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Speaker 1: I hope you and your family are having a great summer. Victorian.

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Speaker 1: I are praying for you, believe in for God's very

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Speaker 1: best in your life, and it's always my pleasure to

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Speaker 1: be able to share a message with you. I hope

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Speaker 1: you're encouraged and inspired today. Thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: This is a special service of healing and unity and

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Speaker 1: we're honored to have you with us. Can like to

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Speaker 1: hold up your bibles. Let's say it like we mean it.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about I will not fear.

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Speaker 1: There are so many opportunities to live anxious and afraid.

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Speaker 1: You watch the news and see accidents, threats and violence.

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Speaker 1: There's war in the Middle East, viruses, the pandemic, even

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Speaker 1: what happened here at Lakewood. These times that shake us

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Speaker 1: to the core. They can strike panic and uncertainty. There

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Speaker 1: are certain forces that would love for us to shrink

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Speaker 1: from trusting to trouble, from knowing that God's on the throne,

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Speaker 1: to wondering what's going to happen? Are my children safe

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Speaker 1: at school? Or what if I come down with the virus?

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Speaker 1: What if there's another incident at work? David said in

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Speaker 1: Psalm twenty three, though I walk through the valley of

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Speaker 1: shadowy days, some dark valleys where we don't understand what's happened.

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Speaker 1: For people have done us wrong and we feel violated,

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Speaker 1: or a medical report is not good, a child is

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Speaker 1: off course and it's causing so much heartache. These shadowy

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Speaker 1: times come to us all. But David didn't stop there.

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Speaker 1: He didn't just talk about the problem. Yes, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be trouble, threats, just do your best.

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Speaker 1: He went on to say, though I walk through the

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Speaker 1: a statement of faith. Yes, darkness may come, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not giving in to fear. There may be trouble all

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Speaker 1: but I will not fear. If you're going to stay

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Speaker 1: you're going to have to put your foot down and say,

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Speaker 1: with David, I will not fear. Because fear is going

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Speaker 1: to keep knocking at the door. What if it happens again,

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Speaker 1: What if something goes wrong at school? What if you

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Speaker 1: come down with that illness that your father had. When

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Speaker 1: fear knocks, you have to answer with faith, I will

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we won't feel fear, because fear

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Speaker 1: is a human in emotion. I'm saying, don't let that

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Speaker 1: you quit living, You quit going after your dreams, you

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Speaker 1: quit enjoying your family. You're too worried on edge of

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Speaker 1: what might happen, what could go wrong. That's a spirit

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Speaker 1: of fear trying to keep you from your destiny. And

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Speaker 1: the scripture says God hasn't given us that spirit of fear,

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Speaker 1: but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

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Speaker 1: The first thing God gave us to combat that fear

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Speaker 1: hope this goes away. Know when it comes to fear,

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Speaker 1: you have to be bold. I will not fear. And yes,

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Speaker 1: someone tried to bring harm at church, but we will

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Speaker 1: not fear. We will not let the enemy use an

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Speaker 1: in the palm of God's hands. Nothing can snatch you

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Speaker 1: forces of darkness cannot take you out, no person, no accident,

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Speaker 1: no sickness, no calamity. But in life there will be

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Speaker 1: these defining moments where things happen that can shift us

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Speaker 1: your life to worrying through life. That's where we are

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Speaker 1: at at Lakewood. This troubled woman came in and tried

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Speaker 1: We could shrink back, but man, it's dangerous. Let's hide

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Speaker 1: our light. Let's just go under the radar. Now. This

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Speaker 1: for our God is stronger, Our God is greater. Our

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Speaker 1: God is more powerful. God being for us is more

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Speaker 1: It's time to renew our commitment to God, Renew our

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Speaker 1: Let this be a time to stir your faith and

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Speaker 1: move forward and not shrink back. You're not here by accident.

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Speaker 1: God chose you to be here at this time in history.

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Speaker 1: He didn't choose the ninety members that started Lakewood back

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Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty nine to experience what we've experienced. He

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Speaker 1: didn't choose my father and that generation. He raised up

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Speaker 1: the pain. Nothing this happened is too much for you. You

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Speaker 1: are armed with strength for this battle. There is a

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Speaker 1: enemy cannot cross. The enemy is not in control of

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Speaker 1: he can do whatever he wants No. Nothing happens without

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Speaker 1: God's permission. When Satan wanted to test job, he said, God,

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Speaker 1: of fate. Happenstance. I hope I don't get harmed. It's dangerous.

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Speaker 1: because God doesn't stop everything, but he will give you

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Speaker 1: hand of God pushing back darkness. Say it is not

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Speaker 1: you that you didn't even know about. He stopped that

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Speaker 1: You never knew anything about it, but His hand of

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Speaker 1: your battles. Who's holding back the darkness? Then you can

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Speaker 1: in my time of trouble, God will hide me. That's

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Speaker 1: what God did for us last Sunday he hit us.

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Speaker 1: Where would we be without the mercy and protection of

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Speaker 1: Now I have never come out of an attack without

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Speaker 1: going to a new level, seeing new opportunities, having greater

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Speaker 1: faith and greater confidence. And really, this is the biggest

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Speaker 1: challenge in Lakewood sixty five year history. This tells me

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Speaker 1: that God is up to something big. He's about to

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Speaker 1: do a new thing, not just for us as a ministry,

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Speaker 1: but in your life. You're about to step into greater influence,

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Speaker 1: greater favor, greater wisdom, greater confidence, greater resources. David said,

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Speaker 1: though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death,

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Speaker 1: been through. You got a good reason to be afraid,

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Speaker 1: bitter stress. No God said he would give you beauty

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Speaker 1: to cast down wrong imaginations, don't let them keep playing.

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Speaker 1: Just like the remote control for your television, if you

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Speaker 1: don't like a program, you just click and change the channel.

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Speaker 1: When fear comes, switch over into faith. When negative memories

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Speaker 1: people who are blessed, strong, healthy, generous, victorious. Jesus told

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Speaker 1: Have you noticed sheep don't live worried. I've never seen

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Speaker 1: significant that David was a shepherd. He had spent years

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Speaker 1: He knew the most High was watching after him. When

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Speaker 1: and remind yourself. The Lord is my shepherd. The God

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