The hour is urgent as darkness
is dispelled by the light of
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God's Word.
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A new day begins.
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Jesus, the light of
the world is shining.
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Prepare your hearts to
proclaim the final cry.
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This is 3ABN
Summer Camp Meeting.
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Hello, and welcome to
3ABN Summer Camp Meeting 2025.
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What a joy to be here.
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Have you guys been blessed?
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Amen.
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The speakers, the singers,
what a blessing this has been.
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The Spirit of God is truly here.
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So today I have the privilege
of introducing a wonderful man
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of God.
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When I told him that he was
introducing him, he said, I am
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a man of God.
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Just say I'm a
husband and a father of two.
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And I'm like, I have to say
a little bit more than that.
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So I want to only add that a
couple of years ago, I had the
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privilege of finding
Pastor Goya on YouTube and his
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teachings on prayer
revolutionized my prayer life.
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It has changed my
prayer life forever.
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So what a blessing it is for me
to introduce him to you today.
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You are going to
truly be blessed.
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After the lovely music ministry
of Celestine Dickens, the next
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voice you'll hear is
that of Dr. Pavel Goya.
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You will be blessed.
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Come to my knees and pray.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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Let today be the day.
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Sometimes I feel
like I'm gonna break.
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But I'm holding on to
a hope that won't fade.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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We've been waiting so long.
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For the day you return to
heal every hurt and right every
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wrong.
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We need you right now.
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Come and turn this around.
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Deep down I know
this world isn't home.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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There'll be no war and there'll
be no shame when Jesus comes.
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Let today be the day.
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He'll come for the weak
and the strong just the same.
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And all will believe
in the power of His name.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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We've been waiting so long.
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For the day you return to
heal every hurt and right every
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wrong.
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We need you right now.
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Come and turn this around.
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Deep down I know
this world isn't home.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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One day He'll come.
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And worse than face to face.
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Come on all, lay it all down.
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Cause it might be today.
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The time is right now.
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There's no need to wait.
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Your past will be
washed to a river by grace.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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We've been waiting so long.
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For the day you return to
heal every hurt and right every
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wrong.
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We need you right now.
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Come and turn this around.
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Deep down I know
this world isn't home.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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Come, Jesus, come.
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Are
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you ready to study?
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Hallelujah!
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Jesus is coming soon.
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So let me ask you a question
before we pray and start.
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Are you transformed?
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Because we have
listened a million sermons.
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And we go home
after another one.
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And what is the change?
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Because if there is no change,
why listen to another sermon?
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What's the point?
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Just because you like it?
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It's fun.
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Because if we are not
doers, we lose our time.
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We fool ourselves.
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Hey, what Christians, you
know, we go to church, we sing
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Kumbaya, we lose our time.
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Jesus is coming
and we must be ready.
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Because our
eternity is at stake.
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Let's pray together.
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Father in heaven, how can we?
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How can we prepare?
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How can we grow?
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How can we
really change our heart?
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We can change our external
behavior at times, but only you
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can change our nature.
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How can we prepare, Lord?
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It's only you that can do that.
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We ask for your Holy
Spirit right now in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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I'm torn between two subjects
that I believe, well, there are
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eight in the series, but
two of them I believe that are
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absolutely,
absolutely essential.
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One of them that I believe is
the foundation is that if I had
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another one hour, you know,
another seven actually, but
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anyway, one of them is the
foundation of everything in the
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spiritual life.
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Literally, you
don't get that one.
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You don't get anything.
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Literally, because we
talk about to know God.
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What is eternal life?
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To know God, to know God.
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We talk about that, but we
really have no clue what that
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means.
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I myself either.
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No understanding.
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The spirit of prophecy says
that if we could see God for a
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second, we'd be
ashamed of ourselves.
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We would never doubt him again.
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Angels wonder,
how can we doubt God?
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In eternity, we'll never
understand a drop of his love.
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It will be the
science of eternity.
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And we talk about knowing God.
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The disciples spent three years
and a half with him, day and
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night walking with him, eating
with him, sleeping at the same
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spot, watching him day and
night, three years and a half,
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and they still didn't know him.
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And they had no clue.
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Basically, Jesus told them
a million times, I will die.
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And when he died, they were
like, Whoa, we didn't expect
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that.
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We never heard that.
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People have filters.
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They hear what
they want to hear.
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Like in politics, they
understand what they want to
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answer.
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And we think we hear the
gospel, go home and practice.
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We hear what we think we hear,
not what actually God is trying
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to tell us.
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And then we think we are OK and
we don't even know how we are.
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We are blind and we
don't know that we are blind.
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And it is something to be
outside the church and not
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know.
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know and not practice
and not experience it.
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How do you experience
lasting transformation?
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Real transformation,
real preparation, real growth.
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How do you grow the individual?
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How do you grow the family?
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How do you grow the church?
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And we work
through this and that.
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If you do this and if
you do that, we plan revival.
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Nothing wrong with that.
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But revival you cannot plan.
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It's the Holy
Spirit who does revival.
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If you do step one, two, three,
four, let's right now we meet
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for four hours and have
more meeting to plan revival.
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Never in the history a
revival happened without serious
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prayer.
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When people get together
and pray, revival happens.
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But yet, how many people
do you see in the prayer room?
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You understand
what I am talking about?
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Because you are a
little quiet right now.
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So how do you
experience lasting change?
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One subject has to
do with to know God.
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Because if we really understood
a drop, a drop of how God is,
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it would change everything.
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It would give us absolute
peace, absolute joy, absolute
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assurance.
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We would pray with a
different perspective in mind.
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We would go joyfully in
His presence if we knew God.
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We would not go with doubt
and leaving prayer without even
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knowing if He
answered unsecured.
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To know God, it would give us
joy and power in the preaching
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of the Gospel.
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How can you tell them to
experience it if you have not
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experienced it?
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Jesus says you are my witnesses.
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I've never in my life seen
a witness in the court of law
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that would say, Jimmy told
John, John told Mary, Mary told
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me, and I am a witness.
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To be a witness, you
need to have witnessed.
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That's the reason John says
what we have seen, that's what
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we tell.
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You need to see it and
experience it in order to tell
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it.
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You understand?
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You cannot witness successfully
before you experience it.
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I remember we were in College
Day 30 years ago when we came
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to this country.
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We were in Southern Adventist
University and in Romania we
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used to, and I am not going to
go into that story, we used to
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have a business, in fact
several businesses, and then we
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gave up the business to be
in ministry because the church
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called us.
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And then we came to this
country to go to school and
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when we were in school
we dropped income-wise from
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business to pastor,
from pastor to student.
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You understand what I say?
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And when you are used to be
here it's a little challenging
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to be here.
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And so when we
came we had no English.
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I mean yes, I did speak
but more with my hands than my
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mouth.
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hands.
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No English, no insurance, I
mean a little English, a few
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words.
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No insurance, no work permit.
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You understand,
you get the picture.
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My wife worked three jobs a day.
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In the morning she would
clean for an old lady, in the
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afternoon for an old man,
and then in the night she would
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clean a house for somebody else.
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She worked three jobs.
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I took three years and a
half in one and had two jobs.
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It sounds easy but I tell
you it's not easy, it's killing.
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And during the night I
would learn on my physically,
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literally on my knees.
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Read one word and then go to
the dictionary to see what that
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means in English.
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And then pray, Lord give
me wisdom to learn this crazy
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language.
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No offense, it is.
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You write in a way and read
in a different way and then some
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words you write the
same and read differently.
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It's nonsense, sorry.
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And people in Southern, when
they talk, they swallow half of
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the words.
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It's like, whoa,
what are they saying?
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And so I, Lord you need to help
me to get English, you know.
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Praying and having no food.
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And you know my wife can
go three weeks without food.
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I can go four hours, that's it.
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It was not easy.
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And then you pray
and God doesn't answer.
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Did it ever happen to you?
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God doesn't seem
to answer and we know.
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She says to every honest
prayer an answer will come.
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Where is the answer?
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I mean Abraham, 25
years for an answer?
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How many of you can wait or are
happy to wait 25 years to get
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an answer to prayer?
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And so we prayed and God knows
what we need and when we need
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it.
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purpose of the plan that he
has for us, we would choose the
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same path.
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You understand?
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If we knew the big picture,
if we see the heavenly picture,
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not the day to day picture.
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You understand?
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And so we prayed
and nothing happened.
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And in all that picture,
if you think about it, it was
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challenging to
survive from day to day.
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And that's how we do.
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We see today.
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We don't see the eternal
picture and we think that
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doesn't care.
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But did it ever happen to you?
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You look back 10 years ago and
you say, actually that trial,
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it was for my benefit.
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Because looking back, all that
hot temper, short fuse, anger,
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pride, ambition, stubbornness,
all that started to diminish
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through that experience.
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You understand?
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business, to I am nobody.
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I cannot even talk.
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And by the way, some people,
when you don't understand, they
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come close to your mouth
and they scream, hoping that if
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they talk loud, you understand
better English, you know.
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That's offensive.
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But anyway, and so in all
that picture, we had to learn to
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humble ourselves.
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We had no choice because before
God can use you, he has to
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break you.
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As long as you are
somebody, God is nobody.
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And you need to become nobody
and to the degree that you die
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to self, to that very specific
degree, God can lead your life.
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He will never be able to work
in your life, to grow you, to
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develop you, to prepare you
and to use you before you die to
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self.
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control.
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By the way, this is not
yet the subject, unfortunately.
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There is nothing God
can do for you and for me.
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And it's easy to keep sabbath.
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Lazy people enjoy
keeping every day.
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But it's extremely difficult
to die to self and to die to
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control.
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We like to control ourselves
and control everybody around
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us.
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And God wants us to die.
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And Paul says, I've been
crucified, I no longer live.
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And then in a different verse
he says, I actually die daily.
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And God wants us to die.
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And unless a grain would die,
it will never produce fruit.
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So if you wonder why
no fruit, this is it.
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Because there is no death.
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The reason you argue with
people, your spouse or in the
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church or at work, is
because you are alive.
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Dead people don't argue.
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When you argue, you need to
remember it's you that are not
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dead yet.
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Even if you are right,
nobody is right except God.
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Even if you are right, the fact
that you argue or you are upset
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or you are offended, it
means that you are alive.
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Dead people don't get offended.
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And so that means
that you need to die.
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And that God is trying
desperately to kill you in
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order to give you a
new birth and a new heart.
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God will never
fix a broken heart.
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He just replaces it.
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And so that's the reason
we don't experience power and
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transformation and have no
power to help others experience
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God.
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Because we hate death.
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You understand?
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He doesn't say with his
blessings what we say in our
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prayers.
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Let me be one with your death.
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So then I may be one with
your resurrection and your life.
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Because that's the way.
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Unless you desire to be
one with his suffering and his
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death, you will
never experience heaven.
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So when you say, Lord, help
me to grow in faith, you say,
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Lord, send me some suffering
to develop my character and my
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humbleness and my
patience and my trust and my...
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You follow me?
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And then when God sends you the
trials, you say, Lord, will you
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please remove the trials?
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Nonsense.
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And so then if you really want
to be in heaven and to prepare,
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that's where it starts.
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So now go into the subject.
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I'm torn between talking
about this and talking about how
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revival happens.
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Now, talking about revival,
I gave you the introduction for
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the first one.
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Talking about revival, you
need to remember, Jesus, please
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watch carefully.
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What is the Great Commission?
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Uh-huh.
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Go and preach.
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Am I right?
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From Jerusalem to
Judea to the whole world.
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Jesus clearly in the Great
Commission, before he told them
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to go, he clearly, strongly
told them to wait, to tear a
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little longer in the city.
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He said, do not go,
but wait a little longer.
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And I could give you the Bible
verses and the quotations from
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the Book of Acts of the
Apostles starting at page 32
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all to page 50 in
the mid-50s, 54-55.
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If you read carefully, Ellen
White says, and please hear
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what I say.
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She says, in obedience,
quote, in obedience to Christ's
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command, it was
not a suggestion.
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It was a command.
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In obedience, she says, to
Christ's command, they did not
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go, but remain in the city
and prayed and waited and prayed
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and waited for the
opening of the Holy Spirit.
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And she says, they knew, they
knew that they could never do
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the work in their own power.
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And they humble themselves,
expressing their total
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dependence on God, and they
pleaded for the quote, promised
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blessing, the comforter.
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They knew that in their power,
they may make plans, they may
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do evangelist Bible studies,
yet they will never reach the
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goal.
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every second than
people we baptize every second?
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We get farther and
farther away from the goal.
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Unless the Holy Spirit works,
because this work is not going
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to be closed by mind,
by power, by planning.
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We do need to plan.
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Don't get me wrong.
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But we need the
outpouring of the latter rain.
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We need, it is by my
spirit, says the Lord.
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The work could not have started
without the early rain, and the
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work cannot close
without the latter rain.
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And therefore our greatest need
is revival, and revival happens
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when people pray.
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And the Bible is very clear.
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If my people who are
called by my name would humble
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themselves, please remember,
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pray, sing my face, and turn.
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What means to turn around?
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Repent!
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It's not repaint, it's repent.
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You know, it says, the guy,
probably I should not tell it,
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wanted to save money, so he
diluted the paint with water.
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When the rain came, it washed
the paint, and the pastor says
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to the painter,
Repaint and sing no more.
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Repent!
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relationship with me, to know
me, like Moses, Lord I want to
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know, I want to see you, please
show me, tell me who you are,
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like David, show me your face.
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You understand?
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If they know me, if they
seek my face, start seeking
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blessings, seek relationship.
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We got to the point that what
God intended to be blessings,
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have become curses, because
we worship blessings, instead of
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worshiping the blesser.
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Seek my face, make it
a priority, and repent.
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If people do that, he says,
I will answer their prayers, I
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will heal the land.
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He says that the eyes of
the Lord, they go to the earth,
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looking for somebody fully
committed, and God can use one
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to save a nation.
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That means that he cannot find
one fully committed who would
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humble Moses.
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Moses was a human being, he was
not Superman eating super food,
00:23:25.97\00:23:28.94
using super glue,
and driving super car.
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Moses was a normal human being,
attacked by Satan like you and
00:23:31.57\00:23:35.88
me.
00:23:35.88\00:23:36.51
But because he fully died
to self, and by the way, he
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refused to do that in the
beginning, he wanted to use his
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own way, and God had to humble
him forty years, it took God
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forty years to make
Moses nothing so God could be
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something.
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And every single one in the
Bible, Joseph, prison, Daniel,
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slave in Babylon, in order
to be used, they had to be made
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nothing so God could be
something in them and through
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them.
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If my people humble, now think
about the disciples, Illinois
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says, they, listen
carefully, humble themselves,
00:24:08.94\00:24:14.68
acknowledging
their total dependence.
00:24:16.35\00:24:18.12
They knew that they can never
finish the work, and she says,
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when they humble themselves
and pray and receive the Holy
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Spirit, she says, they did
in a short time quote what they
00:24:23.16\00:24:26.53
could not have done in a life.
00:24:26.53\00:24:28.50
And she says, through the power
of the Holy Spirit, quote, they
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turn the world, listen,
this is a quote, upside down.
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God can do things above human
expectation or planning, way
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above and beyond anything that
we can plan in our committees.
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Don't get me wrong again,
we should, Illinois says, plan,
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pray and work.
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The problem is that sometimes
we just plan or we just pray or
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we just work.
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We never put them together.
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And she says, people who only
pray and never work, they will
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soon start to pray or
pray to become routine.
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People who always just pray,
they pray, pray for six months
00:25:04.90\00:25:08.70
and nothing happens.
00:25:08.70\00:25:09.67
And I ask them, did
you do something about it?
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If God, if you want God to
bless your work, you do need to
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work.
00:25:15.14\00:25:15.71
Otherwise, there
is nothing to bless.
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God bless my garden, but by
the way, I don't have a garden.
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Also, the Spirit probably says,
work according to your prayers.
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By the way, I remember
specifically, I was in Spain
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preaching way
back, 2004, way back.
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Then, that's 2004.
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Then in 2017, that's 13 years
later, I'm in Czech Republic
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talking to the division.
00:25:52.68\00:25:53.75
And the man from the division
comes and says, Pastor, I'm
00:25:54.45\00:25:57.82
going to put you on the spot.
00:25:57.82\00:25:58.69
I said, nothing new.
00:25:59.02\00:26:01.89
What have I done?
00:26:02.36\00:26:03.32
He says, well, nothing bad.
00:26:03.89\00:26:05.83
He says, you know what
happened in Italy, in Bergamo?
00:26:05.93\00:26:08.60
I said, I've
never been in Bergamo.
00:26:09.40\00:26:10.87
I don't even know where it is.
00:26:10.90\00:26:12.00
Well, it's next to Milan.
00:26:12.00\00:26:12.03
I said, okay, what happened?
00:26:13.44\00:26:14.80
I thought he would tell
me earthquake or something.
00:26:15.60\00:26:17.57
He says, no, no,
no, there is revival.
00:26:17.74\00:26:19.74
He says, Italy is very,
very, very, very secular.
00:26:20.24\00:26:22.41
And Italians are Catholics, but
they don't go to church, except
00:26:24.28\00:26:26.72
tourists and old people, you
know, they don't go to church.
00:26:26.72\00:26:29.22
And he says, a lady went in
2004 to Madrid, Spain, and she
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listened to your sermons.
00:26:36.86\00:26:37.66
And that's what he told me.
00:26:37.66\00:26:37.69
I did not check it too much.
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That's I tell
you what he told me.
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He says, she went to the prayer
seminar that you gave in Spain,
00:26:42.23\00:26:46.03
and then she
practiced what she heard.
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Oh, that's a beautiful thing.
00:26:50.67\00:26:52.11
Otherwise, I could
stay home with my wife.
00:26:52.61\00:26:54.34
I like her way
more than I like you.
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In the prayer and the hope that
people do what they hear, we
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preach.
00:27:03.85\00:27:04.09
Am I right?
00:27:04.25\00:27:04.95
And so, the men from the
division said, she practiced
00:27:06.45\00:27:10.59
what she heard.
00:27:10.59\00:27:11.56
She recorded everything on a
cell phone, and then she wrote
00:27:11.83\00:27:14.00
it in a small booklet, and then
she gave it to another five,
00:27:14.00\00:27:16.80
six ladies from the
church that were friends.
00:27:16.80\00:27:18.60
And she says, I want you
to read this two, three times.
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And then I want us to meet
together, because our church
00:27:21.90\00:27:24.61
has just about 40 people.
00:27:24.61\00:27:25.87
Our church has nothing going on.
00:27:26.21\00:27:28.24
We are dying.
00:27:28.51\00:27:29.31
I want us to experience revival.
00:27:29.91\00:27:31.98
And she said, can we
meet in the mornings and pray?
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Can we meet in
the mornings and pray?
00:27:37.72\00:27:39.92
And they listened, they
read, and then they met.
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Every morning at 6.30.
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And after a few weeks, months,
I don't know, I get a phone
00:27:46.29\00:27:49.96
call, and I get like a
million phone calls a day.
00:27:49.96\00:27:52.77
Not a million, but you know.
00:27:53.10\00:27:54.70
And some people don't know
how to tell you short what they
00:27:55.90\00:27:58.14
want to say, so they talk one
hour to say nothing, you know,
00:27:58.14\00:28:00.41
and just after one hour you
wonder exactly where do they
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go.
00:28:03.04\00:28:06.78
for me.
00:28:06.78\00:28:09.28
because I, you
know, I have things to do.
00:28:09.28\00:28:12.09
And so she talks, and she talks.
00:28:13.36\00:28:15.19
I said, can you please
tell me what is the subject?
00:28:15.32\00:28:17.99
She said, well, we have been
praying for so long and nothing
00:28:18.29\00:28:20.23
happened.
00:28:20.23\00:28:20.66
God didn't answer.
00:28:20.73\00:28:21.43
I said, yep, me too.
00:28:21.63\00:28:22.60
I've been going to school
for three weeks, and they didn't
00:28:22.86\00:28:25.30
give me a degree, you know.
00:28:25.30\00:28:26.37
Nothing happened.
00:28:27.30\00:28:28.04
She said, well, how
long do you want us to pray?
00:28:28.87\00:28:30.51
I said, sister, prayer is
not an event, it's a lifestyle.
00:28:30.87\00:28:34.71
You don't pray for a month.
00:28:36.28\00:28:38.35
It's like prayer is
the breath of the soul.
00:28:38.55\00:28:39.98
You don't breathe for one month
and expect it's sufficient.
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If you want to stay spiritually
alive, you need to keep
00:28:43.62\00:28:46.05
praying.
00:28:46.05\00:28:46.42
And you need to get it.
00:28:47.79\00:28:48.86
Prayer is a way of life.
00:28:48.96\00:28:51.09
You should always pray, not for
miracles, not for answers, not
00:28:51.56\00:28:55.93
for results, but
because you need God.
00:28:55.93\00:28:58.57
You need to stay connected.
00:28:58.60\00:29:00.04
So don't look for anything.
00:29:01.34\00:29:02.40
Look for God.
00:29:02.77\00:29:03.57
Seek my faith.
00:29:04.47\00:29:05.37
And I said, if you really want
to grow, spend time with him.
00:29:06.37\00:29:11.01
I just read in the morning,
the more time you spend in his
00:29:12.75\00:29:16.08
presence, in prayer and study
and meditation of the world,
00:29:16.08\00:29:19.25
the more time you spend,
the more you are transformed
00:29:19.45\00:29:22.76
without you knowing.
00:29:22.76\00:29:23.73
And I said, you should
pray for the sake of Jesus.
00:29:25.19\00:29:29.13
Number one.
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God wants to answer your
prayer, but he needs to prepare
00:29:36.67\00:29:40.94
you, prepare the community,
so when he gives you a baby, the
00:29:40.94\00:29:45.38
baby doesn't die.
00:29:45.38\00:29:46.88
You need to be
ready for the baby.
00:29:48.05\00:29:49.78
So the reason God doesn't
answer, it means that either
00:29:50.52\00:29:52.59
you or the community
or both are not ready.
00:29:52.59\00:29:54.52
So you need to keep praying
because if God, if Noah prayed
00:29:55.36\00:29:59.16
one prayer in his life and God
told him to build an ark, Noah
00:29:59.16\00:30:02.13
thought that he
ate too much pizza.
00:30:02.13\00:30:03.70
Noah had to be a man of prayer,
so when God told him to build
00:30:05.97\00:30:09.17
an ark, he didn't comment.
00:30:09.17\00:30:11.14
He did it.
00:30:11.81\00:30:12.81
Abraham had to be a man of
prayer when God said, move from
00:30:13.84\00:30:16.38
your country or
sacrifice your son.
00:30:16.38\00:30:18.25
He did it.
00:30:18.31\00:30:19.48
You need to know God's voice
and to know God enough to trust
00:30:19.48\00:30:22.32
God to do what he says
because God never talks small.
00:30:22.32\00:30:25.92
We plan small.
00:30:26.82\00:30:28.22
God plans big.
00:30:28.72\00:30:29.82
God told Gideon, go to war and
he said, we have 32,000 people
00:30:30.93\00:30:35.43
and God says, too many, you
have too many, you need just
00:30:35.43\00:30:38.53
300 people.
00:30:38.53\00:30:39.40
If God told Gideon that or
told you, you go to war with 300
00:30:40.40\00:30:44.84
people, and then God
says, by the way, you don't need
00:30:44.84\00:30:47.81
weapons, you need a
light and a trumpet.
00:30:47.81\00:30:49.51
I've never heard anybody
fighting with a light, you
00:30:49.94\00:30:52.05
know?
00:30:52.05\00:30:52.35
That's suicide mission.
00:30:55.02\00:30:56.15
It's mission impossible.
00:30:56.85\00:30:57.92
You need to be a man of prayer,
a woman of prayer in order to
00:31:00.86\00:31:04.93
trust God enough when he
gives you the plan, you do it.
00:31:04.93\00:31:07.76
And so I told the lady, pray
until you are ready and then
00:31:07.76\00:31:13.17
pray until God gives you the
plan and then follow the plan
00:31:13.17\00:31:16.34
and keep praying so God
would go with you through the
00:31:16.34\00:31:19.67
accomplishments.
00:31:19.67\00:31:20.01
You understand?
00:31:21.14\00:31:21.71
So I said, keep praying
because Satan wants you to stop.
00:31:22.48\00:31:26.45
If you really want to
grow, keep praying and then keep
00:31:27.32\00:31:32.89
working.
00:31:32.89\00:31:33.62
So they say, ah,
I said, hallelujah.
00:31:35.42\00:31:38.63
When people say, ah,
click, you know, good.
00:31:39.96\00:31:43.63
And then the lady didn't call
me back but then in 2017 the
00:31:44.13\00:31:47.37
man says, they
got together at 6.30.
00:31:47.37\00:31:50.27
A few old ladies
they started to pray.
00:31:51.01\00:31:52.64
And they prayed and they prayed
and they prayed and they prayed
00:31:53.68\00:31:56.58
and they prayed and they prayed
and they said, Lord, we are not
00:31:56.58\00:31:59.11
going to let you go before you
transform us and you prepare us
00:31:59.11\00:32:02.75
and you use us and we ask for
the Holy Spirit and we ask you
00:32:02.75\00:32:05.32
to grow our church and we
ask you to help us reach the
00:32:05.32\00:32:07.39
community because there are
many people there and you told
00:32:07.39\00:32:10.13
us to reach the community
but you told us to wait and pray
00:32:10.13\00:32:14.20
until we receive the Holy
Spirit and then go and preach.
00:32:14.20\00:32:17.40
So Lord, we are
not going to stop.
00:32:18.20\00:32:19.80
And God loves those prayers.
00:32:20.57\00:32:22.57
I'm not going to let
you go before you bless me.
00:32:23.41\00:32:25.01
God loves that.
00:32:25.01\00:32:26.21
And so they prayed and they
prayed and they prayed about 6,
00:32:27.34\00:32:30.05
7, 8 months later, I don't know
precisely how much, somebody
00:32:30.05\00:32:33.28
knocks in the door at 6.30 a.m.
00:32:33.28\00:32:35.05
They opened the door, they were
praying and the guy says, guys,
00:32:35.38\00:32:38.72
what's wrong with you?
00:32:38.89\00:32:39.95
I am the neighbor across
the street we have no parking on
00:32:40.09\00:32:42.49
this street and it used to
be that you come one day a week
00:32:42.49\00:32:45.69
for two hours Saturday morning
and that's when the street is
00:32:45.69\00:32:49.46
all parked.
00:32:49.46\00:32:50.10
Otherwise every day we
have parking on the street.
00:32:50.57\00:32:52.97
Right now you come every day.
00:32:53.77\00:32:55.00
When I work night shift, I
come in the morning, I have no
00:32:55.24\00:32:58.44
parking because you guys you
take the parking in front of my
00:32:58.44\00:33:00.94
house.
00:33:00.94\00:33:01.41
Why are you here every day?
00:33:01.94\00:33:03.28
You should come one hour a week.
00:33:03.31\00:33:05.18
And they say, we
come together to pray.
00:33:07.98\00:33:09.95
What?
00:33:10.22\00:33:10.72
What do you pray for?
00:33:11.55\00:33:12.45
For the community.
00:33:12.62\00:33:13.36
I never heard of a church
to pray for the community.
00:33:13.76\00:33:16.22
Isn't that sad?
00:33:16.89\00:33:17.59
My house shall be
a house of prayer.
00:33:19.03\00:33:20.40
So he says, well, my
wife has terminal cancer.
00:33:21.66\00:33:24.27
The doctor gave
her three months.
00:33:25.07\00:33:26.40
Would you consider
praying for my wife?
00:33:26.80\00:33:28.60
I said, sure.
00:33:30.34\00:33:30.81
So they started
to pray for his wife.
00:33:31.41\00:33:33.21
A week later he comes with his
wife hand in hand and says, we
00:33:34.21\00:33:36.88
want to be baptized.
00:33:36.88\00:33:37.85
And they say, but we
don't worship Sunday.
00:33:38.78\00:33:40.62
He says, I don't
care when you worship.
00:33:40.85\00:33:42.18
Whenever you worship, I worship.
00:33:42.35\00:33:43.39
But we don't eat pork.
00:33:43.65\00:33:44.79
I eat whatever you eat.
00:33:45.32\00:33:46.79
I don't care those things.
00:33:46.82\00:33:48.19
When people want Jesus,
they don't care those things.
00:33:48.79\00:33:51.46
Instead of trying to convince
them to care about those
00:33:52.09\00:33:54.20
things, first you need
to help them see Jesus.
00:33:54.20\00:33:56.13
See the cross.
00:33:56.53\00:33:57.47
But anyway, he says, I
don't care those things.
00:33:57.73\00:34:00.07
I want what you have.
00:34:00.30\00:34:01.67
They said, why?
00:34:02.07\00:34:02.97
He says, well, we went to the
doctor yesterday and my wife is
00:34:03.47\00:34:06.27
cancer free.
00:34:06.27\00:34:06.98
You are the single
church to pray, to care.
00:34:07.74\00:34:09.71
You are the single church
where God is real, present and
00:34:09.98\00:34:12.78
working.
00:34:12.78\00:34:13.11
That's what
prayer did to that group.
00:34:14.68\00:34:16.89
Do you follow me?
00:34:18.35\00:34:19.39
And he says, I want to join.
00:34:20.26\00:34:21.62
When people see God real and
the church that is spiritually
00:34:21.62\00:34:24.93
profound and works
with God, people want that.
00:34:25.66\00:34:28.96
So they gave them Bible
studies, baptized them, but he
00:34:33.30\00:34:35.94
talks to the neighbor and
he says, they pray for my wife,
00:34:35.94\00:34:38.21
she is cancer free.
00:34:38.31\00:34:39.17
The neighbor comes,
my kids are in prison.
00:34:39.21\00:34:40.51
Would you pray for my kids?
00:34:40.58\00:34:41.41
And then the word of mouth.
00:34:41.64\00:34:42.68
No money spent on advertising.
00:34:42.94\00:34:44.35
The word of mouth.
00:34:44.55\00:34:45.58
Two, three months later, every
morning in front of the church
00:34:46.82\00:34:50.39
at 630, there was a line
of people waiting to be prayed
00:34:50.39\00:34:53.59
for.
00:34:53.59\00:34:53.92
Isn't that beautiful?
00:34:54.16\00:34:55.39
Isn't that beautiful, the
church, to be, to have a line
00:34:57.19\00:35:00.53
of people
waiting to be prayed for?
00:35:00.53\00:35:03.23
And then more and
more people baptized.
00:35:04.40\00:35:06.74
Long story short, the
church grew to about 250.
00:35:06.80\00:35:09.84
And then they planted another
church and they started to do
00:35:11.07\00:35:13.78
Bible expo, they call it, and
Bible studies and seminars on
00:35:13.78\00:35:17.08
health and seminars on
this and seminars on that and
00:35:17.08\00:35:19.58
evangelism, the church exploded.
00:35:19.58\00:35:21.28
Because a group of ladies, if
my people who are called by my
00:35:22.52\00:35:26.92
name, imagine if
every church did that.
00:35:26.92\00:35:30.33
Can you imagine how
our church would look like?
00:35:30.93\00:35:33.66
And so the disciples obeying
Jesus' command, they understood
00:35:34.00\00:35:38.77
that Great Commission doesn't
start with go, but it starts to
00:35:38.77\00:35:42.54
wait in the city and pray.
00:35:42.54\00:35:44.24
What to pray for?
00:35:45.01\00:35:45.91
For the promise comforter.
00:35:46.14\00:35:48.01
For the promise comforter.
00:35:49.04\00:35:50.78
It would be ridiculous to
believe that a group of people
00:35:51.08\00:35:54.28
could reach the whole
Jerusalem, moreover the whole
00:35:54.28\00:35:57.02
Israel, moreover the whole Asia
or Europe or the whole world.
00:35:57.02\00:36:01.22
Can you even reach
New York, one city?
00:36:01.46\00:36:04.03
Moreover, to reach the
whole America, every city, every
00:36:04.33\00:36:07.23
street, every family,
every household, every business.
00:36:07.23\00:36:09.63
Moreover, can you reach
the whole Germany or the whole
00:36:09.83\00:36:11.90
Japan or the whole France or
the whole Africa or the whole
00:36:11.90\00:36:15.24
Australia?
00:36:15.24\00:36:15.77
Can we?
00:36:15.77\00:36:16.87
We cannot, but we can through
the Holy Spirit to put it that
00:36:18.67\00:36:22.08
way, okay?
00:36:22.08\00:36:22.84
And so they understood that
they could never, ever, ever do
00:36:23.28\00:36:26.48
that.
00:36:26.48\00:36:29.42
He can do it in a short
time through means that we don't
00:36:29.62\00:36:31.75
even know what
we cannot do ever.
00:36:31.75\00:36:33.69
So they prayed and the Spirit
of Christ says they humble
00:36:34.86\00:36:38.19
themselves, acknowledging
their total, total, absolute
00:36:38.19\00:36:41.36
dependence on God.
00:36:41.36\00:36:42.40
Lord, we cannot do it.
00:36:42.40\00:36:44.27
We pray for the Holy Spirit.
00:36:44.57\00:36:46.67
What if the
church would do that?
00:36:47.34\00:36:48.94
Number one, they humble
themselves, acknowledging their
00:36:49.24\00:36:51.57
total dependence.
00:36:51.57\00:36:52.24
Number one, they did what?
00:36:52.54\00:36:54.11
They did what?
00:36:55.08\00:36:55.98
Humble themselves,
acknowledging their total
00:36:56.95\00:36:59.38
dependence.
00:36:59.38\00:36:59.95
Number two, I want you
to remember these steps.
00:37:00.52\00:37:02.85
Number two,
they prayed together.
00:37:03.08\00:37:05.49
Jesus says, whenever two or
three doesn't say 230, Pastor,
00:37:06.19\00:37:10.39
our church has only 40 people.
00:37:10.49\00:37:11.99
That's good enough for Jesus.
00:37:12.53\00:37:14.30
He says two or three.
00:37:15.50\00:37:17.77
Do you have three
people in the church?
00:37:18.03\00:37:19.57
Then you can experience power.
00:37:20.64\00:37:22.67
Whenever two or three get
together, he says, I am God.
00:37:23.97\00:37:29.28
Honors the little
group with his very presence.
00:37:29.81\00:37:33.21
Grasp that.
00:37:34.48\00:37:35.32
And then he says more than
that, not only that I am with
00:37:36.32\00:37:39.75
them, but he says for whenever
two or three pray in one
00:37:39.75\00:37:43.26
accord, by the way, that
doesn't mean to be in a Honda
00:37:43.26\00:37:45.06
accord.
00:37:45.06\00:37:48.86
request, unity of purpose.
00:37:48.86\00:37:50.37
Ellen White says, quote,
the disciples didn't merely pray
00:37:51.27\00:37:55.80
asking for a
blessing for themselves.
00:37:55.80\00:37:57.47
They had needs, but they
did not pray for their needs.
00:37:57.84\00:38:02.74
Oh, let's pray for one another.
00:38:03.04\00:38:04.61
Those are real needs,
but they didn't do that.
00:38:05.31\00:38:08.52
They were willing to sacrifice
self, to forget self, to forget
00:38:08.62\00:38:12.55
their needs, forget
their cancer, forget their
00:38:12.55\00:38:14.62
foreclosure, forget their
no job, forget it, and they did
00:38:14.62\00:38:17.89
not even ask a
blessing or help for themselves.
00:38:17.89\00:38:21.03
She says they all united in
unity for one purpose, praying
00:38:21.63\00:38:25.83
for the Holy Spirit.
00:38:25.83\00:38:26.84
God loves that.
00:38:28.44\00:38:30.14
When we unite and we, and
by the way, we don't have time
00:38:30.41\00:38:34.28
right now, but in the prayer
seminar, I show from Bible and
00:38:34.28\00:38:36.88
spiritual prophecy that
you can pray private prayer.
00:38:36.88\00:38:39.65
The Bible says, go into
your room, close the door.
00:38:39.75\00:38:41.78
And Ellen White says, that's
where you open the heart and
00:38:42.58\00:38:44.82
talk to God about anything.
00:38:44.82\00:38:46.35
But then she says, the Bible
says, whenever two or three,
00:38:47.32\00:38:50.09
and Ellen White
says, small group.
00:38:50.19\00:38:51.59
And she says, that's important.
00:38:51.99\00:38:53.40
It's the life of the church.
00:38:53.70\00:38:54.83
It has been shown to me by the
one who cannot hear, that the
00:38:54.93\00:38:57.13
formation of small companies.
00:38:57.13\00:38:58.07
Do you remember the paragraph?
00:38:58.17\00:38:58.97
Small groups.
00:38:59.67\00:39:00.47
And she talks
about small groups.
00:39:00.57\00:39:01.80
And she says, that's when you
encourage one another, support
00:39:01.80\00:39:05.01
one another
emotionally, cry together.
00:39:05.01\00:39:06.68
But then she says, when they
pray in the church, they get
00:39:07.21\00:39:10.88
together groups from the church.
00:39:10.88\00:39:12.81
Then she says they should pray
for the vision, for the Holy
00:39:13.15\00:39:15.45
Spirit, for the growth of
the church, for the community.
00:39:15.45\00:39:17.99
You follow me?
00:39:18.55\00:39:19.62
Because sometimes you meet in
the church at 11 o'clock, they
00:39:20.99\00:39:24.79
start, and I have this problem,
and I have that, and there is
00:39:24.79\00:39:27.03
nothing wrong with that,
but imagine if you had a 2000
00:39:27.03\00:39:30.67
people church, and everybody
wants to share what to pray
00:39:30.67\00:39:33.34
for.
00:39:33.34\00:39:33.80
When do you preach, you know?
00:39:34.17\00:39:35.84
The church is the place where
you pray for the church, for
00:39:37.74\00:39:40.48
the vision, for the
growth, for the Holy Spirit.
00:39:40.48\00:39:42.31
Small groups.
00:39:42.54\00:39:43.08
You follow me?
00:39:43.31\00:39:44.11
But going back, the disciples
met together, and they prayed
00:39:44.58\00:39:48.92
in unity of purpose, for one
request, and only one purpose.
00:39:48.92\00:39:54.02
One.
00:39:54.42\00:39:57.29
the promise
blessing, that's what she says.
00:39:57.29\00:39:59.26
The promise blessing.
00:39:59.49\00:40:00.53
They say, Lord, you promised
the Holy Spirit, you said you
00:40:00.73\00:40:03.60
will not leave us.
00:40:03.60\00:40:04.43
How?
00:40:04.87\00:40:05.30
Exactly.
00:40:09.07\00:40:09.44
You promised we are
waiting for the promise.
00:40:10.01\00:40:12.81
Fulfill your promise.
00:40:12.91\00:40:13.88
We are not orphans.
00:40:14.78\00:40:15.98
When you left, you promised
that you are going to send us
00:40:16.01\00:40:18.18
the comforter.
00:40:18.18\00:40:18.75
Please do what you said.
00:40:19.08\00:40:20.25
You said that if you who are
evil give your children bread,
00:40:20.48\00:40:23.39
how much more your father
in heaven will give the Holy
00:40:23.52\00:40:25.39
Spirit to those who?
00:40:25.39\00:40:26.42
Ask.
00:40:26.42\00:40:27.62
So ask.
00:40:28.12\00:40:28.49
And then she says, well,
you pray 10 prayers, expecting
00:40:31.76\00:40:35.63
nothing.
00:40:35.63\00:40:36.00
God is offended.
00:40:36.06\00:40:37.03
She says, expect an answer
in faith based not on what you
00:40:37.30\00:40:41.77
understand, but based on God's
word, because God doesn't lie.
00:40:41.77\00:40:45.27
Have faith.
00:40:46.01\00:40:47.01
Crazy faith.
00:40:47.31\00:40:48.58
And she says,
faith is not an emotion.
00:40:49.44\00:40:52.65
Emotions have to do
with our chemistry and moods.
00:40:53.01\00:40:55.78
God doesn't
depend on your feelings.
00:40:55.78\00:40:57.72
I don't feel
that God forgave me.
00:40:58.15\00:41:00.32
Hello?
00:41:00.52\00:41:01.12
You don't feel forgiveness.
00:41:02.59\00:41:04.39
I feel forgiveness here.
00:41:04.89\00:41:06.13
It's tickling.
00:41:06.36\00:41:06.66
You don't feel forgiveness.
00:41:08.96\00:41:11.33
You don't feel,
you know, God's grace.
00:41:12.47\00:41:19.01
You believe it is by faith.
00:41:20.38\00:41:22.98
You take God's word.
00:41:23.91\00:41:25.48
God promised.
00:41:25.55\00:41:26.48
He doesn't lie.
00:41:26.78\00:41:27.95
Not based on me, not based
on my logic impossible, based on
00:41:28.05\00:41:32.42
his power, his
grace, his promise.
00:41:32.42\00:41:34.22
Period.
00:41:34.62\00:41:34.96
I don't need to understand.
00:41:35.29\00:41:36.29
I need to trust his word.
00:41:37.09\00:41:38.43
It's a mind decision.
00:41:39.23\00:41:41.36
Just as simple as you hear it.
00:41:43.10\00:41:44.87
But I don't believe, brother.
00:41:45.67\00:41:47.10
You need to decide.
00:41:47.84\00:41:48.70
I'm going to
decide to trust God.
00:41:48.87\00:41:50.17
Period.
00:41:50.17\00:41:50.51
But I don't understand.
00:41:50.74\00:41:51.54
You don't need to.
00:41:51.57\00:41:52.37
Do you think you
can understand God?
00:41:52.57\00:41:53.78
Hello?
00:41:53.98\00:41:54.48
So going back, the
disciples prayed in one accord.
00:41:56.61\00:42:00.85
They asked for the Holy Spirit.
00:42:01.62\00:42:03.52
When my people
humble themselves, pray.
00:42:04.42\00:42:08.32
They prayed.
00:42:09.79\00:42:10.56
Very interesting.
00:42:11.39\00:42:12.16
Eleanor says that when they
prayed in unity, and I want you
00:42:13.46\00:42:16.70
to hear this, she says prayer
together is not enough to pray
00:42:16.70\00:42:21.97
alone.
00:42:21.97\00:42:22.50
That's good, necessary.
00:42:22.50\00:42:23.74
You must.
00:42:24.64\00:42:27.64
pray long in the church to
compensate the lack of prayer
00:42:27.64\00:42:30.28
at home.
00:42:30.28\00:42:30.85
She says long prayers in the
church where even the angels.
00:42:31.95\00:42:35.15
You remember that paragraph?
00:42:35.15\00:42:35.18
She says if you want to
pray long, pray at home.
00:42:36.82\00:42:39.59
Not in the church.
00:42:40.99\00:42:42.02
Anyway, going back,
she says prayer together.
00:42:42.66\00:42:47.40
I mean, if you and your
spouse pray alone, you'll never
00:42:48.70\00:42:52.87
experience that
power of praying together.
00:42:52.87\00:42:55.17
You need to pray alone
and then pray together.
00:42:55.24\00:42:57.37
She says prayer together brings
us closer to God and closer to
00:42:58.04\00:43:02.91
one another,
leading to perfect unity.
00:43:02.91\00:43:07.12
Whoa, that's
what Jesus prayed for.
00:43:08.22\00:43:09.62
I prayed that they may be one.
00:43:09.75\00:43:11.72
And eventually in the prayer,
he says when they are one, then
00:43:12.05\00:43:15.32
the whole world will know.
00:43:15.32\00:43:16.22
Because in this divided,
hateful, selfish, self-centered
00:43:16.46\00:43:19.96
world, it's a
miracle to see people one.
00:43:19.96\00:43:22.80
Am I right?
00:43:23.93\00:43:24.57
That's a godly intervention.
00:43:25.50\00:43:27.40
And the disciples, she says,
they were fighting, bickering,
00:43:28.90\00:43:34.91
she says, the word bickering,
and they were divided.
00:43:34.94\00:43:37.71
And when they prayed together
in the upper room, she says it
00:43:37.95\00:43:40.55
united them in perfect
unity until they became one.
00:43:40.55\00:43:43.39
Thus, she says, preparing
the way for the Holy Spirit to
00:43:43.39\00:43:47.22
come.
00:43:47.22\00:43:47.72
And then she says prayer and
unity is the condition for the
00:43:48.46\00:43:52.59
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
00:43:52.59\00:43:53.43
Only when they were one,
the Holy Spirit could come.
00:43:55.00\00:43:57.63
So what does he tell you?
00:43:57.87\00:43:58.77
What should you do?
00:43:58.87\00:43:59.53
You understand?
00:44:00.77\00:44:01.44
Prayer brought them together.
00:44:02.04\00:44:03.24
Being united allowed
the Holy Spirit to come.
00:44:03.67\00:44:06.57
So number one,
they humbled themselves.
00:44:07.34\00:44:08.58
Number two,
they prayed together.
00:44:08.61\00:44:13.72
Together.
00:44:13.72\00:44:18.15
You follow me?
00:44:18.72\00:44:19.55
But then she says
something that is extreme.
00:44:20.92\00:44:23.39
She says when they prayed
for the Holy Spirit, they did
00:44:23.86\00:44:28.90
something else.
00:44:28.90\00:44:29.76
They repeated Jesus'
teachings and the prophecies.
00:44:30.83\00:44:34.97
Basically, prayer, she says
in Testimony 6, prayer and study
00:44:36.44\00:44:39.44
should never be separated.
00:44:39.44\00:44:40.78
They go only together.
00:44:40.81\00:44:42.04
To pray we talk to
God and to the world.
00:44:42.38\00:44:43.75
God talks to us as just he
was face to face next to us.
00:44:43.78\00:44:46.51
They repeated Jesus'
teachings and the prophecy.
00:44:48.15\00:44:50.25
They went back to the
world, to the scripture.
00:44:50.69\00:44:52.85
You follow me?
00:44:53.89\00:44:54.72
Because God wants to talk to
you, but you need to study and
00:44:55.12\00:44:58.23
pray and not just
pray and then study.
00:44:58.23\00:45:00.43
No.
00:45:00.66\00:45:00.93
Dialogue.
00:45:01.00\00:45:04.13
you talk.
00:45:04.20\00:45:04.60
You follow me?
00:45:04.63\00:45:05.10
Pray and then study and then
pray and then think and then
00:45:05.83\00:45:08.70
study and then pray.
00:45:08.70\00:45:09.44
Mix prayer with a lot of study.
00:45:10.41\00:45:12.37
Mix study with a lot of prayer.
00:45:12.47\00:45:13.74
Pray in between lines.
00:45:13.98\00:45:15.14
You follow me?
00:45:15.28\00:45:15.98
So God can talk to you, can
impress your mind through the
00:45:17.75\00:45:20.42
Holy Spirit.
00:45:20.42\00:45:20.95
He says that they repeated
Jesus' teachings and the
00:45:22.32\00:45:25.29
prophecies.
00:45:25.29\00:45:25.72
They humbled themselves.
00:45:26.82\00:45:27.72
They prayed together.
00:45:28.62\00:45:29.79
They prayed for the Holy Spirit.
00:45:31.89\00:45:33.06
They repeated Jesus'
teachings and the prophecies.
00:45:33.50\00:45:35.66
They studied the scripture.
00:45:35.66\00:45:36.56
But now listen carefully.
00:45:36.56\00:45:37.93
What happened after
these four conditions?
00:45:37.93\00:45:39.97
So basically they became
one, but that's a result.
00:45:41.04\00:45:43.71
It's not a condition.
00:45:43.71\00:45:44.54
It's not what they did.
00:45:44.61\00:45:45.54
It's what happened
because of what they did.
00:45:45.61\00:45:47.61
You follow me?
00:45:48.14\00:45:48.78
Now listen
carefully what happened.
00:45:49.61\00:45:50.88
In that moment, when they
prayed and they were united,
00:45:51.68\00:45:54.82
the Holy Spirit came and the
Lenoises illuminated their mind
00:45:55.68\00:45:58.92
and they
finally understood what?
00:45:58.92\00:46:01.76
The prophecies?
00:46:02.09\00:46:02.76
No.
00:46:02.99\00:46:03.22
The sanctuary?
00:46:03.43\00:46:04.03
No.
00:46:04.03\00:46:04.43
They understood what?
00:46:04.59\00:46:05.79
The 2300?
00:46:06.13\00:46:06.90
They understood
the state of the dead?
00:46:07.03\00:46:08.50
No.
00:46:08.70\00:46:09.10
What does she say?
00:46:09.20\00:46:09.86
Those are all good things.
00:46:10.80\00:46:11.93
But that's not what she says.
00:46:12.10\00:46:13.20
She says they
finally understood the cross.
00:46:13.50\00:46:16.07
Can it be that you are in a
church for so many years and
00:46:17.54\00:46:20.14
you have not yet
understood the cross?
00:46:20.14\00:46:21.84
And she says when they
understood the cross, they were
00:46:23.24\00:46:26.88
absolutely overwhelmed.
00:46:26.88\00:46:28.62
She says they realized that God
himself, the one who split the
00:46:28.88\00:46:33.32
sea, the one that got them out
of Egypt and stroke Egypt with
00:46:33.32\00:46:35.96
plagues, the one that was a
pillar of fire in the cloud,
00:46:35.96\00:46:38.99
the one that gave them manna,
the one that split the rock and
00:46:39.19\00:46:41.63
gave them water from the rock,
the one that kept the sun still
00:46:41.63\00:46:45.17
for so many hours, the one that
took the walls of Jericho, God
00:46:45.17\00:46:48.00
himself, the creator that
angels cover themselves and
00:46:48.00\00:46:51.04
sing, Holy, Holy, the mighty
one, God himself came down and
00:46:51.04\00:46:55.71
took your sins and your sins
and your sins and my sins and
00:46:55.71\00:46:58.61
God himself died on the cross
and she says that blew their
00:46:58.61\00:47:02.78
mind to the degree that they
finally finally what does it
00:47:02.78\00:47:06.65
mean finally that means that
it didn't happen before it just
00:47:06.65\00:47:10.73
happened now they finally loved
him more than anything else
00:47:10.73\00:47:14.00
that means that they loved
him before but they loved other
00:47:14.00\00:47:17.30
things more they love
themselves more because if
00:47:17.30\00:47:21.24
there is anything in your
life that you are not willing to
00:47:21.24\00:47:23.77
surrender or to sacrifice
that's what you love more than
00:47:23.77\00:47:26.37
God because if you loved
him more you would be willing to
00:47:26.37\00:47:29.01
sacrifice anything no comments
no hesitation if there is
00:47:29.01\00:47:34.08
something that you are that's
your god where is your treasure
00:47:34.08\00:47:39.15
that's where your heart is
and so they finally when they
00:47:39.15\00:47:42.86
understood the cross they were
ready to sacrifice and she says
00:47:42.86\00:47:45.26
everything joyfully and they
said no sacrifice was too great
00:47:45.26\00:47:49.46
they joyfully sacrificed
everything they knew that their
00:47:49.46\00:47:52.57
testimony is going to cost them
their life yet they preached
00:47:52.57\00:47:55.37
with boldness And she says
they're ready to lay down their
00:47:55.37\00:47:58.44
lives for Him joyfully.
00:47:58.44\00:47:59.81
He died for me.
00:47:59.81\00:48:00.98
I died for Him.
00:48:01.21\00:48:02.31
The reason we have no
sacrifice, no dedication in the
00:48:03.28\00:48:05.45
church is because we
don't understand the cross.
00:48:05.45\00:48:07.55
If you would put your eyes
on the cross and understand what
00:48:07.75\00:48:11.12
God did for you, you would
have no problem to sacrifice.
00:48:11.12\00:48:14.26
And that's what she says it
would be good for us to spend
00:48:16.32\00:48:19.69
at least she says one
nope thoughtful To spend one
00:48:19.69\00:48:26.60
thoughtful hour every
day Reflecting on Jesus life
00:48:26.60\00:48:31.41
specifically the last part of
his life She says his cross his
00:48:31.41\00:48:34.14
sacrifice and in the different
perhaps says at the foot of the
00:48:34.14\00:48:37.21
cross as we reflect that
Without human effort we are
00:48:37.21\00:48:40.15
changed from glory to glory
into his image because we are
00:48:40.15\00:48:42.78
changed by beholding That's
how transformation happens They
00:48:42.78\00:48:49.16
finally understood the cross
Wow, and they're so overwhelmed
00:48:49.16\00:48:52.86
Jesus God died for Pavel.
00:48:54.10\00:48:57.97
Jesus died for Jimmy, for many.
00:48:58.73\00:49:00.07
Who do you think you are, that
God himself would die for you?
00:49:00.34\00:49:04.14
That's where transformation
happens at the foot of the
00:49:06.57\00:49:08.81
cross.
00:49:08.81\00:49:09.14
You spend time at
the cross, at the cross.
00:49:11.75\00:49:15.35
You spend time at the cross
and you will never be the same.
00:49:15.58\00:49:19.05
Your family will
never be the same.
00:49:19.09\00:49:20.49
Your church will
never be the same.
00:49:20.72\00:49:22.32
That's what Ellen White says.
00:49:22.32\00:49:23.96
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
00:49:24.13\00:49:25.56
He sacrificed His
righteousness, His cross.
00:49:25.66\00:49:27.73
It's the third angel message.
00:49:28.03\00:49:29.26
She says in a long paragraph,
I'm going to put it in short.
00:49:29.26\00:49:29.30
She says if this message
is properly understood and
00:49:31.83\00:49:34.20
preached, it will illuminate
the whole world and finish the
00:49:34.20\00:49:36.67
work.
00:49:36.67\00:49:37.17
If this message is understood,
she says this message will
00:49:37.87\00:49:40.68
never be understood in eternity.
00:49:40.68\00:49:42.14
Forever and ever we
will study the cross.
00:49:42.48\00:49:44.11
She says it's going to be
the science of all ages, all
00:49:44.21\00:49:47.32
eternity.
00:49:47.32\00:49:50.62
When they grasped a glimpse
of the cross, they're like, wow.
00:49:56.52\00:50:00.96
So what happened?
00:50:02.36\00:50:03.23
They humbled themselves.
00:50:04.63\00:50:06.37
They prayed together.
00:50:07.07\00:50:08.37
They prayed for the Holy Spirit.
00:50:10.14\00:50:11.47
It led them to unity.
00:50:11.74\00:50:12.74
The Holy Spirit came,
illuminated their mind and they
00:50:13.04\00:50:15.04
understood what?
00:50:15.04\00:50:15.94
The cross.
00:50:16.91\00:50:17.95
Oh, by the way, I forgot they
repeated Jesus' teachings on
00:50:18.28\00:50:20.15
the prophecies.
00:50:20.15\00:50:20.75
Don't ignore that part.
00:50:21.05\00:50:22.15
Okay.
00:50:22.35\00:50:22.65
They understood the cross.
00:50:23.35\00:50:24.69
And then she says,
what happened after?
00:50:24.89\00:50:26.79
She says, number one,
you're totally transformed.
00:50:26.89\00:50:29.36
Number two, they got joy.
00:50:29.59\00:50:31.63
I go to church.
00:50:32.73\00:50:34.00
They got joy.
00:50:34.83\00:50:36.33
And then she says, they
were anointed to the Holy Spirit
00:50:37.97\00:50:40.97
with fire and
power and enthusiasm.
00:50:40.97\00:50:44.31
And they were
like, I cannot hold it.
00:50:44.31\00:50:47.31
And she says, they went
preaching boldly, telling
00:50:48.61\00:50:51.61
everybody the cross.
00:50:51.61\00:50:54.22
And she says, in a short
time, they evangelized the whole
00:50:57.45\00:51:00.66
known world.
00:51:00.66\00:51:03.26
And then she
says, many got baptized.
00:51:03.46\00:51:05.56
Miracles happened.
00:51:06.76\00:51:07.60
The sick were healed.
00:51:08.03\00:51:08.90
The dead was resurrected.
00:51:09.20\00:51:10.40
The Holy Spirit, when you do
that, the Holy Spirit is going
00:51:10.40\00:51:13.00
to empower you.
00:51:13.00\00:51:14.70
Isn't that absolutely amazing?
00:51:14.94\00:51:16.81
The greatest and most urgent
among all our needs, she says,
00:51:17.27\00:51:20.88
is revival.
00:51:22.18\00:51:23.55
And then she says, revival, at
the end of the paragraph, comes
00:51:23.85\00:51:26.48
as an answer to prayer.
00:51:26.48\00:51:29.72
How desperately, moreover,
in the times we live, how
00:51:31.32\00:51:35.32
desperately we need prayer.
00:51:35.32\00:51:38.16
Am I right?
00:51:40.10\00:51:40.80
No, I don't need to be right.
00:51:41.70\00:51:42.90
I don't even care.
00:51:42.90\00:51:42.93
That's what it says.
00:51:44.37\00:51:46.00
Now, my brother and my
sister, we don't have time.
00:51:50.04\00:51:53.01
My time passed.
00:51:53.11\00:51:53.78
We did not.
00:51:54.04\00:51:57.85
the second sermon.
00:51:57.85\00:51:58.85
We didn't have time to
actually go to the sermon.
00:51:58.85\00:52:00.82
I have a bunch of paragraphs
that are powerful, extremely
00:52:00.85\00:52:04.15
powerful paragraphs.
00:52:04.15\00:52:05.12
And I also wanted to give you
a story, but we don't have time.
00:52:06.02\00:52:08.82
But anyway, paragraphs,
for instance, before offering
00:52:09.12\00:52:13.66
himself as a sacrificial
victim, Jesus instructed the
00:52:13.66\00:52:16.97
disciples regarding the most
essential and the most complete
00:52:16.97\00:52:21.37
gift that he could
bestow upon his followers.
00:52:21.37\00:52:23.71
The most complete, the most
essential gift that he could
00:52:23.71\00:52:27.51
ever give them.
00:52:27.51\00:52:28.41
The gift that would bring
within their reach all the
00:52:28.64\00:52:32.58
boundless
resources of his grace.
00:52:32.58\00:52:34.58
Think about boundless resources.
00:52:35.28\00:52:38.02
Think about that.
00:52:39.85\00:52:40.79
I will pray and the Father
will give you another comforter.
00:52:41.06\00:52:43.83
Acts of the Apostles, page 47.
00:52:44.13\00:52:46.13
Without the Holy Spirit,
their work could have never be
00:52:48.13\00:52:51.53
accomplished.
00:52:51.53\00:52:52.13
Desire of Ages, page 805.
00:52:52.13\00:52:55.34
The preaching of the world
would be of absolutely no avail
00:52:55.34\00:52:58.47
without the presence
and aid of the Holy Spirit.
00:52:58.47\00:53:01.54
Desire of Ages, 671.
00:53:02.71\00:53:04.28
Powerful.
00:53:04.71\00:53:09.52
not more.
00:53:09.52\00:53:10.22
In obedience to
Christ's command, they waited in
00:53:12.39\00:53:15.06
Jerusalem, praying for
the promise of the Father.
00:53:15.06\00:53:17.26
Book of Acts, page 35.
00:53:17.69\00:53:19.26
To the gift of the Holy Spirit,
the disciples were to receive
00:53:19.26\00:53:22.13
marvelous power.
00:53:22.13\00:53:24.07
Their testimony was to be
accomplished by science and
00:53:25.30\00:53:27.67
wonder.
00:53:27.67\00:53:28.10
Desire of Ages, page 821.
00:53:28.30\00:53:30.27
Isn't that powerful?
00:53:31.51\00:53:32.17
The Holy Spirit did for them
what they could not have done
00:53:34.48\00:53:36.68
or accomplished for
themselves in their life.
00:53:36.68\00:53:39.35
Acts, Book of Acts, page 39.
00:53:40.08\00:53:42.08
Powerful, huh?
00:53:43.08\00:53:43.75
I cannot continue to read, but
let me give you another eight
00:53:44.52\00:53:49.22
testimonies, page 19.
00:53:49.22\00:53:50.26
There is no limit.
00:53:50.46\00:53:51.43
Think about that word, no limit.
00:53:52.33\00:53:54.93
There is no limit to the
usefulness of one who puts self
00:53:55.70\00:53:59.23
aside, that's death to self,
sacrifice, surrender, and makes
00:53:59.23\00:54:03.94
room for the
working of the Holy Spirit.
00:54:03.94\00:54:05.44
There is no limit.
00:54:06.44\00:54:07.44
There is no limit for the one
who surrenders self and makes
00:54:08.14\00:54:12.68
room for the Holy
Spirit to lead and to control.
00:54:12.68\00:54:14.58
That's powerful.
00:54:15.52\00:54:16.42
I'm going to stop here.
00:54:22.62\00:54:23.49
There are many,
many, many paragraphs.
00:54:23.49\00:54:23.53
In fact, something that
really gets me a paragraph.
00:54:25.56\00:54:28.73
You know the Selected
Messages, volume 1, page 121.
00:54:29.16\00:54:32.10
A revival of true goodness
is the greatest and most urgent
00:54:32.37\00:54:35.14
need.
00:54:35.14\00:54:38.01
to prayer.
00:54:38.01\00:54:38.54
The outpouring of the
Holy Spirit in the days of the
00:54:40.21\00:54:42.81
apostles or the former reign,
and glorious was the result.
00:54:42.81\00:54:45.81
But the latter reign
will be even more abundant.
00:54:45.81\00:54:49.75
8 Testimonies, page 21.
00:54:50.29\00:54:52.29
In giving the Holy Spirit, it
was impossible for God to give
00:54:55.02\00:54:58.93
more.
00:54:58.93\00:54:59.36
To this gift,
nothing could be added.
00:54:59.93\00:55:02.06
By this gift, all
other needs were supplied.
00:55:02.66\00:55:04.93
The Holy Spirit is the very
vital presence of God himself.
00:55:05.83\00:55:09.67
Wow.
00:55:10.94\00:55:11.31
Think about this.
00:55:12.84\00:55:13.64
And I continue the paragraph.
00:55:13.64\00:55:15.48
By the way, you should receive
power, page 284, if you want to
00:55:15.48\00:55:18.91
know.
00:55:18.91\00:55:22.62
contained all heavenly sources.
00:55:22.62\00:55:24.52
It's not because of any
restriction on the part of God
00:55:24.72\00:55:27.12
that we don't
receive the promise.
00:55:27.12\00:55:29.06
If all are willing to
receive it, all will be filled.
00:55:29.26\00:55:31.79
Christ Object Lesson, page 419.
00:55:32.19\00:55:34.10
This promise, the Holy Spirit,
claimed by faith, would bring
00:55:36.16\00:55:38.90
all other
blessings in its strain.
00:55:38.90\00:55:41.07
And it would be given
liberally to God's people.
00:55:41.07\00:55:44.11
Since this is the means,
the Holy Spirit, by which you
00:55:45.41\00:55:48.14
receive power,
why don't we hunger?
00:55:48.14\00:55:49.94
Why don't we pray?
00:55:50.28\00:55:51.21
Why don't we talk?
00:55:51.38\00:55:52.21
Why don't we preach
about the Holy Spirit?
00:55:52.35\00:55:53.98
For the daily baptism of
the Holy Spirit, every worker
00:55:54.65\00:55:58.22
should offer
his petition to God.
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Companies, groups of Christians
should get together and pray.
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They should pray that God
will baptize his workers and his
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church with the rich
measure of the Holy Spirit.
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Book of Acts, page 50.
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The reception of the Holy
Spirit is the greatest need of
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the Church today.
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Letter 1781907.
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Okay, I could read forever
and you'll never eat and I'm
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hungry.
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Folks, Jesus is coming soon.
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And we desperately need revival.
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And we need the Holy
Spirit, the latter rain.
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Not only for personal
transformation and church
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transformation,
but to finish the work.
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And to experience revival, we
need to get together and pray.
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So don't wait.
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Nobody can stop you to pray.
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People may stop you to
paint the church or replace the
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carpet.
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You follow me?
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Nobody can stop you.
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Oh, Pastor, we got together and
somebody called and said, you
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cannot pray.
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Even so, Daniel still prayed.
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Get together and pray.
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And then I says, do not expect
the whole church to be revived.
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She says, and I
have the paragraph here.
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She says, quote,
it will never happen.
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She said, I've seen
groups here and there.
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Don't expect that.
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Hey, Pastor, I'm going to be
revived and pray when everybody
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in our church prays.
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Don't wait for anybody.
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God calls you to pray.
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Get busy.
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Call two, three people that you
know that are willing to pray
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and start tomorrow morning.
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Start tomorrow morning.
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Start tomorrow morning.
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Now start today.
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And don't plan.
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We are going to pray for
a month and then we stop.
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Let's say we are going to
pray until Jesus comes and then
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we'll continue in heaven.
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Because God can and he will
because he promised do things
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that would pass any human
planning or imagination when we
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call his presence.
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If my people were called by
my name would humble themselves
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and pray.
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Let's bow our heads.
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Father in heaven, these
promises are so great, so rich,
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so big beyond what
we can really grasp.
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And they are
waiting for us to pray.
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And you have been waiting for
us and for your church, Father.
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Please help us to understand
the privilege, the joy, the
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power of prayer, the desperate
need we have for the Holy
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Spirit.
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Please help us
to start this today.
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We pray in Jesus precious name
and thank you for answering.
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Amen.
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