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 another
3ABN Today Family Worship.
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I'm Jill Morikone.
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And we are just so delighted
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that you've taken
this time Friday night
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to open up the Sabbath with us.
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Around the table,
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I have some of my
incredible sisters in Jesus.
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And having said
that, you might think,
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well, this is a woman's program,
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but actually,
it's a biblical topic.
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Now we happen to be women
sharing as sisters in Jesus
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with what God
has done in our life.
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We're talking tonight
on the power of praise.
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And praise has made
such a tremendous difference
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in my own journey with
Jesus, in my own walk with Him.
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When I learned to praise
and I don't always do it,
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I'm just being honest with you.
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But I don't always
praise but when I do,
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how that
revolutionizes my own walk
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and my spiritual walk.
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So we wanna talk about that.
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Why do we praise
and how do we do it
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and all about that.
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But first, we're
gonna introduce you
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to the family here.
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Starting on my left, my Sis.
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Yvonne Shelton,
Dr. Yvonne Shelton.
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So glad you're here.
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I'm so privileged to be here.
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Thank you so much.
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You're Founder and Consultant
for Dare to Dream Network.
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Yes.
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Tell me what does
praise mean to you?
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Kinda putting
you on the spot here,
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but what does the
praise mean to you?
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You know, when you
praise God, there's just...
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It just seems as
though it opens up
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the communication even better.
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So when you praise Him...
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And I try to use
music and other things
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to praise the Lord
because it just enhances
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your spiritual experience.
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I think, if your goal is to get
closer to the Lord, you know...
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It's like...
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I think, it's like, you
know, if your husband tells you,
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"Oh, I just love you or
oh, you're just so special.
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Oh, you..."
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It just makes you
feel so connected.
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Oh, yeah.
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And I think that
when we praise God,
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it just makes us feel so
much more connected to Him.
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So to me,
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it enhances my
spiritual experience
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with the Lord when I praise Him.
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Amen. I love that.
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Sitting next to you and
to me is Melody Caviness,
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Prettyman-Caviness.
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And, Melody, you're
not always here at 3ABN.
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But when you come in,
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we always love to be
able to share together
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and you are my sis as well.
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And thank you for being here.
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Thank you. It's a privilege.
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So tell me what
about you in praise?
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When I praise the Lord,
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it makes me feel better.
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It gives me a
spiritual uplifting
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and it's my
connection to my God.
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Thanking Him,
praising Him, talking to Him
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and so thankful for
what He's done in my life.
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Sometimes, you know, we
take so much for granted.
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When we go to bed at night,
cannot all see in the morning,
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do we?
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Could we?
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I mean, it's by
the grace of God.
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Amen. That we see the next day.
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So just praising
Him throughout the day.
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And when things are bad,
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I try to praise Him more
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because I know
that's where Satan
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is trying to
interject in my life.
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It's like, no,
I'm not gonna have it.
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That's powerful.
Praise is a choice.
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Yes. Oh.
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Yeah, let's talk about that.
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Over here is
Shelley, another sister,
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all sisters at the table here.
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But Shelley Quinn,
always a joy to have you here.
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Student of the word and
woman of the word really,
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is what I would call you.
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And a woman of prayer,
and thanks for being here.
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Oh, it's my privilege.
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To me praise,
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I guess you could say
that it helps me remember
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who I'm addressing.
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It helps me...
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You know, I mean,
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you can have that
super personal relationship
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with the Lord.
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But if I ever got a
down in the mouth attitude...
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When I start praising
the Lord, it changes me.
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Praise doesn't
change Him, it changes us.
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That's right. That's right.
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And so I think that
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60% of my prayer time,
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every time is praise.
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Because, and I will
share why that the Lord...
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How He did that in my life.
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But it's, it is life changing.
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Amen. Oh, that's powerful.
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And last but not least...
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Oh, thank you.
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Dee Hilderbrand,
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and you're
production coordinator here.
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And, Dee, just, we love you too.
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It's such a joy to be here.
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You are my sisters.
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I have a special connection
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with every one of
you here at this table,
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a special love.
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And everything that you've said,
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yes, I agree with and
it's part of my life too.
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But my praise,
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my praise is my love
and my joy and my peace.
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You cannot be thinking
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two different
things at the same time.
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When you are praising,
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you can't have
anything else in your head
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and be thinking
about other things
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or being down...
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That's why it does all
things that you just said.
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Because when you praise,
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it does lift you up
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and it gives
you a love and a joy
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with your Heavenly
Father a connection.
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Yeah. Amen.
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And I, amazingly enough,
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I was going to talk
about the same thing
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because I really believe that
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the biggest
percentage of my prayers
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that I'm really
focused on prayers is praise.
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Amen.
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And not always
when I'm doing that,
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ongoing
conversations through the day,
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that's more
usually asking for like,
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"Okay, Lord, help
me get out of this,
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you know,
whatever I do or say now.
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But the spontaneous
praise is what I love too.
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Amen.
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You know, I love
what you said, Shelley,
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about praise doesn't change Him,
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it changes us.
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And, because He doesn't...
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God is not some,
you know, egomaniac.
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He knows who He is.
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We don't have to
remind Him who He is.
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He knows who He is.
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But when we
acknowledge, who He is,
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it really, to me,
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it puts things in
the correct order,
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because He is our
Elohim, He is our Creator God,
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the Supreme
Being of the universe.
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And we are the creatures.
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We are just... we
are His creatures.
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So when we
acknowledge who He is,
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that's for us...
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It's faith
building. Not for Him.
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It is. It's faith building.
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It is. It
reminds us of who He is.
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Amen.
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Before we go any
further, can we jump and pray?
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Yes. Yes.
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Before we read any scriptures,
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we wanna make sure we
go to the Lord in prayer.
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Yes.
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Dee, you wanna pray for us?
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Father, you're Heavenly Father,
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we just thank
You for the privilege
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that we can praise You Father,
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because when we're praising You,
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we are the happiest.
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And Lord, You created us
to be happy creatures in You
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in this relationship.
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So praise gives
us that relationship
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and we just thank
You so much for that.
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And thank You that we
can come together as sisters
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and share with everyone, Lord.
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I just ask that
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Your words will be spoken here
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and that it will
reach other hearts
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and lifting them up,
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that we will come together
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as Your bride
as a group, Father.
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And we just thank You
and we ask for Your words
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and Your blessing,
Lord, what we share tonight.
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In Jesus name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Let's turn to Psalm 103.
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This is our
kickoff Psalm for tonight.
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Okay.
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Psalm 103.
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The entire Psalm is incredible.
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We'll start at least
for the first five verses
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before we get in.
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But before we read it,
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and we know it starts out
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with "Bless the
Lord, O my soul,"
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but before we read it,
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let's even see if
we can define praise.
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We've been talking about
praise and but what is praise?
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If we were to
say, what is praise?
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What would any of you say?
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A warm emotion.
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Okay.
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It is an emotion,
something you have to feel.
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How can you praise, if
you don't have a feeling?
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So you're praising
the Lord out of feeling.
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Thanksgiving. Thanks. Yeah.
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Thanksgiving is a
praise. Thanksgiving.
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Glory is a praise
or so many definitions
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or words for praise.
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So what if I don't
feel like praising?
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And yet for some reason
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God's asking me
to praise anyway?
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Because you will
feel better when you do.
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Can you still praise,
even if you're not feeling it?
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Sure you can.
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You have to
actually. Yeah, you have to.
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We can't...
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We actually can't
trust our own feelings.
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And when we feel low,
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or when we feel
distant from God,
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you know, if
something has happened,
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then you've done something
and you just feel distant,
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you need to praise Him anyway,
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because in so doing
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that connection I
think is re-established.
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So I think
praise is acknowledging
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who God is.
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That's good.
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It changes your attitude.
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Actually starting
off with Psalm 104...
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If you actually...
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If you were just really mad
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and upset or depressed
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or any emotion that
you might be feeling,
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you could not
sit here and start.
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I mean, you could start
out trying to read them angry
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but if you
really are a Christian,
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as you read this,
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and maybe you'd have to
read it two or three times.
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As you keep reading,
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I really feel like
it would change you.
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Yes.
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It would change you if
you just start doing it.
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Yeah, I know that.
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Recently, I had a little...
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I've got a little
back issue right now.
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And you know, when it's...
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When a knife sharp
pain is going through you,
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what...
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You wanna just say,
oh, Lord, take this away.
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But I just said, Lord,
I praise You for the pain.
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It tells...
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It is a gift...
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Pain is a gift
from God to tell us
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what our limitations are.
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You know, it tells me
what I shouldn't be doing.
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And so...
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But then I said, I
praise You that I can walk,
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and I praise, you know...
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Yes.
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You start thinking it's
like people who are complaining,
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they had no shoes
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till they saw
the man with no feet.
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Yes.
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I think Thanksgiving
is a form of praise.
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And we don't always feel...
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I mean, when the Bible says,
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in all things give thanks.
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You don't always feel
like it. You know that's true.
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Boy, I guarantee
you, once you start and...
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I'll get into
more of this later,
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but there's something you
can always praise the Lord.
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That's right. That's right.
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You've been teasing us a
couple of times in this story.
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You always
started like that, like...
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Now later, let's go.
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As long as you don't
forget, you're gonna tell us.
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We will see.
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Oh, we need to
hear that. That's right.
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That's right. Okay?
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You have to work
your way into praise.
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You may not feel like it,
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but you can work
your... that's...
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We were not supposed to...
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We don't get to heaven by works,
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but you can work
yourself into praise
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and all of a sudden
it will become real.
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I really believe that.
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You know, Romans 4:17?
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God calls those
things that are not as though
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they already were.
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So the power in God's
Word when you don't feel it,
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to still claim those promises
and to still speak that,
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and then to realize
God can change my emotions.
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Amen.
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You know, and God can change it
and make me want to praise Him,
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and make me
feel that toward Him.
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The first part of Romans 4:17.
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You sees the God, who
gives life to the dead.
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And that's what
happens when you're praising.
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When you...
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when you feel
spiritually down in the mouth,
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poor pitiful pearl, you know,
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and then you
start praising the Lord.
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He gives life.
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But your brain can
change your attitude.
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Your brain, your
attitude can change you
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into a better emotion.
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I almost think you can...
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you decide, you make a decision
on changing your attitude.
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And I think
your emotion follows.
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That's the theory. I'm
not sure if it's correct.
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You probably know if
that's correct or not.
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Well, there...
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I found this really
interesting article online
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about the neurophysiological
benefits of worship.
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Oh.
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And it's written by...
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Actually an Adventist
physician at Southern.
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And he cited a
study that was done
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by Dr. Andrew Newberg.
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And Dr. Newberg took
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12 different patients
of different faiths and...
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I'm sorry, more than
12 and had them spend
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12 minutes in prayer.
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Okay.
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So there was a control
group that did nothing.
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And then there was this
group of different people
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who prayed for 12 minutes a day,
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just 12 minutes.
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And what they
found was astounding.
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You know, there was,
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initially there has
been this feeling that
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the brain doesn't
grow after adulthood.
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Okay. But it actually does.
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And they found that
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this particular
part of the brain,
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the cingulate cortex,
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actually grows in
volume when you pray.
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Pray or praise?
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Praise and pray. Wow.
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And so if you're engaged
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in a conversation with God,
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there is an actual
difference in that.
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Now, what's amazing about that,
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and that's why this
whole idea of prayer
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and praise change us.
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Yeah. They don't change God.
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God says, He doesn't
change, but we change.
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And so with the
cingulate cortex...
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Let me tell you,
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it says, the increased volume
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leads to an
increase in the capability
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and implementation
of empathetic thinking,
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and feeling.
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And as it grows, you
develop into a nicer,
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more forgiving
and trustful person.
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Wow. Amen.
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So from praising
God, from worshiping Him,
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we develop into nicer people.
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That's how He wired us.
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God is just,
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who long am I to
should up in air.
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Yeah.
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He's so awesome, the
way He wired our brains.
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And then the second
finding that they had was
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with the hypothalamus,
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because the
hypothalamus and the amygdala
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and the
amygdala houses emotions.
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And it says that,
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lowered hypothalamus mechanisms
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resulted in reduced heart
rate, reduced blood pressure,
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blood glucose levels,
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and serum
markers of inflammation.
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And it also has
psychological effects.
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It reduces depression,
anxiety, chronic pain,
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and even post traumatic stress.
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Really?
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So, all, and helps
us with forgiveness.
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And I mean, it's amazing to me
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how God has wired the brain.
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So when we praise Him,
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when we're involved in prayer
and conversation with Him,
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just for 12 minutes a day.
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It doesn't...
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You don't have to do
it for hours at a time,
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12 minutes a day,
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we become changed physically.
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Praise God. That's powerful.
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Emotional. Yes.
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You know, I mean,
it's just like, wow,
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you say, God, you are just...
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The more you
learn about the body
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and the emotions and all that,
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the more you appreciate God,
00:16:14.07\00:16:16.20
the more we have reason
to praise and worship Him.
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Amen. That's amazing.
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He wired us so that
we have the capability
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of becoming more like
Him when we praise Him.
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Yes. And praise Him.
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He gave us that capability of...
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Yes. How encouraging.
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He wired us to be that way.
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That is amazing
because I just think if...
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I don't mean it sarcastically,
but if you know someone
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who's a little harsh
or maybe lacks empathy,
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you can encourage
them to pray more.
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You need to praise more.
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And 12 minutes a
day for the praise...
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You know, or if I find myself
lacking in that, you know.
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Yes.
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I need to spend more
time with Jesus in prayer.
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Amen. Yeah.
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I noticed it with
my children growing up,
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that the more I praise
them, the happier they were,
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and the more they
were willing to do more.
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Now I know God doesn't change,
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but it changes us
when we are talking to Him
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and communicating
Him and praising Him.
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It changes us too.
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But I've noticed
that with people.
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Yeah. Oh, that's powerful.
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Absolutely.
Encouragement goes a long ways.
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Yes, it does. It does.
00:17:20.04\00:17:22.20
Okay, hopefully
you're in Psalm 103.
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And let's... 104...
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105? 104...
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103.
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Psalm 103:1-5.
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Psalm 103.
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Shelley, you want to
start and then we'll...
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Everybody can read
a verse or go around.
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"Bless the Lord, O my
soul, And all that is within me,
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bless His holy name!"
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Yes.
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How do you
think we can bless God
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with everything within us?
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You know, I always wonder that.
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When I read that
verse, it's not...
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It says, bless
the Lord and we say,
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okay, well, I bless Your name.
00:17:50.80\00:17:52.47
But it says, with
everything within me,
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I'm supposed to bless Him.
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How do we do that?
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But He knew all on the spot.
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In our work, our
relationships and everything...
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No, but it can
be everything we do,
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but it's also an emotion.
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Haven't you ever...
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Sometimes I would look
at my husband and think,
00:18:09.42\00:18:13.86
who is that person?
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But other times
I would look at him
00:18:15.59\00:18:17.76
and I would be so filled
with love, it almost hurt,
00:18:17.79\00:18:22.06
I couldn't hold it.
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I just overflowed with it.
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And that's how I...
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When I'm praising
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that same
emotion can overcome me
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where I just can't hold it.
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I can almost...
00:18:32.74\00:18:34.08
I can hardly breathe
and that's... but you're...
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I think you're right, I
agree with you with our work
00:18:36.38\00:18:38.31
and our deeds
and everything else
00:18:38.35\00:18:39.68
but I think there
is a moment and a time
00:18:39.71\00:18:41.35
to where we're just so filled
00:18:41.38\00:18:43.59
we can't even hold it.
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And that's with good.
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All this within me.
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For me, the all
that was within me
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came...
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And, you know, you can
JD, it's not for me like,
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but I cannot pray
00:18:58.37\00:19:00.47
without thanking
God for Jesus Christ,
00:19:00.50\00:19:04.77
and thanking Jesus for...
00:19:04.81\00:19:07.34
thanking God
for humbling Himself
00:19:07.38\00:19:09.18
to become a man.
00:19:09.21\00:19:10.55
To me that is the
most amazing thing.
00:19:10.58\00:19:14.12
And I start my prayer off,
00:19:14.15\00:19:15.85
almost every time
as I'm praising Him,
00:19:15.88\00:19:18.59
thanking Him
00:19:18.62\00:19:20.09
for humiliating
Himself to become a man,
00:19:20.12\00:19:22.56
than humbling Himself
to die on the cross for me.
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And thanking God
for the Holy Spirit,
00:19:25.73\00:19:27.90
thanking Him for His word.
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And I guarantee you
00:19:29.50\00:19:31.27
that thought,
00:19:31.30\00:19:32.63
as soon as I start praying
that and praising Him for that,
00:19:32.67\00:19:36.60
it's everything that's within me
00:19:36.64\00:19:38.64
starts welling up
because it's like,
00:19:38.67\00:19:41.54
"Lord, who am I that
You will love me enough
00:19:41.58\00:19:44.55
to come down here
and do this for me?"
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Yes.
00:19:45.98\00:19:47.32
And it just
makes it all bubble up.
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Yeah. Yeah. Amen.
00:19:50.79\00:19:53.19
I have a note here
I was looking for it.
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Here written in
the margin of my Bible.
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It says, "Give me
an undivided heart God
00:19:56.86\00:19:59.19
that I might fear Your name."
00:19:59.23\00:20:01.63
Because it comes
from Psalm 86:11,
00:20:01.66\00:20:03.80
"Teach me Your way, O
Lord, I will walk in Your truth,
00:20:03.83\00:20:06.17
Unite my heart
to fear Your name."
00:20:06.20\00:20:09.27
And so I think
about that when I say,
00:20:09.30\00:20:10.97
I want to bless God
with everything within me,
00:20:11.01\00:20:13.34
to me, it's an undivided heart.
00:20:13.38\00:20:15.84
You know, sometimes I almost
want to keep part of that back
00:20:15.88\00:20:19.98
for this other
thing I like a lot
00:20:20.02\00:20:22.35
or this thing I'm
afraid to surrender
00:20:22.38\00:20:24.79
or don't want to give to Jesus.
00:20:24.82\00:20:27.62
And yet He says, with
everything in you, Jill,
00:20:27.66\00:20:29.99
would you praise Me?
00:20:30.03\00:20:31.36
Would you Bless Me?
00:20:31.39\00:20:32.73
That means, give Him everything,
00:20:32.76\00:20:35.06
everything in our heart.
00:20:35.10\00:20:36.43
And sometimes we wanna give it
00:20:36.46\00:20:39.07
and then we
don't even know how to.
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So let me just...
00:20:40.47\00:20:41.80
Are we even
capable of giving our heart
00:20:41.84\00:20:43.47
or do we even have to ask
the Lord to take our heart?
00:20:43.51\00:20:46.27
Absolutely.
00:20:46.31\00:20:47.64
Take our heart.
00:20:47.68\00:20:49.01
Because can we give it?
00:20:49.04\00:20:50.38
Yeah, surrender it.
00:20:50.41\00:20:51.75
It's good. I like that.
00:20:51.78\00:20:54.12
We can't do
anything without Him.
00:20:54.15\00:20:55.58
That's right.
00:20:55.62\00:20:56.95
There's so many
times that I pray.
00:20:56.99\00:20:58.32
And when I...
00:20:58.35\00:20:59.69
The more I exalt God,
the more I praise Him...
00:20:59.72\00:21:01.96
Have you ever prayed to
tears and the tears just flow
00:21:01.99\00:21:05.89
and you just can't shut them off
00:21:05.93\00:21:07.43
and you just,
00:21:07.46\00:21:08.80
almost feels like
God gives you a hug,
00:21:08.83\00:21:11.30
you know, during that
pray, that praise time.
00:21:11.33\00:21:14.34
And sometimes I don't
get through the prayer
00:21:14.37\00:21:16.54
without just praising.
00:21:16.57\00:21:18.51
You know, sometimes I
just wanna praise Him.
00:21:18.54\00:21:20.01
Amen. He's so good.
00:21:20.04\00:21:21.38
Amen. Amen.
00:21:21.41\00:21:22.74
There's certain
songs for me, like there...
00:21:22.78\00:21:24.95
I guess, growing up,
00:21:24.98\00:21:26.35
I grew up around
choirs and things like that.
00:21:26.38\00:21:28.98
My grandmother
was a choir director
00:21:29.02\00:21:30.49
and stuff...
00:21:30.52\00:21:31.85
And one of the songs
that her choir would sing
00:21:31.89\00:21:33.52
would be the song
from the Mount of Olives.
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And the song is, it
starts out with Hallelujah,
00:21:36.89\00:21:40.43
Hallelujah to
God's Almighty Son.
00:21:40.46\00:21:43.80
And I can just
picture in my mind's eye,
00:21:43.83\00:21:46.67
all of us
standing around the throne
00:21:46.70\00:21:49.10
and singing hallelujah to Jesus.
00:21:49.14\00:21:51.44
And it just...
00:21:51.47\00:21:53.31
I mean, for me
00:21:53.34\00:21:56.24
it just ushers me
into His presence,
00:21:56.28\00:21:59.08
thinking about that.
00:21:59.11\00:22:00.45
And so, for me,
like, the whole idea of...
00:22:00.48\00:22:03.08
All this in me is just,
00:22:03.12\00:22:05.92
I just feel like
there's certain songs
00:22:05.95\00:22:08.49
that just usher
me into His presence
00:22:08.52\00:22:10.99
and I can just sense.
00:22:11.03\00:22:12.99
I just feel like, wow,
it's gonna be so amazing
00:22:13.03\00:22:15.36
when we're
literally in His presence.
00:22:15.40\00:22:18.63
So that just for me, it's music.
00:22:18.67\00:22:20.80
And the word...
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In the Hebrew the
word praise is hello.
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Well, that's where
hallelujah comes from.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Music moves her.
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Even those of us
who cannot sing on key,
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it moves us.
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Yes. Yes.
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Music moves me and I
have special songs too.
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And I look forward
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because when I'm
singing to Him in heaven,
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I will be on key
and I'll have it.
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Beautiful voice.
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Yes, amen.
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Let's read verse 2. Yes.
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Melody, you got that?
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Yes, I do.
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"Bless the Lord, O my soul,
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and forget not
all His benefits."
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Amen, you wanna read
3 too? All my soul...
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Yes, I do.
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"Who forgives
all your iniquities,
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who heals all your diseases."
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Amen.
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That's powerful.
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Who heals all your diseases.
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So if we go back to
forget not all His benefits,
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bless Him and don't
forget His benefits.
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Now, how do we
keep from forgetting
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what God has done for us?
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Thanking Him for it.
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Thanking Him.
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That's, you know, to me...
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In Psalm 100:4, it says,
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"Enter His gate
with Thanksgiving
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in your hearts,
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enter His courts with praise."
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So for me, it always
start with Thanksgiving.
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That's a form of praise.
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But that is me
remembering and thanking Him
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for all the things.
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And you know, what's amazing?
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I've talked with people
who are in serious depression.
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I tell them, sit
down and write out
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the things that
God has done for you,
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that you're thankful for,
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and then pray those
back and thank Him for that.
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And the more...
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the more I thank Him,
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you know, 'cause
sometimes you can be in a mood
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and, but you begin to thank God
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for all of His benefits
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and especially for
His forgiveness of sin.
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But then that
opens the door for me
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to truly break
into praise of adoration
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and knowing that, Lord,
you're... only You are worth.
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Yes.
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And it's not just
because you're the Creator,
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it's because
You're my Abba, my Father.
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Yes.
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And You take
care of me like that.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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For sure.
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One of the...
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I don't know, like some
people are in the tech stuff
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and I'm not a
great techie person.
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But there is
this app that I have,
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it's called Echo
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and you can write
your prayers in that app
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and then you can go back
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and see what God has done,
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how He's answered this
prayer, and that prayer.
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And it's been really good for me
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because we tend to forget.
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If we don't want things
down, we tend to forget.
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And I look at that.
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And plus it also reminds
me of who I need to pray for,
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because sometimes I'll say,
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"Oh, yes, I'll
pray for this person,
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and then you forget."
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So this way you write it down
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and then you can go
to that app and see.
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So for me forgetting
not all His benefits,
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if I write them down,
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it reminds me of
how God has answered
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this prayer and that prayer,
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and I look back
recently, and I saw,
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wow, Lord, you did
this, or You answered that.
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Amen.
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And it's just,
it's such a blessing.
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So we need to remind ourselves
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of all of His benefits,
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because He's been so faithful
and His mercies are new.
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I wonder...
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When you're
saying that, I don't know
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why this came to me.
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What if the people on the edge,
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standing at the edge
of the Promised Land,
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what if they had been saying
when the report came back,
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"Oh, Lord, thank You that
You opened up the Red Sea.
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Thank You that You
delivered us from bondage.
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Lord, thank You that
you drowned our enemies.
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Thank You that
You provide, you know,
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the water from the rock.
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Thank You, Father, oh,
You are worthy of our praise.
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Nothing is
impossible with You, Lord.
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Right.
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And would have
changed their history.
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They would have said, "Yes,
we can go in and conquer...
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God said, "We could."
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And they would have done it.
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And He's shown Himself
true in the past and faithful.
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Amen.
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Why not expect the same now?
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I have seen it in my own life.
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Yes. He doesn't want...
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When I've been hesitant
and I haven't like, you know,
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remembering the
miracles and what God,
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the protection
He's given me in my life
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and then when I get afraid,
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and I pull it back,
it takes me more time,
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when it could have been
conquered so much faster.
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Yes.
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That's the way
He response to that
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on a personal level,
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on a corporate
level, on a church level,
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on any level as individually
or as a group who does that,
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He responds to that.
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We have nothing to
fear for the future,
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except we forget the way
God has led us in the past.
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Amen. That's right.
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I mean, to
forget not His benefits
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and to remind ourselves of them.
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Yeah.
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I love the next one,
"Forgives all your iniquities."
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Yes.
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You know... Thankful.
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I talked to so many
people on the phone,
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or people write in and say,
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but God can't forgive me.
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I did X,Y,Z, whatever it was,
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I did this particular sin.
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We know God
forgives these other things.
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But mine is extra
bad, mine is extra,
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and I'm not sure
I can be forgiven.
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But God forgives all iniquities.
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What a promise.
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Yes. Amen.
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Isn't that encouraging?
You just have to accept it.
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Because that, verse 4.
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Yes.
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"Who redeems your
life from destruction."
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Yes.
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Well, that...
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See, He redeemed my
life from destruction.
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And He forgave
all my iniquities.
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If you...
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If He...
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If you allow Him to redeem
your life from destruction,
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then you except that
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He will forgive
all the iniquities.
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Because He says,
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"Who crowns you
with loving kindness
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and tender mercies."
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There's so many people walking
around with such a guilt.
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Yes.
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And it's such a burden.
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And the enemy wants to keep you
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loaded down with guilt.
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And the word says, He
forgives all of our iniquities.
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And if He didn't,
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then that would mean
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that His blood
didn't cover something.
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His blood
covers all of our sins,
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every sin we could
ever possibly make, or do.
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So, He...
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It's...
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We don't need to walk around
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with that heavy burden of guilt.
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If we confess our sins,
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He's faithful and
just to forgive us
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of our sins
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and He cleanses of
all unrighteousness.
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So that is a beautiful verse.
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He forgives all
of our iniquities.
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Yeah.
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I love John 6:37.
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Jesus says,
"Whoever comes to Me,
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I will and no wise cast out."
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That's one of my favorites.
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Yes. Me too.
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I love that.
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We just come to Him as we are,
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knowing He
forgives and He can cleanse
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and He will restore.
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What about the
second half of that verse?
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Sometimes we struggle
a bit with that verse.
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Maybe ladies have some
theological insight into it.
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But the second half
of verse 3, it says,
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"Who heals all your diseases."
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You could think of it this way.
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Sin is a disease, is it not?
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And Psalm 129:4, says,
"The Lord is righteous,
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He cuts His free from
the cord of the wicked."
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That's right.
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You know, Paul prayed for...
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I can't think of, not arrest...
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He prayed for someone.
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Here's Paul, who,
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he could send
out his handkerchief
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and people were
getting healed by
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that prayer cloth,
you would. Yeah. Right.
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But now he's
praying for some guy
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and he writes and says,
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"Well, we had
to leave him behind
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because he didn't get well.
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I mean, he didn't die,
but he didn't, you know...
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So I think sometimes
when we pray for healing,
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and we don't get it,
it's like, you know, well,
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I thought He healed
all of our diseases.
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But there is going
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to ultimately be that healing...
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That's right.
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You know, when
we are resurrected,
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when you hear His voice
and you're in the grave,
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you'll come up,
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there's not gonna
be any more diabetes
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or heart disease or any of that.
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So there's a word missing
in between heals and all.
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Instant is not found there.
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There you go. All right.
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All right.
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That's good. That's good, Dee.
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That's good.
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Not only that one, it says,
He heals all of your disease.
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Remember when
Christ walked on the earth
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and He healed people,
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He always say,
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"Go ye therefore
and sin no more."
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Maybe some of the things
that we do to cause diseases,
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if we would just
change those habits,
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our diseases would be healed.
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And God just can't heal them
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until we learn
to make changes too.
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Yeah.
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We also have to remember that
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we are in a sin filled world.
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Exactly.
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So there are so many
different reasons and...
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I mean, God's
purposes are a thousand,
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a million fold
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and so we do not know
His purpose on the timing
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of healing which disease.
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My husband died and
yet during his cancer,
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God did touch him and
heal him in certain ways
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at different times.
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Not just spiritually,
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I saw Him do some
physical healing too
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on certain situations.
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So we have to
accept, we don't have to,
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but I accept God's timing
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on each specific incident.
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He has healed me physically
in certain ways, other ways,
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things are still with me.
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But at the resurrection,
just like that voice,
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I'm gonna have a
perfect body too.
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That's right. So there's no...
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I heard a pastor once
say, God always heals.
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Sometimes it's right now,
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sometimes it's a little bit
down the road in the future,
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and sometimes it's
at the resurrection.
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Amen.
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But He always heals.
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You know,
sometimes you're right,
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it's the world of sin we live in
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through no choice of our own.
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Sometimes you're right,
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it's through what our lifestyle
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or choices that we
can bring sickness on us.
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And sometimes it's
just a result of sin.
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And we don't even
always know those things,
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but yet God always heals.
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Amen. Eventually, always.
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Eventually. That's right.
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That's why we have many
different stories in the Bible,
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including Job
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and people being
raised from the dead,
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and everything in between.
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Amen.
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So there's different purposes.
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Amen.
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Yvonne, you wanna read 4?
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Yeah, five.
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Sure.
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"Who redeems your
life from destruction,
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who crowns you
with loving kindness
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and tender mercies,
00:33:19.39\00:33:21.00
who satisfies your
mouth with good things,
00:33:21.03\00:33:24.03
so that your youth is
renewed like the eagle's."
00:33:24.07\00:33:26.97
Amen.
00:33:27.00\00:33:28.37
I can use some youth renewal...
00:33:28.40\00:33:30.34
Again, it doesn't say instant.
00:33:34.51\00:33:36.24
That's right.
That's right. That's right.
00:33:36.28\00:33:40.62
I know, I told my husband,
I said, when we get to heaven,
00:33:40.65\00:33:43.08
I'm gonna be perfect,
Honey, I'm gonna be beautiful.
00:33:43.12\00:33:45.29
And he says,
I'm gonna have hair.
00:33:45.32\00:33:46.76
You know, this word
here, loving kindness.
00:33:50.66\00:33:54.46
Yes. Oh, Yes, I love it.
00:33:54.50\00:33:56.10
In the Hebrew, that
is Heset, H-E-S-E-T.
00:33:56.13\00:34:01.04
And, you know,
sometimes people say,
00:34:01.07\00:34:03.17
"Well, you don't see
grace in the Old Testament."
00:34:03.20\00:34:06.41
Oh, yes.
00:34:06.44\00:34:07.78
Heset is used like 260 times
00:34:07.81\00:34:11.98
in the Old Testament.
00:34:12.01\00:34:13.55
And it is unconditional love,
00:34:13.58\00:34:16.08
mercy, faithfulness,
00:34:16.12\00:34:18.75
loving kindness.
00:34:18.79\00:34:21.36
You can't even translate that
00:34:21.39\00:34:24.66
into a single word in English.
00:34:24.69\00:34:28.66
That is...
00:34:28.70\00:34:31.43
That's agape and
grace and everything,
00:34:31.47\00:34:34.27
all bound up in one.
00:34:34.30\00:34:37.31
And I mean, just think
He crowns us with this.
00:34:37.34\00:34:42.28
Is it the same word in
Jeremiah, where He says,
00:34:42.31\00:34:45.61
and with loving
kindness have I drawn You,
00:34:45.65\00:34:47.68
is it heset as well?
00:34:47.72\00:34:49.05
Yes, heset. Oh.
00:34:49.08\00:34:50.42
And Lamentations 3:23,
00:34:50.45\00:34:53.66
His mercies are
new every morning,
00:34:53.69\00:34:55.62
heset is said.
00:34:55.66\00:34:57.16
It's this love, it's this...
00:34:57.19\00:34:58.93
and it's...
00:34:58.96\00:35:00.30
It is.
00:35:00.33\00:35:01.66
And praise brings us
into that emotion of accepting
00:35:01.70\00:35:05.77
and feeling that loving kindness
00:35:05.80\00:35:08.90
and that tender mercy.
00:35:08.94\00:35:10.71
Amen.
00:35:10.74\00:35:12.07
Praise brings us into...
00:35:12.11\00:35:13.58
And the word crowns, I mean,
Hebrew, it can means crowns,
00:35:13.61\00:35:16.75
but it can also
mean it surrounds us.
00:35:16.78\00:35:18.65
Yeah. Oh, nice.
00:35:18.68\00:35:20.05
So, we're surrounded with that.
00:35:20.08\00:35:22.75
And we're surrounded
with His loving kindness
00:35:22.78\00:35:25.22
and His grace and
His tender mercies.
00:35:25.25\00:35:27.82
I mean, how incredible.
00:35:27.86\00:35:29.49
Amen.
00:35:29.52\00:35:30.86
Yeah, because praise
brings us into His presence
00:35:30.89\00:35:34.06
and when you're in His presence,
00:35:34.10\00:35:36.40
you're surrounded with that.
00:35:36.43\00:35:38.30
How can that not
change any circumstances
00:35:38.33\00:35:41.20
that you're
standing in that moment?
00:35:41.24\00:35:43.04
Praise in...
00:35:43.07\00:35:44.47
Psalm 22:3.
00:35:44.51\00:35:46.41
Yeah, let's turn there.
00:35:46.44\00:35:47.78
Let's jump over
there. Thank you.
00:35:47.81\00:35:49.14
Psalm 22:3.
00:35:49.18\00:35:50.68
That is...
00:35:50.71\00:35:52.05
It's such a beautiful.
00:35:52.08\00:35:53.42
And I'm gonna have to read it
from the Old King James Version
00:35:53.45\00:35:56.62
because I don't think it
reads quite the same here.
00:35:56.65\00:35:58.65
Psalms 23?
00:35:58.69\00:36:00.02
It's Psalm 22:3.
00:36:00.06\00:36:03.76
It says in the New King James,
00:36:03.79\00:36:06.86
"You are holy,
00:36:06.90\00:36:08.56
Enthroned in the
praises of Israel."
00:36:08.60\00:36:13.10
How the Old King James says,
00:36:13.13\00:36:15.00
and it is closer to the Hebrew.
00:36:15.04\00:36:18.91
It says, "Thou art holy,
O thou that inhabitest..."
00:36:18.94\00:36:24.61
Yes, that's right.
00:36:24.65\00:36:25.98
"Thou who inhabits
the praises of Israel."
00:36:26.01\00:36:31.09
So the word for inhabits
00:36:31.12\00:36:33.25
is translated
twice as often as dwells.
00:36:33.29\00:36:36.52
Yes.
00:36:36.56\00:36:37.89
And you think of this,
that when you were saying,
00:36:37.93\00:36:41.00
it brings us into His presence.
00:36:41.03\00:36:43.30
I do believe that
00:36:43.33\00:36:45.33
this is a special way that we,
00:36:45.37\00:36:49.14
you know...
00:36:49.17\00:36:50.51
James 4:8, He
says, "Draw near to God,
00:36:50.54\00:36:53.24
He will draw near to you."
00:36:53.27\00:36:55.51
I think as we come before Him,
00:36:55.54\00:36:58.08
our attitudes are
changed so much by praise
00:36:58.11\00:37:01.08
that as we begin praising Him,
00:37:01.12\00:37:04.15
it's just kind of
like a magnetic field
00:37:04.19\00:37:06.96
that it's bringing
us into His presence.
00:37:06.99\00:37:10.89
And that's why, you know,
00:37:10.93\00:37:12.26
when you look at
the sanctuary model,
00:37:12.29\00:37:14.76
you entered His
gates with thanksgiving,
00:37:14.80\00:37:16.83
you enter His
courts with praise.
00:37:16.87\00:37:20.37
It is a way to enter
into the presence of God
00:37:20.40\00:37:24.01
and then you keep on going.
00:37:24.04\00:37:25.37
Yes.
00:37:25.41\00:37:26.74
But I believe it's beautiful.
00:37:26.78\00:37:28.11
Beautiful.
00:37:28.14\00:37:29.48
Have you ever prayed
to the Lord in your need?
00:37:29.51\00:37:33.21
And just started out with,
00:37:33.25\00:37:34.78
"Oh, Lord, things
are not going good
00:37:34.82\00:37:37.85
and I need,
00:37:37.89\00:37:39.22
and this is not right,
00:37:39.25\00:37:41.06
and, you know, a bound in me,
00:37:41.09\00:37:44.06
abide in me, help me,
00:37:44.09\00:37:46.16
blah, blah, blah, me, me, me
00:37:46.19\00:37:48.16
and got up from that prayer
and felt as empty as you did
00:37:48.20\00:37:51.43
when you went into it.
00:37:51.47\00:37:52.80
Yeah.
00:37:52.83\00:37:54.17
But when you go into
the prayer in praise,
00:37:54.20\00:37:57.01
Father, You know everything,
You know, every need I have,
00:37:57.04\00:38:00.74
You are my God,
You are my deliverer,
00:38:00.78\00:38:03.14
You are my Creator.
00:38:03.18\00:38:05.05
You know the end
from the beginning, Lord.
00:38:05.08\00:38:06.58
You do and then when you get up
00:38:06.61\00:38:07.95
from that prayer,
00:38:07.98\00:38:10.22
you feel like
00:38:10.25\00:38:11.59
what your needs
for is taken away.
00:38:11.62\00:38:13.76
It's all done.
00:38:13.79\00:38:15.16
Yeah. Absolutely.
00:38:15.19\00:38:16.52
Oh, yeah.
00:38:16.56\00:38:18.16
I thought maybe
I was the only one
00:38:18.19\00:38:19.53
who went through these before
00:38:19.56\00:38:21.33
with all that I wanted.
00:38:21.36\00:38:22.76
It is the power of praise. Yeah.
00:38:22.80\00:38:24.20
Absolutely. That
is, it changes us.
00:38:24.23\00:38:26.17
And God changes our
prayers through our praise
00:38:26.20\00:38:30.44
and as we grow.
00:38:30.47\00:38:33.41
I feel like God...
00:38:33.44\00:38:35.31
You know, I didn't
even become a Christian
00:38:35.34\00:38:37.38
till I was in my '40s.
00:38:37.41\00:38:39.75
So...
00:38:39.78\00:38:43.42
I think God brought me here
00:38:43.45\00:38:44.82
so that He could show me and...
00:38:44.85\00:38:47.86
I mean, here is when I have
00:38:47.89\00:38:50.93
really
understood God's sacrifice.
00:38:50.96\00:38:55.76
And it wasn't...
00:38:55.80\00:38:57.13
I mean, I can't stand to watch
00:38:57.17\00:39:00.14
visual of the cross.
00:39:00.17\00:39:02.84
I mean, just
seeing that physical,
00:39:02.87\00:39:04.77
I can't handle that.
00:39:04.81\00:39:06.14
And yet my heart knows now
00:39:06.17\00:39:10.01
that physical suffering
00:39:10.05\00:39:11.88
was not the worst for Him.
00:39:11.91\00:39:13.25
Amen.
00:39:13.28\00:39:14.62
When I really think
about what He suffered,
00:39:14.65\00:39:18.35
what He
surrendered and gave up for me,
00:39:18.39\00:39:21.72
the price He paid,
the sacrifice He made
00:39:21.76\00:39:24.33
that was so far
beyond the physical.
00:39:24.36\00:39:26.13
Amen.
00:39:26.16\00:39:28.26
I can't contain it and
that's where I understand
00:39:28.30\00:39:31.57
His great love for me.
00:39:31.60\00:39:33.94
So, I have learned
00:39:33.97\00:39:37.21
God's real character here
00:39:37.24\00:39:38.97
and it's taken many, many years.
00:39:39.01\00:39:41.44
I'm a fast learner in some areas
00:39:41.48\00:39:43.21
and I am a snail in others.
00:39:43.24\00:39:45.58
So it's taken Him this long
00:39:45.61\00:39:49.25
for me to really comprehend
00:39:49.28\00:39:51.52
the sacrifice that He made.
00:39:51.55\00:39:53.09
And so my heart
can't help but praise.
00:39:53.12\00:39:57.46
A lot of my prayer is praise
00:39:57.49\00:39:59.63
because He did save
me from destruction.
00:39:59.66\00:40:02.76
I don't forget his benefits
00:40:02.80\00:40:04.27
because my very life is His.
00:40:04.30\00:40:08.10
And it's so funny,
00:40:08.14\00:40:09.84
but to even talk
about praise and stuff,
00:40:09.87\00:40:11.54
it's hard for me not to cry,
00:40:11.57\00:40:14.04
because of what
He's done for me.
00:40:14.08\00:40:15.68
And when you focus on that,
00:40:15.71\00:40:18.21
you can't help but praise Him.
00:40:18.25\00:40:19.85
Amen.
00:40:19.88\00:40:21.22
And so most of
my prayer is praise
00:40:21.25\00:40:23.89
and benefits and Thanksgiving.
00:40:23.92\00:40:26.22
And sometimes it
worries me that He's taken
00:40:26.25\00:40:29.12
such good care of me now.
00:40:29.16\00:40:30.83
It's like, how come
I'm not struggling more?
00:40:30.86\00:40:33.96
It's like...
00:40:34.00\00:40:35.33
But He's so good to me
in His loving kindness.
00:40:35.36\00:40:37.27
Yes.
00:40:37.30\00:40:38.63
Because you're His daughter,
00:40:38.67\00:40:40.00
and because you
surrendered your life to Him
00:40:40.04\00:40:41.37
and you walk in His presence.
00:40:41.40\00:40:43.57
I mean, we know
that the rain falls
00:40:43.61\00:40:45.31
on the just and the unjust.
00:40:45.34\00:40:46.68
We know that
trials come to those
00:40:46.71\00:40:48.04
who walk with Jesus
and those who don't.
00:40:48.08\00:40:49.98
But when you walk with
Jesus in the midst of the storm
00:40:50.01\00:40:53.95
and in the midst of the trial,
00:40:53.98\00:40:55.48
it is vastly different than
when you walk apart from Him.
00:40:55.52\00:40:59.75
It doesn't mean that
you're not still having things
00:40:59.79\00:41:02.19
but you're almost shut in
as it were in His presence
00:41:02.22\00:41:06.09
and He's walking
beside you, you know.
00:41:06.13\00:41:07.86
So what a
difference to walk with Jesus.
00:41:07.90\00:41:11.57
And when you started
talking about prayer...
00:41:11.60\00:41:14.77
What it does to your
brain, I'm looking back
00:41:14.80\00:41:18.07
and thinking,
00:41:18.11\00:41:19.44
well, when I did
start praising more,
00:41:19.47\00:41:23.45
I can see that...
00:41:23.48\00:41:24.81
Because I used to
say, oh, please change me.
00:41:24.85\00:41:26.72
I want to be kind, I want
to be nice to people, you know.
00:41:26.75\00:41:29.72
I have this...
00:41:29.75\00:41:31.09
I have this temper, you know.
00:41:31.12\00:41:33.15
And so I was always like...
00:41:33.19\00:41:34.52
She is.
00:41:34.56\00:41:35.89
Well, I used to be
like, please change me.
00:41:35.92\00:41:37.86
But when I stopped
asking Him to please change me
00:41:37.89\00:41:40.50
and I started praising
Him for what He had done,
00:41:40.53\00:41:43.16
I can look back and see.
00:41:43.20\00:41:45.17
When I started understanding
and accepting His love
00:41:45.20\00:41:48.57
and that praise,
it changed your brain
00:41:48.60\00:41:51.31
and how you think and how you...
00:41:51.34\00:41:53.51
I want...
00:41:53.54\00:41:55.54
When He changes you like that,
00:41:55.58\00:41:57.68
you make a difference in
other people's lives instead
00:41:57.71\00:42:00.52
of making their life
harder, you make it better.
00:42:00.55\00:42:03.35
Ever we all walk
through our own deserts?
00:42:03.39\00:42:05.95
Oh, yeah.
00:42:05.99\00:42:07.32
In life? Absolutely.
00:42:07.36\00:42:08.69
I mean, we look
at the Israelites
00:42:08.72\00:42:10.06
and we wonder.
00:42:10.09\00:42:11.43
When you said that about,
00:42:11.46\00:42:12.79
they could have done this
and done that and done it,
00:42:12.83\00:42:14.70
also quickly.
00:42:14.73\00:42:16.06
If they would have just
praise the Lord the whole way
00:42:16.10\00:42:18.13
instead of their doubts
and, and not understand Him.
00:42:18.17\00:42:20.90
I'm thinking, man,
00:42:20.94\00:42:22.30
I've walked
through deserts in my life
00:42:22.34\00:42:24.74
that took a long time,
that could have been quick.
00:42:24.77\00:42:27.04
Had I've just
surrendered and praise the Lord
00:42:27.08\00:42:29.81
and let Him take over my life.
00:42:29.84\00:42:31.21
Amen.
00:42:31.25\00:42:32.71
Understood his
character and accept His love.
00:42:32.75\00:42:35.05
You can't
understand His character
00:42:35.08\00:42:36.58
if you don't know who He is.
00:42:36.62\00:42:37.95
That's right. That's right.
00:42:37.99\00:42:39.32
So you have to
have a relationship.
00:42:39.35\00:42:40.69
And that's why we
carry all that guilt
00:42:40.72\00:42:42.06
because we don't
understand who He is.
00:42:42.09\00:42:44.63
That's true.
00:42:44.66\00:42:45.99
Well, that sentence,
00:42:46.03\00:42:47.36
that He's
constantly reminding us
00:42:47.40\00:42:49.36
that we are unworthy
and we do not deserve,
00:42:49.40\00:42:51.37
which we do not.
00:42:51.40\00:42:52.73
But God is here to
remind us that He's covered us.
00:42:52.77\00:42:56.30
And we all have a story.
00:42:56.34\00:42:57.81
You know, He has redeemed
our lives from destruction.
00:42:57.84\00:43:01.78
That line is really beautiful
00:43:01.81\00:43:03.88
because we all
have our own testimony,
00:43:03.91\00:43:07.35
as to how He has
redeemed us from whatever...
00:43:07.38\00:43:11.75
Even if you never...
00:43:11.79\00:43:13.12
Even if you
never left the church
00:43:13.15\00:43:14.96
or whatever,
00:43:14.99\00:43:16.32
He's still brought us
00:43:16.36\00:43:18.09
into a closer walk with Him.
00:43:18.13\00:43:21.33
He's redeemed our
lives from destruction.
00:43:21.36\00:43:23.83
What is that song
that says, you know,
00:43:23.87\00:43:26.94
I was nothing
before you found me.
00:43:26.97\00:43:30.31
I will serve
the. I will serve the.
00:43:30.34\00:43:32.44
That was one of the
songs, my favorite song.
00:43:32.47\00:43:35.08
Beautiful. That song...
00:43:35.11\00:43:37.05
I remember one day I was...
00:43:37.08\00:43:40.55
Is this your story?
00:43:40.58\00:43:41.92
Oh, no, but... Oh,
we need to get to that.
00:43:41.95\00:43:44.12
Okay, we need to
get to the story.
00:43:44.15\00:43:46.29
But I was feeling a
little down in the mouth
00:43:46.32\00:43:51.26
and I was feeling,
00:43:51.29\00:43:52.63
I don't know what, but I...
00:43:52.66\00:43:54.10
That song came on.
00:43:54.13\00:43:56.56
And all of a sudden I thought,
00:43:56.60\00:43:59.43
Lord, I was
nothing before you film.
00:43:59.47\00:44:03.14
And you know,
it's so amazing to me.
00:44:03.17\00:44:06.47
And I think, you know,
and as far as the story,
00:44:06.51\00:44:08.88
we don't want to overdo this.
00:44:08.91\00:44:10.55
But the point is,
00:44:10.58\00:44:12.21
when God taught me to
press into His presence,
00:44:12.25\00:44:15.42
He took me, you know, kind of,
00:44:15.45\00:44:17.82
it's interesting
00:44:17.85\00:44:19.22
as I look back how it follows
00:44:19.25\00:44:22.82
the way you would
enter the sanctuary.
00:44:22.86\00:44:25.06
God's the one that taught me
00:44:25.09\00:44:26.59
to start with
Thanksgiving in prayer.
00:44:26.63\00:44:29.73
And then you know, I
went into the repentance
00:44:29.76\00:44:32.17
and then you go
into the intercession
00:44:32.20\00:44:34.10
and supplication and
get before him to listen.
00:44:34.14\00:44:37.07
But here's the point.
00:44:37.11\00:44:39.81
All my life before
I began praising God,
00:44:39.84\00:44:44.38
all of my life I
had performed for God.
00:44:44.41\00:44:49.08
It was transactional
rather than relational.
00:44:49.12\00:44:53.79
If I can just be good
enough, He's gonna love me.
00:44:53.82\00:44:57.79
But you know, I remember...
00:44:57.83\00:44:59.86
I'm sorry to say this.
00:44:59.89\00:45:01.46
But I remember in college,
you know, I was brought up...
00:45:01.50\00:45:05.93
I love Jesus,
00:45:05.97\00:45:07.57
but I was scared to
death with the Father.
00:45:07.60\00:45:10.74
And I thought He was
just ready to set me,
00:45:10.77\00:45:14.11
watching over me.
00:45:14.14\00:45:15.48
And I remember in college,
finally I just, I give up,
00:45:15.51\00:45:19.55
I cannot praise
you, and I walked away.
00:45:19.58\00:45:22.42
You're not good enough.
00:45:22.45\00:45:23.89
I can never be good enough.
00:45:23.92\00:45:25.39
I went through that same.
00:45:25.42\00:45:26.96
And you know what?
00:45:26.99\00:45:28.32
It's...
00:45:28.36\00:45:29.69
When you learn to
praise the Lord...
00:45:29.72\00:45:32.69
And I think
returning His word to Him...
00:45:32.73\00:45:35.40
That's right.
00:45:35.43\00:45:36.77
...really helps
00:45:36.80\00:45:38.13
and that really rewires
this whole brain up here.
00:45:38.17\00:45:40.54
But when you...
00:45:40.57\00:45:41.90
You know, even like,
00:45:41.94\00:45:43.27
I don't remember
reading Mark 12:30,
00:45:43.30\00:45:46.88
the greatest commandments
to loving with all my heart,
00:45:46.91\00:45:49.84
soul, mind, and strength.
00:45:49.88\00:45:51.88
Oh, Lord,
00:45:51.91\00:45:53.25
how can I
fulfill thy commandment?
00:45:53.28\00:45:55.75
You know, how can I?
00:45:55.78\00:45:58.12
But then I began
praying that because I know that
00:45:58.15\00:46:01.92
even His
commandments are promises.
00:46:01.96\00:46:03.29
That's right.
00:46:03.32\00:46:04.66
And I'm just saying, Lord,
00:46:04.69\00:46:06.03
thank You that you're
causing me to love You
00:46:06.06\00:46:07.40
with all my heart,
soul, mind, and strength.
00:46:07.43\00:46:09.86
Then He leads me
to Romans 5:5, that,
00:46:09.90\00:46:12.77
it's the Holy Spirit that
pours the love into your heart.
00:46:12.80\00:46:16.91
And all of a sudden I realized,
00:46:16.94\00:46:19.71
there's nothing that
I can do apart from Him.
00:46:19.74\00:46:23.35
That's right. That's right.
00:46:23.38\00:46:24.71
What you said, even
Sister White said that.
00:46:24.75\00:46:26.48
Lord, take my
heart, I can't give it.
00:46:26.51\00:46:27.85
That's right.
00:46:27.88\00:46:29.22
I cannot surrender
00:46:29.25\00:46:31.55
without His power.
00:46:31.59\00:46:34.19
But, you know, this is what...
00:46:34.22\00:46:36.39
If you start with praise
00:46:36.42\00:46:39.86
and you realize...
00:46:39.89\00:46:41.56
This is how I think the
whole plan of the salvation
00:46:41.60\00:46:45.30
gets laid out before us.
00:46:45.33\00:46:47.60
When we realize
00:46:47.64\00:46:50.54
the Creator of the universe,
the one that's recreating me,
00:46:50.57\00:46:53.98
the one that's delivered
my life from destruction,
00:46:54.01\00:46:57.78
the one who is
sanctifying me by His power,
00:46:57.81\00:47:01.65
you start realizing this.
00:47:01.68\00:47:04.35
And it's just you,
your heart overflows.
00:47:04.39\00:47:08.49
Yes. Yes.
00:47:08.52\00:47:10.26
Amen. Yes.
00:47:10.29\00:47:11.63
Let's look at another
scripture about praise.
00:47:11.66\00:47:13.03
Let's go to 1 Thessalonians 5.
00:47:13.06\00:47:15.56
Now this is one of
those scriptures, Shelley,
00:47:15.60\00:47:17.33
that you were just saying,
God, how can I even love you?
00:47:17.37\00:47:20.14
How can I do what
You've asked me to do?
00:47:20.17\00:47:22.14
Sometimes when I
read the Scripture, I say,
00:47:22.17\00:47:24.87
you mean I'm supposed
to praise all the time.
00:47:24.91\00:47:27.38
Now, how exactly is
that supposed to happen?
00:47:27.41\00:47:29.74
So let's look at
that, 1 Thessalonians...
00:47:29.78\00:47:31.31
Because it's in
your heart when you...
00:47:31.35\00:47:34.72
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18.
00:47:34.75\00:47:41.69
Someone has that?
00:47:41.72\00:47:43.89
"Rejoice always.
00:47:43.93\00:47:45.29
Pray without ceasing.
00:47:45.33\00:47:47.03
And everything give thanks for,
00:47:47.06\00:47:48.93
this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus for you."
00:47:48.96\00:47:52.97
That's the New King James. Yeah.
00:47:53.00\00:47:54.74
So how do we rejoice always?
00:47:54.77\00:47:59.37
It seems like a toll order,
00:47:59.41\00:48:00.74
you're just
gonna enjoy and always.
00:48:00.78\00:48:02.11
You can rejoice in your pain,
00:48:02.14\00:48:04.51
even during
00:48:04.55\00:48:06.58
David's passing,
00:48:06.61\00:48:12.42
and the funeral.
00:48:12.45\00:48:13.79
I would have told you
that I was completely fine,
00:48:13.82\00:48:16.73
but I was not.
00:48:16.76\00:48:18.09
Yeah.
00:48:18.13\00:48:19.46
But there was not...
00:48:19.49\00:48:21.10
I wasn't rejoicing.
00:48:21.13\00:48:22.83
I mean, you don't, you
don't physically rejoice
00:48:22.86\00:48:25.47
and be talking that
way but your heart...
00:48:25.50\00:48:30.44
I don't even know
how to explain it.
00:48:30.47\00:48:32.34
You can be hurting
and yet God's peace
00:48:32.37\00:48:35.44
and joy is still
within you somehow.
00:48:35.48\00:48:39.31
Your...
00:48:39.35\00:48:41.52
It's a part of you.
00:48:41.55\00:48:43.28
So I wasn't rejoicing
00:48:43.32\00:48:44.65
because I didn't
have Dave with me anymore.
00:48:44.69\00:48:47.09
But I was
rejoicing that I knew that
00:48:47.12\00:48:49.52
he had left in the Lord.
00:48:49.56\00:48:53.60
He was a man of God. I knew.
00:48:53.63\00:48:55.86
I know, God just
reassured me that,
00:48:55.90\00:48:58.40
God had surrendered.
00:48:58.43\00:48:59.77
I mean, David had surrendered.
00:48:59.80\00:49:01.30
And I know that I
had a peace about that.
00:49:01.34\00:49:05.04
And later on when you don't know
00:49:05.07\00:49:06.68
what you're gonna do,
what you're gonna do now?
00:49:06.71\00:49:09.41
It was always D
and Dave, Dave and D,
00:49:09.44\00:49:11.18
you know, I didn't, I was lost.
00:49:11.21\00:49:13.28
But there was...
00:49:13.31\00:49:14.78
Still there was a joy within me
00:49:14.82\00:49:18.15
that I knew that
God was gonna step up.
00:49:18.19\00:49:21.09
So even in your sorrow,
you can be outwardly sorrow.
00:49:21.12\00:49:24.93
But there's just
something in your heart that is,
00:49:24.96\00:49:28.30
I don't know if rejoice
is quite the right word.
00:49:28.33\00:49:30.37
But there's a peace
and a joy there somehow
00:49:30.40\00:49:32.67
that dwells
somewhere in the heart of you.
00:49:32.70\00:49:35.14
Yeah. Couldn't be that its hope?
00:49:35.17\00:49:37.41
Oh, that's good.
00:49:37.44\00:49:38.77
Hope. That's its hope.
00:49:38.81\00:49:40.14
Faith. Trust.
00:49:40.18\00:49:41.51
That it's not just this life.
00:49:41.54\00:49:44.85
Yes. But we have a future.
00:49:44.88\00:49:46.92
That's, that's
the only way for me
00:49:46.95\00:49:49.48
with all the
losses that I've had
00:49:49.52\00:49:51.32
over the years and stuff.
00:49:51.35\00:49:52.72
For me that's
what keeps me going,
00:49:52.75\00:49:55.66
really knowing that
this is not the end.
00:49:55.69\00:49:58.86
That this is just a
temporary separation
00:49:58.89\00:50:01.56
and my loved one is just resting
00:50:01.60\00:50:03.37
because each one of them,
00:50:03.40\00:50:04.87
I believe died in the Lord.
00:50:04.90\00:50:08.00
So, for me, they're
fine because they're resting.
00:50:08.04\00:50:12.64
I'm the one that's missing them.
00:50:12.67\00:50:14.21
But I have that hope. Yes.
00:50:14.24\00:50:16.54
And so with that
hope I can rejoice
00:50:16.58\00:50:20.22
because this is just
a temporary situation.
00:50:20.25\00:50:22.55
Amen.
00:50:22.58\00:50:23.92
But...
00:50:23.95\00:50:25.29
Okay, my father was
killed when I was six years old
00:50:25.32\00:50:28.26
and I'm not sure
he was in the Lord.
00:50:28.29\00:50:30.03
I know he had joined the church,
00:50:30.06\00:50:32.29
but at the time he
died, you know, who knows.
00:50:32.33\00:50:35.53
But he wasn't going to
church at the time he died.
00:50:35.56\00:50:38.03
Yet,
00:50:38.07\00:50:40.24
I can thank God particularly...
00:50:40.27\00:50:44.07
I remember, I didn't become
an Adventist to learn this.
00:50:44.11\00:50:47.01
God, I learned it
through studying in the Greek
00:50:47.04\00:50:49.68
and the Hebrew.
00:50:49.71\00:50:51.05
But when I learned the
truth of the state of the dead,
00:50:51.08\00:50:54.78
oh, what a
relief that was to me.
00:50:54.82\00:50:58.79
Because let's say
that my father chose
00:50:58.82\00:51:02.29
not to serve the Lord.
00:51:02.32\00:51:03.73
I don't know.
00:51:03.76\00:51:05.46
But if at six years...
00:51:05.49\00:51:08.73
I mean, if...
00:51:08.76\00:51:10.10
When he died, he
was only 30 years old.
00:51:10.13\00:51:12.93
Bless his heart.
00:51:12.97\00:51:14.34
If he wasn't serving the Lord,
at least I know that his end,
00:51:14.37\00:51:20.14
if he comes up in
the second resurrection,
00:51:20.18\00:51:22.64
he'll be annihilated.
00:51:22.68\00:51:24.01
And, you know, it says
we're gonna walk on this ashes.
00:51:24.05\00:51:26.61
So I find comfort in that
00:51:26.65\00:51:30.65
because the way I
was brought up was...
00:51:30.69\00:51:33.69
Colonel torturing you. Yeah.
00:51:33.72\00:51:35.06
And, boy, that used
to really bother me.
00:51:35.09\00:51:36.59
Let me just real
quickly say this.
00:51:36.62\00:51:38.93
You ask how can
we rejoice always...
00:51:38.96\00:51:40.63
Yes, and then
we'll go to prayer.
00:51:40.66\00:51:42.00
Okay, is there...
00:51:42.03\00:51:44.03
Possibly is it answered here?
00:51:44.07\00:51:45.93
I agree.
00:51:45.97\00:51:47.30
Is that, when He
says, pray without ceasing,
00:51:47.34\00:51:51.11
in everything give thanks.
00:51:51.14\00:51:53.98
I think a thankful heart,
00:51:54.01\00:51:56.64
no matter how bad things are,
00:51:56.68\00:51:59.61
a thankful heart...
00:51:59.65\00:52:01.98
When you start thanking God,
forgetting not all is benefits.
00:52:02.02\00:52:05.62
That's what lead you to rejoice.
00:52:05.65\00:52:07.09
Amen. Amen.
00:52:07.12\00:52:08.46
We want to spend a few moments
in prayer before we close.
00:52:08.49\00:52:10.56
We'll kind of go
around the circle
00:52:10.59\00:52:12.49
and give each one
of you an opportunity
00:52:12.53\00:52:14.20
to pray and praise
00:52:14.23\00:52:16.67
and thank the Lord
00:52:16.70\00:52:18.03
for what He's done in your life.
00:52:18.07\00:52:19.40
And we invite you at
home to pray with us.
00:52:19.43\00:52:22.90
You are part of the 3ABN family.
00:52:22.94\00:52:25.21
You know that here at
3ABN, we pray for you every day.
00:52:25.24\00:52:27.11
Every day.
00:52:27.14\00:52:28.48
We love you, and
that, most importantly,
00:52:28.51\00:52:31.75
the Lord Jesus
has surrounded you
00:52:31.78\00:52:34.75
with loving kindness.
00:52:34.78\00:52:36.12
So let's go to the Lord.
00:52:36.15\00:52:37.49
We'll start with
you, Yvonne. Sure.
00:52:37.52\00:52:38.92
And then after,
Melody, if you want to pray
00:52:38.95\00:52:40.66
and then I'll close.
00:52:40.69\00:52:42.49
Father God, we just
want to say thank You.
00:52:42.52\00:52:43.96
Yes.
00:52:43.99\00:52:45.33
We just want to praise You.
00:52:45.36\00:52:46.70
We just want to
acknowledge who You are,
00:52:46.73\00:52:48.86
and say that we
worship You Lord,
00:52:48.90\00:52:50.57
because there
is no one like You,
00:52:50.60\00:52:52.33
there is no other God but You.
00:52:52.37\00:52:54.70
We thank You
for all that You do,
00:52:54.74\00:52:56.50
all the benefits,
00:52:56.54\00:52:57.87
all the
blessings that You give us.
00:52:57.91\00:52:59.81
And we pray that we
will continue to seek You,
00:52:59.84\00:53:02.88
to seek Your face
more than Your hand, Lord.
00:53:02.91\00:53:05.85
We want to read Your
face and seek time with You.
00:53:05.88\00:53:09.08
Bless my sisters here.
00:53:09.12\00:53:10.45
Bless those who are watching
00:53:10.49\00:53:11.85
and worshiping
You with us right now.
00:53:11.89\00:53:14.76
We just pray, Lord,
00:53:14.79\00:53:16.12
that You will
continue to be with us.
00:53:16.16\00:53:17.49
Thank you, Lord.
00:53:17.53\00:53:18.86
Forgive us of our
sins and cleanse us
00:53:18.89\00:53:20.23
of all in righteousness
we pray in Jesus name, amen.
00:53:20.26\00:53:23.03
Amen.
00:53:23.06\00:53:24.97
Father God in heaven,
00:53:25.00\00:53:26.67
once again we
come to You, Father.
00:53:26.70\00:53:29.00
I just want to
praise You and thank You
00:53:29.04\00:53:31.31
for not only given me
a chance on this life,
00:53:31.34\00:53:34.88
but a chance in
the next life, Father.
00:53:34.91\00:53:36.44
Amen. To be new,
to be free of sin.
00:53:36.48\00:53:40.52
For all of us, Lord,
00:53:40.55\00:53:42.05
You sent Your Son
to die for even just me
00:53:42.08\00:53:44.82
and how powerful,
how powerful that is.
00:53:44.85\00:53:48.22
May I only reach up to you
when I need something, Father,
00:53:48.26\00:53:51.56
because you are my
Father, You are my Creator.
00:53:51.59\00:53:54.06
And I thank You for that,
in Jesus name I praise You,
00:53:54.10\00:53:57.10
amen.
00:53:57.13\00:53:59.03
Father God, I never
tire of thanking You,
00:53:59.07\00:54:03.00
that my God became a man.
00:54:03.04\00:54:06.07
And it's almost
impossible for me
00:54:06.11\00:54:08.74
to comprehend
00:54:08.78\00:54:12.55
the humility You took.
00:54:12.58\00:54:16.08
Because, Lord, in my mind now
00:54:16.12\00:54:18.25
I see that as even
a greater sacrifice
00:54:18.29\00:54:21.62
than Your death on the cross
00:54:21.66\00:54:23.09
because You took
that flesh back to heaven
00:54:23.12\00:54:25.96
with You and You are not
00:54:25.99\00:54:28.06
only the Son of
God but the Son of man.
00:54:28.10\00:54:31.37
Thank you, Lord, that You stand
00:54:31.40\00:54:33.94
at the right hand of the Father.
00:54:33.97\00:54:35.54
Thank You that You are
able to save to the uttermost
00:54:35.57\00:54:39.97
because, Lord,
00:54:40.01\00:54:41.91
You live to intercede for us.
00:54:41.94\00:54:45.71
Thank you, Father, that
You sent your Holy Spirit,
00:54:45.75\00:54:50.39
our other Comforter.
00:54:50.42\00:54:52.82
Thank you, Lord, for Your Word.
00:54:52.85\00:54:54.56
We're so grateful.
00:54:54.59\00:54:56.83
You deserve our adoration, Lord.
00:54:56.86\00:55:00.46
Yes.
00:55:00.50\00:55:01.83
We praise You
00:55:01.86\00:55:03.20
because You are
worthy in Jesus name.
00:55:03.23\00:55:06.43
Amen.
00:55:06.47\00:55:08.60
Father, I just thank You so much
00:55:08.64\00:55:11.57
that we can come to
You with our prayers.
00:55:11.61\00:55:14.74
Father, we just lift
You up and praise Your name.
00:55:14.78\00:55:17.58
I just encourage those out there
00:55:17.61\00:55:19.85
that are struggling
00:55:19.88\00:55:21.58
that You can teach them,
00:55:21.62\00:55:23.59
lead them to praise on the door
of their heart and their mind,
00:55:23.62\00:55:27.52
that they can see the
light of where they can walk,
00:55:27.56\00:55:31.19
that they can overcome,
00:55:31.23\00:55:33.13
be victorious of
depression and pain and agony.
00:55:33.16\00:55:37.50
All those things
that Satan pulls us down
00:55:37.53\00:55:40.80
with the chains
that he wraps around us.
00:55:40.84\00:55:43.84
Father, in praising You
help them grow their faith,
00:55:43.87\00:55:48.38
that in praise their
chains will be loosened
00:55:48.41\00:55:50.81
whether they are
physical or psychologically
00:55:50.85\00:55:54.38
or emotional, Father.
00:55:54.42\00:55:56.42
Praise. Well, loosen my chains.
00:55:56.45\00:55:58.25
Thank you, Father. Thank you.
00:55:58.29\00:55:59.82
Amen.
00:55:59.85\00:56:01.19
Thank you, God, that You love us
00:56:01.22\00:56:04.39
with an everlasting love
00:56:04.43\00:56:06.39
and You want to draw us
with those courts of love.
00:56:06.43\00:56:09.36
Yes.
00:56:09.40\00:56:10.73
Thank You for the
gift of salvation.
00:56:10.77\00:56:12.33
And because of
Jesus, we have hope, Father,
00:56:12.37\00:56:15.64
eager expectation of
spending eternity with You.
00:56:15.67\00:56:19.51
We thank You that You call
us as Your sons and daughters,
00:56:19.54\00:56:23.21
and that You call those
things that are not as though
00:56:23.24\00:56:25.48
they already were.
00:56:25.51\00:56:26.85
We thank You that in
You we are a new creation.
00:56:26.88\00:56:29.52
Amen.
00:56:29.55\00:56:30.89
That the old can be passed away
and the new can come for You.
00:56:30.92\00:56:32.92
Yeah.
00:56:32.95\00:56:34.29
We thank You that you send
00:56:34.32\00:56:35.66
four streams of
water, living water
00:56:35.69\00:56:38.26
in the desert of
our hearts and lives.
00:56:38.29\00:56:41.33
We thank You that
You want to transform us
00:56:41.36\00:56:43.60
by the power of Your spirit
and give us a heart of flesh,
00:56:43.63\00:56:47.27
not a heart of
stone, but a heart of flesh.
00:56:47.30\00:56:49.97
And so right now we
just give You praise
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for who You are,
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and for what You have done.
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Amen. And glory to You.
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And we ask all
this in the precious
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and holy name of Jesus, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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The Lord...
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Believe our time
has gone so quickly.
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Yvonne, thank you.
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And, Melody, Shelley and Dee,
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thank you all for coming
and sharing your experience,
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sharing from God's
Word, such a blessing.
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And we thank you at
home for joining us as well.
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You know that,
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God by the power
of His Holy Spirit
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wants to enable you
to praise every day.
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Every morning you can awaken
with the song on your lips.
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Bye-bye. Amen.
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