"Don't Grow Weary" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency. What is your location?

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Rescue Radio, because there is a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, we thank you for the victory in this war. We thank you, Lord Jesus,

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for your soon coming. We thank you for coming the first time. We thank you, Lord,

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that you are keeping your promises. Altogether, everyone, even the

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details of how the predictions, the prophecies were

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fulfilled in your first coming, and now as we are reading the signs and the stars

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in the society all over the place of your coming

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again, Lord God, we thank you for preparing your people that we will not

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grow weary in well-doing. And I thank you, Jesus, for giving encouragement,

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inspiration, joy, energy to your people that we will

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walk in the fullness of your victory, of your finished work, and not

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look at what it looks like, but look at what you said, and look and

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walk with your encouragement. We bind the powers of darkness

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that will come against your people to create any kind of

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weariness, anxiety, fear, futility.

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Father, we bind those spirits that would try to lay a wet blanket over the top

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of our heads. Lord, and we ask that you take the veil off our eyes and heads so we

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can see what's really going on with clarity and know what's going on and have the

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energy and the anointing and the authority to stand in having done all to stand in

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these last days. I thank you also for the promise that no weapon formed against us

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will prosper, that the enemy is thoroughly defeated, and what he

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does is works with a lot of smoke and mirrors and freak out and fear

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to push people into making decisions, giving him power and

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exalting him when he is to be defeated and has been

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and is being defeated. So, Lord God, guide our minds, our

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hearts, our eyes. Let us hear with our ears today and let it

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sink down into our hearts and our souls and let our eyes see what's going

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on and with clarity that we will not be confused and deceived by this day

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and age and what Satan is trying to do here. Father, we ask these things in Jesus' name.

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Amen. So, we're talking about following Jesus

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and what that looks like in kind of practical terms in terms

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of the Word of God, reading through again some of the passages

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in Romans chapter 12. Yeah, last time we

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started with verse 9 of Romans 12, let love be without

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hypocrisy, abhor, which means hate or

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despise what is evil, cling to what is good,

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and then verse 10, being kindly affectionate to one another

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with brotherly love and honor, giving preference,

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King James says preferring one another, and then

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today here we're landing on verse 11, not lagging

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in diligence, fervent in spirit,

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serving the Lord. So, Marjorie, what do we mean

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here by diligence, not lagging in diligence?

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In other words, how would you define diligence?

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Well, I don't know how to define it. It's steady,

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faithful, continuation. You keep at it.

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Yeah, you're walking in that place of diligent pursuit,

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not looking to the right or to the left, being faithful in the little things God

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has put before you. He's who is faithful in that which is least will be also faithful in that which is

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much. And so, I'd say that's diligent pursuit.

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Jesus said, you can't serve me with lip

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service. It's really

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what does James say? He says, faith without works is

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dead. And so, you cannot say, I love you, I love you, I love you, Jesus,

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and not be diligent in doing what he's asking us to do.

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Well, diligence speaks of sticking with something. You keep doing it

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and you'd be diligent. Whatever your project

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is, if you're painting the interior of your house, and a lot of people

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hate painting, but you keep doing it until

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it's done. So many projects are like that.

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You stay at it. You don't just give up right away. You don't get

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freaked out or just weary of it. You just keep doing it.

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Not lagging in diligence, serving

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the Lord. You've got a definition.

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Diligence is, in the dictionary, is a quality. And again, let me say something

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about the dictionary. If you have a

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1928 dictionary, you're going to have probably a different definition with

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verses and biblical scriptures to back it up, as opposed to what we have in the

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dictionary nowadays. And so, you might want to get yourself an older copy of the dictionary

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to know what's really going on. But diligence is a quality of consistent,

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careful, and persistent effort applied to a task or a duty,

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often combining speed with thoroughness.

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It represents dedication, industrious work, rather than negligent

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or lazy behavior ensuing tasks that are

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completely, you know, to complete them. And so, again,

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I think we have some, you know, this can be in many areas. You can have it

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in the area of professionalism, legalism, or business, legal law,

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professional development. Some of the symptoms are

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industrious, persistent, conscientious,

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and I think this is what, vigilance,

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heedfulness. These work for the Christian faith as well,

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is to consistently pursue

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that goal or effort with,

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in our case, with the anointing and the authority of God.

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I really believe that so many times we want to do

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something. We're all about doing stuff in some ways. We're either on that side of

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we're totally lazy and don't want to do anything and everything is nothing is going to work

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and it's all hope deferred and, you know, don't even want to get off the couch kind of thing.

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And then on the other side, you've got people who are rambunctious to do everything, but they're not

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really, yeah, but they're not doing it in a consistent

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way that's diligent with the pursuit of what God has in mind

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and his agenda. And I think this is the key, diligence in the pursuit

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of the things of God. Yeah, exactly. That's really what it means

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here. And it says along with that, being fervent in spirit,

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being hot, being intense in

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spirit. So you're not just poking along.

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You have a purpose. There's a fire, there's a purpose,

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there's a burning in your heart.

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I think in the Old Testament there was the

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sacrifice on the altar. The altar, the fire was to be kept

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in the tabernacle and in the temple.

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The fire was always to be kept burning, right?

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It shall never go out. You had to keep feeding the fire. So you have to keep

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feeding the fire with the word of God and the spirit of God.

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Well, you know, that fervent is a passion.

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Having a passion, an intense or sincere enthusiasm, emotion,

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belief, passion, pursuit. You know, we could call it in our case

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joy, confidence in the truth,

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knowing the truth, standing not in a place of double-minded, not in a place of

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doubtful, double-minded hesitation, but in a place of knowing that I know

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what I know. And this comes out of your spirit. In your soul there's always going to be the

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dilemma, there's the delay, there's the alternate

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argument for whatever. So it kind of slows you down.

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But in your spirit you can be fervent and know that you know what you know.

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And when you know that you know what you know, and you know that God is coming and he's good and his word is true,

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then you can also know pretty much what to do.

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And so fervent, emotional, intentional, enthusiastic,

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it refers to, in this word fervent,

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refers to a deep dedication in feelings, religion, or cause

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to whatever it is you're

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endeavoring to do.

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And whatever you do, I think it says in

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Proverbs or Ecclesiastes, whatever you do, do it with all

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your might.

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So there's that, again,

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you can live your life half-heartedly, you can live it with

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apathy, indifference, and a lot of people do. They waste their time,

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they waste their, actually,

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time is a living thing, and when you're wasting your

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time, or frittering it away, or

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killing time, whatever all that, that's murder by the way,

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you are not getting the full benefit out of your time here on the Earth.

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And so I believe fervent love, fervent

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enthusiastic,

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fully engaged in what you're doing and pursuing for God,

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not lacking or lagging in diligence. And what can cause us to

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lag? Well, pain can cause us to lag,

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a broken heart, broken spirit,

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hope deferred makes the heart sick,

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so it's easy, the devil is trying to slow us down, get us to

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give only half lip service to God,

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you know, it's just like, okay, so there's this

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dilemma between, let God do it, and I've got to do it.

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So the question is, was God supposed to do it, or am I supposed to do it, or what am I supposed to do?

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So this becomes a discussion point

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that people actually trip over. You know what,

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the only way to answer that is

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what is the Spirit of God putting in your spirit to do?

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You know, He doesn't ask us to do everything that needs to be done.

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I mean, if I try to do everything that I see that needs to be done,

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I would get nothing done, because I would just stall out.

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What did Jesus say? He said, I only do what I see the Father doing.

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I see what the Father is doing, and I enter into that.

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So, I mean, yeah, theoretically, He could have done so many different things,

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but same way with us, too.

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There has to be a focus, and when we're

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focusing in that zeal,

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right, for God, that desire, that fervency,

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when that's there, it inspires other people.

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You know, I mean, who's inspired by somebody that's boring?

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You know, I mean, a lot of Christians, so-called Christians,

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are very, very boring. They're just like, come on.

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They don't have any interest in what they're doing themselves.

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But, you know, intensity, I think intensity and the demand of the circumstances

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and the hour that we're in calls for all hands on deck.

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It calls for intensity, it calls for paying attention,

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and going back to listening to what the Spirit says to do.

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The Spirit is not going to tell you to do everything, but the Spirit is all about timing, too.

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It's about timing and listening, and people will say, well, I don't know

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how to do it. Well, yeah, you do, but you don't think you do,

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and so you listen to your mind and your reasoning.

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In the soul software, there's reasoning, and there's reality, and there's responsibility,

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and there's religion, and rationalizing, but that's not

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walking in the Spirit. The Spirit of God just tells you what to do.

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You just listen, and you know. You listen, and you know. And some people say, well, I'm trying to figure

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out, you know, this, this, and this, and how does this work, and where is this going to go,

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and how is this going to fit, and da-da-da-da. Well, you're in that place of pondering

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something, trying to figure it out, but at the same time, you're also listening

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to the Spirit of God telling your spirit what to do, and maybe

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He hasn't given you the full measure of understanding in it yet, but the thing

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is, you're going to follow, and listen, and wait, and so it doesn't mean,

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you know, fervent in Spirit doesn't mean you have to be frenzied.

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It doesn't mean that you've got to be doing something every second,

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it doesn't mean that you're not spiritual. It means fervent

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in Spirit, you know, faithful, fervent, enthusiastic,

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whether you're enthusiastic about standing there waiting to hear from God, or you're enthusiastic

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about pounding the nail on the board, or driving the car, or preaching the Gospel somewhere,

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it's, you're just always, you're always 100%

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present in your life. That's what that really means.

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And the only way you can be 100% present in your own life is to be aware of the presence

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of God in your life.

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And when you're passionate for something, whatever it is, for your job, or sport,

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or whatever it is, you're inspiring to others.

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You know, someone said, if other people don't know

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your passion, you don't have one.

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And so, and going on here too, serving the Lord with that diligence and zeal

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and anointing.

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First of all, serving God, because God is all about your family.

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He is all in favor of you providing or abiding

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and being with them, being present for them, whether you're the parent,

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you're there present for your children, listening to them, encouraging them,

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praying for them. If you're the child, it's to obey your parents,

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keep your eyes on them and what they're asking.

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So you know one another just by the way you

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look at, see one another

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through love, eyes of love. And I think this is

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in these last days, the problem is

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lagging in diligence. There's so many people out there that could be doing

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being abiding, being available

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to God for something, and they're sick. They're in pain.

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They're all tangled up with trying to get rid of their sin.

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I think one of the most subtle of all Satan's tricks is

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to make us afraid to do something, because we might sin

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afraid. Or we might fail.

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We don't want to look stupid or be laughed at, so we do nothing.

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And again, we don't make decisions

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because we don't want to make a mistake.

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This is all about me, getting rid of my sin.

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This is about fear.

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If you're living in fear, you're not going to be fervent about anything.

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Let the spirit of God make your spirit hot.

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If we're hot for God, like you said, it's going to catch on.

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It's going to be contagious. It's going to spark the fires in other people.

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to reconsider, look at, examine their own life,

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their own behavior, and see, do I want to give God

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do I want to be 20% fruitful or do I want to be 100% fruitful?

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You get to choose.

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Are there people around you that would like to be like you?

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They would like to have your zeal?

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They light up a room when they walk in.

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We're the light of the world.

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We should be lighting up the rooms wherever we are.

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We should be there and in that place with the anointing, with the joy,

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with the zeal of the Lord.

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It's not that we're just obnoxious.

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We're not obnoxious because it's just a big show.

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It's like that candle or that light in the temple.

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It was always to be burning all the time.

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It's fueled by that devotion, by that consistent

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of love, the power of God.

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Yes, we will be attempted to grow weary, but God will keep us.

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He can keep us burning in that fervent, conscientious

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and focused pursuit of God, however that looks.

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It really comes from knowing that you're loved by God.

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Knowing that you love Him.

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is the true passionate, compassionate love of God for us.

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and to the ways we've stumbled and to the ways that we've failed God.

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our failures. And then we judge God by judging ourselves.

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I'm not worthy of God's love.

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Judging God as His love is conditional. It's based on my performance.

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God loves us. He doesn't love everything we do.

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He has to because He's God. He knows everything. And He loves us still.

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The crop's going to come. The reaping is going to come.

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The results are going to come. We might not see all the results

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of our activity, of what we're called to do by the Lord in this life.

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It is our faithfulness, not simply our faithfulness,

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but it is our faithfulness in that process.

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is going to depend upon our obedience.

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Jesus said it in John, if you love me, keep my commandments.

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Does that mean you've got to do something?

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you will want to keep the commandments.

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It's love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and your neighbor as yourself.

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Do not put idols in between you and God.

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or you might worship, mostly I think people worship fear.

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that it's going to be a disaster, run out of money,

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they'll look bad, whatever.

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putting fear or lack in between us and God.

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failure or failure to be perfect or whatever it all looks like.

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when Jesus Christ already got rid of sin and He just said,

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okay, that's taken care of, now follow me and I will perfect that which concerns you.

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by doing things. But the thing is, again, obedience

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is simply trusting and abiding

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and going forward in what God says.

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What he says is right. When he said, have no other gods before me,

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when he said that, the days he was saying,

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every other nation had false gods. They were all

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sacrificing their children. They had the mythological gods.

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everything that you can imagine. They were worshiping, giving the power

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of God, attributing that power, that source

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of life, attributing it to a sun god or to a moon god or to

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a whatever. And actually attributing all that to

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demons. Right. Because behind every

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idol, there's demonic powers. That animate the

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idol. So the idol doesn't do anything. It's a stick, it's a stone, it's a stump,

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it's an object. Or an emotion.

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that's animating that is a demonic

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entity with an intelligence, with the mind, with an

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agenda to destroy us. And so when we're

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following Jesus,

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you let the Lord guide your steps, and you let the Lord

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correct your heart, and you let the Lord build the house, and you let

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the potter shape the vessel. And we just be

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and let him do. But in that vessel, in shaping that vessel,

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he might be shaping you to be an instrument

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of righteousness in his hands. He might be shaping you to be a vessel

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that carries water or drink or truth to

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a nation. Whatever it is, just the more we surrender to him, the more

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he can do for and through us. It's just that simple.

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In verse 12 of Romans chapter 12. 12, 12, here we are.

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Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation,

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continuing steadfastly in prayer.

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in the biblical sense is not, well I hope everything works out, okay.

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I hope this is going to go good for me.

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No, hope is, it's a sure expectation of good.

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Right? That all things are going to work together for good.

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in everything, give thanks. I mean thank, he says, and this takes away anxiety

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by the way if you're having problems with anxiety, he says in chapter 4

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he says be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication

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with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God

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and the peace of God which surpasses or goes beyond all understanding.

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You won't even know how it happens, but it will guard your heart and your minds

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through Christ Jesus. And then he says whatever things, finally brethren

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whatever things are true, are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things

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are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there's

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any virtue, if there's any praise, praiseworthy, meditate on these things.

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becomes the source from which you

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draw your words, your hope, and so when you're

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hoping in God, meditating on God, and reading

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about God's faithfulness, then we begin to have

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peace so that the anxiety doesn't overtake us.

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He says rejoice in the Lord, again I say rejoice.

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activities that you can do anytime, all the time

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and whenever you don't know what else to do. So if you don't know what else to do

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and you want to do something, express something, express some

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thanksgiving to God. I tell you what, if we begin to thank

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God for little things, big things, things you might have taken for granted

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things, just things that you see how

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he's helped you, how he's worked in your life, how he's with you

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how many times you have a big prayer out there

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and it doesn't seem to get answered and then some little thing you just kind of

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slips through your mind for a second and it's just kind of, oh that would be nice to have, whatever

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and sure enough it shows up, it's right there, I mean and you just prayed it

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you didn't even pray it, hardly you thought it. So in thinking on what sort of things are pure

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love, the honest, just, and good, God wants to be in our thoughts, he wants to be

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in constant communion with us, conversation

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fellowship, you say well I don't hear God, well a lot of people

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think they hear God and they're not hearing God, actually they're hearing an antichrist spirit or false Jesus

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but a lot of people think I don't have that, everybody else they get slain in the spirit

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and I don't get nothing and you know what, that's goofiness

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you don't have to be slain in the spirit to walk in the spirit, okay, and I don't even know if

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a lot of people, I don't even see that as something that happened

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in the Bible, maybe Daniel fell down before

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the angel and that wasn't slain in the spirit, he just fell down on his knees

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I think we get so goofy in thinking I don't hear God

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you know God doesn't talk audibly to us, very rarely

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he does do it, we have examples when he did it when Jesus was baptized for example

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but we get these notions that if I don't have these experiences

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I'm really not spiritual, that's not true, you can't base

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your spirituality on your soul, on your emotions or your experiences

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you have to base your spirituality on the word of God

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and the Holy Spirit that says that we belong to him, he said follow me

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he didn't say, we have these ideas of what it

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looks like to follow God and that I have to have all these experiences

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but that's not true, he's not based on an emotional experience, he's not

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based on anything but the truth, so as you want more of God, know more of God

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hear more about God, read his words and then you'll have more of God

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that's what he, because his word to us is all of these things he wants

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so rejoicing in hope, now here's another problem with hope

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you know I say well I'm not going to hope anymore because if I hope then I get disappointed

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so I'm just not going to care anymore about anything. Well the Bible says hope deferred

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makes the heart sick but when the desire comes

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it is a tree of life, so there's hope that's deferred

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we hope hope hope and it just seems like it doesn't come to pass

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what do we do in those situations? Well we keep going

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we hope in God, my hope is in God, God doesn't change

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what does he say in Romans chapter 5 he says

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therefore having been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ

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through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand

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and rejoice in hope of the glory of God

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and not only that but we also glory in tribulations knowing that tribulations

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produces perseverance, perseverance character so God is developing us

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through the character and the character brings forth hope

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now hope does not disappoint because the love of God

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is poured out in us in our hearts by the Holy Spirit

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who has been given to us, so if you have hope in God you won't be disappointed

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does not disappoint, now hope that does not disappoint

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is based on the love of God for you that's poured out

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so things may look terrible, tribulation, wilderness

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nobody's coming, it looks like things have fallen apart

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but your hope is not in the circumstances or how

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people show up or whatever they don't show up, your hope is in

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God and God is in control

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and God has got a way and God's figured it out and it's not your problem

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so you don't have to defer your hope unless you're putting

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the hope in some specific event or something that has to happen

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for you to be okay, yeah and then he says

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patient in tribulation, John 16.33 says

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these things I have spoken to you that in me

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you may have peace, in the world you will have

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tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world

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so you're going to have trouble, what does James say about that

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joy, tribulation, trials

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don't be surprised, Peter said

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at the tribulation, the trials

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count it all joy, when you fall into various trials

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yeah, count it all joy, so it's like really, how do I do that

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and he says for that the testing of your faith works patience

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so that patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete

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lacking nothing, so God's way of perfecting us is through trials

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through testing, yeah patient

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in tribulation, in other words you don't freak out, you say okay I'm going to get

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through this, there's trouble and it's shaping us

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it's shaping us, it's not that we're getting in trouble

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because we're doing something stupid, we're getting in trouble because

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we're doing something right, Jesus did everything right

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he said everything right, he moved correctly but he was surrounded

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by attacks all the time, and you're not going to

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it's not a cake walk, that's for sure

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this following Jesus, but as you in the midst of

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tribulation, you're patient, and you're

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continuing steadfastly in prayer, he goes on to say

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you keep praying, you keep walking, don't be surprised

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if people reject you and don't like you, but don't get all molly

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mooed about it, it's just like it's an honor, it's an honor to be

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rejected for the cause of Christ, and that will happen

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and Philippians Paul is talking about, he's sitting in jail in chapter 1

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verse 12, but I want you to know brethren that the things which happened to me

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have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel, he's saying

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my being in jail, locked up in here, is turning out

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bringing good things to pass, so that it has been

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evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ

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so the soldiers, the guard, they saw that this was

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something God was doing, and he says, and most of the brethren

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in the Lord have become confident in my chains, and are much more bold to speak the word

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without fear, so most of the brethren thought that this was

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God was doing this, God was getting glory out of it, God was working something

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here out together for good, he says some indeed, and then he says, so they're

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confident there, but others could be saying, well, the reason he's

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in jail is because God is mad at him, God is judging him, because he

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did something wrong, and so

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a lot of times we get in trouble, like I think Peter and the gang got in trouble

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almost landed in jail right away after they got filled with the Holy Spirit

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because they were preaching in the name of Jesus, they raised that guy, he's walking

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and leaping and praising God, they're healing people, so they all get locked in jail

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and then, you know,

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so the next day, the guard sends for them, and they're all gone

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all of them, I don't know how many there were, all 12 of them, or 120, I don't know how many

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were locked up, but they were all gone, and where were they? They found them back in the temple

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how do they get out of jail, when they put people around, and then Peter, the second time

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he got in jail, he had people hooked to him, handcuffed to him

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two guys, one on each side, and then the double lock

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a prison guy watching the gate

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and he still got out, okay, he, how

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because you say, well, he was in trouble, you know, hope

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he wasn't doing it right, no, no, no, all this worked for the glory of God

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and sometimes when we're in trouble, and we're giving up on hope

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and we're in tribulation, it is for the glory of God

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and then Paul and Silas too, they continued steadfast in prayer all night

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remember, when they were locked in the jail?

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Paul and Silas, they were praising at midnight, they were beaten up

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they had a wound, they were bleeding, locked in the stocks in some

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digidink prison, probably with mice and rats crawling around it

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and they began to praise the Lord, and the prisoners

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heard them praising God, and then what happened, God sent an earthquake

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and they got out, and got to preach to the Philippian jailer

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and he and his family gave their lives to Christ

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so they were in the middle of a big tribulation

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don't freak out when you're in trouble

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and when in the middle of a tribulation, if you can sing, if you can rejoice, if you can praise God

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that'll rock heaven, that's the best way to get through

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that'll rock the foundations, that'll open the prison's doors

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be patient and rejoice in this

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they counted it worthy, they rejoiced

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they said, hey, we got beat up for Jesus

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they were praising God for it, not because they were masochists

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but they said, oh, okay, the Lord said this kind of thing was going to happen

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and they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer for His name

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it was a sign of honor

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a sign of proof of their worthiness

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and so patient in tribulations

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and going back to James for a second again, he says,

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count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience

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but let patience, or the perfecting of us, have as perfect work that you may be complete

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I already read this, and perfect, complete, lacking nothing

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but the thing is, most of us when we're going into a trial, we start murmuring

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we start complaining, we start grumbling, we start second guessing

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why me God, and instead of saying, yeah, this is counted all joy

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I don't think we recognize our trials as important

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processes that we go through

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to perfect that which concerns us and make us righteous in God

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so again, counting it all joy

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and being thankful, those are the keys, be thankful, rejoice

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and count it all joy, and then you'll be able to face that trial

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with a way better attitude

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and God is going to hear you by opening those prison doors

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and the Bible says to rejoice in the Lord always

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and again, I say rejoice, you can always be thankful

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you can always rejoice, no matter what circumstance you're in

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so Father, we thank you for the trials and tribulations

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that you're using to perfect that which concerns us and those around us

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not to grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we will reap if we do not faint

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and so Lord God, for those who are in long trials

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health issues, five, seven, ten

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twelve years in bitter pursuits of these things

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being ground down and afraid, people, let us all

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go back to counting it all joy and resting in you

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and deliver us from evil, lead us not into temptation

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but deliver us from the evil one, Father, for all those who are suffering today

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in trials we pray that you would give them encouragement and that you'd lift them

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bring them back into the light of day and release them from their prison houses

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Father, for the glory of Jesus Christ your Son, Amen

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Doing relationships God's way

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that pertains, a lot of what we've been sharing here today

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has to do with relationships with one another

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Can you tell us a little bit about that book?

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Relationships God's way, well, everything in our lives is about relationships

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relationships are the connections, the roads between us and each other

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and everything in society is a relationship, it's a positive or a negative

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whatever it all is, and so Satan wants to destroy the relationships

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use them against us, use them to break us

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divide us from one another, but knowing that

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there can be forgiveness, because if you don't know

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how to walk in forgiveness and you don't know how to walk on those roads

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without fear, you will be destroyed

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Doing relationships God's way can be obtained at

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amazon.com or liferecovery.com

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God bless you and have a wonderful, wonderful week in Jesus name

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Amen

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