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Well, listen, it's a great privilege we have

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this morning to have friends from Oakland, California,

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Shiloh Christian Fellowship right there in the

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heart of Oakland. We've had here Pastor David

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Kitely and Pastor Dr. Violet Kitely. How many

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remember Dr. Violet and Pastor David? We haven't

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had the new pastor, which is Pastor David's son

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Patrick yet, and we will have him in sometime.

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Fact is, our youth camp, where we're heading

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this year to... In Idaho actually pastor Patrick

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is the camp speaker so our youth will get to

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sit under that it's gonna be a great time so

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What a privilege is to have Stephen and Portia

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and their son with us. We've been friends for

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about eight years We've got to know each other

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and our lives have intertwined and Portia was

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here a couple years ago and and we just really

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knitted and and Probably plan to spend some more

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time together head down there together and just

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see what God does. You know, it's so wonderful

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The fact that we can receive from different streams

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You know, even though we're MFI churches and

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we're loosely I mean the fact of the matter is

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that what a great opportunity in the body of

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Christ just to bring Friends in friends that

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we bond with and covenant relationship with and

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then allow them just to pour into our lives What

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a rich gift you've already Received from this

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morning from sister Porsche Steve's gonna come

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first and then Porsche is gonna come second Would

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you welcome pastor Steve summer as he comes to

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the pulpit this morning? Come on. Let's give

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him a life Bible welcome Amen let's give the

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Lord a shout of praise amen Thank You Jesus.

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Come on. Let's give the Lord a shout Can we shout

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in this place? Yes now Thank you, Pastor Brad.

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Let's give it up for your pastor who has returned

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from ministry. Pastor Brad has been away on the

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missions field for the last several weeks or

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two weeks. And Pastor Jen and all the ladies,

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can all the ladies just stand? I know this is

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your special weekend. Let's give the ladies a

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hand and all that helped with the retreat for

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the ladies. Pastor Jen and Jody and all those

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that helped and the sound crew and the technical

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crew. And amen. God bless you. Ladies, you're

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special to me. I'm a Mother's Day baby, so that's

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why I can do this. Two weeks ago I celebrated

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my 45th birthday, and I was born on Mother's

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Day, and so every seven years my birthday falls

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again on Mother's Day, and out of all my nine

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siblings, I come from a family of ten, I had

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the privilege of saying I was Mom's favorite.

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And no one else could say that I could say that

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with confidence and truth and surety Because

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I was born on Mother's Day and so and I got saved

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because of my mother's prayers now I was raised

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in a in a Catholic home. We knew about the Lord

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and As I said, I had nine brothers and sisters

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but I got saved and born again and and Introduced

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to the Lord Jesus Christ through the prayers

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of my mother and my older sister who got born

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again and saved and became Dr. Violet Kitely's

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hairdresser. So that's our connection. And then

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my older sister Rosemary, her daughter Marlena,

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is Pastor Patrick's wife. And so I'm related

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to the Kitely's. So we're related. And you see

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God has a sense of humor. And I had a great aunt.

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I shared with the other two services. I had a

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great aunt. Aunt that I never knew that had a

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touch of God on her life and when she would come

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visit our home in the Bay Area She would pray

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over my oldest sibling Rosemary and she would

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pray the prayer of faith How many know that the

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Bible says that the effectual fervent prayer

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of a righteous person avails much and so she

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prayed for my sister Rosemary that our family

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would receive a touch from God and it's amazing

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to see the prayers unfold you can stand back

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and see I can literally see Prayers. Be unfolded

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from members of my family that I never knew so

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ladies and gentlemen But ladies and sisters your

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special weekend keep praying for your family

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pray for your spouses pray for your children

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pray for your Relative pray and declare and don't

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just pray silently let a declaration come out

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of your mouth Let a prophetic prayer begin to

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just prophesy your prayer. It's nice to make

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mental prayers I know we can you know, there's

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scriptures it says all be to be silent before

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the Lord But I just want to encourage this church,

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get loud. God wants to bust you out. God wants

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to just bust you out, even in your worship and

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your settings. I don't know. I've been around

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Pastor David a lot and Pastor Brad knows. Anyhow,

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so just go for it, church. Go for it. Let it

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out. Don't hold back. Even in your church services,

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just bust through. Seek the face of God. Now

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don't act weird. OK, don't get religious and

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weird, but have fervency of spirit. Now we have

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four services on Sunday. I know. So this is the

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last Sunday here. So I know this is the party

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service, right? This is the you got to sleep

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in. You had breakfast. Our maybe some of you,

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but our third service at home, it's the wild

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service, the party service. And so this is our

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last service here today. And so. I just sense

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the power of God in this place. You know, in

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Luke chapter five, it says when Jesus was teaching

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to the Pharisees, it says that the power of the

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Lord was present to heal, but they didn't recognize

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it because they just came to receive, receive,

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receive. And sometimes we can be like that. We

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want to receive so much. But how many know that

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in our time of worship, in our time when we pour

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out our heart, as I shared the other night, worship

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is not for you. If you didn't know that, worship

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is for God. We can worship, worship. We can worship

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styles of worship. We can worship all the different

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things around us, but we need to worship God.

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Amen. Never worship our form, our styles. No,

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we want to worship the King of Kings and have

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abandoned. Worship before our God and so I'm

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just accounted a privilege and an honor to be

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here with you Thursday night when we came in

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and pastor Portia shared with the worship team

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I just saw a vision of this house as a deep well

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in this valley a deep well and I just saw it

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as a watering hole where people were gonna come

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many people are gonna come and be filled and

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Touched by the presence of the Lord in this house

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But I'm this house but the vessels of this house

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and I just want you to raise your hand Right

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now because each one of you are a vessel You're

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a vessel for God and the word that came forth

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with that the Lord was going to increase your

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capacity Not only to give out but to receive

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God wants to increase our capacity to be Receptives

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to be receptors and to be conduits of the blessing

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and the life of God And so there's an exchange

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as Jesus said in John chapter 7 out of your innermost

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being shall flow rivers of living water there

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what there's a input and then an outpouring and

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so God comes and pours out a fresh upon this

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house and you're gonna be a watering hole and

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then the scripture that was given was Psalms

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36 it says you're gonna be abundantly satisfied

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with the fullness of my house says the Lord I'm

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gonna give you drink from the rivers of my pleasure

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says God and then the scripture in Isaiah 12

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it says with joy you're gonna draw from the wells

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of salvation You think about it that the joy

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of the Lord you can put your hands down unless

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you want to keep But the joy of the Lord is our

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strength church The joy of the Lord is our strength

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and pastor Porsche will come and share about

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this joy Joy has nothing to do with what's going

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on then on the outside Joy is an inner work of

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the Spirit of God and your joy is your strength.

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So I want everybody to smile look at your neighbor

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and Take your finger out your prophetic finger

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put it in their nose. Don't poke them And declare

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that, say the joy of the Lord is your strength.

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Amen. Thank you, Jesus. And so as we were praying,

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I felt the Lord gave me three words to describe

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this season for your house. I know this is your

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10th year of ministry here. And the first word

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that the Lord gave me was the word favor over

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this house. The word favor over your life. And

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there's one verse of scripture that God gave

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me in Psalms 23. Verse 5 and this is after we

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go through the valley of the shadow of death

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We shall fear no evil and then it says this in

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verse 5 it says you prepare a table before me

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or for me in the presence of my enemies and this

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is a Description to me of favor so many times

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we want to focus on our enemies But God says

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focus on my table my provision my sustenance

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God says, let him arise and his enemies be scattered.

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And we have to make that declaration. Your enemies

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and my enemies may not be the same sometimes,

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but we have enemies of our faith. We have enemies

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of our health. We have enemies that want to come

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up against us and we have to just say, God, you're

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able to defeat my enemies. Let God arise and

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his enemies be scattered because in the midst,

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I don't know about you, but I was raised having

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to fight. Now, I couldn't just get a gun like

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Brad can. Even though I want to, you know, my

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wife really loves guns. She really does. But

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I won't let her have one because I know where

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we live, sometimes we'd be too tempted to use

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it. So it's better off for my family not to have

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weapons, Pastor Anthony. And so. But out here,

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you can have them. My son wants a gun. My wife

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wants a gun. And that's why they brought me here,

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Pastor Brad. It was really a plan of the Lord,

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or the enemy, to get me to go buy a gun when

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I get home. No. But how many of you know that

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God puts an inward fight within His people? a

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fight that in the midst of our circumstances

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we can know victory. And one of my favorite verses

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of Scripture is Psalms 110, which states, we

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know this Psalm, but it says, the Lord said to

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my Lord, sit here at my footstool till I make

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your enemies my footstool. How many know that

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there's some enemies? Here's this word again,

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enemies. And then it says this in the next verse,

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it says, I'm going to send forth the rod of my

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strength out of Zion. That's you. Everyone say

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that's me. The design is the church and it's

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not this building here It's you as a people God

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sends forth the rod of strength out of design

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and then it just makes this wonderful statement

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it just says rule in the midst of your Enemies,

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isn't that good that we can rule in the midst

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of difficulty. There's gonna be challenge There's

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gonna be things that we face as a people But

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our tendency is to remove all our enemies and

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difficulties, but God says no you're gonna rule

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in the midst of your enemies You're gonna have

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a divine provision a day. How many know that

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you and I are called to live supernaturally You

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think about this whole entire Bible that we read

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and that we preach out of and everything that

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we worship our God is a supernatural God It's

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supernatural and so God wants us to think that

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way to be supernaturally natural and to be naturally

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supernatural Without being weird Okay, sometimes

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religious people can get real weird and spooky

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and okay God wants us we shared this with the

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interns the other day is that Spirituality and

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practicality go hand in hand Okay, spiritual

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I'll say that again spirituality and practicality

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go hand in hand Okay, and so there's natural

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things that we have how many know that that this

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life is a proving ground And so we're we're proving

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our spiritual aspect of our life is proven on

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how we deal with natural things Okay, so it doesn't

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mean we're just living in the seventh heaven

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speaking in tongues all the time and we can't

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relate to terra firma No, we have balance and

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so spiritual and practical but in the midst of

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our life there were plugged in There's an open

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heaven that we're attached to every one of you.

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You have a cell phone I know you do hopefully

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you're not texting in church all of our young

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people even when pastor Patrick is preaching

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I'll have to tell him that there's so much texting

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but every night you take that cell phone and

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you plug it into your charger Don't you? What

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happens if you don't charge your cell phone and

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you guys have a panic attack if you ever lost

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your cell phone young people So no, but we stay

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plugged into the power source and that's what

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it is in our life We have a connection with the

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power source so that no matter where we go. We

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have divine GPS Amen We have divine GPS and God

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knows where we are and we can plug into him No

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matter what state we're in and so God says in

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this verse that I prepare a table Before it for

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you in the presence of your enemies to me. That's

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favor and some scriptures on favor It says in

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Isaiah 61 verse five, verse five says to declare

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the year of God's favor. Psalm 102, 13 says you

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will arise and have mercy on Zion for the time

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to favor her. Yes, the set time has come. How

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many of you know that there's a set time of favor

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for the church? You know, since you're here today,

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God has something for you today. No one here

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was raptured yesterday. It wasn't Judgment Day.

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How many know in James, the book of James, it

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says that that mercy triumphs over judgment.

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And so in our day, I don't know about you, but

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God is going to have a church, a church, a glorious

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church without spot or wrinkle that the greatest

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revival is not. Way off in the blue yonder. It's

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happening now Some people are praying for revival

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and they're gonna pray their way through it But

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God how many believe that God has a great revival

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that's already starting in this church. It's

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already starting in your life Because when you

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have revival it can't be vicariously through

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someone else it has to begin in you your prayer

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has to be God I want revival and let it begin

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in me and so yes We have messages of doom and

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gloom and prophecies of judgment It's funny how

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people always prophesy judgment somewhere else

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than their geographical location I Don't know

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if you ever noticed that They always judged that

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person over. We're gonna judge that city, that

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wicked city of Nineveh or wherever it is. But

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no! God's message is a message of grace and mercy.

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And I don't know about you, but we're looking

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for a great harvest. And God is going to use

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the church, the favor, recognizing the favor

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of God upon each one. As we know in Ephesians

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4 11, it says we all know this well. God has

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given apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors

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and teachers for the for the equipping and the

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teaching of the saints for the work of the ministry.

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And so God is equipping. thing we've done, Pastor

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Patrick, two weeks ago or four weeks ago, we

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just ordain, not ordain, but we set in about

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150 lay people and just said, you know what?

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You're called. You have a ministry. Your life

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message counts and God is going to come and activate

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the pew, not just the pulpit. Amen. So there's

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an activation for you. And so because you're

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here, God has something for you. Because you

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woke up this morning God gave you breath. Guess

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what? He's not done with you Some of you have

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felt like maybe God is done with me or what's

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my calling? Well, because you're breathing then

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you have hope it's and because you're alive Then

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guess what God's voice is speaking to you and

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you can hear it. And so the favor of God is declared

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over this house Psalms 5 verse 12 says for you

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a Lord will bless the righteous with favor You

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will surround him as with a shield. Psalm 30

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verse 5 says, for his anger is but for a moment,

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his favor is for life. Weeping may endure for

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a night, but joy comes in the morning. Psalm

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30 verse 7 states, Lord, by your favor, you have

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made my mountain stand strong. Amen. I'm going

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to give you a definition of favor. Favor is to

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cause one to prosper. To cause you to be prosperous

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To succeed to flourish beyond their own experience

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ability or expertise I'll declare I'll state

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that again favor is to cause one to prosper to

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succeed to flourish beyond their own experience

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ability or Expertise and so this word favor is

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declared over your house and it's all taken out

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of this one verse of Psalm 23 verse 5 So God

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preparing a table for us in the presence of our

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enemy. And then the next verse in Psalm 23, or

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actually the next part of that verse, it says,

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you anoint my head with oil. You anoint my head

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with oil and God is pouring out a fresh anointing

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upon this house and upon the church. I don't

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know about you, but I need the anointing of God.

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You need the anointing of God. The anointing

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is not something we just get every once a week.

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No, it's something that the vessels of God were

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anointed daily with fresh oil David said in Psalm

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92 you have exalted me like a wild ox You think

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about this and my horn you've anointed me with

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fresh oil that word fresh there means green oil

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means to be alive and vibrant and so God wants

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his people to be moving with the life and the

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power of His presence now, let me share this

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about Anointing because we can say well the anointing

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the anointing and we want to be anointing How

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many know that the anointing is not for you?

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We all want the anointing, but it's really not

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for our self -service the anointing is for the

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work of God and Anointing I'm gonna tell you

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comes out of unity Look at we have a scripture

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psalm 133 Bless it doesn't say how good and how

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pleasant it is for brethren and sister to dwell

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together in unity, right? So you want anointing?

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Then every schism, every bit of division, every

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offense, if there's anything in your heart against

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other people, if there's any disunity, because

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it says that it's like what? It's like the precious

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oil upon Aaron's head, right? That ran down his

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beard upon his garments to his skirt. So the

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Bible declares the anointing Comes out of unity

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now first of all you have to be united in your

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own heart Because sometimes we can be divided

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in our own spirits and souls and David says God

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unite my heart to fear your name So first thing

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God wants to make you whole as a person He wants

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to come and heal those broken areas of your life

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if you're divided in your soul and God knows

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Areas of our weakness and he comes and makes

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what does Jesus do for us first? He comes and

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he heals our soul. He heals our body He heals

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our mind He restores our soul and then he comes

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and unites and quickens our spirit and makes

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us into the person of his image and then causes

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us to want to be reconcilers to one another.

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And so anointing flows out of unity, church.

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It flows out of unity. Isaiah 61 says, the spirit

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of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed

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me. I like to read this verse like this. It says,

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because the Lord has anointed me, then his spirit

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is upon me. And I can say that from, if you look

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at the story, of David in 1 Samuel 16. Do you

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remember when Samuel the prophet, the Lord spoke

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to Samuel, he says, why are you mourning Saul,

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seeing that I've rejected him as king? It says,

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don't reject him and don't mourn for him any

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longer. But I want you to, I'm going to show

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you who you're supposed to go and anoint. And

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Samuel was afraid. And so he says, well, to go

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and burn sacrifice and invite Jesse. Invite Jesse

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to the to the sacrifice and go in peace. And

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so this is what Samuel did he went and he invited

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and sure enough Jesse invited all of his sons

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and one by one there were seven sons there and

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The Lord spoke to Samuel and says I haven't chosen

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any of these my favor is not on any of these

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seven sons And he says, do you have any more?

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And he says, yes, I have one more, an eighth

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son. Do you know the number eight speaks of new

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beginning? The number eight speaks of new beginning.

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It says, go and bring him here. And when Samuel

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saw him, he said, my favor is upon him. And when

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he poured the horn of oil upon David, it says

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that the spirit of the Lord was upon David from

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that day forward. And it's the same thing in

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our life. God comes to anoint us and we'll have

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the Lord with us throughout our days. The word

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anointing means to rub with fresh oil now anointing

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comes from brokenness You think about agriculture

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you think about grapes. You want wine you crush

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the grapes This is the down and dirty part that

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we like the anointing but the process of the

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anointing Right. Some people say I want your

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gift. I want your ministry Well, do you want

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everything that goes with it? Do you don't know

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that? But Anointing is birthed out of crushing

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and difficulty. You think of the grapes, the

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grain to get flour. You want to make anointing

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oil or olive oil. You're going to take those

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olives and they're going to be crushed. There's

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going to be a crushing this many times. And so

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don't despise when you're being crushed by people.

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when you're being crushed by God because God

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is producing something within you that's going

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to be used for other people's deliverance. I

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can look back upon my life and the scars of my

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life. childhood things that I went through things

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of rejection and sexual abuse and drug abuse

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and things like that and I can look back and

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say you know God everything that I've gone through

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you've used for your glory my wife can look and

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so God does that when you allow God to heal you

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from the breaking and the crushing of life then

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he takes those scars of pain and he uses them

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in for stars for he of healing for other people

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your scars will be turned into stars as you allow

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God to Yes, he'll break you, but he doesn't crush

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you that she doesn't. Resurrect you know God

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resurrects you and uses your life everything

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that you've gone through Don't despise it allow

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God to heal you allow the the the dealings of

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God the life Circumstances whatever they may

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have been if you bring them and you present them

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to God He'll redeem them He'll restore them and

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you'll cause the anointing of God to be upon

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your life and you'll be used for someone else

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It's not for you. It's to touch another generation

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and we know this if you look at Isaiah 61, what

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does it say? The the anointing is upon me because

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he has anointed me to do what? To preach the

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gospel to the poor to heal the broken -hearted

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To proclaim liberty to the captives in these

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three verses. There's 13 statements made in Isaiah

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61 about the anointing He says you're gonna preach

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to the poor. You're gonna heal the broken -hearted.

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You're gonna proclaim liberty to the captives.

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You're gonna play Proclaim liberty to those that

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are bound You're gonna declare the year of God's

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favor To you and your family you're gonna declare

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The day of God's vengeance because there is judgment.

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We don't say we don't we're not so greasy grace

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that we You know that there's not you there is

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judgment Even in that verse that I declared earlier

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in James about mercy triumphs over judgment.

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There is judgment in there And then it says this

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after declaring the day of God's Vengeance number

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seven is to comfort those that mourn Now it's

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interesting that doesn't mention the church in

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all these statements There's nothing about Zion

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there Zion doesn't come into the next part So

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all this is to me speaks of what the anointing

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upon our life is to be given out to people outside

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of the house that God wants us to have a message

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of reconciliation. God balances its both and.

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And so all these statements in the first part

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of these verses talk about an anointing to do

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and declare goodness to people outside. Then

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it says, yes, to comfort those that mourn. And

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then it says, number eight, to console those

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that mourn in Zion. Then to give them beauty

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for ashes the oil of joy for morning the garment

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of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they

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might be called trees of righteousness the planting

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of the Lord and the 13th one is That God might

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be glorified. Do you know that the anointing

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on your life is to bring glory to God? Ultimately,

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it's for God to be glorified and this number

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13 is not the devil's number church number 13

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is God's number It's a supernatural number. How

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many times did the children of of Israel march

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around the walls of Jericho 13 times. The number

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13 has spiritual significance, the number of

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supernatural. And so God gives favor to this

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house. He gives a fresh anointing to this house.

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And then the next part of this verse of Psalms

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23 verse five, it states, my cup runs over. This

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statement my cup runs over is the Hebrew word

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Reva ya Reva ya I believe I think I have it up

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here, but it's the word of blessing our fulfillment

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our fruitfulness and As we were praying for the

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church here these three words came to me favor

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anointing and fulfillment it means the the place

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of wealth a wealthy place in Psalm 66, we can

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put it up. 66 verse 10 through 12 states this.

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It says, for you, O God, have tested us. You

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have refined us as silver is refined. You brought

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us into the net. You laid affliction on our backs.

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You have caused men to ride over our heads. We

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went through fire and through water, but you

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brought us out to rich fulfillment. That word

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right there is the word Rev. It's only used twice

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in the Old Testament. Here in Psalms 66 and also

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in Psalms 23. The place of great fulfillment.

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The place of fruitfulness. The place of wealth.

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And as you celebrate church your 10th year. The

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word 10 has spiritual significance also. It's

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where we get in Hebrew, where we get the word

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tithe and 10th from. It's the word Asar, A -S

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-A -R. But from that word comes the word Ashar,

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which means to gain wealth, to be made wealthy,

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to increase in wealth. And I saw this church,

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not just financially, even though that's part

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of it, but God is going to increase this house

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in a greater measure. You're going to expand

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your tents. There's a great fulfillment coming

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to you. And the number 10 also means to be established.

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It means surety. And you think about the past

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10 years, Pastor Brad, you guys have gone through

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a process, but you are an established house.

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God has established the foundation of this house.

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And God says now he's going to broaden the foundation.

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He's going to broaden the expansion of it. There's

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great favor. There's great anointing. There's

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great fulfillment and everything that comes to

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the head Flows down to the people every prophecy

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over this house belongs to you says the Lord

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and pastor Brad I even saw you last night I saw

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the Spirit of God coming upon you in a fresh

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way that God says that Brad pastor Brad that

00:28:36.500 --> 00:28:39.779
you are a father to many That God's put you have

00:28:39.779 --> 00:28:43.019
broad shoulders your entire life. You've you've

00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:44.799
you're like beyond your years It's like you're

00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:50.630
a grandpa in the spirit You just are and God

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says there's a heart inside of you for fathering

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and God says you're gonna be a father to many

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Pastor Brad you're gonna be a father You're a

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great dad already, but God says he's gonna expand

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you to be a greater father in the spirit I just

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saw your touch your your fathering touch to touch

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many men many young men The lives and families

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and God says that his grace is upon you for fathering

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That's what I saw just saw the expansion of fathering

00:29:15.950 --> 00:29:18.970
upon your life Amen. Can we just all stand over

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the building? I just want to pray for you. And

00:29:21.450 --> 00:29:22.890
Pastor Portia is going to come and we're just

00:29:22.890 --> 00:29:24.670
going to have a time of worship and prayer. But

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I just want to pray for you. Amen. Jesus, I thank

00:29:28.710 --> 00:29:32.670
you for this house. I thank you for every young

00:29:32.670 --> 00:29:36.630
person here. Lord, every generation represented

00:29:36.630 --> 00:29:39.289
from the children. Lord, you're not a one generation

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God, but you're Lord, from our children all the

00:29:42.950 --> 00:29:46.599
way up to our adults. those up in age, even as

00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:50.200
we dedicated this young child today, Lord, you're

00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:53.359
a multi -generational God. Lord, and I pray,

00:29:53.579 --> 00:29:57.039
Lord, for favor upon this house, every family,

00:29:57.259 --> 00:29:59.799
every marriage, Lord, relationships with parents

00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:02.720
and children, Lord, every business represented,

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that the favor and anointing and blessing and

00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:08.559
fulfillment of God would come and rest upon them

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a fresh Lord Jesus, they're gonna know increase

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they're gonna know fruitfulness Lord. They're

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gonna recognize Lord that their favor of God

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is for them to Bless someone else though the

00:30:19.029 --> 00:30:21.130
spirit of generosity even as we the prayer that

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we prayed in the offering today was about being

00:30:23.349 --> 00:30:25.690
generous Lord that this house would be a generous

00:30:25.690 --> 00:30:28.289
house Oh God, that's not gonna lack in any area

00:30:28.289 --> 00:30:30.990
of finance Lord that finances would come and

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flow to and through to bless this region to bless

00:30:34.230 --> 00:30:36.390
the people of God that this house would be a

00:30:36.390 --> 00:30:39.539
house of blessing a house of fruitfulness In

00:30:39.539 --> 00:30:44.839
Jesus name. And father, I thank you God that

00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:47.819
jobs will come to this region Lord God. I thank

00:30:47.819 --> 00:30:50.359
you God. I pray against lack in every way in

00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:53.279
the name of Jesus. Father just as you visited

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us Lord God when we when it looked like everything

00:30:56.180 --> 00:30:59.460
was over so also visit your people at this church

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Lord God. I speak it forth Lord God. God that

00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:04.920
they will not be weary and well doing. God they

00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:06.839
will know that they will reap if they will not

00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:10.720
faint. Bless him today in Jesus name. Amen. You

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:16.539
may be seated. Just play. Keep playing. I heard

00:31:16.539 --> 00:31:20.059
this song while earlier. Thank you, baby. It

00:31:20.059 --> 00:31:23.539
was awesome. Isn't he awesome? He's my baby daddy.

00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:32.539
He's so good. Thank you, Lord Jesus. You guys

00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:34.240
were in that little groove, you know, can you

00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:35.700
get that little groove back that I was singing

00:31:35.700 --> 00:31:39.319
before that last song? I don't know. Is that

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the is that the key you was in though that the

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key for the first and last song the last song

00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:46.400
Anyway, it was it was a groove. I don't know

00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:50.539
if you could just hit it it was just That's why

00:31:50.539 --> 00:31:54.180
you got to do it in a moment, you know say I

00:31:54.180 --> 00:31:56.880
Know you guys a lot of you are mourning because

00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.079
of our brother Ron Ray But I was hearing the

00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.559
song as the pastor was talking about it and he

00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:06.859
was it was like heaven will say well done When

00:32:06.859 --> 00:32:10.940
your brother runway comes heaven will say well

00:32:10.940 --> 00:32:16.240
done When our brother runway comes He will receive

00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:26.759
a just reward He will receive a just reward Heaven

00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:40.400
will say well He will receive a just reward.

00:32:41.380 --> 00:32:45.539
Oh, yes, he will. He will receive a just reward.

00:33:47.150 --> 00:33:50.049
Heaven will say, well done. You know, it's something,

00:33:50.109 --> 00:33:51.950
because we don't sorrow like people that have

00:33:51.950 --> 00:33:55.309
no hope, amen? We don't sorrow like them. You

00:33:55.309 --> 00:33:58.569
know, it looks like in Matthew chapter five,

00:33:58.569 --> 00:34:01.529
it talks about just the word blessed. Blessed,

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blessed. When you look at that word blessed and

00:34:03.589 --> 00:34:06.470
you break that word down in the Greek, that word

00:34:06.470 --> 00:34:10.030
is Makarios. Say Makarios. It is broke down.

00:34:10.030 --> 00:34:14.329
Ma is outflow or outward result. And carry means

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joy. And then when you get down, It says it means

00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:21.519
grace. And then the third part of the word is

00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:24.079
us, which means the one. So when you break it

00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:27.980
all down, it means the one in whom joy and grace

00:34:27.980 --> 00:34:31.840
overflows. And so when you look at it like that,

00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:38.159
our joy is a God joy. It's a God like joy. Amen.

00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:41.780
It's not. It should never be happiness. See,

00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:45.889
happiness means half and stance. Happiness is

00:34:45.889 --> 00:34:49.349
based on a circumstance. So basically you could

00:34:49.349 --> 00:34:52.489
say, you know what, if my husband got saved,

00:34:52.630 --> 00:34:54.530
you know, I would really live for God and I would

00:34:54.530 --> 00:34:58.710
just be happy. this person would stop drinking

00:34:58.710 --> 00:35:01.449
and that I would just really just be happy. Or

00:35:01.449 --> 00:35:03.710
if my kids just acted right and you know, then

00:35:03.710 --> 00:35:06.530
I would just be happy. But it's not based upon

00:35:06.530 --> 00:35:10.010
a happenstance. It's a godlike joy. That word

00:35:10.010 --> 00:35:14.570
is Makarios, amen? It's an outflow of joy. This

00:35:14.570 --> 00:35:16.789
joy that I have, the world didn't give it to

00:35:16.789 --> 00:35:20.400
me and the world can't take it away. So happiness

00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.199
is based on circumstances, but we're talking

00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:26.280
about a godlike joy We're talking about a river

00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:29.880
of joy that flows from out of your depth of their

00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:32.900
being shall flow rivers of living water. Amen

00:35:32.900 --> 00:35:35.760
I'm just gonna be with you just for a few moments.

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Are we gonna go back to the music? According

00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:41.800
to Genesis chapter 1 verse 28 man was made in

00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:46.500
the image of God And then by Genesis chapter

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3 man had to fail from that image So every human

00:35:50.269 --> 00:35:53.369
being became different from design from the way

00:35:53.369 --> 00:35:57.550
that God made us we were connected to God So

00:35:57.550 --> 00:36:00.510
sin made us different from design and that was

00:36:00.510 --> 00:36:03.429
because of choice everybody say choice It was

00:36:03.429 --> 00:36:06.289
a choice that Adam and Eve made and today we

00:36:06.289 --> 00:36:09.389
are faced with that same choice the choice to

00:36:09.389 --> 00:36:13.329
be dependent upon God or to be independent of

00:36:13.329 --> 00:36:17.469
God, so we are not guided by instinct stink,

00:36:17.650 --> 00:36:23.519
but by choices. If you look and you study this

00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:26.400
out, you will find, because I've often wondered,

00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:29.119
let me just go to this, I've often wondered why

00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.780
did the devil really lie to Eve when he said

00:36:31.780 --> 00:36:36.420
you will be as God? Now we know that Satan deceived

00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:38.659
Eve, we know that, but he didn't really lie to

00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:41.679
Eve because at that point we were disconnected

00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:46.340
from God. Instead of our advantage point being

00:36:46.340 --> 00:36:50.659
God's advantage point being God's vision We became

00:36:50.659 --> 00:36:53.500
our own advantage point became looking after

00:36:53.500 --> 00:36:56.320
things that our own advantage, right? But every

00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:59.059
human being is born is born with the quest for

00:36:59.059 --> 00:37:03.579
satisfaction You hear a baby crying They say

00:37:03.579 --> 00:37:07.840
and feed me I need I need I need Every human

00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:11.039
being is born with that every human being inside

00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:13.300
of us. There is a longing say there is a longing

00:37:13.300 --> 00:37:17.019
because of that choice We now have a longing

00:37:17.019 --> 00:37:19.780
because we were once connected and now we're

00:37:19.780 --> 00:37:22.900
disconnected that longing is there deep inside

00:37:22.900 --> 00:37:26.360
of our hearts that longing is Every single person

00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:28.539
have a longing I want you to write this down

00:37:28.539 --> 00:37:30.780
if you're taking those the number one longing

00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:34.719
that every human being have is for security and

00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:40.820
love Security and love is the convinced awareness

00:37:40.820 --> 00:37:45.340
of being totally loved without the need to earn

00:37:45.340 --> 00:37:49.239
such love. The convinced awareness of being totally

00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:53.460
loved without the need to earn such love. The

00:37:53.460 --> 00:37:57.320
next thing that all of us are longing for is

00:37:57.320 --> 00:38:00.940
significance. Everybody say significance. Significance

00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:05.119
is value. It's the realization of a personal

00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:10.389
adequacy for life. of impact and jeremiah 2 13

00:38:10.389 --> 00:38:13.829
it says for my people have committed two evils

00:38:13.829 --> 00:38:16.849
they have forsaken me the fountain of living

00:38:16.849 --> 00:38:20.849
water and you for themselves cisterns broken

00:38:20.849 --> 00:38:25.190
vessels that hold no water and john chapter 7

00:38:25.190 --> 00:38:30.650
verse 37 it says if anyone thirsts let him come

00:38:30.650 --> 00:38:34.989
after me and i who believes whoever believes

00:38:34.989 --> 00:38:39.619
in me As the scripture has says he he said out

00:38:39.619 --> 00:38:42.780
of his belly Out of his intermost being will

00:38:42.780 --> 00:38:45.079
flow the rivers of living water. Are you with

00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:48.980
me? You following me? I'm doing all right. Okay,

00:38:48.980 --> 00:38:52.239
here we go So we know that people today they

00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.300
have not chosen God to be connected to God Therefore

00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:59.340
that longing will always be there There is always

00:38:59.340 --> 00:39:02.599
things in this world that will give you a temporary

00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:06.360
satisfaction Whatever temporarily meets your

00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:10.239
needs will addict you. Whatever temporarily,

00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:11.940
I'm gonna say it again, whatever temporarily

00:39:11.940 --> 00:39:14.320
meets your needs will addict you. Some people

00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:18.440
are addicted to drugs because that temporarily

00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:22.539
satisfies them. Some people are addicted to pornography

00:39:22.539 --> 00:39:27.340
because that temporarily satisfies them. Some

00:39:27.340 --> 00:39:31.199
people are addicted to... A man or a woman, I

00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:34.460
had a sister who was addicted to an abusive man

00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:37.980
and I couldn't understand it. I said, I asked

00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:42.840
my friend who really studied and got people free

00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:44.400
and delivered. I said, I don't understand. How

00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.940
can my sister from the same family put up with

00:39:46.940 --> 00:39:49.619
this? And they said, you know what it is is she's

00:39:49.619 --> 00:39:52.619
looking for a way that he made her feel before.

00:39:52.940 --> 00:39:56.380
So she keeps going back to that abusive behavior,

00:39:56.679 --> 00:39:58.820
just like a crack head will go back to drugs.

00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:01.860
because they're looking for that hit that made

00:40:01.860 --> 00:40:06.500
them get that certain high. But whatever temporarily

00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:14.079
meets your needs will become your God. For my

00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:16.340
people have committed two evils, they have forsaken

00:40:16.340 --> 00:40:17.940
me, the fountain of living water. I want you

00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:24.260
to imagine a cup with holes in it and just draining

00:40:24.260 --> 00:40:27.300
out. You drink it, you have to go back, you have

00:40:27.300 --> 00:40:32.639
to find it again. So I have to recognize, as

00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:35.380
a person, I have to recognize that the real intent

00:40:35.380 --> 00:40:39.679
of my heart is to try to meet my own needs my

00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:43.599
own way. Somebody say I recognize. Music's saying

00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.969
Oakland, you better recognize. Isaiah chapter

00:40:46.969 --> 00:40:49.969
32 verse 6 it says for the foolish person will

00:40:49.969 --> 00:40:53.130
speak foolishness and his heart will work iniquity

00:40:53.130 --> 00:40:56.550
to practice ungodliness to other error against

00:40:56.550 --> 00:40:59.550
the Lord to keep the hungry unsatisfied and he

00:40:59.550 --> 00:41:04.730
will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail it's

00:41:04.730 --> 00:41:07.389
gonna fail y 'all all of these things that people

00:41:07.389 --> 00:41:10.510
are looking to satisfy them it's gonna fail We

00:41:10.510 --> 00:41:12.130
had a young person in our youth group that had

00:41:12.130 --> 00:41:14.849
a powerful anointing of God on him. He played

00:41:14.849 --> 00:41:17.510
just like he actually was Deuce's cousin. He

00:41:17.510 --> 00:41:19.429
played, I asked God after he fell, I asked God,

00:41:19.570 --> 00:41:21.769
put that anointing on my son. He left it up there

00:41:21.769 --> 00:41:25.269
in the heavens, put it on my son. But here it

00:41:25.269 --> 00:41:28.789
is, he had this powerful anointing and people

00:41:28.789 --> 00:41:30.630
was getting saved Pastor Brad, people was getting

00:41:30.630 --> 00:41:32.730
delivered. It was a powerful thing and he left

00:41:32.730 --> 00:41:37.110
and he went to school to Berkeley. And when he

00:41:37.110 --> 00:41:41.849
was there, he got berserkly. And I'm just saying

00:41:41.849 --> 00:41:44.090
the truth, that's what happened. And he just

00:41:44.090 --> 00:41:46.610
started not to believe in God anymore because

00:41:46.610 --> 00:41:49.769
of the question of evil. I see a lot of people

00:41:49.769 --> 00:41:52.630
are saying, you know what, how can a loving God

00:41:52.630 --> 00:41:55.289
allow this to happen? And I said this yesterday

00:41:55.289 --> 00:41:58.050
with the women, just because you don't know the

00:41:58.050 --> 00:42:00.630
reason don't mean it's not a good one. Don't

00:42:00.630 --> 00:42:04.090
mean it's not one because we do serve a loving

00:42:04.090 --> 00:42:07.309
God. Can go through reasons why I thought y 'all

00:42:07.309 --> 00:42:08.909
stuff was supposed to happen. I'm like, why did

00:42:08.909 --> 00:42:11.010
this happen? God, why did it happen? They only

00:42:11.010 --> 00:42:13.730
need to find out later just like in the story

00:42:13.730 --> 00:42:18.150
of Joseph That God had a master plan that was

00:42:18.150 --> 00:42:21.070
bigger than anything I could even imagine and

00:42:21.070 --> 00:42:23.889
then it would come to pass Why was I abused?

00:42:24.150 --> 00:42:26.590
Why why was I molested? Why did I have to go

00:42:26.590 --> 00:42:28.869
through all these things? But yet my husband

00:42:28.869 --> 00:42:31.429
said it by your stripes. Other people will be

00:42:31.429 --> 00:42:33.889
healed. Amen It was never the plan of God for

00:42:33.889 --> 00:42:36.489
that to happen But what the enemy meant for evil,

00:42:36.489 --> 00:42:38.570
God will turn around for the good every time.

00:42:39.670 --> 00:42:43.969
I thank you, Lord Jesus, for that. There's different

00:42:43.969 --> 00:42:46.289
kinds of longing. Write this down that we have

00:42:46.289 --> 00:42:49.469
inside of us. I'm only dealing with one of ourselves

00:42:49.469 --> 00:42:52.769
inside what we're made of. Number one, there's

00:42:52.769 --> 00:42:57.090
casual longings. That's for comfort and convenience.

00:42:57.190 --> 00:42:59.289
You know, we might want them shoes, ladies, or

00:42:59.289 --> 00:43:01.929
you know, the perfume. That's the stuff that

00:43:01.929 --> 00:43:04.940
really don't matter. We just long for it. Then

00:43:04.940 --> 00:43:07.719
we have the critical longing which is for human

00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.659
relationships. You know people get weird Weird

00:43:10.659 --> 00:43:13.039
when they off by theyself. That's why it's important

00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:16.639
to come to church The Bible says don't fail to

00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:19.920
assemble yourself together Me and Stephen was

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.380
at the pastor Stephen and I induced we were she

00:43:22.380 --> 00:43:26.500
was like mama mama We're at this lady's house

00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:28.280
that the pastors had asked us to help and we

00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:32.570
had no idea that she was a hoarder I'm going

00:43:32.570 --> 00:43:33.949
to say this just for free. This is not a part

00:43:33.949 --> 00:43:36.849
of the message. But if you want to get married,

00:43:38.030 --> 00:43:40.110
you should at least be able to organize your

00:43:40.110 --> 00:43:47.190
house. People build walls around their self,

00:43:47.369 --> 00:43:50.309
right? And they don't come together with other

00:43:50.309 --> 00:43:53.909
people. And it's a shame. God says, fail not

00:43:53.909 --> 00:43:56.550
to assemble yourself together. Just because they're

00:43:56.550 --> 00:44:00.599
playing the music, you have to sing. Amen. Try

00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:03.440
not to assemble yourself together. Don't stay

00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:05.500
away from people because what the enemy does

00:44:05.500 --> 00:44:07.840
is he gets you depressed because nobody was even

00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:09.280
at church. They didn't even think about you.

00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:11.139
They didn't care that you wasn't there. Nobody

00:44:11.139 --> 00:44:14.159
even called you. Who heard that before? See?

00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:19.059
Liar. Somebody say, that's the devil. And so

00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:21.659
what he does is he says, you know what? Don't

00:44:21.659 --> 00:44:23.880
even come. Nobody even care about you. What he's

00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.320
trying to do is get you isolated alone by yourself

00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:30.199
so he can pick you out. and then get you compromising

00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:32.780
and sin, right? So that's why we come together,

00:44:32.860 --> 00:44:35.739
amen? So there's a critical longing for human

00:44:35.739 --> 00:44:38.480
relationship. The last one is a crucial longing.

00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:43.460
I love this. For a deeper relationship with God.

00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:48.599
The real culprit behind every non -organic human

00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:52.340
distress is a stud -fast determination to remain

00:44:52.340 --> 00:44:55.639
independent of God and still make life work.

00:44:56.639 --> 00:44:59.059
You say, God, I want to be connected to you.

00:44:59.780 --> 00:45:02.519
I want to be connected to the river. See, just

00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:04.820
like we long and we thirst, so does God. I'm

00:45:04.820 --> 00:45:07.619
going to show you how. In Psalms 63 and 1, Psalms

00:45:07.619 --> 00:45:10.079
of David. He was writing in the wilderness of

00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.760
Judah. Oh, God, you are my God. Early will I

00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:16.380
seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs

00:45:16.380 --> 00:45:19.820
for you in a dry and thirsty land. Psalms 143

00:45:19.820 --> 00:45:23.159
and 6. I spread out my hand to you. My soul longs

00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:27.940
for you like a thirsty land. So just as God thirst

00:45:27.940 --> 00:45:30.539
so does we Isaiah 49 and 10 They shall neither

00:45:30.539 --> 00:45:33.760
hunger nor thirst neither heat or sun shall strike

00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:37.000
them for he who has mercy on them will lead them

00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:39.760
even by the springs of water and it's already

00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:41.500
prophesied with my husband pastor Stephen that

00:45:41.500 --> 00:45:44.619
this is a church a well that is a living water

00:45:44.619 --> 00:45:47.380
will spring forth in this place and you are the

00:45:47.380 --> 00:45:50.059
ones that will give the water of life will flow

00:45:50.059 --> 00:45:54.199
through you a scripture talks about a woman and

00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:58.630
John chapter 4 that have five husbands. That's

00:45:58.630 --> 00:46:05.110
a lot of husbands, y 'all. And then Jesus told

00:46:05.110 --> 00:46:07.250
her, Jesus said, you know what? Jesus said, the

00:46:07.250 --> 00:46:09.590
one you got is not, you know, right now that

00:46:09.590 --> 00:46:11.670
you're living with ain't your husband. And she

00:46:11.670 --> 00:46:14.869
goes and yes, she says to Jesus, yes, but he

00:46:14.869 --> 00:46:16.809
says, well, you know what? If you drink of this

00:46:16.809 --> 00:46:21.309
water, if you drink of this water, living water,

00:46:21.530 --> 00:46:24.010
Says out of your belly will flow rivers. He says

00:46:24.010 --> 00:46:25.969
you know what you'll never have to thirst again

00:46:25.969 --> 00:46:30.369
He says I am the bread of life. I am the living

00:46:30.369 --> 00:46:33.250
water That's our Jesus y 'all if you drink of

00:46:33.250 --> 00:46:36.929
this if you say if you know what I choose I choose

00:46:36.929 --> 00:46:40.769
Jesus as my source I'm not gonna choose to be

00:46:40.769 --> 00:46:42.730
independent of God. I'm gonna be choose to be

00:46:42.730 --> 00:46:45.489
dependent on God and I I'm gonna choose Jesus

00:46:45.489 --> 00:46:48.789
as my source. I'm gonna choose Jesus as my God.

00:46:48.989 --> 00:46:51.989
I'm gonna choose Jesus as the one that satisfies

00:46:51.989 --> 00:46:58.289
me. Somebody say, I choose Jesus. He said in

00:46:58.289 --> 00:47:00.230
John chapter four, 14, but whoever drinks of

00:47:00.230 --> 00:47:02.730
this water that I shall give him will never thirst.

00:47:03.070 --> 00:47:05.469
But the water that I shall give him will become

00:47:05.469 --> 00:47:08.469
in him a fountain, a wellspring of living water.

00:47:09.070 --> 00:47:14.050
So the choice is yours. I choose to meet. my

00:47:14.050 --> 00:47:18.630
needs my own way. Or I choose to let Jesus satisfy

00:47:18.630 --> 00:47:22.289
me. I choose to be connected to his will and

00:47:22.289 --> 00:47:25.530
his purpose again. Where Adam and Eve fail, I

00:47:25.530 --> 00:47:29.389
choose God. I choose the living God. Now going

00:47:29.389 --> 00:47:31.050
back to the guide I was telling y 'all about

00:47:31.050 --> 00:47:33.409
that was playing and had the anointing and everything.

00:47:33.610 --> 00:47:36.489
And now he's out there. He had the most beautiful

00:47:36.489 --> 00:47:38.349
wife in the world. She could be Miss America.

00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:41.219
God blessed him, financially blessed him with

00:47:41.219 --> 00:47:43.179
all kind of worldly things, but it didn't satisfy

00:47:43.179 --> 00:47:45.679
him. Pretty soon his wife wasn't enough for him.

00:47:47.059 --> 00:47:48.739
Pretty soon his money wasn't enough for him.

00:47:48.860 --> 00:47:51.480
He got rid of his wife. She couldn't believe

00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:54.300
it. I felt her broken heart. I sat there crying

00:47:54.300 --> 00:47:57.400
with her. He's out there in the world drinking

00:47:57.400 --> 00:47:59.980
and doing all kind of things. And I'm thinking,

00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.079
you know what, if you are really satisfied in

00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:03.860
your heart with what you've chosen, why you have

00:48:03.860 --> 00:48:06.449
to drink and do all these things? Why you have

00:48:06.449 --> 00:48:08.210
to go and get high and do all these things if

00:48:08.210 --> 00:48:10.289
you are really satisfied But I'm telling you

00:48:10.289 --> 00:48:13.889
about the living water the spring that that dwells

00:48:13.889 --> 00:48:16.329
within you that that dwells up inside of you

00:48:16.329 --> 00:48:20.590
The living water is God. Amen Our God our God

00:48:20.590 --> 00:48:23.849
is God. He is the King of Kings. He is the Lord

00:48:23.849 --> 00:48:28.789
of Lords He alone can satisfy your soul. Oh Thank

00:48:28.789 --> 00:48:34.570
you Jesus You know something a while ago. I had

00:48:34.570 --> 00:48:40.039
a dream I'm gonna come back just a minute. I

00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:44.659
had a dream, and this wasn't a good dream to

00:48:44.659 --> 00:48:50.300
me because it was weird. And I dreamed that I

00:48:50.300 --> 00:48:57.639
was running with fecal matter in my hand. Y 'all

00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:06.880
know what fecal matter is? It's poop. And I'm

00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:10.010
running. Running through this gate, running through

00:49:10.010 --> 00:49:12.130
this gate, here I am. I can just still see the

00:49:12.130 --> 00:49:20.630
dream, I'm running. And I get to this place on

00:49:20.630 --> 00:49:25.010
the ground where all of these clothes or rags

00:49:25.010 --> 00:49:27.949
are on the ground and I move them out of the

00:49:27.949 --> 00:49:31.130
way and I open up what looks like to be a washing

00:49:31.130 --> 00:49:37.360
machine and I stick my hand in there. Saw washed

00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:40.380
off twice. I have the dream and I'm asking God

00:49:40.380 --> 00:49:42.940
God Why are you giving me this dream about poop

00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:48.940
and stuff in my hand? I Knew God had a reason

00:49:48.940 --> 00:49:52.480
but I didn't understand it at the time So God

00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:56.719
said to me God said the hand is the Apostle the

00:49:56.719 --> 00:49:58.820
prophet the evangelist the pastor and a teacher

00:49:58.820 --> 00:50:03.440
we heard about this And I said well God what

00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:10.550
is the poop And God said, Portia, the poop. Is

00:50:10.550 --> 00:50:14.409
a form of leprosy. That have come into my house.

00:50:16.409 --> 00:50:20.309
And I went to the scripture about the ten lepers.

00:50:21.269 --> 00:50:24.110
And I saw that there were ten lepers and you

00:50:24.110 --> 00:50:26.969
guys know the story, I know you know it. That

00:50:26.969 --> 00:50:30.730
only one came back to say thank you. Because

00:50:30.730 --> 00:50:32.889
I was asking God, how do you get rid of the poop?

00:50:33.590 --> 00:50:35.619
The leprosy. Now, let me let me explain what

00:50:35.619 --> 00:50:37.940
leprosy is that is going through the body of

00:50:37.940 --> 00:50:39.780
Christ. Pastor Bad didn't share this service,

00:50:39.780 --> 00:50:42.159
but he shared at the last service that where

00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:45.679
he went, that people have lost the presence of

00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:49.639
God. There's a whole generation missing. And

00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:51.860
this is exactly what God was showing me in the

00:50:51.860 --> 00:50:58.099
dream. Here it is. People that used to love God

00:50:58.099 --> 00:51:01.039
don't love God anymore. People that used to hear

00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:04.599
the voice of God can't hear him anymore. People

00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:07.860
that used to feel the presence of god can't feel

00:51:07.860 --> 00:51:12.099
the presence of god anymore the appetite That

00:51:12.099 --> 00:51:14.519
people used to have the hunger and the thirst

00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:18.800
for righteousness Has disappeared And this is

00:51:18.800 --> 00:51:22.940
because leprosy has come into the house of god

00:51:22.940 --> 00:51:26.800
Leprosy is a disease that it attacks your feelings

00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:30.440
You could be having body parts decaying and ears

00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:33.659
decaying and you don't feel it You don't feel

00:51:33.659 --> 00:51:37.139
the presence of God. It attacks your hearing.

00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:40.460
That's why you can't hear the voice of God anymore.

00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:43.900
It attacks your nose where your nose is going

00:51:43.900 --> 00:51:46.400
off, which speaks of your discernment, right?

00:51:47.340 --> 00:51:50.619
So leprosy literally eats you alive from the

00:51:50.619 --> 00:51:54.659
inside out. And that's what's happening. So this

00:51:54.659 --> 00:51:58.599
poop represents leprosy. Everybody say leprosy.

00:51:59.610 --> 00:52:01.510
And I was saying God, what are you saying? He

00:52:01.510 --> 00:52:03.769
said that there's a couple things so when I was

00:52:03.769 --> 00:52:06.030
when I was led to that scripture I'm just gonna

00:52:06.030 --> 00:52:07.929
say it really quick. I didn't get to say it last

00:52:07.929 --> 00:52:11.570
service, but here it is in Luke 17 There was

00:52:11.570 --> 00:52:13.650
there was four things. I want you to look that

00:52:13.650 --> 00:52:17.650
the man did number one He was desperate for God

00:52:17.650 --> 00:52:20.730
the one that came all of them were desperate,

00:52:20.750 --> 00:52:24.250
but then they cried out somebody say cried out

00:52:24.250 --> 00:52:27.840
Sometimes you just got to get loud If you are

00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:29.619
in that place where you feel God I feel like

00:52:29.619 --> 00:52:32.019
that's me she talking about sometimes you just

00:52:32.019 --> 00:52:35.139
got to cry out I Could be in a supermarket. I

00:52:35.139 --> 00:52:37.760
don't care where I am pastor Jennifer. I'm not

00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.300
ashamed to say it I could be in a supermarket

00:52:40.300 --> 00:52:43.239
and and the thought will come to me and I'll

00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:45.099
be like how dare you speak to me. Anyway, what

00:52:45.099 --> 00:52:49.039
was you saying? I Don't care if people think

00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:51.559
I'm schizophrenic because the devil cannot read

00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:53.659
your mind he can put thoughts in your mind and

00:52:53.659 --> 00:52:55.559
he knows that you are acting on those thoughts

00:52:55.559 --> 00:53:01.170
by your actions. But here it was, all ten of

00:53:01.170 --> 00:53:06.190
them were healed. They all cried out. The first

00:53:06.190 --> 00:53:09.050
one, he was desperate and he simply asked. Somebody

00:53:09.050 --> 00:53:13.010
say ask. The second thing that he did, he was

00:53:13.010 --> 00:53:16.449
obedient. All of them were obedient and going.

00:53:17.429 --> 00:53:19.429
The third thing that he was though is that he

00:53:19.429 --> 00:53:22.710
wasn't a follower of the crowd. When everybody

00:53:22.710 --> 00:53:24.929
else was going to do their own thing they went

00:53:24.929 --> 00:53:26.809
they could have made excuses I thought about

00:53:26.809 --> 00:53:28.849
it. Well, he did say go I don't have to come

00:53:28.849 --> 00:53:32.309
back and say thank you. You know, he he did say

00:53:32.309 --> 00:53:36.949
go But this one he wasn't a follower of the crowd

00:53:36.949 --> 00:53:41.869
he knew the right thing to do The last thing

00:53:41.869 --> 00:53:45.869
he did is that he praised and he thanked the

00:53:45.869 --> 00:53:50.619
Lord and he bowed before him We all have to bow

00:53:50.619 --> 00:53:53.320
to the place where our head is lower than our

00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:59.920
heart The way that we think is lower than our

00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:04.280
heart The God began to speak to me about this

00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:06.780
and he said you know He said it's time for my

00:54:06.780 --> 00:54:09.519
church in order for you to be the well Because

00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:11.920
we got to build on this y 'all in order for you

00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:14.619
to be the well of living water that water flows

00:54:14.619 --> 00:54:20.030
out of you You ready Here is the apostle you

00:54:20.030 --> 00:54:22.349
have the apostle over your life pastor Brad.

00:54:22.349 --> 00:54:27.349
He has apostles over him the prophet it's time

00:54:27.349 --> 00:54:31.550
for you church to start prophesying into people's

00:54:31.550 --> 00:54:36.829
lives a Prophecy is a word of edification exhortation

00:54:36.829 --> 00:54:43.869
and comfort say edification exhortation and comfort

00:54:44.610 --> 00:54:46.530
You look around and you can say you know what

00:54:46.530 --> 00:54:49.449
I'm not gonna be consumed about me One of the

00:54:49.449 --> 00:54:51.369
powerful things that we did in a women's conference

00:54:51.369 --> 00:54:54.389
the last session the Lord had us to have the

00:54:54.389 --> 00:54:57.110
women prophesied to each other It would have

00:54:57.110 --> 00:54:59.610
been easy just to say you know what for me to

00:54:59.610 --> 00:55:01.769
preach another word and some people feel that

00:55:01.769 --> 00:55:04.070
they need another word I understand that but

00:55:04.070 --> 00:55:08.489
the thing about it is this God is calling you

00:55:08.489 --> 00:55:10.889
to prophesy to each other. That was that was

00:55:10.889 --> 00:55:13.920
the word He's calling you to rise up and walk

00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:16.539
in unity because if you have the river in you

00:55:16.539 --> 00:55:18.219
and you have the river in you and you have the

00:55:18.219 --> 00:55:21.500
river in you and we all come together, how mighty

00:55:21.500 --> 00:55:25.400
is the river of God going to be? And so I wanted

00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:27.940
them to see that they have the words that would

00:55:27.940 --> 00:55:30.820
encourage and bring life and they did that. Amen.

00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:35.519
The thing that God said to me, you're going to

00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:38.559
prophesy to people. I want you to pick people

00:55:38.559 --> 00:55:41.309
every week that you can prophesy to. speak a

00:55:41.309 --> 00:55:43.730
word of edific. I just called to encourage you.

00:55:43.969 --> 00:55:45.530
Just called to let you know you was on my mind.

00:55:45.570 --> 00:55:48.250
I was thinking about you and I love you. I just

00:55:48.250 --> 00:55:50.389
called to let you know that you've been on my

00:55:50.389 --> 00:55:54.449
heart. What what can I pray for you about? Is

00:55:54.449 --> 00:55:58.449
that good? So, we have the apostle, the prophet,

00:55:58.530 --> 00:56:00.650
then we have the pastor. There should be somebody

00:56:00.650 --> 00:56:02.969
in your life that you're pastoring or you're

00:56:02.969 --> 00:56:05.570
shepherding over. You have the shepherd that's

00:56:05.570 --> 00:56:07.110
shepherding over you the shepherds right here

00:56:07.110 --> 00:56:09.789
wonderful shepherds that's shepherding over you

00:56:09.789 --> 00:56:13.289
now you as a congregation as the river of god

00:56:13.289 --> 00:56:15.949
as the whale you are bringing water to other

00:56:15.949 --> 00:56:18.050
people and you should have somebody that you're

00:56:18.050 --> 00:56:23.530
really looking out for I Know it can be an inconvenience,

00:56:23.530 --> 00:56:26.429
but that's the definition of ministry. Thank

00:56:26.429 --> 00:56:32.329
you pastor steve Then you have the evangelist

00:56:33.170 --> 00:56:35.869
There should be somebody that you're evangelizing

00:56:35.869 --> 00:56:39.010
There should be somebody I remember some years

00:56:39.010 --> 00:56:41.250
ago I might have shared this but I was on the

00:56:41.250 --> 00:56:43.730
treadmill and I'm just working back and forth,

00:56:43.730 --> 00:56:45.869
you know, I hate we got rid of that Anyway, I'm

00:56:45.869 --> 00:56:48.030
on the treadmill and I'm working back and forth

00:56:48.030 --> 00:56:53.289
and all of a sudden this vision comes to me And

00:56:53.289 --> 00:56:56.949
I see people with big tickets in their hand huge

00:56:56.949 --> 00:57:04.279
tickets and they're walking and it says Heaven

00:57:04.279 --> 00:57:08.519
admit one. Heaven admit one. I mean they had

00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:10.239
so many tickets. Some of them were walking with

00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:13.699
barrels. Barrels of tickets. And they're all

00:57:13.699 --> 00:57:18.000
caught up in their conversation. What's up? And

00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:19.860
then we had these other people over here with

00:57:19.860 --> 00:57:22.059
a big ticket like this going straight down the

00:57:22.059 --> 00:57:27.780
hill. One way to hell. Met one. Can you see me?

00:57:29.340 --> 00:57:34.909
Can you see me? And then in my vision. began

00:57:34.909 --> 00:57:41.230
to sing the song What if you had a ticket to

00:57:41.230 --> 00:57:46.610
heaven Would you stop and take a moment to give

00:57:46.610 --> 00:57:51.269
it away? Would you be too busy with your own

00:57:51.269 --> 00:57:56.789
plans? Would you be too busy? Having fun with

00:57:56.789 --> 00:58:00.769
your friends. Well, you do have a ticket and

00:58:00.769 --> 00:58:06.659
his name is Jesus he is the one and only way

00:58:06.659 --> 00:58:12.500
to heaven you can let a drop of blood be wasted

00:58:12.500 --> 00:58:17.679
because the fear you hesitated to give away the

00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:22.599
ticket to heaven stop and take a moment see the

00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:26.639
people around you Without Christ they're headed

00:58:26.639 --> 00:58:32.320
in the wrong direction Never be too busy to witness

00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:38.019
for the Savior Stop and give the ticket to heaven

00:58:38.019 --> 00:58:44.300
You can never give too much of Him away Give

00:58:44.300 --> 00:58:50.900
someone Jesus today I know that that's a beautiful

00:58:50.900 --> 00:58:54.000
song, but I was crying because I saw myself as

00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:58.119
being too busy to witness I saw myself that I

00:58:58.119 --> 00:59:01.980
had allowed the ministry to take over me seeing

00:59:01.980 --> 00:59:07.659
people And God said to me see people again say

00:59:07.659 --> 00:59:12.460
see people again So the evangelist one is very

00:59:12.460 --> 00:59:15.099
important There is somebody that needs you. There's

00:59:15.099 --> 00:59:17.539
been so many times where I have left out of church

00:59:17.539 --> 00:59:21.639
and God will say, stop. And I stopped and I look

00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:23.579
over and I see somebody and God will say, go

00:59:23.579 --> 00:59:26.099
talk to them. Or I'm out and about, I may be

00:59:26.099 --> 00:59:27.760
shopping or something. And God will say, see

00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:29.800
that lady over there, she's about to commit suicide.

00:59:30.019 --> 00:59:33.000
Go over there and talk to her. See that person

00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:36.639
over there? This is going on in their life. There's

00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:39.019
ministry opportunities everywhere. This is not

00:59:39.019 --> 00:59:42.389
the ministry stage, y 'all. When you walk out

00:59:42.389 --> 00:59:46.590
that door, that's the ministry. The evangelist.

00:59:47.309 --> 00:59:50.110
Then you have the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist,

00:59:50.190 --> 00:59:52.929
the pastor, and then you have the teacher. There

00:59:52.929 --> 00:59:55.210
should be somebody that you're teaching. There

00:59:55.210 --> 00:59:57.050
should be somebody that you're pouring your life

00:59:57.050 --> 00:59:59.869
into and that's pouring it back into you, amen?

01:00:01.090 --> 01:00:03.400
And you have great teachers in this church. You

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have people that every day, you know when we

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came, I think this is so awesome. You have people

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that just stay in their room praying for you

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for an hour before you even come to church. Because

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they want you to make it. They want the presence

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of God to flow through this place. Just start

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playing dudes. They want the presence of God

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to flow through this place. So they're interceding

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on your behalf. Because you're a part of this

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what God is going to do. And the last part, God

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told me. He said, go ahead. What those rags were

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on the ground? What those clothes were in my

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dream that God said I need you to remove this

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was our righteousness because the scripture says

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our righteousness is as filthy rags and I looked

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up our righteousness as filthy rags and I looked

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it up and I and it says literally a menstrual

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cloth our righteousness is as the rags of a leper

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and God is saying you know what take those off

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Take those your own righteousness off your own

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right to be right Your own right to be right

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what I just gotta make them understand this okay,

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they just gotta see my point of view They gotta

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know that they hurt me. Okay, they hurt me Take

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that off The plan that God has for this church

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is too great to stay there The destiny that God

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has on your life is too great to stay in the

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way of offense You got to take that off your

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righteousness your right to be right. You got

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to take that off I'm telling you what I have

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to live Then clear that away Put on the righteousness

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of Christ You know what the last part of the

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dream was this Take this To the word the washing

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of the water of the word take it to the well,

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y 'all. The well is Jesus. Take it and leave

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it there so we can be clean, so we can be whole.

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I knew God wasn't coming back yesterday. I knew

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it wasn't gonna be a day of judgment. You know

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why? Because the church ain't ready. Because

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even though the world was getting darker, the

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light of the church needs to get brighter and

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brighter and brighter. God is not finished with

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us yet. You see the world hasn't seen the manifestations

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of the sons and the daughters of God and you

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are the sons and the daughters of the Living

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God and inside of you is the living water Life

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will come. Where there was death life will spring

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forth. Where there was hopelessness hope will

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come again. when you take off your righteousness

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and put on my righteousness when you say God

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I just want to say I love you. All of you so

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much. I just want to thank Pastor Brad and Jennifer

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and their daughter wherever she is. My little

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daughter that I want to take home with me. I

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just want to say I love you all so much and thank

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you for the opportunity to speak to you today.

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I love you and God bless you. If you are interested

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in hearing other podcasts or contacting Life

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Bible Church, go to www .lifebiblechurch .org

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or call us at 541 -995 -8282.