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Speaker 5: There's no use beating yourself up living condemned.
Speaker 4: God's mercy has covered everything you've done wrong.
Speaker 5: If you want to get God's attention, start speaking the
Speaker 5: language of faith.
Speaker 4: Father.
Speaker 5: Thank you that my files have been deleted. Thank you
Speaker 5: that you're not counting my sins against me. Thank you
Speaker 5: that I'm covered by your mercy. Hi, this is Joel
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Speaker 5: start with something funny. And one Sunday morning, this man
Speaker 5: walked in church.
Speaker 4: Were in old blue.
Speaker 5: Jeans, an old T shirt, beat up cowboy hat.
Speaker 4: Some of the members were appalled.
Speaker 5: They sent notes to the pastor expressing their concerns. Afterwards,
Speaker 5: the pastor told the man that he needed to pray
Speaker 5: and ask God what he should wear before he came
Speaker 5: back to his church. The next Sunday, the man walked
Speaker 5: in dressed exactly the same I said, I told you
Speaker 5: to ask God what to wear before you came back
Speaker 5: to my church. The man said, I did ask God,
Speaker 5: but he told me he didn't know what.
Speaker 4: To wear because he's never been here before.
Speaker 5: All right, say it like you mean it. This is
Speaker 5: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I
Speaker 5: have what it says I have. I can do what
Speaker 5: it says I can do. Today I will be taught
Speaker 5: the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert,
Speaker 5: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.
Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk
Speaker 5: to you today about when God doesn't listen. We know
Speaker 5: that God is omnipresent. He's everywhere at the same time.
Speaker 5: He can see everything and he can hear everything. But
Speaker 5: there's a difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is unintentional.
Speaker 5: You can be asleep and hear your alarm. You weren't listening,
Speaker 5: you were simply hearing. Listening means you've tuned in, you've
Speaker 5: given your attention, you're interested. A while back, I asked
Speaker 5: Victoria if she had gone to the grocery store. I
Speaker 5: was looking for the short answer, but Victoria is much
Speaker 5: more expressive than I am.
Speaker 4: She likes to give the details. She told how she
Speaker 4: had gone.
Speaker 5: And who she ran into, and what they had been doing,
Speaker 5: and how their cousins, next door neighbors, grandfather's best friend
Speaker 5: had just had a baby. And I wasn't looking for
Speaker 5: any of that. I just wanted to know, did you
Speaker 5: get the chicken wings? The whole time she was telling
Speaker 5: the story, I was hearing it, but I wasn't listening.
Speaker 4: I was there, but I wasn't tuned in.
Speaker 5: It may surprise you that even though God hears everything, he.
Speaker 4: Doesn't always listen.
Speaker 5: There are certain things the scripture tells us that God
Speaker 5: he doesn't.
Speaker 4: Pay attention to.
Speaker 5: Now, I wonder if we're talking to God about something
Speaker 5: that he's hearing but he's not tuned in.
Speaker 4: He's right there, but he's not listening. Luke fifteen. There's
Speaker 4: a story of two sons.
Speaker 5: The younger son asked his father for his inheritance early.
Speaker 5: He knew it belonged to him and he wanted it right.
Speaker 5: Then his father agreed. The young man took the funds
Speaker 5: and left home. He went out and started partying, living wild,
Speaker 5: spending it on all kinds of wrong things. We Eventually
Speaker 5: the money ran out. There was a great famine in
Speaker 5: the land. Nowhere to get food, he ended up working
Speaker 5: in a hog pen, having to eat the hog food
Speaker 5: to survive. It was nobody's fault except his own.
Speaker 4: He brought the trouble on himself.
Speaker 5: Sitting in the hog pen, dirty smelly, feeling depressed, he
Speaker 5: began to think about home. He said, even the farm
Speaker 5: hands that work from my father eat three meals a day. Here,
Speaker 5: I'm starving I'm going to go back home and see
Speaker 5: if my father will hire me as one.
Speaker 4: Of his staff. He had his big speech all lined up.
Speaker 5: He had already practiced what he was going to say, Father,
Speaker 5: I have sinned against you and against God. I am
Speaker 5: no longer worthy to be called your son. I don't
Speaker 5: deserve to live in the house. I'm just asking you
Speaker 5: to hire me as one of your farm hands. The
Speaker 5: son returned home. You can imagine how nervous he was.
Speaker 5: He had practiced this speech again and again. When his
Speaker 5: father saw him a long way off, he took off,
Speaker 5: running toward the sun. I'm sure the son thought, oh great,
Speaker 5: he's so upset. He's not even going to allow me
Speaker 5: back on the property. He's going to come out here
Speaker 5: and beerate.
Speaker 4: Me and tell me how foolish I've been.
Speaker 5: But when the father got to the son, he grabbed
Speaker 5: him and hugged him, wouldn't let him go, gave his
Speaker 5: son a kiss. I can see the father weeping tears
Speaker 5: of joy, so excited.
Speaker 4: Now it was the son's big moment to give his speech.
Speaker 5: He knew this would either make him or break him.
Speaker 5: He started off, Father, I'm unworthy to be called your son,
Speaker 5: I've dishonored the family name. I've made so many mistakes.
Speaker 5: He did it so passionately, so genuinely, But the scripture
Speaker 5: says the father wasn't listening.
Speaker 4: Right in the middle of his big speech.
Speaker 5: When the son was pouring out his heart telling how
Speaker 5: unworthy he was, the father was no more paying attention.
Speaker 5: He looked over at his staff and said, quick, go
Speaker 5: get the best robe and put it on my son.
Speaker 5: Go get a ring for his shoes, for his feet,
Speaker 5: and kill the fatted calf.
Speaker 4: We're going to have a party. My son was lost,
Speaker 4: but now he's found.
Speaker 5: I can see the son thinking, Dad, I'm trying to
Speaker 5: tell you how unworthy I feel, how sorry I am.
Speaker 4: But you're not even listening.
Speaker 5: Are you telling God everything wrong with you, how many
Speaker 5: mistakes you've made.
Speaker 4: How you don't deserve to be blessed God? I blew
Speaker 4: it again. I don't see how you could even love me.
Speaker 4: Can I tell you? God is not listening. You are
Speaker 4: wasting your breath.
Speaker 5: This can save you a lot of time and emotional energy.
Speaker 5: You are not worthy because of what you did or
Speaker 5: didn't do.
Speaker 4: You're worthy because of what Jesus did. You don't have
Speaker 4: to go to God and try to convince him to
Speaker 4: forgive you. Convince him that.
Speaker 5: You know you're not good enough, You're just a weak
Speaker 5: worm of the dust.
Speaker 4: He tunes all that out.
Speaker 5: If you want God to not only hear, but to listen,
Speaker 5: then go to him with the language of faith. Father,
Speaker 5: thank you that your mercy is bigger than my mistakes.
Speaker 5: Thank you that you're not holding my past against me.
Speaker 5: Thank you that I'm forgiven, that I'm redeemed. Don't go
Speaker 5: through life beating yourself up, dwelling on your mistakes and failures.
Speaker 5: The moment you ask God to forgive you, he forgave
Speaker 5: you. You don't have to keep going back to God and saying,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry for what I did. I'm just so undisciplined.
Speaker 5: I know I don't deserve your goodness. I can imagine
Speaker 5: God turning to the angel Gabriel and saying, is someone
Speaker 5: saying something. I hear it, but I'm not tuned into that.
Speaker 5: When you're telling God all the times you failed, how
Speaker 5: you don't deserve to be blessed, God is not saying, good,
Speaker 5: I'm glad you finally feel unworthy. I'm glad you're finally
Speaker 5: down on yourself.
Speaker 4: He's not paying attention.
Speaker 5: All that's doing is making you feel bad about yourself.
Speaker 5: It's keeping you from expecting his favor. That's why the
Speaker 5: scripture says, come boldly to the Throne of Grace.
Speaker 4: To obtain mercy. When you need mercy.
Speaker 5: Don't go to God guilty, condemned, weak, Go boldly, Go
Speaker 5: with confidence, knowing that you're forgiven, knowing that God is
Speaker 5: for you. Yes, you may have blown it, but like
Speaker 5: this young man, God is running towards you right now,
Speaker 5: not to condemn you, not to make you feel guilty,
Speaker 5: but to love you.
Speaker 4: Well, Joel, shouldn't I.
Speaker 5: Tell God how bad I was and how unworthy I feel?
Speaker 5: You can, but he's not listening. God listens to the
Speaker 5: language of faith. He doesn't listen when we're beating ourselves up,
Speaker 5: telling him.
Speaker 4: What we don't deserve.
Speaker 5: The enemy would love for you to live feeling condemned.
Speaker 5: He'll remind you of all the times you haven't measured up.
Speaker 4: It may not be.
Speaker 5: Something big, but even small things. You didn't spend enough
Speaker 5: time with your children last week, you should have worked out,
Speaker 5: you got mad at your neighbor, you were late to school.
Speaker 4: There's always some reason that.
Speaker 5: We can feel bad about who we are. If you
Speaker 5: give into these lies, you'll go through life feeling wrong
Speaker 5: on the inside. Now, I found most people accept condemnation
Speaker 5: easier than they accept mercy. They believe the lies from
Speaker 5: the accuser more than they believe what God says about them.
Speaker 5: That they're forgiven, that you're redeemed, that you're made worthy.
Speaker 5: When you make a mistake, go to God, ask for forgiveness,
Speaker 5: and then move on. Don't keep asking again and again,
Speaker 5: bringing up the same failures. First time you ask God
Speaker 5: to forgive you, he not only forgave you, he.
Speaker 4: Doesn't remember it anymore.
Speaker 5: When you go back and ask God again and again,
Speaker 5: he says, what are you talking about? I have no
Speaker 5: account of that. When God forgave you, he deleted your files.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have a big server up in heaven where
Speaker 5: he's keeping a backup copy just in case he changes
Speaker 5: his mind. The scripture says, God has cleared a record.
Speaker 5: He has no account of what you keep asking him
Speaker 5: for forgiveness for now.
Speaker 4: You know who is keeping a record.
Speaker 5: You know who has forty seven backup copies. The enemy,
Speaker 5: he's called the accuser of the brethren. He'll remind you
Speaker 5: of everything you've done wrong for the last thirty year years.
Speaker 5: If someone is bringing up negative things from your past
Speaker 5: and your thoughts, you can be.
Speaker 4: Assured it is not God.
Speaker 5: In this story of the prodigal, the young man didn't
Speaker 5: even ask for forgiveness. Just the fact that he turned
Speaker 5: from his old way, the fact that he left the
Speaker 5: hogpen and came home, that was enough for his father
Speaker 5: to forgive him. You may not have done everything perfect
Speaker 5: in life. You can find plenty of reasons to live guilty,
Speaker 5: feel unworthy.
Speaker 4: But just the fact that you're here, just the fact.
Speaker 5: That you're listening, is a sign that you've turned toward God.
Speaker 4: It's a sign that you've headed toward the Father's house.
Speaker 5: Right now, the Father is running towards you. You may
Speaker 5: have your big speech all lined up. You're ready to
Speaker 5: tell God how unworthy you are, how you don't deserve
Speaker 5: to be blessed.
Speaker 4: Save your speech. He's not listening.
Speaker 5: There's no use beating yourself up living condemned.
Speaker 4: God's mercy has covered everything you've done wrong.
Speaker 5: If you want to get God's attention, start speaking the
Speaker 5: language of faith.
Speaker 4: Father.
Speaker 5: Thank you that my files have been deleted, Thank you
Speaker 5: that you're not counting my sins against me.
Speaker 4: Thank you that I'm covered by your mercy.
Speaker 5: Too often we think we have to pay God back
Speaker 5: for our mistakes.
Speaker 4: If it's something big.
Speaker 5: We have to beat ourselves up for six months lost
Speaker 5: my temper.
Speaker 4: Told my coworker off, that's.
Speaker 5: A medium sized sin. I got to be down on
Speaker 5: myself for a couple of weeks, plead with God again
Speaker 5: and again. God, I blew it. I don't know what's
Speaker 5: wrong with me.
Speaker 4: The whole time. God is hearing.
Speaker 5: You, but he's not listening when we're trying to make
Speaker 5: up for our mistakes. What we're really saying is, Jesus
Speaker 5: didn't finish everything on the cross.
Speaker 4: Let me pay for this one.
Speaker 5: I need to get back up on the cross for
Speaker 5: a little while. Now, understand the price has.
Speaker 4: Already been paid in full.
Speaker 5: All your sins, past, present, and future have been taken
Speaker 5: care of. The Way to honor God is not by
Speaker 5: being down on yourself, living guilty, feeling unworthy. It's by
Speaker 5: receiving his mercy. It's by getting up when you fall
Speaker 5: and trying again. It's by still believing for his favor,
Speaker 5: still expecting his goodness, even though you've spent some time
Speaker 5: in the hogpen.
Speaker 4: Even though you've.
Speaker 5: Made poor choices, you have that boldness to put on.
Speaker 4: Your robe of righteousness. You put on that crown of favor.
Speaker 5: You enjoy the party that your father threw because you
Speaker 5: came back home. Suppose the son said, Dad, I don't
Speaker 5: deserve these new clothes. I don't deserve this ring that
Speaker 5: represents I'm in the family.
Speaker 4: Don't throw a party from me.
Speaker 5: Just let me live out in the barn. I need
Speaker 5: to pay you back for all this trouble. The father
Speaker 5: would have.
Speaker 4: Said, what are you talking about? Are you kidding? You're
Speaker 4: my son. I wanna be good to you.
Speaker 5: The way to please God is by receiving his mercy.
Speaker 5: Sitting in the hogpen, this young man made a decision
Speaker 5: that changed the course.
Speaker 4: Of his life.
Speaker 5: He said, I will arise and go to my father's house.
Speaker 5: He was saying, yes, I've made mistakes, Yes I brought
Speaker 5: this trouble on myself, but I am not going to
Speaker 5: let one bad season ruin the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: I Am not going to sit here condemned. I'm going
Speaker 4: to arise now.
Speaker 5: You may have made some poor choices, You're not where
Speaker 5: you thought you would be in life. The accuser is
Speaker 5: telling you it's too late, You've blown it too bad,
Speaker 5: just sit on the sidelines. No, you are one decision
Speaker 5: away from seeing God's show out in your life. The
Speaker 5: plan he has for you was not canceled because you
Speaker 5: spent time in the hogpen. Those decisions didn't disqualify you
Speaker 5: from his favor.
Speaker 4: All you have to do is arise.
Speaker 5: Shake off that guilt, quit believe in the lies that
Speaker 5: you've seen your best days, and start heading towards your
Speaker 5: father's house. Start making decisions that honor God. Break away
Speaker 5: from things that are causing you to compromise to be
Speaker 5: less than your best.
Speaker 4: It's not too late, You're not too far off course.
Speaker 5: God still has amazing things in your future if.
Speaker 4: You'll dare to arise.
Speaker 5: I believe one reason this young man had the boldness
Speaker 5: to go back home was deep down he knew who
Speaker 5: he was. He knew what family he belonged to. When
Speaker 5: you understand your position, it will change your condition. When
Speaker 5: you understand you were a child of.
Speaker 4: The Most High God.
Speaker 5: You weren't created to live condemned, guilty, defeated. God created
Speaker 5: you to be victorious, to reign in life, to leave
Speaker 5: your mark. Now your condition may be way down low
Speaker 5: because you've made poor choices.
Speaker 4: You don't think you deserve to be blessed. It was
Speaker 4: your fault.
Speaker 5: The right attitude is I may have made mistakes, but
Speaker 5: I understand my position. The creator of the universe breathe
Speaker 5: life into me. I may not feel worthy, but I
Speaker 5: know he's made me worthy. So I'm going to arise
Speaker 5: and go to my father's house. In the father's house,
Speaker 5: there's mercy for every mistake. In the father's house, there's
Speaker 5: no judgment, no condemnation, no putting you on a guilt trap.
Speaker 4: It's interesting when.
Speaker 5: The son came back home, his father never once brought
Speaker 5: up the son's past. He never once said, I'll forgive you,
Speaker 5: but you don't deserve it. I'll let you live here,
Speaker 5: but I'll always remember what you did. There was no judgment,
Speaker 5: only mercy. When the father could have been upset, he
Speaker 5: was full of kindness. When there could have been a
Speaker 5: big argument, instead.
Speaker 4: There was a big party. What keeps some.
Speaker 5: People away from God is they have the wrong image
Speaker 5: of him. They think when they come back home, there'll
Speaker 5: be all this guilt. I told you so, look how
Speaker 5: foolish you've been. That's not the way our God is.
Speaker 5: When you come back, there'll be a party, There'll be
Speaker 5: a celebration.
Speaker 4: Now you may have made mistakes.
Speaker 5: The accuser is telling you stay away, stay in the
Speaker 5: hog pen.
Speaker 4: God would never accept you.
Speaker 5: But I believe deep down like this young.
Speaker 4: Man, you know who you are. You know God's calling
Speaker 4: is on your life.
Speaker 5: You can feel him speaking to you right now.
Speaker 4: Why don't you arise. Let today be a new beginning.
Speaker 5: No more living guilty, beating yourself up, telling God everything
Speaker 5: you've done wrong. He's already forgiven you. Come on back
Speaker 5: to the father's house. When the prodigal son returned home,
Speaker 5: imagine the next week he went to his father and said, Dad,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry for what I've done.
Speaker 4: Please forgive me.
Speaker 5: The dad said, son, you're forgiven, don't worry about it.
Speaker 5: The next day he comes, Dad, I can't believe I
Speaker 5: left you.
Speaker 4: Please forgive me. The father says, son, I forgave you.
Speaker 5: What if the son kept coming week after week, month
Speaker 5: after month, even though the son had good intentions, the
Speaker 5: father would get frustrated, say, son, you're wasting your time.
Speaker 5: I've forgiven you. Now do me a favor. Receive my forgiveness.
Speaker 5: I know people that ask God to forgive them for
Speaker 5: the same thing over and over. It happened twenty years ago,
Speaker 5: and they're still bringing it up.
Speaker 4: They think they're showing.
Speaker 5: God that they're sorry, but God is not listening.
Speaker 4: Well, Joel, I'm doing it because I feel this guilt,
Speaker 4: this remorse.
Speaker 5: The guilt is not from God, that's the accuser. The
Speaker 5: language of faith says, I may feel guilty, but I
Speaker 5: know I am forgiven. You can't go by how you feel,
Speaker 5: because feelings don't tell us the truth all the time.
Speaker 4: You have to go by what you know.
Speaker 5: God, you said I'm forgiven, So I'm gonna get in
Speaker 5: agreement with you and believe that I'm forgiven. There was
Speaker 5: a nine year old boy named Sam. He was visiting
Speaker 5: his grandparents during the summer. They lived out on a
Speaker 5: big farm.
Speaker 4: He had this slingshot.
Speaker 5: All during the day he would go through the woods
Speaker 5: shooting at different targets. He wasn't very accurate, but he
Speaker 5: kept practicing and practicing.
Speaker 4: One evening, he heard the dinner bell ringing.
Speaker 5: On the way to the house, he saw his grandmother's
Speaker 5: pet duck over by the pond.
Speaker 4: It's about fifty yards from.
Speaker 5: The main house and He didn't think he had a
Speaker 5: chance in the world of ever hitting it, but just
Speaker 5: for fun, he pulled the swing, shot back let the
Speaker 5: rock fly.
Speaker 4: Much to his surprise, it hit.
Speaker 5: The duck square in the head, knocked it over dead,
Speaker 5: where Sam began to panic. He ran over as quick
Speaker 5: as he could, grabbed the duck, took it and buried.
Speaker 4: It behind the woodpile.
Speaker 5: He felt so badly about it, but he wasn't about
Speaker 5: to dare say anything. When he got close to the house,
Speaker 5: he realized his twelve year old sister named Julie, saw
Speaker 5: the whole thing take place. That night, after dinner, the
Speaker 5: grandmother said to his sister, Julie, let's wash the dishes together.
Speaker 5: Julie said, Grandmother, I would love to, but Sam said
Speaker 5: he wants.
Speaker 4: To help you tonight.
Speaker 5: She whispered in Sam's ear, remember the duck. Sam went
Speaker 5: over and cleaned the dishes. The next morning, the grandfather
Speaker 5: was going fishing. He invited both children to come. The
Speaker 5: grandmother said, I really need Julie to stay here and
Speaker 5: help me do some chores. Julie smiled and said, grandmother,
Speaker 5: Sam said he wants to stay with you today.
Speaker 4: She whispered in his ear. Again.
Speaker 5: Remember the duck. Julie went fishing, Sam stayed in worked.
Speaker 5: After a couple of days of doing both his and
Speaker 5: his sister's chores, Sam finally had enough. He went to
Speaker 5: his grandmother said, Grandmother, I have to tell you something.
Speaker 4: I accidentally killed your pet duck with Muslim shot, and
Speaker 4: I'm very sorry.
Speaker 5: The grandmother gave him a big hug and said, Sam,
Speaker 5: I know you did. I was standing at the window.
Speaker 5: Now watch the whole thing happen. I know you didn't
Speaker 5: mean to. I already forgave you. I was just waiting
Speaker 5: to see how long you were going to let Julie
Speaker 5: make a slave of you.
Speaker 4: Can I tell you God is standing at the window.
Speaker 5: He's seen every mistake, every failure, every weakness.
Speaker 4: The good news is.
Speaker 5: He's already forgiven you. He's not holding it against you.
Speaker 5: He's just waiting to see how long you're going to
Speaker 5: let the accuser make a slave of you. How long
Speaker 5: are you going to live with that guilt, believing that.
Speaker 4: You've blown your future?
Speaker 5: How long are you gonna ask forgiveness for the same things.
Speaker 4: My declaration is no more. This is a new day.
Speaker 5: We're gonna rise up like Sam and say enough is enough. Yes,
Speaker 5: I've made some mistakes, but I'm not gonna go through
Speaker 5: life condemned trying to pay a debt that's already been paid,
Speaker 5: thinking that I've missed my destiny.
Speaker 4: I'm going to arise. You can still become all you
Speaker 4: were created to be.
Speaker 5: No mistake you've made is too much for the mercy
Speaker 5: of God. You have to get back in the game,
Speaker 5: get your fireback, get your passion back.
Speaker 4: Quit believing those lies that it's too late. You made
Speaker 4: too many poor choices. Telling God everything you've done wrong.
Speaker 4: He's not listening to that.
Speaker 5: If you want to get God's attention, go to him
Speaker 5: with boldness, despite the mistakes you've made.
Speaker 4: Dare to ask him for favor.
Speaker 5: Dare to ask him to open new doors to take
Speaker 5: you where you couldn't go on your own.
Speaker 4: This is what Jacob did in the scripture.
Speaker 5: He had lived his whole life being dishonest, cheating people.
Speaker 5: He tricked his brother out of his birthright. He finally
Speaker 5: got tired of living that way. One day, he went
Speaker 5: down to the brook by himself to get alone with
Speaker 5: God to make things right. An angel appeared in the
Speaker 5: form of a man. Jacob started wrestling with him. This
Speaker 5: went on all night. Jacob finally realized.
Speaker 4: It was an angel.
Speaker 5: He said to him, I'm not going to let you
Speaker 5: leave until you bless me. When the angel saw how
Speaker 5: determined Jacob was, how he wasn't going to give in,
Speaker 5: he touched Jacob and gave him the blessing. That night,
Speaker 5: God changed his name from Jacob to Israel. He left
Speaker 5: there a different person.
Speaker 4: But think of the nerve of Jacob.
Speaker 5: After all those years of cheating people, making bad choices.
Speaker 5: He should have been living guilty, feeling unworthy, But somehow
Speaker 5: he had this boldness to not only ask for forgiveness,
Speaker 5: but he said, God, I'm asking you to bless me
Speaker 5: despite what I've done wrong.
Speaker 4: You would think.
Speaker 5: God would say, come on, Jacob, are you kidding? You
Speaker 5: don't even deserve forgiveness, much less to be blessed. But
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Speaker 5: don't deserve.
Speaker 4: But you're asking me to be good to you. Jacob.
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Speaker 5: If God will bless Jacob after living that kind of life.
Speaker 5: Why are you believing the lies that God won't bless you, that.
Speaker 4: You don't deserve it, that you're not worthy. Do yourself
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Speaker 5: Quit telling God all about that, and go to him
Speaker 5: like Jacob, Father, I.
Speaker 4: Thank you that you are full of mercy.
Speaker 5: I'm asking you to bless me not because of how
Speaker 5: good I am, but because of how good you are.
Speaker 5: That's what gets God's attention, That's what he listens to.
Speaker 5: How much time are you spending being down on yourself,
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Speaker 5: That's a lot of emotional energy that's not doing any good.
Speaker 4: Yes, God hears you, he knows.
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