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Let me know what it feels like to not be enough.

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You've been at your wit's end.

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You fought the battle, fought all you could, and still victory hadn't showed up.

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But he's in this place.

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Aren't you glad he comes to where we are and not for a minute have we been forsaken?

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Give the Lord good praise for his promise.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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You can be seated in the house of the Lord.

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We're going to receive the offering at the end.

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And I'm going to go ahead and prepare you for that.

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If you got that slide, Brother Hunter, of that devastation, would you put that up there?

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This is Newport, Tennessee.

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Over 20 inches of rain fell in our eastern Tennessee counties and cities.

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I don't have to tell you the devastation.

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It's horrendous.

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I saw one estimate somewhere between $95 and $110 billion of devastation from the Florida

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coast until this thing is finished already.

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Lives have been lost.

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One of our churches, I read where the lady that cleans the church was swept away in the

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flood.

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To my knowledge, they haven't found her just yet.

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Yesterday, our state overseer put out a plea to our churches.

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Many of you may have saw the video that they posted on Facebook.

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Operation Compassion is moving in full force.

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Pastor Kelvin Page is over that.

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I mean from the Florida coast with transfer trucks all the way through.

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Asheville, North Carolina is still isolated.

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The only way in is by air.

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But I told a friend of mine this morning, you can't tell me that some redneck in a duck

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boat hadn't already been over there checking on folk.

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Hello?

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Now, I know you can't drive over there, but some redneck in a duck boat's done been over

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trying to help somebody.

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So with that, they can't get the larger trucks to where they need to be dispatched.

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So they are sending as many of the U-Haul box trucks as they can load to get relief

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up there.

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Actually, the overseer drove a truck up yesterday.

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It takes $3,500 to fill one of those trucks with aid.

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We're going to send at least one of those trucks from our church.

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And I know countless churches are doing it across the state, but you and I both know,

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we all know that this is not going to be over with Friday.

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Amen?

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So, but this is how we can help at the front end of this.

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We're going to send at least one truck.

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If we raise enough money today for a truck, we may match it with a truck.

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Send two trucks.

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Amen?

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Because this is part of today is, today is Mission Sunday.

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I know many, many of you have been asking Brother Randy, Brother Brian, and Brother

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David, Brother Mills, how the Africa trip went.

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I kindly ask them to keep the information down as much as possible for this day.

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So they've tried their best not to leak out everything that went on while they were in

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Africa.

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But I think it's important that we take time to hear.

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Now, nobody likes to have just throw down church any better than your pastor just likes

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to have throw down church.

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That's me.

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I'm ready to throw down and we'll just have church.

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But there's more to it than just throwing down and having church.

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It's about being the church and seeing what it means to be the church.

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And we have opportunity to do that today.

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We're going to, they're going to share with you.

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They've got pictures and things.

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And at the end of the service is when we'll receive our tithe and offering.

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If you have to leave before it's finished, just leave it with a nusher at the back door

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or somewhere and whatever the Lord lays on your heart to give toward this mission effort.

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But just a quick reminder that our mission statement for the Hopewell Church of God is

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adopted out of acts one and eight where is recorded.

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And after that, the spirit, the Holy spirit has come upon you.

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You shall be witnesses of me.

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And then he begins to lay it out.

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Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world.

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Our Jerusalem is right here in Cleveland.

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Part of our mission is sister Kaylee's efforts with the homeless right here.

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And we support a couple of other mission efforts right here in our Jerusalem.

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Amen.

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And so we're going to stretch on out to Judea.

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Now we're going to get on up toward the upper end of our state and we're going to minister.

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But what they are going to come and share with you now for the next, whatever the Lord

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lays on their heart to share with us.

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We're going to see what our efforts have been.

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Their efforts have been in the uttermost parts of the world over in Africa, up in the bush

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somewhere.

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Amen.

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And we're going to see how that you, for all of you who have given to help send these missionaries

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and our local missionaries over there.

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I'm ready to see what happened.

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Amen.

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And I know only eternity will unfold for us all that took place.

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And I'm looking forward to be there and to see that as well.

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Amen.

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So, Brother David, if you and Brother Brian and Brother Randy, if you guys would just

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I don't know how you've got this laid out to do, but just be praying in the meantime

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what the Lord wants you to do at the end of the service and we'll receive our tithe and

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offering.

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And our offering, we're really going to push toward this relief and aid toward our state.

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We've got churches that are devastated.

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Amen.

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I don't know who's going to win.

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Good morning.

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Good to see all your bright, sunshiny faces.

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Good to be in the house of the Lord today.

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And first of all, just let me say thank you for supporting us in the adventure.

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And it was an adventure especially for these two.

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And I've asked them, since I've been so many times and I can give you the perspective of

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somebody that's been there so many times, I've asked each one of them to give you their

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perspective as the first time having gone on one of these kinds of trips.

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And so they're going to come and share, they're going to share some pictures, they're going

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to share some personal feelings and some personal adventures that they had, good and bad I guess,

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they will share because there certainly were some bad things, but there were a lot of great

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things and then I'll come and wrap it up.

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And Pastor, you just about took away everything I was going to say, but that's okay.

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We'll figure that one out when the time comes.

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Randy, Brian, you come first.

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My perspective is going to be a little unique and interesting, but first thing I want to

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do is guys, can you give the youth guys a hand clap?

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They make me proud every single time.

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I get to see them every, I get to hear them and see them every Wednesday, but we didn't

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really get a chance to kind of practice or go through some things till this morning,

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so I thought they did a phenomenal job as always.

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I don't know about you, but I had no problem worshiping this morning.

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So just to give you some insight on this trip, so I was kind of the guy who, I hadn't even

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been on a plane before, right?

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Everybody says, Brian, have you, you know, I guess they expected my response when they

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asked me how it was going to be, if I was excited about going, I was like, oh yeah,

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tell me no problem.

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I hadn't even been on a plane before.

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So I was like, we're doing a lot of firsts on this trip, which is exciting.

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I enjoy doing things for the first time.

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By the way, after just the flight from Chattanooga to Atlanta, I called Eric and I said, we're

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never driving to Florida again.

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I'm just going to tell you right now.

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A 26 minute flight that takes usually two hours, I'm thinking, why would I ever drive

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to Florida again?

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But it was a, I had an awesome time on the, on the jet and flying for my first experience.

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I was very excited about that.

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But just to kind of get us started, we kind of prepared a video for you guys to watch

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and it's kind of a, I wouldn't call it a summary.

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There was a lot more that went on and this video could have been extremely long, but

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I tried to keep it short because you guys know just as much as I do, our attention span

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is only so far, right?

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But I put some highlighted things in there that I think will be really great.

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So guys go ahead and play that video.

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That's me right there.

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One, two, three.

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I'm afraid to be surrounded.

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This place is the water.

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My anointing's drowning.

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As long as I'm breathing, I've got a reason to praise the Lord.

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Oh, my soul.

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Praise the Lord. Oh, my soul.

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I praise when I see this, and I praise when I don't.

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I praise because I know you're still in control.

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My praise is a weapon. It's broken and sound.

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Oh, my praise is the shout that brings Jericho down.

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As long as I'm breathing, I've got a reason to praise the Lord.

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Oh, my soul.

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Praise the Lord. Oh, my soul.

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I won't be quiet. My heart is alive.

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So how could I keep it inside my heart?

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Praise the Lord. Oh, my soul.

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Praise the Lord.

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Come on, we see that dance. Put a dance on his hand.

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It's your grace, though. Come on.

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Hey, hey.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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My praise was so strong. Praise because you reign.

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Praise because you rose in defeat in the grave.

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My praise was so faithful. Praise because you're true.

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Praise because there's nobody greater than you.

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My praise was so strong. Praise because you reign.

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Praise because you rose in defeat in the grave.

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My praise was so faithful. Praise because you're true.

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Praise because you're true.

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Yes, we are true.

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And that was the video of our trip to Zambia.

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Just a short synopsis there.

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Yeah, go ahead. Give the Lord a hand clap of praise.

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I mean, it was an awesome trip, an awesome time.

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And as David kind of shared, not all things were awesome, right?

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There were some things that were.

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But the traveling to me was one of the funnest parts

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because I'd never been on a plane before.

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So I was videoing.

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Y'all should see I got almost as many videos of me in the plane

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as I do as actual stuff on the trip.

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And every time I turn around, David and Randy are like...

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Because we weren't sitting like right side by side.

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So I turn around and look, David's like, Randy's like, you good? Yeah.

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But I had a great time on the plane. I had a great time on the trip.

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And the traveling really wasn't the...

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The worst part was the vehicle ride.

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So we flew from Chattanooga to Atlanta.

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And then we went from Atlanta straight to Johannesburg,

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which was the real long flight.

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And then from Johannesburg, we stayed one night in Johannesburg,

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stayed the night at a hotel there, got up the next morning,

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and made our way by plane from Johannesburg to Lusaka,

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which is the capital of Zambia there.

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Now, where we were actually ministering was about seven hours further east.

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So we took a vehicle ride, seven hours from Lusaka to a little town called Katete,

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which is the video you saw with the dirt roads.

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That was the town that we were in, was Katete.

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And that was where we saw the green and white church.

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That was where we did the ministering and the teaching

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while we were there for the short time.

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The safari we went on where you saw the zebras and all that,

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that was one of the coolest things I've ever done in my entire life.

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And if you have not done that, you need to do that, okay?

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It was worth all the struggle and the rough stuff, right?

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It was worth all that.

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But that was a really fun trip, not while we went,

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but it was awesome to get to do that.

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Seeing the ministry, the school that they have there,

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which there was a few pictures of that, and the church there in town,

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and that was actually in Lusaka.

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But seeing that and seeing what God has done in that town,

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and then to hear, obviously I don't have David's perspective

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from before the school and the church was there,

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but to see what God has done was a very wonderful thing.

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and where the school was and the church was,

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and there was some meeting, and to hear their, they love David.

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They love him to death, and I can see why,

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because he was important in getting all the school

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and everything going in that community, in that area.

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and reach outside of Lusaka so very far.

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So it's just awesome and wonderful to see for myself,

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be on the ground and see for myself what God is doing,

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not only in Katete, but there in Lusaka and in Zambia as a whole.

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That was really powerful.

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right away there were struggles.

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the enemy really started combating us and things like,

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we were all supposed to have our own separate rooms.

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and I thought, this ain't going to work.

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What are we going to do?

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I looked at Randy, he looked at me, and I'm like, well,

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so anyway, they had commented us and put us in a separate room

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with two beds, so I was like, thank you, Lord.

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Nothing against you, Randy. Love you, man.

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But I don't think he'd want to sleep with me either,

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so we're going to, you know, got to be careful with that.

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But it's not a good look, you know what I'm saying?

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It's not a good look.

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But that was not the biggest issue.

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We got into a room and all that,

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and we would make jokes about that.

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Y'all can already tell this is going to be the funny part

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of the trip, what you're getting from me,

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because it's a lot of firsts for me.

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I'm like, you know, I've never been, I've never flown,

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I've never been outside of the U.S., right?

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I've just been a few states over, so.

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and then we ended up, I think, we let,

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we put all our stuff in David's room,

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because we were going on the safari,

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and we come back, when we got back from the safari,

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we didn't have our rooms anymore.

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Anyway, the lodging was up and down.

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And, you know, it was, the, where we stayed was fine,

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from a perspective, we were only there a short time.

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We didn't need all the amenities.

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because Zambia and Africa has a wet and a dry season, okay?

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and water is how they provide power for everywhere.

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because of the drought.

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It affected crops, it affected food,

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it affected all kinds of things.

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that we would have electricity from about seven in the morning

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to maybe lunchtime, and then they would turn the generators on

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at some point throughout the day.

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and then about 10, 10, 30 at night, they'd turn that off,

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and you didn't have any power the rest of the night

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until the next morning.

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So there's a lot of things that are up and down.

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It definitely wasn't a five-star resort, right?

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Most people that do ministry, but I didn't expect that,

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and that's fine.

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I can rough it, I have no problem with that.

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But I wouldn't even call it roughing it.

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We were literally in the nicest place

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that they could have provided us.

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I really do believe that.

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We were in a really good spot.

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David stayed there many a times, so it was safe, right?

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We had food there, we had water there, so that part was fine.

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Let me get to, let me fast forward a little bit,

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because I just want to get to the part where that Thursday night,

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when we rolled up to the church,

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we were going out there, it was dark,

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really didn't know the path we were going.

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The overseer in that area kind of picked us up from our rooms each day

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and drove us to the church and drove us back for lunch and whatnot.

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The first night we pulled up,

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at the end of the video when it was dark,

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I don't know if you all could have seen it real well,

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but they were in there worshiping.

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When we first pulled up that night,

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they were in the back cooking their meal, they were eating.

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There wasn't a lot of them there yet,

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but they were in the back cooking their meal and eating.

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So we were just there kind of figuring out where do we go,

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where do we sit, what are we doing,

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and talking to the overseer.

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But then they started just randomly.

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I don't know that it was queued or orchestrated,

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but they just started worshiping.

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They just started worshiping like that.

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Of course, there's no musician, no music.

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They're clapping their hands, they're worshiping God.

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Me and Randy and all of us are kind of just video and taken,

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but then it's just like something entered the room

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is the best way that I could describe it.

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And what entered the room was nothing short of the total presence of God.

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Amen?

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I'm so sorry if I get a little preachy here,

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but it impacted me in a way,

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and I think it impacted all of us in a way,

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but the Holy Spirit fell in that building,

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and we hadn't spoken a first word.

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Can I tell you that God is the same no matter where you go?

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Can I tell you that it doesn't matter how much you have,

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how little you have, how you may feel like you're not in the right place,

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you may feel out of source,

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but can I tell you that God's the same no matter what,

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and no matter the situation you're going through,

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no matter anything that's happening in your life,

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God is the same.

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And it was evident in that room because as they began to worship,

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I had to put my phone away because all I could do is stand there

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and cry at the presence of God.

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I had no clue what they were saying.

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I didn't understand the language, but it did not matter

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because the presence of God is familiar to the saints.

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You understand? You hear me when I'm saying,

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church, that the presence of God was so powerful.

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And that was night one.

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We haven't spoken, none of us even spoken yet.

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David, I think, got up towards the end of it

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and just kind of set the foreground to what we were doing there.

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And we came to teach and we came to minister.

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That's what we came to do.

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So then that next Friday, Brother Randy got up and taught

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on the bapses of the Holy Spirit.

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I preached that night.

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The next day, Saturday, I taught on the gifts of the Spirit.

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Randy preached that night.

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And then Sunday, David kind of preached that morning

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and kicked us off out of there.

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I was trying to remember what day was it that we gave out the stuff.

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Was that Friday? Saturday.

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Saturday is when we presented the food, the meal, the seed,

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the hoe for their farming, and then also the Bibles.

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And a couple of the things that just impacted me the most

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was the one gentleman, I forget his name because I am terrible with names,

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but the one gentleman that spoke for the majority of them there

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that was receiving the Bibles and the seed and the food.

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He kind of stood out and spoke.

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They're going through a drought.

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Food is scarce.

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I have no doubt they leave there wondering themselves,

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where am I going to get the next meal to feed my family?

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You know, water they had to hike and walk to get.

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I have no doubt they were sitting there wondering that,

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but they're holding Bibles in their hands to take out to the areas

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that they're going to, to give to pastors that don't have one

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in their language.

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And I remember him speaking.

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He was thanking us for the food and thanking us for the seed

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and thanking us for the hoe because Brother David asked him

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who in here is farmers, and I think every single one of them

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raised their hands.

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They're pastors and leaders, but they're also farmers.

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They work.

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They till the ground.

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They have to grow their own food, and they all raised their hand.

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But what impacted me specifically was they were grateful for the food

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and grateful for the seed, but they were grateful for the food

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of their spirit more than anything.

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It's almost as if they could care less about actual food for the body,

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and they were more concerned with the Bibles that we were there

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giving them out because they were going to be able to go take those

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to their pastors in their areas, and they were going to be able to

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read that word and then preach that word to their areas and to their

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communities, and it impacted them in mighty, powerful ways, no doubt.

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Amen?

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God can do that, but it struck me because I'm like, you're probably

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hungry sitting here.

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Maybe you're not.

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Maybe I'm wrong.

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Maybe I read this thing the whole time, but it was so important

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and impactful to me that the Word of God was so, so important to them.

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And just to have it in their hands, something tangible to read.

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And when we were teaching, you could see them.

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The one picture was up there.

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They were flipping through.

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They were taking notes.

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They were absorbing everything that we were saying.

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And a lot of that, like what Pastor mentioned earlier, sometimes you

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don't feel worthy.

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I can tell you, when I got up to preach and speak, I never feel worthy

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to do the assignment.

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I don't think that I will ever feel worthy, and I think I should never

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feel worthy to an extent.

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I'm going to do and follow the Lord, but I don't think I should ever

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feel worthy.

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I want to stay humble always.

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But in that moment, and you have a translator, so everything I would

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say, it was a different pacing.

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I struggled with that badly.

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I struggled with the pacing, with the interpreter.

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But I would beat myself up after I got done, especially the first night

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when I preached.

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I beat myself up that night.

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I really felt like I didn't really, there was some, it just felt like

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there was something fighting against what I felt like the Lord had given

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me to preach to him that night.

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And I went back to the room, and I think Randy could tell, I was beating

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myself up pretty hard that night.

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But Randy asked me something, and I don't know why, but it made me snap

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out of the mood I was in very quickly.

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Maybe this is me.

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Maybe none of you have struggled with this.

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I hope you don't.

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But for me, doubt and discouragement is something that the enemy fights

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with me a lot about because I don't feel worthy, and that's okay.

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But Randy asked me a question.

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He said, Brian, do you feel like the Lord was with you?

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And I said, of course I do.

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Then what are you worried about?

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And it made me realize that as long as I know, no matter where I stand,

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no matter how uncomfortable I may be in the moment, no matter how awkward

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it feels, no matter if I feel there's something there, distractions,

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whatever the case may be, if I know that God is with me, what am I

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worried about?

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So I sit there and let the doubt.

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I let the discouragement.

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I let it creep in.

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The enemy's just sitting there toiling with my mind because he knew I got

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Brian tonight because he struggled.

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But it made me snap out of it, and I'm so grateful that Randy was there

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with me because he helped coach me through that in a sense.

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Of course I know God's with me, but in the moment, it's hard to think

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about those type things.

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So that was very impactful to me, the fact that I had him, not only him,

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but Brother David there because Brian learned a lot on this trip,

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not just about flying, not just about Zambia or South Africa or zebras,

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right?

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But Brian learned a lot about himself on this trip.

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And I can sit here and try to describe to you because I'm not going to

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take up all the time.

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Plus, I don't want to tell everything, right?

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But I can describe to you how it was, but it's not going to matter.

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You're not going to know unless you go.

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Hopefully the videos, hopefully some of the sharing that we're going to

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continue to do today will give you some insight as to how it was.

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The trip was phenomenal.

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I'm so thankful God didn't call me into the missions field on this trip.

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I'll go again.

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Don't get me wrong.

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I enjoyed the trip.

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It was great for me.

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I cried a lot.

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God's presence was there every single time.

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It was a phenomenal trip.

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And the very first thing they said when we were leaving, we took the pictures

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with them that Sunday, a couple pictures with them that Sunday afternoon

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before we got in the truck or the vehicle to start heading back.

488
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And they told us, they said, if we don't see you again, we'll see you in eternity.

489
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,120
These folks are going to heaven.

490
00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:23,120
Their minds made up, and they're not going to let anything stop them.

491
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:26,120
Food, water, distractions, doesn't matter.

492
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:29,120
They're not going to let anything stop them.

493
00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:30,120
So I'm so thankful for my time.

494
00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,120
Hopefully I didn't share too, too much, and you guys have something to share.

495
00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:35,120
But thank you so much.

496
00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:40,120
Oh, also one quick story, then you can stay standing, Randy.

497
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,120
Or sit down.

498
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:46,120
He's like, there's no way that's short.

499
00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:50,120
Me and Randy stayed up a lot of nights talking, so he knows Brian's long-winded.

500
00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:51,120
He can just talk.

501
00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:52,120
I'm really not.

502
00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:53,120
Y'all know that.

503
00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:58,120
But so on the way back, when we took the car ride, this is just a quick story that happened.

504
00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:04,120
On the way back, we took the vehicle ride from when we were taking the ride from Katete to Lusaka, that seven-hour ride.

505
00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:09,120
The guy who was driving us pulled over to get gas before we headed back.

506
00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:14,120
We all got out, went around, found a restroom, because we were like, we're going to have to use the seven-hour trip.

507
00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,120
We're trying not to stop, because we're trying to get back.

508
00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:19,120
At that point, we were all ready to come home.

509
00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:20,120
But we went around the back, used the restroom.

510
00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:24,120
On the way back, I was the first one out and came back, and there was a guy.

511
00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:27,120
Down there, they have attendants at the gas station.

512
00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,120
I saw this pretty much at every gas station.

513
00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:30,120
You didn't pump your own gas.

514
00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:31,120
You rolled up, rolled the window down.

515
00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:32,120
The guy was like, what do you need?

516
00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:33,120
And they'll say, fill it up.

517
00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:35,120
And you pay the guy at the window.

518
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:36,120
You don't have to get out.

519
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,120
One thing they do do that I thought was really weird, we were sitting in the car first.

520
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:40,120
They did it.

521
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:41,120
The car just starts doing this.

522
00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:43,120
I'm like, what is happening?

523
00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:46,120
They're out there shaking the car to get every bit of gas they could get in it.

524
00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:48,120
I mean, they got the wheel well.

525
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,120
They're rocking that thing.

526
00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:51,120
Trying to get, we're sitting in the car doing this.

527
00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:54,120
Me and Randy's looking at each other like, what are we doing?

528
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:55,120
David's like, they're shaking the car.

529
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:58,120
They're going to get all the gas in it.

530
00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:01,120
I was like, well, that's strange.

531
00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:02,120
You do that in America.

532
00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:06,120
And it's like, your gas hand, your little floater thing will be all messed up.

533
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:07,120
They're just yanking on the car.

534
00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:11,120
But anyway, so I walk out and him and his attendants yanking on the car.

535
00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:12,120
And I'm like, oh, OK.

536
00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:14,120
Well, they're chit chatting back and forth.

537
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:18,120
And he mentions to the guy who was working at the gas station that we're from the Church of God.

538
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:19,120
And we were there doing missions.

539
00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:22,120
And he was like, oh, do you have any Bibles?

540
00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:23,120
Do you have a book?

541
00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,120
Do you have anything you can give me?

542
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:27,120
And I said, well, we already we gave out the Bibles.

543
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:31,120
I said, and then it hit me, Brian, you got your own personal Bible.

544
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:35,120
So I said, well, I've got one Bible that I'm more than happy to give you, but it's in English.

545
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:36,120
He was, oh, this is good. This is good.

546
00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,120
I can read English. I mean, you can read English.

547
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,120
He said, yes.

548
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,120
So I reached in and got him.

549
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,120
And then the other attendant at the other gas station heard he's like, he's got a Bible.

550
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,120
And he came running over there.

551
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,120
And I was like, well, I got one Bible.

552
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,120
There's two of y'all.

553
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,120
But I said, I already promised it to him.

554
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,120
So I'm going to give him the Bible.

555
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,120
And I said, here's the beauty of it.

556
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:54,120
You're here at work.

557
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,120
We only want to this gas station when we leave, read it with each other, figure it out.

558
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,120
So I promised the kid I told him I'd give him my Bible, but I made him promise to read it.

559
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,120
I said, the only thing I want you to do is take a home, share with your family.

560
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,120
Read the book.

561
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,120
It'll change your life.

562
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:08,120
And he was like, yes, yes, yes, yes.

563
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,120
And he was talking about how his area needed revival.

564
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,120
I forget the name.

565
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,120
Was it Nimbur?

566
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,120
Ninja. Ninja.

567
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,120
I'm sure I pronounced that wrong.

568
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:18,120
Nanja.

569
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,120
Anyway, he said they need a revival in that town.

570
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:23,120
And I don't know who he was.

571
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,120
Didn't know.

572
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,120
But it just felt like I needed to give him my Bible.

573
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,120
And I don't know if that Bible is sitting on a bookshelf somewhere.

574
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,120
I don't know.

575
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,120
But I prayed afterwards and I said, Lord, just let that Bible do some good.

576
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,120
Not me, not because it's mine, because it's your word.

577
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,120
And I wanted to transform his life, his family's life, his community's life and that whole area's life.

578
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,120
If he just reads it, I know God will do something with it.

579
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,120
And then my wife is so kind to when I got off the plane when I got back.

580
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,120
She had me a brand new one right there.

581
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,120
I was so excited to go because it was my favorite Bible.

582
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,120
And of course, I thought to myself, don't take your favorite one.

583
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,120
And I sure enough did.

584
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,120
And then giving it away.

585
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,120
But it was the easiest thing I could do.

586
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,120
Giving somebody the word of God is the easiest thing I could do.

587
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,120
He doesn't have the ability to get that Bible.

588
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,120
I could go back and buy one.

589
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,120
No problem.

590
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:04,120
Right.

591
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,120
So it was one of the easiest things to do.

592
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:14,120
But I'll let Randy share now.

593
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:21,120
I don't think there's anything left for me to say at this point.

594
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:25,120
I would start with saying, Zikomo.

595
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:30,120
Zikomo is Nanja, the language that they normally speak.

596
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,120
They know English, but they're language they share with each other.

597
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,120
Zikomo is thank you.

598
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:41,120
In fact, I would say makamaka, Zikomo, which means very, very much.

599
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,120
Thank you. That's a rough translation.

600
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:55,120
I thought that I was ready psychologically, and I was woefully not.

601
00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:02,120
We got on the plane, and Brian said that he started fighting the devil once we got to Katete.

602
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:07,120
I think I was fighting the devil before I even left, so to speak.

603
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:13,120
I remember thinking, Dear God, what am I getting myself into doing this?

604
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:18,120
The realization for those of you who are Sunday schooled was kind of similar to that.

605
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,120
God didn't need to send me to Africa if he wanted to take me out.

606
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,120
He can do it right here.

607
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:29,120
We got on the plane, and I started traveling, and I started thinking,

608
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,120
Wow, if I want to go home, this is 16 and a half hours.

609
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,120
Then we took another two-hour flight.

610
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,120
The further we went, the more the hours were stacking up in my mind, more and more.

611
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:44,120
Finally, at one point when we were there in the middle of nowhere, when we went into the bush,

612
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,120
I was thinking, Okay, it's a two and a half hour ride back to Katete,

613
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:53,120
a seven-hour ride across to Lusaka, a two-hour flight back to Johannesburg,

614
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,120
and a 16 and a half hour flight back to America, just to get back to America,

615
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,120
and then I've got to get back from there.

616
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,120
The walls started closing in.

617
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,120
We were in the middle of that place in the middle of nowhere where they told us,

618
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,120
You can't leave your room tonight, by the way.

619
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,120
If you want to leave, you've got to go out and shine a flashlight

620
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,120
because elephants and hippos walk through here, and they will attack you.

621
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,120
So you've got to stay where you're at.

622
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:24,120
I start thinking more and more, Dear God, where am I?

623
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,120
I can tell you this.

624
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,120
I couldn't – I said this to my Wednesday night class.

625
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,120
I couldn't call the pastor, couldn't call my wife, couldn't call my parents.

626
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,120
We're completely isolated.

627
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,120
There's no power, no electricity.

628
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:43,120
There's nothing.

629
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,120
But then we hit the nail on the head this morning.

630
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,120
Not for a moment was I forsaken.

631
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,120
The Lord was in this place.

632
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,120
We talk so often about, Oh, we can't get away from the presence of God.

633
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:04,120
I can testify to you, church, I never once left the presence of the Lord.

634
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,120
There was not a place.

635
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,120
And the safari was wonderful.

636
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,120
That was great.

637
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,120
Thank you, Brother David, for taking us.

638
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:20,120
But I felt – the Bible talks about Jesus saying that he must need to go through Samaria.

639
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,120
I felt a drawing to Katete.

640
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,120
The whole time we were there, we toured the Bible college,

641
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,120
but I felt we've got to get to Katete.

642
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,120
We've got to get to Katete.

643
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,120
There was just a drawing, an urgency.

644
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,120
And we pulled up that first night.

645
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:42,120
The people were sitting there in the dark under the trees, just eating, just waiting, waiting patiently in the dark.

646
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,120
No lights.

647
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:44,120
Remember, there's no power.

648
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,120
The city has no power.

649
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:52,120
And Katete, Brian said he knows, is 300,000 people that live in this town.

650
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,120
And it's just dark as you look across it because there's no power.

651
00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,120
And the people were sitting there under the trees waiting for us to arrive.

652
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:07,120
And when we walk in, the only lights we have are two small lights that are solar lights that they charged up during the day.

653
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:12,120
And as Brian said, the people came in and they began to pray and they began to worship.

654
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:21,120
And I began to cry because it broke me, because I could feel the presence of the Lord in such a tangible way.

655
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:26,120
And this isn't an indictment on anyone, as I say this.

656
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:35,120
We sometimes come to church and if the air isn't working, we get upset, or if the lights aren't working, we get upset, or if this isn't right, or if the words aren't right on the walls or stuff like that.

657
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,120
They had nothing.

658
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:43,120
But they praised the Lord God Almighty with such an urgency and intensity.

659
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,120
And there was such a hunger there.

660
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:50,120
And God moved in such a powerful way.

661
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:55,120
Folks, there's such a lack.

662
00:34:55,120 --> 00:35:00,120
People are literally committing suicide there because there's no food.

663
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:08,120
When we left, we saw children selling rats to eat on the sides of the road that they grilled.

664
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:15,120
But more than the hunger for food and more than the hunger for these things, there was a hunger for the presence of God.

665
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:20,120
And I will never, ever forget that.

666
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:25,120
But on top of that, one of those humbling moments was at the very end.

667
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:33,120
When we had finished everything, we noticed that they were, or at least I noticed that they were passing something through the audience.

668
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:38,120
At the end, they brought us up and they presented us with an offering.

669
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:45,120
Those people with such little funds and little things, where we drove to in two and a half hours,

670
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:50,120
people literally came from those places, pastors riding bicycles.

671
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,120
Two and a half hours by car, they rode bicycles to get to Katete.

672
00:35:54,120 --> 00:36:00,120
They slept on the floor. They had nothing. And they presented us with an offering.

673
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,120
And that's one of the most humbling moments of my entire life.

674
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:10,120
And I'm so grateful Brother Miller did not ask us. He knew. No prompting.

675
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,120
He said, you have given this to us.

676
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:20,120
We said, yes. He said, this is ours. We can do with this as we choose. Yes. Yes.

677
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:24,120
We can do with it however we want it to. We wanted to reiterate it. Yes, yes, you can do it.

678
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:29,120
And he said, then here. The church there has dug a borehole. It's a well.

679
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,120
They call them boreholes there, trying to find water.

680
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,120
They found water. They built a tower to store the water.

681
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,120
They have all they have a pump. They have all the things, but they need electricity to pull

682
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:47,120
and run the pump to pull the water up. They're trying to grow food there at the church to feed the people.

683
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:53,120
But they're unable to connect the electricity because it's six thousand five hundred quacha to do that.

684
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:58,120
Now, that sounds like a lot of money, but in our money, that's about two hundred dollars.

685
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:05,120
And that's a fortune for them. And I'm so happy that Brother Miller said, take this money.

686
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:13,120
We want to give that back to applying that to the borehole project. Get your water going for the people.

687
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:17,120
Folks, I'll leave you with this. So many thoughts that's racing through my mind.

688
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:24,120
So many things that I could say.

689
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:32,120
The most. Awesome aspect of it all. Was to be able to be there.

690
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:40,120
Second Corinthians, Chapter 11, Paul recounts all the hardships that he endured, all the different things he talks about three times.

691
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:46,120
He was beaten with rods. He was stoned. He talks about perils of the deep, perils of nakedness, famine, hunger.

692
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,120
The perils that we faced were hardships of no electricity.

693
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:59,120
There are perils of mosquitoes. Brian, I believe it was divinely appointed that we shared that room that night and several other nights.

694
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:05,120
One, the mosquitoes loved him more than me. So.

695
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,120
When I shared the room with him, they they flocked him.

696
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,120
I was like, I didn't have anything going on as opposed to other nights.

697
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,120
He was over there. I heard him throughout the night.

698
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:21,120
Hitting himself. And I'm just like, yes.

699
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:26,120
That was that was probably the greatest peril that we faced was the mosquitoes.

700
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:32,120
But. God kept us safe throughout all of it.

701
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,120
There was never any war. There is never anything.

702
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:41,120
There were psychological aspects that we thought maybe there was hardships that God kept us and he preserved us.

703
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,120
But I can say throughout the whole trip, God had his hand on us.

704
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:55,120
He orchestrated everything. And please be in prayer for the church of not just the Katete, but not just the eastern province, specifically, but for Zambia.

705
00:38:55,120 --> 00:39:06,120
They endure things that we cannot. And the videos and our stories cannot adequately express and explain what they endure on a daily basis.

706
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:13,120
It's one of those things that you can't just see it. You need to experience it.

707
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:21,120
Pray for the church. Pray for the people. They endure a lot, but they are so devoted to God and to serving him.

708
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:27,120
And I'm so thankful that one of these days, if I don't ever go back, this is Brian said, we'll see them on the other side.

709
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:37,120
Thank you.

710
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:51,120
One of the things that. They stated somewhere along with the trip, I'm not sure at what point they stated will never be the same again.

711
00:39:51,120 --> 00:40:03,120
One of the things that I have found over the years that the Lord graciously allowed me to be a missionary.

712
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:10,120
Was that people would say, I'll never be the same again.

713
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:18,120
I will tell you that they represented Hopewell Church of God very well.

714
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:24,120
The. Teaching that was done.

715
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:30,120
I just got a text from the overseer Emmanuel.

716
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,120
Not Emmanuel, but Ezekiel.

717
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,120
Just got a text yesterday evening.

718
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:50,120
He said, I can't express. I have no words to express what we are experiencing as a result of your bringing the team with you.

719
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,120
They did a fantastic job.

720
00:40:54,120 --> 00:41:05,120
The intensity with which they received what was being taught was unreal.

721
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:10,120
Brian did the thing he did this morning about the clapping twice.

722
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:18,120
He did that when he was teaching in the afternoon and they kind of smiled and they did it.

723
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:31,120
And then somewhere along in the middle of his his teaching, he would stop me, say, if you hear me clap twice and they would throw their books down and they would start to clap because they were writing down all their notes.

724
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,120
But they had to lay them down real quick so that they could clap.

725
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,120
And so you knew they were listening to what he had to say.

726
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,120
I thought that was very interesting.

727
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:46,120
Brian, it showed that they were involved in what was going on.

728
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,120
I'm not going to say a whole lot, but let me let me just say this.

729
00:41:50,120 --> 00:42:01,120
The eastern province of Zambia has two, almost two and a half million people in their province.

730
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:10,120
Very rural, just one or two cities, and they're not what we would call modern cities.

731
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:16,120
The impact of one hundred and twenty pastors that were registered.

732
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:21,120
It didn't just impact them alone.

733
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,120
They will go back to their churches.

734
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:34,120
Some of them were evangelists that will travel around that area and spread the word that they learned from these two guys.

735
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:39,120
So we're not impacting just one hundred and twenty.

736
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:43,120
We're impacting thousands.

737
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,120
They have thousands of members in their churches.

738
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:50,120
I asked the overseer to give me the figures.

739
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:55,120
I'm not sure he gave me the right figure, so I'm not even going to quote those because they were so large.

740
00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:05,120
But they have influence over thousands of members in their churches and in their communities.

741
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,120
Ezekiel, the overseer, will be reaching out.

742
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:13,120
He's always looking for another place to plant a church.

743
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:20,120
So we didn't just influence a few guys and a few ladies.

744
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:26,120
We're influencing a whole area for Jesus Christ.

745
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,120
You helped do that.

746
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:37,120
You helped send us so that we could do what God sent us to do.

747
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,120
I'm going to share just a passage of scripture.

748
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:45,120
It's a scripture I shared before we went.

749
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:54,120
And as I set the last few days trying to figure out my part in ending this,

750
00:43:54,120 --> 00:44:01,120
I felt like I needed to share the same passage of scripture, not only to begin the journey,

751
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:07,120
but now as we have completed the journey, what does this scripture mean?

752
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,120
It's the scripture that the pastor mentioned at the beginning.

753
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,120
If you go ahead and put it up.

754
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:20,120
It says, but ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you.

755
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:25,120
That's what a lot of people want to stop when they want to talk about the power.

756
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,120
They want to talk about all of that kind of thing.

757
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,120
But it goes on.

758
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:36,120
The power isn't given just so that we can rejoice and jump and shout, run the aisles.

759
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,120
And I'm not knocking that. I believe in that.

760
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:45,120
When I was younger, when I had some energy, you ought to see me run the aisles.

761
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,120
So I'm not knocking that.

762
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:53,120
I'm just saying it's more than receiving this thing for ourselves.

763
00:44:53,120 --> 00:45:00,120
And more than enjoying the beautiful sanctuary that we have and the beautiful music that we have

764
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:05,120
and the great preaching that we receive Sunday in and Sunday out.

765
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,120
That's wonderful. And we need that.

766
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,120
And I'm not knocking that.

767
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:15,120
I have always despised missionaries that come around and try to put a guilt trip on a congregation.

768
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,120
That's not me. I'm not doing that today.

769
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:25,120
But the Holy Ghost is not given to us and does not descend upon us in this building

770
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:30,120
so that we can feel good about it.

771
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:44,120
The Holy Ghost is given to you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in Judea

772
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:50,120
and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

773
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,120
It takes all of it.

774
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,120
It's not just the mission field.

775
00:45:55,120 --> 00:46:01,120
We went, we had a great time both physically and emotionally.

776
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:06,120
We had some good times and spiritually we had some great times.

777
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:10,120
But it's not just about us going.

778
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,120
It doesn't end here.

779
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:19,120
It does not end with this service this morning, the pastor so graciously giving us the whole service

780
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:23,120
that we could share what God has done.

781
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,120
It continues from this point.

782
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:33,120
It continues both in what the pastor is going to come in a few minutes and share with you the need

783
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,120
and already has mentioned some of that.

784
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,120
He's going to share some more of that.

785
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:41,120
It's the Judea.

786
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,120
We're the Jerusalem and we work on that.

787
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,120
I hope we do witness around.

788
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:52,120
You know, I drive cars all day and I get for about 15 or 20 minutes, I get people in my car

789
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:59,120
and I turn as much as I can without being too obvious about it to talking about the Lord.

790
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,120
The Lord has given me the fact that I'm a missionary and they ask,

791
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,120
what did you do before you retired?

792
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,120
Well, that just opens the door for me.

793
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:08,120
And I share.

794
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:09,120
I plant some seed.

795
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:14,120
I don't have a chance to see whether that seed grows and gives fruition,

796
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,120
but I'm able to sow some seed.

797
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:20,120
That's what we are to do right here in Jerusalem.

798
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,120
But then there's Judea.

799
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:27,120
We've got a whole state here that needs, right now they need some physical help.

800
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,120
Well, that's up to us.

801
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,120
We need to help one another.

802
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:36,120
And then, of course, we move on to what I talked about in the message before we left

803
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:41,120
the cross-cultural thing to people maybe we're not comfortable around and so forth.

804
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:42,120
We need to do that.

805
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:46,120
And then there is the uttermost.

806
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:54,120
Today we're going to reach out to Judea, but let's not forget that there's more left to do

807
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,120
in the uttermost as well.

808
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:01,120
And we as a congregation have been blessed.

809
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:07,120
We have been blessed.

810
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,120
I want to say that again.

811
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:14,120
In so many ways, we have been blessed.

812
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:19,120
You've got a comfortable seat to sit on there.

813
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:27,120
I'm telling you, I shifted from one hip to the other hip while Randy was doing his teaching.

814
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:32,120
That board I was sitting on did not help me at all.

815
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:37,120
I tried to double up some cloth that was there to see if I could get some.

816
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,120
You've got a comfortable seat.

817
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,120
You've been blessed.

818
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,120
You see what I'm saying?

819
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,120
We've been blessed.

820
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:53,120
I'll share this story, and, Pastor, then you can come.

821
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:59,120
The central church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

822
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:09,120
One Sunday evening, the pastor brought up the fact that the church that they had bought the building from,

823
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:17,120
because that church, Baptist Church, had built a much larger facility.

824
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:23,120
And so the Church of God had bought this building.

825
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:32,120
The pastor had heard that that church had gotten into very big trouble financially.

826
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:44,120
And if they didn't get some help quickly, the bank was going to foreclose on that big, beautiful building.

827
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:52,120
So the pastor brought that before his congregation, the central church of God.

828
00:49:52,120 --> 00:50:03,120
And on that evening, they raised $25,000.

829
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:14,120
The next morning, the pastor decided he was going to take the check over to the Baptist Church.

830
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:18,120
Well, word has spread around town already.

831
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,120
The Baptist pastor said, now when he comes, don't you let him just drop that check off.

832
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:26,120
I want to talk to him.

833
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,120
I've got to make this real short.

834
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:33,120
There's a lot to it, but I want to make it short.

835
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,120
He said, I want to understand.

836
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,120
The pastor of the Baptist Church said, I want to understand.

837
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,120
Why did you do this?

838
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,120
He said, because the Lord told us to do it.

839
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,120
$25,000 he handed him the check.

840
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:51,120
It saved that church.

841
00:50:51,120 --> 00:51:03,120
A few weeks later, a man came, dropped an envelope off at the central church of God,

842
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:17,120
and left when they opened the envelope off, it was a $125,000 check.

843
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:25,120
The man had been sitting in a motel room, had a gun laying on the bed beside him,

844
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:30,120
getting ready to blow his brains out.

845
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:36,120
The sitting on the table there was an advertisement of the central church of God.

846
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:44,120
He said, for some reason I got up that Sunday morning and I went to the central church of God.

847
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:50,120
He said, I was about to lose my family.

848
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:56,120
Just on the verge of losing my business, everything was gone.

849
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,120
He said, I had no hope.

850
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:06,120
He said, that morning when the preacher preached, I got hope.

851
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,120
I prayed and accepted Jesus as my Savior.

852
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,120
I went home.

853
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:17,120
The next Sunday I brought my whole family and they all got saved that Sunday.

854
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:23,120
He said, I owed God something for saving me.

855
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:30,120
He wrote the check for $125,000.

856
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:33,120
What am I saying this morning?

857
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,120
We've been blessed.

858
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,120
There's a need.

859
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,120
The need is in Judea.

860
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:45,120
I hope as the pastor comes, and come right on pastor,

861
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:52,120
I hope that we respond because it's what we should do.

862
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,120
Amen.

863
00:52:55,120 --> 00:53:02,120
Well, hallelujah.

864
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,120
Stand with me this morning.

865
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:10,120
I'm going to add a whole lot more to what you've heard.

866
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:20,120
As I've been seated this morning and listening and knowing we will continue,

867
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,120
how do we continue?

868
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:28,120
What do we do next?

869
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,120
I really felt like the Lord spoke to my heart.

870
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:40,120
We're going to get with the overseer and we'll find out where he needs a church.

871
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,120
We're going to build a church.

872
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,120
Amen.

873
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:49,120
We can do that.

874
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,120
I don't know what it's going to cost.

875
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:55,120
We'll figure that out.

876
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,120
We'll figure that out.

877
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:03,120
We're going to sew a church, a life-giving church.

878
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:07,120
We're going to begin today with our Judea project.

879
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:11,120
Don't think we don't have Jerusalem projects as well.

880
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:16,120
Before it gets cold,

881
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:23,120
we've got to replace 40 ton of HVAC right here.

882
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:26,120
40 ton.

883
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,120
God's been good.

884
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:33,120
They've lasted 20, almost five years.

885
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:37,120
But they've already turned the gas on them so that they don't kick on

886
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:41,120
and dump carbon monoxide in here on you.

887
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:49,120
So before it gets cold, we're going to have to spend roughly 60 grand

888
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:53,120
right here in the capital of Jerusalem for these units.

889
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:58,120
But we're going to sew our way out.

890
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,120
Amen.

891
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,120
You can contribute to that a little bit later on.

892
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:10,120
But Brother David has shared with you, we're blessed.

893
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:21,120
Five years ago, we couldn't even afford to pay attention.

894
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:25,120
Five years ago, we were in red figures.

895
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:29,120
We're not in the red anymore.

896
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:30,120
Hallelujah.

897
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:35,120
So I'm not really going to ask you for a special offering for units

898
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:39,120
that we've already got money set aside to pay for.

899
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:46,120
But if the Lord so moves you, I'll take it.

900
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,120
Amen.

901
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:52,120
Because we've got more things going on here at the capital of our Jerusalem.

902
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,120
Those projectors are about, they've about done all they can do.

903
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:58,120
You notice it's getting harder to read on the wall.

904
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:02,120
I've got plans for our wall.

905
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,120
Upgrade, update.

906
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:10,120
They make these nice LED things that you don't have to have a projector for.

907
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:14,120
You can plug a cord in it.

908
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:17,120
I'm looking at two of them.

909
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:21,120
They're roughly 35, 38 grand.

910
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,120
Feel free.

911
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:29,120
If the Lord moves on you like the guy in the hotel room, I'll take 125K

912
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:35,120
and have change left for our two projects to go toward the church over there.

913
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:40,120
We're going to build a church regardless.

914
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:46,120
You see, I really don't have to ask you for a special offering to replace the screens

915
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:50,120
because God's been good to the Hopewell Church of God.

916
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:54,120
We can do that too.

917
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,120
That's how good the Lord's been.

918
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:01,120
Amen.

919
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,120
Yeah, you ought to praise him.

920
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:09,120
You ought to praise him.

921
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,120
He's been good to you.

922
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:12,120
Why?

923
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,120
Because you've been faithful.

924
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,120
You've been faithful.

925
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,120
Every week, I don't have to get up here and beg you.

926
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,120
I pray blessings over you.

927
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,120
Matter of fact, we got another check in the mail.

928
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:25,120
It was $12.

929
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:28,120
It's coming on up.

930
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:35,120
From 8 to 12, I'm looking and I'm going to pray over you again before we leave today.

931
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,120
I'm just saying God's good.

932
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:46,120
And whatever we do in the uttermost, we're going to reap the benefit right here.

933
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:47,120
Right here.

934
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:50,120
We sold our way out of that debt to begin with.

935
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:58,120
We sold into Samaria five years ago into the state of Illinois, southern Illinois.

936
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:02,120
State overseer had a need in southern Illinois.

937
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,120
I'm sitting in the state council.

938
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:09,120
They're talking about what the state's going to do.

939
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,120
And I heard God say, give.

940
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:15,120
And in my mind, there's nothing to give.

941
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:16,120
I mean, there was nothing.

942
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:19,120
Robin, there was nothing.

943
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:20,120
Nothing to give.

944
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,120
We didn't have it to pay bills.

945
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,120
But God said, give.

946
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,120
So we did.

947
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,120
We had to do it a little bit at a time.

948
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,120
But it's the step of faith that matters.

949
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:38,120
When God says do, you just step out there.

950
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,120
And we started to give and we need.

951
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:42,120
We gave out of our need.

952
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,120
We sold out of our need.

953
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:47,120
And here we stand today.

954
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,120
Blessed.

955
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,120
Blessed.

956
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:54,120
Blessed.

957
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:57,120
And so we're going to bless some churches up the road.

958
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:01,120
Do I need you to give $3,500 today for us to send that truck up there?

959
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,120
Absolutely not.

960
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,120
Absolutely not.

961
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:09,120
Because probably what we're going to do, if you give 35, we're going to match you with 35.

962
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:14,120
We're going to send two trucks.

963
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:15,120
Why, pastor?

964
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:19,120
Because we can.

965
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,120
But you've got to take part just because we can.

966
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,120
Doesn't mean we don't get involved.

967
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:25,120
How does this continue?

968
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:26,120
How do we continue?

969
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,120
We stay involved.

970
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,120
We stay involved.

971
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:32,120
That's how.

972
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:33,120
Because you know what?

973
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:37,120
When you stop, the flow stops.

974
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:43,120
When we stop being involved, when we stop giving, when we stop reaching out, it all stops.

975
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,120
It backs up.

976
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:49,120
So we need to keep the pipe clear.

977
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,120
Keep the blessings flowing.

978
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:52,120
Amen.

979
00:59:52,120 --> 01:00:00,120
We're going to build a church somewhere in Zambia or wherever the overseer feels like has the greatest need.

980
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,120
We're going to build one.

981
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:03,120
Can we do that?

982
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,120
Yes, we can.

983
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:12,120
Several years ago, Lord put on my heart to build a high school in the mountains near the Guatemalan border.

984
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,120
In Honduras.

985
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,120
A high school.

986
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:24,120
In a country where the median age, the school levels, when they get through the sixth grade, they're done.

987
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:25,120
So what do we do?

988
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:30,120
We build a $50,000 high school right up in the middle of the mountains.

989
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:35,120
And I get pictures continually of every graduating class that comes through there.

990
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,120
And every time I see that, see, there you go.

991
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:42,120
Because they give them the gospel before they get their diploma.

992
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:43,120
All right.

993
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,120
Enough of that.

994
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:49,120
Hallelujah.

995
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:50,120
So we're going to continue.

996
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,120
We're going to send missionaries out.

997
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:56,120
We're going to see what the next adventure is.

998
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:57,120
Amen.

999
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:02,120
And I'm not, unless the Lord makes me, I'm not upping my passport.

1000
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,120
So I don't have to go back.

1001
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:05,120
I'm in that.

1002
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:08,120
I'm in that ascending mood.

1003
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,120
Amen.

1004
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:12,120
Father, we love you today.

1005
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:18,120
Thank you for the testimony that we've heard of what you're doing in the uttermost parts of the world.

1006
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:23,120
Father, what you're going to use your people to do right here in Tennessee, we're going to give.

1007
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:25,120
We're going to minister.

1008
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:26,120
We're going to do what we can.

1009
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,120
We're going to send aid.

1010
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:33,120
And when we find out the local churches of God that have been devastated, we're going to,

1011
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,120
we're going to personally do something for them.

1012
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:37,120
We're going to continue.

1013
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,120
This is a continual thing.

1014
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:45,120
We're going to continue in the mission mandate that you've given the whole church of God.

1015
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:46,120
So we love you today.

1016
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:47,120
Bless the offering.

1017
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:56,120
Bless your people with jobs and better jobs, increases, checks in the mail, refunds, rebates and any other way.

1018
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:59,120
Inheritance.

1019
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,120
Bless your people in Jesus name.

1020
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:04,120
Everybody say amen and amen.

1021
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,120
Just bring your offer and put it in the buckets.

1022
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:11,120
I know we do it at the back door sometime, but you can give online as well.

1023
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:19,120
If you want to give to the project, just give online and just just put Tennessee flood and we'll get it done.

1024
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:20,120
God bless you.

1025
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:22,120
That's our dismissal today.

1026
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:24,120
We're dismissing with our offering.

1027
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:25,120
God bless you.

1028
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:26,120
Go in grace.

1029
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:27,120
Go in peace.

1030
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:29,120
Love God and love people.

1031
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,120
Witness and tell them about Jesus.

1032
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:59,120
You're dismissed.