I love the Lord
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He heard
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My cries
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And pitied every
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Groan
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Long as I live
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When troubles rise
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Oh, I'll hasten to
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His throne
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Oh
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I love the Lord
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I so do so do you love Lord
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He heard
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Heard My cries
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And He pitied every groan
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Pitied every groan
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Every groan
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Long as I live
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Long as I live
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When troubles rise
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Oh, I'll hasten
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Hasten to
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His throne
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Oh, I'll hasten to His throne
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Oh, I know I can
go I know I can go
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I'll hasten to His throne
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Oh, I know I
can go I know can go
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I'll hasten to His throne
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His throne
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Oh, yeah I know I can go
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I'll hasten to
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When I know I
don't have anybody else
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I'll go to His throne
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Oh
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I'll hasten
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To His throne
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Oh, I know I will
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My name is victory
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What's your
name What's your name
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It's victory
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Come on let's do
a little better now
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What's your name Victory
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Halleluiah Come on
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Who came to
Praising this morning
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Would you put hands together
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Here we go
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I've got evidence
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I've got evidence
I've got confidence
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I'm a conquer I'm a conquer
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I know that I'll
win I know that I'll win
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I know who I am I know who I am
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God wrote it
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God wrote it in his plan for me
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo my name
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My name is victory
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I think you know it
Come on say it again.
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Ooh Oh oh ohooo
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My name My name is victory
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All right Lets it
from the top again
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"I've got
evidence" let's sing it.
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I've got
confidence I've got confidence
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I'm a conquer I'm a conquer
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I know that I'll
win I know that I'll win
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I know who I am I know who I am
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What did you do
God wrote in his plan
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God wrote in his plan
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo
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What's your name
My name is victory
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Nice to meet Come
on let's say it again
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo
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My name My name is victory
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo come on
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God gave me authority
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To conquer the enemy
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He wrote it my destiny
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Said my name is victory
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He said that I've overcome
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I know I've already won
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He wrote it in my destiny
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That my name is victory
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I know who I am
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God wrote it in his plan
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God wrote it in his plan for me
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo
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What's your name
My name is victory
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There we go come on
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo
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My name My name is victory
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Come and say it again
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo
God gave me authority
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To conquer the enemy
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He come on my destiny
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And my name is victory
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He said that I've overcome
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I know I've already won
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He wrote it my destiny
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That my name is victory
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I know who I am
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God wrote it in his plan
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God wrote it in his plan for me
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo
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My name My name is victory
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It goes one more time
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Ooh, oh oh ohooo
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My name My name is victory
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I know my identity
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Come on man
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My name is victory
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Come on Say it again
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I know my identity
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Because my name
is victory say it
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I know my identity
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My name My name say it victory
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To the my Lord
I know my identity
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Oh, my name My
name is say victory
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I know I know my identity
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My name My name is victory
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Victory
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Victory That's my name
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Victory I know I know who I am
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Victory Victory
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Say that's my name
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My name victory Say victory
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I know I know who I am
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I know I know who I am
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I know I know who I am
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I know I know who I am
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Say I know I know who I am
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Halleluiah--
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Halleluiah, Halleluiah
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My name is victory Yeah
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And I know who I am
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I'm a child of the living God
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Halleluiah
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Alpha and omega
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The beginning and the end
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I sense a presence
in this place right now.
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And there's a sweet
presence because God is here.
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How many of you all believe that
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God is on this place, right now?
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It's a simple
song, everybody knows it.
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I want you all to sing along.
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It says, "The God is here,
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He's here in this place
and He's here in our hearts."
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Let's give God the glory.
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There is--
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There is a sweet anointing
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In the sanctuary
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There is a stillness
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In the atmosphere
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Oh, Come and lay down
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The burdens you have carried
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For in this sanctuary
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God is here
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Say it again there is a sweet
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There is a sweet
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There is a sweet anointing
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In the sanctuary
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There is a stillness
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In the atmosphere
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Come and lay down
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The burdens you have carried
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For in this sanctuary
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God is here
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Now say it to the
top of your voice that
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"He is here."
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He is here, He is here
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He is here, He is here
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To break the yoke
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To break the yoke
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And lift the heavy burden
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Oh, He is here say
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He is here
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I know He is here
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He is here
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To heal the hopeless heart
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To heal the hopeless heart
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And bless the broken
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Oh, Come Oh, Come and lay down
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The burdens you have carried
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For in this sanctuary
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God is here
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I want you to
say it one more time,
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say, "God is here," say it
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He is here He is here
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To break the yoke
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He is here, He is here
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To break the
yoke To break the yoke
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And lift the heavy burden
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Oh, He is here say He is here
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My Lord is here
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He is here
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To heal the hopeless hearts
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To heal the hopeless heart
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And bless the broken
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Oh, Come and lay down
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The burdens you have carried
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For in this sanctuary
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God is here
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Give Lord and thanks to the Lord
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Oh, oh give thanks to
the Lord for He is good
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Oh, oh give thanks to
the Lord for He is good
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For His mercy
Endureth forever and ever
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Oh, oh give thanks to
the Lord for He is good
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Oh, oh give thanks to
the Lord for He is good
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Oh, oh give thanks to
the Lord for He is good
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For His mercy
Endureth forever and ever
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Oh, oh give thanks to
the Lord for He is good
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And now we sing
Hallelujah, oh, give thanks
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We sing
Hallelujah, oh, give thanks
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We sing
Hallelujah, oh, give thanks
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Oh, oh give thanks,
to the Lord He is good
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And now we sing
Hallelujah, oh, give thanks
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We sing
Hallelujah, oh, give thanks
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We sing
Hallelujah, oh, give thanks
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Oh, oh give thanks,
to the Lord He is good
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Oh, oh give thanks
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To the Lord He is good
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Oh, oh give thanks,
to the Lord He is good
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His mercy
endureth forever and ever
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Oh, oh, give thanks,
to the Lord He is good
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And now we sing
Hallelujah, oh give thanks
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We sing
Hallelujah, oh give thanks
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We sing
Hallelujah, oh give thanks
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Oh, oh give thanks, to
the Lord For He is good
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And now we sing
Hallelujah, oh give thanks
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We sing
Hallelujah, oh give thanks
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We sing
Hallelujah, oh give thanks
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Oh, oh give thanks,
to the Lord He is good
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He is good He is good
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He is good He is
good He is good He is good
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He is good He is
good He is good He is good
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He is good He is good
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Oh, oh give thanks, to
the Lord for He is good
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He is good He is
good He is good He is good
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He is good He is good
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He is good He is
good He is good He is good
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He is good He is good
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Oh, oh give thanks
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Oh, oh give
thanks Oh, oh give thanks
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Oh, oh give thanks
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Oh, oh give thanks
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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Our gracious Heavenly Father,
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Lord we bless You in this place.
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Father we give you
glory and we give You honor,
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and Lord we ask that
You would give something,
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give us ears that we may hear
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what the spirit is
saying to the church.
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Father in the name of Jesus
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we ask all God that
You would fill this place
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with Your presence, oh, God.
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It is our plea and
desire that we would be free.
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Father I pray that you would
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set our hearts a
blaze with passion for You.
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And Father when
all is said and done,
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we promise that we will give You
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all the praise, honor and glory,
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in the name of Jesus, we pray.
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Amen. Amen.
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And amen.
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Now I have a question
for you, and the question is
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how often does
God answer prayer?
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May be even a
better person would be
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how often does God
answer your prayer?
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5 to 10%? 25%?
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Any 50% out there?
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Or may be there is a
cup-- I see a couple hands,
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and there may be I've
heard some prayer warriors
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they say that
God has answered 100%
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every single one
of their prayers.
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And to this I say
to God be the glory.
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Now I must admit
that God has not answered
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all of my prayers.
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I'm just go put that
out there for the beginning,
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god has not
answered all of my prayers.
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Now for some of that
I say thank you Jesus
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'cause I pray
some crazy prayers.
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And I'm so glad
that God's answers
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were greater than my prayers,
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He knew that had I
been in my right mind,
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I would have put my
hand over my mouth like Joe
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and just let it go.
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And so I'm happy
that God didn't answer
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all of my prayers, but
I pray some good prayers,
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you know, James says that,
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at sometimes we have
not because we ask not.
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Because we gonna use them,
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we ask a mess that we may
satisfy our own pleasures,
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I'm not talking about
those kind of prayers,
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I'm talking about
good godly prayers.
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Prayers God I want to
You to heal this person
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or God I need You
to save this person.
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Good godly prayers.
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That were according
to His will and His word.
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And God did not
answer those prayers yet.
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Now has anybody
ever wondered why?
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Now I'm not gonna
profess to know why God does,
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what He does?
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But I do believe
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and there could
be lots of answers.
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But I do believe--
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we are gonna talk about
at least one of those today.
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We give up too soon,
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I have a little
boy and he is five.
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And he like to play
around on the piano,
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and so we decided
we're gonna put our children
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in piano lessons,
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and my daughter sword with the--
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she played her notes,
she learned her theory
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and she is now in
her junior handbook.
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But my son not too much.
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I mean we were work
with him and work with him
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and he just
refused to know the notes.
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He probably got as far
as C, D, E that's what it,
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I means, so would
I what notice this--
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I don't Q and so we're
going and we are trying
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and my husband
took him to lesson,
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and he will going too well
and he comes back, he is like,
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I think we are
wasting our money here.
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And then I tried to-- to
work with him a little bit
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because the
teacher was getting on him
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and so I tried to work with him
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and after that session
I'm like you know what?
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I think you are right,
may be we need to just,
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you know, let this thing go.
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And so we talked to
my son and we ask him,
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you know, do you want to
keep the one Piano lessons?
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and he is like, no, not really.
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And it shows, where
he gets to his lessons,
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so he gets to his lesson
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and the teacher is given on
him for not knowing his notes.
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He said that okay, I'm
taking different lessons
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from now on,
and so I'm thinking,
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oh, no, why do he
tell the teacher this?
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and so this-- this
was on Thursday, Friday,
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we are getting
ready for the Sabbath,
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we're doing all this up
and my husband plays piano
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the best out of all us,
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he is taken years
and years of piano.
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My husband was
working on his sermon
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and all of a sudden
from the living room
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I hear all of this
beautiful harmonious music,
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and I'm like baby you
know, you have a sermon right,
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why are playing on the piano?
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He is like, that not me,
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and my daughter was
in the kitchen with me,
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and I look and it
was little five year old
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who we were pulling
out of piano lessons, the--
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just yesterday,
just the day before
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and he is just
playing and playing
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and brought tears to my eyes,
I call out our grandparents,
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I was like, listen to this.
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And the thing
that rebuked me so much
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is that we were just about
to give up on him at piano.
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We just said we were
going to pull him out,
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we were giving up too soon.
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And I wonder how many times
do we do that in our own lives.
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Turn with me to 2 Kings 13.
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2 Kings 13.
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And we are gonna look
at the story that begins
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in verse 14-21,
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here we find
Elisha on his deathbed.
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And King Joash is
overtaking with greed
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because this mighty prophet
was such a blessing to him.
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He couldn't imagine
having to run the country
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without having a prophet
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who would be able
to tell him what to do.
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I mean they would go back
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and forth
fitting with the Syrians
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and Elisha would tell them
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exactly what the
Syrians were planning.
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And so if the Syrians
were gonna be over here
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Elisha would
give word to the king
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and then they would--
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the Israelites
would go over here.
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And then the Syrians
plan to ambush over there,
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then some kind of way
Elisha would give word to them
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and they would be over there,
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oh, Joash love the fact
that he had a man of God
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who could tell
him what was going on.
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And now Elisha
as on his deathbed,
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Joash is thinking what
is going to be come up us?
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What is going to happen?
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And so he comes to
Elisha, and he begins weeping,
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and yelling, my
father, my father,
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he begins
yelling about the army.
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And Elisha gets up...
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and he says, take out
a bow and some arrows,
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tells him to open the
window and the two of them
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put both of their
hands on the arrows,
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and then we find in verse 17
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"And he said,
'Open the east window'
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and he opened it.
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And Elisha said,
'Shoot' and he shot.
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And he said, 'The arrow
of the Lord's deliverance
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and the arrow of
deliverance from Syria,
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for you must strike
the Syrians at Aphek
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till you have destroyed them.'
00:23:17.27\00:23:20.82
Then he said, 'Take the arrows'
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so he took them.
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And he said to the king of
Israel, 'Strike the ground'
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so he struck three
times, and stopped."
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When he did this
Elisha was vexed,
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he was upset with him
the next verse it reads
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"And the man of
God was angry with him,
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and said, 'You should
have struck five or six times,
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then you would have struck Syria
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till you had destroyed it!
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But now you will strike
Syria only three times.'"
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He was upset
00:23:58.33\00:23:59.37
because the king
gave up too soon.
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Perhaps the king thought well,
I'm really want to be fighting
00:24:05.24\00:24:08.33
for more than three
battles so I'm hopping that
00:24:08.36\00:24:11.33
God could fit all of His power
and deliverance in three hit--
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God the three times,
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whatever it was
he gave up too soon.
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What does this have
to do with our prayers,
00:24:21.51\00:24:23.12
what does this
have to do with me?
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Because a lot of times we pray
00:24:25.22\00:24:28.41
and we give it to God
and then we're done with it.
00:24:28.44\00:24:32.99
We go on with our lies,
00:24:33.02\00:24:34.91
we say, heavenly father
please be with my husband.
00:24:34.94\00:24:38.94
Lord, help me to get
through this, keep me sane
00:24:38.97\00:24:42.52
until the
divorce is final, amen.
00:24:42.55\00:24:48.53
And they rely what
Pastor are prayed about it.
00:24:48.56\00:24:51.62
Surely if God
want to do something,
00:24:51.65\00:24:53.47
He would have
done something already.
00:24:53.50\00:24:55.92
We talk about our can't,
we talk about sicknesses,
00:24:55.95\00:24:59.65
we have these things
going on in our lives,
00:24:59.68\00:25:02.48
and we say a two sentence prayer
00:25:02.51\00:25:04.88
and then we're done with it.
00:25:04.91\00:25:06.35
And there we got peace with God
00:25:06.38\00:25:08.19
because God
didn't do the miraculous.
00:25:08.22\00:25:14.14
But the Bible says,
00:25:14.17\00:25:15.93
that we are to
pray without ceasing.
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The Bible says that we
are to continue to pray,
00:25:20.12\00:25:24.82
and let us not be weary,
and well doing for into season
00:25:24.85\00:25:29.46
we shall read,
and we don't give up.
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Amen.
00:25:33.63\00:25:34.95
You are not the cheetah,
00:25:34.98\00:25:36.91
the cheetah is a
wonderful creature made my God,
00:25:36.94\00:25:40.36
the cheetah can
run 70 miles an hour,
00:25:40.39\00:25:44.36
and so if the
cheetah wants up it
00:25:44.39\00:25:46.74
all he has to do is run it down.
00:25:46.77\00:25:50.29
He begins to chase it,
00:25:50.32\00:25:52.39
but what the cheetah has
in speed it lacks in heart.
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The cheetah has a
disproportionately
00:25:57.91\00:26:00.54
small heart-- heart
00:26:00.57\00:26:02.73
and so the cheetah can go fast,
but the cheetah can't go long.
00:26:02.76\00:26:07.87
And so if that-- that pray,
00:26:07.90\00:26:10.94
if it can run
just a little faster,
00:26:10.97\00:26:14.08
if it has a little more heart
00:26:14.11\00:26:16.50
than cheetah will
have to give it up.
00:26:16.53\00:26:20.75
And I'm afraid
that many of us in today
00:26:20.78\00:26:22.84
should have a cheetah anointing.
00:26:22.87\00:26:27.31
We want to quick,
fast and in a hurry way,
00:26:27.34\00:26:30.24
and we can't get
it quick and fast,
00:26:30.27\00:26:32.77
we loose heart
00:26:32.80\00:26:34.27
that we don't want to
bother with it anymore, we can,
00:26:34.30\00:26:37.25
we don't
understand, why that has a move?
00:26:37.28\00:26:39.28
I did my part, I gave
Him a good five minutes.
00:26:39.31\00:26:47.00
And a lot of times, we
thing if God is in control,
00:26:47.75\00:26:51.90
why is it He
moving in this Situation?
00:26:51.93\00:26:54.90
Can I share
something with you all?
00:26:54.93\00:26:57.58
Turn your Bibles to Genesis 1
00:26:57.61\00:27:01.77
because the Bible
says that God made man
00:27:01.80\00:27:06.19
in his own image, amen?
00:27:06.22\00:27:07.80
Amen.
00:27:07.83\00:27:09.13
God made man in his own image,
00:27:09.16\00:27:11.61
verse-- chapter 1 verse 27"
00:27:11.64\00:27:14.33
So God created
man in His own image,
00:27:14.36\00:27:16.52
and in the image
of God He created him,
00:27:16.55\00:27:19.03
male and female He created them.
00:27:19.06\00:27:21.95
Then God blessed
them, and God said to them,
00:27:21.98\00:27:24.40
'Be fruitful and multiply,
fill the earth and subdue it,
00:27:24.43\00:27:28.22
have dominion over
the fish of the sea,
00:27:28.25\00:27:30.80
over the birds of the air,
00:27:30.83\00:27:32.13
over every living thing
that moves on the earth.'"
00:27:32.16\00:27:35.42
So from the very first chapter.
00:27:35.45\00:27:39.26
The Bible says that
God gave controls to man,
00:27:39.29\00:27:43.45
He gave dominion to man.
00:27:43.48\00:27:46.72
Are you all still there?
00:27:46.75\00:27:47.81
Yeah.
00:27:47.84\00:27:50.45
From the very beginning
00:27:50.48\00:27:53.09
and so now things are
starting to make sense
00:27:53.12\00:27:55.33
when where God decided that
00:27:55.36\00:27:57.23
He was going to destroy Shannon,
00:27:57.26\00:27:59.30
He went to talk
to Abraham first.
00:27:59.33\00:28:01.84
And Abraham said,
well, hold on God,
00:28:01.87\00:28:04.26
what happens if you 550?
00:28:04.29\00:28:06.28
Righteousness vote,
you simply tear them up.
00:28:06.31\00:28:08.75
God said, no, no, not if I 550
00:28:08.78\00:28:10.87
well, I mean I hate to
keep going back and forth,
00:28:10.90\00:28:13.23
but what about 45?
00:28:13.26\00:28:14.79
What about 30?
00:28:14.82\00:28:15.87
I'm just saying,
it might be 25 God.
00:28:15.90\00:28:18.58
What about 20?
00:28:18.61\00:28:19.91
I hate to keep
bothering you but may be 15?
00:28:19.94\00:28:23.87
Can you imagine the great
God of the universe going back
00:28:23.90\00:28:27.01
and forth with a mare mortal?
00:28:27.04\00:28:30.74
All the way down to 10,
00:28:30.77\00:28:33.47
and the great God almighty said,
00:28:33.50\00:28:36.19
okay, if there is 10
I will not destroy it.
00:28:36.22\00:28:41.80
Now things are
beginning to make sense
00:28:41.83\00:28:44.24
when Emma says
in chapter 3 verse 7
00:28:44.27\00:28:47.49
surely God will not do anything
00:28:47.52\00:28:51.34
without first
revealing it to his prophets.
00:28:51.37\00:28:54.57
God is saying that He wants us
00:28:54.60\00:28:58.19
to release His
power in the earth.
00:28:58.22\00:29:01.92
There are lot of time
that God's will is not done,
00:29:01.95\00:29:06.42
simply because God's
people have not pray for it.
00:29:06.45\00:29:11.24
When Jesus was
praying in Luke 11,
00:29:11.27\00:29:16.06
the disciples
walked to Him and said,
00:29:16.09\00:29:18.24
Jesus, Lord can you
teach us how to pray?
00:29:18.27\00:29:21.65
And he says, sure when you pray,
00:29:21.68\00:29:24.14
pray like this, our father,
00:29:24.17\00:29:26.19
which are in heaven,
how would be that name,
00:29:26.22\00:29:28.64
and then he says--
what does he say next?
00:29:28.67\00:29:33.95
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done--
00:29:33.98\00:29:37.84
why would Jesus
teach his disciples to pray
00:29:37.87\00:29:41.43
for God's will to be done
if it's already gonna be done?
00:29:41.46\00:29:47.65
Hello?
00:29:47.68\00:29:49.22
I mean he already in his
sermon on the mount says,
00:29:49.25\00:29:51.80
the father knows
that You have Me,
00:29:51.83\00:29:53.90
before you even ask,
00:29:53.93\00:29:55.45
but yet and still the
next part of the verse says,
00:29:55.48\00:29:58.60
give us this
day, our daily pray.
00:29:58.63\00:30:02.14
James tells us that,
00:30:02.17\00:30:03.67
"God does not want
to tempt us into evil
00:30:03.70\00:30:06.46
and it's not His will
that we fall and falter."
00:30:06.49\00:30:09.33
As a matter of fact,
00:30:09.36\00:30:10.63
every time a enemy
comes with a temptation,
00:30:10.66\00:30:14.17
the building call that
the temptation declares
00:30:14.20\00:30:17.44
that it must
have a way of escape,
00:30:17.47\00:30:20.13
it must have a way of out.
00:30:20.16\00:30:22.40
But yet and still, God
commanded His disciples
00:30:22.43\00:30:26.56
when they pray say,
"Lead us not in to temptation,
00:30:26.59\00:30:30.57
deliver us from evil."
00:30:30.60\00:30:34.22
Bibles says that
00:30:34.25\00:30:35.72
"God is not willing
that any should parish
00:30:35.75\00:30:39.15
but that all should
come to repentance."
00:30:39.18\00:30:41.37
It is not God's will that any
should die in a crisis grave.
00:30:41.40\00:30:47.55
Yes, some do.
00:30:47.58\00:30:51.74
And why is that?
00:30:51.77\00:30:53.73
Part of the reason is, instead
of going like God told us to.
00:30:53.76\00:30:57.52
We try to get Him to come--
00:30:57.55\00:31:00.07
They just come to the crusade.
00:31:00.10\00:31:01.87
God said, "No."
00:31:05.50\00:31:08.54
Is this thing on, I
can't hear nobody, pray?
00:31:08.57\00:31:13.86
And even in 2 Thessalonians 3:1
00:31:13.89\00:31:19.20
a lot of times we
think we're just preaching,
00:31:19.23\00:31:21.85
and just tell Him the truth
00:31:21.88\00:31:23.28
and surely that's all they need.
00:31:23.31\00:31:27.30
But in 2
Thessalonians 3:1 he says
00:31:27.33\00:31:29.96
"Finally, brethren, pray for us,
00:31:29.99\00:31:32.61
that the word of the Lord may
run swiftly and be glorified,
00:31:32.64\00:31:37.70
just as it is was with you."
00:31:37.73\00:31:40.95
A lot of times we
preach but don't pray.
00:31:40.98\00:31:45.37
And the Word is saying,
00:31:45.40\00:31:47.17
"We have got to pray
these things through,
00:31:47.20\00:31:51.83
we want to see great
00:31:51.86\00:31:53.26
and marvelous
things in our lives,
00:31:53.29\00:31:55.23
we want to see great
00:31:55.26\00:31:56.61
and marvelous
things in our churches."
00:31:56.64\00:31:58.76
The Bible says, "Call on to me,
00:31:58.79\00:32:02.36
and I will show you
great and marvelous things,
00:32:02.39\00:32:05.39
which you do not know."
00:32:05.42\00:32:08.07
Yeah.
00:32:08.10\00:32:09.40
There are things that God is
waiting to pour into your life.
00:32:09.43\00:32:16.50
Many times, we think
that we're waiting on God,
00:32:16.53\00:32:19.42
and God is waiting on us.
00:32:19.45\00:32:25.19
Now, I must confess, that
just because I had a microphone,
00:32:25.22\00:32:30.49
that mean I have the victory.
00:32:30.52\00:32:34.33
I'm just keeping it real,
00:32:34.36\00:32:36.44
I got on the plane on yesterday
00:32:36.47\00:32:38.90
and got a call
from one of my members,
00:32:38.93\00:32:42.21
she said "Pastor,
they are releasing my son,
00:32:42.24\00:32:45.32
the doctors have
thrown up their hands,
00:32:45.35\00:32:47.89
they say, 'That his
cancer is inoperable
00:32:47.92\00:32:50.55
and all they can do is
give him painkillers.'"
00:32:50.58\00:32:53.95
When I heard this,
it hit me deep in my gut
00:32:53.98\00:32:57.17
because I knew I was coming
to preach this to you all,
00:32:57.20\00:33:00.64
and I know that we
had been here before.
00:33:00.67\00:33:04.57
A couple of months ago,
they said the exact same thing,
00:33:04.60\00:33:07.74
except it was much worse.
00:33:07.77\00:33:09.78
He had infections up the wazoo,
00:33:09.81\00:33:11.64
they couldn't
figure out what was wrong,
00:33:11.67\00:33:13.57
they refused to operate
on the cancer, they said,
00:33:13.60\00:33:16.25
"he had just a
short time to live."
00:33:16.28\00:33:18.45
And we prayed and
prayed, God knows we prayed,
00:33:18.48\00:33:21.93
we stop service and we prayed,
in prayer meeting we prayed,
00:33:21.96\00:33:25.77
in small groups
on a conference call,
00:33:25.80\00:33:28.12
we prayed and miraculously
the infections were gone,
00:33:28.15\00:33:32.97
the cancer was dissipating.
00:33:33.00\00:33:35.49
They were like,
"Oh, you are improving"
00:33:35.52\00:33:37.12
and then they put
him into treatments
00:33:37.15\00:33:39.50
and they wanted
to move on the scene.
00:33:39.53\00:33:43.85
We got the testimony and
we marked it off our list.
00:33:43.88\00:33:50.89
We are like,
"Oh, God is on it now.
00:33:50.92\00:33:54.33
He is doing bad
thing, He's backing chemo
00:33:54.36\00:33:57.62
and all of these kinds of things
00:33:57.65\00:33:59.28
we marked it up our
list and quit praying."
00:33:59.31\00:34:05.00
Now don't look at me like
00:34:05.03\00:34:06.27
we're the only ones
in the whole wide world
00:34:06.30\00:34:08.29
that has done that.
00:34:08.32\00:34:10.78
You guys never did that before?
00:34:10.81\00:34:14.54
You hear a little
something good and like,
00:34:14.57\00:34:16.32
"Whoa, God got it
now, I can stop worrying."
00:34:16.35\00:34:20.58
And you move on
to the next scene.
00:34:20.61\00:34:24.28
But often times,
we give up to soon
00:34:24.31\00:34:31.02
and sometimes not only
do we give up too soon,
00:34:31.05\00:34:36.66
the devil tries to mess with us.
00:34:36.69\00:34:39.52
So that when we start to
pray all hell breaks loose,
00:34:39.55\00:34:45.49
and we think--
well, let me stop praying
00:34:45.52\00:34:48.97
because it's just
too, it's getting worse.
00:34:49.00\00:34:52.57
I'm doing Bible
studies with this lady
00:34:52.60\00:34:55.09
and she said, "Pastor, you know,
00:34:55.12\00:34:56.41
I really want to come
to Christ a long time ago.
00:34:56.44\00:34:59.35
I got this Bible and I
know its gonna sound crazy.
00:34:59.38\00:35:03.06
But I opened the Bible
00:35:03.09\00:35:06.32
and the canvas
started opening and closing,
00:35:06.35\00:35:08.51
the table started shaking,
00:35:08.54\00:35:10.06
everything in
that house went crazy."
00:35:10.09\00:35:13.11
She said, "As soon as I
closed the Bible, it was peace."
00:35:13.14\00:35:19.28
So she's like "Pastor, you know,
00:35:19.31\00:35:21.50
I wanted to learn about God,
00:35:21.53\00:35:23.43
but I made a peace in my house."
00:35:23.46\00:35:26.21
Y'all better act like y'all know
00:35:32.15\00:35:33.55
what I'm talking about.
00:35:33.58\00:35:36.58
I mean I could talk about
her or I could talk about me?
00:35:36.61\00:35:39.90
Because when I
first got married,
00:35:39.93\00:35:42.66
bless the Lord,
they don't tell you
00:35:42.69\00:35:43.76
but everybody
talk honeymoon stage,
00:35:43.79\00:35:45.63
but they're the other stages
in the first year of marriage.
00:35:45.66\00:35:49.07
Hello, somebody? Amen.
00:35:49.10\00:35:52.42
And even though we
were both in seminary
00:35:52.45\00:35:54.75
and wanted to know, Jesus.
00:35:54.78\00:35:57.79
I will have my devotions,
I come, I done my worship,
00:35:57.82\00:36:03.35
and then me and my
husband, we get in a fight.
00:36:03.38\00:36:06.80
The next morning,
I had my devotions,
00:36:06.83\00:36:09.97
I come out to worship,
00:36:10.00\00:36:11.60
and then me and my
husband will get into a fight.
00:36:11.63\00:36:15.21
Now, I was a
thinking woman, and I said,
00:36:15.24\00:36:20.22
"Is something funny about this?"
00:36:20.25\00:36:23.22
I wonder, I just wonder,
00:36:23.25\00:36:26.55
if I don't have devotion
will we not get into a fight.
00:36:26.58\00:36:32.71
Now I love you God, I
just want to see something.
00:36:32.74\00:36:39.38
So then that
I'm keeping it real,
00:36:39.41\00:36:42.21
y'all pray for me
and don't give up.
00:36:42.24\00:36:45.43
Y'all stay on your knees still
I get to where I need to be.
00:36:45.46\00:36:50.19
So I wakeup the next morning,
00:36:50.22\00:36:53.02
skip the devotion, no argument.
00:36:53.05\00:36:59.26
I said, "I just want
to try it one more time
00:36:59.29\00:37:03.77
to see this is a coincidence."
00:37:03.80\00:37:06.70
Skip the devotion again,
00:37:06.73\00:37:10.02
skip the prayer, no argument.
00:37:10.05\00:37:16.32
I know, I can't be the only one
00:37:16.35\00:37:18.18
that the Devil
tried to pull this on,
00:37:18.21\00:37:24.01
when you-- you
already on the edge
00:37:24.04\00:37:28.66
and then you are like,
"Okay, I'm pray about this guy,
00:37:28.69\00:37:33.07
I need a big intervention."
00:37:33.10\00:37:35.55
And it seems like
when you get on your knees,
00:37:35.58\00:37:39.05
it unleashes the powers of hell.
00:37:39.08\00:37:41.74
So you jump up
real and quit like.
00:37:41.77\00:37:46.94
But the Bible says that,
00:37:46.97\00:37:50.26
"We are to pray
without ceasing."
00:37:50.29\00:37:53.33
Do you all remember Daniel?
00:37:53.36\00:37:55.74
And Daniel chapter
10, Daniel begins praying,
00:37:55.77\00:38:00.39
he needed a word from the Lord,
00:38:00.42\00:38:03.22
he not only began praying
00:38:03.25\00:38:05.23
but he began
praying and fasting,
00:38:05.26\00:38:07.84
and he was weak,
00:38:07.87\00:38:08.92
and he was little confused
about why God hadn't moved?
00:38:08.95\00:38:13.35
And then the angel comes,
three weeks later and said,
00:38:13.38\00:38:20.01
turn to it, turn to it.
00:38:20.04\00:38:21.44
Daniel 10:21,
00:38:21.47\00:38:26.91
I want you all to think
I'm just making stuff up.
00:38:26.94\00:38:29.96
Not 21, 12.
00:38:37.04\00:38:41.35
Daniel 10:12
"Then he said to me,
00:38:41.38\00:38:46.86
'Do not fear, Daniel,
for from the first day
00:38:46.89\00:38:51.12
that you set your
heart to understand,
00:38:51.15\00:38:54.09
and to humble
yourself before your God,
00:38:54.12\00:38:56.81
your words were heard,
00:38:56.84\00:38:59.22
and I have come
because of your words.'"
00:38:59.25\00:39:04.66
But if you read to
next verse, it says
00:39:04.69\00:39:06.03
"But the Prince of
the kingdom of Persia
00:39:06.06\00:39:08.03
withstood me for 21 days."
00:39:08.06\00:39:10.79
This is a satanic force.
00:39:10.82\00:39:13.37
Not only did your
prayers unleash me
00:39:13.40\00:39:17.78
to bring blessing from heaven
00:39:17.81\00:39:20.59
so other stuff God unleash to,
00:39:20.62\00:39:23.48
to keep the
blessing from getting to you.
00:39:23.51\00:39:27.33
But, Daniel
didn't give up, he prayed
00:39:27.36\00:39:31.81
but then "Oh,
God is not here yet,"
00:39:31.84\00:39:34.86
well, let me-- he
began to pray and fast
00:39:34.89\00:39:38.30
and see God's face so much
00:39:38.33\00:39:41.70
so that not only
did his answer part
00:39:41.73\00:39:45.55
but as an added bonus
the devil got beaten down.
00:39:45.58\00:39:50.24
Hello? Amen.
00:39:50.27\00:39:52.01
And so, it went-- When
the devil start acting up,
00:39:52.04\00:39:56.39
that's what I told you pastor.
00:39:56.42\00:39:58.03
Pastor's car
broke down yesterday
00:39:58.06\00:39:59.50
coming to get me
from the airport, not--
00:39:59.53\00:40:03.08
And he was apologetic, my
car broke down too, this week.
00:40:03.11\00:40:07.14
We were about to
go out to a cruise
00:40:07.17\00:40:08.65
and we-- in our church
we're been praying and fasting.
00:40:08.68\00:40:11.76
All kind of crazy
stuff has been happening,
00:40:11.79\00:40:13.89
that's why I
said, "I'm not worried,
00:40:13.92\00:40:16.22
I've seen all kind of
crazy stuff happened this week.
00:40:16.25\00:40:18.95
But I have also
seeing the miracles of God."
00:40:18.98\00:40:22.97
My car won't start and
we were late in one night
00:40:23.00\00:40:26.48
and it was a day
that was fastened
00:40:26.51\00:40:28.28
and I said, "I know this is none
00:40:28.31\00:40:29.48
but the devil and
so in the name of Jesus
00:40:29.51\00:40:31.76
I command this car to start,
00:40:31.79\00:40:34.39
I don't receive
any of His foolishness
00:40:34.42\00:40:36.77
that devil is trying
to discourage and what not
00:40:36.80\00:40:39.31
and I will go on
about my business."
00:40:39.34\00:40:41.88
My husband comes home
to try to fix the car,
00:40:41.91\00:40:43.96
to see what's going on.
00:40:43.99\00:40:45.27
He turns around and he's
like "I don't understand,
00:40:45.30\00:40:46.97
there is nothing
wrong with this car."
00:40:47.00\00:40:48.84
It didn't start,
when I tried earlier,
00:40:48.87\00:40:51.67
as an added bonus
00:40:51.70\00:40:53.07
when the devil
get in your stuff,
00:40:53.10\00:40:55.14
you get a chance to
beat the devil down.
00:40:55.17\00:40:57.73
Yeah.
00:40:57.76\00:40:58.79
So when you see him
show up in your stuff
00:40:58.82\00:41:03.07
don't get up, don't step back,
00:41:03.10\00:41:06.48
move forward
because the Bible says that
00:41:06.51\00:41:09.38
"Greater is he that is in us
than he that is in the world."
00:41:09.41\00:41:13.23
The Bible declares that
"We are not just conquerors
00:41:13.26\00:41:16.95
but we are more
than conquerors."
00:41:16.98\00:41:19.11
The Bible declares
00:41:19.14\00:41:20.87
that "He'll always
causes us to try on."
00:41:20.90\00:41:24.01
Yeah, yeah.
00:41:24.04\00:41:25.91
So we cannot
give up. Yeah, yeah.
00:41:25.94\00:41:30.91
One day, George Muller decided
00:41:30.94\00:41:34.51
that he was going to
pray for his five friends
00:41:34.54\00:41:37.72
and he began praying and praying
00:41:37.75\00:41:40.32
and after a couple of weeks,
two of them came to Christ.
00:41:40.35\00:41:45.16
After many
months another one came
00:41:45.19\00:41:48.14
and after ten
years, two others came.
00:41:48.17\00:41:51.22
But there was one last one
00:41:51.25\00:41:54.72
who had still not
giving his life to Christ.
00:41:54.75\00:41:59.75
This is what Gorge Muller saying
00:41:59.78\00:42:02.87
"He is not saved
yet, but he will be.
00:42:02.90\00:42:07.85
How can it be
otherwise? I'm praying.
00:42:07.88\00:42:11.75
Amen.
00:42:11.78\00:42:12.93
He said, "I have been praying
for 63 years and 8 months.
00:42:12.96\00:42:19.94
He will be saved
because I'm praying."
00:42:19.97\00:42:27.92
George Muller
prayed until he died
00:42:27.95\00:42:33.68
and it was at the
graveside service,
00:42:33.71\00:42:37.93
as they lowered
Muller's body in that grave,
00:42:37.96\00:42:43.23
that the last friend
gave his life to Christ.
00:42:43.26\00:42:48.31
Amen.
00:42:48.34\00:42:50.22
We worried about our kids,
are we praying for our kids?
00:42:50.25\00:42:55.41
Even when it
seemed like the devil
00:42:55.44\00:42:57.38
getting all up in
there, you keep praying.
00:42:57.41\00:43:01.28
Amen.
00:43:01.31\00:43:03.45
We're wondering if
we stay another day
00:43:03.48\00:43:06.75
and some of the marriages
we've vowed ourselves in,
00:43:06.78\00:43:11.91
you keep praying.
00:43:11.94\00:43:15.90
If the great God Almighty
00:43:15.93\00:43:18.42
with resurrection power
in His hand, could resurrect.
00:43:18.45\00:43:23.44
All kind of dance
stuff, surely, surely,
00:43:23.47\00:43:30.47
He can resurrect
dead love, dead feelings,
00:43:30.50\00:43:33.58
and dead marriage.
00:43:33.61\00:43:34.94
Surely, He can
resurrect dead cells,
00:43:37.99\00:43:42.52
dead pots, dead whatever.
00:43:42.55\00:43:45.66
Yeah, yeah. God can do it.
00:43:45.69\00:43:50.40
Ellen White wanted to
know why are we seeing
00:43:50.43\00:43:57.60
Power, more faith in
power so she has asks.
00:43:57.63\00:44:03.66
Early Writings 73, it says,
00:44:03.69\00:44:06.01
He said, "Ye let go of
the arm of the Lord too soon."
00:44:06.04\00:44:13.90
Give up too soon.
00:44:13.93\00:44:16.42
He said, "Press your
petitions to the throne,
00:44:16.45\00:44:19.09
and hold on by strong faith.
00:44:19.12\00:44:21.90
The promises are sure.
00:44:21.93\00:44:23.97
Believe ye receive
the things you ask for,
00:44:24.00\00:44:27.69
and you shall have them."
00:44:27.72\00:44:30.98
I was then pointed to Elijah,
00:44:31.01\00:44:33.31
he was subject to
like passions as we are
00:44:33.34\00:44:36.42
and he prayed earnestly.
00:44:36.45\00:44:37.95
His faith endured the trial.
00:44:37.98\00:44:41.53
Let's go to Elijah,
00:44:41.56\00:44:44.55
turn with me to 1 Kings 18.
00:44:44.58\00:44:52.35
Perhaps some of you
have heard this story
00:44:52.38\00:44:54.21
before Israel had
lost their plumb-lines,
00:44:54.24\00:45:01.10
they decided that they
were going to worship Baal.
00:45:01.13\00:45:05.59
As a matter of fact,
00:45:05.62\00:45:07.14
not only were they
involved in demon worship,
00:45:07.17\00:45:10.55
they tried to kill everybody
00:45:10.58\00:45:15.03
who worshiped God
00:45:15.06\00:45:18.66
and so finally Elijah told them,
00:45:18.69\00:45:24.18
"It's not even going to rain"
00:45:24.21\00:45:26.82
because see that
the thing about it was,
00:45:26.85\00:45:29.62
Baal was the one,
who was the fertility guy
00:45:29.65\00:45:33.84
and they were in
hard economic times,
00:45:33.87\00:45:37.69
and so they were thinking
"Well, we tried God, God,
00:45:37.72\00:45:43.00
and I still got laid off.
00:45:43.03\00:45:45.76
I tried God, God, and ain't
still forecloses on my house."
00:45:45.79\00:45:50.72
I mean "I tried
to keep the Sabbath
00:45:50.75\00:45:54.29
but I still got
fired from my job.
00:45:54.32\00:45:57.33
So maybe I need to
make other arrangements."
00:45:57.36\00:46:02.87
So then they began serving Baal.
00:46:02.90\00:46:06.03
Because Baal was
suppose to give fertility
00:46:06.06\00:46:08.95
make all of their crops
grow what not, so God said,
00:46:08.98\00:46:12.56
"Oh, you think,
Baal running this?
00:46:12.59\00:46:16.81
So I'm eternal of the
Flossie, for the rain,
00:46:16.84\00:46:21.65
and I'm gonna let
your boy Baal hook you up,
00:46:21.68\00:46:23.88
and let me know
how that work out?"
00:46:23.91\00:46:26.34
So there was no rain,
for three and half years,
00:46:29.47\00:46:33.76
no crops, they thought
there were in bad times
00:46:33.79\00:46:37.74
before when they
turn their back on God,
00:46:37.77\00:46:43.01
they had no idea.
00:46:43.04\00:46:46.72
So, God wanted His people back
and Elijah comes and he said,
00:46:46.75\00:46:53.52
"Let's settle
this once it for all
00:46:53.55\00:46:55.71
and see if God is God,
00:46:55.74\00:46:58.84
then He will
show Himself strong."
00:46:58.87\00:47:02.03
So they did all of this
00:47:02.06\00:47:05.39
and God brought fire from heaven
00:47:05.42\00:47:09.05
and Baal did nothing.
00:47:09.08\00:47:13.74
And so now everybody realizes
00:47:13.77\00:47:17.23
that they have been worshiping
and focusing on the wrong guy.
00:47:17.26\00:47:22.57
So now God wants to turn
back the Flossie of blessing.
00:47:22.60\00:47:27.06
Because now they
realized who their source is,
00:47:27.09\00:47:29.63
they realized that their
employer was not their source,
00:47:29.66\00:47:33.01
they realized that
the unemployment office
00:47:33.04\00:47:35.13
was not their source,
00:47:35.16\00:47:36.65
they realized that the mortgage
company was not their source,
00:47:36.68\00:47:40.39
they realized
their community service
00:47:40.42\00:47:42.24
at the churches
not their source,
00:47:42.27\00:47:44.26
they realized now
that God is the only one.
00:47:44.29\00:47:48.30
Amen.
00:47:48.33\00:47:51.00
So now, God tells us in--
00:47:51.03\00:47:54.07
if we are beginning
of chapter 18:1 it says,
00:47:54.10\00:48:01.55
"Go, present yourself to Ahab,
00:48:01.58\00:48:03.19
and I will send
rain to the earth."
00:48:03.22\00:48:07.24
So God says that "He is about
to send rain to the earth."
00:48:07.27\00:48:12.34
Now if we would
have gotten that word,
00:48:12.37\00:48:13.92
we would have praise
God, brought an umbrella,
00:48:13.95\00:48:18.01
and just been
hanging out waiting
00:48:18.04\00:48:20.68
for God to do His thing, right?
00:48:20.71\00:48:24.39
Like I said it that settles
it, but what the Elijah do?
00:48:24.42\00:48:30.64
Verse 41,
00:48:30.67\00:48:32.15
we find Elijah telling Ahab
00:48:32.18\00:48:39.34
that "The
abundance of rain is coming."
00:48:39.37\00:48:42.71
Verse 42 it says that,
"He went to the top of Carmel,
00:48:42.74\00:48:46.17
and he bow down to the ground,
00:48:46.20\00:48:48.36
put his face between his knees."
00:48:48.39\00:48:51.12
The verse that we read in James
tells us what he was doing.
00:48:51.15\00:48:54.27
He was praying, he was
praying, earnestly for something
00:48:54.30\00:48:59.62
that God already told
him was going to happen.
00:48:59.65\00:49:03.33
He praised and He
tells the servant,
00:49:03.36\00:49:06.49
verse 43 "Go up,
look toward the sea."
00:49:06.52\00:49:10.02
So he went and looked,
he said, "There is nothing."
00:49:10.05\00:49:14.34
Now we would've been like
"I can't believe that God,
00:49:14.37\00:49:19.02
to answer my prayer."
00:49:19.05\00:49:23.82
But what did Elijah do?
00:49:23.85\00:49:26.62
It says that "He
continued to pray."
00:49:26.65\00:49:29.17
He continue to send his servant,
00:49:29.20\00:49:31.19
when he didn't see anything
that did not communicate to him
00:49:31.22\00:49:34.78
that God wasn't doing anything,
00:49:34.81\00:49:37.33
that communicated to him
that he won't finish praying,
00:49:37.36\00:49:41.12
it communicated to him that
it wasn't time to give up yet,
00:49:41.15\00:49:44.77
that communicated to him
00:49:44.80\00:49:46.52
that he was to still
pray with out ceasing.
00:49:46.55\00:49:50.64
Even though, he had
a word from the Lord,
00:49:50.67\00:49:52.99
even though he had a promise,
even though God already said,
00:49:53.02\00:49:56.40
"He was gonna do it."
00:49:56.43\00:49:58.00
He continued to
pray seven times,
00:49:58.03\00:50:02.99
it was seven times.
00:50:06.05\00:50:08.90
Verse 43, it says,
00:50:08.93\00:50:12.76
"Seven times he
said, 'Go again.'
00:50:12.79\00:50:14.67
Then it came to
pass at the seventh time,
00:50:14.70\00:50:17.11
that he said,
''There is a cloud,
00:50:17.14\00:50:18.88
as small as a man's
hand, rising out of the sea!'
00:50:18.91\00:50:23.24
So he said, 'Go up, say to Ahab,
00:50:23.27\00:50:25.71
Prepare your chariot, go down
before the rain stops you.'"
00:50:25.74\00:50:32.94
There are some
promises that God has given us,
00:50:32.97\00:50:37.90
that we have been wondering,
where they were coming from.
00:50:37.93\00:50:42.27
We are wondering why
is God taking so long?
00:50:42.30\00:50:46.06
And God's word to you today
00:50:46.09\00:50:49.38
is you have got to
pray that thing through.
00:50:49.41\00:50:54.63
Let us not be
weary and well doing,
00:50:54.66\00:50:57.56
for in due season you shall reap
00:50:57.59\00:51:01.07
if you faint not."
00:51:01.10\00:51:07.03
1 Samuel 12:23,
Samuel says this,
00:51:07.06\00:51:11.19
"Moreover, as for
me, far be it from me
00:51:11.22\00:51:14.51
that I should
sin against the Lord
00:51:14.54\00:51:19.04
in ceasing to pray for you."
00:51:19.07\00:51:25.59
Samuel said,
"Let it be far from me
00:51:25.62\00:51:28.88
that I should sin by
stop praying for you."
00:51:28.91\00:51:36.60
Mercy, now I know where
commandment keeping people,
00:51:36.63\00:51:41.88
God commanded that
we pray and not cease.
00:51:41.91\00:51:45.46
God commanded
00:51:45.49\00:51:48.23
so we got to start
following those too, hello?
00:51:48.26\00:51:51.58
Amen.
00:51:51.61\00:51:53.80
God wants to
unleash magnificent things
00:51:53.83\00:51:57.69
in each of our lives.
00:51:57.72\00:51:59.68
God is going to release
00:51:59.71\00:52:02.34
magnificent
things into our lives.
00:52:02.37\00:52:05.70
We are going to see the
promises of God fulfill,
00:52:05.73\00:52:10.05
we are going to
see our children safe,
00:52:10.08\00:52:13.59
we are going to
see our marriages
00:52:13.62\00:52:15.88
coming back together,
00:52:15.91\00:52:17.47
we are going to see
00:52:17.50\00:52:18.94
the blessing of
God on our lives,
00:52:18.97\00:52:21.44
we are going to
see to the sick heal,
00:52:21.47\00:52:24.66
we are going to see it.
00:52:24.69\00:52:27.55
Amen, amen.
00:52:27.58\00:52:30.05
As we obey, God
00:52:30.08\00:52:33.04
and pray without ceasing.
00:52:33.07\00:52:38.61
As the musicians began to play
00:52:38.64\00:52:42.74
there was a young
couple who wanted to find gold,
00:52:42.77\00:52:49.14
and so they were
looking everywhere for gold.
00:52:49.17\00:52:54.24
They couldn't find it
00:52:54.27\00:52:55.31
and they needed to
sell some more stuff,
00:52:55.34\00:52:58.03
so they sold their farm,
00:52:58.06\00:53:00.50
so that they can
continue to find gold.
00:53:00.53\00:53:03.62
This was during the gold rush.
00:53:03.65\00:53:05.60
They gave up on where they were
00:53:09.42\00:53:11.61
and they tried to
go somewhere else.
00:53:11.64\00:53:13.70
They ended up
bankrupt in England
00:53:13.73\00:53:17.65
and finally they made
it back to the States.
00:53:17.68\00:53:21.42
They had nothing,
00:53:21.45\00:53:24.12
they wanted to get
back to that old farmhouse
00:53:24.15\00:53:28.70
where they first
started out and as they went,
00:53:28.73\00:53:34.40
they noticed there were soldiers
00:53:34.43\00:53:36.96
stationed all around their farm.
00:53:36.99\00:53:40.81
They didn't know
what was going on?
00:53:40.84\00:53:43.59
And so they asked,
"What is going on here?"
00:53:43.62\00:53:51.16
And they said, "Don't you know?
00:53:51.19\00:53:55.32
This is the second largest
gold reserve in the nation"
00:53:55.35\00:54:02.48
Sutter's Mill, they
sold it, to find gold,
00:54:02.51\00:54:10.14
and that one of the largest
reserves was in their backyard,
00:54:10.17\00:54:18.02
they gave up too soon.
00:54:18.05\00:54:23.76
Oh, God let that
not be our portion.
00:54:23.79\00:54:26.22
Amen.
00:54:26.25\00:54:28.44
There are wonderful things
that God has for each of us,
00:54:28.47\00:54:32.72
let us not give up too soon.
00:54:32.75\00:54:38.43
Don't just do like I did
00:54:38.46\00:54:40.35
and pray till something happens,
00:54:40.38\00:54:44.01
pray until it is finished.
00:54:44.04\00:54:49.07
Amen.
00:54:49.10\00:54:50.55
God wants to do
something miraculous
00:54:55.27\00:54:58.98
in the lives of His children.
00:54:59.01\00:55:01.56
God wants to do something
miraculous in Dallas, Texas.
00:55:01.59\00:55:05.07
God is going to do something
miraculous in City Temple,
00:55:05.10\00:55:12.43
if we fake not,
00:55:12.46\00:55:16.76
if we fake not.
00:55:16.79\00:55:20.96
I just wonder,
if there's anybody
00:55:20.99\00:55:23.19
under the sound of my voice,
00:55:23.22\00:55:24.54
you got some
situations going on in your life
00:55:24.57\00:55:28.13
and you thought about giving up,
00:55:28.16\00:55:30.38
and you wonder where God was,
00:55:30.41\00:55:33.43
but you understand that
you were not waiting on God,
00:55:33.46\00:55:36.87
God is waiting on you.
00:55:36.90\00:55:40.92
And you are
committing for this situation
00:55:40.95\00:55:44.25
or to that the God has
brought to your mind right now.
00:55:44.28\00:55:47.82
You are committing
that you are gonna pray
00:55:47.85\00:55:50.42
that thing through.
00:55:50.45\00:55:53.35
If you have to
use your dying breath,
00:55:53.38\00:55:56.30
if you have to pray
for the rest of your life,
00:55:56.33\00:56:01.92
you are committed to praying
00:56:01.95\00:56:05.26
that thing through
you are committing--
00:56:05.29\00:56:07.43
you're not gonna
give up too soon.
00:56:07.46\00:56:10.70
You're not gonna stop
until you see God has moved.
00:56:10.73\00:56:17.27
If that's your desire, I
just want you to stand with me.
00:56:17.30\00:56:19.91
There may be somebody
under the sound of my voice,
00:56:26.67\00:56:30.14
who has not accepted,
Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
00:56:30.17\00:56:36.17
You too know what it's
like to want to give up
00:56:36.20\00:56:42.08
and you wonder if this God thing
00:56:42.11\00:56:45.71
is anything that can help you.
00:56:45.74\00:56:48.74
You wonder if God
really has the power to change
00:56:48.77\00:56:55.10
and move in your situation.
00:56:55.13\00:56:58.86
Well, I came by to tell
you that He does, He is ready,
00:56:58.89\00:57:02.80
and He is willing and able.
00:57:02.83\00:57:06.32
He is willing to save
you, He is willing change you,
00:57:06.35\00:57:09.80
and make you new.
00:57:09.83\00:57:12.97
And if you want to accept
Jesus as your Lord and Savior,
00:57:13.00\00:57:16.83
wherever you are I want
you to get out of your seat
00:57:16.86\00:57:18.94
and join me down front.
00:57:18.97\00:57:20.40
I have a very special
prayer. I want to pray for you.
00:57:20.43\00:57:23.07