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Yeah, I want to talk to
you about the leadership call on every one

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of your lives and just you know, the ministry call, the ministry call.

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Every one of us in this room
have a ministry call on our lives.

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And as it was with David and
paula years ago. You know,

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David was were you working in a
restaurant something like that over there? So

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you know, David was led to
the Lord and then came over here and

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went to Bible College, and then
he went to a liberal a liberal arts

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college, and that was the beginning
of the American dream and making money,

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you know. But the voice of
the Lord was on these two, and

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the voice of the Lord was in
and on David's heart. And sometimes we

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don't recognize that the voice of the
Lord is not calling us to sell everything

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and go on the mission field or
to plant a church, but the voice

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of the Lord is calling us still
to invest in other people with ministry.

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And oftentimes the hindrance of us responding
to the voice of the Lord, because

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that's happening with every one of us
that have given our lives to Jesus in

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this room. Oftentimes the hindrance is
that we just don't open our mouths,

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and we could talk today about the
reward of their suffering, because there is

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a reward of investing in others.
There's a reward in sacrifice. We tend

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to put a lot of emphasis on
sacrifice, but the emphasis of Heaven is

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on the reward. And right now
we could look and say, okay,

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thirty you know, some odd years
later they're thirty one years later, they're

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walking in a lot of the reward
now and it's the I believe God give

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gift to all mens or of you
all possess some kind of gift from God,

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each one of us. We must
discover and know that gift. And

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then the word of God, said
Roman, chapter eleven, verse twenty nine.

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You know, God can take lives
away, can give life, can

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take everything that you have, God
can take it away from you, even

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the wealth, health, anything,
God can take it away. But there's

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only this two things that God cannot
take it away from. You give and

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the calling of God that Romans,
chapter eleven, verse twenty nine. So

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use that gift, shine that gift
and bless people around you, and that

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bless those who need it. Yeah, and it all starts by opening your

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mouth. Everything God wants to do
through you and the reward of your investment

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in others. It starts just by
opening your mouth. You know, the

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Bible says, don't despise the day
of a small beginning, and the smallest

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beginning is just to open your mouth
this week. If you would just open

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your mouth, if you would stewart
your mouth, you would be stewarting the

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river of God in you. Because
the river of God in you can't come

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out of you if you won't open
your mouth. But when you open your

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mouth, the river of God can
be loosed through you out of your belly.

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John seven thirty eight, out of
your belly will flow plural, not

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just a river, but rivers of
living water. This he spoke concerning the

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Holy Spirit. You are a receiver
of the Holy Spirit. This is for

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every born again believer. You're a
receiver of the Holy Spirit. He wants

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to bring out of you rivers of
living water, Rivers that quench the thirst

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of others, rivers that satisfy,
rivers that hydrate, rivers that quicken and

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build up, that feed and nourish. But it starts by opening your mouth.

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You just got to open your mouth. And we choose every day to

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either open our mouth or keep our
mouths shut. But the future, the

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future of your investment in others as
it was for them, It just starts

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with that simple act of opening your
mouth, because, like David saying,

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you've already received the gift of the
Holy Spirit. Many have discovered, many

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psychologists, many authors, many counselors, many insecular and in the sacred studies

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have discs covered. The greatest hindrance
to all leadership, the activation of all

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risk taking and all leadership, is
the fear of public speaking, the fear

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of not opening our mouth, the
fear of just not expressing ourselves in a

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small or a greater circle of people
that fear the fear of public speaking.

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And yet the Bible says, open
your mouth wide and I will fill it.

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Open your mouth wide, Psalm eighty
one to ten. I am the

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Lord your God who brought you out
of Egypt. He's saying that it's over

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the children of Israel. Open wide
your mouth, and eye will fill it.

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Anybody ever think too much, anybody
in the room ever think too much,

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You ever think too much? Jesus
is what Jesus said over the disciples

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who became the apostles. Jesus said
that in the hour of pressure, trouble,

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persecution, or opportunity, do not
even worry about what you will say,

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because the Holy Spirit will give you
what you should say. So don't

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even worry about it. Don't even
think too much. Don't even think too

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much about what you should say.
Why, because Holy Spirit dwelling in you

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is a better proclaimer, teacher,
counselor enlightener, coach and help that you

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could think yourself into in an hour
or two or three of fussing' and steuben

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and worrying. Just open your mouth
wide and he will fill it. Come

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on. Sometimes we think too much. Sometimes we think too much, and

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sometimes what happens is our thinking gets
in the way of a Holy Spirit activation.

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So instead of coming out of us
what should have come out because we

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relied on him, what comes out
of us is a lot of thinking,

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dead thinking. You ever had dead
thinking come out of you, it's because

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we aren't relying fully on the Holy
Spirit. He wants to activate ministry through

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you. He wants to activate the
touch of people through you. He wants

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to activate the leadership gift on you. He wants to activate the bringing up

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of what he's entrusted you in and
with and so many times it just starts

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by opening our mouth. Let's stand
this morning, Peter fourteen. Each of

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you has received a gift, to
use it to serve one another as good

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stewards of God's grace. New International, each of you should use whatever gift

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you've received to serve one another as
faithful stewarts of God's grace. Each of

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us have received the outpouring of the
spirit. Each of us have received the

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grace of God. Each of us
received, as it says in John thirty

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eight, whoever believes in me,
as the scripture has said, rivers of

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living water will flow from their innermost
being. Now, I bet, just

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as I'm saying this this morning,
you're doubting yourself already. You're listening and

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doubting yourself. You're listening and wondering, what in the world is he talking

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about? Come on, somebody,
I know already, just as I'm talking

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about this, there's all sorts of
emotions or thoughts or contradictions or fears that

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want to keep you limited, keep
you compressed, keep you constricted, keep

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you quiet, keep you devaluing yourself
and thinking that who in the world wants

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to hear from you. I mean, this is one of the greatest,

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one of the greatest shifts that ever
was meant for God's people from the Moses

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pattern to the New Testament pattern,
was that it's no longer about the Tabernacle

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and Moses. It's about the Tabernacle
and the Spirit of God within. Frank

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tried to talk about it during communion. You've become the temple of the Holy

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Spirit, and you, every one
of you, have to stop doubting the

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power and the grace that's in you. Most of the time when we talk

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about that, we're talking about doubting
God's word, and we're talking about doubting

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and this and that, and then
doubting the word of God and doubting this

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and you know, and it's usually
a God word doubt. But I'm exhorting

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you right now stop doubting the Spirit
of God who dwells in you. Quench

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those fears. I'm gonna ask the
prayer team to come. We're going to

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close again with prayer this morning.
Maybe you're here giving your life to the

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Lord this morning. Maybe you're recommitting
your life to him, Maybe you're renewing

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your walk with him. Maybe there's
something going on, and you feel the

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tug of the Holy Spirit on your
heart this morning, and that's been happening,

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and I want you to seal that
before we leave this morning. I

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want you to seal that decision that
you've made to follow God, to restore

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your walk with God, to have
a walk with Him. But others of

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us this morning, we know Him, we know we're walking with him.

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We know we're forgiven, we know
we're born of the Spirit. But we've

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got to conquer some fears that keep
holding us back. There are fears that

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keep holding us back. And if
that's you, I want you to come

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this morning, and I want you
to be prayed for. And I want

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that fear and even that self doubt, I want it to be quenched,

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and I want you to say no
to it. And I'm just exhorting you

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this morning in the Lord, in
love and in the Lord, that she

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would no longer listen to the voice
of fear, that you would no longer

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listen to those self accusing voices,
that you would no longer be suppressed and

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oppressed and constricted and quiet, because
you have a river in you, You

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have rivers in you, You have
birds of living water, the temple.

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You've become the temple of the Living
God. And now the Living God wants

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you to distribute life through you.
Would you do it this morning? Heads

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bowed and eyes closed, just for
a moment, hands raised up all across

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this auditorium, Holy Spirit, right
now we welcome you to loose us.

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We welcome you right now to come
with liberty. As we close this morning,

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Holy Spirit, we welcome you to
come and quicken the life giving call

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of the Spirit within us. We're
all called into greater realms of ministry.

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We're all crawled into greater realms of
ministry expression, and we carry the rivers

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of living water within us. And
so Holy Spirit, come and loose the

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living water. Let there be a
loosing of our tongue, a loosing of

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our tongue. All across this over
auditory this morning in Jesus' name, and

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everybody said, come forward, Church, be prayed for, be ministered to

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come into a liberty this morning.
Welcome a new liberty over your heart,

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over your tongue, over your voice, over all that Jesus would do through

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you this morning. As we close,