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Good morning, good morning everyone

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It's good to see you here today

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and as well I personally am very happy today because we got Samuel from Uganda among us.

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Yeah. So Ken later on will do a proper introduction of him as he knows him of course much better than

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I do. We just met literally this morning so it was interesting because Samuel just met another Samuel

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and we were talking that we just missed the third Samuel that is in London you know that

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the other Italian one who came to speak here a few weeks ago. So a lot of Samuel good good good nice

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wonderful name. Please come through so we can start and I just want to start by reading a

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scripture and I think is you know we would like to invite you to pay attention to this scripture

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because you know sometime what happened is we go to church on a Sunday morning but we care with us

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loads we carry with us situations we carry with us difficulties sometime we had a good hard week

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and therefore you know there is that difficulty in connecting with God and I just want to read

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something to all of us today. A reminder a reminder it comes from 1st John chapter 1 verse 9

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it says that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just and He will forgive us our sins

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and purify us from all unrighteousness. You see what happened that sin sometimes gets on the way

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in our life it gets in on the way between us and God and if you ever found yourself in that situation

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where you know sometime you know we find ourselves in doing something or saying something

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and it's like I should have not done that I should not said that I should have not reacted that way

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and somehow this small issue you know comes in between us and God and then it's an obstacle

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it becomes an obstacle for us to to have that open channel with the Lord but as just we as we read

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just now you know that if we confess our sin He's faithful to purify us from all unrighteousness.

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So therefore I want to invite all of you this morning as we are approaching a time of worship

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with the Lord God if there is any sin in your life that needs to be confessed if there is anything

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in your life that this morning is stopping you from worshiping God just open your heart open

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just open your heart open your your mind just say Lord forgive me Lord have mercy over my life

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and guess what He is faithful He will forgive you He will you know make you righteousness He will

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make you righteous again before Him and you will be free to worship His name today you will be free

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to open your heart you will be free to experience what God has prepared for you today amen. Why don't

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we all stand and we're gonna have a time of worship together and we're gonna have a good

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morning today not because of what we're gonna do not because of anything special but because the

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Lord is here with us the Holy Spirit is among us the word says where two or three are gathered

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in my name I'll be there among them do you believe that can I see your hand do you believe that the

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Lord is present here among us do you believe that the Lord wants to touch your life do you believe

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that the Lord has prepared something special for you this morning and Lord God we come before you

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as we gather together today we come before you because you are a faithful God because you loved

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us to the point today you gave your life for each one of us you died on the cross for us thank you

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Lord because today we stand forgiven before you thank thank you because today we stand before you

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as children as friends Lord God thank you because you are among us thank you because you prepared

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something for us and I just want to pray that you will you know give us the faith to receive

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what you prepare to us but as well for us but as well give us the the strength the courage to act

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on your word on your spoken word in our life so we we worship you today we lift your name Lord God

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you are wonderful we thank you in Jesus precious name amen hallelujah hallelujah

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and I I think there is someone among us here this morning and you're wondering about the words we

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just sung you know we're seeing we sung about the love of Jesus and the love that goes beyond

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anything else how wonderful is your love for me and you're wondering perhaps what are they singing

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what are they singing about let me tell you something God loved you so much that he gave his only son

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Jesus Christ to die on the cross for you so I don't know if you have children how difficult

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and how painful would it be for a father for a mother to give their own child to send their own

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child to death would you ever do something like that probably not but God knew that to give his

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son was the only way that he had to reach out to you that's why his love was so strong for you

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that he gave his son Jesus Christ for you to die on the cross for you it was a terrible moment

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when Christ died on the cross a painful moment and yet he did that for you three days after he

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resurrected for you so that today if you call upon his name he's going to reveal himself to you

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he's going to change your life he's going to transform your life he's going to do a wonderful

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job in you that's why we were singing about the love of God amen amen please do take your seat

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for a moment we do have a testimony from Lee good morning okay I wanted to share something about

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the impact or how God's word can impact us if we allow it so kick back relax because they're

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going to be here for a few minutes okay so um just to give you a bit of a background for those well

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some of you will have journeyed with me in my mental health journey but for those of you

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don't know I am for years most of my life actually I've battled against anxiety depression

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negative thoughts and all that kind of stuff and I have had breakthrough in those areas so I spent

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a couple of years away at Bible school and doing missionary work and come back completely changed

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but coming back to like familiar or you know where I used to live doing my own job it's so

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easy to fall back into familiar familiar mindsets and yeah so over the last probably few months

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um I've really been battling anxiety again and especially in the mornings I'd wake up and my

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yeah I'd be anxious about the day and I'd be walking the dog and instead of like just enjoying

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you know the greenery and the sound of the birds and everything I'd be worrying about the day and

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you know what was going to happen and then I'd get to work and I'd be anxious and I had a real

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fear about getting things wrong making mistakes and upsetting people and it really you know was

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getting to me anyway last weekend Rob wasn't here Rob was away and I knew I didn't have to be here

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early and I woke up feeling pretty low and I thought you know I'm not going to go to church

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today and then there was something in me I thought you know what I'm going to go and I got here and

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then um did you know worshiped which was good and then Anna got up to preach and she said um

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you know I'm going to preach on God wanting to do something new so um my ears pricked up because

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I'm all for that I love you know embracing new things and what God wants to do but you know have

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you ever had listened to a preach where you think that it's been written for you like they're saying

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it and it's like you know and everything Anna was saying um it was just like she was speaking to me

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and she even said that there's some of you here that have woken up this week anxious about the

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day and I yeah you know that's me anyway so you know she was preaching and you know I was taking

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it all in but at the back of my mind I was thinking yeah you know I've heard all this I've done this

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before but I need to take action I need to do something so um I'm reading this book at the

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moment called Winning the War in Your Mind by Craig Groeschel and he talks about ruts and trenches

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okay now a rut is something that is worn down um and so like there's one when I go for my dog walk

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there's a rut like some people have walked and made this rut this pathway to the field

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and even if I haven't been there for ages I kind of still when I go back I take this pathway because

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it's what I know but then so then he talks about trenches and the difference between a rut and a

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trench is that a trench is intentionally dug for a purpose so in this book he's saying about

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we have to kind of get move away from the ruts and dig the trench of God's truth so when Anna was

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preaching she was preaching on Isaiah 43 and it said which she said about forget the former things

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do not dwell on the past and it's one of my favorite verses and I've heard it but you know

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last week I was right I need to draw a line under this I need to forget the past I need to forget

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the former things so um and then I've written in my book and big capital letters like um today is

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a new day today is the day so and what I wanted what I'm trying to share really is just the impact

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of God's word when you allow it to because I've heard all these things before but last Sunday I

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made a conscious decision to just to leave all that behind and move forward and I'll tell you

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what this week I've been going on my dog walks I've been listening to the birds singing I've been

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enjoying the greenery and even my work day has just been so different and it's because I've you

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know if you grab hold of God's truth it's remembering who we are what he says about us because that's all

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that matters it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks about us what anybody else says about us

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it's what he says and what he thinks that matters so if anybody is just I just I guess want to

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encourage people if anybody is struggling with that just read the word find a verse and declare

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it over yourself you know um that you know you are God's chosen one he has loved you with an

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everlasting love you are fearfully and wonderfully made you know there's so many nuggets in that

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bible so find them and do declarations and build a trench dig a trench of God's truth thank you

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thank you so much I love to hear stories of people when they get changed by the word of God it's

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like it's just amazing because that's why the bible that we have is so important and maybe you

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were not here last Sunday you're like suddenly curious oh I would like to to hear what Anna shared

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there is a podcast that you can download from the church where you can listen when you go to your

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gym when you walk or do other things or you can actually see the the service online on our Facebook

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page now before moving to the offering I just want to share with you a few notices as Sarah is

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not here so you will have to hear from me once again okay so just to remind oh first of all Anna

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is not here with me probably you noticed Joshua was not well he has stomach bug so he was not well

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throughout the night he was being sick so Anna is at home with the kids but she sends her loves

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now and she reminded this morning about the parenting group so if you are a parent here

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or a parent to be or you would like one day to be a parent or maybe you just want to know

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a bit more about godly parenting we are running a parenting group in June every Sunday nights for

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four Sundays every Sunday nights of June 7 p.m here in church every Sunday every week we will speak

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about a different topic about you know parenting so please do attend you know we I think that we

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will we will hear from you know parents people who've been parents and they are now you know

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you know for I say they moved on with their lives but still have got so much experience to share

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with with us and and I think we live in a world where it is important to understand

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where gods wants us to stand you know when it comes to parenting our children because there is

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so much going on out there so much what I called teachings that really come from the pit of hell

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parenting advice that really have nothing to do with god's word so please do come along

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take part it's going to be great it's going to be amazing then of course we've got a life group

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starting in the first yeah I guess yeah you can they can come I guess so we'll arrange something

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for them I don't know well I didn't ask this to Anna, Anna's organizing it so yeah don't quote me

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on that oh we've got something here life groups so starting in the first week of June

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please do sign up for our life groups this is a way for us to to be in touch as well throughout

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the week there are different groups taking place in different times in different days you can see

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a list there on the screen you can see a table at the back with four papers where you can actually

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sign up for one of the groups and that's a way to to grow together in the Lord to get to know each

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other better they are very informal as a setting if you don't know what our life groups are we

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just gather together a handful of people and we just you know learn more about the Bible have a

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coffee together have some fun and chat together now you can see the options there I'm not going

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to read through them but you can find them as well on the website so you can sign up as well

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from our website and please do sign up for one of the groups it's so important fellowship is so

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important to get together do not neglect the fellowship of the saints the Bible says so make

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a point to sign up to one of these groups as well we have an outreach in June just a reminder

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happening on the 3rd of June probably you've seen some leaflets in the in the calf if you haven't

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just grab all the one we've got plenty of them it's just a family fun day Saturday the 3rd of

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June from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. we're just going to do a fun day so with a bouncy castle games activities

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crafts for the kids we're going to open our cafe as well so it's going to be a nice day and let's

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hope that and pray that we're going to have a good weather but if you have anybody that you know maybe

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a neighbor or friends that perhaps you think there will be interest to come just feel free to grab

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hold of a few of these and just give them out and yeah it's going to be it's going to be good

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for those who are helping out setting up everything we will meet at nine o'clock here in church a

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couple of hours before and then the different people who lead the different activities

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of asking just to gather a team around them so those who do the calf the cakes and the games

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outside and then just you know speak to them about all the details now for this outreach like we like

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also happen in the past few years we're going to have a group of students from the ibti ibti is a

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bible college in the south of england they're going to come and to help us out is about eight

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students and three members of staff i'm looking for people who could accommodate them for one night

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and not all of them maybe one or two depends how many if you've got any space in your home

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i still miss a few students to be honest probably i found a place for half of them

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for about half of them but we still need four or five to place four or five students so please

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if you go a spare room just you know consider about hosting one of the students i mean you can

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talk to the people who have done in the past they are great guys you know wonderful people

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you will also have a good time of fellowship you know with them and it's not really much it's just

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to host them for one night and give them a breakfast in the morning sunday morning so please come and

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approach me if you have a spare room and please let me know if you can host any of the students

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and now they're going to be with us on the saturday for the outreach and then they will join us in the

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service as well on the sunday they will be involved with the music as usual and they will share will

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share we'll hear a couple of testimonies from them now another important one sunday the 9th of july

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we're going to have a baptism service a number of yes a number of people already asked us to be

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baptized so there is still time if you want to be baptized and we're not speaking here about

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sprinkling a baby we know that sprinkling a baby is not a biblical baptism we like to do the

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biblical baptism which is a person who believes an adult who believes in the lord and makes that

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choice to follow christ and ask to be baptized in obedience to christ so if you want to be baptized

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just come and approach me on that sunday we're going to have as well calling cooper as a guest

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speaker so we're going to have a good sunday together we're going to have a church lunch

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afterwards so it's going to be a great day so please you know if you you know do come and talk

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to me if you want to be baptized as well i've been asked this is my last one sorry i'm talking too

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much and next sunday is john's birthday coming up so joe thompson is organizing a birthday party

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like afternoon tea after church in the cafe so if you are a lady and you would like to join

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to the birthday party just you know maybe communicate with joe thompson so she knows about

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the the numbers or to val yeah or yeah come and talk to val it's going to be next sunday

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straight after the service coming up in june there is a careful kufu mission trip a team of

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people from the church they're going to go in uganda and we will hear from samuel in a moment

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and we we're running different events there like a medical day so if you haven't given anything yet

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towards that you know towards this mission this project and you would like to do so please do that

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um we're going to have an offering in a moment we're going to give by cash or cards at the back

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if you want to specifically something to go towards this project remember to either to write it down

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in a piece of paper an envelope and to put your cash inside or let eliana know and she will take

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you know keep track of um of you know how much has been donated towards this project and and as

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well we are collecting some children's underwear as the the team has some free space in their

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luggages they're bringing some children's underwears there six to eight is the age we

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are still collecting them i've seen already a couple of bags in the calf thank you so much for

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those who bought those and but there is still time if you would like to buy some new children

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underwear just please do so and then you can just drop them off here when you come next sunday to

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church or any day during the during the week okay i think that was everything so we're gonna have

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our offering kids you can go um and um as i said if you want to give by cash there is a basket here

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if you would like to give by card there is eliana at the back with a card machine waiting for you

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thank you so much well good morning that sounds good now in uganda when people get excited

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i have found being they lift up their chairs and dance around the room

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seriously it's quite dangerous really so my reason for saying that if when samuel comes and

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preaches you get excited dance around with your dance around with your chair go to the back of

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the hall that's important to show insurance claim was in church and someone got excited and beat me

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over the head of the chair anyway now i've got to tell you the man who's going to preach mr samuel

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elijah kibbridge i have known samuel since 2008 when he was a bible school student here with us

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so we do go back a long way and therefore you know the cut of the person you know the measure

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of the person we've been working with you since 2009 so the humanitarian work at this church

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is heavily involved in uganda he helped set that up for us in uganda we've gone to uganda

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a lot of times and every time he's made it work for us and we've been blessed so church this is

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your opportunity you know it works if you want something from god draw it down you know if no

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one else gets nothing draw it down lord i'm here speak to me what you heard lee say speak to me i

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want a word don't care about the person next to me i love them dearly but i need something

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and then you'll get according to your faith don't you ever walk out of church and say i've got nothing

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the reason you get nothing is because you drew down nothing

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so who's excited put your hands together welcome the man of god

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is a lot i bring greetings from the jimmy guys uh that's uh jane elijah yesica and judy also

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written from uh care for kufu i believe we are doing ministry together with the harvest center

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and uh care for kufu i want to thank master kane mama val lean chak is built uganda as well

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of course i know uh back in 2007 i came to yuka is a bible school student with eric

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and uh that made so many other ugandans to come and spend time here the good thing

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we are still in touch pastor kane is a father to us many times we get here from each other he comes

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we do ministry together and he has given us a global platform

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um this actually today about six boygandans are coming to yukai that's all through pastor kane we

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are members of our mfg and i really been a blessing to us and above all i want to thank you church

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for standing with kufu a lot has been achieved

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i want to let you know that uh the money that you put together is helping us to support

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three already children every year in school uh since 2012 we have supported a total of 2500

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girls who were once school dropouts that given you know birth below the age but all those girls are

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now doing something because we've given them some skills some are back in school so thank you so

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much for that god bless you of course we have a mission you know since 2009 pastor kane has been

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leading a team to uganda and except for those three years of covid we've enjoyed their coming

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pastor kane that young man called robert is saying greetings you know the one who used to be drunk

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we have a totally transformed community i want to say that we no longer meet those drunkards

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on our way those think people really getting back to life so we thank god for that well um

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samuel alijah shimig is my name and i'd like to share the word of god with us

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uh let's look at

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let's go to first corinthians chapter four

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and we read from verse 16 to 18

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to 18

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that is why we never give up though our bodies are dying our spirits are being renewed every day

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for our present troubles are small and won't last very long yet they produce for us a glory

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that vastly outweighs them and will last forever so we don't look at the troubles we can see now

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rather we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen but the things we see now will soon be gone

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and the things we cannot see will last forever father i want to thank you for this precious morning

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thank you lord for you children that are here today you pray that lord

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by your grace you'll use me lord to speak thy word to your people you pray in Jesus' name amen

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well you know that the world that we all live in is consistently continuing to be filled with

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hopelessness discouragement disillusionment despair and defeat

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despair and defeat and it's so possible because of what's happening all the time around us

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it's very very possible for people to give up to get discouraged to get disappointed today coming

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all the way from kofu uganda that famous village i like to share with you that

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whatever happens don't give up don't give in god is faithful and he is on your side

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second queen first chapter 4 16 to 18 reveals to us the secret to staying encouraged in the lord

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i want to focus specifically on verse 16 which says that is why we never give up

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when you look at that text from kjv kjv says for which cause we faint not

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literally meaning we do not lose heart it is in this text that paul the writer of this book

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reveals to us that sacred to not losing heart the sacred to not giving up the sacred to not giving

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in allow me to base on this particular portion of scripture this morning to share the word of god

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i like to preach on the thought do not give up

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kjv as he says for which cause we faint not we do not give up yet those moments

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yet those moments when you feel so discouraged yet those moments when you get to the boiling point

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and if you're such a person i want to believe that you are interested

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to being encouraged you are interested to being motivated and in having hope in the lord

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in the lord jesus christ because he is our only source of hope the bible says that crest in you

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is the hope of glory meaning outside him there's no hope but it is only in crest that we find hope

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we find encouragement so you look at verse 16 part a it makes an amazing statement

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i want to repeat the statement it says for which cause we faint not that is why we do not give up

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i want to qualify this as an amazing statement the word faint refers to a failing of the heart

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so the phrase can be read this way we do not lose a heart in other words regardless of what comes

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our way your way don't give up don't give in and do not give out

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and do not give out

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in that present day and time it's so easy to lose heart isn't it so easy to give up

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it is so easy to come to a place where you are ready to throw in the towel

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lay it down your body just quick very possible it seems to me just from reading what the bible

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says about the life paul that it would have been easy for him to lose heart but he says in verse 16

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part a we faint not that little phrase is in the present tense active voice paul is saying i never

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lose a heart he is not bragging he's making a simple statement of fact he has discovered a

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spiritual secret that enabled him to stay encouraged to keep going in the midst of so many

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troubles so many challenging situations he was able to pick himself up and keep going because he

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had discovered a secret because he had known that no matter what goes around and in him christ jesus

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was on his side and that same jesus is on your side this morning in second corifian chapter one

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verse 18 he says for we would not rather have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in asia

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that we were pressed out of measure above strength and so much that we despise even of life

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let's look at second quiff of chapter 11 verse 23 and hear again what paul is going to say to us

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it is chapter 11 of second corvius

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are they servants of christ i know i sound like a madman but i have served him far more i have

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worked harder been put in prison more often been with times without number and first death again

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and again five different times the jewish leaders gave me 39 lashes three times i was beaten with

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roads once i was torn three times i was shipwrecked once i spent a whole night on a day at sea

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i have traveled on many long journeys i have faced danger from rivers and from rovers i have

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faced danger from my own people the jews as well as from the jails i have faced danger in the cities

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in the deserts and on the seas and i have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but

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are not i have worked hard and long enduring many sleepless nights i have been hungry

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and thirsty and i've often gone without food i have shivered in the cold without enough clothing

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to keep me warm then besieged soldiers i have daily burden of my concern for all the churches

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who is weak without my feeling that weakness who is laid astray and i do not bud with anger

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if i must boast i would rather boast about the things that show how weak i am god the father of

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our lord jesus who is worthy of eternal praise knows i am not lying when i was in damascus

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the governor under king aratus kept guards at the city gate to catch him i had to be lowered

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to be lowered in the basket through a window in the city wall to escape from him despite of all

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the trials the tribulations the burden is all was able to say i never lose her

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the world has continued to change many times and many ways and sometimes there are those moments

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when you find yourself in a fix and have that question why me lord yes it is you because he

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knows he has the ability that he can give you to overcome so keep going don't give up stay

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don't give up stay focused on the lord challenges will come yes burdens will come yes troubles will

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come yes so what do i do stay focused don't give up trust the lord amen and by his grace

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you'll overcome there are times when living troubles and affections behind seems like

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the best option and yes it should be it should be the best option because in him we live

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and move and have a being amen what we have is a living hope that is from the lord jesus christ

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jesus christ in his soul and the other thing i want us to pick from this portion of scripture part b of verse 16

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is a related struggle

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i have already said it is so easy to lose a heart isn't it so easy very easy all the time

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because the things that we hear the thing that we observe the things we've gone through can easily

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push us into that corner where it's a lot i'll work with you normal i'm fed up of this

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of course we've seen many friends abandoning their work with the lord giving up because

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because of what is going on in our world

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the result is so easy is found in verse 16 it is identified as a common struggle that we all face

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the struggles that we face in uganda are the same struggles that you face

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the magnitude may be different but it's the same devil causing them amen so paul says

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the our outward man perishes the reason it is so easy for us to lose heart is that the outer man

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is perishing the outer man has so many challenges he's first with so many troubles this outer man

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this outer man refers to the fleshly part of us it encompasses both the body and the mind

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that's where the troubles come from the battles we fight are around there the result

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of aging in the body and sin in the mind conspire to stripe away joy hope and peace of heart and mind

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we are told here that the outer man is perishing so the word perishing means

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to rot to ruin to corrupt to be destroyed the word destroyed seems to fulfill the intended meaning here

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the same word is used in a few other important verses these verses drive home the power of the thought

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the power of the thought sell your possessions and give to those in need

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this is luke chapter 13 of verse 33 i'm using the nlt version this will store up the treasure

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for you in heaven and the passes causes of heaven never get old or develop homes

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the treasure will be safe no thief can steal it and no moth can destroy it this particular verse

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the word get old or develop holes is the same word that is translated perish when you use the

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the the kjv version like moth can destroy clothing the outer man is being eaten alive every single

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day i am a pastor and over the years i've sat sat around believers friends christians

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who are struggling with some life challenges and their sickness in my culture in my culture

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the way we look at the challenges of life is totally different like when i'm struggling

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with this particular sickness or disease and i get to a point where

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the medicals are giving me the answer so i begin to think maybe my friend maybe

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my auntie maybe my family background is causing all this but the reality is

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is flesh this body will always have challenges

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does god hear when we when we pray to him yes he does but there are those moments where he says

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my grace is sufficient

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because my grace is sufficient amen the one thing that is so encouraging is that

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these bodies are like treasures but in the treasures we have this treasure

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and the treasure we have is christ jesus as long as we possess this treasure

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is glory that comes from none other than christ jesus amen so as we face the challenges

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we get the courage to keep going to keep trusting even if this body fails we have a living hope

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there is a better life after this life so amen to that hallelujah so i want to bless the lord god

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for his word so as i've said

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i want to look at chapter 8 of revelation verse 8 and 9 nlc says then the second angel

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the second angel blew his trumpet and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the sea one

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third of the water in the sea became blood one third of all things living in became blood one

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third of all things living in the sea died and one third of all the sheep on the sea were destroyed

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so the bible tells us here that god will cast a great stone into the sea and one third of the world

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his ships will be captured consumed destroyed same word every day the outer man is being destroyed

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by the pain the problems the badness and trials that are thrown against it so there's a battle

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going on in this outer man amen the reason we are so prone to lose a heart is because our outer man

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is being destroyed is being corrupted and ruined every day so we do not lose heart though our outer

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man our body our brain our lungs our liver our heart our muscles and our bones are wasting away

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are being destroyed are being eaten away are being capsized are being consumed are being ripped out

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the destruction of the outer man comes from two sources amen when i talk about the outer man

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you know what happened when adam got it got it wrong and made that opened up all these challenges

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that we face in life but thank god for jesus christ because he is the hope of glory and the hope of

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is the hope of glory amen he's got a better and actually the best plan for our lives there are two

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sources where the destruction of the outer man comes from number one is the fallen in nature

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the world natural world is under the curse of god because of sin the world is under curse of

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futility pain suffering corruption and death the bible says in roman chapter 8 22 23 that for we

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know that all creation has been grounding us the ground of childbirth right up to the present time

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and we believe us also ground even though we have the holy spirit within us as a foretest of the

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future glory for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering we to wait with

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eager hope for the day when god will give us our full rights as his adopted children including

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the new bodies he has promised us amen so all of us get those moments where we feel like it's

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too much on us too much pain too much pressure too much despair amen that's that's going in and

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around us that's the world we are living in amen anything can pop up anytime but we have that hope

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second crochet chapter four verse seven says reminds us that we have this treasure

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in even vessels we have a treasure amen that that is we will live our outer days in fragile

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jars of clay and one day the vessel crack it will break and we will fade away that is

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that is the nature of life amen you know as being a pastor some may think

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that when you pray and god does not answer the way they want in my culture people say this pastor

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is not anointed enough he cannot heal even this simple disease maybe it is god's will for you to

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go through that simple disease amen hallelujah so let us know that we carry these clay jars but the

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beauty the most important thing in that clay jar make sure that that life in is in you that treasure

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and the treasure is jesus christ because when you came to him god spoke life in in that treasure

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he spoke light in that treasure and you carry that treasure in you wherever you go whether it

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goes through pain or what you have a treasure and that treasure is jesus christ amen so forget about

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all the pain that travels and focus on the treasure amen and this takes me back to genesis where jesus

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where god spoke when the earth was messed up the first thing he spoke was light he said

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let there be light the bible says there was light even before the sun the stars and the mood were

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up there was light amen as long as there is that light in you don't give up amen do not create

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whatever sort of excuse just keep your eyes on this treasure that is in that vessel that clay

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sometimes you may be having those cracks somehow somewhere i mean because situations change

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anytime challenges come away with different measures but the beauty we all possess this treasure

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in the clay yeah i mean so that jackal crack anytime

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because of the world we are living in because we are here we are in that fallen nature

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so that clay can be attacked but what makes it different for you and me

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is that treasure that we possess amen and we bless the lord so if you have lived when when i was here

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i think i was a really young man

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now that

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i've lost more hair

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my children have grown big yes because now 18 from the father to an 18 year old

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now i know in those days red was red black was black i now understand those great moments

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the great moments to cry out to god lord why don't you please and he says my grace is sufficient

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stay calm i am in charge not you but me keep your focus on me not on anything else amena now i know

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those days i used to have those those lenses of interpreting every situation as though is demon

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related but now i know certain things good allows them to happen amena not that in every situation

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i have to break and curse and destroy now i have to let god be god

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and that takes a bit of patience and growing in the word of god amen and that helps us to keep

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going and trusting so the bible reminds us in the book of ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 1

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ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 1 to verse 7 then it is time there i didn't capture that in my notes

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the chapter 12 verse 1 to verse 7 it says do not let the excitement of youth cause you to forget

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your creator honor him in your youth before you grow old and say life is not pleasant anymore

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remember him before the light of the sun moon and stars is dim to your old age old old eyes and rain

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clouds continually darken your sky remember him before your legs the guards of your house

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start to tremble and before your shoulders the strong man's toe remember him before your teeth

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your few remaining servants stop grinding and before your eyes the women looking through the

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windows see dimly remember him before the door at your life opportunities closed and the sound of

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work fades now you rise at the first shipping of the birds but then all their sounds will grow

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fed remember him before you become fearful of falling and worrying about danger in the streets

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before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom and you drag along without energy like a

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dying grasshopper and the car bearer no longer inspires sexual desires remember him before you

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near the grave your everlasting home when the mooners will keep at your funeral yes remember

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your creator now while you are young before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden boughs

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is broken do not wait until the water is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well

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for then that does return to the earth and the spirit will return to god who gave it we have an

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opportunity to love god we have an opportunity to give our best to him because there are those days

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there are those moments amen you know how life starts that time comes when when you get to the

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peak of your life and begins to go down man some of those days as you're still young energetic

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let us not forget to love god let everything that is in you give honor to god as long as there's still

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life in that body use it to serve god for the glory of his name someone one day will share

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testimony about your life amen i can tell you there are those moments when i felt beaten

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i didn't know i sent a message past i said hey samuel how are you doing my friend i guess me excited

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sometimes i just judge something to lean you know you know when you of course our world is a bit

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different so the market is different so there you get a point when this it seems like no one

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is here to appreciate the work you are doing you know so you feel that you are down so when you

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you judge maybe to pastor cain mama val or lean uh or jason you say samuel my friend how i okay

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yeah thank god is someone who is working with me this journey and you keep going we need that

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we need that amen we do that to encourage someone and go to receive that glory

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because someone will be asking how can i do this you can do it by speaking life in samuel

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i want to encourage me i want to hope it's someone's life and that will help them to keep

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going and glorifying god amena so now the body you carry around has its challenges and they'll

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always come i mean so it has kept building it has kept working so as i as i've already said

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that this outer man is perishing this outer man is dying he has a potential to be a good man

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he has a potential to rot he's broken sometimes he's reigned he is in the process of being

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destroyed and the problem associated with the destruction causes us to lose heart let us be

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aware of this man that we carry around you'll face those challenges amen let us be aware so when they

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come there will be there'll be nothing new to wonder about just know okay now i'm aware of this

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natural body has its challenges therefore let me give give all to him and focus on him he'll hold

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me out so the other thing is the fallen man he says the natural is also the fallen man

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this is another element in this world that causes us to lose heart that is the natural is without

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is within but it's this other fallen man who's without the people you walk you work with sometimes

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they cause us to give up to lose heart if this foreign nature doesn't get you

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foreign people will do amen here i speak as someone who has really faced some challenges

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in life and i know it is true with all of us the foolishness of a foreign man causes him to get

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the foolishness of a foreign man causes him to get drunk they drive cars and kill someone's child who

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say that they cause accidents because of the that nature in them the foreign nature causes terrorists

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to go into shopping malls and kill people it's like they are heartless

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it keeps disturbing me but what is in the world where we live you wake up one morning someone has

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burned that man and the child to death and you wonder why why is this it is so because

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that's what they are foreign men they are heartless they have no connections christ

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what we expect those things will happen i don't understand it and i would never understand it but

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it will happen because i've seen them many times in my world isn't it you also have expressed the

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things and those questions keep down keep coming so foreign people let us down that's the world

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we are living in foreign people hurt our feelings we've done so many good things for people at the

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end of the day what the results you get is not what you expected so what you do you've got to

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understand that is the world we are living in foreign people fear the lord jesus foreign people

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hurt us physically they attack us they attack us verbally they attack us emotionally and spiritually

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and this causes us to lose heart sometimes you can even because of that you can say no to that one

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that door is closed i'll never talk to you no more again amen but you carry treasure in you

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and this treasure is going to be shared with the foreign people the heartless those who disappoint

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us because we have this treasure in us we've got to give it up to other people so that one day maybe

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by the grace of god they'll come to discover how loving jesus is amen it can never happen

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and that's why sometimes jesus lets us to you know go through the challenges that maybe our

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our challenges as we walk and overcome them will be a testimony to them and also know i want to get

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what you have i saw you going through this stuff i was sharing with my friend jesus as we are coming

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that covid affected us so much to an extent

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the people we've worked with people we spent a lot shaping you see

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pastor i can no longer be able to work with you again why you have no resources to keep us going

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the next day another one says you know i'm also going to say what am i going to do lord

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there was a time when uh staff were resigning because of course our resources were so limited

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you know what has been going and i got so broken and for week for full week i was just sleeping down

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i was just sleeping down in the lounge saying lord what am i going to do because they've been working

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with those have been giving me courage have all left what right what am i going to do

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but thank god along the way he brings in a midst of those challenges he brought a young man

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from northern uganda and this guy has stood with me really he has stood because they got a problem

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where i could not even mobilize teachers he said pastor don't worry i'll get teachers

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and thank god we are now back and the work is going on and we got god is so faithful and that

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and that helped me to appreciate god's word i now know it is possible to be disappointed and god is

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there to pick you up he knows when to bring the right people to encourage you amen so

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so paul's experience in second corpions chapter 4 verse 18 verse 8 8 to 10

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second corpions chapter 4 verses 8 to 10 let's see what paul experienced he says we are pressed

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on every side by troubles but we are not crushed we are perplexed but not river despair we are

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hunted down but never abandoned by god we get knocked down but we are not destroyed through

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suffering our bodies continue to share in the death of jesus so that the life of jesus may also be seen

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in in our bodies this is a testimony from paul so his experience is our experience too

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it's so easy to lose her when life and people turn against us it is so easy to come to the place

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where you just want to quit but you do not have to you do not have to be defeated

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you do not have to become just a figure he was one of us

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you don't have to be that number just a figure you don't have to be one of those people who used to

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work with jesus you don't have to be one of those people who used to go to church

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to go to church you don't have to be one of those who used to be faithful

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let god be god in your life throughout your life amen as people give up please don't

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stay the course and god will receive that glory so you can reach a place where you do not lose a heart

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but you can reach a place where you can press on in spite of what presses you down you can

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echo the incredible statement of apostle paul that says we never give up we fade not

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but amen whether it is coming from within or without don't give up one day

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one day you will appear under judgment seat of christ jesus where he will say well done

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you are a good and faithful server you know why you were able to endure all the pains

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that the support list the disillusionment the defeat the despair now you are right before him

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and you know what happened will give you that crown of righteousness hallelujah be blessed to the lord

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amen amen thank you so much pastor god bless you

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thank you samuel why don't we all stand

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worship team you can come we we heard about not giving up we heard about

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keep to the importance of keeping focused on on on the lord and whenever i hear about you know

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being focused on christ you know always there's a story that comes in my mind and the new testament

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the story of peter you remember when they were in the middle of the storm the disciples in their

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boat and jesus went to them walking on water he went to them and uh and peter asked jesus if it

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is you just you know ask me to come and to walk in water like you are doing i'll come to you so

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jesus invited peter said come on come to me and then we read that peter started to move his first

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steps in the water and the bible says that until he was focused on jesus the waves were not touching

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him he was not disturbed by the circumstances around him but the moment he lost focus on christ

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and and he started to focus more to look more about the circumstances that was the moment where

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he started to to go down and uh yeah so i think we there was a strong invitation maybe to some

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of us here this morning you feel like giving up you feel like it's too much i cannot do it anymore

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i cannot carry on like this but the lord is inviting you to keep focusing your attention

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on him he's saying to you look at me the situation may be tough i know it's difficult

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i'm not pretending the situation is not there i'm not pretending you're not going through what you

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are going through i'm not pretending that you're not you're not feeling pain because what's

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happening around you nevertheless keep on looking keep looking on me

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keep looking on me the lord wants to give you strength this morning the lord wants to give you

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courage the lord wants to give you the capacity of in spite of the situation to keep on walking

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until the day when we will see him face to face until the day where all the trouble will be gone

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all the pain will be gone all the sufferings will be gone and we will spend eternity with him

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until that day comes let us just focusing ourselves let's focus on christ let's walk together

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this journey of faith and if it is you today that you were crying out and say lord will you give me

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strength today to face my situation to walk in my situation just why don't you raise your hand

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just as a sign of saying lord is me i need more strength it's kind of getting difficult here but

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i need your strength just raise your hand call out to the lord

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he will give you all what you need hallelujah we thank you lord jesus because we are not alone

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we thank you lord jesus because you are always with us we thank you lord jesus for your word

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today we thank you for how you're inviting us to to live in your heart we thank you lord jesus

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to to look at you we thank you for how you're inviting us to keep on walking we thank you for

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the examples of people that are really around the race we thank you for because we are not on our

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own but we have each other but even more than that we have you lord god and i pray lord jesus for how

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many people today this morning are here in church but maybe their minds and their heart is somewhere

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else because that situation is too difficult the pain is too much they don't know what to do they

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don't know where to run holy spirit i pray for these hearts right now have your ways in them lord

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break any wall break any chain that is stopping them from seeing you lord god and give them strength

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strength to move forward strength to to keep on walking in you towards you lord god so we thank

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you lord jesus because we are not alone you are always with us we thank you lord jesus we praise

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your name thank you jesus hallelujah we thank you lord god hallelujah because yes one day we will

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see you face to face we will rejoice for you for all eternity what a day that day will be lord and

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we thank you lord god we thank you for this morning we thank you for your presence here among us we

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thank you for samuel lord we just want to pray that you will keep on blessing his life he's

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ministering back in uganda that you will provide the resources ideas lord strategies lord in order

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to keep on blessing and increasing what he's doing there lord we pray for all the children

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he's looking after for the families they rely on the work that he's doing there in uganda

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we just pray lord god that you will give favor favor to him favor to careful kufu and to all the

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people who are involved with the ministry there we thank you lord god for this morning we pray

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for the week ahead we pray that you will bless each one of us that you will follow us

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with your love with your protection wherever we go we thank you lord god in jesus precious name

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amen amen please do stay for a coffee also don't forget next week next saturday is the last saturday

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of the month we're gonna meet for prayer seven o'clock in the calf uh prayer room we're gonna

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call it the prayer room the war room so please do come put it down in your on your on your diary

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we're gonna meet for prayer next saturday seven o'clock god bless you