"Stand On The Rock" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, indeed. Father God, we thank you for the victory that this war has been

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won since the foundation of the world, even since Jesus died on the cross.

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Father, we thank you that we have to get the right perspective to know what's going on here.

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So help us to walk in the truth of your word, guided by your spirit,

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that your will be done, O God, on earth, in and through us as it's being done and declared in heaven.

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Father, we bind the powers of darkness that have come against your people,

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against the remnant, against the truth, Father, against justice.

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We come against the spirits that have tried to strangle justice and hold it

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down and box in the truth.

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We release, Father, the revelation of your love and truth through your word,

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through your spirit, to each heart today, Father God, in Jesus' name that we

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have eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to know where we're at.

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We thank you for where we are at in this sequence of things,

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Father, and we thank you for Jesus dying on the cross.

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Lord, thank you that you shed your blood, saved our lives through that act of

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love and kindness, and that you're coming again to receive us unto yourself.

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So we thank you, Lord God, for giving us faith and courage and diligence and

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peace and rest and not to be distracted by all the distractions.

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We bind the powers of darkness that have done that and are trying to kill people.

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And we also thank you for the divine promise that no weapon formed against us will prosper,

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

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by the enemy to bring forth shame, trouble, reproach, or destruction to our

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lives, to our families, to those who work for us and pray for us and love us.

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Father, guide us now by your Spirit. In Jesus' name, amen.

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We want to welcome you to Rescue Radio, obviously.

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And today we're going to be talking about, I'm not quite sure,

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we've got two different things. I'm sure they're coming together.

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They're blending together.

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I'm sure they will. Yes, yes. You know, I've been thinking about,

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you know, what do we do when we face situations where there seems to be absolutely no hope?

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Well, that's why we're in right now. Yeah. That's it.

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You know, you can go as far back in your world as you can go back to find a

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place, have to go quite far, actually, to find a place where you felt that there

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was a normal life, that there was normality or a firm footing.

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We hear that a lot, don't we, that nothing's normal anymore.

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Right. Whatever normal was. Go back to that place where life,

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we were confident, peaceful, assured, days were ordinary, everything is going to be all right.

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That kind of predictable life back then, the place where we could live and safely

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raise our families and follow our dreams, you know, that place is really gone, I'd say.

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Yeah, even though we get promises that we're moving into the golden age of America.

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Well, we're coming to a golden age, but it's going to be the golden age of Jesus.

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The golden age of the kingdom of God.

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You know, that's far beyond this world.

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Well, yeah, it's like, you know, we have to kind of stand here and look back

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and then look forward and say, where were those days?

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Where did they go, the one we were caught up to live life without turmoil?

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Now it's all about turmoil, anxiety, fear, attacks, pestilences.

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And that's exactly what Jesus was talking about, especially in the latter parts

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of the Synoptic Gospels where he's talking about his return.

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Yeah, and then a lot of people want to get nostalgic and go back to the good

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old days when the old days weren't really that good either. Yeah,

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but now they're outright, obviously, trying to kill us covertly,

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overtly, in every way that they can, every day.

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Whether it's the food we eat, the air we breathe, the soil we walk on.

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I mean, there's got to be a place of safety, and that place of safety and assurance

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is only within the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the rock.

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That's where safety and stability will have to stay from now until the time.

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Because he said everything that can be shaken is going to be shaken.

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I keep thinking of that. There's two things I keep thinking of, Jerry.

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Everything that can be shaken is going to be shaken, and we're in the beginning of birth pains.

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You know, when a woman is going to deliver that baby, she starts with those

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contractions, maybe a day or two, or maybe even before that.

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She's starting to feel the body pulling and muscles coming forward to do what

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they're supposed to do to deliver that child. And the earth is in those birth pains right now.

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Even the earth is travailing. The earth is being manipulated.

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The earth, the nature, creation, the wind, the rain.

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It's out of course. Well, that's what the Bible says. It's out of course.

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Everything is out of course. And it's like they have weaponized it as a war machine.

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The weather is not okay. The weather is this ridiculous wind and rain and beating

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daily upon everyone, flooding.

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And you know what, it's like this the loss of life,

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those soon forgotten, because the shock of the tragedy that someone goes through

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is swept away by the next horrible event that in an ever, ever increasing,

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intensifying assault against us,

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like, where do you find your peace, okay?

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This against, and we have to live here, unless, of course, some people exit by killing themselves.

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That's not the way out. That's not the option.

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That is a tragedy in itself. How many people are just, you know,

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can't take it anymore? or their hearts are failing them for fear,

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and they're just getting out of here.

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Then we have the personal pain and tragedies of sicknesses and infirmities,

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people's bodies burning up inside because they're on medications,

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or their skin is burning up inside because they have an immune disease,

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or because they're anxious because of a broken relationship,

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or they're being stalked or traumatized by something.

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Where's the solid rock? Where's the place we can stand? Where is the thing we can know?

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Because Jesus told us it would be like this. Right.

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And the Bible says that everything that can be shaken will be shaken,

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that those things which cannot be shaken would remain in.

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Right. And so, you know, and Jesus is, there's an old Christian song that says,

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on Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

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And that's really true. So in the midst of all this, we have this solid rock,

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Christ Jesus, and it's the revelation that Jesus is the Lord.

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I mean, on this rock, Jesus said to Peter, I will build my church.

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We're not building the church upon Peter, but upon the revelation that Jesus is the Christ.

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I will bring my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. This is the battle.

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The battle is at the gate, and we're at the gate.

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This is not going to get any better, really. I mean, we're not doom and gloom

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people because actually this is part of the birth process.

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And when the birth process and that debt, it's a good thing.

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It's a hard thing to go through that delivery. But at the end of it,

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you have the wonderful addition to your family of another child.

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And this one will have the addition of Jesus Christ back to rule and reign and

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be reinstalled, reinstated as the King of Kings and the King of the Earth.

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But in Luke, he's talking about this. He's about ready to go to the cross.

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As a matter of fact, this is right before all of those events take place where

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Peter denies him and Judas betrays him.

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And so he's telling the disciples a couple of last-minute, very important things

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to listen to, and he predicts the coming conflict.

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He says in Luke 22, verse 35, he says.

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And he said to them, when I, let's see, when I send you out without money bags

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and sacks and sandals, did you lack anything? They said, no, nothing.

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And he said to them, but now he who has money, a money bag, let him take it.

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And likewise, he who has a sack, let him, he who has a sword,

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he's saying, prepare yourself, get your money, get your defense weapons.

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He says, and he said, this is going to happen, he says, there's going to be

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a shaking, a time of tribulation, a time of war, a time of trouble,

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a time of trial, and that all the things that can be shaken are going to be shaken.

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Now, it's interesting in Haggai, the Old Testament book of Haggai,

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the little book of the prophet Haggai, he says in Haggai chapter 2,

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beginning with verse 6, for thus says the Lord of hosts, once more it is a little

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while, I will shake heaven and earth,

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the sea and dry land, and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the

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desire of nations, and I will fill this temple with glory, says the Lord of hosts.

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Now, they were at the place of rebuilding the temple of the Lord that had been destroyed.

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But anyway, he says, I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the desire of all nations.

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So part of the shaking, part of the purpose of the shaking is that we will come

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to the, it's capitalized in the Bible, the desire of nations. That is to Jesus Christ.

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The shaking, the shaking around is all this instability.

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It's assorting, right? And so there are those that are going to be shaken and

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fall and be out of the scene.

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Sifting and shaken. You know, like when you're sorting out a seed,

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like say you're sorting out wheat from the weed seeds, there's a thing,

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you shake it, you fan it, you sort it out.

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And this is what's happening, the sorting is happening now.

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And Jesus has come to bring that division, the righteous from the unrighteous,

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the good from the, you know, there's no more middle ground. You're going to

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either be for him or against him.

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And this is kind of what this sorting and shaking is all about.

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So don't be too overwhelmed with your particular condition right now.

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I know it's scary, but Jesus did say in his word, he would never test us or

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tempt us above or beyond that he's able to keep us.

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But with every temptation or trial or temptation to fail or fear,

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he will make a way of escape that we're able to bear it.

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So he's going to give us grace now for this sorting, this sifting.

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This shaking that is beginning and even the earth.

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I mean, there's going to be earthquakes. He says here in Luke 21, he said to them,

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verse 8, and he said, Take heed that you be not deceived, for many will come

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in my name, saying, I am he, and the time has drawn near.

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Therefore, do not go after them. He says there's going to be a lot of false

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prophets, a lot of confusion in the end days, a lot of deception.

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Misguiding people deliberately.

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But when you hear of wars and commotions, what's that word mean,

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commotions, things, bad reports, scary things, rumors,

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disrupting things, commotions, do not be terrified, for these things must come,

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must come to pass first, but the end will not come immediately.

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Then he said to them, nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

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We've basically had that probably since the very beginning, when Moses and Joshua

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went to war against the giants and the Philistines.

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And there will be great earthquakes in various places,

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and famines and pestilences, and there There will be fearful sights and great

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signs from heaven." You know, we're having this sun,

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I heard the other day that we lost a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of a second

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on the day because the moon got disrupted or something,

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and that the sun is flaring and freaking out.

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But he says, and sun, moon, and stars, and there's going to be the blood moons this fall too.

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Again, we had them in 2012, I think it was, on this side of the earth.

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Now this coming blood moon series is going to be over Israel. Visible to Israel.

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And the moons, the signs and the sun's moon and stars.

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But before these things, they are going to drag you into court,

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persecute you, try to criminalize us, kill us, actually.

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And then he goes on in that same chapter 21 of Luke, telling them ahead of time

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about the destruction of Jerusalem. This is a very specific event that he wanted

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to warn them about that was going to happen about.

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40 years after he departed from here, well, 35, whatever.

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And so he wanted them to make sure that they weren't there. They get out of

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town, don't go into the city. It's going to be ravaged and destroyed.

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You'll be trampled by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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Jerusalem is still, in a way, compromised and divided and trampled by Gentiles,

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and everybody's claiming it.

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It's the most claimed real estate in the world, and the reason it's so fought

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over is because God is going to establish his throne there.

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This is my spot. And saying, no, you will not.

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And so then he says, and the second coming, and then there will be signs again

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in the sun, the moon, the stars, and the earth, distress of nations with perplexity,

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the sea and the waves roaring. Do we not have that weather freak out now?

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We've got tornadoes all over the place. We've got wind and hurricanes.

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We've got rain and we've got lightning. We've got thunder. We've got floods.

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We've got earthquakes threatening, even in our national parks.

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Men's hearts failing them for fear, for the expectation of those things that

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are coming upon the earth, and for the powers of heaven will be shaken.

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Then we will see the coming of the Son of Man with power and great glory.

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How are we going to see this? We're all going to see this. We're going to see

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Jesus Christ show up, come back, and when these things begin to happen,

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And he says, look up and lift up your heads because your redemption does nigh.

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So we're in the middle of our own personal trial, our own death,

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destruction, wrecked relationships, poverty, homelessness.

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And yet he says— Betrayal. Betrayal, yeah, rejection. In the midst of all this,

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he says, look up, look up, stay alert.

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And he says, pray that you be worthy to escape from the things that are to come.

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He says that Thessalonians watch and pray.

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I'm thinking of a painting that was done many, many years ago,

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and it was in an art gallery, and the title of the painting was Peace.

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And it was along the scene of it, it was along a rocky, a very rocky shore along the ocean.

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And the waves were crashing in and the wind was blowing.

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You could see the sky was all gray and the wind was whirling and the waves were crashing.

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And it was just lightning was striking, you know, out on the ocean.

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And the title of it was Peace.

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And somebody was looking at it, I don't see any piece there.

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That has nothing to do with pieces. He's trying to just mock or whatever.

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And the curator of the museum or the art gallery said, oh, look closer.

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And he looked closer and there was a little bird just sitting quietly tucked

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in in a little crag, a little crack in one of the rocks, just sitting there. and it was okay.

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It was okay. As long as it stayed there. It just stayed there.

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Stay on the rock. It's important for us to be able to stay in the peace of God.

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Stay on the solid rock, yeah. The Bible says that, you know,

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Isaiah said there's no peace to the wicked.

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You know, and people say, well, peace, peace, when there is no peace.

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But there is peace for the child of God, for the one who's trusting Jesus.

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We're in the rock. We're on the rock. Christ Jesus. And peace.

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Just to be able to have peace of mind and to be able to release cares,

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worries, and fears to the Lord.

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He says in Philippians chapter, I think it's 4, where you give yourself joy.

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So release your cares to the Lord. And he said he'd give you in everything with

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prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, right?

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Be thankful in the midst of all this. Let your requests be known unto God.

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And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will keep your heart

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and mind in Christ Jesus.

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Well, the thing that keeps our hearts and minds is knowing that God keeps his

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word, that God is over all.

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He's bigger than the tornadoes. He's bigger than the heartbreak.

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He's bigger than the cancer diagnosis.

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He's bigger than all of it. And the other thing to know that not is He bigger

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and able, He also loves you very much, specifically loves you,

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knows the trial you're going through.

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He doesn't want you to grow weary, lose your confidence.

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You know, there is a rest to the believer, but the rest comes from within,

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knowing that you are loved.

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And, you know, people who are tormented with a lot of sicknesses and infirmities,

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If you ask them, you know, Jesus said, you shall know the truth,

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and the truth will set you free.

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So if you ask them, well, what is the lie that they're believing?

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A lot of times something would come out of their mouth like this,

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I'm not good enough, or I'm not worthy.

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And so what does that mean? Well, that means I'm not worthy to receive the answer,

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the breakthrough, the prayer, the healing.

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I can't earn it. I don't deserve it. And, you know, the thing is,

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healing and salvation are gifts.

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They're not earned. You don't earn your Christmas presents.

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Your Christmas presents are given to you by people who love you.

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Sometimes they feel obligated. But, you know, you're given a gift because of

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who you are, not of what you did.

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And a thank you gift is different. You know, you can give someone a thank you

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gift for, or you pay them, give them wages.

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That's different. But a gift is given because the giver appreciates or loves you.

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And so these gifts we're asking for are from the Lord. And he wants to give

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them. I believe God really wants to give a lot more gifts.

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I believe that when Jesus died on the cross, the cross was like a Christmas tree.

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And, you know, underneath the Christmas tree, if you believe in Christmas trees,

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and don't go theological on me, just listen for a second.

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So underneath that, typically, there are a bunch of presents that are waiting to be open.

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And so when the beautiful bright day comes or evening or whatever it is,

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everybody gets to dash under the tree or be handed a gift that has their name on it or whatever.

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And so you open the gift. Now, Jesus, when he died on that tree,

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the cross, it was a gifting tree.

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Because he saw on the bottom, on the base of that tree, all kinds of gifts were set out.

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Healings, hope, restorations, life, joy, peace, breakthroughs,

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physical healings, mental, emotional breakthroughs.

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Everything you and I need,

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was left behind at that spot at Calvary to be picked up, to be received when it was needed.

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So the gifts of God keep giving and giving.

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The generation who was there when He died on the cross, they received gifts

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and healings, and the generation—but He keeps on giving.

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It's even for 2,000 years later, we are still as able to receive from His generosity as they were.

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But you have to go to the tree.

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You have to submit, you have to surrender, you have to declare,

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thy will be done. I can of my own self do nothing. Lord, help me. Have mercy upon me.

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And this is exactly what happened with Lazarus, Mary, Martha and Lazarus,

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when they were at the end of, which end?

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They were, Lazarus was dead in the tomb. For four days. Yeah.

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And it was considered a hopeless situation. I mean, they said,

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well, Jesus, so when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, and he was away,

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and he waited two more days. Purposely.

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Purposely, and they thought, well, don't you care? How come you're not coming?

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Isn't this typical for all of us? Where's Jesus? How come he's not here?

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How come he let that thing happen?

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Yeah, and God's delays are not his denials. That's right. And everything the Lord does, he does it.

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It's right on time. It's perfect also. Right on time.

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We think, oh, you missed it, Lord. You know, if you really cared,

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you would have been here, and my brother wouldn't have died.

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I mean, and he could have, theoretically, he could have just spoke the word from her.

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Right. Because he wasn't there at Bethany, the little town just outside Jerusalem. Yeah.

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So he didn't do that. He didn't say, you know, he didn't send a word to heal him.

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And he did that before, too, and many times he sent the word,

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and they were healed and delivered.

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And he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God. and then they heard,

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He was dead. And Jesus said, well, he's not really dead. He's sleeping.

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They're thinking, well, what is this?

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Well, they're looking at reality. They're looking at reality instead of truth.

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Everybody's declared him to be dead. The coroner's come. You know, it's all gone, done.

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But Jesus had another plan and another purpose for this particular—and so with you, too.

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There's a reason why there's the

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delay, or there's a reason why you go a different way than someone else.

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Don't think of it as— God is a reason. Right. Don't think of it as a delay.

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Think of it that God has perfect timing. Think of it that way.

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Faith says, it looks like delay to us. It looks like on the surface,

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like he doesn't really care and he's not really doing anything.

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But he makes, Ecclesiastes chapter 3, he says he makes all things beautiful in his time.

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So everything is good. Everything is right on time.

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Yeah, Ecclesiastes chapter 3,

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the first part of verse 11, he has made everything beautiful in its time.

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But what we think of as beautiful, pleasant, and beautiful is not necessarily

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what God sees as good and pleasant.

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And Paul, I think, got the true identity and understanding of this in Philippians

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3, and he says, what does Paul want?

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The three things he wanted? Well, if you had three wishes, what would you wish?

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He says, that I may, in verse 310, Philippians, that I may know him,

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that's wish number one, prayer number one, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection.

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That's number two, the power of his resurrection, seeing God do miracles,

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raising people from the dead, and healing was in himself.

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And the third thing was the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death.

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In other words, Paul is saying, I want to feel like Jesus. I want to go through

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what Jesus kind of went through.

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So I can fellowship, so we can have a deeper understanding of one another,

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so I can appreciate what he did for me and the fellowship of his sufferings.

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That's why Abraham had to go through that whole thing with Isaac,

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so he could feel what God would feel when God sent his son and did sacrifice

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him and didn't pull back the knife at the last second.

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And so when you're suffering, don't look at, I got to get out of this,

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I got to get back, something's got to fix, change.

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See what God is doing to take you forward. Your answer is in going forward,

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going forward and seeing what God will do.

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So we want to take a few minutes here to just ask the Lord, wait on the Lord

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to pray for some of you with your

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various and particular ailments and afflictions that God will touch you.

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So we're going to do some praying for a few minutes here, and you can just listen up.

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And if this works for you, Lord Father, we just pray that you would reveal to

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your words of knowledge, discerning of spirits, prophetic words,

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words of miracles, miracles and healings, that you would touch this audience

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today, that they are ready to receive. They are suffering. You know that.

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You're with them in this suffering. And we pray right now that you'd lift them

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from this place of grief.

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There's someone with a lot of heaviness on their heart.

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Grief, you've just either found out something or you've been in it a long time,

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but the grief is just getting almost unbearable.

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It's over a person that you love, a child, possibly a child.

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Lord God, we just pray that this will break forth. There will be a breakthrough

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in this relationship, in the restoration,

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that this child, this husband, this wife will come out of the tomb alive,

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that they will come forth out of death, out of the blindness,

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out of the stupor, out of the enchantments,

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back into the fullness of knowing who they are.

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It's almost like they died and now they're being reborn and they'll come back

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with that right attitude and that knowing, being born again,

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knowing that they are loved by God.

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So I just pray that God will give you endurance and faith and peace in your

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heart as you wait for this person to revive and return.

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Yeah, and then there's someone here that you've been betrayed,

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you've been severely betrayed by your husband.

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And, and there's times where you felt like you're way out on the edge of things.

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Like, you're just like, what do I do now? Where do I go?

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How does this ever work? How could this happen?

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You know, and you feel like you're just, you get, you're just tossed out.

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Like you've just been tossed out. You're just on the edge of things.

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On the edge of what hope do I have? What do I do now? Where is God?

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Even you've asked that. Where is the Lord? And he's there with you.

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He's there with you. And out of this, you're going to see the giftings of the

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Lord come out through you.

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There's stuff that's in you that you don't even realize right now.

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There's giftings within you. And Margie mentioned at the beginning of our time

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here today that there are at the cross,

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through the cross, it says when Jesus was raised from the dead,

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he led captivity captive and he gave gifts to men.

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So through the cross, through his resurrection, through the way he has built

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you and designed you, even though you've been just laced through with pain,

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it's just like you just had.

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Like swords cutting through you from every direction.

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There's gold in you. There's giftings in you that you haven't discovered yet.

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And out of that pain and out of that betrayal, there's life coming.

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There's life coming for you. Transformation. And there's life coming for you to give to others.

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You might think you don't have anything to give. You might think you don't have

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any credibility. but you have so much to give out of your brokenness, out of your emptiness.

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God is just bringing out these gifts now.

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They're coming forth. And you might not think that I don't really have this.

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I don't know what you're talking about.

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But they're there.

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And you might think, oh, what kind of gift it is. Oh, maybe it's just a special

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gift of compassion, of wisdom.

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Love. Of love, of truth, of grace, and being able to speak comfortably to people.

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In other words, to bring comfort to others and just to bring light that people

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will see that, man, I know what, you know, I see what they went through.

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But look at, they're glowing with the glow of Jesus.

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And I just see you just like, yeah, glowing with the glow of Jesus.

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Transformation. And it's bringing light and hope and transformation to people

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that you see, that you meet.

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Yes, Father God, and this is our prayer, Psalm 143, verse 7.

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Answer me speedily, O Lord, my spirit fails.

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Do not hide your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

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Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for in you do I trust.

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Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies, in you do I take shelter.

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Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your spirit is good.

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Lead me in the land of uprightness.

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Revive me, O Lord, for your name's sake. For your righteousness' sake,

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bring my soul out of trouble.

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In your mercy, cut off my enemies and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant.

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Father, we are your servants. This is our prayer. Answer us speedily.

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You do not grind the wheat forever. You are going to bring forth a precious

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vessel full with the oil that's been crushed, the oil that brings forth fragrance,

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the oil that brings forth beauty.

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Father, in all of our souls, in all of our hearts, I pray encouragement today.

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I pray breakthroughs. I pray for the answers to come. I pray for our loved ones

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to be brought back, the prodigal sons and daughters, to be pulled back out of

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the grip of the terrible one.

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Even now, you would send the angels of the Almighty God to pull these children,

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these young ones, these teens, these 20-somethings, out of the grip of the terrible one.

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Even the 30s and 40s who are caught in terrible, terrible pits and cages and traps.

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Pull them back, Lord God. Bring them back. Release them.

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I command the spirits that hold them hostage, the witchcraft,

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the sorcery, the enchantments, the drugs,

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that those things be broken in the name of Jesus Christ, those spirits that

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hold them, and these people will be released into the fullness of the joy of

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the Lord, knowing that they're loved, Father God, in Jesus' name.

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And I see someone that you're in a quandary.

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I see you almost like you're pacing back and forth.

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And it's just kind of dark around you. And it's like clouds around you,

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but you're like in a room.

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You're pacing back and forth, wondering what to do. You're in a quandary.

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And it's just like, and it's agonizing for you.

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What do I do? What do I say? How do I get out of this? It's what I just seem

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to be totally trapped and pacing back and forth.

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And the Lord is saying to you, just be quiet. Just settle down.

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You know, I know it's painful. It's hard. Peace be still. It's a critical decision for you.

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But he's saying, like, yeah, like he said to the storm, peace be still.

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And you can just settle down.

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He's just saying, settle down now. Settle down with the Lord.

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Just come into that place. Turn it over to him.

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Turn it over to him. And he just wants you in a place of peace.

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And listen to what he's saying to you.

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He will make the way clear. And he'll make just something to know that the steps

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of a good man are ordered by the Lord.

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Okay? So he's going to order. He's ordering your steps. But right now,

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you need to stand still, like the Bible says, and see the salvation of the Lord.

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Stand still in His peace. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,

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slow to anger and great in mercy.

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The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all of His works.

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Lord God, we thank You for Your tender mercies over all of us.

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We are Your works. The works of Your hands were Your children.

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Sons and daughters were here. You know the day, the hour, you know the situations

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we're in, and yet You're able to keep us in the midst of all the attacks of the enemy.

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So, tuck each one into the safety of the palm of your hand today and into the

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cleft of the rock, that we will stay, wait, and be okay,

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that you'll put your joy and your courage and your grace into our minds and

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hearts to calm them down and we'll walk in the Spirit, not in fear, in Jesus' name.

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Amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us today.

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And again, you can check out liferecovery.com. We have a book there called Doing

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Relationships God's Way, which talks about our relationships with each other,

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ourselves, God, sin, difficult people.

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So it's a very helpful book, actually.

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And it also talks a lot about your identity, who you are, because you can't

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be in a relationship with someone else if you don't even know who you are.

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So, Father, we just thank you that these things will be helpful.

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Doing Relationships God's Way, you can get it on Amazon, or you can get it on

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