I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, family and
friends, happy Sabbath.
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Welcome to 3ABN Today Worship.
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We're so glad
that you can join us.
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I know we've had a
good week here at 3ABN.
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We always look forward,
don't we to the Sabbath.
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And what a blessing to receive
the Sabbath rest and blessing
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that God has promised.
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And we thank you for joining us.
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It's a blessing to join together
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somehow through
these television airwaves,
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radio airwaves.
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It's neat to be
able to join you,
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and we can have
family worship together.
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I know I'm always blessed. Amen.
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What a privilege
to come into your home
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and to share this hour.
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To share this time as
we open up the Sabbath.
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Spend it with each other
as family and with Jesus,
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but not only are
Greg and I here as family
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and with viewer's family,
we have our 3ABN part of our,
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a small part of our 3ABN
family here around the table.
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On my left here
is Sister Irma Murray
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and her husband
Pastor CA Murray.
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And we love both of you.
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You're a man and a woman of God
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who just have given your
life to the service of Jesus
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and it's a joy to have you here.
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Good to be
here. Good to be here.
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And you guys are wonderful team
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together
ministering for the Lord.
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How long have you
been at 3ABN Pastor?
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Eleven years. Wow.
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It's amazing and
you wear many hats,
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but you do all of them well.
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We all do.
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Very true. You
too wear many hats.
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We all do a
little bit of everything.
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Amen, amen, that's wonderful.
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And who else do we have with us?
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And we have on this
side our boss we could say.
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But she is our sister in Christ,
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Sister Mollie Steenson.
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I'm not the boss, I
just tell people I'm bossy,
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and they just don't
know the difference.
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That's okay.
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And it's a joy to be here.
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Thank you so
much for inviting me
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and letting me be a
part of this family worship.
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Amen.
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Now you've been a part
of 3ABN for many years,
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you and your husband Pastor Hal.
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How many years?
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I'm going on my 21st year.
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So that makes me
older than dirt and...
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No, it doesn't.
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There's a few that
have been here older than
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or longer than me,
but I'm one of the...
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the one's with
longest tenure at this point.
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Yeah.
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You know, yeah, I appreciate you
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and of course your
Husband Pastor Hall
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can't join us today,
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but you know we
appreciate both of you very much
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and you two also
are a wonderful team
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for the cause of God.
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And it's neat, you know,
'cause I mean just like yours,
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Pastor CA, I can enter
your office at any time.
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Yours too Mollie,
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and you always have a
word from the Lord to share,
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and that blesses me more
than you guys will ever know.
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Because, you know, us
young people need people
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that are in our lives as mentors
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and as people that
can share the word of God,
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give us counsel.
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So thank you so much
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for those many
times that you shared
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with Jill and myself.
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Amen.
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You are both a
blessing, aren't they CA?
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They really are, and I'm so glad
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that you said us
young people need mentors,
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not us young
people need old people.
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So I appreciate that
you know. I'm off the hook.
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You are indeed a blessing
and you guys been such a joy
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to your work and to your lives.
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So you are an
inspiration to us also.
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That's true.
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Well, it's definitely
a family here at 3ABN.
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Oh, yes for sure.
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It is, and that's
the beautiful thing
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is being part of a
family and sharing that.
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And speaking of that,
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our first song
tonight is Family of God.
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We're all part of the
family of God here at 3ABN
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and we really feel that,
and you at home are part,
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whether you're having
family worship joining us
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or by yourself.
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Whether you're
joining with your family,
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whatever you're doing.
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Whether you're in prison
watching and you're saying,
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I want to be part
of the Family of God.
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Let's sing that song
together Family of God,
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and we have
Summer Boyd on the piano.
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That's right.
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Okay, here we go.
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I'm so glad
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I'm a part of the family of God
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I've been washed in the fountain
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Cleansed by His blood!
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Joint heirs with
Jesus as we travel this sod
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For I'm part of the family,
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the family of God
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You will notice we say
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brother and sister 'round here
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It's because we're a family
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And these folks are so near
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When one has a heartache,
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we all share the tears
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And rejoice in each
victory in this family so dear
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This is to the chorus.
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I'm so glad
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I'm a part of the family of God
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I've been washed in the fountain
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Cleansed by His blood!
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Joint heirs with
Jesus as we travel this sod
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For I'm part of the family
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the family of God
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We sure hope
that you're joining us
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on that wonderful
song, family of God,
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you know it's neat isn't it?
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It says here
joint heirs with Jesus
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as we travel this sod.
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When I think of the sod,
I think of this old earth.
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You know, we're in this together
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but the earth is
not our home, is it?
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This old earth,
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we look forward
to heaven and then
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when this earth
will be made new.
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So what a blessing to
be able to join with Jesus
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as we travel this earth together
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as a family of God.
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What's our other
song we gonna sing?
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Pass me not O gentle Savior.
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I think this is one
of my favorite songs.
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Pass me not O gentle Savior
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Hear my humble cry
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While on others Thou art calling
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Do not pass me by
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Savior, Savior
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hear my humble cry
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While on others Thou art calling
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Do not pass me by
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Trusting only in Thy merit
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Would I seek Thy face
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Heal my wounded, broken spirit
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Save me by Thy grace
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Savior, Savior,
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hear my humble cry
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While on others Thou art calling
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Do not pass me by
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Thou the spring
of all my comfort
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More than life for me
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Whom have I on
earth beside Thee?
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Whom in Heaven but Thee?
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Savior, Savior
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hear my humble cry
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While on others Thou art calling
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Do not pass me by
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Amen.
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Pastor, do you want
to open a prayer for us
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as we are starting
our worship here together?
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Gracious Father, how we
praise You and thank You
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for another day of
life, health, and strength.
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Yes.
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We thank the Father
for the Sabbath hours
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for the sacred time
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that You've given
us to spend with You.
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Amen.
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For the call that
we have to turn off
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the cares of the
world and open up our hearts
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and our minds to
the things of God.
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Yes.
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And Father, whether this program
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is being aired on a
Friday evening or a Sabbath,
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for those who are
moving into the Sabbath hours
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and for those
who may be entering
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the untried hours
of a brand new week.
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We pray dear Father that
Your grace, Your strength,
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Your presence and Your
power would be with us,
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that You'd encourage us
that You will fortify us
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against the wiles of the enemy.
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That You will give
us victory in our lives
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and that You'd accept
now Lord this worship.
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Take our worship Lord and
in exchange give us Jesus.
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Amen
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So that we may get
a glimpse of that day
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that is soon to come,
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when we will see you
faith to bless at face.
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Amen.
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So now, Father, take us
mentally into Your presence.
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And we thank You
Father for this time
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and for Christ in
His name we pray, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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We hope that you have
your Bibles out that as well.
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If not better grab them
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because we're gonna
have a little Bible study.
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What's our topic on tonight?
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Patience...
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I know I need patience.
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And just the word
patience it seems...
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Yeah, this is a
topic for me you all.
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I mean, I don't
know if you need that
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or for on the table if
you all experience that,
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but I know that this is an area
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that God is
working in my life on.
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Working to
develop that patience.
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So as we start our discussion
tonight, what is patience?
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If I would ask for
definition of patience.
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What is patience?
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Anyone want to jump in?
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You know we see
patience as a noun,
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it is some thing.
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But the Bible
really kind of uses
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patience more as a verb,
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you know than a pure noun.
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It, it...
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Patience is
something that we seek
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but it does a work in us,
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it refines us, it is the...
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it's not just sort of sitting by
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and just holding on.
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The Bible kind of sees
it as an aggressive thing,
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kind of an
endurance kind of thing,
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a holding on or
conquering the situation.
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Not just kind of hunkering
down under the situation,
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but mastering the situation.
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So it's the ability to
posses yourself in times
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when everything is
going crazy, you know.
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That's true.
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To stay, keep your
feet on the ground,
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everybody's flying around,
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you are kind of
level and kind of sound
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and kind of holding on to Jesus.
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I really think it is
a God given attribute
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to stay focused
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when everything is
kind of going haywire.
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And, you know, when you do that,
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you're kind of
having to put down
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maybe your natural inclinations.
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You're making yourself
second and I'm thinking about...
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That's true.
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The law of the universe
which is self sacrificing love.
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Yes.
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And there are times I feel like
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when I'm called
upon to exercise patience
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when that isn't
what I want to do.
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Can you all relate with this?
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What you really want
to do is tell somebody
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have to carry the cabbage.
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You all tell me, I
could use Mollie it seems.
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Yes, absolutely.
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And but really quite
you have to do is say,
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oh, no, Lord, You work
through me in this situation,
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let me yield my
natural inclinations to you
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and ask oh, God for
You to work through me,
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speak through me
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and that's develop our
creating a patience within us
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that's under the
hand of Almighty God.
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You spoke about
developing patience.
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I think patience is
through endure discomfort
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without complaint.
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It's not just enduring,
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it's not just 'cause
we can endure something
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that might be pleasant,
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but it's something
that's uncomfortable,
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it's something that
rubs us the wrong way.
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And I love what you
said because I think
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how God wants us to,
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how He wants to
work His patience in us.
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We have to get out of ourselves
and you mentioned that,
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get out of ourselves,
get out of our own skin
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and like okay my
co-worker really bugs me.
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Or my husband's doing
something that's irritating me
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or I have to wait in line
at the grocery store again,
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right?
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All of that stuff,
but what am I focused on?
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Myself.
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It's inward focus instead
of that pushing that outward.
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Okay, so then we're talking,
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it sounds like little
bit patience with each other,
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is that right?
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Do we need patience with God?
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Absolutely. You said absolutely.
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Why do you say that, Irma?
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Because I find all the time
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that when I'm trying to
master patience on my own,
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it usually doesn't work.
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You know, you can do
it for a little while,
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but then it doesn't.
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But when I, I think
about all the counsels
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that we find in our Bible.
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You know the Apostle
Paul counseling Titus
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and counseling us.
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For us nowadays is
to call upon the Lord
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to the Lord keep my mind on you,
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and let me wait
for you to bring about
00:14:17.49\00:14:23.16
what I want to accomplish.
00:14:23.19\00:14:26.06
You know, have any of you ever
kind of lost patience with God?
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Yes.
00:14:31.40\00:14:32.73
You know, God, I've been praying
00:14:32.77\00:14:34.10
about this now for ten years
and this still hasn't happened.
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When are you going to...?
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Yeah, do something.
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To do something? When
are you going to do this?
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And, you know, what God is doing
00:14:41.54\00:14:43.01
when we are losing
our patience with Him?
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Developing patience in us.
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Yeah.
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It's amazing
how that works. Yes.
00:14:48.22\00:14:49.55
And helping us to trust
on Him and to call up on Him
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which a lot of times we forget.
00:14:52.35\00:14:54.06
And God is so patient with
us, you know in 1 Timothy 6,
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Paul tells to
be pursue patience,
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you know, go after it,
because it is an elusive thing,
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it is not a natural to some,
00:15:05.57\00:15:06.90
you got to
really go after and get
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because it's not natural to you.
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You know it's not
natural to any of us.
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You know I've got
a little reading here
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from 4 Volume of Testimonies.
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I think this is interesting,
The Lord frequently,
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frequently...
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Yeah, that's often.
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Places us in difficult position.
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The Lord frequently
places us in difficult positions
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to simulate us
to greater exertion.
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In this providence special,
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in this providence
provides special annoyances.
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This is God
providing special annoyances.
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He provides them?
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It sometimes occur to
test our patience and faith.
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God gives us lessons of trust.
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He would teach us where
to look for help and strength
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in time of need.
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Highlight, God
allows special annoyances.
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God provides.
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Did she said provides?
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provides special annoyances.
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So sometimes when
you're in a thick of it,
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you're saying, Lord, get me out.
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And Lord is saying,
no, I put you in there.
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Yes. That's right, yeah.
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I put you in there so
that we can work on some stuff
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because and if you say,
well, she pushes my buttons,
00:16:17.14\00:16:20.04
that means you
just have buttons,
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that need to get
taken care of, you know.
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Yes, you're admitting
you got buttons, we all do.
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That really aggravates me,
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well, then there is
something within you
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that God needs to work on
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because to deal with that
aggravation that's within you.
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May be part of
that refining fire,
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perfecting of our character.
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Don't start talking
about the refining fire, Greg.
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I'm already
refined all the time.
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It hurts sometimes.
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We go through those
furnaces of affliction so often
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You know, it's intersecting
'cause in society today
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talking about
patience, you know,
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everything it
seems like instant.
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Now they're talking
about some companies
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are trying to do
same day shipping.
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Where you order and
you get it the same day
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depending on
what city you live in,
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and what else do we
have that's instant,
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I mean fast food restaurants,
you get your food quick.
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Yeah.
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Supposed to be anyway.
00:17:02.18\00:17:03.52
To get the
answer to any question,
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what do you do?
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Google it.
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And you got the
answer. That's right.
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Yeah, I mean on mobile device.
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We can do it on our cell phones.
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We have what they call
a VOD Video-On- Demand.
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I mean you can
download it when you want it,
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what time you want it.
00:17:16.90\00:17:18.23
I mean society is
like I want it right now.
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Instant gratification.
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You can just go
into your phone now
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and ask a question,
then you get it right away.
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Siri.
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She knows so much.
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So is the society
patience with each other
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with anything is, I
don't know going down hill?
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May be that's part
of the devil's plan.
00:17:34.82\00:17:36.52
You know,
because if God provides
00:17:36.55\00:17:38.45
these annoyances,
00:17:38.49\00:17:39.82
God gives us these to
work in our character,
00:17:39.85\00:17:42.42
what you've just read pastor.
00:17:42.46\00:17:43.86
Maybe Satan says I
know that those things
00:17:43.89\00:17:45.93
are gonna work to
develop Christ likeness in you.
00:17:45.96\00:17:48.30
So I'm gonna give you
all these instant stuff
00:17:48.33\00:17:51.03
so that you won't
develop that patience.
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Yeah, the one
thing that is not instant
00:17:53.44\00:17:55.80
is a Christ like character.
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You don't get in a jar and
you can't get it in a shot.
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You got to work
that out, you know.
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That's true.
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That's a daily
process. Very much so.
00:18:02.68\00:18:04.38
I think in James,
00:18:04.41\00:18:05.75
it goes along with what
you were reading in that 4T.
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Let's look at James Chapter 1,
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and what page was that on in 4T,
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did you write down the page?
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116.
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116. Okay.
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4 Volume Testimonies, page 116.
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Yeah, that's a
great quote. That is.
00:18:18.59\00:18:20.33
I got to write
that down and put it up
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on my desk that word.
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And could use it too.
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James, what was it again?
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James Chapter 1 and
it kind of goes along
00:18:27.37\00:18:29.57
with what you were reading.
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James 1:2.
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You want to read that,
Irma, 2 through 5 maybe.
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Okay.
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"My brethren, count it all joy
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when ye fall into
divers temptations,
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Knowing this,
00:18:47.59\00:18:48.92
that the trying of
your faith worketh patience.
00:18:48.96\00:18:52.69
But let patience
have her perfect work,
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that ye may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing.
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If any of you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God,
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that giveth to
all men liberally,
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and upbraideth not
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and it shall be given him."
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I'm sorry about that word,
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that's a little hard for
me to spell to upbraideth.
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Upbraideth,
that's a tongue twister.
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Yes.
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But, you know, lust
look at that first scripture
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that we read first,
count it all joy, what?
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And, you know,
in my translation,
00:19:31.33\00:19:34.30
"Count it all joy when
you fall into various trials."
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Count it joy, that's
the hard thing to do.
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Yes.
00:19:39.77\00:19:41.11
When you're in a midst
of a trail say, oh, yeah,
00:19:41.14\00:19:43.18
I'm supposed to
count this as joy,
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that's, you know, he's
asking a hard thing of us
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but look at the reason for it.
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Yes.
00:19:49.98\00:19:51.32
Because what is it
that worketh patience?
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What does it say here?
00:19:53.32\00:19:54.66
What is it that works
patience in these trials?
00:19:54.69\00:19:57.49
Another translation I
think is the King James says,
00:19:57.53\00:20:00.40
"Tribulation worketh patience."
00:20:00.43\00:20:02.63
I just, I don't even
like that word tribulation.
00:20:02.66\00:20:04.67
No. That's right.
00:20:04.70\00:20:06.53
But I like the word patience,
I want that worked within me,
00:20:06.57\00:20:09.77
but what brings
that patience about is
00:20:09.80\00:20:13.91
going through these
difficult situations.
00:20:13.94\00:20:16.18
Boy, yeah, absolutely.
00:20:16.21\00:20:17.55
I like how it says like patience
00:20:17.58\00:20:18.91
have its perfect work
00:20:18.95\00:20:21.12
'cause you think that's
allowing God to work in us
00:20:21.15\00:20:24.55
in the midst of it.
00:20:24.59\00:20:25.92
You know so many
times I want to fight it
00:20:25.95\00:20:27.29
or as you
mentioned I think pastor,
00:20:27.32\00:20:29.16
I want to jump out of it.
00:20:29.19\00:20:30.66
I want to say, okay, remove
me from this situation God.
00:20:30.69\00:20:34.53
It's too
painful, it's, you know,
00:20:34.56\00:20:36.97
or I don't like to
rub with this person,
00:20:37.00\00:20:39.00
so I'm gonna not
associate with them at church.
00:20:39.03\00:20:41.57
Some people do that.
00:20:41.60\00:20:42.94
They say, well, if I
come into church this way,
00:20:42.97\00:20:45.07
I'm gonna go around that way.
00:20:45.11\00:20:46.88
I don't want to deal
with that, but it says,
00:20:46.91\00:20:48.98
let patience
have its perfect work.
00:20:49.01\00:20:51.11
So allow God, stay
in the trial, you know,
00:20:51.15\00:20:54.52
allow God to
work that in our life.
00:20:54.55\00:20:57.39
You know, Hal
preached a sermon years ago.
00:20:57.42\00:21:00.79
He probably
preached it few times
00:21:00.82\00:21:02.72
because don't good
sermon you preach over and over,
00:21:02.76\00:21:05.89
don't you, pastor?
00:21:05.93\00:21:07.26
Indeed we do.
00:21:07.30\00:21:08.63
Yes, you do.
00:21:08.66\00:21:10.00
He was liking to being around
people that rub, you know,
00:21:10.03\00:21:13.23
God, he says, God
puts us in situations.
00:21:13.27\00:21:15.90
He's the one that does
that where there is rub,
00:21:15.94\00:21:19.14
because we are
diamonds in the rough
00:21:19.17\00:21:21.64
and why do you
say that you know,
00:21:21.68\00:21:23.01
it's that rubbing
that makes our diamonds
00:21:23.04\00:21:26.78
come forth shining.
00:21:26.82\00:21:28.15
And he says it's
like being around
00:21:28.18\00:21:29.72
a one hump camel.
00:21:29.75\00:21:31.39
And, you know,
what will camels do?
00:21:31.42\00:21:32.75
They spit at
you, you know they...
00:21:32.79\00:21:34.42
And so you're around somebody
that's really causing you
00:21:34.46\00:21:37.99
irritation and
difficulties and so you say
00:21:38.03\00:21:40.83
I'm just not going to be
in this situation anymore,
00:21:40.86\00:21:43.40
so you remove
yourself from that situation.
00:21:43.43\00:21:45.73
Now who put you in that
situation to start with?
00:21:45.77\00:21:47.90
Remember that?
00:21:47.94\00:21:49.27
It was God that puts you
in those situations, why?
00:21:49.30\00:21:51.57
For the
perfecting of your character.
00:21:51.61\00:21:53.51
To get all the roughness
that draws out of your life,
00:21:53.54\00:22:00.02
let say.
00:22:00.05\00:22:01.38
So what does God do?
00:22:01.42\00:22:02.85
He put you with
a two hump camel,
00:22:02.88\00:22:05.35
that was the name of his sermon,
00:22:05.39\00:22:08.99
The Two Hump Camel.
00:22:09.02\00:22:10.36
And so what the
message was allow God
00:22:10.39\00:22:15.56
to do His
perfect work within you,
00:22:15.60\00:22:17.40
because if you remove yourself,
00:22:17.43\00:22:19.27
you're just gonna find
yourself in a worse situation.
00:22:19.30\00:22:22.10
God will protect us.
00:22:22.14\00:22:23.54
He loves us so much
00:22:23.57\00:22:24.91
that He's committed
to complete that thing
00:22:24.94\00:22:27.61
which we have
committed under Him.
00:22:27.64\00:22:29.31
And He'll do it.
00:22:29.34\00:22:30.68
Yeah, He's committed
exercising the patience
00:22:30.71\00:22:32.38
with us that many times we
will not exercise with Him.
00:22:32.41\00:22:35.22
If you look back over
our lives and you see,
00:22:35.25\00:22:37.19
sometimes the reason
we're still in the hole
00:22:37.22\00:22:39.45
is 'cause we like
being in that hole.
00:22:39.49\00:22:41.12
And Lord is like,
I'm waiting for you to,
00:22:41.16\00:22:42.56
you know, I got the rope here.
00:22:42.59\00:22:43.93
I can get you out anytime
you want, but you got to say,
00:22:43.96\00:22:46.36
Lord, drop that rope down.
00:22:46.39\00:22:47.96
And until that time you'll
be down there in that hole
00:22:48.00\00:22:49.93
'cause you like
down there in the dark.
00:22:49.96\00:22:51.30
You know, men like darkness
because their deeds are evil.
00:22:51.33\00:22:53.77
So you got to walk
to and if you want to,
00:22:53.80\00:22:55.74
God certainly
provides the ability in
00:22:55.77\00:22:57.71
what you need to
exercise patience, yeah.
00:22:57.74\00:22:59.67
Amen.
00:22:59.71\00:23:01.04
I think that one of
the wonderful things
00:23:01.08\00:23:03.01
is that, you know,
00:23:03.04\00:23:05.91
our nature is that
when we are rubbing
00:23:05.95\00:23:09.92
with each other or with problems
00:23:09.95\00:23:12.02
or frustrations
that come our way
00:23:12.05\00:23:14.56
is we tend to stay there
00:23:14.59\00:23:18.33
because the
feeling is uncomfortable
00:23:18.36\00:23:21.63
and the prayer in
going to God is so important
00:23:21.66\00:23:28.40
because it helps you to
come back and understand.
00:23:28.44\00:23:33.14
And yes, it is...
00:23:33.17\00:23:35.44
you do need patience to wait
00:23:35.48\00:23:37.15
because the Lord will
give you and continue.
00:23:37.18\00:23:40.25
Sometimes the enemy is
also want to keep you there
00:23:40.28\00:23:45.09
because that way you'd
forget that there is a God
00:23:45.12\00:23:48.56
that has extended His
hand to you to help you,
00:23:48.59\00:23:53.56
but that rubbing,
00:23:53.60\00:23:58.07
you know, when we finally said,
00:23:58.10\00:24:00.17
you know, I'll give
to the Lord completely,
00:24:00.20\00:24:02.80
Lord, and then he
just make an effort
00:24:02.84\00:24:05.14
sometimes we have
to make an effort.
00:24:05.17\00:24:06.51
Yes, we do.
00:24:06.54\00:24:07.88
To be with the Lord,
00:24:07.91\00:24:09.24
and the results
are just so wonderful,
00:24:09.28\00:24:11.71
peace and understanding comes
00:24:11.75\00:24:15.38
and feelings that you
could not muster before.
00:24:15.42\00:24:19.25
God will give them to you.
00:24:19.29\00:24:20.76
Amen.
00:24:20.79\00:24:22.79
You have some thing
you're going to share?
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Oh, yeah, I was.
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I was looking this
up on my cell here.
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We were talking about instant.
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But before I say
that, that's powerful, Irma,
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because I think God
wants to work in our lives
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and we might be in
the midst of the trail
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or the midst of a
difficult situation
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and He says, I can
help you with this.
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Give it to me just
what you said, I love that.
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Surrender, give it to God
and allow Him to work His love,
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His joy, His
peace, His patience.
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Patience is after all one
of the fruits of the spirit.
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One of the fruits He
wants to work in our life.
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Now this is not
actually from the Bible,
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this is from the
Philosopher Seneca and it says,
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Pampered bodies grow
sluggish through sloth,
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not work but movement
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and their own
weight exhausts them.
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Prosperity unbruised
cannot endure a single blow,
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but a man who has been
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at constant
feud with misfortunes
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acquires a skin
calloused by suffering.
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He yields to know evil
and even if he stumble,
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he carries the
fight on upon his knee."
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And I love that because
life is about learning much...
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Yes. Yes.
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You know we're in,
we're fighting the good fight
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and as we're in the midst of it,
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patience is not just
rolling over and playing dead.
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It's getting up on our knees,
it's developing those calluses.
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It's working in the midst of it.
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Very true.
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You know, the definition
when I went to the dictionary,
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looking up the
definition of patience.
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It says the capacity to accept
or tolerate delay, trouble,
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or suffering without
getting angry or upset.
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Have you ever heard
about the saint statement,
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the patience of who, Job?
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Have you heard that said
before the patience of Job?
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Yes.
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Now he had an
easy life, didn't he?
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The man...
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Compare to what?
Nuclear thing or what.
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It may be.
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That's true, Mollie, after
that's a good, that's true.
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You know because what the
man went through was tremendous.
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You are talking about the trials
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and I mean
everyone turned against him
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including even his
wife said curse God and die.
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Lost his children. Pardon?
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Lost his children. Lost
his children, absolutely.
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Yeah, his, I mean all
his belongings, you know,
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at that point I know in my heart
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it would be like why
God, I don't understand this,
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I've been faithful to you...
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Yeah. What happened here?
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Seems like my whole
world is turned upside down.
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You know, it's
interesting because all of us,
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you could call that
a storm in his life.
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I mean all of us, I mean
none of us are new to that.
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All of us have
some type of tragedy,
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storm things
going on in our lives.
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So that patience
that Job had was what?
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Patience with
the people around him
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or with God or both?
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What do you all think? Both.
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Yeah. Both.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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It's both.
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You know, taking
that Job example,
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patience comes
among other things
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when you keep
your eye focused on
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God and on the prize.
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Absolutely.
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Now you can endure these things
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because you know
I'm hidden somewhere,
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you know, so I'm not
gonna get distracted by...
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You know, I heard a
cute little story years ago.
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A little boy had a
little saying in Sabbath school
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and you just trust in
God, three words, trust in God.
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But, you know, your first time
you're gonna be at big church
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in front of all those
adults and he was just nervous.
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So he had a
little piece of paper,
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you know, so in
the back of a car
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and they are on
their way to church
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and parents are driving.
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He's like trust
in God, trust in God,
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trust in God, trust in God,
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and so it was kind
of a warm Sabbath day
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and the dad
rolled down the window,
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wind blew at him,
took the piece of paper
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and just blew it
out of the window.
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And little boy said,
"Daddy, daddy stop the car,
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my trust in God just
flew out of the window."
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And it's knockout, but
it's like that you know...
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It is. Now that's fast.
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A little wind
comes into our life
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and our trust in God
flies out the window, you know.
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Very true.
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So one of the
things about patience is
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it's a consequence
for one of the better term
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of keeping my eye
focused on Christ.
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Amen.
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I know that in the world
we shall have tribulations,
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you know, that's a given.
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That's right.
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But John 16:33
didn't stop there,
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it says but be of good
cheer. I have overcome.
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Because I have
overcome the world.
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So as long as
you hold on to that,
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you know, tape my friends are
not having a bad day, you know.
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I go to church and
this week they say,
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hey, how you doing,
Mollie? How you doing Irma?
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Next week they don't
want to talk you know.
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So I don't get all crazy
because I'm focused, you know,
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or one day you go to
work and somebody says,
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how you doing ugly?
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And I just play
it, you know. Sure.
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But some days it's
funny and some days it ain't,
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you know it's like you said
it yesterday we had a laugh.
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But I ain't in
mood for that today.
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And the day that
you're not in the mood for it,
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that's the day you get it.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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But do you blow
off and you know,
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I'm gonna go and tell,
I'm gonna go and tell her,
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you know I'm not taking that.
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That's right.
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You know, no, you do take
it because you're focused.
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You know, I'm a Christian,
I'm gonna hold on and keep on
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focused on Jesus on
the good days and the bad,
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and that's what
patience is, it's,
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and the only way to know
you got it is to get it tested.
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Yes.
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There's no other way to get
it, you got to get it tested.
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And as you get it
tested, then it will develop.
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So...
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I remember this
sometimes that I have.
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A times goes and
there is not trials,
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there is nothing happening
and I start getting worried,
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I says, Lord, I said
there's nothing happening,
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I said why is
everything so quiet?
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'Cause, you know,
you read sometimes and,
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you know, the Lord
if he gets tired off
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of you know dealing
with you and you don't learn.
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You know He'll remove Himself
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and then leave you going alone.
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So I said, Lord, where are you?
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You know things
and, but sometimes we...
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then we get a big
trail and the trail comes
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and what happens?
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Our patience goes
out of the window too.
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He said, oh, you
ask for it and now...
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your patience is gone.
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This is, it's human,
you know, as the humans
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that we need so much,
you know from the Lord.
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I see you've something
you want to share, Mollie.
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Well, I was just
looking at Isaiah 40:31.
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Now we...
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Let's turn their actually,
just everyone turn there,
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Isaiah what was that?
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It's 40:31. I like what it says.
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Isaiah 40...
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Now we're accounted
changing gears all the waiting
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and patience go hand
in hand, do they not?
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They do, Mollie. Yes, they do.
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They do.
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We've been talking even a
lot about waiting like the times
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when you're impatient with God.
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What are you in the pattern of,
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you're in that waiting process
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and that waiting
part time in your life,
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but they that do what?
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"Wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength,
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they shall mount up
with wings as eagles,
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they shall run,
and not be weary,
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and they shall
walk, and not faint."
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Now there's a song that
is based on this scripture
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and it says teach me
Lord, teach me Lord to wait.
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Well, that waiting process,
they that wait upon the Lord
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and looking at that, that verb
wait and I think somebody just,
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I think CA I believe it
was you that kind of touched
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on this a little earlier.
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When we are in
that waiting process,
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when we're in that
time between praying
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and trusting God for something
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and the time
that it comes to pass,
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thinking of Joseph,
isn't he a good example.
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Yes, he is.
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He went from the promise to
the pit to Potiphar's house,
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to the prison, to the palace,
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to the
fulfillment of the promise,
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the six peas in Joseph's life,
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was there a waiting
process between this promise
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and the fulfillment
of, what a waiting process
00:32:10.36\00:32:13.40
that young man went through,
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but during that time
you think of waiting,
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and I think it was you
that said just earlier,
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it's not a passive time,
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it's not a time when
you're just ho-hum waiting
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with Joseph, boy, was we acting?
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Yes, he was.
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In every phase of the situation,
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so when you're
waiting on the Lord.
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I wrote down a few
things about waiting.
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Waiting on God reminds
us that God's in control.
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Amen.
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Because have you ever say it...
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Have you ever
said, well, if I was God,
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here's what I would do.
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Y'all better be
glad, I'm not God.
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Okay. Absolutely.
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Waiting reminds us
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that we are not in charge
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and we don't
need to be in charge.
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It reminds us
that we are not God.
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God is God. Amen.
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And so just like Joseph in
every phase of that waiting,
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he was very active,
he was doing something.
00:33:07.62\00:33:10.99
Like the farmer in the
spring he plants his seed,
00:33:11.02\00:33:15.12
then what does he
do all summer long?
00:33:15.16\00:33:17.19
He waters, he hoes,
he works the ground,
00:33:17.23\00:33:19.86
he doesn't just
sit back and wait
00:33:19.89\00:33:22.10
and go in his house and relax.
00:33:22.13\00:33:24.10
And then there's this time
when all I can do is trust God.
00:33:24.13\00:33:28.80
Either the rains are
gonna come or they're not.
00:33:28.84\00:33:30.91
The sun's not gonna
get so hot, it' gonna dry.
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He's in a waiting process
but he's worked diligently
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and he continues
to work diligently,
00:33:37.68\00:33:39.95
but what is he waiting for?
00:33:39.98\00:33:41.32
The harvest.
00:33:41.35\00:33:42.68
And he said that
while we are waiting for
00:33:42.72\00:33:44.92
is that harvest.
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Amen. Amen.
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I like that
because I think patience
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is toward other people,
00:33:49.89\00:33:52.13
okay, and that's
may be what we'll call
00:33:52.16\00:33:53.70
longsuffering
patience with people.
00:33:53.73\00:33:55.33
But patience is also toward
God in the sense of waiting.
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I think every time
when we are waiting on God,
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we don't wait in passivity,
like he mentioned I like that.
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Because we all have
times when we are waiting.
00:34:06.31\00:34:08.98
Maybe we ask God for a spouse
00:34:09.01\00:34:11.35
or for your child
to come back to God
00:34:11.38\00:34:13.95
and they've left the church.
00:34:13.98\00:34:15.68
Or maybe it's asking
God, I don't know, you know,
00:34:15.72\00:34:19.55
there's any number of things.
00:34:19.59\00:34:20.92
Heal my spouse of his cancer
or someone that I love and,
00:34:20.96\00:34:25.49
you know, they are struggling.
00:34:25.53\00:34:26.86
And, God, I want to
deliver them from that.
00:34:26.90\00:34:28.70
You know there's
times when we wait.
00:34:28.73\00:34:30.43
God should I take
this job or should I not?
00:34:30.47\00:34:32.57
Should I move forward and
go over here or should I not?
00:34:32.60\00:34:35.30
What should I be doing?
00:34:35.34\00:34:36.67
And in the midst
of that waiting time,
00:34:36.71\00:34:38.71
what are we supposed to
do with that waiting time?
00:34:38.74\00:34:41.94
We don't just sit back and relax
00:34:41.98\00:34:44.61
but there's something,
00:34:44.65\00:34:45.98
I mean what are we supposed
to do in the midst of that,
00:34:46.01\00:34:48.15
because I know we have
friends at home who are saying,
00:34:48.18\00:34:50.02
I'm waiting right now.
00:34:50.05\00:34:51.39
I've been
waiting for years on God,
00:34:51.42\00:34:54.42
and I'm not getting an answer.
00:34:54.46\00:34:56.69
How do we know when do
we step forward like the...
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They did remember when
they crossed the Jordan,
00:34:59.93\00:35:01.73
and they put
their feet in the water
00:35:01.76\00:35:03.57
and then the waters parted
00:35:03.60\00:35:05.97
or how do they know
when I'm supposed to wait
00:35:06.00\00:35:08.64
and let God tell me like,
00:35:08.67\00:35:10.84
how do you know when to
wait and when to step forward?
00:35:10.87\00:35:15.78
You know, we have a lady,
we have a lady here at 3ABN.
00:35:15.81\00:35:20.02
Her name's Jennifer
00:35:20.05\00:35:21.48
and she was waiting for the Lord
00:35:21.52\00:35:25.15
to speak to her heart
00:35:25.19\00:35:27.02
when it was time
for her to get engaged.
00:35:27.06\00:35:29.22
Now she had a...
00:35:29.26\00:35:30.59
She has an amazing
fiancé at this time
00:35:30.63\00:35:33.93
but she had been
patiently waiting
00:35:33.96\00:35:37.10
for quite some time
00:35:37.13\00:35:38.90
for the Lord to
impress upon her heart
00:35:38.93\00:35:40.54
that now's the time
to take the next step.
00:35:40.57\00:35:43.37
And what happened was
she was in the situation
00:35:43.41\00:35:46.07
where somebody was just
talking to somebody else
00:35:46.11\00:35:48.88
totally about something
00:35:48.91\00:35:50.48
that they had no idea
would impress upon her anything
00:35:50.51\00:35:54.82
and she got her answer.
00:35:54.85\00:35:56.18
And what was being said
in that conversation it was,
00:35:56.22\00:35:58.92
she said it was as thou,
the Lord was speaking to me,
00:35:58.95\00:36:01.89
saying, now is the time.
00:36:01.92\00:36:04.19
And so she did wait
but she waited expectantly,
00:36:04.23\00:36:08.56
she waited
listening, she waited looking,
00:36:08.60\00:36:12.40
she waited spending
time in God's presence
00:36:12.43\00:36:15.00
and in His word, and
then the Lord gave her
00:36:15.04\00:36:17.17
what she was looking for.
00:36:17.21\00:36:18.54
That's the kind of waiting
that the Bible addresses,
00:36:18.57\00:36:21.81
it's not a passive waiting,
00:36:21.84\00:36:23.24
it's a waiting that
claims of promises of God...
00:36:23.28\00:36:25.88
Actively, yeah.
00:36:25.91\00:36:27.25
That's active waiting,
00:36:27.28\00:36:28.62
that is listening
for the voice of God
00:36:28.65\00:36:29.98
that is expecting
a response from God.
00:36:30.02\00:36:32.02
Yes. Yes.
00:36:32.05\00:36:33.39
And in and in
anticipation of that response,
00:36:33.42\00:36:36.59
it is claiming
the promises of God.
00:36:36.62\00:36:38.99
So you know when we
look at Revelation 14:12,
00:36:39.03\00:36:41.53
"Here is the
patience of the saints."
00:36:41.56\00:36:43.47
You know that classic text.
00:36:43.50\00:36:45.00
And in the Adventist
church and of course, well,
00:36:45.03\00:36:48.44
I don't remember in Greek.
00:36:48.47\00:36:50.41
Hypomon or
something, that's close to it.
00:36:50.44\00:36:57.05
Its aggressive endurance.
00:36:57.08\00:37:00.72
You know the Greek
says aggressive endurance
00:37:00.75\00:37:04.29
so again we come...
00:37:04.32\00:37:06.25
It's not a noun,
it's more of a verb.
00:37:06.29\00:37:07.62
Say that.
00:37:07.66\00:37:08.99
It's an aggressive endurance
00:37:09.02\00:37:10.36
and of course
the Adventist church,
00:37:10.39\00:37:11.73
the early fathers for the first,
00:37:11.76\00:37:13.29
maybe 20 years of
our church's existence,
00:37:13.33\00:37:14.93
every piece of
literature that we put out
00:37:14.96\00:37:17.10
had that text somewhere on it,
00:37:17.13\00:37:18.47
you know use it at the masthead,
00:37:18.50\00:37:19.83
"here are
patience of the saints"
00:37:19.87\00:37:21.20
'cause they realize that
as a people in this world,
00:37:21.24\00:37:24.24
we're not just kind
of sitting and waiting,
00:37:24.27\00:37:25.77
we are aggressively
doing the work of God
00:37:25.81\00:37:27.94
while we're expecting the...
00:37:27.98\00:37:29.41
while we are in expectation
of the coming of the Lord.
00:37:29.44\00:37:32.41
So I think we've
all touched on this
00:37:32.45\00:37:34.52
that is not
just kind of sit back
00:37:34.55\00:37:35.88
and fold your arms
and getting through it,
00:37:35.92\00:37:37.49
it's an aggressive
warfare fighting to claim
00:37:37.52\00:37:41.66
the promises of God
00:37:41.69\00:37:43.02
and then acting
on those promises.
00:37:43.06\00:37:44.66
Yeah. Amen.
00:37:44.69\00:37:46.03
You know, 'cause I think
of what happened to Abraham.
00:37:46.06\00:37:48.43
You know, God had
given him a promise,
00:37:48.46\00:37:50.67
wasn't that he was gonna
have a son and they were going,
00:37:50.70\00:37:54.60
he's going to be a
father of many nations
00:37:54.64\00:37:56.64
and he didn't have a son.
00:37:56.67\00:37:58.31
He didn't have a
son and I don't know,
00:37:58.34\00:38:00.08
I mean lots of years went by.
00:38:00.11\00:38:01.44
He waited, didn't he? Yeah.
00:38:01.48\00:38:03.18
Well, he actually tried
to help God little bit...
00:38:03.21\00:38:04.88
With?
00:38:04.91\00:38:06.25
Made a mess of everything.
00:38:06.28\00:38:07.62
And that's where I
think there's sometimes,
00:38:07.65\00:38:08.98
I mean I'm human,
00:38:09.02\00:38:10.35
Abraham was human too so I mean,
00:38:10.39\00:38:11.72
that's where you get
to the point like, okay.
00:38:11.75\00:38:13.09
Yeah.
00:38:13.12\00:38:14.46
That I'm kind of old here.
00:38:14.49\00:38:15.82
Yeah.
00:38:15.86\00:38:17.19
I got to do
something about this.
00:38:17.23\00:38:18.56
So he gets involved
with Hagar You're right.
00:38:18.59\00:38:19.93
And what a mess
that has turned down,
00:38:19.96\00:38:21.30
I mean even on down to now.
00:38:21.33\00:38:24.57
So there is a point
where we used to be aggressive
00:38:24.60\00:38:28.94
you know and I don't
know, I'm trying to find,
00:38:28.97\00:38:31.77
I guess that line
00:38:31.81\00:38:33.14
of where we find
that line of where we...
00:38:33.17\00:38:34.88
I don't want to say
help God 'cause there is,
00:38:34.91\00:38:36.48
you've mentioned Joseph.
00:38:36.51\00:38:37.85
He was very diligent
and what he was doing,
00:38:37.88\00:38:40.45
but yet we can
help God like Abraham
00:38:40.48\00:38:43.92
and what a terrible mess,
00:38:43.95\00:38:45.29
because that was
not the direction
00:38:45.32\00:38:46.65
that God wanted Abraham to take.
00:38:46.69\00:38:48.02
So do you think that Abraham...?
00:38:48.06\00:38:49.39
Pardon me. I'm sorry
00:38:49.42\00:38:50.76
No, go ahead.
00:38:50.79\00:38:52.13
Do you think that Abraham
sought God when his wife,
00:38:52.16\00:38:56.36
when Sarah came to him
and said, hey, Abraham,
00:38:56.40\00:38:59.30
here's a way for
you to have a child.
00:38:59.33\00:39:01.37
Remember it, you all
recall it, was her idea to do?
00:39:01.40\00:39:04.91
Now that is horrendous
but that was her idea.
00:39:04.94\00:39:09.01
Do you think that
Abraham have said, Sarah,
00:39:09.04\00:39:11.68
let me really
seek God about this.
00:39:11.71\00:39:13.88
You know what I think
it appealed to Abraham,
00:39:13.92\00:39:16.95
do you think it might
have appealed to him like yeah,
00:39:16.99\00:39:18.85
Sarah I think that's great idea.
00:39:18.89\00:39:20.86
So if he didn't
diligently seek God
00:39:20.89\00:39:25.09
and he moved under his own...
00:39:25.13\00:39:28.10
Human nature.
00:39:28.13\00:39:29.86
Human nature, then see
the mess he got us into.
00:39:29.90\00:39:32.47
Absolutely.
00:39:32.50\00:39:33.84
That's the key.
I agree with that.
00:39:33.87\00:39:35.44
Yeah, he is
diligently seeking God.
00:39:35.47\00:39:37.94
That's the big difference
just what you said there
00:39:37.97\00:39:39.74
because if he would have,
00:39:39.77\00:39:41.48
of course God
would have said no.
00:39:41.51\00:39:42.84
No. This is not the direction.
00:39:42.88\00:39:44.21
Do you not know the mess?
00:39:44.25\00:39:46.15
That's the difference I
think diligently seeking God
00:39:46.18\00:39:48.28
or stepping out of
God's will 'cause he obviously
00:39:48.32\00:39:50.79
stepped outside of
God's will with Hagar.
00:39:50.82\00:39:52.32
Absolutely.
00:39:52.35\00:39:53.69
Thinking, okay, I'm gonna do
something in my own strength,
00:39:53.72\00:39:56.12
my own
decision, my own whatever,
00:39:56.16\00:39:58.26
where Joseph was in
God's will as a slave,
00:39:58.29\00:40:02.16
right in Potiphar's house
00:40:02.20\00:40:03.53
because he could
not physically say,
00:40:03.57\00:40:06.20
well, I'm gonna
go be a free man.
00:40:06.23\00:40:08.00
I'm gonna go back to my daddy.
00:40:08.04\00:40:09.80
He could not do
that 'cause he was sold.
00:40:09.84\00:40:12.21
He was a slave in
Potiphar's house so he said,
00:40:12.24\00:40:14.68
this is where God has planted me
00:40:14.71\00:40:16.75
and then I need to
serve God right here.
00:40:16.78\00:40:19.45
Be active, be diligent,
where God has planted me.
00:40:19.48\00:40:23.12
I love that in Jeremiah 29:11.
00:40:23.15\00:40:26.25
I know the plans I have
for you since the Lord plans
00:40:26.29\00:40:28.22
to prosper and not to harm you,
00:40:28.26\00:40:29.69
to give you future and the hope.
00:40:29.72\00:40:31.06
And if you read
that whole section,
00:40:31.09\00:40:32.89
it was Counsel to the
Jews who were in Babylon.
00:40:32.93\00:40:36.70
In Babylon, yeah.
00:40:36.73\00:40:38.33
And it says in another
place just a little earlier,
00:40:38.37\00:40:40.50
plant gardens and
reap the food of them
00:40:40.54\00:40:42.94
and basically
settled down and serve God.
00:40:42.97\00:40:46.17
I wrote in the
margin of my Bible,
00:40:46.21\00:40:47.64
serve God where you're planted.
00:40:47.68\00:40:50.98
And so I think even
in the waiting time,
00:40:51.01\00:40:52.71
we might be
waiting and say, God,
00:40:52.75\00:40:54.62
I don't see the
fulfillment of the promise
00:40:54.65\00:40:56.22
You've given to me,
00:40:56.25\00:40:57.59
but we can still serve God
00:40:57.62\00:40:58.99
in the midst of
it instead of saying,
00:40:59.02\00:41:00.39
I'm gonna sit
in my easy chair...
00:41:00.42\00:41:01.76
Yeah.
00:41:01.79\00:41:03.12
I'm gonna do my own thing
00:41:03.16\00:41:04.49
while I'm waiting for
the promise to appear.
00:41:04.53\00:41:06.03
We're busy doing what
God tells us to do today.
00:41:06.06\00:41:09.23
And it might not
be the fulfillment
00:41:09.26\00:41:10.60
of the promise yet,
00:41:10.63\00:41:11.97
but we just
actively work out in that.
00:41:12.00\00:41:13.37
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:13.40\00:41:14.74
It's always been counsel
00:41:14.77\00:41:17.01
that when you are in a situation
00:41:17.04\00:41:20.91
that you're
waiting for good results.
00:41:20.94\00:41:24.38
Or like when
you have an illness,
00:41:24.41\00:41:27.95
you don't sit, you pray,
00:41:27.98\00:41:29.32
you ask God for to
return your health.
00:41:29.35\00:41:31.75
Yeah.
00:41:31.79\00:41:33.12
If we sit back and just
thinking about what we have,
00:41:33.15\00:41:37.09
how we feel, what
we're going to do.
00:41:37.13\00:41:40.96
We lose our
patience, we lose our energy,
00:41:41.00\00:41:44.27
even physical sometimes.
00:41:44.30\00:41:48.74
If we just wait,
now the Lord will...
00:41:48.77\00:41:53.17
If we get active so I
want to, it is so much easy to,
00:41:53.21\00:41:57.35
you know, you can, we
have example of Cheryl.
00:41:57.38\00:42:02.92
Yes. That's true.
00:42:02.95\00:42:04.32
She's going through so
much it's in her health,
00:42:04.35\00:42:06.25
but yet she's
doing what she can.
00:42:06.29\00:42:08.86
Keeping busy while
she's going to the treatment
00:42:08.89\00:42:12.49
and when she's
waiting and I'm sure
00:42:12.53\00:42:14.50
I want God to return her health.
00:42:14.53\00:42:17.67
And I think that is what he's
taking about being aggressive,
00:42:17.70\00:42:23.30
you know, may be the word
aggressive sounds like you
00:42:23.34\00:42:26.37
really, you know,
fighting something,
00:42:26.41\00:42:29.41
but it's just
waiting on the Lord,
00:42:29.44\00:42:31.21
you know, you just get
busy and you wait on the Lord.
00:42:31.25\00:42:34.75
Yeah, absolutely because I think
00:42:34.78\00:42:36.18
that's where you
don't just sit back
00:42:36.22\00:42:37.55
and don't do anything.
00:42:37.59\00:42:38.92
The key is like
Mollie was saying
00:42:38.95\00:42:40.29
is that Abraham
seek the Lord in this?
00:42:40.32\00:42:41.76
No, he did not.
00:42:41.79\00:42:43.16
But like you're talking
treatment for an illness.
00:42:43.19\00:42:45.09
You know, you mentioned
for Cheryl with cancer.
00:42:45.13\00:42:47.10
You know that's where you know,
00:42:47.13\00:42:48.46
I know that she sought the Lord.
00:42:48.50\00:42:50.07
You know, which
direction should I go.
00:42:50.10\00:42:51.43
Should I take natural,
00:42:51.47\00:42:53.13
should I mix natural with chemo,
00:42:53.17\00:42:54.54
you know, there are
so many different things
00:42:54.57\00:42:55.90
that can be done...
00:42:55.94\00:42:57.27
So you know, you know that
someone is seeking the Lord,
00:42:57.31\00:42:58.77
and then God is
sharing with them
00:42:58.81\00:43:00.54
what's best for them,
00:43:00.58\00:43:01.91
and that's the key
'cause I think it's interesting
00:43:01.94\00:43:03.28
what happened to
Abraham once Isaac was born,
00:43:03.31\00:43:06.45
and then God told
him to take him up
00:43:06.48\00:43:08.88
and sacrifice him that's
what God asked him to do.
00:43:08.92\00:43:11.72
You know, it's
interesting, Greg,
00:43:11.75\00:43:13.32
in the life of
Abraham in particular.
00:43:13.36\00:43:15.52
May be the Lord brought
Abraham through so many things
00:43:15.56\00:43:19.49
because Abraham
did have a tendency
00:43:19.53\00:43:21.53
to kind of burger king it.
00:43:21.56\00:43:22.90
You know, he kind
of wanted it his way.
00:43:22.93\00:43:24.93
There were times when
he showed great faith...
00:43:24.97\00:43:26.84
Oh, yes.
00:43:26.87\00:43:28.20
There're other times
when he kind of shaved
00:43:28.24\00:43:29.57
the edges a little bit,
00:43:29.60\00:43:30.94
you know, when the king look out
00:43:30.97\00:43:32.31
and when he saw him playing
with his wife and he lied.
00:43:32.34\00:43:33.68
You know, the
guy's gonna kill me,
00:43:33.71\00:43:35.14
so he takes in his own hand,
00:43:35.18\00:43:36.58
he tries to
shave it a little bit.
00:43:36.61\00:43:38.01
He does.
00:43:38.05\00:43:39.38
And I'm sure when his wife says,
00:43:39.41\00:43:41.92
hey, here's a young cute
girl, help God out a little bit.
00:43:41.95\00:43:46.82
He's like, it's not a
bad idea, kind of good thing.
00:43:46.86\00:43:50.59
So there were times in his
life when he tried to shave
00:43:50.63\00:43:52.66
the edges just a little
bit and to burger king it,
00:43:52.69\00:43:55.50
you know, he wanted to
have it in his own way.
00:43:55.53\00:43:56.93
And I think that's the big thing
00:43:56.97\00:43:58.30
when you're waiting on the Lord.
00:43:58.33\00:43:59.73
The tension between claiming
the promises and holding on
00:43:59.77\00:44:03.41
and then kind of
inventing your own promises
00:44:03.44\00:44:05.67
you know and kind
of doing it that way.
00:44:05.71\00:44:07.51
And it's a line
that Abraham had to walk
00:44:07.54\00:44:09.74
many times in his life.
00:44:09.78\00:44:11.41
And sometimes he did it well,
00:44:11.45\00:44:13.31
other times he
didn't do so good.
00:44:13.35\00:44:15.18
And so we have that
in our own lives too,
00:44:15.22\00:44:16.92
Lord, you're taking
me to something here,
00:44:16.95\00:44:20.66
so I'm going to patiently endure
00:44:20.69\00:44:23.32
claiming those promises
that you have set for us...
00:44:23.36\00:44:24.79
Yes.
00:44:24.83\00:44:26.16
Because I know
that your promises
00:44:26.19\00:44:27.53
are gonna come through.
00:44:27.56\00:44:28.90
My little trying to massage
a situation is not gonna,
00:44:28.93\00:44:32.17
that's not true patience.
00:44:32.20\00:44:33.54
That's really trying to
get out from under and not wait
00:44:33.57\00:44:35.70
and do it in your own strength.
00:44:35.74\00:44:37.07
Amen.
00:44:37.11\00:44:38.44
I like Psalm 27:14,
it says wait on the Lord.
00:44:38.47\00:44:42.18
We know the Psalm.
00:44:42.21\00:44:43.55
"Be of good courage,
00:44:43.58\00:44:44.91
and he shall
strengthen your heart
00:44:44.95\00:44:47.02
wait I say, on the Lord."
00:44:47.05\00:44:48.38
And that wait in the
Hebrew means eager expectation.
00:44:48.42\00:44:52.09
Wait on the Lord
in eager expectation
00:44:52.12\00:44:54.12
of what he's gonna do.
00:44:54.16\00:44:55.69
Be of good courage
00:44:55.72\00:44:57.06
and he shall
strengthen you heart.
00:44:57.09\00:44:58.53
So what I like about that Psalm
is the progression of thought.
00:44:58.56\00:45:01.90
It doesn't say God
strengthens your heart
00:45:01.93\00:45:03.87
so that you can wait on God.
00:45:03.90\00:45:06.30
It says the waiting starts.
00:45:06.33\00:45:07.84
We wait in eager expectation
00:45:07.87\00:45:09.84
even if we don't see the answer,
00:45:09.87\00:45:11.67
On those promises
I love what you said,
00:45:11.71\00:45:13.51
claiming those
promises, trusting in Him,
00:45:13.54\00:45:16.58
then He strengthens our heart.
00:45:16.61\00:45:19.28
The strengthening
comes as we by faith,
00:45:19.31\00:45:22.08
it's really faith.
00:45:22.12\00:45:23.45
Reaching out and
claiming those promises
00:45:23.49\00:45:25.52
and waiting on God
in eager expectations
00:45:25.55\00:45:28.09
and then He strengthens us.
00:45:28.12\00:45:29.92
Yeah, that same
word in the Greek
00:45:29.96\00:45:31.39
in a New Testament is
translated anticipation.
00:45:31.43\00:45:34.70
The wait...
00:45:34.73\00:45:36.06
Eager anticipation.
00:45:36.10\00:45:37.67
That you're expecting,
so that you're anticipating
00:45:37.70\00:45:40.34
when're you anticipating
it, you know, it's coming,
00:45:40.37\00:45:42.80
you got this
confidence, it's like okay,
00:45:42.84\00:45:45.97
I know the Christmas
present in under the tree
00:45:46.01\00:45:48.04
'cause I saw it last night.
00:45:48.08\00:45:49.48
I just got to get
through tonight for the morning,
00:45:49.51\00:45:51.75
so I can get that.
00:45:51.78\00:45:53.11
I know it's there, I saw it.
00:45:53.15\00:45:54.48
I know it's there, you
know, so I'm anticipating
00:45:54.52\00:45:56.35
because I know it's there
and that's what faith would do.
00:45:56.38\00:45:58.99
You know the answers there.
00:45:59.02\00:46:00.66
You know God is
gonna deliver you.
00:46:00.69\00:46:02.29
You just, I just
got to hold on here
00:46:02.32\00:46:03.76
and get through this thing
00:46:03.79\00:46:05.13
'cause I know God's
got something on the back.
00:46:05.16\00:46:06.49
Yes. Yeah.
00:46:06.53\00:46:07.86
You know, talking
about being patience to God.
00:46:07.90\00:46:11.73
And I find that
it's actually easier
00:46:11.77\00:46:16.57
in to be
patience with other people
00:46:16.60\00:46:19.84
in circumstances
00:46:19.87\00:46:22.08
but because God said,
what you ask in Jesus name,
00:46:22.11\00:46:27.72
I will give to you.
00:46:27.75\00:46:30.29
So you ask God, you
know, in Jesus name, I ask you,
00:46:30.32\00:46:35.06
you know for whatever it is,
00:46:35.09\00:46:37.13
your health or even
just for your own character,
00:46:37.16\00:46:42.33
and it seems
that nothing happens,
00:46:42.36\00:46:45.77
it seems like a
trials and things going away
00:46:45.80\00:46:49.30
and it's easy to forget
that as you were saying,
00:46:49.34\00:46:54.21
Mollie, that those are trials
00:46:54.24\00:46:55.98
that the Lord has
put in there to help you
00:46:56.01\00:46:58.95
get what you ask for
and so because God said,
00:46:58.98\00:47:04.99
He will give to
you, you're expecting,
00:47:05.02\00:47:09.09
and you're expecting that
is gonna be like God want.
00:47:09.12\00:47:12.43
You know, something
that I had been praying
00:47:12.46\00:47:15.20
and trusting God for,
00:47:15.23\00:47:17.13
for Jeremy is 34 I think,
00:47:17.17\00:47:21.17
so I'm gonna say for 32 years.
00:47:21.20\00:47:24.77
I've been trusting God for
that young man's salvation.
00:47:24.81\00:47:27.94
He is a mighty man
of God in the making...
00:47:27.98\00:47:30.61
In the making. Yeah.
00:47:30.65\00:47:32.01
And so I
prayed, I'm trusting God
00:47:32.05\00:47:35.65
and I'm in that waiting process,
00:47:35.68\00:47:37.75
but in the meantime
in that waiting process,
00:47:37.79\00:47:39.92
I'm speaking and
proclaiming over him.
00:47:39.95\00:47:42.62
He is a
disciple tot of the Lord.
00:47:42.66\00:47:44.49
Great is his peace
and undisturbed composure.
00:47:44.53\00:47:47.13
No weapon formed
against him or prosper.
00:47:47.16\00:47:49.26
I speak over him
what the word of God says.
00:47:49.30\00:47:52.23
Now, he is one of the
most loving kind human beings.
00:47:52.27\00:47:58.04
He just has not made
that final commitment,
00:47:58.07\00:48:00.21
and I hope he is
watching this program
00:48:00.24\00:48:01.88
'cause he know
his momma loves him,
00:48:01.91\00:48:03.85
and in no way am I
00:48:03.88\00:48:05.21
in anyways bringing
harm or damage to him.
00:48:05.25\00:48:08.15
But I just know
00:48:08.18\00:48:09.75
that I'm eagerly
anticipating the day
00:48:09.78\00:48:13.82
when he is in the kingdom of God
00:48:13.86\00:48:16.29
and that's what
I'm trusting God for
00:48:16.32\00:48:18.76
is for him to come into that
right relationship with Him.
00:48:18.79\00:48:22.43
Amen. Amen, that's for sure.
00:48:22.46\00:48:23.93
I think that's the key,
you know, that is the key.
00:48:23.97\00:48:27.37
I was thinking of
what you were saying Irma
00:48:27.40\00:48:28.94
with praying and asking God.
00:48:28.97\00:48:31.44
He says whatever
you ask in my name,
00:48:31.47\00:48:32.84
I will give you
or delight yourself,
00:48:32.87\00:48:34.44
Psalm 37 in the Lord
00:48:34.48\00:48:36.08
and He will give you
the desires of your heart.
00:48:36.11\00:48:39.18
And I believe that all
of God's promises are yes,
00:48:39.21\00:48:41.88
in the name in Christ Jesus
00:48:41.92\00:48:43.55
and all of the request
made for spiritual blessing
00:48:43.59\00:48:48.06
God gives I believe immediately.
00:48:48.09\00:48:50.89
Sometimes the physical
00:48:50.93\00:48:53.50
might not always
be answered right now,
00:48:53.53\00:48:55.90
but we may not,
God always answers.
00:48:55.93\00:48:58.77
Just sometimes
the answer is not,
00:48:58.80\00:49:00.14
maybe what our heart desires.
00:49:00.17\00:49:02.07
I know with Greg and
I and we've been open
00:49:02.10\00:49:04.87
about our
struggles with infertility.
00:49:04.91\00:49:07.68
Now this was years ago
00:49:07.71\00:49:09.81
and I remember
claiming that promise,
00:49:09.84\00:49:11.38
delight yourself in the Lord,
00:49:11.41\00:49:12.78
and he will give you the
desires of my, your heart.
00:49:12.81\00:49:15.62
And then God said, what
if I change your desires.
00:49:15.65\00:49:18.85
Right.
00:49:18.89\00:49:20.22
I'm still giving you
the desires of your heart,
00:49:20.26\00:49:22.39
but God worked in
my heart to change
00:49:22.42\00:49:24.69
and He actually
removed that desire for kids.
00:49:24.73\00:49:27.43
And so then now
it was like God says,
00:49:27.46\00:49:29.36
I said no 'cause I
called you to ministry,
00:49:29.40\00:49:33.03
but my desire changed.
00:49:33.07\00:49:34.50
And so, I think that's
what as we surrender to God,
00:49:34.54\00:49:37.04
sometimes we say,
00:49:37.07\00:49:38.41
God I want this over here
and He says in my perfect plan,
00:49:38.44\00:49:41.98
in my perfect will.
00:49:42.01\00:49:43.65
I have a different plant.
00:49:43.68\00:49:45.01
I have a different
something a greater good.
00:49:45.05\00:49:49.95
I'm working out that
you don't see right now.
00:49:49.98\00:49:52.75
Now in the case of Jeremy,
00:49:52.79\00:49:54.12
it's God's will
that no one should perish
00:49:54.16\00:49:56.29
but that all
should come to repentance.
00:49:56.32\00:49:58.19
So we have the word of God
to stand on that in that case.
00:49:58.23\00:50:00.86
I'm thinking there might be
00:50:00.90\00:50:02.56
multiple hundreds
of parents out there
00:50:02.60\00:50:06.07
that are trusting
God for their children.
00:50:06.10\00:50:07.84
Amen.
00:50:07.87\00:50:09.20
And I just want
to encourage you,
00:50:09.24\00:50:10.74
continue to stand on God's word,
00:50:10.77\00:50:13.64
call those things that
be not as though they were.
00:50:13.68\00:50:16.68
Your children are mighty men
and women of God in the making.
00:50:16.71\00:50:21.12
God is setting up
circumstances and situations
00:50:21.15\00:50:24.25
to bring them to that place,
but you in your waiting time,
00:50:24.29\00:50:28.76
don't let it be a
passive waiting but and...
00:50:28.79\00:50:31.43
that you used
the word aggressive,
00:50:31.46\00:50:32.89
assertive, go for it.
00:50:32.93\00:50:34.70
Don't go for the bronze,
00:50:34.73\00:50:36.40
don't leave and
go for the silver,
00:50:36.43\00:50:38.00
let's go for the gold.
00:50:38.03\00:50:39.53
We're mighty
men and women of God
00:50:39.57\00:50:41.44
holding on to those
promises that He has given us.
00:50:41.47\00:50:43.77
Absolutely.
00:50:43.81\00:50:45.14
You know, we look forward
to Christ's soon return too,
00:50:45.17\00:50:47.08
that's another thing
you know with patient
00:50:47.11\00:50:49.11
or eager anticipation, right,
00:50:49.14\00:50:51.01
we look forward to
Christ's soon return,
00:50:51.05\00:50:53.42
you know and he
says that behold,
00:50:53.45\00:50:54.78
I come quickly...
00:50:54.82\00:50:56.15
We were talking
about this here earlier
00:50:56.18\00:50:57.52
I believe it was...
00:50:57.55\00:50:58.89
And how long
ago did he say that?
00:50:58.92\00:51:00.26
Well, hundreds and
hundreds of years ago
00:51:00.29\00:51:01.62
but we know that he is coming,
00:51:01.66\00:51:03.26
you know, our
life is just a vapor.
00:51:03.29\00:51:05.66
So we don't know
when our life will end.
00:51:05.69\00:51:07.40
I mean you don't know
when your life will end.
00:51:07.43\00:51:08.76
The key is to be
faithful to Jesus Christ
00:51:08.80\00:51:11.37
and to have that patience
and to be doing diligently
00:51:11.40\00:51:13.94
what God has called us to
do right now this very day,
00:51:13.97\00:51:17.54
whatever that is like Mollie
was mentioning, don't give up,
00:51:17.57\00:51:19.94
don't grow weary.
00:51:19.97\00:51:21.31
You're praying
for family members,
00:51:21.34\00:51:22.68
I know Jill and I
have family members
00:51:22.71\00:51:24.28
that we pray for daily...
00:51:24.31\00:51:25.65
Yes. Yes.
00:51:25.68\00:51:27.02
That God will
save them and yeah...
00:51:27.05\00:51:28.38
Grandchildren for us.
00:51:28.42\00:51:29.75
Amen.
00:51:29.78\00:51:31.12
Grandchildren for
our sisters and brothers
00:51:31.15\00:51:34.72
that have children
also and grandchildren,
00:51:34.76\00:51:36.76
Absolutely.
00:51:36.79\00:51:38.13
You know the
thing about the Lord is
00:51:38.16\00:51:39.83
it allows us to
believe that we are not subject
00:51:39.86\00:51:43.13
to nor slaves of the
reality that we see...
00:51:43.16\00:51:45.43
That's right.
00:51:45.47\00:51:46.80
Just because...
00:51:46.84\00:51:48.17
He's not walking
with God now, so what?
00:51:48.20\00:51:51.87
God has, God has
got a calling, you know.
00:51:51.91\00:51:54.18
There's something God
will use in his testimony.
00:51:54.21\00:51:55.74
Precisely. Yes.
00:51:55.78\00:51:57.11
So you're not, you
look at your life, now,
00:51:57.15\00:51:58.75
this is a mess,
this is not what I want,
00:51:58.78\00:52:00.85
but that's not the
reality of the situation
00:52:00.88\00:52:02.98
because God
rearranged the situation.
00:52:03.02\00:52:04.79
He calls that thing that
was not as though what it is...
00:52:04.82\00:52:07.36
So claim that, so
you're not a slave
00:52:07.39\00:52:09.72
to what you see
going on right now.
00:52:09.76\00:52:11.56
So you can have patience,
you can endure aggressively
00:52:11.59\00:52:14.53
because this ain't it,
this is not the answer,
00:52:14.56\00:52:17.00
this is not the end.
00:52:17.03\00:52:18.37
This is a phase and God
is gonna move it from here
00:52:18.40\00:52:21.47
to here to here,
and I will overcome,
00:52:21.50\00:52:23.24
I will be an overcomer.
00:52:23.27\00:52:24.61
Amen.
00:52:24.64\00:52:25.97
Because God has said
that I'm gonna overcome it.
00:52:26.01\00:52:27.34
Amen. So I can claim that.
00:52:27.38\00:52:28.71
And He gives you patience also,
00:52:28.74\00:52:31.31
so that you can
perform another things
00:52:31.35\00:52:33.78
that you can
pray for other things
00:52:33.82\00:52:35.32
that you can study and then
00:52:35.35\00:52:37.05
you can be
encouraging even others
00:52:37.09\00:52:40.32
like Mollie is encouraging...
00:52:40.36\00:52:41.69
Absolutely. Amen.
00:52:41.72\00:52:43.06
For others.
00:52:43.09\00:52:44.43
Our time is fast slipping
away for family worship.
00:52:44.46\00:52:46.09
We want to have
some time of prayer
00:52:46.13\00:52:47.46
of course 'cause
worship, you know,
00:52:47.50\00:52:48.83
we like to sing some
songs, study the Bible.
00:52:48.86\00:52:50.97
We also want to
talk to God in prayer.
00:52:51.00\00:52:53.10
So we like to do,
00:52:53.13\00:52:54.47
we call kind of
popcorn style prayer,
00:52:54.50\00:52:55.84
just little
short little prayers.
00:52:55.87\00:52:57.21
And so, Mollie,
would you like to start,
00:52:57.24\00:52:58.57
and you know, mention those
00:52:58.61\00:52:59.94
like you mentioned the
families that have loved ones
00:52:59.97\00:53:01.31
that don't follow the Lord.
00:53:01.34\00:53:02.68
Yeah, that's kind
of what's on my heart.
00:53:02.71\00:53:04.05
Amen Let's pray for them.
00:53:04.08\00:53:05.41
Holy Father, we come before
You in the name of Jesus and,
00:53:05.45\00:53:07.85
Lord, we praise You
00:53:07.88\00:53:09.22
and we thank You for Your grace
00:53:09.25\00:53:11.15
and Your mercy and Your goodness
00:53:11.19\00:53:13.05
that's extended
to every one of us.
00:53:13.09\00:53:15.02
And I thank You Father
that Your word does declare
00:53:15.06\00:53:18.19
that You are able
to keep that thing
00:53:18.23\00:53:20.20
which is committed on
to You against that day.
00:53:20.23\00:53:22.40
And, Father, right
now we commit our children
00:53:22.43\00:53:25.43
and our
grandchildren, those Lord,
00:53:25.47\00:53:27.67
that we've been holding on to,
00:53:27.70\00:53:29.50
holding on to Your hand
and holding on to their hands,
00:53:29.54\00:53:32.21
standing in that places
and intercessor for them,
00:53:32.24\00:53:35.54
Father, that we've
been holding on to.
00:53:35.58\00:53:37.25
We commend them into Your
hands and we thank You Father
00:53:37.28\00:53:40.15
that You are
able to complete this.
00:53:40.18\00:53:42.58
And to bring them
into that place with You
00:53:42.62\00:53:44.82
that You would them be
so, Father, we ask You that
00:53:44.85\00:53:47.06
You would go to the
north, east, south and west
00:53:47.09\00:53:50.16
all over this whole world,
00:53:50.19\00:53:52.13
Father, and touch
the needs of those,
00:53:52.16\00:53:54.20
draw them into You Father,
00:53:54.23\00:53:55.70
set up those
circumstances and situations
00:53:55.73\00:53:58.73
that will put our
children, our grandchildren
00:53:58.77\00:54:00.74
and our loved
ones in that place,
00:54:00.77\00:54:02.97
where they will come
to You and Jesus now.
00:54:03.00\00:54:04.91
Thank you. Thank you.
00:54:04.94\00:54:06.27
Amen. Thank you, Lord.
00:54:06.31\00:54:07.94
Gracious Father, may
be some one out there,
00:54:07.98\00:54:09.64
even now many people
00:54:09.68\00:54:11.51
who are in situations that
they want to be released from.
00:54:11.55\00:54:14.28
They're working next to somebody
00:54:14.32\00:54:16.18
who doesn't basically like
them and they don't get along,
00:54:16.22\00:54:18.69
or may be working on a
job that they don't like.
00:54:18.72\00:54:21.19
Lord, would You help
them to know and understand
00:54:21.22\00:54:23.22
that many times You
placed them in that situation
00:54:23.26\00:54:26.43
for their own
growth and growing,
00:54:26.46\00:54:28.60
Lord, and before
they ask for release,
00:54:28.63\00:54:31.23
would You have them
ask to learn the lessons
00:54:31.27\00:54:34.10
that You've put
them in there to learn.
00:54:34.14\00:54:36.34
And once having
learned their lessons,
00:54:36.37\00:54:37.97
then change the situation,
00:54:38.01\00:54:39.47
Lord, but help us not
to be so anxious to get out
00:54:39.51\00:54:42.38
from under the press of faith
00:54:42.41\00:54:44.61
that we lose the
lessons of faith.
00:54:44.65\00:54:46.68
Yes. Yes.
00:54:46.72\00:54:48.28
And we don't grow
where we should grow.
00:54:48.32\00:54:49.65
Oh, Father, gives us
patience to endure...
00:54:49.68\00:54:52.55
Thank you. Thank you.
00:54:52.59\00:54:53.92
And to find joy
00:54:53.96\00:54:55.29
even in the tough
situations of life.
00:54:55.32\00:54:56.96
And we thank You, Lord,
for trials great and small,
00:54:56.99\00:54:59.76
because they make
us more like Jesus.
00:54:59.79\00:55:01.16
Thank you, Jesus.
00:55:01.20\00:55:03.63
Heavenly Father,
we thank You so much
00:55:03.67\00:55:05.60
for the
guidelines that You give us
00:55:05.63\00:55:08.20
to have a Godly character.
00:55:08.24\00:55:10.71
And we thank You for the power
00:55:10.74\00:55:12.57
that You've
offered to us to overcome.
00:55:12.61\00:55:15.34
And we ask now,
00:55:15.38\00:55:16.71
Lord, that You'll
continue working in our hearts
00:55:16.75\00:55:19.18
and give us your
desire for our lives
00:55:19.21\00:55:22.92
and for being mission
to and testimony to others.
00:55:22.95\00:55:28.96
And give us Your mind,
00:55:28.99\00:55:31.03
give us Your
Spirit that Lord for only
00:55:31.06\00:55:34.26
You can gives those to us,
00:55:34.30\00:55:35.63
and we ask them in
the name of Jesus, amen.
00:55:35.66\00:55:39.77
Father, I come into an agreement
00:55:39.80\00:55:41.14
with my brothers and sisters
00:55:41.17\00:55:42.50
and those of our
brothers and sisters at home.
00:55:42.54\00:55:44.81
Lord, we come
before you right now,
00:55:44.84\00:55:47.18
and we want to come
in eager expectation,
00:55:47.21\00:55:50.35
for what You have promised,
and we know Your word says
00:55:50.38\00:55:52.71
that it is not Your
will that any should perish
00:55:52.75\00:55:54.72
but that all
should come to repentance.
00:55:54.75\00:55:57.25
And so, we just pray for
those who are lifting up sons
00:55:57.29\00:56:00.76
or daughters or
spouses or parents or neighbors
00:56:00.79\00:56:04.23
or those in the community
or those that they meet.
00:56:04.26\00:56:07.16
Father, there're
many, many people lost
00:56:07.20\00:56:09.63
and dying alone without You.
00:56:09.66\00:56:11.37
And we claim their souls
for Your kingdom just now.
00:56:11.40\00:56:14.77
And we ask that
as we eagerly wait
00:56:14.80\00:56:17.74
in anticipation of
what You're going to do,
00:56:17.77\00:56:20.48
that You would show us each day
00:56:20.51\00:56:22.18
what You desire us to do.
00:56:22.21\00:56:24.05
How we can reach out
00:56:24.08\00:56:25.41
and be the hands
and feet of Jesus,
00:56:25.45\00:56:27.88
and we thank You in Jesus' name.
00:56:27.92\00:56:30.55
Father in
heaven, what a blessing
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it is to call
upon You at any time.
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Thank You that
You're with us here
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during this worship time here
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as we're opening
the Sabbath hours.
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Lord, it's a real
privilege that You...
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You somehow hear
all of these prayers
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that I know are
being sent up to you
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right now around the world,
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and You hear each
one, You care for each one,
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You want to answer each one...
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Thank you, Jesus.
According to Your will.
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I just pray for the
trust and the faith in you
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that we will hang on
to you this Christian life
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referred to as a race,
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and, Father, may we
run it with patience,
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Father, trust in
You in all circumstances
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and in Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen. Amen.
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Our time is
almost gone, thank you.
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Thank you, CA and
Irma and Mollie Steenson.
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It's a blessing
to share, absolutely.
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Thank you for
joining us for family worship
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as you do every Friday night.
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Know that we love you,
that we are praying for you
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that we pray that God
will work His patience,
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not only in our lives here
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but in your
life at home as well.
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Bye-bye. Happy Sabbath.
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