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If you are interested in hearing other podcasts

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or contacting Life Bible Church, go to www .lifebiblechurch

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.org. Anyways, it must have been a sovereign

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act of God. Anyways, hallelujah. We had a great

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meeting Saturday morning for couples. It was

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a wonderful time. And now we get to hear the

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word from our good friend. She's been here three

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years in a row. This is her third year. We love

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having her here, having the impartation from

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England. Would you welcome the woman of God,

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Rachel Heskin, as she brings the word. So bless

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you. Really, really do bless you. And thank you

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so much. It has been really, really special to

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be with you. and as many of you know that have

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been with me over the various days it was a little

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bit well should I stay or should I go because

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on Friday I lost my mother -in -law and she passed

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away and so it's like should I go home to be

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with dear Gordon my precious husband and both

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Gordon and David my son said no mum you stay

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and we're okay but when you get home so I'll

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leave immediately after this service pray for

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our flights and we will get home about lunchtime

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tomorrow and the funeral is 11 o 'clock on Wednesday

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so if you can just remember us we're in that

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transition zone but God has been so good and

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There's no church that I'd rather be in because

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it's a safe place and it's just you've been so

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great and just loving me and understanding if

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I've got the emotional capacity to hug and talk

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and pray with everyone. But it's just been wonderful

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to be here and I really, really treasure that.

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And as many of you know, and I think I've showed

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quite a few of the slides of the family, that

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I've been married 25, well 26 years, I keep saying

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25 because the picture I chose was our 25th,

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and she over 26 years. I have a son, David, who's

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20 years old, a daughter, Nicola, who's 23, now

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married, and in Australia, where she and her

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husband have become associate pastors with Hillsong

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in the Sydney area. And we moved to Oxford, and

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I thought I'd show the other slides this time,

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about two years ago. years ago when my husband

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and I have become pastors of a church right in

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the centre of Oxford. That's our city library

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or one of them. And that's sort of the views

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of the city. It's called the Church of Spires

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because there's so many churches. Charles and

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John Wesley were ordained for the ministry there.

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George Whitfield gave his life to the Lord in

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this city. It's a city of many great men and

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women of God. Our church is there, one of those

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spires over the way, down that way. Egypt in

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February this year. God opened doors for me to

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go to Egypt. I've ministered in Africa, Uganda

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many times, and a delegation came from Uganda

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to Egypt and really asked, would we come and

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help the Egyptian church. We went in February

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with Helen Azer, who many of you have met over

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this weekend and grown to love, and she's become

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my right hand. And this is the first ministry

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trip we've done shoulder to shoulder. So again,

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you've been great. You've made them believe it

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can be really good. So you've helped me. But

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we came here into the middle of the desert, right

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in the north just south of Alexandria. And you

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think, well, what's there? But if you get a bit

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closer, you see these tents and then you get

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a bit closer. And inside you find 10 ,000 people

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who set aside five days to pray for the breakthrough

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of the presence of God in Egypt. And if you see

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through there, you can see some red flags. See

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that red, white, black flag right in there? And

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it has an eagle on it. Well, that is actually

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the Egyptian flag. And there's a precious man

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who for five years has been in and out of jail

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because actually to bring even the representation

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of the flag into the House of Gold was such an

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affront to the nation. that he has put in jail

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and said, how dare you bring your flag into the

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house of God? You are saying that the nation

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belongs to God, that it belongs to Allah. And

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he fought for that. And so this conference, which

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was on the 7th of March in 2007, that perfect

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completion, actually all through there, you can

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hardly get the view of it. There was a breakthrough

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and that flag was being waved as a sign of worship.

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And it wasn't just a little fluffy thing. It

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was a decorative act. No, this nation belongs

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to God. Isn't that amazing? And if we clock through,

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we then find there's another picture. This is

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a walkway to a cave right in Cairo, on the edge

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skirts of Cairo. There's an area called Macatam,

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which is the garbage dump area, which, you know,

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the Christians, sort of Coptic Christians, were

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given. Well, you can have that area. It's the

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garbage. No one wants the garbage heap. And God

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quite miraculously showed a man called Father

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Simone, one of the Coptic fathers there. a huge

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cave underneath, and to cut a long story short,

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God began to break out in signs and wonders and

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miracles. And when we were there in 1992, they

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had just begun to begin discovering this cave.

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1993, 1994, began to build it. And today, that

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cave, you can hardly see it because it was in

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a cave. That's about two -thirds of it. But those

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tiers are very, very close together. You can

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hardly see them. Maybe you look in the top bit

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there. Can you see? It actually seats about 20

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,000 people they have on Thursday nights and

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they've seen signs and wonders and miracles break

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through there that goes all the way around and

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they dug this cave out and the power of God right

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there in Cairo is beginning to break through.

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Isn't how awesome is that? And so I believe in

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these days we need to get ready for the supernatural

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and the unusual and there is no place too hard

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for the Lord. How amazing that right in the desert

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place And for those of you who bought this book,

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Supernatural Communication, this was my first

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book. And God really put on me a heart cry to

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teach the army of ordinary people to be extraordinary

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prayer warriors. And Chosen, who's published

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this book, or Baker House, the bigger publishing

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of which Chosen is a part, we are just in negotiations

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with them at the moment to release the... a manuscript

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to be translated into Arabic, and that this book

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will become available in Arabic for the Arabic

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speaking world. So every time you buy a book,

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buy this book, because I want to get this book

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into the Arabic speaking world. I want people

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to realise that, or my publishing house to realise,

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that it's a good investment, because they won't

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get any money back from the Arabic bit. So I've

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got to put money in, because I mean, that's where

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it goes. So come on America, buy the book, so

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that they'll release this book to the Arabic

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speaking world. I believe we can get this book

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under the radar. Who knows what will happen.

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The other interesting thing is because of the

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title, Supernatural Communication, it's just

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got under the radar of the National Institute

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of the Blind and being translated into a talking

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book available in all the libraries because they

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have to translate so many books and so it went

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into the spirituality section. because of the

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title and it's going to be available right the

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way through. And so if you have this book or

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you don't yet buy it and make it a prayer weapon

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for me, because I believe we need to invade the

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kingdom of God and really begin to raise an army

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of ordinary people that do extraordinary things

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in Jesus name. Amen. So I want you to turn with

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me to Isaiah 58 and I've been tracking this this

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last this is the third service and each service

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I've been doing it slightly different I don't

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know if they recorded all three but if they had

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it's most probably another series but last night

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I really emphasized the verse six and verse seven

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of breaking those chains and loosing the chains

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of injustice. In the first service I really emphasise

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the verses 8 to 11 of the ifs and thens. If you

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will do, then God will do. If you will align

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yourself in certain acts of obedience, then God

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can do. And in this service I actually want to

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do verse 1 and verse 12 onwards. And because

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it's a contrast there. And actually before I

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even come to do it, I'm going to discharge maybe

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some of the prophetic stuff. I think I've almost

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been too good this weekend. I've been handling

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it and suddenly I just thought, you know what?

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You can give it away. You don't have to just

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hold it. So I prophesied over Aaron this morning

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because I've had that all weekend. And the other

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one I've had all weekend is for you, Pastor Brad

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and Pastor Jenny. And I've got three books with

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me. And these books are symbolic. Maybe I can

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just, Helen, you could just come and help me.

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And you can help me, yeah. The first book I've

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got for you is my second book, which has literally

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just been released in England and will be released

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in American September, but it's the book Supernatural

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Breakthrough, The Heart Cry of Change. And I

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wrote this book, this has absolutely roared out

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of me. They have three chapters on change, three

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chapters on dreams, and six chapters are on the

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breakthroughs of God that I believe are coming.

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And it's funny, I bought some with me and they're

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all gone. And I suddenly managed to rescue one.

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I thought, I've got to bring one here. Because

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I believe that there are seasons, maybe you can

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just stand and put some of the elders around

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you. I believe that there are seasons of breakthrough

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that are coming to this house. Because there

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is supernatural breakthrough coming. And it is

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supernatural. and even though you've worked hard

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and you've stood in the land there is a supernatural

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partnership to that which you've been doing to

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break through and the two other books that I

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had were Bill Johnson's two books and it was

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just strange they were given to me I've got them

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at home and I thought well God why do I have

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them and they were the three books left at my

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case and God said because you're going to give

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them prophetically because it's a supernatural

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breakthrough for the power of the transformed

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mind And it is an invasion of heaven -touching

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earth and this is from the school of the supernatural

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with Bill Johnson and reading California And

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I just felt God say that just as they've written

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the signs wonders a miracle Actually, God's gonna

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do something upon you through this house. That's

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gonna be supernatural breakthrough of deliverance

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for occultic power Masonic paths and the strongholds

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and it's almost in the waterways in the mountains

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of this area that altars have been set up and

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so he's put on you supernatural sounds of worship

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and supernatural sounds of preaching and supernatural

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sounds of deliverance and the warrior sound that's

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going to begin to break through and actually

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this three -stranded call is going to begin to

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break through you need to come stand here you

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two Come and stand here. And there's going to

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be a whole new sound that comes out of this place

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of a breaker's anointing. That's going to break

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through, break out and actually then open the

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gateways of the western coast for signs, wonders,

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miracles. And I believe God's going to give you

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supernatural anointings for the healing of the

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mind. The healing of the depressed, oppressed,

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Alzheimer's, all this sort of stuff. People who've

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literally gone out of their brains due to drugs,

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alcohol, others. stuff and there's going to be

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an anointing on this house that brings life to

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those that have been told it can't happen and

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yes there will be signs and wonders and miracles

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but I believe it's going to be as much emotional

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and mental as well as much as physical and God

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wants to do something in this house of a new

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anointing to break through mindsets and ways

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of thinking and so father we just ask now for

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an anointing to break through And that's why

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I just believe there's been such battle on you

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for worship. That's why it's been such a distinctive,

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because you've got to get heaven's sound. And

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so we release fresh grace. And I woke up this

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morning at 5 .55, 5 .55. And God says, because

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there's grace, grace, grace for this house. Grace,

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grace, grace. Grace, grace, grace. And so heaven

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will invade earth. And there will be a supernatural

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transforming of minds and a supernatural breakthrough.

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But even as you hold books, I believe books are

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going to be written from this place. And just

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as in California they've written the books of

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physical breakthrough, there's going to be books

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of deliverance breakthrough. and worship breakthrough.

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And there's going to be a supernatural house

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of training set up here. And you say, well, how

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come out of Oregon, in the middle of the country,

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because it's just as you've exported seed. for

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the world so you will export seed for the world

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and I will raise in this house a storehouse of

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incorruptible seed that's going to be put into

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the next generation and scattered across the

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nations for out of this house much seed will

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be sent and God says to you I've made you like

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the threshing floor and many will come across

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the door of your house. and they will be mixtures,

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mixtures of good seed and mixtures of the chap

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and I'm gonna use the word of God through you

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to shake them up, shake them out and release

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the true treasure that's hidden. For your house

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is like a threshing floor and many will come

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that the devil is almost entwined in false wrappings

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and actually the word of incisive word that I

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give you will shake them free. and the wind of

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the Spirit will blow off that that has bound

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them and you will find the true seed. Water it

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and grow it to harvest says the Lord your God.

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And Elton and Heather come here and God says

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that even in these days I'm giving you the seed

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of the next generation of pastors, prophets,

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teachers, evangelists. and whichever one I've

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forgotten, which one? Teachers, pastors, prophets,

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apostles. And God says, for I am raising in this

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house seed that will be sent to the nations and

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grow strong trees that will become the shelter

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for many things to grow up. And you are going

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to establish deeply into the lives of little

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ones. the pillars and foundation stones that

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will carry weight and provide protection for

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the little trees to grow up. And these ones you

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will send out and they'll provide shelter to

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let the next stage grow and then they'll move.

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For it will be a whole new day of mobile evangelism

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and mobile church planting. And yes, there will

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be a whole church planting that comes out of

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the youth, but you will have raised them from

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the cradle. And God says, even in these days,

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I'm giving you five -fold ministry. And you're

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nurturing and training five -fold ministry. And

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they will be sent out as umbrellas and shelters

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to provide protection, to grow the five -fold

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ministry in nations. And then they will be mobile

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and move on, leaving secure. buildings in nation

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after nation after nation and I see nations in

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South America that you're going to send kids

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to and Spanish is going to become an important

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language and you're going to have to learn Spanish

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and train Spanish and send children with Spanish.

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And I also feel the Philippines, I don't know

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where that came from, but I just felt the Philippines

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is also gonna be an important nation. And God's

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gonna do things with the Philippines and just

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Asia too. Gonna send you, and you're gonna set

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up canopies for the training of mobile schools

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of church planting. So Father, we bless this

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house. We bless these pillars in Jesus' name.

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In Jesus' name, Amen. I also wanted to pray for

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Rachel. If you just wait, come Rachel. Maybe

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Helen, you can just come and lay hands on Rachel.

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Because Helen's, Rachel's coming to Oxford. And

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I just felt even for you, as there's here, I

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almost felt as you lay hands on her and give

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her to Helen and I representing Oxford. And so

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Father, we thank you for this bridge and this

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transition. We thank you for dear Rachel. And

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even as I'm a Rachel of Oxford and she's a Rachel

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of Harrisburg, Father, we receive this precious

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treasure being given to us in Oxford. And Father,

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we just stand before you in the presence of God

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and we say we honour the gift of the generation.

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We honour that which you give to us in Oxford

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and we receive it. And we pray for our youth

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and young people, even as Rachel comes to partner

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with Ollie and Lois. Benian our youth pastors

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and comes into that internship we pray that that

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gifting which is upon her will be given to us

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and the gifting that's upon our house will be

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given to her and we pray in Jesus name that great

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grace five five five we speak great grace great

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grace be to you and we come against every onslaught

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of the enemy that would even stir concerns at

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this time and we thank you for the strength that

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you put upon her And we receive it in Jesus'

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name. We thank you for it. And we pray, let your

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Spirit come, let your anointing come. In Jesus'

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name. Amen. God really bless you. I wanted to

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do that to make sure it was done in the spirit.

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I do feel that, you know, God is just brooding

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over you at this church at this time. There is

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just a brooding, a brooding, a brooding. It's

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almost like that chrysalis season. You know when

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you feel you've been a caterpillar and you've

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been working hard and doing the stuff and and

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you've gone through that chrysalis stage and

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you just You're sort of you don't know quite

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if you're dying or flying or quite where you

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are Sometimes and it just feels like it's this

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good news or bad news How many of you feel like

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that sometimes a Christian war? You know, you've

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really been there with God and you think well,

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I feel contained But I think it's good news,

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but I'm not sure am I dying or am I flying? Where

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am I God? And I just have such a sense that it

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is that brooding time. Because there's a new

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dimension of the spirit of the supernatural that

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God wants to bring you. And it just takes courage

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because you can't hurry the process of nature

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or of God. There are times and seasons. And this

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is the year 2007. And I believe it's a year of

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a lot of completions. It's a year of a lot of

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full stops. It's a year when a lot of things

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you've dreamed about just have to just, whoa,

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and you just have to nurture it and brood over

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it and pray over it. You can't hurry it. It is

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happening, but you can't see it. And I would

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just want to say to you, this is 2007. It is

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a year of heaven touching earth. It is a year

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of heaven touching earth and you've just got

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to stand and stake that ground and hold fast

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There's been in Helen's had this picture during

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worship of you know Just that warrior time when

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you have to go up and you have to climb a mountain

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and put the flag in and stake it and It usually

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then marks a place where sacrifice has been Men

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have had to lay their lives down to get to that

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place to stake the flag And I believe that there

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is in the spirit and I want to prophesy There

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is a place in the spirit where you as a church

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you have to you've done some hard graph work

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uphill And some lives have been lost in the sense

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of you just feel, well, whoa, it's been hard.

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But I believe there is a staking, there's a mandate

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of staking in the ground that which God has given

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to you. I want to say, I believe that there's

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coming very quickly a staking in the ground of

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property. I feel that there's been brooding,

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you've walked around it, you've looked at it,

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which is the next stage of land. And should we

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go in here or not here? And how does this work?

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And where is it? But I believe you're getting

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very quick soon to that place when you put that

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fag in and it's staked and it is yours. And I

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had that sense of a stakeholder. And I don't

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know, it's just that you're a stakeholder and

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he is the ultimate stakeholder. And it's like,

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well, is it, isn't it? And I believe, no, the

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King of Kings, He's stakeholder property for

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you. He's stakeholder property for you. I believe

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also that others are going to have property released

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so that you've got finances to give to the property

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that needs to be built. And I feel that there's

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been investments and all sorts of stuff that's

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gone on that's just been contained and difficult,

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but there's a whole liberty coming. To release

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finances to stakeholder the next ground that

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you need to have in this place because it's 2007

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it's the year of heaven It's of completing And

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as many of us know this year seven seven seven

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the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh

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year And I thought it was interesting, I woke

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up five, five, five, grace, grace, grace. And

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I just feel that there's just these completings.

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Why do I say seventh is the number of completion?

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Because all the way through, seven is the time

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when we rest from our work so God can do His.

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For six days we need to work. But on the seventh,

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rest from your work because God is always working.

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So come on God, work for us. Work for us. In

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this year of seven, we've done the work, you've

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done the prayer, you've done the fasting, you've

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done the giving, you've done the serving, you've

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done the sacrifice, you've done. Now, Lord, as

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we rest, you work. So let it be. Let it be. Let

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it be. And so as we come to Isaiah 58, and you

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most probably will need to listen to the series

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if it's been done like that. But I just felt

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this tension of, and I'm gonna start in verse

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one. Shout it aloud, do not hold back, raise

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your voice like a trumpet, declare to my people

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their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their

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sins. I believe that God wants to break some

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sound barriers in this place. And there is a

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sound barrier even against the sound of the church

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and it's going to take great courage. And I believe

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that you're going to have to stand behind your

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leadership and the church and let this church

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be a beacon and a lighthouse on the hill that

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makes a noise. And you see, you know, if you

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go down to the coast, lighthouses normally admit

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light, but they admit sound in a day of distress.

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When there's a massive storm out there and it

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looks like the boat's gonna hit the rocks, it

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isn't enough just to admit light. The lighthouses

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begin to make sounds, isn't that true? And you

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hear the bee, bee, bee, and the ooh, the foghorn

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sounds out in the time of disaster. And it isn't

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enough just to let the light break forth, it

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has to make a sound. And I believe in these days

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that God is saying to the church, it's time to

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raise up your voice like a trumpet. And all the

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way through scripture, the trumpet call of God

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is the prophetic sound in a time of disaster.

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It is the alarm. It is the irritating sound that

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wakes up a church from sleepiness and brings

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a warning to a community of their godlessness.

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And so, you see, I explained and I have explained

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that this chapter in Isaiah, Isaiah 58, is a

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transition chapter where the prophet Isaiah is

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beginning to say, come on, we can have a breakthrough.

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Come on, the desert can blossom as a rose, Isaiah

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35. Come on, there is a voice crying in the wilderness,

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make the highway of our God. And every mountain

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should be brought low, and every valley should

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be raised up, and all mankind shall see it. Isaiah

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40. And you move on and then it's Isaiah 54.

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Come on, stretch out your tent. Sing, O barren

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woman, Isaiah 55. Ho, everyone that's thirsty,

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come. drink of me and you feel the prophetic

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call come on there's a change there's a breakthrough

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there's a highway there's signs and wonders Isaiah

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49 you know who are these that you've bought

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for me when I was barren where did these come

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from and now we say there is not enough room

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for us and that whole wonderful restoration chapter

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of Isaiah 49 and you feel the prophet beginning

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to prophesy life in the barrenness and suddenly

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it's like the brakes come on Isaiah Isaiah 58,

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whoa, if, if, if, then, then, then. And then

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you go back into hurray, shine, Isaiah 60, for

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your light has come. Isaiah 61, for the spirit

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of the sovereign Lord is upon me because he's

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anointed me. Isaiah 62, you will no longer be

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called deserted, desolate, forsaken, et cetera,

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et cetera. And it says, you know, oh, rend the

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heavens, Isaiah 64, and come down. And there's

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the triumphal ending. Again, but in the middle

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of all this prophetic cry for breakthrough comes

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Isaiah 58. And it starts with the trumpet call.

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And it says, look, all these promises are going

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to happen, but there's a sound shouting aloud.

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Do not hold back. Raise up your voice like a

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trumpet. And I believe God is asking in the northwest

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and in this Oregon area, will someone cry out?

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Will you break the sound barriers of political

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correctness? Will you break the sound barriers

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of even what other churches are saying? Will

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you be a true distinctive sound of the voice

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of the Lord your God in this area? Will you be

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that lighthouse beacon that makes the clear sound

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in the midst of sexual perversion? Will you be

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that clear lighthouse that makes the clear sound

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in the midst of all the occultic stuff. Will

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you be that one that begins to point the way

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and make it clear? We all know in 1 Corinthians

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14 verse 8 it says, you know, if the trumpet

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does not make a clear sound, how will people

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gather for battle? And one of the mistakes of

00:29:08.930 --> 00:29:11.910
the church is that we're nicer than God. We start

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saying, well, it doesn't really matter if you

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do this or do that or do the other. God just

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loves everyone. It will all work out in the end.

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But that's not what my Bible says. God says there

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are rights and wrongs, light and dark, righteousness,

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wickedness. And we need to release a clear sound.

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Will someone cry out? Will someone shout out?

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Will someone make an uncompromised call? Raise

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your voice like a trumpet. And I believe that

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this church has been mandated or given the privilege

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by God to be a lighthouse beacon that makes a

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clear sound, that raises people for battle, to

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break, as I spoke last night, to those chains

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of injustice, to untie those yokes on people's

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neck, to break the spirits of oppression and

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difficulty on people's lives. And as we raise

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up a sound we clear the airwaves so that the

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power of God can come in to help the people Because

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God loves people He loves the people but where

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those atmospheres are there we have to cry out

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to the heavens above to break the atmosphere

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before we can speak to the people to release

00:30:24.349 --> 00:30:27.869
them And so God saying come on. Is there someone

00:30:27.869 --> 00:30:30.170
who will cry out and raise their voice like a

00:30:30.170 --> 00:30:33.049
trumpet? Will you declare to my people their

00:30:33.049 --> 00:30:36.839
rebellion? We need to begin to challenge in -house

00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:40.140
before we can challenge the conduct of out -of

00:30:40.140 --> 00:30:43.900
-the -house. That rebelliousness that says, no,

00:30:43.900 --> 00:30:46.539
I'll do it my way. No one's going to tell me

00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:52.430
how to live my life. It then comes on to verse

00:30:52.430 --> 00:30:56.089
2 to 5. They seem eager to know my ways. They

00:30:56.089 --> 00:30:59.690
appear to be teachable and malleable. They appear

00:30:59.690 --> 00:31:02.910
to want to seek me. They seem like a nation that

00:31:02.910 --> 00:31:05.029
loves God. Do you read it? That's verse 2. And

00:31:05.029 --> 00:31:06.990
unfortunately that's a good description of both

00:31:06.990 --> 00:31:09.849
Britain and America. We've got all the appearances

00:31:09.849 --> 00:31:12.630
of churches on our streets. We've got all the

00:31:12.630 --> 00:31:15.670
appearances of God in our culture. But actually

00:31:15.670 --> 00:31:19.160
God is just stuck. as a plastic appendage and

00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:21.779
it's not really written into the fabric of our

00:31:21.779 --> 00:31:26.759
lifestyle and our true value system. And so you

00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:29.559
see, right at the beginning of this chapter,

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:32.359
it's come on, will there be a clear sound? Will

00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:34.940
you lift up a trumpet call? Will someone speak

00:31:34.940 --> 00:31:40.619
out and declare the rebellion? Will someone expose

00:31:40.619 --> 00:31:43.720
the sin of the house of Jacob? So I looked at

00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:46.079
Jacob, what is the sin of the house of Jacob?

00:31:46.420 --> 00:31:49.599
Well if you study Jacob, the quality of the hallmark

00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:54.680
of Jacob is he was a seeker. The Jacob generation

00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:57.660
was always the seeking generation. Jacob was

00:31:57.660 --> 00:32:00.359
the one who when he was in the wilderness wrestled

00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:03.859
with God, I will not leave you until you bless

00:32:03.859 --> 00:32:08.740
me. If you come into Psalm 24 verse 6, such is

00:32:08.740 --> 00:32:11.740
the generation of Jacob. What was their homework?

00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:16.960
They are the generation that seek me. And seekers

00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:19.920
will be finders. And so you see, and then if

00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.460
you read Isaiah 58, it immediately picks up this

00:32:22.460 --> 00:32:25.940
seeking theme, for they seem to be a people that

00:32:25.940 --> 00:32:29.980
seek me. And the sin of the house of Jacob is

00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:32.240
that we give the appearance of being God hungry,

00:32:32.380 --> 00:32:35.349
but actually we're not really. We're not really

00:32:35.349 --> 00:32:37.869
seeking God for him. We're seeking God to get

00:32:37.869 --> 00:32:44.109
what we need to live our life our way And so

00:32:44.109 --> 00:32:47.609
Isaiah puts the brakes on this incredible prophetic

00:32:47.609 --> 00:32:49.990
flow of there's gonna be such a mighty breakthrough

00:32:49.990 --> 00:32:52.750
I'm gonna bring such signs and wonders. I'm gonna

00:32:52.750 --> 00:32:56.190
change desert places and make it flowing places

00:32:56.190 --> 00:32:59.559
and we're gonna see such a pouring of the presence

00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.480
of God and he just goes, yes, but I need a sound,

00:33:02.779 --> 00:33:05.500
a clear, pure sound that stands up like a trumpet

00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:08.539
that begins to confront or compromise because

00:33:08.539 --> 00:33:12.740
there's such a seek, a sinful seeking that appears

00:33:12.740 --> 00:33:15.579
godly, but really at its root is self -indulgent.

00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:19.599
It's really seeking God to do it my way, God

00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:23.039
to satisfy me. And so then what begins to happen

00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:27.930
if the seeking isn't really God seeking, After

00:33:27.930 --> 00:33:31.269
a little while, what begins to stir in the house

00:33:31.269 --> 00:33:34.049
is, well, I don't know why I bother, I've given

00:33:34.049 --> 00:33:37.109
so much and God does nothing for me. And so you

00:33:37.109 --> 00:33:40.150
read verse three, it says, and why do you say

00:33:40.150 --> 00:33:43.910
we've fasted, but God has not responded? Why

00:33:43.910 --> 00:33:46.630
do you say we've humbled yourself and God has

00:33:46.630 --> 00:33:49.309
not answered me? In other words, it all looked

00:33:49.309 --> 00:33:51.970
the right sort of seeking, but when we don't

00:33:51.970 --> 00:33:55.380
get what we want, we fight God. And then verse

00:33:55.380 --> 00:33:57.779
four goes on, it says, and why do your prayer

00:33:57.779 --> 00:34:00.799
meetings end up as fighting meetings? You're

00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:03.420
in there praying, fasting, but the next minute

00:34:03.420 --> 00:34:09.840
you're striving, fighting. And the prophet, and

00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:12.019
I believe God's saying in these days, come on,

00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:15.480
we can't let our seeking, we've got to. have

00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.619
a trumpet call that really lets the light of

00:34:17.619 --> 00:34:22.280
God expose where our seeking has been self -seeking,

00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:26.900
not really abandoned, sacrificial God seeking.

00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:29.960
And it says if we sort this out, then there's

00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:31.639
going to be breakthroughs. And we read verse

00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:33.619
eight, your light will break forth, healing will

00:34:33.619 --> 00:34:36.320
break forth. And then it comes back again to

00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:40.500
the ifs, ifs, ifs. And then we come to verse

00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:45.349
12. And really to expand that I did that last

00:34:45.349 --> 00:34:47.969
session But then I felt that this is what I wanted

00:34:47.969 --> 00:34:49.909
to finish because you see I believe this is the

00:34:49.909 --> 00:34:52.130
sound that God's raising up in the house This

00:34:52.130 --> 00:34:54.590
is a trumpet because you see God wants not only

00:34:54.590 --> 00:34:57.329
to build his house inside. He wants to build

00:34:57.329 --> 00:35:01.550
his kingdom in community He wants a barn house

00:35:01.550 --> 00:35:03.449
How many of you know we need the barn to bring

00:35:03.449 --> 00:35:06.710
the seed in? But also he wants to make sure that

00:35:06.710 --> 00:35:09.210
the land is as fertile around as possible to

00:35:09.210 --> 00:35:14.400
get maximum yield and harvest And so we need

00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:18.519
both, I believe in these days, a mixture of revival

00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:25.400
and reformation. And so verse 12 to me, or the

00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:28.360
previous verses, you know, let's challenge our

00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:30.300
value systems, let's challenge what we're doing.

00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:33.039
That is more the revival. Let's go back, make

00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:35.559
a good self -assessment, see where we've died

00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:39.179
in our passions, see what's got into us and made

00:35:39.179 --> 00:35:42.579
us wrong. Because you can only revive something

00:35:42.579 --> 00:35:47.460
which was vive, had viver, had life. If it never

00:35:47.460 --> 00:35:53.630
had life, you can't revive it. And so you see,

00:35:53.809 --> 00:35:56.730
yes, we need revival, but how many know revival

00:35:56.730 --> 00:36:02.409
is for the church? You see, revival is to reawaken

00:36:02.409 --> 00:36:06.230
our passion. Raise up your voice, raise up, you

00:36:06.230 --> 00:36:08.469
know, revival is for the church. But how many

00:36:08.469 --> 00:36:11.449
know revival's not enough? It's not enough for

00:36:11.449 --> 00:36:14.150
me. Because when I look around me, there's so

00:36:14.150 --> 00:36:16.929
much that's dead and never been alive. Because

00:36:16.929 --> 00:36:20.610
you see, we've had 50, 60 years of building on

00:36:20.610 --> 00:36:25.960
our own worldly foundations. God got shoved out

00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:30.539
God got pushed out and since the 1960s a whole

00:36:30.539 --> 00:36:33.960
culture started which was self -made man -made

00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:38.019
secular humanistic occultic nasty stuff and there

00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:45.400
isn't much to revive there So we need a whole

00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:49.760
reformation. We need to go put totally new foundations

00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:53.000
in. We need to go into communities and put totally

00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:57.260
new stuff. And maybe because Britain is an older

00:36:57.260 --> 00:37:00.139
culture, we are coming around second time round.

00:37:00.380 --> 00:37:02.480
But for you in America, it's first time round

00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:06.340
because you got the fruit of the last revival

00:37:06.340 --> 00:37:09.440
and they came over here and their reformation

00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:12.619
was actually here in America. You see the Pilgrim

00:37:12.619 --> 00:37:15.460
Fathers that came to your nation, they came out

00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:19.119
of revival in England. You see when John Wesley

00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.199
and Charles Wesley and George Whitfield, if you

00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.199
read what the social status and the class and

00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:28.280
the social choices and value systems of Britain

00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:31.519
were in the days they lived, if you change the

00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:34.519
English a little bit, it would almost be ditto

00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:36.619
of what's happening in America and Britain today.

00:37:37.070 --> 00:37:41.090
I remember I just picked up it was a little brochure

00:37:41.090 --> 00:37:44.329
it was the annual minutes of a Sunday school

00:37:44.329 --> 00:37:49.829
meeting that had been run by one of the denominations

00:37:49.829 --> 00:37:52.889
I can't remember which one it was and the minutes

00:37:52.889 --> 00:37:58.510
read like this and we're talking 1820s it says

00:37:58.510 --> 00:38:01.920
we are serious I mean English was very old English,

00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:06.159
so I'm paraphrasing it. But it says, we are seriously

00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:09.079
considering whether as men it would be decent

00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:11.820
and respectful for the women to continue teaching

00:38:11.820 --> 00:38:14.980
Sunday school classes. The language has become

00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:18.920
so blasphemous that it is dangerous to leave

00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:21.719
our women alone with the 12 to 14 year olds.

00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:26.659
How many say that sounds? Then they go on and

00:38:26.659 --> 00:38:30.219
say, how? Can we allow the church properties

00:38:30.219 --> 00:38:33.440
to continue to be used by them because they're

00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:36.360
defacing the pews that, you know, this family

00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:38.920
bought and they got graffitied and vandalised.

00:38:39.059 --> 00:38:41.460
And the brand new hymn books that have been donated

00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:44.659
by such and such family had now been ripped and

00:38:44.659 --> 00:38:48.219
torn and spat on. And I thought it sounds just

00:38:48.219 --> 00:38:52.500
like the same thing. You see, the dirty devil

00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:56.320
has no originals. Because he's not a creator.

00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:01.059
And so it's like we're coming right round. But

00:39:01.059 --> 00:39:04.059
you see when Charles Wesley and John Wesley and

00:39:04.059 --> 00:39:07.019
George Whitfield began to revive the church,

00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.260
suddenly a brokenness came in them from the desperation

00:39:10.260 --> 00:39:13.460
of their community. And you see the church at

00:39:13.460 --> 00:39:16.980
that time began to step into all the gates of

00:39:16.980 --> 00:39:21.460
society. When did education start? By the church.

00:39:22.230 --> 00:39:26.710
You see, at that time, after the 1830s, people

00:39:26.710 --> 00:39:30.550
began to realise that we needed to read. And

00:39:30.550 --> 00:39:32.730
you know the main reason education was birthed,

00:39:32.730 --> 00:39:35.690
so that people could read the Word of God. That

00:39:35.690 --> 00:39:37.829
was why because you see there was a horrible

00:39:37.829 --> 00:39:41.309
control abusive system that all the priests and

00:39:41.309 --> 00:39:44.690
the clergy They got educated and they held the

00:39:44.690 --> 00:39:47.829
Bible to themselves and then they dictated to

00:39:47.829 --> 00:39:51.190
their communities What God was saying and it

00:39:51.190 --> 00:39:54.510
became so abusive and so disgusting that most

00:39:54.510 --> 00:39:58.769
people were just under the tyranny of the church

00:39:58.769 --> 00:40:03.429
That told people if you don't do this God will

00:40:03.429 --> 00:40:05.949
get you Isn't that disgusting? And so you see,

00:40:05.969 --> 00:40:09.329
there was a whole revival of a fear of the Lord

00:40:09.329 --> 00:40:11.730
that began to raise up in the church and people

00:40:11.730 --> 00:40:14.409
began to say, we can't do this to people anymore.

00:40:14.530 --> 00:40:18.210
We need to reform this. And so people literally

00:40:18.210 --> 00:40:20.409
laid their lives down to get the word of God

00:40:20.409 --> 00:40:23.889
in your hands. You realize it's not just in China

00:40:23.889 --> 00:40:27.610
that people died. People in Germany, people in

00:40:27.610 --> 00:40:30.650
Britain, people across Europe died, laid their

00:40:30.650 --> 00:40:32.829
lives down so you can hold a Bible in English

00:40:32.829 --> 00:40:36.880
today. And you see, that's what was happening

00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.900
at this time, to break the bonds of the slavery

00:40:39.900 --> 00:40:42.900
of the injustice. And so when you read verse

00:40:42.900 --> 00:40:48.320
12, now do you get a bit of a picture? You see,

00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:51.300
raise your voice up like a trumpet. Come on,

00:40:51.579 --> 00:40:54.099
though people will rebuild those ancient ruins,

00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:57.019
you've got to raise up the age old foundations.

00:40:57.280 --> 00:40:59.639
You're going to be called the repairer of broken

00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:04.199
walls and the restorer of street dwellings. This

00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:07.239
is not just revival. This is reformation. This

00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:11.619
is a total rebuilding program of finding foundations

00:41:11.619 --> 00:41:15.440
and going back and clearing ground So radically

00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:18.440
that you begin to put Christian principles and

00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:22.159
build on that again So you see the whole education

00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:25.659
system was founded out of a heart cry of revival

00:41:25.659 --> 00:41:28.300
This is we need the word of God in the hand of

00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:31.650
every man woman and child Women were not allowed

00:41:31.650 --> 00:41:34.269
to read. Women were not allowed to be educated.

00:41:34.449 --> 00:41:38.949
I find it fascinating that 200 years on, well

00:41:38.949 --> 00:41:44.730
not even that, 150 years on, 70%, 72 % of the

00:41:44.730 --> 00:41:50.690
church is women. Worldwide, far more women. But

00:41:50.690 --> 00:41:52.670
you know the devil did everything to make sure

00:41:52.670 --> 00:41:54.289
that women couldn't read and get hold of the

00:41:54.289 --> 00:41:56.889
word of God. Isn't that a fascinating thought?

00:41:59.130 --> 00:42:02.409
And it was only recently, really, and still in

00:42:02.409 --> 00:42:05.130
many cultures in the world, boys will be educated

00:42:05.130 --> 00:42:09.510
before women. Girls. Families will make sure

00:42:09.510 --> 00:42:12.050
their boys can read, and if there's enough finances,

00:42:12.550 --> 00:42:14.949
and whole governmental systems are still set

00:42:14.949 --> 00:42:19.070
up to educate boys and not girls. And that, you

00:42:19.070 --> 00:42:22.739
know, I'm just, can you see the reformer? You

00:42:22.739 --> 00:42:25.599
can't revive something if it's never existed.

00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:28.320
And so I believe in these days God is breaking

00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:31.300
up the church. Will someone cry out? Will someone

00:42:31.300 --> 00:42:34.260
shout out? Will you break the chains of injustice?

00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:39.159
Will you untie those yokes? Will you break every

00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:42.260
oppression? Come on, go into territory and start

00:42:42.260 --> 00:42:46.639
to rebuild. And I would say that the anointing

00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:49.079
I see more than any other anointing on the under

00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:53.059
30s is the Reformation anointing. They want to

00:42:53.059 --> 00:42:56.800
get in the streets and make justice happen. They

00:42:56.800 --> 00:43:00.159
want to see education be right. So you see, the

00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:03.599
church started education. That's why there's

00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:07.460
such a thing as church schools. All across Britain,

00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:11.239
church schools, we still have them. The church...

00:43:12.269 --> 00:43:14.289
founded education so that people could begin

00:43:14.289 --> 00:43:18.769
to read the Word of God. Boys and girls, I find

00:43:18.769 --> 00:43:20.949
it fascinating. You see, now your struggle in

00:43:20.949 --> 00:43:24.769
America is to get God in the schools. I wanna

00:43:24.769 --> 00:43:28.849
tell you God founded education. We've got to

00:43:28.849 --> 00:43:31.570
rebuild some foundations. And what was exported

00:43:31.570 --> 00:43:34.469
to you was God in schools, not God out of schools,

00:43:34.630 --> 00:43:38.429
because it came out of a reformation time. Healing,

00:43:39.030 --> 00:43:43.039
hospitals, et cetera. That all came out of the

00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.699
church. That's its history. All came out of the

00:43:46.699 --> 00:43:49.739
church. You see, what began to happen was people

00:43:49.739 --> 00:43:51.960
began to, yes, lay hands on the sick and pray,

00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:55.659
but then God began to give incredible revelation

00:43:55.659 --> 00:43:58.519
to people for breakthrough into medical science.

00:43:59.470 --> 00:44:01.989
Godly, Christian families, you go back and track

00:44:01.989 --> 00:44:05.190
again and again and again and you'll find God

00:44:05.190 --> 00:44:09.469
intervened quite supernaturally to give medical

00:44:09.469 --> 00:44:16.650
revelation for the body to break through. At

00:44:16.650 --> 00:44:18.769
the turn of the Crimea War, which is the end

00:44:18.769 --> 00:44:22.670
of the 1800s, 1898 and then I think it was that

00:44:22.670 --> 00:44:24.989
sort of time, the Crimea War, a woman called

00:44:24.989 --> 00:44:28.170
Florence Nightingale, know her name. You see,

00:44:28.300 --> 00:44:30.860
Up to that time, the whole way medicine had been,

00:44:31.099 --> 00:44:32.960
and you mostly see it, how many have seen Pride

00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:35.280
and Prejudice or those sorts of films. You see,

00:44:35.380 --> 00:44:37.760
the way medicine was is if you were a wealthy

00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:40.320
enough family, the family doctor would come visit

00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:42.880
you at home, and then all the care and welfare

00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.800
happened in the home. And so if you were a home

00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:47.980
that had enough food and enough care and enough

00:44:47.980 --> 00:44:51.800
servants and could get hot water etc Then you

00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:56.400
had the nursing or the caring profession to support

00:44:56.400 --> 00:44:59.260
the expertise of the doctor that visited you

00:44:59.260 --> 00:45:02.699
But if you didn't have a home, etc, you just

00:45:02.699 --> 00:45:05.400
died the doctor could maybe bleed you or do whatever

00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.280
he went home You had nowhere to go the infection

00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:11.880
got in you died So what then began to happen

00:45:11.880 --> 00:45:15.199
is wars began to happen and as wars began to

00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:17.300
happen and people were dislocated and fighting,

00:45:17.539 --> 00:45:20.579
getting ill away from the home situation, suddenly

00:45:20.579 --> 00:45:23.039
a whole new understanding happened that having

00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:25.239
a doctor that just cuts the leg off or something

00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:27.599
isn't enough. We need a caring profession to

00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:32.010
come alongside. And so Florence Nightingale actually

00:45:32.010 --> 00:45:34.650
went out to care for, I think it was a brother

00:45:34.650 --> 00:45:37.050
or nephew. It was a family relative that she'd

00:45:37.050 --> 00:45:39.210
heard had been injured at the war front. She

00:45:39.210 --> 00:45:42.010
was so disgusted by what she saw in those tents,

00:45:42.269 --> 00:45:44.969
of all these young men, literally rotting and

00:45:44.969 --> 00:45:48.050
stinking. You could smell the gangrene out because

00:45:48.050 --> 00:45:50.510
no one was just washing them. No one was helping

00:45:50.510 --> 00:45:53.730
them urinate or whatever else. And so she began

00:45:53.730 --> 00:45:56.530
the whole of the movement, which we now call

00:45:56.530 --> 00:46:01.150
nursing. And it came out of a heart cry, a prayer,

00:46:01.329 --> 00:46:04.469
you cannot let these young men die. And there

00:46:04.469 --> 00:46:06.510
is a piece of property in London, it's called

00:46:06.510 --> 00:46:08.630
the King's Centre, it's right opposite our houses

00:46:08.630 --> 00:46:10.690
of parliament, our governmental centre, opposite

00:46:10.690 --> 00:46:13.389
the River Thames, which she then purchased and

00:46:13.389 --> 00:46:15.909
set up the first nursing training school ever.

00:46:16.670 --> 00:46:20.610
And whenever they transferred your shift, they

00:46:20.610 --> 00:46:24.050
did it on their knees. And the sister who was

00:46:24.050 --> 00:46:26.650
in charge of the nurses would then take all the

00:46:26.650 --> 00:46:28.769
logs of what they had done with the various patients

00:46:28.769 --> 00:46:30.889
and they would do it on their knees and bow,

00:46:31.329 --> 00:46:33.590
kneel down and hand it because they said we bow

00:46:33.590 --> 00:46:36.070
under God who is the healer of all things. We

00:46:36.070 --> 00:46:38.409
know we don't have the power of life but God

00:46:38.409 --> 00:46:41.469
we ask you to give us grace and wisdom and so

00:46:41.469 --> 00:46:44.829
I hand you these bodies and the wisdom of God

00:46:44.829 --> 00:46:47.949
because we bow before God knowing that we can't

00:46:47.949 --> 00:46:51.360
take care of life without him. That was the function

00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:55.260
of every sister of every ward until 1966 in the

00:46:55.260 --> 00:47:02.059
UK. I'm sorry if it sounds like a history lesson,

00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:03.840
but how many of you can see what I'm saying?

00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:06.699
You see, we've got to go and reform. How many

00:47:06.699 --> 00:47:08.260
of you know you want to take back something?

00:47:08.860 --> 00:47:10.639
How many of you can just sense, you know, the

00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:13.739
devil's been rubbing us. And so that is the health

00:47:13.739 --> 00:47:15.900
service. That's education. Exactly the same with

00:47:15.900 --> 00:47:19.340
the police force. The police force, law and order

00:47:19.340 --> 00:47:22.139
was all set up because of injustice. There was

00:47:22.139 --> 00:47:25.320
a group in the area of East End of London and

00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:27.849
it just became... out of control, really it was

00:47:27.849 --> 00:47:31.349
like a mafia of today. And there's this gang

00:47:31.349 --> 00:47:34.130
of bully boys that have got infected into the

00:47:34.130 --> 00:47:36.969
whole farming community. And so when people were

00:47:36.969 --> 00:47:39.110
bringing in their produce into the East End of

00:47:39.110 --> 00:47:41.130
London, which was like the big market town to

00:47:41.130 --> 00:47:44.530
sell, these bully boys began to so bully these

00:47:44.530 --> 00:47:47.489
people and brutalise them that they couldn't

00:47:47.489 --> 00:47:50.590
sell their stuff. And then there was a Lord,

00:47:51.449 --> 00:47:54.630
one of the aristocracy who got so offended by

00:47:54.630 --> 00:47:58.849
this that Sir Robert Peale began to talk to him

00:47:58.849 --> 00:48:01.250
and they began to talk about founding a whole

00:48:01.250 --> 00:48:04.289
police service. And it started in the East End

00:48:04.289 --> 00:48:07.550
of London to begin to sort out just the abuse

00:48:07.550 --> 00:48:10.190
of the little people coming to bring their produce

00:48:10.190 --> 00:48:12.150
to give them protection so they could sell at

00:48:12.150 --> 00:48:19.099
a righteous price. And then it grew. and the

00:48:19.099 --> 00:48:22.300
establishment of law and order. I could give

00:48:22.300 --> 00:48:25.480
you loads of names, loads of people, but I believe,

00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:28.559
come on, North West, you are an entrepreneurial,

00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:31.519
anointed place. I believe God wants to raise

00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:37.739
up a whole new building. I mean, I could spend,

00:48:37.860 --> 00:48:39.699
oh, how many of you can tell? I could tell you

00:48:39.699 --> 00:48:41.219
loads and loads of stories and just to start.

00:48:41.619 --> 00:48:43.659
You see, I began to get fascinated with this.

00:48:43.980 --> 00:48:46.460
Okay, let me read you. Have I got a bit of time?

00:48:47.050 --> 00:48:50.010
A few names. Here's some people who maybe you

00:48:50.010 --> 00:48:53.269
know. How many of you know about Colgate? Would

00:48:53.269 --> 00:48:55.389
you like to know about where Colgate came from?

00:48:56.010 --> 00:48:58.650
There was a man called William Colgate. He was

00:48:58.650 --> 00:49:06.449
one of your pilgrim fathers. 1783 to 1857. In

00:49:06.449 --> 00:49:12.269
2004, their company sold 10 .6 million dollars

00:49:12.269 --> 00:49:17.409
worth of commerce. 10 .6 million. After this,

00:49:17.469 --> 00:49:19.650
he might want to buy Colgate. Anyway, William

00:49:19.650 --> 00:49:24.170
Colgate was born in England in 1783. He migrated

00:49:24.170 --> 00:49:26.690
for political reasons with his family to America,

00:49:27.070 --> 00:49:31.489
arriving in 1798, and came to New York in 1804.

00:49:31.829 --> 00:49:34.110
It was hard to get work, but he was taken on

00:49:34.110 --> 00:49:37.409
as an apprentice in a soap boiling factory. And

00:49:37.409 --> 00:49:39.989
he learned the trade. He showed a quickness of

00:49:39.989 --> 00:49:42.750
observation that distinguished him in later years.

00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.960
He closely watched all his employers' methods,

00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:49.280
noting what seemed to be mismanagement, and began

00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:52.519
making notes for his own personal guidance. At

00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:56.719
the close of his apprenticeship, he moved across

00:49:56.719 --> 00:50:00.219
the street and established himself in the same

00:50:00.219 --> 00:50:04.380
business. He dedicated his life to God, determining

00:50:04.380 --> 00:50:08.940
to return to his Maker an honest tithe of every

00:50:08.940 --> 00:50:12.719
dollar he earned. So when he earned his first

00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:16.460
dollar, the man sacrificially dedicated ten cents

00:50:16.460 --> 00:50:20.159
of it to the Lord. This he continued to do throughout

00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:24.400
his whole life and the dollars rolled in. So

00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:26.920
he soon became a partner in the soap business

00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:30.039
and then his partner died suddenly a few years

00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:33.639
later and he became the sole owner of this concern.

00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:37.239
The prosperous businessman now instructed his

00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:40.260
bookkeeper to open an account with the Lord and

00:50:40.260 --> 00:50:44.039
to credit one -tenth of all his income to this

00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:47.719
account. The business grew miraculously and this

00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:51.920
honest proprietor now dedicated two -tenths of

00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:55.679
his earnings, then three -tenths, then four -tenths,

00:50:55.699 --> 00:50:59.809
and finally 50%. It seemed that his sales just

00:50:59.809 --> 00:51:02.389
increased in exact proportion to his generosity.

00:51:02.929 --> 00:51:07.289
His soap soon became the household word across

00:51:07.289 --> 00:51:09.849
the world. He became one of the most prosperous

00:51:09.849 --> 00:51:12.789
men of the city of New York. He had great wisdom

00:51:12.789 --> 00:51:16.289
in council, was ready to help others in enterprises,

00:51:16.690 --> 00:51:19.369
he had wise influence in the community, and was

00:51:19.369 --> 00:51:22.230
a member of the Baptist Church. He was recognized

00:51:22.230 --> 00:51:25.050
as one of the leading Christians of New York.

00:51:25.789 --> 00:51:29.530
His distinguished zeal and generosity was known.

00:51:30.090 --> 00:51:33.929
He founded the American Foreign Bible Society.

00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:38.599
And in 1850, he started the American Bible Union.

00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:41.400
He gave generously towards the building of his

00:51:41.400 --> 00:51:44.179
home church, annually supported the Hamilton

00:51:44.179 --> 00:51:47.579
Literary and Theological Institution, contributed

00:51:47.579 --> 00:51:50.679
funds to the Baptist and really supported and

00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:53.480
founded the Baptist Missionary Union, and personally

00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:57.190
supported several foreign missionaries. He married

00:51:57.190 --> 00:52:00.389
in 1811, kept a happy home, could make jokes,

00:52:00.590 --> 00:52:03.110
great humor. People always felt comfortable in

00:52:03.110 --> 00:52:06.469
his presence. He purchased a home for his parents

00:52:06.469 --> 00:52:08.829
and ministered to them for as long as he need.

00:52:09.530 --> 00:52:13.150
God prospers Colgate and all that he's done.

00:52:16.969 --> 00:52:19.829
Cadbury's, how many know about Cadbury's? Do

00:52:19.829 --> 00:52:23.530
you want to know a bit about him? Cadbury chocolate.

00:52:24.619 --> 00:52:26.960
Come on ladies, you don't know what Cadbury's

00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:31.920
are. Getting worried. 12 million dollars worth.

00:52:32.699 --> 00:52:36.739
The Cadbury family were Quakers. Held strong

00:52:36.739 --> 00:52:39.940
beliefs that carried a campaign, particularly

00:52:39.940 --> 00:52:44.099
for justice, equality, social reform. Putting

00:52:44.099 --> 00:52:49.639
an end to poverty and deprivation. In 1824, John

00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:52.199
Cadbury opened a shop in the middle of Birmingham,

00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:56.320
England. He introduced cocoa and drinking chocolate.

00:52:57.139 --> 00:52:59.320
He had a long involvement with the Temperance

00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:02.260
Society. He then began to provide tea, coffee,

00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:05.960
as alternatives to alcohol. And that was his

00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:08.579
main reason of setting up chocolate. And he knew

00:53:08.579 --> 00:53:16.780
there had to be something good. In 1847, he expanded

00:53:16.780 --> 00:53:20.920
to a new premises. He set the national campaign

00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:24.239
to out. Nor the use of chimney boys climbing

00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:27.880
chimneys. He set up kindness the animal friendly

00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:30.519
society I find it interesting how many of these

00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:34.119
did a lot for women and children, but also animals

00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:36.460
William Overforce was the same, you know set

00:53:36.460 --> 00:53:41.559
up kindness to animals in 1861 he founded a business

00:53:41.559 --> 00:53:44.039
to train people from difficult homes and business

00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:48.300
in Business, I've got so much here, but Cadbury's

00:53:48.300 --> 00:53:50.440
let me read this Cadbury's was not an ordinary

00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:54.059
factory Bourneville was a pleasant green environment,

00:53:54.659 --> 00:53:57.179
in stark contrast to all the other Victorian

00:53:57.179 --> 00:54:01.219
prisons. He made industrial scenes which were

00:54:01.219 --> 00:54:04.539
more like prisons. Far ahead of his time, the

00:54:04.539 --> 00:54:07.699
workers were provided with housing. given pleasant

00:54:07.699 --> 00:54:10.820
surroundings, gardens and greenery. Children

00:54:10.820 --> 00:54:14.539
were educated, people were trained, pension schemes

00:54:14.539 --> 00:54:17.179
were given for employees, medical facilities

00:54:17.179 --> 00:54:20.820
were given, healthy and dedicated workforces

00:54:20.820 --> 00:54:25.900
were nurtured and supported. George Cadbury regarded

00:54:25.900 --> 00:54:28.260
the employees as an extension of his family,

00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:32.400
was known as the best employer. He treated them

00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:34.760
well, recognizing their service, and he created

00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:38.300
a village community, mixing both employees and

00:54:38.300 --> 00:54:41.880
non -employees. Many of his workers were then

00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:44.139
put through school as part of their working.

00:54:44.659 --> 00:54:47.019
He shortened their hours and made sure they got

00:54:47.019 --> 00:54:53.400
Sundays to worship God. The first. Then they

00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:55.860
came over here, et cetera, et cetera, set up

00:54:55.860 --> 00:54:58.320
charitable trusts. How many of you could just

00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:04.059
see that? Coca -Cola. Asa Candler, did you know,

00:55:04.139 --> 00:55:08.960
22 million in 2004. He's born, he's an American,

00:55:09.619 --> 00:55:13.340
came over Pilgrim Fires 1851, eighth of 11 children

00:55:13.340 --> 00:55:16.119
born in the hills of Georgia, an area famous

00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:20.000
for the discovery of gold. And if you look through,

00:55:20.139 --> 00:55:23.440
he was based in the Methodist Church. He wrote

00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:28.199
a check for a million dollars in 1883. Come on,

00:55:28.300 --> 00:55:32.079
God, Howard, you would like to do that. to establish

00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:35.019
a university where young men could be prepared

00:55:35.019 --> 00:55:38.079
for the ministry. Throughout his life Chandler

00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:40.840
made gifts and loans to encourage the well -being

00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:43.599
of people in the ministry, his city and his state.

00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:46.880
He was elected as the mayor of Atlanta at the

00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:53.039
age of 65 in 1919. So it carries on, got so much.

00:55:53.659 --> 00:55:55.900
But Chandler accepted the principle of Christian

00:55:55.900 --> 00:56:00.349
stewardship. He stated, God holds wealth. and

00:56:00.349 --> 00:56:02.789
gives it to individuals so that they can promote

00:56:02.789 --> 00:56:06.090
his kingdom on earth. Isn't that a good statement?

00:56:06.510 --> 00:56:09.750
God holds wealth and gives it to people to promote

00:56:09.750 --> 00:56:13.210
the kingdom of God. I just want to irritate you

00:56:13.210 --> 00:56:15.789
this morning, really. How many of you feel a

00:56:15.789 --> 00:56:21.630
bit irritated? And I just have got such a sense

00:56:21.630 --> 00:56:23.969
that that's what God wants to do. Come on, you

00:56:23.969 --> 00:56:29.449
people, say, me. We'll rebuild. on ancient ruins.

00:56:29.849 --> 00:56:38.130
We will raise up age -old foundations. We will

00:56:38.130 --> 00:56:45.550
be called repair of broken walls, restorer of

00:56:45.550 --> 00:56:50.070
street dwellings. And I believe that God wants

00:56:50.070 --> 00:56:56.349
a new cry to come out, to begin to awaken right

00:56:56.349 --> 00:57:02.460
here. in the Northwest. A whole new building

00:57:02.460 --> 00:57:07.860
plan for the Kingdom of God. Because it's time.

00:57:08.539 --> 00:57:11.800
I'll leave you these. How many know the Lever

00:57:11.800 --> 00:57:16.840
Brothers? Unilever, Tropicana, all that sort

00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:19.420
of stuff. Foods, you go look, Lever Brothers,

00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:23.289
they own... Oh, I can't remember how many Proctor

00:57:23.289 --> 00:57:26.289
I think they own. So many different things. Well,

00:57:26.289 --> 00:57:29.010
they got 50 million in sales. Absolutely Christian

00:57:29.010 --> 00:57:35.010
family. They're all your people. Rosie, Anthony

00:57:35.010 --> 00:57:39.389
Rosie, ever heard of him? He found a Pepsi. How

00:57:39.389 --> 00:57:42.130
funny, Coca -Cola and Pepsi. Absolutely Christian

00:57:42.130 --> 00:57:48.489
families. Isn't that fascinating? Come on God,

00:57:48.550 --> 00:57:50.949
do it again. You see all this happened in the

00:57:50.949 --> 00:57:54.329
1800s, late 1800s. How many believe we need another

00:57:54.329 --> 00:57:57.409
reformation? A reformation through the business

00:57:57.409 --> 00:58:00.050
to begin to change stuff. I'll leave these for

00:58:00.050 --> 00:58:08.429
you to beat my irritations. Because it's time.

00:58:09.730 --> 00:58:11.670
Let's stand, shall we, in the presence of God.

00:58:14.769 --> 00:58:19.309
I want you to dream for a moment. And he says

00:58:19.309 --> 00:58:21.610
to you, will you lift up your voice like a trumpet?

00:58:22.010 --> 00:58:27.650
Will you raise it up? Because I believe if we

00:58:27.650 --> 00:58:30.230
make a clear distinction and these stories show

00:58:30.230 --> 00:58:32.570
it, if you read it, all of them went through

00:58:32.570 --> 00:58:36.590
tough times where they were persecuted. But in

00:58:36.590 --> 00:58:39.670
the end they broke through and they did incredible

00:58:39.670 --> 00:58:41.389
things for the kingdom of God. I didn't have

00:58:41.389 --> 00:58:43.510
time to read all the things they established.

00:58:43.889 --> 00:58:45.889
So many of the Christian institutes and things

00:58:45.889 --> 00:58:48.949
you treasure were established by Christian businessmen

00:58:48.949 --> 00:58:57.409
who fought through the tough time. And I believe

00:58:57.409 --> 00:58:59.809
that there is all the money in the world to do

00:58:59.809 --> 00:59:08.010
what God orders. And God wants to prosper us

00:59:08.010 --> 00:59:11.840
and reform our thinking. and bring such a reformation

00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:14.739
to our community that people are going to look

00:59:14.739 --> 00:59:16.800
and say, you know, the only way you can do business

00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:21.019
is as a Christian. Come on, the only way you

00:59:21.019 --> 00:59:25.400
can do business is as a Christian. And I just

00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:27.619
thought it's fascinating, Colgate, Pepsi, Coca

00:59:27.619 --> 00:59:32.500
-Cola. The American institutions in many ways.

00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:37.199
Come on, we need, they all came. So on July the

00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:40.349
4th, maybe you can thank. Britain a little bit.

00:59:40.750 --> 00:59:44.289
For some of the pilgrim fathers we sent you.

00:59:51.670 --> 00:59:54.869
For God do it again. Because now it's time for

00:59:54.869 --> 00:59:59.409
you to raise your own sons and daughters. Now

00:59:59.409 --> 01:00:02.469
it's time to raise your own. We sent you sons

01:00:02.469 --> 01:00:04.969
and daughters and some were ugly and some were

01:00:04.969 --> 01:00:11.789
good. But that's family. So forgive us. But now

01:00:11.789 --> 01:00:14.489
raise your own sons and daughters. Raise your

01:00:14.489 --> 01:00:16.690
own reformers. Raise those that are going to

01:00:16.690 --> 01:00:19.309
literally raise millions for the kingdom of God.

01:00:20.230 --> 01:00:22.190
Raise those that are going to have as their strap

01:00:22.190 --> 01:00:26.150
line, here's a giver of wealth. That you begin

01:00:26.150 --> 01:00:29.630
to set up the theological colleges and the institutions

01:00:29.630 --> 01:00:34.010
of justice and social reform for the next generation.

01:00:38.159 --> 01:00:46.699
The presence of God is here. But before you can

01:00:46.699 --> 01:00:49.659
be a reformer, you have to be revived. And you

01:00:49.659 --> 01:00:52.360
have to know that the life of Christ is in you.

01:00:53.340 --> 01:00:56.840
You have to awaken your spiritual destiny. And

01:00:56.840 --> 01:00:59.260
every single one of you has a spiritual destiny.

01:00:59.820 --> 01:01:03.099
But unless you let God blow on it and awaken

01:01:03.099 --> 01:01:06.960
it, you cannot live the life that you were made

01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:10.480
to do. And I believe that there are people here

01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:12.860
this morning and if you're really honest, you

01:01:12.860 --> 01:01:15.139
know You're not shouting what God shouts you

01:01:15.139 --> 01:01:18.239
don't lift up your voice like a trumpet and really

01:01:18.239 --> 01:01:21.179
make a clear sound You've become very politically

01:01:21.179 --> 01:01:26.119
correct and confused But God wants to awaken

01:01:26.119 --> 01:01:29.280
revive a trumpet call in you that says yes, I

01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:33.639
love Jesus Forsaking all other things you put

01:01:33.639 --> 01:01:37.010
him first And if you're not really sure that

01:01:37.010 --> 01:01:40.050
Jesus is in the first place, the central place

01:01:40.050 --> 01:01:43.050
in your life, that's the first revival you need.

01:01:43.690 --> 01:01:46.650
You need the kiss of heaven to awaken and revive

01:01:46.650 --> 01:01:50.369
your life. And if you know you need the kiss

01:01:50.369 --> 01:01:53.409
of heaven on your life to revive you, just put

01:01:53.409 --> 01:01:56.829
your hand up right where you are. You know if

01:01:56.829 --> 01:01:59.469
you're not living right. You know if you need

01:01:59.469 --> 01:02:02.570
God to touch you. You know if maybe you're living

01:02:02.570 --> 01:02:04.510
a bit of a compromise at the moment and you're

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just saying, you know what God, I'm sorry. I

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need you to kiss my life. Maybe you've given

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your life to Jesus before but if you're honest,

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you know today in this house, my life isn't right

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and I need to say sorry. God, I need you to reform,

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to revive me before I can bring change. So just

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put your hand right up to heaven wherever you

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are. You know who you are. You know if you need

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that kiss from heaven to get right, thank you,

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thank you, hands all round. Now just touch heaven.

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And then let us all pray. Father, we ask you

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this morning, touch me with your presence. I'm

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sorry for the wrong choices I've made. I ask

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you, breathe on me. My love for you. Let me live

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for you with all that I do and all that I say.

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I give you my life. Live through me and let me

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make a difference in Jesus' name. If you prayed

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that prayer with me this morning and you know

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you want to touch from heaven on your life, and

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you want Jesus to touch you, then I'm just going

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to invite you to come down the front so that

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we can personally pray for you. Wherever you

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are, you can turn to a friend and say, I just

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want to go get prayer. Do you just come? Wherever

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you're sitting, just come. We love to pray for

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you and we know that as we do this, you can get

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connected to heaven. and that God could just

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awaken your passions, your calling. If you're

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in the middle, don't worry, just say, excuse

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me, someone will let you out. If the prayer team

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and ministry team could just come, men with men,

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women with women, just come and pray with them

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so that they can know that the touch of Jesus

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is upon their life. Just come forward with your

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friends, come and just stand and pray with them,

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men with men, women with women, and just pray

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for these people. Let them know the revival touch

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upon their lives. Let them know that God is breathing

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on their life today. Just breathe on them. And

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be specific. If you know there's an area of your

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life where you just haven't felt the touch of

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God, and you're saying, God, I just so need to

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know that you're touching me here. Be specific.

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Say, God, I need you to touch me. I'm sorry.

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You just come and let Him touch you. Be specific

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with Him. Just give it to God. Now for the rest

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of us, I just wonder if you could just take hands

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maybe with someone near you just to partnership

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and just pray for that spirit of reformation.

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Just begin to ask God to help you become changes

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in your community. Just turn, introduce yourself

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to someone, just pray a prayer of blessing over

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each other as we come to get dismissed. Ask God

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to make you a sound of justice. Ask God to put

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strength and grace upon your life. Ask God to

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begin to bless your business and all that you

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put your hands to and your workplace. In Jesus

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name. If you are interested in hearing other

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podcasts or contacting Life Bible Church, go

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to www .lifebiblechurch .org or call us at 541

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