Welcome to Faith
Chapel. Thank you for tuning
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into 3ABN. My name is
Paul Rayne from Restoration
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International. And
I have a message today
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that I think
you're gonna enjoy it.
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It's called Planning to prosper.
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You wanna prosper?
Let's bow our heads
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and speak to the Lord
before we open his word.
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Father in heaven, I
thank you for being here today
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and I pray that as we
spend some time together
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in our word, that we
will glean some principles
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that will help us to
prosper in this world below,
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in Jesus name we
pray, Amen. You know,
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God has planted in
everybody's heart a desire
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to prosper. A lot of
people get that mixed up.
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And they turn it into
ambition or money making
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or wanting to be famous.
But, you know that desire
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to prosper that God
has somehow kept alive in
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even the most carnal
heart. That desire to prosper
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is a spiritual desire.
Now, like I said it gets mixed
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up with all kinds of
other things but if you could
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take the rubbish
off, underneath there
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is a desire. Now how,
how do we cooperate with
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God's plan? Let me open
with a scripture first of all
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to prove to you that
God's desire is for you
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and I to prosper. Turn
with me to 3 John chapter
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1 and verse 2, well 3
John 2 as some would say.
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3 John 2 says,
Beloved, I wish above all things
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that thou mayest
prosper and be in health,
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even as thy soul prospereth.
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There it is right
from The Word of God.
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Beloved, isn't it a nice
way that God talks to us?
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That's you, that's
you dear viewer, Beloved,
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I wish above all
things that thou may prosper
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that you, may
prosper and be healthy. Well,
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are you a little
skeptical. Do you find yourself
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feeling a little skeptical
that God could want that
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for you? Turn with
me to another scripture.
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This is Jeremiah 29 and
verse 11. I'm reading here
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from the New King
James. For I know the plans
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that I have for
you, declares the Lord,
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"plans to prosper
you and not to harm you,
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plans to give you
a hope and a future."
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Isn't that amazing? God
is actually planning for our
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prosperity. Well, you
know God can do all the
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planning he likes but
if we want true prosperity
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there has to be
some cooperation.
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This human being has
to cooperate with this God
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so that we can
prosper. The one I wanna talk
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to us today about is
three ways that we can prosper.
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I'm gonna be sharing
largely from my own experience
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not that I' m
very prosperous man.
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I don't have a lot of
money in the bank and my
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clothes are just,
every day clothes so,
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it's not the material type
of prosper I'm talking about
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it's spiritual
prosperity. I'm gonna break this
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message down into
three parts. Really,
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what I wanna talk about
is morning time with God.
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That's what it's
all gonna center on.
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The first part of
that morning time is,
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I want to look at our
prayer time. I wanna take a
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serious look at our
prayer time. A lot of us,
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a lot of you viewers
and a lot of other people in
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Christian world today
are playing with prayer time.
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Playing with prayer
time. We're not half as serious
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as God intends us to
be. Then, I want us to look
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at prayerful
planning, planning? Yes,
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I'm gonna talk about
planning for the day ahead.
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And then also I want
us to look at thoughtful
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study of God's word.
Are you ready for such
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a study? Well, let me
ask you a question before
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we go any further. It may
seen a little out of the blue
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but I want to ask
you a question. Children,
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if there's any
children watching 3ABN today.
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You can answer out loud
okay, at home or wherever
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you are. I want you
how many planet earths this
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big world that we live
in? How many planet earths
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do you think you
could fit inside the Sun?
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You know you could
take the Sun that shines in
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the sky and you could
take all the inside of it out,
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you know kind of take
the apple out and just leave
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the skin. How many
planet earth could you take
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and put inside that
Sun? Do you think you get
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3 in there? Do you
think you get 5 in there?
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Do you thing you get a
100 planet earths inside
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the Sun? Well, course
you could never do that,
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but the mathematicians,
that's the people who work
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with all those
figures they have worked out
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that we could get 1 million
planet earth inside the Sun.
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Isn't that an amazing
thought? Here is another
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fact about the Sun.
The Sun emits more energy
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in one second. There
goes another one and another
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one, and another one,
we just got 3 seconds.
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The sun emits more
energy in one second than planet
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earth has consumed
in it's entire history.
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Doesn't that blow your
mind? That is an enormous
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planet, if we can call
the Sun a planet that is an
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enormous mass out
there in the heavens,
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how did it get there?
Do you know how the Sun
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got there? Psalm 33 in
verse 9, "For He spoke,
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and it was done; He commanded,
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and it stood fast." That's
how that planet got there.
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Wow what a thought,
that is The God we pray to.
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He speaks words into existence.
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You know follow me
with another scripture.
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This is Psalm 95 and
verse 6 it says, "Oh come,
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let us worship and
bow down; Let us kneel
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before the Lord our
Maker." When we go before
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God in personal
private prayer we are praying
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to the very God, the
very Creator God who speaks
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words into
existence, isn't that amazing?
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As a sign of reverence to
God we should in our knees.
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No, I'm not telling you
that you have to be on knees
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every time you pray.
You can pray as you drive
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your car, you can pray
as you walk in the street,
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you can pray anytime.
I'm in habit in the ministry
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world that I'm in, of praying
while I'm on phone talking
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to somebody else, but
you know when I come to God
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in my personal
morning private time with him,
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I kneel before God, for
I kneel before God because
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he is my maker. I'm the
sinner in need of salvation,
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and wisdom and help
from the God of the universe.
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And, as a sign of
respect I kneel before the Lord.
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You know do we need his
help? Oh, we need his help.
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Then recognize that He is
all powerful and we are the
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weak ones. You know what
do we need to pray about?
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When we are on
our knees before God,
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there in our morning
time. We're talking about
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spiritual prosperity.
Friends you will never prosper.
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Not in a spiritual
sense, maybe in a materialistic
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or a wordily sense you
will prosper without prayer
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possibly, but in the
spiritual world, prayer is
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indispensable. Prayer
in the opening of the heart
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to God, talking to
him like he is a friend.
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He is also the
Creator. Never forget that.
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So, what should we pray?
You know there is a little
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book, it's called
"Steps to Christ."
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You can write into
3ABN anytime I'm quite sure
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and get a copy of Steps to
Christ. This is what it says
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on page 100. It says,
Keep your wants, now that,
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this is an old book, so
that word wants it's an old
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fashion word for
needs. Keep your wants,
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your joys, your
sorrows, your cares,
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and your fears before
God. You cannot burden Him;
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you cannot weary Him.
Isn't that a good news?
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That no matter what your
troubles are in your prayer
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time, once you are on
your knees you cannot wear
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out God patience, you
cannot bring too many things
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to him. Now, I'm not
encouraging you to have
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self centered prayers.
But, here I'm asking you when
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you're on your
knees pour out your needs
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and your wants,
your joys to God.
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He loves to hear you
talk about those things
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and he is there to
help. Another scripture,
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another scripture is
Philippians 4 and verse 6.
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Turn with me there. It
says, be anxious for nothing,
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but in everything by
prayer and supplication with
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thanksgiving, let your requests,
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Now here we have
something else now,
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let your requests
be made known to God;
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we can make requests to God.
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So, often we ask small
things from God and we get
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small answers. I
encourage you dear viewers,
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ask big things of God.
You know, you're watching
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a TV station here because
the founder asked big things
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of God and that is the
only reason you're watching
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this station today. You
can ask big things of God
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and He has big
answers to give you,
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but when you ask for little
things, you only get little
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things. You know so
often we carry what I called
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background burdens.
We're carrying around a bag
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of troubles and if we
prayed about those things.
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I'll tell you how intimate
I wanna get at this point.
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Often time these
background burdens are almost
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unrecognized to ourselves
and we carry them around
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a bit like a
weight on our shoulder,
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but oh if we could
get that weight off,
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life would be so much
more joyful. You know,
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one day, I was working
at my desk, working away
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on the computer and
I recognize that part
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of my tooth had come
off. How? That was a burden,
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instant burden for me?
But, I tried to put it away,
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put it away. You
know, that was no worries.
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You know I haven't been
to the dentist for a while.
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It will probably be okay
and you know sorry dentist,
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if there was any
dentist that's watching,
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you're probably cringing
but that's fine I want to share
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with you what
happens in real life.
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We have a burden.
Now, I've got a burden,
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it's about my bad tooth.
But, I don't want to think
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about it. I don't
wanna go to the dentist.
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So, I push it behind me
and I push it behind me.
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But, you know what
happened, this tooth got worse
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and worse. This
background burden became a
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foreground burden. And
I realized I needed to get
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it taken care of. You
know, God can take care of all
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our burdens.
So, I prayed to God.
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I prayed to God
about my tooth. Lord,
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I have to admit to you God
that I'm little scared about
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calling the dentist. You
scared to go to the dentist?
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That's the burden
that you've being carrying.
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So, it was a burden that I
was carrying so I said Lord,
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give me deliverance from
this. I just had the gentle
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impression, Paul you
need to call the dentist,
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you need to go and get it
taken care off. So, I went,
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I went down to the dentist.
Now is God able to take care
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of us? It was friend of
mine, who's a dentist who lives
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about an hour of our home
and I was driving down there.
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What you think my heart
was doing on the way down?
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Do you think it was
pounding? It wasn't.
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It was perfectly at
rest. Because I prayed about
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this and God was giving
me the strength to go to
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the dentist. It might not be
the dentist in your situation
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but what I'm trying to
say is God can take care
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of your background burdens
if you'll be earnest in your
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prayers. I got there, I
sat in his chair and then
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he's coming at me with a
drill. It didn't bother me.
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I can honestly say, and I
can say this is no exaggeration,
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I can say and I
said this to the dentist:
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I enjoyed it. You can
enjoy going to the dentist.
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You can enjoy anything
if you're in communication
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and connection with
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Don't carry those
background burdens around,
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take your wants, take
your joys, take your sorrows
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to Jesus
Christ. Steps to Christ,
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that little book again,
page 100 this time it says:
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Take to Him everything
that perplexes the mind.
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Nothing that in any way
concerns our peace is too
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small for Him to
notice. In prayer also,
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I like to have a
prayer list. I go through,
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I have different
people on my prayer list,
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I have different
topics on my prayer list.
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You know we get
organized with everything else.
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We make shopping
lists. Why can't we make a
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prayer list? What's
more important prayer
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or shopping? Well you
make a shopping list because
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you don't forget
anything. But, in prayer
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let's get serious in our
prayer brothers and sisters;
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let's make our
prayer life come alive.
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Prayer about your concerns,
pray about your worries.
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Once you've prayed,
the last part of my prayer
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is I get up, I say: Lord,
I want You to interrupt me
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today as I go about
my day Lord, I give you
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permission now, not that
he really needs the position,
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the permission, but I say
Lord, please, interrupt me
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today as I'm going
about my business I want you
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to call my attention and
it's happened I'll be behalf
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through the day, in situation
that come up I say Lord,
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I hear you, what
you want me to do?
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That's taking prayer
time out of the closet and out
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it into the day. I
wanna carry on today message
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talking about prayer for
planning. Know I wanna switch
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gear slightly, planning,
what am I talking with planning?
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So, often, we're not thinking
about the actual day ahead.
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As part of my prayer
time, I will pull out
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my PDA or for you it
might be a pen and paper
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whatever it is, a
laptop, however you keep notes,
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personal notes and I
write on my PDA the things
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that have to be done that day.
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And I go through this with
the Lord. This isn't just me,
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so I'm saying Lord, what
do you want me to do today?
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Well I remember, you
said you would write such
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and such, you should do
that, okay I'll done that today
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and then what else?
Write it on the list. Oh,
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boy I nearly forgot that.
I'd better get done that today.
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You want me to do
that? Put it on the list.
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I make a list with the
Lord. This is important part
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I make a list of what
needs to be done that day
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with the Lord and
then when I leave my prayer
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time I go out into the
day with some direction,
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not my direction but
the Lord's direction.
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What is this message
titled? Planning to prosper.
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If you go to the
Lord every single day.
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And you spend some
prayer time with him.
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And then you make a plan
for the day ahead with him.
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You are planning to
prosper just one day at the time
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and if you do it the
next day and the next day,
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then that whole week
would be under God's control.
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And if you do it for
a month that whole month
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would've been under God's
control. What a joy to think
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that we can be in
cooperation with God movement
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by movement and day by
day. Plan your work with God
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and then work your plan
with God. Don't make your
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own plans and
don't do your own thing.
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It's all about Jesus
Christ and it's all about earths
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cooperating with him in
the things that we have to do.
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You know I made a list
of things that needed to be
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done one day. And I've
got that into my office little
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flashing light tells
me I've got voice mail.
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I pick up the phone,
check the voice mail,
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I've got two calls to
turn before I get into my day
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first call took
an hour and a half.
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As a said we work with
Restoration International up
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there in Montana and
we've a lot of people calling
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to the ministry office. I
finish with that call just
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as I hung up, the phone rung.
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I was there for
another half an hour.
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A big chunk in
my morning had gone.
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Then a lady called up,
called my wife and said,
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we are in a terrible
situation in our marriage,
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is there any chance we
can come down your place
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and talk things
over? They came around.
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It's now afternoon
and I've got nothing done
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that was on my list but
it didn't bother me at all.
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Should I tell you
why? Because of this,
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it says in Steps to
Christ that little book,
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you've got to write in or
call in, just ask for Steps
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to Christ, it's
only about 100 pages.
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Here's page 70: "Each
morning consecrate yourself
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to God for the day.
Surrender all your plans to Him,
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to be carried out or
given up as His providence
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shall indicate. Thus
day by day you may be giving
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your life into the hands of God,
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and thus your life will
be molded more and more after
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the life of Christ."
That is spiritual prosperity.
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But, let me ask a
question. It said that you have
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to surrender all
your plans to Jesus.
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That's what I did.
That's why it didn't worried me
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when I had phone
calls and people who's speak
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to me because I
surrender all my earthly plans
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even thought I
made them with the Lord.
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I surrender them all to
the Lord to be carried out
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or giving them up as his
providence shall indicate.
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If we haven't got any
plans, we can't surrender them.
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Make a plan for your
day after you've had prayer
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time with God. I do, I
sit at home I pull the leaver
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on my lazy boy chair,
I sit there and I say:
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Lord, we've got to
make a plan for today.
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Nothing I enjoy
more. I wanna move on now.
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Oh, just a quick point,
quick point here I don't wanna
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miss this, just a bit
of advice. If you're making
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a list of things to do,
put the things you enjoy
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the most at the end of the
list. Why would I say that?
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Can you figure it out? If
you put the things you enjoy
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the most at the
beginning of the list,
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you're going to spend
a lot of time doing those
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'cause you enjoy it. I've
made it a habit of putting
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the things that are
most agreeable to my nature.
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Putting them of
the end of the list.
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Then, I'm more
motivated to work through those
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things and getting to
things that naturally are more
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pleasing. Just a
little bit of humored advice
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for you there. Let's
move on, Thoughtful Study,
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the third part of our
morning time with the Lord.
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We've talk about prayer
time, being serious in our
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prayers, getting down
on our knees and then we
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looked at the need for planning.
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And now I wanna take a
look at Thoughtful Study.
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You could not, you
should not and you must not go
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into a day if you're planning
to prosper on this earth,
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you must not go into
the day without having spent
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a little time or even
better, a lot of time in the
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Holy word of God.
You know many of us,
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when we study
scripture, we just surface read.
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We sit there and we
read and we say I've read
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it before. Trying to
find something new to read.
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We have lost our
focus. You know how,
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the most effective way
for studying I have found
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is the verse by verse method.
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You take one verse
just one verse and you read
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it and you read it again
and you might wanna read it
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in several versions but
you keep read it and then
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you mediated upon it.
You just sit there and say:
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Lord, what is this saying to me?
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You know I was
doing that not a long ago
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with Luke 22:42, you
don't need to look at it but
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it says that:
Father, if thou be willing,
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remove this cup from me.
Jesus said that in the Garden
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of Gethsemane
remember? If thou be willing
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remove this cup from me.
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I've read that many times
before but this one morning
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I was sitting there
reading it and I was thinking:
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Father, if thou be willing,
remove this cup from me.
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What was that telling
me? That was telling me
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that Jesus, the
perfect one, in this situation
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was struggling to
do the will of God.
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He said if it's possible
God, remove this cup from me.
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But, what's the rest of
the verse? You know the rest
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of the verse?
Nevertheless not my will,
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but Thine be done. Oh! That
is the secret, dear friends,
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that is the secret
to spiritual prosperity.
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Not my will, but thy
will be done. Every moment in
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every day in every
decision that you have to make
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whether it be small
or whether it be large,
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whether you have a
whole corporate organization
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to organize or whether
you just have a future which
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would have to take care
of. Every single decision,
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your motto and my
motto should be nevertheless,
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not my will but Thine
be done. And I went through
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that day after I studied
that one verse for one hour
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in the morning. I
could memorize the verse from
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several translations.
I have much more of an
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understanding what it
was saying to me and most
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blessed I was able to take
that verse with me that day.
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What a day I had with
the Lord, Not my will but
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Thine be done,
in every situation.
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That's the
verse by verse method.
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We're talking a little
about Jesus there in Gethsemane.
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I just want us to take a
quick look at Jesus life.
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Did Jesus do any of
this stuff that we've been
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talking about? Praying to
his Father, planning his day,
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spending time in the
Old Testament scriptures?
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Yes, he did. Turn with
me. We can see it very clearly
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in Mark 1:35. It says
there, and in the morning,
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rising up a
great while before day,
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He went out and
departed into a solitary place,
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and there he prayed.
Jesus got out of his bed
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and he went out into a
quiet place so he could
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commune with his
Father and there he prayed.
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And there he studied. And there,
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I believe Jesus
thought about the day ahead.
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Father, do you want
me to move from this area
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now and move on? No,
my son, you can stay here
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a few more days. It
wasn't the Son doing the work
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it was the Father. And
Jesus was in communication
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with his Father. And
oh that is my desire,
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that is the desire of this
ministry 3ABN in conjunction
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with Restoration
International, our desire
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for you is to be connected
to Jesus Christ 100% of
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the time, is that
possible? Well this man hasn't
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experience that, but I
tell you I've gone through
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days, I've gone
through afternoons where every
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thought was in
subjection to Jesus Christ.
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Oh, there's nothing like
it. I'm gonna seek for that
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experience with all my
heart, with all my soul
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that it may be
mine. Another scripture:
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John 8 verse 2 it says
now. And early in the morning
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he came into the
temple, and all the people came
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to him; and he sat
down, and he taught them.
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You know that word
early has something to do
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with very early. If you
look it up in your margin
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or if you look up
into concordance that word
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that's translated
now early in the morning
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that is sunrise. Let
me ask you a question.
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If Jesus was
walking the earth today,
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living his ministry
the way he lived it.
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He would've been up
early, preaching at the church
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just like he was back
then? Would you be there?
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Or you would be
snoozing? Would you be like
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the disciples in Gethsemane,
slumbering? You know,
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Jesus was up early.
Jesus followers were up early.
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And I'm gonna
challenge you, get up early.
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How? But you don't
understand you might say.
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It's impossible for me
to get up early because;
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I'm just not a morning person.
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I'm not a morning
person and I get up early
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because God has change
me and God can change you.
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Amen? The reason that
you cannot get up early,
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and it took me 30 years
to figure out the reason
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I couldn't get up early,
is because I didn't go to
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bed early. I
challenge you the evening and
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morning of the first
day you go to bed early
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and you will be
able to get up early.
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Maybe not in the first
couple of days but once
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your body gets the backlog out,
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you'll be able to get
up early and have some
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time with the Lord.
The devil has a game plan
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though. I wouldn't dare
leave you without letting
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you know the
devil's got a game plan.
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He wants you late nights
and he gives you lots to do.
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You know, try to crumb
too much work into one day,
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you may get to bed in
time but your whole body
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is shot. Don't push
and rush every last second
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of your day, stay
connected with Jesus Christ,
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work out your plan,
don't put too much into
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the day and then you'll be
able to get to bed on time,
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then you're be
able to get some rest,
00:26:58.00\00:26:59.43
then you'll be able to
get up and then you'll be
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able to have a
morning time that will make
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you prosper spiritually.
You know, don't make it
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a habit of staying up
late. Let's close with a word
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of prayer. Father in
heaven, Oh, I'm so grateful
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that you plan for us to prosper.
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We've read it from
your word. And Father,
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I pledge myself and I
pray that the viewers today
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will pledge
themselves to cooperate with you
00:27:23.95\00:27:26.48
in planning to prosper.
It's in Jesus name we pray,
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Amen. It's been good
talking with you today.
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My only desire is that
this message doesn't fall
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on empty ears but that
you will take it to heart
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and then you will say
Lord, I give my whole life to
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you and I want to
prosper and I'm willing
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to do anything. God
will richly bless you.
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Be sure you let us
know how it goes. God bless.
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