God's love is inconceivable
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The love that He
shows is unconditional
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The power of the Lord
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is unbeatable
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Great is the Lord
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we serve
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God's love is inconceivable
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The love that He
shows is unconditional
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The power of the Lord
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is unbeatable
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Great is the Lord
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we serve
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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Praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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The greatness of the
Lord is inconceivable
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The love that He
shows is unconditional
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The power of the Lord
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is unbeatable
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Great is the Lord
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we serve
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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Oh oh, oh oh
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greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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oh oh, oh oh
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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God is great
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God is great
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God is great
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and greatly to be praised
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praised
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Come on let's sing that
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God Almighty
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Lord of Glory
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You have called me
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friend
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God Almighty
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Lord of Glory
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You have called me
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friend
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I am a friend of God
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I am friend of God
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I am a friend of God
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He calls me friend
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I am a friend of God
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I am a friend of God
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He calls me friend
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God Almighty, sing
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God Almighty
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Lord of glory
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You have called
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me, friend
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God Almighty
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Lord of glory
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You have called
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me friend
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Say I am a friend of God
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I am a friend of God
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I am friend of God
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I am a friend of God
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He calls me friend
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I am a friend of God
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I am a friend
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I am a friend of God
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I'm a friend of God
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I am a friend of God
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He calls me friend
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He calls me friend
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To worship You
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I live
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To worship You
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I live, I live to worship You
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I was able
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To worship You
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I live
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To worship You
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I live, I live to worship You
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Anybody _ to worship
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To worship You
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I live
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To worship You
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I live, I live to worship You
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If you came to worship Him
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say, To worship You
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I live. What worship is that?
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To worship You
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I live, I live
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to worship You
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Come on we're going to take it
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when you have
nothing else to say
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
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Oh, oh, oh oh,
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Will you help me sing?
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oh, oh, oh, oh
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Oh how great you are God
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I love the Lord
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oh, oh, oh, oh
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One more time, one more time say
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oh, oh, oh, oh
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oh, oh, oh, oh
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I give myself away
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I give myself away
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to You, please use me
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I give myself away
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Lord I give myself away
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to You, can you use me
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I give myself away
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My heart You've
got I give myself away
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All my life, my heart
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My mind, my soul
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I give myself away
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I give myself away
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So you can use me, oh
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Use me Lord. Come on
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To show someone the way
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And enable me to stay
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My storage is empty
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And I am available
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Come on let's take it up
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My storage, my storage is empty
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and I, and I
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am available to you
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If you are available,
come on sing, my storage
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my storage is empty
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and I am available
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I am not my own
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to you I belong
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I give myself, I give myself
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to You
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I give myself, come on
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My life is not my own
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To you I belong
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I give myself, myself
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I give myself to you
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You and only
You, come on and sing
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My life is not,
my life is not my own
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To you I belong
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I give, I give myself
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I give myself to You
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My life is not my own
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To you I belong
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I give myself, I
give myself to You
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Applause
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Turn with me to
the Book of Psalms
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What did I say?
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Psalm the 30th chapter
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Psalm 30
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And I want you to consider with
me verses 4 and 5 of Psalm 30.
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Psalm 30 verses 4 and 5.
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There you'll find
these words recorded.
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Sing unto the
Lord O ye saints of His
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And give thanks at the
remembrance of His holiness
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For His anger
endureth but a moment
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In His favor is life
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Here's what I
want to lift up today.
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Weeping may endure for a night
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But what, everyone?
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I don't hear you.
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Joy cometh when?
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In the morning. I just wish some
one would think with me today
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on the thought 'Midnight Praise"
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Midnight Praise, I may
have told you this story before
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If I did and it comes to your
mind, just turn to your neighbor
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and say, I heard
that before and it's good.
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Donna and I had just
settled in for the evening
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And because it had been
an exceptionally busy day
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I drifted off into a
deep sleep, a coma like sleep.
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A sleep that they call
REM sleep Rapid Eye Movement
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But suddenly my deep
sleep was interrupted by a sound
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A sound that I didn't recognize
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but the more consciousness
took over my reality, the more
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I began to recognize the sound
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till I became all the way awake.
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And I opened my eyes and noticed
that Donna was already awake.
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She was just laying
there with her eyes open.
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And I said, Donna
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do my ears deceive me
or is that a bird singing?
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She said that's a bird singing
I've been laying here listening
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to him for a little while
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In all of my
intellectual profundity
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I asked Donna a question
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I said, Donna what's a
bird doing, singing at midnight?
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You know Donna
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She has the sweetest disposition
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you could ever imagine.
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I guess that's why it went so
deep with me when she answered
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and she said, she calls me Bud
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She's been calling me Buddy
since Oakwood and she said, Bud
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who said a bird
couldn't sing at midnight?
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Where does it say that
the only time a bird can sing
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is when the sun is shining?
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She said that the Bible
says that the Lord will give you
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songs in the night.
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You know being the preacher
I had to have the last word
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and I said, but not
when it disturbs my sleep.
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That bird needs to go
to bed like the rest of us.
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And when the morning comes
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we can all praise God together.
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But as I turned over and
tried to slip back into sleep, I
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really couldn't because Donna's
words had gone deep with me
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They had gotten to a place of
agitation and I began to ponder
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the profundity of her thought.
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Who said a bird
couldn't sing at midnight?
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Who's restricted our praise
to only when the sun is shining?
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We have to get
to the place beloved
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when we don't just praise
God when the sun is shining.
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Somewhere in our journey,
we've got to learn to praise God
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even when there's
no sunshine anywhere.
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We've got to get to
the place in our spirits
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where we learn how to praise
Him even when we're standing
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in the midnight
of our circumstances.
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We've got to learn how to praise
Him when we've been washed by
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adversity and entrenched
in despair. We've got to learn
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how to praise Him even if
it means that our very life
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is on the line, but
somewhere before our eyes close
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we've got to be
able to say Jesus
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I believe this morning
there is no sweeter praise
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to the ears of God than
the praise that is rendered
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in the midnight
of our circumstance
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It's one thing to praise God
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when your
pockets are full of money
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It's another thing to
praise God when you got more
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debts than money. It's
one thing to praise God
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when you've just gotten
up from a three course meal
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It's another thing to
praise God when you haven't seen
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a meal in three days.
It's one thing to praise God
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when you're walking
around in the bloom of health
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It's another thing to praise God
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when you just heard
that you got terminal cancer
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It's one thing to praise
God when you go to your job
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and you sit behind your desk,
it's another thing to praise God
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when you've got no job
and you've got no desk.
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It's one thing to praise
God when your family is fine
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It's another thing to praise God
when all hell has broken loose
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in your home. It's
one thing to praise God
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when everything is coming
up roses, It's another thing to
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praise God when you seem
to only be growing thorns.
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I'm just talking
about midnight praise
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That's a
different kind of praise.
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It's the kind of praise
that doesn't make sense at all.
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It's the kind of praise
that people don't expect to come
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from you. When they consider
what you're going through
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It's the kind of praise
that doesn't seem to register
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at the level of intelligence.
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I heard one preacher
say that midnight praise
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is a preposterous praise. You
know I'm a word-smith. I like
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that word preposterous. It
sounded like it meant something.
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And so I went to look it up
and this is what Webster said
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about the word. It said
that preposterous praise was
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something that is contrary
to nature, reason, common sense
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and is absurd.
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I guess if we wanted to
summarize all those definitions
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we could just say
it's crazy praise.
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You've gotta be crazy
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to praise God with the
lights all out in your house
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You gotta be crazy to
praise God when your automobile
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just broke down at rush
hour on, what's that expressway?
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RL? You gotta be crazy to
praise God when your kids are
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losing their mind. You gotta
be crazy when you know everybody
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is looking at you
sideways. You gotta be crazy
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to give praise when it
makes no sense at all. In fact
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that word in the Latin,
when I looked it up in the Latin
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it says going forward
with your backside first.
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I was trying to picture
that in my mind, how do you go
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forward with
your backside first?
00:23:16.83\00:23:21.40
Until I saw a
Michael Jackson video.
00:23:21.43\00:23:27.50
and it is something
called the Moon Walk
00:23:28.57\00:23:31.91
Now don't ask Pastor to do it
'cause I will pull my back out
00:23:32.61\00:23:36.41
But I understood it a little
bit better. A motion that looks
00:23:38.01\00:23:42.28
like its going forward but
at the same time he's really
00:23:42.32\00:23:46.55
moving backward. How can you
go forward while going backwards
00:23:46.59\00:23:51.09
I don't understand. Midnight
praise is sometimes that way
00:23:51.13\00:23:54.46
finds a way to go forward when
everything in your life is going
00:23:54.50\00:23:59.40
backwards.
That's midnight praise.
00:23:59.43\00:24:03.07
I saw that kind of
praise in the life of Job.
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Job 1st chapter. Go there with
me, let's revisit Job chapter 1
00:24:12.18\00:24:18.79
And let's lift up this classic
portrait of midnight praise
00:24:18.82\00:24:24.49
Job 1, looking at verse 8 we
find, and the Lord said to Satan
00:24:24.53\00:24:32.63
Hast thou considered my servant
Job, there is none like him
00:24:32.67\00:24:38.01
in the earth, a perfect and
upright man. One that fears God
00:24:38.04\00:24:42.74
and eschews evil. You've
got to get the background here
00:24:42.78\00:24:46.28
See the devil shows up trying to
bring an indictment against God
00:24:46.31\00:24:51.19
that there's
nobody who's livin right
00:24:51.22\00:24:55.39
there's nobody
who's living right
00:24:55.42\00:24:59.16
You got to understand even
when you don't think somebody is
00:24:59.19\00:25:01.70
living right, God always
knows who the 7000 others are
00:25:01.73\00:25:07.04
who haven't bent a knee to Baal
00:25:07.07\00:25:10.24
and He says, have you
considered my servant who?
00:25:10.27\00:25:15.98
If you don't know
you better ask somebody
00:25:17.21\00:25:19.85
He's perfect. He
doesn't fear anything evil.
00:25:20.42\00:25:29.62
God is bragging on Job and verse
9 says, the devil says the only
00:25:30.79\00:25:36.77
reason he's praising you is why?
00:25:36.80\00:25:39.53
Talk to me
00:25:39.57\00:25:41.20
Cause you got a
hedge all about him.
00:25:41.24\00:25:47.18
A protection. Oh somebody's
going to get blessed right now
00:25:47.21\00:25:52.01
The only reason he's serving you
the only reason he's praisin you
00:25:52.05\00:25:59.09
the only reason why he's
acknowledging you is what?
00:25:59.12\00:26:03.19
you got what? a hedge. Don't
you understand that even the
00:26:03.22\00:26:08.53
devil knows he can't get into
when the Lord builds a faithful
00:26:08.56\00:26:13.34
wall around me. Every day the
devil knows he can't penetrate
00:26:13.37\00:26:18.41
that wall
because it's impregnable.
00:26:18.44\00:26:20.58
And so he says to the Lord,
if you just move your hedge
00:26:20.61\00:26:24.58
out of the way, just move it
00:26:24.61\00:26:28.25
If the devil is so bad
why can't he just cut it down?
00:26:29.95\00:26:33.05
I got some hedge clippers
00:26:35.69\00:26:38.09
If you are that devil just
cut through the hedge yourself
00:26:41.23\00:26:46.10
But no! He had to ask permission
00:26:46.13\00:26:50.21
Oh somebody, I hope
somebody gave the? today.
00:26:51.27\00:26:54.21
He had to get permission. Lord
move your hedge and I guarantee
00:26:54.24\00:27:00.15
you, he'll curse you to your
face. Verse 12 says, and God
00:27:00.18\00:27:04.85
gives the devil permission
to try Job, to try him but don't
00:27:04.89\00:27:10.46
touch him. You touch anything
he has but leave him alone
00:27:10.49\00:27:17.50
Look at verses 13
through 19 We find out
00:27:17.53\00:27:22.74
his cattle have been killed,
his servants have been killed
00:27:22.77\00:27:28.08
his children were having
their own little family reunion
00:27:28.11\00:27:32.81
a tornado comes up
and kills them too.
00:27:32.85\00:27:35.45
Everything that's near and dear
to him, his wealth, his servants
00:27:35.48\00:27:44.66
his children are
all taken away from him.
00:27:44.69\00:27:53.07
And yet, when you come
to the end of that chapter
00:27:53.10\00:27:57.41
notice Job's response. Verse
20 Then Job arose and did what?
00:27:57.44\00:28:05.55
rent his mantle
and did what else?
00:28:06.72\00:28:08.88
and what else did he do?
00:28:09.72\00:28:11.22
And did what?
00:28:12.49\00:28:14.22
You know what I
said midnight praise was?
00:28:18.09\00:28:20.23
It's a crazy kinda praise
00:28:20.26\00:28:22.40
You just lost everything,
you just lost all your children
00:28:22.43\00:28:27.70
And the Bible says,
00:28:27.74\00:28:32.24
he just tore his clothes,
shaved his head, and worshipped.
00:28:32.27\00:28:40.52
What did he say in his worship?
Verse 21. And Job said what
00:28:41.92\00:28:47.16
Naked came I out of my
mother's womb, what else?
00:28:49.29\00:28:53.03
Naked shall I return thither
00:28:53.06\00:28:56.26
The Lord gave, what else?
00:28:56.30\00:28:58.63
What's that word?
00:29:00.87\00:29:02.44
What's that
word? What's that word?
00:29:02.47\00:29:05.07
Blessed be what?
00:29:05.11\00:29:08.81
If you don't know how
to give midnight praise
00:29:12.71\00:29:15.28
You are the?. Use Job's praise.
00:29:16.32\00:29:19.59
I didn't have
anything when I got here,
00:29:19.62\00:29:23.76
And so now that
I've lost it all to Jesus
00:29:23.79\00:29:27.13
Now that I've lost everything
00:29:27.16\00:29:29.73
I know perhaps I
should be upset about it
00:29:29.76\00:29:33.97
But since I got
here with nothing
00:29:34.00\00:29:36.30
I'm just back to the beginning
00:29:36.34\00:29:38.74
But the fact that I can
be here at all makes me say
00:29:40.21\00:29:43.38
Blessed, blessed be the
name of the Lord. See you got to
00:29:43.41\00:29:49.48
understand something
about midnight praise. Midnight
00:29:49.52\00:29:53.05
Praise doesn't focus
on what you don't have
00:29:53.09\00:29:57.26
it focuses on what you do have
00:29:57.29\00:30:00.10
I may not have my children
I may not have my wealth
00:30:00.13\00:30:06.60
I may not have my servants
00:30:06.63\00:30:09.40
but I still got my
Jesus. Might you all say Amen
00:30:09.44\00:30:13.78
I still got my life.
There are things we have in life
00:30:13.81\00:30:20.05
that are worth more
than material things.
00:30:20.08\00:30:23.42
That are worth
more than anything else,
00:30:23.45\00:30:27.12
your life and your Lord
00:30:27.16\00:30:29.92
We don't put enough
value on our lives and our Lord
00:30:32.69\00:30:41.74
But the Bible lets me know
00:30:44.27\00:30:48.31
that the devil came back again
00:30:49.38\00:30:51.91
in Chapter 2 because he
thought his strategy would work.
00:30:51.95\00:31:01.02
And yet instead of
getting him to curse God
00:31:02.86\00:31:06.96
Job gives the midnight praise
00:31:07.00\00:31:09.93
And so he comes back
to God and says, listen
00:31:11.37\00:31:14.04
see, here's the problem.
You wouldn't let me touch him
00:31:16.40\00:31:23.48
You let me touch
the things he had.
00:31:24.91\00:31:27.48
But You didn't let me touch him
00:31:27.52\00:31:30.25
So this time let's do this
thing a little bit differently.
00:31:31.29\00:31:34.49
I just don't want to touch
his things, I want to be able
00:31:34.52\00:31:40.23
to touch him. And the
Lord said, have a try,
00:31:40.26\00:31:48.37
If you feel foggy
00:31:48.40\00:31:52.47
He ain't scared of you
00:31:55.04\00:31:57.25
Go ahead. But there's
one thing I gotta tell you
00:31:58.11\00:32:03.08
Don't take his life
00:32:03.82\00:32:07.82
Listen to me beloved. You
may feel like that thing you're
00:32:07.86\00:32:14.36
going through right now is going
to kill you. But you need to
00:32:14.40\00:32:18.17
understand, God has
placed limitations on him
00:32:18.20\00:32:22.30
no matter how hard that thing
is, no matter how bad it feels
00:32:25.51\00:32:30.51
no matter if it feel like it's
going to kill you, if you feel
00:32:30.55\00:32:34.18
like it's going to take you out
understand the devil can go only
00:32:34.22\00:32:37.72
so far and no further. The
Lord has put restrictions on the
00:32:37.75\00:32:43.02
devil. I don't care what
your experience is right now
00:32:43.06\00:32:47.60
my God says, thus
far and no further!
00:32:47.63\00:32:51.53
God's got your back
whether you believe it or not.
00:32:53.40\00:32:58.17
It doesn't feel like it right
now because you're standing
00:32:58.21\00:33:03.68
you're standing fresh in
the reality of that experience
00:33:03.71\00:33:09.68
and so your mind does not
process the goodness of God
00:33:09.72\00:33:15.39
or the quickness of God. Your
mind is still trying to deal
00:33:15.42\00:33:19.96
with the loss, with the pain,
with the change that is coming
00:33:20.00\00:33:26.74
in your life and so it will
take a little moment for you to
00:33:26.77\00:33:31.24
shift out of first into second.
Until you can get into 4th gear
00:33:31.27\00:33:37.11
and be able to say
with Job Though He slay me
00:33:37.15\00:33:40.22
Yet I'm going to trust Him
00:33:43.35\00:33:47.52
Can we talk? I
said, can we talk?
00:33:47.56\00:33:51.83
Well you better talk to me then
00:33:51.86\00:33:54.13
If we talk understand
something understand something
00:33:54.16\00:33:58.50
You don't grow and get
that kinda faith overnight
00:33:58.53\00:34:04.47
So don't let
people guilt trip you
00:34:06.94\00:34:09.94
I'm telling you something now.
Don't let people guilt trip you
00:34:11.11\00:34:15.28
Because your faith
doesn't seem to be as strong
00:34:15.32\00:34:19.22
as they think it should be.
00:34:19.25\00:34:21.36
You know it's one thing
for somebody to say to you
00:34:22.09\00:34:25.33
when you just lost
something or someone
00:34:25.36\00:34:28.73
Well you got to know
the Lord is my Shepherd
00:34:28.76\00:34:31.60
It's another thing
when the tables are turned.
00:34:37.37\00:34:42.74
And the situation is different.
00:34:42.78\00:34:45.45
And they are now
walking in your shoes.
00:34:45.48\00:34:48.38
And they recognize
there's a rock in your shoe.
00:34:48.42\00:34:52.29
Those same people who can
quote those scriptures to you
00:34:54.02\00:34:57.63
Those same people who were
so ready with their commitment
00:34:57.66\00:35:01.80
now you can barely see
them with a smile on their face
00:35:01.83\00:35:06.60
because they're always
bent over in grief and despair
00:35:06.63\00:35:11.44
because while they knew
the 23rd Psalm they failed to
00:35:11.47\00:35:17.31
know the Shepherd.
00:35:17.35\00:35:21.05
We need to move beyond a
rote memorization of the Word
00:35:23.55\00:35:29.09
to a place where we gain an
experience in the Living Word
00:35:30.83\00:35:36.90
Are you listening to me?
00:35:36.93\00:35:39.60
It is different when
you're going through it
00:35:42.20\00:35:46.37
than when you tell
somebody or watch somebody
00:35:46.41\00:35:51.55
go through it and try to give
it a word. One of the moments
00:35:51.58\00:35:55.52
in my ministry where I feel
the most helpless and useless
00:35:55.55\00:36:03.29
I'm just being transparent here
00:36:03.32\00:36:05.49
is when someone is going
through an experience and I have
00:36:05.53\00:36:09.23
absolutely no way to help them.
00:36:09.26\00:36:12.47
I can't resurrect their loved
one, I can't give them back
00:36:12.50\00:36:18.14
their job, I can't pull
their marriage back together
00:36:18.17\00:36:22.41
I can't get their
child off crack cocaine
00:36:22.44\00:36:26.15
All I can do is
say, I'll pray for you.
00:36:27.62\00:36:30.55
I'll pray for you.
And I feel so useless.
00:36:32.42\00:36:39.06
Except for the fact I
start to remember when somebody
00:36:40.46\00:36:44.73
prayed for me.
00:36:44.77\00:36:46.10
If that's all you
have, then you use it.
00:36:48.74\00:36:52.41
There's a power in prayer.
Did you hear what I said?
00:36:52.44\00:36:57.75
There's a power, I'd
rather somebody prayed for me
00:36:57.78\00:37:00.85
When I am going
through something, cover me
00:37:00.88\00:37:05.69
When I can't
pray myself. Job said
00:37:05.72\00:37:10.73
The Lord has given,
the Lord has taken away
00:37:10.76\00:37:14.16
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Even after the devil comes again
00:37:14.20\00:37:19.27
and God gives him
permission to touch him
00:37:19.30\00:37:22.30
he still doesn't budge.
When you read through chapter 2
00:37:22.34\00:37:26.47
of Job you find out
that his friends came to him.
00:37:26.51\00:37:30.55
I'm going somewhere with this
00:37:32.15\00:37:34.82
Now Job is going through
great distress and calamity
00:37:36.15\00:37:40.89
and when you're going through
something, there's something
00:37:42.06\00:37:44.83
that I learned while a chaplain
in the military, it's called the
00:37:44.86\00:37:48.36
ministry of presence. Don't
think that you're supposed to
00:37:48.40\00:37:53.97
have an answer for everything.
00:37:54.00\00:37:56.81
Did you hear what I said?
00:37:56.84\00:37:58.47
Sometimes, the
best thing you can do
00:37:58.51\00:38:02.74
is just sit there and shut up.
00:38:02.78\00:38:05.08
Just be there for somebody
00:38:06.78\00:38:10.19
Because while they're
going through their midnight
00:38:10.22\00:38:13.62
their eyes are talking
and they can't see God.
00:38:13.66\00:38:18.19
And so they can try to get
as close as they can to God
00:38:18.23\00:38:23.06
through you by you sitting there
to represent God's presence
00:38:23.10\00:38:28.77
Well you ought to know
that you ain't God, so shut up.
00:38:30.41\00:38:33.17
You can't say the right thing
so just be there in presence
00:38:34.08\00:38:39.51
There are going to come times in
the experience of God's people
00:38:43.75\00:38:48.42
we're not going to
understand what God is doing.
00:38:48.46\00:38:53.36
When I talked
with Nikki this morning
00:38:53.40\00:38:56.33
and I listened through her tears
00:38:56.36\00:38:59.50
I couldn't offer anything
that sounded intelligent to me
00:39:02.17\00:39:07.01
so I listened with
the ministry of presence
00:39:09.41\00:39:15.82
Even if I tried
to convey the story
00:39:18.32\00:39:21.26
of Job, it
wouldn't have meant anything
00:39:22.19\00:39:24.76
right then. It was too
fresh and it was too new.
00:39:24.79\00:39:32.37
When I hear stories
like Job I feel indicted
00:39:32.40\00:39:37.41
because I don't
know, well I do know now
00:39:37.44\00:39:41.44
that I don't respond like this
00:39:41.48\00:39:45.58
when I'm going
through something. Do you?
00:39:45.61\00:39:47.82
You don't have to tell me the
truth, you know the truth anyway
00:39:49.15\00:39:52.59
We've got a long way to
grow, did you hear what I said?
00:39:54.26\00:39:59.86
We've got a long way to what?
00:39:59.89\00:40:02.06
Not go but to grow
00:40:02.10\00:40:07.44
Let me share a passage
of Scripture with you as I
00:40:08.20\00:40:11.97
bring this message to a close
00:40:12.01\00:40:15.31
Philippians the 4th chapter
00:40:15.34\00:40:20.42
What kind of
praise am I talking about?
00:40:21.22\00:40:23.28
Philippians the 4th chapter
00:40:24.49\00:40:27.76
Have a look at verse 6 and 7
00:40:27.79\00:40:30.16
Philippians 4:6-7.
Be careful for nothing,
00:40:30.99\00:40:36.03
But in
everything, how many things?
00:40:36.06\00:40:38.70
A few things. How many things?
00:40:38.73\00:40:41.37
Everything. In everything
by prayer and supplication
00:40:41.40\00:40:47.78
with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known unto who?
00:40:47.81\00:40:53.98
Unto God
00:40:54.95\00:40:58.12
That's an important principle,
let your request be known to God
00:41:03.73\00:41:07.30
When Job's friends came to
him you'd expect your friends
00:41:08.40\00:41:12.57
to do what when you're
going through your midnight?
00:41:12.60\00:41:14.74
I heard support
you, isn't that right?
00:41:15.44\00:41:18.57
Be there for
you, isn't that right?
00:41:18.61\00:41:20.71
Hold your arms
up, isn't that right?
00:41:20.74\00:41:23.14
When Job's friends got there
00:41:23.18\00:41:25.48
they noticed something about him
00:41:28.18\00:41:30.69
Bible commentators speculate
that Job had a venereal disease
00:41:30.72\00:41:37.09
that was in its advanced stages
00:41:38.06\00:41:41.66
William Barclay, a noted
authority in New Testament
00:41:42.46\00:41:46.17
times and teachings says that
their thinking was simple that
00:41:46.20\00:41:51.57
there was some sort of relation-
ship between sin and suffering
00:41:51.61\00:41:55.44
so that the part of
the body that was afflicted
00:41:55.48\00:41:59.68
was no doubt the part of
the body used to commit the sin
00:41:59.71\00:42:03.65
What kind of disease?
00:42:03.69\00:42:06.89
I'll let you fill in the blanks.
00:42:06.92\00:42:08.99
This is a preacher
who's supposed to be holy.
00:42:09.96\00:42:13.83
This was a preacher who was
supposedly keeping commandments
00:42:13.86\00:42:18.60
This was a preacher who was
married. This was a preacher
00:42:18.63\00:42:22.20
who's supposed to be faithful
00:42:22.24\00:42:24.01
and he's sitting there
in sack cloth and ashes
00:42:24.04\00:42:27.64
with a venereal disease
00:42:27.68\00:42:29.64
scraping the sores
because they itch so bad
00:42:31.31\00:42:36.72
and trying to convince them
he hasn't done anything wrong.
00:42:36.75\00:42:42.76
I'm talkin about Job's friends.
00:42:44.23\00:42:48.06
You need to be
careful who you call friends.
00:42:48.10\00:42:51.17
You have to ask God to
select your friends for you.
00:42:53.77\00:42:58.44
Because your friends can
be a help or hindrance to you
00:42:59.67\00:43:06.75
when you're going
through your midnight journey
00:43:06.78\00:43:10.22
You need the kind of friends
that even though it doesn't
00:43:11.42\00:43:13.82
add up, even though it
doesn't look right, even though
00:43:13.86\00:43:19.69
the circumstances say one
thing they refuse to believe
00:43:19.73\00:43:24.53
what they see but rather they'd
believe what they know about you
00:43:24.57\00:43:29.37
That's why the
writer of Philippians says
00:43:32.64\00:43:36.01
Rather than to go to man
00:43:36.04\00:43:38.75
where you really need to go,
see your friends on account of
00:43:40.02\00:43:44.19
whom they can just be there
even if you don't say nothing
00:43:44.22\00:43:47.22
if you're just quiet. Make
your requests known to who?
00:43:47.26\00:43:53.16
Let God know what's
going on because there's nobody
00:43:54.43\00:43:59.13
down here when you're standing
in the midnight of circumstances
00:43:59.17\00:44:03.41
that can do anything about it.
00:44:03.44\00:44:06.21
Only God can. So make
your requests known unto God
00:44:06.24\00:44:14.45
Here's what you
gotta do in midnight.
00:44:14.48\00:44:18.95
At midnight you need to pray
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You need to what?
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Pastor I don't feel like it.
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Pastor I'm angry with God
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Pastor I don't believe
God is listening anyway
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Pastor do you realize
I just lost my mother?
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I just lost my father?
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And God is sovereign and He
could've stopped it if He wanted
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and you say I need to do what?
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Pray
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Understand beloved that
just because we're believers and
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we're Christians in the body
of Christ doesn't mean we always
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want to do the things
the body of Christ does.
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The only reason you don't know
about it is because nobody is
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honest enough to tell you
they don't feel like praying.
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But if we were transparent
we'd be honest enough to say
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there are times
when I am angry with God
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There are times when I
don't want to talk to God
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There are times I feel
like God has let me down.
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There are times when I could
slap somebody if they mention
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God's name. But you need
to understand even when its
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when you don't feel like praying
that you need to pray the most
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squeeze out a
prayer, moan out a prayer
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hum a prayer, cry out a prayer
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If you don't have a prayer
turn to the Psalms and borrow
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a prayer. Whatever you
do, get a prayer unto the Lord
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Because even if you
were in the best of your mind
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your best prayer still
needs to be reinterpreted before
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it reaches the ears of God.
The Spirit grabs your prayer
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and puts it in a language where
God can understand precisely
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what you need even if you
didn't ask it in your prayer
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I like that about God. Even
when I don't know how to pray
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He helps my prayer out!
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There's something else
you should do at midnight
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it's right there in verse 7
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after you've made your
requests known, the what of God?
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the what of God?
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Which does what?
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What will it do?
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Midnight praise
will cause you to pray,
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midnight praise will
cause you to have peace
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that nobody else understands
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It has to be mingled,
however, with a prayer
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Prayer first, praise
second, and then it will produce
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peace. Listen to this quotation
from the book Education, page166
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When Jesus was met
with stinging or sharp words
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when atmosphere around
Him was heavy with gloom
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dissatisfaction,
distrust or fear, He would sing
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He met temptation with praise
and left temptation with peace
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Peace. Do you
remember what that felt like?
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Peace. The absence of fear.
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The absence of conflict.
The absence of anxiety.
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Peace. The three Hebrew
boys knew something about that
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because even when
looking in the fiery furnace,
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in the midnight of their
circumstances, they said OK
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we're not careful to answer
you. The God who we serve is
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what? I don't hear you.
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He's able to do what?
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Deliver us from the
burning fiery furnace.
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But if He doesn't
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He's still God.
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But if we burn to
death He's still good
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But if He doesn't
deliver us from the fire
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He's still our God.
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But if we have to go to
sleep today understand something
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we're still going to serve Him
and we're not going to serve you
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You've got to have your heart
fixed and your mind made up
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when you're going
through the midnight experience.
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Finally, finally, finally
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It says and God shall
keep your hearts and your minds
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through Jesus Christ. Understand
something beloved. You've got
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to get this point.
Understand something.
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Midnight praise precedes victory
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What did I say?
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I was on the internet one
evening after my father died
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and it was a chat
room full of people
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I don't really know
what kind of chat room it was
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I don't know what
kind of chat room it was
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I remember chatting,
putting in words and I said
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My father has died
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and it hurts so bad
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and I left it out there.
And they kept right on chatting
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all around, I saw
post after post after post
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and then after about 10 minutes
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someone directed a post to me
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and they said, CP
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it's going to get better.
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I can't explain it but
it's going to get better
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They went on to chat and tell me
how they had lost their mother
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and so they were relating
to the emptiness that I felt
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they understood
the pain that I had
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But they wanted to let me
know that there is a bright side
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somewhere. I began
to chat with that person
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further and we shared
our journey with each other
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and by the time I finished
talking with him that night
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it was well after midnight.
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Where I had been crying,
where I had been full of anxiety
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and perplexity, by the time that
person finished talking to me
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I was praising God.
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I would be lying to you if I
told you that I stayed in that
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place, because I didn't.
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I relaxed and I went back out
again trying to find that person
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hoping they would
be out there for me,
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just to tell me hold on
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Victory is around
the corner Jesus is able
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They never came out
again. I went the next night
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and the next
night and the next night
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They were never out there again
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And so for the next four years
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I had to forget about that chat
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and I had to
send out another chat
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Even though there's chatting
going on all over the place
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I recognized that when I
sent out my chat, He heard
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He was able to
distinguish my need
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from everybody else's need.
When we're going through the
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midnight of our circumstance
sometimes we're inclined to
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believe that I'm going
through it all by myself
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Nobody understands
what I am going through.
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But understand
something, Jesus knows.
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And He offers, He offers
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His peace, His
comfort and His grace
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When I hung up
the phone this morning
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Donna sent me a
text and her text says
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Buddy, just remember
today that if you're weeping
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Jesus is weeping more
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Please share that
with the families today
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He's touched by the
feelings of our infirmities
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He can relate to us
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Don't think Jesus
doesn't feel your pain
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He feels it, just as
verily as He felt those nails
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go through His hands.
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Those nails through His feet
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That ignominious crown of
thorns pressing into His brow
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He feels your pain
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And today, this morning,
Jesus wants to give you peace
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in the midst of your pain
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It doesn't matter whether
or not you're capable of giving
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Him your
midnight praise right now
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Can you give him a
midnight surrender?
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Can you just come to
the altar and say, Pastor
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I confess I haven't been able
to give the Lord midnight praise
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but I can give
Him my midnight pain
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You said He can turn
it into midnight praise
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Weeping endures for a night
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the Bible says, Joy is
going to come in the morning
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Do you need to come?
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Do you need to bring
your midnight of pain?
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Until you can get to the
midnight praise? If you need
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to come just come. Slip
out of your seat and just come
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Just come, just come
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You need to bring
your midnight of pain here
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Just come. Bring it,
bring it Just get up and come
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Get up and come. I
don't know what it is
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But I know what God put
in my spirit to say today
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just come, bring your pain
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Just bring your
midnight of pain. Bring it
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Bring it. Don't just
sit there. It doesn't matter
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what people say. They can't
do anything about your pain
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Only Jesus can. So don't be
concerned about who's looking
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Just get up and come.
Don't worry about who's looking
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at you. You ought to be worried
about who can see from there
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Do you need to
come? Come, come, come
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I don't care if you haven't
responded to an altar call
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But come today, respond
today If this is the first time
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you've come to the
altar call come today
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Bring your pain today
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Let's sing. All to Jesus
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I surrender all
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All to Him I freely give
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Is there someone
else that needs to come?
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I will ever
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love and trust Him
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In His presence
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daily live
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I surrender all
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