Years ago, Janene and I
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conducted a series
of evangelistic meetings
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in Kadapa, India.
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We took several couples with us
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to help with the
many logistics involved.
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Everything I've
being doing went very well
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except that two of the couples
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were having some personal
issues with one another.
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As it turned
out, Ron and Pauline
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along with the other couple
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found themselves on a
joint visitation team.
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Well, that was a day
they decided to visit a lady
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who is having
spiritual troubles.
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No one at the time realized just
how serious those troubles were
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and how serious
their trouble would become.
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The visitation
couples had no idea
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what the devil
had in store for them.
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Upon arriving at
the lady's house,
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the pastor who was
with the two couples
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asked everyone else
to leave the dwelling
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except for the lady in
question and her close friend.
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They sat on the dirt
floor in a tiny dark room
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holding hands in
a circle of prayer.
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Ron began to
pray but as he prayed,
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the woman they were
praying for grabbed his wrist
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and started to
squeeze very hard.
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Now Ron was extremely strong man
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but he could not pry her
hand from the painful vise-grip.
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And it was hurting
more and more by the moment.
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The couple saw
what was happening
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and as the eyes
of both couples met,
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they realized that
they were not wrestling
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against flesh and blood.
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Fear gripped their
hearts as they immediately asked
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forgiveness of one another
for all the previous feelings
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which had been
building between them.
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They cried to God
and asked for help
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against this enemy of souls.
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Still in the deadly grip
of the demon possessed woman,
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Ron was now joined by the
rest of the team in prayer
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demanding that the
demon release the arm of Ron
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and immediately
the demon obeyed him.
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Never again did the two couples
allowed any petty problems
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to disrupt
their mission for God.
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After experiencing
the power of Satan,
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their focus was
steadfastly fixed upon Christ.
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A great need of
the Holy Spirit was,
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and the work set before them
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was their only
concern from then on.
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I hate to wait at
stoplights and gas lines
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and traffic jams
and airline tolls.
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And I can't forget the checkout
counters in the supermarket.
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I just love the
checkout counters,
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yeah, of course I'm not
serious, wait, wait, wait.
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That misery loves
company and I'm in good company.
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You see, the disciples'
waiting ability was tested
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when the Lord told them to
follow specific instructions
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after He had descended.
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Do not, He said
depart from Jerusalem
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but wait for the
promise of the Father.
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What promise was He speaking of?
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Well, the answer is found in
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the remainder of the verses
associated with a command,
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"You shall be
baptized in the Holy Spirit
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not many days from now.
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You shall receive power,
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the Holy Spirit is
going to come upon you."
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Jesus promised the
power of the Holy Spirit
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to those who would wait for Him.
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Many theologians
believe this promise
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was fulfilled following
Jesus' coronation ceremony
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shortly after his ascent
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and is described in
Chapter 5 of Revelation.
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Jesus alluded to the
occasion in the Book of John
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when He cried out saying,
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"If anyone thirsts, let
him come to Me and drink."
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He who believes on Me as
the scriptures have said,
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"Out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water."
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But He spoke
this about the spirit
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which say, who
believe on Him should receive,
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for the Holy
Spirit was not yet given
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because Jesus was
not yet glorified.
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The followers of
Christ had already received
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image of the Holy Sprit
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and had experienced the results
of that bestowed in many ways.
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But they were to
receive still greater power
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which would set them
for a much larger work,
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taking the gospel
to the entire world.
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The command to wait as
long as they were supposed to
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was given by Jesus.
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They were to patiently wait,
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trusting in the
Master's command.
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And their wait
would not be in vain,
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but it had been almost 10
days with no word from the Lord.
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How do you react when
you receive no word from God?
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Oh, we find an
interesting situation
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from the lady in
Mathew Chapter 15.
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This lady had amazing faith
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and her promises
of God sustained her.
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When it seemed
that God had no ears
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and it says here, "Behold,
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a woman of Canaan
came out of these borders
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and cried to Him," saying,
'Have mercy on me, oh, Lord.
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Son of David, my daughter is
grievously vexed with a demon.'
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" But he did not
answer her a word.
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And there was the time
that the devil slammed Jobs,
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held so hard that
he wished he could die.
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The devil destroyed
their children, his job,
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his property and so Job
cried out in desperation
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and pain to God.
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How did God answer his friend?
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There was absolutely
no word for 37 Chapters.
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Well, I could say many
other instances in the Bible
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when God seemed to be silent
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but the followers
of God will not give up
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because they
completely trust in Him.
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The disciples learn this trust
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in the
fulfillment of the promises
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as recorded in the
Book of Acts 2:2-4.
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"And suddenly, there
came a sound of heaven
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as of a mighty rushing wind.
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And it filled all the
house where they were sitting.
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And there appeared unto
them cloven tongues like a fire,
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it sat upon each of
them and they were all filled
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with the Holy Ghost."
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The disciples knew
that they were helpless
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without the promised
power of the Holy Ghost,
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so they continued
praying and kept asking
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for their Holy Spirit.
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Are you willing to
ask and continue asking
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for His abiding
presence until you receive it?
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And to unite us
one fellow believer
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with that goal in Jesus Christ?
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On the day of Pentecost,
120 people were baptized
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with tongues of
fire as the Holy Spirit
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descended upon them,
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infusing them
with tremendous power.
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But what had they been doing
for the preceding 10 days prior
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to this historic experience?
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Couldn't, Ellen
White she says, in a room
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all continued with one accord
and prayer in supplication.
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They made
thorough work of repentance
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by confessing their own sins,
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setting aside all
differences and alienations,
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they were of one accord
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and prayed with unity
of purpose for 10 days.
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Wow, can you imagine that?
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Praying together,
coming together for 10 days.
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The disciples had
been at odds with one other
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over many issues, one
of the primary issues was
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who was to be the
greatest in the Kingdom.
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This minute had
become political clamor,
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James and John
even had their mother
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do some robbing on their behalf.
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She came to Jesus one day
and asked Him to grant that
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her sons sit on
either side of Christ
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in the new Kingdom.
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And all of the behind the
scenes bickering and fighting,
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the Lord responded
by calling the child,
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they were insane,
unless you are converted
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and become as a little child,
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you shall not enter
the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Think about it,
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if you get a 120 people
together to do anything,
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there's going to be problems
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that typically
raise their ugly head.
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Can you imagine
spending 10 days together
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in one location?
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These followers were
committed and sincere
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about getting it right
with one another and with God.
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They would not let
anything to interfere with
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their desired goal of receiving
more of the Holy Spirit,
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more of His abiding presence.
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This commitment and drive
resulted in the God enabling
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upper room prayathon.
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Announcing His
approval in their faithfulness,
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the silence of God was broken
and the promise fulfilled.
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The Holy Spirit
fell his flames of fire
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upon every believing repentant,
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reconciled seeker
in the room that day.
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And finally no
one confessed sin,
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the flames did not consume them
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but bathed the recipients
in an enabling power and glory.
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The fledgling church was
born through the strength
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of their Almighty Creator.
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Today or right now
God is looking for people
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He can trust with
this amazing gift.
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The question is
can He trust you?
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The sound of the
Spirit rushing in the house
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was so great that day,
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it drew a crowd of
curious searching people.
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You see, when God
transforms people,
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He always attracts attention,
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then on that day 3,000
responded to the preaching
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of the once ignorant disciples.
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Jim was a drug
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and a thief
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As someone said, he
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He became wealthy,
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and was a church leader
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relationships in your life
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that need
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You don't want
anything coming between you
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and the gift of the latter rain,
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This counsel is
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Now I quote, "we need not
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all we have to do is
keep the vessel clean
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and right side up
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and prepare for the reception
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of the heavenly
rain and keep praying.
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Let the latter rain
come into my vessel,
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you want God's vessel,
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the very temple
for His Holy Spirit."
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Its time to clean
away all the hard feelings,
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the bad blood and the alienation
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which may be
lingering in your vessel.
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It is time to become one again
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just as those
disciple did in the early days,
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those church
members in the early days
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by putting away all
of their differences
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just like Peter.
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Disciples were a real mess,
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the animosity
between them was so thick
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that you could
actually cut it with the knife,
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and Jesus was going
to be leaving them soon,
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what would He do, what could
He do to reach their hearts
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and soften them so
that they could become
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children of the king.
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Judas was the first
whose feet Jesus washed.
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Judas had already closed
the contract to deliver Jesus
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into the hands of the
priest and the Scribes
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and Christ knew His
secret but he didn't expose him.
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He hungered for his soul.
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His heart was crying,
oh, how can I give you up?
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He hoped that this
act in washing Judas' feet
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would touch the heart
of the erring disciple
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and save him from
his compelling act,
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the one of disloyalty.
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For a moment the heart of Judas
thrilled, thrilled, and thrilled
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with the impulse to confess
a sin right then and there.
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Oh, he just-- he was ready
to jump out of his skin almost
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but he continue to listen to
the whispers of the adversary
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who is standing near by.
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He decided he
would not humble himself
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and he hardened his
heart against repentance
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and would not succumb to
the urgings of the Spirit.
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He made his choice
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and now he was
offended at Christ's act.
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If Jesus would
humble himself like this,
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what he could not
be the king of Israel,
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how could he do such a thing?
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Well, even
Judas had he repented,
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would have been
received and pardoned.
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The guilt of the soul
would have been washed away
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by the atoning
blood of Jesus Christ.
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But self
confident and self exalted,
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cherishing a high
estimate of his own wisdom,
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he justified his
course of action.
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And now it was Peter's turn.
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When Peter came, Peter
was unable to restrain himself
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and he exclaimed in
absolute astonishment,
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Lord if you wash my feet,
what-- this is humiliating.
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I can't stand, I don't
want you to wash my feet.
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He thought Christ the king
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and now he was going to
do the task of a servant.
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You will never wash my
feet, you will never do this.
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Peter said in a strongest terms,
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he wanted to push Jesus away,
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but then Jesus said Peter,
if I don't wash your feet,
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you will have
no part in my work.
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Well, that
immediately touched Peter,
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there was a ray of
light that penetrated
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the mind of this disciple.
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He saw that the
service he refused was
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actually a type
of higher cleansing,
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the spiritual cleansing if
you will of mind and heart.
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He could not
endure the thought of
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being separated
from Jesus Christ.
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Not my feet only he said,
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but also my hands and my head.
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You see at the
promptings of the Holy Spirit,
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Judas has hardened his heart
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and he left the
presence of God but Peter,
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Peter on the other hand
chose the opposite course
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and allowed the God to continue
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the transformation process.
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At age 75 my mom
and dad Jim and Janet
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became Christians
and they were baptized.
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This was an exciting
time for Janene and for me
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because we've been praying
for them to come to Christ
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for so long.
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Their joy was evident
from the very beginning.
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They made new friends at church,
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they joined in to help missions
in other parts of the world.
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It was so exciting for them.
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There was
however one large problem
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that kept cropping up.
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You see in my
dad's new experience
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he still had terrible
feelings about his sister
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who had wronged
him years earlier.
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The hurt ran so deeply,
he refused to forgive her
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and he did not talk
to her for many years.
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This hated festered so
long that he was poisoning him
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from the inside out.
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Some one once said that
hate is like taking poison
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and expecting to
kill the other person.
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But the Holy
Spirit is relentless,
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desiring our greatest good.
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The Lord continued
to speak to my father
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until one day he picked up
the phone called his sister
00:16:11.82\00:16:15.17
and the
festering wound was healed.
00:16:15.20\00:16:17.15
His vessel had been cleansed
and God was the winner now.
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It was evident in my
dad's smile and mannerisms
00:16:20.69\00:16:23.67
that the burden
had been rolled away.
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Many people think
that they have no part
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in the reconciliation process.
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Even if they are
not the ones at fault,
00:16:32.11\00:16:34.18
but remember neither
was Jesus Christ at fault.
00:16:34.21\00:16:38.43
In his book
Radical, David Platt says,
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these words quote,
00:16:40.61\00:16:41.74
"He stands ready to
allocate his power to all
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who are radically
dependent upon him
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and radically devoted
to making much of him."
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What a God we serve.
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When the disciples
walked out of the upper room
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on the Day of Pentecost,
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Acts 2:6
indicates that the crowds
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had already began to gather
00:17:00.70\00:17:02.44
because of the rushing tornado
like sound that brought fire
00:17:02.47\00:17:05.38
of the Holy
Spirit to their lives.
00:17:05.41\00:17:08.42
Set on fire by God,
00:17:08.45\00:17:10.08
the disciples already
they take of every opportunity
00:17:10.11\00:17:13.29
God set in their pathway.
00:17:13.32\00:17:15.14
On the Day of Pentecost
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they witness the mighty
fire of the Spirit at work
00:17:16.23\00:17:18.57
in the hearts of an
ever expanding crowd
00:17:18.60\00:17:21.04
and knew that was their
invitation to partner with God
00:17:21.07\00:17:24.35
for the saving of many people.
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Are you able to
identify God at work
00:17:26.86\00:17:28.82
in and around your everyday life
00:17:28.85\00:17:30.78
and willing to partner with Him
regardless of the earthly cost?
00:17:30.81\00:17:35.07
When you open your
life to the Holy Spirit,
00:17:35.10\00:17:37.15
He will reveal
where He is working,
00:17:37.18\00:17:39.28
He did it for Jesus and
He will do the same for you.
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And as you grow in your
understanding of how God works
00:17:42.82\00:17:45.33
and become better
able to see Him at work,
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your life will take on a
new and exciting dimension.
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The Dead Sea lies
between Israel and Jordan.
00:20:06.43\00:20:08.59
It's over 1300
feet below sea level,
00:20:08.62\00:20:11.12
the lowest point on the planet.
00:20:11.15\00:20:13.36
Vital nutrients
designed by the creator
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provide life to the planet
flow downward into this basin
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and they become trapped.
00:20:18.78\00:20:20.65
What was meant to bring
life stagnates and dies.
00:20:20.68\00:20:23.52
Likewise in order to have life
00:20:23.55\00:20:25.53
you must share what
God is sharing with you.
00:20:25.56\00:20:28.65
Jesus said,
"Behold, I say to you,
00:20:28.68\00:20:30.48
lift up your eyes,
look on the fields,
00:20:30.51\00:20:32.71
for they are white
to harvest already."
00:20:32.74\00:20:35.34
It was true then
and it's true now.
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The harvest of souls hungering
to find hope is massive
00:20:37.32\00:20:40.69
and God is calling
you to join Him at work.
00:20:40.72\00:20:43.80
There is no doubt that
God wants you to join Him.
00:20:43.83\00:20:46.94
You can impact the world for God
00:20:46.97\00:20:49.19
as long as He is abiding in you.
00:20:49.22\00:20:51.58
You know you
can't stay where you are
00:20:55.90\00:20:57.57
when God has asked
you to join Him at work.
00:20:57.60\00:21:00.75
What is the work He has asked?
00:21:00.78\00:21:01.94
Well, fishing for men and woman?
00:21:01.97\00:21:04.34
As the children of the Lord,
fishing is not non optional
00:21:04.37\00:21:07.13
as Pam and Dan
Bullock discovered.
00:21:07.16\00:21:09.91
Dan and Pam had been
our good friends for years.
00:21:09.94\00:21:13.53
As a life long church
member and the wife of a surgeon
00:21:13.56\00:21:16.65
Pam did not feel that
witnessing was for her,
00:21:16.68\00:21:19.09
suddenly it was optional.
00:21:19.12\00:21:21.35
No, no I'm very shy really,
00:21:21.38\00:21:26.12
most people don't think that
00:21:26.15\00:21:27.59
because I'm pretty
outgoing in some ways
00:21:27.62\00:21:30.17
but I've been very shy
about verbally witnessing.
00:21:30.20\00:21:35.36
I've been just
quietly working doing my job,
00:21:35.39\00:21:38.26
being my good little
Seventh-day Adventist self,
00:21:38.29\00:21:41.27
but I would
never really say much,
00:21:41.30\00:21:43.51
but I think that unless
you're really willing to grow
00:21:43.54\00:21:48.23
that's not enough.
00:21:48.26\00:21:50.66
One of the main
reasons I fell in love with her
00:21:50.69\00:21:52.71
was that she had
a heart for the Lord
00:21:52.74\00:21:54.33
from the very beginning,
00:21:54.36\00:21:55.39
she was a youth
leader at her church,
00:21:55.42\00:21:58.05
but many of us fall
into the mistaken belief
00:21:58.08\00:22:02.08
that it's okay to
just be ourselves,
00:22:02.11\00:22:05.37
love people as they are
00:22:05.40\00:22:07.49
and not really actively
share, may be occasionally
00:22:07.52\00:22:12.08
a word of prayer here
and there on the slide,
00:22:12.11\00:22:15.18
but nothing outright
00:22:15.21\00:22:16.24
because we don't
want to offend people.
00:22:16.27\00:22:18.33
And Pam went from
being loving, caring person
00:22:18.36\00:22:23.11
going to community Bible study
00:22:23.14\00:22:24.87
with other women
and things early on
00:22:24.90\00:22:27.54
to women who
overcame her fear of
00:22:27.57\00:22:31.03
going to third world
countries on mission trips.
00:22:31.06\00:22:33.83
And even recently
overcame another big fear.
00:22:33.86\00:22:37.90
Well, she never wanted to
have Bible studies with people.
00:22:37.93\00:22:40.70
She was desperately afraid
of going to study the Bible,
00:22:40.73\00:22:45.09
even though she is a
good Bible student herself,
00:22:45.12\00:22:47.09
she just didn't
see herself doing that
00:22:47.12\00:22:49.27
and she recently went alone
to how to give Bibles studies
00:22:49.30\00:22:53.12
on her own without
me even prompting her,
00:22:53.15\00:22:55.58
so it was a wonderful thing
for her and for me to watch.
00:22:55.61\00:22:59.04
What's amazing is that
Bible studies really are fun.
00:22:59.07\00:23:02.89
I would never say
that as a typical Pam,
00:23:02.92\00:23:09.31
it's just what was
amazing was that my friend Paddy
00:23:09.34\00:23:14.39
just made it pleasurable for me.
00:23:14.42\00:23:17.68
She didn't put
any pressure on me,
00:23:17.71\00:23:19.46
she just invited me
to go, I took my Bible,
00:23:19.49\00:23:23.25
I just followed along.
00:23:23.28\00:23:24.98
And believe it or not,
they have guides who would think
00:23:25.01\00:23:29.19
I was always thinking
that Bible studies wherever
00:23:29.22\00:23:32.38
I would take my
Bible and just have to know
00:23:32.41\00:23:35.53
all the scriptures.
00:23:35.56\00:23:36.74
If any body asks me a question,
00:23:36.77\00:23:38.21
I have to open it up
00:23:38.24\00:23:39.58
and just be able
to know the answer.
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No, thank
goodness, I didn't have to,
00:23:42.38\00:23:45.43
the guides were there
to kind of lead you along.
00:23:45.46\00:23:48.42
They open up questions they--
00:23:48.45\00:23:50.68
and you have more verses that
you can look up and it just,
00:23:50.71\00:23:54.00
it all falls into place
and of course that's God.
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Yeah, highly recommend it.
00:24:01.38\00:24:02.79
It's a really good
growing experience.
00:24:02.82\00:24:07.99
What's cool about it is.
00:24:08.02\00:24:09.14
Once you have
learned to recognize
00:24:09.17\00:24:10.85
where the Lord is working,
00:24:10.88\00:24:12.87
you can see Him do all
sorts of amazing things.
00:24:12.90\00:24:16.00
So in this particular situation,
00:24:16.03\00:24:18.76
the couple that
were studying with
00:24:18.79\00:24:21.12
happen to get
interested in coming to church
00:24:21.15\00:24:24.49
from my medical practice.
00:24:24.52\00:24:26.31
And I had invited them to church
00:24:26.34\00:24:28.02
and then to see Pam
and her friend invite them
00:24:28.05\00:24:32.80
to study the Bible to
see if they were interested
00:24:32.83\00:24:35.49
and then go and see it
develop from me being concerned
00:24:35.52\00:24:38.76
for these people offering
to pray with these people,
00:24:38.79\00:24:41.32
inviting them to church and
then seeing Pam follow it up.
00:24:41.35\00:24:44.95
And seeing her find a new
way of sharing her love of Jesus
00:24:44.98\00:24:50.55
in an area where she
never would have thought
00:24:50.58\00:24:52.53
to have the confidence before.
00:24:52.56\00:24:55.68
She just blossomed in that area.
00:24:55.71\00:24:57.41
The Holy Spirit can
really do amazing things.
00:24:57.44\00:25:00.81
Well, I have made up
my mind early on practice
00:25:00.84\00:25:03.01
that I wanted to touch
people and let them know
00:25:03.04\00:25:05.00
that I cared about
them, but at that time
00:25:05.03\00:25:08.61
I wasn't in
active prayer for people.
00:25:08.64\00:25:10.97
It wasn't until
we experienced God
00:25:11.00\00:25:13.96
in this way showing us
00:25:13.99\00:25:15.78
how He was at
work in people's lives
00:25:15.81\00:25:18.37
that I began to be
much more open to the fact
00:25:18.40\00:25:21.10
that everyday was
a fresh opportunity
00:25:21.13\00:25:23.87
to see the Lord at
work and to join Him there.
00:25:23.90\00:25:27.61
And see where people
were having challenges
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and to reveal to them that
they are in a spiritual battle
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against the principalities
and powers in the heavens above
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and that they have
power potentially available
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on their sides through prayer.
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I just could not
pray with them any more.
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I was thinking about when you
invited those girls to church,
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they came to church
and you were on call,
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you didn't even
go to church that day
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and so the
pressure was really on me
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at that point to go
up and introduce myself
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and meet them which I would have
normally just let Dan do it,
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because he already knew them,
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but since he
wasn't there God forced me
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sort of into the situation and
then of course my friend Paddy
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helped me out and
then she took bread to them
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and she set it up and you know
she does made it easy for me.
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And I think when
you're in a situation
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where somebody
makes it easy for you,
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then you learn from
it and you enjoy it.
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Yeah, you're growing,
sometimes it's faster,
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sometimes it's slower,
sometimes you feel little pauses
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and sometimes
those are your fault.
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But the experience of
working with the Holy Spirit
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to actively seek
souls every day is,
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it just can't be beaten.
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You know Dan and Pam's
rebirth experience with Christ
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really begin
right here in this home.
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I know because my wife
and I were part of that group.
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Dan and I talked at the
time and came to the conclusion
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that the Holy Spirit
was missing in our lives.
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We decided to get
together for study and prayer.
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Not unlike those disciples
on the day of Pentecost
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only we needed far more help.
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Our tool was a study
guide that laid out five days
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of study and prayer each week.
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It seem like a big
commitment at the time
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but as we can now all
testify, it was life changing
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and well worth it.
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Janene and I remember
those times with great joy
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with wonderful happiness, as
we see the fire in the hearts
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of God's people go out
today we yearn for that time
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when more
Christians will wake up
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and prepare for
the Lord soon return.
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For that reason we've
written Transformation,
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it's a study guide a 12 week
study guide and also a book.
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Is designed to lead
you to a closer walk
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with your God than ever before.
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We urge you to
start your study now.
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