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Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel on Wednesdays. We bring you the
Speaker 4: best of I hope you enjoy the podcast. Well, God
Speaker 4: bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.
Speaker 4: If you're ever in our area, please stop by and
Speaker 4: be a part of one of our services. I promise
Speaker 4: you will make you feel right at home. That thanks
Speaker 4: so much much for tuning in, and thank you again
Speaker 4: for coming out. I like to start with something funny,
Speaker 4: and I heard about this husband that died and he
Speaker 4: left his wife twenty thousand dollars. After the funeral, his
Speaker 4: wife told a friend that she was totally broke. The
Speaker 4: friend said, what do you mean you broke. I thought
Speaker 4: you had twenty thousand dollars. She said, well, I spent
Speaker 4: five thousand dollars on the funeral and fifteen thousand on
Speaker 4: the memorial stone. The friend said, wow, that was some stone.
Speaker 4: How big was it? She held up her finger and
Speaker 4: said three and a half carrots. All right, say it
Speaker 4: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am
Speaker 4: what it says I am. I have what it says
Speaker 4: I have. I can do what it says I can do.
Speaker 4: Today I will be taught the word of God. I
Speaker 4: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about
Speaker 4: waiting with expectancy life. We're always waiting for something, waiting
Speaker 4: for a dream to come to pass, waiting to meet
Speaker 4: the right person, waiting for a problem to turn around.
Speaker 4: Much of life is spent waiting. There's a right way
Speaker 4: to wait and a wrong way to wait. Isaiah said,
Speaker 4: they that wait upon the Lord will mount up with
Speaker 4: wings as eagles. We hear that word waiting most of
Speaker 4: the time we think that means do nothing, be passive.
Speaker 4: But the amplified version explains what the word weight really means.
Speaker 4: It says those who expect, who hope, who look for
Speaker 4: God's goodness. Waiting is not supposed to be passive. True
Speaker 4: waiting is actively expecting. I prayed, I believed. Now I'm
Speaker 4: looking for God's goodness. I'm expecting my health to improve.
Speaker 4: I'm expecting new doors to open. I'm expecting to have
Speaker 4: a blessed year. That's what it really means to wait.
Speaker 4: David understood this principle. He said in Psalm five, Each morning,
Speaker 4: I bring my request to you and wait expectantly. When
Speaker 4: you're waiting expectantly, you know this could be the day
Speaker 4: you get the break you need. This could be the
Speaker 4: day the problem turns around. There's an anticipation in your spirit.
Speaker 4: You talk like it's gonna happen. You act like it's
Speaker 4: gonna happen. You're on the lookout. That expectancy is your
Speaker 4: faith being released. Now all through the scripture we see
Speaker 4: this in David's life. He said, surely goodness and mercy
Speaker 4: will follow me. He was expecting God's blessing. In Psalm
Speaker 4: twenty seven, all kinds of bad things were happening to David.
Speaker 4: Violent enemies were chasing him, people lying about him, falsely
Speaker 4: accusing him. Yet right in the midst of it, he said,
Speaker 4: I am confident I will see God's goodness. David not
Speaker 4: only prayed, he not only believed. He took it one
Speaker 4: step further. He went out looking for God's favor. Like David,
Speaker 4: you may be facing difficulties in the natural. It doesn't
Speaker 4: look good. But when you're waiting with expectancy, you're not
Speaker 4: moved by what you see. You're moved by what you know.
Speaker 4: Psalm one twelve says when darkness overtakes, the righteous light
Speaker 4: will come bursting in. Notice God used the word bursting.
Speaker 4: He didn't say it's going to trickle in. It's going
Speaker 4: to barely get there. It's going to show up, little
Speaker 4: by little. No, God said, suddenly things will turn around.
Speaker 4: You may have been dealing with the situation for many years,
Speaker 4: but suddenly your health will improve. Suddenly, the right person
Speaker 4: will show up, Suddenly, the legal situation will resolve. The
Speaker 4: right way to wait is not Oh God, this is
Speaker 4: never going to change. This financial difficulty is going to
Speaker 4: be the end of me. These kids are going to
Speaker 4: drive me crazy. No, get up every morning and say God,
Speaker 4: I'm expecting your light to come bursting in. I'm expecting
Speaker 4: a sudden breakthrough, a flood of your favor, a flood
Speaker 4: of healing, a flood of restoration, a flood of promotion.
Speaker 4: You wait with expectancy like that, and you'll see God
Speaker 4: show up and do amazing things.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I know some of you have had tough times. Maybe
Speaker 4: you had a bad break. Now you settled where you are,
Speaker 4: thinking you've reached your limits. This is as good as
Speaker 4: it's ever going to get. You've got to kick it
Speaker 4: into a new gear. Get your expectations up. Proverbs thirteen
Speaker 4: says trouble chases sinners, but blessings chase the righteous. You
Speaker 4: are the righteous. What should you be expecting trouble, bad breaks, heartache. No,
Speaker 4: get in agreement with God and start expecting his blessings
Speaker 4: to chase you down, affecting God's favor. When you go
Speaker 4: through a disappointment and we all do you have a
Speaker 4: bad break, instead of being discouraged, instead of complaining, No,
Speaker 4: dig your heels in and say this medical report may
Speaker 4: not look good, but I'm not worried. I know healing
Speaker 4: is chasing me down. Business may be slow, I'm not discouraged.
Speaker 4: I know opportunity sells, contracts, ideas, inventions, good breaks are
Speaker 4: chasing me down. My child may be on the wrong path,
Speaker 4: but it's only temporary. I know a turnaround is chasing
Speaker 4: him down. That's not just being positive, that's doing what
Speaker 4: David did. Waiting with expectancy, you're saying God, I know
Speaker 4: you're still on the throne. You're bigger than this difficulty.
Speaker 4: What you promised in my life will come to pass.
Speaker 4: One reason people don't have the joy they should is
Speaker 4: they're not expecting anything good. The scriptures hope deferred makes
Speaker 4: the heart sick. If you're not expecting to see God's
Speaker 4: favor in a new way, you're not expecting the problem
Speaker 4: to turn around. It will not only limit what God
Speaker 4: can do, but it'll cause your heart to be sick.
Speaker 4: It'll cause you to be discouraged. Too. Many people today
Speaker 4: are not healthy, not physically but emotionally because they're not
Speaker 4: waiting with expectancy. At one point they had a big dream.
Speaker 4: They knew it was going to work out, but it
Speaker 4: didn't happen on their timetable. Now they've gotten passive and
Speaker 4: they think that it's never going to happen. But you've
Speaker 4: got to shake that off and get your fire back.
Speaker 4: God is still on the throne. It may not have
Speaker 4: happened on your timetable, but God's a faithful God. He
Speaker 4: can still bring it to pass. Now, do you a
Speaker 4: part and start expecting the light to come bursting in.
Speaker 4: Start expecting God's blessings to chase you down. Don't let
Speaker 4: people talk you out of it. Don't believe the never
Speaker 4: lies they come to all of us. You'll never get well,
Speaker 4: you'll never get married, you'll never get out of debt.
Speaker 4: Let that go in one ear and out the other.
Speaker 4: Our attitude should be I know my answer is already
Speaker 4: on the way. I could see it before I go
Speaker 4: to bed tonight. I could meet the person of my
Speaker 4: dreams before I leave this building. Be sure to look
Speaker 4: around before you leave. I could see my health improved
Speaker 4: this week. I could get totally out of debt, pay
Speaker 4: my house off this year. It may be impossible in
Speaker 4: the natural, but I know I serve a supernatural God.
Speaker 4: When you wait with expectancy, the most powerful force in
Speaker 4: the universe goes to work. In the Book of James,
Speaker 4: it tells us to wait for God's promises like a
Speaker 4: farmer waits for his harvest. When a farmer plants his
Speaker 4: cross pops, he doesn't wait or worried. He doesn't go
Speaker 4: to bed at night stressed out, wondering if they're going
Speaker 4: to come up. If somebody says to him, I don't
Speaker 4: think you're going to get a harvest this year, he
Speaker 4: wouldn't pay any attention. He's planted, he's watered, he has
Speaker 4: no doubt that it's going to happen. So he waits
Speaker 4: with a confidence, not just hoping, not just believing. He
Speaker 4: takes it one step further. He knows his crops are
Speaker 4: going to come up. That's the way we're supposed to
Speaker 4: wait on what God promised us. Like the farmer, you prayed,
Speaker 4: you've planted, you've watered your seeds. You thank God. Now
Speaker 4: you've got to come over into this confidence, a knowing
Speaker 4: that says not if it happens, but when it happens.
Speaker 4: Somebody asks you, you still think you're going to get
Speaker 4: out of debt with the economy like it is, Tell
Speaker 4: them I don't think so. I know.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: My God is Jehovah, Jirah. He is the Lord, my provider.
Speaker 4: He is not affected by the economy. He controls it. All.
Speaker 4: You still think your child's going to straighten up. Looks
Speaker 4: like they're wilder than ever to me, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: So as for me and my house, we will serve
Speaker 4: the Lord. You still think you're gonna get married, You've
Speaker 4: been single a long time. I don't think so. I
Speaker 4: know so God said he would give me the desires
Speaker 4: of my heart, the right man, the right woman. They
Speaker 4: are chasing me down even as we speak. You got
Speaker 4: to have this unshakable confidence. Just like you know the
Speaker 4: sun is going to come up in the morning, you
Speaker 4: know what God promised you is going to come to pass.
Speaker 4: It may happen today, may happen next week or next year.
Speaker 4: But like that farmer, you know that you know your
Speaker 4: harvest is on its way. This passage in James uses
Speaker 4: Job as the example of how to wait. You remember,
Speaker 4: Job went through a lot of ache and pain, lost
Speaker 4: his health, his family, his business. But about nine months
Speaker 4: later he came out with twice what he had before.
Speaker 4: Not only saw it all restored, but he had twice
Speaker 4: the cattle twice, the sheep twice, the joy twice, the peace. Now,
Speaker 4: of all the people in the scripture, God could have
Speaker 4: chosen as the example of how to wait. God chose Job.
Speaker 4: I believe it's significant. God is saying, when you go
Speaker 4: through a loss, a disappointment, a bad break, don't expect
Speaker 4: to come out the same. Expect to come out better
Speaker 4: off than you were before. Maybe you're dealing with the
Speaker 4: sickness right now, or a relationship didn't work out. Somebody
Speaker 4: cheated you in a business deal and you could easily
Speaker 4: be negative. Discourage, settle where you are.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: God wants to take what was meant for your harm
Speaker 4: and use it to your advantage to increase you. Dare
Speaker 4: to believe, like Job, that you're going to come out
Speaker 4: with twice what you had before. Some of you are
Speaker 4: just hoping to halfway recover. If you could at least
Speaker 4: get back to where you were before you got sick,
Speaker 4: before you were laid off, before the disappointment, you would
Speaker 4: be happy if you could just get back to even.
Speaker 4: But that's not the way our God works. God is
Speaker 4: going to make the enemy pay for bringing that trouble
Speaker 4: into your life. God is saying, get ready for double.
Speaker 4: You have not seen your best days. Weeping may endure
Speaker 4: for a night, but joy is coming in the morning.
Speaker 4: God is going to give you beauty for those ashes.
Speaker 4: He's going to make the rest of your life better
Speaker 4: than it would have been if that would have never happened.
Speaker 4: But you've got to do your part and start waiting
Speaker 4: with expectancy. If you're sitting around discouraged in self pity,
Speaker 4: thinking you've seen your best days, it will limit what
Speaker 4: God can do. Shake it off and start waving like job, Father,
Speaker 4: I want to thank you that double is coming my way.
Speaker 4: I may be sick right now, but I'm expecting to
Speaker 4: come out twice as healthy, with twice the energy, twice
Speaker 4: the strength. I may have gotten laid off, but Lord,
Speaker 4: I want to thank you for a job with twice
Speaker 4: the benefits, twice the friends, twice the fulfillment, twice the income.
Speaker 4: This person may have walked out on a relationship, done
Speaker 4: me wrong, but Lord, I just thank you for bringing
Speaker 4: me somebody twice as fun, twice as friendly, twice as
Speaker 4: good looking, twice as well off. Well, you say, Joe,
Speaker 4: that's kind of far out. Yeah, we serve a far
Speaker 4: out God. He wants to do more than you can
Speaker 4: ask or think. He wants to bring you out like
Speaker 4: Joe with doubles. What's interesting is when a farmer is
Speaker 4: waiting for his harvest. He doesn't sit around passively and
Speaker 4: not do anything for months and months now. While he's waiting,
Speaker 4: he sharpens his tools, He makes sure his tractor and
Speaker 4: equipment is maintained and ready to go. He calls his suppliers,
Speaker 4: his transportation people, gets everything lined up. The fact is
Speaker 4: he hasn't seen one plant come up out of the ground.
Speaker 4: The whole field is completely empty. Yet he's making all
Speaker 4: kinds of preparations for the harvest that he knows is coming.
Speaker 4: He has such a confidence that he's putting actions behind
Speaker 4: his faith. That's what it means to wait like a farmer.
Speaker 4: You're not just hoping, you're not just praying. You're getting
Speaker 4: prepared taking steps of faith. Years ago I went to
Speaker 4: this young couple's apartment, friends of mine. It was a
Speaker 4: very small place and they were happy. They were content,
Speaker 4: but they knew God had put bigger things in their heart.
Speaker 4: And they had bought some furniture for the apartment that
Speaker 4: was much too big. One couch was crammed up against
Speaker 4: another couch. You could hardly walk into the room. Look
Speaker 4: like a mistaken I thought to myself, what in the
Speaker 4: world were they thinking? I didn't say anything, but later
Speaker 4: the young lady said, Joey, you'll have to forgive our den.
Speaker 4: We bought this furniture for our new house. I didn't
Speaker 4: know they were moving. I said, that's great. Where are
Speaker 4: you going? She said, we don't know yet. We just
Speaker 4: know we're not staying here. This is only temporary. They
Speaker 4: sayed in that tiny apartment for several years, and when
Speaker 4: I would see them just being friendly, I'd say, hey,
Speaker 4: when are you moving? Their answer was always soon. That's
Speaker 4: a great answer. When are you coming out of debt soon?
Speaker 4: When is the problem going to turn around soon? When
Speaker 4: are you gonna get married soon? When is that child
Speaker 4: gonna come back home? Not any of this on Joey.
Speaker 4: I don't know more. I pray the worse he gets,
Speaker 4: did I tell you what he did last week? Zip
Speaker 4: that up. Your answer should always be soon, Say it
Speaker 4: by faith. This year, you young couple had such a
Speaker 4: confidence like the farmer. They knew their harvest was coming.
Speaker 4: And one day the lady got an unexpected promotion, a
Speaker 4: huge increase, and everything fell into place. And do you
Speaker 4: know where that furniture is now? It's not in their
Speaker 4: new home. They gave it to another young couple that's
Speaker 4: believing for their dream to come to pass. That's what
Speaker 4: happens when you put actions behind your faith, it gets
Speaker 4: God's attention. One time in the scripture, a paralyzed man
Speaker 4: talked four of his friends into carrying him to another
Speaker 4: city where Jesus was teaching. When they arrived, the house
Speaker 4: was so crowded they couldn't get in. I'm sure the
Speaker 4: men that carried him were tired, their shoulders were sore.
Speaker 4: They wanted to rest, But the paralyzed man said, no,
Speaker 4: we've come too far to stop. Now you've got to
Speaker 4: take me up on the roof and let me down
Speaker 4: through the ceiling. Imagine Jesus is up there teaching and
Speaker 4: he sees dust start to fall, a couple ceiling dials
Speaker 4: drop down. All this commotion as they lowered the man down.
Speaker 4: The scripture says, when Jesus saw their faith, my question
Speaker 4: today is can your faith be seen? Are you doing
Speaker 4: anything to show God? You're not just hoping, You're not
Speaker 4: just praying like the farmer, You're getting prepared. When Jesus
Speaker 4: saw their faith, he touched the man and he was
Speaker 4: made home. Now that man could have stayed at home
Speaker 4: for twenty years, believing he could have prayed for the
Speaker 4: rest of his life, nothing would have happened. But when
Speaker 4: your faith can be seen, the creator of the universe
Speaker 4: goes to work. When my father was in his sixties,
Speaker 4: he had to have open heart surgery. It was a
Speaker 4: very serious procedure because most of his arteries were blocked
Speaker 4: and there was no guarantee that he would come out okay.
Speaker 4: Our family was all in the room to go before
Speaker 4: he was going to be taken into the operation, he
Speaker 4: asked me if I would go back home and get
Speaker 4: his tennis shoes and runing suit and lay it by
Speaker 4: his bed. My mother had already brought his pajamas and
Speaker 4: house shoes and everything that he would need, but my
Speaker 4: father wanted those tennis shoes there as an act of
Speaker 4: his faith. While he was recovering, every time he looked
Speaker 4: at them, he was saying, I'm going to be out
Speaker 4: running again. I'm gonna go all over the world. I've
Speaker 4: got many good years left in me. You may be
Speaker 4: facing a health issue as well. In the natural it
Speaker 4: doesn't look good, but don't make plans to go downhill.
Speaker 4: Don't tell your friends how bad it is and how
Speaker 4: you're never gonna make it. Expect to get better, put
Speaker 4: your tennis shoes in front of you, Plan a visit
Speaker 4: to go see your relatives, renew the membership to the
Speaker 4: health club. Do something so your faith can be seen.
Speaker 4: When my mother was so sick with cancer, she told
Speaker 4: how she would lay in bed at night, these thoughts
Speaker 4: would come, telling her, you can be buried in that
Speaker 4: new pink dress that you bought. See the enemy wants
Speaker 4: you to make plans for your funeral. He wants you
Speaker 4: to plan for defeat, for mediocrity. He would love for
Speaker 4: us to go through life with the wrong expectations. You
Speaker 4: got to shake that off and make plans to live,
Speaker 4: make plans for victory. That Christmas in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 4: when my mother was given a few weeks to live,
Speaker 4: all of us kids went in together to buy my
Speaker 4: mother some china. That's what she wanted before she got sick.
Speaker 4: When my sister Lisa went to the store to pick
Speaker 4: it up, only eight pieces were in stock. The other
Speaker 4: two pieces would have to be ordered and we were
Speaker 4: told that could take several months to come in. Well,
Speaker 4: my mother was only given a few weeks to live,
Speaker 4: and that was a month or so before. When she
Speaker 4: opened the china and she saw the note in it
Speaker 4: saying that the rest would be delivered in the spring
Speaker 4: of the next year. Her first thought in the natural
Speaker 4: was I might not even be here. But we ordered
Speaker 4: that china on purpose to let my mother know we
Speaker 4: were expecting her to still be here. That china came
Speaker 4: in thirty one years later. My mother is still here, healthy, alive, strong.
Speaker 4: The funny thing is she has not served me one
Speaker 4: meal on that china. I'm gonna talk about being grateful
Speaker 4: next week. Can your faith be seen? Are you waiting
Speaker 4: like the farmer making preparations for your harvest? The apostle
Speaker 4: Paul did this. He was in prison for spreading the
Speaker 4: good news. In the natural, there was no reason to
Speaker 4: think that he would ever get out. It looked like
Speaker 4: that was his destiny. But Paul wasn't complaining, He wasn't discouraged.
Speaker 4: He was making plans to be free. He said to
Speaker 4: a friend that came to visit him, keep a guest
Speaker 4: room ready for me, for I am filled with hope
Speaker 4: that God will answer my prayers. Here he's in prison,
Speaker 4: he doesn't need a guest room. My mom's been given
Speaker 4: a few weeks to live. We don't need to order
Speaker 4: her any china. My father's recovering from a major surgery.
Speaker 4: He doesn't need his tennis shoes. Now, that's what it
Speaker 4: means to wait with expectancy. When God can see your faith,
Speaker 4: he can do the impossible. I read about this small
Speaker 4: town that had been in a drought for a long
Speaker 4: long time, and the local pastors called for a day
Speaker 4: of prayer on the town square. They ask everyone to
Speaker 4: bring some kind of object of their faith, just to
Speaker 4: show that they were believing, and most people brought their bibles.
Speaker 4: Some wore a cross or a T shirt with an
Speaker 4: inspirational message. They joined hands and begin to earnestly pray.
Speaker 4: It's a very moving scene as they were all gathered
Speaker 4: in faith, asking God for rain. After about ten minutes,
Speaker 4: almost perfectly on queue, it began to rain. They started
Speaker 4: shouting and singing, holding up their bibles their crosses in
Speaker 4: praise to God. But one little eight year old girl's
Speaker 4: object stood out among the rest. She opened up her
Speaker 4: big yellow umbrella that she had brought. The scripture tells
Speaker 4: us to have the faith of a little child. If
Speaker 4: you're praying for rain, it's not complicated. Bring your umbrella.
Speaker 4: Let your faith be seen. You remember in the Old Testament,
Speaker 4: the people of Israel came to the Jordan River they
Speaker 4: needed to get across. Earlier, Moses had held up his
Speaker 4: rod and the Red Sea parted a great miracle. This
Speaker 4: time it didn't happen that way. The scripture tells how
Speaker 4: they had to walk toward the water, and as their
Speaker 4: feet and legs God wet, then the river opened up.
Speaker 4: I wonder how many of us are waiting for God
Speaker 4: to part the sea like he did. Last time. God
Speaker 4: showed your favor, opened the door, and you walk through it.
Speaker 4: But this time God has a Jordan River in front
Speaker 4: of you. It's not going to open up until your
Speaker 4: faith can be seen. What can you do to show
Speaker 4: God that you're trusting him. I'm not suggesting that you
Speaker 4: quit your job, but can you bring a big yellow umbrella.
Speaker 4: Can you buy a new outfit to wear for when
Speaker 4: you get healthy again? Can you take that management course
Speaker 4: even though you were turned down for the promotion that's
Speaker 4: waiting with expectancy, you're saying by your actions, God, I'm
Speaker 4: expecting your light to come bursting in. I know this lady,
Speaker 4: she's always been very heavy struggled with her waiting. She
Speaker 4: heard me talking about this, and she went out and
Speaker 4: bought an out fit like ten sizes too small for her.
Speaker 4: People thought she was crazy. She told the lady helping her,
Speaker 4: it was for someone else. She put that outfit up
Speaker 4: in her closet. Every time she saw it, she would say, Lord,
Speaker 4: thank you that I'm going to lose this weight, thank
Speaker 4: you that I'm strong, I'm disciplined, I'm focused, and I'm
Speaker 4: going to wear this outfit. No, it didn't happen overnight,
Speaker 4: but several years later she was wearing that outfit just
Speaker 4: as beautiful as could bet. A young couple I know
Speaker 4: they tried for many years to have a baby with
Speaker 4: no success. The medical report said that they would never
Speaker 4: be able to have a child. And while we love
Speaker 4: and respect doctors, we know God can do what medical
Speaker 4: science cannot do. This couple went out and bought a
Speaker 4: baby's outfit, just a little girl's dress, and they put
Speaker 4: it in their kitchen. Every time they saw it, they
Speaker 4: would say, Lord, you said, children are a gift from you,
Speaker 4: so we want to thank you for one of your gifts.
Speaker 4: About two years later, they came to the altar to
Speaker 4: dedicate their beautiful baby girl. You know what she was
Speaker 4: wearing that outfit they had bought many years before. When
Speaker 4: your faith can be seen, God goes to work. I
Speaker 4: heard the story of Gavin MacLeod. He's an actor, probably
Speaker 4: best known for playing the Captain of the Love Boat,
Speaker 4: a popular TV program years ago. He and his wife,
Speaker 4: Patty were married for seven years. They hit some bumps
Speaker 4: in the road, and long story short, Gavin left. They
Speaker 4: went through a divorce. Patty was devastated. She never wanted
Speaker 4: the divorce. Instead of giving up, she not only prayed,
Speaker 4: but she put actions behind her faith. Every night, even
Speaker 4: though she lived alone, she would set two places at
Speaker 4: the dinner table, one for her and one for Gavin,
Speaker 4: like the farmer, making preparations for her harvest. Four years later,
Speaker 4: an unexpected knock at the front door. She opened it.
Speaker 4: It was Gabbin. Patty smiled and said, come on in.
Speaker 4: Your dinner's getting calmed today. They have been remarried for
Speaker 4: over twenty six years. Friends, When with expectancy, amazing things
Speaker 4: can happen. Here's my challenge. Let your faith be seen.
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