Unbelief stays the Hand of God
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good morning and welcome to midweek
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insights with Pastor John I'm Pastor
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John Moore from popular Assembly of God
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and today we're going to take a look at
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a very unique
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scripture and uh want you to try to keep
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in mind
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that the thing that motivates and
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activates God's power in a believer's
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life is Faith and without it it says a
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man cannot please
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God but I want to share with you
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something that it's in the Book of Mark
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chapter
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6 and it's about the one thing that
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could stop the healing power and the
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Miracle working power of
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Jesus it says and he went out from then
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and came into his own country and his
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disciples follow him and when the
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Sabbath day was come he began to teach
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in the synagogue and many hearing him
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were astonished saying from whence hath
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this man these things and what wisdom is
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this which is given unto him that even
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such Mighty works are wrought by his
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hands is not this the carpenter the son
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of Mary the brother of James and Joseph
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and of Judah and Simon and they're not
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his sisters here with us and they were
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offended at him but Jesus said unto them
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a prophet is not without honor but in
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his own country and among his own can
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and his and in his own house and he
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could there do no Mighty work sa that he
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laid his hands upon a few sick folk and
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healed them and he marveled because of
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their unbelief and he went around about
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the villages teaching now one of the
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things that we have to keep in mind when
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it comes
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to Jesus working in US is the one thing
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that will
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stop God's power from flowing through
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Believers from one to the another for
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miracles to happen healings to take
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place all of these different things is
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they're all activated by
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faith and when you have
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unbelief in your heart in other words
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you doubt what Christ is able to do or
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you doubt the person of Christ you stop
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the power of God from
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flowing and it's very really important
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for for us it's very important for us to
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realize that it's by our faith that
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these things happen when we're praying
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for one
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another James says that the prayer of
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faith shall save the
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sick um we have to realize that it's our
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faith in what God is able to do that
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allows his power to flow
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through Us in and meet the need needs of
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someone else and so it's really
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important for you and I to to realize
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that if we're praying seeking God we're
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seeking after a miracle a healing or any
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of these things that when we doubt who
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he is or we begin to not trust who he is
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we have to we have to approach it this
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way Lord I know you're able to do it but
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help my unbelief and he will do
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that it's important you and I have to
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have the
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attitude towards God
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of he says in Mark chapter n uh Mark
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chapter 10 that With God all things are
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possible but with man it is impossible
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so we to receive from God we have to
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believe that God first can do it then we
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have to believe that God will do it
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and we have to receive that in faith for
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it to
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happen when someone comes and asks to be
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prayed for and you pray for that
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person whether or not they receive from
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God has absolutely nothing to do with
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your faith because you're taking an Act
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of Faith by actually praying for them
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the act of faith has to come from them
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if they if their faith is
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activated then whatever they're praying
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for will come to pass so when we're in
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these situations and we realize that
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only God can answer this prayer only God
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can do what needs that can meet the
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needs that we have we have to come in
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faith before him believing already not
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only that he can do it but that he will
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do it so that we're able to
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receive there are so many times that uh
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I have witnessed over my 40 plus years
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uh of being saved of people praying
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repeatedly for the same
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thing and I tell them on a regular
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basis that when you pray the first time
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God heard
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you after that if you don't receive a
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miracle you have to begin to pray this
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way thank you Lord for what you have
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done you have to begin to praise him and
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thank him for what you prayed for as
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though it was already done this is Faith
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Hebrews 11:1 says now Faith is the
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substance of things hoped for and the
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evidence of Things Not Seen so if you've
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been prayed for for something but it
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hasn't manifested yet this is where your
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faith has to come into play and you
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begin to
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thank God for what he's done even if you
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haven't seen
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it so that your faith will activate
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it Jesus
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marveled at every time he saw someone of
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great faith every time he performed a
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miracle with the exception of
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one he says your faith has made you
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whole or or no great no greater Faith
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have I seen in all of Israel it's always
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about faith and you have to remember
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this the only thing that moves or
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motivates God is Faith and the thing
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that motivates or the power empowers the
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enemy is fear and when you come and pray
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and you're not quite sure whether God
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can do it or not that is where you have
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to pray Lord help my unbelief or you
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wind up in a situation where nothing's
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really happen
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because people aren't receiving you as
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someone sent by God they're looking at
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your past they're looking at your
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history they're looking at all these
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different things and to them it it makes
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no sense that you could be there praying
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for them and that God would touch them
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because they know too much about
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you and so whenever Jesus would
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encounter this the way he overcame it
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was by
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teaching that's why it's so important
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that you as a Believer get into a
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bible-based church and you really really
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really really need to be attending
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church uh Hebrews 10:26 says that
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forsake not the Gathering of yourselves
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together after the manner of some is and
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so much more so as you see the day
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approaching we're in perilous times
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there are the woke left they they don't
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want Christians gathering in large
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groups because they fear what can happen
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if Christians get an
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agreement so Jesus said wherever two or
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three gathered together in my name there
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am I in the midst of them and anything
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they ask of me I will do
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it so church is necessary it's necessary
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for our spiritual growth it's necessary
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for social
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growth um it's necessary for us to be
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able to Fellowship one with another
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because we draw strength from each other
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we draw support from each other we are
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able to overcome and uh all these
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attacks that come against the church and
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against Believers by being together and
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we can't forsake that especially in I'm
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going to use use this term perilous
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times uh everything right now in society
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is about me me me me it's all about the
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person uh there's nothing that values of
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family of values of going to church
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values of doing what is right being
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morally upright uh making moral
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decisions all of this stuff is is we are
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people are being told
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oh you don't have to do any of that it's
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all about you do whatever your heart
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tells you to do whatever you think it's
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okay it's fine just do do whatever makes
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you feel good and this goes totally
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against
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scripture Jesus never once said you know
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if it feels good do it he in fact he
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went so far as to tell you that your
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heart is
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deceitful and not to trust it but to
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trust God
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and that's a hard thing because we're
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inundated or
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overwhelmed by the me Society everything
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is about me me me me me me me and Jesus
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said that's not how it is everything is
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Centric that means centralized or in its
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circular is about seeking the kingdom of
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God and his
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righteousness to fulfill in US or to F
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that void that's in
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us left by
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Adam and the more we draw close to God
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the more God draw close to us it says
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draw nigh unto me and I will draw nigh
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unto you there's so many references in
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the Bible about how important that
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relationship between you and Christ is
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and how well you develop that and he
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gives us he shows us through examples in
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his life as a man here on Earth of what
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can accomplish Great and Mighty things
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through C uh God and what can stop God's
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power from flowing into someone's life
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and so as you're making your way through
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this next week stop and look listen to
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what's going on around you listen to
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what people are
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saying hear what they're trying to
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promote because all of these things go
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completely against what Christ said and
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so we have to we have to be on guard we
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have to watch over our spiritual life uh
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with extreme prejudice I know it sounds
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like a a weird word to use here but it
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is your faith your relationship with
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Christ is so important that you need to
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watch over it with extreme prejudice you
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need need to make sure that no one or
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nothing comes between you and your
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relationship with God and when you do
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that you are opening the door for God to
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do many mighty things through you but if
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you're dealing a life of
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unbelief then God's power is not going
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to flow in your life and you're
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nothing's going to
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change so I want you guys to keep in
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mind there is nothing more important in
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your life life than building a secure
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relationship with God trusting him
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learning how to walk by faith going to
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church where you can draw strength from
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other believers where you can be taught
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what the word of God says and more than
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anything it's absolutely essential to
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your spiritual life that you get into a
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bible-based
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church don't follow along a group of
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people because there's 3,000 people
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going to that church make sure that the
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person that's teaching you is teaching
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you accurately lots of tools out there
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available for you for interpreting
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scripture for finding out what the Bible
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actually says don't trust someone's word
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on it go find out for
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yourself do what Paul said in second
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Timothy 2:15 study to show yourself
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approved unto God a Workman needing not
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to be ashamed right ly dividing the word
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of Truth and so I'm going to leave that
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with you this week I want to pray for
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you Lord Jesus we just thank you and
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praise you for today we thank you for
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your word God we ask that you allow this
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word that's went forth to minister to
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the hearts and minds and Souls of people
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that hear it God we just thank you and
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praise you because even in perilous
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times your power is not stopped in Jesus
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name we pray amen I'll see you guys
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again next week
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