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I'm gonna invite you if you can join with me book of Genesis chapter 35 been now in this series called road to revival

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Road to revival and we've been looking at a very important period in the life of Jacob

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As God was calling him back to the promised land back to Bethel to reestablish his faith and

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His spiritual life and we've been drawing principles

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We've been looking at different steps that this man of God had to take along with his family to prepare for revival

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We're gonna look at one more thing today

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Genesis chapter 35 and verse 5

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reads as follows and they journeyed and

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the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them and

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They did not pursue the sons of Jacob

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So Jacob came to Luz that is Bethel which is in the land of Canaan he and all the people

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Who were with him and he built an altar there?

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and called the place

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L Bethel

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Because there God appeared to him when he had fled from the face of his brother

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Now Deborah Rebecca's nurse died

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She was buried below Bethel

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underneath the terrible tree

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So the name of it was called Alan

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Luke huff

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Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from

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Adam Aram

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Blessed him. I'm entitling this message today

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forward

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Progress forward progress. Let's pray father. We love you today. Thank you for

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The way in which you have already moved in this place God. We thank you that you blessed our church with such

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Amazing talented and anointed musicians and singers

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Praise team singers God and all that have come and gathered today Lord to create this atmosphere

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But we know that you have a word for us today

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So I'm asking God humbly that you would touch my tongue and anoint my lips and everything I speak would be your wisdom and not mine

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God

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I pray right now Lord that you would loosen the understanding of all that is here today to receive your word with gladness

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Have your way God we ask this in Jesus name

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Everyone say amen

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Amen, you may be seated in the series. We've traced Jacob's journey back to Bethel

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noting that

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His road was one that was winding and bumpy

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It was marked by delay and detours

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and difficulties, but also by God's faithfulness at every turn and one truth

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Became crystal clear in the process

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That no matter where you find yourself

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Your direction

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supersedes your setbacks

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If we can take anything away from Jacob's story thus far is that you're never too far from God's grace

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And now no matter where you are as long as you determine as long as you set your mind to do the will of God

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And to move forward in him that God will make a way won't be easy

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It won't be comfortable, but it will be worth it

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And the most important thing that we can do you can do is to move forward

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Someone say forward

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Even if you're not moving forward

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Even if it looks like you're losing ground

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Even if it looks like you're backtracking

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Keep moving forward as I was thinking about this concept

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My mind went to the sports world and I started thinking about in football. There is a rule called

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forward progress

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Some of you might be familiar with forward progress. I'm gonna say forward progress

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Forward progress it state now, you know, of course, I'm gonna put the right team up there. Praise God. Hallelujah

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Amen, it states that not to offend anybody

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But it states that no matter how hard the defense pushes the ball

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Carrier backwards the referee will always mark the ball at the furthest point they advance

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So as the ball carrier is carrying the ball whether it's a receiver quarterback wide receiver

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As long as he's pushing ahead moving in the forward direction

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Even if he gets pushed back

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Five ten yards the referee will get the ball and mark it at the spot where he was moving forward

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Even if they get driven back that is the official spot where the ball belongs

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So long as the ball carrier was in a forward direction

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Direction even if the ball carrier falls down as long as his body is facing forward

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They'll mark the spot at the furthest point

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Amen, that's that's how the rule of forward progress works in the game of football now in the same situation

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if the ball carrier at any point turns his back and

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Starts retreating

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Well forward progress is no longer in play because the moment the ball carrier turns back and starts running in the other direction

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Or any place else there's no longer forward progress and if he gets tackled over there, that's where they mark the ball

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So the key to forward progress to get that ball mark the furthest point is to stay looking forward

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It's to keep your direction in a forward momentum

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Even if you stumble stumble forward even if you fall fall forward

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Even if you push and you slip as long as you're doing that forward

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It might feel like you're losing ground and I feel like you're getting pushed back

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But the ball is gonna be marked at your furthest place of advancement

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and as I looked at that I saw a spiritual picture because

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Oftentimes in our spiritual journeys

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We are attempting to move forward in God forward in his will forward in his plan

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Forward in his promises we're trying to move forward and in the process of trying to move forward

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At times we get pushed back or we're losing ground instead of gaining ground

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But I've come with good news today to tell you that we serve a God who I think

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Invented this whole rule of forward progress because God in his goodness in his grace

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Will judge you according to the furthest point that you pushed as long as you are

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Set in your mind that you're moving forward as long as you have determined within yourself

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That you're gonna keep pushing ahead. You're gonna keep pressing you're gonna keep moving forward direction

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Then I've come to tell you that you've got the wind behind you

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You've got the momentum behind you and I've come to tell somebody that your direction matters today

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So keep pushing forward in the name of the Lord clap your hands up and give God some praise today. Amen

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How many of you want to move forward in Jesus name?

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He said but I feel like i'm losing ground

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I feel like i'm getting put you know people been pushing me around the devil's been pushing me around

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And you know my co-workers are pushing me around and I feel like i'm losing ground. Hey, that's all right

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It sometimes looks like you're losing a little bit of ground

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It sometimes feels like you're like you're not where you're supposed to be like you're not for man

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I feel like preaching today hallelujah, but if you keep moving forward say you know what if I even if it's just an inch

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You know what i'm saying?

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Even if it's just a baby step even if I gotta crawl

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Scratch and crawl my way there as long as I keep pushing forward as long as i'm scouting my mind and my spirit

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And my vision set in the right direction my god is going to bring me through

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How many of you are a witness today has god done that for you?

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And this is the attitude my lord

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We got to get some tenacity back in our faith get that ferociousness back get that the bible says that the the the the kingdom suffers violence

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And the violent take it by four. We got to get that tenacity and keep pumping our legs

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Because that's where god wants us and the enemy wants us to focus on what we've lost and what we have

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Received and and maybe we're not as far along as we thought we would be but god has a bigger plan

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So don't look don't look at the small picture look at the bigger picture

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Look at the bigger picture and see how far you've actually come

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Sometimes you know how many of you can be hard on yourself you can be so critical

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Sometimes we are so critical of ourselves. We are so judgmental of ourselves

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But look at the bigger picture you may not have it all figured out yet. You are still a work in progress

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You're you're not quite perfect yet. I mean no one is right and sometimes we can judge ourselves by the current season that we're in

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And i'm here to tell you don't be so critical of yourself

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Don't judge yourself by the last three weeks or the last three months or the last even the last three years so to speak

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But look at the bigger picture

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Look how far god has brought you from where you first started

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To where you are today. Let's give god a hand. Praise for that. Amen

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God's been good and he's brought you a mighty long ways. You got to celebrate that

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But there are some things that that jacob is is teaching us

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That in order for us to learn from uh, the process there are some lessons about lessons

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About letting go so today's message is is also about letting go letting go of things letting go of the past in order to

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Move forward in god and the first lesson i'd like to bring to your attention today is lesson number one

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Which is when you step out god steps in

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When you step out god steps in notice the words

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In in our opening verse it says

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And they journeyed in verse five and they journeyed someone say it's a journey

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It's a journey my friend. It's a journey. It's not a it's not an elevator

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Okay, serving god is not an elevator. You don't just push a number and then you go up and then you're there

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It's a journey. It's a marathon not a sprint. It's a it's a gradual process of moving from one step to the next

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It's a gradual process of of moving from one step to the next and so I like the fact that as they journeyed

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As they begin to step out on the wheel of god as they begin to obey

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The will the word of god in their life as they begin to respond to god

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Watch how things begin to move in their favor as they begin to step out notice what happens church

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Uh, the terror of the lord was upon the cities that were all around them. This is fascinating to me

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This is very encouraging to me to know that as the people of god begin to step out on the word of god

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The lord sends out a terrorizing spirit. You know that god has the potential to terrorize

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You think only the devil can terrorize. No, no, no my friend god can terrorize when he wants to

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However, thank god. He doesn't terrorize us, but he will terrorize the things that are trying to terrorize you

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My little i'm gonna preach this that day. I said god will terrorize

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Your terrorist he will terrorize the things that are terrorizing you as jacob was stepping into the promises of the lord

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God sent out the terror of god upon the inhabitants of the land those those evil doers those people

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who would seek to subvert him and and to uh hinder him and possibly attack him from the flanks and

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encumber him in some way but god put the terror of the lord out on these people and

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Protected jacob so that he can continue walking and guess what happened. They left him alone

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They just they just left him alone

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They let jacob be and and I don't know how the lord terrorized him

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But there was a there was a fear that came over these people so that nothing would come against jacob

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But the pattern that I want to you to understand today in order for you to receive that kind of a miracle

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Blessing in your life is you have to first walk out what god is telling you to do

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You have to step out. This is a spiritual pattern in the kingdom of god

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Many times we sit back and we are waiting for things to change before we step out

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But god says you need to step out first and then I will cause things to change. Oh, hallelujah

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Somebody when you step out the bible shows us time after time

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Through story after story and passage after passage

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There are illustrative examples of his people when they step out all of a sudden

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Miracles are activated and the supernatural is initiated at the jordan river

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Here are some examples the priest had to step out into the water

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In order for those waters to part so that they might cross over on dry ground

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We're waiting sometimes for the waters to part we say well when the conditions get better

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And when the water starts to part then i'll do my part. No, you've got to step out

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Someone say step out when you step out then god will step in hallelujah

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The ten lepers that jesus healed

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He tells them to walk out and as they begin to walk in obedience

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The bible says that they were cleansed along the way

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He heals these lepers, but they did not experience or they did not

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Feel or realize their physical healing

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Until they began to walk their way to the temple to show themselves clean to the priest

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But it was as they walked they started noticing a difference in the complexion of their skin

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They started seeing the miracle transpire manifest before their burial

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But they had to walk it out for peter the great and famous water walker would have never walked on water

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Until he had stepped out of the boat

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Can I tell you today if god has called you to walk on water?

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Well, praise be to god, but you're never going to walk on water as long as you're sitting inside of the boat

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Everybody wants to walk on water

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But very few people are willing to get out of the boat

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I've come to tell you today if you will step out of that comfort zone

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If you will step out of the boat if you will step foot into the jordan

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If you will simply walk out the word and the voice in obedience unto god you will see

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The hand of god move in your life somebody if you believe it say amen today

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And as they begin to walk out then they started seeing the terror of god

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And this is the kind of miracle that god does in their life

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We think that god uh, we often try to put god in a box

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On the way that he moves and and how he works and and and sometimes we forget that one of the ways that miracles

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Manifest one of the ways that god works is not by delivering us from a fight like david and goliath

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Not by parting red seas and jordan rivers

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But one of the ways god works in our life is by never letting the enemy get into a fight with you to begin with

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Don't know about you, but I love those kind of miracles

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I'm glad when god delivers me from the foul and the hand of the snare

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I'm glad when god delivers me from the hand of the spirit and all that when I find myself in a battle

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But I much rather prefer me not even have to get my hands dirty

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Amen somebody I would rather that god would go before me and this is what god did for jacob

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But he did not even have to lift his hand and fight those that were around him

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Because god had already put the terror of the lord in those people

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So he was simply able to walk in and claim what belonged to him. I hear the holy ghost saying today

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What you wrestled with yesterday you will not have to wrestle with today

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You will simply walk into it if you just listen and respond to the will of god in your life

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I've come to prophesy into somebody i've come to prophesy to this church and tell us today

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That the battles that we have fought and engaged yesterday

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We will not have to fight today because god is so good and god is so great

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And god is so loving and so merciful that there are some battles. You will never have to lift a spear

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You will never have to raise a sword

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All you have to do is walk and if you are simply walk and simply move in the will of god

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Come on, do I got a witness here today if you'll simply move in the will of god god will make away

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Somebody shout hallelujah

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He'll do it for you

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He'll do it for you

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And i've come to prophesy and if you feel like this is from the lord receive it into your spirit today

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The battles and the giants you fought yesterday you will not have to face them today

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If you'll be obedient under god and just walk out what he told you to do

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And he will cause your enemies to get so preoccupied so shaken with fear so frozen in fear and intimidation

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That they won't even bother you the devil will know don't even pick with jacob today

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Oh my lord, the demons in hell will know don't even mess with that brother day. Don't even just leave them alone

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They just let you be. Ah, that's the kind of joy

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That's the kind of victory that i'm getting ready to walk into today

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So that god will give me housing that I didn't build and vineyards that I didn't plan

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I've come to tell you son. I'm not saying that's all going to be easy

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I'm not saying it's all going to be comfortable

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But what I am saying is that we're going to walk into some things in this season that we had to fight tooth and nail for

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In the prior season do i've got a witness in the house. Is anybody believing god for a blessing?

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Believe in god for a miracle. Come on and clap your hands if you're believing god to move in your life

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This is what i'm believing for and we've got to step forward and when we do god will step in

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Understands his principle and so he he's stepping forward. He's moving forward

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Forward and the second lesson that comes to light in this process because he's almost there

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He's almost there

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He's almost here going back to that football analogy man. He's in the red zone now

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Hey, man, he's in the red zone. You know what that means that that means if you don't understand football

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I mean he he's within striking distance man. He's right there. He's so close to the goal line. He can taste it

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That's how close he is

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And so he's right there and it's all on the line right here and the second lesson

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He has to learn lest he fumble and miss his destiny is that there is no substitute for an altar

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Oh, this is gonna be an important lesson for him to learn

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The bible says in verse seven that he built

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An altar someone say altar

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Prior he had named that place bethah, which means the house of god

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But now he renames this this spiritual place

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El bethah, which means god of the house of god

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God of the house of god

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This is the house of god

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This wasn't just a name change my friend this marked a significant shift in his life

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Now jacob is starting to realize something that I hope and pray to god that every one of us realize it

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There is a difference between knowing the house of god and knowing the god of the house of god

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Hello somebody

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There's a difference between knowing the song and knowing the person you're seeing in it, too

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There's a difference between knowing amen knowing the routines the routines of apostolic church

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The routines of apostolic life the routines of christian living and all these things and knowing why you're doing it

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And who you're doing it for?

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Not to impress people but to please him

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Amen

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And so he realizes that I need to build an altar

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I need to build an altar. I need to build a place where where god can dwell because I don't just want to know

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the house of god

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I want to know the god of the house of god

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I don't want to just love church. I want to know and love the god of the church

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Hey my hallelujah. Oh, I feel I feel this in my bones today

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You see at bethel at bethel which was the the first sort of go-around for jacob at bethel

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He he he did something important. He set up a pillar

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I don't want to say a pillar

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He set up a pillar of stones and and this was good. This was all good. It was a memorial

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He was memorializing his encounter with god. He built a pillar

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Beautiful wonderful. I'm sure it was a great looking pillar. In fact, jacob was known to be a pillar builder

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Throughout different uh points in his life. He would he would build a pillar

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And that pillar would serve as a memorial

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It would serve as a reminder of what god did and that's good and that's wonderful

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And he did that the first time around at bethel, but this second time around

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Something must have triggered in him something must have awakened in him to understand

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That I need to be more than just a pillar builder in my life. I need to be an altar builder

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And so at bethel he built an altar

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a place of sacrifice and of worship

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You see a pillar let me explain to you. This is important

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This is important these symbols in our in our spirit in our minds today are important because they tell a story

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And they communicate a lesson to us. Amen. Are you are you still tracking with me here today? Amen a pillar marks the past

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Amen a pillar marks the past it marks what what god did yesterday

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But an altar marks the present

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It marks what you're offering today

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today

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Again jacob was mostly a pillar builder. He he was very good. He was he was uh

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He was good at remembering or recalling things that god had done for him and memorializing events

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moments and seasons of his life

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But the one thing he hadn't quite figured out was how to build an altar

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And I have observed in the church world how people are always building pillars instead of altars

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What does that mean pastor jacob? Let me explain to you

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It means that we go from service to service and we talk about how great that service was

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Wow, wasn't that service awesome didn't god move man. Yes. He sure did. Can't wait for the next service

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All right, and then the next service comes and we say man wasn't that service was fire today

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Amen, it wasn't that great. That was great man. I'm looking forward to the next service

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And then we go from service to service

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And we go from experience to experience and we just mark these moments

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And we do it in in a number of ways we do them through through our interactions

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We do it maybe through social media nothing wrong with posting these things memorializing these things. That's great and wonderful

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But at some point we got to move beyond just going from service to service

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And we come on sunday praise god praise the lord god bless you and see you next sunday. Amen

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All right

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And then then then we see what this thing and we'll see you over there

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And we're just kind of going from event to event from service to service

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And the question is we at some point we've got to ask this question

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Where is the altar in our life?

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Because when there is an altar in our life

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The whole attitude of our relationship to god our service to his kingdom our connection to the local church

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Our connection to the vision of god our connection to the holy ghost

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And the and and the move of his spirit is going to be determined on the vibrancy of our altar

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But there is a tendency especially in penicall especially in apostolicism

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Where we are constantly trying to relive what god did yesterday

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And we're constantly going back and man wasn't you know five years ago man?

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God sure moved me 20 and then it's wonderful to have a testimony

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And it's wonderful to talk about what god did we're not against that at all because we have a testimony

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But i'm coming to tell you that we don't just serve the god of yesterday

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We don't just serve the god of yesterday and last year and and the revival of times past

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Uh, we serve the god of the here and the now we serve the god that wants to do something in our midst today

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This is the day that the lord has made and I will rejoice and be exceedingly glad in it

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I don't want to be a believer that is stuck in the past

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I want to be moving forward

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But what we do when we're afraid to move forward and it happens to all of us

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Is instead of taking that next step we convince ourselves through a false sense of spiritual validation that we're good with god

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By remembering something he did for us over there and we're living off yesterday's blessing

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Living off yesterday's anointing you say oh god will never let that happen read your bible

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Read your bible you can be out of the will of god and still be anointed i'll give you a perfect example

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God was still using saul king saul. He still had an anointing. He was still being used, but god had took his favor from his life

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And it was only he was on borrowed time. It was only a matter of time until he eventually succumbed

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To his condition, but there are seasons of our life that we're not careful

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We'll just keep going and going and going based off of what god did in the past instead of that

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When was the last time you laid something down fresh at this altar?

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Fresh at this altar and you see here's the thing

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Jacob he had this propensity about him

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And if the shoe fits put it on today brother or sister if not, you know, praise god

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But but maybe you'll need the service this message another time

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But he had this propensity prior to this altar moment in his life to constantly be negotiating with god

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He was always negotiating. He was always trying to like work out a deal

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He was like a deal maker, you know always trying to work out a deal with god

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And at the ladder when he saw the ladder from heaven, he he said, you know what he said?

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He said if you bless me, i'll serve you

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That's what he told the lord if you bless me i'll serve you in other words i'll serve you but with conditions

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Oh lord, hallelujah. It's gonna get quiet now. That's all right. Amen

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Like that one sunday, I brought my cricket spray

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Let the cricket shipper. That's all right

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Because we got to get out of that funk that kind of thinking

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They said well everything must be all right, but if we're still having this attitude of well if god had i'll do it

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But on my terms, hello somebody

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And jacob continued that pattern even when he wrestled with god now

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These are all wonderful moments in jacob's life. He's wrestling with god

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What does he tell the lord i won't let you go?

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Until you bless me

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Now we always champion that moment in his life

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And sometimes you do have to be that way with god

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You do have to be tenacious and determined to get what you have. But but again, it's conditional

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He's always negotiating and this is how people approach their relationship with god with their service unto the lord

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They want to know what they want to do

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They want to know what's in it for me

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What am I going to get out of this?

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Oh my lord, hallelujah

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And the problem is is that we want revival without sacrifice. We want blessing without commitment

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Oh hallelujah, we want accountability, but we don't want to be accountable

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We want god to do it, but we're not willing to give and god is saying today

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I want you to build an altar because when you build an altar you do so

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Unconditionally you lay yourself at the feet of me you put it all out there and you say lord

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If you never bless me again, if you never heal me again, if you never do it for me again

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I'm gonna serve you and love you and worship you as long as I live

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I'm gonna be a living sacrifice

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I'm gonna be a living sacrifice. Romans 12 1 I beseech you therefore brother by the mercies of god that you present your bodies

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a living sacrifice

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Holy acceptable unto god, which is your reasonable service someone say reasonable service

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That's all god is asking for

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It's a reasonable service put yourself on the altar

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God's not asking you to give an offering although that's what you should do, but he's asking for you to be the offering

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And that bethel jacob was now we're starting to see him change give me a few more moments

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I'll be done in just a little bit here, but but we're starting to see a transformation. He's transforming

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You know god wants to transform every one of you

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I'm gonna say it again. You know god wants to transform every one of you

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Amen somebody can I hear an amen?

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He wants to transform if you keep reading this verse

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He says be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

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God is transforming us and now david is or excuse me. He uh jacob is being transformed and and he's now starting to see things differently

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Now he's no longer negotiating now. He's not telling lord if you bless me, then i'll serve you he's not saying well

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You know i'm gonna hold on until you give me what I want now. He's not talking like that now. He is surrendering

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Everything to god and saying lord if I really want you to move in my life. I really want revival

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I really want you to use me to win the loss. I really want you to use me to advance your kingdom

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I really want you to use me god to bless other people. I really want god for you to use

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My life, I really want to go to another level. I really want more of what you have for me great

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That's wonderful. But now it's time for us to lay those things down before god and say lord and i'll do these things regardless

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Even if you don't bless me, even if it doesn't work out the way that I hope that I wanted god

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I'm tired of trying to control you. I'm tired of trying to control people. I'm tired of trying to control systems

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I'm just gonna throw myself into your hands lord and whatever it is that you want to do lord here I am god

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Take me and jacob is starting to realize once and for all this is how you get in to the land of milk and honey

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This is how you get back to bethel. This is how you get back on the road to revival

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How many of you want to see revival in your life? Why don't we just worship the lord for a few moments?

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Hallelujah. Oh hallelujah. Jesus. I'm gonna buy the piano player to come up here in a few seconds

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Get ready. I want to see revival from the lord. Come on. Let's worship god for a few moments church church

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Come on church. Let's just worship him right now

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Oh, come on with somebody lift up your hands lift up your voice for a moment right now

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Come on. I need somebody to respond with worship today. Hallelujah. You're not worshiping me

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You're not worshiping the message. You're worshiping your creator

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You're not worshiping the message. You're worshiping your creator. Come on. Hallelujah

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Would somebody just entertain the presence of the lord here today with somebody just entertain the presence of god right now

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Come on. We're at an impasse moment. We're at a holy moment. We're at a sacred crossroads

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Come on for another 30 seconds

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Lord hallelujah with somebody raise those voices and keep them raised right now. Hallelujah

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Come on hallelujah saints. Let me hear you saints. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah

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God is in this place today. God is in this place right now

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Oh god, hallelujah

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We have hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Listen, I only have just a little bit more time as the brother begins to play

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There's just one more thing i'm going to give to you and then we're just going to give this

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Everything else to god in this service

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But but here's the last thing that god showed me as I was praying I was I was seeking the lord god

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What do you want me to tell your people lord?

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What is it that we need to hear god to prepare for this next revival to prepare for this next?

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This next fresh move of god and the lord spoke to me out of these verses

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And he tells me this lesson that revival follows bearing the past

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Revival follows bearing the past something interesting happens

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Right as jacob's now if I go back to my sports analogy now, he's on the one yard line

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I mean he is he is now fourth and inches into his goal line of promise

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Uh, and he has to understand that to get beyond that

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And into greater glory and into revival into miracles signs and wonders into the promise

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He sees this and this happens and the bible says in verses eight through nine now deborah rebecca's nurse

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Rebecca's nurse rebecca was

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Was his mother jacob's mother rebecca's nurse died

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And she was buried below bethel under the terabith tree

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And god appeared to jacob again

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And blessed him

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I find it interesting that even after everything jacob had already done

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The steps he had gone through the purging of his house

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The the giving up of his the idols and all the things that have taken place the turning from the past and and here

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Here the lord with holds this measure of blessing in his life for this event to happen

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Why why god what is so significant about this woman's death that would trigger this next level of blessing in his life?

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well

434
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Because deborah was his mother's nurse

435
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Rebecca had already died years in the past

436
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And so now deborah hear me today in the holy ghost

437
00:35:30,140 --> 00:35:34,700
Is you you you need to be you need to have spiritual ears to hear what i'm about to say, okay?

438
00:35:35,020 --> 00:35:39,660
Some things are not received. They're not received carnally. They're not received through intellect. They're going to be received spiritually

439
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deborah

440
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Became like a mother figure to jacob

441
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She was a beloved figure in his life

442
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You understand?

443
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She has taken almost the place of a surrogate mother to him

444
00:35:55,740 --> 00:35:59,580
He loved his mother. How do I know this? Well the bible tells us so

445
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That his mother favored him just like his father favored his brother

446
00:36:03,820 --> 00:36:05,820
She was his life coach

447
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Wasn't always a good one

448
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But she directed him to do some things right there was a special bond between jacob and his mother

449
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And so so she's out of the picture now. Deborah is this figure in his life

450
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She's this maternal figure

451
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she's this

452
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authority figure if you will

453
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But more than anything she is this link to his past

454
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She's this provisionary link to his past represents the old move of god

455
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Represents what god did in the last generation

456
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Represents what god did in the last season

457
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And then she was like the remaining

458
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link

459
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To that

460
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And now she has died and jacob is heartbroken

461
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,960
He's weeping he's mourning her loss

462
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:10,520
This woman I imagine that he said that she he he must have grieved over her casket

463
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Not not deborah not deborah

464
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But this was significant

465
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Why?

466
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Not because deborah was bad hear me out today. Oh my lord. I'm this is all gonna be worth it for you right now

467
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,440
Not because deborah was deborah was not an idol. Okay

468
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He had already buried that stuff

469
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:36,360
She was not a bad influence on his life. She was not bad

470
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She was good

471
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,780
But sometimes it's not the bad things that keep us from revival

472
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So it's the good things that we have become so attached to in our minds and in our spirits

473
00:37:51,020 --> 00:37:55,180
That the good things hear me today are keeping us from the greater things

474
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I'm gonna close my iPad so you know that I really am gonna close here

475
00:38:06,140 --> 00:38:08,780
Some of your struggles, you're not i'm gonna be very honest with you

476
00:38:08,780 --> 00:38:11,260
Some of you are not struggling getting rid of the bad stuff

477
00:38:11,260 --> 00:38:14,780
In fact, god bless you because you know how to get rid of the bad stuff

478
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And if you don't know how to get rid of the bad stuff then you need to go back and listen to last week's message

479
00:38:21,260 --> 00:38:23,260
How's about getting rid of the bad stuff?

480
00:38:23,980 --> 00:38:25,980
But there is a select group today

481
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Your struggle is not getting rid of sin and the bad stuff compromise. God bless you for being able to do that

482
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Your struggle is bearing the good stuff

483
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You said well, why do I have to bury the good stuff?

484
00:38:37,340 --> 00:38:43,100
Because when good keeps you from greatness

485
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Good becomes bad

486
00:38:48,140 --> 00:38:55,500
Not because it's inherently bad because anything that keeps you didn't jesus called peter a devil

487
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Now I would tell you peter's not satan, but he said satan get behind me. Ah, that would have freaked me out

488
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Lord, don't call me that my goodness

489
00:39:05,180 --> 00:39:08,220
I'll take a bullet for you. I'll cut someone's ear off for you

490
00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:12,220
But he said but but you're getting in the way from me and the cross

491
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So right now you're satan

492
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Get behind me peter because i'm trying to i'm not trying to go from from bad to good i'm trying to go from good to great

493
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To glory whoo jesus and I hear this in the holy ghost

494
00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:37,500
What are the good things good memories familiar things things you love things that have comforted you things that have been your your safe space to land

495
00:39:37,660 --> 00:39:44,700
Things that you always go to people you always talk to all certain things and habits and rituals and things that have brought you this far

496
00:39:45,020 --> 00:39:49,500
But maybe what brought you this far is not what's going to take you that far

497
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Maybe the things that the prayers you prayed were good enough to get you to where you are today

498
00:39:54,380 --> 00:40:00,780
Maybe the sacrifices and the altars and the prayers and the fastings and the things that you did to get you here

499
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God bless it. It was good in his time

500
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But that's not going to be what gets you to the next level of revival and glory restoration and miracle

501
00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:18,140
God said I need you to sacrifice again. I see david bringing back the ark of the covenant every seven steps a fresh sacrifice

502
00:40:18,380 --> 00:40:22,860
Every seven steps they sacrifice again every seven steps they sacrifice again

503
00:40:22,860 --> 00:40:28,220
Imagine if david had said no, I think we sacrifice enough. Let's let god do the rest

504
00:40:28,380 --> 00:40:33,740
No, he said we gotta keep sacrificing. We gotta keep laying something down at the altar

505
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We gotta keep moving somebody stand with me today. Hallelujah. Come on

506
00:40:38,220 --> 00:40:42,220
Oh stand up on your feet this afternoon. I feel the holy ghost in this

507
00:40:42,700 --> 00:40:48,320
This is a sure word from the lord today that god wants to do exceedingly

508
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,980
abundantly above all that we can ask or think in our midst

509
00:40:53,460 --> 00:40:56,980
Not only this weekend brother if you think i'm just trying to prepare

510
00:40:57,300 --> 00:41:02,020
Or the holy ghost is just trying to prepare for a weekend that's coming. You've got it wrong

511
00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:04,980
God's not preparing us just for a weekend

512
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God's preparing us for a new season

513
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Yeah, a new season of growth right there. I invite somebody to begin to pray with me. Oh