"What Are You Looking At?" 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, Father God, the war goes on, and we are victorious. Thank you, Jesus.

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We declare that your will be done, O God, on earth and through us.

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Your kingdom come, Lord God, and that you give us wisdom and discernment in

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these days that we will not be deceived, Lord God.

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For many will come in your name, saying, We're the Christ. I'm here, I'm there.

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Lord Jesus, you are the Christ. You died on the cross for us.

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You are the true shepherd, the good shepherd, who laid down your life for us.

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And took the death sentence for us that we might live. Thank you for salvation.

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Thank you. It's a free gift.

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Whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord. And I pray that today,

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if you haven't called upon the name of the Lord, you will do that.

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And Father God, we thank you for giving us wisdom and eyes to see,

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ears to hear, a heart to receive, a mind to understand, and that there will

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be a clearing out of the spirits of fog and enchantment and deaf and dumb and confusion.

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And I don't know, in the minds and hearts of the people who are listening today,

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Just remove these spirits that block and dull our senses and cause us not to

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hear or see or perceive correctly.

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I thank you for wisdom. You said, if any man likes wisdom, let him ask of God,

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who gives to all men liberally and abradeth not.

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We thank you also for the promise, divine protection, that all things work together

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for good to those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

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Lord God, that all things work together for good, and that no weapon formed

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against us will prosper, Lord God.

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Give us, again, eyes to see and ears to hear, and to protect our families,

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those who work for us, pray for us, love us, and have come to us for help this

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day and in the days to come, Father, in Jesus' name, amen.

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So the question is, what are we looking at? What are you looking at,

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and what do you make of it?

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Yeah, there's so many distractions. You know, we tend to focus on so many things that just pull us away.

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And I just think of, you know, Philip in John 14, verse 8, because he'd been

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hanging out with Jesus quite a while, one of the 12 disciples,

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Philip said to him, well, go back to verse 7 of John 14, if you had known me,

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you would have known my father also, and from now on you know him and have seen him.

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Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.

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Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, yet you have not known me, Philip?

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He who has seen me has seen the Father.

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So how can you say, show us the Father?

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Yeah, so it's amazing how they had been with Jesus, and this is the same Jesus

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who is the Messiah who they've all been looking for for a thousand years,

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and they were just all, you know, wanting,

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working, sacrificing, doing everything for that day when the Messiah would come.

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And when he came into the very midst of them, walking alongside of them,

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talking to them, teaching them, feeding them, you know,

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multiplying the loaves and the fishes and doing all kinds of miracles,

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they were still confused and they said, Philip says, show us the Father.

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So, it's obvious that it's not that easy to see through all of the deceptions

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and the things all around us every day. Things, you know, going on in the earth.

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Things, wars, commotions, conflicts, conversations, people's ideas,

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you know, perceptions. Perceptions. Yeah.

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What do you make of it? And so, it's like, okay, there we are.

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Here we are. We are right here, right now in the same place as Philip in a lot

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of ways. Yeah, because God, in the mind of the Jewish people,

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he was so remote and so holy that you couldn't even pronounce his name.

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And he is holy like that. But Jesus said, okay—

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He's the Father. He came to relieve him.

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Reveal him, yeah. Not relieve him. Reveal him as the Father.

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And so it warms things up, right, when you think of Father.

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Loving, caring, protecting, providing.

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And then Jesus, he says, when you see me, you see the Father.

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You ever see people that look just like their dad? You just look like their

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mom and it's just like, oh, man. I have cousins like that.

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You see them, you see the Father. Yeah, you see the Father in them, right?

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Well, that was what Jesus was trying to convey, and he worked.

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Labored patiently among us to teach us, reveal the kingdom of God.

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But, you know, the problem is we do not discern correctly what we're looking

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at when we see it, and Jesus warned us that nothing is as it appears.

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So many of us are trained to make our judgments based on appearances or irrationalities

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or reasonings and things like that.

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And we don't make our judgments or discernments based on what God is saying.

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So we're basing it on what things look like. And we've done that forever,

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trying to figure things out, you know, get the idea that, and he was saying,

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you know, even those who are laboring in the kingdom, that would be us working

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in the harvest field of souls.

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Many of us, many, many, have missed the truth about what's really going on.

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So even when Jesus came the first time, obviously what we're saying is they missed it.

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They didn't see or recognize the Messiah. Yeah, and a lot of people he dealt

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with were busy serving God, they thought.

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Scribes and Pharisees who devoted their lives to supposedly to serving God, following the law.

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Yet the more they followed the law, the more corrupt they were. Right.

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And then you think of somebody like Martha.

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Now, Martha, Mary and Martha, you know, Jesus is coming over one day,

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Mary's sitting there at his feet and hearing his word and so forth.

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And Martha's busy, you know, getting lunch ready.

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And Jesus said to Martha, Martha, listen, you're distracted.

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He says, one thing is necessary.

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Don't make such a fuss with her. So it says in King James, I believe it says,

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she was troubled with much serving.

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So in other words, we can be so involved,

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in our serving the Lord as we think of it, that we just miss the Lord himself.

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Yeah, well, this is true. And I think this is a shock and sad, very sad.

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There's so many pastors even, and men and women of God laboring in the harvest

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field, missionaries, whatever.

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They're all so busy taking up with the details and with the look of things and

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the way it, you know, their manipulation and trying to control that they actually

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wear themselves out trying to do the will of God like Martha was.

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And they miss the true place of rest and peace and abiding and allowing,

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backing up a little bit and letting the Holy Spirit take over.

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And so many of the people are suffering from a lot of what we would call,

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in that case, spiritual abuse.

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But we can be overcome, overwhelmed with much serving or with being exhausted from serving.

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And we have to understand there are many layers and dimensions to the distractions

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that Satan has put upon us, the burdens, other people's tragedies, fear, worry,

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even the undiagnosed or unrecognized anxiety that compels us.

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I think a lot of times we don't even realize how much stress and anxiety and

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pressure is internalized, and we're trying to manage that at the same time we're

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trying to manage the things that are going on around us.

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And the other problem is ignorance. And, you know, in Luke 24,

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16, the disciples were on the way to Emmaus.

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This was just the very day that Jesus rose from the dead, and they missed the

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whole point of what was going on.

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You want to read that? Yeah, so, Jesus, you know, they were on the road to Emmaus.

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These are his disciples now. Yeah, these are followers of Jesus.

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And Emmaus is about like seven miles from Jerusalem, and so they're talking.

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They're talking, trying to figure things out. While they conversed and reasoned,

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it says in Luke 24, 15, that Jesus himself drew near and went with them,

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but their eyes were restrained so that they did not know him. Yeah.

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They didn't see him. They didn't realize. Yeah, they didn't realize it was him.

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They were reasoning in their hearts. Yeah, and reasoning.

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Well, they were trying to figure out where was the missing body.

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Trying to figure it out. They were trying to figure out. They were all uptaken

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with, where's the body? Jesus is missing.

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Some people said that he rose from the dead, but he's not in the tomb.

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And so here we can do the same thing. We can be so obsessed with finding something

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that's missing that we miss something that's right in front of us.

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And Jesus was walking with them.

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But the reasoning was the thing that kind of tripped them up because they were

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into understanding, trying to understand it themselves.

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And this is part of our problem, too, is that when we try to use our soul software,

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if you will to figure things out.

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You know, the soul operates through the visual, through the sensory.

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Through the taking in information and kind of processing it according to what it already knows.

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So your soul has been programmed with the experiences that you've already experienced.

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So you're going to run and filter all this new information through what you already know.

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And they didn't have any real new information on resurrections at that point

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because they never had any experience.

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So they were going back to their reasoning and reasoning and,

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you know, that the soul operates out of trying to figure things out.

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And that's part of our problem is because when we get into the soul,

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we've got the, that's in the enemy's territory.

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He's messing with your soul software, which is your mind, will,

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and emotions. And so they were reasoning, you know, trying to figure it out.

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They were troubled with reality or the appearances.

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Reality is about appearances and reality and truth are not necessarily the same

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thing or they're kind of contrary actually to each other because in reality,

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Jesus was dead. But in truth, he's walking right with them so that the appearances were perfect.

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Faking them out, which can do for us too. We are so grounded in our realities

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and our senses that we don't really go into the spiritual places of the dimensions

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that are unseen or the things that God wants to reveal to us that are not yet known.

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They also had a religious perspective, and this is part of the soul too, we're religious.

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We're using the works of the law, legalism, that's what they were all saturated

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with in those days, was the legalism, the Judaism, the sacrifices,

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the Pharisees, the temple, all this.

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And then the final thing that they were in trouble with was responsibility.

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The arguments guilt uses oftentimes to get us to feel like it's our fault,

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whose fault, who's to blame.

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And if we don't discern what's really going on and flip over to our spirit software,

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we're just staying stuck in that soul software, in that loop of confusion and

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deception. We'll go nowhere.

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That's why the Bible says in Romans, walk in the Spirit, and to not fulfill the lesson of the flesh.

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So God wants to give us the eyes of the Spirit by the Holy Spirit to see what's going on.

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Well, what's going on, you know, in our lives, there's so many things going

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on, distractions, and distractions, hurts, pains, tragedies,

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information coming our way. Helplessness. That just— Loneliness.

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You know, and there's an epidemic of loneliness.

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There are people that are so lonely.

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I see. We're more connected electronically than ever before,

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but yet people are more lonely than ever before.

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Yeah. And you see, you know, teenagers committing suicide.

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Everything. There's so many things that are overwhelming. But being able to

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see through what's going on.

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And keep your eyes on the ultimate end, which is the coming of Jesus Christ.

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Which is Jesus Christ himself.

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So walking in the Spirit,

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And let's talk a bit about that. Walking in the Spirit is where you see things

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going on in the Spirit in the midst of all the clutter of what's going on in our lives.

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To get rid of the clutter so we can walk in the Spirit, we have to recognize

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that many of the things that we're thinking about and hearing,

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actually hearing come out of our mouth. This is very simple.

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What the heart is full of, the mouth speaks. And Jeremiah says,

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the heart is deceitful above all else and desperately wicked.

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So, the residue of our heart is usually coming out of a broken heart,

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disappointments, abuse, rejection, all the negative things. Tragedy. Yeah.

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And so, you're hearing your mouths say what your heart is, what's in your heart.

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And, for example, in the road to Emmaus, they said, we were hoping.

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So, they were hoping that this would be Jesus. They were disappointed.

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They were disappointed. They were very disappointed. But if you're taking,

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we're taking our counsel from the inner counsels of our mouths,

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the fear, the doubt, the unbelief, the things, especially the I don't know and

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confusion, these become our counselors and our trail guides.

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So my mouth is saying, I don't know. I hope so.

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I can't figure it out. And you're being then led and misled and instructed by

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the spirit of fear, a demonic counselor that resides in you,

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fear that's in your heart.

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It's coming out of your mouth, it's pouring out of your mouth,

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and then it brings with the words of destruction or fear of the future.

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And you and I at that point have to decide whether we're going to agree with

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the words we just said or agree with what God says.

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And this is very tricky because the devil gets you to murmur,

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complain, you know, judge yourself, judge other people, cast doubt,

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fear, hopelessness, negative words onto situations.

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And Satan is actually using you then to create a negative future.

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And so we have to realize that you must continue.

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You know, the Bible says take captive every thought. And the way you take captive

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a thought is to recognize the words that the thought is producing out of your

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mouth and say, you know what, I am going to make it.

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No, I'm not going to get sick. No, I am a child of God.

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No, this is going to work for good because Jesus himself, you know,

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was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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So even if I'm in the wilderness led by the Spirit, not out of the Spirit,

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but in the Spirit, to be tested or tempted, he was tempted by the devil,

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I should say, but he's led by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.

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So Satan was challenging God's ability to keep Jesus in the wilderness.

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Satan is challenging God's ability to keep you in your wilderness.

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But Jesus, he passes all of his tests, and he never is defeated.

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So you and I can vote with him, with the truth, and say, you know what,

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I reject the counsel of the physician.

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I reject the curse of the diagnosis. I declare before God, I am going to be

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fine. I am fine, or this cancer must leave because it must submit to Jesus Christ.

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We have to recognize that Christ is over all, and he is God over all,

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and he's bigger than cancer, and he's bigger than crisis, and he's bigger than

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anything Satan has put in your life.

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And also that God says in Romans, I mean, 1 Corinthians 10, 13,

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God will never test us or tempt us.

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It says tempt us above that he's able to keep us, but with every temptation

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

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So God is taking responsibility for the temptations that Satan is putting on

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you, and God at the same time is taking the test that he's been forced to take

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by Satan to prove to you, God is proving to you, that he loves you and he can keep you.

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In the Psalms, it talks about that God revealed his works to the children of

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Israel, but he revealed his ways to Moses.

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So Moses knew about God's ways. He understood his ways, yeah.

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Not just his works. And I'm just thinking, too, what they were saying,

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Marjorie, and the Emmaus disciples in Luke 24, 21.

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But we were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel.

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Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened, since he died.

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We were hoping that it was he who was going to reveal Israel.

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So, yes, it was he who redeemed Israel, but he did it in a way they didn't think.

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He did it through the cross.

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But they were listening to their mouth, and they were saying,

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we were hoping, which implies we're disappointed this didn't happen,

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it's too late, it's past hope, whatever.

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And so, a lot of times, your mouth will try to instruct you in the wrong, in a wrong direction.

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And so, you know, sometimes we get so hard on these disciples.

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Oh, they were so blind, but we're like that. Right. You know, we're like that, too.

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We were hoping, you know, we have hope. We think it's supposed to work out a certain way. Right.

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But God has a plan and a purpose that's being worked out.

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Because both God and Satan are always working in the same place at the same

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time to do the opposite thing.

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So all things work together for good to those who love God. So we jump to conclusions.

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Satan makes his move and we jump to conclusions and don't let God make his move.

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So if you're in a place where Satan has just made a move in your life, hold on.

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Don't judge God. Don't throw in the towel.

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Wait for God to make a move. Ask God to make a move to vindicate or to deliver or to reveal his truth.

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Because this is the game.

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You know, whose report are you going to believe? And Satan is just a master of smoke and mirrors.

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And in Matthew chapter 13, Jesus explains a little bit more about this blindness.

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And he says in chapter 13 of Matthew, let's start with, he talks to them in parables.

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He says, verse 11, he answered and said to them, because it has been given to

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you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

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And then he says, for whoever has, to him more will be given,

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and he will have an abundance.

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But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

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Therefore, I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see,

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and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

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So then he was talking, referring back to the prophecy in Isaiah,

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where it says, Hearing you will hear and not understand, seeing you will see and not perceive.

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For the heart of this people has grown dull, their ears are hard of hearing,

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their eyes they have closed. You know, how hard is it to discern something if

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you cannot hear, if your eyes aren't working and you cannot see,

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you cannot smell, you cannot perceive what's going on? Their eyes have been closed.

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Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,

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lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, and I will heal them.

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So a lot of people are not being healed because they can't see,

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they can't figure it out.

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They've got their own ideas of what it should look like, and they've missed

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the truth, the revelation of the power of God, the reality of God, the truth of God.

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But he says in verse 16, But blessed are your eyes, for they see,

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and your ears, for they hear.

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For surely I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see

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what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.

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So he's confirming to them the fact that they're hearing something brand new.

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They're seeing something that they'd longed for, waited for for many years,

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prophets and kings, people had believed for this revelation of Jesus Christ.

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And now he was revealing it to a select few who had eyes to see.

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And this is what God wants us to have is those eyes. You know, because why?

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Why would he close the eyes and ears of so many people as Isaiah said,

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having eyes they do not see, having ears they do not hear?

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Because if you don't hear, don't see, you don't perceive, then you don't get

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it. You're still sleeping.

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And you're not, I don't know, I just don't, this is to whom,

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for whoever has to him, more will be given and he will have an abundance.

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But whoever does not have even what he has will be taken away.

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So if you have some revelation of God and receive it, God's going to give you more.

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And so it's kind of like, you know, the blessing of receiving and understanding

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gives you more understanding, which gives you more understanding,

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which gives you more abilities to walk in the power of God.

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But if you blow it off and don't get it, don't see it, you're dull,

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you're still under the enchantments and the spells of Satan sleeping, then you don't get it.

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So how can anything even be required of you because you don't get it?

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Yeah, and rebellion hardens your heart, dulls your heart.

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And there's so many things in our world of influence that the enemy works through to make us dull.

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And I mean, you have deaf and deaf and deaf spirits, exhaustion,

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depression, fear, all these kinds of things that just make us dull.

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And we get taken up with other things.

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The desires for other things, Jesus said in the parable of the sower and the

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soils, choke the word and they become dull.

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The cares, riches, and pleasures of life come in and choke the word.

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You know, we don't want the word to be choked in our lives.

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We want the word to be prevalent in our lives, that we operate according to the world.

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We're not all taken up with cares and riches and pleasures.

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All those things are part of us, part of our being here on earth.

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But, you know, we don't want to be unfruitful because, you know,

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we get so distracted or basically buried with all these fears,

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riches, and pleasures. Duties and things.

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I think that a lot of the problem, too, is we're impulsive and impatient.

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And the work of God in us takes years and years and years.

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He's a master craftsman, and he doesn't rush his workmanship in us.

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And yet we want to see it done, packed, delivered, shipped out,

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and received the same day you set the order.

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I mean, we're just kind of like, it's not fast enough.

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We want to see things accomplished. We want to see things done.

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And with God, that's just the opposite. It's very slow.

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Sometimes you can't see any progress. And if you're looking for results,

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some of us, we want to see that task accomplished.

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And so we're not given to—we want to see the numbers. We want to see the church

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pews filled up. We want to see the building go up.

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We want to see the massive numbers of people come in.

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But, you know, that's not how God always works.

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He's very, very meticulous, very deliberate, and very patient with himself in

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what he's doing in your work, in your life.

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And so whatever you're going through right now, it's an optimum condition for

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God to work in you to bring forth the most beautiful things.

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Rendition of you, if you will. So all the pressure, all the affliction,

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all the this and that, you know, God is with you in it. He's able to carry you through it.

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He's able to turn it around for good. He's able to use it to bring restoration to you.

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He's a God of justice. And I think that one of the things that discourage us

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and turn us away from God so quickly are the unfair things, the injustices of this world.

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And we just can't seem to, you know, wrap our head around how could good God

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do all this, but it's not a good God that's doing this.

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It's a very demon, very bad devil who has tricked you into voting with him to

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go into that place of discouragement or controlling it or taking matters into

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your own hands rather than letting go and letting God.

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So releasing and trusting and resting in God is about the most scary thing most people do.

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But once you get the hang of that, resting, abiding, and being.

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And then it becomes all these things that you're trying to figure out become

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God's problems instead of your problems.

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And it's God's opportunity to show himself strong on your behalf,

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and it's not your problem. It's not your fault.

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Satan wants you to take the blame for everything, including the ways he trips

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you up and knocks you down the stairs. I fell down the stairs.

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Did you really? Why did you do that?

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Why would you throw yourself down the stairs or fall down the stairs?

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No, it was the enemy, but we take the blame for so many things that Satan does

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in and to us and to our loved ones that we don't realize this is a war.

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And I think until you get this paradigm in your mind that this is a war,

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this is not a friendly little cruise ship,

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this is a destroyer battleship that we're living on, that you will start to

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get that paradigm in your mind, then things will start to make sense.

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If you don't have the right equation, you'll never get the right answer.

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You know, if you don't have the right elements and factors in that equation,

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one of the things you need to put in the equation is the enemy.

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Not to give him credit, not to give him power, but give him the place that he

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has, where he operates from, so we can understand, and having that understanding,

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we can then be comforted in the Lord.

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And so, bottom line, don't go by what things look like.

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Don't go with what things feel like.

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Don't go with what people say about things. You know, this and everything out

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there is designed to deceive everything.

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Everything is designed to deceive

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you. And it looks good, but it's all so much as if it's divination.

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It's made to look like it's helpful, like it's healthy, like it's good. But you...

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We don't get it and we eat it. I mean, I'm thinking of labels on most of anything

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you would buy these days that there's three inches of description on the ingredients

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of what, and you can't pronounce maybe one fourth of the words,

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and the rest is all gobbledygook.

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And you know the fine print is so fine it's even hard to read it.

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So you pick it up, you look at the ingredients, you don't read them,

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or you try to read them, they don't make any sense.

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You buy it, and you eat it anyway.

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So you've just agreed, Satan has told you this is poison, but you just said,

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yeah, okay, but I'm going to eat it anyway. So you have just made a pass.

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So this is a way to deceive us, a passive agreement. It's actually divination.

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They give you all the information.

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You have all the truth out there,

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but you blow it off and you say it's too much and you go eat it anyway.

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This is, on the toothpaste, the same thing. They give you all the ingredients

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and then the number for poison control, because obviously this is poison,

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but you use the toothpaste anyway.

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And so you've just agreed with, well, you know, I'll take my chances.

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So this is the way we kind of discern the world. And it's not,

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it's really tricky because it's not simple, it's complicated.

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But with Jesus Christ and the Word of God, He's very straightforward.

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He's not, He's brilliant and multidimensional, but with us, He's very,

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I love you. I've come to save you. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the

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Lord will be saved. How complicated is that?

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And yet we try to read so many things into—and even we try to read spiritual

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things into things that aren't spiritual.

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We're just trying to find something. If you go back to simply reading the Bible, just read it.

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Take your religious glasses off. Take off the glasses of reasoning and religion

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and responsibility and just read it.

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Just settle down, read the words, and let them soak into your understanding.

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And if you don't get it and if it bounces back and if you're blocked,

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ask God to remove the blocks, the Holy Spirit, to show you what's in it.

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The Holy Spirit is here to teach us and lead us into all truth,

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but most of us don't use the Holy Spirit very much. We don't say,

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Holy Spirit, I need help with this.

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Holy Spirit, help me finish this. Help Holy Spirit, show me what to do here.

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Holy Spirit, I can't do this.

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If you'd start using your words to ask the Holy Spirit who's in you to do something

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for you, to help you, to show you, to lead you, to protect you,

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to guide you, to finish the project, to remove the complications,

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if you start to talk to the Holy Spirit.

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He would do something to help you.

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I mean, most of the time He's just waiting, waiting, twiddling His thumbs,

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waiting for you to give Him something to do. Yeah, GPS is, there's sometimes I don't trust GPS.

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I mean, there's times where. Are you talking about the Holy Ghost guidance system?

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Yeah, I'm talking about Holy Ghost guidance system. Well, I trust him all the time.

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Well, the thing is, too, is sometimes just looking at GPS, I know one time.

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On your phone he's talking about. Sometimes it's like, okay,

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I want to know how to get to wherever.

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And sometimes I've had an experience where they would lead me onto some gravel

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roads to go somewhere. and it's like, no, this isn't right. And you already know how to get there.

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And sometimes, you bear witness with this, Marjorie, I'm thinking,

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okay, we're going to a place where we've never been before, GPS, and I'm thinking.

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Oh my goodness, no, this isn't right. This can't be right to be here.

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But then I find out that I'm listening to the entity on the GPS and they're right.

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They get me there. But the thing is too, there's imperfections with that.

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Maybe they don't know if there's a road closed or something,

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but the Holy Spirit knows everything. All the roads that are closed.

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And we've got a perfect GPS, ASGS. Holy Ghost guidance system.

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Yeah, Holy Spirit guidance within us.

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And we're just tuning into that.

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You're not alone. You're not alone then, are you? You're never alone.

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We always say, oh, I'm alone. There's nobody here. I lost my husband. I lost my whatever.

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I lost my way. But you know what? The Lord has not lost you.

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You're not lost if the Lord still knows where you are.

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And so, again, comfort yourself in the Word of God. It is a solid comfort.

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And if you get there and you say, I feel so judged, I feel so condemned,

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then you're reading it through a filter, glasses that are all mucked up with

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confusion and judgments.

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And take off those religious glasses and just let the Lord speak to you through the Holy Spirit.

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God the Father sent His Son Jesus to die in our place and then sent the Holy

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Spirit to live inside of us because He knew how messy and confused this thing

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would be and how everything would be twisted around.

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Nothing would be as it appears. And so the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit is the

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one we need to, we must get used to listening to and trusting and walking with what he says.

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Years ago in the old radios, all it was was basically AM radio.

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You could, you know, you'd tune into, you had a dial that you'd turn with your

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hand. There's no push button thing.

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You just turn the dial and there's sometimes, Sometimes you're looking for a

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certain station, and you not quite get it set on the right frequency.

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And so sometimes you'd get two or three different stations coming in.

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There's a station that you wanted to learn to get the weather report,

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and it was two or three stations.

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And you'd have to adjust it delicately until, okay, you just get the one station.

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You're not going to get distracted by everything.

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Other stations coming in, they're interfering.

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But then you get it, you turn, you lock it in on that station.

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And that's what we need to do here.

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Sometimes we're just back and forth between, you've got so many different stations

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and voices speaking to us, but we've got to get locked in to the Holy Spirit.

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And I would just encourage everybody in the next day or so, read carefully.

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Romans chapter 8, it talks about the Spirit of God leading us,

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guiding us, walking in the Spirit.

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And sometimes that's a thing, ooh, that's just a ooh-ooh thing.

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And there's a lot of things. There's only a spiritual, this big super spiritual

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elites to walk in the Spirit.

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That is to be the normal Christian life for each one of us.

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And you know, as you walk in the Spirit with God, So many of the things that

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you worry about, think about, are coming across your desk, so to speak, in the natural world.

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So many of those things are just simply not relevant. They are not any of your business.

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Yes, some things come through that God wants us to intercede for and pray for, no doubt.

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But a lot of those things that would set us up into the— there's only two kingdoms, remember.

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And if what you're looking at reduces down to fear, stress, and anxiety,

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or worry, or confusion, it's not from heaven. So you can say, again, who said that?

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When you hear these things coming

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out of your mouth, like I was hoping it would work out, who said that?

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Was that the Holy Spirit saying that? Or was that the enemy trying to get you

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to go along with the spirits of discouragement and doubt?

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So that's, again, taking every thought captive to the subject,

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making it subject to the obedience of Christ.

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So as we go through this day, this week, Lord, we just pray that,

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we do pray, we pray, we declare that your clarity,

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your will, your purpose, your deliverance from these spirits of heaviness,

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fear, and oppression would lift off of your people, Lord, the sadness, the grief, the sorrow,

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the entrapments, the being surrounded

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by things that are seemingly insurmountable and that will never end.

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And Father, let those things that are suffocating us, strangling us, end.

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And let there be breakthroughs now this day, this week, mighty breakthrough.

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Let the sky, the blue sky, reappear, Father God, in our worlds, in our lives.

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And let the Word of God come alive in our lives and through the Holy Spirit.

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That we are walking, being fed by, led by your Holy Spirit, Father.

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We ask these things in Jesus' name.

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Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, you've got a lot of books out that are available,

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Marjorie, to help us to walk in the Spirit. Yeah.

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We've got a lot of stuff on YouTube, too. If you want to check out our YouTube

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channel, you can go to either Use My Name Marjorie Cole or Life Recovery.

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I use my name Marjorie Cole because there are lots of life recoveries out there.

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And there's lots of Marjorie Coles, too. But, you know, if you use my name to

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find the YouTube teachings and things, or go to, you know, things like True

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Light Church. you'll find helpful things, God things, good things.

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But I want to talk just a half second about something that I keep forgetting

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about myself, which is kind of a tragic thing, because probably the greatest

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thing that I've ever been allowed to do, up to this point anyway,

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well, besides all the wonderful things God lets me do every day.

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Of the tasks that I've completed is God on trial.

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And it's a 28-episode dramatization of the war between God and Satan for the

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souls of men told from the devil's point of view, and we have characters that

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represent confusion and doubt and self-pity and all these spirits that talk to us.

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And in the process of trying to get Jesus killed and crucified,

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Satan is also taking God to court in the high court of heaven to challenge him

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on his right to run the world.

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And so again, these are episodes that are available only, really only.

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Now you can't get this from my Amazon.

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Only at liferecovery.com and right in the bookstore

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there you'll find them and you can you can buy an

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episode for probably what less than five bucks uh they're

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28 minutes awesome awesome if you

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got to listen to something on the way to work or entertain your children

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or teach them something there because it's very very very very it draws you

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in the actors are superb and the drama and the the dialogue is is enveloping

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and so i would really encourage you try something different if you don't like

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reading you could But still, try listening.

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This is an audio drama, and it's called God on Trial, and why don't you start with episode one?

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Yeah, and I would describe it as gripping. It just, like Marjorie said,

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it just pulls you in. It's like, whoa, this is really good.

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And the more you listen to her, the more you realize that this is what I call genius.

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It's genius not just of your brain, Marjorie.

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It's the Holy Spirit put that together in just a powerful way.

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It's like it's something unique.

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It's powerful. It's biblical. It'll give you a break from the boring and from

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the difficult. And you'll learn a lot because it deals with about every issue

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that people face in their lives.

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Yeah, every episode has a different spiritual message and dilemma that it discusses.

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So, again, try it out.

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And why don't you give us a little feedback? You could check it out and give us some feedback.

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Send some emails to us, geraldcole at yahoo.com, Gerald, J-A-R-R-O-L-C-O-L-E,

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at yahoo.com or mcole at liferecovery.com.

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Love to hear from you guys. Talk to you later. God bless.

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Music.