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Speaker 1 (00:01):
If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, you got an assignment.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And don't let anybody tell you that your assignment isn't
ministry just because it happens to be in a corporate setting.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Mother of small.
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Children who's chosen to stay home with those kids, don't
let anybody.
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Tell you got a ministry.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
In college student, you're the only student that stands for
truth when your professor says.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is the way it is and you say, no,
that's not the way it is.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Don't let anybody tell you, as the light on that
college campus, that you are not in ministry. Every single
one of us has an assignment, and the day is coming.
Thank you, Victoria for this, Thank you for this, Thank
you for this opportunity to be amongst such amazing women
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and in the presence of such wisdom.
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Oh my gosh, my life's been equipped.
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And I've said this before whenever I've had the opportunity
to be at this, and Miss Victoria is probably tired.
In Miss Sustine, you're probably tired of hearing me say it,
but I'm going to say it again because I think
it's so important and it's so meaningful to me. But
I was about eighteen nineteen years old at the University
of Houston. Here right here, but I was about eighteen
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nineteen years old at the University of Houston. One of
my college buddies is sitting right here on the front room.
Went to school together about twenty three, twenty four years
ago now, and one day an older woman at the time,
while she's about thirty, you know, we were nineteen, she's
thirty year old. That kind of took a bunch of
us under her wings. So she was older than us,
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and she took us under her wing. And one day
she said, we're going to Lakewood, and we went to
Lakewood when it was this little fledgling, small group of believers,
small is relative, and all of us walked up in there.
Do you remember soon he about ten of us, we
filed in. We sat down had church under the leadership
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of John Ostein.
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And then she filed us upfront during the prayer.
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Time, and that man walked down the row, Miss Osteine,
and he laid hands on every single one of us,
and he prayed God's blessing on us. And so anytime
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I have the privilege of being on this platform, I
cannot tell you what a gift.
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It is to me to see the fruit of God's
faithfulness through the life of this family. Thank you.
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So Jerry and I, my husband and I, we've been
married nearly twenty years now.
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I can't believe that. And we have three sons that
we are raising.
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They are giant. They are giants, y'all. My fifteen year
old is six foot two inches, His fourteen year old
brother is six foot two inches tall. Their nine year
old brother is coming up right after them. They are
some big boys. And one of the things I do
for these boys, in fact, you should know but that
my full time job is feeding the boys.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That is my full time job.
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I am trying to figure out any which way I
can differently to cook chicken for dinner every single night, just.
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Like y'all, it's exactly what I'm doing. So we just
do sports and everything with the boys. And they're growing
up so quick.
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So one of the things that I have done since
my oldest was five, I started when he was five.
I went to Ross dressed for lest In the backhand corner,
left hand side, there is a one row that has
books and journals and those sorts of things. I went
and I grabbed three journals, hard back journals. They were
just little with the little spine, spiral spines, nothing real fancy.
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Four ninety nine. I picked one for each boy. I've
had it ever since my oldest was five, and at
that age I started to record a journal for them.
I do not write in it every week or every
month or even you know, just on a regular basis.
It's just when something happens I don't want to forget,
or they say something that's really interesting, or I see
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the hand the handiwork the fingerprints of God and their
life in some way, I kind of write it down.
My goal is to have a collection of writings and
thoughts and love letters really to my boys about their
life that I hand over to them when they're mature
enough to appreciate it, or better yet, I might just
hand it over to their wives and say, girl.
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This is what you're getting yourself into right here.
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And because my oldest will be sixteen next month, I
was looking through his journal and came across the story
from when he was five. I read it with fond
memories because it was the little journal entry I put
in there about him losing his first tooth.
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He'd wiggled that tooth and wiggled it. He couldn't wait
for you to come out.
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And the reason he couldn't wait for it to come
out is because we had told him that when your
tooth comes out, the tooth fairy will come.
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She will come and she will replace.
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The tooth with a treasure. So he could not wait.
Finally the tooth came out. And that is my boy
still to this day that has never been eager to
go to sleep. But that night he dove into bed
at bedtime. He could not wait.
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He put the tooth underneath the pillow. He laid his
head down, and he was looking.
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He was trying to go to sleep, but every three
to five seconds he would look under the pillow to
see if anything had happened.
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Finally he did fall asleep.
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We let some time pass, and then about three o'clock
in the morning or so, the six foot two, two
hundred and fifty pounds tooth fairy that I sleep next
to every night.
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He got up.
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He went upstairs, and he replaced the tooth for a
treasure in the morning. I knew when Jackson, and at
the time we just had Jackson and Jerry Junior.
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I knew when they got I knew. I could hear it.
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I could hear the excitement, the squeals, I could hear
the stomps on the floor, I could hear the eagerness
and enthusiasm. Because the Toothbairry had come and left the treasure.
They bounded down the stairs into the room. Jackson's fists
were both clenched clothes. He ran up to me and said, bom.
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The toothbairry came. She left me a treasure.
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I said, buddy, let me see what she left.
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You opened up one hand and it was a package
of gummy bearers, which was a big deal at the
time because that was his favorite snack. He opened up
the other hand and it was five dollars. Now, I
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don't know what happened when y'all were growing up, but
I grew up in the days of dimes and nickels.
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Can the church say, amen?
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It might?
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So you know, I'm trying to be excited.
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For the boy, but really I'm annoyed about this whole
five dollars situation.
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And my husband can see that. I am troubled.
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And you know, if mama ain't happy, nobody said. After
Jackson left the room, Jerry came over to me and
he said, Forriscilla, don't worry. He said, do you remember
that last month was Jackson's fifth birthday? He said, do
you remember that? We had all of the family over.
Still to this day we do that when one of
the boys has a birthday, we invite the whole clan over.
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Grandparents and cousins and aunts and uncles. Everybody comes to celebrate.
He said, do you remember they all came. Most of
them had cards, and in those cards were five dollar bills.
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He said, do you remember? We took all those five
dollar bills and.
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We put them in a birthday drawer in the kitchen.
He said, this morning, at three am, I went right
inside that birthday drawer.
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Dave Ramsey would be so proud of us.
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That's good financial stewardship, right there is what that is.
So that morning, really what I had witnessed was my
little boy getting excited about treasure that actually already belonged
to him, treasure that he already had he just didn't
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know it. I came to tell somebody that there.
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Is treasure.
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Hidden in these earth and vessels.
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I came to tell you that by God's spirit there
is gifts and there is power that has been entrusted
to you, that is available to you, available to me
as daughters of the most High King.
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You need to know that even if you do not.
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Believe what the scriptures declare to be true about your treasure,
if you don't believe that you've been forgiven, or that
you already have the victory, or that the enemy is
already underneath your feet, and that there is no condemnation
for those of us who are in Christ Jesus, or
that you have been made competent by the spirit of God,
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I came to tell you that even if you don't
believe it, the enemy does.
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He knows who you are, what.
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A shamed it would be for him to know and
us not to.
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So it's time for us to open up the drawer
and start pulling out the treasure. The treasure we've been ignoring,
the treasure we've been calling insignificant, the thing that we've
said is not enough, not valuable. Lord, if I could
just be like her, Lord, if I could just be
like that, if I could just have a bit more
of that, if I.
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Weren't me, then Lord, I'd be enough. He says, ahh,
you have enough.
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You just haven't opened up the drawer pull out the treasure.
There is a story in scripture that is going to
be very familiar to you.
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It's the one that the Lord has been using in
my own.
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Life to remind about how he will compel me. And
he will compel us to open up the drawer and
reach in and pull out the treasure, and see what
it's like when he uses what he has already entrusted
to us.
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Luke, chapter nine, verse one.
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And two says this, and he called, that's Jesus. He
called somebody, say he called. He called the twelve together,
and he gave somebody say.
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He gave He gave them power, and he.
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Gave them authority over all demons, and to heal all diseases.
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Verse two.
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And then he sent somebody, say he sent he sent
them out. He called them, he gave them treasure, and
then he sent them out. Verse ten says, and then
when they returned to him, they gave an account to
him of everything they had done, and taking them with him,
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he withdrew by himself to a kill called beth Sta.
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The multitudes were aware of this.
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Verse eleven says, so they followed Jesus because you know
wherever Jesus went.
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A crowd was sure to follow. They weren't quite sure
he was the Messiah.
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But what they didn't know was that when this man
showed up, blind people could see.
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What they knew is that when Jesus showed up, the
lame could walk, and the death could hear. The dead
were being raised.
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So wherever Jesus was they came, the crowd followed, and
welcoming the multitude, Jesus began speaking to them about the Kingdom.
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Of God and curing those who were in need of healing.
Verse twelve.
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So the day starts to come to a close, and
the twelve come to Jesus and say, now, Jesus, you're
gonna have to send this multitude away. They've got to
go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging.
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They got to get something to eat. Jesus, come on,
now here, we're in a desolate place.
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Verse thirteen. Jesus said to them, uh, uh, you give
them something to eve. They said, Jesus, we have no
more than five low two fish, unless perhaps you let
us go and buy food for all these people, because
you know we're not enough as we are right now
there were about five thousand men. Scholars say the reason
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why Luke specifies men is because there were women and
children too, So there were probably about fifteen thousand hungry
people that day.
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Jesus said, have them reclined to eat in groups of
about fifty each.
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So they did so, had them all reclined, and then
he took the five loaves and the two fish, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and then he
broke them, and he kept giving them to the disciples.
Just set before the multitude. In Verse seventeen says, they
all ate, they were all satisfied, And just so you
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know how satisfied they were, they went by and picked
up all the leftovers because there was overflow. In this story,
we meet a hungry multitude, a multitude.
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That is placed a demand. They have a.
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Need, There is a lack that needs to be filled.
And most of the time when this proportion of the
scriptures is looked into the multitudes who we concentrate on
the five rows and the two fish and how they
were satisfied with it. But just for a few moments tonight,
don't want to talk to you about the twelve disciples,
those who walked with.
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Jesus and talked with Jesus. Those who were in close
communion with Jesus, those.
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Who would come out on a Friday night to be in.
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The presence of Jesus amongst the people of Jesus. I
want to talk to the disciples of Jesus. The disciples
on this occasion had.
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Been called to Jesus by Jesus. They were having a
conversation with each other. Jesus entrusted them with power and authority,
and then he sent them out. I love that this
gospel is one of the Synoptic gospels. The synoptic gospels
are those that tell their three of them, Matthew, Mark,
and Luke. These three tell some of the similar stories
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in a similar tone, in a similar way, so that
we're able to get more layers to the story.
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I love the gospels in that way. They give us layers.
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Just like if someone were to offer you a chocolate cake,
but they gave you options. You could have a one
layer of chocolate cake or a seven layer of chocolate cake.
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Which one You're gonna choose.
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Seven every single time, Because the more layers there are,
the more rich and delectable the experience becomes Mark chapter
six is a layer of chocolate cake for us.
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It tells us that this is the experience when Jesus
called the disciples to himself, and then he sent them
out in pairs. Do you remember, two by two into
the neighboring towns and communities. They were supposed to teach
and preach and perform miracles that would authenticate the deity
of Jesus Christ Mark chapter six, our layer of chocolate
cake tells us that they expended themselves.
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Y'all. They were busy from sun up to sundown.
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They were about the task of doing what it was
that Jesus had assigned to them.
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They wanted to be diligent about it.
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So much so that when they came back to Jesus
they gave an account to him, and Jesus recognized their exhaustion.
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He saw that they were tired.
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In fact, Jesus himself commented that they didn't even have
time to eat.
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Because they had been so busy.
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They were depleted, and they were tired. And they came
back to Jesus and they gave him an account for
how they'd handled the assignment that he.
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Had entrusted to them. If you're a believer in Jesus Christ.
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You got an assignment, and don't let anybody tell you
that your assignment isn't ministry just because it happens to
be in a corporate setting. Mother of small children who's
chosen to stay home with those kids, don't let anybody.
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Tell you that a ministry.
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Every single time you make that chicken for dinner and
you set it on that table and you teach those
kids a Bible verse before bedtime, don't let anybody tell
you that that ain't ministry. Corporate woman, when you sit
around that boardroom and you're the only one that has
a set of ideals that lines up with the truth
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of Scripture at a table with those who are thinking
and acting and planning in a way that is left
of God's word, don't let anybody tell you that you
around that.
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Boardroom a ministry. That's ministry.
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High school student, college student, you're the only student that
stands for truth.
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When your professor says this is the way it is
and you say, no, that's not the way it is.
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Don't let anybody tell you, as the light on that
college campus, that you are not in ministry. Every single
one of us has an assignment, And.
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The day is coming when we're going off to give
an account. And here's the thing.
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You don't know when that day is, My thirty eight
year old cousin, thirty eight for small children, the day
is coming, and you don't know the day or the hour,
neither do I. When we're gonna have to stand before
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him and give an account for how we handled what
he had entrusted to us. I'm asking you tonight, how
are you handling your assignment? Because young women, if you
think that you're young because of your age, listen to me.
If you're twenty but you only have till thirty.
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You're pretty old. If you're fifty and you're gonna live.
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Until one hundred, then you're pretty young.
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Age is just to number, my friend, and you and I.
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Cannot qualify young or all base birth based on our
birth date. It's based on our death date. And since
we don't know when that day is, that I implore you, sisters,
by the mercies of God, to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling by which you have been called.
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Because listen, I don't know about y'all, but when I
see him face to face, I'm looking for a well
done I'm looking for well done. When I see him,
he will not ask me how many Instagram followers I had.
He will not wonder whether or not folks liked my post.
He will not be interested in whether or not my
selfies were perfectly lit. He will ask me, did I
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know his son? And then I will give an account.
So the disciples they come, and they give an account
to Jesus. I wondered if there was a recipe for
effective ministry, because if these guys were willing to come
and look Jesus in his face and give an account,
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I figured there might be a recipe for us for
effective ministry. I'm interested, anybody interested. There are three ingredients
to the recipe.
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Luke chapter nine, verse one. It says he called them.
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He called them, and his calling superseded any personal ambition.
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That they had.
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They laid down whatever they were going to do because
they heard the call of God beckoning them to do
something else.
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The beautiful thing about that entire picture is that all
of the glory of God the Father, all of the
glory of Heaven, was packaged in human flesh. Jesus wanted
so much, God the Father.
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Wanted so much to make sure that he could speak,
and so that humanity could hear that, He left.
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His throne in glory, put on flesh.
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So that the disciples could hear his call.
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And in the same way he has given us the
Holy Spirit, so that each and every one of us
have the privilege to hear the calling of God on
our lives, the conviction, the unction, depressing the fire that
is shut up in your bones, sending you in a
particular direction, heed the call of God on your lives.
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Then they were not just called. I love so much
that before he skips to the third ingredient and the
recipe sending them.
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I love that before we get to the third one,
there's that second one. He did not just call, But
then he gave them power and authority.
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It means that what he was calling them to do,
he was simultaneously equipping them with supernatural power to be
able to pull it off.
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So it's good news for anybody in the room that.
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You feel like you've got a dream that is way
over your head.
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You've been called to do something you.
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Don't have the money for, you don't have the time for,
you don't have the patience for, you don't have the
gifting for you don't have the talent for you don't
have the connections for the good thing.
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And the great thing about our.
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God is that he does not call people who are
already equipped.
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He calls you, and then for the.
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People that say yes, he equips them with what they
need for the calling.
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He entrusted them with power and authority. And can I
tell you why this is important?
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This is important because in order to accomplish supernatural tasks,
you have to have supernatural capacity. In other words, you
can be the most talented person in the world, but
if you go.
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In your own strength and power, you still.
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Won't be able to accomplish the God calling on your life.
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It requires what it is.
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That only God himself can give to you to accomplish
the task.
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Ooh, the enemy hopes you will go in your own power.
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He hopes you will think you are flashy enough, and
savvy enough, and talented enough and impressive enough so that
you will no longer lean on God instead of leaning
to your own understanding. But it is not by power,
and it is not by mind. It is by the
spirit of God. And some trust in horses, other folks
trust in chariots, but not us.
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We trust in the name of the Lord, our God.
So he called them, and then he entrusted them.
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He gave them some treasure, and then he sent them.
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He's the one who did the sending. Resists the urge
to send yourself.
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To do something that it is not yet time for,
because just as important as our calling is, that is
equally as important as the timing is in which that
calling is outworked in our lives. And if you go
too soon, you might, if you give birth too soon
to that which God is trying to produce through you,
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you might abort what it is that he's trying to accomplish.
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In you, the.
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Spiritual backbone, the fortification that he was trying to establish
in you, so that you could handle the spotlight when
it hit you.
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Because listen, that spotlight that you may be craving.
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If it hits you and you have no character, it
will burn you to a chrisp. So he called them,
he entrusted them, He sent them out, and they returned
to him and gave an account.
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They were tired.
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The disciples had been given it everything they had. And
I know there are some of you in the room,
and you would admit that you haven't done it perfectly.
But man, you've sure been purposeful. You've been intentional about
this marriage. You've been given it everything you've got. You've
been intentional about that teenager. You've been given that kid
everything you've got, this toddler that has this specific bent
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or this specific issue that you've been doing everything you can,
going to see every expert.
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That you can, reading everything that you can to be
the best that you can as a mother, single mother.
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You've been giving it everything that you've got, working the
jobs that you've got to work to keep food on
the table. You've been giving that business, that ministry that
endeavor everything that you have, and you, the disciples are tired.
The good news about Jesus is that when the disciples
come to him tired, he does not say, go away
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from me and get yourself together. Come back and then
I can use you. He says, come away with me.
In other words, listen, the cure for your exhaustion is
intimacy with Jesus.
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That's the cure, y'all.
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I'm saying, I agree, Take the holiday, take the vacation.
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Tell them you need a little sabbatical. You gotta step
back for just a little bit. You need a little
margin in your life. Take the holiday, but don't take
a holiday from Jesus.
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Don't take the sabbatic from your relationship with the Lord.
Prayer shouldn't exit your schedule because.
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These are your rest days. You still need to be
the deer that.
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Pants after the water.
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Your soul has still gotta be replenished and can only
be replenished when you have intimacy with Him. And you're
trying to figure out Lord, you told me that I
was gonna be replenished. You told me that I was
gonna refresh. You told me that you had something that
you wanted.
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To give to me.
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Why would you take me here to this place where
I'm being pressed down by a multitude of issues and
concerns and frustrations.
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There's something overwhelming.
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Me that is bigger than what I feel like I have.
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The capacity to handle. Why would you bring me here?
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This tells us that the story of the Feeding of
the five thousand is not just.
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About the five thousand. It's also about the disciples. It's
not just about the multitude getting fed.
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It's about the disciples being fed physically, spiritually, emotionally. And
it tells us that the five loaves and the two
fish are the gift.
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To the multitude. But it's the multitude.
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That's the gift to the disciples, because the multitude is
what's going to make them have to finally open up
their drawer, pull out the treasure that they would have
otherwise ignored, place it in the hands of a multiplying
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master who's.
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Gonna show them.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
What it looks like when he takes their little bit
and makes it a lot. There is no replenishing like
watching God multiply your loaves and fish. I came to
tell somebody who's got a multitude pressing on you in
your marriage, or in your finances, or in your health,
or in your parenting, or in your singleness, that thing.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Is weighing down on you.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That means that there is a drawer waiting to be
openeds there's.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Some treasure waiting to be unveiled.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And when you take it out finally, when you stop
ignoring it, when you stop circumventing it, when you.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Stop acting like God hasn't given.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You everything you need, when you will finally recognize this
little bit, this little gifting, this little talent, this little time,
this little money, this little dream, this little vision, that
this is all I need if I'll just pull it
out and entrust it to the hands of a multiply master.
Can I just show you real quick what the disciples did,
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just real quick, because I think it's interesting, because it's
so us. They said to Jesus in verse twelve, send
the multitude away. And here's the thing that's so us. See,
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we don't just say it, we pray it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
We pray away.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What we don't even recognize is the gift He has
given us to press us into opening up our drawer.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
So if you prayed for your.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Multitude to be taken away, and in.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
God's sovereignty he has left it in your life, that means.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
There's a drawer. There's a drawer. Start looking for a drawer.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
If there's a multitude, that means there's loads and fish
somewhere in your life that is supposed to be entrusted
into the hands of God.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So we pray away.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Did you realize in verse twelve they are wishing away
what in verse eleven Jesus welcomed.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Jesus welcomed what they're wishing away.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
So the disciples say, get this multitude away. They don't
even know they're praying away their miracle. Everybody wants to
see the Red Sea divide, but nobody wants to be
the one that comes face to face with a red sea.
Everybody wants to see the walls of Jericho come tumbling down,
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but nobody wants to be the one who has to
walk around those walls in obedience to God to trust
him to shout prior to seeing one brickfall. If there
is a multitude, that means there is a miracle.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Okay, so praise the multitude.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Or they ask for the multitude to go away, and Jesus,
he doesn't go for that. So when he doesn't, he
doesn't go for that.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The disciples have another solution. This is U s two.
Send the multitude away.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Jesus says mm m, And they say, well, send us away.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Then you see it.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They said, send us to the surrounding and villagers so
that we can go and buy more, accumulate more, get more.
Because as we are is not sufficient, So send us
somewhere else so we can get better and be better
suited to this multitude.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Because as we are is not enough.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It has always been the tactic of the enemy to
get us to think that we are not enough as
we currently are. That what we currently have is not
sufficient for the task that is before us. But if
the Lord has allowed that multitude into your experience, that
means that as you currently are, with the entrusted treasure,
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the power, the authority that he has given to you,
you've got everything you need if you just pull out
what he already has entrusted to you. In fact, in
Mark chapter six Our Layer of Chocolate Cake, we find out.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
That he says to the disciples, well what do you have?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
He asked them that question. He says, what do you have?
And then he doesn't even give him a chance to answer.
He just immediately responds and says, go and look. He
said it like that, Go and look. He said it
like you would tell your kid if the month, I
mean the week after Christmas they came to you and said, Mom,
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I'm bored, you would say.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Well, what do you have?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And then before you gave them a chance to respond,
because you could already tell that the response there was
gonna give you was gonna get them in trouble, so
you didn't even give them a chance.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You just say, you would say to them.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Go and look, because if you'll just look, you'll see
that the thing you're complaining about is something you already
have access to.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
If you will go and look, Moses, you will see
that everything you need to do what I've called you
to do, it's in your hand.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
It's that rod, that common rod that has always been
right beside you.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
But now I'm gonna infuse it with my power.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
If I can just get you to go and look, Moses,
pick the stick up, put it over.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
The red sea.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You will see that it will make the Red Sea
divide like a solid wall.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Go and look, David, Yes, Goliath is right there.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But if you'll go look down by the stream, I've
already provided five smooth stones.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
It will be everything you need to take that giant down.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Go and look.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Spend all of the energy that you're spending complaining. Spend
that energy going to look for what God has already
given us access to.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
So they pulled it out.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
All right, Jesus, you're gonna do something with this. They say, Okay,
here you go, and they.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Put it in his Everything changes when you put your
five and two in the head, said Jesus.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Everything changes when you stop speaking negatively about it and
just trust it into.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
The hands of jee.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
When you just take that little dream that he isn't
trusted to you, and you give it back to him,
and you say, don't look like much right now, but
I'm putting it in your hands. And the great thing
about our God Verse sixteen says is that he took
the meager gifts of man. He didn't look at that
little bit and say.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Come back when you've got more.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
A holy, divine, almighty, powerful God, a God who does
not need us or our loaves and fish.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
When man gave it to him, he received, and looking
up to heaven, he blessed it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Y'all, you don't need more. You just need God's blessing
on what you've already got. You don't need more. You
speak God's blessing on your five and two girl.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That's all you need. You know what his blessing is.
It's his favor, y'ah. Favor is what makes the scales
balance over in your favor. Favor is what makes things
a little bit unfair on your behalf.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Favor is what opens.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Doors that nobody can shut.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Favor is what puts you in positions that nobody can
take away.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Favor is what sets you before kings and queens.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The favor of God.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Is what you want on your life on your five
and two looking up to heaven. He blessed it, then
he broke it, and he kept giving it to the disciples,
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and it kept going, and it kept going. In the
twelve I didn't understand how the little bit they had had
they had in the beginning, had become.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
So much, and their entire.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Multitude, the whole burden was satisfied. And when everybody was satisfied, ooh,
somebody say, satisfied. Ooh, Victoria, I wish we had time tonight.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Girl.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Satisfied. This is not some you know, happy meal sort
of situation here. Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
This is not a number one on the Burger King
drive through. This is Sunday afternoon. I'm talking about old
school Sunday where your mom started to cook on Saturday
night and the yeast rolls were rising.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
And the macaroni and cheese was bubbling, and.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
The sweet potatoes were all gooey on the stove, and
ever the sweet tea was going the roast.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
You know, she started the roast on two.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Hundred the night before and let it simmer all night long.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Y'all are getting hungry, I know. Listen, do you remember
how when you came home from church.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
The next day.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
You ate that, and the only thing you.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Could do after that was that's all you could do.
That's why Jesus said, go ahead and have the people recline, have.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Them get in a posture.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Of expectation that I'm getting ready to do exceedingly, abundantly
above and beyond anything that they can ask or think.
Satisfied Sunday afternoon, kind of satisfied, that's what he did.
(36:40):
And they were so satisfied, y'all. Don't even sit down,
just stay dead and listen.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
They were so satisfied. This is how you know how
good the meal was. There was leftovers.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
They started going around picking up the leftovers, y'all, and
guess what. There were twelve baskets full, one basket for
each disciple to take home as an overflow of the
grace and the blessing of God.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I want to pray for any of you who are
in this room.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
And you've got a multitude weighing on you. You gotta,
I mean, that thing is burdening you down, and you've
never considered.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
The fact that you've already got what you need.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You've been thinking this is not enough gifting, this is
not enough talent, it's not enough money, it's not enough time.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I don't have enough. And Jesus is whispering in your
ear tonight.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
You gotta not.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Just give it to me. I'm gonna multiply it.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I'm gonna blow your mind With's what I'm gonna do
if you just trust it to me. Anybody got a
specific multitude that you need prayer in regards to, just
go ahead and raise your hand. We're gonna pray right now,
And Jesus say.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Victoria, will you come up with me, please, just.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
As a pastor in this house, would you just be
present in this moment so we can pray over God's people. Lord,
right now, we entrust every single woman who has her
hand raised in particular, we entrust every single one under
the sound of our voice, Lord, to your love and care.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
We thank you that you are sovereign over their lives. Father.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
We thank you that there is nothing that is in
our experience right now that has not first passed.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Through your fingers.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
And since we know you are good and that you
are kind, and that you're a mercy endures forever, then Father,
we believe that if you've allowed this multitude, there's something
in this multitude we don't want to miss. And so Father,
I pray right now that you would change our perspective so.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
We can see in this multitude what you have for us.
Don't let us miss it for anything in the world.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Lord. And then Father, I'm gonna pray over our five
and two I ask right now, in Jesus' name, whatever
the five loaves and the two fish are that you
have entrusted to every single woman, I pray that you
would give a holy courage and a holy boldness that
would compel us to open up the drawer and.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Pull it out and entrust it to your hands. Father, God,
I do pray that.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
If this multitude has anything to do with the enemy, Lord,
if the enemy has assigned an attack on any woman
or her family, I pray.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
That his attack would.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Be canceled in Jesus' name and by his blood that
has been shed on Calprey. But Lord, if this multitude
is of you, then right now, in Jesus' name, I.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Thank you for it.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
In our lives.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Come on and thank him for it. I thank you
for it.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
And then Father, we're gonna go ahead and get you
in a posture of abundance.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
We're gonna start.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Living and praying and acting like people who believe that
you are the God of Ephesians three twenty and twenty one.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You can do above all that we ask or think.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, come on, everybody.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Shout a man at TBN. Our mission is to use
every available means to reach as many individuals and families
as possible with the life changing gospel of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Thank you for helping make the Gospel of Grace go
around the world.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Without you, we couldn't do it. God bless you.
If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, you got an assignment.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And don't let anybody tell you that your assignment isn't
ministry just because it happens to be in a corporate setting.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Mother of small.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Children who's chosen to stay home with those kids, don't
let anybody.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Tell you got a ministry.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
In college student, you're the only student that stands for
truth when your professor says.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is the way it is and you say, no,
that's not the way it is.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Don't let anybody tell you, as the light on that
college campus, that you are not in ministry. Every single
one of us has an assignment, and the day is coming.
Thank you, Victoria for this, Thank you for this, Thank
you for this opportunity to be amongst such amazing women
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and in the presence of such wisdom.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Oh my gosh, my life's been equipped.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And I've said this before whenever I've had the opportunity
to be at this, and Miss Victoria is probably tired.
In Miss Sustine, you're probably tired of hearing me say it,
but I'm going to say it again because I think
it's so important and it's so meaningful to me. But
I was about eighteen nineteen years old at the University
of Houston. Here right here, but I was about eighteen
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nineteen years old at the University of Houston. One of
my college buddies is sitting right here on the front room.
Went to school together about twenty three, twenty four years
ago now, and one day an older woman at the time,
while she's about thirty, you know, we were nineteen, she's
thirty year old. That kind of took a bunch of
us under her wings. So she was older than us,
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and she took us under her wing. And one day
she said, we're going to Lakewood, and we went to
Lakewood when it was this little fledgling, small group of believers,
small is relative, and all of us walked up in there.
Do you remember soon he about ten of us, we
filed in. We sat down had church under the leadership
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of John Ostein.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And then she filed us upfront during the prayer.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Time, and that man walked down the row, Miss Osteine,
and he laid hands on every single one of us,
and he prayed God's blessing on us. And so anytime
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I have the privilege of being on this platform, I
cannot tell you what a gift.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It is to me to see the fruit of God's
faithfulness through the life of this family. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So Jerry and I, my husband and I, we've been
married nearly twenty years now.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I can't believe that. And we have three sons that
we are raising.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
They are giant. They are giants, y'all. My fifteen year
old is six foot two inches, His fourteen year old
brother is six foot two inches tall. Their nine year
old brother is coming up right after them. They are
some big boys. And one of the things I do
for these boys, in fact, you should know but that
my full time job is feeding the boys.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That is my full time job.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I am trying to figure out any which way I
can differently to cook chicken for dinner every single night, just.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Like y'all, it's exactly what I'm doing. So we just
do sports and everything with the boys. And they're growing
up so quick.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So one of the things that I have done since
my oldest was five, I started when he was five.
I went to Ross dressed for lest In the backhand corner,
left hand side, there is a one row that has
books and journals and those sorts of things. I went
and I grabbed three journals, hard back journals. They were
just little with the little spine, spiral spines, nothing real fancy.
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Four ninety nine. I picked one for each boy. I've
had it ever since my oldest was five, and at
that age I started to record a journal for them.
I do not write in it every week or every
month or even you know, just on a regular basis.
It's just when something happens I don't want to forget,
or they say something that's really interesting, or I see
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the hand the handiwork the fingerprints of God and their
life in some way, I kind of write it down.
My goal is to have a collection of writings and
thoughts and love letters really to my boys about their
life that I hand over to them when they're mature
enough to appreciate it, or better yet, I might just
hand it over to their wives and say, girl.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
This is what you're getting yourself into right here.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And because my oldest will be sixteen next month, I
was looking through his journal and came across the story
from when he was five. I read it with fond
memories because it was the little journal entry I put
in there about him losing his first tooth.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
He'd wiggled that tooth and wiggled it. He couldn't wait
for you to come out.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And the reason he couldn't wait for it to come
out is because we had told him that when your
tooth comes out, the tooth fairy will come.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
She will come and she will replace.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The tooth with a treasure. So he could not wait.
Finally the tooth came out. And that is my boy
still to this day that has never been eager to
go to sleep. But that night he dove into bed
at bedtime. He could not wait.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He put the tooth underneath the pillow. He laid his
head down, and he was looking.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He was trying to go to sleep, but every three
to five seconds he would look under the pillow to
see if anything had happened.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Finally he did fall asleep.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We let some time pass, and then about three o'clock
in the morning or so, the six foot two, two
hundred and fifty pounds tooth fairy that I sleep next
to every night.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
He got up.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He went upstairs, and he replaced the tooth for a
treasure in the morning. I knew when Jackson, and at
the time we just had Jackson and Jerry Junior.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I knew when they got I knew. I could hear it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I could hear the excitement, the squeals, I could hear
the stomps on the floor, I could hear the eagerness
and enthusiasm. Because the Toothbairry had come and left the treasure.
They bounded down the stairs into the room. Jackson's fists
were both clenched clothes. He ran up to me and said, bom.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
The toothbairry came. She left me a treasure.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I said, buddy, let me see what she left.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You opened up one hand and it was a package
of gummy bearers, which was a big deal at the
time because that was his favorite snack. He opened up
the other hand and it was five dollars. Now, I
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don't know what happened when y'all were growing up, but
I grew up in the days of dimes and nickels.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Can the church say, amen?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It might?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
So you know, I'm trying to be excited.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
For the boy, but really I'm annoyed about this whole
five dollars situation.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And my husband can see that. I am troubled.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And you know, if mama ain't happy, nobody said. After
Jackson left the room, Jerry came over to me and
he said, Forriscilla, don't worry. He said, do you remember
that last month was Jackson's fifth birthday? He said, do
you remember that? We had all of the family over.
Still to this day we do that when one of
the boys has a birthday, we invite the whole clan over.
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Grandparents and cousins and aunts and uncles. Everybody comes to celebrate.
He said, do you remember they all came. Most of
them had cards, and in those cards were five dollar bills.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
He said, do you remember? We took all those five
dollar bills and.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
We put them in a birthday drawer in the kitchen.
He said, this morning, at three am, I went right
inside that birthday drawer.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Dave Ramsey would be so proud of us.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
That's good financial stewardship, right there is what that is.
So that morning, really what I had witnessed was my
little boy getting excited about treasure that actually already belonged
to him, treasure that he already had he just didn't
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know it. I came to tell somebody that there.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Is treasure.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Hidden in these earth and vessels.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I came to tell you that by God's spirit there
is gifts and there is power that has been entrusted
to you, that is available to you, available to me
as daughters of the most High King.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You need to know that even if you do not.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Believe what the scriptures declare to be true about your treasure,
if you don't believe that you've been forgiven, or that
you already have the victory, or that the enemy is
already underneath your feet, and that there is no condemnation
for those of us who are in Christ Jesus, or
that you have been made competent by the spirit of God,
(09:08):
I came to tell you that even if you don't
believe it, the enemy does.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
He knows who you are, what.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
A shamed it would be for him to know and
us not to.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So it's time for us to open up the drawer
and start pulling out the treasure. The treasure we've been ignoring,
the treasure we've been calling insignificant, the thing that we've
said is not enough, not valuable. Lord, if I could
just be like her, Lord, if I could just be
like that, if I could just have a bit more
of that, if I.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Weren't me, then Lord, I'd be enough. He says, ahh,
you have enough.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You just haven't opened up the drawer pull out the treasure.
There is a story in scripture that is going to
be very familiar to you.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It's the one that the Lord has been using in
my own.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Life to remind about how he will compel me. And
he will compel us to open up the drawer and
reach in and pull out the treasure, and see what
it's like when he uses what he has already entrusted
to us.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Luke, chapter nine, verse one.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And two says this, and he called, that's Jesus. He
called somebody, say he called. He called the twelve together,
and he gave somebody say.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
He gave He gave them power, and he.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Gave them authority over all demons, and to heal all diseases.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Verse two.
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And then he sent somebody, say he sent he sent
them out. He called them, he gave them treasure, and
then he sent them out. Verse ten says, and then
when they returned to him, they gave an account to
him of everything they had done, and taking them with him,
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he withdrew by himself to a kill called beth Sta.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The multitudes were aware of this.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Verse eleven says, so they followed Jesus because you know
wherever Jesus went.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
A crowd was sure to follow. They weren't quite sure
he was the Messiah.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
But what they didn't know was that when this man
showed up, blind people could see.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
What they knew is that when Jesus showed up, the
lame could walk, and the death could hear. The dead
were being raised.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
So wherever Jesus was they came, the crowd followed, and
welcoming the multitude, Jesus began speaking to them about the Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Of God and curing those who were in need of healing.
Verse twelve.
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So the day starts to come to a close, and
the twelve come to Jesus and say, now, Jesus, you're
gonna have to send this multitude away. They've got to
go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
They got to get something to eat. Jesus, come on,
now here, we're in a desolate place.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Verse thirteen. Jesus said to them, uh, uh, you give
them something to eve. They said, Jesus, we have no
more than five low two fish, unless perhaps you let
us go and buy food for all these people, because
you know we're not enough as we are right now
there were about five thousand men. Scholars say the reason
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why Luke specifies men is because there were women and
children too, So there were probably about fifteen thousand hungry
people that day.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Jesus said, have them reclined to eat in groups of
about fifty each.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So they did so, had them all reclined, and then
he took the five loaves and the two fish, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and then he
broke them, and he kept giving them to the disciples.
Just set before the multitude. In Verse seventeen says, they
all ate, they were all satisfied, And just so you
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know how satisfied they were, they went by and picked
up all the leftovers because there was overflow. In this story,
we meet a hungry multitude, a multitude.
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That is placed a demand. They have a.
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Need, There is a lack that needs to be filled.
And most of the time when this proportion of the
scriptures is looked into the multitudes who we concentrate on
the five rows and the two fish and how they
were satisfied with it. But just for a few moments tonight,
don't want to talk to you about the twelve disciples,
those who walked with.
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Jesus and talked with Jesus. Those who were in close
communion with Jesus, those.
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Who would come out on a Friday night to be in.
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The presence of Jesus amongst the people of Jesus. I
want to talk to the disciples of Jesus. The disciples
on this occasion had.
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Been called to Jesus by Jesus. They were having a
conversation with each other. Jesus entrusted them with power and authority,
and then he sent them out. I love that this
gospel is one of the Synoptic gospels. The synoptic gospels
are those that tell their three of them, Matthew, Mark,
and Luke. These three tell some of the similar stories
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in a similar tone, in a similar way, so that
we're able to get more layers to the story.
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I love the gospels in that way. They give us layers.
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Just like if someone were to offer you a chocolate cake,
but they gave you options. You could have a one
layer of chocolate cake or a seven layer of chocolate cake.
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Which one You're gonna choose.
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Seven every single time, Because the more layers there are,
the more rich and delectable the experience becomes Mark chapter
six is a layer of chocolate cake for us.
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It tells us that this is the experience when Jesus
called the disciples to himself, and then he sent them
out in pairs. Do you remember, two by two into
the neighboring towns and communities. They were supposed to teach
and preach and perform miracles that would authenticate the deity
of Jesus Christ Mark chapter six, our layer of chocolate
cake tells us that they expended themselves.
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Y'all. They were busy from sun up to sundown.
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They were about the task of doing what it was
that Jesus had assigned to them.
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They wanted to be diligent about it.
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So much so that when they came back to Jesus
they gave an account to him, and Jesus recognized their exhaustion.
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He saw that they were tired.
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In fact, Jesus himself commented that they didn't even have
time to eat.
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Because they had been so busy.
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They were depleted, and they were tired. And they came
back to Jesus and they gave him an account for
how they'd handled the assignment that he.
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Had entrusted to them. If you're a believer in Jesus Christ.
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You got an assignment, and don't let anybody tell you
that your assignment isn't ministry just because it happens to
be in a corporate setting. Mother of small children who's
chosen to stay home with those kids, don't let anybody.
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Tell you that a ministry.
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Every single time you make that chicken for dinner and
you set it on that table and you teach those
kids a Bible verse before bedtime, don't let anybody tell
you that that ain't ministry. Corporate woman, when you sit
around that boardroom and you're the only one that has
a set of ideals that lines up with the truth
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of Scripture at a table with those who are thinking
and acting and planning in a way that is left
of God's word, don't let anybody tell you that you
around that.
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Boardroom a ministry. That's ministry.
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High school student, college student, you're the only student that
stands for truth.
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When your professor says this is the way it is
and you say, no, that's not the way it is.
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Don't let anybody tell you, as the light on that
college campus, that you are not in ministry. Every single
one of us has an assignment, And.
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The day is coming when we're going off to give
an account. And here's the thing.
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You don't know when that day is, My thirty eight
year old cousin, thirty eight for small children, the day
is coming, and you don't know the day or the hour,
neither do I. When we're gonna have to stand before
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him and give an account for how we handled what
he had entrusted to us. I'm asking you tonight, how
are you handling your assignment? Because young women, if you
think that you're young because of your age, listen to me.
If you're twenty but you only have till thirty.
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You're pretty old. If you're fifty and you're gonna live.
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Until one hundred, then you're pretty young.
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Age is just to number, my friend, and you and I.
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Cannot qualify young or all base birth based on our
birth date. It's based on our death date. And since
we don't know when that day is, that I implore you, sisters,
by the mercies of God, to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling by which you have been called.
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Because listen, I don't know about y'all, but when I
see him face to face, I'm looking for a well
done I'm looking for well done. When I see him,
he will not ask me how many Instagram followers I had.
He will not wonder whether or not folks liked my post.
He will not be interested in whether or not my
selfies were perfectly lit. He will ask me, did I
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know his son? And then I will give an account.
So the disciples they come, and they give an account
to Jesus. I wondered if there was a recipe for
effective ministry, because if these guys were willing to come
and look Jesus in his face and give an account,
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I figured there might be a recipe for us for
effective ministry. I'm interested, anybody interested. There are three ingredients
to the recipe.
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Luke chapter nine, verse one. It says he called them.
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He called them, and his calling superseded any personal ambition.
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That they had.
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They laid down whatever they were going to do because
they heard the call of God beckoning them to do
something else.
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The beautiful thing about that entire picture is that all
of the glory of God the Father, all of the
glory of Heaven, was packaged in human flesh. Jesus wanted
so much, God the Father.
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Wanted so much to make sure that he could speak,
and so that humanity could hear that, He left.
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His throne in glory, put on flesh.
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So that the disciples could hear his call.
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And in the same way he has given us the
Holy Spirit, so that each and every one of us
have the privilege to hear the calling of God on
our lives, the conviction, the unction, depressing the fire that
is shut up in your bones, sending you in a
particular direction, heed the call of God on your lives.
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Then they were not just called. I love so much
that before he skips to the third ingredient and the
recipe sending them.
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I love that before we get to the third one,
there's that second one. He did not just call, But
then he gave them power and authority.
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It means that what he was calling them to do,
he was simultaneously equipping them with supernatural power to be
able to pull it off.
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So it's good news for anybody in the room that.
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You feel like you've got a dream that is way
over your head.
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You've been called to do something you.
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Don't have the money for, you don't have the time for,
you don't have the patience for, you don't have the
gifting for you don't have the talent for you don't
have the connections for the good thing.
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And the great thing about our.
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God is that he does not call people who are
already equipped.
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He calls you, and then for the.
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People that say yes, he equips them with what they
need for the calling.
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He entrusted them with power and authority. And can I
tell you why this is important?
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This is important because in order to accomplish supernatural tasks,
you have to have supernatural capacity. In other words, you
can be the most talented person in the world, but
if you go.
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In your own strength and power, you still.
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Won't be able to accomplish the God calling on your life.
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It requires what it is.
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That only God himself can give to you to accomplish
the task.
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Ooh, the enemy hopes you will go in your own power.
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He hopes you will think you are flashy enough, and
savvy enough, and talented enough and impressive enough so that
you will no longer lean on God instead of leaning
to your own understanding. But it is not by power,
and it is not by mind. It is by the
spirit of God. And some trust in horses, other folks
trust in chariots, but not us.
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We trust in the name of the Lord, our God.
So he called them, and then he entrusted them.
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He gave them some treasure, and then he sent them.
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He's the one who did the sending. Resists the urge
to send yourself.
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To do something that it is not yet time for,
because just as important as our calling is, that is
equally as important as the timing is in which that
calling is outworked in our lives. And if you go
too soon, you might, if you give birth too soon
to that which God is trying to produce through you,
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you might abort what it is that he's trying to accomplish.
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In you, the.
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Spiritual backbone, the fortification that he was trying to establish
in you, so that you could handle the spotlight when
it hit you.
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Because listen, that spotlight that you may be craving.
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If it hits you and you have no character, it
will burn you to a chrisp. So he called them,
he entrusted them, He sent them out, and they returned
to him and gave an account.
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They were tired.
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The disciples had been given it everything they had. And
I know there are some of you in the room,
and you would admit that you haven't done it perfectly.
But man, you've sure been purposeful. You've been intentional about
this marriage. You've been given it everything you've got. You've
been intentional about that teenager. You've been given that kid
everything you've got, this toddler that has this specific bent
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or this specific issue that you've been doing everything you can,
going to see every expert.
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That you can, reading everything that you can to be
the best that you can as a mother, single mother.
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You've been giving it everything that you've got, working the
jobs that you've got to work to keep food on
the table. You've been giving that business, that ministry that
endeavor everything that you have, and you, the disciples are tired.
The good news about Jesus is that when the disciples
come to him tired, he does not say, go away
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from me and get yourself together. Come back and then
I can use you. He says, come away with me.
In other words, listen, the cure for your exhaustion is
intimacy with Jesus.
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That's the cure, y'all.
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I'm saying, I agree, Take the holiday, take the vacation.
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Tell them you need a little sabbatical. You gotta step
back for just a little bit. You need a little
margin in your life. Take the holiday, but don't take
a holiday from Jesus.
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Don't take the sabbatic from your relationship with the Lord.
Prayer shouldn't exit your schedule because.
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These are your rest days. You still need to be
the deer that.
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Pants after the water.
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Your soul has still gotta be replenished and can only
be replenished when you have intimacy with Him. And you're
trying to figure out Lord, you told me that I
was gonna be replenished. You told me that I was
gonna refresh. You told me that you had something that
you wanted.
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To give to me.
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Why would you take me here to this place where
I'm being pressed down by a multitude of issues and
concerns and frustrations.
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There's something overwhelming.
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Me that is bigger than what I feel like I have.
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The capacity to handle. Why would you bring me here?
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This tells us that the story of the Feeding of
the five thousand is not just.
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About the five thousand. It's also about the disciples. It's
not just about the multitude getting fed.
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It's about the disciples being fed physically, spiritually, emotionally. And
it tells us that the five loaves and the two
fish are the gift.
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To the multitude. But it's the multitude.
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That's the gift to the disciples, because the multitude is
what's going to make them have to finally open up
their drawer, pull out the treasure that they would have
otherwise ignored, place it in the hands of a multiplying
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master who's.
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Gonna show them.
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What it looks like when he takes their little bit
and makes it a lot. There is no replenishing like
watching God multiply your loaves and fish. I came to
tell somebody who's got a multitude pressing on you in
your marriage, or in your finances, or in your health,
or in your parenting, or in your singleness, that thing.
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Is weighing down on you.
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That means that there is a drawer waiting to be
openeds there's.
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Some treasure waiting to be unveiled.
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And when you take it out finally, when you stop
ignoring it, when you stop circumventing it, when you.
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Stop acting like God hasn't given.
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You everything you need, when you will finally recognize this
little bit, this little gifting, this little talent, this little time,
this little money, this little dream, this little vision, that
this is all I need if I'll just pull it
out and entrust it to the hands of a multiply master.
Can I just show you real quick what the disciples did,
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just real quick, because I think it's interesting, because it's
so us. They said to Jesus in verse twelve, send
the multitude away. And here's the thing that's so us. See,
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we don't just say it, we pray it.
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We pray away.
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What we don't even recognize is the gift He has
given us to press us into opening up our drawer.
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So if you prayed for your.
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Multitude to be taken away, and in.
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God's sovereignty he has left it in your life, that means.
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There's a drawer. There's a drawer. Start looking for a drawer.
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If there's a multitude, that means there's loads and fish
somewhere in your life that is supposed to be entrusted
into the hands of God.
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So we pray away.
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Did you realize in verse twelve they are wishing away
what in verse eleven Jesus welcomed.
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Jesus welcomed what they're wishing away.
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So the disciples say, get this multitude away. They don't
even know they're praying away their miracle. Everybody wants to
see the Red Sea divide, but nobody wants to be
the one that comes face to face with a red sea.
Everybody wants to see the walls of Jericho come tumbling down,
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but nobody wants to be the one who has to
walk around those walls in obedience to God to trust
him to shout prior to seeing one brickfall. If there
is a multitude, that means there is a miracle.
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Okay, so praise the multitude.
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Or they ask for the multitude to go away, and Jesus,
he doesn't go for that. So when he doesn't, he
doesn't go for that.
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The disciples have another solution. This is U s two.
Send the multitude away.
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Jesus says mm m, And they say, well, send us away.
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Then you see it.
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They said, send us to the surrounding and villagers so
that we can go and buy more, accumulate more, get more.
Because as we are is not sufficient, So send us
somewhere else so we can get better and be better
suited to this multitude.
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Because as we are is not enough.
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It has always been the tactic of the enemy to
get us to think that we are not enough as
we currently are. That what we currently have is not
sufficient for the task that is before us. But if
the Lord has allowed that multitude into your experience, that
means that as you currently are, with the entrusted treasure,
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the power, the authority that he has given to you,
you've got everything you need if you just pull out
what he already has entrusted to you. In fact, in
Mark chapter six Our Layer of Chocolate Cake, we find out.
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That he says to the disciples, well what do you have?
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He asked them that question. He says, what do you have?
And then he doesn't even give him a chance to answer.
He just immediately responds and says, go and look. He
said it like that, Go and look. He said it
like you would tell your kid if the month, I
mean the week after Christmas they came to you and said, Mom,
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I'm bored, you would say.
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Well, what do you have?
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And then before you gave them a chance to respond,
because you could already tell that the response there was
gonna give you was gonna get them in trouble, so
you didn't even give them a chance.
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You just say, you would say to them.
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Go and look, because if you'll just look, you'll see
that the thing you're complaining about is something you already
have access to.
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If you will go and look, Moses, you will see
that everything you need to do what I've called you
to do, it's in your hand.
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It's that rod, that common rod that has always been
right beside you.
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But now I'm gonna infuse it with my power.
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If I can just get you to go and look, Moses,
pick the stick up, put it over.
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The red sea.
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You will see that it will make the Red Sea
divide like a solid wall.
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Go and look, David, Yes, Goliath is right there.
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But if you'll go look down by the stream, I've
already provided five smooth stones.
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It will be everything you need to take that giant down.
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Go and look.
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Spend all of the energy that you're spending complaining. Spend
that energy going to look for what God has already
given us access to.
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So they pulled it out.
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All right, Jesus, you're gonna do something with this. They say, Okay,
here you go, and they.
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Put it in his Everything changes when you put your
five and two in the head, said Jesus.
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Everything changes when you stop speaking negatively about it and
just trust it into.
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The hands of jee.
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When you just take that little dream that he isn't
trusted to you, and you give it back to him,
and you say, don't look like much right now, but
I'm putting it in your hands. And the great thing
about our God Verse sixteen says is that he took
the meager gifts of man. He didn't look at that
little bit and say.
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Come back when you've got more.
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A holy, divine, almighty, powerful God, a God who does
not need us or our loaves and fish.
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When man gave it to him, he received, and looking
up to heaven, he blessed it.
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Y'all, you don't need more. You just need God's blessing
on what you've already got. You don't need more. You
speak God's blessing on your five and two girl.
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That's all you need. You know what his blessing is.
It's his favor, y'ah. Favor is what makes the scales
balance over in your favor. Favor is what makes things
a little bit unfair on your behalf.
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Favor is what opens.
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Doors that nobody can shut.
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Favor is what puts you in positions that nobody can
take away.
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Favor is what sets you before kings and queens.
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The favor of God.
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Is what you want on your life on your five
and two looking up to heaven. He blessed it, then
he broke it, and he kept giving it to the disciples,
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and it kept going, and it kept going. In the
twelve I didn't understand how the little bit they had had
they had in the beginning, had become.
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So much, and their entire.
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Multitude, the whole burden was satisfied. And when everybody was satisfied, ooh,
somebody say, satisfied. Ooh, Victoria, I wish we had time tonight.
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Girl.
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Satisfied. This is not some you know, happy meal sort
of situation here. Mmmm.
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This is not a number one on the Burger King
drive through. This is Sunday afternoon. I'm talking about old
school Sunday where your mom started to cook on Saturday
night and the yeast rolls were rising.
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And the macaroni and cheese was bubbling, and.
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The sweet potatoes were all gooey on the stove, and
ever the sweet tea was going the roast.
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You know, she started the roast on two.
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Hundred the night before and let it simmer all night long.
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Y'all are getting hungry, I know. Listen, do you remember
how when you came home from church.
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The next day.
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You ate that, and the only thing you.
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Could do after that was that's all you could do.
That's why Jesus said, go ahead and have the people recline, have.
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Them get in a posture.
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Of expectation that I'm getting ready to do exceedingly, abundantly
above and beyond anything that they can ask or think.
Satisfied Sunday afternoon, kind of satisfied, that's what he did.
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And they were so satisfied, y'all. Don't even sit down,
just stay dead and listen.
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They were so satisfied. This is how you know how
good the meal was. There was leftovers.
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They started going around picking up the leftovers, y'all, and
guess what. There were twelve baskets full, one basket for
each disciple to take home as an overflow of the
grace and the blessing of God.
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I want to pray for any of you who are
in this room.
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And you've got a multitude weighing on you. You gotta,
I mean, that thing is burdening you down, and you've
never considered.
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The fact that you've already got what you need.
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You've been thinking this is not enough gifting, this is
not enough talent, it's not enough money, it's not enough time.
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I don't have enough. And Jesus is whispering in your
ear tonight.
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You gotta not.
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Just give it to me. I'm gonna multiply it.
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I'm gonna blow your mind With's what I'm gonna do
if you just trust it to me. Anybody got a
specific multitude that you need prayer in regards to, just
go ahead and raise your hand. We're gonna pray right now,
And Jesus say.
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Victoria, will you come up with me, please, just.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
As a pastor in this house, would you just be
present in this moment so we can pray over God's people. Lord,
right now, we entrust every single woman who has her
hand raised in particular, we entrust every single one under
the sound of our voice, Lord, to your love and care.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
We thank you that you are sovereign over their lives. Father.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
We thank you that there is nothing that is in
our experience right now that has not first passed.
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Through your fingers.
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And since we know you are good and that you
are kind, and that you're a mercy endures forever, then Father,
we believe that if you've allowed this multitude, there's something
in this multitude we don't want to miss. And so Father,
I pray right now that you would change our perspective so.
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We can see in this multitude what you have for us.
Don't let us miss it for anything in the world.
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Lord. And then Father, I'm gonna pray over our five
and two I ask right now, in Jesus' name, whatever
the five loaves and the two fish are that you
have entrusted to every single woman, I pray that you
would give a holy courage and a holy boldness that
would compel us to open up the drawer and.
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Pull it out and entrust it to your hands. Father, God,
I do pray that.
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If this multitude has anything to do with the enemy, Lord,
if the enemy has assigned an attack on any woman
or her family, I pray.
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That his attack would.
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Be canceled in Jesus' name and by his blood that
has been shed on Calprey. But Lord, if this multitude
is of you, then right now, in Jesus' name, I.
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Thank you for it.
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In our lives.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Come on and thank him for it. I thank you
for it.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
And then Father, we're gonna go ahead and get you
in a posture of abundance.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
We're gonna start.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Living and praying and acting like people who believe that
you are the God of Ephesians three twenty and twenty one.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You can do above all that we ask or think.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, come on, everybody.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Shout a man at TBN. Our mission is to use
every available means to reach as many individuals and families
as possible with the life changing gospel of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Thank you for helping make the Gospel of Grace go
around the world.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Without you, we couldn't do it. God bless you.
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