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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week.

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Speaker 2: I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 1: Tell the person next to you.

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Speaker 2: I would tell you my testimony, but it would take

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Speaker 2: too long.

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Speaker 1: Tell a man is kind of r rated. If I

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Speaker 1: told you the real.

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Speaker 2: One, you could scale it, couldn't You have VG thirteen?

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Speaker 2: It's good, but we're here today to give God glory.

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Speaker 2: And one thing that I think is so cool about

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Speaker 2: this time of year. This time of year, you're not

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Speaker 2: coming to church because it's a New Year's resolution. This

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Speaker 2: time of year, you're coming to church because of all

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Speaker 2: the Christians in the world, you're in the top one percent.

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Speaker 2: Matter of fact, you come to church the week before

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving and it automatically subtracts fifteen hundred calories off of

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Speaker 2: your meal.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that good to know?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Man, it's gonna be good.

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Speaker 2: Tell the person next to you get a good look

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Speaker 2: at me and take a picture, because I'm gonna be

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Speaker 2: a little heavier next time you see me.

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Speaker 1: I'm planning on bulking a little bit, spulking season.

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Speaker 2: Let's clap our hands and thank God for the worship today.

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Speaker 1: We're also preparing this time of year.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to underscore our year end offering on December tenth.

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Speaker 1: We're excited to be able to give God. You're blessed

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Speaker 1: to be a blessing.

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Speaker 2: I've got my offering ready already, and I'm excited to

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Speaker 2: give it. It's time of year where we say thank

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Speaker 2: you to God for who he's been to us, who

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Speaker 2: he is to us, And we also declare with confidence

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Speaker 2: that the Lord is our helper and we're trusting him

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Speaker 2: in the days to come. Somebody say I trust in God, Well,

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Speaker 2: we say that with our lips. And so the greatest

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Speaker 2: thing we can do is to lean into that. The

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Speaker 2: Bible says, lean not on your own understanding and all

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Speaker 2: So I don't mind giving to God. I don't like

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Speaker 2: paying taxes. I don't like paying even the gas bill,

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Speaker 2: even though I appreciate the heat. But giving to God

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Speaker 2: to build his church and his kingdom, to me is

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Speaker 2: always the greatest joy. And so I thank you in

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Speaker 2: advance all of you who are participating. We're calling in

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Speaker 2: our trust offering because we trust in God and our

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Speaker 2: chance to declare that December tenth is our official offering Sunday.

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Speaker 2: You can go right now if you're online Elevationchurch dot org,

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Speaker 2: and we will believe God with you for great things

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Speaker 2: to come. I decided to preach the end of the year,

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Speaker 2: all the way through the end of the year around

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Speaker 2: our faith. And I know that sounds generic, like every

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Speaker 2: message in the sense is about faith, but I wanted

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Speaker 2: to zero back in on this scripture in Hebrews chapter eleven,

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Speaker 2: remain standing for just a moment as I read it,

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Speaker 2: and this same scripture from last week in Hebrews chapter eleven,

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Speaker 2: I think contains Yeah, there, it is a pretty cool

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Speaker 2: revelation for our lives. Listen to this verses eight and following.

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Speaker 2: Make sure I got the right version. Here we go

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Speaker 2: by faith. Abraham, when called to go to a place

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Speaker 2: By faith, he made his home in the Promised Land.

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Speaker 2: Like a in a foreign country. He lived in tents,

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Speaker 2: Who were heirs with him of the same promise, For

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Speaker 2: And so from this one man and he, as good

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Speaker 2: this message is very simple. I'm calling this message. God

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Speaker 2: knows you don't tell your neighbor. God knows you don't.

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Speaker 2: these little things we say when we're leading up to something.

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Speaker 2: My friend was the other day about to give an opinion,

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Speaker 2: they said, now, I'm no doctor. But and when they

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Speaker 2: got done saying the rest of it, I was like, now,

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Speaker 2: go back to the first part. I'm so shocked you're

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Speaker 2: completely stupid and irrelevant, and don't fact check me on it,

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Speaker 2: And in amazing how much time we spend trying to hide,

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Speaker 2: people won't see our deepest needs. You're nineteen seventy eight.

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Speaker 2: Phrase was coined in psychology called imposter syndrome. It was

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Speaker 2: and because of their ability to depersonalize their accomplishments, that

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Speaker 2: So although they were in positions of power, they felt

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Speaker 2: it would be called fraudulence complex a different shade of

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Speaker 1: It's just a feeling that you can get.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes that I don't know what I'm doing, and I

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Speaker 2: for we know that our redeemer lives, and we know

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Speaker 2: work together for the good of those that love God.

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Speaker 2: So one of the things that always frustrated me about

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Speaker 2: about the mystery, the mystery of knowing that God has

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Speaker 2: my waking life doubting that very fact. A moment ago,

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Speaker 2: we were singing a song that said, that's why I

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Speaker 2: trust in God. One time, Jesus asked an interesting question

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Speaker 2: when he saw the wind in the waves, And Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: It's kind of the flip side of what we were singing.

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Speaker 2: That's why I trust him because he healed my cancer.

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Speaker 1: That's why I trust him.

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Speaker 2: Because when my money was low, he made provision for

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Speaker 2: Because I sensed his presence when others walked away. That's

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Speaker 2: confession comes the question of Jesus. Then if you have

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Speaker 2: And specifically, why would you doubt him now? Why would

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Speaker 2: you doubt him now when, like Abraham, you find yourself

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Speaker 2: in a situation. Bible says that Abraham verse eight, Let's

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Speaker 2: sometimes God will obey you to go even though you

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Speaker 2: don't know where you're going.

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Speaker 1: It is much more difficult to live as if.

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Speaker 2: This is true for you, that God will sometimes call

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it again.

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Speaker 2: The testimony of my life is that many times God

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Speaker 2: has called me to obey today something that he will

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Speaker 2: explain later. The space between obeying today and God explaining

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Speaker 2: That thing you are unsure of and uncertain about that

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Speaker 2: us to lean on him. I've been preaching along those

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Speaker 1: It's just true.

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Speaker 2: Now write these things down because I want us to

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Speaker 2: understand a little bit about God's promises. A lot of times,

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Speaker 2: say God never breaks a promise. God always keeps his promises.

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Speaker 2: But in our mental paradigm of what that means, it's

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Speaker 1: What I've learned about God's promises, I'm preaching already. I

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Speaker 1: don't have to scream to preach. I can preach. The

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Speaker 2: I can preach like this and save my voice and

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Speaker 2: go sing opera tonight. God's promise will often be I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna give you three things. Write these down. God's promise

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Speaker 2: will often be different than you pictured, different than you pictured,

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Speaker 2: slower than you wanted, and farther than you thought. These

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Speaker 2: three things. I thought i'd mentioned today that God's promise

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm, hmmm hmm.

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Speaker 2: So Abraham gets to the promised land. God speaks to him.

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Speaker 2: And Abraham gets there, and did you notice what the

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Speaker 1: That's where I left off last week.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, I don't want to be a pagan. And

444
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Speaker 2: your heavenly Father no, say that your heavenly Father knows.

445
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Speaker 2: Say to your neighbor, You're heavenly Father knows. From his

446
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Speaker 2: point of view, it looks different. Your heavenly Father knows

447
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 2: that you need them, that you need these things. He

448
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: not only knows the things that you need. God knows

449
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 2: you don't. God knows what I need. God knows what

450
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 2: I don't. He knows which opportunities are really just obstructions

451
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Speaker 2: in camouflage.

452
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Speaker 1: HM.

453
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Speaker 2: When I say that he knows, imagine Abraham now going

454
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Speaker 2: into the land. Gods showed him going into it, but

455
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Speaker 2: living in a tent, getting there, but not feeling there,

456
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Speaker 2: getting there, not looking there.

457
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Speaker 1: And I love the text because.

458
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Speaker 2: It's saying that by faith, I can tap into what

459
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Speaker 2: God knows that I don't. That God knows that this

460
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: relationship looks good to me, but it's not good for me.

461
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Speaker 1: God knows.

462
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Speaker 2: You don't many of the things that you interpreted in

463
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Speaker 2: your life as they left you because of something that

464
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Speaker 2: was less about you.

465
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Speaker 1: It wasn't that it was less about you. It was

466
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Speaker 1: that where God is leading you.

467
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Speaker 2: Now, please receive this. He knows what you don't need

468
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Speaker 2: that would keep you from being Now, I'm going to

469
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Speaker 2: show you where my mind went when I read the text,

470
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Speaker 2: because there are three strange things that I saw. I

471
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Speaker 2: was looking at two words in the text for my emphasis.

472
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Speaker 2: Everybody say by faith. In verse eight, it says by

473
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Speaker 2: faith Abraham. In verse eleven, it says, by faith Abraham,

474
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Speaker 2: go quickly please, verse eleven, by faith Abraham.

475
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Speaker 1: Did they show you verse eight?

476
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Speaker 2: So you got that verse eight, verse eleven, and then

477
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Speaker 2: again in a verse that did not read you, but

478
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Speaker 2: it says it again verse seventeen, by faith Abraham. And

479
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Speaker 2: so my mind was just magnetized to look for the

480
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Speaker 2: words by faith. Because we are saved by faith, we

481
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Speaker 2: are changed by faith, we are sustained by faith.

482
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Speaker 1: Our life is explained by faith.

483
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Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything you need today that you

484
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Speaker 2: can't get more of by having more faith. So if

485
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Speaker 2: you need more provision, more faith will give you more

486
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 2: focus to see what God has already Out of what

487
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 2: God has already provided, you will have what you lack.

488
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: So if you need more of anything, you need more faith.

489
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Speaker 1: It is the access point by faith.

490
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Speaker 2: If you need more peace, you need more faith because

491
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Speaker 2: if you can truly believe that nobody exits my life

492
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Speaker 2: without God dismissing them, you'll have more peace when people leave.

493
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 2: Even when people say stupid stuff that offends you Thursday

494
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 2: around the table, if you need more love in your

495
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 2: home or something like that, get more faith because if

496
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 2: they say something stupid, just prayed silently under your breath.

497
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 2: God showed them how stupid that was, and let the

498
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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit show them See how I just helped you out.

499
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 2: I gave you more love around the table, less drama.

500
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 2: You're going to have less to repent for Thursday night

501
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 2: just because you have more faith. And the beautiful thing

502
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 2: about it is, as much as these two words in

503
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Speaker 2: the scripture, by faith.

504
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Speaker 1: Lead to everything that we need, there's another one.

505
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Speaker 2: I don't know this is going to come out, but

506
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Speaker 2: I just want to show you because it also happens.

507
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: Three times in the same three verses.

508
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Speaker 2: That it says A very peculiar, two words that I

509
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Speaker 2: think many of us are living in right now.

510
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, help me deliver this to your people.

511
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 2: By faith Abraham verse eight, when called to go to

512
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Speaker 2: a place he would later receive this his inheritance.

513
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: Obaidien went even.

514
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 2: Though verse eleven, by faith Abraham, even though verse seventeen,

515
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Speaker 2: by faith Abraham, when God tested him offered Isaac as

516
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Speaker 2: a sacrifice, He who had embraced the promise, was about

517
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Speaker 2: to sacrifice as one and only son verse.

518
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Speaker 1: Eighteen, even though are you living in an even though moment?

519
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Speaker 2: Because that's where faith really grows, you know, Verse eight

520
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 2: It was he went, even though he didn't know, are

521
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 2: you in it?

522
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Speaker 1: Even though I don't know? Moment right now that.

523
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Speaker 2: I've got to take this next step, even though I

524
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Speaker 2: don't know.

525
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Speaker 1: What the one after that is.

526
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Speaker 2: I have got to leave here, even though I don't

527
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Speaker 2: know where there is. I have got to show up

528
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Speaker 2: for this again because God hasn't shown me what to

529
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Speaker 2: do after, and I'm not quitting what he gave me

530
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Speaker 2: until he shows me what's next.

531
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do it, even though.

532
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Speaker 2: You know, I just feel God like hijacking my whole

533
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 2: outline right now because it's like some of you, you

534
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 2: think you are going to know everything that comes after

535
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 2: the next step. But Abraham went and obeyed when he

536
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: was called, even though he didn't know where that was.

537
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 2: So you don't have to have coordinates, you don't have.

538
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: To have a specific address. You can go even though

539
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: you don't know. I promise you can.

540
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 2: I have done it time after time as your pastor.

541
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: The first building we ever raised money for was not

542
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 2: a building at all.

543
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: We raised three million dollars in our first financial campaign

544
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Speaker 1: for a building that we believed God would bring us.

545
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: When that first group of about.

546
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 2: One hundred and twenty leaders that now spends thousands of

547
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 2: people who give knelt down in the parking lot of

548
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 2: the Sofa Express and Ashley Furniture shopping center, and I

549
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 2: told him, we thought we were going to get this building,

550
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: but we're not going to get this building because somebody

551
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 2: blocked us in their least if they don't want a

552
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 2: church to meet here. And they got down on their

553
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 2: knees and we prayed that God would show us a building.

554
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: But they sewed into it before God showed it. They

555
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: sewed into it before God showed it, and they gave

556
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 2: so lives could be changed. And they gave so that

557
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 2: you could be here. And they gave so that this

558
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 2: gospel could go out all over the world, not knowing how,

559
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 2: but knowing who. So if you are in an even

560
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 2: though moment and you think you need every turn before

561
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 2: you can take the next.

562
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: One, you are confused.

563
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: Our faith is not in the destination. Our faith is

564
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 2: in the guide who will see us safely to the destination.

565
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 2: So I wrote a statement that you can you can

566
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 2: have for free. I won't charge your royalties. You don't

567
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 2: even have to give me credit. I will go.

568
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: I will go as if I'm guided, even though.

569
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 2: I feel I'm guessing. You like it, because don't you

570
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 2: feel like you're guessing?

571
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: Sometimes?

572
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: Don't you feel like you are guessing at this sometimes?

573
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: I finally got to interview my face favorite preacher ten

574
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: years ago.

575
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: I said, what is the most important thing I need

576
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 2: to know about standing behind the pulpit?

577
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: He said, we're all guessing. None of us have seen God.

578
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 2: It takes faith to preach, It takes faith to parent,

579
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 2: It takes faith to lead, It takes faith to go

580
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 2: back to school, It takes faith to stay in therapy.

581
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: I was in five years of therapy, and I said,

582
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 1: this isn't working.

583
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 2: Until I realized that some of the things that didn't

584
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: feel like they were working for me, God was using

585
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 2: those things in my children's life. About the time I

586
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: wanted to quit therapy, one of my kids came to

587
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 2: me and started giving me the advice that my therapist

588
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 2: gave me that I had given to them, not even knowing.

589
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: God knows why you're in it. You don't. God knows

590
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 1: what He's going to do through it. You don't. God

591
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,280
Speaker 1: knows who he wants to help through your life. You don't.

592
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: God knows what he's building. God knows your foundation. He

593
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 2: is the architect. He is the builder. He has the

594
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Speaker 2: blueprint of every blessing.

595
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 5: In your life.

596
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: He has the purpose. He drew the picture off. Feel

597
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: like preaching this to help somebody know that you can

598
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Speaker 1: go not knowing.

599
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 2: That you can contribute, not knowing that you can keep

600
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 2: preaching while people are leaving, that you could just do it,

601
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 2: that you could just live, that you can just praise.

602
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 5: That you can just.

603
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Speaker 1: Testify, that you can.

604
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 4: Just boldly wrap hold on the altar that say what

605
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Speaker 4: don't I.

606
00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 2: Live even though say even though by faith, even though

607
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 2: if God's got you in an even though moment right now,

608
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 2: where your truth says one thing, but your tenth says

609
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 2: another thing. You can stay right in the promise even

610
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 2: though you have no proof. Who is this for? I'm

611
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 2: staying in this promise in the absence of proof. They're like,

612
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: this is a fighting word today. Who I don't know

613
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 2: what we're fighting, but I'll fight with you.

614
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: You need some backup. I don't know what you're f

615
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what's been coming up in your mind.

616
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 2: I'll know what's been trying to drag it back down

617
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 2: into it. I'll know what's been trying to take over

618
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 2: your house, stealing.

619
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Speaker 1: Your joy, liquidate your peace, enrolled your confidence in God.

620
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: But you're not in this Saint fight by yourself.

621
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Speaker 5: Not today.

622
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 2: I've been lifting, I've been fucking.

623
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 5: I'm gonna work from did even though.

624
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 4: How look through the valley from the saddle down?

625
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: How will fear no evil?

626
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 2: For now?

627
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 5: Lord let me I gotta ride.

628
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 4: I got a stack, I got goodness, I got mercy,

629
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Speaker 4: and that little dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

630
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: He lived in a tent.

631
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Speaker 2: Even though he was in the place of the promise,

632
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: he was in the place of the promise, even though

633
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Speaker 2: he lived in a tent different than what.

634
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: You picture, slower than what you want. But in that tent,

635
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Speaker 1: so Isaac not yet.

636
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 2: He hadn't even been born yet, and he was in

637
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 2: the tent already. Because when God puts a seed of

638
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 2: something in you, the seed is in you before you

639
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 2: see it. You've been praying for your kids, You've been

640
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 2: praying for your opportunity. You've been praying for something to

641
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 2: happen that you need to happen that only God can do.

642
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: The seed was there before they could see it. And

643
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: even though I can't see it.

644
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 2: Right now, even though I walk through the valley of

645
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 2: the shadow, shadow makes it very difficult for you to

646
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: get a visual. But even though he did not know

647
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 2: see it's step second, even though where it says in

648
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Speaker 2: verse eleven, even though he was too old, don't tune

649
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 2: me out if you're thirteen, because everybody has something that

650
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: the devil has been telling you you are too. I

651
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 2: don't let the devil tell me I'm too old to

652
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 2: be relevant. First of all, I'm not.

653
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: All right.

654
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 2: Don't make me do it again. Yeah, we got it

655
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 2: good the first time. Let's say let's leave it there.

656
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:39,479
Speaker 2: And yet he tells me I'm too stupid. He tells

657
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 2: me I'm too stupid. He tells me I'm too country.

658
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: He does.

659
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 2: He tells me I'm too weird. He tells me I'm

660
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 2: too raggedy. He tells me all these things. But look

661
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 2: what the Bible said God did for Abraham.

662
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: Would he do this for you too? By faith, Abraham, even.

663
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Speaker 2: Though he was too old, and Sarah herself was not

664
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Speaker 2: able to concede, wasn't able to become father.

665
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Speaker 1: I got to read you what the Bible actually says

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Speaker 1: about him. Go next verse. He became a father of

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Speaker 1: many nations. He lived like a nomad.

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Speaker 2: And so from this one man, look what the Bible

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Speaker 2: says about Abraham, and.

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Speaker 1: He as good as dead. That's about how people will

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Speaker 1: see you. That's about how people will see you. That's

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Speaker 1: not what God said about Abraham.

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Speaker 2: Look at that nomad living up here in this promised land,

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Speaker 2: thinking he belongs here. Jesus, he's as good as dead. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: next time somebody tries to limit you. Because I've had

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Speaker 2: people tell me that I was a poor Bible teacher.

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Speaker 2: I've had people tell me that I was not cut

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Speaker 2: out to be a pastor. I've had people cut out

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Speaker 2: tell me that I wouldn't be able to come up

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Speaker 2: with a new sermon every week. All of that, and

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Speaker 2: I wish I wouldn't known this sermon to tell him

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Speaker 2: at the time.

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Speaker 1: God knows you don't. You don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know. So God knows where you're going

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Speaker 2: even though you don't, So follow him step by step.

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Speaker 2: God knows what He's given you, even though you are

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Speaker 2: too whatever. Oh young, that's what Timothy said, I'm too young. Plusa,

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Speaker 2: don't let me any look down on you because of

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Speaker 2: your youth, sat an example for the believers in life

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Speaker 2: and love and speech and faith in godlyness, purity. Don't

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Speaker 2: let anybody put their two on you because they don't know.

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Speaker 2: You've been divorced too many times. Think how much you've

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Speaker 2: learned that you can help other people who have been

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Speaker 2: through divorce.

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Speaker 1: You're not paid the tuition. You might as well teach

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Speaker 1: the class.

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Speaker 2: Hey, God knows you don't.

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Speaker 1: God knows you don't. And even the.

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Speaker 2: Past that we don't like to preach a lot because

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Speaker 2: I said that Abraham took his son Isaac and laid

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Speaker 2: him down on the altar, and he thought he was

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Speaker 2: going to have to kill his only son, even after

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Speaker 2: waiting twenty five years. That's how long it took between

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Speaker 2: God spoken and he saw it.

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Speaker 1: We quit too quick.

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Speaker 2: We have microwave mindsets, and we serve a croc taught God.

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Speaker 2: So it might be slower than you wanted. But from

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Speaker 2: this boy Isaac came the nations that would inhabit this

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Speaker 2: very land that Abraham was living in.

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Speaker 1: And I want you to see him on Mount Moriah.

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Speaker 1: I want you to see him build the altar.

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Speaker 2: I want you to see him lay his son, Isaac

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Speaker 2: on the altar, who we waited for a quarter of

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Speaker 2: his a quarter a century of his.

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Speaker 1: Life, a quarter of his life. He was one hundred

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Speaker 1: at that point.

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Speaker 7: He waited this long, and yet at the moment that

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Speaker 7: he thought he was going to have to give up

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Speaker 7: what God promised him, there was a ram in the

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Speaker 7: bush that he didn't know about, but God knew, and

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Speaker 7: God knew the moment that the ram would need to

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Speaker 7: be in the bush for.

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Speaker 2: Abraham to make the sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: Whatever has been withheld from.

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Speaker 2: Your life, whatever seems like it is behind in your life,

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Speaker 2: whatever seems like the enemy has taken it out of

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Speaker 2: your life. Can you trust the timing of God in

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Speaker 2: this moment enough to know that he knows He knows

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Speaker 2: what I need when I needed and if it didn't

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Speaker 2: come yet, it wasn't time yet. But somebody who knows

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Speaker 2: his time. By faith for you to take the next

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Speaker 2: step when you can't see beyond it, stand up and

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Speaker 2: give God praise by faith.

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Speaker 1: There is a phrase that comes by faith.

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Speaker 2: Even though. My favorite Bible verse is when the sister

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Speaker 2: came to Jesus and said, I know my brother will

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Speaker 2: rise again at the last day. And Jesus said, last Day,

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Speaker 2: I am the Resurrection and the Life, and whoever believes in.

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Speaker 1: Me will live even though he died. So we're living

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Speaker 1: in the even though. And our job today is to

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Speaker 1: trust God as if even though.

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Speaker 2: I don't know your even though God does, God knows

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Speaker 2: that even though you're going through And I just want

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Speaker 2: to encourage you today through a camera. I never knew

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Speaker 2: i'd be looking in pastoring a church that I never saw,

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Speaker 2: but God did.

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Speaker 1: That. He knows you don't.

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Speaker 2: And I want to tell you about all the stuff

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Speaker 2: you keep telling God for why you're not qualified because

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Speaker 2: you don't have the experience. God knows you don't. That

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Speaker 2: you don't have the resources. God knows you don't, and

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Speaker 2: that you don't have the background for that. God knows

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Speaker 2: you don't, and that you don't feel like it right now.

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Speaker 2: God knows you don't, And that you don't have the strength.

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Speaker 2: God knows you don't, and that you don't know how

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Speaker 2: to manage money. God knows you don't, and that you

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Speaker 2: don't have any friends who will really listen to you.

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Speaker 2: God knows you don't, and that you don't see a

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Speaker 2: way through this right now.

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Speaker 1: God knows you don't. Just because you can't see.

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Speaker 2: It does not mean he didn't speak it.

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Speaker 1: For everybody who is stepping.

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Speaker 2: Ruining the low, I want to pray for you. Just

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Speaker 2: put your hand on your heart like this. God knows

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Speaker 2: what's in there.

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Speaker 1: You don't.

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Speaker 2: And that's why it's so important that you don't give up,

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Speaker 2: because God knows where you're.

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Speaker 1: Going little more movement you don't.

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Speaker 2: God knows what he hopes to accomplish through your life

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Speaker 2: if you will stay in faith, and you don't, and

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Speaker 2: admitting that you don't know is where faith has the

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Speaker 2: chance to grow. So as I minister this message, I

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Speaker 2: don't do it lightly. Today I have felt myself the

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Speaker 2: impostor that God, who would I be to share this

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Speaker 2: message of hope? When I myself am drowning in despair?

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Speaker 2: I felt that.

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Speaker 1: Who am I to tell them this?

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Speaker 2: I don't know anything about the second coming of Christ

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Speaker 2: or when it's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anything. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't speak Greek or Hebrew or Latin French. But

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Speaker 2: God said, I'll speak the language that they need. If

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Speaker 2: you will stand. This promise is for you and your children.

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Speaker 2: That is going to be different then you pictured. It

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Speaker 2: might be slower then you want it. There might be

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Speaker 2: some Carolina heal splitter clams on your land, some Canaanites,

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Speaker 2: some Hittites, Jebuzites. But let patients have its perfect work

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Speaker 2: in you, that you may be complete, lacking nothing, because

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Speaker 2: it's gonna go farther than you thought.

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Speaker 1: As God told Abraham, count the stars.

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Speaker 2: If you are able to number the sands on the seashore.

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Speaker 2: If you can count them, so shall your descendants be.

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Speaker 2: I declare, so shall the ripple effect be of your

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Speaker 2: obedience in this season, for generations not yet to be

796
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Speaker 2: born that will be free because of your faith in

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Speaker 2: this moment God, we stand in the even those, Oh,

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Speaker 2: I like that, even those so many, even.

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Speaker 5: Those in the room.

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Speaker 2: Your word says, all things work together for good, even

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Speaker 2: those that we wouldn't have chosen.

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Speaker 1: I thank you by faith, Raise you for grace for

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Speaker 1: this season, this moment, this stage of our lives in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: The greatest miracle of faith of all is that while

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Speaker 2: we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Can you

806
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Speaker 2: believe it that even though your sins were as crimson,

807
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Speaker 2: they can be washed white as snow.

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Speaker 1: That even though we did not deserve his grace.

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Speaker 2: God knows you don't deserve his grace, but he gave

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Speaker 2: it anyway. He gave it on the cross, and you

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Speaker 2: can receive it right now by faith. I want to

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Speaker 2: give an invitation for those who are in need of

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Speaker 2: a relationship with Jesus today, whether it's three or three thousand,

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Speaker 2: I want to stop this whole service so that you

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Speaker 2: can place your faith in God.

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Speaker 1: He's already done the work. It's finished, it's accomplished, it's settled,

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Speaker 1: it's done. The final word has been spoken. The only

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Speaker 1: work left to do is for you to belief, to believe.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says that if you confess with your mouth

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Speaker 2: that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that

821
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Speaker 2: God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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Speaker 2: This is the promise receiving by faith today. If you're

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Speaker 2: ready to make that decision to come to Christ or

824
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Speaker 2: to come back to Him, I'm going to lead you in.

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Speaker 1: A prayer right now.

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Speaker 2: I'm and pray it out loud for the benefit of

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Speaker 2: those who are coming to God for the first time

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Speaker 2: or coming back to God. I want everybody in this

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Speaker 2: room to pray with me for the benefit of those

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Speaker 2: who this is their moment, their new beginning. Pray with me,

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Speaker 2: Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in need of a savior,

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Speaker 2: and I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

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Speaker 1: And the Savior of the world.

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Speaker 2: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

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Speaker 1: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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Speaker 1: rose again give me life. I receive this new life.

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Speaker 1: This is my new beginning.

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Speaker 2: If you prayed that, put your hand up on the

839
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Speaker 2: count of three, one, two, three, all over this room,

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Speaker 2: on every location online.

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Speaker 1: God bless you. We'll celebrate you. We'll celebrate we you

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Speaker 1: celebrate for you. God bless you amazing. Online you can

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Speaker 1: put it in a chat I received Jesus.

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Speaker 2: I received Jesus be celebrating with you online. Can this

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Speaker 2: fastest taken? If you just gave your life to Christ.

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Speaker 2: Stop by the tents on your way out. You can

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Speaker 2: click on the link. If you're online, we have a

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Speaker 2: gift we want to give you. Let's put our hands together.

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Speaker 1: And thank God for his word all over the house.

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Speaker 1: Come on, all over, Julia. God knows you don't.

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Speaker 2: God would surprise you this week, show you something you

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Speaker 2: don't know. I pray God to give you stuff this

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Speaker 2: Christmas season that isn't even on your list. Hah.

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Speaker 1: I pray God to give you stuff you gave up on.

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Speaker 2: I pray God will make you laugh again. I pray

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Speaker 2: God will enable you to see what fresh eyes again.

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Speaker 2: God will put a love and a bond in your

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Speaker 2: relationships again. God to give you fresh eyes to see

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Speaker 2: what you've been walking past.

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Speaker 1: I pray that He.

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Speaker 2: Who is able to do himmeasurably more than you ask

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Speaker 2: or imagine, would work mightily on your behalf. Can we

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Speaker 2: join hands all over this room and pray for our

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Speaker 2: neighbors and our sons, Our daughters, our cousins, our sisters,

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Speaker 2: our brothers.

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Speaker 1: JJ. What did I forget to say that I need

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Speaker 1: to announce? Huh? Envelopes. You're gonna get this on the

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Speaker 1: way out. Put some money in it, big money. Trust

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Speaker 1: God help us build this church.

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Speaker 2: One of my friends told me recently, the only hour

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Speaker 2: each week that he knows.

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Speaker 1: He's going to feel good is when he gets in here.

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Speaker 2: Can you believe we get to do that for people?

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Speaker 2: Some of y'all gave your life to Christ in here.

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Speaker 2: Some of your kids did some of you. This is

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Speaker 2: a connection to God for you. Let's connect others. Let's

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Speaker 2: never be selfish. We're blessed to be a blessing. I

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Speaker 2: want to participate in this with you. So okay, and

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Speaker 2: you'll get the envelope. On your way out, you'll say

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Speaker 2: envelope or envelope in Canada?

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Speaker 1: How many envelope people raise your hand? Envelope, envelope?

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Speaker 2: I see who's bringing out the fancy china this thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: a paper played envelope. Father, We thank you for our

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Speaker 2: connection with you. We will never be without as long

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Speaker 2: as you are with us. I thank you forever, even

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Speaker 2: though in this room that will be a testimony by

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Speaker 2: your grace of a God did in the future.

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Speaker 1: We declare it, we decree it, we call it done.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for who you are, and we bless your

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Speaker 1: people as they go.

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Speaker 2: No fights, no politics, supernatural carb cancelation, this Thanksgiving in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Amen, I'll see.

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Speaker 5: You, no blessing.

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Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

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Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

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Speaker 2: of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again

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