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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Folks, we live in a dangerous

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day. Moving into this new year, assume what you are looking hearing at is false,

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but you've got to find out where the truth is. It doesn't mean you quit because

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listen, Satan flooding the lies that are out there makes it harder to find the

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truth because when somebody does find the truth, they've been conditioned to

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think it's a lie. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to

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JackHibbs.com slash podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages

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you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of

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those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that

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rating will encourage others to listen. Now, open your hearts to what God's

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word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Well, hey, listen up. Are you someone

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who might be thinking that you've messed up your life royally? I mean, I think

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it's pretty safe to say that to some degree, everyone thinks that from time to

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time. I don't know if you're gonna like one about to say, but you're gonna be able

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to relate to it, but maybe if we can figure it out, we can do well by it. And that

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is we're coming up on a year's end and a new year beginning. And as humans,

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we're kind of suckers for falling into a trap whereby we think we can wash away

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what's happened to the past. Make it old, sparkly clean, gone and move on into

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the new year with everything rosy. Well, listen, I'm kind of reminded of what I

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saw the other day. And it was this. It was on YouTube. And I was watching

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because I really like this stuff about guys, you know, driving street cars,

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fast cars on the streets. And there was a guy that was sitting at a stoplight

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when everybody was at on the street corners cheering him on because the guy

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happened to been driving a Lamborghini. And it was probably his dad's car

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because when he punched it, he didn't, he didn't know what to do with the

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thousand horsepower. And so the guy went out of control completely. And then he

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tried to stop it. And that didn't help any, any more better at all whatsoever.

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And the guy crashed into the curb. When you take a Lamborghini and hit a curb,

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it basically destroys a good chunk of that car. The car was destroyed.

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And everybody was laughing and that guy started crying. Listen, people feel

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like they've done that with their lives. They maybe have gone too fast.

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Maybe they felt like they hit it too hard. And you know what?

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Maybe you did. Maybe that's exactly what happened is that all your friends

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were cheering you on and you punched it and you wound up running your life.

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Maybe you got into a situation that you don't think you can get out of.

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And I want you to know something that as we come to a year's end and a year

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beginning, how do we mitigate it? Really what was a hopeful thing kind of

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turns into a really, really almost compounding bad thing.

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It's like, I want to restart. But can I? Is it even possible?

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So just with our time together, I want you to commit this verse to memory.

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And I'm not saying that just because I'm supposed to. I actually did many,

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many years ago. It's some 65 11.

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And I want to read it to you though verbatim out of the new King James,

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use whatever version you want. I'm sure it's great in all versions.

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But listen to this. It's, it's the, the psalmist responding to God's goodness.

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And I want you to hang onto this verse for the entire year.

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And in fact, forever until Christ comes for you.

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Psalm 65 11 says, you crown the year with your goodness and your pals

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drip with abundance. Let me read it again. Isn't this beautiful?

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You that is the Lord crown the year with your goodness and your pals drip

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with abundance. What a blessing. What a great blessing that is.

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So let's unpack a few things about this. Number one, everybody.

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Number one, I want to give you some facts. Number one fact is this.

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It's never been this late before that the time that you view this,

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the time that you're listening, whatever time that is,

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it's never been this late before.

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And God's clock on the calendar,

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on your watch, on your device, it's never been this late before.

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Can you agree with me on that? Of course you can't.

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Why is that important? Because time is a physical factor.

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And so are we. We are physical beings.

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And we live in a physical realm.

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But yet at the same time, we are spiritual in our creation.

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We are body, soul and spirit.

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With that said, we have a great conflict when it comes to time.

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We don't do well managing time.

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I don't care who you are. You're going to write me a letter.

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You're going to send me an email and you're going to say, I beg your pardon.

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I am a specialist in time and I work for NASA and I launch rockets.

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And I'm not talking about that.

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I'm talking about the fact that when it comes to you painting the house,

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taking out the trash or planning the trip or getting to work on time,

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we are all struggling with the time issue.

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And that compounds the pressure of life.

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So much so that when we come to the end of a new year,

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we are tempted to take a deep, deep breath.

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I get it. So do I.

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And exhale at midnight into the new year.

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And we have a belief that there's some sort of infusion of hope.

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Something's changed.

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Something's different when that may not be the case.

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It's not always the case.

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It can be, but let's walk through a few things.

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And that is coming to the realization regarding the times and the seasons of things.

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You look back over this last year and for you personally,

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did the year drag on, did the year take forever in your life to come to a conclusion?

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Can you maybe write down the reasons why that's, that's your answer.

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The answer is yes, Jack.

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It seemed like it took forever to go by.

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Can you write down what you think are the reasons why?

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Here's the reason why when something seems like it takes a long time,

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it usually means that there's some form of idleness or stagnation.

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That is either either bad or imposed upon us imposed by that.

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I mean, you were stuck at a really boring job.

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Your job was to watch the clock.

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I mean, I mean, that'd kill you.

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Or how about this?

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It's been a year of sickness.

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And when you listen, you know, 24 hours feels like 96 hours when you're sick,

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especially at night.

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Have you noticed how night hours when you're sick seem to be like three days long?

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It has to do with physical time and us being

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soul or mind and spirit creations of God.

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So when we talk about times and seasons, notice for many of us,

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I know for myself, as this year ends and a new year begins,

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I feel like it is still May or June of this last year.

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My mind has not caught up to the pace that I lived.

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And I'm still trying to process if that's good or bad.

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But business causes things to evaporate so much, so fast.

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Now normally the rule to all things is finding a balance.

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But I have yet to find an individual nor myself that can look back over the year

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and say, you know what, I managed out the important stuff, the urgent stuff,

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the leisure stuff and the work stuff.

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I managed it so perfect it came out just so great.

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I've never heard of such a thing.

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If you have that secret, you don't need to send it to me because I'm not going to believe you.

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Times in the seasons are something that we need to always make sure that we leave in the hands of God

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by placing it first into the hands of God.

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The Bible tells us in Isaiah 9 verse 6 regarding Messiah that he is the father of time.

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That is, that's Jesus is the father or the governor.

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He's the authority over time itself.

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I find it just fascinating and wonderful that the book of Romans tells us that God,

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God can redeem our time.

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He gives us that opportunity to redeem time.

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Time that we lost, he gives us the opportunity to reclaim that time with something good.

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But there's times and there's seasons, obviously in the calendar, there's four seasons.

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And within each season, there's a little

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micro seasons within them.

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And in your own life, it's the same way.

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And so I just want you to look back over this last year and ask yourself,

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what do I need to change so I don't do the same thing in the first quarter of this new year?

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Season number one, what do I need to do different?

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How do I need to slow down?

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Now, I know if you're anything like me slowing down seems like a sin.

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It's like somebody says, you need to take a break.

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I'll get the behind me Satan.

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How terrible.

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How can you talk like that?

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And yet, they're right and I'm wrong.

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Even though I feel like I'm right and I feel like they're very wrong, most often they're,

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they're probably right.

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That's why God has given us seasons.

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The summer is long daylight time for a reason.

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The winter months are shorter and darker longer for a reason.

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Ask the Lord this year, what is it that not does he want you to accomplish for the year?

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Ask him, Lord, what do you want me to accomplish in this season for my life?

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And then secondly, I wrote down this note, all these are notes to myself

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that there's God and that there's me and to ask the question, what time is it?

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God, what time is it from your perspective?

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Because I can tell you what time it is from my perspective.

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So for me personally, now granted, this is me.

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You use you and I will use me moving forward into the new year.

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I ask myself what time it is and I look around and I'll be very, very honest with you.

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I'll be very transparent.

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I look and I see that whatever's happening seems to be happening very quickly.

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So I assume it's going to be true for the new year.

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And I also have a sense of great urgency.

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In other words, in my mind and in my actions, granted at my age, maybe I've never,

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it's never been this late before for me.

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Maybe everybody my age thinks this way, but I'm just now arriving at my age.

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And so I'm thinking things like I need to start giving stuff away.

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You see what, what, what, what, what I mean by that is this.

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My grandsons love my model airplane collection that I have.

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And so I've noticed this last year the joy and the desire to give each of my grandsons,

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my granddaughter doesn't care about airplanes, but my grandsons freak about airplanes.

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I've been giving the those cherished models to them and I'm happy about it.

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Why? Because I've lived my life.

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They're living their lives.

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And so for me, I sense and feel this transitional type of season that I'm in.

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I realize that coming up in January, I'll be 68 years old.

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Will I be healthy for the next five years or 10 years?

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I don't know.

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Will I be healthy for the next month?

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I don't know.

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Only God knows.

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But I've got to be thinking this way, putting together the times and the seasons and asking God

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what He wants from me, what time is it between God and I.

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I think that's a good question to ask yourself.

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Lord, what time is it between you and I?

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How much time do I have?

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You're not going to tell me the day.

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I know that those that you keep to your own private trust God.

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I understand.

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But can you make my life because you know all things?

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Can you make my life matter and make the minutes in the hours matter?

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Now, friend, listen to me.

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I'm going to say something that is going to hit you right between the eyes.

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And I mean to do this.

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Are you?

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I'm assuming you're a Christian.

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If you spend, if you spend an hour every day playing games, video games, gaming,

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that's a lost time that will never come back.

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And it was a big fat zero for kingdom expansion and kingdom purposes.

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I don't think I'm obsessive over this.

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But I've only got limited days of my life.

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In fact, count how many weekends you have left in your life.

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There's 52 weekends a year.

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How many weekends do you have left?

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Think about that.

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How many Christmases will there be?

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How many Mondays will there be for you?

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Because you and I don't know.

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I actually know people who they say they know Jesus,

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but they actually spend hours gaming and and and playing playing on these things.

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And the church needs them.

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And they're not and they need to use their gifts for the kingdom.

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They need to be active about God's stuff.

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So God, what time is it?

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Is the question I want to ask myself in this new year.

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And then the third thing is, and I wrote this down this way.

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It's always, you know, this thing at New Year's Eve, what's your resolution, dude?

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You know, they never work.

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And then you tell somebody, I'm going to lose five pounds this year.

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And whatever it might be, I'm going to quit smoking or I'm going to stop this or I'm going

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to start the other.

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Okay, you jack up your expectations and then before the end of January, you're all

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crushing depressed because you failed.

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What I want to encourage you to do is to seek the Lord and apply Psalm 65 11,

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knowing that he's got the path for you to walk on and it's going to drip with abundance.

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That he has ordered the year and he's ordered goodness for you.

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Why don't you listen?

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Why don't you and I look for that goodness instead of goofing around?

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Let's look for the goodness and let's look for the paths that drip with abundance.

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Psalm 65 11 because friends listen, people will say, yeah, yeah, I'm going to reset my year.

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Yep, it's the New Year. I'm going to press reset.

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Hmm, I don't think I was going to work or I'm going to rewind.

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I'm going to rewind and do it over.

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Are you sure you want to do that?

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Because even if you had a great year past, what if God wants to have this year to be greater

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or different, better?

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Don't rewind, don't hit reset, don't rewind, renew, renew. Come to this new year and say,

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according to the Bible, everything that is past is behind me.

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Everything that is before me, I'm going to press on into seeking God.

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He's promised to go before me with his goodness and he's going to bless the path that I'm on if I follow him.

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I am aggressively taking on January 1st to walk for the glory of God and I'm going to be looking

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for God to do amazing things. You say, well, Jack, I'm 92 years old.

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But hey, so what? You can do something radical that God has ordained for you at 92 years of age.

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If you don't ask, it ain't going to happen. And as long as your heart's beating,

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there's something that God wants you to do. Don't sit it out. There's no such thing as being a

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spectator Christian. I'm going to go with renew. So here's the deal so far. God, you control the

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times in the seasons. I want you to dial down on my life and extract out of me not only the season

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that is before me, but the minutes and the hours of the times within the season. Lord,

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what time is it according to you? Because I know what time it is according to me and that doesn't

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go well. So God, I want you to let me know what time it is and by using my life. And I'm going to

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go with renewal. I'm going to renew my commitment. And I'm a big fan of this. You don't have to do this.

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But I like being connected with some sort of physical memorial. I need a physical memorial because

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I forget things. Um, I also like physical memorials because I like to be able to point and say

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right there. So for example, if you drive down PCH coast highway here in Southern California,

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if you come to the, if you come to coast highway and orange street and Newport Beach. So if you

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just come over the river, if you're in Huntington and you come over the river, crossing over the river

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Tiction and Newport Beach, the first stop light is going to be orange streets. All of my kids,

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all of my grandkids know that here's what they think too. I already know this. Oh, boy.

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Here we are. We're all in the, we're all in the SUV together. We're all driving together. Okay.

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And we're coming up on orange street and here it is. He's going to say it any second. Three, two, one.

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And I'm going to say, Hey, everybody, look to your right. Look to your right. See those

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volleyball nets on the beach right there, right there. Boom. Right there. Did you see that?

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That's where I met your mom. That's where I met your grandma way back in

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1878. Right there.

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When we go to Coronado Island, there's a, there's Bonifaceata restaurant. If you've never been there,

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you have never had Italian food. Period. On Coronado Island, Bonifaceata,

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you can't go to Bonifaceata and have Italian food without me telling you, this used to be my dad's

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shop. This restaurant used to be my dad's automotive repair center here on Coronado Island after

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the Marine Corps. There's these monuments. And in Chino Hills, up on one of the high hills,

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is the city, well, it became the city's logo. At the time, it was not the city's logo. It's a giant

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old two to 300 year old oak tree. It's massive. The whole canopy of that tree, you can, you can take

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my house and put it under that tree and that tree would cover the house. Awesome. And yes,

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when the city became a city, it adopted that as it's logo, but that place holds massive significance

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for Lisa and I. It also holds significant for me personally. When I would go up, open my Bible,

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seek the Lord, watch the sun come up and ask him, Lord, I need an answer on what I need to do about

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this, that, or the other thing. Monument places are very, very significant. Why don't you make

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this year, maybe January 1st, who knows what? I don't know when you're seeing this. It doesn't

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matter. Go find a place and make a monument out of it. I like that. And then I want to kind of

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issue this warning before we begin to rep this up. So the other day, I was on a program. I forget

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what program it was. And something popped up in my head for me was radical. Maybe for you,

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you've heard this a thousand times, but for me, it was, it was new. And the gentleman was asking me about

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how do we in this day and age decipher what's true and what's false? And I told him, I said,

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without the Holy Spirit and knowledge of the Bible, you're not going to make it.

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I honestly believe that I honestly believe that if you do not have the Holy Spirit in your life

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as a believer, and if you're not reading your Bible, you will not be able to navigate this new year.

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Here's the reason why. And this is what I think for me is an epiphany.

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What can you believe? What's real out there now anymore? And you see how important this is?

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Sun Su, the great Chinese war philosopher, said,

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in part of winning the victory against your enemy to conquer him, get him to believe that you're

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not at war with him. When you're nearby, make him thank you far away. And when you are very far

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away, make him thank you or nearby. There's a lot of wisdom in that book, the art of war.

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But listen to this. I see Satan's plan, don't you? If you don't know what you're looking, hearing

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or seeing, watching, viewing is real or not, then the days have reached a point where

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if it were possible, God's own very elect would be deceived. Because listen, Satan has flooded

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the market with lie, false videos, false. Look, I just found out last night from somebody visiting

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our church. They were visiting from Holland. And they told me last night, hey, did you know that

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you teach an Arabic in Holland? You're on the radio there. I said, no, or not. They said, yes,

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you are. And not only are you. But when you're on this broadcast, you never mentioned the word

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Jew. It's an Arabic Palestinian. You never mentioned you. You never mentioned Israel. It's always

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Palestine. And you never mentioned Jerusalem. You always mentioned Ayila Kapitalina, all of it Arabic.

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Someone has stolen our broadcast in Holland and has put it up somewhere and is making me say

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things that are not true in an act of deception. All the enemy is doing now is flooding the market

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with information. If it's false, who cares if it's false? Because if everything is somewhat false,

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how are you going to find the proverbial needle in the haystack and the needle being truth and

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the haystack being false? How are you going to find that truth? You're not going to be able to find it.

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Only the Holy Spirit will be able to find it for you. Folks, we live in a dangerous day.

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Moving into this new year, assume what you are looking hearing at is false, but you've got to find

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out where the truth is. It doesn't mean you quit because, listen, Satan flooding the lies that are

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out there makes it harder to find the truth. Because when somebody does find the truth,

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they've been conditioned to think it's a lie. Does it make sense? I hope it does.

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And then finally this, I mentioned it a little bit earlier. And that is leaving our past truly behind.

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You see, Jack, I heard you guys talk like that before, leaving the things that are behind and

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press forward in the pursuit of Christ. Yes, yes. I'm not asking you to become ignorant of

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your past. I'm not asking you to deny your past. When the Bible tells you, forget those things

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that are behind. The word means stop letting the things that past control you. Forget means to

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put off to the side. Not forget like it never happened. If you were beat up, divorced,

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molested, robbed, hurt, bruised, broken, battered this last year, you'll never forget that.

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You're going to always have to seek to forgive those who did that to you every day, maybe.

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But it means don't let it control you. Don't let those things control you anymore. It doesn't

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mean deny them or act like they never happen. Yeah, you Christian just sweep stuff under the carpet.

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No, no, no, no, that is not true. Bring it up, deal with it, and learn from it.

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Which takes us forward. The greatest way to experience success this year with Christ is to have

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learned from our mistakes of this last year. What is it that I almost fell prey to?

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What is it that I felt was the right thing to do, boy, that it turned out to be the wrong thing?

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How did I learn not to listen to everybody's voice but to be still and calm and listen for that

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still small voice? What about this in the economy or this regarding sports or my children or

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activities or family or marriage? What did I learn? What did I learn from last year that I want to

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bring into this new year? And certainly things that I want to leave in the year behind and not

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bring forward, but renew. You need to think these things through. I know that as podcasts go,

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this is a short one. But if you actually played this and hit pause and wrote things down,

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that would really help. In fact, I want to encourage you right now as we begin to wrap things up.

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I would encourage you to subscribe, please, by subscribing. You really help us out because it has

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media world works. Just subscribe. I'm not asking you to love me or to send me money. Just

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subscribe means, hey, gotcha. I'm listening or I responded to your request. It doesn't commit

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you to anything. And then I would just love. I've been very derelict to tell you this,

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but I'm going to try to make sure this happens more and more. I would love for you to download

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free. And there is great content that we have there for you 24, 7, 365. And I've brought a lot

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of my good friends in on that app. And there's some great teaching. And I think you might like it.

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Go ahead. Download Real Life Network app. Open it up. Take a look and see. And there's some kids

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programming there as well that you might really, really enjoy. And so just wrapping this up folks,

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listen, we're going to pray right now together. We're going to dedicate. We're going to dedicate

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this year to God. All right. Are you ready? Here we go. Heavenly Father, we come before you in the name

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of Jesus, in the name of the Word of God, in the name of the logos, the Alpha and the Omega that

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began in the end, the first and the last. We come to you, Lord, pray in your Word, your Bible.

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And you have told us in Psalm 65 11 that you will crown the year with your goodness and your

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paths will drip with abundance. So Lord, we want to walk an obedience. We want to walk as the old,

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as the old era used to say, we want to walk under the spout where the glory comes out.

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Well, Lord, we want to walk with you where you're at. We want to do this when you said, come,

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follow me. We're asking you, Lord, to make sure that we are doing exactly that. And if this year,

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our hearts become tempted to not be willing to do that, we're asking you in advance

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to stop that for us and let the will of our heart be changed that we might be in hot pursuit

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of you, the living God. As we dedicate ourselves to you in this new year, we ask you to come upon us

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with the power of your Holy Spirit to fill us afresh with your spirit, the epi,

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anointing, the epi in the Greek language, the coming upon of the power of the spirit of God

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that we might live for you, Lord Jesus. And it's in your name, we pray, and all God's people said,

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Amen. Amen. God bless you. Happy and holy new year to all of you.

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