>>Announcer: It has
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Still relevant in
today's complex world
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It Is Written
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Sharing messages of
hope around the world
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Welcome to the It Is Written
Canada television program, my
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name is Bill Santos, thank you
so much for watching. Could it
be possible? Could the
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prayers of a handful of people
help someone - even someone on
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the other side of the world
facing heart surgery? Research
focusing on the power of prayer
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in healing has nearly doubled
in the past 10 years, says David
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Larson, MD, president of the
National Institute for
Healthcare Research, a private
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nonprofit agency. These studies
show that religious people tend
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to live healthier lives.
"They're less likely to smoke,
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to drink, to drink and drive".
In fact, people who pray tend to
get sick less often, as
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separate studies conducted
at Duke, Dartmouth, and Yale
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universities show. Some
statistics from these studies:
Hospitalized people who never
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attended church have an average
stay of three times longer than
people who attended
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regularly. Heart patients
were 14 times more likely to die
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following surgery if they did
not participate in a religion.
Elderly people who never
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or rarely attended church
had a stroke rate double that of
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people who attended regularly.
In Israel, religious people had
a 40% lower death rate
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from cardiovascular disease
and cancer. People who are more
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religious tend to become
depressed less often. And when
they do become depressed, they
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recover more quickly from
depression. A current study --
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conducted with Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine
and the first to be funded by
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the National Institute for
Healthcare Research - involves
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80 black women with early-stage
breast cancer. Half the women
will be randomly assigned
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to participate in a prayer
group, and will choose eight
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women in their church to form
the group. In the prayer group,
the support team will pray for
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her; she will pray for
them. They will offer each other
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psychological support, talk
about things that are bothering
them. During the six-month trial
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period, each patient will be
monitored for changes in immune
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function. The
study goes on to say .
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A few years back the Atlanta
Journal Constitution reported
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that Cable television mogul Ted
Turner criticized fundamentalist
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Christianity and said Jesus
probably would "be sick at his
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stomach" over the way his ideas
have been "twisted". Turner made
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his remarks at a banquet in
Orlando, Fla., where he was
given an award by the American
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Humanist Association for his
work on behalf of the
environment and world
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peace. Turner said he had a
strict Christian upbringing and
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at one time considered becoming
a missionary. But he said h
became disenchanted with
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Christianity after his sister
died, despite his prayers.
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Turner said the more he strayed
from his faith, "the better I
felt." There are times
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when the one thing we want is
the one thing we never get. The
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Bible says in Philippians 4:6:
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Today I want to look at what
happens when God's answer to
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prayer is no? There are times
when we come to God with a
request, we are not being
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picky or demanding we are just
following what the Bible says ".
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let your requests be made known
to God." Maybe all you want is
an opened door or an
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sign of His will, we would be
thankful with an answer. And so
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you pray and wait, and pray and
wait No answer. You pray and
wait. No answer. You
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pray and wait. What if God
says no? What if the request is
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delayed or even denied? When
God says no to us, how do we
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respond? Let's get back to our
story with David, to learn from
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his life and experiences lessons
for us today. The ark had made
its way triumphantly into
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Jerusalem. At long last
the ark was residing safely in
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Jerusalem. The nation was going
through a period of peace and
rest. David was sitting on the
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throne. The days in the
wilderness where he was forced
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to run like a hunted animal were
now over, he was at peace, David
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was enjoying a period of rest.
But the wheels of his mind were
turning. You see, it was
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David's purpose to make
Jerusalem the religious center
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of the nation. He had built a
palace for himself, and he felt
that it was not fitting that
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the ark of God would
reside within a tent. David was
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determined to build a temple for
the ark. A temple of such
magnificence that would
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express Israel's appreciation of
the honor granted the nation in
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the abiding presence of Jehovah
their King. David therefore
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called for his trusted
counselor, the prophet Nathan,
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in 2 Samuel 7:2. As David
reflected on the contrast
between his stately palace and
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the cloth tent that was the
temple, he became convinced of
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the need to building a dwelling
that was fitting for the ark of
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God. It did not take a prophet
to read David's mind. He was
formulating a dream to
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build his Lord the grandest,
most spectacular temple in the
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world. The prophet assured David
that his plan lined up with
God's will. 2 Samuel 7:3
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David's heart was definitely in
the right place, his objective
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was noble, but, just because
David's heart was in the right
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place and his friend, the
prophet was endorsing it, did
not mean it was God's will. It
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is important that we remember
that not every plan that we come
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up with for God is actually of
God. Just because we feel that
our plan is in harmony with
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God's plan, does not mean that
that is in fact the case. Just
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because from my limited
perspective it seems to make
sense, does not mean that from
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God's infinite, universal
perspective that it in fact
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does. Nathan found out that
having David build the temple
was not God's will. As noble as
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David's plan was, it was not
God's plan. 1 Chronicles 17: 3 -
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4 I am sure that this was not
the message that Nathan wanted
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to hear, much less communicate
to the king. How would David
respond to God's rejection
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of his plan? Would David
understand? David did understand
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why God did not want him to
build the temple. We read about
it in 1 Chronicles 22:8
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God's refusal to accept David's
plan to build the temple was not
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a refusal of David as a faithful
servant. God was redirecting
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David's life plan in a way that
neither Nathan nor David could
have ever imagined.
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God speaks to David through the
prophet Nathan. 2 Samuel 7: 8,
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9, 11
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It was David's dream to build
a temple, and now God was taking
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that dream away. I think it
inevitable that David's heart
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must have sunk, if only for
a moment. I recently found this
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poem . God always answers our
prayers... with a ''yes'', a
''no'' or a ''wait a
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while'' or ''something better.
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In David's case God responds
with something better than
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building the
temple. 2 Samuel 7: 12 - 16
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As one door was closed to David,
God established with David a
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covenant that was to last
forever. God's loving kindness
refers to God's unconditional
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covenant blessing. God would not
stand for disobedience but God
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would not remove David or his
descendants from their place of
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favor with God. David's unborn
son Solomon would be the one
responsible for building
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the temple. Typically God's "No"
would cause one to be
disappointed to the
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point that he would not
even recognize the tremendous
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blessing that God had bestowed.
Some might even experience some
jealousy towards the one
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who was going to accomplish
what he couldn't. The Bible
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mentions none of these feelings
brewing in David's heart. David
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was content and
fully trusted in God.
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John Paton was a great
nineteenth century missionary in
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the South Pacific. After he
graduated from school and
ministered in Scotland for
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awhile, he was sent to an island
in the South Pacific with his
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wife. At that time only
cannibals lived this particular
island. When they landed,
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they didn't speak the language
or know anyone who lived there.
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All they knew was that people
had gone there and had never
returned. The threat of
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their life constantly hung over
them. At a later time, when the
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chief of the tribe in that area
was saved, he asked John Paton
what army protected his
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place of dwelling in the early
months when he first arrived. It
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seems that God's holy angels
apparently became manifest in
order to protect the
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missionary. After having lived
there a few weeks, Paton's wife
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gave birth to a baby. But the
baby died, and a few days later
so did his wife. John slept
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on their graves for three or
four nights to keep the natives
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from digging up their bodies and
eating them. In spite of that,
he devoted the rest of his
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life towards ministering in the
South Pacific. In his
autobiography it said
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near the end of his life that he
didn't know of one native that
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hadn't made at least a
profession of faith in Jesus
Christ. He went there with great
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hopes, lost his cherished wife
and baby, and stayed on alone,
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but God used him because he was
content to do God's will no
matter what it cost him. That is
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what it means to aim
your life at God's purposes.
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Sometimes we focus so much on
the privileges that God has
given others that we
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overlook the priceless
inheritance that He's laid in
our laps. David did not
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make that mistake. Overflowing
with gratitude, he praised the
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God who had given him so much.
David expressed his trust
through a series of
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questions, 2 Samuel 7: 18 - 20
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David could have been
disillusioned or even become
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bitter with God's reply to his
request, but David, the man with
a heart like God's trusted
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God in His infinite wisdom and
praised God who had given him so
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much. 2 Samuel 7: 27 - 29:
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David would spend the rest of
his time on the throne gathering
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building materials for the
temple, organizing craftsmen and
readying plans for the
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construction of a temple that
he would never build. There was
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nothing wrong with David's dream
to build the temple. His motives
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were pure; his intentions,
pleasing to God. But he was not
the right man to carry out the
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plan. Has God ever said "no" to
one of your dreams? It can get
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very discouraging, sometimes the
situation and circumstances we
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find ourselves in are almost
unbelievable, we need not get
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discouraged. A man approached a
little league baseball game one
afternoon. He asked a boy
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in the dugout what the
score was. The boy responded,
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"Eighteen to nothing--we're
behind." "Boy," said the
spectator, "I'll bet you're
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discouraged." "Why should I be
discouraged?" replied the little
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boy. "We haven't even gotten
up to bat yet!" When we cannot
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understand our circumstances we
need to understand our God. At
the end of the Book of
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Habakkuk, chapter 3
verse 17 we read the following:
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These words would have meant
so much to people back then who
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were hearing them, they might
not mean as much to us unless we
understand the background.
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"Though the fig tree not
blossom", guess what? The fig
tree always blossoms.
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"And there be no fruit on
the vines", and there was always
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fruit on the vine. "Though the
yield of the olive should fail",
I'll tell you one thing about
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an olive tree, they last. "And
the fields produce no food", and
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the fields did produce food,
"though the flock should be cut
off from the fold", in
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other words, animals stop
calving and there aren't any
more. "And there be no
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cattle in the stalls", in other
words, if everything that is
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common, ordinary, every day,
dependable kind of thing of
natural happening all of a
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sudden stops. If all of a sudden
your entire world is turned
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upside down, in spite of your
pleas to God, everything just
falls apart, Habakkuk 3:18
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This is exactly what David did,
his dream to build the temple
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was shattered, his whole world
was turned upside down, yet he
rejoiced in the Lord. Yet
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he believed, in spite of the
circumstances that God loved him
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and cared for him and at the end
of the day was going to look
after him. How do we get
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to the point where we have that
kind of confidence in God? You
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only trust someone you know!
Someone once said "a Bible that
is falling apart usually
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belongs to someone who isn't"
When you know God you can ride
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out the storms, when you know
the Lord you will see His love
for you even in the "No".
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Building a temple is
probably not one of your secret
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ambitions, but all of us have
dreams, sometimes those dreams
line up with God's will
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sometimes they don't. Broken
dreams can shatter a person, but
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they don't have to. If we
believe that God really loves
us, really wants what is best
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for us - if we trust Him with
our lives, He will show us His
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better plan. Let's pray. Father
in heaven, may we learn to trust
in you and your love
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for us, so that even when
circumstances do not play out
the way we would have
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liked, we may see it your
way. Bless each viewer today be
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especially close to those who
are bringing special requests
before your throne, grant them
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according to Your will,
in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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>>BEV: Hi, everyone! Do you love
desserts, like I do?Well, the
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problem with desserts is that
they don't always love us back
Too many sugary, fatty
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desserts can pack on the pounds,
make our faces break out, and
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overall, just clog up our
system. Well, today I've got a
totally delicious, very
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easy, and highly nutritious
dessert to show you: Carob
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Avocado Mousse. Sounds
delicious, right? For the
ingredients, all you'll need is
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an avocado or two, 1/2 cup
non-dairy milk, 1/3 cup dried
dates that have been soaked for
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15 minutes to soften them, and
3 Tbsps of carob powder. So I'm
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just going to put all of that in
here. Now Carob powder is a
wonderful, caffeine free
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alternative to chocolate -- and
it's rich in B vitamins. So I'm
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putting it all in my high-speed
Vitamix blender, and I'm going
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to blend it all until it's
smooth -- oh, see the carob is
going places. OK, let's see how
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this works. You will not believe
how good this is, and trust me
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it won't even taste
like avocado. Here we go...
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So what you do is blend it until
it's totally smooth and creamy
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and it will be just like a
mousse, really, really fantastic
See it's really nice and
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thick because of the avocado.
Now, I adapted the recipe from
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one I found on the Sanaview.com
website. This is a really great
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site that features the story of
a teenaged girl named Bethany
who was paralyzed by a bad
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reaction to a medication, and
how the healing power of
wholesome food reversed
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her diagnosis. The first time
I tried this mousse, it was love
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at first bite! So easy, and
avocadoes are so good for us.
Yes, they are high in fat, but
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it's a good, primarily
monounsaturated plant-based fat.
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Plus, a medium-sized avocado has
a ton of potassium, is a good
source of vitamin C,
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B6, and magnesium, and has
14 grams of fibre Fantastic!
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Definitely try this, and let me
know what you think! So here,
I'm just going to scoop some
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out to show you -- and see how
easy it was to do. And it's got
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a lovely pudding, mousse
consistency and it is so good
for you and all of that. And if
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you want to jazz it up a little
bit, you can put some nice
raspberries on top. Look
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at that, makes it beautiful
instantly. Now, about the
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Vitamix, visit their website at
vitamix.com for more information
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about this superb blender. And,
I hope you'll visit the
Sanaview.com website to
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learn more about Bethany and
her remarkable story of regained
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health. I'll see you next time.
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>>BILL: All of the messages in
this series are in a small book
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I wrote called "David friend of
God". I'd like you to have that
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book. Here is the
information you need.
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>>BILL: Well, we have come
to the end of another program, I
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want to thank you so much for
joining us. Remember to visit
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the web site
www.ItIsWrittenCanada.ca. On the
web site you can send us prayer
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requests, you can make a
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impressed to do so. There is
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also a "Watch Live" tab --
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device. Well we hope to be back
together again next time. Until
then remember, it is
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written, man shall not live by
bread alone, but be every word
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that proceeds
from the mouth of God.
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