August 29, 2025 • 23 mins
When life's dysfunction threatens to overwhelm us, we need the powerful reminder that God is greater. This deeply personal message explores how our heavenly Father exceeds any brokenness we face, whether in mental health struggles, addictions, family trauma, or relational difficulties.
Through the remarkable story of Samuel, we witness divine intervention in profoundly dysfunctional circumstances. Born to Hannah in a tension-filled polygamous household, then handed at age three to an elderly priest whose sons were stealing offerings and engaging in sexual immorality, Samuel's upbringing was far from ideal. Yet God spoke directly to this young boy, calling him to become one of Israel's greatest prophets and judges despite his surroundings. The powerful lesson? Your dysfunction is not bigger than God.
The host vulnerably shares his own journey of creating dysfunction through wounded bitterness that led to unbelief, immorality, and substance abuse. His testimony reveals how these choices impacted his family—particularly his sons—with tragic consequences. Yet even in this deeply painful story, God's redemptive power shines through. "He has forgiven me much and because of that he's placed his love in my heart and I can now love much."
This message offers genuine hope for anyone trapped in dysfunction or suffering its consequences. God doesn't just rescue us from difficult situations—He transforms them into platforms for ministry to others experiencing similar struggles. The journey through brokenness becomes preparation for purpose. Most importantly, relationship with God brings freedom from guilt, fear and shame that no circumstance can diminish. Your greatest wounds may become your greatest ministry. What dysfunction are you ready to overcome?
Loving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved!
Feel free to check out our website by typing in lifearoundthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life.
Shalom to you and your home.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm going to make a statement concerning the
greatness of God.
To begin with, we're looking atthe book of 1 Samuel, and in
the first couple of chapters wesee some pretty incredible
things, and I want to do alittle overview of that and then
(00:23):
tell a story and make a fewpoints involving this.
One particular point concerningthe greatness of God, and that
is this God is greater, moreloving, more powerful.
He's capable of doing things inyour life that exceed any
(00:48):
dysfunction you might be facing,whether that dysfunction
happens to be in the area ofmental health, chemical
dependency, a broken family,family upbringing, marriage
problems, the dysfunction thatyou're facing is not bigger than
(01:15):
God.
In fact, if your dysfunction isbigger than God, your God is
too small.
Your God is too small BecauseGod, our Father, god the Son,
god, the Holy Spirit, thewonderful three in one, the one
(01:39):
in three, the one true God, isgreater than any and all
dysfunction.
In fact, he's capable of takingthe dysfunction or the
difficult situation that we'veencountered in our own lives.
Maybe we've produced them orthey've been forced upon us.
(02:01):
Regardless, he is capable ofturning those things around and
actually using them forinstruments of benefiting other
people's lives.
He could turn them around forgood.
Now in the book of 1 Samuel wepick up the story with a
(02:27):
gentleman by the name of Elkanah.
And Elkanah was from the tribeof Levi.
He was a Levite, a Kohathite Infact.
He had in his lineage aparticular responsibility in the
area of serving God.
But he was not from the line ofAaron, he was not a descendant
(02:50):
of Aaron, he was not an AaronicLevite, so he wasn't a priest in
the sense that he would servein the temple, like Eli, hophni
and Phinehas were priestsserving in the temple.
In the book of 1 Samuel we findthat out right away.
(03:13):
And Elkanah was a good man.
However, he had a polygamousrelationship.
He had two wives, hannah andPenina.
And Hannah and Penina had arivalry because Hannah was
(03:41):
barren, she wasn't able toproduce children, was barren,
she wasn't able to producechildren.
And Penina had the ability toproduce children and she rubbed
it in Hannah's face.
So there was tension in thehousehold Until one day Hannah,
(04:04):
in her desperation, just pouredher heart out to God and Eli,
the priest at the time, thoughtshe was drunk because she was
mouthing her prayers but nothingwas coming out vocally.
So he thought she was drunk.
He said put away that wine.
(04:24):
She was far be it from me, lord, I'm not one of those.
And then Eli said well,whatever you have prayed, god
grant you prayer.
Well, lo and behold, hannahwent home and Elkanah loved
Hannah in a way that wasdifferent than his relationship
(04:45):
with Penina.
Penina was more of a producerof children, but Hannah was
really Elkanah's love, and sothe scripture says that they had
relations, they knew each otherand, lo and behold, hannah
(05:05):
conceived, and she had made avow that if she conceived she
would give that child over tothe service of the Lord all the
days of her life and a razorwould not touch his hair on his
body, meaning he'd be a Nazirite.
(05:30):
So Samuel was born, and Samuelmeans God hears, and God heard
Hannah's prayer and so sheraised Hannah, raised Samuel
until he was weaned, whichprobably had been about the age
of three.
But get this, the household wasstill not that happy household.
(05:57):
There was still tension, butHannah now had some sense of
vindication.
But still that vibe, thatunhealthy, you know what I'm
talking about.
In a house that's got thatuncomfortable vibe, things just
aren't right.
And Samuel was raised in thatNow he had a loving father and a
(06:21):
loving mother, but there was anatmosphere that was unhealthy.
Now, at the age of three, hannahfulfills her vow and presents
this young boy, who was raisedin a loving but tense
(06:46):
environment, dysfunctional hands, him over to an elderly priest
by the name of Eli.
Eli was advanced in age, and sohere comes a three-year-old boy
, and Hophni and Phineas wereEli's sons, and they were some
(07:07):
characters, man.
They would steal from theofferings the Lord to God,
straight from the altar or whilethey were even still boiling in
a pot to prepare them for asacrifice still boiling in a pot
to prepare them for a sacrifice.
(07:28):
They would take portions forthemselves, give some to their
dad, but also keep some, and whoknows what else they would do
with it Perhaps sell it, getrich, whatever throw parties.
They didn't really have anyregard for the things of God.
They treated the priesthoodlike a job that they were
entitled to, and so they werenot only unhealthy that way, but
(07:56):
they also were having sex withsome of the temple workers, some
of the women that were servingin the temple.
They would have sexualrelationships with them, and so
the environment you get it.
The environment was reallyspiritually on a decline, and
(08:19):
Eli wasn't doing really anythingto correct his sons.
He was kind of like letting ithappen because they would give
him some food and Eli wasgetting fat.
Literally he was a fat man, big, heavy man, fat from the
offerings, and his sons wererunning roughshod.
(08:40):
And Israel, the spiritualatmosphere, was on a decline.
And the three-year-old boy isbeing raised in that environment
.
Talk about dysfunction.
His mother hands him over, he'sno longer in the house that he
(09:04):
grew up in, he's in a strangeenvironment with strange people
doing strange things and he'ssupposed to be learning the ways
of God.
Talk about some strikes againstyou as a person or him as a man
, young man, right, put yourselfin his place.
(09:26):
And yet, at about the age of 12, so nine years, underneath this
kind of environment, with Elitraining him up, hoffney and
Phineas doing their thing, theatmosphere, the vibe again right
(09:50):
, the vibe, the dysfunctionalvibe that he was in, could have
shut just about anyone down.
But at about the age of 12, likeI said, at about the age of 12,
god speaks audibly to Samuel.
(10:10):
He calls him into the role ofbeing a prophet and a judge in
Israel, one of the greatest.
But at the age of 12, at theage of 12, he didn't know the
voice of the Lord until then.
He was just going through whatwas in front of him things to do
(10:32):
.
You know how it is Just put onefoot in front of him.
Things to do.
You know how it is, just putone foot in front of the other.
And he was learning who knowswhat.
He was learning All the thingsthat he saw.
I mean, it wasn't always pretty,let's put it that way.
Sometimes when we read thescriptures it can be kind of
(10:55):
sterile.
We look at it like it's almosttoo good to be true or we don't
really necessarily see theactual color commentary.
It really is going on andthings were unhealthy.
(11:17):
And yet God speaks to Samuel inthe midst of that dysfunction
and tells Samuel what he's goingto be doing.
Powerful God is bigger than anydysfunction.
(11:40):
He was bigger than thatdysfunction that Samuel was
raised in A home that was alittle bit tense, becoming a
child in an environment that hedidn't even know anything about,
three years old, little bittense.
Becoming a child in anenvironment that he didn't even
know anything about, three yearsold, being raised by an elderly
man, stepbrothers that werewild.
(12:04):
And yet God spoke to him andimparted into him something that
was bigger than thatdysfunction.
He can do the same thing inyour life.
(12:25):
He does it.
In fact, he used some of thosethings that Samuel was raised in
to help him become a betterprophet and a better judge,
because he understood people.
There's something aboutexperiencing tough stuff in life
that equips us to minister topeople that are going through
(12:46):
tough stuff.
What we go through, we canactually use that to help others
.
When we're out of thatsituation and God brings us out,
he delivers us from evil.
So that's one of the points inprayer that Jesus taught his
(13:08):
disciples.
Concerning prayer, he said wepray like this, in this way, in
this fashion, and part of it wasto say God, deliver us from
evil, amen, being delivered fromevil.
Evil is a heavy thing.
(13:29):
Evil is a real thing and evilcan suck the life out of anybody
, no matter who you are.
But God is bigger than evil.
He can bring us out of evil andhe did that in Sam's life.
He can do it in yours Now.
(13:52):
Dysfunction it is humbling forme and that's good, because
periodically it's important,real level.
In my own life, I have been theperson who has created
(14:21):
dysfunctional environments notalways, but I have and the ones
that I created were due to first.
The first one that I createdwas due to the fact that I had
let hurt, bitterness andunbelief get into my life
(14:48):
because I was wounded in thechurch.
Church life had wounded medeeply and I thought if this is
what this is all about, whoneeds it?
And if that, in fact, this iswhat God's all about, who needs
(15:10):
him?
And I let bitterness turn intounbelief and unbelief started to
choke out the life, not onlywithin me, but it began to
affect the people around me,because some of the behaviors
that I chose to do while thatwas going on was immoral.
(15:33):
I became an immoral man,sexually immoral.
I became immoral in my thoughts.
I became literally someone whoabused alcohol and other drugs
because I thought well, you knowwhat, if this is all there is,
(15:57):
I might as well enjoy myself,regardless of what the effects
are in other people's lives.
Let them deal with it, and dealwith it.
They had to, in fact, becauseof my stubbornness, my
woundedness, my justunforgiveness and unbelief.
(16:26):
The example that I set for mysons I had three sons the
example that I set for them whenthey were in their teen years,
because that's when I checkedout things.
They were raised in adysfunctional setting, broken
home, and it affected one of mysons the other one so deeply
(16:51):
that he made choices in lifethat ultimately led to his early
death at the age of 36.
Now, do I take full blame forthat?
(17:13):
Perhaps not full blame, but Itake a significant amount of it,
because I was the farmer wholet the fox come in the gate and
get into the chicken coop.
I could have prevented that,and it pains me to know that
(17:37):
that was in part what took placeand a consequence of my own
rebellion and unbelief,dysfunction and unbelief,
dysfunction.
But but God is bigger than that.
(18:01):
He has forgiven me much andbecause of that he's placed his
love in my heart and I can nowlove much.
I can have compassion on peoplewho've done crazy things and
have created some realcomplicated situations, but I
can also say that there's hopeoutside of it.
(18:22):
You don't have to stay in it.
God can lead you through it andinto something bigger and
better, and that's his presence.
His presence alone is worth it.
Regardless if you do anything,being in relationship with God
and in good relationship withothers is worth it.
(18:45):
Everything else is a bonus.
Everything else is a bonus, butGod is bigger than any
dysfunction, bigger thanproblems that those things
create within our minds.
I can say for a fact this veryday I'm a free man.
(19:10):
I don't have guilt, fear orshame.
It's not a fairy tale, it's notsome sort of Shangri-La, it's a
reality.
There were some significantprocesses that I had to go
through, but through is theopposite word he led me through.
It's the opposite word he ledme through.
Deliver us from evil.
(19:31):
Through it not just to it or init Not just a temptation, but a
deliverance.
God is bigger than anydysfunction.
He was bigger than thedysfunction Sammy was raised in.
He's bigger than thedysfunction that I created, and
(19:54):
now he has given me anopportunity to share things with
others around the world that Icould never have dreamed of.
But again, that's the bonus.
The real, real, real prize ismy relationship with God.
It's right, righteousness,peace and joy in the Holy Spirit
(20:18):
.
I'm a citizen of his kingdom,I'm free, and when the sun sets
free Jesus, that person is free.
Indeed, you can walk on that, Iguarantee you.
And in fact, if some of thethings that you've experienced
in life are very difficult, thatcould just mean that there's a
(20:39):
very great call upon your lifeto do significant things.
But again, things are not theprize.
Relationship with God and withone another, that's the prize
For us to be one even as Jesusand the Father are one with the
Spirit, one In perfect love, inperfect harmony.
(21:02):
Peace, joy.
Holiness is the freedom fromevil.
Holiness has no evil in it.
God is holy.
He's called us to be holy, justlike he said let there be light
(21:23):
.
He said be holy.
He said let there be light, andthere was light.
He said be holy.
We're going to be holy.
We're going to be free fromevil, the dysfunction that evil
brings.
We're going to be free from itnow and completely, at the end
(21:45):
of this age.
Hallelujah, let's pray.
Father, god, you alone are God.
There is no one greater thanyou.
There's nothing greater thanyou.
There's no dysfunction that'sgreater than you.
And I honor you, we honor youand we say that, holy Spirit,
(22:12):
you're capable of leading us inthe paths of righteousness for
the namesake of Jesus.
So we invite you to do that.
And, jesus, we honor your name.
We exalt you as King of Kingsand Lord of Lords, savior of our
lives.
I place my faith in you andstand here in your name and
(22:34):
declare that these things areright and true and they'll be
fulfilled in our day and age.
And I say once again amen, amen, amen, amen.
All right, folks, we love you.
If you have any thoughts,questions, concerns, please feel
free to drop us a line atlifearoundthefire, at gmailcom.
(22:56):
That's our email address, ortype in lifearoundthefire.
Look us up on the web.
We would love to hear from you.
In the meantime, god bless you.
Adios amigos.
I'm going to make a statement concerning the
greatness of God.
To begin with, we're looking atthe book of 1 Samuel, and in
the first couple of chapters wesee some pretty incredible
things, and I want to do alittle overview of that and then
(00:23):
tell a story and make a fewpoints involving this.
One particular point concerningthe greatness of God, and that
is this God is greater, moreloving, more powerful.
He's capable of doing things inyour life that exceed any
(00:48):
dysfunction you might be facing,whether that dysfunction
happens to be in the area ofmental health, chemical
dependency, a broken family,family upbringing, marriage
problems, the dysfunction thatyou're facing is not bigger than
(01:15):
God.
In fact, if your dysfunction isbigger than God, your God is
too small.
Your God is too small BecauseGod, our Father, god the Son,
god, the Holy Spirit, thewonderful three in one, the one
(01:39):
in three, the one true God, isgreater than any and all
dysfunction.
In fact, he's capable of takingthe dysfunction or the
difficult situation that we'veencountered in our own lives.
Maybe we've produced them orthey've been forced upon us.
(02:01):
Regardless, he is capable ofturning those things around and
actually using them forinstruments of benefiting other
people's lives.
He could turn them around forgood.
Now in the book of 1 Samuel wepick up the story with a
(02:27):
gentleman by the name of Elkanah.
And Elkanah was from the tribeof Levi.
He was a Levite, a Kohathite Infact.
He had in his lineage aparticular responsibility in the
area of serving God.
But he was not from the line ofAaron, he was not a descendant
(02:50):
of Aaron, he was not an AaronicLevite, so he wasn't a priest in
the sense that he would servein the temple, like Eli, hophni
and Phinehas were priestsserving in the temple.
In the book of 1 Samuel we findthat out right away.
(03:13):
And Elkanah was a good man.
However, he had a polygamousrelationship.
He had two wives, hannah andPenina.
And Hannah and Penina had arivalry because Hannah was
(03:41):
barren, she wasn't able toproduce children, was barren,
she wasn't able to producechildren.
And Penina had the ability toproduce children and she rubbed
it in Hannah's face.
So there was tension in thehousehold Until one day Hannah,
(04:04):
in her desperation, just pouredher heart out to God and Eli,
the priest at the time, thoughtshe was drunk because she was
mouthing her prayers but nothingwas coming out vocally.
So he thought she was drunk.
He said put away that wine.
(04:24):
She was far be it from me, lord, I'm not one of those.
And then Eli said well,whatever you have prayed, god
grant you prayer.
Well, lo and behold, hannahwent home and Elkanah loved
Hannah in a way that wasdifferent than his relationship
(04:45):
with Penina.
Penina was more of a producerof children, but Hannah was
really Elkanah's love, and sothe scripture says that they had
relations, they knew each otherand, lo and behold, hannah
(05:05):
conceived, and she had made avow that if she conceived she
would give that child over tothe service of the Lord all the
days of her life and a razorwould not touch his hair on his
body, meaning he'd be a Nazirite.
(05:30):
So Samuel was born, and Samuelmeans God hears, and God heard
Hannah's prayer and so sheraised Hannah, raised Samuel
until he was weaned, whichprobably had been about the age
of three.
But get this, the household wasstill not that happy household.
(05:57):
There was still tension, butHannah now had some sense of
vindication.
But still that vibe, thatunhealthy, you know what I'm
talking about.
In a house that's got thatuncomfortable vibe, things just
aren't right.
And Samuel was raised in thatNow he had a loving father and a
(06:21):
loving mother, but there was anatmosphere that was unhealthy.
Now, at the age of three, hannahfulfills her vow and presents
this young boy, who was raisedin a loving but tense
(06:46):
environment, dysfunctional hands, him over to an elderly priest
by the name of Eli.
Eli was advanced in age, and sohere comes a three-year-old boy
, and Hophni and Phineas wereEli's sons, and they were some
(07:07):
characters, man.
They would steal from theofferings the Lord to God,
straight from the altar or whilethey were even still boiling in
a pot to prepare them for asacrifice still boiling in a pot
to prepare them for a sacrifice.
(07:28):
They would take portions forthemselves, give some to their
dad, but also keep some, and whoknows what else they would do
with it Perhaps sell it, getrich, whatever throw parties.
They didn't really have anyregard for the things of God.
They treated the priesthoodlike a job that they were
entitled to, and so they werenot only unhealthy that way, but
(07:56):
they also were having sex withsome of the temple workers, some
of the women that were servingin the temple.
They would have sexualrelationships with them, and so
the environment you get it.
The environment was reallyspiritually on a decline, and
(08:19):
Eli wasn't doing really anythingto correct his sons.
He was kind of like letting ithappen because they would give
him some food and Eli wasgetting fat.
Literally he was a fat man, big, heavy man, fat from the
offerings, and his sons wererunning roughshod.
(08:40):
And Israel, the spiritualatmosphere, was on a decline.
And the three-year-old boy isbeing raised in that environment
.
Talk about dysfunction.
His mother hands him over, he'sno longer in the house that he
(09:04):
grew up in, he's in a strangeenvironment with strange people
doing strange things and he'ssupposed to be learning the ways
of God.
Talk about some strikes againstyou as a person or him as a man
, young man, right, put yourselfin his place.
(09:26):
And yet, at about the age of 12, so nine years, underneath this
kind of environment, with Elitraining him up, hoffney and
Phineas doing their thing, theatmosphere, the vibe again right
(09:50):
, the vibe, the dysfunctionalvibe that he was in, could have
shut just about anyone down.
But at about the age of 12, likeI said, at about the age of 12,
god speaks audibly to Samuel.
(10:10):
He calls him into the role ofbeing a prophet and a judge in
Israel, one of the greatest.
But at the age of 12, at theage of 12, he didn't know the
voice of the Lord until then.
He was just going through whatwas in front of him things to do
(10:32):
.
You know how it is Just put onefoot in front of him.
Things to do.
You know how it is, just putone foot in front of the other.
And he was learning who knowswhat.
He was learning All the thingsthat he saw.
I mean, it wasn't always pretty,let's put it that way.
Sometimes when we read thescriptures it can be kind of
(10:55):
sterile.
We look at it like it's almosttoo good to be true or we don't
really necessarily see theactual color commentary.
It really is going on andthings were unhealthy.
(11:17):
And yet God speaks to Samuel inthe midst of that dysfunction
and tells Samuel what he's goingto be doing.
Powerful God is bigger than anydysfunction.
(11:40):
He was bigger than thatdysfunction that Samuel was
raised in A home that was alittle bit tense, becoming a
child in an environment that hedidn't even know anything about,
three years old, little bittense.
Becoming a child in anenvironment that he didn't even
know anything about, three yearsold, being raised by an elderly
man, stepbrothers that werewild.
(12:04):
And yet God spoke to him andimparted into him something that
was bigger than thatdysfunction.
He can do the same thing inyour life.
(12:25):
He does it.
In fact, he used some of thosethings that Samuel was raised in
to help him become a betterprophet and a better judge,
because he understood people.
There's something aboutexperiencing tough stuff in life
that equips us to minister topeople that are going through
(12:46):
tough stuff.
What we go through, we canactually use that to help others
.
When we're out of thatsituation and God brings us out,
he delivers us from evil.
So that's one of the points inprayer that Jesus taught his
(13:08):
disciples.
Concerning prayer, he said wepray like this, in this way, in
this fashion, and part of it wasto say God, deliver us from
evil, amen, being delivered fromevil.
Evil is a heavy thing.
(13:29):
Evil is a real thing and evilcan suck the life out of anybody
, no matter who you are.
But God is bigger than evil.
He can bring us out of evil andhe did that in Sam's life.
He can do it in yours Now.
(13:52):
Dysfunction it is humbling forme and that's good, because
periodically it's important,real level.
In my own life, I have been theperson who has created
(14:21):
dysfunctional environments notalways, but I have and the ones
that I created were due to first.
The first one that I createdwas due to the fact that I had
let hurt, bitterness andunbelief get into my life
(14:48):
because I was wounded in thechurch.
Church life had wounded medeeply and I thought if this is
what this is all about, whoneeds it?
And if that, in fact, this iswhat God's all about, who needs
(15:10):
him?
And I let bitterness turn intounbelief and unbelief started to
choke out the life, not onlywithin me, but it began to
affect the people around me,because some of the behaviors
that I chose to do while thatwas going on was immoral.
(15:33):
I became an immoral man,sexually immoral.
I became immoral in my thoughts.
I became literally someone whoabused alcohol and other drugs
because I thought well, you knowwhat, if this is all there is,
(15:57):
I might as well enjoy myself,regardless of what the effects
are in other people's lives.
Let them deal with it, and dealwith it.
They had to, in fact, becauseof my stubbornness, my
woundedness, my justunforgiveness and unbelief.
(16:26):
The example that I set for mysons I had three sons the
example that I set for them whenthey were in their teen years,
because that's when I checkedout things.
They were raised in adysfunctional setting, broken
home, and it affected one of mysons the other one so deeply
(16:51):
that he made choices in lifethat ultimately led to his early
death at the age of 36.
Now, do I take full blame forthat?
(17:13):
Perhaps not full blame, but Itake a significant amount of it,
because I was the farmer wholet the fox come in the gate and
get into the chicken coop.
I could have prevented that,and it pains me to know that
(17:37):
that was in part what took placeand a consequence of my own
rebellion and unbelief,dysfunction and unbelief,
dysfunction.
But but God is bigger than that.
(18:01):
He has forgiven me much andbecause of that he's placed his
love in my heart and I can nowlove much.
I can have compassion on peoplewho've done crazy things and
have created some realcomplicated situations, but I
can also say that there's hopeoutside of it.
(18:22):
You don't have to stay in it.
God can lead you through it andinto something bigger and
better, and that's his presence.
His presence alone is worth it.
Regardless if you do anything,being in relationship with God
and in good relationship withothers is worth it.
(18:45):
Everything else is a bonus.
Everything else is a bonus, butGod is bigger than any
dysfunction, bigger thanproblems that those things
create within our minds.
I can say for a fact this veryday I'm a free man.
(19:10):
I don't have guilt, fear orshame.
It's not a fairy tale, it's notsome sort of Shangri-La, it's a
reality.
There were some significantprocesses that I had to go
through, but through is theopposite word he led me through.
It's the opposite word he ledme through.
Deliver us from evil.
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Through it not just to it or init Not just a temptation, but a
deliverance.
God is bigger than anydysfunction.
He was bigger than thedysfunction Sammy was raised in.
He's bigger than thedysfunction that I created, and
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now he has given me anopportunity to share things with
others around the world that Icould never have dreamed of.
But again, that's the bonus.
The real, real, real prize ismy relationship with God.
It's right, righteousness,peace and joy in the Holy Spirit
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.
I'm a citizen of his kingdom,I'm free, and when the sun sets
free Jesus, that person is free.
Indeed, you can walk on that, Iguarantee you.
And in fact, if some of thethings that you've experienced
in life are very difficult, thatcould just mean that there's a
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very great call upon your lifeto do significant things.
But again, things are not theprize.
Relationship with God and withone another, that's the prize
For us to be one even as Jesusand the Father are one with the
Spirit, one In perfect love, inperfect harmony.
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Peace, joy.
Holiness is the freedom fromevil.
Holiness has no evil in it.
God is holy.
He's called us to be holy, justlike he said let there be light
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.
He said be holy.
He said let there be light, andthere was light.
He said be holy.
We're going to be holy.
We're going to be free fromevil, the dysfunction that evil
brings.
We're going to be free from itnow and completely, at the end
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of this age.
Hallelujah, let's pray.
Father, god, you alone are God.
There is no one greater thanyou.
There's nothing greater thanyou.
There's no dysfunction that'sgreater than you.
And I honor you, we honor youand we say that, holy Spirit,
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you're capable of leading us inthe paths of righteousness for
the namesake of Jesus.
So we invite you to do that.
And, jesus, we honor your name.
We exalt you as King of Kingsand Lord of Lords, savior of our
lives.
I place my faith in you andstand here in your name and
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declare that these things areright and true and they'll be
fulfilled in our day and age.
And I say once again amen, amen, amen, amen.
All right, folks, we love you.
If you have any thoughts,questions, concerns, please feel
free to drop us a line atlifearoundthefire, at gmailcom.
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That's our email address, ortype in lifearoundthefire.
Look us up on the web.
We would love to hear from you.
In the meantime, god bless you.
Adios amigos.
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