Hello and welcome
to: The Missing Peace...
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a program that's committed to
making your prayer life go, Wow!
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My name is Jason Bradley
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and our primary
host for this program is:
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Dr. Nadine Joseph-Collins.
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She is serious about prayer
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and has dedicated her
life to sharing the tools
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to improve our communication
with God through prayer.
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Dr. Nadine has been empowering
the prayer lives of others
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in the Caribbean,
Asia, Canada, the U.K.
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and right here in the USA.
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We are looking forward to
hearing what she has to say
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to take our prayer
lives to the next level
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but before she does that,
let's seek the Lord in prayer
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and invite His presence.
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"Dear Heavenly Father,
we always want to thank you
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and praise you
for the opportunity
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that you have
bestowed upon us to serve you.
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We ask that as we have
this conversation today
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that you would be
the Facilitator...
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that you would
guide our conversation,
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that you would help us
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to bring you all
the honor and the glory.
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We thank you and we praise you
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and we ask for the
outpouring of your Holy Spirit
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in Jesus' name we pray, amen. "
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"Amen. "
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So, Dr. Nadine... what are
we going to be discussing today?
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Our topic today is:
When God Has No Choice
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and that's really
when God has no choice
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but to say,
"Yes" to our prayers.
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Isn't that something that
everybody would like to know?
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Yeah, how does
He have no choice?
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But to say, "Yes" to our prayers
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I want to tell
you a story right,
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some time ago, I
attended a concert.
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Now, I am from the
Caribbean so, we love concerts.
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Growing up, it was
something that we did, like,
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every week, maybe
on a Saturday evening,
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maybe we would have a concert
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but I had not been
to a concert in a while
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because I've
been traveling so much
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and so, I went to this
concert and almost like,
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toward the beginning,
maybe the fourth person singing
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sang this song...
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and I saw people standing up
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and dancing and
singing along and so on
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and I was like, "Wow! Okay... "
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now toward the
end of the concert,
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I think, like the last song...
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I heard like, the
same track playing again
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and I'm like, "Okay,
somebody sang that song already"
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I wanted to see
the reaction of people
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because I thought,
"Okay, this was already sung
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maybe they would have
been a little calm and so on,
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well, to my
surprise, they were not.
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More people began jumping up
in the hallway of the church...
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in the front of the stage
and people began to sing along,
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it was more
exciting than the first time
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and I sat there
and I said to myself,
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"Wow! when Jesus says, 'yes'
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nobody can say 'no'
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it's really a popular
number among Christians... "
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and then, I thought to myself,
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"But how many
of us can truly say
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that when Jesus
says, 'yes' in our story
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not even the enemy or
nothing at all in life
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could actually say 'no' to
what God has said 'yes' to"
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and it brings us
to this topic of like,
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"When God has no choice
but to actually say 'yes. '"
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Now in another presentation,
we had discussed self
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as being the
greatest hindrance that we had
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in having our
prayers answered...
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really, as to...
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we'll answer the
question of why God says, "No"
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and we really see that
the problem is not with Him
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but the problem is with us
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because we are the
ones holding on to self,
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and so, we're
really building on the idea
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that God has no choice...
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when God has no
choice but to say, "Yes"
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is built on the fact
that self, of course, is dead
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because we have
already established
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that if we are
praying in self...
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we will always pray
against the will of God
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because the things of God
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and the things
of the natural man
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is always at war
with each other...
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Jason: Like oil and water.
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Nadine: Right... they don't mix.
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So, it brings us to a key
text for our discussion today
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which is in 1st John 5:14
to 15 where the Bible says,
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"This is the
confidence that we have in Him,
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that, if we ask any thing
according to His will... "
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His will...
Jason: That's the key...
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Nadine: That's the key...
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so, "if we ask anything
according to His will...
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He hears us... and if
we know that He hears us,
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whatsoever we ask,
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we know that we
have the petition
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that we desire of Him. "
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: So this is our key text
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and that sounds a
lot like "Yes" to me
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but the caveat is this,
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"We will get more
'yes' answers to our prayers
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when we are praying
in the will of God. "
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Jason: Absolutely.
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Nadine: You see,
because, we can only pray
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in the will of
God... when self is dead,
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when the Spirit of
God is now living in us,
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that is why a big
part of our prayer life
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after we've been
seeking "dying to self"
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or after we've
been dying to self...
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is really now,
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"Seeking what
that will of God is. "
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Jason: Hmmm...
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Nadine: So, the thing is that,
we also have no natural desires
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or inclinations or thirst
things for the things of God
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because we already know
that we are shapen in sin
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and in iniquity and so on
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and our natural tendencies are
of course, at enmity with God
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so, even the very desires
that we have, for example,
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to want to die to self...
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even the very
desires that we have
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to want to know
the will of God...
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to want to seek
that will of God...
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comes from God Himself,
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isn't that amazing?
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Jason: Hmmm...
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Nadine: So, wherever such
inclinations are... to Him...
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wherever we
have these desires...
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any of these things in us
are placed there by God Himself,
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because the Bible says,
"In us dwells no good thing"
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and that's why
we can understand...
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when we look at self-dying,
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as one of the platforms
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upon which our prayer
lives can actually grow...
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our prayer lives can be Wow!
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as we've been talking about
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is when we understand
Philippians 2:13 when it says,
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we can
conceptualize that when it says,
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"For God is the
One who works in us...
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both too will and to do... "
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: So, it now
makes sense for us now...
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so, God is the One working in me
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to will... and to do...
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because when self is dead...
God is the One living in me...
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He is the One
prompting me how to pray
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and then, God is
the One answering.
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Jason: Yeah, which is
amazing when you think about it
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because, we don't even
have to do the heavy lifting...
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God takes care of
that... God does all that...
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we just have to make the choice.
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Nadine: Yes, He
does all the work,
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and when I contemplate on
that, it's just amazing...
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that's love...
that's love at its finest...
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because He is the One implanting
in our hearts the desire...
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and then He gives us
the grace and strength
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to do what pleases Him.
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Jason: Yes.
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Nadine: So, He does
literally all the work
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and when we look at Jesus,
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He had His own perspective
of... like, He's saying,
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"Hey, this is how I look
at doing my father's will... "
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and in John 4:34
for example, He said,
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"My food... " said Jesus
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"is to do the will
of Him who sent Me,
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and to finish His work. "
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For Jesus, that was food...
doing the will of His Father...
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: You know
how we like our food
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and I know you like your food.
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Jason: I love my food.
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Nadine: So, could you
imagine, Jesus is saying,
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"My food... is to do the
will of Him who sent Me. "
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Jason: Wow!
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Nadine: So, just imagine
how much we feast on our meals,
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two meals a day,
three meals a day...
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desserts... snacks... so on...
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Jesus is saying,
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"You see, all of that stuff
that you guys like so much...
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how much... your
belly means so much to you"
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He is saying, "My
food... what pleases my mouth...
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what gives me my daily
bread, my three meals a day...
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my snacks... my
in-between meals,
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whatever the case may be,
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is to do the will
of Him who sent me. "
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Jason: Hmmm...
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Nadine: In John
8:29, it also says that
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Jesus looks at His will...
the will of His Father like this
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He said, "The One
who sent me is with me;
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He has not left me alone,
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for I always do
what pleases Him. "
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So, again, wanting to
fulfill the will of His Father,
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because when we do
what God wants us to do,
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or we do what is
in the will of God,
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we are pleasing God and
that's how Jesus looks at it
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and in John 5:30 He says,
"By myself, I can do nothing;
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I judge only as I hear,
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and my judgment is just,
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for I seek not to please myself
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but Him Who sent Me. "
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So, praying in the will of God
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is literally
praying in the Spirit of God
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because it's the Spirit of God
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living in us...
praying through us.
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Jason: Yeah, I mean,
it's amazing that Jesus said
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that He can't do
anything without the Father.
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So, then, why would
we as human beings...
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as mere mortals... think that
we can do things without God?
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We can't...
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we can't... nothing
good... without the Father.
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Nadine: And that's
why after dying to self,
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our prayers will
take a different flight...
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it takes a different direction,
things begin to change
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because our asking
would be different,
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because no
longer will we go to God
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asking for the things
that we want... in the flesh...
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or the things
that we see as needs...
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but now, we will be going to God
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asking Him, "Lord, what
do you want me to ask for?"
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What do you want
me to pray about?
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You know this
song, "What shall I do?"
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"Which step should I take?"
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"What move should I make?"
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That's the kind of way
our prayer life will go
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so, instead of us just
going and doing our thing...
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"Lord, what shall
I... what should I ask?
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Place in my heart Lord,
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what it is you
really want from me. "
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Because then, it
will change our request
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because there will
be more confidence,
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because when we go to
God and we know for sure
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that this is what
God wants us to ask for,
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when we go to Him, we
go to Him in confidence,
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we are not going to be
going there and, you know,
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praying... but
being very labor unsure...
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because now we
would have sought God
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and we know for sure,
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"This is what God
wants us to ask for
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so, now we're going to
pray with more confidence"
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our patience will be more secure
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because when we are
in the waiting period,
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we will be patient...
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we will be joyful...
we will be at peace...
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because we know for sure,
this is what God wants for me,
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I'm just going
through the process...
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Jason: Yeah. Nadine: You see...
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and our answers, of
course, will be more positive
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because we know,
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"Hey, this is
what God wants for me,
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this is what God
has placed in my heart,
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and as I wait for Him,
as I'm patient... waiting...
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I know, for sure,
my answer will come
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it's just a matter
of His timing of course,
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which is always perfect.
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Jason: Yes, not our
timing but His timing... yes.
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Nadine: So, we'll
have that confidence
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because we know that God led...
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we'll be patient because
we know that God promised it,
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we'll be... we will
wrestle more determinedly
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because we know, for
sure, we have already won,
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we are already victorious,
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that thing that we are
seeking is already provided
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and, of course, our
answers will be more positive
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because God Himself had
said, "Yes" to that thing
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and that's the direction
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we really want our
prayer lives to take.
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: And too
many times, I think,
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we focus on what we want.
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Jason: Yeah.
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Nadine: Instead of focusing
on what God wants for us.
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Jason: Yes.
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Nadine: And that is the
greatest point of frustration
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that we have
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but as we have
already identified,
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the problem is
really not with God,
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the problem is with us.
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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and that's an excellent
point because sometimes
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when we put our will
in the place of God's...
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we're, essentially,
blocking our blessings.
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I remember seeing on Facebook,
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there was a picture
of me or something...
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and there was a little
girl with this teddy bear
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that was
probably about yea big...
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this small...
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and there's a picture of Jesus
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and He was asking her
to give that teddy bear up
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but He had one
hand behind His back
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and in that hand...
there was a teddy bear
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that was probably about as tall
as I am... I'm 6 feet 1 inch
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there is probably a teddy bear
that's about as tall as I am
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that He was wanting to give her,
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so, see, God has the...
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sometimes we have
to let go of something
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but God has something so much
better in store for our lives
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which is why that faith...
that trust... that intimacy...
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has to come into play.
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Nadine: You see,
that the thing...
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it goes back to
the issue of self...
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we trust what we
have in our hand...
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that's the thing...
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we don't want to let go of it
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because we don't know
the unseen and the unknown,
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so now, had that
little girl given up that...
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because what she had in
her hand... she trusts...
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"I know what I have, Lord,
and I want to hold on to it,
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I trust it
because I can see it...
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but I don't know what
you have in store for me
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because I cannot see it... "
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and, therefore, we hold on
to what we think is good...
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because it's the only
point of reference that we have,
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but God knows our
end from our beginning.
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Jason: Absolutely.
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Nadine: He knows the
plans that He has for us...
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the Bible says...
they are great plans
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He has a great expected end.
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Paul says, "The things
that He has in store...
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we can't even begin to
imagine these things...
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because our minds
cannot conceive it,
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but yet, we hold
on to what we know
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because we feel safe in it,
we are in our comfort zone...
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we have a point of reference,
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but like that story or
that picture that you saw,
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what God has
that you cannot see...
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it's there behind His back
but really, it's just a picture
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but what He has in
store... that we cannot see
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because we can
only see one direction
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God knows what He has
behind the scenes for us
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Jason: Yeah, like Jeremiah 29:11
Nadine: That's my favorite text.
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Jason: It says, "For I
know the plans I have for you,
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declares the Lord,
plans to prosper you
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and not to harm you,
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plans to give you
hope and a future. "
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Nadine: "To give
you an expected end. "
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Jason: Hmmm...
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Nadine: And that expected end
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that God has in
store for us really...
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will never change...
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but it's just for us to be able
to align ourselves to His will.
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so we need to focus
less on what we want
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and try to focus
more on God's will for us
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because truly we
have already identified
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that we cannot even
trust ourselves to pray
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and so, that is why
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forces us to shift our focus...
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it is God
working in you to will...
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it's God working in you to do...
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so if the only prayers
that are guaranteed to be heard
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are the ones that we
pray "in the will of God... "
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Jason: Hmmm...
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Nadine: Wouldn't
it be to our benefit
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to spend time seeking that will.
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Jason: Absolutely.
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Nadine: It would
benefit us greatly
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if a great... or the
greater part of our prayers
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are really
seeking God for that way,
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"Lord, what do you want?"
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So that when God
reveals Himself...
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when God reveals His will,
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now, we are able
to pray for that thing
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but many times we
spend too much time
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praying and asking
Him for what we want...
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not recognizing
that we really need to be
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doing it another way...
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look at Philippians 2:13,
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God working in us
to will and to do...
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"So Lord, impress upon
my heart what I need...
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impress upon my
heart what you want for me
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because your plans for me
according to Jeremiah 29:11
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are great
plans... " Jason: Yeah.
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Nadine: "Your plans
for me are... are awesome,
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you have a great expected end
that I have no idea what that is
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what is it you want me to do?
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What is it you
want me to pray for?
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Where do you
want me to go to live?
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What school do
you want me to go to?
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What do you want me to study?
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What do you have
in store for me?"
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And now, you can begin to
pray and claim these things
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because God has
placed it in your heart.
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He is the One who has
revealed it to you and so on
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and so, before we
go asking for things
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we really need to
spend time seeking what...
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"what do you want...
" that kind of a thing
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and people generally ask,
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"But Nadine, how do you know
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what God's will is. "
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And I remember the
first time I came across
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that concept was, when
I was around 19 years old
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there was a book
in the ABC called:
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How to Know
God's Will in Your Life
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I think it was
written by Morris Venden,
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do you know that book?
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Jason: No, I
haven't seen that one.
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Nadine: So, it's an old
book but in the first chapter
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the author said,
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"To know God's
will in your life,
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you need to have
no will of your own. "
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And I thought to
myself, "How could I pray
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and not have a will of my own,
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how could I pray without
any direction in my prayer?"
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But I decided I
was going to try it
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so, that was around the
time when desktop computers
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were coming into the homes
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and so, I would use my
computer at work sometimes
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to do some personal jobs.
00:17:04.15\00:17:05.49
So, I decided, "Hey,
I'm going to get a computer"
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I'd gotten
accustomed to it on the job,
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I learned all of
the different Programs
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and I said, "Hey,
I'm going to get one. "
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So, I went to the
Bank... but before I went there
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I already told God,
"Hey, I'm going to try
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what this guy is
talking about in this book,
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I want to know
what Your will is,
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so, I really want the computer
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but if you don't
want the computer for me,
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I really don't
want the computer.
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So, whichever way it
goes, I will be fine,
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if I don't get the
loan, I'll be okay...
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if I get the
loan, I'll be happy. "
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So, I went in there...
I brought my job letter
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and everything that I needed
00:17:37.22\00:17:38.55
and the gentleman put
everything in the System
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and he looked at
me funny and said,
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"But you know it's strange,
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on paper, it
seems like you qualify
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but in the System
here, you don't. "
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So, then I said, "Okay... "
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I smiled and I said to
him, "That's fine, that's okay"
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and he looked at
me funny... he's like,
00:17:51.93\00:17:53.77
"No, I could speak
to my supervisor... "
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and I said, "No, it's
all right, it's all right,
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I don't think that's
God's will for me... "
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and he looked at
me a little funny...
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and I wished him a
good day and I left.
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When I got outside of
the bank, I was so happy
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because I was
like, "Yes, it works...
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so, this wasn't
God's will for me. "
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That's the first
time I tried it right,
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about a week or two later,
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a couple that I
would usually assist
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with typing up
documents for them and so on,
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came in the office...
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they wanted to find
out if I got my loan,
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I told them, "No... "
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they offered me... in fact...
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and did give me 50 percent
of the money that I needed
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for my computer.
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Jason: Wow!
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Nadine: So, that saved
me a lot of money, actually.
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Jason: So it wasn't...
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like, God wasn't
necessarily saying, "No... "
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He was just
saying, "Not right now. "
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Nadine: Or just,
"Not this way... "
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Jason: Yeah... exactly.
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Nadine: You see,
because, I was going for a loan
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but His will... He
had another way to do it.
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Jason: Yeah.
00:18:44.55\00:18:45.89
Nadine: Because, if
I had gotten the loan,
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I would have probably paid
about three times the amount
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by the time I was
finished with the loan,
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you understand,
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so, the thing about it
was that it was the first time
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and I actually got addicted
to the will of God after that
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because, after
that try, I was like,
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"Wow! hey I need to... "
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and I began to try it
more and practice it more
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and I just got addicted
to it because I realized,
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"Hey, there's no better place
to be than in the will of God"
00:19:04.14\00:19:07.04
there's no better prayer to pray
00:19:07.08\00:19:09.14
than the prayer
that you know for sure
00:19:09.18\00:19:10.51
that God is going to
answer. Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
00:19:10.55\00:19:12.15
Nadine: And so, really
we need to begin to focus
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on shifting our prayer lives
from telling God what we want
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to asking Him,
"What do you want for me?"
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It's crucial.
Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
00:19:19.45\00:19:20.79
Nadine: Because many persons are
frustrated in their prayer lives
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every time I travel
around, you go to churches...
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people are just limp and
weak because they're like,
00:19:26.39\00:19:28.76
"I'm tired of praying
and God doesn't hear me...
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He doesn't answer me... "
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and as we speak more, I
realize... and I would share
00:19:32.33\00:19:35.27
like I shared some
of my stories with them
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and, "Hey, the
problem is not with God,
00:19:37.97\00:19:40.54
the problem is really with us"
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because we go to Him
with our own agenda...
00:19:41.94\00:19:44.31
Jason: Yeah.
Nadine: We never ask him,
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"What's your item on our
agenda for today, Lord. "
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We just go with our own list
and we rattle it out to Him,
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not even asking Him,
"What do you want from me?"
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Knowing, of
course, Jeremiah 29:11
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has that "great expected end. "
00:19:57.53\00:19:59.96
Jason: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:00.00\00:20:01.60
Nadine: Because He knows
the big picture of our lives,
00:20:01.63\00:20:04.27
He knows our end
from our beginning...
00:20:04.30\00:20:06.37
we could trust that the
plans that He has for us
00:20:06.40\00:20:09.40
truly, at any
point in our lives,
00:20:09.44\00:20:11.24
are good plans,
00:20:11.27\00:20:12.61
even when we go
through bad experiences
00:20:12.64\00:20:14.88
because even the bad
things that we go through...
00:20:14.91\00:20:17.71
are instructive
things... Jason: Yes.
00:20:17.75\00:20:19.61
Nadine: Because God uses
whatever the enemy tries to use
00:20:19.68\00:20:22.42
to destroy us, He
uses it to instruct us.
00:20:22.45\00:20:25.95
Jason: Teach us a lesson.
00:20:26.02\00:20:27.36
Nadine: You see,
because even if we look at
00:20:27.39\00:20:29.16
the greatest ministers,
00:20:29.19\00:20:30.93
the greatest ministries,
00:20:30.96\00:20:32.59
they were
birthed out of situations
00:20:32.63\00:20:34.56
that were meant
to destroy people,
00:20:34.60\00:20:36.53
but because of the love of God,
00:20:36.56\00:20:38.47
He is using these
very experiences now
00:20:38.50\00:20:40.80
to draw others to Him
00:20:40.84\00:20:42.24
and so, that's
why we know for sure
00:20:42.30\00:20:44.57
He has... truly a
great expected end for us
00:20:44.61\00:20:47.34
so, apart from dying to
self, one of the other things
00:20:47.38\00:20:50.21
that will really make
anybody's prayer life go, "Wow!"
00:20:50.25\00:20:53.05
is, "Spending time
seeking the will of God"
00:20:53.08\00:20:55.88
and if we're not
spending time with Him,
00:20:55.92\00:20:58.55
we will never
know His will for us.
00:20:58.59\00:20:59.92
Jason: That's true.
00:20:59.95\00:21:01.29
Nadine: It will take
that intimate time...
00:21:01.32\00:21:02.66
it would take that deliberate
practice that we spoke about
00:21:02.69\00:21:05.53
you see, it will take us...
00:21:05.56\00:21:07.23
looking at the life of
Jesus as our primary example
00:21:07.26\00:21:10.57
and it will take us...
daily dying to self to recognize
00:21:10.60\00:21:13.84
"Hey, I really need to begin to
seek God's will for my life. "
00:21:13.87\00:21:17.67
Jason: Yes... yeah...
00:21:17.71\00:21:19.57
dying to self is
a daily struggle,
00:21:19.61\00:21:21.61
that's a second-by-second,
minute-by-minute,
00:21:21.64\00:21:24.38
hour-by-hour, daily struggle.
00:21:24.41\00:21:26.55
Nadine: Yeah, because
once we say, "Yes... "
00:21:26.61\00:21:29.48
in fact, once we die to self
00:21:29.55\00:21:32.72
or we align
ourselves with the will of God
00:21:32.75\00:21:35.72
all our prayers will be
answered in the affirmative,
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God will say, "Yes"
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because it will
not be us praying...
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first of all,
self would be dead...
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he is living in us,
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then we are
seeking His will for us
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and so, now when we go to Him,
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of course, He
will answer Himself.
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Now, one of the ways
that we can really test this,
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is when we are about
to pray... we can ask God,
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"Whose will am I
trying to establish here...
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my will or your will?"
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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and the thing is,
sometimes we have good desires,
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sometimes we want to do
good things in our lives
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but we have to realize,
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that not every good
thing is a God thing.
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Jason: Yes.
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Nadine: You see,
so, not every good thing
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that I desire is
God's will for me.
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: And that is a critical
point for us, as Christians,
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to recognize that we
may have good desires.
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I remember, when I
wanted to go to school
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all my friends were
going off to college
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and I was still working at home,
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I had a good desire
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but was it God's will and desire
for me at that point in my life?
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Jason: Hmmm...
hmmmm... hmmm... hmmm.
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Nadine: And so, there were
other good things that we want
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but it may not necessarily
be God's thing for us,
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that's why we need to
spend time seeking Him,
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yes,
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so, if we are
seeking, for example,
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to establish His will...
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then, we know for sure that
He's going to answer our prayers
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in the affirmative,
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we know for sure that
He is going to hear us
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and that's why I
like, Mark 11:24,
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it says, "I tell you, whatsoever
you ask for in prayer,
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believe you have received
it, and it will be yours. "
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Jason: Hmmm...
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Nadine: But that is
contingent upon the fact
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that we are praying
in His will. Jason: Yes.
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Nadine: So when we
are praying in His will,
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whatever we ask... of
course, we will receive it
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because we are not the ones
praying... self is not praying
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it's the Spirit
of God living in us
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prompting us to pray.
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: So, many times,
we don't know that will...
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we don't spend time
seeking Him for that will...
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and I just wanted to add here
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that praying the will of God
does not exempt us from trials.
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Jason: Yes.
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Nadine: Because when we
think about the story of Joseph,
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we saw that Joseph
had a dream, right?
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: God showed him
His end-plan for him...
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"Your brothers
will bow to you... "
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"Your father will
bow to you" and so on...
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I will... He would use
Joseph to do something great.
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Jason: Yeah.
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Nadine: But Joseph went
through some rough experiences
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during that time,
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does that mean that he
was not in the will of God?
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The answer is no... he
was in the will of God...
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the bad experiences were
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probably not part
of God's plan for him
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but because
these things happened,
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it did not prevent God
from fulfilling His end-plan
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that He had in
mind for Joseph...
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the will that He
had in mind for Joseph.
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: And so, when
Joseph was in the pit...
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when he was
forgotten in prison and so on,
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I'm sure, he
didn't think, "Hey... "
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maybe he was even wondering
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where he was
going with all of this
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but at the end of the day,
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it was not easy for him
going through these things,
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emotionally, we
could imagine how he felt,
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the hurt from his
brothers doing that to him...
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the loss of his father
being around and so on...
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so, being in the will of God
doesn't exempt us from trials
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it's just that when
we are in the will of God
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it gives us a
greater sense of peace
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because we know that
God is the One leading us,
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I remember in my own
personal life, in 2005,
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my friend and I were praying...
we were prayer partners
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and we usually would meet
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and we would write our
little notes down... to pray
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then, we would agree
on these things and pray
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but that time she
prayed and she asked God
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to show me my
husband by my birthday
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so, after we
prayed, I'm saying to her
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"But Debbie, we
didn't agree on this thing,
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we didn't even
discuss this thing,
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do you know where
I'll be for my birthday?"
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And I said, "I'll be in Canada"
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so, my mind was just
on the Caribbean and so on
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I wasn't thinking beyond that,
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and by May 2005,
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God did show me
who the person would be
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but we only got married, like,
what... 12 or 13 years later.
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Jason: And who was that person?
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Nadine:
Laughing... You're too funny...
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Jason: Who was that person?
Nadine: You know who he is...
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so the thing is...
look at how long it took...
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from 2005... we
got married in 2016...
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but God had already
revealed His will...
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I know you're like
that story, you know,
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but God had already revealed
His will... so long ago...
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so you could imagine all of
the hurt... disappointments...
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and different
emotions that were involved
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all of these years of waiting...
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then to actually see
the will of God fulfilled.
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So, being in the will of
God does not exempt you...
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it's not a walk in the park
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and I want to
share a few quick things,
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God's "No" for
us is not rejection,
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it's sometimes... redirection.
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Jason: Hmmm... say that again.
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Nadine: God's "No"
for us is not rejection,
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it's just redirection...
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because His "No" for one thing
is His "Yes" for something else.
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Jason: Yes.
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Nadine: You see,
because there are many people
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who would have asked
God... to marry this person
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God said, "No" to that
and then they got the person
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that they really
wanted to be married to...
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the person of their "dreams"
or whatever the case may be...
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His occasional "No" is not
punishment... it's preparation.
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: And I wish we
had time to unpack that
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but the thing is, sometimes
we are in rough situations,
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you know,
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on the job we
are given assignments
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that seem too much for us,
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until we get the
promotion and realize
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that the
experience was perfect...
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it wasn't punishment...
it was preparation...
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His "no" for us sometimes
are just like His "yes's"
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to bring glory to Himself...
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: When we look
at the story of Job...
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and we look at the
man who was born blind...
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in all of that... He said,
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"I'll get the
glory... it's for my glory"
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and then, God's occasional "No"
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sometimes is to take us on
an exciting journey with Him!
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Jason: Yes.
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Nadine: And we saw
that with Elijah...
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if God had killed Elijah in
the cave... as Elijah had asked,
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he would not have been taken up
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with that
excitement in that chariot
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so, I just want
to remind us that...
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you know,
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that we could ask
things according to God's will
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because whenever we ask
things according to His will,
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He will hear us
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and God will say,
"Yes" to our prayers
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when we say, "Yes" to His will.
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Jason: Amen...
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Nadine: So we
could say a prayer,
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"Abba Father, we
thank you for your love,
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we thank you for the
great plans that you have for us
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we thank you dear God
00:27:32.11\00:27:33.48
that you have a great expected
end for each of your children.
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Father, help us to be
willing to die to self
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and to align
ourselves in your will
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so that our prayer life can take
up different flight, we pray,
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in the name of Jesus, amen. "
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Jason: Amen.
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Thank you so much
for that information
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that you shared with us today,
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and we want to thank
you for joining us...
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we pray that you have been
blessed by today's program...
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join us next time
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as Dr. Nadine
brings that missing peace.
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