Welcome to Faith Chapel
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I'm Tom Waters for Restoration
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International, and today we're
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going to' be talking about faith
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now is easy to talk about faith
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but the question is, are we
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experiencing faith, are we
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experiencing a living faith
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a faith that connects us
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to the living power of
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Jesus Christ who is alive
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for each one of us,
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so we're going to talk about
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what it means practically today
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to live by faith, not by sight
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not by circumstances, but
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truly living in a connection
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with a power that's outside
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of us, with
that power we connect
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to by faith, if you have
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your bibles I'd like you to turn
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with me to Romans, we're
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going to' be
looking at the first
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chapter of Romans and verse
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sixteen, Romans one; sixteen
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it says there: "For I am not
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ashamed of the gospel of Christ
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for it is the power of God
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the power of who? It is the
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power of God unto salvation
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to every one that believeth
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notice, first of all,
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we don't need to be ashamed
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of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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because if it really is the
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power of God and if he really is
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our faith that connects us
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with his power, then it's going
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to connects us in such a way
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that it reveals his power
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and it's going to allow us
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to be in a relationship
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that is drawing us closer
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when it does the first place
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that God's power reveals itself
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is in the home, in the marriage
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with my own family, now
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I want you to think about this
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for a moment because it says
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that it is the power of God
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unto salvation to everyone
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that believeth, now this is
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talking about faith, or we
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can say "I believe", "I believe
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in God", "I believe I have
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faith, I believe God is real",
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but is that faith really
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connecting us to a power that's
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changing us on
a day to day basis
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because I want us to go down
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as we continue to go down to
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verse seventeen, Romans one
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going back down to verse
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seventeen, it
says for therein is
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is the righteousness of God
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revealed from faith to faith:
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as it is written, the just
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shall live by faith".
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So, who's righteousness is being
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revealed here? Is my
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righteousness? Does my faith
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make me revealed my
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righteousness? To my wife,
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to my children?, No, it's the
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righteousness of God, it is
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revealed from faith to faith
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what is that mean practically?
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It means that from one choice
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of faith, to the next choice of
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faith, when I connect my witness
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with the enduring strength
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of Jesus Christ, then I'm
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revealing the righteousness
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of God, I'm not revealing
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my righteousness, because
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my righteousness is nothing
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is filthy rags, but when my
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weak, frail humanity takes
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whole of the enduring power
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of God, then that faith that
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connects me, connects me to a
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power that is going to reveal
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His righteousness, it's going to
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reveal it in
every transaction of
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life from one choice of faith
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to the next choice of faith
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because it is written,
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That the just, those that are
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justified by God, who are
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justified to Christ, those
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that are just, will be truly
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living by faith. Not just
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talking about faith, not just
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believing that there is a God
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but that, That God is going to
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change my life. So, let's make
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this practical, I can make it
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very practical, as I go back
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to 1995, my wife, my dear
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precious wife, was diagnosed
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with cancer, ovarian cancer,
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a very deadly cancer, my wife
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and I, both come from medical
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backgrounds prior to ministry
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work with Restoration
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International, and we both knew
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that my wife could be dead
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in 6 months, leaving me with
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3 young children, I want to
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ask you, How does that make me
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feel? I tell you, I had a lot of
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feelings and emotions that were
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going through me, but I remember
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the day of surgery, she was
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taken into a special hospital
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and she had two specialist
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surgeons working on her,
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her main surgeon, and then a
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specialist from UCLA
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Medical Center was called in
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who is
specializing in containing
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cancer, so it didn't spread
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through the body. IT was a long
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surgery as I was sitting in the
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waiting room, it was a surgical
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waiting room, and I was alone
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in there that day, and the
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receptionist said to me
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as I was sitting there, when
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the surgery is finished,
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the doctor will call me and
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then I'll have you meet with
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the doctor and his assistant, so
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I was sitting in there for
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those hours, do you think that
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the thoughts of my mind
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brought me
temptations to anxiety,
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absolutely, there were thoughts
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that brought me to: What is
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going to be like if my wife
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dies? What am I going to do?
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And there amidst those thoughts
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The Lord kept calling to me
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and the thought that came to me
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is I would never leave thee
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not forsake thee, that's the
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God that we serve, I will never
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leave thee, and the thought
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came to me, How is your faith?
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Right now, How is your faith?
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Now I recognized, some of the
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thoughts are bombarding me,
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and I said Lord, I believe,
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I believe that you have the
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best, good in mind for me
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I believe you're seeing this
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picture, I believe that all
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things truly will work together
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for good because I love you Lord
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and I know you love me, you love
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my wife, my children and
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I found peace, then I sat there
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and you know what I found
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in faith life it is just
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at once, be faith, once be
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faithful to that call and
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goes away, it's a faith choice
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over and over, because those
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thoughts keep coming back
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and we have to keep taking them
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into the Lord and then
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that phone rang and I tell you
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the devil with my human weakness
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made one more bid for me
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'cause I was going to meet the
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surgeons now, and the thought
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came back to me again I will
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never leave thee, I am with you
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I am at the right hand, and so
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I got it by faith I had rest
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in peace in Jesus Christ,
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by faith alone, the just shall
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live by faith, by faith I found
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myself connected to a power
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that was outside of me, I found
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myself connected to a God,
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who says there's nothing
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too hard for me, I'm the God
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of all flesh, and so I went out
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and I met those surgeons, then
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a very amazing thing happened
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the first thing that the senior
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surgeon said to me was "You have
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peace, your
countenance has peace
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How do you have this peace?
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This is before he said anything
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about my wife, and I praised
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God in there, in that moment
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in my thoughts I praised God
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because it was the righteousness
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of God that was been revealed
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that's what the verses we read
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are saying, is the righteousness
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of God that's revealed, from
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one choice of faith to another
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then do you know what told me
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He said: your wife does not
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have cancer, we removed
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the tumor and it was not
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cancerous and I praised the Lord
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but you know what I praised
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the Lord for more in that moment
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I praised the Lord that
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in that moment, I was at peace
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not because of the good news
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I was at peace because of loving
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Savior who already by faith
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had hold of my heart,
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that's what faith does, faith
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connects us regardless of our
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circumstances, regardless of our
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difficulties, regardless of our
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emotions, faith right faith
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real faith, believes in God
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connects us to a God that can
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save us to the uttermost
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if you come to Him, with the
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believing that He is God
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You know I want
to share with you
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another verse, a very familiar
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verse but maybe not such a
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familiar experience, it's found
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in the book of Hebrews.
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Hebrews 11 and verse 6, I want
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you to go there with me:
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It says without faith it is
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impossible, it is what?, it is
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impossible to please him: for he
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that cometh to God must believe
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that He is, and that he is the
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rewarder of them that
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diligently seek him.
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Now we can say that we believe
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in God and any Christian or
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professing Christian is going
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to say, of course I believe
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in God but the question here
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and the question that has been
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brought to my mind and I never
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bring a question to you, God is
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not only bringing to me
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and working in my heart to ask
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me the same question, Do you
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really believe that He is God?
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he is the cometh to God
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must believe that he is,
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That he is what? That he is God
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If I really believe and if you
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really believe that He is God
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That's incredible, because we
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know that That God, is the God
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that can do anything, He is
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the God that can open the sea
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and let people walk across
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on a dry ground, He is the God
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that can raise the dead, if
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we believe that He is God
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if we say we are his people
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we are his children, oh I love
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to see how my children,
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especially when they were
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very young, how they trusted in
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me, how they believed in me
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they could be up in a tree,
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and I could say jump, and they
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would jump, they believed in me
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Do you really believe in God?
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If we do, He that cometh to God
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must believe that He really
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is God and that he is the
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rewarder of them that diligently
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seek him, so when we come to God
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believing that he is really God
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that's faith, because we believe
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in something we can't see,
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And we believe, that he can do
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whatever he says he will do.
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When that happens, then
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the first thing that we
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believe it on is that we can
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trust him with our whole hearts
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we can trust him with our whole
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life, we can trust him with
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unconditional surrender of
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myself to this God who can do
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all things for me all things
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in me by faith and he can reveal
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his righteousness through us
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I remember I was going to be
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doing a series of meetings
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over South Korea, a long flight
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and so I had to, well at least
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I thought I had a get a lot of
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rest, you know, the night before
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I was in a hotel, getting ready
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to fly out early in the
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morning, so I said to the lady
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at the front desk, you know
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I need a quiet place, I've got a
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long over seas flight and
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Can you get me a quiet room?
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And she said, sure, so she gave
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me this room, I was there
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by myself I was opening God's
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word just having some quiet time
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there, all of a
sudden I heard this
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well it sounded like a herd
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of people, not a group of people
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but they were just stomping
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down the hallway, loud and
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frivolous and vociferous...
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I don't know if you
ever experienced this
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but some how I had the feeling
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they will going to end up right
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next to me, and sure enough
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the door to the adjoining room
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was flung open, the handle hit
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the wall against the wall where
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I was sitting at the desk, they
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came in there,
they turned on the
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television and the louder the
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television went louder their
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voices went, and I tell you
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I start to feeling sorry
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for myself, Oh lord, I need rest
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I can't have people like this
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next to me, and you know
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the Lord called to me in that
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still small voice, not audible
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voice, he called to me in my
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heart, Can you trust me?
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Can you give yourself to me?
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Can you trust me enough to rest
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right now that I can take care
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of this, you know that's a
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faith choice, it isn't something
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that just happens at the
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beginning of the day, when
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we say I believe Lord
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take my life, give me a
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new heart, we need to do that
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but that choice needs to be made
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over and over,
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the just shall live by faith,
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one faith choice to the next
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so I said Lord, I'm willing
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to surrender this to you
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I'm willing to rest in you
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by faith, I know you have
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the solution, and even if
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it means I stay up all night
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I know that I can trust you
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enough, your grace is sufficient
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I don't have to get upset
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I don't have to get irritated
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I don't have to be agitated
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by this I can trust you enough
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When I was in that resting place
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with God, that's a faith choice
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to come back rest in place
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to believe God enough,
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When I was in the resting place
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Are you in the resting place
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right now friends? Are you in
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the resting place?, I don't care
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what you know, I don't care
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how many bibles you have given.
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I don't care how much
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Scriptures you memorize,
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Are you in the resting place?
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with the righteousness of God
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can be revealed because you're
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connected to a living Savior
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When I found that connection
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to the Lord, for right there
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in that hotel room, it was then
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that my mind was clear enough
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and myself was subdued
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that the Lord send me back down
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to that reception desk and
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I told them my situation, now
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I want you to think for a moment
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if I would have done that, in my
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irritation, in my agitation
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if I would have gone down there
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demanding that I get a quiet
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room and why am I in this kind
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of room, Can you imagine?
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Who would it have been revealed?
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Would been the righteousness
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of God, or would it have been
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selfishness? Do you think
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that these
people in these worldly
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big businesses see enough of
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self reveal? But how often
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are they seeing
the righteousness
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of Christ, the righteousness
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that makes the difference
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then I went down there resting
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in the Lord, and I told her
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the situation I said is there
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any other place, she said
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you know, just renovated the
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whole third floor, no one
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staying, she
said, if you are willing
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to carry the things up,
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one level, she said, you can
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have the whole third floor
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to yourself, you can have
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the whole place is quiet
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You won't have to worry about
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any noise. And so I went up
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there, it was an interesting
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thing as I got to my room
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There was a beautiful view out
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over the
mountains, a quiet room.
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Isn't that how God works?
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You see, my first room was a
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little room, the old room hadn't
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been renovated it overlooked
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the city, God has mercy, gave me
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a beautiful quiet place
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Now God doesn't always
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work that way when we exercise
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faith, but always when we
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find a rest in him, we find
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peace, the passes understanding
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Are you finding that in the
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little things of life? I had to
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find it in the crisis of life
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'cause sometimes is in a crisis
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when your wife is diagnosed
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with cancer, well the cancer is
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is almost like you don't have
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any choice but go to God,
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but are we
finding by faith that rest
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in Christ, in the little things
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of life, remember, it's the
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righteousness of God is revealed
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from faith to faith, the just
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shall live by one faith decision
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to another all through the day
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taking hold to the strength
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of Christ, calling upon him
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in the day of trouble. I Peter
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If you want to go there,
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I Peter says: I Peter 1:5
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it's a very
simple verse, it says:
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We are kept by the power
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of God, by the power of who?
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the power of God through faith
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unto salvation, that's how
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we're kept, we're kept
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by what power? The power of God
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as we're kept by the power of
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God it's only through faith
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that connects us to that
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power and if we keep choosing
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by faith to connect to this
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power it would be a decision
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that leads us moment by moment
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in salvation and it will lead us
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ultimately to the full
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salvation that we're looking
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forward to in the coming of
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Jesus Christ, but you know
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I have found it as we live by
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faith, as our faith truly
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connects us to the power of
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Jesus Christ, we are tasting
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heaven here, heaven begins
00:19:09.74\00:19:11.76
here by faith and as we learn to
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trust him with a whole heart
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as we learn to hold on by faith
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we're experiencing a power
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that's outside of us, that
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lifts us above the present
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circumstances that we deal with
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You know, faith is really not
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our Savior, I think it's evident
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that faith is for one thing
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faith is to connect the human
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weakness, the human fearful
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heart the frail weak human being
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faith connects that weakness
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to the enduring strength of God
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That's what faith does,
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I remember one
day we were sitting
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in our home up in the mountains
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of Montana, was a very cold
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wintery day, low and behold
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a lady came
walking by, now we don't
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generally see people just
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to walk by when we live up in
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the mountains, and she did
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not looked like she was dressed
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for the winter, she did not look
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prepared and my immediate
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thought was, this lady
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is stuck somewhere, she is
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walking and she didn't have a
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warm coat, she didn't have
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warm boots, so invited her into
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our home and warmed her
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a little bit there by the fire
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she told us of her plights
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and then we got her old Betsy
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old Betsy is, an old pick up
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that old Betsy was a powerful
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four wheel drive used for
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collecting wood, gathering fire
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wood, and that old Betsy I knew
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without a shadow of doubt had
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that power of
the four wheel drive
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to get this lady out of her
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predicament. So we went
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down there, she
was really stuck,
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now, how we're going to get the
00:21:01.11\00:21:04.63
power of old Betsy, connected
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to the weak and frail situation
00:21:08.34\00:21:11.47
of this car stuck deep in the
00:21:11.50\00:21:13.53
snow bank, cause
all the power in the
00:21:13.56\00:21:15.77
world, that old Betsy had,
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was nothing if it didn't some
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how that connected to this
00:21:20.96\00:21:22.42
car who was stuck in the deep
00:21:22.45\00:21:25.27
snow ditch, well we had a strap
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one of this nylon straps
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that's real heavy duty
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and I hooked one under that
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strap, old Betsy, and the hook
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the other under the strap to
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that disabled vehicle, and the
00:21:40.66\00:21:43.29
power of Betsy connected
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to the weakness of that vehicle
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you know what happened?
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That power connected to that
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weakness pulled that vehicle
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right up out of the ditch
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like nothing. Now I'll
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ask you a question, here is
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this lady she's really excited
00:22:02.96\00:22:06.74
really thankful, and now
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I want to ask you, do you think
00:22:09.48\00:22:11.83
she got out of her car and came
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and started telling this truck
00:22:14.61\00:22:19.02
"How wonderful the truck was"
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Do you think that she came
00:22:21.46\00:22:23.90
to this strap and said:
00:22:23.91\00:22:25.32
"Oh this strap what a wonderful
00:22:25.35\00:22:28.27
strap you saved me from the
00:22:28.30\00:22:30.53
situation, you see faith
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connects us to power this
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strap represents the faith
00:22:35.95\00:22:38.13
that connect us to the power
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we are trying to reveal the
00:22:40.37\00:22:42.60
power, we're not trying to
00:22:42.63\00:22:44.09
brag about power, we're not
00:22:44.12\00:22:45.59
to brag about what connects us
00:22:45.62\00:22:47.54
to power we want to reveal
00:22:47.57\00:22:50.40
God, and that's what faith does
00:22:50.43\00:22:54.55
Faith connects us, faith
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connects us to a power that is
00:22:57.97\00:23:01.75
above beyond anything that
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we have and so when that lady
00:23:03.68\00:23:06.10
got out the car she was
00:23:06.13\00:23:07.61
profusely thanking me for
00:23:07.64\00:23:10.83
pulling her out of the ditch
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Well, obviously the illustration
00:23:12.96\00:23:16.83
breaks down very quickly there
00:23:16.86\00:23:18.02
but the point is it was the
00:23:18.05\00:23:20.53
strap that make the connection
00:23:20.56\00:23:23.03
with power, it was old Betsy
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it is the powerful Betsy
00:23:28.05\00:23:29.42
that got out her, I couldn't
00:23:29.45\00:23:30.81
pull her out even if I had
00:23:30.84\00:23:31.95
the strap I
don't have enough power
00:23:31.98\00:23:34.05
but I tell you she was thankful
00:23:34.08\00:23:36.60
to me that I took the time
00:23:36.63\00:23:39.90
to get her out, she wasn't
00:23:39.91\00:23:41.14
thanking the strap, she wasn't
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thanking the truck, she was
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thanking me, and I tell you
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friends today, that when
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we connect our weakness by faith
00:23:48.93\00:23:51.18
to the power of God, people will
00:23:51.21\00:23:55.01
be thanking God for the
00:23:55.04\00:23:57.13
difference that He makes
00:23:57.14\00:23:58.82
in his life, in their life
00:23:58.85\00:24:01.94
if we really want to see
00:24:01.97\00:24:04.04
a difference, that difference
00:24:04.05\00:24:06.64
will only come
through Jesus Christ
00:24:06.67\00:24:10.39
if we really want to make
00:24:10.42\00:24:13.88
a difference, and I believe
00:24:13.91\00:24:16.29
it's my personal conviction
00:24:16.32\00:24:19.31
and is my first evangelistic
00:24:19.32\00:24:22.34
outreach, I believe that right
00:24:22.37\00:24:25.40
faith, real faith in God
00:24:25.43\00:24:28.77
connects me to a God that is
00:24:28.80\00:24:31.79
able to save me to the uttermost
00:24:31.84\00:24:35.01
and when He does, and when He is
00:24:35.04\00:24:37.34
because this is an ongoing
00:24:37.35\00:24:39.18
process, when He does the first
00:24:39.21\00:24:42.85
person that faith and that power
00:24:42.88\00:24:46.89
that power of the Gospel,
00:24:46.92\00:24:48.26
the power that we read there
00:24:48.29\00:24:50.78
we shouldn't be ashamed of the
00:24:50.81\00:24:51.88
power the Gospel of Jesus Christ
00:24:51.91\00:24:54.00
because it's the power of God
00:24:54.03\00:24:55.80
unto Salvation, the first
00:24:55.83\00:24:57.66
place of that power should
00:24:57.69\00:24:59.86
reveal itself, is in my marriage
00:24:59.89\00:25:02.77
my wife should be the first
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recipient of the living life
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changing power of Jesus Christ
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and you know, a very interesting
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thing happen in our home
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we begin to understand
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the simplicity, the power
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of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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I began to make my wife, my dear
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wife my first evangelistic
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outreach. You know, I used to be
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involved in so many outreach
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opportunities, and I tell you
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that wouldn't be a part of this
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Ministry Restoration
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International if we did not
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believe in the life changing
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restoring power of God
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But you know, I used to be
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involved in so many things
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they were out there out there
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and my poor wife and my poor
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children didn't have what
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they needed from me, I tell you
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God wants us to work first
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the Gospel needs to work first
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in our homes and when it's
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working there I tell you
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it will work any where in the
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world because it is the power
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of God unto
Salvation, to everyone
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that believeth. Do you believe?
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The question is: Do you and
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Do I really, believe today?
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Because if we do, then our faith
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would be a living faith
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would truly believing by faith
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a faith that connects us
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to Jesus Christ not just
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at the beginning of the day
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but all through the day we will
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be coming to him in every
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circumstances, situation
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will be saying, Lord
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I need you, and right now
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I'd like us to, just bow our
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heads where we are, as we come
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to the Lord by
faith, will you pray
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with me? Father in heaven
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we come to you because we're not
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ashamed of the Gospel
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we're not ashamed to admit that
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we need a power outside of
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ourselves, we need a living
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connection with your power
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Father, if we're going to be
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living Christians we need to
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living connected by faith,
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and we want to live by faith
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do we want to give ourselves
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to you to surrender whole
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heartedly, that
you will work in us
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to will and to
do a good pleasure
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and we thank you in Jesus name.
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Amen. I hope that as you go to
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the rest of today, wherever you
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find yourselves, whatever your
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circumstances, whatever your
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difficulties that has the spirit
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the Lord calls to your heart
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that you would be willing
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to live by faith not by sight,
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Jesus wants to be your Savior
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and mine today, by faith.
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