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I give you a little recap of this week.
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We had a VBS a wonderful program for the children
that was completely let's give it on a plus to
all the kids, workers, volunteers. I worked with our kids,
a Spokene revival with Pastor Bryce and I believe Pastor
Bryson it's probably somewhere here in the Second Sanctuary, and
a Pastor Ricorp preached.
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There was a wonderful.
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Time as well as yes, let's thank your pastor America.
As well as all the wonderful things. I also just
came back from I lost track of how many travels
I was. I would have been so disappointed if somebody
would have come to me today and said, welcome to Hungary,
Jan Is this your first time? I felt like I've
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been gone for so long, and it's been It's been
some time already, from Malaysia to Singapore, to Germany, to Philippines,
to Italy, to friends, to Miami to some other things,
and all while this, by God's grace, was able to
finish my bachelor's in my Bible seminary about three weeks ago.
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So to God be the Glory.
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When I was a youth pastor, I said this one time,
you know, school is for fools, and I want to
hand for that and apologize. I didn't mean it. I
had no idea what I was saying. And so everybody
go to school a man. And so I finished that
To God be the Glory and then got sick last
weekend from traveling. I think all the traveling cut up
to me. I think it's in the Philippines, I prayed
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for too many people, like like seven thousand people that
we end up touching and praying. Somebody gave me something,
but Terrey's the Lord recovered and I'm glad to be
home and I'm looking forward to our Holy Spirit Conference
Water Baptism that's coming up.
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In Marina Park.
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So at the end of August, we're going to have
our service right there by Anthony's and Budz Broiler with
barbecue and water baptism. This is going to be a
wonderful time to be outside. And week before that is
Holy Spirit Conference in Happo Center.
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Really excited for that.
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But this weekend is our monthly Delivered in Saturday service.
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So if you are needing.
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Deliverance, know somebody who needs prayer for freedom or healing,
make sure you let them know. I met a lady
with her daughter that's going to come this weekend for that,
and so we would really love to pray for you.
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This is why our church exists.
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It to lead people to encounter God daily, but also
to bring people freedom.
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Amen.
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Can we welcome everybody watching us online today as well.
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We're on YouTube right now. Glad that you're there watching.
Go ahead and share drop a fire emoji. We're glad
that you are here with us. Amen.
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If you have your Bible, I want you to go
with me to Gospel of Mark chapter five and verse
twenty two. And behold, one of the rulers of the
synagogue came Jerryus by name, And when he saw him,
he fell at his feet and begged him earnestly, saying,
my little daughter lies at the point of death. Come
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and lay your hands on her, that she may be
healed and she will live. In verse twenty four, and
Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed him.
You know, they were pushing around him. And I want
to read now verse twenty five. Now, a certain woman
had a flow of blood for twelve years, And if
you skip through a few verses, you will see immediately
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the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she
felt her body in her body that she was healed
of affliction. So the background of the story.
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Goes like this. A father has a daughter.
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She is twelve years of age. She is sick to
the point of death. He comes to Jesus. Now, this
father was a leader of the synagogue, not necessarily the
most friendliest group to Jesus, the rabbi, the Messiah. So
he comes, he gets on his knees and worships him.
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It's more than just a petition.
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It's pretty much acknowledging him as God and pleads with him,
could you come and heal my daughter. One of the
things that Jesus did on this earth and he still
continues to do, is he heals people. He healed people,
and his reputation was that if you got a sick person,
you know, nowadays you go to er, you go to
your doctor. At that time, you go to Jesus. And
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I still believe that we should still have Jesus as
our number one person that we go to. And so
this person comes to Jesus and Jesus says, absolutely, I
would love to come and help your daughter and pray
for her, heal her all the good stuff. As they're
walking the scripture, says one woman and it rrupts the story,
almost like an intersection. Who has a problem for twelve years?
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So this guy's daughter is twelve years old, This woman
for twelve years has suffered with this problem. She reaches
out and touches Jesus, and Jesus stops and starts asking
a very ridiculous question. According to Peter, he says, who
touched me? So it would be like me walking through
the hall or the lobby in the busiest time between
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services and saying, who touched me? This is kind of
almost inappropriate question, and the father is standing there.
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I could imagine this.
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This is me reading between the lines and being a
father myself.
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Now, if you ever have ever.
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Been gone, like to a er, trying to like rush
to a hospital or something, and there's three people in
front of you that are driving very slow, you go honking,
you're rebuking the devil, You're speaking to them over and
you're like, come on, hurry up, hurry up. I could
imagine Jerius is standing there's like, okay, that's great, she
got healed, but like Jesus, can we let hurry up,
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move on, don't pause. And then Jesus takes time and
who really touched me? And then people like nobody really
touches you? And then this woman doesn't show up who
you know, she's not announcing herself, And finally he acknowledges
her and then he speaks to her. And by the
time Jesus took this long pause, Jerius's daughter went from
critically sick to dead.
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And now Jesus finished.
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Speaking, or while he was still speaking, he got the
news that his daughter died, and pretty disappointing situation at first,
and that's what I want to speak about today before
we talk about how Jesus raised her from the dead.
The title of this message will be when Jesus takes
the long Road.
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Have you ever had.
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That situation happen with you, like Jerryus, where it seems
like other people get it quickly, and with you, the
Lord seems to take his precious time. If you're taking notes,
all of our notes are on new version Bible app
as well. I want you to write down a few
thoughts that I prepared today in my heart to share
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with you. Some people receive in a moment what takes
for others miles of walking with Jesus. Some people receive
from the Lord instantly, other people it takes them time
to walk with the Lord. And sometimes what the Lord
does in our life is he exposes us to other
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people's testimonies, and it actually, instead of building us up,
it actually could potentially frustrate us. I know testimony is
supposed to build everybody's faith, but there are some testimonies
they shake my faith. I remember when we couldn't have
children for thirteen years, and I kept hearing people who
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planned to have three children and they got five, and
they're like, yeah, we wanted to stop after three, and
then the fourth one just came in.
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We're so grateful. I'm like, shut up.
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So here you are not even planning for that, and
you got a fourth kid, fifth kid, and a seventh kid.
And there we are praying, prophesying, receiving prophetic words. I
even have a stone a prophet gave me in Kenwick.
I was at one of the churches in Kenwick. Me
and my wife were there sitting in the audience. A
guy gets up, points his finger and says, you cannot
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have kids.
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I was like, uh huh. Come up to the stage.
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He carries a stone, gives me the stone that says
something blessed.
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He says, I give.
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This stone to people who cannot have children, and then
they return it back to me when.
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They get children.
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He's like, this is a stone, you'll give it back
to me when you get a child. Took the stone.
This was like five or six years ago. I still
have the stone. Haven't met the prophet since I need
to give it back the stone now. So I got
stones for my promises. Now I got prophetic words. And
it's still not happening, and then you're seeing other people
they seem to receive it faster. Same thing can apply
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to relationships. You know, here you are walking in your purity.
You got a purity ring on this finger. You got
a purity ring on this finger, contending walking in righteousness.
The Lord is gonna send my bow ass. And it's
been like this bo ass has been put on delayed somehow,
the ups forgot the shipping address.
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Of your life.
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And then you got this girl that just came into church,
literally saved two months, God redeemed her, restore her, and
now she has a testimony. The Lord has sent her
her bow ass, and there you are standing. It's like,
shut up, I don't want to hear that. That's not fair,
that's not right. Same thing happens sometimes in our finances.
You know, you have one person that is faithfully tithing,
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working very hard, and it seems like things are so hard.
Every step breakthrough, they have to kind of push through,
and other people like they've barely just almost. It seems
like put any work and things just come in. Blessings
come in. Their business is prospering, their job is doing well.
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And what happens many times in our walk with the Lord.
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Is the frustration begins to build up because here you
are standing saying, Jesus, can we hurry up? And then
there's other people are like, hey, God just healed me,
God just bless me. God just gave me a bread.
I just have a testimony. You're like, yeah, yeah, that's good.
Lo give we move on.
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Jesus.
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When are you gonna come and help me out?
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When are you gonna.
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Answer the prayer that I've been praying twenty years for
my child to serve the Lord, for my health to
be changed, for my peace at night to be transformed. Jesus,
I am waiting for that breakthrough. The message I have.
The message I have for you today is this Just
because somebody is getting faster, it doesn't mean God has
forgotten you. The message that I have for you today
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is this that in Psalms, there was this guy who
was writing a psalm and he says, my feet almost
slipped because I saw the wicked prosper Malachi one time,
was seeing that the righteous people were almost like being
forgotten and God spoken and he said, your words have
been harsh against me, says the Lord. Yet you say,
what have we spoken against you? You have said it
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is useless to serve God. What profit is it that
we have kept his ordinance? And we have walked as
mourners before the Lord of host. For we now call
the proud blessed, and those who the wickedness are raised up.
They're even tempting God, and they go free. Psalm seventy three,
verses two and three. This says, But as for me,
my feet almost stumbled, for I was envious of the
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boast will when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
God hasn't forgotten you just because somebody is getting it faster,
just because it takes you a walk with Jesus. And
for somebody, it seems like they just touched him and
they got that blessing, that break through the spiritual growth.
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You know, here you are being faithful, but they're fruitful.
Here you are, you know, spending time in a secret place,
and boom, they got the spotlight. Here you are, you're
persevering in your purity. You're being unrecognized, over criticized on
their mind, and they barely got into church, barely. God,
if the Kingdom of God be God just blesses them
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left and right, left and right and sometimes what begins
to happen is this deep resentment to the Lord, have
you forgotten me?
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Lord?
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Jesus didn't forget Jerious just because he healed the woman
with an issue of blood. And Jesus knew exactly what
was happening in Jerious's situation, and he knew exactly that
it was getting worse just because the woman got healed.
The testimony should fuel our faith, but sometimes they frustrate
our faith, especially when it's somebody that you know very
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closely and God seemed to be raising them up, blessing
them left and right in the very area you've been
really contending and believing God. And I just want to
challenge Jesus is not a means to an end. Jesus
doesn't want us to serve him for what we get
out of him. He wants us to serve and worship
him because of who he is, but regardless of what
is happening currently in our life. A man, you know,
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I'm remembering two men in the Bible who encountered somebody
else being promoted by God in front of them. One
of them was King Saul and the other one was
John the Baptist. If you look at King Saul, you
will see that David was actually being promoted and Saul
was going.
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To the background.
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You look at Jesus's and John the Baptist testimony. If
I could compare those two, John the Baptist ministry is
declining and Jess's ministry is picking up steam. John the
Baptist's disciples come to Jesus and they to John and
they say, Jesus is baptizing more people. Everybody's going to
Jesus's church. John, instead of getting jealous, John is becoming joyful,
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and he's recognizing God has moved being in this new ministry.
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But if you look at King.
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Saul, you will see something happening when David is picking
up steam, when David's ministry is taking off and Saul
is going in the background. Saul, instead of rejoicing, he
gets jealous, tries to destroy David, and both ended up
very differently. The first murder that happened in the Bible
happened when somebody else looked at somebody else and saw
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that God was blessing them more than them, and God's
so jealous and frustrated with God that they killed that
someone else. We have to be very careful, because God
will on purpose sometimes allow your neighbor, your friend, somebody
who seems like they didn't pray as much, didn't fast
as much.
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We're not as holy as.
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You are, not as dedicated as you are, and they're
getting all the perks while you're there paying the price.
This is what I've recognized about our walk with the Lord.
If it comes easy because somebody paid the price, and
it becomes hard, it's because you're paying the price. Don't
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ever assume that just because someone got it.
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Easy, that it's actually easy. Some people just make it
look easy.
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It's like those ducks on the river, you know, like
they look calm, but under the word for everyone's suddenly
there's a lot of things they do secretly. The woman
touched Jesus, and it seems like, yeah she got a
quick miracle.
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Yeah she suffered for twelve years.
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She's been through every doctor, been on every health insurance,
went to every specialist. This woman has walked by faith
for twelve years, and just because her miracle manifested in
a second, it doesn't mean it didn't proceed with years
of trying, suffering and prevailing. So when Jerious is walking
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and it seems like it's taking so long when Jerious
is walking and it seems like Jesus is extending that thing.
Jesus was still on the way to his house. And
I just want to give somebody a word of encouragement today.
Jesus is still under way to your house. He's done
the way to your children. He is on the way
to your business. He's on the way to your family,
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he is on the way to your finances. Jesus didn't
forget you. He didn't forsake you.
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He loves you. He is with you.
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And the Bible says, can a mother forget a nursing child?
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It cannot.
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So can God not forget about you? He has instrilled
you on the palm of his hands. There are scars
on his hands and on his feet could remind you
that he loves you.
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He didn't forsake you.
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Your circumstances are not a predicament that he loves you
or not. And somebody say, Amen. Number two things that
I wanted to highlight, so not only some of us
get it quickly, others of us takes a little bit
of time that Jesus takes longer with us. But number
two is that the Bible says that while he was
still speaking, so to make matters, the daughter not only
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didn't get better because he walked with Jesus, she got worse.
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If you're taking notes, write this down.
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Don't be afraid to walk with the Lord when things
get worse. Now, generally speaking, as a general rule, walking
with Jesus makes your life better and makes you better
at life.
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Can I get a witness? Generally? Let me say that
a word third time.
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Generally, that's not a rule, it's just a generalization. When
you get close to the Lord, your life seems to
get better and you get better at doing your life,
because the principles in this book help you be better
at life, and they seem to keep you out of
DUIs jails. The worst papers, so much stuff, throwing stuff
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at each other, hateful comments, a bad, wasteful way of
spending money.
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Generally speaking, when.
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You get closer to Jesus, as this man did, persevered,
cried out, bow down, stuck around with Jesus, his situation
god worse. And I do want to highlight something because
many people, when their life gets better with the Lord,
they think in their mind it's only going to get
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better from now on. And when it takes a different churn,
we get this voice in our head that Jerry is
God in his And look at this one. In verse
thirty five, the scripture says, while he was still speaking,
some came from the ruler of the synagogue's house who said,
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your daughter is dead. Okay, bad, But I want you
to notice their advice. And this is the advice your
on emotions, your thoughts, sometimes rs and sometimes this straight
up devil is gonna give to you. Why trouble the
teacher any further?
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Meaning?
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Why bother pray? Why bother believe? Why bother show up
to church? Why bother do any of it? If doing
it is not improving your life right now, it's only
making it more difficult. I've met a lot of people
who gave their life to Jesus, and generally it has
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two similar experiences. In one sense, relief from guilt shame.
I feel like I got power back in my life,
has sense of self control.
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I quit this, quit that, and quit this, feel a
sense of peace.
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And usually the second side of the same coin is
the same way. For some weird reason, hell bro clues
while I'm rejoicing with what God is doing, like I'm
experiencing a position experienced before. Is this normal? They will say,
am I doing something wrong? And I usually remind them, Well,
for the first time, you're not playing on the devil's team.
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You're on the opposite team. For the first time, you're
now in the hands of God. And God is like
an archer. And sometimes those of you who play or
work with arrows, you know you gotta pull the arrow
backwards to release it forward. Well, for the first time,
you're not a spiritual corpse. You're like a seed and
God is planting you into the ground. And then sometimes
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the planting and the burial looks alike from a distance
because both go in the ground. But the corpse doesn't
come back from the ground.
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The seed does.
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And the difference between a corpse and the seed is
the seed has life inside.
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A corpse is lifeless.
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And you might be small, you might feel insignificant, you
might be forgotten, forsaken, and abandoned. But if there is
the life of Jesus inside of you, it doesn't matter
how small you and it doesn't matter what your circumstances are.
You're gonna come out of this. Somebody shot, I'm gonna
come out of this, things can get worse, but I
want you to notice that when things got worse, he
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didn't drop Jesus. Jesus responded verse thirty six. As soon
as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said
to the ruler of the synagogue, he didn't say, we tried.
He didn't say, well, sorry, bro man. No, he said,
don't be afraid, only believe. In other words, Jesus was
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telling him, if walking with me the enemy will whisper
only made things worse, keep on walking with me, you
may say, but things will get worse. Don't be afraid
of the worse, he said, only believe. I've noticed in
my limited Christian walk journey, and many people have lived
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very long, a lot longer with the Lord. If I
stay with Jesus, when things get worse, I get better.
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In fact, the.
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Places where I got better the most, or the places
where my life was the worst, where everything on the
outside seemed most challenging, everything on the inside was being formed, changed, transformed.
And while I would never want to go through that again,
I wouldn't be the person I am today had it
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not been for those seasons in my life. The idea
that some people have is this, following Jesus brings immediate results.
But see following Jesus brings ultimate victory, not always immediate results.
So if your idea of faith Jesus following Christ, following
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the scriptures is my life will have immediate results, you
might find it to be problematic. And I want to
challenge you lift your eyes a little bit higher from
what is happening in your life in the next six months,
because there is an outcome of what's going to happen
that is beyond the immediate results. There's an ultimate victory.
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No matter how many good breakthroughs you get in this life,
you're still gonna die. But the Bible says we will
rise from the dead, Jesus Christ will come back, establish
his kingdom, and we will be with Jesus for eternity.
Your six month battle, six year battle, sixty year struggle
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pales in comparison with eternity you will spend with God.
So if you feel like I didn't get any immediate breakthrough,
you will have an ultimate victory. And I think a
lot of us, especially the younger generation, we are so
phixiated on the immediate that we forget the ultimate. Fear
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will have you obsessed with the outcome. Faith helps you
to focus on the obedience. See Fear says, what if
God doesn't come true? Faith says, regardless of the outcome,
I stay faithful because He is good. Fear says, what if?
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Faith says, even if. In the Hebrew three Hebrew Boys
story when they were faced with the burning furnace Daniel three,
verse seventeen, it says, if this is the case, our
God who is able to say, somebody shout, God is able.
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Our God who is able to.
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Deliver us from burning fiery furnace, he will deliver us
from your hand, o King. And verse eighteen has this
beautiful part that everyone's faith needs to have this ingredients.
But if not, somebody say, if not, he said, but
if not, let it be known to your King, we
will not serve your gods. We will not worship the
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golden image you have set up. Meaning See, my faith
is not in the outcome. My faith is in.
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The relationship with the with the person whose character I trust.
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If your faith is in the results, when those do
not come on your timeline, your faith will be shaken,
broken and probably get deconstructed. But Christian faith is not
in the result or even the outcome. First, it is
in a relationship.
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With someone we know.
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To be trustworthy character whose we trust.
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And the relationship with him we maintain.
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Look what Job says about God when everything was going down,
He says, for I know that my redeemer lives. He
Do you notice he didn't say for I know my
breakthrough is coming. He didn't know it was coming. He said,
I know. The one who causes breakthrough.
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Is alife, and I know him.
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This is not about me feeling him, because when you're
in the bottom, you're not feeling good, but you still
know he lives. The breakthrough came.
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But see Job's faith.
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Was not in the the coming breakthrough, It was in
the living redeemer.
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Look with what Paul said.
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Paul said the same thing in tewod Timothy one twelve.
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For I know. Have you noticed the word I know? Again?
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Not I feel a sense I know, meaning I know God.
I have a relationship with this God. It's my shepherd
we're talking about. He's not just a god in some foreign,
distant universe. He is my personal savior. I talked to
him this morning. I know his word, so I know
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he lives. Paul says, I know in whom I have believed,
and I am persuaded he is able to keep what
I've committed to him. Until that they palled in and
say I know what I believed. He said, I know
whom I believed. See, faith is not just an agreement
with facts outlined in the scripture. Faith is the confidence
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in the character of the one that you know. If
your view of faith is if I believe it, I
confess it. I stomped my foot, then surrounded named it,
claimed it, blapped it, grabbed it.
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Confessor possessed it.
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So deced I did all the right stuff, and now blessings.
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Blessings were the blessings.
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The thing is that things don't always work on our timeline.
Sometimes they don't even come at all. And if your
faith goes with the results, you actually hinged your faith
to something that should never be the driver of your faith.
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It's the fruit of the faith, not.
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The The root of my faith is the character of God,
whom I know.
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The fruit of my faith.
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Is the blessings that flow from Him. But sometimes they
come earliest, sometimes they come time later, sometimes it's more,
sometimes it's less. And those things that come and they go.
But the root of my faith is not the fruit
of my faith.
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The fruit of my.
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Faith is the things I see on the outside. The
root of my faith is the confidence in the character
of God, and ultimately I know he will come true.
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Amen.
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This morning, during my our daily encounters, I was reading
and my reading fell on Hebrews eleven. So it's a
chapter of faith, and I was excited, you know, reading
it all the good things that people did through faith
and split the red season, mothers who couldn't have children
got children, and people who were strong in battle, and
so many great things. And then Hebrews eleven finishes with
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this bit of a negative tone. Thirty five to thirty
nine talks about others were tortured still, others had trials
and mockings, and it says they obtained good testimony through faith.
And as I'm reading this this morning, meditating on it
just for my personal Bible reading, I started to recognize
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that these people who died in faith, they were not
outcome oriented. They were obedience oriented. To them, faith wasn't
about the result. It was about a relationship with the
one whom they knew throughout their life, and the verification
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of the scripture to be trustworthy I want to challenge you.
When life gets worse, you can get better. If your
faith is not in faith, but your faith is in
him who is trustworthy.
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He will see you through.
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If your faith is in you, your faith a miracle,
a blessing, a breakthrough. Your faith is like this napkin
will not demonstrate it because it's.
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A fire hazard.
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But if I set this napkin on fire, it will
not be a napkin anymore. But if you take gold
and you put gold through fire, gold doesn't stop being
gold through fire. It changes form, It never changes substance
and value. In fact, gold becomes more precious the more purified.
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It is so.
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People who go through life and they said, Pastor, I
lost my faith. Respectfully, I wonder did you have any
Did you have faith in you like yourself help Guru
taught you, or did you have faith in him? Did
you have faith in the miracle or did you have
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faith in miracle maker? Did you have faith in breakthrough
or did you have faith in the Redeemer? Did you
have faith in peace and good vibes? Or you had
faith in the Prince of Peace and the one whould
change his things? Because when you have faith in him,
while it's not comfortable, it is differ could your faith
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is purtified, you get better while life is getting worse.
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You come out of that as gold.
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The Bible says, though he slay me, I will trust him.
I got it with Jesus, like Jerryus hoped for the healing.
Things got worse, but I stayed with Jesus. Little did
I know Jesus planned resurrection. Yes, it's well like Jesus
did not meet my expectation, But Julian, he did exceed them.
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He exceeded them.
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Not the way I hoped, not the way I planned,
and not the way even I prophesied.
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But Jesus did things better.
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Why because yay, I walked through the valley of the
shadow of death.
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I fear no evil.
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You are with me, your rod and your staff, they
comfort me. And then you come out of that verse
of the value of the shadow of death. And it
says he prepares a table camera team follow me in
the presence of my enemies, meaning I start eating in
the presence of my problem. I don't start because of
my problem. Then it says he annoys, annoyings my head
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with oil. My cup begins to overflow, and then goodness
and mercy follow me all the days of my life,
and I dwell in the House of God forever.
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So the most difficult.
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Season of my life was the lowest point. And after that,
because I stayed with him, I got a chance to
be annoying with fresh oil. I got a chance to
experience overflow. It's not about the result. It's about a relationship.
It's not about the outcome. It's about your obedience. And
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Jesus told him stay with me just because things got worse.
I'm not finished with your story. I'm not done with
your children. I'm not done with your health. I'm not
done with your business. I'm not done with your calling.
I know it seems like but the clock is ticking.
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It's kind of leg it's late on your watch, your timeline,
your testimony is still going to be birthed because Jesus.
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Is with you. The scripture says verse thirty eight.
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Then he came to the house of the ruler of
the synagogue and saw a tumult, and those who wept
and wailed loudly. Then he came in and said to them,
why are you making this commotion and weeping? The child
is not dead, but sleeping Verse forty, but they ridiculed him.
When he had put them outside, he took the father
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and the mother of the child and those who were
with him, and entered where the child was lying. And
then he took the child by the hand and said
to her to leif a kumi, which is me, which
means little girl, I say to you, arise. So the
father starts with a big need, asks Jesus, And instead
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of experiencing accelerated answer.
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There was a delay.
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While he was experiencing a delay, some one jumped right
ahead of him, you know, kind of like one of
those places sometimes you go in, you stand in line,
and I've been experiencing this at airports, and you're standing
there for ten minutes and then some kind of a
person just walks in and cuts the line, and you know,
usually the pastor in me says, bless them, Lord, they're
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probably busy, And then the flesh in me says, who
are you?
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What have you done to him?
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You know, like I just want to exercise a demon
or something, you know, And somebody just cuts the line
in front of Jerius and gets the healing, and Jerius
is not complaining, and Jerius just goes along, his situation
just got worse. Jesus says, stay with me, don't be
afraid because fear says leave Jesus. Fear says, focus on
the outcome. Outcome didn't happen, Well, leave Jesus. Faith says,
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stay with Jesus because Jesus is the root of your faith.
The outcome is the fruit of your faith, not the
other way around. So he stays with Jesus. Look how
the story ends. He goes into the house of Jerius.
Now at this time in their culture, we don't have
that today, but they had these people where if one
of your children, parents, or anybody died. I don't know
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why they did that, though, you would hire people who
were professional mourners.
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So these are the people you pay to cry, so they.
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Keep the atmosphere of sadness, which I'm thinking, I'm like,
why do you need to pay people, Like it's already sad,
Why do you need to pay people? But that's what
they did at the time. So by the time Jesus
gets here, these guys were already hired. They came, that's
their job. They're not crying because they cared for the girl.
They're crying because they got paid. They're crying every they
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just walks in. The atmosphere is very negative, and then
he throws this thing to them. He's like, why why
y'all crying? I mean, I know you're getting paid, but
outside of like why are you crying? And they're like,
what do you mean why you're crying. He's like, well,
the girl is not dead, she's sleeping. So Jesus is
kind of mocking them, and this is a very serious
situation Jesus is being. At first, it seems like a
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bit insensitive. Why did Jesus say the girl wasn't dead
but sleeping. You have to understand for God odd to
raise someone up is as easy as it is to
wake up a baby. Now, when our baby falls asleep,
we pray against motorcyclists. I have a neighbor who seems
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to drive really fast on his BEMW, a young person,
and I pray that God will bring his BEMW volume down.
Why because I don't want anything to wake up the baby.
It's easy to wake up children. When Jesus walks into
the room. You have to understand the level Jesus is
in and the level you are iron in. Death is
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the most impossible the final the biggest enemy, al Burn, Einstein,
Alexander the Great, Napoleon. Nobody could overcome this enemy. This
enemy is coming for everybody. See jobs, it's coming for
Donald Trump, it's coming for me, it's coming for you,
It's coming for everybody. For Jesus, the biggest enemy on
the planet is like a sleeping child. This is how
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Jesus thinks. This is how the King thinks. He's on
a different level. That's why when Jesus walks in our lives,
please understand, he will speak to you in the way
that you will feel like this is such a big deal.
And Jesus says, I am the big deal. My word
has power, my spirit has power. I want to encourage
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you today that with Jesus, some of the biggest challenges
to Jesus.
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To you, it's a big deal. To Jesus, it is
not a big deal.
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So he says that, and of course they freak out.
And I love this about Jesus is because he didn't
just get into the room. He owned the room. Write
this down. This is my final thing, and I'm gonna
wrap it up right now.
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And that is this.
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Don't just bring Jesus to the room clear the room
for him. When I say the room, I don't mean
the one in your apartment or your house. I mean
the one that you are carrying on the top of
your shoulders. It's called your mind. Jesus comes to live
in your heart. Could we agree that we have a
lot of contractors we pay that are in here who
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are doing a lot of pretty interesting things.
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They're not bad.
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They're just simply getting paid by our emotions, by us
to make a big scene and to exaggerate and to
blow things out of proportion of what is happening in
our life. And it's time what the main host of
the Apprentice TV show used to do, say, you're fired,
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You're fired, You're fired, You're fired. Why because Jesus came
into the room. And I don't want to give him
only an access. I want to give him the whole room.
Jesus to do his work.
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In our life.
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Your mind cannot be sharing with Jesus with fear, anxiety,
negativity and all of this stuff. You got to give
that to Jesus. Why atmosphere, somebody say atmosphere matters. Before
God created anything in Genesis one, he created light. When
Jesus did miracles, he first looked for faith. Bananas don't
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grow in Alaska atmosphere climate. If you want miracles in
your life brought by the Holy Spirit, your goal is
not only to host Jesus. Your goal is to host
an atmosphere that becomes a breathing room for the supernatural
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atmosphere of faith. Atmosphere the Bible says in Romans of Love, joy,
righteousness in the Holy Spirit, atmosphere matters. Now I want
you to notice, Jesus not only cleared the room, but
he changed the room. He started to speak, not hey girl,
you're dead. I hope you come back to life. He
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spoke with authority to a dead girl. Now we must
understand there is authority that exists when you're with Jesus.
If you walk under authority, you walk in authority.
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Your words have power.
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But it's totally different when these words are His words
inside of you. They have His power flowing through you.
And when these words they begin to come out under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Jesus says, you can
speak to the mountain, you can speak to dry bones.
Even you can speak to your own soul, because sometimes
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you can quiet down your own soul by beginning to
say to see yourself, like, why are you disquieted within me?
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Oh, my soul?
Speaker 3 (41:36):
David would say, bless the Lord. He would speak to himself,
regulate his own emotions. Jesus will speak to the devil
and rebuke him.
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And you can do that.
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But there is a one word of caution I want
to make, and that is this. We live in a
generation today where New age teaching is very prevalent, and
new Age teaching pretty much says you create your own
reality by speaking things into existence, and if you do that,
the universe will back you up.
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And so what some.
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Christians do is they kind of take that and say, well, yes,
that's true. I can speak things into reality. But please understand,
God spoke the world into reality.
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We are not God in that sense.
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Our words don't create realities out of nothing, but our
words they change our atmosphere. So when you speak positive,
faith filled words, the atmosphere in your marriage changes, the
atmosphere in your family gets shifted. The atmosphere and your
finances changes. While you don't create realities out of nothing,
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you shift atmosphere by the words that are fueled by
the Holy Spirit. I personally like to say when I
am sick, instead of walking around and say I am sick.
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Not a bad statement. I like to say I'm healthy
fighting sickness when I'm struggling, instead of saying I'm a
weak warm of the dust, to say I'm strong in
Christ fighting weakness when I'm struggling with poverty, instead of
walking around and say I'm broke, busted, and disgusted, to
say I am blessed fighting with poverty. So I'm not
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denying my circumstances. I'm just denying their place of influence
in my life. The atmosphere. They don't control. God controls
the atmosphere. See my mouth, camera, follow me. My mouth
is like this. Thermostad is the thermostat or thermometer, the
one that changes the temperature. That's right. I got it
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the first time. I was just checking if you were listening.
Thermostad changes the temperature. Thermometer only tells you what the
temperature is. When you're not with the Holy Spirit, you're
a thermometer. You're only using your mouth to describe where
everything is at. But when you walk with the Holy Spirit,
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your words now they carry his power because they're under
his will and you're speaking in agreement.
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With Heaven.
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It's not just positive speech. This is not just well,
I kind of want this. I want this because let's
be honest. Also, there is this, you know, especially more
of a new age, you can speak things into existence,
like I've tried that already, when I looked in the
mirror and I said I'm good looking, like it didn't work.
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You know.
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You can look at the weight scale. It says drop, drop, drop,
and it keeps increasing, so it doesn't work. But if
you begin to line up with the Holy Spirit, you're
not speaking just your own little wishes and desires, but
under his influence you speak the truth.
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It's like a termostat.
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You begin to shift the climate slowly in your life,
in your family. You begin to see mountains move, dead
bones begin to get raised from rais. You begin to
see a shift in the in the atmosphere of your life,
which becomes a breeding ground for the Spirit of God
to do what only he can do.
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Amen, rise to your feet.
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I give you a little recap of this week.
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We had a VBS a wonderful program for the children
that was completely let's give it on a plus to
all the kids, workers, volunteers. I worked with our kids,
a Spokene revival with Pastor Bryce and I believe Pastor
Bryson it's probably somewhere here in the Second Sanctuary, and
a Pastor Ricorp preached.
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There was a wonderful.
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Time as well as yes, let's thank your pastor America.
As well as all the wonderful things. I also just
came back from I lost track of how many travels
I was. I would have been so disappointed if somebody
would have come to me today and said, welcome to Hungary,
Jan Is this your first time? I felt like I've
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been gone for so long, and it's been It's been
some time already, from Malaysia to Singapore, to Germany, to Philippines,
to Italy, to friends, to Miami to some other things,
and all while this, by God's grace, was able to
finish my bachelor's in my Bible seminary about three weeks ago.
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So to God be the Glory.
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When I was a youth pastor, I said this one time,
you know, school is for fools, and I want to
hand for that and apologize. I didn't mean it. I
had no idea what I was saying. And so everybody
go to school a man. And so I finished that
To God be the Glory and then got sick last
weekend from traveling. I think all the traveling cut up
to me. I think it's in the Philippines, I prayed
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for too many people, like like seven thousand people that
we end up touching and praying. Somebody gave me something,
but Terrey's the Lord recovered and I'm glad to be
home and I'm looking forward to our Holy Spirit Conference
Water Baptism that's coming up.
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In Marina Park.
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So at the end of August, we're going to have
our service right there by Anthony's and Budz Broiler with
barbecue and water baptism. This is going to be a
wonderful time to be outside. And week before that is
Holy Spirit Conference in Happo Center.
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Really excited for that.
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But this weekend is our monthly Delivered in Saturday service.
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So if you are needing.
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Deliverance, know somebody who needs prayer for freedom or healing,
make sure you let them know. I met a lady
with her daughter that's going to come this weekend for that,
and so we would really love to pray for you.
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This is why our church exists.
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It to lead people to encounter God daily, but also
to bring people freedom.
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Amen.
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Can we welcome everybody watching us online today as well.
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We're on YouTube right now. Glad that you're there watching.
Go ahead and share drop a fire emoji. We're glad
that you are here with us. Amen.
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If you have your Bible, I want you to go
with me to Gospel of Mark chapter five and verse
twenty two. And behold, one of the rulers of the
synagogue came Jerryus by name, And when he saw him,
he fell at his feet and begged him earnestly, saying,
my little daughter lies at the point of death. Come
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and lay your hands on her, that she may be
healed and she will live. In verse twenty four, and
Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed him.
You know, they were pushing around him. And I want
to read now verse twenty five. Now, a certain woman
had a flow of blood for twelve years, And if
you skip through a few verses, you will see immediately
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the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she
felt her body in her body that she was healed
of affliction. So the background of the story.
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Goes like this. A father has a daughter.
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She is twelve years of age. She is sick to
the point of death. He comes to Jesus. Now, this
father was a leader of the synagogue, not necessarily the
most friendliest group to Jesus, the rabbi, the Messiah. So
he comes, he gets on his knees and worships him.
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It's more than just a petition.
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It's pretty much acknowledging him as God and pleads with him,
could you come and heal my daughter. One of the
things that Jesus did on this earth and he still
continues to do, is he heals people. He healed people,
and his reputation was that if you got a sick person,
you know, nowadays you go to er, you go to
your doctor. At that time, you go to Jesus. And
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I still believe that we should still have Jesus as
our number one person that we go to. And so
this person comes to Jesus and Jesus says, absolutely, I
would love to come and help your daughter and pray
for her, heal her all the good stuff. As they're
walking the scripture, says one woman and it rrupts the story,
almost like an intersection. Who has a problem for twelve years?
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So this guy's daughter is twelve years old, This woman
for twelve years has suffered with this problem. She reaches
out and touches Jesus, and Jesus stops and starts asking
a very ridiculous question. According to Peter, he says, who
touched me? So it would be like me walking through
the hall or the lobby in the busiest time between
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services and saying, who touched me? This is kind of
almost inappropriate question, and the father is standing there.
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I could imagine this.
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This is me reading between the lines and being a
father myself.
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Now, if you ever have ever.
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Been gone, like to a er, trying to like rush
to a hospital or something, and there's three people in
front of you that are driving very slow, you go honking,
you're rebuking the devil, You're speaking to them over and
you're like, come on, hurry up, hurry up. I could
imagine Jerius is standing there's like, okay, that's great, she
got healed, but like Jesus, can we let hurry up,
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move on, don't pause. And then Jesus takes time and
who really touched me? And then people like nobody really
touches you? And then this woman doesn't show up who
you know, she's not announcing herself, And finally he acknowledges
her and then he speaks to her. And by the
time Jesus took this long pause, Jerius's daughter went from
critically sick to dead.
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And now Jesus finished.
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Speaking, or while he was still speaking, he got the
news that his daughter died, and pretty disappointing situation at first,
and that's what I want to speak about today before
we talk about how Jesus raised her from the dead.
The title of this message will be when Jesus takes
the long Road.
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Have you ever had.
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That situation happen with you, like Jerryus, where it seems
like other people get it quickly, and with you, the
Lord seems to take his precious time. If you're taking notes,
all of our notes are on new version Bible app
as well. I want you to write down a few
thoughts that I prepared today in my heart to share
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with you. Some people receive in a moment what takes
for others miles of walking with Jesus. Some people receive
from the Lord instantly, other people it takes them time
to walk with the Lord. And sometimes what the Lord
does in our life is he exposes us to other
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people's testimonies, and it actually, instead of building us up,
it actually could potentially frustrate us. I know testimony is
supposed to build everybody's faith, but there are some testimonies
they shake my faith. I remember when we couldn't have
children for thirteen years, and I kept hearing people who
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planned to have three children and they got five, and
they're like, yeah, we wanted to stop after three, and
then the fourth one just came in.
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We're so grateful. I'm like, shut up.
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So here you are not even planning for that, and
you got a fourth kid, fifth kid, and a seventh kid.
And there we are praying, prophesying, receiving prophetic words. I
even have a stone a prophet gave me in Kenwick.
I was at one of the churches in Kenwick. Me
and my wife were there sitting in the audience. A
guy gets up, points his finger and says, you cannot
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have kids.
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I was like, uh huh. Come up to the stage.
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He carries a stone, gives me the stone that says
something blessed.
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He says, I give.
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This stone to people who cannot have children, and then
they return it back to me when.
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They get children.
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He's like, this is a stone, you'll give it back
to me when you get a child. Took the stone.
This was like five or six years ago. I still
have the stone. Haven't met the prophet since I need
to give it back the stone now. So I got
stones for my promises. Now I got prophetic words. And
it's still not happening, and then you're seeing other people
they seem to receive it faster. Same thing can apply
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to relationships. You know, here you are walking in your purity.
You got a purity ring on this finger. You got
a purity ring on this finger, contending walking in righteousness.
The Lord is gonna send my bow ass. And it's
been like this bo ass has been put on delayed somehow,
the ups forgot the shipping address.
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Of your life.
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And then you got this girl that just came into church,
literally saved two months, God redeemed her, restore her, and
now she has a testimony. The Lord has sent her
her bow ass, and there you are standing. It's like,
shut up, I don't want to hear that. That's not fair,
that's not right. Same thing happens sometimes in our finances.
You know, you have one person that is faithfully tithing,
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working very hard, and it seems like things are so hard.
Every step breakthrough, they have to kind of push through,
and other people like they've barely just almost. It seems
like put any work and things just come in. Blessings
come in. Their business is prospering, their job is doing well.
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And what happens many times in our walk with the Lord.
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Is the frustration begins to build up because here you
are standing saying, Jesus, can we hurry up? And then
there's other people are like, hey, God just healed me,
God just bless me. God just gave me a bread.
I just have a testimony. You're like, yeah, yeah, that's good.
Lo give we move on.
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Jesus.
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When are you gonna come and help me out?
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When are you gonna.
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Answer the prayer that I've been praying twenty years for
my child to serve the Lord, for my health to
be changed, for my peace at night to be transformed. Jesus,
I am waiting for that breakthrough. The message I have.
The message I have for you today is this Just
because somebody is getting faster, it doesn't mean God has
forgotten you. The message that I have for you today
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is this that in Psalms, there was this guy who
was writing a psalm and he says, my feet almost
slipped because I saw the wicked prosper Malachi one time,
was seeing that the righteous people were almost like being
forgotten and God spoken and he said, your words have
been harsh against me, says the Lord. Yet you say,
what have we spoken against you? You have said it
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is useless to serve God. What profit is it that
we have kept his ordinance? And we have walked as
mourners before the Lord of host. For we now call
the proud blessed, and those who the wickedness are raised up.
They're even tempting God, and they go free. Psalm seventy three,
verses two and three. This says, But as for me,
my feet almost stumbled, for I was envious of the
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boast will when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
God hasn't forgotten you just because somebody is getting it faster,
just because it takes you a walk with Jesus. And
for somebody, it seems like they just touched him and
they got that blessing, that break through the spiritual growth.
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You know, here you are being faithful, but they're fruitful.
Here you are, you know, spending time in a secret place,
and boom, they got the spotlight. Here you are, you're
persevering in your purity. You're being unrecognized, over criticized on
their mind, and they barely got into church, barely. God,
if the Kingdom of God be God just blesses them
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left and right, left and right and sometimes what begins
to happen is this deep resentment to the Lord, have
you forgotten me?
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Lord?
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Jesus didn't forget Jerious just because he healed the woman
with an issue of blood. And Jesus knew exactly what
was happening in Jerious's situation, and he knew exactly that
it was getting worse just because the woman got healed.
The testimony should fuel our faith, but sometimes they frustrate
our faith, especially when it's somebody that you know very
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closely and God seemed to be raising them up, blessing
them left and right in the very area you've been
really contending and believing God. And I just want to
challenge Jesus is not a means to an end. Jesus
doesn't want us to serve him for what we get
out of him. He wants us to serve and worship
him because of who he is, but regardless of what
is happening currently in our life. A man, you know,
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I'm remembering two men in the Bible who encountered somebody
else being promoted by God in front of them. One
of them was King Saul and the other one was
John the Baptist. If you look at King Saul, you
will see that David was actually being promoted and Saul
was going.
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To the background.
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You look at Jesus's and John the Baptist testimony. If
I could compare those two, John the Baptist ministry is
declining and Jess's ministry is picking up steam. John the
Baptist's disciples come to Jesus and they to John and
they say, Jesus is baptizing more people. Everybody's going to
Jesus's church. John, instead of getting jealous, John is becoming joyful,
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and he's recognizing God has moved being in this new ministry.
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But if you look at King.
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Saul, you will see something happening when David is picking
up steam, when David's ministry is taking off and Saul
is going in the background. Saul, instead of rejoicing, he
gets jealous, tries to destroy David, and both ended up
very differently. The first murder that happened in the Bible
happened when somebody else looked at somebody else and saw
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that God was blessing them more than them, and God's
so jealous and frustrated with God that they killed that
someone else. We have to be very careful, because God
will on purpose sometimes allow your neighbor, your friend, somebody
who seems like they didn't pray as much, didn't fast
as much.
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We're not as holy as.
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You are, not as dedicated as you are, and they're
getting all the perks while you're there paying the price.
This is what I've recognized about our walk with the Lord.
If it comes easy because somebody paid the price, and
it becomes hard, it's because you're paying the price. Don't
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ever assume that just because someone got it.
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Easy, that it's actually easy. Some people just make it
look easy.
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It's like those ducks on the river, you know, like
they look calm, but under the word for everyone's suddenly
there's a lot of things they do secretly. The woman
touched Jesus, and it seems like, yeah she got a
quick miracle.
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Yeah she suffered for twelve years.
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She's been through every doctor, been on every health insurance,
went to every specialist. This woman has walked by faith
for twelve years, and just because her miracle manifested in
a second, it doesn't mean it didn't proceed with years
of trying, suffering and prevailing. So when Jerious is walking
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and it seems like it's taking so long when Jerious
is walking and it seems like Jesus is extending that thing.
Jesus was still on the way to his house. And
I just want to give somebody a word of encouragement today.
Jesus is still under way to your house. He's done
the way to your children. He is on the way
to your business. He's on the way to your family,
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he is on the way to your finances. Jesus didn't
forget you. He didn't forsake you.
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He loves you. He is with you.
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And the Bible says, can a mother forget a nursing child?
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It cannot.
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So can God not forget about you? He has instrilled
you on the palm of his hands. There are scars
on his hands and on his feet could remind you
that he loves you.
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He didn't forsake you.
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Your circumstances are not a predicament that he loves you
or not. And somebody say, Amen. Number two things that
I wanted to highlight, so not only some of us
get it quickly, others of us takes a little bit
of time that Jesus takes longer with us. But number
two is that the Bible says that while he was
still speaking, so to make matters, the daughter not only
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didn't get better because he walked with Jesus, she got worse.
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If you're taking notes, write this down.
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Don't be afraid to walk with the Lord when things
get worse. Now, generally speaking, as a general rule, walking
with Jesus makes your life better and makes you better
at life.
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Can I get a witness? Generally? Let me say that
a word third time.
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Generally, that's not a rule, it's just a generalization. When
you get close to the Lord, your life seems to
get better and you get better at doing your life,
because the principles in this book help you be better
at life, and they seem to keep you out of
DUIs jails. The worst papers, so much stuff, throwing stuff
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at each other, hateful comments, a bad, wasteful way of
spending money.
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Generally speaking, when.
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You get closer to Jesus, as this man did, persevered,
cried out, bow down, stuck around with Jesus, his situation
god worse. And I do want to highlight something because
many people, when their life gets better with the Lord,
they think in their mind it's only going to get
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better from now on. And when it takes a different churn,
we get this voice in our head that Jerry is
God in his And look at this one. In verse
thirty five, the scripture says, while he was still speaking,
some came from the ruler of the synagogue's house who said,
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your daughter is dead. Okay, bad, But I want you
to notice their advice. And this is the advice your
on emotions, your thoughts, sometimes rs and sometimes this straight
up devil is gonna give to you. Why trouble the
teacher any further?
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Meaning?
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Why bother pray? Why bother believe? Why bother show up
to church? Why bother do any of it? If doing
it is not improving your life right now, it's only
making it more difficult. I've met a lot of people
who gave their life to Jesus, and generally it has
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two similar experiences. In one sense, relief from guilt shame.
I feel like I got power back in my life,
has sense of self control.
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I quit this, quit that, and quit this, feel a
sense of peace.
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And usually the second side of the same coin is
the same way. For some weird reason, hell bro clues
while I'm rejoicing with what God is doing, like I'm
experiencing a position experienced before. Is this normal? They will say,
am I doing something wrong? And I usually remind them, Well,
for the first time, you're not playing on the devil's team.
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You're on the opposite team. For the first time, you're
now in the hands of God. And God is like
an archer. And sometimes those of you who play or
work with arrows, you know you gotta pull the arrow
backwards to release it forward. Well, for the first time,
you're not a spiritual corpse. You're like a seed and
God is planting you into the ground. And then sometimes
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the planting and the burial looks alike from a distance
because both go in the ground. But the corpse doesn't
come back from the ground.
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The seed does.
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And the difference between a corpse and the seed is
the seed has life inside.
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A corpse is lifeless.
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And you might be small, you might feel insignificant, you
might be forgotten, forsaken, and abandoned. But if there is
the life of Jesus inside of you, it doesn't matter
how small you and it doesn't matter what your circumstances are.
You're gonna come out of this. Somebody shot, I'm gonna
come out of this, things can get worse, but I
want you to notice that when things got worse, he
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didn't drop Jesus. Jesus responded verse thirty six. As soon
as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said
to the ruler of the synagogue, he didn't say, we tried.
He didn't say, well, sorry, bro man. No, he said,
don't be afraid, only believe. In other words, Jesus was
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telling him, if walking with me the enemy will whisper
only made things worse, keep on walking with me, you
may say, but things will get worse. Don't be afraid
of the worse, he said, only believe. I've noticed in
my limited Christian walk journey, and many people have lived
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very long, a lot longer with the Lord. If I
stay with Jesus, when things get worse, I get better.
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In fact, the.
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Places where I got better the most, or the places
where my life was the worst, where everything on the
outside seemed most challenging, everything on the inside was being formed, changed, transformed.
And while I would never want to go through that again,
I wouldn't be the person I am today had it
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not been for those seasons in my life. The idea
that some people have is this, following Jesus brings immediate results.
But see following Jesus brings ultimate victory, not always immediate results.
So if your idea of faith Jesus following Christ, following
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the scriptures is my life will have immediate results, you
might find it to be problematic. And I want to
challenge you lift your eyes a little bit higher from
what is happening in your life in the next six months,
because there is an outcome of what's going to happen
that is beyond the immediate results. There's an ultimate victory.
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No matter how many good breakthroughs you get in this life,
you're still gonna die. But the Bible says we will
rise from the dead, Jesus Christ will come back, establish
his kingdom, and we will be with Jesus for eternity.
Your six month battle, six year battle, sixty year struggle
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pales in comparison with eternity you will spend with God.
So if you feel like I didn't get any immediate breakthrough,
you will have an ultimate victory. And I think a
lot of us, especially the younger generation, we are so
phixiated on the immediate that we forget the ultimate. Fear
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will have you obsessed with the outcome. Faith helps you
to focus on the obedience. See Fear says, what if
God doesn't come true? Faith says, regardless of the outcome,
I stay faithful because He is good. Fear says, what if?
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Faith says, even if. In the Hebrew three Hebrew Boys
story when they were faced with the burning furnace Daniel three,
verse seventeen, it says, if this is the case, our
God who is able to say, somebody shout, God is able.
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Our God who is able to.
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Deliver us from burning fiery furnace, he will deliver us
from your hand, o King. And verse eighteen has this
beautiful part that everyone's faith needs to have this ingredients.
But if not, somebody say, if not, he said, but
if not, let it be known to your King, we
will not serve your gods. We will not worship the
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golden image you have set up. Meaning See, my faith
is not in the outcome. My faith is in.
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The relationship with the with the person whose character I trust.
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If your faith is in the results, when those do
not come on your timeline, your faith will be shaken,
broken and probably get deconstructed. But Christian faith is not
in the result or even the outcome. First, it is
in a relationship.
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With someone we know.
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To be trustworthy character whose we trust.
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And the relationship with him we maintain.
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Look what Job says about God when everything was going down,
He says, for I know that my redeemer lives. He
Do you notice he didn't say for I know my
breakthrough is coming. He didn't know it was coming. He said,
I know. The one who causes breakthrough.
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Is alife, and I know him.
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This is not about me feeling him, because when you're
in the bottom, you're not feeling good, but you still
know he lives. The breakthrough came.
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But see Job's faith.
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Was not in the the coming breakthrough, It was in
the living redeemer.
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Look with what Paul said.
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Paul said the same thing in tewod Timothy one twelve.
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For I know. Have you noticed the word I know? Again?
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Not I feel a sense I know, meaning I know God.
I have a relationship with this God. It's my shepherd
we're talking about. He's not just a god in some foreign,
distant universe. He is my personal savior. I talked to
him this morning. I know his word, so I know
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he lives. Paul says, I know in whom I have believed,
and I am persuaded he is able to keep what
I've committed to him. Until that they palled in and
say I know what I believed. He said, I know
whom I believed. See, faith is not just an agreement
with facts outlined in the scripture. Faith is the confidence
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in the character of the one that you know. If
your view of faith is if I believe it, I
confess it. I stomped my foot, then surrounded named it,
claimed it, blapped it, grabbed it.
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Confessor possessed it.
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So deced I did all the right stuff, and now blessings.
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Blessings were the blessings.
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The thing is that things don't always work on our timeline.
Sometimes they don't even come at all. And if your
faith goes with the results, you actually hinged your faith
to something that should never be the driver of your faith.
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It's the fruit of the faith, not.
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The The root of my faith is the character of God,
whom I know.
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The fruit of my faith.
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Is the blessings that flow from Him. But sometimes they
come earliest, sometimes they come time later, sometimes it's more,
sometimes it's less. And those things that come and they go.
But the root of my faith is not the fruit
of my faith.
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The fruit of my.
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Faith is the things I see on the outside. The
root of my faith is the confidence in the character
of God, and ultimately I know he will come true.
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Amen.
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This morning, during my our daily encounters, I was reading
and my reading fell on Hebrews eleven. So it's a
chapter of faith, and I was excited, you know, reading
it all the good things that people did through faith
and split the red season, mothers who couldn't have children
got children, and people who were strong in battle, and
so many great things. And then Hebrews eleven finishes with
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this bit of a negative tone. Thirty five to thirty
nine talks about others were tortured still, others had trials
and mockings, and it says they obtained good testimony through faith.
And as I'm reading this this morning, meditating on it
just for my personal Bible reading, I started to recognize
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that these people who died in faith, they were not
outcome oriented. They were obedience oriented. To them, faith wasn't
about the result. It was about a relationship with the
one whom they knew throughout their life, and the verification
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of the scripture to be trustworthy I want to challenge you.
When life gets worse, you can get better. If your
faith is not in faith, but your faith is in
him who is trustworthy.
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He will see you through.
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If your faith is in you, your faith a miracle,
a blessing, a breakthrough. Your faith is like this napkin
will not demonstrate it because it's.
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A fire hazard.
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But if I set this napkin on fire, it will
not be a napkin anymore. But if you take gold
and you put gold through fire, gold doesn't stop being
gold through fire. It changes form, It never changes substance
and value. In fact, gold becomes more precious the more purified.
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It is so.
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People who go through life and they said, Pastor, I
lost my faith. Respectfully, I wonder did you have any
Did you have faith in you like yourself help Guru
taught you, or did you have faith in him? Did
you have faith in the miracle or did you have
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faith in miracle maker? Did you have faith in breakthrough
or did you have faith in the Redeemer? Did you
have faith in peace and good vibes? Or you had
faith in the Prince of Peace and the one whould
change his things? Because when you have faith in him,
while it's not comfortable, it is differ could your faith
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is purtified, you get better while life is getting worse.
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You come out of that as gold.
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The Bible says, though he slay me, I will trust him.
I got it with Jesus, like Jerryus hoped for the healing.
Things got worse, but I stayed with Jesus. Little did
I know Jesus planned resurrection. Yes, it's well like Jesus
did not meet my expectation, But Julian, he did exceed them.
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He exceeded them.
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Not the way I hoped, not the way I planned,
and not the way even I prophesied.
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But Jesus did things better.
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Why because yay, I walked through the valley of the
shadow of death.
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I fear no evil.
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You are with me, your rod and your staff, they
comfort me. And then you come out of that verse
of the value of the shadow of death. And it
says he prepares a table camera team follow me in
the presence of my enemies, meaning I start eating in
the presence of my problem. I don't start because of
my problem. Then it says he annoys, annoyings my head
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with oil. My cup begins to overflow, and then goodness
and mercy follow me all the days of my life,
and I dwell in the House of God forever.
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So the most difficult.
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Season of my life was the lowest point. And after that,
because I stayed with him, I got a chance to
be annoying with fresh oil. I got a chance to
experience overflow. It's not about the result. It's about a relationship.
It's not about the outcome. It's about your obedience. And
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Jesus told him stay with me just because things got worse.
I'm not finished with your story. I'm not done with
your children. I'm not done with your health. I'm not
done with your business. I'm not done with your calling.
I know it seems like but the clock is ticking.
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It's kind of leg it's late on your watch, your timeline,
your testimony is still going to be birthed because Jesus.
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Is with you. The scripture says verse thirty eight.
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Then he came to the house of the ruler of
the synagogue and saw a tumult, and those who wept
and wailed loudly. Then he came in and said to them,
why are you making this commotion and weeping? The child
is not dead, but sleeping Verse forty, but they ridiculed him.
When he had put them outside, he took the father
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and the mother of the child and those who were
with him, and entered where the child was lying. And
then he took the child by the hand and said
to her to leif a kumi, which is me, which
means little girl, I say to you, arise. So the
father starts with a big need, asks Jesus, And instead
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of experiencing accelerated answer.
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There was a delay.
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While he was experiencing a delay, some one jumped right
ahead of him, you know, kind of like one of
those places sometimes you go in, you stand in line,
and I've been experiencing this at airports, and you're standing
there for ten minutes and then some kind of a
person just walks in and cuts the line, and you know,
usually the pastor in me says, bless them, Lord, they're
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probably busy, And then the flesh in me says, who
are you?
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What have you done to him?
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You know, like I just want to exercise a demon
or something, you know, And somebody just cuts the line
in front of Jerius and gets the healing, and Jerius
is not complaining, and Jerius just goes along, his situation
just got worse. Jesus says, stay with me, don't be
afraid because fear says leave Jesus. Fear says, focus on
the outcome. Outcome didn't happen, Well, leave Jesus. Faith says,
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stay with Jesus because Jesus is the root of your faith.
The outcome is the fruit of your faith, not the
other way around. So he stays with Jesus. Look how
the story ends. He goes into the house of Jerius.
Now at this time in their culture, we don't have
that today, but they had these people where if one
of your children, parents, or anybody died. I don't know
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why they did that, though, you would hire people who
were professional mourners.
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So these are the people you pay to cry, so they.
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Keep the atmosphere of sadness, which I'm thinking, I'm like,
why do you need to pay people, Like it's already sad,
Why do you need to pay people? But that's what
they did at the time. So by the time Jesus
gets here, these guys were already hired. They came, that's
their job. They're not crying because they cared for the girl.
They're crying because they got paid. They're crying every they
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just walks in. The atmosphere is very negative, and then
he throws this thing to them. He's like, why why
y'all crying? I mean, I know you're getting paid, but
outside of like why are you crying? And they're like,
what do you mean why you're crying. He's like, well,
the girl is not dead, she's sleeping. So Jesus is
kind of mocking them, and this is a very serious
situation Jesus is being. At first, it seems like a
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bit insensitive. Why did Jesus say the girl wasn't dead
but sleeping. You have to understand for God odd to
raise someone up is as easy as it is to
wake up a baby. Now, when our baby falls asleep,
we pray against motorcyclists. I have a neighbor who seems
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to drive really fast on his BEMW, a young person,
and I pray that God will bring his BEMW volume down.
Why because I don't want anything to wake up the baby.
It's easy to wake up children. When Jesus walks into
the room. You have to understand the level Jesus is
in and the level you are iron in. Death is
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the most impossible the final the biggest enemy, al Burn, Einstein,
Alexander the Great, Napoleon. Nobody could overcome this enemy. This
enemy is coming for everybody. See jobs, it's coming for
Donald Trump, it's coming for me, it's coming for you,
It's coming for everybody. For Jesus, the biggest enemy on
the planet is like a sleeping child. This is how
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Jesus thinks. This is how the King thinks. He's on
a different level. That's why when Jesus walks in our lives,
please understand, he will speak to you in the way
that you will feel like this is such a big deal.
And Jesus says, I am the big deal. My word
has power, my spirit has power. I want to encourage
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you today that with Jesus, some of the biggest challenges
to Jesus.
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To you, it's a big deal. To Jesus, it is
not a big deal.
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So he says that, and of course they freak out.
And I love this about Jesus is because he didn't
just get into the room. He owned the room. Write
this down. This is my final thing, and I'm gonna
wrap it up right now.
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And that is this.
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Don't just bring Jesus to the room clear the room
for him. When I say the room, I don't mean
the one in your apartment or your house. I mean
the one that you are carrying on the top of
your shoulders. It's called your mind. Jesus comes to live
in your heart. Could we agree that we have a
lot of contractors we pay that are in here who
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are doing a lot of pretty interesting things.
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They're not bad.
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They're just simply getting paid by our emotions, by us
to make a big scene and to exaggerate and to
blow things out of proportion of what is happening in
our life. And it's time what the main host of
the Apprentice TV show used to do, say, you're fired,
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You're fired, You're fired, You're fired. Why because Jesus came
into the room. And I don't want to give him
only an access. I want to give him the whole room.
Jesus to do his work.
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In our life.
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Your mind cannot be sharing with Jesus with fear, anxiety,
negativity and all of this stuff. You got to give
that to Jesus. Why atmosphere, somebody say atmosphere matters. Before
God created anything in Genesis one, he created light. When
Jesus did miracles, he first looked for faith. Bananas don't
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grow in Alaska atmosphere climate. If you want miracles in
your life brought by the Holy Spirit, your goal is
not only to host Jesus. Your goal is to host
an atmosphere that becomes a breathing room for the supernatural
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atmosphere of faith. Atmosphere the Bible says in Romans of Love, joy,
righteousness in the Holy Spirit, atmosphere matters. Now I want
you to notice, Jesus not only cleared the room, but
he changed the room. He started to speak, not hey girl,
you're dead. I hope you come back to life. He
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spoke with authority to a dead girl. Now we must
understand there is authority that exists when you're with Jesus.
If you walk under authority, you walk in authority.
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Your words have power.
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But it's totally different when these words are His words
inside of you. They have His power flowing through you.
And when these words they begin to come out under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Jesus says, you can
speak to the mountain, you can speak to dry bones.
Even you can speak to your own soul, because sometimes
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you can quiet down your own soul by beginning to
say to see yourself, like, why are you disquieted within me?
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Oh, my soul?
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David would say, bless the Lord. He would speak to himself,
regulate his own emotions. Jesus will speak to the devil
and rebuke him.
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And you can do that.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
But there is a one word of caution I want
to make, and that is this. We live in a
generation today where New age teaching is very prevalent, and
new Age teaching pretty much says you create your own
reality by speaking things into existence, and if you do that,
the universe will back you up.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
And so what some.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Christians do is they kind of take that and say, well, yes,
that's true. I can speak things into reality. But please understand,
God spoke the world into reality.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
We are not God in that sense.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Our words don't create realities out of nothing, but our
words they change our atmosphere. So when you speak positive,
faith filled words, the atmosphere in your marriage changes, the
atmosphere in your family gets shifted. The atmosphere and your
finances changes. While you don't create realities out of nothing,
(42:44):
you shift atmosphere by the words that are fueled by
the Holy Spirit. I personally like to say when I
am sick, instead of walking around and say I am sick.
(43:04):
Not a bad statement. I like to say I'm healthy
fighting sickness when I'm struggling, instead of saying I'm a
weak warm of the dust, to say I'm strong in
Christ fighting weakness when I'm struggling with poverty, instead of
walking around and say I'm broke, busted, and disgusted, to
say I am blessed fighting with poverty. So I'm not
(43:27):
denying my circumstances. I'm just denying their place of influence
in my life. The atmosphere. They don't control. God controls
the atmosphere. See my mouth, camera, follow me. My mouth
is like this. Thermostad is the thermostat or thermometer, the
one that changes the temperature. That's right. I got it
(43:48):
the first time. I was just checking if you were listening.
Thermostad changes the temperature. Thermometer only tells you what the
temperature is. When you're not with the Holy Spirit, you're
a thermometer. You're only using your mouth to describe where
everything is at. But when you walk with the Holy Spirit,
(44:10):
your words now they carry his power because they're under
his will and you're speaking in agreement.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
With Heaven.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
It's not just positive speech. This is not just well,
I kind of want this. I want this because let's
be honest. Also, there is this, you know, especially more
of a new age, you can speak things into existence,
like I've tried that already, when I looked in the
mirror and I said I'm good looking, like it didn't work.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
You can look at the weight scale. It says drop, drop, drop,
and it keeps increasing, so it doesn't work. But if
you begin to line up with the Holy Spirit, you're
not speaking just your own little wishes and desires, but
under his influence you speak the truth.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
It's like a termostat.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
You begin to shift the climate slowly in your life,
in your family. You begin to see mountains move, dead
bones begin to get raised from rais. You begin to
see a shift in the in the atmosphere of your life,
which becomes a breeding ground for the Spirit of God
to do what only he can do.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Amen, rise to your feet.
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