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The following content is provided by I am refocused radio
contributor Pastor Vera McEwen. With Love God Ministries will be
sharing today's message. And now here is your host, Pastor
Vera McEwen.
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How many of you know someone who is audacious?
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How many of you.
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Have run across someone who is audacious shameless?
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I want you to imagine that person.
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Imagine that person who is audacious, shameless.
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And a believer in the truth.
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Turn with me, Turn with me to exit a chapter
thirty two, as we press, implore, petition the Lord audaciously.
Here's the setup for these scriptures. In Exodus chapter thirty two,
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the Lord recognizes.
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That the people led out of Egypt are now praising
and worshiping other gods, and in anger, decides to destroy
them all.
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Moses. Moses decides to go to the Lord.
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And as Moses approaches the Lord, Moses is not sunk
down in shame, but is uplifted in shameless audacity. Moses
speaks a few things here as he seeks the favor
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of God. The first thing that Moses does in Exodus
chapter thirty two, beginning in verse eleven, is seek the
favor of God by asking God to remember his people,
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and I love how Moses begins. He begins by asking.
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God, why why are you going to allow this to happen?
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Why would you have so much anger against your people
that you would destroy them and prove the Egyptians right,
prove them right? In saying, wow, that God just led
them out to no man's land to just destroy them.
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Moses seeks God's favor by asking why, asking God to
remember and remember what? Remember God, your promise, your promise
to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to have a huge number
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of descendants, so many that there are so many that
the stars can't be counted, that the sands can so
many descendants, And if you destroy them, you will have
change changed your promise.
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God asks that we come to him. God as that
we come.
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And shameless audacity like Moses when we petition the Lord.
In continuing this response, in continuing this request, in continuing
this audacious petition to God, Moses says, relent, God of
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your anger. And it says in verse fourteen that God
does what Braylin, That's right, God relents.
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God relents because Moses had the.
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Audacity to go in and ask for favor, to go
in and ask that God not.
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Destroy the people of Israel. To relent Va naham is
what it says, and Va naham the Lord relents.
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Now I love that word in Hebrew Nahaim naham nahamu nahemu.
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It means to relent and to comfort. When we come
to God.
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In our audacious, shameless, trusting, hopeful manner, God.
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Relents, God comforts.
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Do you know someone who is is audacious, someone who
has such trust in God, such hope, such.
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Belief that when they come to God, they do so
in a manner that speaks up pressing in on the Lord,
imploring on the Lord, petitioning the Lord.
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In audacity. When we.
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When we choose to press, implore, and petition God, we receive.
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We receive nahamu naheim.
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We receive God's comfort when we are pressed, when we
are stricken, and we come to God, God, God removes
that pressure. God relents and comforts us. Turn with me
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to Psalm twenty five. Psalm twenty five speaks of this trust,
a trust that we must have in our God, in
our Savior, in our Lord, a hope, a hope in
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our God, in our Lord, in our Savior.
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In verse two, it says, I will trust in you.
In Verse three, it says, my hope is.
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In you, and four and five we've spoken about this before.
It says, God, I want to be teachable, guide me.
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I want to be teachable, guide me.
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And then, of course, like Moses, the Psulmist says, remember Lord,
Remember when I come to.
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You, your said, your love, your mercy, And when you.
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Think about my sins, the things that I have done,
the gods that I have worshiped, the places that I've gone,
the things that.
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I do to others myself included, the things that I
do to your glorious environment.
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And when I come to you trusting, when I come
to you in hope, when I come.
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To you asking to be teachable.
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Relent nah, and remember my sins. No more, remember your love,
he said for me.
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When we press, implore, when.
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We press, implore and petition God, we remind God and
ourselves of God's hessied.
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Turn with me to Philippians, Chapter four.
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The readings for today are verses six through seven.
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And here.
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We have Paul telling the Philippians, do not be anxious.
We live in an anxious community, in a community that
is anxious about so many things about their job, about school,
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about their studies, about their ministry, about their community, about
their nation, anxious about so many things.
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And Paul tells us, do not be anxious. But how
can we replace our anxiety? How can we replace our distress?
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Paul gives us the remedy, say, do not be anxious
about anything, but in everything, not one thing, not the
other thing, but this thing.
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Everything, in everything. By prayer and petition.
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And thanksgiving, present your request to God. So many of
us know the Lord's Prayer by heart, and it's a
glorious outline for how.
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We are to pray.
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But when you are anxious, when you are in distress,
when you don't know a way out, Paul gives us
this way out prayer, petition, and thanksgiving.
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And what happens to this anxiety when we.
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Apply these three in our shameless audacity.
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Paul goes on to tell us, and.
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The peace, let's say that together, and the peace.
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Look to your neighbor, Tell your neighbor, and the peace.
Look to the other side. And the peace, and the
peace which transcends all understanding. The peace that transcend goes
beyond what you know, goes beyond what.
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You think, goes beyond what you can see in the
here and.
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Now will guard you, but not just your person, will
guard your heart, will guard your heart and your mind.
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When we're anxious, our heart can begin to palpitate and raise.
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Our mind can become confused. And this addresses both.
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It says, when you are anxious, go to God in
prayer and petition with thanksgiving and the peace.
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Are any in the Greek the peace.
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That transcends all understanding, all understanding. Will God your heart
and your mind in Christ Jesus. When we press, when
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we implore, when we petition, we.
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Receive in thanksgiving.
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Er any, the peace that transcends, or if you're from
the old school, the peace that passes all understanding.
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Turn with me to love chapter eleven.
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The Gospel reading today is in Luke, and in Luke
chapter eleven, beginning in verse five through thirteen, we have
Jesus speaking to us, and I love what Jesus says.
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If we hone.
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In on verse eight, Jesus speaks to us about audacity
and shamelessness. I had to look up the word because
I'm like, I can't believe that it says audacity and shameless.
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On a devon on a devon in the Greek. So
it's two words. It's a compound word. Then A means
without and the day one means.
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Shame on a devon without shame, on a day without.
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Shame, without shame.
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With audacity, Jesus says that we need.
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To come to God in a shameless manner, with audacity.
Jesus tells us.
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That when we are shameless, when we are audacious.
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We will be heard.
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The root of the word audacious is Latin adairy.
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It means bold.
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Can you bring to mind that person that I asked
you about in the very beginning, that person that you
know is audacious, that.
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Person that trusts, hopes.
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Believes in God in a way that is shameless. Jesus
goes on to tell us that when we ask in
this audacious, shameless manner, that we will get whatever we
ask for. Jesus says, knock and the door will be open.
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Ask and you will receive. Jesus finishes in verse thirteen
by telling us God in Heaven gives us the Holy
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Spirit when we ask, When you press, when you implore,
when you petition, you receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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When I think of an audacious person, I think of
the community in Haiti. I went to Haiti on mission
after their horrendous earthquake. And when I had this perception
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of what it would be like to go to Haiti,
I thought everybody would be sad and depressed because of
all that had happened and all that they had lost, homes.
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Villages, entire spaces gone.
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When I got there, I found something incredibly different.
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I saw the Haitian.
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Women walking down the road in a shameless, audacious.
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Manner, carrying things on.
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The water, bananas, you name it, on their head, huge
baskets filled to the brim.
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I saw.
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Young men, old men, women working to repair houses.
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And as they did so, it wasn't banging like this.
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They were lifted up chest high voices, praising the Lord,
singing songs and repairing or building from scratch homes that
had been demolished. They had what Moses had, they had,
what the Psalmist had. They had what Philippians tell us
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and what Jesus tells us to have. This shameless and
they and this shameless, audacious trust, this shameless audacious belief,
this shameless audacious hope in God. They press, they implore,
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they petition the Lord and receive Naham comfort, comfort when
they're anxious. They receive said God's love and kindness. They
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receive ery, God's peace that transcends and passes all understanding.
They received the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Are you ready to take what is grieving you?
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Are you ready to take what is pressing in on you?
Are you ready to take all that you are and
become audacious for the Lord, with the Lord and to
the Lord.
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Because this day you.
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Can send up an audacious petition in thanksgiving and receive.
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All that you ask for.
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Will you pray for the great nations of the world
in shameless audacity?
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Will you pray for the mother who is grieving the
loss of her child at camp?
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Will you pray for your new home? Will you pray
for that new job? What will you audaciously pray for?
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This day? Jesus tells us.
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To come to God in shameless audacity, unadain in our prayers, petitions,
with thanksgiving, trusting, hoping and receiving nahame comfort, receiving passed
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loving kindness, receiving erny peace, and receiving.
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The Holy Spirit. Me the peace that passes all understanding.
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Be with you.
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Always take a moment and audaciously, shamelessly trusting God in
hope and receiving God's comfort, love, peace and spirit.
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