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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 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: I've been looking forward to sharing this word with you.

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Speaker 2: Mark Chapter fourteen, verse ten through sixteen. Would you mind

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Speaker 2: standing for the word of God.

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Speaker 1: I know we just sat, but it's good. It's good.

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Speaker 2: I'm helping you exercise your legs, maximizing your time and

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Speaker 2: getting a little workout up and down, and.

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Speaker 1: Exercise your spirit as well. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Mark Chapter fourteen, verse ten says, then Judas is Scariot,

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Speaker 2: one of the twelve, went to the chief priest to

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Speaker 2: betray Jesus to them. They were delighted to hear this

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Speaker 2: and promise to give him money. So he watched for

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to hand him over Greek Paradidami, verse twelve.

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Speaker 2: On the first day of the Feast of Unloved Bread,

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Speaker 2: when it was customary to sacrifice the passover lamb, Jesus's

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Speaker 2: disciples asked him where do you want us to go

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Speaker 2: and make preparations for you to eat the passover. So

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Speaker 2: he sent two of his disciples, telling them, go into

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Speaker 2: the city, and a man carrying a jar of water.

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Speaker 1: Will meet you.

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Speaker 2: Follow him, say to the owner of the house he enters,

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Speaker 2: The teacher asks, where is my guest room where I

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Speaker 2: may eat the passover with my disciples. He will show

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Speaker 2: you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Would you

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Speaker 2: touch your favorite neighbor and tell the miss already ready,

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Speaker 2: make preparations for us there where there there Verse sixteen.

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Speaker 1: The disciples left.

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Speaker 2: Went into the city and found things just as Jesus

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Speaker 2: had told them, so they prepared the passover.

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Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor one more time.

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Speaker 2: I won't make you do it again, but look at

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Speaker 2: them one more time and give them my sermon title.

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Speaker 1: It's really a question.

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Speaker 2: That to me the text provokes, and I want you

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Speaker 2: to look at them and ask them this question, which

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Speaker 2: is also my subject. Ask them this, say what are

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Speaker 2: the chances please be seated again?

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I hate personality tests.

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Speaker 2: I think they're useful for certain people. It's just that

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Speaker 2: I can never remember the results of my tests.

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Speaker 1: And I also think.

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Speaker 2: Something about the nature of a personality test seems off

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Speaker 2: to me because depending on what mood you catch me in,

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Speaker 2: I will answer the questions very differently, even depending on

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Speaker 2: what five minute window you catch me in I have.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I should admit this multiple personalities.

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Speaker 1: I wish you would look at me like you don't.

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Speaker 2: I will follow you home and watch how you act

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Speaker 2: when you're not in church.

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Speaker 1: We will find out.

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Speaker 2: That you can be one person in one context and

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Speaker 2: another person in another context. And yet our minds are

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Speaker 2: always trying to find ways to categorize life as we're

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Speaker 2: experiencing life. And it's a good thing that our minds

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Speaker 2: are wired this way. It's really a good thing because

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Speaker 2: too many things are happening to us all the time

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Speaker 2: for us to process all of them on an individual basis.

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Speaker 2: So what your brain does is in an attempt to

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Speaker 2: help you from blowing up, is to group different stimuli according.

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Speaker 2: Your brain is always looking for a way to categorize experience,

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Speaker 2: positive or negative, And a lot of times This is

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Speaker 2: happening even at a subconscious level. Sometimes you don't even

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Speaker 2: know why you don't like somebody that you just met.

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Speaker 2: You haven't even had a real interaction with them yet.

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Speaker 2: But the way their nose looks is just like your

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Speaker 2: Some people annoy you before you even know them, just

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Speaker 2: Yet I have found that our associations are not always accurate,

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Speaker 2: of the first things that God does in our lives

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Speaker 2: when he comes in through the indwelling of the Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit is to challenge our categories. You see this through

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Speaker 2: the New Testament that after Jesus was resurrected from the dead,

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Speaker 2: And it was that the Jewish people could not accept

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Speaker 2: So we've got to kick them out because they don't.

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Speaker 2: Usually, when something comes into your life and you have

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Speaker 2: later you will learn to put it in a completely

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Speaker 2: This is why he said, after rising to the top

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Speaker 2: used to count gain I now count as loss. What

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Speaker 2: the things that we will pray away in one season

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Speaker 2: we will realize that unless we.

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Speaker 1: Had been afflicted, we could not have been.

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Speaker 2: This is why they killed Jesus, by the way, because

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Speaker 2: how he taught, or the miracles that he performed. He

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Speaker 2: They could not wrap their minds around the fact that

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Speaker 1: It did not fit their category.

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Speaker 2: rebuke the religious elite. They could not understand why Jesus would,

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Speaker 2: So what did they do? They crucified him because they

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Speaker 1: Category killing God.

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Speaker 2: Your God will not be limited to one economic background,

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Speaker 2: Those old categories don't exist anymore. I don't find my

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Speaker 2: There's no longer male nor female, slave nor free. Is

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Speaker 2: my worth. In Christ, we are one. The categories that

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Speaker 2: one who is greater. He's a category killer. He's greater

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Speaker 2: than all. His name is the buffalo names. I wish

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Speaker 2: say I am strong, Let the poor say I am rich.

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Speaker 2: Of church's elevation, I say, do you have a while,

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Speaker 2: because I can't give you the categories that you would

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Speaker 2: normally typify a church with. I can't tell you we're

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Speaker 2: non traditional. I probably can't tell you that. Somebody will

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Speaker 2: ask me a question, is it a spirit filled church?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 2: Christians have all these little labels that we like to

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Speaker 2: Where the Paptist at you got to shout, Where the

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. You never know. Are you

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Speaker 1: a spiritual church? I said, well, some of us are.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it depends on what day. And since they could

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Speaker 2: not categorize Jesus, they crucified. Since he did not fit

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Speaker 1: He didn't. He didn't do what they expected him to do.

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Speaker 2: And Elijah broke my heart the other day when he

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Speaker 2: said to me, Daddy, I just don't like rock and

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Speaker 2: roll music. And my first thought was, Holly, I need

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Speaker 1: This is not my child, This cannot be my child.

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Speaker 2: But then I realized, it isn't that my son doesn't

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Speaker 2: like rock and roll music. That's impossible. That's impossible. He's

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Speaker 2: highly intelligent, he has good taste. He just hasn't.

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Speaker 2: So I gave him a tutorial, and Jimmy HENDRICKX taught

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Speaker 2: And for all of you who say I'm not a

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Speaker 2: say I'm not a church person, I get it. But

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Speaker 2: it might not be that you don't like God. It

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Speaker 2: might be that you just haven't seen the real thing yet,

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Speaker 2: because when you really seek grace incarnate, when you really

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Speaker 2: see the Church alive, forcefully advancing with love and mercy

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Speaker 2: as our banners, you can't help but bop your head.

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Speaker 1: I like this stuff. It's the real thing.

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Speaker 2: Jesus came to show us what God was really like,

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Speaker 2: and he changed the categories. I want us to spend

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Speaker 2: a few moments today challenging our categories. I want us

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Speaker 2: And I'll do it from the text Matthew or Mark,

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Speaker 1: He was the Rock, he was the cloud, he was

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Speaker 1: That's what John the Baptist said. He said, look, the

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Speaker 2: Why did he have to point him out if he

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Speaker 2: You got to understand. Jerusalem was packed like Concord on

446
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 2: a NASCAR speed Week.

447
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: It was packed like Cotchella.

448
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 2: And Jesus sends him in to a city that is

449
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 2: not very big, that would be overrun with six times

450
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 2: its normal population and says, you'll see a man carrying

451
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 2: a water jar.

452
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: Follow him. This poor dude with the water jar.

453
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 2: You know, I want something, And God said, I want

454
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 2: it to happen like that.

455
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: I want it. I'm not gonna I'm.

456
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: Not gonna use a spectacular sign.

457
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a simple instruction. And when you

458
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: see the man with.

459
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 2: The jar, if you have the faith to follow him

460
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 2: in a house.

461
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: You've never been in before.

462
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 2: When you get there, you'll find the preparations already made.

463
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: See, you got it out of sequence.

464
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 2: You keep waiting to obey when God confirms. But God says,

465
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 2: I only confirm after you obey. I don't confirm before

466
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 2: I confirm after the fact. So go into the city

467
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: and follow the man. Yeah, and I'm gonna move through

468
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: what you call coincidence. Wow, the coincidence often looks a

469
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 2: whole lot like the miracle. Just thinking back over my life,

470
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,439
Speaker 2: I realized that it has become more difficult for me

471
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 2: the longer that I've walked with Christ to really admit

472
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 2: that some of the things that I write off as

473
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 2: a coincidence were really his hand at work.

474
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: Remember when I told you Eric that we were driving.

475
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: It was like a week after I had given my

476
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 2: life to Christ and I almost got hit by that car.

477
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this. I remember it

478
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: so clearly.

479
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 2: It was the first time that I saw Wow, if

480
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: I had gone when I was supposed to go, and

481
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: if I had not stopped, that car that plowed through

482
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 2: that stoplight would have hit me at age sixteen, And

483
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 2: I remember feeling so grateful that just seeing something that.

484
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: Could have happened that.

485
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: I guess you could call it a coincidence if you

486
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: want to, But something in me believes.

487
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: That the reason my car.

488
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 2: Didn't go at that moment, I forgot to tell you

489
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 2: this part.

490
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: The car was old and it wouldn't go. That's why

491
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: it didn't go.

492
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't the car go because my dad bought it

493
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 2: at Dick's Auto Shop for eight hundred dollars. Is that

494
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 2: why my Chrysler laser wasn't go Was it a coincidence?

495
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: Or was it God needed me to be here for

496
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: a little while longer? Was that a coincidence?

497
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence that Holly asked me to get

498
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: her an act pretest? And she didn't know she would

499
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 2: make all of my babies and carry the fruit of

500
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 2: my well anyway, She couldn't have known at the time

501
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 2: that I would change her name. But was it a

502
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 2: coincidence that of all the high school students at revival

503
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: at First Baptist Church Monk's Corner, she chose to walk

504
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: up to me. I'm telling you there was something magnetic

505
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 2: on me that day.

506
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: It wasn't good looks.

507
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 2: I didn't have that going for me, but something drew

508
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: her over.

509
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: Was it a coincidence?

510
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence, Amy that I I was sick

511
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: the first time I met your husband and I had

512
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 2: to ask him do you know the name of the doctor,

513
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: And he said, I'll call you with the number. And

514
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 2: he called me later that afternoon to give me Chris

515
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,239
Speaker 2: Dinning's number because I didn't know anybody because we had

516
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 2: just moved to Shelby. Was it a coincidence that I said, Hey,

517
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: why don't y'all come over to dinner Tuesday?

518
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: Hollywood, cook fried rice. We will eat carbs and be

519
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: fat together.

520
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence that you and Holly liked to

521
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: shop together on Saturday and spend all of our money

522
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 2: so that one day we could start a church travel

523
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 2: the world five continents later? Was it a coincidence that

524
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: I had strepthrope?

525
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: Was it a coincidence?

526
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence that you stood in my book

527
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 2: line at Liberty University until the very last person had

528
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 2: gone and considered walking away because the line was too long?

529
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence that I never signed books because

530
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 2: I feel sometimes like I don't get to spend enough

531
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: time with people.

532
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: And it feels a little impersonal for me.

533
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 2: Not that I don't want to meet people, but I

534
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 2: talked to them for twenty minutes each and then the

535
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 2: whole line gets mad and they start riots and.

536
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: It's a bad situation.

537
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence that that day I did And

538
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 2: was it a coincidence that you were the last one,

539
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 2: which gave me more time? To talk to you, and

540
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: that I wrote GTA Greater Things Ahead. I didn't know

541
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 2: you were from the greater Toronto area, and that we

542
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 2: would have a campus in Toronto one day.

543
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: Was it a coincidence that a wrestler was in my

544
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: hotel room in Colorado.

545
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 2: Who would visit Africa with me just years later as

546
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 2: we preached the gospel? Was it a coincidence that Adrian

547
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 2: de Pray tricked us both into being in that program

548
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 2: by describing it to us in a way that wasn't

549
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: exactly reflective of reality. But God somehow tricked us into

550
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: that hotel room in Denver, Colorado, so that we could

551
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: get chased out of Chinese nightclubs together and one day

552
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 2: do menace.

553
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: Was that a coincidence?

554
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 2: Because I imagine from the standpoint of the man who

555
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: carried the jar of water, this was just a coincidence.

556
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: But from the standpoint of the disciples, they knew this

557
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 2: is something more. And sometimes I think faith is just

558
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: as simple as second guessing. What you call coincidence. It

559
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 2: may be a coincidence. I'm not suggesting that you turn

560
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 2: into one of these people who blames everything on God.

561
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm talking about have you met

562
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,719
Speaker 2: these people? I got a parking space right at the

563
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 2: front of the gym.

564
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: It was God. That wasn't God.

565
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 2: You needed to walk, That's why you went to the

566
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 2: gym for exercise.

567
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: The devil gave you the spot closest.

568
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: If it had been God, he would have given you

569
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: some aptext for exercise.

570
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: Challenge your categories.

571
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence when Holly said I want to

572
00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 2: go to this farmer's market.

573
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: Was a coincidence that I agreed to do it? That's

574
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: a miracle. But we were on vacation at Sullivan's Island.

575
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: Why not?

576
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence that Addie May saw me from

577
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: her cupcake booth. Was it a coincidence that she walked

578
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 2: over and said, I'm sorry to bug you. I can

579
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: see you with your family, but I listened to your podcast.

580
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 2: Can I get a selfie? Was it a coincidence when

581
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: she said, I'm gonna call my pastor.

582
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: He's gonna be so jealous.

583
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence when she said you should come

584
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 2: to revival at my church next week and I said,

585
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 2: I don't have anything but short I'm on vacation, sweetheart,

586
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 2: But you can write down the dates of the revival,

587
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 2: and I'll put him away and never look.

588
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: At him again because I'm on vacation.

589
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 2: I didn't say that, but I thought it. Was it

590
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: a coincidence that somehow I kept the piece of paper

591
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 2: and something told me to check in on it, and

592
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 2: I found out that one of.

593
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: The guest speakers had canceled. Was it a coincidence that

594
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: Addie May had mentioned to me that when.

595
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 2: She called her pastor, he said that they had invited

596
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 2: me to speak at the revival office had told them.

597
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: That I was on vacation that week. Was it a coincidence?

598
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: When I looked up the number and called him, and

599
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 2: when he called me back, he said, we just came

600
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 2: out of a prayer meeting and we were praying that

601
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 2: God would provide a speaker for us tonight, and you're

602
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 2: the one we originally requested for this night.

603
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: Was that a coincidence?

604
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence that they wanted to prepare the

605
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 2: lamb and they were sitting with the lamb?

606
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: Was it a coincidence that in.

607
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 2: All of Jerusalem, all of the people carrying water jars

608
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: all funneled to this one man who had to be

609
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: in one place at one time so that he could

610
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 2: lead them into the room. And you say, you don't

611
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 2: see any evidence of God's working in your life. What

612
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: you've been calling coincidence, God calls evidence. That's how you

613
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 2: know was with you. Was it a coincidence that you

614
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 2: came to church today? Was it a coincidence that this

615
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 2: is finally the weekend where you said, Okay, I'll go

616
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 2: to your stupid loud church if you'll leave me alone.

617
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 2: Was it a coincidence that I was preaching on coincidence

618
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: for you to be here?

619
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: And I'm not telling you that you always have.

620
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: To tell people that it was God that got you

621
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 2: the table at the restaurant, and that it was God

622
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 2: that put gas in your car. It wasn't God to

623
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: put gas in your car. You put gas in your car.

624
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 2: If you don't put gas in your car, your car

625
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 2: will run out of gas.

626
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: Don't get weird with it.

627
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 2: I'm just saying what Thomas Edison said. He said, coincidence

628
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 2: is God's way of remaining anonymous.

629
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: What I think we've got to learn to do in

630
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: our lives.

631
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 2: Is to see Christ in the coincidence, and the next

632
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 2: time it happens, it's going to happen this week.

633
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: It happened to me last week.

634
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: It happened to me last week that I was walking

635
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: through the airport Newark, New Jersey. Praise the Lord for

636
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 2: a four hour layover in Newark, won a blessing. Might

637
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 2: as well go over to this bookstore. Oh, I recognized

638
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: that book.

639
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: So and so mentioned that book on their podcast.

640
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 2: So and so happened to be a person I've been

641
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 2: in contact with that I grew up with. And I

642
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 2: want to do a special project with this person for

643
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 2: our church, but I haven't been able to connect. And

644
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 2: when I said so and So's name, I walked around

645
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 2: the corner and I saw a little flyer on the

646
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 2: window of the bookstore, and it had so and So's

647
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 2: name on it. I said, that's weird. I was just

648
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 2: saying his name, and there he is on that flyer.

649
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 2: And then I saw where it said book signing, and

650
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 2: I said, well, that's weird. Who does a book signing

651
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 2: in an airport? Isn't that crazy? I was just said,

652
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 2: as an, and there's this picture and there he's doing

653
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: a book signing in this airport.

654
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: Wonder when he's doing it. Wouldn't it be weird if

655
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: he was doing.

656
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 2: It today, and he was doing it today. Wouldn't it

657
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: be weird if he was doing it right now and

658
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 2: he was doing it right now.

659
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be.

660
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 2: Weird if I texted him and he texted me back,

661
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 2: and we spent an hour together and we set a

662
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 2: date to do the thing that we were trying to do.

663
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be.

664
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 2: Weird if all that happened not when I was trying

665
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 2: to make it happen, but when I was on the layover.

666
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, if you have ears to hear it,

667
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 2: is that Jesus Christ wants to recategorize some of the

668
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: things in your life that you saw as a coincidence.

669
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: Many of you came to Charlotte against your will. You

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Speaker 2: came because this is where the job brought you. Is

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Speaker 2: it a coincidence that you're in Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: Or is in an assignment?

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Speaker 2: Is it a coincidence that, of all the people who

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Speaker 2: could have been carrying a jar at this moment, that

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Speaker 2: jar happened to be at that spot.

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Speaker 1: It's no coincidence.

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Speaker 2: Before they ever got to the spot where the man

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Speaker 2: carrying the jar was, Jesus had already had a conversation

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Speaker 2: and all you've got to do, really to see God

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Speaker 2: move in your life is to keep a room ready

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Speaker 2: for him when he comes.

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Speaker 1: And you will find a large, spacious.

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Speaker 2: Room already furnished, already prepared, awaiting your obedience. It's already ready,

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Speaker 2: but you won't see it if you miss it. In

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Speaker 2: the coincidence, tradition holds that this upper room was situated

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Speaker 2: in the highest place in the whole city of Jerusalem.

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Speaker 2: In that cool that Jesus knew the exact place where

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Speaker 2: he wanted to take the Last Supper and institute communion.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it cool that he prayed his high priestly prayer

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Speaker 2: in John fourteen through seventeen from the highest place in

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Speaker 2: the city. It couldn't have been just any house. It

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Speaker 2: had to be that house. It had to be that time,

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Speaker 2: It had to be that day. It's no coincidence. God

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Speaker 2: is in the coincidence. God is in the comment. God

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Speaker 2: is in the conflict. And you keep stepping over the

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Speaker 2: rock and there's water in it. Wow, And you keep

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00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: missing the cloud when it moves because you're looking down

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Speaker 2: and you're sitting with the lamb, and you're missing him.

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Speaker 2: Stand to your feet. I want to pray for your life.

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Speaker 2: This week particularly, I would like to pray for those

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Speaker 2: of you who in one of the three categories that

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Speaker 2: I mentioned at the beginning, And I want to thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for not leaving when I begin my

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Speaker 2: opening prayer.

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Speaker 1: It makes it so much.

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Speaker 2: More effective when we pray when we don't have a

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Speaker 2: lot of movement, when God is touching people's lives, and

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate that so much, your willingness to stay.

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Speaker 1: With us through this moment. I want to pray for

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Speaker 1: those of you this week who are going to have

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Speaker 1: Adie May at.

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Speaker 2: The farmer's market come up to you with a cupcake,

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Speaker 2: or are going to be Adie May bringing the cupcake over,

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Speaker 2: and God is setting you up to be an answer

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Speaker 2: to a prayer that you don't even know has been prayed.

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Speaker 1: It's no coincidence. It's no coincidence.

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Speaker 2: And all I want you to do this week is

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Speaker 2: give it a second look. When the conflict comes, look

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Speaker 2: at it a second way. At a second time, look

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Speaker 2: at it a different way. Is this a conflict or

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Speaker 2: is this an opportunity?

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Speaker 1: Is this just a cross or is this a resurrection?

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Speaker 1: Is this a storm or is this a stage.

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Speaker 2: For God to reveal his glory in my situation. Is

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Speaker 2: this just a meal or is this a message? Is

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Speaker 2: this just a coincidence or is this my calling? It

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Speaker 2: could be a coincidence or it can be a miracle.

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Speaker 1: What are the chances that of all of.

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Speaker 2: The men in Jerusalem carrying water, this one would be

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Speaker 2: at that place at that time.

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Speaker 1: What are the chances. I'll tell you the.

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Speaker 2: Chances one hundred percent, Because when you walk in obedience,

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Speaker 2: the outcome is guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: This will work. I said, it will work. It will happen.

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Speaker 1: It has to happen. It's sound come to pad if

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Speaker 1: I walk.

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Speaker 2: There. He told me to walk and do what he

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Speaker 2: told me to do at the right time. It has

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Speaker 2: to happen. It's no coincidence. God has you here. It's

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Speaker 2: no coincidence. What you went through. It wasn't to destroy you,

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Speaker 2: It was to develop you. God is in it. God

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Speaker 2: is in the conflict. God is in the common God

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Speaker 2: is in the diapers. God is in the math, homework.

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Speaker 2: God is in the traffic. God is in the layoff.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, God is in it. The Word became

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Speaker 2: flesh and dwelt.

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Speaker 1: Among us, and we beheld his glory.

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Speaker 2: Help us to see it God in every season, in situation,

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Speaker 2: Help us to find living water in dry places. I

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Speaker 2: thank you for your spirit, the comforter who guides us

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Speaker 2: into all truth. I lift up each circumstance represented in

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Speaker 2: this room. Today online, our family joining us around the

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Speaker 2: world goes watching on television.

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Speaker 1: I pray that you would.

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Speaker 2: Change the categorization system by which we have organized our

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Speaker 2: life to prioritize comfort and convenience overcalling. We want to

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Speaker 2: look for you in crowded streets. We want to see

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Speaker 2: you in impossible situations. We need your guidance. Lord, We

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Speaker 2: need your help.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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