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And so it's a privilege to have Mark Cargill

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be with us this morning. I'm gonna let him share.

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He's the word of the Lord last night, and even

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this morning, he's got a third part of the word

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of the Lord. Maybe he'll talk a little bit about

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what he shared a little bit last night. Go into

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that as well, Mark, so I'm setting you up here.

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But anyways, he's a great man of God. Would you

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give a life Bible welcome to Pastor Mark Cargill?

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Would you just stand and welcome the man of God

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as he comes this morning? Thank you so much.

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Thanks, buddy. Hey, thank you so much. What an

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honor and privilege to be here with you today.

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I'm excited about what God is doing here in Life

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Bible Church. I don't know about you, but this

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is a good time to be a part of what God's doing,

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right? And we are delighted to be working in

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another field in Gilbert, Arizona. as he said,

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moved down there in 2010. And actually, the journey

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leading up to that move was about a five -year

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journey before we actually moved. Everybody say

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process. There's always a process to the promise.

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And so that's what we're committing to. And of

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course, we're now in another phase of the process.

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By the way, you never get out of process. I drove

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all that way today to come to hear that. Thank

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you so much. You're dismissed. Let's pray, Father.

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We just never get out of it, and yet God is so

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amazing in the fact that every stage we're in,

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He seems to kind of make it unique, glorious,

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powerful, amazing, while at the same time challenging,

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stretching, and excruciating. You can experience

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all of those things. Definitely enjoyed what

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God's doing there. I have five children Oldest

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is 21 and our youngest is 10 four boys and the

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last one was a girl and She works it and owns

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it all the way My wife and I Cheryl and I have

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been married for 27 years and She's still the

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love of my life and I date her every week And

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by the way, if you want to keep going to 27 years,

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date your wife, guys. What you did to get her

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is what you need to do to keep her. So I just

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encourage you to do that. That's free. Just enjoy

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that later this week. We are excited about what

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God is doing here, and I've never been here before,

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and it's been a joy and a privilege to be here.

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as I was preparing to come and spend time with

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you, and pray about what I would say, particularly

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in this month, since it's your anniversary month,

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12 years, I think you had to give yourself a

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hand. I mean, man, look what the Lord has done,

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right? God has done some amazing things, and

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it's amazing to see what God has done, taking

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you from where you began to where you are now,

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and we're excited about even what is in store

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for you in your future. as I was praying and

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just asking, God, what would you say to Life

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Bible Church? What would I be able to bring there

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that you would want to say to them, encourage

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them in this stage of their journey? And God

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really gave me almost like a series of messages.

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And so I've been preaching each one of those

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messages in line as God just began to share with

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me what to do and kind of how to... present it

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and the whole theme of it is possessing the promises

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and on the screen behind me you have the the

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shot of that open door in the middle of the field

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and I just believe you're in a season where God

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is taking you to the next level of your purpose

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and God's promise in your life as a church and

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how many believe it's also for you personally

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there's another there's another level of destiny

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and another level of purpose and another level

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of God's plan and his fulfillment in your own

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personal life that he wants to accomplish and

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to work into your life. And so, last night we

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talked a little bit about being strong. Talking

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about the story of Joshua and how God said to

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him to go into the land and possess it. I promised

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it to you. In fact, he promised it to Abraham

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years and years before. And now Joshua is at

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the moment of possessing it. But Joshua didn't

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just stand on the banks of the Jordan River and

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wait for God to do all the heavy lifting. He

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actually had to go in and do something and possess.

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the land, possess the promise. And that's what

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this series is about. So the first thing that

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God says to Joshua is to be strong. He didn't

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say, pray more. He didn't say, you know, let's

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talk to the army about what you want to do, what's

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the strategy to take the land. He didn't go to

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all that. The first thing God told him was to

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be strong. So last night we just really received

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God's call to be strong and that God is going

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to strengthen you to do everything that He has

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for you to do in your future. And it's going

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to require a lot of strength. I have come to

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know this, that vision and purpose and promise

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all have a price tag assigned to it. You're going

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to get a promise and you're going to go, woo

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-hoo, yeah, look at that, amazing. I wonder what

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this costs. Oh my God. That's the cost of that?

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Is there like a promise sale rack anywhere I

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could kind of maybe? Go to the Nordstrom Promise

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Rack and get that out, you know. You'd like to

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have a little cheaper, but there is a price tag

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to every promise. And my question to you is,

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are you willing to pay the price for the promise

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that God has made to you? Are you willing to

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do that? Because the promises fulfillment depends

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on your willingness to pay the price your ability

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to pay the price is Depended on God's strength

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coming into you to strengthen you to do what

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he's called you to do and to pay the price He

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wants you to pay so we talked about last night

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And then this morning there is a resistance early

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in the first service. There's a resistance the

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enemy has heard the promise The enemy was there

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when God said This is what I'm going to do, and

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this is what I want to do with your life. This

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is what I want to do. The day you were born and

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God breathed into you the breath of life, the

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enemy was also present, crafting and designing

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a plan to destroy your life, to ruin your life,

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to steal the vision of God for you, to destroy

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and kill his purpose for your life. John 10,

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10. That's what Jesus said I've come that you

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might have life and you might have abundance

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and that you really in order to have that you've

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got to overcome the evil one and his plan for

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you. You've got to overcome every resistance

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that's going to be thrown in your path and that

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was the first service this morning. Today at

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our final time together I want to speak to you

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about something that is so critical to your future

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as a church and your future as an individual.

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And there's a, I've been speaking out of the

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book of Joshua last night. It's in first service

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this morning, Nehemiah. I'm gonna go back to

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Joshua. And I'm gonna talk with you from Joshua

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chapter five. As Joshua has now led the people

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of Israel over the Jordan River. They have went

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into the promised land. And we pick up the story

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in Joshua chapter five, verse 10. And it says

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this. Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal

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and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of

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the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.

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And they ate of the produce of the land on the

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day after the Passover, unleavened bread and

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parched grain on the very same day. Verse 12,

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I want you to notice what it says. Then the manna

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ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce

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of the land. And the children of Israel no longer

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had manna, but they ate the food of the land

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of Canaan that year. I just want to pause for

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a moment. We'll continue reading in a minute,

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but I just want to say this. A lot of people

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like the manna. It's like, oh, yeah, the manna.

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If we could just get the manna. Woo! Hallelujah,

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the manna. And the man is wonderful. It's an

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amazing thing. It's really a miraculous provision

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of God and what He wants to do in your life.

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It's His supply and a miracle moment. It's Him

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coming in. And when you have nothing, He comes

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in and supplies it. And it's supernatural. Manna

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was a bread that miraculously appeared on the

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ground with the dew every morning. And for 40

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years, it fed the people of Israel in the wilderness.

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There was no place to grow crops. There was no

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place to harvest grain. There was no place to

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grow a... a vineyard or an olive tree or nothing.

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It was just desert and wasteland and they had

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nothing to be able to feed themselves and their

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nation and their children, their families. They

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had nothing. And God supplied supernaturally

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from heaven every day the manna. It was the bread

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of the wilderness. When they went across the

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Jordan River and they entered into their promised

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land, they ate of the produce of the land. There

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was a grain there. There was vineyards there.

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And they began eating that and they took it in.

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And when they ate of the food of the land of

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promise, the manna ceased. This is the thought

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the Lord spoke into my heart. You're in a season

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when you no longer need to eat the bread of your

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past. But you need to eat the feast of your future.

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of the land is your future. Manna is the food

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of your past. Manna is what you ate to get to

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where you are now. But I believe the days of

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Manna are over for you. And the days of eating

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from the fruit of the land is now setting in

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front of you. You need to eat the feast of your

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future. You need to lay hold of what is there.

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Let me just say this to you this way. This is

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what this message is really all about. Feed on

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your future. The promised land is all about what

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God had promised them. Now this represents everything

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that He has been saying for generations. They

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were in the land of Egypt which is the land of

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not enough. And God brought them out and brought

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them through the wilderness. The wilderness represents

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the land of just enough. And now they've crossed

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the Jordan River and entered into the promised

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land and that's the land of more than enough.

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And it's time for you to eat of the land of your

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future. To eat from the land of more than enough.

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It's time to eat and feast on your future. Skip

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the past. Now it's over. It's done. God's done

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with that. Let's move on to the new thing that

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God wants to do and step into our future. Lift

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up our eyes and see what God wants to do next.

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And so Joshua chapter 5, moving on into verse

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13. It came to pass that when Joshua was by Jericho,

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that's the first city that they were going to

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take, Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted his eyes.

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Everybody say, he lifted his eyes. He lifted

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his eyes and looked. And behold, a man stood

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opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand.

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And Joshua went to him and said to him, are you

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for us or for our adversaries? And so he, the

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angel said, No. Which I think is a hilarious

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answer. So Joshua's going, so what's that mean?

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No, you're for us? No. No, but as commander of

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the army of the Lord I have now come. And Joshua

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fell on his face to the earth and worshiped.

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and said to him, what does my Lord say to his

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servant? Then the commander of the Lord's army

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said to Joshua, take your sandal off your foot

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for the place where you stand is holy. And Joshua

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did so. Going into Joshua 6 verse 1, now Jericho

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was securely shut up because of the children

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of Israel and none went out and none came in.

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And then the Lord said to Joshua. So here Joshua's

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saying, Euphorus, and of course, you know, he

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says, I'm here to talk to you about some strategy.

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We're going to talk about, okay, now we're going

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to possess a promise. What is it do I need to

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do? What's the first thing the angel says to

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him when it starts talking about what to do?

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He says, see, see, I have given you, I've given

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Jericho into your hand. It's King and the mighty

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men of valor. It all starts with our ability

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to see. What do you see? What do you see when

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you look at your business? What do you see? when

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you look at your marriage. What do you see when

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you look at the future of your church? What do

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you see? The book of Proverbs chapter 29 verse

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18 in the King James Version says this, where

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there is no vision, the people will perish. Not

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about you, but perish means die. Alright? Churches

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die without vision. Marriages die without vision.

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Businesses die without vision. Young people die

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without vision. I got Mormon kids in my city

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who are committing suicide at incredible rates.

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Why? Because they have no vision. Oh, they got

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a system of religion, but they have no vision.

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They've got all these rules they got to keep,

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but they have no vision. And I gotta tell you,

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I was in youth ministry for years and the rules

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never work with ministry and the young people.

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Vision works. Give them a reason why they need

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to do what they do. Vision is what drives them.

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Vision is still what drives you. You can be 80

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years old and still sitting in this church today.

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And I gotta tell you, if there's a vision that's

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burning in your heart for God's purpose for your

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life, your eyes will not dim, your strength will

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stay strong, and you will be like Caleb of old

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who will say, give me my mountain. Because the

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power of vision drives this generation. The power

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of vision drives God's church. And that's why

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the first thing that God says to Joshua as he

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gets ready to do what God said for him to do

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is he said, I want you to see. I want you to

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see. And he didn't say, see Jericho and all of

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its big walls. See Jericho and all of its mighty

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army. See Jericho and how impregnable it is.

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See Jericho and all of the thousands of men and

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women who are ready to kill you. No, he said,

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see, I have given Jericho into your hand. That's

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what he should see. He should not see his reality.

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He should see his destiny. And there's a lot

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of people in this room right now who are living

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in the limitations of where you are rather than

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lifting up your eyes and seeing where God wants

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to take you. And you're bound by the reality

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of your moment rather than being liberated by

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the vision of your future. And I want to encourage

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you, come on. Your ability to thrive and grow

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and achieve what God wants you to do is found

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in the vision that could burn in your heart.

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But if you don't have a vision, you're gonna

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perish. Your business is gonna perish. Your marriage

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is gonna perish. Your children are gonna perish.

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We all gotta have a vision that compels and drives

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us forward into what God wants us to do for our

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life. And in order to receive vision, we've got

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to be looking. We've got to be alert. We've got

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to be asking. We've got to be seeking. We've

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got to be wanting for God to reveal something

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to us. We have got to have our eyes open. And

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I just have to ask the question, are your eyes

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even open? Are you even looking? Because some

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of us are like this. I'm too tired. We've been

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doing this for a while. Frankly, I'm a little

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wore out. So if you don't mind, while you talk

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vision, I'm gonna take a nap. Price tag. What

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do you see? Here's the big truth behind Proverbs

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29 18 where what you see directs directs your

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life what you see directs your life it even impacts

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whether you're gonna have a life or not and It's

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gonna impact whether what kind of life you're

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gonna have You see people that have broken thrashed

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jacked up lives And they live there and they

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stay stuck there is because they have a broken,

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jacked up vision for their life. They're so consumed

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with what is in their hand, they are not looking

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and they need to lift up their eyes and see what

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God has for their future. Get your eyes off what

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you got in your hand and look what God has in

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your future. Abraham, in Genesis 13, This is

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what it says about him in Genesis 13, 14 through

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17. And the Lord said to Abram after Lot had

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separated from him, lift your eyes now and look

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from the place where you are. Where are you?

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I'm at the place of, I'm maxed out. I don't have

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any more to give. I'm stretched to the most.

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Where's the place? Mark, I'm at the place of

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being struggling with sickness and disease. That's

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the place I am. No, Mark, I just had a pink slip

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from work. Man, I got two weeks. I got a severance

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package. And after that, I don't know what's

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going to go on. That's the place I'm in. Mark,

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I was just served papers by my wife. I don't

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know what to do. Seems like it's over. That's

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the place I'm in. The Bible says to lift up your

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eyes from the place where you are and look. Northward,

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southward, eastward, westward God says, for all

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the land which you see, for all the land which

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you see, I give to you and your descendants.

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What do you see? What kind of church do you see?

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Do you see a church? that has a little school

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campus here. You know, you're doing all right,

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and there's a few services and things. You know,

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a few people can't get saved a year. You know,

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it's all right. More status quo than anything,

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but you know, hey, we're there, and they're friendly,

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and music's not bad, and pastor's okay. I'm in

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a series at Hope Church called The Church I See.

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The church I see. What's the church that you

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see? You see, I've come here today to tell you,

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the church that I see here, I'm gonna prophesy

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here in a few minutes and you're gonna hear some

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of the things that I've been seeing about this

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church. But the church that I see here is one

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full of people. It's one that is all about reaching

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souls. Somebody said one time to me, Mark, it's

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not about numbers. And I gotta say, well, you

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know, it's not that the numbers really matter

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to the Lord, but the souls do. The third book

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of the Bible is actually called Numbers. And

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when Jesus chose His disciples, He didn't chose

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a few good men. It says He chose twelve. How

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do they know that? Because somebody counted them.

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Listen, it is about people. People are the prize

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and I see a house that's filled for not just

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one location, but other locations I see a church

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is thriving with the sound of worship I see people

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and young people Gathering together in this house

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full of passion and burning with a heart full

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of destiny for the plan and purpose of God in

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their life I see men and women being raised up

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in lead as leaders in this church being equipped

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and sent out and doing great things for God I

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see all kinds of things here and it's absolutely

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mind -blowing. But if you look at what you have

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you have in your hand right now, you will never

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get to where God wants you to go, and it'll all

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be a phantom promise that you'll never experience

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because you're always looking at where you are.

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You gotta lift up your eyes and see, because

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all the land that you can see, if you can see

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it, you can do it. If you can't see it, you're

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not gonna do it. You've got to see it. So I want

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to give you a few lessons about this. I'm speaking

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on the subject, lift up your eyes. Because I

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believe the word of the Lord of this house is

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you need to think bigger. You need to dream bigger.

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You need to lift up your eyes. You need to get

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your eyes off of what you have been doing. What

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you have been doing is your manna. The day of

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manna is over. You can't do what you always done

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and expect to get something different You need

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now to do something new you need to do something

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else God is stretching you to believe him for

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something more He wants you to go into a new

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level. He wants you to take a new inheritance

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He wants you to possess a new promise and you

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have to be able to see where you're going You

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got to lift up your eyes from where you are in

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order to go where he wants you to go and so number

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one in my Lessons on vision here today is that

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you will go where you're looking. Race car drivers

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know this. Some of you teenage drivers need to

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learn this. Oh she fine, she fine, whoa. Race

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car drivers know this. They know as things are

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thrown. you know, whirling around and crashing

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in the front of them and smoking fire and everything,

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they look where they want to go. And believe

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it or not, the car goes where you look. No matter

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how hard the turn, no matter how hard it is,

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race car drivers know, it will go where you're

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looking. But you got to be looking there. And

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it's amazing to me that all of us, sometimes

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we have this tendency where we're like, don't

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hit the tree, don't hit the tree, don't hit the

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tree, bam, we hit the tree. Because you've been

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thinking about the problem in front of you when

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you need to be focusing on God's solution instead

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You gotta start thinking about that. Oh, this

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is too expensive. No, we'll never be able to

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do that. We've never done this before Lift up

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your eyes too many people aren't looking or they're

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looking in the wrong direction. They're distracted.

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They got the wrong priorities. This is why Jesus

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said seek first the kingdom of God. He had to

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remind people about this because there's a lot

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of things that are popping up asking for your

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attention. Let me just put the message on pause

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and just ask you a question. Why did you get

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your college degree? Why do you have your job?

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Why are you going to that job day in and day

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out, day in and day out, day in and day out?

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Is it to pay your bills? Is that it? Why did

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I get my college degree? Some of you are asking

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yourself actually even right now. Yeah, that's

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a good question. Why did I get that college degree?

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It's a yo -slash. Or you could be saying, I'm

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not even doing anything related to my college

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degree. What was I thinking? I wasted four years,

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six years, eight years of my life. You have to

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connect vision to all of those things for them

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to really matter. If you go to work just to pay

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your bills, you're going to work for the wrong

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reason. If you go to work so that you can earn

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money to take care of your family and sow seed

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into the kingdom of God and make that money that

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you make there, really matter for eternity? Now

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that's a whole nother thing. It's a whole nother

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thing. Now you've got vision behind why you work.

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Now you've got vision behind why you got that

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degree. But it's gotta be vision driven. It cannot

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be need based. That's one thing I learned about

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leadership and that is that there are a lot of

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people with needs. There are needs everywhere.

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Everybody's got needs for something. I need this,

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I need that, I need this, I need that. You're

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even in a place right now where you have needs

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and you're going, well, I need this and I need

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that. And I have this need and I have that need

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and I really would like to because I need and

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my needs have needs. Vision helps you get out

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of your awareness of all that you need. and steps

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you into the world of all God wants to do. When

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you live, it's all about me, because it's all

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about me. It's all about me, Jesus. I'm coming

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back to the heart of worship. It's all about

00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:20.329
me. It's all about me, Jesus. All right. If where

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you are looking is at you, good morning. And

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how are you? And all you think about is you?

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Then all you're gonna see at the end of it all

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is you. And I gotta tell you, that's a lonely

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destiny. You know what I wanna see? I want to

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see my kids loving God. I want to see a generation

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of young people saved and born again, filled

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with purpose, coming to Hope Church and just

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pressing into God. I wanna see the nation's largest

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university campus touch with the power of the

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Holy Spirit. I wanna see God radically touch

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the city of Phoenix in a miraculous way. Come

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on, let your heart burn with vision for this

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area and for Harrisburg and the surrounding regions.

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Let your heart get on fire with something bigger

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than nine to five, nine to five, nine to five.

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So many of us, this is how we walk. And we pray

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this prayer, lead me Lord, lead me Lord, lead

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me Lord. Meanwhile God is going, hey, just lead

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me Lord. And you're looking at your feet because

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you're looking at where you are. And it's amazing

00:29:37.109 --> 00:29:40.390
how many wandering Christians think they're making

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progress when all they're doing. Lead me Lord,

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lead me Lord, I want my life to... I want my

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life to count, Jesus. I want my life to count.

00:29:53.730 --> 00:29:57.369
But my wife is a loser. And my boss is a moron.

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And I can't believe my life sucks like this.

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But I'm just telling you, just lead me, Lord.

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And God's saying, come on, bro, get your eyes

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off where you are. And look at the horizon. If

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anybody's ever went out hiking anywhere and if

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you're gonna make progress, you gotta look where

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you're going. Otherwise you'll be wandering around

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in the woods. Look where you want to go. Number

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two, get outside your tent. Get outside your

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tent. Abram was promised by God that he would

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have a child. He comes up with plan B. Lots of

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you are guilty. Plan B. Because you're tired

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of waiting for Plan A. So you come up to those

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involved in your story and say, I have an idea.

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Listen. Stay focused on what God told you to

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do. Stay focused on what his initial vision to

00:31:09.299 --> 00:31:13.940
you was. Don't get distracted by Plan B. Don't

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let your patience wear thin and for you to come

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up with something else. Because in Genesis 15,

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Abram comes up with plan B. God comes to him

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and says, listen, it's great, you know, okay,

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get a kid. Not the one I wanted. And to this

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day we have problems in the Middle East because

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of that decision. And so, God comes to Abram

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and in Genesis 15 verse 5 says, the Lord took

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Abram outside and said to him, look up. Everybody

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say look up Look up into the sky and count the

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stars if you can That's how many descendants

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you will have and Abraham believed the Lord and

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the Lord counted him as righteous because of

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his faith See he took him out the Lord took him

00:31:57.210 --> 00:31:59.430
outside took him outside. Where where was he

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before? He was inside the tent He was inside

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the tent that he made This is what I think I

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can do. This is what I think I can live where

00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.519
I can live This is what I know about I'm comfortable

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with this and I'm comfortable with that This

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is where I know it's all gonna work. This is

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where I know and God says no no no You can't

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see What you need to see? staying in here Some

00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.599
of you have built this tent of your circumstances

00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:28.059
and of your thoughts about what you want your

00:32:28.059 --> 00:32:31.059
plans It's like the little two -year -old who

00:32:31.059 --> 00:32:33.359
draws a little picture of what they think they're

00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:34.740
gonna be when they grow up and then they come

00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:39.000
to dad and say, daddy, I have a pasture for you.

00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:45.400
Oh, let me see it. Here it is. So they grab it.

00:32:45.819 --> 00:32:56.079
That's great. Wonderful. What is it? And then

00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:58.630
God says, would you like me to show you my? My

00:32:58.630 --> 00:33:02.549
picture of your destiny. Oh, yeah. Where is it?

00:33:05.049 --> 00:33:10.509
It's outside. Outside where? It's outside the

00:33:10.509 --> 00:33:13.069
tent. I don't like going outside the tent. I'm

00:33:13.069 --> 00:33:16.329
kind of afraid. Well, you're not going to see

00:33:16.329 --> 00:33:18.630
it if you don't come outside the tent. Can I

00:33:18.630 --> 00:33:22.029
look out, just peek out the window? No, you have

00:33:22.029 --> 00:33:26.640
to come outside. If you will get out of your

00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:30.339
comfort zone, your tent, your habits, your limitations

00:33:30.339 --> 00:33:32.380
of what you've crafted for yourself and what

00:33:32.380 --> 00:33:35.519
you think your life should be like, you would

00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:37.539
get out and just begin to lift up your eyes.

00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:40.059
You're gonna see something totally mind -blowing

00:33:40.059 --> 00:33:44.079
because God's wonderful masterpiece of your destiny

00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:47.119
is incredible. It's mind -boggling. It's staggering.

00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:49.880
You wouldn't believe it when you saw it. Get

00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:54.299
outside your tent. Number three. You must lift

00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:57.799
up your eyes to get your miracle. You must lift

00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.819
up your eyes to get your miracle. In Acts chapter

00:34:00.819 --> 00:34:03.740
3 verse 1, there's a lame man, a crippled man,

00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:07.579
sitting at the gate, beautiful. And Peter comes

00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:09.679
up to him and sees him there. Spirit of the Lord

00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:11.840
speaks to him and says, I want to heal that guy.

00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:15.480
John is with him and so he comes up to the guy

00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:18.980
and he says to him, by the way, the guy's going,

00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:21.800
alms, alms, you know, he's looking around for

00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:25.400
a handout. Peter comes and the first thing Peter

00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:32.260
says to him is, look at us. Look at us. And the

00:34:32.260 --> 00:34:35.780
Bible says, and the cripple lifted his eyes and

00:34:35.780 --> 00:34:39.760
looked at Peter expecting to receive something.

00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:45.980
Even misguided expectation can be honored by

00:34:45.980 --> 00:34:48.880
the Lord. That guy thought he was gonna get money

00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:51.340
and instead he didn't get any money, but he got

00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:54.420
healing. And from that moment on he was able

00:34:54.420 --> 00:34:56.940
to work and make all the money that he ever wanted

00:34:56.940 --> 00:35:00.340
in his life because he was healed. And a lot

00:35:00.340 --> 00:35:02.780
of us think we want this from God when God really

00:35:02.780 --> 00:35:05.460
has this from us, but we can't see it because

00:35:05.460 --> 00:35:09.000
we're not looking his way. And if we would just

00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.239
look at him and have some expectation, even misguided

00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.880
as it may be, he will honor that and he will

00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:17.900
help you get out of your place of crippled potential

00:35:17.900 --> 00:35:21.780
and step into God's plan and purpose for your

00:35:21.780 --> 00:35:26.519
life. Number four, you must lift up your eyes

00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:29.960
to fulfill your purpose, because you cannot fulfill

00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:34.059
your purpose with your limited perspective of

00:35:34.059 --> 00:35:38.420
what you have known and where you are. You have

00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:41.300
to lift up your eyes to do what God wants you

00:35:41.300 --> 00:35:44.199
to do. Did you know that Jesus Christ, the Son

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:49.599
of God, in John 17, as he was praying, one of

00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:51.719
the final things he did, said this in verse one,

00:35:51.739 --> 00:35:54.239
Jesus spoke these words. He lifted up His eyes

00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:58.559
to heaven. He lifted up His eyes to heaven and

00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:04.539
said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your

00:36:04.539 --> 00:36:09.519
Son that Your Son also may glorify You. Jesus,

00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:13.500
the Son of God, even had to lift up His eyes

00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:17.719
to heaven so He could get His vision right about...

00:36:17.630 --> 00:36:21.150
the moment he's about to endure the days of agony

00:36:21.150 --> 00:36:23.230
he's about to endure that night and all the next

00:36:23.230 --> 00:36:27.150
day he's going to be horribly treated and brutalized

00:36:27.150 --> 00:36:30.769
and crucified for the sins of all the world knowing

00:36:30.769 --> 00:36:33.340
that The Father is going to place all that and

00:36:33.340 --> 00:36:36.360
in His righteousness turn His back on Him. He's

00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:38.619
going to die forsaken. He's going to die alone.

00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:40.940
He's going to die naked. And He knows there's

00:36:40.940 --> 00:36:42.980
no way on earth I'm going to be able to do that.

00:36:43.500 --> 00:36:46.460
I'm God. There's no way I can do that without

00:36:46.460 --> 00:36:49.320
lifting up my eyes. And in His moment of prayer,

00:36:49.460 --> 00:36:53.139
He lifts up His eyes and says, Father, let me

00:36:53.139 --> 00:36:55.960
see. Why is this I'm doing this? In Hebrews 12,

00:36:56.619 --> 00:36:59.920
says that Jesus, for the joy set before Him,

00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:05.099
endured the cross. What was the joy? What could

00:37:05.099 --> 00:37:09.340
possibly Jesus see that would make him joyful

00:37:09.340 --> 00:37:17.280
to endure the cross? He lifted up his eyes. I

00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:19.519
think when he lifted up his eyes, he saw you.

00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:24.880
He saw you forgiven. He saw you free. He saw

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:27.739
you pressing into a divine purpose for your life.

00:37:27.860 --> 00:37:30.880
He saw you passionately going after God's plan

00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:34.559
He saw you saved cleansed freed from your addiction

00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:37.239
Delivered from the demonic oppression set free

00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:39.420
from depression and all the different burdens

00:37:39.420 --> 00:37:42.760
of your life He saw you with a heart That's burning

00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:45.260
with purpose and you are with your eyes alive

00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:47.780
with the fire of the Holy Spirit Gazing into

00:37:47.780 --> 00:37:50.260
your future not stuck in your past and eating

00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:53.139
the manna of the wilderness but driving forward

00:37:53.139 --> 00:37:57.530
eating of the the land of your future. Jesus

00:37:57.530 --> 00:38:02.050
lifted up His eyes. This last thing, I'm gonna

00:38:02.050 --> 00:38:07.449
end with this. God's vision is always bigger

00:38:07.449 --> 00:38:13.730
than you think. So what you think you know about

00:38:13.730 --> 00:38:20.130
God's plan for this church, it's bigger than

00:38:20.130 --> 00:38:24.329
you think. It's bigger than you think. God's

00:38:24.329 --> 00:38:27.170
plan for your life? It's bigger than you think.

00:38:28.250 --> 00:38:29.789
One of the reasons, by the way, he doesn't show

00:38:29.789 --> 00:38:33.389
it all to you at one time, two reasons. Number

00:38:33.389 --> 00:38:38.469
one, it'll make you proud. And you go, who do

00:38:38.469 --> 00:38:50.000
you mean? Or you'll go, no way. Not in a million

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.519
years. I had no way I'm gonna do that. There's

00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:55.920
no way I'm gonna nah, nah, nah, no. Told the

00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:59.900
phone. No, uh -uh. I ain't doing that. Mm -mm,

00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:10.579
mm -mm. Oh, no, you didn't. So, he reveals it

00:39:10.579 --> 00:39:12.760
to you a little bit at a time. But Ephesians

00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:16.269
3 .20 and 21 says this. Ephesians 3. 20 and 21

00:39:16.269 --> 00:39:20.409
says, now to him who is able to do exceedingly,

00:39:20.949 --> 00:39:24.869
abundantly, above all you could ask or think

00:39:24.869 --> 00:39:29.150
according to the power that works in you by Christ

00:39:29.150 --> 00:39:31.989
Jesus, he says, the power that works in us, to

00:39:31.989 --> 00:39:35.409
him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to

00:39:35.409 --> 00:39:40.719
all generations forever and ever, amen. See,

00:39:40.739 --> 00:39:43.380
God's got a vision and a destiny for this church.

00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:46.119
God's got a vision and a plan for you and for

00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:49.179
your life. And I see God working and He's raising

00:39:49.179 --> 00:39:51.860
up in this moment and in this season a church

00:39:51.860 --> 00:39:53.980
that's going to have influence in this region.

00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:55.940
It's not a church that's going to be limited

00:39:55.940 --> 00:39:58.440
to just the four walls of this place, but it's

00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:00.179
going to be a church that's going to have impact

00:40:00.179 --> 00:40:02.940
into a radius of a region that is going to be

00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:05.579
a glory and an honor to the name of Jesus Christ.

00:40:05.769 --> 00:40:07.670
You're gonna be a church that's not gonna be

00:40:07.670 --> 00:40:09.909
just limited to one location, but you're gonna

00:40:09.909 --> 00:40:12.309
have multiple locations as God stretches you

00:40:12.309 --> 00:40:14.849
out. You're gonna be a church that plants churches,

00:40:15.230 --> 00:40:17.349
not only in this area, but in the regions beyond

00:40:17.349 --> 00:40:19.530
and in the nations of the earth. For God has

00:40:19.530 --> 00:40:21.969
put a calling and a mantle upon this church to

00:40:21.969 --> 00:40:24.670
be an apostolic place of sending. And He's gonna

00:40:24.670 --> 00:40:26.789
raise up and He's gonna send out. And He's gonna

00:40:26.789 --> 00:40:28.949
raise up and He's gonna send out. And He's gonna

00:40:28.949 --> 00:40:30.969
raise up and He's gonna send out. And there are

00:40:30.969 --> 00:40:32.469
gonna be people that are gonna be raised up and

00:40:32.469 --> 00:40:34.210
they're gonna stay and build. They're gonna be

00:40:34.210 --> 00:40:36.130
raised up and they're gonna stay and build. Because

00:40:36.130 --> 00:40:38.489
you can't send out from a weak foundation. It

00:40:38.489 --> 00:40:41.650
has to export from a place of strength. And God's

00:40:41.650 --> 00:40:43.670
going to cause this house to be a strong place.

00:40:44.110 --> 00:40:47.150
He's going to cause the reach of this house and

00:40:47.150 --> 00:40:49.590
this church to extend into the regions beyond

00:40:49.590 --> 00:40:52.369
and even into the area of Eugene. I saw in my

00:40:52.369 --> 00:40:54.630
spirit a great and powerful ministry on the campus

00:40:54.630 --> 00:40:57.170
of the university and God's gonna raise up an

00:40:57.170 --> 00:40:59.429
outreach into that place and he's gonna cause

00:40:59.429 --> 00:41:01.730
students and he's gonna cause athletes and teachers

00:41:01.730 --> 00:41:05.150
and faculty to be turned to the gospel of Jesus

00:41:05.150 --> 00:41:09.150
Christ and contrary to their education and contrary

00:41:09.150 --> 00:41:12.130
to their teaching and contrary to their degree

00:41:12.130 --> 00:41:15.570
and contrary to the humanistic cultural impact

00:41:15.570 --> 00:41:17.349
of the things they've learned. They're gonna

00:41:17.349 --> 00:41:20.449
turn their faith and their eyes to the living

00:41:20.449 --> 00:41:23.559
God. And contrary to everything they've ever

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:25.360
known and everything they've ever taught and

00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:27.139
everything they've ever been learned, they're

00:41:27.139 --> 00:41:30.079
gonna see Jesus and they're gonna turn to him.

00:41:30.849 --> 00:41:33.010
You're gonna have an impact on that place and

00:41:33.010 --> 00:41:35.050
out of that region is gonna come some strong

00:41:35.050 --> 00:41:37.550
young leaders Pastor you're gonna experience

00:41:37.550 --> 00:41:39.909
an influx in the days that are ahead of young

00:41:39.909 --> 00:41:42.769
people Coming out of University and they would

00:41:42.769 --> 00:41:44.750
have moved back home They would have gone here

00:41:44.750 --> 00:41:47.289
and they would have gone there But somehow for

00:41:47.289 --> 00:41:49.909
some reason they want to partner with you as

00:41:49.909 --> 00:41:52.130
they would have in that time while training of

00:41:52.130 --> 00:41:54.769
being in University They're also gonna be training

00:41:54.769 --> 00:41:56.909
here in the church and they're gonna get your

00:41:56.909 --> 00:41:58.590
heart for the kingdom They're gonna get your

00:41:58.590 --> 00:42:01.050
heart musicians are gonna come to the house You're

00:42:01.050 --> 00:42:03.610
going to have a whole host of young people and

00:42:03.610 --> 00:42:05.309
young college -age people who are going to come

00:42:05.309 --> 00:42:08.210
into this church. You're going to have a, it's

00:42:08.210 --> 00:42:10.130
almost like you're going to have so many musicians,

00:42:10.409 --> 00:42:12.230
you're going to not want, you don't know what

00:42:12.230 --> 00:42:15.969
to do with them all. I wish I had that problem.

00:42:16.650 --> 00:42:18.389
Please pray for me. Touch out your hand right

00:42:18.389 --> 00:42:22.699
now. You're not gonna know what to do with them

00:42:22.699 --> 00:42:25.159
on but God's gonna raise you up. He's gonna give

00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:27.679
you the ability to train. He's gonna give you

00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:29.960
a strategy on how to do it. He's gonna hook you

00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:31.440
up with other people in the body of Christ that

00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:32.800
are gonna help him put into the vision of the

00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:34.500
house and you are gonna be able to raise up young

00:42:34.500 --> 00:42:37.260
men and women who are gonna be world -class musicians

00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:40.539
doing world -class ministry in worship in a place

00:42:40.539 --> 00:42:45.380
that's a bunch of farmland. But there's gonna

00:42:45.380 --> 00:42:49.750
be a song of heaven. in the countryside of this

00:42:49.750 --> 00:42:52.269
place. That's gonna come out from this place

00:42:52.269 --> 00:42:54.789
and it's gonna touch other places, other regions

00:42:54.789 --> 00:42:57.050
and other nations of the world. You're gonna

00:42:57.050 --> 00:42:59.110
write songs that are gonna go to other places.

00:42:59.170 --> 00:43:00.710
You're gonna write songs that are gonna touch

00:43:00.710 --> 00:43:03.210
other lands and other nations. God's gonna put

00:43:03.210 --> 00:43:05.409
upon you the menstrual anointing and you're gonna

00:43:05.409 --> 00:43:08.070
reach out through music and through the penning

00:43:08.070 --> 00:43:09.869
of songs and you're gonna reach other nations

00:43:09.869 --> 00:43:13.510
and lands with the recorded music and message

00:43:13.510 --> 00:43:18.320
of the worship of the house. God's gonna put

00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:20.179
a writing anointing upon you, and you're gonna

00:43:20.179 --> 00:43:23.139
write books, and you're gonna experience a release

00:43:23.139 --> 00:43:26.199
of a, the pen of a ready writer's gonna just

00:43:26.199 --> 00:43:28.760
flow out of you. God's gonna give you a creative

00:43:28.760 --> 00:43:31.139
mind to see what to write next, and you're gonna

00:43:31.139 --> 00:43:33.679
write materials. And I see young people coming

00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:36.099
here, even going for a few years to college,

00:43:36.139 --> 00:43:38.380
or maybe before they go to college, they're gonna

00:43:38.380 --> 00:43:40.599
come here, and God's gonna raise up a place of

00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:42.760
training and ministry in this house, where young

00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:44.800
people are gonna come, and even older folks later

00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.019
in their seasons of life, they're gonna be trained

00:43:47.019 --> 00:43:49.570
in an. Institute a Bible Institute here where

00:43:49.570 --> 00:43:51.710
they're gonna be equipped and trained for the

00:43:51.710 --> 00:43:53.750
work of the ministry Because they can't go out

00:43:53.750 --> 00:43:55.590
into the kingdom and they can't go out in the

00:43:55.590 --> 00:43:58.630
world Without having an equipping from the Holy

00:43:58.630 --> 00:44:00.469
Spirit and from the man and woman of God and

00:44:00.469 --> 00:44:02.789
from the house of the Lord They can't go out

00:44:02.789 --> 00:44:04.590
without having some kind of equipping taking

00:44:04.590 --> 00:44:07.030
place and God's gonna raise up in this place

00:44:07.030 --> 00:44:09.610
an Institute a school of some kind of ministry

00:44:09.610 --> 00:44:11.610
and training and he's gonna cause those people

00:44:11.610 --> 00:44:14.210
to go out and he's gonna cause them to stay he's

00:44:14.210 --> 00:44:16.070
gonna cause the house of the Lord to be built

00:44:16.070 --> 00:44:18.760
and the of God's gonna come upon you, and you're

00:44:18.760 --> 00:44:21.059
gonna know what it is to build a church. A church

00:44:21.059 --> 00:44:23.460
that has been a church of your dreams. It's not

00:44:23.460 --> 00:44:25.699
a church that's been a church of your past, and

00:44:25.699 --> 00:44:27.500
it's not a church that has been a church of your

00:44:27.500 --> 00:44:29.739
present, but it's a church that is a church of

00:44:29.739 --> 00:44:32.880
something that burns down in here that you cannot

00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.679
articulate, that you cannot even give words to,

00:44:35.860 --> 00:44:37.699
but you know that it burns in your heart like

00:44:37.699 --> 00:44:40.280
a fire that cannot be quenched, and God is gonna

00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:43.099
cause the Holy Spirit to build a church for His

00:44:43.099 --> 00:44:45.380
glory, and you're gonna see it if you would only

00:44:45.380 --> 00:44:48.039
lift up You're gonna see it happen if you would

00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:50.280
only lift up your eyes. If you would only lift

00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:59.599
up your eyes. Pastors and prophets, evangelists,

00:45:02.059 --> 00:45:04.199
apostles and teachers are gonna be raised up.

00:45:06.699 --> 00:45:09.800
You're gonna be a church who crafts things to

00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:12.789
help equip people. I believe that there's going

00:45:12.789 --> 00:45:14.989
to be a strong marketplace ministry in this church

00:45:14.989 --> 00:45:17.969
where you network together businessmen and women

00:45:17.969 --> 00:45:22.309
for the common cause of seeing finances flow

00:45:22.309 --> 00:45:24.570
into the kingdom of God to accomplish things

00:45:24.570 --> 00:45:28.190
in the kingdom of the Lord. You think that the

00:45:28.190 --> 00:45:31.010
challenge presently in front of you is expensive.

00:45:31.309 --> 00:45:33.869
I got news for you. You ain't seen nothing yet.

00:45:36.389 --> 00:45:45.199
That'll scare the bleep out of you. Well, you

00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:47.599
won't see nothing yet. Listen, we don't live

00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:49.460
here. We're not building some church based on

00:45:49.460 --> 00:45:52.380
fear. We're not building a church based on what

00:45:52.380 --> 00:45:55.579
we can feel. I don't feel good about this, pastor.

00:45:57.380 --> 00:45:59.860
Well, tell me what you feel. Tell me what you

00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:03.219
see, what you believe. If you're gonna tell me

00:46:03.219 --> 00:46:04.519
you don't feel good about it, the next thing

00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:06.440
I better hear is what do you see out of your

00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:12.079
mouth? And it better be impressive to God. Because

00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:15.559
God is not the giver of wimpy dreams. He's not

00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:18.760
the giver of dreaming mediocrity. He's not the

00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:23.179
giver of lame destiny. He's the giver of epic

00:46:23.179 --> 00:46:26.619
world changers. He's the giver of a world changing

00:46:26.619 --> 00:46:30.139
life. He's the giver of dreams that alters the

00:46:30.139 --> 00:46:34.820
things of the earth. Abraham was a real man who

00:46:34.820 --> 00:46:36.820
lived in a real time, who lived a real life,

00:46:36.940 --> 00:46:39.099
who had a real dream, and he forever changed

00:46:39.099 --> 00:46:42.530
the course of this earth. Jesus Christ was a

00:46:42.530 --> 00:46:45.010
real man who came from heaven to earth lived

00:46:45.010 --> 00:46:47.869
a real life died a real death Resurrected for

00:46:47.869 --> 00:46:50.349
real from the grave three days later and our

00:46:50.349 --> 00:46:54.510
life is forever changed We still live BC AD in

00:46:54.510 --> 00:46:58.250
the 21st century Because of one man who chose

00:46:58.250 --> 00:47:00.610
before hours before he went to the cross to lift

00:47:00.610 --> 00:47:07.250
up his eyes And say father come on glorify your

00:47:07.250 --> 00:47:10.809
purpose in me Come on God. I lifting up my eyes

00:47:10.809 --> 00:47:17.250
father Do what you want to do through me He wasn't

00:47:17.250 --> 00:47:22.449
whining He wasn't complaining this takes a lot

00:47:22.449 --> 00:47:28.849
of my time, you know father This is really stretching

00:47:28.849 --> 00:47:34.650
me I'm tired This is gonna be expensive because

00:47:34.650 --> 00:47:38.659
if I die who's gonna take care of my mom And

00:47:38.659 --> 00:47:41.219
on the cross, he even made provision for that.

00:47:41.960 --> 00:47:45.820
In all of the illucidity of his mind in the moment

00:47:45.820 --> 00:47:48.079
of agony, he looks down, sees his mom, tells

00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:59.400
John, take care of her. I got you. No problem.

00:48:04.460 --> 00:48:06.900
God will take care of it. Just lift up your eyes.

00:48:07.099 --> 00:48:08.860
Well, I don't know what's next. Lift up your

00:48:08.860 --> 00:48:10.980
eyes. Just looking at where you are, you're not

00:48:10.980 --> 00:48:13.719
gonna even get a clue of what's next. Lift up

00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:16.719
your eyes. But man, it's just, it's where I'm

00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:18.800
at is hard. Well lift up your eyes because there's

00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:21.739
a solution. Listen, if you are in a place of

00:48:21.739 --> 00:48:23.940
brokenness, lift up your eyes. You'll see God's

00:48:23.940 --> 00:48:26.019
healing. If you're in a place of addiction, lift

00:48:26.019 --> 00:48:27.960
up your eyes and you'll see God's deliverance.

00:48:28.219 --> 00:48:30.380
If you're in a place of sinfulness, lift up your

00:48:30.380 --> 00:48:32.699
eyes. You'll see a place of forgiveness. If you're

00:48:32.699 --> 00:48:34.800
in a place of bondage, lift up your eyes. You'll

00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:36.760
see a place of freedom. If you're in a place

00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:39.099
of poverty, lift up your eyes. You'll see God's

00:48:39.099 --> 00:48:42.340
riches, but you will never go there. until you

00:48:42.340 --> 00:48:45.659
lift up your eyes. God's vision for you and for

00:48:45.659 --> 00:48:48.000
this church is bigger than you could ever dream

00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.739
and ever imagine. But I implore you by the Spirit

00:48:50.739 --> 00:49:06.539
of God, lift up your eyes. What I was saying

00:49:06.539 --> 00:49:07.940
about men and women in business, you're gonna

00:49:07.940 --> 00:49:10.880
gather people who have means. And there are people

00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:14.320
in this room who do not have means yet. But you

00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.639
have a passion for God to use you through generosity.

00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:20.880
But now the area of your lack, if you will be

00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:26.159
faithful, God will give you more. Faithful. More.

00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:30.780
Faithful. More. You'll find yourself in one day

00:49:30.780 --> 00:49:33.880
in a place of plenty. You'll have more than enough.

00:49:35.460 --> 00:49:38.340
And in that hour, you're gonna be equipped. to

00:49:38.340 --> 00:49:42.400
do something eternally significant, greater than

00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.480
just paying your bills. Now you're going to be

00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:48.000
paying for orphanages. Now you're going to be

00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:50.719
paying for churches to be built in India. Now

00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:52.880
you're going to be paying for people to have

00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.179
bishops, pastors to have motorcycles in China.

00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:03.059
You're going to make an eternal impact with kingdom

00:50:03.059 --> 00:50:12.489
partnership. Just lift up your eyes. Everybody

00:50:12.489 --> 00:50:15.630
that is in a season where you know you need to

00:50:15.630 --> 00:50:20.269
lift up your eyes. Stand to your feet right now.

00:50:26.010 --> 00:50:28.210
You say, I want God to help me lift my eyes.

00:50:29.090 --> 00:50:31.250
I don't want to be confined by my present reality.

00:50:31.909 --> 00:50:35.010
I don't want to be limited by my present consequence

00:50:35.010 --> 00:50:38.369
or circumstance of my choices in my lifestyle.

00:50:38.750 --> 00:50:40.869
I want to be liberated. I want to experience

00:50:40.869 --> 00:50:43.010
the destiny and the purpose and the vision of

00:50:43.010 --> 00:50:45.909
God for my life. Friend, it's greater than you

00:50:45.909 --> 00:50:48.710
could possibly think. Doesn't matter what kind

00:50:48.710 --> 00:50:50.369
of home you came from. Doesn't matter what kind

00:50:50.369 --> 00:50:53.250
of rascal your dad was. Doesn't matter what kind

00:50:53.250 --> 00:50:55.349
of weirdo your uncle was. Doesn't matter what

00:50:55.349 --> 00:50:59.380
kind of problem you have. If you will just lift

00:50:59.380 --> 00:51:01.820
up your eyes from the place where you are and

00:51:01.820 --> 00:51:04.980
you will begin taking steps of obedience to what

00:51:04.980 --> 00:51:06.900
God's calling you to do and what He's calling

00:51:06.900 --> 00:51:09.360
you to be, you will live differently and your

00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:15.059
life will change. Before I go on any further,

00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:18.400
I saw you up here and I remembered. God's got

00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:22.219
a plan and a future for you. There's a gathering

00:51:22.219 --> 00:51:24.519
anointing upon your life. Jacqueline, there's

00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:27.730
a... an amazing generational grace that's filtering

00:51:27.730 --> 00:51:31.090
down through your family line. Your great -grandfather,

00:51:31.190 --> 00:51:33.889
your grandfather, and even great -great and great

00:51:33.889 --> 00:51:37.070
-greater -greater -greater. There's this thing,

00:51:37.309 --> 00:51:39.590
and it just begins to pass on. And I'm telling

00:51:39.590 --> 00:51:42.210
you that it's upon you, it's even upon your baby

00:51:42.210 --> 00:51:44.750
sister. There's an anointing upon you, and you're

00:51:44.750 --> 00:51:46.789
going to gather people. There's going to come

00:51:46.789 --> 00:51:49.070
a time in your life, and maybe even you've experienced

00:51:49.070 --> 00:51:50.909
it to some degree, but you're going to go to

00:51:50.909 --> 00:51:53.280
the other nations of the earth. God's going to

00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:55.119
use you to impact people with the message of

00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:58.019
hope and the message of the gospel. You need

00:51:58.019 --> 00:52:00.460
to know that God's hand is on you to call you

00:52:00.460 --> 00:52:03.000
into the ministry. You're going to write poetry

00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.980
and you're going to write music and songs and

00:52:05.980 --> 00:52:08.519
there's the anointing of the minstrel upon you

00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:11.539
and God's going to use you in a great way. Don't

00:52:11.539 --> 00:52:14.719
limit yourself. Don't allow a limitation of youth

00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:17.320
to be upon you. Don't allow the limitation of

00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:21.239
other people's opinions to confine you. But let

00:52:21.239 --> 00:52:23.079
God liberate you to be the woman of God that

00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:27.940
He has called you to be. You're going to be a

00:52:27.940 --> 00:52:30.159
woman who's going to sing the song of God in

00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:33.079
the house of the Lord. Your songs are going to

00:52:33.079 --> 00:52:34.420
bring healing. They're going to bring freedom.

00:52:34.500 --> 00:52:35.739
They're going to bring liberty. But you're not

00:52:35.739 --> 00:52:37.440
just going to be one that's going to have a ministry

00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:39.800
of music. I believe you're also going to be a

00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:41.889
teacher and minister of the Word. You're going

00:52:41.889 --> 00:52:44.429
to walk with authority. You're going to walk

00:52:44.429 --> 00:52:46.670
with an anointing. Spirit of Revelation is going

00:52:46.670 --> 00:52:49.690
to be upon you. Prophetic touch. It's been upon

00:52:49.690 --> 00:52:51.530
your parents. It's going to come upon you. And

00:52:51.530 --> 00:52:54.349
at times you're going to prophesy beyond your

00:52:54.349 --> 00:52:56.869
years. You're going to prophesy beyond your experience.

00:52:57.449 --> 00:52:58.670
People are going to hear it and they're going

00:52:58.670 --> 00:53:01.670
to say, Oh, but God has surely revealed Himself

00:53:01.670 --> 00:53:04.190
to her. And surely He has opened up His mouth

00:53:04.190 --> 00:53:07.349
and spoken into her ear. I want to say unto you

00:53:07.349 --> 00:53:10.710
to be bold. To be strong in the Lord and in the

00:53:10.710 --> 00:53:13.590
power of His might. Do not let the opinion of

00:53:13.590 --> 00:53:16.670
man or your personal insecurity get in the way

00:53:16.670 --> 00:53:19.510
of the calling of God for your life. And you

00:53:19.510 --> 00:53:21.670
will make a mark on your generation. Many will

00:53:21.670 --> 00:53:24.590
call you a mentor and friend. They'll call you

00:53:24.590 --> 00:53:26.869
a teacher. They'll call you one who said come

00:53:26.869 --> 00:53:28.949
follow me as I follow Christ and it radically

00:53:28.949 --> 00:53:33.409
changed their life forever. Give yourself into

00:53:33.409 --> 00:53:35.750
these things so that your progress will be evident

00:53:35.750 --> 00:53:38.489
to all. Tie yourself into times of prayer and

00:53:38.489 --> 00:53:40.809
intercession. Let the burden of prayer be upon

00:53:40.809 --> 00:53:42.730
your heart and your life and watch as God begins

00:53:42.730 --> 00:53:45.630
to fill you with words and revelation and anointing

00:53:45.630 --> 00:53:47.329
and He's going to speak into your heart things

00:53:47.329 --> 00:53:49.369
that you never thought you'd be able to even

00:53:49.369 --> 00:53:50.989
know or hear from God and He's going to reveal

00:53:50.989 --> 00:53:56.610
them to you. Anointing of leadership is upon

00:53:56.610 --> 00:53:59.130
you and you're going to walk in roles of leadership

00:53:59.130 --> 00:54:04.849
in the house. Do not let the opinion of men limit

00:54:04.849 --> 00:54:10.670
you. The only opinion that matters is God's.

00:54:10.690 --> 00:54:14.070
Lift up your eyes. You're more than what you

00:54:14.070 --> 00:54:16.889
think you are. You can do more than you think

00:54:16.889 --> 00:54:20.210
you can. Because the call and the mantle and

00:54:20.210 --> 00:54:23.110
the anointing of the Holy Spirit is on you. More

00:54:23.110 --> 00:54:24.789
will be said to you in the days that are ahead

00:54:24.789 --> 00:54:27.090
for your life. Others will speak the Word of

00:54:27.090 --> 00:54:31.829
the Lord to you. God will make even clearer the

00:54:31.829 --> 00:54:35.309
things that He wants to do in your life. Your

00:54:35.309 --> 00:54:37.090
wonderful treasure to the Lord. I just want to

00:54:37.090 --> 00:54:39.489
tell you what I hear the Holy Spirit saying to

00:54:39.489 --> 00:54:42.190
me. The Heavenly Father says, I am so proud of

00:54:42.190 --> 00:54:45.349
you. Keep doing what you're doing. Press into

00:54:45.349 --> 00:54:54.670
what God has for you. How many would say here

00:54:54.670 --> 00:54:56.949
today that you have been limited by your past?

00:54:58.650 --> 00:55:00.170
You raise your hand and say, Mark, that's me.

00:55:01.259 --> 00:55:03.300
I know where I've been, I know where I came from,

00:55:03.460 --> 00:55:06.400
my family, my education, my whatever. You could

00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:08.360
fill in the blank. My past though, there's some

00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:11.380
things there that I have that I know limit me

00:55:11.380 --> 00:55:14.579
from doing. Lift up your eyes from your past.

00:55:17.420 --> 00:55:18.800
How many of you, go ahead and put your hands

00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:21.159
down. How many of you here, and in the moment,

00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:24.599
in the now, you see where you are now, and it's

00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:27.619
been pretty consuming because you're busy. You're

00:55:27.619 --> 00:55:29.980
going life's a million miles an hour and where

00:55:29.980 --> 00:55:31.880
you are consumes all your attention. To think

00:55:31.880 --> 00:55:34.719
about lifting your eyes is just like, I don't

00:55:34.719 --> 00:55:40.599
want to hit a tree. But you know that it's just

00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:42.219
you need to lift up your eyes because there's

00:55:42.219 --> 00:55:44.500
something God wants you to do more than where

00:55:44.500 --> 00:55:46.139
you're at. What you got in your hand isn't what

00:55:46.139 --> 00:55:48.860
it's all about. God has more for you. You got

00:55:48.860 --> 00:55:51.179
it? And as I was preaching today meant something

00:55:51.179 --> 00:55:53.380
was leaping in your heart. I got to lift up my

00:55:53.380 --> 00:55:56.840
eyes. If that's you, raise your hand. I'm in

00:55:56.840 --> 00:55:58.519
my moment right now, and I think it's limiting

00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:01.019
me. I want God to help me break out of where

00:56:01.019 --> 00:56:03.079
I am. I've been looking at my feet, but I've

00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:06.699
found I'm wandering in circles. Oh, I'm going

00:56:06.699 --> 00:56:10.619
somewhere, but I'm going nowhere. A lot of motion,

00:56:11.579 --> 00:56:16.639
but no movement. No progress. Everybody that

00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:19.199
raised their hands today, past or present, if

00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:20.800
you want to lift up your eyes in this place,

00:56:20.860 --> 00:56:22.820
you want to see something. for your own personal

00:56:22.820 --> 00:56:24.920
life, for your business, your marriage, or even

00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:28.719
for this house, for this church. God, help me

00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:32.400
see it. Help me see what you see. That's you,

00:56:32.460 --> 00:56:34.139
raise your hand. Come on, everybody in this place,

00:56:34.300 --> 00:56:36.280
raise your hand. Father, right now we lift up

00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:40.179
our eyes. We refuse to now gaze on our past.

00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:43.320
We will not eat the manna of our past and of

00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:45.980
another time. We are gonna step in and eat the

00:56:45.980 --> 00:56:48.630
fruit of the land of our future. And we're going

00:56:48.630 --> 00:56:51.329
to lift up our eyes and we're going to see what

00:56:51.329 --> 00:56:56.809
it is that you want us to see. Holy Spirit, let

00:56:56.809 --> 00:56:59.349
a spirit of revelation come upon every person

00:56:59.349 --> 00:57:03.329
here to get us out of our ruts and out of our

00:57:03.329 --> 00:57:06.309
rituals and out of our routines and out of our

00:57:06.309 --> 00:57:09.489
now. And get us thinking about what you can do

00:57:09.489 --> 00:57:12.409
through us in our future and in our destiny.

00:57:12.789 --> 00:57:16.199
In Jesus' name. Help us now to see what you see.

00:57:16.500 --> 00:57:18.860
Help us now to do what you've called us to do.

00:57:19.139 --> 00:57:21.980
Help us to be who you've called us to be. And

00:57:21.980 --> 00:57:24.840
not limited by what our perception is or what

00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:27.760
others think of us, but only gauged by what you

00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:32.960
say we are to be and what we can do. I lift my

00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:39.519
eyes. Say that. Now. To you, O Lord. Show me

00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:43.510
what you want me to do. Now listen, that's a

00:57:43.510 --> 00:57:48.070
dangerous prayer to pray. You asked for it, just

00:57:48.070 --> 00:57:54.230
remember that. But I got good news for you. God

00:57:54.230 --> 00:57:58.550
only does good things. So it's gonna be good

00:57:58.550 --> 00:58:01.269
for you. This couple, young man with the red

00:58:01.269 --> 00:58:03.710
hair and blonde girlfriend, wife, I don't know

00:58:03.710 --> 00:58:07.809
what the deal is there. There's a real grace

00:58:07.809 --> 00:58:11.300
on your life for leading. And I see God's called

00:58:11.300 --> 00:58:15.460
you for influence in the kingdom of God. And

00:58:15.460 --> 00:58:17.179
the two of you are going to be mentors to young

00:58:17.179 --> 00:58:19.059
married people. And God's going to work in your

00:58:19.059 --> 00:58:21.639
lives and cause a testimony of God's goodness

00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:23.860
to come out of your union. He's going to bless

00:58:23.860 --> 00:58:26.519
you and He's going to bless children out of your

00:58:26.519 --> 00:58:29.599
home. And He's going to give you the testimony

00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:32.099
of God to help people navigate through difficult

00:58:32.099 --> 00:58:35.599
waters. A man and a woman who's going to help

00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:38.179
develop young leaders and people in this house.

00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:40.400
God's going to give you favor in the marketplace.

00:58:41.059 --> 00:58:43.199
He's going to open doors of opportunity for you.

00:58:43.500 --> 00:58:45.559
He's going to set things in front of you that

00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:48.219
you would have never dreamed possible. Because

00:58:48.219 --> 00:58:50.500
you are a man that is willing to take a risk

00:58:50.500 --> 00:58:54.139
and believe God. Don't lose that, man. Don't

00:58:54.139 --> 00:58:57.320
lose that. You'll believe God. You will see God

00:58:57.320 --> 00:58:59.900
do amazing things in your life. You'll look back

00:58:59.900 --> 00:59:02.320
20 years from now and you'll go, I can't believe

00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:08.920
what God's done. There was a young lady standing

00:59:08.920 --> 00:59:11.539
up here in worship, right here, right in front

00:59:11.539 --> 00:59:15.639
of me. Is she in this room? Where are you? Yeah,

00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:20.239
there you are. What's your name? Christine? If

00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:22.179
I was a real prophet I'd know that, but anyway.

00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:30.929
No, it's a prophet joke, sorry. Christine, there's

00:59:30.929 --> 00:59:33.369
an anointing and a calling of God upon your life.

00:59:33.750 --> 00:59:35.230
You're going to have a great fruitfulness in

00:59:35.230 --> 00:59:37.710
your life as God works through you. Stay surrendered

00:59:37.710 --> 00:59:39.710
to Him and let God teach and train you. You're

00:59:39.710 --> 00:59:42.269
in a time where God's wanting to train you and

00:59:42.269 --> 00:59:45.210
equip you and let you have a teachable spirit.

00:59:45.570 --> 00:59:47.250
But I want to say many of the same things that

00:59:47.250 --> 00:59:49.610
I said to her, not all of them, but that there's

00:59:49.610 --> 00:59:52.179
a grace of leadership upon you. And God's raising

00:59:52.179 --> 00:59:54.679
you up and you've been beating in your heart

00:59:54.679 --> 00:59:56.639
with a desire for the things of the kingdom and

00:59:56.639 --> 00:59:58.900
the things of ministry. That has not been an

00:59:58.900 --> 01:00:00.900
accident, neither has it if. The fantasies of

01:00:00.900 --> 01:00:03.159
a young girl. But it is the dream of heaven that

01:00:03.159 --> 01:00:05.659
God has placed in your heart. And you're to passionately

01:00:05.659 --> 01:00:07.639
pursue it with all your heart, soul, mind and

01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:10.340
strength. And as you do, God will give unto you

01:00:10.340 --> 01:00:12.460
the things that have been dreams into your heart.

01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:14.559
And you know what they are. And you know exactly

01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:19.360
what I'm talking about. You've been a dreamer.

01:00:19.480 --> 01:00:21.090
And there have been... You've been afraid to

01:00:21.090 --> 01:00:22.769
say what some of the things are that you have

01:00:22.769 --> 01:00:24.929
had in your heart, because they're pretty big.

01:00:24.949 --> 01:00:26.789
And I got to tell you, they are from the Lord.

01:00:27.570 --> 01:00:30.809
And they are not the vain imaginations of a willowy

01:00:30.809 --> 01:00:35.789
eyed girl dreaming of cool stuff to do. No, they're

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from the Lord and God has spoken into your heart

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of what He wants to do and what He wants to accomplish

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in your life. How many here are students at Oregon?

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How many here are students or you have some kind

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of a role? in ministry there or anything like

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that. Raise your hand. Anybody in here like that?

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Just keep your hand up. Father, I pray for supernatural

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strategy to come to them. Open their eyes to

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see what they need to do. I pray for open doors

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in the name of Jesus on that campus. Oh, there

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has been a resistance, a wall of steel. that

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has been at your face at almost at every turn.

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And it's like plowing in stone trying to get

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this thing broken open. But I'm telling you,

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I believe this is the year of the Lord's favor.

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I just sense in my spirit a quaking in the earth.

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The cracking of that stone is beginning to...

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And underneath that stone is a fertile soil like

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you've never seen in your life. And God is going

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to crack that... Stony, ground open, and He's

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going to cause the ministry of this house to

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go into that like seed and grain. There's going

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to be a planting of the Lord there. It's going

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to be like oaks of righteousness. And a testimony

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of God is going to be on the campus of Oregon.

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You're going to see it. You're going to have

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a strategic part in it. Partner up with some

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other folks that also have influence there. Partner

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up with them. Let God begin to use the threefold

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cord to bind you together. You're going to have

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a uniqueness of your own, but I believe there's

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a partnership grace that God wants to develop

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to bring the fruitfulness that he wants to see.

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Right? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, everybody,

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lift your hands. Now, Father, we believe. Come

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on, say it with me. I believe. I believe you're

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building your church. And the gates of hell will

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not prevail. I'm a man or a woman, whatever it

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applies to you. Say it. I'm a man of destiny.

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And I will fulfill my destiny in God. Because

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today, I choose to lift up my eyes and see the

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plan and purpose of God. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Come on, give the Lord a clap. I'll tell them,

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yeah. in hearing other podcasts or contacting

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Life Bible Church, go to www .lifebiblechurch

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.org or call us at 541 -995 -8282.