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good afternoon
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I praise the Lord from my mother how
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many of you already love her I was
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getting ready for this and she said
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Steven you need to tell them how to vote
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in the next election and I said mom I
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said mom this is not a political event
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she said it's so important that they
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hear it I said I'm not gonna mention any
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candidates or any parties
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she said well tell them to get their
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Bible and go read all the party
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platforms and compare it with the
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scriptures and to vote according to what
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God's Word says so in honor of my mother
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I've told you I had a friend he came to
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me and he said Stephen the closer I get
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to the Lord the less impressed I am with
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you and I said okay I can receive that
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he said you keep talking about how God
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can do exceedingly abundantly above all
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we could ask her imagine he said you
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didn't make that up that's in the Bible
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I found that in the Bible I said I've
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never said I made that up where did you
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get that some of the people who work
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with us they come and they say okay tell
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us how you produce these movies and
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we've had many filmmakers come down to
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Albany they sit across from us across
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the table and they say alright what's
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the secret sauce you know that and we
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say look we don't know what we're doing
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but we are trusting an Almighty God and
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so we're praying through every aspect of
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the filmmaking we're asking the Lord to
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guide one of my friends came and work
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with us on war room and when he was done
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he said they're telling the truth they
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don't know what they're doing and they
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do pray about every decision so I want
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you to know that if you were to spend a
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lot of time with us the less impressed
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you would be with us and the more
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impressed you would be with the God that
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we serve
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I want to show you a picture up on the
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screen it was on the video and this is
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of my mom and dad getting married and on
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the right side of the screen
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my grandfather my dad's dad was seven
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feet tall and so I hugged his knees when
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I was a kid and he was an alcoholic for
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a good portion of my father's life but
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he married a woman that became a praying
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woman and our dad had a pray and mom who
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had a big impact on his life my
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grandfather my mom's mom as you heard on
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the story was a praying woman as well
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and she is impacting the nation's you
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could say through prayers that she
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prayed many years ago and as you saw in
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this video I've got a prayin mom at home
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now I want to show you a video I'm gonna
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show you a picture of my family
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this is my wife Jill and I on our six
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kids and I've got behind me a very
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supportive wife who prays for me and
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supports me on my wedding ring
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everywhere I go only engraved on the
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inside it says First Samuel 14 seven and
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it says you do what you've said in your
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heart to do and I will come support you
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with my heart and soul so some of you
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like my wife may be in a situation where
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you're thinking I've got girlfriends
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that are out working in these jobs and
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they're making the new iPhone and
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they're making a lot of money over here
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they're beating out the men and they're
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becoming the CEOs and the presidents of
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companies and I'm just a mom I want you
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to know God has you exactly where he
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wants you
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[Applause]
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you are likely whether you know it or
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not the most influential person in your
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husband's life
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and your prayers for him God has given
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women this ability to discern how the
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marriage is going a whole lot better
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than the man how the kids are doing a
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whole lot better than the man and he
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reveals those things to you so you can
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intercede on behalf of your husband and
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your children like nobody else on the
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face of the earth you are likely in
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these formative years if your kids are
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little like my kids are the most
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influential person in your kids lives
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John Wesley said and he was a very a
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catalyst for one of the great awakenings
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he said my mother taught me more
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theology when I was little than I've
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learned in all the other books and the
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training that I've had over the years I
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heard a story about st. Paul's Cathedral
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being built and that this man walked up
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and he sees these two workers working
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and one of them is laying bricks and
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he's grumbling and complaining and he's
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working slow another guy is over here
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and he's laying bricks and he's
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whistling he's working hard he's keeping
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to get attitude and man walks up to the
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man who's complaining says what do you
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do he says I'm laying bricks what does
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it look like I'm doing
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and he walks over to the man who's got a
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good attitude he's whistling he said
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what are you doing
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he says I'm building a great Cathedral
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both of them were doing the same thing
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but one of them saw it from a bigger
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perspective the enemy wants to tell you
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you're washing dishes you're folding
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another load of London just wash these
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clothes yesterday you know you're
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changing diapers with six kids we've
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we've added up it's the into the tens of
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thousands of diapers that my wife has
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changed and I've told her sweetheart
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you're not changing diapers you're
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raging
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raising world-changers
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you're not preparing meals you're
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training up leaders of the next
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generation you're not stopping my our
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kids from fighting and just spanking the
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one that's the cause of the problem
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you're raising up people that will help
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take the gospel to the ends of the earth
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you're building a great Cathedral so I
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just want to affirm you the enemy wants
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to step in and tell you that what you're
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doing doesn't matter
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and God has strategically positioned you
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wherever you are
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for his glory for such a time as this
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we're gonna be looking at Nehemiah
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chapter one this afternoon if you have
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your Bible and encouraged you to turn
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there because here's a guy who is a
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layman he's a nobody he's in a foreign
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land
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he feels like what am I doing here I'm
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away from my people I'm away from my
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country do I have any value do I have
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any importance and we're gonna talk
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about how many amaya prayed
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it's exciting to me to see what the Lord
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is doing through prayer around the world
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if you look in Scripture prayer is
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always a priority of the mighty men and
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women of God you look at the great
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people in the Old Testament they were
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always prayer warriors you look at
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Jesus's life in all of his busyness he
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would either get up early to pray or
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stay up late to pray or send the crowd
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away to pray you're not busier than
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Jesus was but he would make sure that
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prayer was a priority it's the only
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thing his disciples asked him to teach
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them how to do was to pray if you look
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at the Sermon on the Mount he's training
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them on how to pray and he's saying God
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wants you to pray he answers prayer he's
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commanding you to pray ask and you shall
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receive seek and you will find knock and
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the door will be open to you the analogy
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in Scripture of Prayer is is not an
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employer to an employee or even a master
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to a servant it's of a father to his
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children every time Jesus would talk
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about prayer he'd say I want you to
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think of God as your father a loving
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good father who cares about you and he
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wants to give
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good things and so he says I want you to
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ask for good things because your Father
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in Heaven wants to give you those good
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things and so Jesus is challenging his
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disciples prioritised prayer prioritize
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pray instead of fainting he goes into
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the temple you're making the temple
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about things other than prayer let's
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pray in my house shall be called a house
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of prayer if you look in the New
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Testament the church prioritized prayer
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and the Holy Spirit came and then it
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says then they devoted themselves to
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prayer as the New Testament church as a
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result of prayer everything else took on
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more power to it
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the preaching is powerful when there's a
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praying church behind the pastor brain
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form the programs of the church are
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effective when there's a praying people
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behind the programs the promotional
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efforts everything you're doing in your
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church prayer is the wind and the sales
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of those things and if you can
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prioritize prayer first like the
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scriptures say everything else in your
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church will reap the benefits of that so
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what do we see in first Timothy first of
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all let there be prayers petitions
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supplication Thanksgiving for all men
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let that be first in priority what did
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the Apostles say they said oK we've got
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these women that are complaining upset
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over here these widows that are being
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neglected let's set up some people to
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serve them and meet their needs but let
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us keep prioritizing prayer in the
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Ministry of the word if you read in
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Romans 12 spoken to us as believers he
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says devote yourselves to prayer in
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Colossians 4 he says devote yourselves
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to prayer so it's this constant message
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throughout scripture throughout
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Christian history the greatest
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missionaries always devoted themselves
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to prayer and before the Great
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Awakenings the Lord would stir up his
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church they would become burdened about
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the the toxic condition of the culture
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and the lukewarmness that was in the
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church and they would be so burdened
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that God would call them to their knees
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and they would begin to pray and it
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wasn't just a sermon series over a
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weekend the Lord would call them to long
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term devotion to prayer he would say
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let's prioritize God
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self in prayer above any of the work of
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men and I believe he's doing that right
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now in our country and I believe he's
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doing that in the body of Christ all
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over the world we saw with war room now
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that the movies gone internationally
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we're hearing stories of other countries
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in Mexico there were 12 elderly women
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who went to see the movie and then they
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started a 24 hour prayer network in
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their cities in Argentina there's
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churches that have been meeting and
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they've been praying pastors across
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America have been preaching on the
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priority of Prayer 71 churches in Ohio
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recently met together for a prayer boot
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camp saying we need to train our people
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in prayer there's a Texas prison that
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has focused in on prayer and in this one
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unit in the prison and by the way across
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America the recidivism rate for
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prisoners is about 70% that means when
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they get out about 70 percent end up
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back in prison but this one unit in
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Texas they have begun to pray for one
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another and the recidivism in that
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specific unit has dropped down to 7% 93%
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are staying out of prison because
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they're praying for one another ium
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bounds said prayer moves the hand that
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moves the world it can accomplish what
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God can accomplish there is no greater
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privilege for you and I anyone to be
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able to personally talk to God and speak
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into the ears of the Almighty it's a
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beautiful mysterious jaw-dropping
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opportunity that we have every day and
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if we think of what God did to enable us
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to do it that Jesus died tore the veil
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from top to bottom opened up the way so
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the you and I through his blood can
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approach the Holy of Holies of God to
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come before a loving good Heavenly
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Father who's ready and able to meet any
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of our needs at any time so I wanted to
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talk with you today about preparing to
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pray tonight and I want to challenge you
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if you would ask the Lord to make you a
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prayer warrior that you would begin to
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pray for your children
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and I want to share with you a little
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bit about how our mom prays for us and I
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want to share with you how Scripture
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challenges us to pray for other people
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the first thing is prayer begins by
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being in Christ definitely knowing Jesus
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as your Lord and Savior knowing Christ
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is the secret to answered prayer when he
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said I am the way the truth and the life
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no one comes to the Father except
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through me he wasn't being prideful he
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was being truthful there is one mediator
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between us and God
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someone who's equal to God and equal to
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man who can come between and bring us
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together the man Christ Jesus first
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Timothy says Ephesians 3 says we have
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boldness and access through faith in Him
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so if you have religion but you don't
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have a relationship with God God is not
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obligated to answer your prayers in fact
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scripture communicates God is not
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obligated he could answer the prayer of
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a lost person if he wants to but the
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Bible says the unrighteous their prayers
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are not pleasing to the Lord and so lost
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people praying to God if they don't have
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a relationship with him it's basically
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talking to a stranger and someone who is
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not obligated to answer their prayers
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and so prayer begins with a relationship
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with Jesus and so when I was talking to
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Nancy about this conference and I said
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how many people here are believers she
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said well I don't know you know many of
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them I believe are believers but it's
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been interesting to me Billy Graham says
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a large percentage of the church is made
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up of people who think they're saved and
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they're not and we're so many
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denominations and different
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denominations emphasize different
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aspects of the gospel but if we're not
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careful we can think that because we
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prayed a prayer or we joined a church or
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were christened as a baby or a baptized
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at some point in our life or we cried
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while we were at summer camp that now we
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know Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior
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and so in the year 2000 I went through a
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personal crisis I was serving in
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ministry I was doing youth ministry and
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the Lord took that year to Humble me and
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grind me to powder in a lot of ways and
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I begin to even though I've led many
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people to Christ I begin to question my
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own salvation and I discovered something
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in the Bible that just blew
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mind did you know that God has given us
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a book in the Bible that can help us
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know and discern if we're really saved
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or not does anybody know what that book
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is there's a book in the Bible that God
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has given us and it is the litmus test
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for salvation last week I was meeting
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with a guy who is going into ministry
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he's going into youth ministry and we're
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talking about his relationship with the
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Lord and he struggled with pornography
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and I said let me ask you a question I
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said are you sure you're saved
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and he said yeah I think so yeah you
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know and he started and I said do you
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ever doubt your salvation and he said
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actually yes I do and if you ask people
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you know hey do you know Christ are you
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a hundred percent sure you know a lot of
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people we have that pad ready answer
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well in the year 2000 I was ready with
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that pad answer but the Lord began to
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open my eyes and ask me the question you
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need to put on the helmet of salvation
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because you're not a hundred percent
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sure you're saved because Romans 6 says
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if you know you're saved then you can
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reckon yourself dead indeed unto sin but
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alive unto God through Jesus Christ if
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you're gonna fight the enemy you got to
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put on that helmet of salvation as part
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of the armor and you're standing in your
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identity in Christ if you're doubting
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your salvation if there's still a little
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bit of a doubt on the back of your mind
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then you're not believing who you are in
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Jesus Christ and with him as your father
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and if you're doubting your salvation
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you're not gonna be sharing your faith
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with other people you're not gonna be
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living in the joy of your salvation and
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you're gonna be struggling and so
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whether it be sin in your life and
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you're a believer that's causing you to
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doubt whether it be you made a
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commitment to Christ but you never
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followed that up with obedience and
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baptism or you've never been discipled I
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don't know but I want to share with you
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right now we're just gonna pause this
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message for a minute and we're gonna
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take just a moment I'm gonna give you a
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gift that God gave me in the year 2000
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and that gift is the book of first John
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first John gives us seven tests of our
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salvation and I'm gonna give them to you
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tonight or this afternoon because you're
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not gonna be able to pray effectively
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tonight if Jesus Christ is not your Lord
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and Savior and so I want to give you
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this gift many of you are like man
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sure I know where I am I'm good you know
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I love the Lord this is a good thing and
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I want to give you these seven things so
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that you can share them with other
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people who are struggling with their
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salvation but some of you as a result of
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this and when I shared it with this
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young man he began to cry at the end of
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reading through those verses in first
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John he said I'm saved he said I know
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the Lord and he knows me and I said it
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wasn't me that revealed it to you it
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wasn't you that convinced yourself it
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was the Word of God who said very
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clearly to you do you know the Lord and
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he knows you and that you've got sin in
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your life but you know the Lord and he
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knows you when I discovered these
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passages of Scripture it was like the
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light bulb went on for me and I began to
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cry I was like I know the Lord and he
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knows me but I believe many people would
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discover that they don't know the Lord
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so let me give you these things jesus
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said not everyone who says to me Lord
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Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven he
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warned the Pharisees you think that you
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know God but you don't he said many
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people will say to me Lord did we not
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prophesy in your name drive out demons
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in your name and I will announce to them
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depart from me I never knew you the
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Apostle Paul says test yourselves in 2nd
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Corinthians 13 he says test yourselves
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to see if you're in the faith examine
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yourselves or do you not recognize this
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about yourselves that Jesus is in you
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unless indeed you fail the test so if
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you think you're going to heaven and you
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have a relationship with God because
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you're a good person or you walk denial
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or you pray to prayer or you were
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baptized or christened and if your faith
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is in those things then you should be
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very concerned according to first John
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because first John never mentions a
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ritual or a summer camp you know tearful
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any anything like that it talks about
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proofs of salvation that show up when
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Christ changes your life if you were to
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be put on trial for being a Christian
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with the evidence of your life compared
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to the Word of God reveal that you know
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Christ or you don't
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genuine salvation is like a wedding it's
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a commitment that results in a loving
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relationship
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it's like planning a vineyard a lot of
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fruit shows up afterwards do you
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remember those Polaroid cameras that we
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used to play with back when we were you
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you take the picture and then this
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little white picture pops out and if you
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look at it it's just gray there's
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nothing there and you wait a few minutes
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later or about 60 seconds later and then
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the image that it took begins to show up
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well the bible communicates that
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salvation when you believe in jesus
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ephesians 1 says he seals you with the
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holy spirit of promise you were dead and
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he makes you alive you were buried with
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christ and you're raised with Christ
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that he saves you when you place your
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faith in him but sometimes we don't feel
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any different in that moment but if it's
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true salvation the image of Christ
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sharks showing up in your life over time
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the fruit begins to be undeniable you
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cannot make God your father and Jesus
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your Lord and being dwelt about the Holy
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Spirit and it not change you second
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Corinthians 5:17 says if anyone is in
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Christ they're a new creation the old is
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gone behold the new has come so in 1st
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John I'm going to give you 7 evidences
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that the Bible gives us of salvation
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true salvation and I want you to test
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your salvation with these and my hope is
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that some of you the light bulb will go
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on and you'll say I know the Lord and he
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knows me and I'm never gonna doubt again
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and I'm gonna pray within my identity of
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Christ and I'm gonna start acting like
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Who I am in Jesus and I'm gonna put on
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the helmet of salvation some of you when
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you hear these things you may say when I
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look at this I realize I don't know the
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Lord I have religion but not a
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relationship and I've got good news for
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you today is the day of your salvation
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that you can believe on the Lord Jesus
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Christ and be saved
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evidence number 1 obedience obedience
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and really it's a lifestyle of obedience
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Christians make mistakes yes but the
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direction and habits of a true believer
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changed towards obeying Jesus now
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obedience is not the route of salvation
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but
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is the fruit of salvation and first John
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- it says this listen to this by this we
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know that we have come to know him if we
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keep his Commandments
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the one who says I have come to know him
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and does not keep his Commandments is a
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liar and the truth is not in him but
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whoever keeps his word in him the love
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of God has truly been perfected by this
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we know that we are in him the one who
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says he abides in him ought himself to
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walk in the same manner as he walked
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before we know Christ were walking in a
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direction away from God we're living in
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perpetual sin and every once in a while
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will stumble and do the right thing you
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know but after we repent and we place
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our faith in Jesus he doesn't change us
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from rules on the outside religion
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externalized he transforms us from the
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inside and he changes our nature and so
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there's this new desire to obey God that
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the Holy Spirit brings and so let me ask
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you a question when it comes to not any
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specific moment because you can look at
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your life and say well I didn't know by
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God there and I didn't obey God that
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time and I didn't know Baig out here but
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if you look at the fifty thousand foot
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view of your life after you made a
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decision for Christ did you see a result
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in increasing obedience to the commands
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of God when you hear the word of God is
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there in your heart I need to obey that
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I want to obey that lord help me to obey
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that and then you begin to see more
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obedience not that you get it always
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right James 3 says we stumble in many
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ways believers stumble in many ways but
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you have a heart that wants to obey God
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because that's the first evidence the
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scripture gives of your salvation a lost
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person does not obey the Lord they have
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no desire to really but a believer their
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nature has changed from the inside out
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and first John says this is how we know
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him obedience here's the second one a
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confession of Jesus as God's Son now the
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world believes that Jesus is a good
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teacher he's a prophet you know he's a
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good example and cults may even
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communicate that Jesus is a prophet or a
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good example but the Bible communicates
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that a believer believes he's more than
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just a man or a good example he is God's
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Son He is God in the
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watch this first John 2:22 who is the
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liar but the one who denies that Jesus
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is the christ this is the antichrist the
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one who denies the father and the son
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whoever denies the son does not have the
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father the one who confesses the son has
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the father also jesus said whoever
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confesses me before men I will confess
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before the Father so who do you say
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Jesus is because if you say he is God in
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the flesh he is the son of God that is
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an evidence of your salvation because it
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takes the Holy Spirit to reveal that
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truth to your heart evidence number
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three repentance of sin ongoing
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repentance of sin how does a Christian
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respond to the commands of Christ
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obedience how does a Christian respond
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to sin repentance listen to this verse
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Jesus said I tell you unless you repent
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you will also likewise perish Luke
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that's Luke 13:3 when it comes to sin
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true believers will turn away from sin
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but false believers will not first John
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3:9 no one who is born of God will
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continue to sin because God's seed
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remains in him he cannot go on sinning
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because he has been born of God this is
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how we know who the children of God are
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and who the children of the devil are
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again it's a 50,000 foot view a lost
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person they may feel guilty in their
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conscience for some of the things that
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they do but when it comes to sin there's
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not a perpetual turning away from it
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repenting of it when I sin the Holy
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Spirit is convicting me I don't like it
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in my life there's some sins we can
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repent of quickly some kind of hang on
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you know that we're struggling with
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throughout our lives part of that
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sanctification process but a true
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Christian is turning away from sin at
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first John says that's how we know one
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of the evidences that you truly know
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Christ is that ongoing repentance of sin
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I need to get it out of my life
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evidence number four the discipline of
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God your father the discipline of God
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your father first John 3:1 behold what
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manner of love the father has given us
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that we should be called children of God
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Hebrews 12 says God deals with you as
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sons for what son is there whom the
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father does not discipline but if you
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are without discipline of which all have
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become partakers then you're
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illegitimate children and you're not
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sons the discipline of when I am when my
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kids come over and they invite their
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friends over if they do something wrong
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I may spank my kids and send their
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friends home now why don't I discipline
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the other kid well he's not my kid he's
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not my son God says that when it comes
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to his children when you get out of line
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and you're living in sin he loves you
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and so he begins to discipline you so
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there's evidence of that he said one of
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the ways you can know if you're a
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believer is the discipline of the Father
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shows up in your life when you get out
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of line number five genuine love for
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other believers first John 3:14 we know
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that we have passed out of death into
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life because we love the Brethren he who
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does not love abides and death everyone
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who hates his brother is a murderer you
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know that no murderer has eternal life
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abiding in him one of the things the
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Holy Spirit does when he comes in your
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heart Romans 5 says he pours out the
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agape love of God into your heart and
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God begins to give you the fruit of the
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Spirit love joy and peace and His Spirit
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gives you a love for other believers
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even your enemies and that's one of the
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evidences that agape a love that comes
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from God is an evidence of your
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salvation so let me ask you a question
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when it comes to other believers are you
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always just not wanting to be around
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them it's Church of burden for you or is
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God giving you this love for other
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believers because first John says that
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is one of the evidences of your
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salvation number six the presence of the
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Holy Spirit the presence of the Holy
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Spirit first John 3:24 this is how we
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know that he lives in us we know it by
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the spirit he gave us if you're a true
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believer then God's Spirit will testify
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with your spirit that you're a child of
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God Romans 8 says but what does God's
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Spirit do well John 16 says he's going
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to convict you of sin he will also John
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14 says he's gonna reveal to you the
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Word of God so when you're reading the
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word of God the Holy Spirit is helping
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you to understand what you're reading
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and then there's the the fruit of the
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Spirit the love and joy and peace that
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comes from the Holy Spirit is showing up
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in your life so is the Holy Spirit's
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evidence in your heart and in your life
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that's not something you can fake but is
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the Holy Spirit saying you know the Lord
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is the Holy Spirit convicting you of sin
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is the Holy Spirit revealing the Word of
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God if you don't know Christ then you're
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not that convicted when you sin and
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you're not though the Bible is a mystery
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to you it's it's hard for you to grasp
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you know or read it because it's like
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there's a veil over your eyes when
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you're reading it and then the love and
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joy and peace of Christ is not really
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flowing in and through your life number
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seven trust in Jesus alone for salvation
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this is not about the identity in Christ
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this is about what you're trusting for
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salvation if your faith is in your
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church if your faith is in your goodness
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if your faith is in a ritual that you
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made you're the only person really
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mentioned there your faith is in you and
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the Apostle Paul said in Philippians
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three he said I had a better spiritual
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resume than anyone but when I saw what
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Jesus could do for me and I saw how his
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death on the cross could pay for my sin
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and I saw that rather than my own
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righteousness me trying to earn my way
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into heaven I saw that Christ could give
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me God's righteousness and prepare me
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for heaven the Apostle Paul in
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Philippians 3 said I have let go of
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trusting in myself and my faith is
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totally in Jesus alone for salvation he
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said now I have a righteousness that
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comes from God not for myself and I am
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found in him so first John says first
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John 5:12 he who has the son has life he
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who does not have the son does not have
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life I write these things to you who
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believe in the name of the Son of God so
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that you may know that you have eternal
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life seven things these are signs
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of a changed life their litmus tests we
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can - we can take all of these things
742
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are not really normal and they're almost
743
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impossible to fake long-term the world
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the flesh and the devil are against us
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having these things in our lives they're
746
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pushing us in the opposite direction but
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if you look at your life over the past
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few months and years from a 50,000 foot
749
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view do you see genuine love for other
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believers
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do you see repentance of sin do you see
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obedience to God
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do you see the discipline of the father
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do you see the evidence of the holy
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spirit do you see a confession openly of
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Christ as God and His Lord a genuine
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trust in his death on the cross for
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salvation because if these things are in
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you then I've got really good news for
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you you know Jesus and he knows you but
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if you look at these things and you say
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I don't see the evidence of the Holy
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Spirit I don't have a genuine love for
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other believers I am NOT repenting of
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sin there is no obedience in my heart
766
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there is no trust fully in Jesus's death
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on the cross as payment for salvation
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then I've got good news for you - really
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good news that the Lord is offering you
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something far better than what you're
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trusting and he is inviting you to turn
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from your sins and to call upon Jesus
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Christ the Son of God and trust him
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alone for salvation and the Bible says
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whosoever will call upon the name of the
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Lord will be saved
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says if you confess with your mouth that
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Jesus is the Lord and you believe in
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your heart they got raised it from the
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dead then you can be saved and right
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where you're sitting right now you can
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say Lord I'm no longer trusting my
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religion my ability my church my rituals
784
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I'm trusting in Christ and right where
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you are you can believe in Jesus and He
786
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will change you from the inside out and
787
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after that
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mama you will see these freaks showing
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up in your life in the days to come at
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the end of this session in the back of
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the room there's a their prayer rooms
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and there are women who are back there
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ready to pray with anyone who would like
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for someone to to walk with them and to
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pray with them through that decision
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with that in mind I wanted to talk about
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getting our hearts ready for praying in
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Nehemiah chapter 1 the words of Nehemiah
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the son of whatever that says it came to
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pass in the month of just love in the
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twentieth year as I was in Shushan the
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Citadel that Hannah and I one of my
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brethren came with men from Judah and I
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asked them concerning the Jews who had
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escaped who had survived the captivity
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concerning Jerusalem and they said to me
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the survivors are left from the
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captivity so you find out the walls in
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Jerusalem are broken down that are
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burned with fire look at verse 4 so it
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was when I heard these words i sat down
812
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and I wept
813
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I'm mourned for many days I was fasting
814
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and praying before God I'm blown away at
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Nehemiah's response the tenderness of
816
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his heart in this moment and so he
817
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begins to pray in verse 5 I pray Lord
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God of heaven o great and awesome God
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you who keep your covenant mercy with
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those who love you and observe your
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Commandments please let your ear be
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attentive and your eyes open that you
823
00:34:02,370 --> 00:34:05,399
may hear the prayer of your servant
824
00:34:05,399 --> 00:34:07,980
which I pray before you now day and
825
00:34:07,980 --> 00:34:10,409
night he's not giving up he's laying a
826
00:34:10,409 --> 00:34:12,270
hold of the Lord for the children of
827
00:34:12,270 --> 00:34:15,480
Israel your servants and I confess the
828
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,119
sins of the children of Israel which we
829
00:34:18,119 --> 00:34:20,489
have sinned against you both my father's
830
00:34:20,489 --> 00:34:22,589
house and he makes it personal and I
831
00:34:22,589 --> 00:34:26,070
have sinned against you we have acted
832
00:34:26,070 --> 00:34:27,960
very correctly against you we've not
833
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,629
kept the commandments the statutes nor
834
00:34:30,629 --> 00:34:32,250
the ordinances which you've commanded
835
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your servant Moses so he confesses then
836
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he says remember I pray the word that
837
00:34:38,550 --> 00:34:40,409
you commanded your servant Moses saying
838
00:34:40,409 --> 00:34:42,510
now he's quoting Deuteronomy 28 right
839
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here if you were unfaithful I will
840
00:34:45,330 --> 00:34:46,179
scatter you
841
00:34:46,179 --> 00:34:49,359
among the nation's now he shifts to
842
00:34:49,359 --> 00:34:52,300
Deuteronomy 30 he says but if you return
843
00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:54,969
to me and keep my Commandments and you
844
00:34:54,969 --> 00:34:57,640
do them though some of you were cast out
845
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,920
to the farthest part of the heavens yet
846
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:02,440
I will gather them from there and bring
847
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,210
them to the place which I have chosen as
848
00:35:04,210 --> 00:35:06,490
a dwelling for my name so Nehemiah lays
849
00:35:06,490 --> 00:35:09,130
a hold of the Word of God and then he
850
00:35:09,130 --> 00:35:11,079
says now these are your servants and
851
00:35:11,079 --> 00:35:12,250
these are your people whom you've
852
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redeemed by your great power by your
853
00:35:14,589 --> 00:35:17,109
strong hand oh Lord I pray please let
854
00:35:17,109 --> 00:35:19,300
your ear be attentive to the prayer of
855
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:23,950
your servant and to the prayer of your
856
00:35:23,950 --> 00:35:25,930
servants who desire to fear your name
857
00:35:25,930 --> 00:35:28,510
and let your servant prosper this day I
858
00:35:28,510 --> 00:35:31,930
pray and grant him mercy in the sight of
859
00:35:31,930 --> 00:35:35,880
this man for I was the king's cup bearer
860
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,880
now the King Artaxerxes is the same king
861
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,910
who had turned Ezra down and shut down
862
00:35:42,910 --> 00:35:45,579
the rebuilding of the wall a few years
863
00:35:45,579 --> 00:35:47,349
later Nehemiah is approaching that same
864
00:35:47,349 --> 00:35:50,410
king in brokenness he's praying
865
00:35:50,410 --> 00:35:52,839
strategically and as you know the rest
866
00:35:52,839 --> 00:35:55,150
of the book that king not only gives him
867
00:35:55,150 --> 00:35:56,619
permission to leave but gives him all
868
00:35:56,619 --> 00:35:58,720
the resources to go back and he rebuilds
869
00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:02,680
the wall they restore Jerusalem revival
870
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,530
breaks out and God restores a nation
871
00:36:05,530 --> 00:36:08,380
through one man who was willing to
872
00:36:08,380 --> 00:36:10,359
humble himself before God and pray and
873
00:36:10,359 --> 00:36:13,599
obey the Lord so as we talk about prayer
874
00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:15,609
you know the movie war room talked about
875
00:36:15,609 --> 00:36:18,250
prayer but one thing that consistently
876
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you will see in Scripture is that prayer
877
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is always book ended with two things
878
00:36:22,710 --> 00:36:26,530
repentance before we pray because we're
879
00:36:26,530 --> 00:36:28,450
not ready to pray effectively if we
880
00:36:28,450 --> 00:36:31,720
don't repent first but then when we do
881
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,510
pray we pray in faith we claim the Word
882
00:36:34,510 --> 00:36:36,579
of God we base it upon the character of
883
00:36:36,579 --> 00:36:39,940
God and then when we are done praying we
884
00:36:39,940 --> 00:36:44,609
obey whatever the Lord tells us to do
885
00:36:44,609 --> 00:36:51,220
repentance pray obey I did a study one
886
00:36:51,220 --> 00:36:53,079
time of the New Testament and I was like
887
00:36:53,079 --> 00:36:54,760
what does the Bible say about what makes
888
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,859
our prayers more effective or what
889
00:36:56,859 --> 00:36:58,869
hinders our prayers from being effective
890
00:36:58,869 --> 00:37:00,100
one of them is whether
891
00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:03,100
not you know Christ but a second one was
892
00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:06,010
even as a believer there's a few things
893
00:37:06,010 --> 00:37:07,810
that will hinder you from being able to
894
00:37:07,810 --> 00:37:09,850
pray effectively let me share with you a
895
00:37:09,850 --> 00:37:14,080
few of those one of them is sin that you
896
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,110
refuse to repent of David said if I
897
00:37:17,110 --> 00:37:19,060
cherished sin in my heart God will not
898
00:37:19,060 --> 00:37:21,550
hear my prayers so let me ask you is
899
00:37:21,550 --> 00:37:24,430
there anything in your life that you
900
00:37:24,430 --> 00:37:27,160
refuse to repent of and give over to the
901
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,950
Lord because that is hindering your
902
00:37:29,950 --> 00:37:33,090
prayers from being effective secondly
903
00:37:33,090 --> 00:37:36,550
bitterness in your heart Jesus
904
00:37:36,550 --> 00:37:38,200
repeatedly says when he talks about
905
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,730
forgiveness if you don't forgive others
906
00:37:39,730 --> 00:37:42,580
God will not forgive you and in Mark 11
907
00:37:42,580 --> 00:37:45,520
he said this he says when you stand
908
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,060
praying if you have anything against
909
00:37:49,060 --> 00:37:51,550
anyone go ahead and forgive him right
910
00:37:51,550 --> 00:37:55,030
now and then pray in faith believing
911
00:37:55,030 --> 00:37:57,400
that God will answer your prayers so
912
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,170
Jesus pointed out he said don't wait for
913
00:37:59,170 --> 00:38:02,190
them to repent go ahead and forgive him
914
00:38:02,190 --> 00:38:04,930
you know we live in a world of sinners
915
00:38:04,930 --> 00:38:06,430
and we are sinners and we were gonna
916
00:38:06,430 --> 00:38:07,930
have people sin against us our whole
917
00:38:07,930 --> 00:38:10,540
lives and if there's anyone who has
918
00:38:10,540 --> 00:38:11,950
sinned against you and hurt you and
919
00:38:11,950 --> 00:38:14,080
we've all experienced that but you have
920
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,860
chosen to not forgive them if tonight
921
00:38:17,860 --> 00:38:19,990
when we pray you still have not forgiven
922
00:38:19,990 --> 00:38:24,160
them you may want to just sit in the
923
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,650
back and watch everyone else pray
924
00:38:25,650 --> 00:38:28,450
because it will hinder your prayers from
925
00:38:28,450 --> 00:38:31,330
being effective before God the Bible
926
00:38:31,330 --> 00:38:33,610
says and Jesus said it if you have
927
00:38:33,610 --> 00:38:36,820
anything against anyone go ahead and
928
00:38:36,820 --> 00:38:38,800
forgive them why don't you forgive them
929
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,120
because God is their judge
930
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,950
why do you forgive them because
931
00:38:41,950 --> 00:38:43,330
bitterness only hurts you it does not
932
00:38:43,330 --> 00:38:45,940
hurt the person you're angry with why do
933
00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:47,530
you forgive them because it gives place
934
00:38:47,530 --> 00:38:49,990
to the devil it says in Ephesians 4 that
935
00:38:49,990 --> 00:38:51,580
our unforgiveness gives the devil
936
00:38:51,580 --> 00:38:54,730
permission into our minds that he begins
937
00:38:54,730 --> 00:38:56,410
to accuse other people in our minds and
938
00:38:56,410 --> 00:38:58,180
we get angry and if you have bitterness
939
00:38:58,180 --> 00:39:00,100
in your life that is one of the key
940
00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:02,080
reasons why your spiritual life is a
941
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,890
desert right now why is not a joy why
942
00:39:05,890 --> 00:39:07,900
the Word of God isn't you're not getting
943
00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:09,820
thing out of it while your prayer life
944
00:39:09,820 --> 00:39:12,010
feels like it's just bouncing off the
945
00:39:12,010 --> 00:39:13,750
ceiling bitterness
946
00:39:13,750 --> 00:39:16,390
rise up your spiritual life so if you
947
00:39:16,390 --> 00:39:18,700
want to pray effectively the Bible
948
00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:22,120
communicates know Christ forgive if you
949
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,460
have anything against anyone and then
950
00:39:24,460 --> 00:39:26,350
any hidden sin that's in your life floor
951
00:39:26,350 --> 00:39:28,660
don't want to get it right with you but
952
00:39:28,660 --> 00:39:31,030
secondly scriptures communicate that if
953
00:39:31,030 --> 00:39:33,730
you are right with the Lord know
954
00:39:33,730 --> 00:39:36,340
unconfessed sin no bitterness in your
955
00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:38,880
life then you can begin to pray
956
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,340
strategically effectively and I want to
957
00:39:42,340 --> 00:39:44,650
give you four things real quick on how
958
00:39:44,650 --> 00:39:47,650
to pray 1 pray offensively pray
959
00:39:47,650 --> 00:39:50,110
offensively it's when you're asking for
960
00:39:50,110 --> 00:39:53,890
all the good stuff when you pray don't
961
00:39:53,890 --> 00:39:57,910
hold back ask for the moon when we're
962
00:39:57,910 --> 00:39:59,650
praying for the movies we're praying
963
00:39:59,650 --> 00:40:01,690
over the cinematography and the lighting
964
00:40:01,690 --> 00:40:03,250
and the story lord give us characters
965
00:40:03,250 --> 00:40:05,110
that are funny and give us touching
966
00:40:05,110 --> 00:40:06,550
scenes and give us truths that will
967
00:40:06,550 --> 00:40:08,050
change lives and the Lord take the
968
00:40:08,050 --> 00:40:09,670
movies to the ends of the earth when
969
00:40:09,670 --> 00:40:11,650
we're praying for our kids Lord raise up
970
00:40:11,650 --> 00:40:13,270
our children to be mighty warriors for
971
00:40:13,270 --> 00:40:14,920
you surround them with godly friends
972
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,690
keep them away from the wrong friends
973
00:40:16,690 --> 00:40:18,550
Lord would you give them good books and
974
00:40:18,550 --> 00:40:20,830
good teachers and good mentors and good
975
00:40:20,830 --> 00:40:23,380
spouses one day and we just ask and ask
976
00:40:23,380 --> 00:40:25,960
and ask and keep on asking God is not
977
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,720
intimidated by any requests he can do
978
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:30,820
more than we can ask or imagine and I
979
00:40:30,820 --> 00:40:34,840
can imagine a lot so did you know God
980
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,780
wants you to ask daring bold good
981
00:40:37,780 --> 00:40:40,240
prayers so when you're praying for your
982
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,190
family and your pastor and your church
983
00:40:42,190 --> 00:40:44,590
and the election and yourself and
984
00:40:44,590 --> 00:40:46,720
whatever go ahead and ask some people
985
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:48,220
like well I don't know if it's God's
986
00:40:48,220 --> 00:40:50,170
will or not he can figure that out you
987
00:40:50,170 --> 00:40:53,350
hit the ball in his court you hid it in
988
00:40:53,350 --> 00:40:55,810
his court and let him answer the way he
989
00:40:55,810 --> 00:40:59,800
wants to many times the Lord may say yes
990
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,840
but I'm gonna answer that in a week or a
991
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,240
month or a year you just keep on praying
992
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:05,550
and hitting in his court
993
00:41:05,550 --> 00:41:08,020
Lord nevertheless not my will but yours
994
00:41:08,020 --> 00:41:09,400
be done but I'm gonna I don't want it to
995
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,130
be because I didn't ask James for says
996
00:41:12,130 --> 00:41:13,870
you don't have because you don't ask I
997
00:41:13,870 --> 00:41:16,750
think God is in heaven and in scripture
998
00:41:16,750 --> 00:41:19,030
communicates this he's got so many good
999
00:41:19,030 --> 00:41:20,800
things he doesn't want to withhold any
1000
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,410
good thing from you and he says come on
1001
00:41:23,410 --> 00:41:26,230
come on come on ask me ask me now what
1002
00:41:26,230 --> 00:41:27,730
if Jesus showed up in a jury
1003
00:41:27,730 --> 00:41:30,849
tonight into you personally and he says
1004
00:41:30,849 --> 00:41:33,690
here's a pad of paper here's a pen
1005
00:41:33,690 --> 00:41:36,130
everything you asked me for I'm gonna
1006
00:41:36,130 --> 00:41:39,490
say yes to would you pray any
1007
00:41:39,490 --> 00:41:42,300
differently than you do right now
1008
00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:45,040
because how much you pray really reveals
1009
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:46,450
how much your trust in God in your
1010
00:41:46,450 --> 00:41:49,510
circumstances if you knew that he was
1011
00:41:49,510 --> 00:41:52,030
gonna say yes would you just say oh just
1012
00:41:52,030 --> 00:41:52,780
bless me Lord
1013
00:41:52,780 --> 00:41:54,820
no prayer requests kind of like we do in
1014
00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:57,490
Sunday school or small group nothing I'm
1015
00:41:57,490 --> 00:42:01,270
good or would you be flipping it out
1016
00:42:01,270 --> 00:42:02,470
like I would say here's how I'm gonna
1017
00:42:02,470 --> 00:42:04,270
pray for my church and my pastor here's
1018
00:42:04,270 --> 00:42:05,800
I'm gonna pray for my community here's
1019
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,270
I'm gonna pray for my marriage you're
1020
00:42:07,270 --> 00:42:08,859
gonna pray for my children and I'm just
1021
00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:10,150
flipping pages and I'm just gonna go
1022
00:42:10,150 --> 00:42:11,500
until I wear that out so you got anymore
1023
00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:14,770
notepads I can fill up that's how God
1024
00:42:14,770 --> 00:42:17,530
wants you to pray don't let it be
1025
00:42:17,530 --> 00:42:20,650
because you didn't ask ask the good
1026
00:42:20,650 --> 00:42:23,650
things you have a good good God he can
1027
00:42:23,650 --> 00:42:26,829
handle any requests and if he looks
1028
00:42:26,829 --> 00:42:28,180
through it he says well that's a selfish
1029
00:42:28,180 --> 00:42:33,490
request okay he can handle that so when
1030
00:42:33,490 --> 00:42:37,980
we're praying tonight if you know Jesus
1031
00:42:37,980 --> 00:42:41,680
you can pray in his name which means
1032
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,089
you're not praying based upon your
1033
00:42:43,089 --> 00:42:44,530
identity you're praying and praying
1034
00:42:44,530 --> 00:42:46,540
based on his identity you're not praying
1035
00:42:46,540 --> 00:42:48,130
based upon your authority you're praying
1036
00:42:48,130 --> 00:42:49,900
based upon his authority you're not
1037
00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:51,730
praying based upon what you have done or
1038
00:42:51,730 --> 00:42:53,260
your righteousness your brain you're
1039
00:42:53,260 --> 00:42:55,000
praying based upon what he has done and
1040
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,430
his righteousness and if your heart is
1041
00:42:57,430 --> 00:42:58,869
right with the Lord you've confessed
1042
00:42:58,869 --> 00:43:00,670
your sins and you've forgiven other
1043
00:43:00,670 --> 00:43:03,339
people then get busy praying and ask for
1044
00:43:03,339 --> 00:43:05,619
the moon get specific and don't hold
1045
00:43:05,619 --> 00:43:08,640
back and leave that with the Lord and
1046
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,490
let those prayers be in his hands you
1047
00:43:11,490 --> 00:43:13,210
will see in Scripture
1048
00:43:13,210 --> 00:43:15,160
sometimes God answers a prayer
1049
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,819
immediately sometimes he'll answer a
1050
00:43:18,819 --> 00:43:20,490
prayer the next day the next week
1051
00:43:20,490 --> 00:43:23,230
sometimes his perfect timing is to wait
1052
00:43:23,230 --> 00:43:27,089
for years he's got that all figured out
1053
00:43:27,089 --> 00:43:30,250
but don't let delays discourage you from
1054
00:43:30,250 --> 00:43:32,349
praying don't let yesterday's seemingly
1055
00:43:32,349 --> 00:43:34,359
unanswered prayers stop you from praying
1056
00:43:34,359 --> 00:43:36,910
in faith today and if you're struggling
1057
00:43:36,910 --> 00:43:39,069
with praying and trusting God in faith
1058
00:43:39,069 --> 00:43:40,849
if you're like when I'm praying
1059
00:43:40,849 --> 00:43:43,039
I have a hard time really believing that
1060
00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:45,200
God will answer then Philippians 4 says
1061
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:46,869
you need to spend some time in
1062
00:43:46,869 --> 00:43:49,099
Thanksgiving before you do the
1063
00:43:49,099 --> 00:43:50,960
supplication because here's what happens
1064
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,029
if you'll spend time and with
1065
00:43:53,029 --> 00:43:54,589
Thanksgiving you're looking in the
1066
00:43:54,589 --> 00:43:56,779
rearview mirror of your life and you're
1067
00:43:56,779 --> 00:43:58,460
seeing nothing but the faithfulness of
1068
00:43:58,460 --> 00:44:00,650
God in your past and you begin to say
1069
00:44:00,650 --> 00:44:02,239
lord thank you that you carried me here
1070
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:03,470
and thank you that you brought good out
1071
00:44:03,470 --> 00:44:05,029
of that and thank you that you worked in
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here and thank you that you provided
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there and thank you for this thank you
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for that and spend some time thinking
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the Lord and it will give you that
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running head start to then look at the
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future with the requests that you have
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and pray in faith believing God can do
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the same thing in the days ahead so with
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that in mind let's pray together right
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now and ask let's ask the Lord to
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prepare our hearts to in unity like
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Nehemiah to have tender hearts before
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the Lord to repent of any sin to pray in
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faith and lastly that when we leave this
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place we need to obey whatever God tells
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us to do because you might be who God
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uses to answer the requests that you're
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praying you might be the nehemiah you
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might be the Esther who says pray for
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three days and then you approach the
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king you might be the one so we need to
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repent we pray in faith asking the Lord
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for whatever's on our hearts Jesus says
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if you abide in me and my words abide in
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you ask for your heart's desire and it
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will be done for you not just for what
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you need John 15:7 says if you get right
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with the Lord asked for your heart's
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desire he says that blows my mind that
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he would even say that and then when we
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leave we're gonna obey what God tells us
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to do this world would never be the same
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if women just in this room and who are
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watching over the internet would get
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right with the Lord pray in faith and
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then obey what God tells them to do
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let's ask him for right now father in
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Jesus name Lord we pray Lord that you
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would reveal to each person
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whether they know you truly or not
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secondly Lord I pray that you would
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search us O God and know our hearts we
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don't want there to be anything that
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displeases you that grieves your spirit
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that hinders us from praying effectively
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to a holy God Lord search our hearts and
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then grant us repentance forgive us Lord
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forgive our nation Lord for our
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wickedness and lord I pray that you by
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your Holy Spirit would inspire each of
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us to pray in faith tonight in unity
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tens of thousands of women all around
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the world praying at the same time by
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faith approaching a willing loving
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Heavenly Father and then lord I pray
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that you would reveal how you want us to
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obey you and that you would give us the
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Grace and the strength by your Holy
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Spirit when we go home every day to walk
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in faith and obey and we pray this in
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Jesus name the strong Son of God
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you
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