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 and welcome to
Friday Night Family Worship.
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I'm here with my lovely wife.
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What is your name sweetheart?
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Angela. And I'm glad to be here.
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You know something,
hon, wherever we travel to,
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what do people say?
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We love Family Worship.
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We love Friday
Night Family Worship.
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And it's good to be
here to do another program
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and we have some distinguished
guests with us today,
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people that are a
part of our 3ABN family.
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And we have one that's often
on the other side of the set,
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you'll meet her today,
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and two others that
are husband and wife.
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And so I think
it'll be good to go ahead
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and introduce them
right now at this time
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since they're a part of our
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Family Worship time for tonight.
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We'll start, to my right...
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Go ahead, Dee, tell
those who are watching,
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who you are and what you do.
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And if you miss anything,
I'm going to fill it in.
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And how long
you've been here. Okay.
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I'm Dee Hilderbrand.
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I've actually been
here 20 years now at 3ABN.
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This is where God has planted me
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and I work behind the scenes.
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I'm Production Coordinator
and I'm kind of a go for.
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I go and help and do
whatever needs to be done
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and I do scheduling.
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So I'm always
scheduling the programs
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and scheduling the camera people
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and the studios and the group.
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She's involved
with the church too.
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And church yeah, and
the church treasurer, so...
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Yeah. That's right.
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God keeps me very busy,
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so I stay out of
trouble, we hope.
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Good to have
you here, Dee. Yeah.
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Your first time
on Family Worship.
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Glad to have you here.
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On set, yes,
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but not my first
time doing Family Worship.
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Exactly. That's true.
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You have a long
history there too.
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And to our far left,
let's start with the gentleman.
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Donald Owen, yes, I have been
here about two and half years.
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I worked originally
as a Studio Manager,
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but I kind of stepped back
some hours, I'm on call now.
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But I'm going and
doing a lot of things
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in the community.
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We run a group called
Celebrating Life and Recovery,
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my wife and I,
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we do a lot of
other evangelistic things
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in the community,
community outreach.
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So we're
extremely busy actually,
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Bible study with
people personally,
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so I'm really busy in
the community doing things
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and reaching those that
are hungry to know Jesus.
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Good to have you
here Donald. Yes.
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And you mentioned your wife.
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I'll go ahead and let
you introduce yourself.
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And this is my
wonderful wife Janelle.
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Thank you.
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My name is Janelle Owen
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and I work in the
Publishing Department
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and mostly with
the 3ABN World Magazine
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and any other creative
projects that come through.
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And as Donald said, we
are both really involved
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in personal
ministries which we love.
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And so it's definitely something
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God has called us to do.
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Amen.
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And so if you've seen
the 3ABN World Magazine,
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you have seen the
work of Janelle Owen.
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That's right.
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She is part of
the creative team.
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There's a creative team
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but she is the one
that weekly or monthly
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sits down with the editors,
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Bobby Davis one of the editors,
and gets that magazine ready.
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Thank you for the
work that you both do.
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Praise the Lord.
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And glad to have you
both here on our set today.
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Now we're gonna
do number of things,
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we're going to
talk about the topic,
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what's our topic today, hon?
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Do you know the topic title?
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It's about faith, isn't it?
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Yeah. About
increasing our faith.
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Increasing our
faith. We all need that.
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Okay, I'll tell you.
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What we need more than
an increased bank balance
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is a stronger faith,
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because if your
bank balance is low,
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your faith makes
up the difference,
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because it
connects us to the God
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who has no deficit.
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So we're gonna talk
about your spiritual faith,
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we're gonna talk
about how faith is developed
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and every one of us
is on a faith walk still.
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It began somewhere
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and we know that one day
we're gonna see our faith
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walk made sight.
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So we're gonna talk about
increasing our faith today.
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We're gonna
also sing some songs.
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What I'd like to do is
have you begin with prayer,
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then we're gonna
sing our songs today,
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each of the
songs are faith based.
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And we have someone that's
gonna be playing for us today.
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After you have the prayer,
I'll introduce who she is,
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and then we'll go
ahead sing our songs.
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And then dive into
this very important topic
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of how to increase your faith.
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Okay, well, let's pray.
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Our Father in heaven, Lord,
we bow before Your presence
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this Friday night
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and we give You the
praise and the honor
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which is due to
You and You alone.
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We thank You for
this opportunity.
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We pray that as many people
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are viewing this family worship,
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we pray that they too
will receive a blessing.
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Thank you Lord.
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I pray that Your
Holy Spirit will come
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and abide here with us
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and may the Spirit of God abide
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in the homes of our
viewers and listeners also.
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Thank you for this opportunity.
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And Lord, thank
You and praise You.
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In the lovely and the
precious name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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And we always
like to sing songs,
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sometimes it's praise
songs, sometimes it's hymns,
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tonight it's hymns.
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And if you have
a hymnal at home,
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we're gonna sing hymn number 523
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"My faith has
found a resting place,"
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let's sing that song together.
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My faith has
found a resting place,
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Not in a man-made creed;
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I trust the Ever-living One,
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That He for me will plead.
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I need no other evidence,
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I need no other plea;
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It is enough that Jesus died,
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And rose again for me.
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The last stanza.
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The great
Physician Heals the sick,
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The lost He came to save;
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For me His
precious blood He shed,
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For me His life He gave.
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I need no other evidence,
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I need no other plea;
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It is enough that Jesus died,
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And rose again for me.
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Amen.
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'My faith has
found a resting place.'
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And that faith that
has found a resting place,
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when it's connected to
God, it fits into this next song
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'Great is Thy faithfulness.'
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Number 100, we're gonna
sing the first and last stanza
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of 'Great is Thy faithfulness.'
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Great is Thy faithfulness,
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O God my Father
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There is no shadow
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Of turning with Thee;
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Thour changest not,
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Thy compassions, they fail not;
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As Thou hast been
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Thou forever wilt be;
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by morning
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New mercies I see;
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All I have needed
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Thy hand hath provided,
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Lord unto me!
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Pardon for sin
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And a peace that endureth,
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Thy own dear presence
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To cheer and to guide;
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Strength for today
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And bright hope for tomorrow,
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Blessing all mine,
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With ten thousand beside.
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by morning
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New mercies I see;
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All I have needed
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Thy hand hath provided,
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Lord unto me!
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And when you have
that abiding faith
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that is centered in
Christ, this song 590,
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'I trust and
obey' fits wonderfully.
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By the way, Summer
is at the piano today
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playing for us.
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Summer Boyd, and
we just really enjoy
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the gift that
God has given to her
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to accompany us in
these wonderful songs,
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590 'I trust and obey.'
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When we walk with the Lord
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In the light of His Word,
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What a glory He
sheds on our way!
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While we do His good will,
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He abides with us still,
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And with all Who
will trust and obey.
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Trust and obey,
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For there's no other way
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To be happy in Jesus,
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But to trust and obey.
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Then in fellowship sweet
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We will sit at His feet,
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or we'll walk by
His side in the way;
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What He says we will do,
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Where He sends we will go,
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Never fear, only trust and obey.
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Let us Trust and obey,
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For there's no other way
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To be happy in Jesus,
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but to trust and obey.
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Amen. Thank you, Dee.
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Donald, Janelle, thank you.
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Now I got to tell our audience
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what prompted the title
of this study today 'Faith.'
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You know, in Luke 18:8,
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there's a
question that Jesus asks.
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And if you have
your Bibles at home,
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you can turn there with us.
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There's a
question that Jesus posed
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that really got me
to think about faith
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and how important it is to have.
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You know, in this
generation we live,
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there are so many
things we rely on,
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we rely on texting, and emails,
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we rely on our
electricity being on,
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we rely on our
friends being there for us,
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our credit card to
work when we swipe it,
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our cars to get
us to our destination
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when we drive it,
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we rely on people
that said they would
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but sometimes they don't
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and we all fall into those
categories once in a while,
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but this is a bigger question.
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Jesus asks in Luke 18:8,
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"I tell you that he
will avenge them speedily."
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speaking about his children,
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"Nevertheless, when
the Son of man comes,"
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here is the question,
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"will he really
find faith on the earth?"
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And that's a powerful question,
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you know, when we think about
the fact that we're identified
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as those who have
the faith of Jesus,
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we have to ask the question,
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is our faith
challenged on a daily basis?
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Are we ever
challenged in our faith walk?
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Are we ever challenged
in our faith community?
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Is our faith challenged
sometimes one to the other?
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Yes. You know, we all...
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So we're gonna
talk about faith today.
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And instead of this being
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a text, to text, to
text, to text, to text,
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we're gonna open
it up and each person
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is gonna kind of
share her faith journey,
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your faith journey,
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and how these texts actually
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in anyway apply to
your walk with the Lord.
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And so let's go ahead,
I'll just lay the foundation
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and maybe for the sake of going
around in a number of order.
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We'll just go ahead
and start with Janelle...
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Don, then Janelle,
then Ange, and then Dee,
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and then I'll come back to five.
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But we can all,
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you know, intersperse
what thoughts come to our mind.
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I'll just begin with the...
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beginning thought since I read.
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Could you read that for me, hon?
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That's kind of small
but I think you can see it.
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Hebrews 11:6.
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Well, actually,
yeah, Hebrews 11:6.
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Okay.
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Let's turn there
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because I didn't
have it on our syllabus.
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Let's turn to that one. Yes.
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We're gonna begin
with Hebrews 11:6.
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Actually, it is in our syllabus.
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It is. It's on the number 3.
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It's actually on
the number 3. Yeah.
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For those of you
that are viewing,
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you can turn there with us.
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In the Bible.
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It says, "But without faith
it is impossible to please Him.
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For He who comes to
God must believe that He is
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and that He is a
rewarder of those
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that diligently seek Him."
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Mm-hm! Diligently.
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So in the just
the initial thought,
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I'm gonna just lay this.
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This is faith is trust in God.
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It is confidence
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in the one that
always honors His word.
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Faith increases in a
close relationship with God
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who cares for us
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and always
wants the best for us.
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The more we know Him,
the more we will trust Him.
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So that's kind of
laying the foundation,
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it's a faith based,
it's a relationship,
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a close relationship.
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So how many people do you know
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that you could say
are really close friends?
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You don't have
to give their names.
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Do you have
really close friends?
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Not very many but yeah.
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Just a few.
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One or two or three. Yeah.
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Very close.
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You've known for...
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I think its people
you've known for a long time.
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Yeah.
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And so when you
use the word close,
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they are really
the kind of person
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that could tell you
what you need to hear.
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Of course. Support
you and back you up.
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You can really depend on them.
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They tell you the truth in love.
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And you know they love you
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and that's why
you're able to accept
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what they're saying.
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You've got anything
else about a close friend?
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I think Dee had it. She did.
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I was just going to say
the truth because, for me,
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you know, with Don and
I, and other close friends,
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when someone tell you the truth,
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you don't always
want to hear it at first,
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but then you
think about it later
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and you're like they're
right and you appreciate that,
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and I appreciate that,
and Don and our friends too.
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Yeah.
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There's a
Proverbs about that too.
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Oh, yeah, I was
looking it up here.
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It goes, "Faithful are
the wounds of a friend;
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but the kisses of an
enemy are deceitful."
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That's a powerful
text because, you know,
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we can all attest it
because sometimes when you tell,
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when your friends
tell you the truth,
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what's another
proverb about truth.
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The truth... Just
want to smack them.
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I said you just want
to smack them at first.
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That's a real response. Yeah.
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Sometimes we say, I
don't want to hear that,
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but then the
truth hurts sometimes.
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But a friend will kind
of cut you with the truth
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and they'll just say, you know,
Dee, get a hold of yourself.
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But you know they love you
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because I've had people
who I didn't think really
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had my best interest at
heart tell me the same thing
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that maybe a friend tells you,
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but coming from a friend
you know that love is there
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and even if it hurts,
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but I'm more likely the
one to want to smack the enemy
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when they're
telling me because I know
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they're telling
me out of criticism
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and not out of love.
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Exactly. Yeah.
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There's a fine line.
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My sister, she does
that, she tells me the truth.
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And you tell
her the truth. I do.
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And my brother, I
tell them the truth.
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We're very
straight with each other.
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Yeah, and I
appreciate it. I love her.
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But you can be,
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you know, I've discovered
you can be truthful and honest
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in a loving, caring way.
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And that's why we
can trust the Lord.
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He gives it to us as
easily as we allow Him to.
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Yeah.
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That's the good
way of saying it. Yeah.
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And then
sometimes there are people
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that are really not your friends
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and they'll tell you
what they think by saying,
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"I'm only telling you
this, Don, because I love you."
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What's the big
phrase, bless your heart?
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Yeah, bless your heart.
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So I make acceptables.
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Yeah, I'm only telling you this.
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This is not a
criticism, however.
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And then they go
ahead and give it to you
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and you think,
well, they're only saying
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'cause they're
not my friends anyway,
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they just found a
suitable way to give me a jab.
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But that's not how the lord is.
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So let's, kind of, I'm gonna
throw the ball to you, Don.
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Just dive into the first one,
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we'll go down the
list, kind of, around.
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Go to the first one.
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Proverbs 3:5, 6.
Yeah, the line right above.
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Okay, faith requires
a full heart surrender.
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How important is that
our heart is fully into this?
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Proverbs 3:5, 6,
we'll look there if you want
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to turn to Proverbs 3.
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I'll read it.
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Sure.
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See what we got.
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I've actually got something
that's popping in my head
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as I'm reading this.
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Proverbs 3:5 says,
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"Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart,"
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all thine heart,
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not just a
little, not some, all,
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"and lean not unto
thine own understanding."
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I'm very guilty of that."
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"In all thy
ways acknowledge Him,
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and He shall direct thy path."
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So who's actually
directing our path?
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Who is that?
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That's kind of interesting
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because before we
first came to the 3ABN,
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Janelle had actually
put in an application
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through Facebook,
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and we weren't sure
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what was going
to happen with that
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and I was kind
of like, "Oh, man,
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I know she's got
graphic design skills,
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what do I have?"
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That's what I had to bring here.
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So I'm like, I
don't know what to do.
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And something popped in my head,
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you know, I used
to sort of do little
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camera work and stuff as a kid,
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it wasn't much
but just a little bit.
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So I said, "Well,
maybe I can get in that way."
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So we came and interviewed,
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but the amazing things
we saw before that happened
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and after really
increased our faith.
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First God spoke to
me in a very direct way.
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She was really struggling
with moving from Indiana
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because all of her
family has been there,
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that's where she's
known all her life.
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I kind of float
around like a nomad.
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I just go wherever,
but she just stays put,
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she's at one place.
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And the Lord
impressed me to tell her
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when she was
struggling with this,
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just said, you know,
think about Abraham, and Isaac
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when they went up the mountain,
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faith it took to
go up the mountain.
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Actually, sorry, I
have to correct you on that,
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because we didn't
come to that until later
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because actually we
talked about this later
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and it was Abraham and Isaac
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that we're both
thinking about and he said it
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after I was
already thinking about it.
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And then as we
both talked about,
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we realized the
other was thinking about
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Abraham and Isaac.
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So that wasn't
actually until later.
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Well, the thing was
that there was three times
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it was shown
through various ways,
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Abraham and
Isaac, and the last one
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was when we were in
church with the young lady,
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she opened right to
that particular section,
00:20:04.13\00:20:06.03
the Bible pointed
to it next to her.
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She said, "Okay,
Lord. I get the point."
00:20:08.34\00:20:10.91
So we ended up
coming here and we are like,
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we were basically
poor, we had no money.
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I had $10 to my name
at that point to get here.
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Ten? We camped out... Yes.
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At Rend Lake.
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We camped out there
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and I had to carry
books with me everywhere I go.
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So I had the Great Controversy.
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And that morning, I felt pressed
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to talk to this gentleman
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who had a fold-up bike.
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I'm like, "Man, that's a
really neat bike you got there."
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And he tells me his life,
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all these
things that he's doing,
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he's retired
from the-- and stuff.
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And the Lord impressed me
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to give him the
Great Controversy.
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But before I
gave him one, he said
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I am a recovering alcoholic
and a recovering Catholic.
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I'm like, "Nobody has
ever said that to me before."
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Recovering Catholic.
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So I was shocked
when I heard that.
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So I'm like, I said, "Man,
I've got to give you this book.
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You need to read this."
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He was like,
"No, I don't want it.
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I don't want
anything to do with this."
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"I got it on my
trunk. I'll give it to you."
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So I gave it to him.
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And he's flipping
through the Great Controversy
00:20:59.59\00:21:00.92
and he looks he
goes, "Oh, Martin Luther!
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I love Martin Luther.
You just might convert me."
00:21:02.32\00:21:04.63
I gave him the book. I
walked back to the car.
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The Lord said, just wait,
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you sit in the car and
wait and see what happens.
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The guy walked,
knocked on the window.
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I rolled my window down.
00:21:11.57\00:21:12.90
I told Janelle he's gonna
come back and do something.
00:21:12.93\00:21:14.64
The guy slipped me a $50 bill,
said go buy yourself lunch,
00:21:14.67\00:21:18.37
get you and your wife some food.
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Fifty dollars.
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I had no money to get back.
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And then when we got here,
00:21:24.38\00:21:27.92
the guy that came to check
out the place we were renting,
00:21:27.95\00:21:30.22
our insurance agent,
he's an older gentleman
00:21:30.25\00:21:32.42
and he pulled me aside
in his car and he said,
00:21:32.45\00:21:34.56
"Don, can I talk to you
for a minute personally?"
00:21:34.59\00:21:35.99
I said yeah.
00:21:36.02\00:21:37.36
He said, "I'm getting
up there in age, you know,
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I'm a little older and
I've got a little bit of money
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to kind of play with
00:21:40.13\00:21:41.46
and I would just like
to ask you man to man,
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would you be okay with me paying
00:21:42.93\00:21:44.27
for your first year insurance?"
00:21:44.30\00:21:45.83
This is our insurance agent.
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What?
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.00
This is our
insurance agent saying...
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Showing, showing us big time
that he wanted us to be here,
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he was like...
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What a faith walk. Yeah.
00:21:58.31\00:22:00.35
Was God increasing your
faith? Oh, yeah, totally.
00:22:00.38\00:22:04.69
I've never heard
an insurance agent.
00:22:04.72\00:22:06.59
Pay for your insurance.
00:22:06.62\00:22:08.82
I like to pay your
first year insurance.
00:22:08.86\00:22:10.66
What did you
say? Did you say no?
00:22:10.69\00:22:12.03
And he gave us a guitar later.
00:22:12.06\00:22:15.16
Yeah, the same insurance
agent, he gave us a guitar.
00:22:15.20\00:22:17.53
Oh, he did?
00:22:17.57\00:22:18.90
So it's just, you know,
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in all your ways acknowledge Him
00:22:20.30\00:22:21.64
and he shall direct your path.
00:22:21.67\00:22:23.00
I mean, it's just,
00:22:23.04\00:22:24.37
it's phenomenal
what God does for us,
00:22:24.41\00:22:25.74
you know, if we're just
faithful in little things.
00:22:25.77\00:22:27.11
Watching him work is
just beyond our understanding.
00:22:27.14\00:22:29.58
Wow.
00:22:29.61\00:22:31.08
That increased our faith.
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What about that...
00:22:33.05\00:22:34.38
And there's that text there,
00:22:34.42\00:22:35.75
you will seek me
and you'll find me
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when you search for
me with all your heart.
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Yeah. Jeremiah 29:13.
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And that's important.
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The reason I included there is
00:22:41.26\00:22:42.59
because both of
those talked about "all."
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You know, trust Me
with all your heart.
00:22:45.19\00:22:47.06
You'll find Me
when you're searching Me
00:22:47.10\00:22:48.43
with all your heart.
00:22:48.46\00:22:49.80
The "all" is key.
And that's the key.
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That's the key element.
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Anyone else before
we go to the next one?
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And not leaning on
your own understanding.
00:22:53.94\00:22:55.30
No, No. It's illogical.
00:22:55.34\00:22:58.81
If you lean on
your own understanding,
00:22:58.84\00:23:00.51
you have a tendency to
go with the logic of it.
00:23:00.54\00:23:02.08
Yeah.
00:23:02.11\00:23:03.45
And God functions
on a different level.
00:23:03.48\00:23:05.51
Yes, He does.
00:23:05.55\00:23:06.88
Logical, I
believe God is logical
00:23:06.92\00:23:09.08
but it's his logic not ours.
00:23:09.12\00:23:11.62
His ways and not our
ways. Yeah, absolutely.
00:23:11.65\00:23:14.26
That's a good
way of saying that.
00:23:14.29\00:23:15.62
God is logical. Yeah.
00:23:15.66\00:23:16.99
His logic
00:23:17.03\00:23:18.96
are surpassing the
past, future unfold.
00:23:18.99\00:23:23.06
So He says to us,
00:23:23.10\00:23:24.47
I know where you guys
00:23:24.50\00:23:25.83
are going to be in
seven and a half months
00:23:25.87\00:23:27.44
at 2:30 in the
afternoon, January.
00:23:27.47\00:23:31.44
And He works everything
out, not manipulating,
00:23:31.47\00:23:34.61
but so ordering our lives
that when we get there he says,
00:23:34.64\00:23:38.15
I know you're gonna be there.
00:23:38.18\00:23:39.51
He orders it.
00:23:39.55\00:23:41.12
He's multifaceted for laying
everything in place in advance.
00:23:41.15\00:23:46.72
You know that...
00:23:46.76\00:23:48.09
You just said He
ordered, the Bible does say,
00:23:48.12\00:23:49.82
"The steps of a righteous
man are ordered by the Lord."
00:23:49.86\00:23:54.76
Wow, that's another one.
00:23:54.80\00:23:56.13
You know, the interesting
thing too I was just think of
00:23:56.16\00:23:57.90
is all about how
He orchestrates it,
00:23:57.93\00:23:59.80
but He still allows us to make
those choices along the way.
00:23:59.83\00:24:03.64
And that's amazing thing too.
00:24:03.67\00:24:05.51
He knows what choice
we'll make but He still,
00:24:05.54\00:24:08.58
He can work
around our bad choices.
00:24:08.61\00:24:12.71
He can always bring
us back onto the path
00:24:12.75\00:24:15.02
in spite of our bad choices.
00:24:15.05\00:24:16.82
He keeps directing it.
00:24:16.85\00:24:19.59
Have you ever... I
don't know if you get,
00:24:19.62\00:24:21.32
this is a crazy
picture in my mind
00:24:21.36\00:24:22.69
I'm gonna throw it
back to Janelle here.
00:24:22.72\00:24:24.16
Have you ever before seen an ant
00:24:24.19\00:24:27.53
and you know where the food is?
00:24:27.56\00:24:30.73
I've did this before.
00:24:30.77\00:24:32.10
The crumb is and he's like
walking all over the table.
00:24:32.13\00:24:34.24
I actually did this.
00:24:34.27\00:24:35.90
I actually did this, I
used a paper, smaller paper,
00:24:35.94\00:24:37.64
but I kind of went like that
00:24:37.67\00:24:39.94
'cause he's is
walking all the way over there
00:24:39.97\00:24:41.41
and the crumb is right here now.
00:24:41.44\00:24:43.04
Went like that
and he kept turning,
00:24:43.08\00:24:44.75
he kept turning at
the urging of my paper
00:24:44.78\00:24:47.08
till he found the
crumb and then he stopped.
00:24:47.12\00:24:48.98
And I think that God sometimes,
we're looking all over there
00:24:49.02\00:24:51.59
and God is saying, over
here, over here, over here.
00:24:51.62\00:24:54.52
That's a good illustration.
00:24:54.56\00:24:56.36
And we don't see it but
that's how He orders our steps,
00:24:56.39\00:24:59.39
'cause He sees where
the blessing is and we say,
00:24:59.43\00:25:01.66
"But I don't want to go there."
And He says, "Get over there."
00:25:01.70\00:25:04.53
You sound like Jonah trying to.
00:25:04.57\00:25:07.37
I sound like Jonah.
00:25:07.40\00:25:08.74
Well, what's the next one,
Janelle, the second one there?
00:25:08.77\00:25:10.67
Let's see, Mark.
00:25:10.71\00:25:12.44
Mark 11:22-24.
00:25:12.47\00:25:15.68
"And Jesus
answering saith unto them,
00:25:24.25\00:25:26.45
have faith in God.
00:25:26.49\00:25:28.56
For verily I say unto you
00:25:28.59\00:25:30.66
that whosoever shall
say unto this mountain,
00:25:30.69\00:25:33.23
be thou removed,
00:25:33.26\00:25:34.73
and be thou cast into the sea;
00:25:34.76\00:25:36.87
and shall not
doubt in his heart,
00:25:36.90\00:25:39.77
but shall believe that
those things which he saith
00:25:39.80\00:25:42.54
shall come to pass;
00:25:42.57\00:25:44.14
he shall have
whatsoever he saith.
00:25:44.17\00:25:46.98
Therefore I say unto you,
what things soever ye desire,
00:25:47.01\00:25:51.15
when you pray,
believe that ye receive them
00:25:51.18\00:25:53.82
and ye shall have them."
00:25:53.85\00:25:56.32
Wow. I like that.
00:25:56.35\00:25:58.15
Actually, I was just
thinking another quick test,
00:25:58.19\00:26:00.76
I'll be quick.
00:26:00.79\00:26:02.12
Now we've been doing this group
00:26:02.16\00:26:03.49
called
Celebrating Life and Recovery
00:26:03.53\00:26:04.86
and it was about three weeks ago
00:26:04.89\00:26:07.00
I had several people
that were in the group
00:26:07.03\00:26:08.56
call me saying
I'm not making it,
00:26:08.60\00:26:09.93
I'm not coming back,
00:26:09.96\00:26:11.30
I don't want
anything to do with this group
00:26:11.33\00:26:12.67
and people were having issues.
00:26:12.70\00:26:14.04
I mean, I can
see Satan's attacks
00:26:14.07\00:26:15.40
are just ramping up big time.
00:26:15.44\00:26:17.37
And I could feel
all this heaviness,
00:26:17.41\00:26:19.97
you know, going on the way that
00:26:20.01\00:26:21.34
I'm actually hearing
Satan whisper at my ear,
00:26:21.38\00:26:22.71
"Why don't you just
cancel? Why don't you just quit?
00:26:22.74\00:26:24.18
Why don't you just turn around?
00:26:24.21\00:26:25.55
Don't even bother going."
00:26:25.58\00:26:27.02
I finally got into the
back of the parking lot
00:26:27.05\00:26:28.45
where we were holding this event
00:26:28.48\00:26:30.29
and I got out of the car
and all of a sudden I just,
00:26:30.32\00:26:32.45
I walked out and I heard,
00:26:32.49\00:26:34.16
"Your loyalty is
being tested right now.
00:26:34.19\00:26:35.99
We're testing your faith."
00:26:36.02\00:26:37.73
And I heard the
voices that says,
00:26:37.76\00:26:39.13
"You've done well,
00:26:39.16\00:26:40.50
you've been My faithful servant.
00:26:40.53\00:26:41.86
So thank you."
00:26:41.90\00:26:43.23
I heard that, I was like.
00:26:43.26\00:26:44.60
I was being so
tested, I felt so heavy
00:26:44.63\00:26:46.13
but just
through that experience,
00:26:46.17\00:26:48.04
you know, seeing that God
00:26:48.07\00:26:49.40
was seeing if I
would be faithful to Him
00:26:49.44\00:26:51.67
and sticking through that.
00:26:51.71\00:26:53.04
And it was an
interesting situation.
00:26:53.07\00:26:56.78
Oh, man it was...
00:26:56.81\00:26:58.88
I see it more and more
00:26:58.91\00:27:00.25
as we're getting
closer and closer to
00:27:00.28\00:27:01.62
where we're nearing the end.
00:27:01.65\00:27:02.98
I see that our faith is gonna be
00:27:03.02\00:27:04.35
what we have left to hang on to.
00:27:04.39\00:27:06.19
And that's why
it's talking about
00:27:06.22\00:27:07.56
how to increase your
faith, it's so important.
00:27:07.59\00:27:09.92
I'm learning it right
now before the time hits.
00:27:09.96\00:27:12.46
Oh, yeah. You've
had any mountains?
00:27:12.49\00:27:14.46
Any of us any had any mountains?
00:27:14.50\00:27:15.83
All of us I believe.
00:27:15.86\00:27:17.20
So what kind of
mountain have you had?
00:27:17.23\00:27:18.77
We've studied this little
bit in my Sabbath school class
00:27:18.80\00:27:21.80
with the youth
00:27:21.84\00:27:23.17
and I feel like sometimes
people look at their Bible
00:27:23.20\00:27:27.38
and we have a tendency
00:27:27.41\00:27:29.01
to think in the
literal and the material.
00:27:29.04\00:27:32.01
And God is talking about
00:27:32.05\00:27:34.08
the mustard seed and
having faith and belief.
00:27:34.12\00:27:36.79
These are spiritual things.
00:27:36.82\00:27:38.59
We have spiritual mountains
00:27:38.62\00:27:40.82
more so than we do anything else
00:27:40.86\00:27:43.29
but we don't recognize them.
00:27:43.32\00:27:45.03
And I think that if we
focus on our spiritual mountains
00:27:45.06\00:27:48.60
and we take care of
our spiritual relationship,
00:27:48.63\00:27:51.53
God will take care of
the literal mountains.
00:27:51.57\00:27:53.87
Yeah.
00:27:53.90\00:27:55.24
You talked about the
money that you didn't have food.
00:27:55.27\00:27:57.51
You took care of the spiritual,
00:27:57.54\00:27:58.87
you followed where
God was leading you,
00:27:58.91\00:28:00.81
and He showed you He was going
to take care of the physical.
00:28:00.84\00:28:03.51
But you took care
of the spiritual first.
00:28:03.55\00:28:07.12
I had a total stranger give
me $100 one time and it was God.
00:28:07.15\00:28:10.75
And God told me,
00:28:10.79\00:28:12.39
"Dee, I can make total
strangers give you money.
00:28:12.42\00:28:15.19
Why would you
worry about money?"
00:28:15.22\00:28:17.93
When I first
came here, I can add,
00:28:17.96\00:28:20.50
I know what two and two is
00:28:20.53\00:28:22.10
and I knew that
there was more going out
00:28:22.13\00:28:23.93
than there was coming in.
00:28:23.97\00:28:25.33
When I moved
here, I took, you know,
00:28:25.37\00:28:26.97
when you move from
one job to another.
00:28:27.00\00:28:29.00
And so I was concerned
about how I was gonna make it,
00:28:29.04\00:28:32.01
but when you take
care of the spiritual,
00:28:32.04\00:28:33.68
I followed God
where He led spiritually,
00:28:33.71\00:28:36.81
and he will take care
of the physical mountains
00:28:36.85\00:28:39.11
if you take care of
the spiritual mountains.
00:28:39.15\00:28:41.82
And I've been trying to talk
to my young adults about that.
00:28:41.85\00:28:45.95
Take care of the spiritual.
00:28:45.99\00:28:47.32
When you pray,
00:28:47.36\00:28:49.12
you know, you have to be
praying the spiritual things
00:28:49.16\00:28:52.39
and He will take
care of the rest.
00:28:52.43\00:28:53.86
I was just
thinking too, in that verse,
00:28:53.90\00:28:56.10
in verse 23 there,
00:28:56.13\00:28:57.83
not doubt, not having doubt,
00:28:57.87\00:28:59.97
it's like where
does doubt come from?
00:29:00.00\00:29:01.94
It's when we rely on ourselves.
00:29:01.97\00:29:04.57
You know, I believe that,
00:29:04.61\00:29:05.94
you know, I doubt more
00:29:05.97\00:29:07.48
when I do it in my own strength.
00:29:07.51\00:29:09.34
And you know, Satan
obviously is whispering things,
00:29:09.38\00:29:11.75
trying to discourage.
00:29:11.78\00:29:13.11
But I think ultimately my doubts
00:29:13.15\00:29:15.65
usually come from
00:29:15.68\00:29:17.02
when I'm trying
to do it on my own.
00:29:17.05\00:29:18.39
On your own. Yeah.
00:29:18.42\00:29:19.75
Do you think that also possibly
00:29:19.79\00:29:22.02
our doubt comes a little
bit from seeing ourselves.
00:29:22.06\00:29:26.53
See I can pray for
somebody else in more power
00:29:26.56\00:29:29.40
than I can for myself
00:29:29.43\00:29:31.07
simply because
I know, I believe,
00:29:31.10\00:29:33.90
truly believe in God's
power, I've seen it move.
00:29:33.94\00:29:37.77
But will He do it for me
because I see my sinful self.
00:29:37.81\00:29:42.61
See, I see you
00:29:42.64\00:29:45.08
as more of a Christian
than I see myself sometimes.
00:29:45.11\00:29:50.02
And so do we doubt
that God will do it for me
00:29:50.05\00:29:55.69
and that's why sometimes I think
00:29:55.72\00:29:57.96
where our doubt comes from.
00:29:57.99\00:29:59.63
We don't doubt God but
we doubt our worthiness
00:29:59.66\00:30:03.67
of Him doing what we need.
00:30:03.70\00:30:07.24
You just reminded me.
00:30:07.27\00:30:08.60
We were just
talking this morning
00:30:08.64\00:30:09.97
about John the Baptist.
00:30:10.01\00:30:11.37
Obviously, he is in prison now
00:30:11.41\00:30:12.77
and king Herod is
about ready to take his head,
00:30:12.81\00:30:14.91
you know, he said,
"So are you the Messiah,
00:30:14.94\00:30:16.51
the one to come or not?"
00:30:16.54\00:30:18.51
His faith, kind of, wavered,
00:30:18.55\00:30:20.85
I can imagine under that
kind of extreme pressure,
00:30:20.88\00:30:23.35
you know, of ourselves even
00:30:23.39\00:30:24.85
when we have that
kind of extreme pressure.
00:30:24.89\00:30:26.89
Would we be able
to, like it's said,
00:30:26.92\00:30:28.72
there was a question
about walking in faith.
00:30:28.76\00:30:30.99
Now who'll be able
to stand on their faith,
00:30:31.03\00:30:32.59
who will be able to?
00:30:32.63\00:30:33.96
And John the Baptist,
00:30:34.00\00:30:35.33
you know, he needed that
little bit encouragement.
00:30:35.36\00:30:36.70
Jesus knew that, he
said, go back and tell him,
00:30:36.73\00:30:38.60
you know, this
is what I'm doing,
00:30:38.63\00:30:40.14
and he said "Oh, okay.
00:30:40.17\00:30:41.50
So you are," so
he was ready to die
00:30:41.54\00:30:42.87
and be martyred for his death.
00:30:42.90\00:30:44.54
And you
mentioned something, Dee,
00:30:44.57\00:30:45.91
that was really important.
00:30:45.94\00:30:47.28
You said...
00:30:47.31\00:30:48.64
And you proved
this in what happened
00:30:48.68\00:30:50.01
when you were camping.
00:30:50.05\00:30:51.75
Mathew 6:33.
00:30:51.78\00:30:53.42
"Seek ye first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness,
00:30:53.45\00:30:58.42
and all these things
will be added unto you."
00:30:58.45\00:31:01.99
And it talked about the
desires of your heart too
00:31:02.02\00:31:04.09
Matter of fact...
Yeah, go ahead and...
00:31:04.13\00:31:06.19
Let's go to that one.
I don't know where it is.
00:31:06.23\00:31:07.93
It's changed.
00:31:07.96\00:31:09.30
My computer is
changed so I'm not sure.
00:31:09.33\00:31:10.77
Not giving you the
desires of your heart.
00:31:10.80\00:31:13.70
Well, let's go ahead and...
00:31:13.74\00:31:15.07
We'll look at that together.
00:31:15.10\00:31:18.14
Let's look at number
four and then we'll see.
00:31:18.17\00:31:21.08
Everyone has some level.
00:31:21.11\00:31:22.74
Yeah everyone has someone.
00:31:22.78\00:31:24.11
Do that one, hon,
and we'll bring that one,
00:31:24.15\00:31:25.91
the desires of your heart.
00:31:25.95\00:31:27.88
Everyone has
some level of faith,
00:31:27.92\00:31:30.85
Romans 12:3.
00:31:30.89\00:31:33.49
And it says,
00:31:38.49\00:31:40.73
"For I say, through
the grace given to me,
00:31:40.76\00:31:46.23
to everyone who is among you,
00:31:46.27\00:31:48.84
not to think of himself more
highly than he ought to think,
00:31:48.87\00:31:53.84
but to think soberly,
00:31:53.88\00:31:56.68
as God has dealt to
each one a measure of faith."
00:31:56.71\00:32:01.95
Don't think...
00:32:01.98\00:32:03.62
What do we always ask
the Lord when we pray?
00:32:03.65\00:32:06.35
Stay humble. Keep us humble.
00:32:06.39\00:32:08.46
That's our prayer.
00:32:08.49\00:32:09.82
Lord, keep us humble.
00:32:09.86\00:32:11.63
And it's a prayer from our heart
00:32:11.66\00:32:14.36
and that text is so good.
00:32:14.40\00:32:16.63
And how does it
end, we have a what?
00:32:16.67\00:32:18.50
A measure, measure of faith.
00:32:18.53\00:32:21.10
What do you mean by that?
00:32:21.14\00:32:22.47
What does the
Bible mean by that,
00:32:22.50\00:32:23.84
a measure of faith?
00:32:23.87\00:32:25.64
We all have a measure...
00:32:25.67\00:32:27.01
I think each person is given
the faith they need as seed
00:32:27.04\00:32:30.45
to start them
down the right path
00:32:30.48\00:32:32.51
and then are you
going to grow it?
00:32:32.55\00:32:34.15
Are you gonna grow it?
00:32:34.18\00:32:35.55
But you have that
measure to start you out.
00:32:35.58\00:32:38.85
What do you do with it?
00:32:38.89\00:32:40.22
I like this
song "Higher ground,"
00:32:40.26\00:32:41.59
Lord, leave me
on a higher ground.
00:32:41.62\00:32:42.96
And as your faith begins
00:32:42.99\00:32:44.46
to increase and
increase, it grows.
00:32:44.49\00:32:46.39
It's like you see, Oh, God
you got me through that, okay,
00:32:46.43\00:32:48.70
so now I'm here,
00:32:48.73\00:32:50.07
you come up
against this other big,
00:32:50.10\00:32:51.43
you know,
mountain, spiritual mountain,
00:32:51.47\00:32:52.93
so now, boom, he
knocks it out of the way.
00:32:52.97\00:32:55.14
And your faith just
begins to grow more and more
00:32:55.17\00:32:57.21
and you can learn to
trust and rely on Him
00:32:57.24\00:32:59.37
as you see Him moving.
00:32:59.41\00:33:00.74
For those of us who were
not Christians all of our life.
00:33:00.78\00:33:04.05
I look back and I see
how God planted faith in me
00:33:04.08\00:33:08.02
before I even was a Christian.
00:33:08.05\00:33:11.32
As a child,
faith was put into me,
00:33:11.35\00:33:14.32
God's knowledge was put into me.
00:33:14.36\00:33:16.46
But there were
times in the world where
00:33:16.49\00:33:19.96
maybe I feared for my life
00:33:20.00\00:33:21.33
or I was in a
dangerous situation
00:33:21.36\00:33:23.26
where I was just broken.
00:33:23.30\00:33:25.50
And I would
call out to the Lord.
00:33:25.53\00:33:28.64
He answered me every single time
00:33:28.67\00:33:31.24
knowing that I wasn't
gonna stay with it, but He...
00:33:31.27\00:33:36.68
There has been
two or three times,
00:33:36.71\00:33:38.08
you know, some things
really stand out in my mind
00:33:38.11\00:33:40.92
of incidences that I was still
00:33:40.95\00:33:43.72
walking in the world
00:33:43.75\00:33:45.09
being very much a
sinner and not repenting.
00:33:45.12\00:33:47.09
When I cried out to
Him, He answered me.
00:33:47.12\00:33:49.46
He was there I knew it.
00:33:49.49\00:33:51.19
He saved my life or
took care of my brokenness.
00:33:51.23\00:33:55.23
And knowing that
00:33:55.26\00:33:56.60
I was not going to keep my
promise of walking with Him
00:33:56.63\00:34:00.04
and He still showed up.
00:34:00.07\00:34:01.64
So when I did
become a Christian,
00:34:01.67\00:34:04.71
I could see His faithfulness
00:34:04.74\00:34:08.28
before I was
ever faithful to Him.
00:34:08.31\00:34:13.11
You know, it's like He
sees where we're headed,
00:34:13.15\00:34:14.72
we talked about
seed a moment ago.
00:34:14.75\00:34:16.82
I think the text you were
talking about is this one here.
00:34:16.85\00:34:18.85
"Delight
yourself also in the Lord
00:34:18.89\00:34:20.36
and he shall give you
the desires of your heart."
00:34:20.39\00:34:22.59
Yeah I think we
read it before that.
00:34:22.62\00:34:25.79
Psalm 37:4.
00:34:25.83\00:34:27.43
I don't know if I had
it on my syllabus there
00:34:27.46\00:34:29.66
but I think that's...
00:34:29.70\00:34:31.03
Here it is in Mark
11:22,24 that later part says
00:34:31.07\00:34:35.44
"When you say to the
mountain, be thou..."
00:34:38.44\00:34:41.31
"and does not doubt in his heart
00:34:41.34\00:34:44.58
but believe that those
things he says will be done;
00:34:44.61\00:34:49.05
he will have whatever he says.
00:34:49.08\00:34:51.72
Therefore I say unto you,
00:34:51.75\00:34:54.12
whatever things
you ask when you pray,
00:34:54.16\00:34:56.62
believe that you received
them and you will have them."
00:34:56.66\00:34:59.46
What does that mean?
00:34:59.49\00:35:02.16
You have to have faith, right?
00:35:02.20\00:35:05.07
If you're walking in his
will and what you're asking for,
00:35:05.10\00:35:09.80
but He gives us
little things too.
00:35:09.84\00:35:11.67
Little, yeah.
You know, God is...
00:35:11.71\00:35:14.84
I think of it in this scenario,
that's a good question,
00:35:14.88\00:35:16.85
what is that talking about?
00:35:16.88\00:35:19.41
God will be that
friend that says,
00:35:19.45\00:35:22.45
"Now put on this
blindfold and hold my hand."
00:35:22.48\00:35:29.02
Now in many cases, we
often do that as a person.
00:35:29.06\00:35:32.49
If we're setting somebody up
00:35:32.53\00:35:33.86
for a surprise
birthday party, right?
00:35:33.90\00:35:37.17
Now take your
blindfold off, "Surprise!"
00:35:37.20\00:35:40.10
or, "Hey, it's my car,"
or "Wow, you got me that,
00:35:40.14\00:35:43.41
" but God is the
one who never leads us
00:35:43.44\00:35:46.94
anywhere that we
have to be fearful.
00:35:46.98\00:35:49.34
And if we
honestly grip the belief
00:35:49.38\00:35:53.28
that God takes us to a
place better than He finds us.
00:35:53.31\00:35:57.52
We would say "Oh, I love
it when we play hide and seek.
00:35:57.55\00:36:00.76
He covers my eyes
00:36:00.79\00:36:02.69
and all I need to do is seek Him
00:36:02.72\00:36:05.29
and He always leads me better."
00:36:05.33\00:36:06.96
If you had somebody
that always did that,
00:36:07.00\00:36:08.80
every time you opened your eyes
00:36:08.83\00:36:10.17
there was some grand,
some grand revelations,
00:36:10.20\00:36:13.23
some dynamic gifts,
some wonderful revelations,
00:36:13.27\00:36:16.14
some better job, you'll
say, okay, cover my eyes again.
00:36:16.17\00:36:19.24
I'm ready, you
know, wouldn't you?
00:36:19.27\00:36:22.54
If every time that happened,
00:36:22.58\00:36:23.91
you always ended up
better than where you were
00:36:23.95\00:36:26.15
whenever he said, okay,
now I'll cover your eyes,
00:36:26.18\00:36:28.72
you say, okay, great,
great, I love this game
00:36:28.75\00:36:30.79
because it always
results in something better.
00:36:30.82\00:36:33.02
Actually before you
were talking about that,
00:36:33.05\00:36:34.42
I was thinking about how faith
is like God's investment in us.
00:36:34.46\00:36:37.43
He gives us all
a certain portion
00:36:37.46\00:36:39.56
like we were
talking about earlier
00:36:39.59\00:36:40.93
and then He, like the talent,
00:36:40.96\00:36:42.80
we can either use it or bury it.
00:36:42.83\00:36:45.23
And let it just sit
there and got to waste
00:36:45.27\00:36:47.74
or He can
increase it if we use it.
00:36:47.77\00:36:49.60
And it's interesting
how He increases our faith
00:36:49.64\00:36:53.44
and our talents
and all those things
00:36:53.48\00:36:55.11
if we use those for Him.
00:36:55.14\00:36:56.54
That's right.
00:36:56.58\00:36:57.91
And because we're His disciples,
00:36:57.95\00:36:59.28
we all pray that prayer
00:36:59.31\00:37:01.15
right here in Luke 17:4,
00:37:01.18\00:37:03.75
it says, "And the
apostle said to the lord,
00:37:03.79\00:37:06.25
increase our faith."
00:37:06.29\00:37:08.69
Right here, "increase our faith"
00:37:08.72\00:37:11.13
in Luke 17 verse 5 and
6, "increase our faith,
00:37:11.16\00:37:14.06
so the Lord said,
00:37:14.10\00:37:15.43
if you have the
faith of a mustard seed,
00:37:15.46\00:37:19.13
you can say to
the mulberry tree,
00:37:19.17\00:37:21.77
be pulled up by the root
and be planted in the sea
00:37:21.80\00:37:25.07
and it would obey you."
00:37:25.11\00:37:26.44
Now we often refer to
the mountains being removed
00:37:26.47\00:37:28.98
but this is an interesting
one, the mulberry tree.
00:37:29.01\00:37:32.61
I wondered what he meant
00:37:32.65\00:37:35.08
by removing the mulberry
tree from where it was planted
00:37:35.12\00:37:38.45
and say move to
a different place,
00:37:38.49\00:37:41.46
be planted in the sea.
00:37:41.49\00:37:43.09
You know a tree
can't exist in the sea
00:37:43.12\00:37:47.00
but if God says
it could, it could.
00:37:47.03\00:37:49.90
With God all
things are possible.
00:37:49.93\00:37:51.27
All things. See, he
wants to illustrate it.
00:37:51.30\00:37:53.34
You know, we could
see a mountain being moved
00:37:53.37\00:37:56.17
but why would
anybody want to plant
00:37:56.20\00:37:57.97
a mulberry tree in the sea.
00:37:58.01\00:38:00.58
Isn't that salt water?
00:38:00.61\00:38:01.98
Not only that, it's gonna drown,
00:38:02.01\00:38:03.88
but not if the Lord says it.
00:38:03.91\00:38:06.35
You make me think of the story
00:38:06.38\00:38:07.72
and this is being
playing in my head,
00:38:07.75\00:38:09.08
the story of
Elisha and his servant
00:38:09.12\00:38:10.49
on the mountain.
00:38:10.52\00:38:11.85
And here all these Syrian army
00:38:11.89\00:38:13.82
ready to take
him over and oath in.
00:38:13.86\00:38:15.72
And the servant is
kind of quick in his boots,
00:38:15.76\00:38:18.16
you know, Elisha just prays,
open your eyes on my servant.
00:38:18.19\00:38:22.10
And by faith, they
actually led the whole army
00:38:22.13\00:38:24.63
back into their
enemy's camp blinded,
00:38:24.67\00:38:27.14
like that's
really a powerful but
00:38:27.17\00:38:29.24
out of the grace
and mercy of God,
00:38:29.27\00:38:30.81
they were fed bread and water,
00:38:30.84\00:38:32.31
provisions, and
their king let him go.
00:38:32.34\00:38:34.48
And I think that's
kind of what God does to us,
00:38:34.51\00:38:36.44
you know, when we walk away,
like you were talking about,
00:38:36.48\00:38:37.98
Dee, when we
walk away, He still...
00:38:38.01\00:38:39.91
We might be blinded
to His love and things,
00:38:39.95\00:38:41.92
we might not see it
but it's always around,
00:38:41.95\00:38:43.39
he is gonna
bless us through that.
00:38:43.42\00:38:46.05
Even when He picks us up
and plants us somewhere else,
00:38:46.09\00:38:50.06
did you feel like,
00:38:50.09\00:38:51.43
Janelle, that maybe He
was moving you to the sea
00:38:51.46\00:38:54.53
being from when
you were planted,
00:38:54.56\00:38:57.10
how could you flourish there,
00:38:57.13\00:38:59.20
you've been many a times
00:38:59.23\00:39:00.57
you didn't want
to go to California.
00:39:00.60\00:39:02.77
That was your sea.
00:39:02.80\00:39:04.17
I came from the West Coast,
I love the ocean, the desert,
00:39:04.21\00:39:06.78
the mountains, here
we're in the planes, you know.
00:39:06.81\00:39:09.81
I'm like, Lord,
where have you taken me?
00:39:09.84\00:39:11.91
So it's like He
planted me in the sea
00:39:11.95\00:39:14.32
and yet I've grown here more
00:39:14.35\00:39:17.35
than I could have anywhere else.
00:39:17.39\00:39:20.76
So sometimes what looks
like salt water to us, is not.
00:39:20.79\00:39:25.19
He can encase us in salt water
00:39:25.23\00:39:29.46
and we can grow
and soak in situations.
00:39:29.50\00:39:34.54
When it looks impossible
00:39:34.57\00:39:35.90
or they can't
come to the meeting
00:39:35.94\00:39:37.51
and they give you, they
throw all these tests at you,
00:39:37.54\00:39:39.94
now it's gonna happen.
00:39:39.97\00:39:41.31
But Satan can send sea water
00:39:41.34\00:39:45.48
and God can make it fresh water,
00:39:45.51\00:39:50.29
and the roots will grow
00:39:50.32\00:39:51.95
and it appears
to be in salt water.
00:39:51.99\00:39:54.59
I have a plant pot that says,
"Grow where God plants you."
00:39:54.62\00:39:57.63
Yes.
00:39:57.66\00:39:59.49
Because he can anywhere.
00:39:59.53\00:40:01.76
And you said
it, we can't see it.
00:40:01.80\00:40:03.87
We didn't want to come
to California, I should say,
00:40:03.90\00:40:08.20
when we left Florida.
00:40:08.24\00:40:09.57
So I could relate to you guys
wanting to leave family but...
00:40:09.60\00:40:15.24
That's where that
blindfold comes in,
00:40:15.28\00:40:17.38
when you realize,
00:40:17.41\00:40:18.75
when it looks
like you're being led
00:40:18.78\00:40:21.12
where you don't want to go.
00:40:21.15\00:40:22.48
If you trust, God will...
00:40:22.52\00:40:25.42
That's where the faith comes in,
00:40:25.45\00:40:26.79
that He rewards
where He took you.
00:40:26.82\00:40:28.76
And so then you
become more and more willing.
00:40:28.79\00:40:31.16
That faith grows.
00:40:31.19\00:40:33.26
Say it again.
00:40:33.29\00:40:34.73
He rewards those
who diligently seek Him.
00:40:34.76\00:40:36.73
That's right.
00:40:36.77\00:40:38.10
He rewards you
00:40:38.13\00:40:39.47
and He doesn't ask
you to just map it out,
00:40:39.50\00:40:41.00
you know, we
map out our journey.
00:40:41.04\00:40:42.37
I remember long
before GPSs were created,
00:40:42.40\00:40:45.31
we map that our
journey on our Rand McNally map
00:40:45.34\00:40:47.68
and we photocopied every page.
00:40:47.71\00:40:49.44
Remember those days?
00:40:49.48\00:40:51.21
Yes absolutely.
00:40:51.25\00:40:52.98
If you're a GPS
generation, ignore us.
00:40:53.01\00:40:55.32
You have no idea what a map is.
00:40:55.35\00:40:57.45
No, not today. I love maps.
00:40:57.49\00:40:58.82
I still see them at truck stops.
00:40:58.85\00:41:00.19
It's amazing. I still see
those maps at truck stops.
00:41:00.22\00:41:02.39
Can you fold a
map? I can fold a map.
00:41:02.42\00:41:07.16
And you know the
other thing about the map
00:41:07.20\00:41:08.73
is the map is reliable
00:41:08.76\00:41:11.57
where the GPS says
00:41:11.60\00:41:13.64
proceed with caution
if this road does exist,
00:41:13.67\00:41:16.17
you know, things like that,
00:41:16.20\00:41:17.61
but the illustration
what is going with that
00:41:17.64\00:41:19.57
is when we began our journey
from Orlando to California,
00:41:19.61\00:41:23.68
you know, sometimes the devil
tries to put doubt in your mind
00:41:23.71\00:41:25.88
at the beginning of the journey.
00:41:25.91\00:41:27.35
We pulled off on
the side of the road
00:41:27.38\00:41:28.85
still in route 75 going north
in Florida towards route 10.
00:41:28.88\00:41:33.99
And we pulled off on
the side of the road.
00:41:34.02\00:41:35.96
And as soon as Ange stepped out,
00:41:35.99\00:41:37.66
she stepped in ant's nest.
00:41:37.69\00:41:39.66
Remember that.
00:41:39.69\00:41:41.03
Hopefully not the fire ants.
00:41:41.06\00:41:44.00
Somewhere along.
00:41:44.03\00:41:45.37
She stepped on it right
on the side off the road
00:41:45.40\00:41:46.74
on our way.
00:41:46.77\00:41:48.10
And it is at the beginning
of our journey and you think...
00:41:48.14\00:41:50.77
And some people would have said,
00:41:50.81\00:41:52.37
if this is any indication
of the rest of our journey...
00:41:52.41\00:41:56.85
Just turn back.
00:41:56.88\00:41:58.21
You know, want to turn back.
00:41:58.25\00:41:59.68
But I haven't given
Dee an opportunity yet.
00:41:59.71\00:42:01.98
Go to number five, Dee.
00:42:02.02\00:42:04.69
Read than and then lead
us down to the next one.
00:42:04.72\00:42:06.15
Faith is increased
by studying the Bible.
00:42:06.19\00:42:08.42
And we're
looking at Romans 10:17.
00:42:08.46\00:42:13.80
So Romans 10:17,
00:42:13.83\00:42:16.50
"So then faith comes by hearing,
00:42:16.53\00:42:18.77
and hearing by the word of God."
00:42:18.80\00:42:20.97
I can almost hear Molly's voice,
00:42:21.00\00:42:23.17
she says that quite a bit.
00:42:23.20\00:42:25.61
So it's not only, but
she always finishes up.
00:42:25.64\00:42:29.64
"Faith comes by hearing
00:42:29.68\00:42:31.01
and the hearing by word of God."
00:42:31.05\00:42:32.48
It's from the word of
God but also when we hear it,
00:42:32.51\00:42:36.12
we have to act on it,
we have to internalize it,
00:42:36.15\00:42:40.19
we have to grow with
it and not just hear it.
00:42:40.22\00:42:46.36
There has been so
many times when we step out
00:42:46.39\00:42:49.96
and we practice the word of God,
00:42:50.00\00:42:52.53
when you say the
Lord gave me this promise.
00:42:52.57\00:42:56.54
I remember so vividly
in front of my fire place
00:42:56.57\00:42:59.57
after David passed away,
00:42:59.61\00:43:01.48
I said, "Okay, Lord, I'm yours."
00:43:01.51\00:43:05.18
Oh, David was my husband.
00:43:05.21\00:43:07.72
David, when he passed
away and I was widowed,
00:43:07.75\00:43:11.22
God brought me here.
00:43:11.25\00:43:12.59
But before then I had
already committed Him,
00:43:12.62\00:43:15.22
committed myself to,
00:43:15.26\00:43:17.23
"Okay, Lord, whatever
You want to do with my life,
00:43:17.26\00:43:19.36
wherever You want to
take me, I'm just yours.
00:43:19.39\00:43:21.36
Use me."
00:43:21.40\00:43:22.76
So once I made that commitment,
00:43:22.80\00:43:27.27
then I had to
actually be willing to do it.
00:43:27.30\00:43:31.07
Because moving out here, I
left my home, I left my job,
00:43:31.11\00:43:36.24
I left my
friends, I left my family,
00:43:36.28\00:43:38.45
I left everything familiar
while I was still grieving
00:43:38.48\00:43:42.75
and came to an area
of where I knew no one
00:43:42.78\00:43:47.72
and had a new job
that I really didn't...
00:43:47.76\00:43:50.89
Danny likes my saying,
not knowing what I'm doing
00:43:50.93\00:43:53.36
doesn't even slow me down.
00:43:53.40\00:43:55.50
So I hit the
ground at full speed
00:43:55.53\00:43:58.97
not really
knowing what I was doing,
00:43:59.00\00:44:00.64
but I had to be willing.
00:44:00.67\00:44:02.57
I have the life I have now
00:44:02.60\00:44:04.57
because I was willing
to make the commitment
00:44:04.61\00:44:07.04
but then I was
willing to act on it,
00:44:07.08\00:44:08.68
hearing the word,
acting on the word,
00:44:08.71\00:44:11.45
and stepping out in faith
putting your feet in the water.
00:44:11.48\00:44:15.72
That's how you grow it.
00:44:15.75\00:44:17.09
I was just thinking, you know,
00:44:17.12\00:44:18.45
sometimes God has to
really shake you and wake you,
00:44:18.49\00:44:20.09
and almost not
actually smack you
00:44:20.12\00:44:22.02
but just show you,
"Hey, I'm here for you."
00:44:22.06\00:44:24.39
Another thing
that happened to me
00:44:24.43\00:44:25.76
when I was going
to colporteuring,
00:44:25.79\00:44:27.50
which was huge, I
helped this young lady out,
00:44:27.53\00:44:31.97
helped her
grandmother out of her house.
00:44:32.00\00:44:34.47
This lady had dementia,
couldn't walk down the steps.
00:44:34.50\00:44:36.50
So we helped, I have
a soft heart for that
00:44:36.54\00:44:38.47
since my grandma
had the same thing.
00:44:38.51\00:44:40.04
So we helped this lady
get down and get in her car,
00:44:40.08\00:44:42.24
and she's sitting there.
00:44:42.28\00:44:43.61
And the reason why I share this
is there was this huge faith,
00:44:43.65\00:44:45.48
but she pointed at me,
she was totally out of it,
00:44:45.51\00:44:48.98
just leaning over.
00:44:49.02\00:44:50.35
But then she just came
to me, she pointed at me,
00:44:50.39\00:44:51.82
she went, "You," like that.
00:44:51.85\00:44:53.19
And I said, "Oh, you know,
00:44:53.22\00:44:54.56
your granddaughter
is right behind me.
00:44:54.59\00:44:55.92
Do you want to talk to
her?" She says, "No, you.
00:44:55.96\00:44:57.49
You need to door
to door selling books
00:44:57.53\00:44:58.86
and get to know your neighbors."
00:44:58.89\00:45:00.23
And she went like this again.
00:45:00.26\00:45:02.53
Yeah, I was like,
what just happened there.
00:45:02.56\00:45:05.63
I was like on my
car start crying like,
00:45:05.67\00:45:07.10
"Oh, I was supposed
to be colporteuring."
00:45:07.14\00:45:10.97
Wow.
00:45:11.01\00:45:12.71
Those moments where definitely
00:45:12.74\00:45:14.21
flashes through the
frailty of humanity.
00:45:14.24\00:45:16.01
Yeah, exactly.
00:45:16.04\00:45:17.38
That increases your faith.
00:45:17.41\00:45:18.75
You're like God
is really in this.
00:45:18.78\00:45:20.25
You know a lot of people,
00:45:20.28\00:45:21.62
I know that they have questions
about if God even exists.
00:45:21.65\00:45:23.55
But when that happens, I'm like
00:45:23.59\00:45:25.19
I can't even begin
to question if He exist
00:45:25.22\00:45:28.32
because there's no other way.
00:45:28.36\00:45:29.99
I mean, I was
asking for answers.
00:45:30.03\00:45:32.19
Something else
too, it's interesting
00:45:32.23\00:45:34.26
in our faith journeys.
00:45:34.30\00:45:36.06
At least, for
us, our experiences,
00:45:36.10\00:45:38.13
it seems like
00:45:38.17\00:45:39.83
every time there's a big
step that God wants us to take,
00:45:39.87\00:45:41.90
he'll use an unusual person
00:45:41.94\00:45:44.31
or unusual
circumstance to confirm
00:45:44.34\00:45:48.78
as maybe someone
that we don't think
00:45:48.81\00:45:50.58
is even walking with the Lord,
00:45:50.61\00:45:51.95
maybe, you know, gives us
some advice or says something.
00:45:51.98\00:45:55.42
And it's interesting
the people that he uses.
00:45:55.45\00:45:57.55
Sometimes they
don't even realize
00:45:57.59\00:45:58.92
they're being used by God.
00:45:58.95\00:46:00.29
But they help us in that
decision or whatever it is
00:46:00.32\00:46:03.73
that we're facing.
00:46:03.76\00:46:05.49
So I found that to be true.
00:46:05.53\00:46:07.03
And I think that's
really cool that God does that
00:46:07.06\00:46:09.66
and He shows Himself
through unlikely places.
00:46:09.70\00:46:14.47
Because then we
know it's really Him.
00:46:14.50\00:46:15.90
We can't question,
00:46:15.94\00:46:18.47
you know, it's a
way He reveals Himself
00:46:18.51\00:46:20.91
that He works not
only through Christians
00:46:20.94\00:46:23.48
but He works through all people
00:46:23.51\00:46:25.65
whether they follow
Him or trust Him or not.
00:46:25.68\00:46:27.78
He can use them for His will,
00:46:27.82\00:46:30.69
and when we're
reconfirmed with something
00:46:30.72\00:46:35.59
that we know can
only be God's hand,
00:46:35.62\00:46:39.06
that had to be God,
what a faith grower that is.
00:46:39.09\00:46:43.40
Oh, yes.
00:46:43.43\00:46:45.00
Matter of fact, we
talked about reading the word,
00:46:45.03\00:46:47.14
you know, lot of times, we use,
kind of, reach a wall there.
00:46:47.17\00:46:51.24
We say, "Okay,
God, we read the Bible,"
00:46:51.27\00:46:53.38
you know, faith
comes by hearing,
00:46:53.41\00:46:54.74
hearing by the word of God,
00:46:54.78\00:46:56.11
continues to build on that.
00:46:56.14\00:46:58.65
Look under the
point number five.
00:46:58.68\00:47:01.25
Hebrews 4:2
continues to build on that.
00:47:01.28\00:47:03.28
It says "For indeed the
gospel was preached to us
00:47:03.32\00:47:09.36
as well as to them;
00:47:09.39\00:47:11.59
but the word which they
heard did not profit them,
00:47:11.63\00:47:15.26
not being mixed with
faith in those who heard it."
00:47:15.30\00:47:18.80
So you know, when you think
about the word being preached,
00:47:18.83\00:47:23.61
the Lord is saying,
do you believe that.
00:47:23.64\00:47:25.17
And I'm sure there's
someone watching the program
00:47:25.21\00:47:27.51
that may be in
Dee's, Pastor Donald,
00:47:27.54\00:47:31.05
or Janelle, or Ange's, or mine,
00:47:31.08\00:47:32.95
and right now we're
saying that you might be saying,
00:47:32.98\00:47:36.08
as we saw in the
illustrations here,
00:47:36.12\00:47:38.09
is God's speaking to me
tonight through this panel,
00:47:38.12\00:47:42.16
why did I give the
Lord a final chance tonight
00:47:42.19\00:47:45.69
and I turned on the television
00:47:45.73\00:47:47.50
and they're talking about faith.
00:47:47.53\00:47:49.76
How God provided finances,
how God gave you direction,
00:47:49.80\00:47:52.77
how God gave you wisdom to
just continue to go forward,
00:47:52.80\00:47:56.47
how God lead you to a
place he took you from your sea
00:47:56.50\00:47:58.94
to the mid-west and
planted you in salt water.
00:47:58.97\00:48:03.38
And God might be
saying to you tonight,
00:48:03.41\00:48:05.25
that's what I
wanted to do for you,
00:48:05.28\00:48:06.61
that's how I want to direct you.
00:48:06.65\00:48:08.82
So we're saying, here
we're by reading the word,
00:48:08.85\00:48:10.85
but what God is
saying to you tonight
00:48:10.89\00:48:12.52
is He wants you to mix
what you've heard with faith.
00:48:12.55\00:48:16.22
And hearing it is
not just sum total,
00:48:16.26\00:48:19.43
mixing it with faith, that's
where the profit comes from.
00:48:19.46\00:48:22.73
He says it did not profit them
00:48:22.76\00:48:24.27
because it was
not mixed with faith
00:48:24.30\00:48:25.83
in those who heard it.
00:48:25.87\00:48:27.20
So you might be,
00:48:27.24\00:48:29.00
you know, in your
problem about yourself
00:48:29.04\00:48:30.37
or home by yourself
00:48:30.41\00:48:31.74
or you might be someplace
where you didn't think,
00:48:31.77\00:48:33.61
in a hotel room, you
just turn on this network
00:48:33.64\00:48:36.14
and think what channel is this.
00:48:36.18\00:48:37.91
God might be
saying to you tonight,
00:48:37.95\00:48:39.45
this is the
beginning of your faith walk.
00:48:39.48\00:48:41.28
3ABN is giving you a message.
00:48:41.32\00:48:42.98
This is the
beginning of your faith walk.
00:48:43.02\00:48:44.69
And here's the key as
we've seen in all our lives,
00:48:44.72\00:48:47.26
it's not up to you to
know where you're headed.
00:48:47.29\00:48:49.72
Is it?
00:48:49.76\00:48:51.09
Abraham didn't
know. No, it is to follow.
00:48:51.13\00:48:52.46
Did we want to
be in the mid-west?
00:48:54.30\00:48:55.63
No. She said no three times.
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.73
I think everyone
here has a story.
00:48:57.77\00:49:00.87
When you talk
about sowing in the word,
00:49:00.90\00:49:03.41
you know the story of the sower,
00:49:03.44\00:49:05.47
falls on stony ground,
rocky ground, good ground,
00:49:05.51\00:49:08.68
I believe that we can choose
what ground we want to be.
00:49:08.71\00:49:13.05
So if you decide you
want to change your life
00:49:13.08\00:49:16.12
and you want what
God has planned for you,
00:49:16.15\00:49:19.49
which is more awesome
than you can dream of.
00:49:19.52\00:49:21.62
I never dreamed of the
life He had planed for me.
00:49:21.66\00:49:24.73
If you will choose
to be the good ground,
00:49:24.76\00:49:28.30
He will a plant the
seed, this can be seed.
00:49:28.33\00:49:31.03
But if you choose to be
good ground He will grow it.
00:49:31.07\00:49:33.90
So I think we
decide what kind of ground
00:49:33.94\00:49:36.97
we want to be when
He plants the seed,
00:49:37.01\00:49:40.14
we have that choice.
00:49:40.18\00:49:41.64
Wow.
00:49:41.68\00:49:43.01
Open up your heart
and you're good ground.
00:49:43.04\00:49:46.51
I mean, that's true.
00:49:46.55\00:49:47.88
I never thought
about it that way.
00:49:47.92\00:49:49.25
I've preached
that sermon four times
00:49:49.28\00:49:50.62
and one of the questions
that come to my mind is,
00:49:50.65\00:49:52.42
"Well, how does
she become a shallow
00:49:52.45\00:49:55.39
and a stony,
and a thorny ground?
00:49:55.42\00:49:57.29
How do they become that?"
00:49:57.33\00:49:58.66
And you made the
point. That was very good.
00:49:58.69\00:50:00.03
Yeah, that just occurred to me.
00:50:00.06\00:50:01.40
It had to be God
because that just came to me.
00:50:01.43\00:50:03.20
That was good.
00:50:03.23\00:50:04.57
We choose what
kind of ground to be.
00:50:04.60\00:50:05.93
We choose... We choose.
00:50:05.97\00:50:08.77
If were not up to us,
00:50:08.80\00:50:11.91
then we would be
manipulated into becoming that.
00:50:11.94\00:50:15.11
But really, it
comes down to a choice.
00:50:15.14\00:50:17.01
You could say, I want to
be, I want to believe God,
00:50:17.05\00:50:19.55
well, I don't believe that,
00:50:19.58\00:50:20.92
or then sometimes
worldly pursuits comes in,
00:50:20.95\00:50:22.52
financial ideas come
in and we are pulled away,
00:50:22.55\00:50:25.49
or trails
00:50:25.52\00:50:27.46
and we allow
the trails to unseed
00:50:27.49\00:50:29.19
what God has
planted in your hearts.
00:50:29.22\00:50:31.03
Do we have times where
we choose to be rocky ground
00:50:31.06\00:50:34.36
and we've been soft before,
00:50:34.40\00:50:35.73
maybe we have a little
thing God is working on it
00:50:35.76\00:50:38.83
and we resist,
00:50:38.87\00:50:40.24
we change our heart to
rocky ground on that spot?
00:50:40.27\00:50:41.90
Go ahead.
00:50:41.94\00:50:43.27
I was just thinking that,
you know, this reminded me,
00:50:43.30\00:50:44.74
God knows our hearts.
00:50:44.77\00:50:46.41
You know, like David was
a man after God's own heart,
00:50:46.44\00:50:48.14
look what he did.
00:50:48.18\00:50:49.51
Of course,
thinking about ourselves,
00:50:49.54\00:50:50.98
we can make the wrong choices.
00:50:51.01\00:50:52.35
But through
that, God is patience,
00:50:52.38\00:50:54.52
He is merciful,
like in Hebrews 12
00:50:54.55\00:50:56.05
it talks about how He
punishes those He loves
00:50:56.08\00:50:58.39
but He because He loves them,
00:50:58.42\00:50:59.75
because they're not
pastors or sons or daughters.
00:50:59.79\00:51:02.36
And it's through that
faith walk He's showing you,
00:51:02.39\00:51:04.56
look, I want you in my kingdom,
I want you here permanently,
00:51:04.59\00:51:08.06
you know, keep
walking this faith walk
00:51:08.10\00:51:09.50
and you'll make it.
00:51:09.53\00:51:10.87
So it's very powerful stuff,
00:51:10.90\00:51:12.53
you know, He's
calling to us, so...
00:51:12.57\00:51:14.77
There's a text I
want my wife to read here.
00:51:14.80\00:51:16.50
This one right
here, Hebrews 10:22,
00:51:16.54\00:51:19.64
'cause this is a huge
text when it comes to,
00:51:19.67\00:51:23.28
how do we get to
that place where God
00:51:23.31\00:51:27.62
has always seen
that we're going to be,
00:51:27.65\00:51:29.42
how do we become
00:51:29.45\00:51:30.79
what God always knew
what we could become.
00:51:30.82\00:51:32.62
This is a very wonderful text.
00:51:32.65\00:51:34.49
Hebrews 10:22.
00:51:34.52\00:51:35.86
It says, "Let us draw
near with a true heart
00:51:35.89\00:51:38.76
in full assurance of faith,
00:51:38.79\00:51:41.16
having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience
00:51:41.20\00:51:46.43
and our bodies
washed with pure water."
00:51:46.47\00:51:50.81
So what kind of assurance?
00:51:50.84\00:51:52.51
Full assurance. Full assurance.
00:51:52.54\00:51:55.94
No doubts.
00:51:55.98\00:51:57.31
No, no doubts.
00:51:57.35\00:51:59.91
It says full assurance. Yeah.
00:51:59.95\00:52:01.48
Wow, so when you
think of full assurance,
00:52:01.52\00:52:03.72
what comes to mind?
00:52:03.75\00:52:05.62
What comes in
mind, full assurance?
00:52:05.65\00:52:07.72
That no matter
what happens to me,
00:52:07.76\00:52:10.26
like Job said, even though
you slay me, I'll trust you.
00:52:10.29\00:52:14.53
And full assurance is
when you have that faith
00:52:14.56\00:52:16.93
that no matter
what comes at you,
00:52:16.97\00:52:20.14
you have that full assurance
and you have that joy inside
00:52:20.17\00:52:23.20
that it can look like
00:52:23.24\00:52:26.37
something you cannot
handle or cannot take
00:52:26.41\00:52:29.34
or just something
that's gonna break you,
00:52:29.38\00:52:31.05
but if you have that
faith, He'll carry you through,
00:52:31.08\00:52:34.38
whatever that answer is.
00:52:34.42\00:52:35.75
You just make me
think we've been going back
00:52:35.78\00:52:37.12
through recently
reading the Great Controversy
00:52:37.15\00:52:39.39
and those that were tied
to the stake and being burned.
00:52:39.42\00:52:41.79
I mean, they're
actually singing.
00:52:41.82\00:52:43.86
I mean, that's the
full assurance thing
00:52:43.89\00:52:46.16
that God is over there with you
00:52:46.19\00:52:47.53
or even had their wives
next to them and saying,
00:52:47.56\00:52:49.13
"Keep going."
00:52:49.16\00:52:50.50
Just you might be
losing this earthly life here,
00:52:50.53\00:52:53.97
you got full
assurance of life in heaven.
00:52:54.00\00:52:56.34
I think that's a
powerful statement to me that,
00:52:56.37\00:52:58.21
you know, people that continue
00:52:58.24\00:52:59.81
in pressing the
force to the mark,
00:52:59.84\00:53:01.18
those have being murdered
or killed for their faith,
00:53:01.21\00:53:03.48
to me, it just
speaks volumes, you know.
00:53:03.51\00:53:05.38
Or those that have cancer
00:53:05.41\00:53:06.92
or going through
some serious illness,
00:53:06.95\00:53:09.18
this is not the end.
00:53:09.22\00:53:10.55
They may go to sleep, the
Lord may put them to sleep,
00:53:10.59\00:53:13.36
but this is like Elder
Brooks, this is not the end.
00:53:13.39\00:53:16.62
But that comes from
that personal relationship.
00:53:16.66\00:53:19.76
That's what my children,
00:53:19.79\00:53:21.13
the kids, the young
adults in my classes.
00:53:21.16\00:53:23.57
Constantly I'm
telling them what is it?
00:53:23.60\00:53:25.97
It's that personal relationship,
00:53:26.03\00:53:27.84
that vertical
personal relationship
00:53:27.87\00:53:29.30
with the Lord.
00:53:29.34\00:53:30.67
Yeah.
00:53:30.71\00:53:32.04
You know, some of
our young people exercise
00:53:32.07\00:53:33.41
more faith in the
rides at the amusement park
00:53:33.44\00:53:36.04
than they do in Jesus.
00:53:36.08\00:53:37.41
I mean, when you think about it,
00:53:37.45\00:53:38.78
they go on these bungee
jump, they go on these rides
00:53:38.81\00:53:41.28
that would just
take your stomach out
00:53:41.32\00:53:42.65
even at a higher altitude.
00:53:42.68\00:53:44.19
But the Lord is not
asking us to do that,
00:53:44.22\00:53:46.12
He's just simply saying
to us, "I want to take you
00:53:46.15\00:53:49.82
and do in your life
00:53:49.86\00:53:51.19
and make you what you
cannot envision yourself to be.
00:53:51.23\00:53:54.13
That's why, you know, I'm
going to my favorite text.
00:53:54.16\00:53:56.26
Let's all turn there
as we begin to wind up
00:53:56.30\00:53:57.97
and then we're gonna
have a prayer together,
00:53:58.00\00:53:59.40
because I know without a doubt,
00:53:59.43\00:54:01.84
there's someone
here who's saying...
00:54:01.87\00:54:03.97
1 John 3: 1, 2.
00:54:04.01\00:54:07.58
Somebody's saying I don't know,
00:54:07.61\00:54:10.18
I mean I hear what you're saying
00:54:10.21\00:54:11.55
but I can't see what
God is gonna do with me
00:54:11.58\00:54:14.02
and what do I have to offer God.
00:54:14.05\00:54:15.72
This has become my
favorite Bible verse,
00:54:15.75\00:54:19.39
'cause it says to me, John,
00:54:19.42\00:54:20.76
although you are
not yet where God
00:54:20.79\00:54:23.36
knows you're gonna be,
he's still working on you.
00:54:23.39\00:54:25.76
Amen.
00:54:25.79\00:54:27.13
1 John 3,
00:54:27.16\00:54:29.93
"Behold, what
manner of love the Father
00:54:29.96\00:54:32.67
has bestowed on us
00:54:32.70\00:54:34.54
that we should be
called sons or children of God.
00:54:34.57\00:54:37.57
Therefore the
world does not know us
00:54:37.61\00:54:38.94
because it did not know Him."
00:54:38.97\00:54:40.71
And here's the favorite part.
00:54:40.74\00:54:42.51
"Beloved, now we are
the children of God."
00:54:42.54\00:54:45.78
When? Now.
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.72
"And it has not
yet been revealed,
00:54:47.75\00:54:50.72
what we shall be but we know."
00:54:50.75\00:54:53.02
That's the word of assurance.
00:54:53.05\00:54:54.39
"But we know."
That's the faith statement.
00:54:54.42\00:54:56.79
That's the credit.
00:54:56.83\00:54:58.36
"But we know that
when He is revealed,
00:54:58.39\00:55:01.83
we shall be like
Him," for we shall what?
00:55:01.86\00:55:04.57
"See him as he is."
00:55:04.60\00:55:07.64
So that's the faith.
00:55:07.67\00:55:09.30
"But we know,"
those three words.
00:55:09.34\00:55:10.94
So as we wind up our
program, which went so fast.
00:55:10.97\00:55:13.68
Have you noticed how
fast this program went?
00:55:13.71\00:55:15.48
I thought it was gonna be
long, but it was just so short
00:55:15.51\00:55:17.25
but you allowed us, Dee, John,
00:55:17.28\00:55:22.08
Angela, Janelle, and Donald,
00:55:22.12\00:55:23.92
you allowed us to
come to your home tonight
00:55:23.95\00:55:26.96
to say to you God is
not done with you yet.
00:55:26.99\00:55:28.82
The faith that He
has allowed you to have,
00:55:28.86\00:55:30.76
that little
mustard seed of faith,
00:55:30.79\00:55:32.73
that little mulberry tree
00:55:32.76\00:55:34.10
that maybe planted
in the wrong location.
00:55:34.13\00:55:35.93
He wants to say to you tonight,
00:55:35.96\00:55:37.30
He wants to not
only increase your faith,
00:55:37.33\00:55:38.97
but take your
life from where it is
00:55:39.00\00:55:40.94
to where He knows it can be.
00:55:40.97\00:55:42.34
So we're not saying to you
there's a big drastic jump.
00:55:42.37\00:55:45.04
He's not asking to
you to dive off of a cliff
00:55:45.07\00:55:47.21
into the unknown,
00:55:47.24\00:55:48.58
He is simply saying
tonight say, "Father,
00:55:48.61\00:55:50.21
I don't see it but I trust you,
00:55:50.25\00:55:52.65
I don't know
what's gonna happen,
00:55:52.68\00:55:54.02
but I'm gonna exercise faith."
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And so on behalf of
those of us here at 3ABN,
00:55:56.18\00:55:58.92
why don't we have a
short word of prayer
00:55:58.95\00:56:00.29
before we say goodbye.
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Let's just bow our
heads and ask for God to bless
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those who are on the air.
00:56:03.06\00:56:04.39
Father, somebody's
looking at this program tonight
00:56:04.43\00:56:06.80
saying I need the faith
that was talked about tonight.
00:56:06.83\00:56:10.37
I'm at a wall in my life.
00:56:10.40\00:56:11.73
I don't know where to go next,
00:56:11.77\00:56:13.17
but I want what
You have seen for me.
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I want to be what
You know I can be.
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Lord, take that young man,
that young women, that family,
00:56:17.64\00:56:20.08
that marriage, that
home, that church, that pastor,
00:56:20.11\00:56:22.94
that tonight maybe
at the end of his rope,
00:56:22.98\00:56:25.21
that person's watching.
00:56:25.25\00:56:26.58
Take them, Lord, and
take that mustard seed,
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plant it where you
know it can flourish.
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And finally, when
they see the fruit
00:56:30.65\00:56:31.99
of faith and trust in you,
00:56:32.02\00:56:33.76
they can look back tonight,
00:56:33.79\00:56:35.22
they can look back
at tonight and remember
00:56:35.26\00:56:37.19
that they have given
You control to their lives.
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So help us to trust you, Father,
00:56:39.13\00:56:40.46
that one day we will rejoice
when our faith is made sight,
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in Jesus name.
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Amen. Amen.
00:56:46.33\00:56:47.94
Well, honey.
That a good program?
00:56:47.97\00:56:50.21
That's a good program.
00:56:50.24\00:56:51.57
It was a good
Sabbath, wasn't it?
00:56:51.61\00:56:52.94
Yeah. Yes, wonderful Sabbath.
00:56:52.97\00:56:54.31
Great Sabbath.
00:56:54.34\00:56:56.01
Good to have
you here, Dee. Yeah.
00:56:56.04\00:56:57.38
Nice to join you. Thank you.
00:56:57.41\00:56:58.91
I always have a good time.
00:56:58.95\00:57:00.28
You know, Donald and
Janelle also helped me
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with my youth class.
00:57:02.55\00:57:04.15
Occasionally, we try
to. We're everywhere.
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So it's always blessing to...
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I think we get more out of it
00:57:09.62\00:57:11.23
than maybe the
kids do sometimes.
00:57:11.26\00:57:12.63
Yeah.
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And, Donald and Janelle,
00:57:14.03\00:57:15.36
thank you for what you do
here for the cause of God.
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Amen.
00:57:16.80\00:57:18.13
Everything we do. A little
is much when God is with you.
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Thank you.
00:57:20.10\00:57:21.44
We've taken a
slice out of your time.
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And on behalf
of the 3ABN family,
00:57:23.44\00:57:26.57
and all of those who
pray for us and stand with us,
00:57:26.61\00:57:29.41
we want to wish
you a happy Sabbath.
00:57:29.44\00:57:31.01
Continue trusting in
God and one day your faith
00:57:31.05\00:57:33.82
will be made sight.
00:57:33.85\00:57:35.18
God bless you.
00:57:35.22\00:57:36.55
Amen. Amen.
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