"Encouraging Yourself in the Lord" RESCUE RADIO With Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, that's an understatement. Thank you Jesus for this very beautiful day.

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Thank you that you are the Lord God. Thank you Father that your kingdom

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is coming, has come and will come. Thy will be done

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O God on earth and through your people as it's being done and declared in

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heaven. Thank you Lord Jesus that you are the truth. Thank you that you

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give us the truth. You are the way Lord God and you are the

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truth and the life. And I thank you Father for sending Jesus. Thank you Jesus

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for answering the call and dying in our place, providing

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the blood sacrifice, the atonement that was

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required by sin, Satan and death. That

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set us free and brought us to true salvation, eternal life, which

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will never end. I thank you Lord God for giving us power over all the power

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of the enemy that nothing shall by any means hurt us. Lord God I know that

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the battle is furious and raging, but you said

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whatever you bind is bound, whatever you loose is loose. Father God use

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by the power of your Holy Spirit give us the words to use to speak

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life and truth and hope to those who are

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discouraged. Father God we bind the powers of darkness that have come against

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settled in on your earth, your people,

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everything has been clouded and overtaken

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except your truth. Your word is true O God and we thank you

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for your word. We thank you for your promise that you never leave us or forsake us. Thank you

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Father for giving us now wisdom and counsel and give us

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eyes to see, give the people eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to receive the revelation

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of your love, your truth, your hope, your encouragement Lord.

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And we thank you now for the promise that no weapon formed against us will

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prosper, that no word said, deed done or action taken will be able to be

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used by the enemy to bring forth any shame, trouble or reproach. Hallelujah.

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Amen. Well here we go.

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We're kind of heading on in the last stretch or the last

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lapse I would think of this race, this eternal race before Jesus comes back

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we're on the home stretch so to speak. And I'm not sure how long the home stretch is but I do

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know this, that many people are needing to be

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encouraged in the Lord. And this we see all around us. And the question is

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how do we encourage ourselves in the Lord?

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And I think you've got a good example of that in David in the book of Samuel Jerry.

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Yeah in first Samuel chapter 30 and

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verse 6, now David was greatly distressed

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for the people spoke of stoning him because the

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soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and

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daughters but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

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In the King James it says but David encouraged himself

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in the Lord his God. The setting is there David and his men

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were out in battles and they came back to the town of

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Ziklag where their families were and they come back to Ziklag

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the city is burned, their wives, their kids

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everything had been taken away.

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And then David's guys that were

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with him they said we want to stone you.

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They had to blame the leader somehow.

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So that's the situation. So David didn't have

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anybody around saying rah rah let's go you can do it.

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He encouraged himself in the Lord and

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sometimes we're at the place where we just have to do that.

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Right because there's nobody else around to do it or those around us will not help us

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much with that encouragement. So in Isaiah 50 verse 7

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it says for the Lord God will

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help me therefore I will not be disgraced and then he goes on

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to say and I know that I will not

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be ashamed he is near who justifies me who will contend

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with me let us stand together who is my adversary let him come near to me

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so the Lord God surely will help me for

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who is he who will condemn me indeed they will grow old like a garment

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but let him who trusts in the name of the Lord rely upon his God

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and I think this is the big challenge the big test these days is who are we going to look to

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for help safety comfort wisdom who are we going to rely

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on who can we trust because obviously the world is full of lies

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and deception Jesus said that in the last days too.

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Here's a situation in Psalm 56 the psalmist says be merciful

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this is David writing again be merciful to me

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oh God for man would swallow me up fighting

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all day he oppresses me my enemies would hound me

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all day for there are many who fight against me

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almost high sometimes we've we certainly realize that and it is true

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we have the enemy we have spiritual enemies that work through people many

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times and and otherwise so he says but whenever

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I am afraid I will trust in you in God

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I will praise his word in God I put my trust I will not fear what can flesh

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do to me all day they twist my words all their thoughts

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against me are for evil they gather together they hide they

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mark my steps they line wait for my life so

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this is this is what's going on and but he's saying what time

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I am afraid I will trust in you and fear tries to just

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get a hold of us and control our lives and how many of us

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probably it's the number one motivation in the world

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right now and always has been is that of fear

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what's going to happen to me what's going on what's going to happen next

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you know and here's the deal though believers

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who are are sad lonely depressed and feeling alone and abandoned

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by God there's a lot of them out there right now this is one of the devil psychological

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psyops if you will emotionally to set us up feeling alienated

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alone isolated unloved for abandoned

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disappointed even in God because of these fiery trials

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you know even we're talking about people who have

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diligently followed the Lord and served the Lord I think there also comes a time in

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everybody's life where you go through that final phase of

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depression despair defeat temptation to be discouraged

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to give up to go back these I believe there's

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many out there who are very serious followers of God they've lived their lives

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given their lives laid down their lives for what they believed

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was the way God was calling them to serve him and to follow him

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but now they have stepped into a place that many of them

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and this is a scary place of where it's transition

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change feeling like they're in the wilderness and

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don't know what is going on I mean you know this can look like

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this can come from

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exhaustion and it can come from being

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constantly buffeted a lot of people in their lives

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are married to people living with situations

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alone a lot of times loneliness where they're just being buffeted

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nothing seems there's no breakthrough there's no change no change and no

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breakthrough and this creates a lot of discouragement and exhaustion

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there's also the physical and emotional exhaustion from trying to break out of that

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or trying to do something different or get your head above water

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or however you want to say it and a lot of people I think are also suffering from religious

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fatigue from trying so hard so long

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to be good and just failing and feeling like they're falling short

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like God's not happy you know they're still trying to please God and make

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God happy and by doing the right thing and being good when in fact God is very

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already if we just knew how much he loved us already that would solve the whole problem

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and then others are feeling to blame

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for something that they thought they did wrong or should have done different

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they're condemned by internal thoughts

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this is a big one they do not realize that these thoughts are

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not their own but they're being attacked by condemnation

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self-condemnation bitterness self-judgment and all these things and the

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enemy is just beating them up with these words of internal

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condemnation and blame

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there's a powerful example of this in 1st Kings chapter 19

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of Elijah Elijah's had this great he's a true prophet

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of God he had just the dramatic

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encounter with the prophets of Baal and the prophets of Ashtoreth

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850 of these prophets God brings down fire from heaven

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on the altar there's a great victory these prophets are taken

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out and it's a great victory in the people

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the people didn't know who God was they said

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he said why can't in King James it says why halt he between

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two opinions in other words they were limping between two pins two opinions

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they didn't really know who the true Lord God was and when they

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saw that fire fall and consume the water the sacrifice

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the stones and everything they realized that the Lord he is

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God and but after that after that great victory

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Jezebel gets the word about these

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her prophets being killed and she said I'm going to get

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you he says you know I'm going to be after you and he

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heard all that he takes off he runs away and he

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runs away further he leaves a certain one place and then he goes about a day's

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journey another place he's all by himself alone he's all by

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himself he's alone he feels

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like he's he's he's all he's fearful he's

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exhausted it's not because he's been doing the wrong thing right but that

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Jezebel spirit came after him try to wear him down and then there's

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an angel of the Lord appears to him and says you know listen

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here's some get some sleep here's something to eat

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and he gave him angel food cake right it was produced by the

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angel and and what happened after that then he said

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God system you're not alone you he says he's

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whining he want he's suicidal he wants to kill himself he said

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God would you just kill me and but he said

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also I'm all alone and God says no you're not there's still

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seven thousand in in Israel who have not bowed

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the knee to bail so sometimes we feel like we're the

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only ones we're alone we're

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the only ones faithful and we just get worn down and the whole

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thing what you said Margie about trying to please God

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that is something that will wear you out flat and you

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get very discouraged and because it's never enough and then you become

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OCD because I've got to do it again do it over and we get this religious

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crisis but I don't Elijah's deal was he started

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listening to the internal

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monologue or whatever it is of Satan who was you know

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making him feel bad alone scared all those things

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a lot of times that's our biggest downfall is listening to what's going on inside

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of us because the enemy I believe I believe Satan comes as

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a twister he twists the truth and makes

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feel bad or it's your fault or to blame or blame someone else or feel

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sorry for yourself I've been feeling sorry for ourselves is a big pitfall that people

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aren't too reluctant to fall into I think they like to get that

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kind of feel sorry for myself nobody loves me kind of thing

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there's some kind of a false comfort in that too where you just kind of keep licking

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your wounds you know and for me for me yeah and I and that's a

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real danger you can't do that you don't have

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energy you don't have the grace you and it just pulls you into a black hole

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almost immediately but there's other reasons why people get discouraged

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and and I think rejection

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from from church or family I think a lot of times people they don't

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get what's going on in their family or they're maybe the different one the one who loves

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Jesus and there's a lot of rejection there's a lot of you know rejection

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they don't get you you don't get them and there's no fellowship same within the church

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a lot of people get kicked out of the church or they can't find a church they're looking

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for a church family and and what they're they're joining is

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crazy a circus sometimes and they don't realize that at first because they're so desperate to

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find people that they can be with so and another thing that happens

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sometimes just life changes you don't get you it moves on

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there's family dynamics that change divorces

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happen kids move away yeah yeah loneliness emptiness

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new you know running out of you know you're at the end of a certain

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season in your life and now what do you do next

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and how do you gain you know meaning and purpose in

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your life when it looks like all that gave you meaning is

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gone and so what do you do now so then there's

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and then that that's part of the loss of a dream sometimes children or loss of a child

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you know you lose something that you really believe I can never get

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back time won't let me get it back I had this hope this dream

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and a lot of times those dreams are actually going into the tomb and fall and dying and so

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they can come forth resurrected but we don't recognize that at the time

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you know I heard a guy the other day if I can remember what he said when God is

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what Satan is doing to break you guys using to make you and

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so he says when when he wants a Joseph he gives him

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a prison when he wants a Daniel he gives him a lion when he

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wants an Esther he gives her a crisis when he wants

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John the Baptist for example send him into the wilderness yeah yeah then you get a

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wilderness so there's there's there's trials that

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are meant to actually perfect that which

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concerns that and what it is in the trial the wilderness the lion's den

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the prison whatever these things are Moses that was a wilderness too

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you know for 40 years he's in the wilderness for 40 if some 20 years I think Joseph

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was in prison I mean the best years of his life were being consumed in that prison

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and so we can we can think that's it that's all there is

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there's no more it's done it's over I failed

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this is what I get this is what I get for serving God and we begin to blame God get mad at God

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that's a temptation to to become bitter against the Lord especially

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if we don't know what the Lord asked of us in the first place

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we think he wants a perfect life he wants a perfect this and a wonderful

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but what really God wants is our heart he wants us to know that he is there

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with us that he will never leave or forsake us so loss of direction loss of

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dreams loss of purpose feeling betrayed feeling abandoned by God

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these are you know ingredients that go into depression

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this is a place where confusion and emptiness and sadness are

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a real spiritual battle we're in the end times and this spirit of

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fear the spirit of fear of being attacked the spirit you know you don't realize it's an attack

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it is so subtle these emotional attacks are so subtle

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dangerous that's trying to attack you attack you

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so what do we do we're confused we're you know our direction gets

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blurred we don't see the hope at the light at the end of the tunnel

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we see we're trapped in the tunnel

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for a mere moment I have forsaken you but with great mercies I will

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gather you does God lie with a little wrath I hid

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myself from you for a moment but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy

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on you says the Lord your Redeemer and then he says

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oh you afflicted one tossed with tempest verse 11 and not

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comforted behold I lay your stones with colorful gems I lay your

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foundations with sapphires so he's making beauty for ashes I make your

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pinnacles of rubies the gates of crystal all your children

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shall be taught by the Lord and great will be the peace of them then he goes on in the end of that chapter

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said no weapon formed against you shall prosper and if this is true

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that no weapon formed against you will prosper if it isn't true then God

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is a liar and he has forsaken us and he's abandoned us

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and he's forgotten about us and all that we went through to serve him love him follow him

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has been a stupid futile effort on our part and

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folly but that's not the truth and so again we're being tested and tempted

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to trust and believe that God is who he says he is and does what he says he will

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do and he says no weapon formed against you will prosper but the question is do you

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believe that he says and every tongue that rises up against you in judgment you will

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condemn this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and the righteousness

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from me and we don't realize how much the enemy has taken

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our prized our privileged position actually

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in God as his sons and daughters and twisted that

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and perverted that to hold make us feel that that is a

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contemptuous place to be that we're the sons and daughters of God but God has

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forsaken us that is the lie whose report are we going to believe

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well it's a matter of refocusing because

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fear comes in attacks come in there's attacks all the

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time right I believe we're under continual attack from

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the enemy it really doesn't end it's emotional

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coming at you there's always the air principle

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everything so it has to be a matter of

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focus refocusing the example we used of David

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at the beginning of the time today he asked

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the Lord he encouraged himself in the Lord his God he strengthened

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himself in the Lord his God nobody's around here people are wanting to kill

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him they've lost everything I mean it's a bad situation

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their homes have been burned horrible horrible situation

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but he asked the Lord he said okay

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what do I do what do I do should I go against these

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Amalekites and God said yes he said you're going to

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recover everything that you've lost.

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I will extol you O Lord for you have lifted me up and

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have not let my foes rejoice over me O Lord my God

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I cried out to you and you have healed me O Lord you have brought

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my soul up from the grave you've kept me alive that I should not go down

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to the pit and then he says

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but his favor is for life weeping may endure for a night

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but joy comes in the morning I cried out to you O Lord

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God to you I made my supplication what profit is there

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in my blood when I go down to the pit

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you have turned my mourning into dancing

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you have put off my sackcloth and made with gladness

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to the end that my glory may sing praise to you and not be silent O Lord

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I will give thanks to your name. Our deliverance actually comes from our mouth

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when we begin to thank God praise God and not

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go with what it looks like feels like or what everybody else is saying

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it's hard when you're feeling upset or sad or discouraged

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or rejected or lied about it is really

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really hard to encourage yourself in the Lord and the way you encourage yourself in the Lord

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is opening your mouth and looking into the word of God those two things

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being thankful and declaring again what God has promised he would do

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I will bless the Lord at all times not when I'm feeling good and everything is just

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going cool I will bless the Lord at all times his praise

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shall continually be in my mouth

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my soul shall make its boast in the Lord the humble shall hear of it and be glad

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O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name

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together I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered

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me from all my fears. Yeah that's Psalm 34 you know we should read

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some of these things out loud to ourselves because this is if you can't get your mouth talking about

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the right things at least read the right things out loud with your mouth and then maybe

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you'll hear them and be encouraged. I'll give you a Psalm 34

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challenge Psalm 34 read that at some point

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Psalm 56 that's an assignment for you guys today

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so in the place of confusion and emptiness and sadness

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and the spiritual attack we need to know how to attack back and the words of our

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mouth there's death and life in the power of the tongue you can kill yourself you can give the

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devil words that he will use to kill you like it's never going to happen

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I'm down I'm alone I'm afraid these are lying

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spirits that are trying to get you to agree with I'm alone I'm discouraged

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I'm no good I'm never going to make it I'm to blame I think all of these

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things it's my fault I think those are very powerful because we're very sensitive

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to justice and things going wrong and so our first

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tendency is to look for a place to place the blame

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and if we can't find any other place to you know because we like

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to fix things so if I can find the problem then I can fix it so

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a lot of people take on the problem and they become the problem they agree they're the problem

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so they think if I'm the problem then at least I have more control about fixing it

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I can maybe you know change something but again

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when you've agreed already with I'm to blame it's my fault

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unless you did something deliberately obviously

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to orchestrate an event and deliver it knowingly

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you know and deliberately I don't see how you can take the blame if it's

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just something somebody's accusing you of especially if it's the devil

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talk a little bit about isolation you know a feeling of isolation

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like Elijah said you know he said I'm the only one left I'm all by

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myself I'm standing for you Lord we're

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living in a time where there's more connection than everything there's more

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than any time at any time I should say

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there's more connection but yet more disconnection so we got social

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media we can be connected everywhere and talk about all

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this but yet people especially young people are feeling

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more and more isolated even though they're online

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pretty much all the time so isolation

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you can be in the midst of a crowd of people you can

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have a lot of connections but you feel isolated

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because partly because you don't believe

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you're loved you don't believe you're loved and you're

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misunderstood and it's like who's there

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to understand me

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I care about you and this is the whole point isolation divisions

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separating the little sheep all by themselves feeling sorry for yourself believing

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the lies I am all the things I feel and all the things I think which is all a big lie

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because in your spirit you would know the truth that God is downloading to you right now the truth of

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who you are and what's going on but the devil says that's not true because I don't

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feel that so we let our soul overrule

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our spirit by saying I don't feel or I feel or I think rather than going with

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what I know because your mind says you can't know anything for sure that's the only thing your mind

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says for sure and so you say I can't know that I'm

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loved I can't know that I'm okay the whole war

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is against love and the demon behind that is fear

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fear of isolation fear of being at my fault fear of

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making God mad fear of dying fear of whatever and love

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this is what people don't have you know your many clicks

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on your Instagram or what that isn't love

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is knowing someone love is knowing and being known

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love is hearing and being heard

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it's listening and knowing and receiving so

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hearing and being heard that's what love is knowing and being

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known and a lot of people don't have that kind of relationship with

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even with themselves because they're not even listening to themselves

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they're listening to the liar who is projecting onto them the misery

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and the downtrodden whatever it is

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the disconnect the lack the lack of this and don't have that the devil

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is projecting all those things that he doesn't have onto you

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and you're believing that is your true feeling and emotion and you give place to

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it by giving more attention to it

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rather than rebuking it saying no you won't shut your mouth people don't know

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how to defend themselves because they believe the lie first of all that everything

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I think and feel is me and it is me but me is not you you are an I am

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made by the great I am and these me's are impersonating you

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the daughter son of God to get you to go along with their lies so that they

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can drag you into the dust and trip you up and twist

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your life around you have got to realize this

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is a treacherous spirit the spirit of a python the spirit of a

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snake that is going after us that

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it's real these things are real and a lot of times

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they'll lodge in your belly or in your brain

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because or in your heart because that's where the powerful

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the centers of life are in our emotions

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in our autoimmune system in our gut

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that's where we begin to agree with the

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liar who says I'm forsaken I'm alone God isn't there

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and if there's anything that we desperately need even Jesus

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on the last statement on the cross before he gave up the ghost he said my

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God my God why have you forsaken me this was why

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did he say that I believe he said that because in his

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humanness he suffered everything that we suffer including

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abandonment and this is to let us know that

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he also felt that same spirit of abandonment

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and then after that he bowed his head and gave up the ghost

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he said into thy hands I commit my spirit so his last

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statement was I'm still giving it to God I'm still letting the Lord

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God because his death and crucifixion

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was not just to kill the physical body he was

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fighting the emotional battles he was fighting the battles of being betrayed

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and accused and the failure I mean what does the

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cross look like to you it looks like failure it looks like he knew

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he had to do it he knew in his spirit he had to be that sacrifice

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lamb but also in the natural he was humiliated shamed

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and they scoffed at him and said come down from the cross so he was

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battling every emotion every condemnation

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every transition everything that you are experiencing

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and he did it for us he did it for that we might know

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that we are more than conquerors through him who loved us

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more than conqueror Jesus could do that excuse me

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he could do that because he knew the father was with him

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right and we can do these things when we really know

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Jesus is with us he says I'm going to be with you always

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even to the end of the age of Matthew 28 20 so

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yeah and he he knows us through

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so thoroughly and through the trials and the thing is to

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love is when somebody really knows you

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think are there people in your life who really

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know you and really do care for you and it's

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demonstrated by their heart their attitude and their actions

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I mean love is so rare these days

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even in the church Jesus said in the last days

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the love of many or most it says in some translations

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will grow cold the word there that's used for love is

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an agape word that means the love of God in other words

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the love of God even among the believers is going

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to grow cold in the last days well this is what God is going after

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you know he's refining us what is God trying to get at

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in our souls what is he working to perfect in us

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that concerns us you know what's he doing you know sanding the wood

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refining his fine-tuning his instruments

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you know it's easy

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life he laid down his life he said except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die

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it abides alone in many ways we are actually in that process of dying

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has to be part of the process of life so that what we stand

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for what we believe can come forth you know a corn of wheat

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becomes a thousand corns of wheat when it dies and so

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we're being refined and so part of this process is to

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realize that I can't just go on and try to be

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better it's that I'm being perfected by

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laying down my life and you know we think life should be something

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like well you know if I just work hard enough get enough retirement save job

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get myself positioned I will be able to plateau

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live indefinitely in a place of safety

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and security where bliss and everything around me is good

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these are phases these are parts of our life yes but

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the life goes through a lot of different transitions

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there are trials and many of these

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trials we cannot well all of them I would say we cannot get through

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without God so the best way to get through the trial

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the fiery trial is number one stop believing the lies that Satan is telling you

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that you're bad it's your fault you should have could have whatever

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secondly stop blaming yourself or other people for what's happening

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third begin to get back into the word of God that the word of God

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refresh you and instruct you rather than the self-talk

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that Satan is hammering you with remember this

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that God is always in the room with you

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he's always there you by the power of his Holy Spirit he's always with you

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he said I will never leave you or forsake you he has not

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forgotten about you now what are you going to do you've got an option

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here it's not all over the first thing you can do

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is to start to get back into reading the word of God get

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back to reading the word of God you say what when I read the word of God I get so condemned

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just take off those condemnation those glasses of condemnation

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and just read the words just read the words for what it really says

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and let the Lord lead you by his spirit to the words that you need to read

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because a lot of times you know we the enemy there's

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you know it's tooth it has heads and tails there's the

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wrath and the justice of God there's also the mercy and the forgiveness of God so a lot of

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times we need to read about the mercy and the love of God and so ask God

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to show you where to read and then read it out loud and believe it

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believe that God has not gone away don't believe the lies

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of the last days there's so much deception coming there's

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going to you know blue beam and AI and Jesus

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coming as a hologram no no no no no Jesus said how he's coming back

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he said he's coming back on a white horse with his army so

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that's the Jesus I don't care if they try to replicate that in the sky and they've got stuff to do that

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but Jesus Christ as you know him in your heart in your life

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you will recognize the true Jesus when he comes back

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yeah and he's coming soon he's coming soon so

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the focus has to be on the Lord and his word

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all the time he said in Hebrews 12 we're running this race

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he said look lay aside every weight in the sin which does so easily

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beset us and let us run with endurance the race that is

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race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the author

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and finisher of our faith another thing too is that

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if you see the books of the Bible as

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love letters from God we don't do love letters anymore I guess

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people do Instagram and whatever else text reels text and stuff

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like that back in the day people you know that were in love or

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courting or courting what an old word dating

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they would write letters to each other and people would

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savor every word when they got that letter from their beloved and so

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let's see that just you know like Margie's saying take off your

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religious glasses take off the condemnation glasses

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take off those filters and just recognize that

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all this is because of his love for us and his grace for us

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everything that he said it is to us it is for us

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and it's an expression of his great love and for us

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yes we are not forgotten we are not

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lost we are not set aside we're not being kept out or stopped or

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from entering we're not left behind we're still being carried

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we're still being refined and converted and transformed

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and changed from glory to glory from the less to the greater from the waiting and

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watching to the abiding and existing in the truth

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in the fullness of God's glory do not be discouraged

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but know that you are loved so

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father we thank you for the truth you are the truth

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you said I will never leave you or forsake you no matter what the devil does or says or

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tries to inflict or afflict us with in our emotions our minds

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God clear out those cluttery lying

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accusations that are stored in our minds

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dump out those vile bins of poison and lies

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and refresh us with the cleansing of your word your blood your spirit

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your presence that you lay down your life for us you're not

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we're not alone you're still with us you're with us all the time and we have

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full access complete access at any moment to your love

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your goodness and your deliverance so father for those who are being discouraged

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today feeling like they're on the shelf set aside pushed away

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gather them close to your heart gather them back through the revelation

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of your love and truth that they will not be discouraged father God

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in Jesus name amen

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tell us about your book doing relationships God's way because

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so much of the discouragement that comes to us can come

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through broken relationships between you know

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us and ourselves between us and other people or between us and God

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talk to us a little bit about the content of that book

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the content is really your relationship with anything or anybody

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including God and others begins with

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your relationship with yourself what what do you do do you hate yourself love yourself

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are you trying to improve yourself correct yourself die to yourself

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believe God let you know he must he must increase

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I must decrease so our relationships with sin with difficult people

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and you know what a lot of our trials are with very very difficult people

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they are demonized they're tormented they're difficult to live with

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and they don't make your life lovely but God helps us and this

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God knows everything from the foundation of the world how the enemy would

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set you or me up to test and try us so I would

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encourage you to not only that book but get the book on spiritual warfare

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and how deliverance can change your life because you know a lot of us do need to be

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delivered from a lot of lies and mindsets that we have become so

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familiar with that we just think that that's it is what it is and that's the worst thing

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you can say over your life all the time it is what it is just don't say that anymore because what you're

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doing is permitting the thing you're trying to get rid of to remain

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because you've just given it permission to go around again and so

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God bless you check it out spiritual warfare and how

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deliverance can change your life or doing relationships God's way you'll find a lot of books

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on amazon.com or you can also go to our website

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liferecovery.com and there you'll find some articles

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some opportunities a way to set up counseling appointments all kinds of things that are

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really helpful and good for you and by the way do us

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a lovely favor and pass this podcast information on rescue radio

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to some of your friends who might need also to be encouraged in Jesus name

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amen

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