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Speaker 1: Let us pray. But they that wait upon the Lord

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Speaker 1: shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings

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Speaker 1: as eagles. They shall run and not be weary, and

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Speaker 1: they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah forty thirty one.

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Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, there is something refreshing about a new year,

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Speaker 1: a new beginning, a new time to dream. But before

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Speaker 1: I move forward, let me wait upon you and reflect

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Speaker 1: on all you have taught me this last year. As

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Speaker 1: I wait on you, I feel my strength being renewed,

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Speaker 1: as I feel you preparing me to mount up and

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Speaker 1: soar into new dimensions of your love. As I wait

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Speaker 1: upon you for wisdom and direction, I begin to reflect

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Speaker 1: on what I have already conquered this last year. I

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Speaker 1: realize what you have taught me through both the blessings

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Speaker 1: and ther In retrospect, I understand how much I have

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Speaker 1: grown through it all, even when I didn't realize I was.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your fountain of blessings that refreshes me

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Speaker 1: and prepares me for the year ahead. I am strengthened

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Speaker 1: in your love so I can run and not grow weary.

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Speaker 1: I shall walk in bold confidence into the future with

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Speaker 1: matter what giants I face or what mountains I have

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Speaker 1: to climb, I know you are with me, and I

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Speaker 1: will rise up on eagle's wings and soar above this

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer for more

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Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay

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Speaker 3: February twenty eighth through March first for Restoration and Revival.

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Speaker 3: Our speakers will be Gary Wilkerson, Francis Chan, Daniel Bentley,

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Speaker 3: Ron Brown and Moore with Worship by eleven twenty one

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Speaker 3: featuring Jared Anderson and Kelly Wilkerson, A and F Worship

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Speaker 3: Movement and the Maranatha Chapel Worship Team. Their heart is

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Speaker 3: to rekindle your passion for God and his Church. The

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Speaker 3: Church needs an awakening.

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Speaker 2: If you feel empty, come and let the Lord fill you.

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Speaker 2: Re open your heart up to the Lord. He can

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Speaker 2: do amazing things.

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Speaker 4: It starts with us.

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Speaker 5: It's not over.

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Speaker 2: I have four children and They've been in many places

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Speaker 2: where I'm preaching, And after I've been about preaching for

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Speaker 2: about an hour and a half, they all my kids

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Speaker 2: turn to each other and go, it's not over. I

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Speaker 2: and a half today. Let's pray first, and then I

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Speaker 5: What is your until?

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Speaker 2: What is that that thing that you're looking forward and

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Speaker 2: We thank you that you're going to speak to us.

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Speaker 2: We thank you Jesus that you're going to do something

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Speaker 2: that's refreshing in us, delightful, inspiring life, turning in a

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Speaker 2: that you allow me to preach these words with power

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Speaker 2: Everybody's sad together, Amen, hey Man turned to Psalm chapter

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Speaker 2: When I was fifteen years old, my father asked what

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 2: Do you is there something in your life is like?

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Speaker 2: That's something I could I could swear I want more

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Speaker 2: that I don't want to get up on this stage

435
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Speaker 2: and to sing songs and entertain people. I want the

436
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Speaker 2: presence of God when I'm singing these songs. When Pastor

437
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Speaker 2: Patrick gets up here the six o'clock before the seven

438
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Speaker 2: o'clock Tuesday night meeting and he leads you in prayer,

439
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Speaker 2: he doesn't get up here to be articulate and have

440
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Speaker 2: clever prayers and sound like a theologian. He's desperate for God.

441
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Speaker 2: When he leads you to the presence of God. And

442
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Speaker 2: when Pastor Tim preaches, he's preaching out of the presence

443
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Speaker 2: of God. That's why you're drawn here, that's why you're

444
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,400
Speaker 2: hungry to be here. That's why you're inviting your friends.

445
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Speaker 2: It's the presence of God. It's the presence of God.

446
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Speaker 2: And David says, until I find a place it's interesting.

447
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Speaker 2: He doesn't say until there's a mist around us, or

448
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Speaker 2: until there's something kind of just sort of in the ether.

449
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Speaker 2: He says, there's actually a place. There's a place God

450
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Speaker 2: wants to come here since Genesis won, he came down

451
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Speaker 2: walked in the garden. I remember that, and it says

452
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Speaker 2: he came in and walked in the cool of the garden.

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Speaker 2: The cool there is another Hebrew word for the wind

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Speaker 2: or the breath of God. It wasn't just it was

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Speaker 2: God coming like I like the evening better, it's a

456
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Speaker 2: little bit cool er. I don't like it when it's

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Speaker 2: hot in the garden. No, he came and his breath

458
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Speaker 2: came and visited Adam and Eve. And ever since that time,

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Speaker 2: God has been looking say is there a place Adam

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Speaker 2: and Eve hid from that place? Is there a place

461
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Speaker 2: I can come? And that place is a people. It's

462
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Speaker 2: you individually, it can be your family, or you can say, God,

463
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Speaker 2: I want to be a place. I want to be

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Speaker 2: a place where your spirit will rest upon me. I

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Speaker 2: want to be a place where your presence dwells. I

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Speaker 2: want this to be my until. My until is not

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Speaker 2: great sermons. My until is not big crowds. My until

468
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Speaker 2: is not writing a great book. My until is not

469
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Speaker 2: even having a good family. My until is not having

470
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Speaker 2: a healthy body. My until is not being wealthy or

471
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Speaker 2: comfort and these. My until is that the presence of

472
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Speaker 2: God comes into my life and he dwells there. This

473
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Speaker 2: is and he says, and Jesus delights to say, I

474
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Speaker 2: found a place. I found a place to dwell. And

475
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Speaker 2: it's not just people either. It's because he doesn't stay here.

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Speaker 2: I want to find a people, he says, a place

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Speaker 2: I find that phenomenal that the omnipotent, omnipresent God, all powerful, everywhere,

478
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Speaker 2: at all times, he's he's like here, and he's in

479
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Speaker 2: the Bronx, and he's where I live in Colorado, and

480
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Speaker 2: he's in Africa, and he's in Asia all all the

481
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Speaker 2: same times. He's in the heavens, and he's in the earth,

482
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Speaker 2: he's below the earth, he's everywhere else. And then all

483
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, he says, but I want a place

484
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Speaker 2: where I can manifest my presence. There's a difference between

485
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Speaker 2: the omni presence, meaning the all presence of God.

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Speaker 5: There's a difference between the presence.

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Speaker 2: Of God being everywhere and the manifest presence of God

488
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Speaker 2: where he comes and says, I'm gonna I'm gonna sit

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Speaker 2: right here with this people I'm gonna be pleased to come,

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Speaker 2: and I find that it could be in a family,

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Speaker 2: it can be in a small group, and it certainly

492
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Speaker 2: can be in a church. It certainly can be a

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Speaker 2: Times Square church where God says, I want a place.

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Speaker 2: I've been looking for a place. I desire a place,

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Speaker 2: I long for a place. Is there a place that

496
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Speaker 2: that is there for me to come? You see, it's

497
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Speaker 2: and it's hard to find. It's it's I know it

498
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Speaker 2: sounds horrible like I'm being very judgmentalism, but it's hard

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Speaker 2: to find. It's it's hard for God to find a

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Speaker 2: place because many of our places aren't for him, they're

501
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Speaker 2: for us. Like like the worship team gets up there

502
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Speaker 2: and sing songs for you, and then you decide whether

503
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Speaker 2: you like that song or not, or you like that

504
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 2: tempo or not, or whether it's from Australia or California

505
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Speaker 2: or not.

506
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Speaker 5: You it's whether it's.

507
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Speaker 2: More hip and vibe or is an old school like Hymn's.

508
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Speaker 2: And we think worship is for us, but it's not.

509
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Speaker 2: The place that God is looking for is not for you.

510
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: It's for him. The the this you know, the songs.

511
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter whether you like him or not. The

512
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: question in this house is does he like them? You

513
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Speaker 2: go like that, really didn't minister to me? That that

514
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Speaker 2: big deal.

515
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Speaker 5: It's not for you, it's for him.

516
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Speaker 2: Now you can join in administer to him as well,

517
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Speaker 2: and then you'll get blessed. But if you're just sending

518
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Speaker 2: back judgment, is this is this for me? Is this

519
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Speaker 2: touching me? Is this changing me?

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Speaker 5: You know you're you're on the wrong track.

521
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Speaker 2: You have the wrong until I'm going to go to church,

522
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Speaker 2: until I find a church that has my style or

523
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Speaker 2: the preacher preaches the way I like. No, you go

524
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Speaker 2: to church to minister to him. It's it's Lord, I'm

525
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 2: here for you. You want you want a place, you

526
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Speaker 2: want to dwell, and I want to come into this

527
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Speaker 2: congregation and offer you a body and offer you a

528
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Speaker 2: place to minister, to be ministered to until I find

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Speaker 2: a place, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.

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Speaker 5: And so it's it's important.

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Speaker 2: That you have a an open heart to the place

532
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Speaker 2: of God, that to your to your looking intimately towards Him,

533
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Speaker 2: towards to just get to get near to him. And

534
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Speaker 2: then it says in verse six, behold we have heard

535
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Speaker 2: of it the ark of the Covenant.

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Speaker 5: We've heard of it.

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Speaker 2: And this f Halthreath is actually a region of Israel.

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Speaker 5: Where Bethlehem is found.

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Speaker 2: And so the writer here saying, David won't rest until

540
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Speaker 2: he brings the presence of God into his people, because

541
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Speaker 2: he knows that's the most important thing. If he's gonna

542
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Speaker 2: fight worse, he needs the presidence of God. If he's

543
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 2: gonna you know, pre sermons, he needs the presidence of God.

544
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 2: He's gonna sing song, he needs the presidence of God.

545
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Speaker 2: So he understands this, and he says, we've we've heard

546
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Speaker 2: about this, okay tonight. So far you're hearing about the

547
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 2: manifest presence of God, all right, And I hope it's

548
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: changing your until I hope it's changed right now. You're

549
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 2: until is no longer I want to get rich and

550
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Speaker 2: famous and and I want to keep myself healthy. Those

551
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 2: are okay, They're okay untils, And you can have some

552
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 2: better untils. Until my children grow up in the Lord.

553
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 2: Until I have a healthy marriage, those are even better untils.

554
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 2: But the best of until of all is until I

555
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 2: have the presence of God in my life. Once I

556
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 2: have that presence of God in my life. Then I

557
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 2: have everything that I could could possibly want. And then

558
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,479
Speaker 2: and then it goes on. So we heard of it,

559
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Speaker 2: but then it says, but we found it in the

560
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Speaker 2: fields of Jaar, and that's where the Ark of the

561
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 2: Covenant had been.

562
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Speaker 5: It had another name, but.

563
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Speaker 2: Here they're calling it Jaar, and they said, so, so

564
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Speaker 2: we heard about it in Bethlehem, but we found it

565
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Speaker 2: in Jaar. It's it's like I hope, man. The purpose

566
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Speaker 2: this message tonight is that you find a bigger until,

567
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Speaker 2: that you get rid of lesser untils, that you're no

568
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Speaker 2: longer coming to God.

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Speaker 5: Just that Lord.

570
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Speaker 2: My until is that I feel better about my life.

571
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Speaker 2: My until is till I get the job that I want.

572
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Speaker 2: My until is fill in.

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Speaker 5: The blank that you you you in.

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Speaker 2: The grace and kindness of God. He wants to bless

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Speaker 2: those secondary untils, but he's looking for a place and

576
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Speaker 2: a people that have underneath that place, a deeper place,

577
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Speaker 2: a more powerful place, a stronger place, a place where

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Speaker 2: you're saying God. It has to be this one thing

579
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Speaker 2: that I desire. That's what David said in one of

580
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Speaker 2: those psalms. One thing I ask, one thing I desire

581
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Speaker 2: that I might dwell in the house of the Lord,

582
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Speaker 2: the place of the Lord, all the days of my life.

583
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Speaker 2: Better is one day in your courts than three over

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Speaker 2: almost three years elsewhere. One day, I'd rather be a

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Speaker 2: doorkeeper in the house of the Lord. This is the

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Speaker 2: King walking into the tent he is set up. He

587
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Speaker 2: didn't take the Ark of the Covenant when he brought

588
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Speaker 2: it back. He didn't take the arc and place it

589
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Speaker 2: up in the tabernacle that Solomon had built.

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Speaker 5: He built a little tent for it so it could be.

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Speaker 2: Right nick to him in Jerusalem. And I can just

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Speaker 2: picture him going in there every day, and he walks

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Speaker 2: by the doorkeeper, the Usher, and he goes man. King

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Speaker 2: David said, I am so jealous. Can you put the

595
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Speaker 2: throne on and give me the red vest, you know,

596
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Speaker 2: so that I could just be a doorkeeper in your house.

597
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Speaker 2: Why would you want to be a doorkeeper, David, says

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Speaker 2: the usher to him, because then I could just worship

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Speaker 2: and I could dwell in his presence. I could, I could,

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Speaker 2: I could the Ark of the Covenants there with the

601
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Speaker 2: terrible and with the wings over, and I could I

602
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 2: could sit under it, and I could write songs like

603
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Speaker 2: he that dwelleth in the shadow of the secret place.

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Speaker 2: Shall aby it under this shadow of the Most High.

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Speaker 2: I'll dwell in the house, alert all the days. And

606
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Speaker 2: David is just h David is driven by this thing,

607
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Speaker 2: extremely passionate about this thing, and skipping ahead the last

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Speaker 2: few minutes to have with you Verse thirteen. For the

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Speaker 2: Lord has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his

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Speaker 2: dwelling place.

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Speaker 5: To words here the first work comes.

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Speaker 2: Mine is the word that we used in the previous verses.

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 5: Place?

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Speaker 2: God is very interested in place. He's interested in this place.

616
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Speaker 2: Jesus is. He is part of the Trinity, so he's

617
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Speaker 2: omni present, he's everywhere all the time. But he's also

618
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 2: the man Christ, Jesus. The humanity never went away. So

619
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Speaker 2: this sounds a bit of strange. But Jesus is somewhere

620
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Speaker 2: right now. Physically, he's somewhere, not likely in this room,

621
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Speaker 2: but there's.

622
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Speaker 5: This man Christ Jesus.

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Speaker 2: But his spirit, the Holy Spirit comes and it says Jesus,

624
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 2: being part of the Trinity is his divinity can be

625
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Speaker 2: in one place at one time, but he can also

626
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:01,479
Speaker 2: be manifesting himself through the Holy Spirit in places where

627
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 2: there's hunger for the things of God. My question is

628
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Speaker 2: is this your until? Is this a hunger in you?

629
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Speaker 2: Do you long for that to be your place? And

630
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Speaker 2: I just tell you, the older I get that that's

631
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 2: kind of really the only thing that's important to me anymore.

632
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I love my family. I love my children,

633
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,959
Speaker 2: my ten grandchildren. I love my wife. You see up

634
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Speaker 2: her singing, She beautiful, man, She's so, she's so easy,

635
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: she's so, she's so easy to love. But you know,

636
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Speaker 2: Pastor Tim and I don't know if you were like

637
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Speaker 2: me when I was young. Were you ambitious at all?

638
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Speaker 5: Yeah?

639
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 2: He was?

640
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Speaker 5: So when when you're young, minister, you want.

641
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Speaker 2: Like you know, to get invited to the place, or

642
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 2: to be on the stage at that conference with that

643
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 2: other famous you know, and they were more famous than you,

644
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 2: and you get to preach next to them, and maybe

645
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: you'll be next in line, and you have this You're

646
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 2: until is all those things. And I know Tim and

647
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Speaker 2: I are exactly saying, don't give a who to about

648
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 2: that stuff anymore. You know, you guys know what who

649
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 2: it means. Don't care. Times Square Church is a world

650
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Speaker 2: renowned church. Doesn't mean anything to me to come up

651
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 2: here tonight. It's just it's the same thing as is

652
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 2: a small group with my own staff, just sharing the desire.

653
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,439
Speaker 2: Can we have an until in our life? You see

654
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 2: what I'm saying is it's these other things are are good.

655
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 2: It's good to have opportunity to preach, it's good to

656
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,720
Speaker 2: have things that you want to see until God moves.

657
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 2: But you know, a deeper until and and the older

658
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: I get, the more I'm just like I think, you know,

659
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: my sixties, I finally found my until is It's not

660
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: to write books. It's not to preach sermons, it's not

661
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 2: to do pastor's conferences, not to lead a missions group.

662
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 2: All those things I love there, they're good secondary untils.

663
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 2: But but in my sixties I finally found I have

664
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 2: a one thing until now and until. I just man,

665
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 2: I just want his presence, you know, I just man,

666
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 2: I just want him to like he's there, he's right there,

667
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 2: Like he holds my hands. He lets me be the

668
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 2: the apple of his eye. He lets me walk with

669
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 2: him and talk with him, he lets me. You know,

670
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: I was studying the apple of This is not my notes,

671
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 2: but I was studying the apple of the apple.

672
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 5: Of my eye this morning. And uh and and and the.

673
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: Hebrew there that doesn't actually use the word apple. It's

674
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 2: translated because in English, Shakespeare wrote a poem about the

675
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 2: apple of our eye, and people understood that as being

676
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 2: the something that's of core value to you.

677
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 5: But actually in the Hebrew it's the dark of your eye.

678
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 2: And so Jesus wants us to be the dark of

679
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 2: his eye, and he wants him to be the.

680
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 5: Dark of our eye.

681
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 2: And what that what that means in the original language

682
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 2: there is is that you get so close to somebody

683
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 2: you can see Listen this, This is what the meaning is.

684
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 2: You get so close so that you can see your

685
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: own image in there in.

686
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 5: The dark of their eye.

687
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Speaker 2: All right, now, I'm not going to do this, but

688
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 2: but you know, if I asked one of the elder,

689
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 2: if I asked Elder Chris company stature and he was

690
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: standing right there, and I'd say, Elder Chris, I want

691
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 2: us to be the apple. I want to be the

692
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: apple of your eye. Okay, but we have to get

693
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 2: so close to each other that you can see my

694
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 2: image in your eyeball. And which which means to be

695
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 2: that close to each other. Which Elder Chris and I

696
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 2: are not going to be getting that close together tonight. Okay,

697
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 2: all right, because because I love him and he's a

698
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 2: great man, but over the years we haven't cultivated a

699
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 2: relationship where he's the apple of my eye. But if

700
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 2: I asked my wife Kelly to come up here, I

701
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 2: mean it'd be dangerous because I'd get that close and

702
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: I forget all about you and go like, oh man,

703
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 2: so he's got some lips on her. I'd be just

704
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: going all the way in, you know. And And that's

705
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 2: that's what Jesus is saying about this manifest presence. It's

706
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 2: it's to get that close to him. And once you

707
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 2: have that, the sweetness, the glory, the beauty, the majesty,

708
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 2: the splendor, the love, the grace, the kindness, this is

709
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 2: like it just comes all over you. And just like

710
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 2: I don't want anything else. Take the whole world will

711
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 2: give me. Jesus and I got a subject you're verse thirteen.

712
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 5: Sorry.

713
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 2: The Lord has chosen Zion. He has desired it for

714
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 2: his dwelling place. Verse fourteen. This is my resting place forever.

715
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 2: Here I will dwell for I have what desired it.

716
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 2: So David is saying, I have this one thing, passion,

717
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 2: I don't want anything else. But this one thing.

718
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 5: I won't give.

719
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 2: Myself rest until I get this thing. This is what

720
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 2: I'm going to give my whole life for. And then

721
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 2: in return, God says I desire the same thing. And

722
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: then awesome that the Gods saying I have it until

723
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 2: as well. That I'm the apple of your eye and

724
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 2: you're the apple of my eye. That we are, that

725
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 2: we walk together, we talk together, that we love one another,

726
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 2: that we're intimate. That's God's plan for your life. If

727
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 2: you're a if you're a young adult, here like, what's

728
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 2: God planned for my life? Is it to be married?

729
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 2: Is it to get rich? Is it to get an apartment?

730
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: All those things could be great, But God's plan for

731
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 2: you is for you to come into an intimate place

732
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 2: with Jesus where he manifests his presence in your life,

733
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 2: where he becomes you're all in all stand with me,

734
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 2: if you will, please, worship team is going to come back. Amen, Amen,

735
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 2: Just uh, how many of you would just wave at

736
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 2: me to say I might need to up my game

737
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 2: on untilness. It's not a word, but I'm just making

738
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: it up here tonight. My until might need to shift

739
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 2: slightly because and you and.

740
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 5: I can tell you.

741
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 2: You can know when you need to transition your until

742
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 2: by examining your prayer life. If your whole prayer life

743
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: is I need this, Can you do that for me?

744
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 2: When's that going to happen? How Come I'm having to

745
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 2: wait for that? When is it going to be until

746
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 2: you meet this need in my life? It's still a

747
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 2: good thing you're asking God. That's called intercessory prayer. You

748
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 2: need to do that. But more importantly, you need to

749
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: up that game. And it's not a game, you know

750
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. And so.

751
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 5: Holy Spirit, just.

752
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 2: Mere words don't suffice when it comes to the subject matter.

753
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 2: But what would happen if you would so choose tonight

754
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 2: in this very room, to make this a place where

755
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 2: you choose where you say, like you said in verse

756
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen, here in this text.

757
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 5: I desire to dwell there.

758
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 2: What would happen in this place tonight if you just desire?

759
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 5: Because whatever you desire, you do, And and.

760
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 2: What if our what if ore until changed tonight or

761
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 2: or at least the priority of it, We keep the

762
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 2: until of a good marriage, We keep it until of

763
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 2: all these other things, But above and beyond all that,

764
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 2: we would say, Lord, tonight, resolutely, powerfully, sovereignly give me

765
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 2: a higher one thing, passion, give me a higher until

766
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 2: in my life.

767
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 5: I'm a Christian.

768
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 2: I've loved you, I've prayed, I've worshiped, I witnessed, I've tithed,

769
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 2: I taken communion, I'm in a community group. But Lord,

770
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 2: I think tonight I feel hmmmm, Man, I feel this

771
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 2: drawing in my heart towards your face, to know you, more,

772
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 2: towards your eyes, to see you, more, to gaze upon

773
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 2: your beauty, to behold the glory of God. So Jesus,

774
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: I'm crying out to you tonight, not just.

775
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 5: For my until.

776
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 2: I thank you that you've given me my until I'm

777
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 2: unashamedly a man of one thing. If everything else falls apart,

778
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 2: I still have this one thing that I so long for,

779
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 2: is just to know you in the power of your

780
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 2: life and death and resurrection. And I think there's people

781
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 2: across this room right now they're saying, Lord, I need

782
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 2: a seismic shift in my life, and others that actually

783
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 2: you had to say.

784
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 5: I agree with your pastor Garry.

785
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 2: That is my one thing, but my one thing is

786
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 2: always increasing. I want more of that one thing that

787
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 2: I want more of that. Until John the Beloved in

788
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 2: the Book of Revelation, the first chapter, he's in the

789
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 2: Lord's spirit. It says, I'm in the spirit on the

790
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 2: Lord's day. Right, that's exactly where you should be. What

791
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 2: does that mean to be in a spirit? He's singing,

792
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 2: and he's worshiping, he's praising Jesus, and maybe he's speaking

793
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 2: in tongues.

794
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 5: I don't know what he's doing.

795
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 2: But he's like Jesus, Jesus, and he's just he's in

796
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 2: the spirit. And then it says, and then I heard

797
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 2: a loud voice, and I turned, and I saw seven candlesticks.

798
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 2: And those candlesticks later were told to represents seven different

799
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: churches that he had authority over. So a lot of responsibility,

800
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 2: a lot of duty, a lot of until these churches

801
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 2: are working, right, I'm writing a letter to them, and

802
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 2: some of them are dysfunctional, and I want those things

803
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: to get straight. And so he sees the seven churches.

804
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 2: But here's what he really sees. He says, I heard

805
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 2: a loud voice, and I turned, and I saw these

806
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 2: seven candlesticks.

807
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 5: But I turned.

808
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: Then I love this, he says, But I saw one

809
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 2: in the middle, and that phrase to me has become

810
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 2: one of the most important phrases of my life. I

811
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: want to see the one in the middle. Outside is

812
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 2: my marriage, outside is my ministry, Outside is my health,

813
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,760
Speaker 2: outside is my finances. All these candlesticks are all around.

814
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 2: But I want the one in the middle, you know

815
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 2: what I mean?

816
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 5: And John said, I saw the one in the middle.

817
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 2: Man.

818
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 5: He was beautiful, His eyes.

819
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 2: Were on fire, his hair were like wall. Man. I

820
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 2: was mesmerized by bah holding this one. The word behold there,

821
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's it's two words, to be holding

822
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 2: onto something. I saw one in the middle like and

823
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 2: I'm beholding this one. And he was he was beautiful,

824
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 2: And uh yeah, So step out of your seat if

825
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 2: you want to say, just pastor Garia, I don't even

826
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 2: You're not explaining this very well. But I think there's

827
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 2: something in my heart that is pounting right now to

828
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 2: saying more more. I want more of this Jesus thing.

829
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 2: I want him to become my all in all. I

830
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 2: want him to become the until of my life. I

831
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 2: want to put secondary things in second place, and I

832
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 2: just want this one.

833
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 5: Thing, passion.

834
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 2: I want to be stirred when I hear the name

835
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 2: of Jesus. I want to worship him with delight and

836
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 2: honor and reverence. I want to pray with the presence

837
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 2: of God. I want and I want that, and you

838
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 2: just need that little bit of transition. But you step

839
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 2: out of your seat, tell him what he means to

840
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 2: you tonight. This particularly if you step forward, just you.

841
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 2: You don't need me to tell you what's your heart's

842
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 2: desire of you. You you lift that up to him.

843
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: It's it's okay. Not only is Jesus I'm my present.

844
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 2: He's also there's not a word for it. But I'm

845
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 2: not hearing.

846
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 5: You can hear all our voices all at the same time.

847
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 2: So would you just lift your voice right now, even

848
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 2: if you didn't come forward, just tell him. I'm more

849
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: hungry for you than i've been before. I want you tonight, Jesus.

850
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: I'm thirsty for you, Jesus. I ask for your presence God.

851
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 2: I don't want to play church tonight. I don't want

852
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 2: to do religion tonight. I don't want the same old,

853
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 2: same old tonight. I don't want second things in first

854
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 2: place anymore. I don't want to lose first love. I

855
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 2: don't want the seven candlesticks to be a priority of

856
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 2: my life.

857
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 5: I want the one in the middle to be the

858
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 5: one thing for me. I want to love you.

859
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 2: More, Jesus.

860
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 5: I want to know you more.

861
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 2: Jesus.

862
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 5: I want to walk with you more.

863
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 2: Jesus.

864
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 5: I want to talk with you more.

865
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 2: Jesus. I want to see your face. I want to

866
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 2: behold your glory. I want to get your eyes. I

867
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Speaker 2: want to see your light and your revelation. God. I

868
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Speaker 2: want your word to come alive to me. I want

869
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Speaker 2: to seek you, and Lord, I thank you in return. Oh,

870
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Speaker 2: how gracious that you say. I want to come to you.

871
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Speaker 2: I want to dwell. I want a place with you.

872
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Speaker 2: I want to meet with you. I want you to

873
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Speaker 2: take some time with me because I love you. You're

874
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Speaker 2: the apple of my eye. How precious, how wonderful, how marvelous, Jesus,

875
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Speaker 2: We thank you that you're in this room tonight. Your presence,

876
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Speaker 2: the very manifest presence of God is here. And Lord,

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Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna say this wrong, but I think we

878
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Speaker 2: can take advantage of your manifest presence here tonight. Not

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Speaker 2: selfish me, but but with this one until we have

880
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Speaker 2: in our life, we can There's an advantage to you

881
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Speaker 2: being present in this room tonight, we would take advantage

882
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Speaker 2: of that, saying, God, fill this empty vessel with with

883
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Speaker 2: more of you with let let there be let my

884
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Speaker 2: life be like the cool in the garden. Then let

885
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Speaker 2: the wind of your spirit blow across me that I

886
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Speaker 2: might know you. Jesus, I prayed for those who have

887
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Speaker 2: come forward here tonight. That uh, And I keep saying,

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Speaker 2: keep thinking of words on praying tonight that don't feel

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Speaker 2: like appropriate churchy words, but I'm going to pray them anyway.

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Speaker 5: Mord ruined them for.

891
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Speaker 2: Everything else, like like if money is their idol, ruin

892
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Speaker 2: it like money doesn't mean anything to them anymore.

893
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Speaker 5: If if there if a.

894
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Speaker 2: Healthy marriage has become a higher priority than seeking your face,

895
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Speaker 2: then then or put that marriage into a place where

896
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Speaker 2: it is no longer our highest priority. But but you

897
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Speaker 2: are our jobs, our health, our finances, our careers are

898
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Speaker 2: where we live, our health. Lord, put all those things

899
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Speaker 2: in rightful place.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

901
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 2: Your presence is here, Jesus, Your presence is here, So

902
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Speaker 2: do what you would desire to do in our hearts

903
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Speaker 2: and our lives. Are you? Are you all okay? Just

904
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 2: to wait on Lord for a couple of minutes, All right?

905
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 2: Let's do that.

906
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 5: Let's just let's just let's.

907
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Speaker 2: Believe what we've talked about tonight and believe what you're

908
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Speaker 2: responding tonight, that he's actually present.

909
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 5: Jesus Christ, King of.

910
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 2: Kings, Lord of Lords, he decided to make this his

911
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 2: place tonight. He's here. So thank you, Jesus, We thank you.

912
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 2: And now we just take a moment to minister to you.

913
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Speaker 2: We're gonna minister to you God where you've ministered to

914
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 2: us tonight through worship and teaching and prayer.

915
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 5: Now we're just gonna take a moment to minister to you.

916
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 2: Folks. Do you know what it means to minister to

917
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 2: the Lord? It's like it's mostly language. It's giving him

918
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: praise and adoration, affection, the desire of your heart, calling

919
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 2: him the apple of your eye, calling him your heart's delight,

920
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 2: calling him with the like like the song of silences.

921
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 2: With one glance in my eye, my heart was smitten

922
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Speaker 2: by you.

923
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 5: That's ministering to him.

924
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Speaker 6: Lord.

925
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 5: Do we minister to you right now?

926
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Speaker 2: We probably came into this place wanting to be minister

927
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 2: to all our needs, all our hardships, all our sufferings.

928
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 2: And David gives us a model tonight, Jesus, that he

929
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 2: chose rather to make his until not be this hardship overcome.

930
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 2: He made his until you because he seemed to know

931
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Speaker 2: foreshadowing that the until would cover all those other things

932
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 2: that he would seek first the kingdom of God, and

933
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 2: all those other things would take care of himself. So

934
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Speaker 2: I don't even know if you know how to do this,

935
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 2: But can you minister to the Lord right now? Can

936
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 2: you do that? Can you? Can you, like, out loud,

937
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 2: just speak words, just even if you don't know what

938
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 2: to just say Jesus, Okay, just.

939
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Speaker 5: Call on the name of Jesus, Jesus. Do it out loud,

940
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 5: just with passion. So this is Lord, make this my

941
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 5: one thing.

942
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Christ over all,

943
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: pre eminent, extravagant, beautiful, wonderful. We minister to you, Jesus.

944
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 2: We lift you up, We exalt you. You're high and

945
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 2: lifted up. The traying of your robe fills the temple.

946
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 2: We say glory, glory, glory to God, Honor to God,

947
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 2: Praise to God, our love to God, our hearts to God,

948
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 2: our minds to God, our faith to God, our money

949
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 2: to God, our marriage to God, our careers to God,

950
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 2: our everything to God, all are all in all. We

951
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Speaker 2: want nothing else but you.

952
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 5: You come first.

953
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 2: You are foremost.

954
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 5: You are our delight, you are splendor.

955
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,399
Speaker 2: You're our apple, You're our desire, You're our one thing,

956
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 2: You're our passion, You're our love, You're our life. When

957
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 2: we honor you, we exhalts you, exalts you, We exalt you. Jesus,

958
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 2: we lift you up. We lift you up, God, we

959
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 2: lift you up. Be are all in all, Be now Lord. More.

960
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 2: We want more, we want, We want to tell you

961
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 2: even more than we already have tonight, how precious you

962
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:39,720
Speaker 2: are to us, how wonderful you are to us, how

963
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 2: marvelous you are to us. Thank you, Jesus that you

964
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 2: chose tonight to come to this building on fifty first

965
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Speaker 2: Street and manifest your presence. And right now, that presence

966
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 2: is doing the secondary stuff. It's healing broken bodies, it's

967
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 2: reaching out to the lost souls, it's healing marriages. In

968
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 2: this place, it's taking minds that are distraught by all

969
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 2: kinds of worries. And it's putting you first, Jesus, your first.

970
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 2: You're first, You're above it all, you are worthy of

971
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 2: it all. Is nothing like you. Jesus. You are worthy

972
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 2: of it all.

973
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 4: God.

974
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 2: We thank you, we praise you, re exalt you.

975
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 7: Jesus King, Lord Savior, seated on the throne. Seated on

976
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 7: the throne, the twenty four elders, casting their.

977
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Speaker 5: Crowns before you, fowling down before.

978
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Speaker 8: You, saying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty,

979
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Speaker 8: who was and is and is to come. Jesus name

980
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 8: above all names, Jesus King of Kings.

981
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Speaker 2: Jesus above all else.

982
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 8: We fowl before you, We humble ourself before you, We

983
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 8: reference ourself before you.

984
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 2: We call on the name.

985
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 8: Or Jesus, Jesus exvolved in this place, Jesus King of Pigs,

986
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:04,760
Speaker 8: Jesus Lord.

987
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 2: No more, Jesus.

988
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 8: Are all at all, Jesus our one desire, Jesus, our

989
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 8: greatest passion, Jesus above all else.

990
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 2: Nothing else I desire, nothing compares for you. You are all.

991
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Speaker 9: You are, glorious, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, amazing, amazing, Amazon glorious, glorious, glorious, glorious.

992
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 2: Glorious, wonderful, wonderful.

993
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 8: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, worry.

994
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 6: God, glory to God, Glory to God, Glory calling glory hallowloon,

995
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 6: Hallo Christ, and prasion, tell.

996
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 8: Of is excellent Grandnessation Prasian, We tell of your excellent grandness.

997
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 6: You are gloning.

998
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 2: You're ship one, the fair, wanted one, the want.

999
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Speaker 10: Travis him, your coorship him, and Baltan insolt the name

1000
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Speaker 10: of Jesus, absolve the name Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

1001
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Speaker 6: Haha, Holle, word of all.

1002
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Speaker 4: From your long worm, salting.

1003
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Speaker 10: Praise and praise and praiser solvesome, praise and prizing.

1004
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Speaker 2: Jesus to Holley.

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