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Hallelujah! Hey, yeah.

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And then without a doubt, somebody would say,

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All right, all right, all right, all right.

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Well, just a little talk with Jesus makes it right.

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Well, all right, all right, all right, all right.

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It's just a little talk with Jesus makes it all right.

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Amen. Makes it right, doesn't it?

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Well, hallelujah. If you have your Bibles, be turning with me to the book of Lamentations.

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Lamentations three, very familiar passage when you get there.

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So good to see you in the house of the Lord today. And if you're wondering about the rocking chairs,

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today is Grandparents Day. So happy Grandparents Day to all grandparents. Wave at me,

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fellow members. Hallelujah. The best day of the year. It's Grandparents Day.

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You say, well, when did they start that? 1978. We've just now catching up.

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No greater gift you can give a grandparent than a new rocking chair.

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Put on the front porch, back porch, wherever you want to put it.

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And just sit in it. That's the key to a rocking chair. It's no good unless you're sitting in it.

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Amen. So somebody after a while,

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grandparents going to have an opportunity to take one of them home with you and sit in it.

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Grandparents going to have an opportunity to take one of them home with you and sit in it.

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I'm going to prescribe that as a prescription that you actually sit in it for a little while.

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Amen. I know you're busy, but not too busy. I mean, do you know how busy you can be in a rocking chair?

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You can go back and forth and not leave the porch. That's pretty good, but that just came to me as

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well. I mean, you're talking about quick witty. Amen. Lamentations chapter three.

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So good to see each of you in the house of the Lord today.

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Again, I don't take for granted your presence. There's at least 90 plus other places you could

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have been, but yet you've chosen to come here and worship. I don't know of any other place you could

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have been and encountered the presence of God and worship more than what we have this morning.

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Amen. So thank you again for your worship.

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Verse 21 of the third chapter of the book of Lamentations reads, this I recall to my mind.

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Therefore have I hope it is of the Lord's mercies that we're not consumed because his

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compassion's fail. Not. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion,

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sayeth my soul. Therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the

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soul that seeks him. And I will not be in the way of the Lord. I will not be in the way of the Lord.

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Therefore, I will come to the soul that seeks him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly

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wait for the salvation of the Lord. A little simple thought for a little while this morning.

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Post it. Just a reminder. Just a reminder. Post it. Just a reminder. I'll pray for you if you pray

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quick. As quick as it can be anyway. Lord, we love you. To your goodness and mercy, we're most thankful

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and most grateful. Now, Father, I ask that you have your way in our hearts and our minds today.

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As we have broken the bread of life, it is that word which gives us strength for today and hope

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for the moral. We're quick to praise you for it all. Bless the household of faith and we that have

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ears to hear, may we hear what the Spirit said to the church. Amen. Amen. Tell your neighbor, just post it.

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I take it many of you have those on the refrigerator or the mirror. You have scriptures

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posted, taped, written, recorded around the house so that you are always mindful

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of what the word of the Lord says.

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This book of lamination is one of weeping. It's one of lamenting.

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The prophet Jeremiah is writing

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concerning the funeral of a city, Jerusalem, its destruction.

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There wasn't a whole lot of positive things that happened in the life of the prophet

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Jeremiah. He was called without an option.

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Jeremiah one, you see where the Lord tells him, you, I knew you before you were born and you were

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called then you're going to tell my word, but he even makes it better for the prophet. He lets him

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know that all he's going to be prophesying is judgment. They say you prophesied for nearly 40

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years and had not one convert. Jeremiah was treated abruptly, roughly, rudely thrown in pits,

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accused of various things, but he would prophesy in a dark time of Israel. But in the middle

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of this darkness and this Babylonian invasion that's coming, Jeremiah has some hope from the Lord.

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Jeremiah will talk about in the first two chapters about how he's walking through the judgment of God.

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And how the affirmations that are coming and afflictions that are coming against him

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because of the hand of God and the judgment of God, because God is leading him.

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Don't wonder every now and then because of hardships that comes your way. If you're following God,

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because sometimes he leads us through hard places. He leads us through difficult situations,

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but he leads us through just like he did Jeremiah. It would be Jeremiah who

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who would end up down at the Potter's house when the Lord say, go down. I want to show you something

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there. And it would be at the Potter's house that the Lord would reveal to him that he wanted to do

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to Israel exactly what the Potter was doing to mold and to shape and to fashion. That was the heart

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of God for them. And in the middle of this, the Lord begins to speak to a prophet who has seemingly

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forgotten the goodness of God all the way up to chapter three. For you and I, sometimes

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we know things, but we forget things. Sometimes messages are relayed to us and

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we just forget them. They just gone until a particular moment or something occurs in life

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and randomly that thought, that memory just pops back up. Anybody besides me happened that way?

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And then in the middle of a conversation, whatever that was that pops out into your mind,

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you just let it pop out of your mouth and whoever you're talking to saying, what?

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And you're like, Oh, I was trying to think of that the other day.

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And it just came to me. And it's important though, when it comes to you that you speak it, right?

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You don't want to lose it. And that's the way it is for us as children of God and people of faith.

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This is how we are concerning the word of God. Sometimes in our life, we may go from week to week

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or crisis to crisis, situation to situation. And what we're needing is a shift in our recollection

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so that we can recall. And that's what Jeremiah is saying in the book of Genesis. And that's what

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Jeremiah is saying in verse 21. I recall there's some recollection. We are not consumed. And I'm

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recalling the reason why my memory, if it serves me correctly, we're not being consumed because of

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the Lord's mercies. They are new every day and his compassion fails not and great is his faithfulness.

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Now see in the middle of the darkest point of Jerusalem's existence, Babylon's coming in by

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the waves, the prophet has told them what was happening. He could have said, I told you so,

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but he never did that. He never spoke up and told them those things. But in the middle of this,

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he began to tell them, I know why we're not being consumed. I know why we're being carried away

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because God's word said, this is what's going to happen if we didn't come back. And he also gave

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us a promise to go along with his judgment. Can I tell you something? This morning, if the Lord

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leads you in a dark place, he'll be the light that gets you out of that dark place. If the hand of

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the Lord's got you and you're in a crisis moment, don't fail to recall somewhere, somehow in the

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middle of your situation, let your recollection be reminded of the faithfulness of God. And that's

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what Jeremiah, the prophet is saying. I recall something has struck me. I've got a memory that's

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just come up and here is what's going on. I'm thinking about the Lord's faithfulness and the

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Lord's goodness and the Lord's kindness and the Lord's compassion toward us, how much he cares

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for us. And that's the reason that we're not being consumed. Hear me today. It's not glory to God if

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we are consumed, but God receives glory because of his great faithfulness when he leads us through

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every situation. And it is determinant upon the child of God to have a few post-its put around

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so that we can be reminded and remember of what God has spoken over our lives. Years have come,

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decades have come and gone, and they had forgotten what God had said that the Babylonians would come

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and do. They had erased it from the memory, just living life and going on. And now here they are.

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The horde is coming in. The armies are overrunning. And now Jeremiah is saying, hey, we're not going

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to be consumed because God said we're only going to be here about 70 years. We're only going to be

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there. There's hope in the middle of our darkness. There's hope in the middle of the situation.

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There's hope in the midst of the hand of judgment, even though God is raining it down. Understand

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this. God is correcting us for his glory and our good sake. Jeremiah had a hard word to prophesy,

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but he's sharing it. Situations occur in our lives and we need memory shifts and recall shifts

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so that we remind ourselves of what the Lord has said. Because I'm here to tell you right now,

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the devil will convince you that God is silent in our life. Amen. He'll try to convince you that

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God has nothing good to say about you or nothing good to say about your situation, but God has

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already said it. Amen. God gives us a word before we get to the situation. My, my, my, my. God gives

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us a word of hope and help before we ever get to the situation. And Jeremiah is talking about the

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goodness of God and the hope of God. And I'm going to hope in God because he's already spoken a good

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word. All we have to do is walk out the promises that are already made. We have to walk out the

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word that he's already spoken. Somebody may be right in the middle of the dungeon. Somebody may

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be on their way to the potter's house, but the Lord has already spoken a word to you. All we have to

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do is be reminded, let our recollection stir in our spirit, the word of the Lord. You know, we're

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not the only ones that forget. We're not the only ones that have forgotten. Mary and the other women

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who went to the tomb of Jesus, Luke 24 in verses one through eight, when they get there, the Lord's

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body is not there. The angel appears and says, he's not here. He is risen. Why seek you the living

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among the dead? And then the angel kindly gives them a little stir. Don't we need a little stir

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every now and then? Don't we need a little nudge to stir our own memory? And here's what the angel,

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the Lord said in verse six, when he appeared, he exhorted them to remember how he has spoken to you

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when he was in Galilee. They are there and they are astonished. It's only been three days. And did

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you not walk with him, talk with him, eat with him? Did you not hear his word? Did he not tell you in

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three days he was going to rise up again? Did he not tell you he was going to come back to life

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again? Did he not? And the angel said, you got to remember what he told you. You got to recall what

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the Lord said. And verse eight, it says, and they remembered his words. And let me tell you something,

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when you remember his words, it changes everything. It changes your outlook. It changes my

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attitude when I remember what his word has already said. He had already told them the crisis was

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coming, but not let the crisis overcome you and not become overwhelmed by the situations of life

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because I will rise again. It's on the third day. My Lord, we need to know and recall some things

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that the Lord has already spoken in our lives. Remember these words, the angel said.

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Many exhortations from scripture to remember. Joshua 1 13, Joshua said to Israel, he said,

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remember the word which Moses, the servant of the Lord commanded you. Remember it. John 15 20,

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Jesus said to his disciples, remember the word that I said unto you. We got to be reminded.

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We got to be reminded. We have to recall what the Lord has said to us. Paul to Timothy in that

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second letter, first chapter six verse, he wrote this. He said, wherefore I put thee in remembrance

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that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you. See when crisis comes and we feel like God is

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silent, we've forgotten what he has said and we've forgotten what he has given us. He's given us a

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wonderful gift, the gift of empowerment, the gift of enablement that'll enable us to overcome,

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to rise up and to be the victor that he's already spoken that we would be. And we just failed to

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recall. I'm here to stir somebody's memory this morning. Just recall, get your post-it,

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find out where you put it. You wrote it down somewhere. You just need a reminder of the

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faithfulness of God. You're not consumed because of the Lord's mercy and because his faithfulness

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is great over your life. The situation can't do it. The enemy can't do it because God has already

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spoken a word over your life. It's already been declared. Peter put it this way.

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Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of those things,

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though you know them and be established in the present truth. Yes, I think it meets profitable,

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appropriate, beneficial. As long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you

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in remembrance. I know the crisis of life and the situations of life and circumstances of life

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can really cause a cloud. It's like sometimes you're walking around like a lioness. Amen. The

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clouds over you and it rains wherever you go, right? Sun shining everywhere, but it seems as though

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sometimes where we are, it's nothing but rain and the cloud and darkness is all around us.

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Well, you need to be reminded today that's not who you are. That's not who you are. That's not who

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you created to be. Even though now for a season you may have to live there for a while, there's

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coming a sunny day. Amen. There's coming a brighter day, the dawning of a brand new morning.

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Don't forget what God has said. You find your reminder, find your post-it and put it in your

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heart and let your mind recall. Yeah, I think it profitable for you that I stir up your remembrance

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and that's where we're at today. I'm trying to stir up our remembrance because God has already said,

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he's already spoken. It's already written. It's already been declared over your and my life

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and great is his faithfulness. Amen. No matter what the enemy says sometimes, preacher, do you

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have to remind yourself? Oh, on a daily basis, I have to remind myself, oh, I'm not going to

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lie. Oh, on a daily basis, I have to remind myself. Laying in that floor yesterday afternoon,

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I had to remind myself again, hallelujah, of great is his faithfulness. Great is his faithfulness.

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We are not consumed because of his mercy and his blessed grace that's extended to us each and every

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day and hallelujah to the lamb and glory to the name above every. I am not consumed. I am the head

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and not the tail. Hallelujah. You are the head and you are not the tail. He has his word spoken

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over you. You just got to be reminded and I'm stirring up your memory this morning.

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Peter further say, beloved, I now write to you

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in both which I stir up your pure minds by the way of remembrance that you may be mindful

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of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and to the commandment of us,

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the apostles of the Lord and savior. There is such immense value on repetition. There's value in

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repeating the word of God over your own life. There's worth in declaring what the Lord has

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already find your post it and say, I remember when the Lord put this in my heart. I remember when he

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burnt this in my spirit. I remember when he gave this to me. Things were good. Times were good.

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I didn't need it then, but now I recall why he has given me this word. He's given it to me for today,

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for this moment. He prepared the way before I ever got to my crisis. He prepared the way for you and

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I'm stirring up your memory. Find that old Bible. Find that book somewhere. Find that post it. You

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put it in a drawer. You've hidden it away, but you go find it. You go rediscover and let your

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recollection fall into the faithfulness and the goodness and God's grace to your life.

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We have to be reminded of the words of the Lord.

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Many of these words, much of the scripture becomes repetitions for us.

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Much of the scripture becomes repetitions for us. We got to stir up our pure minds

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by way of remembrance. We forget too easily. We forget too readily how faithful God is,

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right? Because in our humanity, the crisis always seems larger than God's faithfulness.

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The circumstance always seems as though it outweighs God's goodness, but it doesn't matter

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what it presents itself as. There's no way that it's any better. It cannot even measure

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to the goodness of God's grace in our heart and in our life and what God has already thus spoken

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on your behalf. We look for a fresh word. We look for a new word and God's thinking,

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why don't you just use the one I've already given you? I've given you a word before you got to this

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crisis. I knew it was coming and I knew you were going to get there and I knew you were going to

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need this and I've already given it to you. If you'll just stir up your memory and recall what I have

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said and recall what I have declared, my Lord, God doesn't change his mind concerning you

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and he doesn't change his mind concerning me. If he spoke it before I got here, he doesn't have

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to say it again. I just have to recall to my memory what he's already said, but that ain't the way we

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work in our humanity. We want a fresh word right now. Oh God, you'll say just look through your

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post-its and you'll find it. We forget too easily. We're too easily moved, too easily disturbed.

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Too easily disturbed. That's the reason the psalmist said lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. His word takes us to our source. That's

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the word that he speaks prior to our crisis. It causes one to recall the source

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of our help and hope and that source is him. What did James say? One in 16 and 17. He said,

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do not err my beloved brethren. Every good and perfect gift is from above and comes down from

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the father of life. Listen to this, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

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If he spoke a good word to you in a good season, I'm here to declare to you that he hadn't changed

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his mind. He hadn't turned. There's no variable. He's not a variable speed. Speeds up the day and

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slows down tomorrow. I'm here to tell you God is consistent because God is faithful and he's already

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declared it over your life. What you and I have to become is fully convinced that what he has said

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is what he meant for the position in which I'm standing in now and it's still when I stir my

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heart and take hope in the word that he's already proclaimed. When I find my Post-It,

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they're sticking to my desk. They're all throughout my Bible. I'd hold it up, but

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Post-Its, they're all through here. Post-Its on the back of sermons. Post-Its

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when I've run out of room and I'm still studying, I'm still going over it and I'm still looking.

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I look at it until I get up here to preach it and the Lord stirs me and he gives me something else

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and so I have to get me a Post-It and I have to put it down so that I don't forget it so that

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when the time comes and when the moment's right and when it requires it, I can find my Post-It

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and it reminds me of the source of my help and my hope and it stirs me and it gives me that

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reminder that I need to know that God will not and has not forsaken me.

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What's on Post-Its?

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Stuff like this, Exodus 15-2. The Lord is my strength and song.

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He has become my salvation. He is my God and I will prepare. Here's the declaration,

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and I will prepare him a habitation. My Father's God and I will exalt him.

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Psalms 28 also on this one. The Lord is their strength and he is the saving of his anointed.

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Psalm 33 and 20, you can get a lot on a Post-It if you write small and you get a bigger number

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in your glasses. My 225s, I'd never be able to translate what's on the back of this.

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I wrote this several years ago. That's what Post-Its are for, right? This is several years ago.

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Psalm 91 and 2 is on here. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress.

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My God and him will I trust. 33 and 2, the Psalm or 20, the psalm said, our soul waiteth for the Lord.

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He is our help and our shield. Psalms 99 and 5 is on here. Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at

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his footstool, for he is holy. Post-Its remind me of the source of my help. Post-Its remind me

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of the grace that is afforded to my life and the source from which it comes.

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So every now and then you just gotta Post-It. Jeremiah would further say in chapter 32, 17,

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Oh Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out

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arm and there is nothing too hard for you. When you start thinking life's too hard and too difficult,

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remember who you are and whom you belong to. Amen. And you will realize that nothing is too hard for

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him, no matter how difficult it seems to be for you in the moment in which you're living life.

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Oh Lord, your outstretched arm, nothing is too hard for you.

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Remind ourselves of the source of our help and the source of our strength. 46 and 1, the psalmist said,

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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble. He would go further to say,

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I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised and so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

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The psalmist say I can run through a troop and leap over the mountains and the sea and the sea

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the Almighty you need a reminder from time to time that when the Son of Life is beating down and you feel like you're about to

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Have a spiritual heat stroke. There is a shade for you to reside in there is a pavilion for which you can reside in

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There's a place that you can go for reprieve and for rest

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And he don't wait till you need it to speak it

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He's already declared it

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He's already prophesied it spoke it over your life

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That's the reason Isaiah could declare no weapon that is formed against me shall prosper right and every tongue

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That lifts this you know the devil's a big tongue-wagger. You knew that right?

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One of my favorite scriptures is he's gonna be shut up one these days

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Physically and literally for at least a thousand years

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We won't have to hear his negativity

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His downplaying God's goodness in God's grace

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Him trying to get you to abandon the faithfulness of God

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He's gonna be shut up on these days

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He's gonna be shut up on these days. I wish you'd shut up today

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I get literal with him sometimes

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Mom always says not nice to say that but i'm not nice when i'm messing with the devil to start with i'm mad by then

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And he just needs to shut up

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and go on

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I'm resisting with every ounce of whatever's within me

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Some of you need to try that a little bit more just tell him shut up and start resisting a little more

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Don't play cake to the devil's games

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Don't engage in mental conversations you'll lose

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I started saying i'm looking around glad I didn't say it

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I look around the room and there's a lot of hundred watt boxes that somebody's put 40 watt bulbs in so

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Don't kid yourself that you can out argue the devil

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Just resist him and that's 40 watts going to move on

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That was pretty good

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Don't don't mess with him go find your post-it

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Don't engage

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of our faith

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You don't need an angel to meet you in the midnight hour and say hey remember what he said

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We don't we don't have to have that we've already gotten that it's recorded remember his words and what he said to you

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You how faithful he will be and will remain

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The lord omnipotent reigns

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Find the post-its of life of life struggles

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Words that he's spoken over your life already and lean on them

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Join the cherubim and recall the reason why you're not consumed already

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Because his mercies are new every morning

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And he let his recollection take him further into the thought of the goodness of god and how good

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He's already spoken past the circumstance he's already given his word beyond the situation in which we face

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He's already declared his goodness

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Before we ever get there and so find that post it where you've no doubt written

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Find that one that you've written down somewhere now faith is a substance of things hoped for

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and the evidence of

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It's impossible to please him

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He is a rewarder there you go remind yourself

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Your diligent search

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Find that post it somewhere. I think we've all got at least one copy of that

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We've all got a copy somewhere of romans 8 28 for all things work together for good

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It's on a post it somewhere god has already spoken that to you. He's going to be faithful

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I don't have to remind him of what he said

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I got I got to remind pastor of what he said

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I got to keep my faith motivated. I I got to keep my post-its handy

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There was one stand with me i'm closing with this

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If I can find that post it

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Here's your post it

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of the struggle

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That's in you

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Ephesians 4 to have a renewed mind and to be renewed in the spirit of our mind philippians 4 and 2

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a same mind colesia colossians 2 and 8 a fleshly mind to avoid

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Of how good he is

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Father I love you this morning

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Lord I thank you for your goodness in your mercy

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Speak to hearts and minds in this house today

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Well heads are bowed if you're here today sir pastor. I just needed a reminder

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Everything's not copacetic in my world

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To reestablish my hope

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To reestablish my hope

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To reestablish my hope

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To reestablish my hope

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The psalmist said why art thou cast down on my soul and why aren't thou

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Within me. Why are you so distraught self? He's having a conversation with his self

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That's okay to do as long as you're not in the car driving down Paul Huff

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People think you that much more crazy

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In your son visor, well flip the visor down and read it

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I've seen them everywhere

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And father I pray over the household of faith this morning

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This is my soul

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Oh praising the risen savior

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All the