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Hallelujah! Go ahead and reach around and grab your Bible and turn with me to

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Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter 32.

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It's been a long week, been a beautiful week, but it's been a long week out on the

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mountain at the senior adult youth camp. The only difference in the senior adult

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and the kids is we got to haul them around on golf carts. Can you take me to

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the bathroom? Sure, get on. Yeah, yeah. Then some of you, they start to come off

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the hill. Those of you familiar in the girls cabins are upon the hill, upon the

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ridge and they had to walk down to the cafeteria. So you go up to get them in

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the morning and say, no I can get down just make sure you're out there and help me

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back up. Okay, we'll give you a ride. So, but in that, our very own pastor Terry,

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Terry Bowden, took first place in the woodworking. Beautiful candelabras he

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turned out on his woodlay. Second place in acrylic oil painting. Amen, with a

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beautiful barn and carriage portrait. Amen, talented. Yeah, played the guitar,

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song, help them lead singing on the porch, played the trumpet and worship. Man of many

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talents and our very own. Amen. That right there is where your group, Pastor Terry,

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should have just said, woo yeah, woo Pastor Terry. That's your, that's your Q light

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bears right there. But I know how you feel, brother Terry, I know how you feel.

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That doesn't mean they doesn't love you. They do. Amen. With that said, I'm tired,

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been a long week. So this shouldn't take over, I don't know, 30, 45 minutes maybe

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and we'll, we'll get going. Amen. The Lord is good. I just so wasn't worship

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refreshing today. Amen. Just let them know how much you appreciate them leading us

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and and worshiping in music and surrendering their talent. It just, I

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really, I really feel good after worship. I don't always feel good after worship.

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I should, but I don't always. Amen. Do you? That's the reason it's called a

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sacrifice of praise. I've never seen a sacrifice that was comfortable. Well, I'm

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not gonna preach on that. Let's move on. Jeremiah chapter 32. I have, I'm gonna, I'm

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gonna read verse 16. You just hold right there, brother Hunter. I'm gonna read

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verse 16 and we'll move forward. Now, when I had delivered the evidence of the

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purchase unto Barak, the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the Lord saying, ah Lord God,

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behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth and by thy great power and

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stretched out arm and there is nothing too hard for thee. Thou showest loving

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kindness unto thousands and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the

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bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, the Lord of Host

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is his name. Great in counsel and mighty in work, for thine eyes are open unto all

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the ways of the sons of men. You need to circle that, highlight it, underline it, do

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something that your attention is drawn for your eyes are open unto all the ways

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of the sons of men to give everyone according to his ways and according to

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the fruit of his doings. I preach this on different occasions and some of you that

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are, if you've marked it, just go ahead and put today's date back because I'm

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gonna preach it again. There are times when I just need to remind myself of how

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mighty God is. I just need a refresher, I need a reminding and what that mighty

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power looks like to me, toward me and and when I'm when I'm in that state this is

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where the Lord takes me and he just reminds me and it's a pleasure for me to

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get to remind us together again and again of what a mighty God we serve. Amen.

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Lord, I love you. I thank you for your word. I thank you for your presence that's

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in this house today. For truly Lord, you are near us because you do dwell and

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inhabit within the praises of your people and Lord we have lifted our

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voices, we've lifted our hearts to the goodness of your grace toward us and we

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praise you for all things. In Christ's lovely name and the church said, amen, just

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tell you neighbor, he is mighty isn't he?

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Again, I just want to remind you of how great God is. We sing the old chorus

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sometimes, how great thou art, amen, the old song. It is a staple and it always

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serves as a reminder up to the greatness of God and I think one of the reasons we

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need to be reminded of God's greatness is because simply of the world in which

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we live and by virtue of that being we're so accustomed to being in

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control of everything about our lives until things arise that we can't control

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and then we kind of fall apart. We just go to pieces unless we know that the

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things that we cannot handle, God can and when you realize that God can then you

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don't fall to pieces hardly as much. You may lose a half your mind but you don't

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lose all your mind. You know when things arise that's just because of our human

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nature and how we respond. God knows us in our frailty, amen, he knows we are not

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infinite but he is. Hallelujah, amen, we're just simply flesh but God is

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great in his goodness and wonder and all of the uproar of today's world events

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and all that is transpiring in your own home. I've heard many prayer requests

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this morning. We're going to pray for all those having surgeries this week

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before we leave because there's several of you and some that are not

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here today that are going in for procedure and I want you to stand in for

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them because I know God can be with them and I know God is able to watch over

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them and there's a question posed in Genesis that says is there anything too

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hard for the Lord? Is there anything too difficult? Is there anything beyond him?

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And when we think about that question we have our answer here as

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Jeremiah would say there is nothing too hard for you, amen, and as a reminder

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today no matter what you're going through circumstance, situation, trouble,

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problem, it doesn't matter, illness, sickness, I want you to know today that

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there is nothing too hard for the Lord. In your strength, in your might, in your

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capabilities, yes things get beyond us. They get beyond our control. They get

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beyond our being able to remedy them but I want to remind you today don't panic

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God is still large and God is still in charge. He's still on the throne of heaven.

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The earth is still his footstool, hallelujah, and the will of his being is

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still expressed on the face of this earth so when we think about it what a

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mighty God we serve. Now when you think about mighty God it is the Hebrew word

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El Gabor, amen, which means power and strength and it belongs to him and we see

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that description as Isaiah would tell us in 9 and 6 for there's going to be a

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child born unto you and his name shall be called wonderful and counselor and he

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makes that declaration of mighty God that's who he is and that's what he's

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been expressed to humanity for. He is wonderful, full of wonderful, of all and

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all that he does and the love that he has toward us and he is our counselor

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which we'll talk about just a little bit later but also know that he is our El

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Gabor, he is our mighty God, he is our strength, he is our hope and he is our

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purpose and he is your resolve because when you are unable he is able,

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hallelujah, when we are inadequate he's far above adequate to take care of every

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situation, trial and as we look as Jeremiah the prophet is penning here he

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begins to speak as the Lord would move upon him and he would pray he's lifting

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his heart to the Lord he's been instructed to buy a piece of property and

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go through the format of prophecy knowing that the Lord is not finished

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with them yet to let the people know that God is not done with Jerusalem let

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them know God is not finished with Israel he's still gonna have his hand

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upon him and there's a day coming when you'll have harvest in this land again

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you will be brought back God's not gonna forsake you you're gonna go even though

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you strive against the enemy that's coming against you you're still gonna

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be carried away but he's gonna bring you back somebody needs to know that today

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you may feel like you've been carried away but hold on proof is in the pudding

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and God is gonna bring you back he's gonna bring the reality of hope into

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your life he's gonna bring a reality of all things possible into your life and

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he begins to pray oh Lord God that's like a saying wow God you're awesome

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he's just beginning to pray God how mighty you are how great you are I stand

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at all of your greatness and and he begins to do a little descriptive work

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behold thou hast made the heavens and the earth now when we think about how

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mighty God is first thing you need to realize is that God is mighty in

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creation man can do a lot of things we can create a lot of things but what we

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cannot do is create our world in which we are living and God is the only one

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and when I begin to think I was writing the more here the other day

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happened brother Ken Mothiard and and I began to think about the scripture and

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we've we've preached it and we've heard it the phrase but God how that things

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are looking bad and crisis is coming up but God intervenes and things turn and

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things make a change and and I begin to think about but God hallelujah when they

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were at the Red Sea but God parted the sea amen when the floods opened up the

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face of the deep opened up in a flood cover the earth every time I see a flood

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and I see lives lost my mind goes back when the world the whole earth was

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flooded up but God hallelujah put a rainbow in the clouds hallelujah all

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that we see is simply a reminder of how all struck we should be at the

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mightiness of God and when I begin to think about but God but as I took

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another lap around my square section up there on side of the hill hit a few

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chug holes in my backs already out and I come down the hill I begin to think

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about those but God moments but then my mind went to a phrase that declared only

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God hey there's but God instances but there's times in my in your life that

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it's only God it's not but it's not that he intervenes it is because that he is

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and it's the only reason that we are here is because God only is able to do

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all that we require and all that we create I'm here to tell you only God can

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create it would be out of chaos that God would speak order only God can do that

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in your life he alone is able to take the chaos of life and bring it into

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order and as I made another lamp I almost got off and ran I begin to thank

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God how many times in my life it was only you it's not but you know that

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contravening word at the interjection there that prepositional phrase but

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which declares that everything that comes after that little three-letter word

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wipes out everything that was before it hallelujah and when you hear how trouble

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comes and how the enemy comes in like a flood but God raise up a standard and

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the standard erases the enemy presence before but even before the bud is the

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only hallelujah in the beginning was God and only God well hallelujah and it

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lets me know how mighty he is and who his being is that I who am lonely me can

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create it only God is able well glory whoo about had a spell mowing the yard

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I'll tell you if you want to have close encounter of the God kind volunteer for

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the mowing team see brother Ken get signed up because after you hit about

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four of those holes up through there you're already in a prayer mode you're

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praying God let me see the next one it jar your kidneys plumb through your teeth

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because you're in a hurry it's not a leisure deal there's four acres out

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there that's got to get good you got to get it done before the day gets gone so

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you're wide open and you got to set up on the edge of your seat got to have your

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back still if you cannot it's not like mowing at home we wait to you in your

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holder and you're just easing around oh you're throwing grass and you sweet tea

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gets all covered up with it and it gets sticky so you have to stop at the

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trailer to get a little sup what's that mean not one thing to anybody that's

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never wrote it where's my witness is that yeah hello so I'm preaching to some

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this morning so you're in a prayer mode by the time you get finished you're in

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tune with God you've been talking to him and before you know it you get over and

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past the holes and the gaps and the dips and the dodges and you begin to think

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about just how good God is and you begin to think about the blessings of the Lord

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and then you that he'll just drop something in you like that right there

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only it's only me my lord I'm telling you I was concentrating on but God and

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how God has turned around a lot of situations but then when he dropped that

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word on me it's only me oh my lord it isn't a buddy's only hallelujah only God

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is able and I think about how mighty he is and how he is mighty in creation thou

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has made the heavens and the earth you can almost hear you can almost hear

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Jeremiah sigh to the wonderment of God's glory and the handiwork of his might he

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he's in the midst of a prayer a petition and it's just as he goes to his knees he

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takes a good look around then we're talking about a man who's been in the

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prison we talk about a man who's been billified and just really beat down

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because he's just simply saying thus saith the Lord we're talking about a

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man who is the weeping prophet we're talking about a man who was sent down to

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the potter's house we're talking about a man who give up and said God I'm not

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ever gonna preach another word I'm gonna zip my lip and I'm keeping it shut they

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don't want to hear what you've got to say anyway and he puffed up and pouted

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and sat down on a stump but he couldn't sit there long because you see the words

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not in your mouth the word is in your heart and the longer he sat and the more

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it began to burn he leaps to his feet to proclaim thus saith the Lord he's in a

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bad time in a rough time of Israel's history he's prophesying captivity he's

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prophesying the enemy's victory but know this he didn't just leave them there he

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says so as the Lord has spoken there is a day coming when there will be harvest

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again oh my god there's a day coming when harvest will come again fruit and

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blessing and as he bows to pray he just gets a glimpse of God's glory and he's

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reminded man what a mighty God we serve when you bow next time don't just go

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down and total humility but as you're getting to your knees just take a good

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look around and how good God is oh Lord totally overwhelmed with no other way to

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describe it he just simply says ah it's like mowing that yard and it hot you

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stop in the shade on the other side and in your tumbler cup you got some good

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cold water and you turn that ice water up and you take a big swig you go amen

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his spirit so thirsty he gets down to pray and he says oh Lord you are good

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amen and the wonder you have with your outstretched arm you have created the

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heavens and the earth and we got to know that when we have that equivalency

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within us it's wow God you are good I want to tell you something this morning

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don't fail to be amazed at God's creative acts we're about to move into

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my most favorite season of the year I wish it could be fall all year long I

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prefer the pastel colors I prefer the earth tones over the pastels of spring I

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should say I just look the the earthy tones of the maroons and the red and the

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brugate yellows hey man it's fall begins to take over I love to sit on a deer

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stand on a good frosty good heavy frosty morning before all the leaves are on the

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ground and when you see it and you're watching and the frost begins to melt

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leaves will gently let go and begin to make their way to the ground and they

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begin to stack up in the woods and I begin to thank God how wonderful you are

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and I sit in amazement at the goodness of God's creation knowing that when I'm

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under that same tree in the spring waiting for an old thunder chicken to

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fire off and I'll begin to see the buds begin to come back out on the leaves and

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the bright brilliant green begin to take over and the purples and the yellows and

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the brilliance of the reds of flowers begin to bloom I again say oh God how

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awesome you are look today know that there is a seasonal process to your life

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you may feel like you're in the fall or the winter but can I tell somebody today

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that God's creative work it's not done with you and your life he's bringing it

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full circle

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Job said he hangeth the world on nothing gave it a spin and told it to keep on

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spinning and it's gonna keep on spinning he's never gonna tell it to stop spinning

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the scripture says that seed time and harvest will go on forever you don't

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have to wind it up like an eight-day clock he didn't have to tension on the

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spring he put it in motion and it will remain in motion let me tell you

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something he's put you in motion as well and know this he that began a good work

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in you is also able to complete it what are you saying I'm saying don't quit now

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just stand in the hall of a mighty God who watches over your everyday life the

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psalmist said in 147 for he created the stars and he calls them by name well I

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did just a little quick worldwide web search to see how many stars there were

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you can ask that thing anything it'll give you an answer which turn on I don't

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know better guess than what I had but just in our galaxy alone they estimate

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200 billion trillion not 200 billion 200 billion trillion stars in our galaxy

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well what is that that's 200 with 21 zeros following that's 200 with 21 zeros

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it's 260 just to get a perspective that's the Milky Way galaxy and that's

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just one

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hallelujah baby preach with me I love it

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do you think our God is mighty and it's not look the psalmist said it's not just

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they're out there but he knows them by their name now let's get a little

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something in perspective I might could call about 40 to 60 of your names when I

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see you but your face come to me at Walmart Oh brother how you doing you

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know that I'm drawing a blank if I call you brother or hey sis you say pastor

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don't know my name for nothing but I know your face hello he not only knows

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our faces but he knows our name and he knows that we have been fearfully and

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wonderfully made because he has made us so the next time you feel all alone

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remind yourself that you're not you're not sold out by his voice by his arm

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you got to understand there's no committee that was in question or

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convened he just created he's mighty in his compassion look what he says thou

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show us loving kindness under thousands

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you and I we all have a compassion limiter switch

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I say you and I we all have a compassion limiter switch now most all of us have

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empathy without a limit we all see people's problems we try to

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understand their problems but empathy don't always give away to compassion

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compassion takes it to the next level we see people's problems we understand

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their problems and we are in effort trying to search out a way to help the

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problem now that's where our limiter kicks in we limit it at the line of help

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we all like to think we're very compassionate but I think we're more

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empathetic than we are compassionate because I mean I'd love to be able to

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when I pass individuals on corners with their signs I'd love to tell you that I

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never passed one up without putting something in their hand no I'm not that

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compassionate well pastor how do you expect us to be sometimes it's do what I

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say not what I do

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as I endeavor at the greatest of my ability to be the perfect example before

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you I fail I fail do I have empathy yes I do but the on the other side of me

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saying you look healthy get a job

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if I see you fire up a smoke and dial on your cell phone my compassion is even

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left with empathy I got to help myself somebody say help him Lord help pastor

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move on he's taking too long

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what I'm saying is we have compassion limiters God does not to thousands he

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has compassion he not only understands and empathizes with you and I but he

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suffered the Lord suffered beyond anything that you and I could ever

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suffer crucified I've not been crucified so he not only has him but the but he

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has compassion Matthew 14 14 Jesus went forth and he saw a great multitude and

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was moved with compassion toward them and he healed their sick compassion our

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limiters are because of prejudice hurts from past accusations and limits arise

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and I know that we all try to be as compassionate as possible but there have

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been those times and will be other times that we failed toward others but if you

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got just an extra moment or two I want us to go to Psalm 136 if you'll just

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indulge me for a few minutes to read this to us his mercy never fails his

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mercy his compassions are new every morning Oh give thanks unto the Lord for

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he is good for his mercy endures forever give thanks unto the God of gods for his

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mercy endures forever Oh give thanks to the Lord of Lords for his mercy endures

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forever to him who alone do with great wonders for his mercy endures forever

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to him that my wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endures forever to him

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that stretched out the earth above the waters for his mercy endures forever

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there's 26 of these there's 26 of those descriptives of God's compassion and

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God's mercy 17 to him which smoked great kings for his mercy endured forever

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18 and slew famous Kings for his mercy endures forever 21 and gave their land

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for an heritage for his mercy endured forever 24 and hath redeemed us from our

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enemies for his mercy endures forever 26 Oh give thanks unto the God of heaven

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for his mercy endures forever there's no end to his compassion and we in our sin

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crucified his son his only begotten but his mercy endures forever and his

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compassion for us in our failures are forever

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only God creates and only God can cleanse of sin only God only God can

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cleanse he's mighty in his counsel it's estimated 282 billion dollars a year in

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the u.s. alone is spent toward mental wellness

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282 billion dollars a year

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why because this world that we're in is torn up and we don't have the answers

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and people need help

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you hear you pastor this morning oh there was a day when I'd preach it so hot

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and hard that God's all you need and he is but then I turn around say if you're

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going there you're wasting your time and money but you're not

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there are times that we need places when we don't know how to help ourselves that

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others that are trained and educated in the way of humanity can help us get back

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on track they can help us see straight but they do not trump the counsel of

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God's Word but sometimes we got to get our mind on straight enough to even see

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the word to hear the word because we're so tormented people are so tormented by

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the aspects of daily life relationships in their homes on their jobs many are

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paralyzed unable to function in society and if we can help one another we should

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help each other 282 billion dollars

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in the u.s. alone that's not globally that's the u.s.

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people searching for help but God is mighty in counsel

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hallelujah he'll never steer you wrong amen he'll never lead you off track

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you can you can look through scripture and see how God counsels when you're in

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unrecognizable situations with no escapes seeming possible he's going to

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counsel you to do something that is contrary to what you're feeling we

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search for the escape to run to flee but the Lord says stand still see my

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salvation see what I will do for you see how I'll deliver you he would counsel

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and Abraham to fear not for out of thee from you Abraham to a Joshua he would

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say be strong and courageous as I was with Moses so shall I be with you and

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there's no man gonna be able to stand in front of you and stop you because I'm

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with you to a Paul he would say and this I think we can more of us can relate

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with the Apostle Paul in his dilemma than we can with an Abraham or with a

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Moses or with a Joshua because you see Paul had a physical condition that he'd

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been praying for healing and deliverance and trying to get help trying to get set

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free and he said I know I prayed through three times and I still got this thing

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then he's praying and he hears the Lord speak to him my grace is sufficient for

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you in weakness do I manifest my strength now you see that's where most of

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us live I'm not standing in front of a Red Sea in an Egyptian army but

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sometimes I get afflicted old flesh gets bound up and I've prayed and it doesn't

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get any better hello anybody I've got problems and issues and situations and I

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know I've prayed through not till I got finished but I touched heaven and it's

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still the same and by faith I get up the next morning like we all do but to know

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that his grace is sufficient no greater counsel stand with me I'm

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closing

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and I think what's best for us all to know

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as we don't know what we don't know what's in front of us I want you to know

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that God is mighty in compensation he said he's going to give to everyone

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according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doing is what Jeremiah

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said

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you can't out give God

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I have learned

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to sow my way out of my greatest needs what does that mean that means when I

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have a financial need I give

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because you cannot out give God and he's mighty in compensation that's the reason

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when you tell people well I'm a tither well what's that mean you said well I

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tithe I give to the Lord 10% of my gross unless you're one of those net tithers

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ask me about that sometime I got a story for you I'm a gross tither they say you

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mean to tell me you you give 10% yes I do matter of fact it really gets them

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when you tell them I've been known to do even better than that well how you make

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it now I said ah therein lies the testimony y'all do more with my 90 than

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I can do with the whole hundred percent of it

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and they just I say you'll never figure it out so don't even try that's just the

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way God works his math doesn't add up when you're trying to add subtract he's

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trying to multiply and divide so we're behind you can't out give him but he

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will reward you

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you work all week some of you don't get what you deserve but you get what you

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agreed to take

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but you'll never be compensated like faithfulness to God he will supply all

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of your need according to his riches to the Ephesians in the sixth chapter

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nearing the end Paul wrote this finally my brethren be strong with the Lord and

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in the power of his might his heights unscalable strength is immeasurable

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greatness far surpassing our imagination

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his glory is all illuminating his mercy is far exceeding power unlimited his joy

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unspeakable his holiness is untouchable he's holy his mercy undeniable and his

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grace always available father I love you this morning

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when I'm down when I'm out when I'm discouraged

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may I be like Jeremiah and just kind of take a good look around me and see how

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mighty you are and what I see is impending chaos in my life and I'm

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alarmed but that you are not alarmed but are in control and may I forever be

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dependent on your mighty hand because in my chaos you can step in and

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create calm

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when I'm so down and I'm so out

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your loving kindness extends to me

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when I don't know what to do don't know which way to go in life don't know what

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choice to make you are my counselor

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and for every time Lord when I thought I couldn't make it

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you supplied you supplied when we didn't have enough you saw that we had more

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than enough

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threatening to come take my home you make a way out of it

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you make a way and I love you for it