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If you'd like to turn to Psalm 46 and I'm going to read the passage my husband will

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preach from today and thank you, Genio, for that reminder that Jesus wants to impart His

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life into each one of us and praise God that His life is abundant life. So Psalm 46, God is our

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refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble, therefore we will not fear even though

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the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its

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waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swellings. There is a river whose

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streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the most high. God is

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in the midst of her, she shall not be moved. God shall help her just at the break of dawn, the

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nation's rage, the kingdoms were moved. He uttered His voice, the earth melted. The Lord of hosts is

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with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. Come, behold the works of the Lord who has made desolations

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in the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spearing

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too. He burns the chariot in the fire. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the

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nations. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our

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refuge. Amen.

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It's good to be back. It's laid up for a week with a bug and you miss family of God when you're like

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that and it's really good to be back in the house of God. I tell you what, without the presence of

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God, we're just not the same. Father God, I thank you that we are not without you, that you are with

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us and that you are our helper. That anyone who's here today that feels as though they are under

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attack, be it in their health or the marriage or whatever. Father God, I'm asking today that you

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will confirm to them that you are not only their God, but you will help them. That you will send

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help through your power. You will change situations because you love us and you're good to us. Lord,

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we just confess, we need no one but you. You are all that we need. We bless you and praise you in

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Jesus' name. Okay, here's a passage here that is written to Israel and it's a time where they are,

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it's like there is an existential threat and there is an enemy and it says that the enemy

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surrounded and it feels like waters are roaring in verse three and they are troubled and it feels

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like the mountains are shaking. The passage speaks about wars and it speaks about nations and kingdoms

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rising against kingdoms and you know we're living in a time where all that is very, very real to us.

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Read about war and we read about trouble and people can perceive that maybe the things that

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are going on in the world today are going to get worse and worse and they're going to extrapolate.

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In fact, I believe you can make a good argument the Bible says that and so Israel's in this time

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where they are feeling surrounded, they are feeling their spiritual, their physical pressures coming

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in on them. They are feeling that they are outnumbered, they're feeling overwhelmed and

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God comes to Israel and in this time where they feel it's an existential threat, He comes and

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gives them this advice. He speaks to them and says be still in verse 10 and know that I am God and

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you know when there is a time, be it corporately or individually, where you feel under great pressure,

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you feel there are forces around you that could even take you out, that could destroy your mind or

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your sense of peace or the powers that are around you just feel overwhelmed. Maybe it's coming against

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your family and your marriage or even it could even be a business thing where you feel there are

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there are forces, even satanically inspired forces that are overwhelming and that you feel as though

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you know you could be moved or you could be destroyed or you could be wiped out. There is

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a temptation in all humanity that when that happens that we need to get active and that we need to

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become more active and God says to the people at that very moment, He says, He gives them advice,

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the very opposite, very difficult for type A personality and He says be still and I believe

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it's relevant to not only our lives individually but it's even relevant to you know the spiritual

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landscape in our nation because you know if you go into a lot of what I would call mega churches,

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you know a lot of mega churches, there is, we've been to those mega churches, there is so much

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activity and there is, you know there are smoke machines and everything's loud and you've got to

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have a super media presentation and I'm not against all those things but it's like we have to make

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sure there's lots of human activity and there's lots of stuff happening, we're going to entertain

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the people that I want to tell you, when you're in a place like that nothing much is happening

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spiritually. When you see the smoke machine come out I tell you nothing much is going on eternally

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because those things happen to mask the fact that God is not speaking, the presence of God is not

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speaking, the presence of God is not among us and you see the same thing in Israel where Elijah

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comes and he's a man who's hearing from God, he's a man who walks in the presence of God and he just

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comes to the top of Mount Carmel and there's a confrontation between the apostate, the thing

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that represents God but is not real and the man of God who is real and the man of God is real,

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he's very very quiet in his prayer but the things that are not of God that are counterfeit, the

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people that are in idolatry and far from God, the Bible says that they're shouting and they're making

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lots of noise and then Elijah says God must be asleep so they shout some more and they cut

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themselves and they do some things and they put you know horns on and they make a great big display

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and the Word of God says but God wasn't there and you know why do they do that? Why were they doing

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that? It's because they're trying to create the illusion that God was among them and he wasn't.

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Psalm 74 says this, it says,

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your enemies roar in the midst of your meeting place, they set up the banalists for signs,

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they seem like men who lift up axes among the trees and now they break down its carved work

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all at once with axes and hammers so it's like there's a lot of noise going on but the

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noise is being made by the ungodly people in the temple.

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The noise is being made by the ungodly people in the temple. You know historically

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when Israel got this advice to be still they weren't very good at taking it. In Isaiah chapter

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30 the people are in decline spiritually they're in decline and they're there everything about the

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nation is going down, everything about them is declining and God wants them, he wants to redeem,

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he wants to help them, he wants to get them back to the place where they had victory before

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and he says to them, he says, the key in returning and rest verse 15 of chapter 30,

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you shall be saved in quietness and confidence shall be your strength but you would not, you said

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no for we will flee on horses therefore you shall flee and we will ride on swift horses therefore

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those who pursue you shall be swift. One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of

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five you shall flee till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain, as a manor on a hill therefore

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the God will wait and he'll be gracious to you therefore he will be exalted and he will have mercy

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on you. What he's saying is that God is saying to them just return to God, just come back to God

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and have confidence in him, have confidence in him in the midst of your problems that God will work

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for you, that God will solve things, put your trust in him but you need to return to him and they said

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and he said if you do that in confidence and quietness and confidence shall be your strength

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internally and externally God will strengthen you when you come and be still and put you to us

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but they said no no no we actually got to trust in external things, we're going to trust in human

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activities, we have horses, we're going to trust in human strategies to get away from the enemy,

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we're going to trust in all our own wisdom and he said because of that rather than be strong

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you'll become weak, 1,000 shall flee at the threat of one and at the threat of five you shall flee

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so instead of becoming strong through waiting on God and being still they chose human activity and

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got weaker and weaker and weaker and God actually says to them and he says I'm going to wait for you

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in verse 18, I actually go when you're like that God says I'm going to wait for you till all you're

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running and all you're going here and all you're going there and all you're trusting in your own

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so I'm going to wait till you till you completely fail and when you fall apart I'm going to be over

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here and because I'm so good I'll have mercy upon you and they wouldn't wait and you know we

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some of us we face external threats to as I said before maybe your marriage, maybe your health,

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maybe your finances there's all sorts of external threats you can be facing and we have the same

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temptation when you actually you know Satan could come at your marriage, Satan could come at your

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family, Satan could come at your health, Satan can come there can be pressures he can use things of

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the world to come at you and you could just feel as though oh my goodness we this could we look

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like we're for it you know this looks really really serious and there's a I've seen people

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at these times even godly people there's a temptation that they then turn around they

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go to every council they can to see about their marriage they go everyone who will speak to them

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they go and they they just get busy with human activity and if you're sick you go to every

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specialist and every doctor I'm not against doctors but you you start moving you think I have to do

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something when you get up you know your business is under threat you think we've got to get many

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business coaches in here we're going to put all these things and we're just going to get busy and

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all of our human activity we're going to somehow that's somehow going to make a difference and we

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start the trouble is we start trusting in the human activity you know it's the same thing that

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happened in the new testament with Jesus, Jesus put his disciples in a boat to teach them a lesson

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and it was a lesson about faith and it was a lesson about how to overcome existential threats

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because when they're in a boat I've been on Galilee when you're on Lake Galilee the

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the lake is between these two mountains and when storms come you don't see them they're just upon

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you and they're violent now they're in this storm the disciples with Jesus and it was

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it was more like a hurricane and it was violent and it came out from nowhere and Jesus when this

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existential threat came to him he was still he chose at that moment not to do what was humanly

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sensible to do and he was still and the disciples were demanding this is why Jesus rebuked them at

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the end because they were demanding Jesus perform human activity they came to him and says you're

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being still that means you don't care do something and interesting because Jesus was still

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and interestingly the only thing Jesus did he stood said peace be still and so he was speaking

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to the disciples as much to the storm he said be still and see if you will be still at the what

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happened when Jesus was still in that boat right at the moment when the storm was its most violent

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and threatening to destroy them because he was still the word of God came and he spoke

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and if you are prepared to be still and not trust in human activity

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in the when you're facing big crisis the same thing will happen look at verse 6 of Psalm 46 again

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in the midst of her he added his voice the earth melted

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verse 6 he uttered his voice the earth melted and verse 10 as God standing up

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and he's speaking says be still no I am God I'll be excited about the he's basically saying

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to all the the powers that threaten Israel be still I'm God I'm in control you've got no chance

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but God speaks when we trust and us still you know when he speaks when you need it

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so God this Psalm the psalmist is saying that when we're in trouble what we need to do we need

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instead of doing what is humanly natural what what we what what our humanity feels like doing

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rushing here and being busy and and listening to human voices

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the psalmist says what you need to do is close down the human activity

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and get still before God boy boy the church today hates being still the church universal

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we demand activity we demand act and and to really see God move we have to be coming to a place again

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where we are confident not in our own abilities but we are confident alone in God and he says be

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still and secondly he says and know be still and know that I am God in the very next Psalm 47 it

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says sing praises to God of all the earth but sing praises with understanding and what's the

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understanding we need in our praise it says God reigns over all the nation God sits on his holy

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throne so what he's saying is that you know the the first thing that you teach you when you go

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to Bible college if it's decent Bible they teach you about what is called the sovereignty of God

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and when you are facing a situation and it could be you know situation for nations or a situation

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your own family but you've got to know that you know you're not you're not in a problem

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that has taken God surprised God by surprise and now he needs to react you serve a God who is on

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the throne who oversees everything that's happening in the world if it gets to you he allowed it he's

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got a good purpose for you because he is sovereign he is sovereign overall he controls the nations

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what's going on in the world today God knows about it he is in control of all of that he's using all

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the bits and pieces in the and in the end you will see no matter what happens God will be exalted in

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the nations because he is a sovereign God and you need to know that he is sovereign then what does

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it mean it means that he is sovereign and he is faithful but God has he's made promises he's made

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promises about what is going to happen in this world he's made promise what's going to happen

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in your life and if you believe his promises it will come to pass if you look back at what God has

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said to you it has always come to pass because he is a faithful and he is a sovereign God who can be

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trusted because he is completely in control and you need to know that that whatever you're going

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through God knows all about it he is the Alpha he is the Omega he is before it happened he is after

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it's going to happen and he is in control he is going to use it for your good because he is faithful

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he is faithful he is faithful everything he says he does and he says so you need to know that God

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is sovereign and you also need to know God is our refuge and strength verse one a very present help

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in trouble verse five God is in the midst of her he shall not be moved he shall help her just at the

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break of dawn that when you when you actually cease to trust in human activity and you come to the

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place where you say oh well I know it doesn't seem logical I'm not going to be applauded by the world

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but I'm actually going to put my trust in God I'm actually going to be still my strategy is to

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believe that God sees all this he reigns over it all he rules over it all he is still on his throne

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and all my hope is going to be in him see when you do that and you stop trusting in flesh and you stop

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running around the power of God is released in your life by the power of the Holy Spirit

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but not until you put all your trust in him why it says when we do that he says is what you got

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to you got to know when you're in trouble that God is in control he is sovereign over it he knows

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about he knows the challenge to my health he knows what I'm going through he knows what's going on

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he knows what's going on but he knows about and he's going to but I also got to know that he

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is a concrete practical God who helps he helps

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this when he says helps the word help here it actually means divine intervention

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that God if you trust him he's a God of action he will get involved in your situation and he will

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release his power where you have no power and when will he do that

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he's a very present help in trouble he shall help her just at the break of dawn

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you know when does the enemy attack must be a soldier the enemy attacks at the break of dawn

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when does God send his help I've often called him he's a god of the 11th hour he allows our

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faith to be tested he allows us to be tested because we grow from faith to faith faith's

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like a muscle this is exercise it doesn't grow but God allows challenge and he allows tests

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he allows us to come under problems but at the exact right time if we trust him he will

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send divine help which is his intervention Psalm 121 says this it says it speaks about

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someone who's in dreadful trouble and they say what am I going to do and they write this they say

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I will lift up my eyes to the hills from where comes my help my help comes from the Lord

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comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth he will not allow your foot to be moved he who keeps

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you will not slumber the Lord is your keeper goes on to say the sun shall not strike you by day nor

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the moon by night the Lord shall preserve you from all evil he shall preserve your soul so it says

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the practical help which God sends through divine intervention is a help which preserves God's people

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and protects them at the right hour so just when you think this could destroy me this could wipe

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me out somehow God says at that very hour I will help you I will intervene in your situation

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for those who trust me for those who trust me and you know this this all this week

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I think God's been doing something wonderful in my own life something new and so great

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and I've been just aware this way this I want to apply this this passage not only applies

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be still and know that I am God to a people who are under attack and facing you know

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odds which could overwhelm you God says in that time be still and know be still don't run around

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know that I'm sovereign know that I'm in control know that I'm a faithful God know that and believe

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for my help to turn up and he says when you do that God will help you God will bring you through

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I don't I can't tell you what he'll do but he will bring you through because he's going to help you

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because he's a faithful God he will not allow your enemies to prevail over you because you are in

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Christ who is a conqueror but I want to speak about what else we need to be still about and

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I've been and I'm going outside the passage here but I want I want you just to dwell on this it's

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just it is so captivated me lately I read it when I was sick at home and I came across 1 Corinthians

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3 verse 16 it says this do you not know that you are the temple of God and the spirit of God dwells

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in you if anyone defiles the temple of God God will destroy him there you go for the temple of

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God is holy which temple you are now I want to tell you that the temple in the old covenant was

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the center of God's plan and it's an extraordinary thing for God to say that now you and I are the

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temple of God we are the center of God's plan and and you know in the temple the temple had

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Holy Spirit told David what to put in it and the temple had the best of everything

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in it you have the best of everything all the all that you need to become all that God promises you

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to be is already in you you have the Holy Spirit Christ in you the hope of glory he's already in

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you and God says because my Holy Spirit's in you anything that threatens to destroy you is already

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in you and God says because my Holy Spirit's in you anything that threatens to destroy you I'll

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destroy it but the temple was also a holy place and you and I are already holy that's why God says be

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holy because you are holy and I was just reflecting on this you know Solomon's temple

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Solomon's temple was so great and in 1 King 6 you see how it was constructed there's so much here

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that I can't go into but it's a it's a type of how God constructs your life in Christ

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and it says in verse 7 when the temple was built no hammer or chisel or any tool was heard in the

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tool was heard in the temple was being built I love that you know there was no noise there was

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no noise there was no banging there was no there was no you know human activity like that

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it's and it's like this is a this is a type this is a type of what God did in Christ because Christ

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was hammered outside of Calvary and we don't have to make noise all the work was done for us but

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it goes on to say in the temple the inside of the temple was cedar carved with ornamental buds

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and open flowers then it says so Solomon at the end overlaid the inside of the temple with pure

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gold he stretched gold across it so this this ordinary temple had something a craftsman on the

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inside of the temple and this craftsman carved out something ornamental buds and flowers so this

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internally this craftsman carved out something on the inside which was a work of beauty and then

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that work of beauty was overlaid with gold don't forget I'm saying that you are the temple of the

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Holy Spirit and so you have something come on the inside of you it's called the Holy Spirit who wants

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to carve out your anger and he wants to produce the beauty of self-control he wants to carve out

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your pride and produce the beauty of of humility he wants to carve out your selfishness and produce

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the beauty of love on the inside that's what the work of the Holy Spirit is doing he is a helper

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he's a he's a creator and then he wants to overlay our life with gold that's why Job says after I've

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been tried I shall come forth as gold so when we are told that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit

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it's an extraordinary promise that God has placed the most valuable thing inside you

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to create and carve out something so beautiful of your life but here's the point how does it happen

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same thing it doesn't happen through human effort and human activity

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it's what God's saying it comes by being still

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you've been filled with the Holy Spirit the most valuable thing is already in you but the way the

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Holy Spirit works and changes and produces is when you stop striving and you just believe God's

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promises you are still and God wants to create something so wonderful in his people a work of

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such beauty and a work that is so precious you know what happened to the queen of Sheba when

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this is a type when she came to see Solomon's temple she was someone who was a queen in her

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own right she had resources she had money she had her own temple but when she came and saw Solomon's

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temple was different Solomon's temple everything that was in it the Holy Spirit had told

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David to tell Solomon what to do so Solomon's temple was a work produced by God and when she

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came and saw the difference between what man could produce and what religion can produce and the

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work that God could produce that says she had no breath in her and this is what God wants to do

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and this is what God wants to do you know people out there can make their own life they can create

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something that appears good appears successful but God wants to make something of your life

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when people come to you they recognize that this is not your life is not something that is a result

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of human activity or human effort this is something that God has built and you know I just think of my

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father's salvation he never was saved because we preached to him he got saved because he acknowledged

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he said I've seen your family the pressures that have come against you I know there has been

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someone standing behind you protecting you preserving you providing for you I have seen

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a work of God in your family that's why he was saved this is what God wants to do for your life

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he actually but but it's not going to come out of reading your Bible more although it's good to read

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your Bible it's not going to come by attending more and more meetings it's not going to come

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by religious activity what how the Holy Spirit works is through faith he gives us promises and

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when we when we are still and believe them that this anger I have is going to go because he's

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going to do the work this pride I have he's going to it's going to go because he's going to do the

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work internally he is got Holy Spirit is going to do when I'm still and I trust the Holy Spirit

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and I stop human activity I stop running here and there then and then alone does God come and help

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and as he come and take out that which is not of him and bring in the peace and the joy and the

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fruit and you know I believe that as the world gets more and more difficult there are going to

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be people I just know the world's going to get more and more difficult wars are going to rage

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but for those that have learned to be still and trust in the sovereign faithful plan of God

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there are going to be people that God's done such a work in they come and say to you you're different

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I see something that you know there's something that's been built in your life that is not human

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nobody else has that hope nobody else has that peace nobody else has that joy

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but doesn't come through running it doesn't come through you know there is a I

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I took a long time in my Christian life to to move from being an old covenant believer to a new

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covenant believer in an old covenant you know God says to Deuteronomy 20 obey and I will do

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but obey means obey everything and when you when you fail you come back and you end up on the

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side this this this cycle of sinning and confessing because you can't completely obey God that's the

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problem that's why the law was given and then I got this revelation it's the new covenant is not

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obey and do and God will bless it is believe what God has said about you

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believe what God has said be still believe that he is faithful believe that he is sovereign

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believe that he is going to produce Christ in you the hope of glory stop trying to do it

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just believe and he will take out the anger and he'll put in the self-control

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when you stop striving when you stop working and you start resting and believing God will produce

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a work in your life that people look at it and they will say like the Queen of Sheba this isn't

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something the world produces this is something in this person that I can see God has produced that

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this is the greatest witness we have a changed life but comes not through working

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not through running here and there it comes through being still

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being still and trusting the Holy Spirit who is in me

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he's going to do it he's going to change me because he promised he promised when I take God

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at his word his power is released so maybe you're that's kind of a side application there

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but I just know God's not impressed with our programs God is not impressed with our technology

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God is not impressed with the amount of meetings we have God is looking for people

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who will believe him will when they believe in God they will believe in God

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who will believe him will when they come into challenges and problems

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and things that you know maybe maybe the existential to you is depression

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you know maybe it's anxiety just feels like it's going to destroy you I just suggest you today

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whatever you're if it's not working whatever your strategy has been stop it stop it and get into the

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presence of God and get out his promises and declare over his word and declare to yourself

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that God is a faithful God that what is happening in my life has not taken God by surprise it's not

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too big for him he's sovereign and he's over it and he will release divine intervention to help you

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at the exact right moment I want to tell you if you believe God he will never let you be moved

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he will never let you be destroyed he will preserve you and he will protect you

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because victory doesn't come through human activity comes through faith comes through faith

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so if that's you I just want you I really believe God is just saying stop it stop it

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stop it when you run and do that stuff you trust in it I'm not saying you don't go to the doctor

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but don't trust in the doctor put your trust in God

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stop rushing stop human activity close it all down be still and know know in your knower

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in your knower not in your head knowing your knower the faithfulness of God that he is sovereign

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and that he is your helper he will intervene he will intervene in that family situation he will

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as you trust him and he will at the break of dawn at the perfect time just when the enemy looks

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like he's going to destroy you God will not allow it he will intervene

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maybe you're somebody who you know you you want to be godly and you really want you know Christ in

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you the hope of God you know you've got the Holy Spirit in you but you you're trying to produce

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this the peace and the joy out of your own abilities you're trying to make yourself

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godly you can't make yourself god I've tried I want to tell you I have stopped trying to be godly

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I want to tell you I have stopped trying to be godly and you know it was the greatest relief

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in my life I spent 15 years trying to be godly but but that's the temptation of Adam in Satan

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in the garden you can be like God without God and when I stopped trying to be godly without God and

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said God I'm coming to the end of myself I can't do this and I was still and just started to believe

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what God had said suddenly my life started to change sadly my life started to change because

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it really is all of him none of us be still God is in control he knows all about what you're going

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through be still you are filled with the Holy Spirit he is a master craftsman

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stop trying to solve your own anger issue and your own short temper issue start trusting the

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Holy Spirit to take out the old and produce something beautiful and overlay it in gold

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trust the Holy Spirit to make something of you that people look at you and say God did that

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that's not done through human discipline that's not done through human programs

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God did that God did that be still and trust him and he'll do it amen

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let's bow our heads I'm going to pray for people today Father God I want to thank you

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that you are on the throne that you your word says Lord you laugh at the nations that rage and plot

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wars because Lord you are completely over it all you are sovereign you knew it was coming you know

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it was happening you know every plan of man and you're going to override every plan of man because

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you are a sovereign God who is in control Father God help us to know you as that and Father where

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where people are thinking that you get taken by surprise that you need to react Father God I'm

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asking for correction this morning that you tear that lie out of people's minds and give them the

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knowledge of your sovereignty and Father God where where we've been trying to make ourselves into

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something even something good and something godly Father let that come to an end and let us come to

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the place where we simply grab hold of your promises and we believe we believe you're going

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to do it we believe you're going to take out what is wrong put in what is right we're going to believe

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the Holy Spirit will do it because I can't Father God I want to thank you there will come a time

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where people like the Queen of Sheba will come to God's people and acknowledge

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God has built something in and through us that is not possible humanly

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Father this is what you want for your church in this day just think of Acts chapter 2 when the

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people came after all that years of religion when they saw the outpouring of the Holy Spirit they

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knew this is something God had done this is something human beings can't conjure up something

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the religion can't produce oh God do it in us do it in us by the power of the Holy Spirit teach us

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to be still and to trust you completely I thank you that you are our helper Holy Spirit you do

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what we cannot do you are a protector and our keeper we bless you and we praise you

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because you are good in Jesus name and all the people said amen amen amen I'm not going to have

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an altar call today I don't feel we need to have an altar call but I do want actually I'm not going

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to lay hands on anybody but I do want to give you an opportunity to come to the altar if you're

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somebody who you know in the you're a good person and and you do want Christ to be seen in you

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you really do and you you do want that anger to go and that self-control to go but you're just

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aware through the word I just became aware in my life that at some stage and I'd been trying to

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produce godliness apart from God apart from the Holy Spirit and that was the day that I really

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believed that I experienced liberty in the Christian life I got free and I realized you know you just

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come to the end of yourself you've got to come to the end of yourself and so I've been trying this

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for years and I can't do I've failed over and over and I'm the cycle of sinning and confessing

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and you say I'm done with this now I'm going to surrender to the Holy Spirit and I'm just going

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to believe God to do it that's where God wants you that's the new covenant that's the new

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covenant so if you're in that place and you're tired you just know you're tired I just know God

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wants to do something new just come and be still say to God I'm done with that I want the Holy

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Spirit to come in not only come in but take out all the garbage and make something beautiful in

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my life carve out something from the inside that is a work of God if you want God to do that I

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believe we're in the season where God is going to do that God is going to do exceedingly abundantly

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above all we ask but it's going to be by the power of the Holy Spirit it's going to be nothing of

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flesh it's going to be nothing a man this is why how he's going to have a humble beautiful church

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because they're going to know God did it Holy Spirit did it all

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God is just ending the noise the striving is going to produce the people of faith

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we're able to know their God he's in control but you you come forward let God deal with you let

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God do something new in your life amen