Welcome to "Issues and Answers."
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So glad you could join us.
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Today, were gonna be talking
about the power of a seed.
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And according to Webster,
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a seed is a flowering
plants unit of reproduction.
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It is capable of developing
into another such plant.
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Today we are going
to be talking about
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again the power of a
seed with Dr. Andrea King.
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She is a graduate
of Oakwood University,
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holds a Masters of
Divinity from Andrews University
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and a Doctor of Ministry
from Fuller Theological Seminary
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in California in
Youth, Family and Culture.
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Welcome to the
program, Dr. King.
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So glad you could come
all the way from California.
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Right, thank you.
It's good to be here.
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So you've given us the
subject the power of a seed,
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tell us about that.
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Why are seeds so important
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and are they
mentioned in the Bible?
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Well, seeds are mentioned
everywhere in the Bible.
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You talked about it
being something with flowers
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but they are all kinds of seeds.
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We find it in
Genesis when God says that
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the woman would have a seed.
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We find it when Jesus
talks about the word being seed.
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So there's seeds
all over the Bible.
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I think seeds are
powerful because a lot of times
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when we see seeds or get seeds,
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they don't look like much,
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they are actually
pretty disappointing.
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Yes.
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And you can never
tell by looking at a seed
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what is gonna turn out.
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And I think many
times God gives us seeds.
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I mean, Adam and Eve
got the big Garden of Eden
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but the rest of us we
usually get a seed or so.
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Right.
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As sometimes when
we get those seeds
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and it could be,
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it could be seeds
that you have to plant
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which I'm not really good at.
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It could be
things that are small
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and then we get it we
feel little disappointed
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like God, is this all you
have not realizing the potential
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that's hidden in a seed.
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Wow. So seeds...
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I wonder why do seeds come...
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Why did God make them in
different shapes and sizes?
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You think that has
something to do with us today?
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I bet it could be.
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Seeds absolutely come in
different shapes and sizes
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but you can't tell
by looking at a seed
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what the end
product is gonna be.
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Like, a watermelon seed is black
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but watermelons
are green and pink.
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I think of all kinds...
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Banana seed is little brown seed
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but bananas are...
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We hardly see a banana seed.
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Right. We just eat it.
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And but, bananas
are bright and yellow
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and God place
seeds within each of us.
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There is the seeds of
gifts, talents, there is hope,
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there is all kinds of things
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and sometimes it
doesn't look like much
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and sometimes people are seeds.
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God places them in our lives
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and we don't see
the potential in them
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but in every seed it is
bursting with potential.
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The DNA is there,
the promises are there,
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the power is there
and you give a little time
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and a little nurture
is gonna blow your mind.
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Wow.
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Well, so, you've done some study
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into this whole seed thing.
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What can you share
with us about each of...
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How can it imply to us?
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Well, I think, you know,
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the Bible talks
about the word being seed
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and a lot of times as
we hear various messages
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and what not
those are seeds too.
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When we read promises,
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those are seeds
that God is giving us.
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And the Bible says that
there are different soils
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in Mark Chapter 4,
there is the good soil,
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there is the
stony soil and what not.
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So when that seed goes out,
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the Bible says
that the birds come
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and when Jesus talks
about the parable He says,
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actually the enemy comes
and tries to steal the seed.
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Sometimes the enemy knows
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how important seeds
are more than we do.
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And so as soon as
that seed goes out,
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the Bible says that the
enemy tries to snatch it away
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and in this
side we are in charge
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and we are
sitting and we are like
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oh, that's a good message
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but we have no
idea that that seed
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could change our
lives but the enemy does.
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And so immediately, he comes
and tries to snatch it from us.
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And so it could be snatched
by unbelief or distractions
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or not really believing it
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but if you allow that
seed to get in your life
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and you hold on to
it, you know, sometimes,
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I can think of several
times where God gave me a seed.
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I remember when I
was at Oakwood College
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and I was in a choir,
and we were going on tour,
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and we will be
leaving the country,
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and we had to come
up with a lot of money.
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What choir was that?
That was Dynamic Praise.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
Dynamic Praise, they were good.
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And so we were going,
we are going out on tour
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and we had to
come up with this money
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and I was praying and fasting
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because I knew I
didn't have the money.
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And I'm praying and fasting.
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I'm like, Lord,
please, I really want to go.
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And so after my fast is
over, I checked my mailbox
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and there is $30 in the mail.
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And I said, well,
praise the Lord God,
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$30 is a nice
little thing but I said,
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but Jesus You're gonna
have to give me $30 every day
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until the trip to make up.
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And the next day
I went to my mailbox
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and there was $30 there.
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Wow.
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Another $30? Another $30.
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So now I hadn't had
money in little while
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so I took $15 of that
$30 and I went to Wal-Mart
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and bought, you
know, Tide and things
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to wash my clothes
and I said, okay, Jesus,
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tomorrow I may need 45.
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The $30 plus the 15.
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I promise you when
I went to my mailbox
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there was $45 in.
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And so from the beginning
when God sent that seed,
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God often sends little
seeds and then you think,
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oh, this is too little,
we can't do anything with it.
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And, you know, but sometimes
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when you see
even something small
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you could say,
okay, God, thank You.
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You heard me, you sent it
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because the
people sent the money
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before I even prayed.
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He knew I was gonna pray.
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"Before you call, I will answer,
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and while you yet
speaking, I will hear."
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And so God did that
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and He
continued every single day
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until I got my money,
$30 day after day after day.
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Are you serious? I'm
serious as a heart attack.
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You did ask Him
for $30 every day
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and He did that
for you everyday?
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Yeah, when I got the seed
of $30 and I was hoping for,
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I would have
taken a million dollars
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from the gig go but
He gave something little.
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And in Zechariah it talks about
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do not despise small beginnings.
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And so God gave
me that little seed
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and instead of
being upset about it,
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I said, fine, keep this
up, I'll take it every day
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until You get me to where
I need to go and I praise God
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and I have never
ever forgotten that.
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And so there are other
times when I've gotten a chance
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to interact with seeds.
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So when I see
seeds they excite me.
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When I see people
who don't look like much
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and maybe people
want to throw them away
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or I see young people who
are not getting good grades
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or making bad decisions
but I see the potential.
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I know there is a seed in
there and I know everything.
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The wonderful
thing about a seed,
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everything the seed needs
to become that mighty tree,
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everything the seed
needs to become fruitful,
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to become strong
and juicy or whatever
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everything is already in
that little dry looking nut.
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It doesn't look like much,
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everything it
needs is already there
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written in there.
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When I look at people...
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There are people
who are watching now,
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who people have told
them oh, you are nobody,
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you never gonna make it.
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They are seeds
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and God has
deposited something in them.
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And everything they need
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God has already
written in and on them
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and He just
wants to pull it out.
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That's what excites me first
in Philippians 1:6, it says,
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"He who begun a good work in you
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will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ."
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He began it
when He did the seed.
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He says I'm gonna
perform that work,
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I'm gonna pull it out of
you if you just stick with Me
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and go with Me.
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That is amazing
that you are saying that
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in every seed there is the...
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God has placed that everything
that the seed needs to grow.
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Yes. And do all
seeds grow the same?
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Do they grow at the same rate?
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No.
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That they do not
do. You know, I...
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In California lots of
people have fruit trees
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and I really want fruit trees
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but I'm intimidated by the
time it takes fruit to grow.
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You can plant a seed
and you will get fruit
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for like seven
years or something
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and I'm like
that's doing too much.
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And so there's many times where
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and I've been fussing
about this for 11 years,
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I could have planted a
seed and have fruit by that.
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They have grown
and harvested that.
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Absolutely.
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And so a lot of times and,
you know, in the Bible it says,
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"By their fruit
they will know them."
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A lot of times we plant seeds.
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You know, little beans
they sprout up in two weeks.
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And so we want those
quick, fast and hurry seeds
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but sometimes got things
that take longer are better.
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I love fruit more than beans
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all day long and I
think that that's something
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that we need to remember
that some things take time,
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fruit takes time.
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In California we
have the sequoias,
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we have the redwoods.
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These are
thousands of years growing,
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they have trees that
are like 2,000 years old
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and they are huge and
it didn't happen overnight,
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it did not happen overnight.
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And so it absolutely takes,
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it absolutely
takes a lot more time
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for certain things.
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But most of the
time it's worth the wait.
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Wow!
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So, how is that
then we know it now,
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we got this gift,
you shared with us
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that God gives us each a seed.
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Is there anything that we can do
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to help the seed grow?
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Is there
anything that we could do
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to stop the seed from growing?
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Is there any part
that we have to play in?
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Absolutely, I
absolutely believe so.
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When Jesus talks about
the Parable of the Sower,
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one immediately
the enemy is gonna come
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and try to take that word.
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And so there could be somebody
who decides to accept Jesus
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as their Lord and Savior.
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And the Bible says
that "If anyone is in Christ
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are new creature, old
things are passed away
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and behold, all things are new."
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That is a wonderful promise
that is the seed of the word.
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Now the enemy is gonna
come minutes later and say,
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don't believe that.
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That was written
for church people,
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it wasn't written
for somebody like you.
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Don't believe that word
because you are pretty bad
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and it's not
gonna count for you.
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You are gonna stay
broke down and messed up.
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And so that's
the enemy coming in
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to try to take that word.
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And so when that happens,
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you have to
resist, the Bible says,
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"Resist the devil,
he will flee from you."
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Lot of times we
run from the devil
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because we don't
know the power we have.
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And so resist the devil, say no.
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The Word of God says
that I'm a new creature
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that old things are passed away.
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So when the old things
come back to your mind like
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well, you used to do
this and you used to do that,
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you have e to resist
that and begin to believe
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the truth of God's word
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as opposed to the
facts of your existence
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'cause a lot of
times people get the truth
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and the facts mixed up.
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We look at the facts,
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we go to the
doctor and they say,
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well, fact is your,
your blood pressure is this
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or your T-cell
count is this or whatever,
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these are the
facts but the truth,
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the Bible says that
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by Christ stripes we are healed.
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And so we have to decide
what we are gonna believe.
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Are we gonna
believe that God is a healer
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and that he came
with the prayer of faith
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will save the sick
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or are we gonna
believe the doctor said,
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you are gonna die
nothing can help you.
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They have studies on prayer,
they say they don't help,
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they don't do anything.
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So and its
research so it's "truth"
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I mean, it's "facts."
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And so you have to decide
what you are gonna believe.
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And so, as seeds
come in your life,
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you can resist the lies
of the enemy and then...
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So you get through and
you say, you know what, devil,
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I'm not listening to you.
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The Bible says
that I am a new creature
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that Christ has made me
new and so then you go, right.
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The next part
the Bible talks about
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is then there is all
kinds of tribulation that comes.
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And the Bible literally
says because of the word,
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because of the seed,
00:13:18.96\00:13:20.30
Jesus says that the
word and seed are the same.
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So tribulation
arises because of the word.
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Okay, let me understand that.
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You are saying
that the Bible says
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that the word and the
seed are exactly the same,
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it's not like talents.
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It's the Word of God put
into you that's the seed?
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Yes.
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So when Jesus tells the story
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and He explains
it to His disciples
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and they wanted to know about it
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He tells them in Mark 4:14,
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it says, "The
sower sows the word."
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So He told the story already,
He said the sower sows seed.
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And then with His
disciples in their life
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what's going on
tell us about that again,
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we didn't understand it.
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Then He says, "The
sower sows the word."
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So that seed that the sower
was sowing is actually word.
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And so this word is
going out. So as the sower...
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And what I love about that
is often times as preachers,
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as missionaries, as teachers
when the word goes forward,
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sometimes it
doesn't produce the harvest
00:14:25.69\00:14:27.66
that we were hoping
and we thought well,
00:14:27.70\00:14:29.96
maybe I didn't
do something, right.
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Maybe I didn't do
it right or something
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but it's still the same
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no matter where the
seed fell, the word was good,
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the seed was good.
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It wasn't about the seed,
it was about where it fell,
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and what the soils allowed
to take place when it fell.
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And so the very
next verse it talks about
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when Satan comes immediately
he tries to take the word
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that was sown in their heart.
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And then verse 17 it
says, so the Satan comes
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and then the next one
it falls on stony ground.
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When they hear the word,
they receive it with gladness
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but then they have
no root in themselves
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because tribulation
or persecution arises
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for the word sake.
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Right. Because of the word.
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So that word is so good
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but now
tribulation is gonna come.
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So trials are gonna come.
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You say, I'm gonna follow Christ
00:15:24.62\00:15:26.52
but now your old
friends are persecuting you,
00:15:26.55\00:15:31.46
or now you have
problems on your job
00:15:31.49\00:15:33.29
because you are trying
to follow what God has said.
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And so now that persecution
is arising because of the word.
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And you are gonna
think, I should give this up.
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It's not worth it.
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I came, I'm
trying to do things right
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and everything is
turning out wrong.
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And that is another way
00:15:51.28\00:15:53.21
that you can
let go of that thing
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but if you hold on
to that seed, I mean,
00:15:55.42\00:15:58.62
if you get through
it and you keep reading,
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you will see wonderful
things will take place.
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If you get through the
trials and the tribulation,
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then the Bible talks about
riches and all kinds of so.
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So if the enemy can't get
you with scarcity and drama,
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then he may give you abundance.
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And you're like, you know what,
00:16:19.77\00:16:21.11
I don't need the word
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because I just got a
million dollar contract
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or whatever.
00:16:23.95\00:16:25.28
I really don't need
Jesus to make my livelihood
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because something else can do it
00:16:27.08\00:16:30.85
and that is just
another distraction
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and cares of the world
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are trying to
choke out the seed.
00:16:34.46\00:16:36.29
But if you hold on and say come,
00:16:36.32\00:16:39.86
no matter what
comes or the tribulation
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or the abundance,
scarcity whatever,
00:16:42.60\00:16:44.67
I'm holding on
to the Word of God.
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The Bible says
that it will bear fruit
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30, 60 or 100 fold.
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So if you just
hold on, it will explode
00:16:53.54\00:16:56.28
and bring the
wonderful promise that God has.
00:16:56.31\00:16:59.35
So you may not feel new at
the beginning, you may not,
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it may not seem
new at the beginning
00:17:01.48\00:17:04.12
but if you just hold on
00:17:04.15\00:17:05.62
that thing is
going to explode so much
00:17:05.65\00:17:07.62
so that people
won't even remember.
00:17:07.66\00:17:10.16
You will be talking to people
and they'll be like, really,
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that happened to you?
00:17:12.43\00:17:13.76
You used to be
that? You used to do that?
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Honey, you don't even look
like what you've been through,
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God will do that and
it's through His power,
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His spirit and His word.
00:17:22.74\00:17:24.37
So I'm wondering now, you know,
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you hear people say
about a word of knowledge,
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maybe something that's
coming from a wise counselor
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or a pastor or a
teacher or from an evangelist
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or just the person
who has lived their life
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is it his death also
potentially a seed if it's...
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Could that be a
seed in a person's life?
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Absolutely.
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I believe, I absolutely
believe that it could be
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but of course, you want to know
00:17:51.27\00:17:54.47
where you are
getting your seeds from.
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Okay, so that is a match up
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to the Word of God
is what you are saying.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
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You know, my kids often
times when we have fruit,
00:18:01.94\00:18:04.95
they often want to take
the seeds from the fruit
00:18:04.98\00:18:08.05
that we bought from the
store and go plant them outside
00:18:08.08\00:18:11.82
and what they don't know
is that those won't grow.
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A lot of the, a
lot of the seeds,
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and you don't
understand that they are bearing
00:18:16.93\00:18:19.29
and so it looks
good for a second
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but it won't really grow.
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You have to get other
seeds that will plant.
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Some will but a
lot of them are...
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Right.
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They have been refrigerated,
they have been treated
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and it brings up a
whole another issue there.
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And they are
hybrids... Right, exactly.
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And so absolutely
00:18:35.68\00:18:37.95
but you have to know
who you're talking to.
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So just anybody
can walk up to me
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and say that they
have a word from the Lord,
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but if there is somebody who...
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that you know, you
can see their fruits,
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that you know, it's
connected to the spirit of God.
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Absolutely God gives us...
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God speaks through people
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and He grants us
wisdom through them.
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So would God ever
have somebody say something
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that's different
than what that counter
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or that would be
against what's in the Bible?
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Oh, no.
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That would be
considered a seed, a true seed.
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Well, man should
not live by bread alone
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but every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God.
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So we know that
the seed is the word
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and so if somebody...
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So I could be speaking seed
00:19:25.79\00:19:27.23
but I better be
speaking the word
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and when you hear
the word, then you know,
00:19:29.06\00:19:31.77
oh, okay, that's right,
00:19:31.80\00:19:33.13
that is based
on the Word of God.
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So if somebody is not speaking
00:19:37.41\00:19:38.94
and they desire to
have a new knowledge
00:19:38.97\00:19:40.74
that you've
never heard of before,
00:19:40.78\00:19:43.04
it's never been
in the word of God
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because even Jesus the Christ,
00:19:44.91\00:19:47.15
He said I'm not
telling you anything new.
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The prophets, the law,
00:19:49.62\00:19:51.89
they all testified
about me even what He said
00:19:51.92\00:19:55.69
jived with the Word of God.
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And so that's so important.
00:19:57.56\00:20:00.06
So now I want to ask
you another question.
00:20:00.10\00:20:01.43
You hear people
about sowing seeds,
00:20:01.46\00:20:03.90
sowing seeds into a ministry,
sowing seeds for prosperity,
00:20:03.93\00:20:07.80
sowing seeds is
that, is there anyway...
00:20:07.84\00:20:11.47
Is that spoken of in the Bible?
00:20:11.51\00:20:13.51
Is that the same seed
we are speaking up here?
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Well, I mentioned that
there are several seeds
00:20:16.64\00:20:19.21
so it actually is
spoken of it in the Bible.
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In 2 Corinthians 9
00:20:25.79\00:20:29.36
the Bible talks about
being a cheerful giver
00:20:29.39\00:20:31.33
and the Bible says
that God gives bread,
00:20:31.36\00:20:34.73
He gives His bread and
He give seed to the sower.
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And so there are verses
00:20:37.27\00:20:40.50
that do talk about
being generous and giving.
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I think there are sometimes
00:20:44.61\00:20:46.24
some of the
things that we've heard
00:20:46.27\00:20:48.18
have been a gross
building of scripture.
00:20:48.21\00:20:54.02
And so I think once again
00:20:54.05\00:20:56.38
you have to look at
where it's coming from.
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God always, He allows us to give
00:20:59.89\00:21:02.62
and there are promises related.
00:21:02.66\00:21:04.69
He said, test Me, try
Me and this and see if I...
00:21:04.73\00:21:07.33
you know, giving
your tithe and offerings.
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Right.
00:21:09.46\00:21:10.80
But now somebody is saying,
00:21:10.83\00:21:12.83
you know, send me $5 and
I will pray for you or say,
00:21:12.87\00:21:16.44
you know, usually it's not $5
00:21:16.47\00:21:17.97
it's like a thousand
or something like that.
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You know, the Bible
even talks about that
00:21:21.11\00:21:23.58
there was Simon the sorcerer
00:21:23.61\00:21:26.38
who wanted to
buy the Holy Spirit
00:21:26.41\00:21:28.55
and Paul said, you
are gonna perish with,
00:21:28.58\00:21:31.49
you and your money will perish
00:21:31.52\00:21:33.22
because you don't know
what you are talking about.
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The Spirit of God
is not bought or sold
00:21:35.39\00:21:38.99
so given freely,
and so a lot of times
00:21:39.03\00:21:42.83
people may try
to pint the gospel
00:21:42.86\00:21:45.97
and I don't think
that that is at all
00:21:46.00\00:21:48.04
what God is talking about
00:21:48.07\00:21:49.40
and that's not
what I'm talking about.
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However you can sow
seeds and you can sow,
00:21:50.94\00:21:55.21
you know, Paul did talk about it
00:21:55.24\00:21:57.05
in 2 Corinthians 9.
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So we've covered
the sowing of seeds
00:22:00.82\00:22:04.29
coming from the Holy Spirit
00:22:04.32\00:22:06.42
and every seed
has every single thing
00:22:06.45\00:22:09.76
that it needs
to be able to grow.
00:22:09.79\00:22:12.59
We've talked about
how the enemy takes
00:22:12.63\00:22:15.63
could, can if we allow him
00:22:15.66\00:22:17.53
to where he
attempts to take our seeds
00:22:17.57\00:22:20.34
that God has given us
00:22:20.37\00:22:21.70
and try to scatter them at
some place or to steal them,
00:22:21.74\00:22:24.54
actually steal
them, he is a robber.
00:22:24.57\00:22:27.14
Then we've
talked about good seeds
00:22:27.18\00:22:29.01
that could be sown
in from other people
00:22:29.04\00:22:32.38
that match up
to the Word of God.
00:22:32.41\00:22:34.28
And then our own
seeds in a positive way
00:22:34.32\00:22:37.39
that could
actually go for good things.
00:22:37.42\00:22:42.16
I want to talk
about the 100 fold now.
00:22:42.19\00:22:44.76
We all want to be
able to be blessed.
00:22:44.79\00:22:46.80
We all want to be able to have
00:22:46.83\00:22:48.50
our little, tiny
little bit of seed grow,
00:22:48.53\00:22:51.67
how can we do that?
00:22:51.70\00:22:53.64
You know, I actually
think it's up to God.
00:22:53.67\00:22:56.84
I actually think that
00:22:56.87\00:22:59.34
because it says some
were 30, some were 60,
00:22:59.37\00:23:02.94
some were 100 fold.
00:23:02.98\00:23:04.31
Right, so everybody is
trying to get to 100 fold.
00:23:04.35\00:23:06.41
Isn't that why
people play the lottery?
00:23:06.45\00:23:08.65
Some people say, well,
that's gonna be my little seed,
00:23:08.68\00:23:10.95
I'm gonna go ahead there
00:23:10.99\00:23:12.32
and hopefully
I'll get a 100 fold,
00:23:12.35\00:23:13.69
is that what we...
00:23:13.72\00:23:15.06
We are not really
talking about that...
00:23:15.09\00:23:16.42
No, that's not we
are talking about.
00:23:16.46\00:23:17.79
Not that they will fill it out
00:23:17.83\00:23:19.16
because so many people say that,
00:23:19.19\00:23:20.53
they're throwing
their little seed out there
00:23:20.56\00:23:21.90
to the lottery.
00:23:21.93\00:23:23.26
Oh, yeah.
00:23:23.30\00:23:24.63
So clearly we are not
talking about that at all.
00:23:24.67\00:23:26.00
Right.
00:23:26.03\00:23:27.37
We are talking about
the ones that God can bless
00:23:27.40\00:23:28.74
and you are saying
that it's up to God
00:23:28.77\00:23:30.11
whether it's 30, 60 or 100.
00:23:30.14\00:23:33.44
Okay, well, that's
your more than double,
00:23:33.48\00:23:35.48
is that right?
00:23:35.51\00:23:36.85
Thirty is auto max,
00:23:36.88\00:23:38.21
so you mean to
tell me that every seed
00:23:38.25\00:23:39.58
that God sows into my life
is gonna be more than double?
00:23:39.61\00:23:42.05
It's gonna be like 30 times,
00:23:42.08\00:23:45.35
it's gonna be a whole
lot more than what I've got.
00:23:45.39\00:23:47.69
I mean, we see that in nature
when you take one apple seed,
00:23:47.72\00:23:52.73
you get an apple tree
00:23:52.76\00:23:54.93
which may give you
more than 30 apples,
00:23:54.96\00:23:57.40
300 apples
00:23:57.43\00:23:58.93
and in that those
300 apples are 30 seeds.
00:23:58.97\00:24:04.04
Well, maybe 10 seeds
and in each of those,
00:24:04.07\00:24:07.58
and so you can
just take one seed
00:24:07.61\00:24:08.94
and it will continue to multiply
00:24:08.98\00:24:11.01
and expand and expand.
00:24:11.05\00:24:13.01
And so that's the
God that we serve.
00:24:13.05\00:24:16.28
He is super
abundant, super generous
00:24:16.32\00:24:19.69
and He blesses us with that.
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However we are in a
society, I don't know about you.
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I mean, you can
barely buy grapes
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with seeds in them.
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You know, we are
a seedless society.
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We despise seeds,
we don't like seeds.
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We want seedless
oranges, seedless grapes,
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seedless watermelons
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but the potential,
the growth is in the seed.
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And so just
because that seed is there,
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it does not mean it's going
to do anything in your life.
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You do have to work the seed,
00:24:45.25\00:24:47.05
you have to
plant it and grow it.
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You have to protect it.
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If you spit it out,
if you throw it away,
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then you are missing out.
00:24:53.12\00:24:56.02
There was a
mother, she had two boys
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and there was a option they had,
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one could have one of
her wonderful apple pies
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and one could just
have a plain old apple.
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And so of course, she
let the oldest pick first
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and he pick the
beautiful, delicious apple pie
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and the other one,
the baby got the apple.
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And you know, he
felt some kind of way
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about that at first.
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But while his brother was
getting all those calories
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in eating that apple pie,
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he took the seeds in that
apple and began to plant them.
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And eventually he
had an apple orchid
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and what he was
angry about at first
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because he thought he got jilted
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with just the plain old apple.
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Because he was able to recognize
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the power in those seeds
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and to put the
hard work behind it
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and begin to do it,
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his life changed.
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Wow. Wow, that's amazing.
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So there is with the seed
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growing up that
makes more seeds,
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countless seeds.
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Absolutely.
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Oh, wow, what those seeds.
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Dr. King, I wonder
if you can pray with us
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for those, just for all of us
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who wanted really be
able to have those seeds
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planted by the Holy Spirit in us
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to be able to
just grow and multiply.
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Now before I pray,
can I just say one thing?
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Yes, yes.
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Because the seed is word
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so we have to make
sure we get some word.
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You know, we may want
things in our lives to multiply
00:26:22.78\00:26:26.18
but this prayer will be specific
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that the word of God
multiples all of them.
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And he has
wonderful promises and so,
00:26:30.12\00:26:32.72
and so I would love
for even our listeners
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and our viewers
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to take some time
and get in the word
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and see what God has said,
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so that it could began
to expand in their lives.
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Amen. Okay.
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Our gracious
heavenly, Father, God,
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we thank You
that you are great God
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that You are generous God
00:26:47.77\00:26:49.27
and we thank you
oh God, for the seeds
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that You've placed in our lives.
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Father, we thank
You that you said that
00:26:53.11\00:26:54.61
if anyone is in
Christ they're new creature,
00:26:54.64\00:26:57.25
old things are passed away
00:26:57.28\00:26:58.91
and behold all
things become new.
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There are some
people watching right now
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wondering if they
could have a new start,
00:27:03.12\00:27:05.09
if they could have a new life
00:27:05.12\00:27:06.49
and through
Jesus Christ they can.
00:27:06.52\00:27:09.12
Father, in the name of Jesus
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I pray that You
would touch them,
00:27:10.59\00:27:11.96
that you would bless them.
00:27:11.99\00:27:13.33
That you would allow
them to experience Your hope,
00:27:13.36\00:27:15.83
Your joy, Your peace, oh God.
00:27:15.86\00:27:17.93
I pray that the
seeds that You have planted
00:27:17.97\00:27:20.00
that You will cause
them to explode, oh, God.
00:27:20.04\00:27:22.64
You who began this
good work in each of us
00:27:22.67\00:27:24.94
perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ,
00:27:24.97\00:27:27.74
so that when Jesus
Christ comes again,
00:27:27.78\00:27:30.25
we will be able to say
00:27:30.28\00:27:31.81
this is our God
we waited for Him,
00:27:31.85\00:27:33.58
He will save us
00:27:33.62\00:27:34.95
and we will be ready
00:27:34.98\00:27:36.32
for that great
getting up in morning.
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In the name of
Jesus we pray, amen.
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Amen. Amen. Thank
you so much for coming.
00:27:40.26\00:27:43.19
Thank you. We appreciate it.
00:27:43.22\00:27:44.96
It's such a blessing.
Thank you so very much.
00:27:44.99\00:27:48.36
Well, for those of you
00:27:48.40\00:27:49.73
we just really want to thank you
00:27:49.76\00:27:51.10
so much for joining.
00:27:51.13\00:27:52.47
Wasn't this a powerful program?
00:27:52.50\00:27:53.84
It was for me
00:27:53.87\00:27:55.20
just to know that God
plants in each one of us a seed,
00:27:55.24\00:27:59.54
a powerful personal
opportunity to grow,
00:27:59.57\00:28:05.55
to flourish, to become more
00:28:05.58\00:28:08.25
than what that little tiny
seed looks like on the outside.
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May that be a
prayer for each one of us
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that we will be that seed
today in the name of Jesus.
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