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Hallelu hellnlu hellnlu. Good morning,
Church, hallelujah. And it awesome to

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be in the house of the Lord
with the most amazing people on the planet.

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And it's fun. Where is God? He's doing such amazing things with

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us Matthew twenty five. And then
the kingdom of Heaven will be comparable to

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ten virgins who took their lamps and
went out to meet the groom. Five

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of them were foolish and five were
prudent or wise. For when the foolish

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took their lamps, they did not
take extra oil with them, but the

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prudent ones took oil in flasks with
their lamps. Now, while the groom

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was delaying, everybody say, groom
delaying. What did the groom do?

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He delayed that groom what in the
world. They all became drowsy and began

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to sleep. But at midnight there
was finally a shout, behold the Groom

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come out to meet him. Then
all those visions got up and trim their

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lamps. But the foolish version said
to the prudent ones, give us some

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of your oil, because our lamps
are going out. However, the prudent

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ones answered, no, there must
be no, there must certainly would not

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be enough for us, and you
too, go instead of the merchants and

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buy some for yourself. But while
they were on their way to buy the

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oil, the groom came and those
who were ready went in to meet him

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to the wedding feast, and the
door was shut. Holy bless your wear

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this morning. Joel and I talk
often about how our generation has never seen

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a move of God. We've never
seen an actual outpouring and awakening like a

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even in our nation. Now,
in our nation, there's been awakenings.

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There's been the first grade awakening,
second great awakening, et cetera, et

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cetera. There's been and you can
read about those and study those, but

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we've never seen one. You in
this building, we've never seen a great

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awakening. And we're crying out to
God, God, this generation needs a

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great awakening God. This nation needs
a great awakening. This nation needs the

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outpouring of the spirit like never before. And it's in an atmosphere of prayer.

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It's in an atmosphere of that kind
of preparation that He longs to come.

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And it's always been, it's always
been with every awakening, not only

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in the United States, but also
around the world. If it was in

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the New Hebrides, or if it
was in Wales, or wherever God moved,

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it was at the beckoning of prayer. It was those who had oil

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in their lamps. It was at
the beckoning of those who had oil in

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their lamps. And so we don't
know when the Groom's going to come.

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We don't know when he's going.
And this is not I'm not talking about

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the second coming. We're not going
to miss the second coming, but there's

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comings in between. Acts three says
repent, so that times of refreshing from

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the Father would come. We repent. We ready our hearts. In repenting,

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we rent our hearts and not just
our garments. We become tender.

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We live in humility. We seek
him, yearn for him, We run

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after him. We keep oil in
our lamps because we don't know exactly when

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he's going to come. But what
we know is he wants to come.

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What we know is he wants to
come in this generation. We know he

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wants to come. Now we've heard
the words of the billion soul harvest.

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We've heard the confirmation of how God
wants to move. We know that God

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wants to move in a unique way. God's drawn you in on purpose.

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You have been touched in a unique
way and drawn, and you've been hauled

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into something significant in this generation.
We know it's not an accident that you've

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been called you're a glory carrier,
you're a revivalist. The fact that you've

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attended or tolerated New Horizon for more
than three weeks means you are actually a

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revivalist. You're actually a revivalist.
You actually don't mind getting a little tipsy

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on the Holy spirit. I mean
you actually want more. You actually want

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the glory of God to come and
cover the earth like the waters cover the

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sea. You actually have a desire
for that because you've hung around, and

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so I'm convinced. If you're not
totally convinced, I'm convinced because there's a

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reason you've hung around, because God
is drawing you into something deeper, because

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you are going to be the ones
who carry the torch. And it's about

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keeping oil in our lamps. It's
about it's about not letting our lamps become

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dry because we don't know exactly when
he's going to come, and it's not

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just his coming like in our midst
though the value of him coming in our

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midst is beyond description. But it's
also him coming to us individually. We

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have to keep oil in our lamps
for him to visit us individually, And

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a visitation of us individually is supreme. It's Supreme's it's not enough for us

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to park in the garage. It's
not enough. It's not enough for us

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to come to church and and think
we're going to get it all. It's

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not enough to park in the gara
and think we'll become a car We we

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we actually want to burn for him. We actually want to be near him.

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We actually want intimate fellowship with him. We actually want to be We

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want to have words deposited in our
inner man that shift and change our trajectory,

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they change our lives. We actually
want that. So the same way

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that we keep oil in our lamps
so that we're ready for him is the

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same the same thing that we do
when he appears. It's like it's it's

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all about him. It's all about
him, and the enemy knows that.

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And that's that's the thing, is
that the enemy knows that if he can

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pull believers off of their primary purposes, the enemy knows if he can entice

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us away. We talked last week
out of James chapter three that we're drawn

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away into sin. I need to
get a little closer to you, and

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I won't be long today James chapter
three. We're drawn away into sin right

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when we have desires, and sometimes
those are good desires. What we're talking

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about right now, all the way
through this. I mean, we can

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have a lot of bad desires.
Anybody ever had a bad desire? I'm

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not even looking. Just go ahead
and put up your hands. I'm not

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talking about bad desire. I'm talking
about good desires, noble desires, God

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given desires. That's what I'm talking
about. But each of us, if

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we have these desires and these desires
aren't getting fulfilled. And we introduced the

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Big Heart to you last week.
Remember the Big Heart, And we have

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the handout for today. Where's your
handout? Your handout has the ten Trees

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of life on it, and you're
free to look at the front of that

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handout, but not the back.
If you look at the back, you're

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cheating and you'll get a spanking after
the service. But we talked about the

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ten trees of life, and these
reside in your soul, not in your

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spirit. By the way, these
reside in your soul, and these ten

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trees of life like health, finance, financial, well being, family,

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romance and sexy stuff. Right,
And we had up here influence and legacy,

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and we had rest and recreation over
here, and anyway, we got

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all these. So you've got all
these God given desires in here, and

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you might even have some goals attached
to that. Right. And what the

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enemy knows, he knows that you
are savvy, you're smart. You are

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not going to transgress the Ten Commandments, So he knows that about you.

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So you're not going to commit adultry, You're not going to lie. He

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knows that about you. But what
he's still trying to do is he's still

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trying to mess up your effectiveness in
the kingdom. He's still trying to diminish

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your power. Because what he knows
about you, he knows that you're an

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intercessor that can move mountains. He
knows that you're a king and a priest

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in the earth. He knows that
you're a ministry of reconciliation. He knows

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some stuff about you. He knows
that you're a walking house of prayer.

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He knows you're a house of worship, just worship alone can shift everything.

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You know that, don't sh You
remember when Judah was sent out and Jehosephat

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was at peril with the Midianites who
had come, and they were beyond number,

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and then the prophetic word came,
and the prophetic word was to send

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Judah first. And all they would
do is just sing the Lord is good

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and his mercy and do earth forever. And when they begin to sing it,

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then God routed the enemy. Remember
that just your worship alone is powerful.

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Do you worship at home? How
many of you worship at home?

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Do you realize how powerful your worship
is. Your power, your worship is

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literally it can shift everything in your
entire life. And all they did was

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just sing that repetitively. They sang
it, and ambushments were set up against

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midian and a great victory was won
that day. That's Second Chronicles, chapter

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twenty. So prayer, worship.
So the enemy is trying to pull us

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off of this stuff. And by
the way, this you know, this

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is the kind of stuff that keeps
oil in the lamp, right, but

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it also does something else. Prayer
and worship, intimacy, time spent adoration,

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right, everybody say, time isn't
time your greatest commodity. Time is

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your greatest commodity. Money is not
your greatest commodity. Time is Will you

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spend it on him? See this
is how we keep oil in the lamp.

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This results in oil. And really, what happened with the five foolish

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is the five foolish We're distracted.
They were distracted away from the most important

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thing. The most important thing was
the arrival of the groom. The groom

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shows up for me all the time. I don't know if he shows up

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for you, but the groom shows
up for me all the time. Because

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I keep oiling my lamp. I
don't know when he's gonna show up.

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I just prepare the way for him
to show up. Sometimes I'm just praying

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in the Holy Spirit. Everybody say
Holy Spirit. See the Holy Spirit gives

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you a prayer language. And one
Corinthians thirteen says it's either of angels or

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angels, or it's a known tongue, known language. Right, we don't

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know. But what I find is
that I usually break into something with some

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time spent three minutes in my spiritual
language. Might not do much anything,

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but but I'm still praying mysteries in
my spirit. Something's still going on even

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though I don't know or have the
awareness in my mind right ris Conthien's fourteen.

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Read about it when you get home
if you want to PRIs Contien's fourteen.

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But what happens is somewhere I break
through a threshold. Right somewhere,

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I break through a threshold when I'm
praying in the spirit, and all at

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once I leave this realm and I
start connecting at a deeper place. And

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what happens is with all of this, wherever we keep oil in our lantern,

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how's that this is the spout where
the goodies come out. I could

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do better if I had time,
but not much better. But what happens

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is the thing that puts oil in
your lantern and keeps oil in your lantern

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Church, it's the same thing that
opens up the heart of God to deposit

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in you the things that will give
you the power to resist the enticement of

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the enemy. Now, enticement happens
whenever there's a delay, And what happened

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in this case the groom delayed.
Wherever there's a delay on any desire coming

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to pass, even if it's a
god given desire, a god breathed desire

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or a raima word given desire.
Wherever there's a delay on a noble desire,

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you and I, we become more
vulnerable to temptation or enticement to fulfill

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things on our own. We become
more vulnerable to fear that it's not going

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to come to pass, so we
can begin to move into anxiety. Whenever

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we move into anxiety, we usually
start to move next into control, foolishness,

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wasting time, self effort. Everybody, any self effort. People in

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the building, I'm still not looking. Go ahead, raise your hand if

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you'd like. I've moved into a
lot of self effort. Pastors can move

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into a ton of self effort.
They sell all these books about church growth.

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Run just run, run away from
the book quickly, because he is

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church growth. He is church growth. And by the way, it's not

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church growth anyway, it's people growth. Grow the people. Don't grow the

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church, just grow the people.
Right, but self effort, every one

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of us can get drawn. We're
more vulnerable to be enticed and to get

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into self effort, and to get
into anxiety and to get into fear.

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This is what happened to Abraham,
right, Genesis chapter twelve. Go to

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the land. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna bless you. I'm gonna

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make your name great. I'm gonna
bless those that bless you, curse those

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that curse you. This is gonna
be awesome. I got something really good

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for you, abe. And so
he goes to the land, right,

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but he was distressed of soul because
him and Sarah didn't have any children.

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Perfect baby dedication sermon right here,
Maybe we got it going on. They

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didn't have any children. And so
he begins to talk to Father about this,

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right, and this was the greatest
This is family. We'll just put

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family here. That was finance,
and here's family. And so he begins

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to talk to Father about this.
And he's telling Father, you know my

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number one desire as a child,
Sarah and I. We don't have eight

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children. Ah, I've got to
Elia's this dude like my chief servant.

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He's cool, but he's not flesh
and blood. I'd like something on my

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own. So he's talking to Father
about this. We don't hear the promise

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until Genesis seventeen. Genesis seventeen in
conversation, then God begins to say,

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I'm going to give you a child. But then the word comes and it's

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definitely a rama. And the rama
always comes wherever we're keeping the oil filled

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up, right, keep the oil
filled up, that's where the rama flows,

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okay. And that rama is literally
it's that rama from God. It

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contains in it the power to resist
enticement. That's what the Lord wants you

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to see today. This is remember
remember the power in the rama. May

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say raymon. Now, Rama means
it's a living word. Right. Logos

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is a written word. Rama is
a living word. God literally talked to

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him and gave him a living word. And that's what enabled them to press

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through for twenty five years until Isaac
came against contradiction, against trouble through the

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delay. And this is what this
is why I felt like the Holy Spirit

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was trying to say to us today, is that not only do we keep

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oil in our lamps by taking time
for Holy Spirit every day, but we

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also in that manner open up our
heart to receive from him living words.

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And those living words give us the
power to resist the enticement of self effort

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and the enticement of wasted time,
the enticement of folly, the enticement of

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distraction, the enticement of all sorts
of foolish stuff that will pull us off

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of this, because what happens is
when we get enticed and we get into

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self effort, and we get into
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and trying to make it happen,
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So we move from wise in the
foolish. We move, we shift

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category all at once. We don't
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till midnight shopping for this, Or
we don't have time for this because we

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had to get up super early to
watch that webinar, Or we don't have

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time for this because we've got so
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we're so anxious and wrought up that
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to that he gets fulfilled. So
we forget the word. We don't keep

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the Word centered at the forefront of
our heart and our mind. If I

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ever do that, a couple of
us in the building prays the Lord.

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Yeah, no, no, no, no, I'm sure every one of

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us. Abraham struggled, but this
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enemy. See Jesus Hebrews twelve,
Jesus endured the cross for the what for

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the joy set before him? He
saw you and me new word the cross

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in other wards. He didn't veer
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do so. He's dealing with Satan
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He didn't veer off course because he
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He kept in sight, he kept
And this is this is central.

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If you don't have a word on
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to you, is it You need
a word on your health, what to

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believe for and how it will come
to pass? You need a word on

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your finances, what to believe for, how it will come to pass?

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In the other words, is it
through music? Is it through real estate?

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You need a word what to believe
for? On your family and how

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it will come to pass? You
need a word what was our Oh Roman,

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you need it, I'll put it. I want to remember that.

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You need a word what to believe
for, how it will come to that?

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Every one of these? Then where
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Where where are you going to get
that? You're going to get that over

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here? If you are not spending
time draw near to me, James for

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seven and eight, Submit to God, resists the levil. He will leave

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from you, Draw near to me, Come near to me, draw near

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to me. We haven't if we
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and I will draw near to you. Well, I'm not hearing from

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God. I mean, it's like
I don't know. I'm just I'm just

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gonna work this thing, and I'm
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I mean, I this is what
you know I'm desiring, and I believe

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that's of God, and and and
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But I'm really not hearing from God. Draw near to me, and I

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will draw near to you. Draw
near, draw near, draw near,

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Draw near to me, and I
will draw near to you. Now,

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the enemy's always got some alternative path. And the alternative path will cost you

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more than you can imagine. And
it may not be written with a big

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clear sin sign held up by somebody
in a red suit with horns on their

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head. No, no, no, what if your wife holds up the

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sign. Well, that's what Sarah
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honey, this is not coming the
past. This word is just not

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coming to pass. But I've got
this sweet little thing here that works in

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the house Haygar. And I don't
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much delay on this and I don't
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I believe the whole thing. Anyway, Remember in the beginning, Sarah Laft,

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when the promise came and so Abraham
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and it produced Ishmael, which has
been the biggest problem on the entire

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earth ever since it happened. Hello, somebody, do you want the biggest

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problem you've ever had in your entire
life? Keep going with self effort.

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Just keep going with self effort,
Keep going without oil in your lamp,

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keep going discouraged because the groom hasn't
come, keep going, just making it

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happen without this. Don't take time
for him, Keep not taking time for

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him. I mean, you know, once a week, that's a lot.

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That's enough right there. Besides,
he's sovereign. If he wants to

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do something, he'll do it.
No, no, no, what you're

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looking for is Ishmael. You're looking
for a problem. You're looking for the

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biggest problem you've ever had. And
after it comes, you have to feed

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it, take care of it,
and beg God to bless it. He

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begged God, can't you just bless
Ishmael. Let's stand every one of these

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trees of your life. They're worth
praying over. We're submitting to the Lord,

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frequently, yielding to his lordship,
declaring his superiority over every desire of

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your heart, every noble desire of
your heart, honoring him above those things

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what he loves. You know what? The coolest thing the Holy Spirit is

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not when you bring him something you
can't stand. It's when you honor him

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and you say, I love you
more than this, I love you more

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than the greatest things that I love. I love you more than I love

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the fulfillment in any their area of
your life. It's powerful when you bring

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these things before him, and you
marinate these things in prayer, and you

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wait before him on these things,
and you invite him as the groom,

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like grooms and brides are supposed to
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And so you invite him to be
engaged in every one of these trees

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of your life, and you allow
him him to have the precedent and the

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priority and the pre eminent spot over
those desires of your life. And you

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do this in prayer. You do
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do that, he will feed you
with the nourishment of living bread of Rayma,

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words from above that will sustain you
and empower you against temptation or enticement

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into that which is stupid, foolish, costly, or a waste of time

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when you're not even looking for it. That's what happens. It's like because

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you choose him first, because you
keep him first, because you don't worship

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your time, but you give him
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begins to drop down upon you when
you least expect it. If missus Wolf

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and I we say let's go do
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That sounds kind of planned. And
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we've gone out to Stanley and Seaforts
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we get kind of dressed up a
little bit, throwing a little cloth,

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and we head out there. You
know whatever it would be appropriate for me

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to, you know, say something
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Oh you look beautiful tonight, littlely
that would be appropriate. But you

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know, the coolest thing ever is
when we surprise one another when there's no

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date, right, and we surprise
one another. And I think that's kind

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of how the raiment works. It's
like you're over here and you're not asking

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even or you're you're in the midst
of the congregation, or you're in your

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your your dedicated place, like it's
been the garage for me or different rooms

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for me. You know, I'll
dedicate a spot and it's kind of my

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spot where I get away with God
and I have this courtship time with him.

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But I'm not looking for an answer, and it's just in those times

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that He just loves to surprise me. It's like the kiss from above comes

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on my heart right and I pay
attention and it sustains me. And now,

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why would I want what the enemy's
offering? Why would I want self?

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Hebert? Why would I want this
path, that path, the other

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path? Why would I want to
spend my wheels or waste time? Why

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would I want to do anything that
would harm this sacred relationship I have with

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him, this daily connection that I
have with him daily. Everybody say daily,

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it's a daily connection I have with
him? Why would I want to

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harm that with anything. Why would
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Now I'm out smarting the enemy.
The enemy thought he had me, But

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now I'm out smarting the enemy because
it's not just the ten commandments that he's

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trying to entice you to break.
He's trying to entice you away from your

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supreme love, trying to draw you
away. And he's using your own healthy

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desires to do it, your own
ambition to do it, by distracting you

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away from the main thing, the
one thing, and out of that one

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thing, out of that main thing, everything comes and everything flows. I

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keep oil in my lamp, and
I'm ready for the visitation of the groom

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on my heart constantly, the visitation
of a living word that's so much better

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than anything the enemy would draw me
away into or from Holy Spirit. We

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say yes to you. We ask
you to visit us this morning, that

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you will draw us back to daily
communion, that she will draw us into

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the refreshment of the oil that flows
when we turn to you and we look

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to you, when we set aside
time for you, when we honor you,

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when we pray, when we worship, when we adore you, when

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we intercede, when we engage in
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from the Holy Spirit. We ask, we ask, we ask right now

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today, today, today, that
we will embrace a repenting of a lifestyle,

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heart mindset, that we will embrace
a repenting of mindset, that we

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will turn it back to thanking you
the center and the foremost and the supreme

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thing that will put you back into
the place where you belong in our lives

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and in our walk. Lord.
As we said last week, we say

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it again, Holy Spirit, loose
discernment on us. Loose discernment on us

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to know that which is not of
you, that which is enticing us away

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from you. Provocus with discipline.
Even we ask you, Holy Spirit,

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to provocus with a discipline that says, no, I will not let anything

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steal my romantic courtship, my romantic
times with the Lord. I will not

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let anything steal it. Let our
lives be driven around our altar. Let

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it not be that our alter has
to conform to our lives, But let

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it be that our lives are driven
out of our alter and from our altar.

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That our alter is supreme, and
that we live, we live,

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We partake of life out of all
that happens and transpires in and through the

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altar that we build to you.
Thank you for this. While the worship

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team starts to sing this song because
it's just the appropriate, beautiful song for

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this day. As they begin to
sing it, which you just repent before

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the Lord. Wherever the word is
just touching you, I don't know that

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it is. And this is not
about condemnation or bondage. This is not

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about making you feel bad. But
this is a about the Holy Spirit,

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our loving groom, calling us back
into a balance of union with him.

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So just allow him to talk to
your heart. Allow Holy Spirit to just

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touch your heart, and wherever an
adjustment's needed, let it come. Come

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into agreement that you'll make the adjustment, and then promise him, Promise him

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today that you'll keep the oil filled
up in your lantern so that the rama

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will come. Because you don't have
the power to overcome without a rama.

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You don't have the strength of the
spirit to overcome without that rama. Not

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only the what, but the how
the vision Proverbs nineteen twenty nine eighteen.

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Without a vision, the people cast
off restraint. Without a vision, Holy

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Spirit wants to loose on you a
vision over every tree of life, a

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holy spirit inspired vision that will sustain
you, empower you, uphold you,

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strengthen you against all enticement, and
keep you knit to the spot where the

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oil is poured in