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You and I are in a series of heart-to-heart talks regarding the greatest sermon ever

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preached.

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And in that sermon, preached by the very Son of God, He gave us a pattern for you and for

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me to follow regarding prayer.

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So simple that even a child can understand.

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And I left you in our last heart-to-heart talk regarding that portion of the prayer

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that I think has affected me more deeply than perhaps any other part of the prayer.

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I pray it shall have great meaning for you as we talk it over together.

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And these are the words, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.

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Therefore we see at a glance, there is a will for my life in heaven and there is also a

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will here on earth.

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The will in heaven is God's will for my life.

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The will here on earth is my will.

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There are two separate wills mentioned right here in this portion of prayer.

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I read it again.

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Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven according to the will in heaven.

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You will remember that in my last heart-to-heart talk with you, I told you that life is the

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most important thing in the whole world.

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There is nothing in this whole universe that is more important to God than human life.

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You will agree with me that it has become very cheap according to man's sense of values.

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But it doesn't change the fact one iota that in the mind of God, in the sight of God, in

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the thinking of God, in God's value, there is nothing more important in the whole universe

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than man.

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You are important to God.

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You may feel so insignificant.

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You may have an inferiority complex where you feel your absolute nothingness.

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But let me tell you something.

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You are God's greatest treasure.

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You are so important to God.

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You are so individual to Him that there has never been anyone else.

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There will never be another person.

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There is no one living today who has the same fingerprints as yours.

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You are marked by God.

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You are special to God.

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You are individual to Almighty God.

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Know that.

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And when you came into this world, God held a perfect blueprint, a perfect plan for that

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life of yours.

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And yet, as an individual, you were born with a will to exercise that will as you will.

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We're born with free moral agency.

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Our wills are ours.

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Every person is born with a will separate and apart from anyone else.

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That's the reason no man, no woman can ever say that God has sent him to hell.

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No one in hell this very hour can ever blame God for ever having sent him to hell.

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Every person uses his own will to determine whether or not he will choose the Christ,

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accept the pardon, accept the deity and divinity of Jesus Christ, or reject the whole thing.

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We are free moral agents.

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And Jesus Christ himself, the very Son of the Living God, had a will separate and apart

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from the will of his Father.

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Oh, I'm telling you something that's profound.

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I'm telling you something that is one of the most important things that I could talk to

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you about because it is important to you as an individual.

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You are involved in this thing.

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This thing that I'm talking to you is inescapable.

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You cannot escape that which I am talking to you about this very hour, your will.

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The Son of God found out that his own will was inescapable.

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As much man as though he were not God, and yet as much God as though he were not man.

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Before he paid the price in full to the Atonement, the last thing that he had to do was to surrender

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his will to the will of his Father.

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The greatest example that we have of this which I am talking to you about and that which

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Jesus gave as a part of the pattern in prayer, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.

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The greatest example was given by the Son of God himself when in the garden he prayed,

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nevertheless, not mine will, but thine be done.

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There was a perfect rubrit.

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When the three sat down at the great conference table, God the Father, the Holy Spirit, Jesus

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Christ the Son, and laid out the plans of the redemption of man, even though Jesus had

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offered himself through the Holy Spirit to be given to the Father as the Father might

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give him for the salvation of the souls of lost mankind.

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The whole thing could still have been voided.

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The whole thing could still have been voided.

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Jesus still had the right to exercise his own will and could have looked up and said,

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Father, I can't go through that.

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Jesus could have backed out the very last minute and could have foiled the entire plan

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for the salvation of mankind.

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But in that last moment, he looked up his last act of surrender and said, nevertheless,

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not my will, but thine be done.

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My will in earth shall coincide, shall be surrendered to the will of my Father in heaven.

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I'm telling you something.

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This is one of the most profound things that I could talk to you about.

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Because in exactly the same way you have a will, I have a will, that I must exercise

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apart from anyone else.

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I am responsible for my will.

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I shall never forget.

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I think I was not more than 15 years of age, inexperienced, oh so stupid, no learning,

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just dumb.

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And yet I knew I'd been born again.

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I knew that I'd been called into the ministry.

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And dear old Brother McCloud, at that time he looked to me to have been at least 90,

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but I'm sure now he couldn't have been any more than 78, 79, perhaps 80.

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A dear old Saint of God, lean and lanky, almost maciated looking, and yet at his prime had

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been a spiritual giant.

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I can almost feel those bony scrawny hands of his tightly holding my hands, and he pressed

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them together with all the strength that he had in those hands.

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And he looked me directly in the face, and he said, girl, my ministry has come to an

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end.

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I've had my day.

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I'll soon be going home.

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But you are young.

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You have your whole life before you.

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God has a great work for you to do.

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There's just one bit of advice I want to say to you, just this.

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Never get out of the will of God.

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Never get out of the will of God.

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I thanked him, smiled, and didn't have the slightest idea of what he was saying.

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So help me.

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Looking back on it now, I didn't have the faintest idea or comprehension of what that

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precious Saint of God was saying to me.

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A 15-year-old kid, inexperienced, stupid, absolutely ignorant of what this Saint was

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saying as he spoke the richest gems of knowledge that could have been given to me.

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I know now.

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Believe me, beloved, I know today, but I didn't know then.

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I know now exactly what that precious Saint was talking about.

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I tell you the truth.

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I take the lid off of my heart and I tell you the truth.

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I tell you the God's truth.

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I do not fear the power of the devil, for I'm serving one who has greater power than

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satanic power.

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I'm not afraid of all the forces of hell, but I have one whose power is greater than

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all the forces of hell.

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I am afraid of one thing, and that is, lest I get out of the will of God.

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More than anything else in this whole world do I covet his perfect will.

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For when I am in the center of his will, I have his favor, I have his blessing, I have

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heaven's best, I have his smile.

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All the power and all the glory of heaven is with me.

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I'm surrounded by his love.

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All that is his is mine.

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He'll protect me, he'll guide me.

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He'll lead me.

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He'll give me his wisdom.

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The love of the most coveted place in the whole universe is to be in God's perfect

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will.

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And yet, I'm Frank de Tavio, there are times when the hardest thing in the whole world

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is to know God's will.

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That's one of the hardest things in the world.

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And I can prove to you that there is such a thing as God's perfect will and God's permissive

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will.

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I can prove it to you from the word of God.

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There can be no greater proof than God's word.

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Turn if you will please to the 106th song.

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All began with about the 11th verse, it's the turn of Israel.

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And the waters covered their enemies and there was not one of them left after this wonderful

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victory.

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But watch.

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Then believed they his words, they sang his praise, oh sure there was victory, it was

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wonderful.

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They were on the mountaintop for God had led them through to shore and certain victory.

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But watch, they soon forgot his works.

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They waited not for his counsel, but lost it exceedingly in the wilderness and kept

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it God in the desert.

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And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

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He gave them their request.

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Many a time I believe that I have prayed and prayed and prayed and wanted something so

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much.

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I wanted it.

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Every part of me desired it.

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I wanted it so much.

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God would not disappoint me.

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But in my lack of wisdom and knowledge, that which I was desiring was not God's best for

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me.

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It was not according to his blueprint for me.

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In giving it to me, in answering my prayer, it had to be his second best or his third

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best.

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But beloved, he answered my prayer, but sent leanness into my life.

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For I had received only the second best when I could have had heaven's best had I waited.

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God bless you.