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Welcome to the Life Bible Church podcast. We

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enjoy this week's message. All right. Praise

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God. It's great to see you. Happy New Year. It's

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been a little bit since I've been here, so thank

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you. We were able to take a couple of weeks off

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and get some rest and spend some time just waiting

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on the Lord for the new year. It's great to see

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everybody personally. Thank you so much for being

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here. Would you just join with me in prayer that

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we would just ask the Holy Spirit to help me

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navigate the things that I need to share this

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morning. Some things the Lord, spoke to me personally,

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a message on our 21 day of fasting. And then

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I promised you that I would give you what's happening

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on our river bank. And so I got to ask the Lord

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to help us kind of navigate this terrain. So

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let's pray. Father, we honor you. You are our

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heavenly father. You are good. You are merciful.

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Lord, we come to you today. We ask that, Holy

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Spirit, that you would take every word, scriptures

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that have been given, thoughts that have been

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pondered and weighed upon. But Lord, you know

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how to navigate. You know how to speak. I'm asking

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you to, Lord, come and just reveal yourself this

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morning in this service through the scriptures,

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the written word, through the preaching of your

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word, that the very rhema presence of God would

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activate our heart. Lord, I thank you for working

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on our behalf. I want to declare to you this

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morning in front of the congregation that you

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are the only one faithful, the only true, loving,

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pure, begotten Son of God. And we put our trust

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in you. We love you. In Jesus' name we pray.

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Amen. Amen. Well, first of all, I want to just

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talk about our fast just a little bit. We have

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a fantastic booklet that we're going to be passing

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out at the end of the services between those

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back double doors. If you're heading out the

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service, we'll have ushers have these. This has

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21 days of some articles written by 21 different

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authors in the church. Kind of give a little

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bit different perspective. It's split up into

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three week zones. So kind of seven day theme

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or seven. days of one theme, seven days of another,

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seven days of another. It's called the prevailing

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church. You know, God spoke to me and it's very,

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very important as I kind of start off this morning.

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God spoke to me about midway through in the summer

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and I've kind of shared a little bit of the journey

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about the river. We've taken communion out there.

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We've, we talked about the scarlet cord that

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we set up and it was in that time of God speaking

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at the end of August and and really 1st of September,

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October, right in there that the Lord, and I

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didn't have my journal, so I can't give you the

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exact date, but the Lord spoke to me. What I

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asked him, I said, Lord, what is the theme? Because

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on the Jewish calendar, not that I live by everything

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that's on the Jewish calendar, of course not,

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but I also try to be aware of what's happening,

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and the start of the year is always in the fall.

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And that's when the calendar starts. It's not

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on our Gregorian calendar. If I'm going by the

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Hebrew calendar, after the day of atonement and

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that process, there is the start or the head

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of the year. And there's in that seventh month

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or in the final feast of trumpets, and we start

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the beginning of the year. And I asked the Lord

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at the very beginning of September, I said, Lord,

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what is the theme for 2026? What are you speaking?

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I've got life conference coming up. What are

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you wanting to say? And I heard the Lord say

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very clearly, he said, I want you to deal with

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the prevailing church, the prevailing church.

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And that's going to be important because God

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is. is looking at 2026 as a very key year for

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us to believe him and trust him for what he said

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he was due. How many have had some things and

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some promises in the last two or three years

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that you've not seen completed so far? All right,

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few of us, all right. I'm telling you, there

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are many, many. men and women of God that are

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hearing this word. I was on the phone with Pastor

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Tim Karskad in this past week and we were just

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talking about what the Lord was saying to him,

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what he was, I was sharing with him what the

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Lord was speaking to me and the theme that's

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coming out just around. Now there's a lot of

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just scattered craziness out there, but the theme

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that's out there that I believe the people that

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are hearing consistently over and over is what?

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God is wanting to create a breakthrough of things

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that have been stolen and delayed in the last

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couple of years. Because I believe people have

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heard the word of the Lord and responded to the

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word of the Lord, but they haven't received the

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full breakthrough of what's supposed to happen.

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And I believe part of it is supposed to take

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place. A breaking through is supposed to happen

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this year. So we got to figure out, okay, what

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does it mean? to be the prevailing church. Prevailing

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church in political climates, economic climates,

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spiritual climates, in our own home, with our

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own family, our own children. How do we prevail

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in the midst of backlash or even in times when

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things seem like it's going the opposite direction

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when it shouldn't be? And so that's important.

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I want you to get that book. We have those available

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for you. And that's gonna be a big deal. All

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right, well, I wanna just kind of share with

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you a couple of things. We, Jenny and I were

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able to, the last couple of weeks, be able just

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to take off from having to preach on a Sunday

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for two weeks. We didn't minister any other place.

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Most of the time when you see me gone, I am ministering.

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Fact is, all of last year, every time I was out

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of the pulpit, we were somewhere ministering.

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And fact is, we didn't actually take any vacation.

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and so we felt like the end of the year, we just

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needed to do that. We were blessed to be able

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to do that. Right during Christmas, the kids

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came, and we spent some time just as a family,

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and then they went home, and Jenny and I stayed

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in just a little place, and we were able to wait

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on the Lord and spend some incredible time. I

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didn't realize how, and I'm gonna be very transparent

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with you this morning, I didn't realize how depleted

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I had become. For anybody that has followed me

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or walked with me for the last, I've been in

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ministry 32 years, but going to be on 25 years

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this fall for our church, I'm a like get -or

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-done type guy. That's my nature. I work until

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I can't work anymore. My kids have found me passed

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out in the wood grove because I've worked so

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hard and then they needed to revive me. So I

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enjoy hard work. That was how I was raised. I

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was kind of raised in a Mennonite family and

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how you worked, the principle of hard work, you

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went to, you didn't. You always were working.

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And so I've got to balance that out now a little

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more as I'm older, have a little bit of quality

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of life. But I didn't realize how much pressure

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and how much erosion had actually take place

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in my own heart with this riverbank project.

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And as you know, I'll try not to do a super long

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summary. We have prepared. Some of these summaries

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for you, in fact, is at the information booth.

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You can get the full summary of the journey from

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2023 till now, what I'm going to share with you.

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But I'm going to give you a little bit of a brief

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addition today because I've got several things

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we have to do. You guys know that in the last

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couple of years, this Riverbank situation has

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been a serious threat for us here at Life Bible

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Church. And I'm not the sharpest knife in the

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drawer. I'm not an engineer, but I'm just enough

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of a farm boy here and I've watched things my

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whole life being fifth generation from this Willamette

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Valley area around Muddy Creek and around the

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Willamette River that I kind of understand a

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little bit of things that when we stop dredging

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rivers, when we stop pulling things out of the

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center and the Army Corps of Engineers decides

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to change the flow of water, it changes things

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downstream. I mean, duh. And so you have genius

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pastor, okay. In that fact, what has happened

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is a bunch of gravel has built itself up in the

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middle of the river. And what's changed on our

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riverbank is once that gravel and that stuff

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has come down, It's pushed the river. It could

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have gone to the right or the left. It could

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have gone to the west bank, or in our case, it's

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the east bank of the river. What happened is

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it almost on low water, it has almost shut the

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water off on the west side and completely focused

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it on the east side. And so what that's done

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is it started to erode. And in the process of

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erosion, it's not just eroded, but it's eroded

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at a cut bank level where you can't see. all

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of the things that have taken place. So as you

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know, we have... And I won't go into it. You

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can read the four -page paper that I've put together

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for you out there. But we have contacted every

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agency, federal, state. We've had some incredible

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partnership with our Linn County commissioners,

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our Lane County commissioners, Will Tucker from

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Linn County, David Loveall from Lane County that

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have got us in contact with every legislator,

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senator, and Oregon governor. We've had letters

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sent to... to the White House, to President Trump,

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to Speaker Mike Johnson. We've had people involved

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in the cabinet. In fact, even as we speak, there's

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a letter from Life Bible Church and a summary

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and all of the plans of what we went through

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that's actually going to one of the cabinet members

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right now in the Trump administration cabinet

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to look at this project. This thing has gone

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far and wide in the state and even in the nation.

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And up to this point, we have had zero breakthrough,

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zero. Every philanthropist organization, every

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governmental organization, everything that would

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say, is there money to help this bank? None of

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it has come through. And so that kind of brings

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you up to the process of where we were in August.

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We had taken communion in July out on the riverbank.

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In August, we were preparing. we'd had a meeting

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for four hours with six organizations, governmental

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organizations, over this river. DEQ, Oregon Marine

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Board, Department of State Lands, Oregon Fish

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and Wildlife, Army Corps of Engineers, and on

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and on and on. And so, just trust me, if you

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don't like meetings, you have definitely not

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wanted to be in that meeting. I poked my head

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in because they actually told me, Pastor, we

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will not let you in this meeting. you will chew

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out every single one of these people. And so,

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praise God, we had people of grace sitting on

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that meeting and being able to navigate our part

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of it. But all to say, we have worked with multiple

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engineers and consulting firms over the last

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two and a half years to come up with... the requirements

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that the Army Corps of Engineers has asked of

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us. And the reason it was the Army Corps of Engineers

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is because we were looking at putting, and our

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request was to put in what we would call riprap

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or large big stones to just buttress the south

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end of this property and the north end of the

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property and do a little bit of fill in and just

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stabilize the bank. And I won't go into all the

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reasons, but the Army Corps of Engineers is refusing

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to give us any permit to do so. And for those

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that would say, well, why don't you just do it

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anyways? They have actually jailed people up

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and down the Willamette River. They actually

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put a guy in prison that's 80 years old that

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tried to save his land, put him in prison for

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a year because he did the very thing that we

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wanted to do. So the idea that you would have

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common sense and that would put property and

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buildings and not pollute the river with fallout

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from the river, doesn't make sense to these organizations.

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The key is the salmon or the environmental impact.

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And I'm not gonna get into that, but the reality

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is people are not on the top of the food chain.

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Let's just put it that way. So every attempt

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to do that was failed. Even working with engineers

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that work with... and said, yes, we can design

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this. We've got approval for these before. We

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presented them and they didn't pass them. Even

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to the point where our engineers, the last set

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of engineers before we went to this new engineering

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firm, presented a $10 million solution. Do we

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have $10 million? No. We don't have any million

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dollars. But provided a $10 million solution,

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One that has been approved by every other agency

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and the Army Corps of Engineers said no. That

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gives you the idea of what we've been running.

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So that's when we came. We had communion on the

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bank. We met with those people. We were very

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disappointed. And then the Lord spoke to me.

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And if you remember, I preached a message or

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two on the scarlet cord. And we talked about

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the Lord woke me up at night and said, listen,

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you need to begin to prophetically proclaim that

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what is meant for destruction would be saved.

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And we did that. And I'm going to tell you something

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as we go through this now, this next season from,

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from basically end of September was first of

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October. When we did that, things began to shift

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and things began to move up to that point. We

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had two years of nothing, two years of no help

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from FEMA actually flew FEMA out here to do it.

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They said, no problem. And then they got furloughed

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and the whole, the whole, the FEMA program went

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I mean, every category closed door. We stretched

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the scarlet cord around the whole property around

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the 500 feet. And in the meantime, God had brought

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a couple into this church that I did not know.

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And that happens. I mean, between first service,

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second service, I don't maybe connect all of

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the dots. I see faces, I hear names. I'm trying

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to memorize who people, who's coming, who's not.

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Well, lo and behold, there's an engineer that

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started coming to this church. And he grabbed

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me after one, some of the things that I had said.

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He said, you know, I think I might have a solution.

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but it's not really my thing. But I don't know,

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I feel like God has got something. And I heard

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him and I said, well, talk to so -and -so because

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people have been coming to me with every idea

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that they get from pizza and from other things

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in their night. And so I'm just kind of, you

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know, I mean, we're trying every solution we

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know to do. And so I just kind of said, we'll

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kind of meet with that person if it's, you know,

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we'll get it going. We wait a couple of weeks.

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He goes, pastor, I don't think I've made myself

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clear. He said, I think I have a solution. I

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said, well, bring your stuff. Let's bring you

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to the eldership. Let's present what you think

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you have. So we met with him, TVP engineering.

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And honestly, at the end of that meeting, we

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felt like God had, we had our first sense of

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real hope that it wasn't just a closed door and

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the buildings were going down the river. He was

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able to give us some real definition on what

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he thought he could do. Now here's the sticker.

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We've been denied for two and a half years. So

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the thing he was proposing, our other engineering

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firms that we'd spent thousands of dollars with

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that failed us each time, said they could do

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for about $400 ,000. They could draw us plans

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for 400. Just the plans were 400 ,000. He came

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to us, he said, listen, I believe the Lord spoke

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to us. I can do that for one third of what they're

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asking. I can draw what you're drawing. I think

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we've got a solution. We went with it by faith.

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Within six weeks, and I told you this here about

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a month ago, within six weeks, the city partnered

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with us. And the reason we were able to get a

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permit right before Christmas was the very simple

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reason of this. The city, with their attorneys,

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We are the very last property. The city limits

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end right with our fence. So all of that slew,

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you wouldn't think we'd be in the city. But for

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some reason on the maps, and only God would know

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for now, we became the last, like the house in

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front on this one side is city on the right.

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On the left, it's not. But we happen to be city

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property. Because of that, the city was able

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to give us an exemption. An exemption on the

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riverbank means that there's a riparian zone.

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It means that you can't do any work or put anything

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permanent within. It used to be, that's how we

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got our RV, when the property was first developed,

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it was 50 feet from a slough or a river. Now

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they've changed the laws at 75 feet. But because

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the city can... can work within the state law

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systems and federal law systems. They can have

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a right over what normal property owners can't

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have. And in that process, they were able to

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grant to us a permit that allowed us to remove

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that period from 75 back to 20 feet. That is

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just enough, and I mean enough, for us to gain

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approval to do what this TVP engineering firm

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said we could do. and that is we're going to

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build a steel wall through a Z pile. Trust me,

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I've learned more language and things about engineering

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that I never want to know again. But what it

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is is it's corrugated piling. We have to now

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get 56 to 58 -foot steel pilings. Those pilings

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will be driven into the ground and be connected

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and it will form a steel wall. It will be from

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one end of the property to the other. It will

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be driven in 20 feet from the river's bank. In

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some places, there's only 25 feet between the

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building and the river. We have this year and

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this winter to do this now or we lose and we

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have no other option. So by faith, we have said

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in Jesus' name, we're going forward, amen? That

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is a huge miracle to get a permit, been denied

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for two years, and now we are at that point of

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going, okay, here we are. So right after Christmas,

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because I didn't get a chance to tell you, construction

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started. And if you'll look out there, you'll

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see about this much rock on top of the ground

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spread from all the way over this, all the way

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around the building. Why is that? Well, tomorrow

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or Tuesday, a 300 ,000 pound machine is coming

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in called a pile driver and it's not a wrestling

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move, okay? And it is coming in and it is going

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to be pounding those pilings into the ground

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down 56 feet to where it will be level with the

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ground. When we're done, you won't even know

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steel wall is under the ground, but it'll be

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56 feet tying in. And here's what's most concerning.

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You can look on the bank and see where you think

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the most damage is. I was most concerned with

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here on the backside of this wall here to the

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gen church and the kitchen because it's really

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come in around that pool. And that looks the

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worst from the outside. But when we hired a,

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geographic sonar, the sonar, and it's amazing

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the technology that it has today, but the sonar

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could go right to the edge of the bank and reveal

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what is actually taking place. And the most significant

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damage is actually in front of the new construction

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in front of the fireplace where it's curved back

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under where we lost that oak tree has come clear

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back under. And I don't know if you've been out

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there and We don't want you necessarily being

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out there, but you can look from the windows.

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Where we had that fire pit is completely gone.

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That tree, then the fire pit was in 20 feet from

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that tree, that's gone. So on the low tide, when

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the river was pushed tight against the bank,

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it cut it like this. And so what will happen

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is within that scarlet cord that we put up, it

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was almost, The only thing they changed was from

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this far corner to just angle it back a little

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bit. Everything else where the Lord showed us

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to put that scarlet cord where we saw angels

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holding that cord and we marked where we saw

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it on the property is exactly where that fence

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is going now. That in itself is incredible because

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we don't, I mean, really, it's remarkable. From

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a dream. and a vision to see where four angels

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were holding a cord, mark on the fence where

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we saw it, mark on the fence where we saw it,

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string that cord, and now with all the engineering

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and that, not knowing any of it, that fence is

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going right on that cord. That's an incredible

00:23:16.740 --> 00:23:19.920
thing. That's not a coincidence. That's a God

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thing. The fact that the city would give us a

00:23:23.299 --> 00:23:28.400
permit within six weeks is a God thing. all of

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the engineering firms told us it will be six

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months to a year, six weeks. Company told us

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they could not get involved and get here until

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February. They called us last week, said, we

00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:43.259
decided to move you to the head of the list.

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We'll be there next week. Holding back the atmospheric

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rain. Let me just give you some more miracles.

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You know that we were scheduled to have atmospheric

00:23:52.619 --> 00:23:56.569
rain for like three, four weeks ago. That was

00:23:56.569 --> 00:23:58.210
one of the prayers the engineer called me. He

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said, we need a miracle. We cannot have that

00:24:00.769 --> 00:24:04.150
much rain. We've got to put this rock, that machine,

00:24:04.309 --> 00:24:07.769
when it pounds down, has to be able, its tracks

00:24:07.769 --> 00:24:12.369
are 20 feet wide to hold the deal. We have to

00:24:12.369 --> 00:24:14.990
have this bank hold. So we went to prayer. You

00:24:14.990 --> 00:24:16.970
guys were praying, the church was praying. The

00:24:16.970 --> 00:24:19.450
atmospheric river all but bypassed us. We got

00:24:19.450 --> 00:24:22.789
normal winter rain. This week we're having two

00:24:22.789 --> 00:24:29.130
weeks of nice weather. is not normal. It's a

00:24:29.130 --> 00:24:33.829
God window. Come on, you better give the Lord

00:24:33.829 --> 00:24:45.369
a praise for that. So three inch material has

00:24:45.369 --> 00:24:49.200
been spread by different by construction firms.

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We had truck after truck after truck come in

00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:55.740
here. That's what that rock is for. We were told

00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:59.099
by the city the condition of our permit was this.

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Number one, you cannot be any closer than 20

00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:05.819
feet. Number two, you can't dig anything. Everything

00:25:05.819 --> 00:25:08.480
has to be done on your side. You cannot dig.

00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:11.240
If you're going to dig, we can't issue the permit.

00:25:12.469 --> 00:25:15.269
The TVP Engineering has been a godsend because

00:25:15.269 --> 00:25:19.710
they have worked and now that they're part of

00:25:19.710 --> 00:25:23.029
our church and part of the house, we've experienced

00:25:23.029 --> 00:25:25.910
a miracle. I mean, literally has saved us a quarter

00:25:25.910 --> 00:25:28.390
million dollars just in the design of this thing.

00:25:28.630 --> 00:25:30.769
So that's been a miracle. The other thing that's

00:25:30.769 --> 00:25:32.730
been a miracle, church, and I'm gonna end it

00:25:32.730 --> 00:25:34.829
here pretty soon and then we'll spend some more

00:25:34.829 --> 00:25:39.529
time on this next Sunday, is that the eldership

00:25:39.529 --> 00:25:44.849
team, and the leadership team of Life Bible Church,

00:25:45.029 --> 00:25:48.769
I want to say a special thank you to them. They've

00:25:48.769 --> 00:25:54.390
been incredible stewards of the resources that

00:25:54.390 --> 00:25:57.009
God has given through your hands. What does that

00:25:57.009 --> 00:25:59.950
mean? It means that when we started this process,

00:26:00.150 --> 00:26:03.130
we immediately, not last First Fruits, but two

00:26:03.130 --> 00:26:05.569
years ago First Fruits, we heard the Lord say,

00:26:05.650 --> 00:26:09.549
you need to store up for what's coming. We didn't

00:26:09.549 --> 00:26:12.900
know what was coming. to the degree of what was

00:26:12.900 --> 00:26:19.980
happening. To this point, we, by faith, we have

00:26:19.980 --> 00:26:24.000
been able to, from church funds that we have

00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:27.920
been good stewards over, put $800 ,000 toward

00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:33.740
this project. That is a miracle. That is a God

00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:36.019
-given miracle. Now, there's a lot of things

00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:38.400
I could say about that, but we're coming to a

00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:42.039
point where, what is the, What is the cost of

00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:45.000
this wall? The cost of this thing, which was

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:47.960
gonna be seven to eight million everywhere else.

00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:51.240
Every other bids, things we got. And we were

00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:54.640
ready of saying, Lord, we have insurance. We

00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:57.059
have flood insurance. If it goes into the river,

00:26:57.140 --> 00:26:58.599
we're gonna have to fish it out of the river.

00:26:58.660 --> 00:27:00.599
They told us it will be liable for the buildings

00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:02.319
going in the river, which doesn't make any sense

00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:03.819
when they won't give you a permit to stabilize

00:27:03.819 --> 00:27:06.799
it. You gotta ask yourself, I mean, but anyway.

00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:10.180
Let me just get on a soapbox for a little bit.

00:27:11.730 --> 00:27:14.910
We called the people and told them that the tree

00:27:14.910 --> 00:27:17.369
is in danger. It's undercut. It's going to go

00:27:17.369 --> 00:27:20.009
down. We were told, you cannot touch that tree.

00:27:20.369 --> 00:27:22.410
Don't remove that tree. Don't touch that tree.

00:27:22.490 --> 00:27:24.470
What does it do? I was here in the morning. I

00:27:24.470 --> 00:27:26.430
watched it go into the river. I watched it pull

00:27:26.430 --> 00:27:29.470
a power cord into the river. I was dumb enough

00:27:29.470 --> 00:27:31.569
to go down there and unplug the power cord while

00:27:31.569 --> 00:27:35.529
it was in the water. But anyways, I did it. God,

00:27:35.670 --> 00:27:37.210
that was a miracle number three that I didn't

00:27:37.210 --> 00:27:40.920
get electrocuted right off the bat. I end up

00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:44.019
going to Brazil because we were flying to Brazil

00:27:44.019 --> 00:27:46.920
that next day. I'm preaching in Brazil. Carrie

00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:48.900
Malpas, our administrator, gives me a call. She

00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:51.940
goes, are you sitting down? I said, no. She goes,

00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:55.119
you probably want to lay down. I go, okay. She

00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:57.220
goes, you know that tree that you said we should

00:27:57.220 --> 00:27:59.460
just cut and leave the root system in? Yeah.

00:27:59.619 --> 00:28:01.720
Well, it fell in. Yeah, I said, I know. I watch

00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:06.019
you. We all went out there. Well, I will not

00:28:06.019 --> 00:28:09.029
name the tree. But the head of the agency of

00:28:09.029 --> 00:28:12.029
the Department of Oregon called and said, you

00:28:12.029 --> 00:28:14.309
must remove that tree immediately. It's in a

00:28:14.309 --> 00:28:20.289
major waterway. We want you to hire a crane and

00:28:20.289 --> 00:28:25.349
lift it out of the river. I said, I laid down,

00:28:25.450 --> 00:28:32.990
I'm standing up. No flipping way. You tell them.

00:28:33.930 --> 00:28:36.369
That's why I called them a month and a half ago.

00:28:37.809 --> 00:28:40.089
I'm not getting a crane and I am not pulling

00:28:40.089 --> 00:28:42.529
it out of the water. We told them it was going

00:28:42.529 --> 00:28:44.150
in the water. They told us we couldn't touch

00:28:44.150 --> 00:28:47.009
it. Now they call us, tell us to hire a crane

00:28:47.009 --> 00:28:48.930
and then they have the audacity to tell it and

00:28:48.930 --> 00:28:51.710
don't use normal power tools. If you get in that

00:28:51.710 --> 00:28:55.150
water and use a normal chainsaw and put oil pollutants

00:28:55.150 --> 00:28:58.609
in the river, we will find you. This is the kind

00:28:58.609 --> 00:29:02.190
of love that we're getting, right? Thank God.

00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.900
We just want to give thanks out to the fire department

00:29:04.900 --> 00:29:08.920
of Monroe that came in one night and just removed

00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:11.500
all the branches and we say thank you to you.

00:29:11.859 --> 00:29:16.839
Hallelujah. But that's the kind of level of mindset

00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:19.799
that we're dealing with, okay? You tell them,

00:29:19.859 --> 00:29:23.019
it doesn't matter. It happens. Now you're responsible

00:29:23.019 --> 00:29:25.119
even though the people in authority, anyways.

00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:28.319
So you can imagine, and I'm going to weave some

00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:34.769
of this in for me, the pressure on, Me, my team,

00:29:34.950 --> 00:29:38.250
the church, because I have thoughts like what?

00:29:38.509 --> 00:29:44.170
A, I'm the lead pastor. I have a responsibility

00:29:44.170 --> 00:29:47.490
to not only have a vision for what God is saying,

00:29:47.569 --> 00:29:49.170
but I have a responsibility to make sure that

00:29:49.170 --> 00:29:52.950
stewardship, to make sure that we're doing everything

00:29:52.950 --> 00:29:56.309
we know to do so that any question that a congregation

00:29:56.309 --> 00:30:00.529
has, we can answer with integrity. And I believe

00:30:00.529 --> 00:30:03.640
that. But the pressure of that, watching zero

00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:06.940
help for the last two years, I didn't know how

00:30:06.940 --> 00:30:09.920
much it was weighing on me. So in the process,

00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:13.279
as we get to the permit process, I start having

00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:17.720
some heart issues. And this happened before when

00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:21.160
we did our building project. And I'm gonna say

00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:23.180
this, I'm not looking for sympathy, I'm just

00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:25.740
giving you the picture. When we had our building

00:30:25.740 --> 00:30:32.109
campaign 12 years ago, I had... Now, this is

00:30:32.109 --> 00:30:35.170
probably stupid on me, okay? So I'm not claiming

00:30:35.170 --> 00:30:38.549
I'm the sharpest knife in the drawer. I'm the

00:30:38.549 --> 00:30:40.369
stubbornest knife in the drawer, but I'm not

00:30:40.369 --> 00:30:44.589
the sharpest. About 12 years ago, I had rolling

00:30:44.589 --> 00:30:48.529
pain down my arm for about two weeks. And I should

00:30:48.529 --> 00:30:50.849
have gone in, but I didn't. And I just prayed

00:30:50.849 --> 00:30:55.309
against it because I felt, I felt like I had

00:30:55.309 --> 00:30:58.369
a word from the Lord that it was demonic. and

00:30:58.369 --> 00:31:00.289
that it was an assignment to take me out early,

00:31:00.329 --> 00:31:02.670
but that it actually wasn't a physical condition,

00:31:02.809 --> 00:31:05.910
but it was manifesting. And so my wife was upset

00:31:05.910 --> 00:31:08.269
at me, and for two weeks I was in the doghouse,

00:31:08.289 --> 00:31:11.990
and then it quit. Well, she eventually got the

00:31:11.990 --> 00:31:15.150
elders on her side, and I went into the hospital,

00:31:16.890 --> 00:31:19.170
did the treadmill test, did all of the stuff,

00:31:19.309 --> 00:31:22.029
and they said, shot the dye in, did all the stuff,

00:31:22.190 --> 00:31:24.390
and they said, well, we know that you had a heart

00:31:24.390 --> 00:31:28.690
event, but we can't find, anything that took

00:31:28.690 --> 00:31:31.869
place. We can see that it happened, but there's

00:31:31.869 --> 00:31:35.230
nothing that's changed. And your valves are good.

00:31:36.289 --> 00:31:39.069
I just call them lines. All your lines are good.

00:31:40.589 --> 00:31:42.990
And so I got done with the deal and they go,

00:31:43.049 --> 00:31:45.990
well, you're fine. Here's your $5 ,000 bill.

00:31:47.029 --> 00:31:52.910
And I looked at my wife and I said, anyways,

00:31:53.130 --> 00:31:57.339
I give her a bad time. So The pressure of this

00:31:57.339 --> 00:31:59.220
thing started mounting again. I felt it again,

00:31:59.339 --> 00:32:03.220
two and three weeks. I go, Lord, I know this

00:32:03.220 --> 00:32:07.859
is stress and I know this is an assignment and

00:32:07.859 --> 00:32:10.619
I'm gonna fight through this thing. But I did

00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:15.660
not know how much this river had stolen from

00:32:15.660 --> 00:32:20.680
me personally until we got away and we just took

00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:24.000
seven days to wait on the Lord. She had her place,

00:32:24.140 --> 00:32:27.440
little room. I had my little room. And we basically

00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.559
only went out to buy groceries. We cooked and

00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:34.180
we just did nothing except wait on God. For about

00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:38.539
the first four days, I would spend about five,

00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:41.359
six hours a day, about four hours in the morning,

00:32:41.420 --> 00:32:44.559
about two hours at night, waiting on the Lord.

00:32:44.619 --> 00:32:48.700
It took me about 20 hours of waiting on the Lord

00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:54.200
of just constant. before the Lord, asking the

00:32:54.200 --> 00:33:00.660
Lord to reveal to me. Lord, where's my joy? Where's

00:33:00.660 --> 00:33:05.380
my passion? I just feel like I'm just grinding

00:33:05.380 --> 00:33:08.400
this out. This thing, I feel like it's trying

00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:12.140
to destroy me. I called different leaders. I

00:33:12.140 --> 00:33:14.700
called all of my friends that I'm in ministry

00:33:14.700 --> 00:33:17.640
with over the years. Pastor Tim Karskad and Bob

00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:21.619
Sorge, Tony Kemp, Jan Venter, all the guys that

00:33:21.619 --> 00:33:23.279
I've walked with that are older than me in the

00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:26.440
Lord and just to hear their voice and I talked

00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:30.299
to our chairman of MFI, Pastor John John, I talked

00:33:30.299 --> 00:33:33.519
to Jester. I mean, I spent time in the afternoons

00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:36.420
talking to some of the prophets in the body of

00:33:36.420 --> 00:33:39.579
Christ and just pouring my heart out on this

00:33:39.579 --> 00:33:42.839
river and then seeking God. The Lord spoke a

00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:45.380
couple things to me. So I'm leaving you right

00:33:45.380 --> 00:33:47.960
at the permit and I'm leaving you right what's

00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:52.839
happening and then we'll pick it back up. About

00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:58.660
the third day, I was praying and I had a vision.

00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:02.019
Now, God usually speaks to me this way. He doesn't

00:34:02.019 --> 00:34:03.839
always speak to people this way. It's been unique

00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:07.240
in my life. When he speaks to me, He gives me

00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.800
open visions many times. I see things sometimes

00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:12.460
with my eyes open, but most of the time as I'm

00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:14.219
waiting on the Lord, it's just my eyes closed.

00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:18.780
I get color visions. And in that process, I saw

00:34:18.780 --> 00:34:22.059
what I knew to be the Lord Jesus. And I saw him

00:34:22.059 --> 00:34:25.280
in a garment that I had never seen him in before.

00:34:25.340 --> 00:34:29.250
He was in a golden garment. Most of the time

00:34:29.250 --> 00:34:30.969
I've seen him, I've encountered him, he's been

00:34:30.969 --> 00:34:33.849
in white or he's either had a golden sash like

00:34:33.849 --> 00:34:35.849
it says in the book of Revelation or I've seen

00:34:35.849 --> 00:34:38.510
him sometimes with a blue sash representing the

00:34:38.510 --> 00:34:43.650
word of God. But this time he came in and I was

00:34:43.650 --> 00:34:49.500
in a... table -like setting. The best way I can

00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:52.099
describe it was not quite a booth, but like an

00:34:52.099 --> 00:34:55.940
extended, more than just a single top for one

00:34:55.940 --> 00:34:58.340
person. It was almost like it was a four -person

00:34:58.340 --> 00:35:01.119
table. And that's what I could see in my spirit.

00:35:01.219 --> 00:35:03.920
And I watched the Lord walk in to this deal,

00:35:04.059 --> 00:35:06.940
and he was wearing this golden garment. Now,

00:35:06.940 --> 00:35:09.599
this golden garment, the reason I knew it was

00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:13.500
him is 10 years ago, 10, 12 years ago, I was

00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:18.429
at a intercessors conference and I was waiting

00:35:18.429 --> 00:35:22.829
on the Lord and the Lord took me. And I know

00:35:22.829 --> 00:35:25.349
I'm getting very personal here. The Lord took

00:35:25.349 --> 00:35:30.349
me and I saw a little bit of the streets of gold

00:35:30.349 --> 00:35:33.829
in heaven. I stood there in my spirit. And as

00:35:33.829 --> 00:35:36.829
I looked down at the transparent gold floors,

00:35:36.849 --> 00:35:40.489
as the scripture says that the floor that it's

00:35:40.489 --> 00:35:44.110
as clear, the gold is as clear as glass. I saw

00:35:44.110 --> 00:35:49.820
in the floor like snowflakes. It wasn't a snowflake,

00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:52.519
but like each snowflake has its own unique pattern.

00:35:52.659 --> 00:36:00.199
I saw gold patterns of things with a transparency.

00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:04.760
So it was like it was a weaving of gold within

00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.719
gold on a clear gold floor that you could see

00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.659
the weavings of gold within it. And as the Lord

00:36:10.659 --> 00:36:13.920
came in, Because I couldn't see his face. All

00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:16.420
of a sudden I saw him come in and he's wearing

00:36:16.420 --> 00:36:19.659
a type of garment that looked exactly like that

00:36:19.659 --> 00:36:22.880
floor that I had experienced 12 years ago. And

00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:26.980
he had one giant necklace with a great big blue

00:36:26.980 --> 00:36:30.960
sapphire that was round in the center. And as

00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:34.840
he sat there, he sat at the table right in front

00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.380
of me and I had been talking to him and he had

00:36:37.380 --> 00:36:40.449
been talking to me about... Psalms 23, prior

00:36:40.449 --> 00:36:43.190
to that, for the last couple of days, said, you

00:36:43.190 --> 00:36:45.929
anoint my head with oil in the midst of my enemies.

00:36:46.429 --> 00:36:49.010
And I was just talking about the Lord. Lord,

00:36:49.050 --> 00:36:50.969
I'm in the midst of the enemies. I can't get

00:36:50.969 --> 00:36:52.829
breakthrough from the world. I can't get breakthrough

00:36:52.829 --> 00:36:55.530
from counsel. I can't get breakthrough. And all

00:36:55.530 --> 00:36:58.269
of a sudden, he sits down and he goes, I want

00:36:58.269 --> 00:37:04.769
you to begin to eat deeply of what is on my table.

00:37:05.690 --> 00:37:11.139
You know the verse. And you know that David said,

00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:13.179
you anointed my head with oil in the presence

00:37:13.179 --> 00:37:16.179
of my energy, but you haven't eaten from my table.

00:37:16.980 --> 00:37:20.679
You've just known about my table. And in that

00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:23.300
process, maybe it was an hour and a half, two

00:37:23.300 --> 00:37:26.699
hours, I don't know how long it was, all of a

00:37:26.699 --> 00:37:29.820
sudden a different colored jewel tone plate would

00:37:29.820 --> 00:37:33.599
appear before me as I was sitting before the

00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:35.559
Lord and there would be some entree. One time

00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.469
it was a red plate. One time it was a... blue

00:37:38.469 --> 00:37:40.530
plate. There was a green plate. There was a white

00:37:40.530 --> 00:37:43.429
bowl. There was a gold plate. There was a silver

00:37:43.429 --> 00:37:46.010
plate. There was seven plates. It was like a

00:37:46.010 --> 00:37:49.690
seven course meal. I couldn't tell you what necessarily

00:37:49.690 --> 00:37:52.369
was on it. It's just the fact that as I was sitting

00:37:52.369 --> 00:37:55.730
with the Lord, whatever that represented, I was

00:37:55.730 --> 00:37:58.289
to, by faith, receive what was at the table.

00:37:59.329 --> 00:38:02.050
And the Lord spoke to me, says, your heart and

00:38:02.050 --> 00:38:07.519
your faith has become like the riverbank. it's

00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:11.679
there, but you're, because I said to him about

00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:14.239
two days in, I said, Lord, I don't have joy.

00:38:15.260 --> 00:38:18.860
I should have more joy. I feel like I've lost

00:38:18.860 --> 00:38:20.519
my joy. And he spoke to me. He said, the joy

00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:22.219
of the Lord is your strength. And I looked up

00:38:22.219 --> 00:38:24.800
the scriptures. Every time he spoke to me, I

00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:26.960
looked up the scriptures. Every time he quoted

00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:30.300
a verse to me. And I ate at the table of the

00:38:30.300 --> 00:38:35.699
Lord. I know that sounds very experiential. It

00:38:35.699 --> 00:38:39.530
was. But what I can say to you after those three

00:38:39.530 --> 00:38:43.570
or four days is all of a sudden I got a text

00:38:43.570 --> 00:38:48.030
and I had asked certain intercessors to pray

00:38:48.030 --> 00:38:51.789
for me. And this text came back with the very

00:38:51.789 --> 00:38:56.250
verses that I had just heard two hours prior.

00:38:58.329 --> 00:39:01.789
And I knew the Lord was speaking to me and answering

00:39:01.789 --> 00:39:04.230
some prayers. And one of the things that he spoke

00:39:04.230 --> 00:39:06.829
to me, and I want to share this with you. is

00:39:06.829 --> 00:39:09.550
he said that you've got to begin to learn in

00:39:09.550 --> 00:39:12.429
this next season, because you're going to be

00:39:12.429 --> 00:39:15.949
dealing with the prevailing church, that in order

00:39:15.949 --> 00:39:19.269
to prevail, you have to steep yourself, and that's

00:39:19.269 --> 00:39:21.630
the word I heard, you have to steep yourself

00:39:21.630 --> 00:39:29.989
in my love and in my faithfulness. You cannot

00:39:29.989 --> 00:39:36.190
go and change anything. From your perspective,

00:39:36.309 --> 00:39:38.630
you've done all that you know to do. Now comes

00:39:38.630 --> 00:39:42.670
the point where you have to trust me in my love

00:39:42.670 --> 00:39:45.929
for you and in my faithfulness to my word that

00:39:45.929 --> 00:39:49.389
you really do trust it. And that it's not that

00:39:49.389 --> 00:39:52.670
you don't have a responsibility because I'm a

00:39:52.670 --> 00:39:55.650
big preacher of responsibility in the scriptures.

00:39:55.730 --> 00:39:58.409
We have faith and faith requires obedience. You

00:39:58.409 --> 00:40:00.869
can't just have faith without action. It's together.

00:40:01.579 --> 00:40:04.139
But sometimes we can take on, and I'm gonna speak

00:40:04.139 --> 00:40:08.099
for myself, I can take on, I have to do it. If

00:40:08.099 --> 00:40:11.420
there's a stop, I've gotta work harder. If I'm

00:40:11.420 --> 00:40:13.820
stopped again, I gotta find another way. And

00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:16.280
that's part of a great tenacity that's there,

00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.019
and many of you are this way. But there's also

00:40:19.019 --> 00:40:21.039
a point then where you take the responsibility

00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.639
that you weren't meant to carry because it's

00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:27.610
not you that can do it, right? And so that's

00:40:27.610 --> 00:40:29.210
what I heard the Lord say. So as he's saying,

00:40:29.250 --> 00:40:32.190
he says, you got to steep yourself in my love

00:40:32.190 --> 00:40:38.369
and in my faithfulness. So I did word studies

00:40:38.369 --> 00:40:42.050
on God's love. I did word studies on his faithfulness.

00:40:42.309 --> 00:40:45.289
And as he was saying this steeping, and I'm not

00:40:45.289 --> 00:40:47.570
a tea drinker. How many drink tea around here?

00:40:47.909 --> 00:40:50.360
Okay. Bunch of hippies. All right. Anyway, no,

00:40:50.420 --> 00:40:58.039
just kidding. I'm a black coffee guy, but so

00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:00.840
I'm not a tea guy. But so as I'm getting this,

00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:05.059
I'm getting this picture of this foo -foo tea.

00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.019
And I don't even know if it's out there, but

00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:09.019
Jenny said that I really saw something that's

00:41:09.019 --> 00:41:14.139
true. Like this steel little teal. like a, I

00:41:14.139 --> 00:41:16.280
don't want to call it a teacup, but it's a tea

00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:18.840
filter where you put all the tea leaves in. It's

00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:22.599
not the Lipton pouch. It's like the organic kind

00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:25.280
of cool tea people and they put it in there and

00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:27.760
then they sit it in the water. I'm getting this

00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.699
picture of this thing being loaded and set in

00:41:30.699 --> 00:41:33.880
and hot water being poured over and a deal coming

00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:36.739
over the top and just letting it steep. And then

00:41:36.739 --> 00:41:40.559
when I saw the Lord lift the lid, I saw the leaves.

00:41:41.449 --> 00:41:45.449
that we're releasing the tea into the water.

00:41:46.469 --> 00:41:49.650
Now, again, I don't study this kind of stuff.

00:41:49.730 --> 00:41:51.829
I'm not a tea drinker. I'm just pretty simple.

00:41:52.010 --> 00:41:56.449
Give me meat, potatoes, eggs, black coffee, right?

00:41:57.210 --> 00:41:59.849
Not tea with a little milk or cream. No, just,

00:41:59.929 --> 00:42:02.909
okay, I'm just passing. As I'm seeing this, the

00:42:02.909 --> 00:42:05.989
Lord says to me, he goes, just like the leaves

00:42:05.989 --> 00:42:10.090
have inside of themselves what needs to be released

00:42:10.090 --> 00:42:14.400
for the tea. you've got to allow my love and

00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.840
my faithfulness of covenant that you preach,

00:42:17.019 --> 00:42:20.219
you've got to allow it to begin to soften you

00:42:20.219 --> 00:42:24.179
to actually believe me more than just what you

00:42:24.179 --> 00:42:29.219
know. Now that was the part of the riverbank

00:42:29.219 --> 00:42:32.900
of my heart that needed to be restored. And then

00:42:32.900 --> 00:42:35.639
for the next three or four days, that was my

00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:43.679
assignment, to allow myself to read, speak over

00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:48.539
and receive his love in regard to what we're

00:42:48.539 --> 00:42:52.280
going through and not feel like, because it's

00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:56.059
a very difficult position. You can know something

00:42:56.059 --> 00:42:58.679
and believe something, but your belief transfers

00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:02.679
more to a hope when the joy of the Lord is gone.

00:43:04.739 --> 00:43:08.210
Joy is, I don't know how to explain it. at this

00:43:08.210 --> 00:43:10.289
point yet, but I'll work it out in the scriptures

00:43:10.289 --> 00:43:13.269
to come. The joy of the Lord being our strength

00:43:13.269 --> 00:43:16.690
is connected to real faith because it's connected

00:43:16.690 --> 00:43:21.090
to rest. Hope is not necessarily connected to

00:43:21.090 --> 00:43:25.670
rest. Does that make sense? You can have hope,

00:43:25.829 --> 00:43:29.969
but it's not connected to rest. Real faith is

00:43:29.969 --> 00:43:33.710
connected to rest. Now that doesn't mean rest

00:43:33.710 --> 00:43:38.250
as in sleep. That means rest as in not striving

00:43:38.250 --> 00:43:43.250
or believing you have to add to something. And

00:43:43.250 --> 00:43:46.010
that's what the Lord began to restore to me in

00:43:46.010 --> 00:43:49.349
that last week. And so in that process, I said,

00:43:49.409 --> 00:43:54.150
as we left, I left Christmas Eve after I preached

00:43:54.150 --> 00:43:57.090
the message and I told Jenny, I said, I don't

00:43:57.090 --> 00:43:59.750
have any joy left. I've got to get that back.

00:43:59.769 --> 00:44:01.429
The Lord's got to meet me. And that's what he

00:44:01.429 --> 00:44:06.650
did. He's so faithful. He's so kind. So we, Are

00:44:06.650 --> 00:44:09.130
over there. And we just went to Sun River. We

00:44:09.130 --> 00:44:11.670
went just to get away. We had a couple few days

00:44:11.670 --> 00:44:16.329
of snow. Which my wife loves. I'm not. It's okay.

00:44:17.849 --> 00:44:19.750
It just means I got to do a lot of scraping.

00:44:19.809 --> 00:44:25.769
And shoveling. But anyways. As we got home. And

00:44:25.769 --> 00:44:30.369
in that process. So here's what's coming. Tomorrow

00:44:30.369 --> 00:44:34.829
morning. To Tuesday. A 300 ,000 pound pile driving

00:44:34.829 --> 00:44:39.969
machine is going to be delivered. The premier,

00:44:40.389 --> 00:44:44.170
it's called Pacific Foundation, is who we've

00:44:44.170 --> 00:44:47.230
contracted with, is coming in on the West Coast.

00:44:47.329 --> 00:44:49.789
They're one of the top three. When you see bridge

00:44:49.789 --> 00:44:52.829
construction and you see there, like you got

00:44:52.829 --> 00:44:54.789
Hamilton, you got Pacific Foundation, you got

00:44:54.789 --> 00:44:57.909
a few others. We thought we had a plan that could

00:44:57.909 --> 00:45:01.929
just put steel, flat steel plates in the ground.

00:45:02.489 --> 00:45:08.150
to 30, 35 feet. That was gonna be the most economical

00:45:08.150 --> 00:45:10.929
way to do this. But when we looked at the river

00:45:10.929 --> 00:45:12.869
and did all the engineering and then got the

00:45:12.869 --> 00:45:15.630
sonar and saw the underbank cutting, we realized

00:45:15.630 --> 00:45:19.309
that we've got to go another 25 feet down deep

00:45:19.309 --> 00:45:22.389
in the ground. So we were putting 56 feet of

00:45:22.389 --> 00:45:26.369
steel panels that are called Z panels and they're

00:45:26.369 --> 00:45:29.469
corrugated and they'll be linked together from

00:45:29.469 --> 00:45:33.469
the very... end of where our property is from

00:45:33.469 --> 00:45:38.230
Motel Point to Slough Point. And there will be

00:45:38.230 --> 00:45:42.050
a wall that will drive 56 feet in the ground.

00:45:42.710 --> 00:45:47.269
And here's the deal. We don't have 56 feet of

00:45:47.269 --> 00:45:53.690
riverbank or of land to get 56 feet of steel

00:45:53.690 --> 00:45:58.960
on. So when we tried... to navigate how we would

00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:02.400
get the machine in on this backside, we couldn't

00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:05.260
get the steel through. So we actually had to

00:46:05.260 --> 00:46:11.380
build a road all the way around the property

00:46:11.380 --> 00:46:13.559
so that we could get the steel sheets in because

00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:17.440
the steel sheets have to be turned around. Turned

00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:20.519
around to be able to be lifted from a platform,

00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:24.639
lifted up to drive them in. You know how many

00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:31.400
feet we have on that side? 57 feet. They're gonna

00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:35.559
have six inches between the building and hanging

00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:39.019
over the fence to get those steel plates through

00:46:39.019 --> 00:46:42.880
to lay them horizontally so that they can pick

00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:46.739
them upright and turn them. The tolerances that

00:46:46.739 --> 00:46:50.300
God has given us, in some places, we only have

00:46:50.300 --> 00:46:57.190
20, what is it? we have right at 21 feet of riverbank

00:46:57.190 --> 00:47:01.630
at the lowest place. We're within those 20 feet.

00:47:02.269 --> 00:47:04.409
Because we have to be 20 feet from the river.

00:47:04.469 --> 00:47:08.670
So we're like at 20 and 21 feet. So our timing,

00:47:08.889 --> 00:47:13.670
you want to say the Lord never comes late. He's

00:47:13.670 --> 00:47:15.889
always on time. You just wish he'd show up a

00:47:15.889 --> 00:47:20.409
little early. He's on time, but this is our window.

00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:24.960
We've gone this whole process to that fact. We've

00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:29.800
been able through stewardship to save about 750,

00:47:29.940 --> 00:47:33.119
800 ,000. We've done that by faith. In the next

00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:34.820
week, I'll talk a little bit about what it's

00:47:34.820 --> 00:47:36.800
gonna take. I'll just tell you, this is a $2

00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:41.380
.2 million project. Everything else was six to

00:47:41.380 --> 00:47:44.139
eight million. This is a miracle that we're getting

00:47:44.139 --> 00:47:46.480
this moment. I don't know how that's gonna happen.

00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:48.960
I just know the Lord spoke to me when I was over

00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:50.840
there because with this process, it's been so

00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:53.659
on me. of the weight of this thing. And the Lord

00:47:53.659 --> 00:47:57.300
said, your responsibility is to believe me that

00:47:57.300 --> 00:48:00.780
I'm able to do it through my people and to bring

00:48:00.780 --> 00:48:03.340
things in. And so I'm laying it before you. I'm

00:48:03.340 --> 00:48:08.639
telling you, we've had at least five or six miracles

00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:11.579
so far. We need about two or three more. Number

00:48:11.579 --> 00:48:13.840
one, we need great weather like God's been doing

00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:19.280
for us. Number two, we need about 1 .5 million

00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:24.170
in two months. I've had to write one $700 ,000

00:48:24.170 --> 00:48:26.909
check. I've gotta write two more $700 ,000 checks

00:48:26.909 --> 00:48:29.769
every 30 days. So every 30 days, there needs

00:48:29.769 --> 00:48:32.610
to be a $700 ,000 check. I mean, that's nothing

00:48:32.610 --> 00:48:34.730
for Derek and Laura, but for us, it's a little

00:48:34.730 --> 00:48:41.329
bit tough. So I'm just saying, we have stepped

00:48:41.329 --> 00:48:45.349
out by faith and we are believing God to meet

00:48:45.349 --> 00:48:48.960
us. How's he gonna do it? I don't know. I just

00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:51.179
have to now anchor into the fact that he is going

00:48:51.179 --> 00:48:53.719
to do it. And he's gonna open doors. Doors that

00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:56.440
have been shut for two years, I'm believing are

00:48:56.440 --> 00:48:58.659
gonna be open. So that then leads us to this

00:48:58.659 --> 00:49:04.800
fast. We plan this fast every year. It's something

00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:07.280
that we do at the beginning of the year to say,

00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:11.320
Lord, we're gonna prepare our hearts to hear

00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:14.380
you. Now here's the important thing about fasting

00:49:14.380 --> 00:49:18.869
that you need to know. I believe, that when you

00:49:18.869 --> 00:49:22.130
set out to do a fast, you don't set out to do

00:49:22.130 --> 00:49:26.789
it for something specific you want. Let me just

00:49:26.789 --> 00:49:31.030
say that again. When Jesus was dealing with the

00:49:31.030 --> 00:49:35.110
little boy that the dad brought the boy that

00:49:35.110 --> 00:49:38.030
had seizures of the demon that would try to kill

00:49:38.030 --> 00:49:39.929
him multiple times. And Jesus asked him, how

00:49:39.929 --> 00:49:42.650
long has this been doing this? And the dad said,

00:49:42.769 --> 00:49:44.650
since he was a child, has tried to drown him

00:49:44.650 --> 00:49:47.860
in water, has tried to put him in the fire. Even

00:49:47.860 --> 00:49:50.500
the demon didn't obey Jesus when he said, come

00:49:50.500 --> 00:49:53.559
out of him. He put him into a seizure. And when

00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:56.219
the disciples said, when Jesus had just come

00:49:56.219 --> 00:49:58.460
down from the mountain of transfiguration, the

00:49:58.460 --> 00:50:00.260
rest of the disciples had been trying to cast

00:50:00.260 --> 00:50:02.280
this demon out and they couldn't. And they asked

00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:04.719
Jesus privately after that, after this whole

00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:06.639
session and Jesus cast this demon out, they said,

00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:09.960
Lord, why could we not cast out the demon? And

00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:12.619
Jesus said very specifically, he said what? He

00:50:12.619 --> 00:50:18.230
said, this type, this type, only goes out by

00:50:18.230 --> 00:50:20.309
prayer and fasting. Now what most people believe

00:50:20.309 --> 00:50:24.250
when they read that is they think that that's

00:50:24.250 --> 00:50:27.429
what you're to fast for, for certain. Yes, there

00:50:27.429 --> 00:50:30.050
is a principle of fasting, but Jesus was saying

00:50:30.050 --> 00:50:33.750
something more than that. He was saying to the

00:50:33.750 --> 00:50:37.389
disciples, now listen, they had been the most

00:50:37.389 --> 00:50:42.750
trained miracle workers in the world. They had

00:50:42.750 --> 00:50:46.179
been with Christ. at that point of the Mount

00:50:46.179 --> 00:50:48.599
of Transfiguration for over two and a half years.

00:50:50.260 --> 00:50:54.619
They had been operating, healing the sick, casting

00:50:54.619 --> 00:50:58.320
out devils, watching miracle after miracle. It

00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:02.639
wasn't for a lack of not knowing how or not having

00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:06.059
the faith to do so. What was it the lack of?

00:51:06.179 --> 00:51:10.230
The lack of because of busyness. that Jesus would

00:51:10.230 --> 00:51:12.829
always, and if you'll read it, he would slip

00:51:12.829 --> 00:51:16.809
away and what would he do? He would go pray while

00:51:16.809 --> 00:51:21.489
they would sleep or be busy with that. What he

00:51:21.489 --> 00:51:24.690
was saying is this type does not come out except

00:51:24.690 --> 00:51:27.010
prayer and fasting. He was saying this. He's

00:51:27.010 --> 00:51:30.869
saying there must be a lifestyle of prayer and

00:51:30.869 --> 00:51:34.250
fasting so that when you encounter things that

00:51:34.250 --> 00:51:37.869
you did not know, There is a fresh awakening

00:51:37.869 --> 00:51:41.489
of your heart and your mind to partner with the

00:51:41.489 --> 00:51:44.590
things of God and that you don't realize the

00:51:44.590 --> 00:51:47.389
erosion that can take place even when you're

00:51:47.389 --> 00:51:53.050
doing good things for God. And so in that process,

00:51:53.150 --> 00:51:55.670
one of the things that we have to do in this

00:51:55.670 --> 00:51:58.429
fast of these next 21 days, what does the fast

00:51:58.429 --> 00:52:02.610
do? Well, first of all, it removes us from getting

00:52:02.610 --> 00:52:07.440
comfortable. There's nobody in their right mind

00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:10.119
that prays in the morning. At least, Van, I hope

00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:13.539
that this is not your case. There's nobody that

00:52:13.539 --> 00:52:15.239
wakes up in the morning and says, Lord, I love

00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:20.380
you so much, send turmoil today. You don't wake

00:52:20.380 --> 00:52:22.639
up in the morning and say, dear God, send the

00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:29.219
storm. Dear God, send turmoil, I love you. Nobody

00:52:29.219 --> 00:52:32.719
prays that. Now that may happen, but you don't

00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:36.420
pray for it. It's like, If you ever pray for

00:52:36.420 --> 00:52:41.079
patience, that's exactly what will happen. So

00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:45.219
nobody prays that way. We pray, Lord, I give

00:52:45.219 --> 00:52:48.900
you this day. Help me to honor you in this day.

00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:54.039
Keep me from screwing up. Keep me from dishonoring

00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:57.809
you. And let me honor your Holy Spirit. That's

00:52:57.809 --> 00:53:00.690
a prayer. Keep me from temptation. Deliver me

00:53:00.690 --> 00:53:03.570
from evil. Let me honor and hallow your name

00:53:03.570 --> 00:53:05.809
to do your will. That's what we should be praying

00:53:05.809 --> 00:53:08.849
in the morning. Nobody prays, bring it on, God.

00:53:11.750 --> 00:53:14.849
You just don't pray that way. But here's the

00:53:14.849 --> 00:53:18.449
deal. When we run into situations like this river

00:53:18.449 --> 00:53:21.750
for us as a church or for me as a leader or whatever

00:53:21.750 --> 00:53:25.590
the circumstance is in your life, we need times.

00:53:26.860 --> 00:53:29.679
where we don't just go to something because of

00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:32.820
the problem. I'm not coming to 21 days of fasting.

00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:36.480
God, you gotta do something. I've spent, I better

00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:41.539
do that. I've spent two and a half years crying,

00:53:41.860 --> 00:53:44.739
pleading, walking, coming down to this property

00:53:44.739 --> 00:53:46.800
at 3 a .m. in the morning, staying till seven

00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:49.239
or eight, praying up and down the river. I've

00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:51.760
done that. Now, what do I have to do? There's

00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:54.820
something that has to shift inside of me, right?

00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:59.050
Inside of us. To be able to say, okay, I know

00:53:59.050 --> 00:54:02.309
who you are and I'm convinced of your love and

00:54:02.309 --> 00:54:04.570
that you are answering. There's too many things

00:54:04.570 --> 00:54:07.190
that you've already answered now. I'm not giving

00:54:07.190 --> 00:54:10.050
up on the fact that I keep asking and reminding

00:54:10.050 --> 00:54:12.530
you of what you've said, but there's a shift

00:54:12.530 --> 00:54:15.849
of believing. Now I've got to get that into my

00:54:15.849 --> 00:54:20.969
spirit. And part of this fast is what? It's aligning

00:54:20.969 --> 00:54:25.230
my heart with who he is. It's the steeping power,

00:54:25.389 --> 00:54:28.909
if you will, of the water and the tea of being

00:54:28.909 --> 00:54:32.489
able to awaken. What Pastor Scott spoke on December

00:54:32.489 --> 00:54:35.889
28th as I listened to it, it's the awakening.

00:54:37.230 --> 00:54:40.269
It's when he shared his notes and we talked about

00:54:40.269 --> 00:54:42.829
it and changed a few things. I said, Scott, this

00:54:42.829 --> 00:54:44.829
is important for what I've got to do the next

00:54:44.829 --> 00:54:46.969
year. I said, I need you to speak on this and

00:54:46.969 --> 00:54:49.590
you're gonna do a great job. Why? Because everybody

00:54:49.590 --> 00:54:52.550
gets comfortable. You can get comfortable in

00:54:52.550 --> 00:54:54.889
doing good things. You can get comfortable in

00:54:54.889 --> 00:54:56.769
your prayer life. You can get comfortable with

00:54:56.769 --> 00:54:58.590
how you read your word. You can get comfortable

00:54:58.590 --> 00:55:01.989
with your love for Jesus. Why would I come and

00:55:01.989 --> 00:55:05.429
do something that, because every one of us, we

00:55:05.429 --> 00:55:10.010
go in life to a place of comfortable. There's

00:55:10.010 --> 00:55:12.289
nobody wakes up and says, Lord, make me uncomfortable

00:55:12.289 --> 00:55:16.309
today. Fact is when we're uncomfortable, we pray

00:55:16.309 --> 00:55:19.530
that it be removed from us and that we go back

00:55:19.530 --> 00:55:23.230
to comfortable, right? So the whole point is,

00:55:23.309 --> 00:55:27.849
why would I fast? I fast food, entertainment,

00:55:28.010 --> 00:55:31.730
or things that are comfort to me to not just

00:55:31.730 --> 00:55:36.929
Jenny Craig it for Jesus, okay? Okay, and probably

00:55:36.929 --> 00:55:39.360
could use a little Jenny Craig right now. But

00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:42.500
the reality is to replace it with something.

00:55:43.219 --> 00:55:48.739
To replace it with a hunger that goes deep inside

00:55:48.739 --> 00:55:52.679
of me. Why? Because the very principle of Jesus'

00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:55.400
Sermon on the Mount was he said this. He said,

00:55:55.539 --> 00:56:01.039
those who hunger and thirst shall be filled.

00:56:02.260 --> 00:56:05.500
He wasn't talking about natural food. He was

00:56:05.500 --> 00:56:08.710
talking about spiritually. The question you have

00:56:08.710 --> 00:56:12.110
to ask yourself in this new year is, do I actually

00:56:12.110 --> 00:56:17.809
hunger? Do I have hunger pains in the spirit

00:56:17.809 --> 00:56:21.929
that I must hear him and be awakened on the inside?

00:56:22.889 --> 00:56:27.090
Do I thirst for that living water like I first

00:56:27.090 --> 00:56:30.510
did? And that's what the fast is about. It's

00:56:30.510 --> 00:56:34.099
about what? Removing the layers of the heart

00:56:34.099 --> 00:56:36.980
that have created a comfortability in whatever

00:56:36.980 --> 00:56:40.099
stage you're walking with Jesus. For my life,

00:56:40.099 --> 00:56:41.719
it might be different than your life, Brian.

00:56:41.860 --> 00:56:43.880
For your life, it might be different than Chelsea's

00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:46.579
life. I don't even know if I can even talk about

00:56:46.579 --> 00:56:49.179
that. No, I'm just messing with you. The reality

00:56:49.179 --> 00:56:52.199
is wherever you're at with Jesus, it's to peel

00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:56.639
back layers. Why? To awaken your ear to hear

00:56:56.639 --> 00:57:00.659
and your heart to long for him talking to you

00:57:00.659 --> 00:57:04.500
and bringing breakthrough. Not for the problem,

00:57:04.599 --> 00:57:09.880
but for you personally. And then it's in the

00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:13.300
midst of that issue where he talks to you. He

00:57:13.300 --> 00:57:16.599
reveals his scripture to you. You begin to see

00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:20.179
things that were there all along that you didn't

00:57:20.179 --> 00:57:23.139
see. That new insights come. New grace comes.

00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:27.119
New faith comes. To be able to pray in a different

00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:30.019
dimension than what you were. Having now fresh

00:57:30.019 --> 00:57:34.300
authority to speak to a circumstance that has

00:57:34.300 --> 00:57:38.059
been a long time circumstance. Are you there

00:57:38.059 --> 00:57:41.559
church? So what are we doing if I could have.

00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:43.980
Whoever's playing, Jenny, if that's you or whoever,

00:57:44.099 --> 00:57:48.880
you can jump on up there to the piano. What we're

00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:51.760
doing is, what I would like to suggest you to

00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:55.719
do is a Daniel fast. I'm not asking you to go

00:57:55.719 --> 00:57:58.000
three weeks without just water only. That's not

00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:02.360
what, most people can't do that. And I would

00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:04.179
recommend that we do a Daniel fast. What's a

00:58:04.179 --> 00:58:06.079
Daniel fast? Well, taken from the book of Daniel,

00:58:06.159 --> 00:58:09.809
Daniel said what? We are not gonna defile ourselves

00:58:09.809 --> 00:58:12.670
from the king's wine or from the king's table,

00:58:12.769 --> 00:58:17.610
meats or delicacies. Feed us vegetables. Now,

00:58:17.710 --> 00:58:24.630
you know me. Vegetables is not on the top priority

00:58:24.630 --> 00:58:28.929
normally. Now, I try to eat salad and broccoli

00:58:28.929 --> 00:58:31.690
and Jenny keeps me in asparagus and broccoli

00:58:31.690 --> 00:58:38.309
but I prefer not. But to remove now all meat,

00:58:38.489 --> 00:58:43.809
remove any forms of sweets as far as brownies

00:58:43.809 --> 00:58:47.429
and apple pie and I'm just going through right

00:58:47.429 --> 00:58:52.550
now, just doing a little morning ice cream. In

00:58:52.550 --> 00:58:56.050
that process of removing those things, why am

00:58:56.050 --> 00:58:58.090
I doing that? Because you know what comes with

00:58:58.090 --> 00:59:03.570
those things? Comfort and satisfaction. The reason

00:59:03.570 --> 00:59:07.840
I would... remove those things is to what? I'm

00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:10.400
going to now, and my wife says this all the time,

00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:12.440
God bless her heart. She says, well, some people,

00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:15.639
honey, they just, they eat to live, you live

00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:21.179
to eat. And I'm like, thanks, dear. But some

00:59:21.179 --> 00:59:24.590
people do. they would say, who are you? I'm a

00:59:24.590 --> 00:59:27.409
foodie. You can ask any of my kids. Dad is very

00:59:27.409 --> 00:59:29.150
particular on how he likes his coffee. He has

00:59:29.150 --> 00:59:31.730
to be an espresso shot in black coffee. He doesn't

00:59:31.730 --> 00:59:34.190
want any cream, doesn't want any sugar. The way

00:59:34.190 --> 00:59:36.409
he likes his eggs, there's a way. I always say

00:59:36.409 --> 00:59:42.730
there is a God's way of things being done. Exactly.

00:59:42.909 --> 00:59:46.789
Thank you, Troy. Spoken from another infidel

00:59:46.789 --> 00:59:50.440
like myself on food. But anyway. The reality

00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:54.980
is I'm changing what I normally do to just getting

00:59:54.980 --> 00:59:58.340
by in the natural to what? Spend the rest of

00:59:58.340 --> 01:00:04.920
the time reading and prayer and waiting. I can

01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:08.000
honestly tell you for me, the last week of being

01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:13.039
away, had I not had, and that might be just something

01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:14.639
for you going, I don't know if I could do three

01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:18.480
to four hours. Not having two to three hours.

01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:21.820
In time blocks. Now of course I used the restroom

01:00:21.820 --> 01:00:23.539
in between that time. It wasn't just like I was.

01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:30.260
Cloistered or in prison. But to have time. Where

01:00:30.260 --> 01:00:36.219
time wasn't pushing on me. Just to. Get into

01:00:36.219 --> 01:00:37.900
the presence. Because how many know when you

01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:42.300
first start. Every thought. Of what you need

01:00:42.300 --> 01:00:44.360
to do. What you should do. What you didn't do.

01:00:44.969 --> 01:00:47.289
What's waiting for you, people you need to call,

01:00:47.469 --> 01:00:49.190
people, things that need to be done, bills that

01:00:49.190 --> 01:00:51.829
get paid, dreams that you've had that you forgot.

01:00:52.070 --> 01:00:55.989
Everything gets thrown at you in your mind. Everything.

01:00:57.090 --> 01:00:59.809
The first day or two was just writing everything

01:00:59.809 --> 01:01:02.730
that came to my mind to get it out that it was

01:01:02.730 --> 01:01:07.489
down. Second day was about having to stay focused

01:01:07.489 --> 01:01:12.469
on picturing what the scriptures said about who

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Jesus is. And keeping my attention on him. Now

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if I do it. And I'm not. Please don't hear this.

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It's not a bragging. But this is the honesty

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of your lead pastor here. I don't have a problem

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praying half hour a day. Reading my Bible half

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hour a day. Spending an hour with the Lord. I've

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developed that discipline and lifestyle. And

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that's awesome. But it's the extended times that

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actually dig down deep and allow you now to go

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into that place where you get vulnerable. It

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took the Lord because of the condition. I had

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to ask Jenny multiple times. I said, I'm hearing

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this. And I said, in my heart, I want to make

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sure I'm hearing God. I know the verses. But

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I said, I'm gonna be vulnerable with you. I'm

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gonna have you check. I'm gonna give you my journal

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and I'm gonna write on there. I want you to read

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what I wrote and tell me if you believe I'm hearing

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God accurate. Because I said, I've known the

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Lord long enough for almost 50 years. I know

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the Bible. I wanna make sure that this is coming

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from the Holy Spirit, not just my mind knowing

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the truth. Listen, I allow myself to be checked.

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I don't think that I alone hear God by myself

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and nobody else can do that. That's why I call.

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I have my wife look at different things. I read

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it to Tony Kemp. I read it to Pastor Tim Karskad.

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I read it to a few other guys. I said, he goes,

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Tim goes, why are you asking me this? This is

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God through and through. I said, I believe that,

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but I needed to hear you say it because I wanted

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to make sure. that I'm not making something up.

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The biggest thing in my heart is to have integrity

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with the prophetic word and what God is speaking.

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And I just needed to lay it before you as being

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accountable. Why? Because when I step in front

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of that pulpit, when I come back from this encounter,

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I've got to believe and know that God has spoken

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and is speaking. And what I'm saying, I'm saying

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from the fact that I engaged him, encountered

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him, and his word is absolutely true on the inside.

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I say that to tell you, it took me three days,

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four or five hours a day to get to that point

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to know that I know that I know. And I know if

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that can happen in my life where I'm in the word

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of God on a weekly basis. Sometimes I'm studying

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for 20 hours a week. That if that can happen

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at 20 hours a week in prayer for an hour a day,

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every day in my Bible reading, that it can happen

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to all of us when pressure seasons come on and

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things pile on and we don't realize sometimes

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the numbness or the layers that come in. And

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that's why we're fasting. We're fasting to get

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our heart awakened. We're fasting to get hungry

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for the things of God. Yes, I want you to...

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Ask for miracle provision. Yes, I want you to

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ask for a breakthrough for the church and for

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this river and for what we've stepped into by

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faith as a church together. And we'll talk more

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about that in the weeks to come. But I want you

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to get hungry for you. I want you to have a passion.

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to hear God's voice in his presence, that it

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would so deepen you that wherever now you go,

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you're quickened at a new level, that things

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that used to be standoffish to you won't be standoffish

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to you in this season. You'll look at them with

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new eyes of faith and say, my God is faithful

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and his love for me. He hears me when I pray.

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How many would agree that you could partner with

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that and we can partner together? Would you stand

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with me? We're gonna be giving you books at the

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end of service. fasting books but I want to pray

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for this hunger and this thirst in this next

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three weeks leading up to life conference that

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in 2026 would be a year of prevailing not only

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prevailing for us as a congregation but the only

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way we prevail as a congregation is you prevail

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individually you prevail in your Time with God.

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You prevail in your relationship with your spouse.

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You prevail in the things that are standing before

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you. That God meets you and strength and virtue

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and faith and joy and grace come to your heart.

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That's how we prevail in him. So Father, in Jesus

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name, as your people are standing, I thank you

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that you've heard me. I thank you that you know

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me. I thank you that you know your people. God,

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you have come to show yourself strong in 2026.

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This is a year of prevailing, which means prevail,

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which means to succeed. It means to overcome.

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It means to triumph. It means to break through.

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And Lord, I'm asking now in the name of Jesus

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that the atmosphere of heaven, and I feel it

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right now, open up over us. And there would be

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faith that would be dropped into our hearts,

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strength and virtue. that the Spirit of God would

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come upon us. Lord, keep us. Lord, remove from

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us every form of pride, every form of self -righteousness

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and justification. And God, that we would allow

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you to speak, not into our own hearts by our

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own hearing, but to those that are... beside

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us and over us with the Lord that we could actually

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be accountable to what we're hearing so that

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it would be true and it would be deep. Lay us

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bare not to destroy us, but to take us forward,

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to break us into new victories and new grace.

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We love you this morning, Jesus. And we thank

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you for what you're about to do. We thank you

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in advance for the miraculous provision. And

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Lord, for the saving of this property, not only

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for ministry now, but for future generations.

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We claim our inheritance in Jesus Christ's holy

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name. Amen. Thank you for taking the time to

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