Faith IS Action

In this Episode We Look at The Importance of Us Having Actions That Back the Faith We Proclaim To Have In GOD.

Episode Transcript

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M hmmm, come up. Welcometo them, my man. It's the
hour where you didn't get some pairof change that doesn't feel a power already.

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Gotta dues, take one. I'llthe words of lights of Food.
Then he didn't get the voul happy, stay focused, ground hard. He
wouldn't. They don't notice. It'sthe Holy water who's gonna help me post
to make complaining, But the emotionthey do, the emotion when you chose
this for the ones who I spokenif you when you broken. Welcome to
them, my man. It's thehour where you didn't get some pair of

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change that doesn't feel a power already. Gotta dudes, take one. I
don't the words of the lights ofFood. Dan, he didn't get the
vow. Greetings, guys, beautifulpeople, welcome to another exciting episode of
the Mic minister Our. I amyour host. That's always the Mic Minister,

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and you know, as always,I counted a joy, I counted
a blessing, I counted a privilegeto be with you yet again in another
exciting chapter on what we call life, on this journey with God, getting
a better understanding of him, abetter understanding of his word, a better
understanding of ourselves. We just thankand praise God for yet another week,
yet another day, Yet another timethat He's allowed us to see. If

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the devil had it his way,we wouldn't be talking to you right now.
If the devil had it his way, you wouldn't be hearing me right
now. If the devil haded thisway, your day would have been messed
up. Your life would be messedup, your soul would be messed up,
your mind would be messed up.But oh, we serve a God,
We serve a mighty God. Andeven if you're not serving God with
your life right now, God stillis loving when you are enough, Because

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He has no respect of persons.He loves us all, whether we're doing
what he told us to do orif we're not doing what he told us
to do. Now he has todesire that we all that we all line
up to his word, we allline up to his commandment. But the
ones that are not doing it rightnow, God still loves them. We
have kids, We have children,We have family members that don't do everything
that we want them to do.But do we stop loving them? Do

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we stop holding them in high regard? Do we stop praying for them?
No? We do not now.The only time we really stop praying or
stuff for people is when we getmad and we get in our feelings.
But the truth is, when youlove somebody, don't matter if they disappoint
you or not, you still therefor him, You still care for him,
you still wanted to see them succeed. And God is just that way.

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But he's amplified in what he doesbecause we'll give up. We'll get
to a point where we give upon people. We get to a point
where we get frustrated. Were human. Sometimes we try, we tried,
we but praying, we have patience, We show love that's supposed to cover
up multitudes and sins. But sometimesthese people just stiff knack. They're hard
hairded, they don't want to listenin one do right. We get fed
up, but God doesn't get fedup. Because there was a time we

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was that stiff knack. We wasthat hard hairded person that didn't want to
talk or hear about God and wantGod in our life. And God had
patience with us. God's love neverleft us. He didn't hold a grudge.
He didn't say why I tried.I gave you this many chances of
now you keep turning away. NowI'm turning away from you. But that's
what we do to each other.But I thank God that God is not
like man. I thank God thatwe have an ultimate example how we should

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be. When it says love coversa multitude of sins, we read that,
but we need an example of whatthat looks like. And God,
sin is only begotten son. Hislove covered a multitude of sins. His
love even covered the sin of themkilling him. In the name of Jesus.
We are to be grateful. Weought to be thankful, We aught
to be excited that we serve andwe're protected by God that loves us so

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much. He said that He's theouta and the omega, the beginning and
the end that covers everything, thatcovers everything. So we thank God for
the covering. We thank God forthe keeping. We thank God for the
forgiving. We thank God for theredeeming. We thank God for the love.
Everything that He does in our life, even the things that we take

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for granted. I want to say, on behalf of all of us,
we thank God. We thank Godon this morning. Hollelujah, Father.
I prayed since the last time wespoke, and I know It's been a
couple of weeks since I've been onand have some other things going on.
But I'm refocused, i am regrounded. I am back on what I
need to do because when you addthings, sometimes you think you got the
time to do the things that youwant to do, or you think,

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well, you're saying in your mind, well, I'm gonna do this on
this dadum do it on that day. But see, that's just the plans
you have. What we never plannedfor. We never planned for the unexpected
because we don't know what's coming,but we should always have I thought that
something unexpected may happen on some thingsmay happen. And plus I in my
capacity being a pastor as well,you know, you have a church family,
you have a church you have toworry about. I won't say worry,

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but you have to be concerned.You have to be devoted to.
So you know, we're in theprocess of doing some things to try to
expand the ministry on trying to I'min the process of looking for work because
I was in an accident a fewweeks back and it threw things out of
whack with what I had going on. But I'm trusting God. I'm trusting
God, so there is no worry, there's no fear, there's no fret.

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God has always taken care of meand my family. God has already
taken care of each and every oneof us. So this is not the
right now while I'm going to doubthim, I'm definitely not. I suggest
that you don't either. But againwe thank God for his continue love,
for what he continues to do.As always, I thank each and every
one of you that tune in.I know you've probed. The last couple
of weeks was like Mike Minister comingback. He got anything else to say.

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I got a whole Actually, Idon't have much to say, but
God has a lot to say toyou through me, and we still got
work to do. I still havework to do for God. I'm not
tired, I'm not finished. I'mnot depressed. I'm not going anywhere.
I just had to regroup. SoI thank God for the regroup and I
thank God for the refound purpose rightnow in the name of Jesus. Newfound
purpose because the purpose that I hadwhen I started this podcast is a different

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purpose now because I have a betterunderstanding, a better outlook. But I
thank God for giving me that purpose. I thank God for utilizing me.
I thank God for allowing you tohear these words, and the words come
forth and they bring you some encouragement. I am always thankful for what God
is doing, more so than whatI am doing. So again, I
just want to thank God. Ijust want to thank God. We all

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should thank Him and not found itrobbery to ever thank God, because God
is always doing something for us,always doing something for us. So with
that being said, while I'm insuch a thankful mood, you know,
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thoughts on things that you may wantcovered on the podcast that I may not
have touched on or may want todigger a deeper dive in it, and

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let me know. I'm more thanwilling to. It's about us understanding God's
word better, how to apply itto our life, and understanding that getting
this word for yourself, getting thisrelationship with God for yourself, because we
can't just depend on other people toget give us from God what we can
get from God directly. That's justthe truth. You don't allow you won't

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we in life? If somebody sittingat the table, I don't give it's
your boyfriend, girlfriend, wife,husband, and they are eating food and
they taste the food and they putthe food back on the spoon and try
to give it to you. You'renot gonna eat that. You want to
taste your own food. You wantit for yourself. So stop allowing people
to regurgitate the word to you withoutyou finding out it for yourself. That's
all I'm saying. Make sure thatthe word is what it is. And

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again, you could have a pointwhere you're trying to get to a place
in God and you need some betterunderstanding. You know, you gotta get
it for yourself. So that's that'swhere we're at. We just thank God
for everything he's doing. I can'texpress it. I can't express it.

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Enough, how much, how importantGod is in our lives. If we
look around right now and everything that'sgoing on, we still see all these
masks, killings every day, Thereis killing every day, somebody's getting you
know, still kids getting abducted,there chronups being abducted. There's the wars
going on, rumors of wars ourgovernment. I don't, I don't even
I can't even tell you what's goingon in the land right now. I

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mean, honestly, the devil isrunning a monk. I mean, I
could spend the whole podcast without gettingdescriptions and we could just talk about what's
going on in the world. Thatall cover about four or five of the
next episodes. But that's with everythingthat's going on, the importance of listening
to these podcasts, not just mine, but then the good sound doctrine,
not people out here talking about themselvesand how they how they prayed for somebody

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and brought them out. You couldpray, We all pray, but it's
until God decides to move. Itain't that I prayed and my particular prayer
brought down all this annoying to knowit was God deciding he wanted to move,
so our prayer is just us sayingto God that we respect him.
We know he's the one to havethe answers. We're asking them to come.

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But God, don't move to heready to move. So don't think
because you up in your mouth thatGod heard a hundred of the prayers.
But the one hundred and first prayerthat came from you, all of a
sudden, God said, oh,out of those other one hundred eight eight,
n it ain't move me like yoursdid. It's never like that.
It took all one hundred and onefor God to move, not whether it
and take it's for him to move. But you understand what I'm saying.

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Stop thinking that only your prayers theone getting through. That's the point I'm
trying to get across. Not onlythat, Let's make sure that we're praying
because we all need prayer, weall want prayer, we all desire prayers.
So we shouldn't be hesitant on prayingfor others. Now, I'm not
telling you to be out here prayingfor foolishness. Somebody asks you to pray,
hey, but I need you topray for me to get this woman.
And this woman happened to be somebodyelse's wife. Now you be stupid
and pray for that. Now you'regonna catch the punishment to come with that.

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What I'm saying is we should bepraying for the building of the kingdom,
building of God's word, the buildingof God's spirit over his people,
and the building of God's people.That's what we should be about. So
we thank God for everything everything.On today? Where to get into it,
because you know it's been a coupleof weeks. I'm ready to get
into what God has. What Iwant to talk about today actually is dealing

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with God as as everything, butespecially nowhere. And this is a rhetorical
question when you have to ask yourselfright now, where are you in your
relationship with God? And when Isay that, there's different aspects. You
know, we can talk about whereit's the love of God in your heart
in that part of your relationship.Where is your wisdom? Are you building
wisdom and God learning God's word?We can talk about that. Have you

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a lot? Let pass things go? You know, the things that we
hold onto this so much in therelationship with God that we don't really think
about. But there is one thingthat we profess. We talk about a
lot. But on today, we'regoing to ask ourselves, oh we really
believing what we're saying. So,if I have to use for a thought

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for us to go along with ontoday, it's the simple. This is
the statement that I want you tokeep with yourself as you listen on today,
And it's simply faith is action.I say again, faith is action.

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Now, with that being said,we see people, including myself,
we all if we're followers of Christ, first and foremost, we had to
believe that Jesus came down, hedied for our sins. We accept Jesus
into our life and we believe that'show we are made hold. That's how

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we accept God. That's part ofthat's one of the requirements we have to
believe. You have to have faithand belief that Jesus was sent down here
for the remission of our sins.Now, if you don't have the belief
of that, then your faith prettymuch, faith is pretty much the shot
to be honest. Now when welook at it, let's look at the

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definition, because you don't like togive the definition to what we're talking about.
Now, faith is defined and it'stwo definitions that it says. It
says a complete trust or confidence insomeone or something. So again going back
to the first thing I said,is in order to be considered a child
of God, or as we inthe land saying, quote unquote a Christian,

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you have to believe. You haveto have complete trust or confidence and
the fact that Jesus was sent downby First of all, you gotta believe
that God is who he says Iam, that I am. When they
asks who sent you, you saythat I am. So we have to
believe first and foremost, have thefaith to believe complete trust that God is
who he is, the author andfinisher of our faith. Not only that
complete trust and confidence that God notonly is who he is, that he

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sent his son to die for oursins to be I'll protect our coverer.
Now. The second, which tiesinto the first second definition, says,
a strong belief in God. Strongthat a halfway belief, not a belief
when you need something. Strong beliefmeans strength is there at all times,
whether or not you use that strength. The muscles that you have, the

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stripth that you have. You don'twalk around every day using your strength.
There's areas that you're strong in thatyou don't use every day. But you
know when it's needed that that strengthis there, you don't take it away.
You actually, actually, if we'resmart, we make sure to build
up our strength in these areas tomake sure that we're always ready. So
if you have a strong belief inGod, you should be building up that
strong belief in God because it's faith. So faith is the belief now in

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the Word, because I'm not goingto cover this particular scripture, but it
says in the Word that without works, faith is dead. So if you
have faith in something, anything,you have faith in in life, you
have an action that follows that.Let me give you a couple of examples.
Matter of fact, we use acouple of biblical examples. Then I
give you a couple of life examplessimply, and then we're go into some

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scripture. So the first example Iwould like to look at faith is action
Noah and the Ark, And justbriefly, everybody knows the story, even
if you haven't read the story,which I encourage you to read the stories
story and Genesis about Noah and theArk when Jesus, when God sent word
to Noah that there was gonna bea great reign that was gonna rain for
forty days or forty nine. Heinstructed Noah to build an arc, to

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get two of every animal, gethis wife, his daughters and their husbands,
and get in the ark and beready. The faith, the belief,
the strong belief in God, iswhat lead to the action of Noah
building the arc. See God took. God tells us all the times things
to do, but it's until wehave the faith and we believe. Now,

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let me back up and go backto this arm. Let me tell
you what was really hindering us alot when it comes to faith being action.
The definitions that I read not oneof these definitions says strong belief in
self. Does not say that.Matter of fact, it says a strong
belief in God God. The problemwith faith is two things that's hindering you.

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Either you don't believe in God enoughor you're too busy looking at your
belief system as far as yourself.Because first the foremones understand that the faith
is not in you. The faithis in God. The action is you.
The faith is God. So ifyou're looking at the faith you have
in yourself, you're never gonna movebecause you're never have enough faith in your
capabilities. You don't know your capabilities. None of us has extended ourselves to

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the full potential to know what ourcapabilities are because we're too busy being fearful.
Well I'm not good at this,Well I ain't never I've never done
this. How you know what you'regood at that you've never done. How
you're gonna have faith in something thatyou've never tried when we went to learn,
So let's go to some natural things. Faith is action. When we
wanted to learn to ride a bike, it wasn't until we learned somebody taught

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us and we had the faith tono matter of fact, we had trisecles.
They put training wheels on the biketo build trust, to build faith
in your ability, and until yougot to that place, which took practice.
Then you took the training wheels off. So it takes practice to activate
that faith. So that means you'renot gonna have people think, oh,
God came through and save me thisone time. That's not gonna give you

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faith that just have you just havea better belief, you have more confidence.
But it says complete, there's ayes, we all believe God exists.
Oh yes, you ask people,You even ask people of gonna land
y'all have to believe in the highyour power. They mightn't want to say
God, but everybody has a beliefsome type of belief that God exists or
there is there's something in the universethat some people say. But faith is

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complete. That means you don't questionat all. It don't matter if it's
good, if it's bad, indifferent, no matter what you think, what
you feel, you have complete faithin God. So understanding, when we
have complete faith and trust in God, we will start moving. That's simple.
Faith is action. So now thatwe understand that faith is action,

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we have to apply what God hasleft us in his word to help us
apply. So now the first thingis, well, what, Mike,
minister, You're telling me to havefaith? But how do I have faith?
I just can't wake up tomorrow andsay, oh my have faith.
Would you want me to just sayI got faith in God? Just start
going ahead doing stuff. No,there's some things that could help you.

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So let's look at Romans. Thetenth chapter in the seventeenth First Romans.
Tenth chapter in the seventeenth verse says, so then faith coming by hearing and
hearing by the word of God.How Mike minister, do I activate faith?
How do I grow more faith?How do I get more faithful with

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God? I'm not at a placewhere I really have faith in Him.
My response would be to you,how much word are you reading? How
much word are you taking in?Because Roman says faith cometh by hearing.
We gain faith by hearing about something. You get trust by experiencing something.
The more you experience is the betterthe faith will be. So brings faith

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and that hearing by the word ofGod. So we need to hear the
word of God. And by hearingthe word of God, reading the word
of God, listening to the wordof God. The more we read the
word of God, the more ourfaith will build. The reason being you
get to read documentation of the thingsthat God has done. So when you
start seeing a matter of fact,when is the most time one of the

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times where a lot of us,especially God fearing, Oh God, trusting
people, our faith is the strongest. Sometimes when we hear with God differ
somebody else, we will get excited. We will run around the church for
what God did for somebody else,but won't have the faith to believe that
he'll do it for us. That'ssad. What he does for one,

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he'll do for any. But again, we wouldn't know what God has done
for his people, what God woulddo for you if you're not reading his
words. So faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
The start of getting a better placein faith with God is to get
into his word. Everything leads intogetting to His word. So the next

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scripture I would like to touch onhis First Corinthians, the second chapter,
in the fifth verse, Sure,this is another place why it's hard to
have faith? Where are we placingour faith? What are you putting faith
in? First Corinthians too, infive says that your faith should not stand

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in the wisdom of men, butin the power of God. We put
faith in man entirely too much.How many times in our life have we
put faith in man and that personor those people let us down? What

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did it do make us have lessfaith in the next set of people that
we come across, whoever we meet. Our faith in man is dependent upon
the people that we met before thepeople we meet. Now we have gotten
to a place in life, andI say we collectively everybody's not like this,
but we have gotten to a placein our society to where we have
no faith in people. We don'teven look for the good in people anymore.

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We don't look to see if peoplelook good. We are waiting for
somebody to cross us. We arewaiting, we actually walk outside now,
waiting to tell somebody else, waitingto be guarded. We are walking around.
We don't even have We don't havefaith. We don't have faith in
man. That's the sad part.But we don't. We're show in our
actions. Faith is action. Ouractions show that we don't have faith in
the human nature anymore, human society. But the sad part is with that

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being said, we would still goand trust the wisdom of men before the
power of God. The power ofGod has never failed us. Now,
the power of God may have showedup in your life different from what you
wanted, but it was everything thatyou needed, whether you wanted to admit
it or not. But the truthis, what is where's your faith at.
It's amazing how many times we wentin buildings that we've never been in,

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never in rooms that we've never beenin, and there's chairs in there,
and we sit down in them chairswith no problem. Matter of fact,
we'll get in a chair that we'venever sat in in our life.
Don't know what something's wrong with it. We're sitting in a matter of fact,
we've sat in chairs before, andwhen the chair go to shake or
wabble, it might be broken.We look at the chair like it did
something. We're looking around like yousee this chair. We have this surprise

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that the faith we had in thischair that was made by man has failed
us. But yet we won't turnand have faith in the one who will
never feel us. The power ofGod has never failed you. When you
didn't even acknowledge God, the powerof God was working in your life.
When we walked away from God,the power of God was working in our

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life. When we call on God. The power of God always works in
our life. We have called themen before, the ones that said they
would be there, the ones thatsay they never leave, and they won't
even answer, But we keep puttingour faith. The reason why sometimes we
want to put faith in man insteadof God, because putting faith in God
shows that you acknowledge who He is, and now you have to be held

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accountable to what He wants you todo. So we would rather deny the
truth of who God is just tostay in our foolishness. But once we
really really accept who God is andreally have the faith, then we start
moving accordingly. So instead of whenman tells you to move, you will
move in the spirit of God tellsyou to move. Instead of moving how
man tells you to move, youstart moving by the power of God inside

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of you. So when we startputting the faith in the wisdom of men
and the thing that you have toask yourself, you have no idea how
much this man or woman that you'reputting your faith and knows, you don't
even know if they have your bestinterests at hard you don't even know.
You're putting faith in something that didn'ttell you anything, instead of putting all
the faith in the thing that Godhas laid out before he tells you who

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he is. He makes no secretabout it. He's not holding anything back.
Matter of fact, the thing thathe holds back from you is actually
not being held back. He's justnot letting you see it to the manifest
because he knew he can't have thefaith in us to not mess it up.
And even knowing that, he stillallows us to have things that we
didn't even deserve, but we won'tgive him the faith to move, And
I say move. Faith is notsitting there waiting for God to drop something

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about the sky. Faith is action. So when you have faith in God,
when you see people talking about Godand how much they love God,
how their life is, are theymoving? Are they making move? When
I say they moving, I ain'ttalking about Are you moving buying houses,
buying cars? Are you moving?Are you moving like God is in your
life? When you come across situations, are you moving like you scanned?
Or you're moving like God is inyour life? When people talk about you,

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are you having the faith to notworry about it because God has the
power over you. Are you ruinghere worrying about what man saying about you?
Where is your faith line? Becauseaccording to where your faith is line,
it's pretty much gonna show where yourlife is set up. What fruit
you're we're bearing if you're not eveneven if you're planning to try to bear
any fruit. Because faith makes theaction. When you have the faith,

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you have the action. You gotfaith in the job, the faith of
the company that you work for,you going there, you give it you
all. When you don't have faithin what's going on at your job or
around you. You don't move.Faith is action. Next scripture Second Corinthians,
the fifth chapter and the seventh verse, and it says, before we

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walk by faith, not by sight. M that scripture right there. Whoa,
whoa. If we could get thatscripture right there, If we can
get that scripture right there, wewalked by faith, not by sight.

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The human flesh does not want yourbrain to understand. Your human eyes don't
want you to understand that scripture.You're walking by faith. Man, I
see when I walked in the roomthat these people were laughing. And when
I walked in the room, Isee that they looked at me and they
stopped laughing. They got to betalking about me. You're telling me not

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to believe. In my eyes,my eyes saw them look at me and
saw them stop laughing when I camein the room. Can't tell me I
ain't see that. That's my faithis in my eyes. You're right,
Pastor, that is what you saw. They were in there laughing. You
walked in the room and they stoppedlaughing when they saw you. You are
absolutely correct, the pastor thing thatthey talking about him. Hum You can't

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always trust what you see with youreyes, because if you was walking in
faith the spirit of law, letyou know, there was over talking about
something they had no call, andthen your authority that God is putting you
came into the room. And thenlooking it's like, oh, let's stop
talking about this foolishness and giggling aboutthis foolishness because the man or woman of
God just came in here. Weneed to line up. But you're so
busy in your feelings, so busythinking about when you were six, how

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the people in school used to teaseyou. But you're now forty six and
ain't no, you haven't been inschool in thirty years. But now you're
trusting what you see. The funnything is there's a lot about us right
now, whether we got twenty twentyvisions or not. You could be in

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a situation and you're ever approaching somethingand you think you saw this person,
Oh, that got to be Charlesover there, and then you get across
the street, Dan, ain't evenCharles. I don't even know who that
is, but over all across thestreet it looked like, So you're gonna
keep trusting what you see. Thinkabout that we trust more what we see.

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Then when God has told us whoallows us to see? Who gave
us sight? Who gave sight tothe blind? It wasn't me, It
was God. So I'm gonna trustwhat I see more than the person that
gave me the ability to see.Think about that, So you think the
devil ain't out here knowing that wetrusted our sight and allowing things. How
many times have you felt you've beenmanipulated? How many times you said,

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I didn't see that in that person, but we trusted what we see.
We gotta walk by faith because thefaith is no matter what they say,
no matter what they're doing. Ihave the faith that God is gonna protect
me. If somebody's talking bad aboutme, I ain't got to see it.
God gonna let me know because Itrust in God more than I trusted
man. Faith. We walk byfaith. So when I go on that

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job, I'm not worried about howthe person looking their face balled up in
an interview. Ain't worry about that. I'm not walking by what I see
because I don't even know why theyfaced balled up. Might have had a
headache during an interview. I don'tknow, So at the frown on their
face to dictate the way I actas opposed to understanding when I walked in
and God opened the door for me. About that, we got to think
about what we're doing. We walkby faith, not by sight. So

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when you walk by faith, thatmeans you ain't got to see the end,
You ain't got to see people there. You're moving in faith. That's
a lot of times we don't startthings because we're walking by who we see
backing us up, who we seeencouraging us, who we hear faith.
The faith is I have the faiththat God put it on my heart,
so I know if nobody comes rightnow, God is gonna help it manifest
God's going I got so much.I got so much crazy faith. And

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that's what we say crazy faith.But the faith ain't crazy. It's crazy
to the person watching you have thefaith because they think you crazy, But
anything crazy, I just got thatmuch faith. So if it looks crazy
to you, let it look crazyto you. But when God manifests it
through my faith because I made theaction that, I hope that it encourages
you to do the same. Mhallelujah. Next scripture Hebrews, the eleventh

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chapter and the sixth verse. Thisone hears we talk about we don't always
like to look at faith, andwe always talk about faith from our side
from oh, wall, you don'thave enough faith. Let us talk about
how it affects us personally. Well, you know, if you don't have

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enough faith, do you know certainthings are not gonna come to pass.
Some people will say, well,I don't have faith because I have put
faith and stuff before and it didn'tcome to wad that's supposed to come.
We all get that, but that'sour side, that's our selfish side of
looking at things and our justification.But have we ever asked ourselves how does
God feel about us not having faith? What does it do to God when
you have a lack of faith?When you and honestly, when we disrespectfully

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don't have faith in him, that'snot God's saying that. That's me saying
that I feel strongly about that.The man that came and gave you life,
more that you shaped you, protectedyou. Dang, We're gonna have
faith in him seriously, But wewant people to have faith in us.
We will come there. We willnot show up, sometimes, come late,
sometimes mess out on things, butwe'll ask people don't lose faith in
me. Please don't lose faith tome. Please give me another chance.

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God ain't never failed us. Hegot the acts us to have faith in
him. You think about that,how many times we failed God and God
still got the faith in us thatwe're gonna get right. God has never
failed us, and we got toaudacity to act like we questioning our faith
in Him because I wanted a hundreddollars that last week, God, but
you only send eighty. But youdid, but you was the one that

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got you in Ae hundred dollars.Whold Jesus. But Hebrews eleven and six
says, but without faith, itis impossible to please him. For he
that coming to God must believe thatHe is and that He is a rewarder
of them that diligently seek him.Without faith, it is impossible to please

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God. So we'll be out heretrying to act like we can do something
to make God love us more.We could do something to be in better
grace with God. No, youcannot. The grace and the love that
God gives us is a gift.He gives it to us freely when He
created us. What did we doprior to him creating us for him to
make feel indebted to creating us.What did your child do prior to you

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creating them, bringing them to theworld to make you feel that they owe
you something? The truth is,and let me let me fix this.
Live for parents. We because theyare are parents out here. They get
in this place where I had you, I burned for you, I took
care you for eighteen years. Youshould shinging in. That childn't asked you
to come here. A matter offact, you're probably fornicating. And if
he was married, okay, Godtold you to pre pro create, so

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that child of yours was nowhere aroundwhispering in your air to amen, could
you have me? Could you makeme? I need to come to where
you feel intire of that day oweyou something? The truth of the matter
is you had the child. Whenyou go buy a car, you don't
gonna be in the car to aman for gassing you. I change your
all you been yan. Yeah,matter of fact, whenever you heck up,
you do everything in your power tomake sure straight. HM. So

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understand, we can't please God withouthaving faith in him. We gotta believe
that he is and not only thathe is, He's a rewarder of those
that diligently seek Him seek him.It didn't say there is a reward for
those that always begging Him to getout of trouble. See, when we
here diligently seeking Him, that meansyes, Yes, when we're going through

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something, we pulled a diligently seekthe Lord, that's who we should go
to first. But when you're notgoing through problems, when you're just starting
out, when you're about to putforth any type of action, are you
diligently seeking God before you make thataction? All we even consulting God when
I say consult to God. See, we have mastered asking God, Hey
God, could you bless such andsuch? God? I want to do
this? Could you bless such andsuch? How many times have we going

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to God and say, Hey God, this is before me. How do
you suggest I go about this?Hey God, I'm in this place.
How would you have me to getout of this place? Hey? God,
we need to start because when wehave faith, the action changes.
See, when we didn't have faith, we have faith to God to bail
us out in the back of ourmind. We have an inherent faith in

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our minds that God will bail usout. So we go you know how
I know this because we go aheadand do whatever we want to do,
and then when the trouble hits,we pray and ask God to get us
out, bargain with God because inour core of our being we believe,
we have the faith that God canbring us out ultimately. So that's why
that action comes. When you're drunkand you over the toilet, you don't
be calling on the bartender. Youdon't call on your friends. You call
them God to stop your stumming fromher, because you have the faith that

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that's who could take it away.And you bargain and say God to or
drink no more. It's been thelast time. So just like you sought
him in that moment of throwing up, what about when you wasn't imagine?
I imagine instead of on late Fridayor Saturday night before you go to church
next morning, imagine if you diligentlyseek him Monday through Thursday. Imagine what

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your life would be because He wouldreward you, and reward don't always mean
financial. Reward could be that depressionyou're going through. Reward could be the
train to change the way you think, that, change the way you look
at things, change the way youreceive things or react to things. It's
so many rewards. We were rewardedby waking up this morning, and some
of us didn't even seek God,and he rewarded us with that. So
we need to check ourselves. NextScripture Proverbs, the third chapter, in

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the fifth verse, I'll go ahead, said, it's sixth of as well,
and I don't have it written down, but I know it. This
is this action right here, andwe would get this action right the other
actions that follow it, Oh,my goodness, would be so much better.

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Might not always again, everything alwayspan out the way you want it,
because I fleshed sometimes won't. Wewon't what we see or what we've
seen. Some things we don't knowthe want because we've never seen it.
That's why you can't trust what yousee. Because your faith only goes as
far what you've seen. You can't. We're not built naturally in our natural

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minds. It doesn't accept having faiththat something that's never seen. You don't
have faith that the state tastes goodthat your friend told you about until you
tasted it for yourself. So weget this scripture here, start practicing this.
It will help in our faith walkand that is Proverbs three and five,
and I'm gonna reach six too.It says trust in the Lord,

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would all thine heart and lean notuntil thine own understanding, and all thy
ways acknowledge Him, and he willdirect thy pass. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he will directthy past. The scripture did not say
in all thy ways acknowledge God,or just say, hey God, I'm

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about to go overhead, bless it. That's not him directing your path.
We don't ask God to direct ourpast. What we do is we're asking
God to bless our past. ButGod knows whether that path is the right
path or the path that you shouldbe on. So you're asking him to
bless something that he knows not goodfor you, and then he don't bless
it. Then you're talking about that'swhy I don't have faith in God.
I ask God to bless his pathand he didn't bless it. That's not
what the scripture said. The scripturesaid, lean not to your understanding,

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allow God to direct your path.So when you have the proper faith,
you stop leaning to what you think. You start consulting God, asking God
which way to go, and thenwhen God tells you which way to go.
Then the action comes. Faith isaction. Faith isn't questioning. Faith
isn't doubting. Faith isn't saying no. Faith is action. So when we

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have the faith in God, inhis direction and what he is, his
power, his annoyting, we startmoving according to what God has shown us.
But we won't know what God hasshown us unless we get in his
word, unless we talk with him, spend time with him and listen,
listen for God to respond. Butagain, those things only come when we

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show the proper faith in God.With the next scripture James two in twenty
four, it says, you seethen, how that by works a man
is justified and not by faith only. By works a man is justified and

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not by faith only. In otherwords, you could have all the faith
in the world that you want tohave. That's fine, but guess what
until you put some work behind it, then you're just talking. You're just
talking. I got faith, Igot faith God, I got faith.

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I got faith. Okay, whyare you ain't moving? We say we
believe in God. We say wetrust God. We say God to bring
these things the pass, So wehave the faith that we claim we do.
Why aren't we moving? Faith isaction. Stop telling yourself that God

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no, let me, let menot say that that way. Excuse me.
Stop only telling yourself that God isgracious. Stop only telling yourself that
God to bring me through we Stoponly telling yourself that God can do it
if you're not doing anything to showwe're asking God to bless things we're asking
God to have. We're telling God, I got faith in you to bring

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us the past. Bring what thepast? Bring? What? What are
you doing? We're asking God tobring things the past. We're asking God
to do this. Do That's whatare we doing? Everything in life that
we want requires us to make amove. If you want to eat,
you gotta cook. If you wantto get clean, you gotta wash your
behind. If you want to getsomething from God, you gotta go to
him. You gotta make a move. Everything in life requires an action on

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your part. Your credit don't getbetter about you just letting the sit there
and having faith that God gonn doyou better pay your bills off? You
gotta stop spending money feverously. Thereis an action. That woman on that
man that you didn't comes because Godjust planet and sad, even if God
sent them in the place that youwas. You still had to open your
mouth, you still had to talk, You still had to get to know
them, You still had to goon the dates. You still had to
do an action. Everything that weask for in life requires an action from

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us. How many times in lifethat we've been doing actions for things that
wasn't good for us. How manytimes we have faith in things that we
knew in our being wasn't gonna last. So let us not miss out on
the opportunity to have faith and movein the faith of the one that is
everlasting. But with that being said, let me leave you with this last

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scripture, and that's Hebrews the eleventhchapter in the first verse, and it
says, now, faith is thesubstance of things. Hope for the evidence
of things not seen, the substancethe things that we're hoping for. That's

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the substance the faith. We're hopingfor those things, but it hadn't been
seen yet. The evidence of thingsnot seen. What brings those things to
light is the action that we putbehind the faith that we have. When
you hope for that home, youput forth in action and get that home.
When you hope for that car,you put forth action. When you
hope for that job, when youhope for that woman, you put forth

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the action. So there is noway that we could practice that in all
these aspects of our lives and think. But when it comes to God now
and we can be idle, now, we can be lazy. Now we
could just sit there and talk.This is a This is your life,
your spirit, everything that you've beenpraying and asking for us right here in
front of you. You mean totell me you won't work, You won't

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put in the work to get whatyou've been asking God for. You won't
put in the work. You believeGod enough to pray to him, but
you won't put it in the work. A matter of fact, you'll put
it in the work, and nothaving faith that God will bring it to
pass, it doesn't add up.If you have the faith, then you
have the action. If you're puttingforth the action, you need to put
the faith of God before the actionso that way it will come to pass.

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Faith is action. What are youputting your faith in? Or your
faith is your faith going in?Man? Is faith? When I say
man, that includes yourself, Becauseif you're putting faith in Man over God,
you're gonna fail every time. Stopasking God, why man fail you?
Act? Why you fail God?Stop going to God expecting God just
to move and be a magician andjust drop things in your lap. Why
should he? Why? Why itsaid the early bird gets the worm.

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Even the bird know he gotta getup early and do some work if you
want to eat. But we outhere wanting to eat all for God's blessing,
But we don't want to put itin the work. When we want
God to bless us, we haveto be doing something when we go for
a loan. You can't go fora loan without having some type of collateral.
You can't get a bank account withouthaving money. You can't get anything
in life without having something on yourend. Let's stop acting like God is

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supposed to give us all you're notsupposed to get back. And even if
we feel that God is supposed togive us, we should love and be
thankful of enough to where we allmove and show that we believe in Him.
So I say again, whatever you'refacing on today, whatever it is,
whatever you're wanting to do, whetherit be for God, for yourself,
and ultimately we should be wanting todo everything for God. But let's
just be honest. Sometimes we havethings before us that we want to do

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for ourselves, and that's not wrong, but we should be putting God first
before that thing. So anything you'regoing through, whether it's good, whether
it's bad, indifferent, understand thatGod is here for you. God would
be with you. God is theone that will provide and make sure that
it comes to past efforts in hiswill. And it's not about foolishness.
I must add that. But pleaseknow, if you fully trust God,
if you want to trust God,if you want to show God that you

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believe what he's telling you, whathe's putting on your heart, then your
faith is action. So again asI close, I say to Hell,
I encourage you on the day,have faith in God. He is the
Alpha, he is the Omaga.He is the one that will be with
you until the end. He willput on your heart needs to be done.
When he does that, allow yourbody, your mind, your spirit

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to line up with God and movebecause nothing is going to happen if we
are not moving. You can't getto the finish line if you don't start
from the start. A matter offact, when they shoot the gun and
the race the person in the racethat doesn't run. There is no way
that they're gonna win the race,and they definitely ain't gonna finish. So
I say to you again, havefaith in God, and in that faith
that you have allowed that faith tobe transformed into action, because faith is

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action. We thank God on todayfor his word. I thank God again
for each and every one of you. I am speaking to you on today
that your faith will increase. Iam speaking to you on today that the
faith that you have in God willmagnify to the point that your actions,
your actions will start blowing your mind, that you have such a crazy faith
in God that you'll start doing actionsthat you never thought you would do.

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Because you trust what God is goingto do for you. We thank Him
once again. Let us pray hallelujhyour Father, Hollylujah, Father, Holly
lu your Father. Lord. Webless you on today. God, We
thank you God, We reverish youon today. Holly luy your Father,
Holly lull your Father. We justmagnify your name God for everything that you're

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doing in our life. Father.We ask your forgiveness right now, Father
for any lack of faith anyway thatwe've short change you, Father, whether
it be by word or deed oraction. Father, right now, in
the name of Jesus, but weask Father that you forgive us, Father,
and then let forgiving Father, thatwe continue to seek you diligently,
Father, that we may find you, that we not only find you,
but we find your direction, Wefind your guidance, we find your love

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when we find those things, Father, that we just don't sit on them
for ourselves. Father, that wemake an action to a lot of be
magnified in our lives, so thatwhen people look at us, they see
those things in our lives, theysee the faith that we have, they
see the love that we walk in, and they see how we trust you
God. And in turn, Father, they would give them the notion to
want to trust you more Father thanwant to get a closer relationship with you.
Father. So we thank you rightnow for the closeness. We thank

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you Father for manifesting. We thankyou right now for not forsaking us.
We thank you Father for us trustingyou more, Father, us moving along
with what you have us to domore, Father, because sometimes you bless
us in areas that we didn't eventhink to ask. Father. The faith
that we having you, Father,has to supersede the faith we have in
man, the faith we have inourselves, even the faith and that we

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have what the devil will bring tous. Father, my faith, our
faith will be stronger and what you'lldo for us, Father, than anything
else in our life. Father,we thank you for our children. We
thank you for our grandchildren. Wethank you for our families. We thank
you for our parents. We thankyou for extended families, our friends.
We have been asked to touch thosethat talk against us on today, Father,
that we do not follow suit.Father, I have the faith Father,

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that we will put it before you, Father, that we will pray
for them. Father, we willlove them, Father regardless, Father,
because you said in your word iseasy to love someone that loves you.
It is much much more of achallenge to love someone that talks bad about
you. That's true love when youcan love someone that hates you. Father.
So we're having a faith that youput the love in us that when
it turns our time to show thataction, that we will do it.

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Father. So we thank you ontoday, Father, We give it all
to you on today, Father,all our cares, we give our joy,
our praise, everything, our livesto you God, because we know
that you are the one that keepsit safe. We know that you're the
one that keeps us straight. Weknow you're the one that keeps us grounded,
keeps us humble. All those thingsthat are of you, Father,
we thank you Father, not onlyfor you, Father, we thank you
for your son to die for oursins. We thank you for the comforter

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that you've left for us, Father, to keep us. Father right now,
when they name of Jesus Lord,we ask Father that every one under
my sign of my voice be blessedand to be touched by the grace by
the sound of your voice. Father, that they know that they know who
you are. Father. We justthank you when we praise you most of
all, God, we love you. It's in your son Jesus name,
we pray a man. Remember Godloves you, and so do I be

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blessed. Come here, Welcome tothem. Man, it's the hour where
you didn't get some pair of chinethat doesn't feel a power already. Gotta

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dudes, take one. I'll treatthe words of lights and food. Then
he didn't get the voul happy,stay focused, ground hard. He wouldn't.
They don't notice this the holy water. Who's gonna help me? Post
to make complaint and put it inmost they do the most when you chose
this for the ones who I spokenif you, when you broken, Welcome
to them, My man, it'sthe hour where you didn't get some pair

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of chains. Not doesn't feel apower already, Gotta dudes, take one.
I don't treat the words of lightsof food. Then he didn't get the vol