Welcome to the Faith
Chapel, my name is Hal
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Steenson I like you
to join me today as we
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share the word of
God, but first let's go
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to the Lord in
prayer. Please join me.
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Father we thank
you for this time, the
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opportunity to share
your word. Lord, we thank
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you for your word,
that the words, truth,
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anything can say
your word's alive. Lord,
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we are here for no
other reason, no other
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purpose, just to
worship you God, if we get out
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of here and haven't
done that then we've
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failed you Lord.
Somehow someway let us worship
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you through the
ministry of your word,
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in Jesus name, amen.
I like to share with you
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today how to find
the perfect will of God
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for your life you
know, wouldn't it be great
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if we had someway of
finding out God's perfect
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will for our lives such
as, is it God's will for
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you to go to that
college? Is it God's will
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for you to make that
job change? Is it God's
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will for you to leave
your church for another
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church? Is it God's
will for you to make that
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mission's trip? Is
it God's will for you to
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join yourself to an
unbeliever? Of course
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not. Matthew 12:46
says, while he had spake
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to the people behold
his mother and his brethren
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stood without desiring
to speak with him. Then
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one said to him,
behold thy mother and thy
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brethren stand
without desiring to speak
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with thee. But
He answered and said
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unto them that told
him who is my mother and
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who are my
brethren, and He stretched
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forth His hand toward
his disciples and said,
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behold my mother
and brethren. For
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whosoever, now get
this, whosoever shall
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do the will of my
Father which is in heaven
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the same is my
brother and sister and
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mother. All of us
want to do the will of the
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Father, however
there are times when it
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seems the Father's
will is illusive, can we
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always know the will
of the Father? The answer
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is yes. And here's
how to know God's will.
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First, you must put
yourself in neutral.
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If you can't do this,
then forget everything
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else that I'm saying,
okay. You've got to put
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yourself in neutral
not drag, not reverse,
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neutral. You must be
in neutral for your heart
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to be cleansed.
Colossians 3:15 says and
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let the peace of God
rule, this word rule is
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our word that we
use for umpire, call
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all the balls, all
the strikes you just stay
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in the batter's box and
let God do the umpiring.
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Let the peace of God
rule in your hearts to
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the which also you're
called in one body and
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be ye thankful when
you're in neutral, God
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is able to call all
the balls and strikes for
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you, you don't have
to. Neutral will always
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allow you to see that
if the enemy can't slow
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you down he will
speed you up. 2 Chronicles
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20 verse 14 says
then upon Jahaziel the son
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of Zechariah, the
son of Benaiah, the son
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of Jeiel, and the son
of Mattaniah, a Levite
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of the son of Asaph,
came the spirit of the
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Lord in the midst of
the congregation. And he
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said, Hearken ye of
Judah, and ye inhabitants
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of Jerusalem, and
thou King Jehoshaphat,
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Thus saith the LORD
unto you, Be not afraid
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nor dismayed by reason
of this great multitude;
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for the battle is not
yours, but God's. This
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is neutral.
Tomorrow go down against them
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behold they come up
by the cleft of Ziz.
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And you shall
find them at the end of
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the brook before the
wilderness of Jeruel.
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Ye shall not need to
fight, listen to this,
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you shall not need
to fight this battle,
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set yourselves,
stand ye still and see the
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salvation of the
Lord with you oh Judah
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and Jerusalem, fear
not nor be dismayed,
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tomorrow go out
against them for the Lord
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will be with you.
You know they have to
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fight the battle just
stand still. I heard back
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years ago of a small
boy who lived in Kentucky,
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close to the
Kentucky derby he rode his old
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horse down to the
derby to show him off,
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he was proud of that
horse. His horse wasn't
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a thoroughbred in
fact it was an old, skin
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and bones, sway
back, neck hammered, that
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little boy was proud
of his horse. One of the
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owners came up to
him and said, hey son,
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can that horse run
fast, the little boy replied
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no sir, he cant run
fast but he can stay fast,
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but he can stand fast
some of us could learn
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a life lesson from
that little boy. You see
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if you can't put
yourself in neutral then the
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rest of this won't
work, also don't think for
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one minute that
neutral is a negative thing,
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it is a positive
thing. Isaiah 40:31 says but
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they that wait upon
the Lord, wait upon the
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Lord, put yourself
in neutral, shall renew
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their strength; they
shall mount up with wings
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of eagles; they shall
run, and not be weary;
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and they shall walk
and not faint. Waiting on
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God is not laziness,
waiting on God is not
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going to sleep,
waiting on God is not the
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abandonment of
effort, waiting on God means
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first activity under
command. Be ready for
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any new command
that may come, have the
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ability to do
nothing until the command is
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given. Now the second
thing is ask God to put
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his desires in your
heart and take your own
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desires out of your
head, your head and your
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heart are two different
things. In other words,
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stop listening to
yourself and start
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listening to the Holy
Spirit. Romans 8:26 says
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likewise the Spirit
also helpeth our infirmities:
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the word infirmities
here doesn't mean sicknesses,
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it means inability to
produce. For we know not
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what we should pray
for as we ought; but
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the Spirit itself
maketh intercession for us with
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groanings which
cannot be uttered; thank you
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Jesus. And He that
searches the hearts
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knoweth what is
demand of the Spirit because
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he maketh intercession
for the saints to get
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this according to
the will of God. What is
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God's will? God's
will is God's word. These
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desires that we
ought to have are to be
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God's desires not
our own. Psalms 37:4
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I love it, it says,
delight thyself also
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in the LORD; and he
shall give thee the desires
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of thy heart. The
word delight is a feminine
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word, it means to
be pliable like dough,
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this is what I call
the Play-Doh Principle. And
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some of you ladies
gonna understand this.
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There are two
irrefutable truths when it comes
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to play-doh, number
one is if you get it in the
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carpet it will never
come out of the carpet,
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the second
irrefutable truth is that if you
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don't put it back in
the box it will come hard
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as a rock. Now stay
with me now okay, when
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we will allow God to
take us, mold us, make us
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into what he
desires us to be and to do,
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he will then leave us
out of our old selfish
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play-doh container
and we will become firm
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in the faith in the
hands of God what was once
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just a blob
becomes a true man or woman
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of God, the desires
of God are diametrically
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opposed to our
fleshly desires. God's desires
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are a heart thing.
Peter talks about wives
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winning their
husbands not by outward
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appearance but by
the inward hidden man of
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the heart. One Peter
3:1 says Likewise, you
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wives, be in
subjection to your own husbands;
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that if any obey not
the word, they also may
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without the word be
won by the conversation
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lifestyle of their
wives. While they behold your
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chased conversation,
coupled with fear whose
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adorning let it not
be that outward adorning
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of the platting of the
hair and of the wearing
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of the gold, or of
the putting on of a pearl.
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Now here is the key,
but let it be the hidden
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man of the heart
and that which is not
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corruptible even the
ornament of a meek and
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quiet spirit which
is in the sight of God
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a great price. There
was a lady back several
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years ago in our
church and she used to put
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gospel tracks in her
husband's sandwiches,
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he worked in a mine,
he get down in a coalmine,
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open up his
sandwiches start to eat and he
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would bite into a
gospel track, do you
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think he read it? I
don't think so. That's not
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the way to win
your husband, that's not
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the way to win your
wife. You do it by the
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hidden man of the
heart. Paul calls his spirit
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heart the inward
man, Romans 7:22 says,
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For I delight in the
law of God after the inward
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man. 2 Corinthians
4:16 says For which cause
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we faint not; but
though our outward man perish,
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yet the inward man
is renewed day by day,
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aren't you glad?
God's desires means that no
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matter when,
where, why or what, your
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answer to him will
always be yes Lord, yes
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Lord, yes Lord.
Philippians 2:12 hear
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this, oh this is
beautiful Wherefore,
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my beloved, as ye
have always obeyed, not as
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in my presence
only, but now much more
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in my absence, work
out your own salvation
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with fear and
trembling. Here is what Paul is
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saying because
you've always obeyed God
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you may workout your
own salvation, because
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I know you will be
obedient to my Father's
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word and his will. You
see I used to wanna live
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in the in the Sermon
on the Mount, the fifth,
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sixth and seventh
chapter of Matthew. But
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man I would love to
live in Philippians 2:12
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where Paul would tell
me the apostle that wrote
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the majority of the
New Testament tell me,
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hey Al, tell you what
buddy, you've done such
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a good job serving
God and I know that you
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are gonna be
obedient to God in all that
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you do. That you
don't just do it when I'm
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there go, go ahead,
go ahead work out on
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your own salvation
with fear and trembling.
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And you have to
do according to verse
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13 says, for it is
God which worketh in you
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both to will and to
do of his good pleasure.
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Now, thirdly make
sure that this desire lands
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up and is agreement
with God's word. Now
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another way is to
make sure that it does not
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disagree with God's
word. I had a lady one
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time came to me and
said pastor, I've been
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praying about this
and I feel like God wants
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me to divorce my
husband, I told her right
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quick. I don't
have to look that up in
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the word of God, I know
that's not right because
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it goes against the
word of God. Make sure
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it lines up with
the word of God and does
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not go against the
word of God. Always prove
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it by the word of God,
if you follow step number
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one, put yourself
in neutral step number
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two ask God to put
his desires in your heart,
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God will answer you
with his word. Scripture
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that did not mean
anything to you before,
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you did these two
steps will come alive,
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jump off the word of
God and grab your heart
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and speak to your
heart. Now let me give
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you an example
there. Back 19, I believe
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it's 84 we needed,
Molly and I need $340,000
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to purchase some
property. It was snowing
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real deep that night
and cold and I went out
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walking to try to
hear from God. Nothing
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happened, I expect an
angel to jump up behind
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the bush but when
I got back home God
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began to speak loud
and clear with the word
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of God that's the
number one way God will
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speak to you is
through his word. Not sounds
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and wonders, not some
big voice, through his
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word in a scripture
that didn't mean anything
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to me one hour
before came alive to me and
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I knew that it was
a done deal. Luke 8:22
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says, Now it came to
pass on a certain day,
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that he went into a
ship with his disciples.
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And he said unto
them, this is what spoke
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to me, he said, Let us
go over to the other side
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of the lake. And
they launched forth. And
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I knew that it was
the done deal, I went out
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to the facilities that
we were trying to purchase
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and walked in
there, where they were
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removing fixtures
from the building, a man
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asked me what I was
doing and I responded
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that I was looking
over our new church and
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school facilities. He
laughed, he pointed his
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finger at me and said,
boy it will be a cold day
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in hell before you get
these buildings in this
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land. I told you,
you've had made two gross
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mistakes. Number one
he didn't know anything
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about hell and second,
he didn't know the power
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of our God. A short
while later, God showed
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up with $340,000
dollars and take a guess,
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just take a guess, oh
God so good. Take a guess
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who God had to
bring me the keys and put
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them in my hand, the
man that told me it would be
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cold day in hell
before I got those properties.
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And he said you
know what I don't know
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a lot about your God,
he must be a mighty God.
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John 15:7 says, if
you abide in me, and my
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words abide in you,
you shall ask what you
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will, and it shall
be done unto you. Ask
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yourself, will this
bring glory to me or it
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will build up the
kingdom of God, bring glory
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to God, that's what
it's all about. First
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Corinthians 10:31
says, whatsoever you do,
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do it all for the
glory of God. Now the fourth
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thing that you
want to do, is pray
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for God to work out the
circumstances to show his
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beckoning hand
please, please, please, say
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to God. Remember
this is not the main way
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to find God's will
have or some people will
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totally ruining their
lives and their family,
00:13:23.96\00:13:25.84
destroy everything
because there is a door
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open principle alone.
Life is hard enough even
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when you we're in
the perfect will of God,
00:13:32.14\00:13:33.70
let alone being in our
own will just because the
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door is open. Please
hear this, just because
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of door is open, it
doesn't mean that you
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move through it. 1
Corinthians 16:9 says,
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Paul says for a
great door and effectual is
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opened unto me, and
there are many adversaries.
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Just because the
door's open don't you move
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through it. I can't
tell you all the people that
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I have known that
have missed God as big
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as Texas, because
the door was opened for
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them. Back years ago,
a lady from our church
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came to visit us
and asked for council
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concerning a door
opening for her, to make her
00:14:06.47\00:14:09.22
major move across
the country with big
00:14:09.23\00:14:12.02
lifestyle changes
she told us that the Lord
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had prompted her to
be obedient to the first
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things that came out
of our mouth, my mouth
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particularly
concerning this matter, I was
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grieved, I was
grieved, my spirit was grieved.
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And I felt an urgency
for her not to do this,
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when I told her that I
didn't think she should
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go right now, the
time not that she should go
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with the time. She
said she had already made
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up her mind. People
don't come for your council,
00:14:38.88\00:14:40.62
they come for your
approval. And you don't
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want to give them
their approval you do, they
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do whatever they
want to. She went anyway,
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her fifteen year
old son went with her,
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he was an
encourager; an encourager is
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somebody puts
courage in you. A discourager
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is somebody that will
take courage out of you
00:14:54.97\00:14:56.91
and he was an
encourager, he was in our youth
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group powerful man
of God. Fifteen he was
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still a man of God.
And he had an affection for
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this young girl that
was there he moved half
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way across the
country moved into a new area.
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He wasn't accepted
with his peers because he
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was a man of God. They
rejected him they scorned
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him everything else he
went out into an orange
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road behind his
house and took a 357 magnum
00:15:19.16\00:15:22.34
and blew his brains
out. Her son killed himself
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because he had been
separated from those that
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he loved, the lifestyle
that he knew, no longer
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in a place where
he could serve the God
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that lady ended up
backsliding, living with a
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married man. At
this exact moment you are
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either in the perfect
will of God or you're on
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the wrong road. You
are going away from God,
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however there is a
key to finding out why you
00:15:48.98\00:15:51.42
are where you are
and how you got there.
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It's called providence
in reverse. Go back and
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trace your steps
and will see exactly how
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you got here. If
you are headed the wrong
00:16:02.09\00:16:04.50
direction you will see
which step or steps you
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left out. You know
when I was a child, I used
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to go downtown I
would go to Prince's
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theater and I would
take the bus and I used
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to have trouble
getting back on the right bus
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until what I did
was I examined the place
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that I got off
okay. Jesus said we got to
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worship him at the
intersection of spirit
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and truth, this is
where we have to meet him.
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Well I had to catch
the bus to get the same bus
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I had to catch it where
I got off, well what you
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are saying Pastor
Hal. What I am saying is
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very simply this.
Get back on wherever you
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got off. If you
got off in step number
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two God's desire,
then you need to get back
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on and ask God to
give your desires. What you
00:16:47.63\00:16:52.22
must do, what you
must do is say okay God
00:16:52.23\00:16:55.11
if it's, I didn't put
myself in neutral then
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get me in neutral. If I
didn't ask God's desires
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in, give me your
desires God and then if I didn't
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find scriptures for
and listen you always got
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to base everything on
scripture. If I didn't
00:17:06.64\00:17:10.17
find scripture for it
then doesn't matter if
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the door's open or
not. You see here's the
00:17:14.94\00:17:17.27
fourth thing. You've
got to allow God to open
00:17:17.28\00:17:20.11
the doors and make
sure they didn't see him
00:17:20.12\00:17:23.42
opening it. We had
a beautiful Christian
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couple back several
years ago that, that had
00:17:28.11\00:17:30.43
their children in our
church in our school, two
00:17:30.44\00:17:35.00
wonderful boys and
there was a minister that
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came from Africa and
he was very impressive you
00:17:39.91\00:17:46.20
know it's amazing how
you can sell something
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on television if you
have an English accent,
00:17:48.16\00:17:49.90
you know it
doesn't matter what it is.
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Well this guy
had a strong powerful
00:17:51.27\00:17:55.24
African accent and he
was a powerful minister
00:17:55.25\00:17:59.04
and very impressive.
Well the husband, the father,
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saw this in him and
instead of looking at the
00:18:04.28\00:18:07.59
Jesus in him looked
at the man. So impressed
00:18:07.60\00:18:11.70
with him that they
sold their home, they quit
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their jobs and they
moved to Africa to be
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a part of his ministry.
You know I just feel like
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I am speaking to
somebody here right now
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please have ears to
hear this. Doors opened
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everywhere, you don't
need a call of God to go
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go to Africa all you
need is a plane ticket
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but if you go to
Africa without a call a God
00:18:37.84\00:18:39.85
on your life you've
missed God. This man
00:18:39.86\00:18:42.70
took his wife, took
his children, she had
00:18:42.71\00:18:45.54
a powerful
ministry, took them to Africa,
00:18:45.55\00:18:49.57
relocated
everything. And then everything
00:18:49.58\00:18:55.50
began to fall apart.
Six months later broken,
00:18:55.51\00:18:59.94
defeated, downcast like
being whipped. They came
00:18:59.95\00:19:06.22
back to the United
States they couldn't put
00:19:06.23\00:19:10.76
their children back in
Christian school because
00:19:10.77\00:19:12.48
they didn't have the
money to do it. Molly
00:19:12.49\00:19:15.72
and I went and talked
to them and told them we
00:19:15.73\00:19:17.43
will pay for their
children's education. But
00:19:17.44\00:19:20.70
because of all that
they had been through the
00:19:20.71\00:19:22.85
man could not even
accept that. Surely if
00:19:22.86\00:19:26.15
I have missed God
this big then I missed God
00:19:26.16\00:19:27.76
by putting my
children back in Christian
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education. One thing
led to another and the
00:19:29.41\00:19:33.29
first thing you know,
there's a divorce. First
00:19:33.30\00:19:38.14
thing you know the
children are in the
00:19:38.15\00:19:40.76
world, the next thing
you know is that the entire
00:19:40.77\00:19:44.90
family is been run
over by the enemy. Why?
00:19:44.91\00:19:48.44
Because Pastor Hal
there's a door open,
00:19:50.30\00:19:52.40
I want to go
through it. No. No, you put
00:19:52.41\00:19:56.06
yourself in neutral
You ask God to put his
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desires in your
heart. You make sure it lands
00:19:58.32\00:20:01.25
up with the word of
God and if it does not land
00:20:01.26\00:20:04.01
up with the word of
God. Then it doesn't matter
00:20:04.02\00:20:05.89
if there is 10,000
doors open. You don't do
00:20:05.90\00:20:09.60
anything, the last thing
you do, as you wait until
00:20:09.61\00:20:15.11
you have the peace
of God, the peace of God
00:20:15.12\00:20:17.35
that passes on all
understanding, then,
00:20:17.36\00:20:20.03
only then will the
timing be right. If you ever
00:20:20.04\00:20:23.34
kick one door open,
you'll have to kick them
00:20:23.35\00:20:28.09
all open. I shared
with a brother recently,
00:20:28.10\00:20:30.99
this time he said well
I'm going to, I'm going
00:20:31.00\00:20:33.05
to go out and quit
my job and start going
00:20:33.06\00:20:35.86
out in evangelizing.
And I said brother whatever
00:20:35.87\00:20:37.77
you do, whatever
you do, whatever you do,
00:20:37.78\00:20:39.78
don't ever kick a
door open, ask God to open
00:20:39.79\00:20:43.89
the doors for you.
Ask God to say okay God
00:20:43.90\00:20:47.43
here I'm before you,
I'm committed to you,
00:20:47.44\00:20:49.44
I'm submitted to
you. Whatever you want
00:20:49.45\00:20:51.31
from my life, whatever
you desire from my life
00:20:51.32\00:20:53.33
then you open the doors
for me I will let people
00:20:53.34\00:20:56.00
know that I'm available.
But, I'm not going to,
00:20:56.01\00:20:59.62
please, please don't
this. If you are really
00:20:59.63\00:21:01.95
and truly a man of
God, a woman of God, all you
00:21:01.96\00:21:04.35
got to do is make
yourself available, let
00:21:04.36\00:21:06.45
people know that you
are available. And those
00:21:06.46\00:21:08.53
people will be
coming to your door, calling
00:21:08.54\00:21:11.03
you on the phone,
sending you emails, and instead
00:21:11.04\00:21:14.83
of it being stress and
strain and struggles and
00:21:14.84\00:21:17.58
wearing you out. And
it not being what God
00:21:17.59\00:21:20.22
wants to do, you just
submit yourself to God,
00:21:20.23\00:21:24.55
commit yourself to
God. And God opens those
00:21:24.56\00:21:27.40
doors, and then you
moves through them when
00:21:27.41\00:21:30.11
you have that peace
of God. Because if you
00:21:30.12\00:21:32.39
miss God, by one
minute, dear saints of God,
00:21:32.40\00:21:37.31
you have missed
God, you've missed him by
00:21:37.32\00:21:41.75
a country mile.
Philippines 4:6 says: Be
00:21:41.76\00:21:45.00
careful for nothing,
but in everything by prayer
00:21:45.01\00:21:47.34
in supplication,
with thanksgiving let your
00:21:47.35\00:21:51.96
request be made
known unto God. Philippines
00:21:51.97\00:21:56.00
4:7 says, And the
peace of God which passes
00:21:56.01\00:22:00.14
all understanding,
keep your hearts and you
00:22:00.15\00:22:04.50
minds through Christ
Jesus. Several years ago,
00:22:04.51\00:22:10.74
there was a
commercial on the television,
00:22:11.51\00:22:14.10
I remember this
commercial vividly.
00:22:14.11\00:22:16.87
It was a cycle commercial, watch
00:22:18.07\00:22:20.05
commercial and what
happened was a man was
00:22:20.06\00:22:22.55
walking down the
street about the bump into his
00:22:22.56\00:22:24.69
future wife. Now,
get this his future wife,
00:22:24.70\00:22:27.88
the mother of his
three children who goes own
00:22:27.89\00:22:30.46
to earn her law
degree and advances into
00:22:30.47\00:22:34.22
politics however he
didn't buy a cycle watch.
00:22:34.23\00:22:37.93
His entire future, his
entire future was missed
00:22:39.11\00:22:44.22
by one second. Do
absolutely nothing
00:22:44.23\00:22:48.73
without the peace
of God. When I was 21
00:22:48.74\00:22:53.99
years old, Molly and
I had only been married
00:22:54.00\00:22:55.69
a short time. I was
really going through
00:22:55.70\00:23:00.04
a lot of trouble,
the enemy sought to not
00:23:00.05\00:23:03.81
to just to keep me
from do anything, I don't
00:23:03.82\00:23:06.49
know what it is. But
you know people tell me
00:23:06.50\00:23:08.36
well God must really
have something for you,
00:23:08.37\00:23:10.05
because the enemy
has fought me since the
00:23:10.06\00:23:11.50
time I was 14 years
old. The enemy has tried
00:23:11.51\00:23:14.08
to destroy me, take my
life, everything that he
00:23:14.09\00:23:16.43
could do and at 21 I
was worn to a frazzle
00:23:16.44\00:23:19.58
and I ended up in a
hospital in Birmingham,
00:23:20.25\00:23:22.72
Alabama, just
mentally exhausted, physically
00:23:22.73\00:23:25.62
worn out and spiritually
lost. My mother sent me
00:23:25.63\00:23:32.20
a Bible, a brand
new Bible. And when I
00:23:32.21\00:23:35.12
opened it up, it
fell open to a scripture,
00:23:35.13\00:23:39.18
the only scripture in
that entire Bible that
00:23:39.19\00:23:41.61
was underlined and
it was also highlighted
00:23:41.62\00:23:43.62
my mother had
underlined and she had
00:23:43.63\00:23:45.45
highlighted it. In
that scripture John 14:27
00:23:45.46\00:23:50.70
it says: Peace I
leave with you; peace I give
00:23:50.71\00:23:53.63
unto you. Not as
the world giveth, giveth
00:23:53.64\00:23:56.23
unto you. Let not
your heart be troubled
00:23:56.24\00:23:59.01
neither let it be
afraid. I had always been
00:23:59.02\00:24:05.39
afraid, fear ruled
my life,and fear reigned
00:24:05.40\00:24:09.31
in me, peace had never
been there. I took that
00:24:09.32\00:24:13.61
Bible and throw it
across the room and it hit
00:24:13.62\00:24:16.25
the wall and it fells at floor.
00:24:16.26\00:24:17.63
Seven months later
after that Jesus Christ came
00:24:21.71\00:24:26.14
into my life and for
the first time in 28 years,
00:24:26.15\00:24:32.70
it was 28, it wasn't
21, it was 28. First time
00:24:32.71\00:24:35.05
in 28 years I felt
peace, a tremendous peace,
00:24:35.06\00:24:40.52
the peace of God.
Here is what it got, let me
00:24:40.53\00:24:42.04
speak it to you, okay?
Jesus Christ was a Prince
00:24:42.05\00:24:45.66
of Peace over the
Kingdom of Peace. You can't
00:24:45.67\00:24:47.44
be a prince without
having a kingdom. He was
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.89
a Prince of Peace
over a Kingdom of Peace
00:24:49.90\00:24:53.16
and when He left
he said, hey Hal hey
00:24:53.17\00:24:56.13
whoever you are
I'm gonna go to heaven
00:24:56.14\00:24:59.32
but tell you what
I'm gonna do? I'm gonna
00:24:59.33\00:25:01.76
leave you my
kingdom and what I want
00:25:01.77\00:25:04.19
you to do, is
I'm want you to rule
00:25:04.20\00:25:05.21
in it, I want you to
reign in that kingdom
00:25:05.22\00:25:07.72
and you will be
established in it until
00:25:07.73\00:25:11.14
I return for you and
I'm gonna prepare a place
00:25:11.15\00:25:13.48
for you. And
here's what we should do,
00:25:13.49\00:25:16.14
whenever the enemy
comes in and steels our
00:25:16.15\00:25:18.84
peace, whenever the
enemy comes and tries
00:25:18.85\00:25:21.47
to get us in fear,
because fear activates
00:25:21.48\00:25:23.47
Satan, the way that
faith activates God, what
00:25:23.48\00:25:25.16
we got to do? Is we
got to realize hey I'm
00:25:25.17\00:25:27.34
a prince, I'm a
princes of peace and this is
00:25:27.35\00:25:29.83
what I need to live
in. You see I've told you
00:25:29.84\00:25:32.98
five steps here;
number one, put yourself
00:25:32.99\00:25:35.76
in neutral and
wait on God. Number two,
00:25:35.77\00:25:39.42
ask God to put his
desires in your heart
00:25:39.43\00:25:42.54
and take yours out.
Number three make sure
00:25:42.55\00:25:46.64
it lands up with the
word of God, and then
00:25:46.65\00:25:49.91
number four, pray
that God will workout the
00:25:49.92\00:25:51.71
circumstances and
open the doors for you.
00:25:51.72\00:25:54.03
And see number five
is wait on peace of God,
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and that's hard to
do some times. I had an
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elder that was in our
church, that God spoke
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to him and said
here is what I want you
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to do, I want you
to go to Mexico, I want
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you to go down
there and I want you help
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build churches
and start missions and
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everything and he
came to me and said pastor
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I'm gonna go to Mexico,
I'm gonna build churches,
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I'm gonna be in the
missions and everything
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and he said God
spoke to me and told me
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to do this. And I
said well have you got the
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peace of God that
passes all understanding?
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And he said well I
don't know about that,
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he said you know
what do you mean I said
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would you speak
Hispanic? Or you speak Spanish?
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And he said well no
and I said well. Why don't
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you try to learn
Spanish before you do
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anything else. And
he said well I guess
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I could so he went to
Texas. McAllen, Texas,
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he enrolled in a
Spanish school, started going
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to a Spanish
church to learn Spanish,
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one of our pastors
here does that too. To learn
00:26:47.12\00:26:49.54
Spanish and before long
he and the church, he got
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with a guy and the
guy started teaching him
00:26:52.81\00:26:54.43
Spanish and you know
what if he gets this now
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okay God told him
to go seven years later
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before we went, but
when went he was totally
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prepared and the
reason why is because he
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put himself in
neutral, he asked God to put
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his desires in his
heart, he made sure that
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it land up with the
word of God and then God
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began to open the
doors and he was building
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churches all over
Mexico but only after the peace
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of God that passed
all understanding began
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to rule and reign your
heart. Can you find the
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perfect will of God for
your life? Of course you
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can, it doesn't
matter what it is, what
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circumstance it is.
You might not be able to
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find scripture if
you have padded pews or
00:27:32.18\00:27:34.14
silver communion
services, but let me tell
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you what when you
have a heart's desire for
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something you can
find it in the word of God.
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And I just encourage
you about the grace of God
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that you write these
five steps down. Listen
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to this over and
over again, order the CD
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whatever and you
can and will by God's
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grace find his
perfect will for your life.
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