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You're a very physical body this earth, this solar system, this galaxy, the galaxies of galaxies, the universe of universes.
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He's upholding every atom, every molecule by the word of his power.
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It means that you're in his hand, and Jesus said you're in the palm of my hand and no one can pluck you out.
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This is something you gotta believe.
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This is something you gotta say.
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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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So I'll be honest, I love what the Lord does.
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Sometimes I do wish he would do it differently.
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It'd make my job a little bit easier.
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We might have a higher retention rate.
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I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
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But I wouldn't quench what he's doing, what he just did in me, what he did to my wife, what I see him giving Paul.
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He said I pray.
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Paul said this to the Ephesians.
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He said I pray that you would know the love of God, which cannot be known.
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How do you know something that cannot be known?
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Well, that first word for know is actually experience.
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I pray that you would experience the love of God, which cannot be merely intellectually known.
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So you have to get it in your mm and all it requires is you just letting those walls and that hardness.
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I know it's crazy out there.
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So you put on the armor, not the armor of God, but the protect myself from all the wolves around me suit of armor.
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You put up walls, but I'm telling you, those same walls will keep God out, you come into the Lord's presence.
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Let the walls drop like they dropped when the Trump was blown after seven rounds around Jericho.
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And don't be afraid, men, especially you.
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Don't be afraid to have a soft heart.
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Before the Lord, jesus said that new wine can't go into old wineskins.
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You know what old wineskins are.
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They're tough, they're rigid, they're hard.
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You know how they used to get the old wineskins Pliable again?
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They'd rub oil in them.
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Ah, do I have to go into the symbology?
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Oh, rub extra virgin olive oil.
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Holy Spirit comes in and he shmirs you and then that old, rigid wineskin of your art becomes soft and pliable again.
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And it's what we need today, hallelujah.
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And you need an experiential Christianity.
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I highly recommend God Encounters.
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You say do I have to behave like some of the things I'm witnessing?
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No, don't compare your experience with anybody else's and go ahead and have it in the privacy of your own home.
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I mean, you could have one here, I don't mind, the Lord doesn't mind.
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But go ahead and have one in the privacy of your own home.
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Open up your mouth to the Lord, cry out and say Lord, I will not let go of you until you bless me.
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I want to know.
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You Look, sometimes you just get to get tired.
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Lord, I don't want an itty bitty Christianity, I don't want an intellectual.
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The world doesn't need that.
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That's not what's going to get us through this year.
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It's got to be a mighty, rushing wind, experiential.
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I know that.
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I know that.
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I know Hallelujah, hallelujah, I pray.
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The Holy Spirit becomes so real to you that you can stand on His word.
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But also you know that you know that you know John wrote.
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He said these things.
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I write to you that you may know that you have eternal life.
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He's talking about, yes, the word of God.
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But you got to know, as the old timers used to say, in your inner knower, in that place.
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That's deep your spirit.
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I question my kids about their salvation all the time.
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I put the gospel in every prayer.
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The dinner prayer is we include thank you, jesus for dying on the cross for our sins.
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And now Victor is nine and a half and so I'm just, I just want to know where he's at with the Lord.
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I mean, he comes out all the time, but I so I'm asking him questions.
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And I said son, do you know that you're saved?
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He says yes.
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I said how do you know.
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I said because Jesus died on the cross for my sins.
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Great, great answer.
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That is really.
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That alone is enough.
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But then I just pressed a little more.
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I said how?
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How else do you know?
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I said do you, do you sense the Lord with you?
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He said you don't want a child, says it, he goes, yeah, and he points like this he goes.
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I just know, I just know he's in school all day.
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He's with me.
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I just know, hallelujah, you have in you a hope, you have in you a glory.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, jesus.
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Can somebody give me a tissue?
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I can't use my, my rag, anybody.
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Oh, thank you.
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Always, uni with the.
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And look, she always gives.
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Ask for one tissue.
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We're the kind of family that always gives a double portion.
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I want to.
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I want to invite everyone who's going to Guatemala this Wednesday to come on up to the front.
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We're going to have just a commissioning prayer right now.
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So we've been ministering in Guatemala since 2009.
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This makes 15 years.
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Over the last 15 years, we have helped City Light Church.
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When I say we, that means you, that means you, tithers, who have come to that place of maturity where you give the first 10th.
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Wow, look at this team.
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You've come to the place of maturity where you give the first 10th of your income to the Lord.
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We've been able to build over 40, not four, four, zero.
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And the reason I say over 40, we used to say the specific amount and then we actually we had it all on paper and the last trip we lost track.
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So I don't want to say 42.
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I don't want to lie before the Lord, but it's 40 plus.
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Churches slash community centers.
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I'm not crying about that, I just it's nice when you're ministering and the Lord is ministering to you and we go and we preach in the churches.
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This is the indigenous Mayan people.
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When we go to Guatemala, the Yishio people direct descendants of the Maya.
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They all recently came to the Lord.
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In the last 40 years is when we missionaries started going, and so this is a region.
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I mean you feel like you're in a different planet and we have a team of they're not all up here, but it looks like all of them are up here 26 fiery city lighters.
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This Wednesday we're going and we're going to have the greatest trip we've ever had.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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We're not going over there to play games and hand out little tracks and play.
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We're going in there to see the glory of God.
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We're not just going to be building, we're holding services in the night.
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People are going to get saved, they're going to get filled with the Holy Spirit, they're going to be set free.
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The children are going to be ministered too.
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They're going to have the seed of the eternal gospel planted in their heart, and much more than I could name.
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That's why we're praying right now.
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Will you stretch your hands towards us?
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We leave this Wednesday.
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Keep us in your prayers.
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Prayer makes the difference.
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Father, in the name of Jesus, a heavy, heavy anointing upon every single one of us, we pray in Jesus' name that you would be round about us like a wall of fire.
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Also, your word says that, with favor, you'll encompass us round about as with a shield.
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Hallelujah, that you would butter our steps, god.
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Your word says that we will open our mouth and you will fill it, that we would speak your words of life with your authority.
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We are Christians, which means little, christ, god, that we would be your hands, we would be your feet, we would be your mouthpiece.
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Father, let the fruit of this trip have far-reaching effects.
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In Jesus' name, and may that region never be the same again.
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In Jesus' name.
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Now just point it, stretch your hands at him and just bless him three times Be blessed, be blessed, be blessed, hallelujah.
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Give him a big hand because we honor them.
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Also.
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You may be seated.
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Oh, it's going to be a fun eight-hour bus ride to Neba with you guys.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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One of the ways you can gauge the health of a church is you have a missions trip and the thing fills up, like in a week or however long it took, and we had to set a cap because we can't accommodate anymore.
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And so part of the way you gauge is that you're not just consumers, just you know, and you come to church with an attitude, with what have you done for me lately?
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And if the product is no longer serving me, I'll just switch products.
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But they're looking to pour out, they're looking to give and really thank you.
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It's going to be 22 years for City Light, thank you.
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I mean I just say I thank you because it would get pretty old for me if I didn't see that Thank you.
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Thank you for trusting in the Lord to maintain the fire, thank you for being givers, thank you for being kingdom-minded, not being of this world.
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It would be very, very difficult.
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Pastor James right.
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Can you imagine if we had to stretch your hands?
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There's four of us going and none of them could even pay for it?
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We had to pay for them to go, we had to raise money for them and you so forward to.
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I mean, did you see what?
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You could just see the radiance of the Lord on that whole line of people.
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I'm grateful for that.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Well, the title of my message is God is going to see you through.
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I have been recounting the many times God has seen me through and one thing I'm convinced of is that he's going to see you through.
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He's faithful to his word and he's on your side.
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And I will just say this many times the biggest enemy many times is us, because you can know some aspects of God's nature and God's character.
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But if you don't appropriate it by faith, then it'll do you no good.
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And I do see sometimes believers just get a little lackadaisical with actually exercising their faith.
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They just get ho-hum-ish and they allow their lips to stay crazy, glued, gorilla, glued together, and your faith isn't going to be active unless you're speaking.
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I just want you to know that.
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How do you get saved?
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The Bible says, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Yeah, that means that faith is one half in your heart and one half in your mouth.
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So it does a Christian no good to just quietly believe.
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You got to speak these truths out of your mouth and Satan hates that because that's actually what gets the job done.
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And when you start doing that, he starts attacking your mind, starts telling you're being silly, fanatical, weird, goofy, whatever it is, but I'd rather be that way and see results.
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Amen.
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So you got to speak out of your mouth, declare the promises of God over your life.
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Let me just start off with this First, john 5.4.
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First, john 5.4.
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For whatever is born of God how many of you are born of God?
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Amen.
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For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that has overcome the world.
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Our faith, your faith, is going to get you through Even how is faith released With your speaking?
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So you get to decide and nobody can do this for you.
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Oh man, I really feel you right now.
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It's wonderful.
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You know, sometimes you just minister by faith.
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And today the Lord is just dumping His presence out and I feel His love for you, I feel His compassion for you.
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I feel, when I say God is going to see you through, I feel he's going to see you through.
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Would you please just cooperate and so agree with what His word says about Him.
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Agree, not internally, meekly, quietly, out loud, like, actually do this, like open your mouth and say God, I believe you're with me, god, I believe you're on my side.
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Whatever comes out of your spirit, I'm the head and not the tail.
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I'm above and not beneath.
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Lord, I'm more than a conqueror.
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Through Him, who loved me, you make all things work together for the good for me.
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Take authority over the devil.
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The devil is not a concept.
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He's actually a person, an entity with a personality who hates you, and he comes to steal, kill and destroy.
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So it is okay to take authority over him.
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Not only is it okay, jesus highly recommends it, because he did it himself.
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If Jesus had to address the devil, how much more do we?
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Yet many Christians don't ever do that.
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It's like there's two camps those that never, ever addressed the devil, and then the other ones that all they do is talk to the devil.
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And you can be a healthy Christian who's in love with the Lord and talks to the Lord and at times says Satan, the blood of Jesus is against you, your powers broken over my life, this family, this house.
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I draw the line with the blood in Jesus' name.
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Say those words out of your mouth.
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Congratulations, you've been invited into the faith walk.
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That's why Jesus was the ultimate faith preacher.
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Everywhere he went he preached faith, he examined people's faith, he commented on people's faith.
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Can you imagine if Jesus right now came up and down the aisles and he would say oh, you have little faith.
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To some he said great is your faith.
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To even others he said what you don't want to hear when is your faith?
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It's like he had a faithometer.
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No faith, because your faith is going to see you through and you'll know whether your faith is working by what you're saying and when you're in that pressing.
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Sometimes you can begin to curse your own life and that's when you got to zip it and maybe you've said something that goes against the word of God.
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Just go and repent to the Lord.
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Say Lord, I spoke in my sincere stupidity.
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I'm so sorry I rendered those words powerless, lord, that was because the Bible says death and life are in the power of the tongue, and then that love, it will eat the fruit thereof and then begin to speak life over yourself and agree with this is.
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This is vital, and this walk of faith, I want to just tell you it's forever Hallelujah.
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I've recently come into a place in my life for myself personally, not for the church.
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For the church, we're still believing for a lot of things, but in the natural there is nothing that I'm lying, there's no natural thing that I want.
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God has blessed us, god has rescued us, god has delivered us.
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He's just, there is nothing.
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And then I think back and I would think many times to the Lord.
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Lord, if I only got into this place, then I could relax.
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And really what I meant was not walk by faith, because you know when the battle is raging, I mean I can tell you that's the good spot and it is.
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And it's wonderful to be in the fire because there's a fourth man in the fire, but also, at the same time you're in the fire.
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You know it's like, on the one side it's so great, on the other side there's a reason why we're saying Lord, get me out.
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But then he got me out and then he blessed me and he blessed me and he blessed me.
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And then what?
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I find that really, no matter where he brings me and my cup overflows, I still have to walk by faith.
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I still need him.
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I'm so dependent on him and it'll be this way until I'm on the other side of heaven.
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That's how he designed it.
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This is how we get to know him, and we're supposed to walk by faith and not by sight, and daily overcome the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world Overfaith.
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Hallelujah.
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You all all right with that?
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I'm sorry to bust your bubble.
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I'm sorry if you think that if you just won the power ball, if you just got that promotion, if you, then you can just, you can serve the Lord from your lofty throne.
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It's never going to happen.
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You might be sitting on a throne, but you're going to walk by faith, hallelujah.
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And walking by faith, you know you can do it from a place of rest.
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Yeah, the only time it's not rest is when you haven't used your faith in a while.
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Then you got to rev up that old engine and it's kind of like not going to the gym for a while and you know what's waiting for you that first day back Pain.
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But just like there's muscle memory, there's faith memory and you'll plug in very much quicker than you think you will.
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Amen, let's go to Genesis.
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Just say this God's going to see me through Genesis 22, 12, through 14.