming together,

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the weather was great, the people were super, got to raise at work, you picked up your

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new car, I mean on and on, it was just a fantastic week.

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How many have had a good week like that?

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Within memory, some were back there, yeah.

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Again, 10% of you, okay.

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Well, have you ever had a bad week where everything went wrong?

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How many have had a bad week?

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I'm getting more hands this time, where everything went wrong and you're like, God what is happening?

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Well some of those things maybe you brought them on yourself, you made a wrong decision,

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you made a wrong choice, this or that, but sometimes when you're doing your very best,

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you're praying, you're reading the Word, you're worshiping, you're giving, you're carrying,

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you're doing it all right, but still adversity comes that the Lord allows and it's confusing

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to you because maybe you don't have a theology for adversity.

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And Jesus told us clearly in the world, you will have tribulation, trouble, bot, say bot.

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Be of good cheer, I've overcome the world.

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So see that's where a long range vision and a long range plan is going to help you.

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Say well this is only a blip, this is temporary, we're going to get through this and get

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on into better and richer and so on.

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And we need to understand that.

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I was asked to go and speak at a church in Hamilton, Ontario one night, and I think it was

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a Friday night and you know there was horrific traffic and everything else and I forget

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what, but the road was closed and it was late getting there and as I got in, it's like,

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oh we're so glad you made it and we'd love you to speak tonight on recovering everything,

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on recovering.

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Now I'm not used to people telling me what I should preach, I mean it's rare that they

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do that, like what do you want me to talk about, what's the theme, they might give me

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the theme, but mostly they don't and so I'm thinking okay so recover all and my thoughts

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went to David, King David and I want us to think about David now.

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David's a young kid, minding his own business, taking care of the sheep and Samuel turns

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up at the house one day and he's carrying this burden, King Saul you know is a wipe out

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and God is now sending me to this man's house because one of his sons is going to be the

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new king.

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So he goes through all six of the brothers and the Lord saying no not this one, no not

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this one, he comes to the third guy and he's saying it was surely, this incredible young

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man, this is the Lord's choice and the Lord says no, man looks on the outward appearance

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but God looks on the heart, tell the person next to you, he's looking on our hearts right

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now because it's the heart that matters, not the outward appearance.

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So he went through all the boys and he said do you have any more sons, there's that

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kid up there on the hill mind in the sheep and I could just imagine the Jesse, the father

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going well surely you don't want the boy, isn't it funny when God's going to provide

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a new provision, very often he sends something that's not quite matured yet, not what have

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picked me up, if you're praying for I don't know would to build a building he sends you

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an acorn and so now you got to grow that thing.

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So here comes David like what's going on and Samuel anoints him with oil and says

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you young man are going to be king over Israel right there in front of all of his family

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and his brothers, wow okay, well there's war in the land and some of the brothers are

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in the army and they're ready to fight with the Philistines and David sent with food and

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a couple of gifts for the officers and everything and he goes into the camp and Goliath appears

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this giant a guy nine nine and a half feet tall just a warrior forever and boasting and

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saying hey we don't all need to get in a battle here why don't you just send me your best

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man and we'll fight it out and whoever wins winner take all and they're afraid of this

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guy the whole army and so here's David now saying well isn't anybody going to fight this guy?

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I mean how dare he defy the army of the living God isn't it amazing how how young people

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sometimes can just have this idealistic faith and he said yeah I killed a lion I killed a bear

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and that Philistine would be like one of those I'll go fight this guy and Saul says all right you

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better put my armor on at least and he says I can't go with this and he goes into battle with a

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stave apparently and his sling and he picked up five stones put them in that shepherd's bag and

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he's going off to meet the giant what a scene I love this story it's the story of faith it's

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a story of an overcomer it's a story of boldness and bravery and Goliath is insulted this is what?

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you send a kid out with a stick to fight against me come here boy I'm going to feed you to the birds

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for this insult and David says oh yeah well I'm going to feed you and your whole army to the birds

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because you have defied the living God such a spot I mean you know come on

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and then he ran at the guy and it's not like he's trying to hide or anything he's running out

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of him slinging first guided missile head him on the head boom he's down and David runs takes his

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own sword and be heads him and holds that giant head up and says here Israel is what you were afraid of

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now go get him and they had a victory that day so wow David that anointing has really done

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something for you we want you to be we want you to be an officer in the king's army you're the

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youngest officer we've ever had but come on and hey I want you to marry the king's daughter how

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about that and you're just you're just you're just really doing it and see what happens is

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Samuel's prophetic word is ringing in his ears all this is happening because of God God's word

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is coming to pass God's truth is coming to me and yeah this is this is just the beginning

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and isn't it amazing how his popularity grew and grew and grew because of the anointing

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but the day came when Saul is fiercely jealous of him and you know the story Saul turned on him

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tried to kill him through a spear at him on two occasions and David was able to dodge it and get

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away and so finally now he's an outlaw his pictures up in all the post offices

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and Saul's chasing him every chance he gets and yeah he had a few close calls and

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and David mercifully spared his life he says I'm he's the lords anointed far be it from me to kill him

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if God wants some dead he can kill him but I'm not going to kill him and things got so bad

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that he had to leave his own nation and go and live among the Philistines the enemy of the

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land of Israel so he's living in the fill with the Philistines and he became like a pirate like a

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raid or raiding this town in that town to survive the Philistines said well we'll give you a

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zigzag on the edge of our territory and you and your men can stay there see when the anointing

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is on you you attract a following because people see that leadership on you and they want to follow

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and a lot of you are here because of the anointing on a boy and an Emily and you see it and you know

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it and you feel it and we want to be led by people who are anointed don't we so David's got

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400 men 600 men that are following him everywhere and this was a rag-tab

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group of people the outlaws and the unwanted and the indebtors and all the rest of it they're

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following him thing and he's he's our guy and things went from bad to worse their outlaws

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and their own nation now they're in the Philistines on the edge of their empire trying to survive

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the day comes when Israel and Philistia are going to be at war again

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so David's like well it's our obligation to go and help them so they all march out

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to join in with the Philistine army and they go oh oh what a minute we're not having you guys

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you know you could turn at the last minute and try to betray us what better way to be restored

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to your leaders than with the heads of these men go home at first light and they're disheartened

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they're they're I mean offended by that rejection how would you feel

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now I want you to weigh in on all the feelings here he loves his country he loves his

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his his nation he loves his city loves his parents and his home but his parents have suffered

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because David's an outlaw and all that has been going on all his men had the same thing they've

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essentially lost their families and their and their connection and now they're over here in

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Zicklag and they go to fight with them and now even the Philistines don't want them and they're

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sent back home and when they get back home you know what they found their town is burnt to the ground

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the wives are gone the kids are gone the stuff is gone and the men are now so upset that they're

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wanting to stone David and they're saying some leader you are some anointing on you you've

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just let us on this downward path to where we can't even go home and now we don't even have a

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home among the Philistines we've lost everything what would you do have you ever been in that place

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where you where you felt like life is just so falling in on me that it just can't get any worse than this

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what do you do David there's only one thing to do he strengthened himself in the Lord

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and he went to the Lord he said God what do I do the Lord said go after them

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and he said and if I go after them will I win will I recover everything and the Lord said yes

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go after them and recover all so he took 600 guys 200 were so tired that we can't go any farther

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all right you stay with the stuff and they pursued the amalachites on into the night there they

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were partying celebrating all the stuff they had taken and David and his men went in for the

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kill slaughtered a bunch of them and they recovered everything it's like a country in western

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song they got their wife back they got their kids back they got their truck back everything's great

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right

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so they come home thinking mission accomplished and that hangs over many of the churches

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in North America and I dare say over New York we just had this unbelievable thing happened to us

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called COVID and every church I know suffered under that there was a huge purging I guess

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and we thought if we could just get back what we had I mean you guys here you had three locations

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is that right yeah and you had more people and you had more finance probably I don't know

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made it up yeah but if we could just get back to what we had then we could regroup and rethink

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and maybe go again plan from there but the whole plan was recovery if we could just get back

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what we had so David got the stuff back but see God had a much bigger plan than David did

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because God's plan was not just recover everything but actually regime change

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because no sinner they got back to Ziklag and tried to build up in the ashes then they got

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word about a new war that had happened with the Philistines or the one that they missed by not

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going that Israel was completely defeated and routed many died including King Saul and all his sons

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so David there's a delegation from Judah here they want you to go back to Judah and be king

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what can you imagine when you're in the ashes of life you just kind of recovered the main things your

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wife your kids your stuff and now you're going to be king over Judah

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wait a minute way back there didn't Samuel prophesy that you were going to be king

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yeah but that was a long time ago that was before Goliath and before this and that and before

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the marriage and before it all but while here comes the restoration so David goes home and he

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becomes king over Judah ruling and reigning from hebron and he did that for seven years

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and then without going into the rest of the details all of Israel joins him with him and he

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becomes king over Israel probably Israel's greatest king and it was all because of his character

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so where did David the little shepherd boy learn to be the best king what do you think

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he kept his heart right through all of those various trials and struggles and difficulties

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since it's easy to be up when you know you killed the giant and you're promoted in the army and

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you marry the king's daughter and yay god you know but then when everything turns against you

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so good um that's when you need to hang on the worst day of David's life was when he went back

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into burned ziklag and even his own faithful men want to stone him

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there's pastors that are doing their level best you know and whatever went wrong and the church

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ready to stone them have you ever been in that place i was kind of once we we had our first church

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in strafford and then i wanted to do another one in my tone hometown Toronto carols hometown

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in strafford minus Toronto and so we had two churches and i thought it'd just be a short time

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but it ended up being five years and so five years we're going back and forth back and forth

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grabbing something to eat at McDonald's and keep on going on the road and

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and you know that's one way to put on about 50 pounds to eat at McDonald's every

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and uh pretty soon i had two groups of people unhappy with me

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where are you you're supposed to be our pastor you're gone half the time i know i'm sorry about that

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and then the Toronto group was the same and i realized i had to make up my mind which way we wanted to

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go and so we we opted for Toronto and and it was the right choice the Lord just landed on us

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and revival and everything else and we had a regime change but i feel like

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not only is the whole body of Christ ready for a regime change but this church here is ready

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for a regime change because there's there's circumstances that are crippling

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and covid i took a toll on everybody we just can't believe the governmental

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what's the word overreach abuse Canada was horrible New York was horrible

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and um we we couldn't even meet for the better part of two years like it you got to be ten

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feet away from everybody and oh gosh it was just a nightmare it was all online actually

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we just set off forget that just let's let's go online and um we were longing for restoration

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if we could just get back to what we were if we could just forget this stupid covid thing let's just

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get back i remember having a trying to have a meeting where all the covid rules are in place

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so you couldn't touch anybody how are you going to lay hands on people you could touch them

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so i worked out something where we spray and pray so i had a guy coming with me with a spray you know

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and it's pray and i pray and it's pray and i pray all with a marathon normal

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because people were still wanting to touch up God and in my heart of hearts i'm like

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god we gotta put this behind us and get back to the way we were and i'm sure that you guys were

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longing for the same thing and so that happened with david he's longing for the same thing and

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and the Lord said pursue them and recover all great work and that happened but in the heart of

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God was something that was way beyond recover all you're not just gonna get back to zikleg and build

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it up again and and carry on pathetically no we're going for regime change this time

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and you're going to be king over israel david and starting with juda and we'll go from there

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and so that's where we are right now friends the um

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place that we are in is in a world that is ripe for revival and for harvest

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and i want you to know that revival is going on in many many places of the earth do you know

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where the greatest revival that i'm aware of is happening is in a ran do we have anybody from

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Iran here anyone yeah the Toronto Church has got about 30 of them people from Iran

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i love those guys while ago i called them all around me said come here i just want to hug you

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well just gather around here and they did and and i said to them so you know what people there are

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people out there saying you know what Islam Christianity they're kind of the same uh in many ways

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so but but but i want to know what you you say what is the difference you left Islam to become

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Christians what do you think is the difference so they got a huddle and they're speaking away

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farcey and then they came we know what it is i said tell me you say is now we're happy

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we used to be angry all the time angry at this angry at that angry at everything

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and we're not angry anymore we're we're happy there's there's joy and there's stuff going

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on inside man that's a regime change if ever there was one the greatest harvest going on in

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in Iran but it's going on in many many places i was so encouraged to to one of our leaders Bruno

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Morello sent me a video of a meeting in uh Ethiopia you don't where that is it's unlike East Africa

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and this was a massive church of warehouses and things kind of hobbled together cobbled together

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of about 15 or 20 thousand people in that meeting just the camera panning around like that

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and everybody is shaking and falling and screaming and yelling and going for in the anointing

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and i thought god if you're going to pour out your spirit like that on the earth and on your churches

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forget about it we're going to have revival nothing is going to stop it

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and so i've been in Brazil where where that country has exploded into all these mega churches of

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5,000 20,000 30,000 and they got hundreds of them like that that have just exploded because

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of the presence of god and the anointing and i was sharing with with the group the other day

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about how harvest like seabian ministries last year one six hundred million people to Jesus

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in one year and i've tracked with Gordon Robertson over the years and they've averaged 50 million

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which is phenomenal but 600 million in the year before was 594 million what is going on

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he's harvesting the earth and these third world nations in Africa and Asia and this and that

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they're coming in first is that okay with you yeah i guess but our turn's coming

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do you know right now college age kids are coming to Jesus like they have not done

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since the Jesus people we're in exciting days so it isn't just restore all things

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there's a regime change coming and king jesus is about to return for his bride and get ready to

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set up his throne on earth and you may say john i'm i'm not ready for that yet let me tell you

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something it doesn't matter he's coming whether you're ready or not it's it's not up to you he's

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coming when he thinks the time is right and oh my goodness we're we're we're very very close friends

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how many would be excited if you found out that Jesus is on the way

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that'll be the best news ever for the believer the coming of the lord is the best news ever

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and read more about it i did a little booklet on it where is the promise of his coming and it's

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full of the good news i didn't put the bad news part in there's a bad news side half the world's

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people die but the good news is the believers are going to be and joined with him in glory and

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celebration so i want you to look beyond the difficulties of life today and realize that roman's

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a 28 is true for you all things work together for good to those who love him and i want you to

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realize that you don't have to be puzzled about why is there adversity in your life the lord

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allows that i'm not talking about the stuff that you brought on yourself from your own

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waywardness or stupidity i'm talking about you doing your best praying giving serving caring loving

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worshiping pray all that and still the rug got pulled out from undead this person got sick this

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person died this job got lost or you know just really really heavy things and you're wondering

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where are you and i want to speak hope to all of you because he is never limited by circumstances

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there's always a way out there's always a way forward with him you say but john you know where

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my son has just died from this or that and me families have had drug overdose take their children

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just horrible things how on earth is god gonna turn it around to make it good to make it okay again

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i don't know how but he will because he's god all things are possible with him

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can you take that on board is that too big a stretch

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he who has begun a good work in you will perfect it until the day of jesus christ

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and then you'll see it all clearly the mystery side will be worked out resolved

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i want you all to have hope and i want you to make up your mind that you are going to be an

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overcomer how many want to be an overcomer raise your head wave at me wave excitedly i want to

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be an overcomer okay i don't know whether we got half of you or a little more than half

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but listen carefully overcomers are going to need a few things to overcome

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okay and so these things are like challenges it's going to come your way and you're going to say oh

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yeah not on my watch and you're going to go after it and win that's all stand

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lord i thank you that you are our champion overcomer if ever there was one you're that one

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then we're so blessed to know you we're so blessed to know that your heart is for us

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and even in the face of difficult circumstances you are still god and we want to build our house

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on the rock like it says the wise man build his house on the rock the foolish man build his house

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on the sand now what happened life happened the rains came down and the floods came up

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and the house on the rock stood firm whereas the house built on sand washed away

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you cannot build your life on trending things that come and go there's only one rock

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and that's the word of god that's the son of god that's the promises of god that's the hope of god

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such as Romans 828 all things work together for good to those who love him

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so lord that's me i love you so all right i'm going to trust you

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now if you've been confused uh and thinking god i don't get it like the i'm trying to serve you

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and everything but all this stuff is happening and and i i feel like quitting or i just don't understand

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like i don't know what to do if that's been where you are in this last season unashamedly hold

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your hand up high and say you know what this is giving me hope here that life happens but god

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is using it to build character in me and so okay bring it on lord let me sign up for the advanced

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course now if your hands are raised here like we want to we want to take time to have a real

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group prayer with you so i'm going to ask you to get out of your seat and come on up to the front

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can you just play quietly for me on the keyboard yeah just bunch in come on

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i don't know we maybe we could start by saying lord will you please forgive me forever doubting your

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love and some of you need to tell them that because the abyss circumstances in life have

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really chipped away at my faith in you and my trust in you and because i just didn't get it i didn't

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know that the thing that david went through i would go through something similar the thing that

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Joseph went through i would go through something similar that would test my faith

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so that i would come out stronger than ever

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and the whole why is because he wants to strengthen you and equip you and purify you

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so that you can be ruler over cities well done good and faithful servant you've been faithful

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over a few things i will make you ruler over ten cities or over five cities

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anybody want to rule over new york city in the millennial kingdom

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i said lord give me Toronto i'll sort it out for you it'd be my pleasure my honor

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i know exactly what to do and who to get rid of

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our trials only help to make us strong i love that song of the blackwood brothers or some of

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those quartets way back when but sing that through it all through it all i learned to trust in

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Jesus i learned to trust and got through it all through it all i learned to depend upon his word

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my trials only help to make me strong now see testing in life will cause you to go one way or the

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other you'll either get bitter or you get better how many want to get better that's a choice we make

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you're going to believe the word of God or you're going to believe the lie of the enemy in circumstances

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raise your hand if you want to believe with the word of God

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let's put our faith in him in spite of circumstances we put our faith in you lord and we believe

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Romans 8 28 all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to

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his purposes oh thank you lord that's a guarantee friends you cannot lose so it's like all this

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in heaven too yes wow blessing upon blessing say lord i'm sorry forever accusing you or blame me

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for not caring you care very deeply you love me with an everlasting love

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and i yield to you i yield to your sovereign ways in my life

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take my heart i give it to you i'm yours i recommit myself to you all over again

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get me ready for revival fill me with the holy spirit and fire

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and i ask you to put people in my path that need Jesus

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oh man the greatest thing to get you out of a spiritual slump is to win someone to the Lord

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lord i want to be a soul winner i want to be fruitful i want to i want to do life with you and for you

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and if you're here this morning and you have never surrendered your life to Jesus

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friends you need to do that asap

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you have no guarantee that you'll ever see another sunrise this could be your last day on earth

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for other reasons we don't know i do know that it is just too dangerous to live without

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the son of god as your savior and your heart

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so i want you to think about your eternity if you're here and you don't know Jesus

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there's no better day than right now to admit to yourself

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Jesus i want you in my life i really do so if that's you if i'm speaking to you

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and you want him in your life maybe the first time or if you want him back in your life because

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you wandered away through disappointment and discouragement and whatever

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tell him because that's where that's where it has to happen the the the privacy of your own heart

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where you say to Jesus i want you i want you in my heart to forgive my sins

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i want you in my heart to lift this burden i want you in my heart to give me hope and life

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i want to regime change lord i don't want to be the one ruling my own life anymore

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i want you to be my king and my savior that's what i need is a regime change

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i make you lord of my life today

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now if you just told Jesus that you want him to come into your heart or come back into your heart

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as savior unashamedly hold your hand up high and wave it at me you say i'm i'm surrendering my

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life to him right here i've been playing around with this and yeah life's been beating me up okay

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god bless every one of you this raised your hands listen get a bible start to read the book of

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john it's a love letter to your heart give the lord i don't know 10 minutes a day an hour a day if you

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can but set some time aside to feed your soul on the things of god because life is going to get

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very intense this church that you're in is going to explode you know i don't know soon be a thousand

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or more and you can you can be a part of the leadership rather than just being lost in the crowd

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the pray with me out loud lord i reject discouragement i reject confusion

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go from me now i embrace the plan of god the wisdom of god

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the love of god that absolutely knows what's best for me

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and i'm choosing to do life your way today in jesus name amen

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