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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I just want to take a moment before we jump

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Speaker 2: into the word. Anybody excited to get into.

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Speaker 3: The scripture today? We're going to open up God's Word, but.

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Speaker 2: Two things. I want to pray for. Anybody that needs

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Speaker 2: a miracle today. Anybody that needs healing today. Anybody that

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Speaker 2: needs finances.

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Speaker 3: You know the Bible says Our Lord God, nothing is

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Speaker 3: too difficult for you.

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Speaker 2: If you've got a prodigal today, I know the God

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Speaker 2: that can wake them up with kindness. If you've got

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Speaker 2: a situation, I know the God that can remove that

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Speaker 2: mountain and put it into the sea.

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Speaker 3: Come on, anybody believe today that God is who he

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Speaker 3: says he is. Anybody have faith that he can do

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Speaker 3: what he said he would do.

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Speaker 2: Come on, clap let's move done some faith and thanksgiving today.

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Speaker 3: Do me a favor. If you need a miracle, just

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Speaker 3: lift your hand. Lord. We thank you for your grace,

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Speaker 3: We thank you for your power.

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Speaker 2: We trust not in riches or mammon, or chariots or horsemen,

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Speaker 2: but our trust is in the name of the Lord.

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Speaker 2: We thank you God that you are who you say

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Speaker 2: you are and you can accomplish what concerns us.

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Speaker 3: Today. We cast all of our cares onto you because

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Speaker 3: we know you care for us. In the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: And everybody said together, come on, clap one more time

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Speaker 2: and thank God.

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Speaker 3: Come on Elevation twenty years, twenty years. And I just

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Speaker 3: want to say, thank God for Elevation Church.

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Speaker 2: Thank God for all that He's done in this place.

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Speaker 2: Thank God for all that He's done through this place.

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Speaker 2: And the Bible says not to us, not to us be.

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Speaker 3: The glory, but to his name.

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Speaker 2: Can we give God some glory for twenty years of

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Speaker 2: his faithfulness. Come on, anybody believe the best is yet

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Speaker 2: to come for Elevation Church. And I just want to say,

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Speaker 2: thank God, not just for Elevation Church, but anybody. Love

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Speaker 2: your pastors today, Pastor Stephen and Holly Fernick.

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Speaker 3: Come on, oh, come on, you can clap louder than

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Speaker 3: that today if you love your.

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Speaker 4: Mine goodness.

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Speaker 2: We thank God for pastors Stephen the Holly. Thank God

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Speaker 2: for their faithfulness, for their continual yes. Anybody could say

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Speaker 2: yes for one year or maybe ten, but twenty years

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Speaker 2: of faithfulness, serving, giving, preaching, writing.

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Speaker 3: Oh, come on this give honor where honor is due

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Speaker 3: to our pastors today, Thank you God for pastors Stephen

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Speaker 3: and Hommy. And you know they've just been out on tour.

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Speaker 3: They've been out on tour.

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Speaker 2: They're sewing into Chicago, sewing into New York. I believe

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Speaker 2: they were in Columbus, Ohio, sewing in. You know, I've

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Speaker 2: always believed that when you sow into somebody else's field,

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Speaker 2: you're going to reap it in your own. And I

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Speaker 2: pray that we would be a church that covers them

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Speaker 2: in prayer. Amen, Why don't we take a moment and

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Speaker 2: pray for our pastors right now?

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Speaker 3: Lord, We thank you for our leaders, our pastors that

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Speaker 3: you've given to us. What a gift to have pastors

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Speaker 2: We pray that their soul would be refreshed, their soul

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Speaker 2: would be encouraged, thank you God for protection over their home,

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Speaker 2: over their children. We thank you that you're speaking to them,

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Speaker 2: giving them vision, dreams, allow signs and wonders and miracles

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Speaker 2: to continue to break out through their ministry. We think

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Speaker 2: we just bless them today. We thank you God for

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Speaker 2: the gifts of our pastors in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 3: And everybody said.

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Speaker 2: Come on one more time, clapping, Thank God, do me

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Speaker 5: woke up on time today. You woke up on time today.

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Speaker 5: You woke up You ain't late. You woke up on

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Speaker 5: time today. Go to the Book of Numbers, chapter twenty one.

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Speaker 3: If you have a Bible number is twenty one. Again.

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Speaker 3: My name is Chad. I live in La. I'm blessed.

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Speaker 2: Any married people here in the house today?

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Speaker 2: This was his first time being up without his mom

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Speaker 2: right there, clapp and thank God for my God.

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Speaker 3: I love you so much. I love you so much.

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Speaker 2: Number twenty one, go there in your Bible. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: go to the Old Testament today.

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Speaker 2: Then they journeyed from Mount Horror by the way of

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Speaker 2: So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and

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Speaker 3: I want to preach a message today right down the title.

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Speaker 2: It's called on My Way Back, On My Way Back,

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Speaker 2: And I just want to tell you today, I don't

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Speaker 3: anybody thankful that it's never too late with God. You're

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Speaker 3: we serve the God that welcomes you home with open arms.

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Speaker 3: On my way back, I just like this idea because

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Speaker 2: I start my diet again. Who am I preaching to

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Speaker 2: Every Monday morning, I'm like, you know what, maybe tomorrow

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Speaker 2: Mondays ago, a few Mondays ago, I was in that

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Speaker 2: a sign Chad's four hundredth workout, And I was like,

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Speaker 2: what a welcome back sign. This is amazing. I had

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Speaker 2: always loves to welcome his children home. See God never

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Speaker 2: Come on clap today if you're thankful for the grace

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Speaker 2: I love this story in number twenty because really it's

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Speaker 2: It says that they were on the way to eat them,

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Speaker 2: it said on the way they became impatience. Have you

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Speaker 2: Like God's timetable is different than your timetable. I want

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Speaker 2: Oh, come on, give him a praise today. If you

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Speaker 2: believe that about God, I'm gonna give you four things

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Speaker 2: thing God.

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Speaker 3: Deals with me as I come back is he deals

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Speaker 3: trust in the timing of the Lord. See, I love

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Speaker 2: Ways are above your ways, My thoughts are above you

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Speaker 3: God knows the end from the beginning. He is the

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Speaker 3: Alpha and the Omega. We believe that God is sovereign

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Speaker 3: and seated on the throne. And God knows just what

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Speaker 3: Anybody thankful today that God will supply all of your

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Speaker 2: To his glory. Oh, I love Isaiah forty put on

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Speaker 2: Today, God deals with my discouragement. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: turned into shingles, and I got shingles right here on

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Speaker 2: my ear, and so I go into the urgent care

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Speaker 2: and I was in so much pain, and I was

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Speaker 2: in pain in my in my body, I was in

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Speaker 2: pain in my soul. And I went in the lady.

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Speaker 2: She said, sir, you have shingles. It comes from stress.

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Speaker 2: She said, are you stressed about anything? Well, I'm a

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Speaker 2: man of God, so I said no, And she said,

447
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Speaker 2: surely you must be stressed about something.

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Speaker 3: I'm a man of confession. I said no, I'm not

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Speaker 3: stressed about anything. She said, well, your body says contrary,

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Speaker 3: and I'll never forget feeling discouraged. You got to be

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Speaker 3: careful with discouragement because discouragement will turn into rebellion. You

452
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Speaker 3: notice what they did.

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Speaker 2: They started to complain of against God and they started

454
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Speaker 2: to complain against their pastor. It's never encouraged people that

455
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Speaker 2: complain against God and their pastor. It's discouraged people. And

456
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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you guard your heart when you feel discouraged.

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Speaker 2: That's why it's so important that you put on the

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Speaker 2: Word of God in your house. It's why it's so

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Speaker 2: important that you listen to elevation worship. You listen to

460
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Speaker 2: elevation rhythm, and you get the spirit of faith and

461
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Speaker 2: the spirit of worship into your house, and you say,

462
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Speaker 2: no weapon that's formed against me is going to prosper.

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Speaker 2: And every tongue that rises against me in judgment I

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Speaker 2: will condemn. I am more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus.

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Speaker 3: I'm the head and not the tale. I am a

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Speaker 3: chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a marvelous life. Come on,

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Speaker 3: clap and give God praise. That you might not have

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Speaker 3: what you want to have, You might not be where

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Speaker 3: you want to be, But come on, clap and thank

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Speaker 3: God you not where you're used to be. Come on,

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Speaker 3: has God been good and faithful and generous to any Oh?

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Speaker 3: Come on, let the redeem of the Lord say so.

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Speaker 3: Give him a shut of praise today if you're grateful

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Speaker 3: to God, you gotta be careful with discouragement. You gotta

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Speaker 3: be careful with seasons of frustration, because what I noticed

476
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Speaker 3: about God. God loves to take us along the long way.

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Speaker 3: He loves to take us on the path of much resistance.

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Speaker 3: He loves to develop his character.

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Speaker 2: Let me preach to somebody. God loves you just the

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Speaker 2: way you are. He just loves you wait too much

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Speaker 2: to leave you that way. God's working something inside of you.

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Speaker 3: God's developing something that's lacking. God's straining you. First, come on,

483
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Speaker 3: clap and praise him today. God's doing something, and he

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Speaker 3: who has begun a good work, we'll be faithful to

485
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Speaker 3: complete it. You want to know what's crazy about the

486
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Speaker 3: story in numbers twenty one. They were fresh off of victory.

487
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Speaker 3: They were fresh off a w.

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Speaker 2: They had just had a win by taking that one.

489
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Speaker 3: The Kings, and yet there was frustration.

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Speaker 2: Just because you saw a win last year doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get an automatic victory this year.

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Speaker 3: You gotta be patient with the Lord. You gotta trust

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Speaker 3: God's perfect timing. God is in control, seated on the throne.

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Speaker 3: And if God before you, who can be against you,

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Speaker 3: give them a praise and so and so the soul

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Speaker 3: of the people became very discouraged. And they're so discouraged

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Speaker 3: that the result of the discouragement. I don't know what

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Speaker 3: you do when you're discouraged. I usually go to McDonald's

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Speaker 3: for mcclurry's and so. But what they did.

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Speaker 2: What they did was they complained against God, and they

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Speaker 2: complained against Moses. Because a lot of times, what usually

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Speaker 2: all that energy will result in taking it out on

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Speaker 2: your leaders, my good shepherd and the shepherd that God's.

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Speaker 3: Placed over me.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just I'm just asking you, when you're discourag reached,

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Speaker 2: run to the house of God. When you're discouraged, get

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Speaker 2: around somebody that will refresh you and lay hands on

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Speaker 2: you and pray for you. As iron sharpens iron, so

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Speaker 2: one man sharpens another. Come on, I gotta get around

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Speaker 2: the people of God. I got to get around some worshippers.

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Speaker 2: Anybody grateful for your.

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Speaker 3: Godly friends today, come on, clap and thank God for

513
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Speaker 3: the ones that I pray for you. I was talking

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Speaker 3: to this man of God recently and we laid hands

515
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Speaker 3: and prayed for him, and he said, you don't know

516
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Speaker 3: how long I've longed.

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Speaker 2: For somebody to pray for me. Get you some friends

518
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Speaker 2: that you know. I don't like when people apologize.

519
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Speaker 3: Like, hey, you know, I just I hate to be spiritual,

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Speaker 3: but can I pray for you? It's like, yes, you

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Speaker 3: could pray for me. We're going through hell on earth.

522
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Speaker 3: We need somebody to lay hands and PROPHESI and tell

523
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Speaker 3: me that God has for mea with me. And the

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Speaker 3: soul of the people became very discouraged, and they started

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Speaker 3: to speak against God and Moses. And as they're speaking

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Speaker 3: against God and Moses, the Lord sent some snakes. I

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Speaker 3: don't know how you feel about snakes, but they're my

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Speaker 3: biggest fear. Some are afraid of spiders, some are afraid

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Speaker 3: of the dark. Some are afraid of close talkers, some

530
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Speaker 3: are afraid of bad breath. I'm afraid of snakes. I

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Speaker 3: don't care if they're on the ground or in the plane.

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid of snakes.

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Speaker 2: And the Lord send snakes to bite them, and all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, they're dealing with a snake bite. And

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Speaker 2: as they're dealing with a snake bite, they.

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Speaker 3: Realize, oh no, we done messed up. And so they

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Speaker 3: come back to Moses and they say Moses, we have

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Speaker 3: sinned against you and against God. Please forgive us right

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Speaker 3: down number three today.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes God will deal with your confession. I've got to

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Speaker 2: confess my sins. I've got to listen. If you can

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Speaker 2: name it, God can heal it. But until you can

543
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Speaker 2: come clean about that thing that you're dealing with, and

544
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Speaker 2: till you can be open about that struggle that you've

545
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Speaker 2: been going through, God touch what you're not willing to reveal.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says the man that conceals his sin, we'll

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Speaker 2: not prosper. Oh, I love what the Bible says in Psalm.

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Speaker 3: Fifty one, for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin

549
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Speaker 3: is always before me against you and you alone?

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Speaker 2: Have I sin and done this evil in your sight?

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Speaker 2: What about first John one to nine, If we.

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Speaker 3: Confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive

553
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Speaker 3: us of our sins and to cleanse us from all

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Speaker 3: Was that word right there, unrighteousness? If I want to

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Speaker 3: put an emphasis right there on the word, If if

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Speaker 3: we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to

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Speaker 3: forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from

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Speaker 3: all unrighteousness.

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Speaker 2: I like this thing, confession we've got to confess. You

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Speaker 2: know where confession comes from.

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Speaker 3: Conviction leads to confession when you feel the conviction of God.

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Speaker 3: These guys looked at these snake bites.

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Speaker 2: They said, oh no, we end it's one thing to

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Speaker 2: have a mosquito bite. God's messing with you when you

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Speaker 2: get a snake bite. And they said, we need to

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Speaker 2: confess our sin. We need to be honest about our transgressions.

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Speaker 2: You are only as sick as your secrets. Your authority

568
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Speaker 2: is in your authenticity. And when you get real with God,

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Speaker 2: God already saw it. God already knows about it.

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Speaker 3: God never looks away when you and I make mistakes.

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Speaker 3: His face is set a flint.

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Speaker 2: And when you feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 2: anybody thankful today for the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 3: Conviction shows me you're alive. Conviction shows me God's still

575
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Speaker 3: working with you. Remember, you got to be careful with conviction,

576
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Speaker 3: because if you do something once, you gonna feel bad.

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Speaker 2: But if you don't talk about it, you do it again,

578
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Speaker 2: you're gonna feel kind of bad. You do it a third.

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Speaker 3: Time, you ain't gonna feel nothing. What keeps your conviction

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Speaker 3: is your confession.

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Speaker 2: When I come before the Lord, and I say, Lord,

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Speaker 2: I've sin and fallen short of the glory of God.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the Blood of Jesus, Thank you for

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Speaker 2: the Cross of Christ. Thank you for a new beginning

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Speaker 2: and a second chance. Think you that you always make

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Speaker 2: a way for me to come back to your house.

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Speaker 3: Come on clap and give God praise if you believe

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Speaker 3: that he's the God of second, third, fourth, fifth, Come

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Speaker 3: on clap if you believe he's the God of second chances.

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Speaker 3: Today and I want to encourage you to get good

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Speaker 3: at confession, get good at naming the thing that could

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Speaker 3: have power or stronghold over you.

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Speaker 2: But the moment you confess the blood, the moment you

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Speaker 2: confess it to God, it loses all his sting, He

595
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Speaker 2: loses all his power. If you can name it, God

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Speaker 2: can heal it. I'll never forget. There's this pastor that

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Speaker 2: I really love and respect. He's gone to be with

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Speaker 2: the Lord now, but he's just a.

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Speaker 3: Real righteous, holy, powerful man of God. And he tells

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Speaker 3: this story that one time, early in the morning, he

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Speaker 3: woke up and he called like his second in command,

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Speaker 3: kind of right hand pastor. Early in the morning. I said,

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Speaker 3: there's been an incident. I need you to get over

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Speaker 3: to my house immediately. Something's happened, something bad. And so

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Speaker 3: the associated pastor got in the car and he drove

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Speaker 3: as fast as he could to the pastor's house. And

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Speaker 3: he's thinking in his head, what happened?

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Speaker 7: What did he do?

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Speaker 3: What went on? Is the kids? Is the what happened.

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Speaker 3: And he gets to the pastor's house early in the

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Speaker 3: morning and the pastor opens the front door and he's

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Speaker 3: in his robe and he says, please come in, and

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Speaker 3: he's got communion out. He said, you need to serve

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Speaker 3: communion to me, and you need to pray for me.

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Speaker 3: I've sinned. And the associate pastors thinking, oh no, we

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Speaker 3: lost the church. Oh no, what did you do? Oh

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Speaker 3: my gosh, this is terrible. Oh no. He's like, yes, pastor,

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Speaker 3: of course, and he said, and the pastors really serious,

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Speaker 3: and he goes, last night, I made a mistake. Can

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Speaker 3: I send I ate oreos? And the associate pastors like jus.

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Speaker 2: He's like, but I made a vow to the Lord

622
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Speaker 2: years ago that I would never have another oreo. I

623
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Speaker 2: was thinking, that's a vow I ain't never making in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: That's got between you and the Holy Ghost. I ain't

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Speaker 2: touching that one. You came man, you on another level,

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Speaker 2: man of God. But can you hear the fear of

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Speaker 2: the Lord. Can you hear the closeness to Jesus? Serve

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Speaker 2: me communion? And I did it last night. So I'm

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Speaker 2: confessing the next morning. I have sinned against the Lord.

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Speaker 2: I made a vow. I've got a fulfill a vow.

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Speaker 2: I want you to be quick with your confession. Don't

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Speaker 2: hold off for six months or nine months. The Bible says,

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Speaker 2: repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be

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Speaker 2: he washed away, and times of refreshing will come from

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Speaker 2: the presence of the Lord. When you confess the cross

636
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Speaker 2: and confess the blood of Jesus. There's nothing you've done,

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Speaker 2: There's nothing you've touched. There's no place that you've gone

638
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 2: that My God can't heal. My God can't forgive, My

639
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 2: God can't deliver anybody thankful today for the grace of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: So he deals with my faith in God's timing. He

641
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Speaker 2: deals with my discouragement, he deals with my confession, and

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Speaker 2: then I love this last one.

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Speaker 3: He deals right down the last one. He deals with

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Speaker 3: my obedience. So the Lord says to Moses, Moses, get

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Speaker 3: a fiery snake, and I want you to put it

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Speaker 3: on a pole, and I want you to lift it

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Speaker 3: up high in anybody that looks at this fiery serpent,

648
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Speaker 3: if they look, they will be healed. All throughout the scriptures,

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Speaker 3: God asks people to do stuff that are not conventional,

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Speaker 3: but it will unlock their miracle. Oh, come on, do

651
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Speaker 3: you remember when.

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Speaker 2: Joshua had to walk around Jericho seven times? Do you

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Speaker 2: remember when that man had to dip into the water

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Speaker 2: seven times? Do you remember when the man with the

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Speaker 2: withered hand had to stretch out his hand. Do you

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Speaker 2: remember when the widow had to make the room for

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Speaker 2: the prophet? Do you remember when Abraham had to leave

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Speaker 2: his land? Do you remember when?

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Speaker 3: Come on, everybody through the Bible had to do something

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Speaker 3: to unlock the miracle of God. It all happened through obedience.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says in Philippians chapter two, verse eight, in

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Speaker 2: Jesus being found in appearance as a man, he humbled

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Speaker 2: himself and became obedient to the point of death, even

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Speaker 2: death of the cross. Jesus himself had to humble himself

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Speaker 2: and become obedient even to the point of death and

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Speaker 2: death on the cross.

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 2: One of the things I love about God is that

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Speaker 2: this is a FORESTO. This is a type cast of

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Speaker 2: what's to come.

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Speaker 3: See here.

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Speaker 2: In the Old Testament they lifted up a snake, and

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Speaker 2: the Bible says that if you looked, you would live.

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Speaker 2: But in the New Testament we lift up the son

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Speaker 2: of Man. His name is Jesus, and if you believe,

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Speaker 2: you shall live.

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Speaker 3: In the Old Testament, their cure represented their curse. But

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Speaker 3: in the New Testament, Jesus became the curse for us,

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Speaker 3: and he is now lifted above all names. Anybody thankful

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Speaker 3: today for the grace that's found in Jesus Christ. Oh,

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Speaker 3: come on, clap and give him a praise today. John

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Speaker 3: chapter three, verse thirteen.

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Speaker 2: And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,

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Speaker 2: even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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Speaker 2: that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have

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Speaker 2: eternal life. In the Old Testament, it's look and live.

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Speaker 2: In the New Testament, it's believe in live. In both cases,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna obey. I've gotta do what God said to

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Speaker 2: unlock the miracle of salvation, to unlock the miracle of

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Speaker 2: God's best. And I'll just tell you the Bible says

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Speaker 2: God takes not delight in sacrifice. As much as God

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Speaker 2: loves obedience, God is attracted to your obedience. And sometimes

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Speaker 2: God doesn't give you something new to do until you

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Speaker 2: go back and do the last thing He told you

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 3: And I wonder, how's.

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Speaker 2: Your obedience, because obedience proceeds blessing. Obedience unlocks miracles when

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Speaker 2: you obey the voice of God, when you do what

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Speaker 2: God tells you to do. I'm telling you nothing will

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Speaker 2: unlock the Kingdom of God in your life like obeying

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Speaker 2: the voice of the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Jesus said my voice. My sheep will recognize a stranger's voice.

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Speaker 3: They will not follow.

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Speaker 2: Anybody believed today that God's got a plan for your life.

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Speaker 2: God's got something for you to do.

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Speaker 3: There's a will of God for your There's a will

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Speaker 3: of God for all of us. There's a will of.

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Speaker 4: God for you.

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Speaker 3: And you got to obey. You gotta trust and obey,

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Speaker 3: for there's no other way. I gotta obey God. I

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Speaker 3: gotta say, God, if you want to take me along

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Speaker 3: the long road, if you want it to take as

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Speaker 3: long as the four or five takes to get to

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Speaker 3: eat them. Your will above my will. Not my will

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Speaker 3: be done, but your will.

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Speaker 2: If you want to take me along the way, help

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Speaker 2: me to decrease so that you can increase.

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Speaker 3: And Lord, help me to obey at every turn. Help

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Speaker 3: me to obey in.

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Speaker 2: Every season unless I grow discouraged and I start to complain.

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Speaker 3: These kids, this spouse, some of you today. You don't

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Speaker 3: need a new spouse. You need a new perspective. You

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Speaker 3: need to see this person as the miracle that God.

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Speaker 3: Come on, clap if you believe it.

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Speaker 2: Married people, I gotta see you the way Gods called

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Speaker 2: me to see you.

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Speaker 3: I gotta talk to you the way Gods called me

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Speaker 3: to talk to you. I gotta get all that discouragement.

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Speaker 3: I gotta get all that frustration, and I gotta turn

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Speaker 3: it into praise. And that as some things I gotta confess.

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Speaker 3: I gotta confess that I am a sinner in need

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Speaker 3: of grace. But I confess that you love me and

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Speaker 3: that you're for me, and that you're with me. And

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Speaker 3: I'll bear you no matter what the cost. I'll obey

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Speaker 3: you no matter what you tell me to do. You

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Speaker 3: just think about the Youth Ministry of the Israelites at

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Speaker 3: the time. Now, Mom and Dad like, son, I know

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Speaker 3: this snike big you, but I need you to trust me.

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Speaker 3: Here we're gonna lift it up.

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Speaker 2: I want you to stare at it, son, kids like

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Speaker 2: I'm not looking at the thing that just hurts me. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: a sudden Yet you have to obey because if you obey,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna live. If you obey, you're gonna flourish. And

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Speaker 2: I just want to just tell you about God. God's

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Speaker 2: into your life. God's gonna ask some things of you.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says, the steps of the righteous are ordered

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Speaker 2: by the Lord. God's gotta plan for your life.

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Speaker 3: No eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and

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Speaker 3: no mind can imagine the things that God has in

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Speaker 3: store for those who love Him and are called according

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Speaker 3: to His purpose. God's got a plan for your life,

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Speaker 3: and We're gonna have to obey. Anybody want God's best

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Speaker 3: for your family, anybody want God's best for your life,

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Speaker 3: Come on, clap and give and pray.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to obey.

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Speaker 3: Let's talking to a friend the other day. Let's being

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Speaker 3: the great church.

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Speaker 2: Things are going off, It's growing like crazy, tons of people.

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Speaker 6: The people are.

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Speaker 3: Coming, the money is not.

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Speaker 2: And he felt like the Lord told him, I want

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Speaker 2: you to fast and pray for the finances of the church.

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Speaker 3: Felt like the Lord told him, fast and pray for

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Speaker 3: the finances of this church. He said, if the Lord

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Speaker 3: told me to do it, I gotta do it. So

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Speaker 3: he went on a fast and he started to pray.

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Speaker 2: And when he finished the fast on the last day,

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Speaker 2: his phone rang and it was a man that he

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Speaker 2: hadn't spoke to in nine years. And the man on

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Speaker 2: the other line said, it's crazy. I know we haven't

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Speaker 2: spoken in nine years. But this morning the Lord woke

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Speaker 2: me up and showed me your face. And the Lord

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Speaker 2: spoke to my heart and told me to wire you

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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to your church.

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Speaker 3: Oh, come on, clap if you believe it today.

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Speaker 8: Clap.

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Speaker 3: If you believe that obedience will unlock something.

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Speaker 6: Clap.

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Speaker 3: If you believe that God's ways are better than you ways,

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Speaker 3: come on clip. If you believe he knows the end

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Speaker 3: from the beginning, why do you give God praise? If

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Speaker 3: He's taken you along the long way. I'm gonna wait

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Speaker 3: on you. I'm gonna worship you in the midnight hour.

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Speaker 3: Even when I don't feel like it, even when it

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Speaker 3: doesn't make sense, I will not be discouraged. I will

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Speaker 3: lift up my hands and your sectuary because your love

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Speaker 3: is benefent life. I confess the blood, I confess the

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Speaker 3: h Come on, clipe if you believe it, and I

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Speaker 3: will pay the Lord. I will oh pay.

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Speaker 6: God.

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Speaker 3: Jesus humble himself to the point of death on the cross.

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Speaker 3: That's why God exalted him and gave him the name

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Speaker 3: that is above every name. Oh, come on, if you

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Speaker 3: believe it today, let worship our King. Let's give our

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Speaker 3: God praise. Come on this, worship God together today. Hallelujah.

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Speaker 8: Not this you believe on the pay, We'll lift it

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Speaker 8: up today.

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Speaker 4: Razy, I'm just I'm listening.

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Speaker 7: I'm just.

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Speaker 8: Come on the round. Halley, Luca.

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Speaker 4: Say you have.

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Speaker 7: Says yes, Well.

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Speaker 6: Thank you Jesus, one more day, Thank you Jesus. Hallylujah.

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Speaker 6: Why do you just put your hands out in front

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Speaker 6: of you.

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Speaker 3: Thank God for the way that he's developing you. Thank

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Speaker 3: God today for the path that he's got you on.

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Speaker 3: Thank God for the long road. Just thank God right

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Speaker 3: now for his sovereignty. Thank God for his shepherding the

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Speaker 3: Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.

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Speaker 2: Just give him a praise today in your heart for

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Speaker 2: the goodness of God.

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Speaker 3: Even if you take me along the long path, even if.

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Speaker 2: It takes longer than I ever expected, I'll worship you.

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Speaker 3: I'll wait on you.

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Speaker 2: For those that wait on the Lord, we renew their

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Speaker 2: strength today. I'm not in a hurry, because you're not

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Speaker 2: in a hurry. You're the author of my salvation. You

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Speaker 2: know the beginning from the end. You're the Oup and

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Speaker 2: the old May God. I placed my trust in you today.

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Speaker 2: Forgive me for my discouragement. Forgive me for setting false expectations.

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Speaker 3: Release me. I release gratitude in this house today. If

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Speaker 3: you're thankful the God just slipped up a hand. We

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Speaker 3: release our gratitude. We thank the Lord. Bless the Lord. Lord,

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Speaker 3: Bless the Lord and all that is within me. At

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Speaker 3: all times, I will praise you. Come on, I will

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Speaker 3: thank you without seizing.

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Speaker 2: Make me a worshiper, Make me a true worshiper that

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Speaker 2: will worship you in spirit and in truth.

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Speaker 4: I thank you God.

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Speaker 3: I praise you Lord, that you put on a garment

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Speaker 3: of praise for the spirit of despair that you're trading

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Speaker 3: me beauty for ashes.

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Speaker 9: I thank you for the oil and joy that's landing

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Speaker 9: on my house. I'm thinking that new songs of shoy do,

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Speaker 9: songs of praise and deliverance are coming to my house.

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Speaker 3: I confess my sin. I will not hide. Where can

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Speaker 3: I go from your presence? Where can I hide from you?

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Speaker 3: Even if I try to make my pad in the

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Speaker 3: depths of shee Old. You're there. I think you that

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Speaker 3: your eye is upon your spirrow and I've found my obedience.

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Speaker 3: I'm coming back to the heart of worship. I'm coming

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Speaker 3: back to living for Jesus. I'm running back like the

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Speaker 3: prodigal son. Come on, if you leave it today, lips

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Speaker 3: your voice, lips your hands. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Speaker 8: You mean everything to me.

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Speaker 3: I'm really what I praise you today.

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Speaker 8: Hallelujah, says.

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Speaker 3: Sing that again. One more day. I'm coming back. I'm

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Speaker 3: coming back. I'm coming back. One Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus,

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. God has not quit

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Speaker 3: on you. God's not mad at you. He's madly in

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Speaker 3: love with you. God has no plan B for your life. Today,

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Speaker 3: we're coming back to the heart of worship.

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Speaker 6: This message came to me about a week ago. I

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Speaker 6: was driving in my car.

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Speaker 3: Getting on the four or five, and I didn't have

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Speaker 3: time to do my read through that morning, so I

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Speaker 3: pressed play and it started to read through numbers twenty one,

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Speaker 3: and I heard the word discouraged, and I pressed pause, and.

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Speaker 6: I said, what did you say?

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Speaker 3: Discouraged?

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Speaker 2: And I thought of you, and I thought about today,

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Speaker 2: and I thought there'd be somebody here today that just

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Speaker 2: needs to hear the word of the Lord. Say to

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Speaker 2: you that I'm the God that refreshes souls. I'm the

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Speaker 2: God that will make you lie down in green pastures.

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Speaker 2: I'm the God that will lead you besides still waters.

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Speaker 3: You know what the gospel is.

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Speaker 6: I was wrong.

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Speaker 3: I'm forgiven. I'm restored. I was wrong.

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Speaker 2: I'm forgiven, but thank God, I'm restored today.

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Speaker 4: You know what this story was.

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Speaker 2: I was wrong, but I'm forgiven, and I'm walking out

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Speaker 2: of today restored. Get your gonfidence back, elevation. I can

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Speaker 2: do all things through Who Christ. Through who Christ that

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Speaker 2: strengthens me. So, Lord, we thank you that we're built

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Speaker 2: up in our holy faith. We thank you that you

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Speaker 2: never looked away, because You're God of mercy and compassion,

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Speaker 2: and you send solutions for the Israelites, and you sent

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Speaker 2: solution for us, the son of Man, Jesus, the son

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Speaker 2: of the Living God.

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Speaker 4: And we believe on a day.

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Speaker 2: Like today, through his obedience, we can walk in victory.

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Speaker 2: We pray today that as we celebrate your goodness, we

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Speaker 2: will understand the grace that's found in Christ. We will

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Speaker 2: believe and live because of Jesus. And Jesus, we celebrate

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Speaker 2: your obedience. Thank you that you obeyed the Father, even

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Speaker 2: to the point of death on the cross. Thank you

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Speaker 2: that you obeyed the Father, and you chose us rather

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Speaker 2: than yourself in the same way you obeyed the Father.

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Speaker 2: We want to obey the Father. We want to walk

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Speaker 2: with you and serve you.

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Speaker 3: We love you more than anything else in Jesus' name,

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Speaker 3: And everybody said, together, come on, let's clap and thank

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Speaker 3: God one more time. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 10: this minace. Street is because of you that this ministry

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Speaker 10: Elevation Church.

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Speaker 3: Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 6: God bless you.