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You've been hanging out with people and now their vision has become your vision.
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Where is your vision?
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You know what God has called you to do as a family.
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You know what God has asked you to do, but you have forsaken that because you want to look cool and you want to look accepted and you want to look happening and you become part of some cool vision.
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Guess what happened?
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God did not call you for the cool vision.
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God gave you a specific vision.
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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.
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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.
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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYCcom.
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That's CityLightNYCcom.
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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.
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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you.
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Bonnie Andrews is here a fantastic preacher and evangelist who is a blessing and a friend of City Light Church.
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So put your hands together and help me welcome our friend, bonnie Andrews.
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Come on, city Light, make some noise.
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Somebody say hallelujah.
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Oh my God, this morning I'm filled with gratefulness that I'm alive, I'm fully well, I'm blessed and highly favored and I get to share the Word in this amazing church.
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Come on, give some praise right now.
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Amen, so happy to be here and I'm a great friend of this church.
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This is like a second home.
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I want to thank God for the man of God, pastor Boyan, who is a senior pastor of this church founding senior pastor and for the great vision that God has given him and how he's able to steward it right.
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In this house Many people are not ready to pay the price for what God has asked you to do, but he's been faithfully standing in the front line and being served in the Lord.
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I want to thank God for the pastors in the house Pastor James, pastor Moe.
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I want to thank God for the amazing worship team.
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Amen, amen, amen.
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So I bring greetings.
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I bring greetings from our ministry.
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I just want to say this church has been a generous partner and supporter of our ministry on reaching students not only in America, especially in the US, on college campuses and high schools around the world.
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I just want to play a quick video from our recent event at UC Berkeley over to you.
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I personally do not know what you call it as agnostic.
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Okay, we're inside the auditorium.
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This is pretty interesting situation is changing this room entirely to make the event really, really special.
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I'm just trying out light bulbs to dim it and really going above and beyond.
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I am super pumped, expectant for what God is about to do.
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I'm going to look at the one that has full house the big warm welcome to doctors Rice Brooks and Brian Miller.
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I was going to ask you this girl you have to point out all religions were kind of the same, but then half way through the talk she just started crying.
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And then after the talk she came up to us and she was like hey, do you know anything about the Christian people who come to us on Sundays?
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I'd love to go to that.
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The fine-tuning argument is probably the most compelling In my personal life.
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Right now I have a close person who has lost the will to continue and this gave me a direction to help.
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Even if you are losing hope, there's a purpose.
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I was fantastic.
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I really enjoyed it.
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Awesome night, Learned a lot, Excited to take it with me and share the good news.
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It's kind of pulling me stronger towards Christianity.
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Come on, somebody.
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400.
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478 students in one of the most liberal campuses.
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Let me just say that Jesus is still changing lives.
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Jesus is still changing lives.
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Those two guys, the captains of the football team you understand the influence that these team members have on the campus, especially those young girls that really had.
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You know, this is like a serious event.
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It's not like a revival gathering.
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This is an apologetics event.
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We got the best of the best people.
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The author of God's Not Dead.
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We have a scientist from MIT joining us and we share the gospel through evidence, through evil.
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You know.
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Share about the arguments around the evidence of.
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You know, the Bible, the Scriptures.
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We talk about evil.
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Why do bad things happen to good people?
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We talk about evolution.
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We talk about all the science aspects, science and faith, and then we share the gospel and let these kids take a response and I'm telling you God is moving mightily on the college campus.
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Pray for us, especially this month.
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On the 23rd, we are going to be at MIT, right here on the East Coast, and my prayer is that God would open up.
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One of the most influential corridors in the world is right where we are.
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You know the entire Northeast, some of the best universities in the world are here, the nations are coming to our nation and we get this amazing opportunity.
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Leonardo Ravenhill said the opportunity of a lifetime has to be seized in the lifetime of the opportunity.
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I want to say that again the opportunity of a lifetime has to be seized in the lifetime of this opportunity, and that's what we're trying to do these kids while they're here.
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We have a window to share the gospel before they head out into the world, and we get this opportunity to share the gospel.
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One big report 1.1 million students 2020, a big report from 2020, 2023 is that 1 million students will reach for the gospel around the world in 42 cities.
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Out of that, 56,000 students were in person and over 11,200 seekers on our chat line just asking questions, and we've been able to share the gospel, send a Bible to them.
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Thank you so much for praying.
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If you'd like to partner in any way, want to give to us, please get in touch with the church and they will be able to pass it on to you and you get your tax breaks as well.
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So thank you so much.
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Is everybody excited for the Word of God?
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We had a powerful service and I believe that this Word is from heaven for you and I believe that this is for us, and I want to have that picture of my family right here on the screen.
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This is my beautiful family who's speaking at an event on 2024, 31st night, and this is a picture from them.
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I've been married to my beautiful wife.
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They're probably watching me online.
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Hi, hello, love you.
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See you soon for lunch.
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Okay, so well, I want to say that I've been married to my wife for 14 years.
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We've got three beautiful boys.
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We can, you know, we can put them together in a New York apartment, so we've actually officially moved to the burbs and we have some more room.
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And you know, let me just say 14 years of being married to this woman.
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It's been a joy, it's been, it's been, it's been amazing, right?
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But one of the things I know is that you know, for people I just feel like let me just throw it out to you People who wanted to get married this is totally off the topic.
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I just want to say, I want to throw it out for you guys, for people who need, who need to get married, we're not able to take a step of faith and you're wondering about where the money for the marriage is going to come from, where the money for the wedding is going to come from.
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So when I met my wife and you know, we finally decided to get married.
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I couldn't wait Because I knew this was it.
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You know, when God spoke to me at a word and confirmations, and I said I couldn't wait, I walked up, coming in from an Indian background.
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We walked up, I talked to my in-laws and here I'm talking to my mother-in-law and I was telling her hey, listen, I really I feel like we need to get married.
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I don't want to paint the town red and I want to go around, you know, I just want to make sure that I want to get married as soon as possible.
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So here's my beautiful mother-in-law telling me listen, we need some time to prepare.
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Okay, we need some time to prepare, which means we need some time to prep our finances put together, because in our sort of, you know, culture, everybody puts in the money.
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It's not just a couple, right, pastor James?
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So everybody puts in the money.
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So, listen.
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She basically said listen, we got to work on it.
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I'm like man, I'm in a hurry.
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Okay, and listen, I'm in a hurry.
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And I got the faith.
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I had no money in my bank, but I just told my mother-in-law.
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I said don't worry about the money, I'll be paying for everything.
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Let's get going.
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Okay, it was a step of faith and I want to say something.
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He is Jehovah Jireh.
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Okay, he's Jehovah Jireh.
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Jehovah will provide for us according to His riches and glory.
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All we need to do is that every promise in the Scripture is yes and amen.
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Right.
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If it is in the book, it can happen.
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So I just stepped out in faith and I wanted to tell you something.
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It was not just a normal wedding.
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We got married in the top five destination spots in all of our country, right on the beach, beautiful, exotic place, and the Lord paid for every bill.
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We had extra money to start our home.
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I didn't have to put a registry, I already had the money.
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I just had to go there and buy it.
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I'm telling you God is a providing God.
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I'm looking at people in the room.
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You're wondering God, where is my money going to come from?
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How am I going to get married?
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Where's the money for the ring?
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I'm telling you step out in faith and watch what we'll do in and through your life, because His name is Jehovah Jireh.
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This is totally off the topic.
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I just feel like in my spirit, somebody needed to hear this.
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Did anybody need to hear that he's a provider?
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Sometimes you feel like a minister.
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Oh my God, we're poor guys, man, we can't afford it.
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Let me tell you something you set the ceiling and the Lord exceeds our imagination.
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The Bible says as creative people as Sean and some of these people and some of our people in the room, we're creative people.
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We can think about some crazy things, but the Bible says he will do exceedingly, abundantly more than we can ask or imagine.
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What does that mean?
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He's going to exceed your imagination.
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How's that Somebody getting excited right here?
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He's going to beat your wildest dreams.
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He's going to beat your wildest imaginations, but only if you step in faith and receive and say God, if it is in your word, if God can speak and provide for this curry-eating man, he can do it for me.
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If you believe, it's an amen.
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Now, coming back to the topic, you know Mark Riscall.
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He made a quote like this you dated your wife to get married, but you have to continue to date your wife to stay married.
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Amen.
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Somebody need to hear that.
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Yes, you dated your wife to get married.
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Oh my God, pastor Moore, you know what I'm talking about.
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You had flowers, chocolates, gifts, time you were doing everything possible and borrowed ideas.
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And now you've got chat, gpt.
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I mean you're making poems and you're making write-ups and you're writing blogs and you're writing things about her, somehow some way to get her on boat.
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And then, men as men, we are conquerors, we conquered, we conquered her.
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Now we're on to the next assignment.
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Let me tell you something we got to have romance back in our marriages.
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Amen, we got to date your wife.
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That's why we need to have date nights.
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We need to have, you know, we need to find out the five languages of love.
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Read Gary Chapman's great book Five Languages of Love.
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Sit down with your wife and find out what are the top languages of her.
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Like, when I do something for my wife she's probably watching me right now she gets so excited.
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She says thank you, like five times.
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I'm like I just I mean I just watched the dishes Writes of affirmation big on her.
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You know, time is big.
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So all I'm trying to say I'm just trying to bring some context here to continuously woo your wife and your husband.
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The Bible says if you do not honor your wife, your prayers are hindered.
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You're praying.
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I'm like my God, what's happening?
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He's just hitting the ceiling, coming back down, because the Bible says if you honor your wife, your prayers are going to be heard.
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How is that correlation?
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Well, coming back to the topic of what I'm trying to say is that this is same in the life of the church.
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We got saved.
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I got saved in 1993.
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I was recently in India visiting my mom.
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I just fell in my heart.
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Man, I've been wanting to, you know, spend some time with my parents, especially around Christmas.
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My family wants me to hear me Christmas.
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So I'm trying to balance it out and decide.
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In less than 24 hours I'm getting on a plane.
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My parents can't handle that, you know, maybe American parents can't handle that.
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They show up in the door and knock.
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They're like wow, I was surprised my parents were probably died.
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So I thought, let me give them 24 hours notice.
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And I just showed up in their home and I'm like holding my mom out and just walking around the mall and just really dating my mom and spending time.
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And probably, if I would ask her, she probably said this is probably the best time of her life.
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We talk to her.
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I mean, we talk to each other every day.
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She's my greatest prayer warrior.
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She probably would be praying for me if she would know that I'd be ministering here Now.
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Let me just try to say it, tell you something, just like you know.
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And I finally got to the point that I found my Bible.
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That's what I wanted to say.
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I found my Bible that I started reading when I was saved, when I got saved in 1993.
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Oh my God, that Bible is colored.
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It's like a coloring book.
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God was speaking to me.
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I got notes on the side.
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I got the.
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You know, I got notes everywhere colors, crowns.
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I mean, I'm telling you I was on fire for Jesus.
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I didn't have an agenda when I went to prayer.
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I didn't have a ministry to run.
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I didn't have a family to feed.
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Every time I went before God is because I love Jesus and I want to love Him more.
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And when I love Him more than when I receive His love, I want to tell that to other people.
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Where are we right now?
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I want to show that picture right here.
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If you see the sign anywhere on the street, what does this mean?
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Take a U-turn Tonight.
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I want to say I have two messages.
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It's probably my lifetime messages.
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One of my messages is the main thing is if you are, if you do not know Jesus, you're walking away from Jesus, you're living your own life.
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It's time for you to take a U-turn, turn your life around, turn that car around, turn your life around and follow Christ, because the Bible says God came down.
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The Bible says John 3.16,.
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He loved, he so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son.
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I'm telling you, coming from the place that I am coming in from, we have 33 million gods, as they say in India.
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You can have a God for yourself, if I may say it right, and every religion in this world is based on this idea that man's got to try to reach God.
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Somehow I got to crawl on the floor, I got to climb up a mountain, I got to fast, I got to do this.
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I got to do 10 different things through works trying to reach God, every religion.
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And then you read the Bible, the greatest love story on the face of planet Earth God came down to man.
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It's not man trying to reach God, god came down to man.
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And there are people hearing at the frequency of my voice that you have never given your life to Jesus.
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This morning is your time to give your life to Jesus, because he loves you, he cares for you and he wants to take you away from the messes that you have been through and give you a new life and take a U-turn.
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But from the church this morning, I feel like the church, you and I, we need to take a U-turn.
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2024, we're like, oh my God, I believe God, you're going to bless me, you're going to prosper me, you're going to increase me.
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You're pulling every scripture that talks about the blessing.
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You want to be on that express road, be on that Tesla, the hybrid car, and just ramp it up full speed with your life and enjoy the blessings of God.
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But let me tell you I'm here to tell you, before you get on that exit, you need to take a U-turn.
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You need to go back and finish some unfinished business.
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Revelation, chapter 2, verses 4 to 5, if you can get your scriptures up, this is what John speaks to this church right here.
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Let me get this.
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What does it say?
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Revelation, chapter 2, I have this against you that you have left your first love.
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Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen, repent and do the first works.
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There are three words to be looked at here.
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Number one remember.
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Number two repent.
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Number three go back to the first words.
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What is the first word?
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Repeat it all over again.
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We have walked away from the first love to Jesus and this morning is a wake up call for all of us.