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The Blessing of Radical Faith | Better Together Episode 1167

May 19, 2026 | S8 E1167 | 50:59

What happens when faith leaves no room for a backup plan? When our circumstances seem uncertain, radical faith is activated by fully trusting God’s promises. Choosing to believe His truth produces courage and confidence in the One who never fails. | TBN Prayer Line: 714-731-1000

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Better Together | The Blessing of Radical Faith | Better Together Episode 1167 | May 19, 2026

Even the smallest amount of faith can lead to a blessing
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And spiritual growth.
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When we seek the heart of god, we learn that faith is the
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Currency of heaven.
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Come on, let's talk about it.
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So i want to talk today about this idea of radical faith.
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And when we think of radical faith, we think of something
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That is just beyond what we could even think or imagine.
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And i immediately was drawn to
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The story of the call of elisha.
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So, you know, the prophet elijah, he is running.
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He's fleeing from jezebel.
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He goes up to mount horeb.
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And, you know, he's talking to the lord, and he's basically
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Lamenting to the lord that he's the only prophet that's left.
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And god is like, you're really not.
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But he tells him, he says, god says to him, this is in first
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Kings 19, verse 16, he tells him to go and anoint elisha,
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Son of shaphat from able mehola to succeed you as prophet.
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So he gets this instruction from god.
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And then he goes and he finds elisha, and he finds elisha
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Plowing with 12 yoke of oxen.
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And he himself was driving the 12th pair.
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It says, elijah went up to him, threw his cloak around him.
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And elisha then left his oxen and ran after elijah.
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He says, let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then
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I will come with you.
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So elijah says, go ahead, go ahead and do that.
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So elijah goes, and he kisses his mother and his father, and
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He's like, all right, love y'all.
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Peace out.
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It says, then he took his yoke of oxen, slaughtered them,
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Burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat, and gave it
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To the people. and they ate.
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Then he set out to follow elijah and became his servant.
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Elijah literally burned every bridge he had to the past.
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He was like, all right, god is calling me to this place.
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I can't go back.
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And when i think about what radical faith is, i think it is
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A type of faith where you basically have no plan b.
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Yeah. it's the type of faith where it's like, i am all in.
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And that's also a type of faith.
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That is so scary for so many of us, because the question is, if
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This doesn't work out, what do i do?
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But we know that faith is not about if it doesn't work out.
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Faith is i'm following the god who does not fail.
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Right. in my case, i've had so many experiences where god
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Called me into something, into
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A place that i did not understand.
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And as a matter of fact, a year
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Ago i went into full-time ministry.
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I spent 20 years in executive leadership in corporate
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America, loved what i was doing, worked for a bunch of
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Different big companies, and the lord had been working on me
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Since probably 2021.
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He was like, i want you to go into full-time ministry.
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And i was like, that sounds great.
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But this paycheck,
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I like this paycheck.
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I like my stocks, i like the role i have, and god
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Orchestrated things to where i
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Basically had to make a decision.
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Like, i could not do both anymore.
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I could not do ministry and
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Leadership in corporate america.
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He was like, you have to pick, are you going to follow me or
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Are you going to stay tethered to these companies?
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Well, god is so funny because he set it up to where i kind of
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Didn't have a choice.
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Like he gave me a choice, but i kind of didn't have a choice.
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And so i decided to follow him.
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But to be honest, i didn't follow him because i trusted
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That everything would work out.
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I just followed him because i
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Didn't think i had a plan b. right.
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And what the lord did is because he knew my heart, he
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Knew that i wasn't totally in.
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He ended up stripping away like everything from me.
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I'm talking about like friendships.
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I'm talking about business opportunities.
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I'm talking about things that i thought i could count on.
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He ended up stripping them all away for me because he was
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Like, nona, what you've been calling faith in me has
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Actually been faith in you.
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Mhm. like, you've had faith in
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Your abilities, your connections.
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You have had faith in your
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Platform and your reach, he said,
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So i'm going to strip everything away.
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Forced faith.
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Literally, he was like, i'm gonna force your faith.
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And it reminded me of this story with elisha because it
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Was like, although elisha made the decision to burn the oxen
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And all that, god did it for me. yeah.
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He did it for me because he was like, i'm calling you to a
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Place that's going to require a level of faith that you've
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Never had to exercise before.
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But because of the assignment i've had on your life since
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Before you were formed in the womb, i have to do this.
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And so sometimes radical faith isn't even a choice.
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Sometimes radical faith is thrust upon you.
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And i go back to the so-called hall of faith in hebrews.
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And it's interesting because, you know, we're told about
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Moses and the faith that he had and noah and abraham
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And all these people.
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But in hebrews 11, verse 13, it
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Says something very fascinating.
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It says, all these people were
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Still living by faith when they died.
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Mhm.
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They did not receive the things promised.
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They only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.
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Wow. how amazing is it to have the type of faith where you
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Don't even get to see the manifestation of the promise,
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But you believe god enough to follow him anyway?
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Yeah. and i, i want us to talk about that today.
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That's huge. it's like, it is huge.
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The type of faith where you you're not even
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Going to see the thing.
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But you know what god said, so you're going to obey him and
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You're going to follow him and
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You're just going to trust the results.
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Have you ever had experiences like that?
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Do you know what that reminds me of?
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It reminds me of i read this book, and it was all on the
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Fascinating cathedrals that
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Have been built around the world.
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And there was one in france that's just stunning.
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And the story in it was of this guy who's a carpenter.
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He's doing the woodwork and way up on the top,
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He's carving this tiny bird.
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And it was perfect.
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And somebody said to him, why
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Are you spending time with that?
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Nobody's going to see that.
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And his thing was, god sees. yeah.
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You know, i think there's times when we're called by
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Faith to do something that god
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Is the only one that says, yeah.
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Yes. i see, i see that.
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Yeah.
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But the fact that that's included in the faith chapter,
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And that's credited to them as faith that they kept-- because
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So often we think, well, i believed
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For something that didn't happen.
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So what was wrong? right.
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What happened to my faith?
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I didn't have enough faith.
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But maybe having enough faith is just keeping your eyes fixed
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On jesus and keeping doing the thing he's told you to do,
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Whether you get the results you want or not.
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I'm going to be honest with you.
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When i read through the stories of the many people that are
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Named in the hall of faith, i am simply in awe of the fact
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That they followed god into a place that they frankly would
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Never even see the promise of, but they believed that god was
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Good, and they believed that god was faithful, even though
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They would not see the promise.
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And so i think that if we want to live that type of life, if
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We want to have radical faith, then we have to become the kind
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Of people that trust god, even though we may not see the
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Manifestation of what we're
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Trusting god for in our lifetime.
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It may be generational, it may be in our children, it may be
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In our neighbors.
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It may be in other people
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We may never meet.
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But we know that god is going to be faithful to the promise
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That he gave us.
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I love that, and i
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Think sometimes we see faith as a performance.
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And if we don't see the right results, that perhaps it's
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Because we're failing in faith.
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Um, and so oftentimes we are pressuring ourselves to have
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Greater faith, not because of a greater love for jesus, not
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Because of a greater trust in jesus, but because we so want
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That better result.
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We so want to see, um, our
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Agenda, personal agendas fulfilled.
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And i love that chapter
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Um, because, um, it says, you know, i mean, just to continue
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What you were reading, it says in verse 16, but they now
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Desire a better place, a heavenly one.
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Therefore god is not ashamed to be called their god, for he has
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Prepared a city for them.
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Yeah. um, and it says in 38,
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The world was not worthy of them.
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Yep. they wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in
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Caves and holes in the ground.
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Like to me, that is so humbling and holy that faith is not
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About just the results.
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It's about the father's heart.
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You know, it's like, what is the reward of faith?
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It's just the delight of god that he just, you know, that
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He's just values it.
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He values our faith, you know, and oftentimes we measure our
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Faith by what we get from it instead of the one who's
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Pleased from it. mhm.
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You know, but here it says the
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World was not worthy of these people.
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But it's so funny because i think oftentimes as christians,
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We love testimonies.
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I love testimonies.
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I prayed and then this happened. exactly.
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So many of our testimonies was it looks like
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I, i went to jesus and i didn't have this.
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Now i have this. yes.
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And that's usually the testimony that we give out.
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So oftentimes when we see people without the fruit that
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They've been contending for, without the results, without
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The breakthrough, it's easy to feel like, well, maybe you
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Should believe more.
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Yeah. you know, or what if they were to
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Believe to believe? yeah.
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What if the faith is for the lord along with the
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Victory that comes with it?
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It's just fascinating to me.
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As i was reading back through this, even this morning, i was
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Just like all of these people,
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So you get down to even verse 39 where it ends,
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These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them
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Received what had been promised since god had planned something
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Better for us, so that only together with us would they
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Be made perfect.
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I thought that was fascinating.
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It wasn't that this hall of fame of faith was because these
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People, they prayed and they
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Received and they did the thing.
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It was because they believed and they didn't receive.
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Right. that generations later.
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Yes. and they didn't receive because there was something
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That god was doing even greater. yeah.
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That actually was very convicting for me to be like,
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Man, is my faith
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Only to the extent that if i receive it, then i'm like,
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Okay, it worked? yeah.
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Or is it god, i didn't receive it,
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And yet i know you're working all things together?
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God, i didn't receive it.
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And i know that even what the evil, the enemy may have
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Meant for evil, god, you still mean for good.
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I may never see it. right?
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But i'm still going to follow you.
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Yes. that was so convicting.
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Many people pursue the hand of god.
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But i'm telling you, the
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Prosperity comes from his heart.
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If you want the fullness of god's blessing, go after
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The heart of god.
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And when you go after the heart of god, it always
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Comes with his hand.
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I mean, when you realize your your purpose here in the earth.
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Yeah. like i'm not here to bring glory to me.
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No. but i'm here to serve a higher purpose.
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It's like, god, i am here for you.
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So what is it that i need in the earth to fulfill my
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Assignment right now, right?
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I think about how mike and i have set up all of these
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Different policies for my grandkids.
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There are policies and money that they have spent
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That i'll never see.
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It's like, but why?
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I could take that money and spend it on myself and enjoy it
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And live up my life now, you know, do what i want to do.
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But it's like, again, going back to what you were talking
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About in the other show about building up this, this legacy
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For, you know, another generation. there are some
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Things that you will do or things that you will pray that
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You will never see, but the next generation will.
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Can we talk about the prayer?
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Because i think that's the part that we miss.
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Mhm. i want you to talk more about the prayers, because that
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Is an inheritance.
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You may not have stuff.
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The effectual fervent prayers of the righteous avail much.
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Can you talk more about that?
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I mean, even the bible talks about how our prayers in
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Revelation talks about it's like an aroma.
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They go up as vows before the lord.
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And so they're always living.
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They are always breathing.
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So when you think that, you know, what you have petitioned
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God for will never be manifested, it will.
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I think about my son.
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I know my son is called to pastor.
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I know that without a shadow of a doubt, whether he
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Knows that or not. he will.
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You know, but he sees it in other ways.
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But i've even settled to the point where god,
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If i don't see it in my lifetime, i know that's
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What he will do. yeah.
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And so my satisfaction comes out of knowing what i
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Have prayed and petitioned god about and what i know god has
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Shown me about what's
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On his life. i think that's prosperity.
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You know, that's when you can have the true peace of god,
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Regardless of what you see,
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Keep your eyes focused on what you have prayed and what you
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Have been shown by god.
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It's that for me.
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But yeah, i think if people really get into prayer,
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It's like, god, i've asked you.
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So regardless if i see it or not, and my life and my
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Testimony is not based upon somebody else's life and
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Testimony, that's when it becomes radical.
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When i even if i don't see it,
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I go to the grave still knowing.
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I'm going to go to the grave--
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It's going to happen.
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One of the hardest things, i think, is to keep praying and
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Keep believing when you haven't seen an answer to your prayer.
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One of my fondest memories from my childhood growing up in
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Scotland was this darling man in our church.
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Um, and every tuesday night i would go to our prayer meeting
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And angus would be there.
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And he prayed every single tuesday night for his wife.
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And he had become a christian after they got married.
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And she hadn't.
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And she was a lovely woman, but she just didn't see
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Any need for jesus.
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And i remember asking him once because he prayed week after
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Week after week, months, years for his wife.
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And i remember saying to him, angus, do you ever wonder why
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God hasn't answered your prayer yet?
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And he was quiet for a minute, and then he said, he's never
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Failed me yet, lass.
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I don't think he'll start now.
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But what i discovered is i went off to seminary, and when i
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Came back for christmas, angus had gone home to be with jesus,
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And it was at his memorial service that his wife
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Gave her life to jesus.
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And that helped me understand,
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A lifetime is not too long to pray.
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If you've been praying, keep going.
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Don't give up.
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Not one prayer has fallen to the floor.
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God hears them all.
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Some of us think that we do not have faith, and god has
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Given us faith.
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So your radical faith may be believing god for food.
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Your radical faith may be believing god for a husband
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Or wife or whatever.
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But let me tell you something.
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God will always take care of you.
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All you have to do is to seek him and he will take care of
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Your needs today.
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To join ours.
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Faith is not a one and done type of a thing.
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It truly requires cultivation.
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It requires nourishment and the way that i grow my faith and
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Nourish my faith is i'm very intentional about the time that
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I spend in the presence of the lord.
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There is a promise that's made in psalm 91, that he who dwells
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In the secret place of the most high shall abide under the
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Shadow of the almighty.
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And that requires actually kind of living and settling and
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Staying in the presence of god.
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I believe that if you can build that practice into your daily
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Rhythms, you will find that you experience the joy of the lord
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And the peace of the lord and the goodness of the lord, even
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In the midst of chaos and confusion and fear.
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But you have to make it an intentional practice of
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Dwelling in the presence of the most high.
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I saw that in my mom's life in a radical way when we were
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Talking about radical faith because, um, my dad, before his
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Brain injury, he had the most amazing voice.
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He, he was an incredible singer.
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In fact, when i was in new york a couple of years ago, um,
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Speaking, i think with doctor david jeremiah,
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This gentleman came up and said to me, i gave my life to christ
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In scotland one night listening to your father sing.
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Oh, my goodness.
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And it was like, i just wanted to follow this guy because
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I haven't, you know--
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Tell me more, tell me more.
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But i remember my mom telling me when i was not-- a few years
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Ago before she passed, that my dad felt there was a call on
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His life to ministry.
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And my mom wanted to be a teacher.
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She wanted to teach the word.
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But things happened in our family,
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You know, my father then died by suicide.
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My mom had to withdraw any thoughts of teaching.
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She had to take care of three
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Children under the age of seven.
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So she said that what she would do at night is the three of us--
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I have a brother and a sister, and we all responded
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Differently to our changed circumstances.
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My sister became kind of insular and my brother was too
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Little to really understand.
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I was the one that seemed to be the most damaged, if you like.
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I walked in my sleep till i was 18 years old, so she would come
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Upstairs at night and lay hands on me and say, lord, for this
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One, this least likely to succeed, i give her to you
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And i, and we pass on the blessing.
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Pass on the blessing of frank.
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I pass on the blessing you put on me.
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And it was amazing to me not so long ago, maybe a year before
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My mom passed, when she said to me, if you knew the way that in
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Your generation that god has answered the prayers that my
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Generation prayed for and
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Didn't get to see, but now we're--
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And i think i'm thinking of people out there right now, you
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Know, who are single moms or people who are living in very,
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You know, limited--
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I was brought up by a single mom on a very limited budget.
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And i lived a rich life.
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Yeah. because of her faith and
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Trust in god changed everything.
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I think one of the greatest things that you want as a mom
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Or as a dad is that you want your children to love jesus the
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Way that you do, or even more.
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I remember after my father's death, my mom prayed two
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Prayers that were very specific.
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She prayed them every day and i only found that out later,
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Later in life.
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But she prayed that she would see all three of us in our
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Desired profession,
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Whatever god, whoever door god had opened that should see each
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One of us established.
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But the other prayer was that you'd see each one of us come
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To in relationship with jesus.
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And that's one of the greatest
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Gifts that we can give our children.
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When christian was just-- i mean, he's, gosh, he's 29 now.
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I can hardly believe that.
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But when he was just a very wee baby every time, even when i
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Was folding his clothes in the laundry, i would tuck prayers
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Into his clothes, i would tuck prayers.
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And when i pulled his socks, i would tuck prayers in, god,
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Guard his feet where he goes
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When i would fold his little shirts,
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Lord, protect his heart.
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It's a beautiful thing to be able to live out your faith.
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But what i discovered with children is they're much more
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Convinced by how you live than by what you say.
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And when you live out your faith in a way that speaks to
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Them, that becomes infectious.
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Actually, when you talk about your mom, it reminds me of mine
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And my mom.
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She, um, came to faith, like probably in her like early 40s,
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Late 30s. wow.
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Um, when she became a believer, i mean, she became an
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Intercessor, you know, and, and, um, i remember once she
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Said, you know, i forgot i, i accepted christ when i was a
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Teenager and i'm like, what? you know, and she's like, but i
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Didn't know what i was doing, but i did it.
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And, you know, i didn't know what i was accepting,
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So she did walk into salvation later on.
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But what's interesting, so i asked her how and she went
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To the billy graham-- oh, wow.
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Rallies in korea. wow.
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And he would preach.
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And, um, i remember, and i'm probably paraphrasing
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Butchering this, but i remember there was a quote where billy
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Graham said, if like just a few percentage of the people that
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Came up to the altar actually did get saved,
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I would consider the successful. or something along those lines.
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My mom was one of those where she like went up, didn't really
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Like know what she was doing, and she just went up and just
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Was like, this is a good idea.
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And then she just-- and then her life just went back to
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What it was, right?
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Never went to church, didn't pray, didn't-- you know?
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Yeah. and i think when faith is all about us, it's not really
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The faith god is looking for. when it's not about believing
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That god will give me a, you know, three storey house or
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It's believing that god will get me new shoes.
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You know, it's like, um, but it's a generational thing, you
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Know, and it has to have eternity in mind, or else
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Hebrews 11, that hall of faith is it's technically about those
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That lost everything on earth
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But gained everything in eternity.
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And so we have to be believers that believe that jesus is
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Coming back, that he is coming
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Back, that there is an eternity.
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And you are choosing today where you're
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Spending your eternity.
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You know, and i think sometimes we get so caught up in trying
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To believe for the now and trying to build our houses here
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Now, trying to root ourselves here now, trying to create our
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White picket fence dreams
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Now, when actually god is
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Thinking about things eternally.
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And faith is an eternal concept.
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In order to develop a kingdom mindset in our faith, instead
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Of just focusing on the now, um, it's really important to
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Remind ourselves about eternity.
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I think one of the privileges that we don't realize that we
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Have, especially if you are a certain range of age, is you
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Get to constantly look forward.
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And we don't really think about what's beyond the end.
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We don't think about what happens after death and where
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Our souls were will eternally dwell.
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Right? and so i would say consider eternity.
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Just even take two minutes to think and imagine eternity and
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What that will feel like, what that will look like.
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And it will really instigate this desire for a kingdom
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Mindset instead of just limiting ourselves to the now.
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Many people think that faith is you trusting me, like you have
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Faith if you trust me.
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He's like, but i'm god whether you trust me or not.
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He said, faith is me being able to trust you, that when i speak
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You will obey. that is faith.
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And that's why when we look at all of these people in this
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Hall of faith, the thread that
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Ties them together is obedience. right.
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It's not that god was sovereign.
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God is sovereign regardless of
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Whether people trust him or not.
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But it's like obedience, even when you may not see the fruit
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Of what you're obeying god for, that is faith.
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Yeah. what would you say to anybody
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Watching right now who thinks,
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Okay, i want to have more faith? yes.
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You know, how do i grow my faith?
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I mean, to me, you start where you are.
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You start absolutely-- what can you pray?
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What can you believe for?
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I don't think it begins with great strength.
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It just-- no.
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It just begins, i think, with hunger.
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Yes. yeah.
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I'm hungry for the word of god.
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I'm hungry for something more than what i have.
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So i want to explain spiritual hunger, but i want to explain
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It in the context of physical hunger.
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So when we are hungry physically, there is quite
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Literally a physical sensation of yearning for food.
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We know that there is discomfort in our stomach.
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Our digestive system is unsettled.
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We may even start to experience headaches because maybe there
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Are issues with the amount of nutrients in our blood, and so
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We're not feeling very healthy.
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We will have physical symptoms.
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Well, when you hunger spiritually, you will have
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Spiritual symptoms as well.
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There will be a level of discontentment and discomfort.
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You maybe will feel unsettled.
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You may start to be more disposed to things like anxiety
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And restlessness and depression.
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When you have those symptoms similar to when you have
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Symptoms of physical hunger, you have to attend to them by
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Feeding on the word of god, resting in the goodness of god,
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Dwelling in the presence of god.
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That's how we satiate our spiritual hunger.
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So jesus says, the faith the size of a mustard seed--
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Well, you can't even see a mustard seed without a
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Magnifying glass hardly.
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And it's the tiniest seed, but it's alive.
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Yeah. and so jesus compares.
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So that's just, the kingdom of god is so, so what we don't
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Think. he takes the smallest, he takes the least, and he makes
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It the greatest, right?
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And can you imagine if we take that seed and we're like, this
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Isn't big enough and we don't sew it?
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Yeah, but a seed, no matter how
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Big or small, is designed to grow.
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And it's not confidence in ourselves. and the story about
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The guy who comes to jesus and he says, i believe, but just
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Help my unbelief.
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That was such an honest thing. very honest.
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I know god can change my circumstances.
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I know god can heal me.
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I know god can get me out of this mess.
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I know that god can provide for me right now what i need.
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I know he can do it.
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God help my unbelief.
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Yeah. my distrust, my holding
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Back of well, but what if he doesn't?
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Right. i think those can live together.
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Yeah, that just help my unbelief.
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Help what keeps me from going all in.
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I mean, because in you, you could be thinking one thing,
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But really in your heart, you really believe something
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Totally different.
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And i love to even throw a scripture out that you say,
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How do you grow in your faith?
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Well, romans 12 and 3, it says that god has dealt to
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Every man the, the measure of faith, which is a definite
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Article, meaning that god has given everyone the
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Same level of faith, right.
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And i think if people would really understand the
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Scripture, like an understanding what god has
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Already done, then we exercise that.
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And the more we exercise that, the more we grow in our
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Understanding of what's in us, you know?
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And that's where a lot of maybe misconception or teaching has
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Been that it's just about us,
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Like growing and getting more faith.
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It's like it's you don't really need more faith.
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You need more understanding. yes.
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Of what you do have.
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And the more you operate in
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That, it's the more you grow in it.
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It's like when you receive jesus christ, he placed
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Everything you ever need on the inside of you.
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It's like the moment you say, father, i receive you,
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It's like everything you ever need is in us already.
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It's not like we go back to the manufacturer and say, okay,
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Give me a little bit more of this.
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He's like, i gave you that.
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Yes. you know, what do you want?
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I gave you that.
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So now get in my word. yes.
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And grow in the understanding of what i have
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Already placed on the inside of you.
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I know, you know, scripture,
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Now faith cometh by hearing.
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Hearing by the word of god, right?
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But even if you do some kind of word study or hearing, you'll
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See that it also talks about understanding.
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So faith comes by understanding.
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And so it's like just understanding what faith is and
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What is it used for. yeah.
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There's several ways that one could activate their faith.
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I would say in the past few years, what's been really
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Helpful has been around a community of those with great
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Faith, because some things just
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Need to be caught and not taught.
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And when i'm around somebody that has great faith,
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Especially over things that i have weak faith in, oh my
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Goodness, it's contagious.
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Faith and fear both spread.
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They're both contagious.
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And so if you are around those with great fear, you two will
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Have greater fear.
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But if you're around those with greater faith, you two will
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Have greater faith.
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Years ago, we we were up in hollywood and matt had a dream
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That said, you'll move across
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From the hanna-barbera building.
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It's right there on the cahuenga pass, on the
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101 freeway in la.
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And sure enough, miracle after miracle, we live right across
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From hanna-barbera.
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Well, then a few years later, he's passing by the
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Hanna-barbera building studios, and he sees it's, they're taking
00:29:51.046 --> 00:29:55.918
The sign down off of it.
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And so he calls and says, you
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Know, someone get me information.
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What are they doing with hanna-barbera building?
00:30:00.289 --> 00:30:02.091
And he had another dream.
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It sounds like he dreams all the time, but when he does
00:30:05.027 --> 00:30:06.929
Dream, i listen.
00:30:06.929 --> 00:30:08.130
He's a visionary. wakes up and says, i've had a dream,
00:30:08.130 --> 00:30:10.366
I am all ears.
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You know, and something about 110,000ft.
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And he says, that's all i know.
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He said, i was in a building.
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All i know is it's 110,000ft.
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So i was like, okay, great.
00:30:23.679 --> 00:30:25.581
So a few weeks later, he's sitting in a lawyer's office
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And he leans over to one of the lawyers and he goes, hey, did
00:30:30.386 --> 00:30:32.788
You get any information on that building?
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He said, well, i called call and it looks like maybe
00:30:35.157 --> 00:30:37.293
Universal wants to sell that building.
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And he said the guy was going
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To check back with some information.
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He said, all i know is that it's 110,000ft.
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So my husband about passes out.
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He runs into the bathroom, calls me and he goes,
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It's 110,000 square feet!
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That's all he knows, you know?
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Well, that was a sign, you know,
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So go all in.
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And so we tried to get the
00:31:00.382 --> 00:31:02.918
Money together for the down payment.
00:31:02.918 --> 00:31:04.753
We remortgaged our home, everything that we had and we
00:31:04.753 --> 00:31:08.757
Put it down on that building.
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And the day it was supposed to go through,
00:31:12.127 --> 00:31:16.565
The main guy, matt calls and says, hey, uh, the bank's
00:31:16.565 --> 00:31:21.737
Calling, you know, where's your money?
00:31:21.737 --> 00:31:22.938
And he said, you know what?
00:31:22.938 --> 00:31:23.906
I just don't think i'm going to do that.
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Oh. not knowing that we had
00:31:25.774 --> 00:31:28.410
Personally put in everything we had.
00:31:28.410 --> 00:31:32.147
I'll never forget, we were in the, in the throes of trying to
00:31:32.147 --> 00:31:35.317
Get a movie out and matt and i were down in the sound booth
00:31:35.317 --> 00:31:39.021
Where they were doing the sound of this, of this movie.
00:31:39.021 --> 00:31:42.324
There's the papers to sign our money, everything that we had
00:31:42.324 --> 00:31:46.428
Our home, everything away.
00:31:46.428 --> 00:31:48.130
And i remember signing our names on, on the board, on the
00:31:48.130 --> 00:31:52.668
Sound board to just release all that money.
00:31:52.668 --> 00:31:56.205
And i was just messed up and i was like, man, i've been
00:31:56.205 --> 00:32:00.275
Raised in faith.
00:32:00.275 --> 00:32:01.276
You take big, great steps of
00:32:01.276 --> 00:32:02.811
Faith and you get what you need.
00:32:02.811 --> 00:32:05.547
You know, you get that because you stepped out in faith.
00:32:05.547 --> 00:32:08.817
And i'll never forget, forget i went home and i just, i was
00:32:08.817 --> 00:32:13.288
Wrecked and i was like going, i don't even know what faith is.
00:32:13.288 --> 00:32:16.725
Mhm. mhm.
00:32:16.725 --> 00:32:18.660
I don't even know what faith.
00:32:18.660 --> 00:32:19.795
If that wasn't great faith or the biggest step of
00:32:19.795 --> 00:32:23.632
Faith i've ever done,
00:32:23.632 --> 00:32:25.167
My husband and i have done together,
00:32:25.167 --> 00:32:27.302
I'm not sure. i don't know what faith is.
00:32:27.302 --> 00:32:30.039
And i sat down at my piano, and i just started playing and the
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:34.209
Song just rose.
00:32:34.209 --> 00:32:35.411
And it had words like, if you only knew what i had in
00:32:35.411 --> 00:32:37.579
Store for you.
00:32:37.579 --> 00:32:39.681
And these words just kind of poured out of my spirit.
00:32:39.681 --> 00:32:42.584
I was weeping on my piano and
00:32:42.584 --> 00:32:46.522
Just, god, you have to teach me.
00:32:46.522 --> 00:32:50.526
You have to teach me now, because i don't even know
00:32:50.526 --> 00:32:53.228
What faith is.
00:32:53.228 --> 00:32:54.430
And i need to go back to the beginning.
00:32:54.430 --> 00:32:57.933
Okay, so then you look back and go, thank god, i know we didn't
00:32:57.933 --> 00:33:02.805
Buy that building
00:33:02.805 --> 00:33:05.340
Because of all these different reasons.
00:33:05.340 --> 00:33:07.242
But the new owners called matt and said, hey, we hear that you
00:33:07.242 --> 00:33:12.614
Wanted to buy the building.
00:33:12.614 --> 00:33:13.649
Would you guys like to go in there?
00:33:13.649 --> 00:33:15.818
And so long story short, we end
00:33:15.818 --> 00:33:19.455
Up stewarding over that building.
00:33:19.455 --> 00:33:22.024
Wow. and so it wasn't necessarily ownership.
00:33:22.024 --> 00:33:25.727
Right. it was stewardship.
00:33:25.727 --> 00:33:27.663
Wow. which is still good.
00:33:27.663 --> 00:33:29.131
Which is like, which is-- maybe better.
00:33:29.131 --> 00:33:31.567
Yes.
00:33:31.567 --> 00:33:32.768
And so the whole reason for that is the stewardship of
00:33:32.768 --> 00:33:37.940
Something, the influence of
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Something without having to own it.
00:33:39.942 --> 00:33:42.845
And so we have to realize that, that these steps of faith
00:33:42.845 --> 00:33:48.150
Take us somewhere. yes.
00:33:48.150 --> 00:33:50.786
That we have no, i, i never knew i'd be back here.
00:33:50.786 --> 00:33:55.824
Yeah. doing anything here.
00:33:55.824 --> 00:33:58.160
That wasn't in the long scheme of things.
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:01.330
It was outside of tbn.
00:34:01.330 --> 00:34:04.266
God brought us back here
00:34:04.266 --> 00:34:06.268
And the things that he has done.
00:34:06.268 --> 00:34:08.537
So you never know because it doesn't belong to us anyway.
00:34:08.537 --> 00:34:12.341
When we give it to god, we give it with--
00:34:12.341 --> 00:34:16.678
What do we give him anyway?
00:34:16.678 --> 00:34:17.880
It all belongs to him, right?
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:19.181
So it's what happens on the inside of us, right?
00:34:19.181 --> 00:34:21.550
Yeah. through it all.
00:34:21.550 --> 00:34:22.751
And so that internal, the revelation that you get, the
00:34:22.751 --> 00:34:27.689
Prosperous soul that you get in, in growing in god and
00:34:27.689 --> 00:34:33.395
Maturing in god, and in knowing his faithfulness
00:34:33.395 --> 00:34:38.200
Even when we can't see what's in front of us,
00:34:38.200 --> 00:34:41.470
The faithfulness of god to take care of us, to do what god
00:34:41.470 --> 00:34:45.507
Wants to do on the inside of us.
00:34:45.507 --> 00:34:47.276
It's not what we do for him.
00:34:47.276 --> 00:34:48.477
It's what he does on the inside of us.
00:34:48.477 --> 00:34:50.212
Right? right.
00:34:50.212 --> 00:34:51.413
And so nothing is lost in the kingdom of god.
00:34:51.413 --> 00:34:54.950
And so sometimes i think people think that they have to have
00:34:54.950 --> 00:34:58.153
This radical faith to get anything done.
00:34:58.153 --> 00:35:00.489
No, you don't.
00:35:00.489 --> 00:35:01.890
You just have to have a mustard seed of faith.
00:35:01.890 --> 00:35:04.993
Put it into god's hands. yes.
00:35:04.993 --> 00:35:07.629
And it's a live seed.
00:35:07.629 --> 00:35:08.730
And then he grows it the way he wants
00:35:08.730 --> 00:35:11.867
To grow it.
00:35:11.867 --> 00:35:13.035
But see, that's what's great.
00:35:13.035 --> 00:35:13.936
I love that he chose a mustard seed.
00:35:13.936 --> 00:35:15.537
He could have said, if you've
00:35:15.537 --> 00:35:16.505
Got faith the size of a watermelon.
00:35:16.505 --> 00:35:18.273
Yes. you know, but he didn't.
00:35:18.273 --> 00:35:19.675
Yes.
00:35:19.675 --> 00:35:20.909
You know, it was like, you better come up with something
00:35:20.909 --> 00:35:22.077
Huge here, people, or nothing's happening.
00:35:22.077 --> 00:35:24.446
And i think that's showing the difference in power.
00:35:24.446 --> 00:35:27.416
The power is all of his.
00:35:27.416 --> 00:35:28.817
He speaks a word and it happens.
00:35:28.817 --> 00:35:30.752
All we have to do is whatever that little,
00:35:30.752 --> 00:35:33.088
Take that little seed and you plant it in god and he does
00:35:33.088 --> 00:35:37.926
Things that are so beyond.
00:35:37.926 --> 00:35:40.762
I love that the lord uses small beginnings.
00:35:40.762 --> 00:35:45.000
He takes this little seed, a little mustard seed of faith,
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.304
And he turns it into something amazing.
00:35:49.304 --> 00:35:51.807
I think a lot of times we think, well, i can't have big
00:35:51.807 --> 00:35:54.042
Miracles in my life because i just don't think i can
00:35:54.042 --> 00:35:57.512
Faith that big. you don't have to.
00:35:57.512 --> 00:36:01.149
You can just have a little bit.
00:36:01.149 --> 00:36:02.985
God grows your faith because, you know what?
00:36:02.985 --> 00:36:04.987
Your faith is in the seed of god's word.
00:36:04.987 --> 00:36:09.157
It's not anything that you do.
00:36:09.157 --> 00:36:10.792
It's what god does.
00:36:10.792 --> 00:36:12.361
And so my faith and my trust in him and walking in obedience,
00:36:12.361 --> 00:36:16.632
It just takes a tiny little bit of faith to get to get
00:36:16.632 --> 00:36:20.469
Something wonderful and great from god.
00:36:20.469 --> 00:36:26.808
If you are spiritually dry, just know that that dryness
00:36:30.379 --> 00:36:34.283
Doesn't necessarily mean you
00:36:34.283 --> 00:36:36.084
Lack faith or intimacy with god.
00:36:36.084 --> 00:36:38.920
I would say just continue to be faithful because that
00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:42.924
Experience of emotional highs and feeling this sensational
00:36:42.924 --> 00:36:48.096
Moment, all those can come and
00:36:48.096 --> 00:36:50.198
Go, but the truth remains the same.
00:36:50.198 --> 00:36:53.135
God is with you.
00:36:53.135 --> 00:36:55.103
And spiritual hunger doesn't always have to feel great.
00:36:55.103 --> 00:36:58.373
And so i would say, don't judge what you actually have, even if
00:36:58.373 --> 00:37:02.978
You want to want god.
00:37:02.978 --> 00:37:05.447
Don't judge that.
00:37:05.447 --> 00:37:06.748
Don't condemn that, but honor it by meeting its desire, which
00:37:06.748 --> 00:37:11.053
Is more of the lord.
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One of the greatest gifts that we have because of the death
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:33.276
And the resurrection of jesus christ, is that now we have
00:37:33.276 --> 00:37:36.512
This perfect high priest.
00:37:36.512 --> 00:37:38.414
You know, it used to be in the old testament that there was
00:37:38.414 --> 00:37:40.550
Such a ritual if you ever wanted to get close to god.
00:37:40.550 --> 00:37:43.553
I mean, so many things that had to be done.
00:37:43.553 --> 00:37:45.555
Now, because of jesus, we get
00:37:45.555 --> 00:37:47.657
To come right into the very presence.
00:37:47.657 --> 00:37:49.392
And jesus said, i don't call you servants anymore.
00:37:49.392 --> 00:37:52.562
You're my friends.
00:37:52.562 --> 00:37:53.730
We're family.
00:37:53.730 --> 00:37:54.630
We've been adopted into god's family.
00:37:54.630 --> 00:37:56.499
And because of that, you get to come and you get to present
00:37:56.499 --> 00:37:59.702
Yourself to the lord and ask from your heart, because he
00:37:59.702 --> 00:38:02.872
Knows your heart.
00:38:02.872 --> 00:38:04.507
One of the things i've learned to say to my son is that thank
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God for every closed door as much as you
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Thank god for every open door
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Because we were so sure he was supposed to get into one
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Particular school for his masters.
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And that door closed.
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And i remember that day.
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He was so disappointed.
00:38:21.991 --> 00:38:23.159
And i'm like, babe, the whole-- we're on this long haul.
00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:26.629
The reason we called him christian was because i bought
00:38:26.629 --> 00:38:28.865
Child's version of pilgrim's progress about how we're on
00:38:28.865 --> 00:38:31.434
This journey to the celestial city, and i said,
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You're going to fall down.
00:38:33.636 --> 00:38:34.737
You're going to get back up again.
00:38:34.737 --> 00:38:36.406
Things are going to not go the way you want them to go, and
00:38:36.406 --> 00:38:39.008
Then suddenly you're going to
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Discover what god was doing all along.
00:38:40.009 --> 00:38:41.911
Yeah.
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So i remember us that night saying, okay, let's sit down
00:38:43.146 --> 00:38:44.981
Right now and let's thank god that that door closed.
00:38:44.981 --> 00:38:47.183
Yes.
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And then the door that god opened afterwards was so
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Much better, so much.
00:38:51.187 --> 00:38:52.588
It's exceeding abundantly above all that we could think,
00:38:52.588 --> 00:38:56.292
So we just have to trust god even when we don't see.
00:38:56.292 --> 00:39:00.329
So all those people in the bible--
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Yeah. yeah.
00:39:02.498 --> 00:39:03.599
Those beautiful people that i can't wait to meet.
00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:05.768
Yeah. you know, those men of faith.
00:39:05.768 --> 00:39:07.770
That's what i want to be.
00:39:07.770 --> 00:39:08.671
I want to be a
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I'm going to go to my grave believing well,
00:39:09.872 --> 00:39:13.342
Full of faith
00:39:13.342 --> 00:39:15.044
In knowing that the generations that follow after are going to
00:39:15.044 --> 00:39:18.981
Be walking the same beautiful road,
00:39:18.981 --> 00:39:21.617
A road of faith and belief.
00:39:21.617 --> 00:39:24.120
I love the story of the oak tree.
00:39:24.120 --> 00:39:26.622
It's just the little nut that held its ground, you know?
00:39:26.622 --> 00:39:29.325
Yeah. just stayed in faith,
00:39:29.325 --> 00:39:30.893
You know, that grew the big
00:39:30.893 --> 00:39:32.228
Beautiful oak tree.
00:39:32.228 --> 00:39:34.096
Every victory you have in your life is powerful because the
00:39:34.096 --> 00:39:38.734
Next challenge that you may experience, if you can look
00:39:38.734 --> 00:39:43.005
Back over the past victory. if you can look back and say, wow,
00:39:43.005 --> 00:39:47.343
David looked and he said, look,
00:39:47.343 --> 00:39:49.278
I slew the lion and i slew the bear.
00:39:49.278 --> 00:39:52.014
So now this uncircumcised philistine, david was able to
00:39:52.014 --> 00:39:56.786
Go back and look at what god had already done in his life.
00:39:56.786 --> 00:40:00.823
So that's what you can do.
00:40:00.823 --> 00:40:02.558
You can have that same radical faith.
00:40:02.558 --> 00:40:04.927
If you don't forget about what god has previously done in your
00:40:04.927 --> 00:40:09.131
Life. just build upon what you have already been seeing taking
00:40:09.131 --> 00:40:13.636
Place in your life.
00:40:13.636 --> 00:40:14.670
And you too can have this radical faith.
00:40:14.670 --> 00:40:18.274
My heart was literally on fire as you were sharing your story,
00:40:18.274 --> 00:40:21.410
Because it's like the exact path that god took me through
00:40:21.410 --> 00:40:24.947
When he called me out of corporate into ministry.
00:40:24.947 --> 00:40:27.950
It was like when you were talking about sitting at the
00:40:27.950 --> 00:40:30.152
Piano like, god, i need you to retrain me, because i thought i
00:40:30.152 --> 00:40:34.790
Knew what faith was.
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But this doesn't add up.
00:40:36.225 --> 00:40:37.660
And in the middle of my own season of like, recalibrating
00:40:37.660 --> 00:40:42.865
Against faith, god told me to read psalm 25, and he had me
00:40:42.865 --> 00:40:46.969
Read psalm 25 every day for months
00:40:46.969 --> 00:40:50.339
Because, you know, in our
00:40:50.339 --> 00:40:51.774
Household, i'm essentially the breadwinner.
00:40:51.774 --> 00:40:53.609
My husband's in ministry,
00:40:53.609 --> 00:40:54.877
But, you know, we have a small church, so the church really
00:40:54.877 --> 00:40:56.579
Couldn't afford as much.
00:40:56.579 --> 00:40:57.613
And so i was like, lord, it's, it's all on me.
00:40:57.613 --> 00:41:01.717
And you just basically told me to leave everything?
00:41:01.717 --> 00:41:04.554
And the lord told me,
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Read psalm 25, which says,
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In you, lord my god, i put my trust.
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Yeah.
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I trust in you.
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Do not let me be put to shame.
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When i read that, and that's only two verses in, i burst
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:20.403
Into tears because i realized that my angst, my frustration
00:41:20.403 --> 00:41:25.541
Was because i was afraid of being humiliated.
00:41:25.541 --> 00:41:27.743
There you go.
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I was afraid of losing everything.
00:41:28.578 --> 00:41:30.212
I was afraid. um, you know, all these people look up to you, and
00:41:30.212 --> 00:41:33.683
They're like, wow, you really are doing it.
00:41:33.683 --> 00:41:34.951
And then i'm going to lose everything?
00:41:34.951 --> 00:41:37.119
I was afraid of being humiliated.
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:38.588
But then verse three,
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No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame.
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I love it. when i read that, you
00:41:45.595 --> 00:41:47.930
Talk about an infusion of faith.
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Then it doesn't matter. it doesn't.
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I realized the concern and the reason why god was retraining
00:41:54.971 --> 00:41:58.708
My faith is because my hope was misplaced.
00:41:58.708 --> 00:42:02.244
Yeah, there you go.
00:42:02.244 --> 00:42:03.479
My hope had been in what i could produce with my hands and
00:42:03.479 --> 00:42:07.350
God was like, listen, people have issues all the time with
00:42:07.350 --> 00:42:10.820
What they build, but when your hope is in me, i cannot and
00:42:10.820 --> 00:42:14.557
Will not fail you. you will not be put to shame.
00:42:14.557 --> 00:42:17.360
That whole season built a level of faith in me to where i think
00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:21.998
My husband is kind of scared now because i'm literally,
00:42:21.998 --> 00:42:25.001
I'm just like, if god says it, and i've kind of been that way,
00:42:25.001 --> 00:42:27.570
But i'm in a place where i'm
00:42:27.570 --> 00:42:28.471
Like, if god says it, that is it.
00:42:28.471 --> 00:42:30.439
Yeah. yeah.
00:42:30.439 --> 00:42:31.407
Buckle up, buddy. i, i said to god. i,
00:42:31.407 --> 00:42:33.843
I literally committed to the lord.
00:42:33.843 --> 00:42:35.311
I said, it's all yours.
00:42:35.311 --> 00:42:37.813
Like, like i said, if you want the house, take the house.
00:42:37.813 --> 00:42:39.815
I said, father, you can take every event on my calendar.
00:42:39.815 --> 00:42:42.718
I said, god, if you need me to, to go back to obscurity.
00:42:42.718 --> 00:42:45.421
I said, i'm fine with that.
00:42:45.421 --> 00:42:46.288
You can have my reputation, father.
00:42:46.288 --> 00:42:47.423
You can have my health.
00:42:47.423 --> 00:42:48.591
I said, whatever you want
00:42:48.591 --> 00:42:49.492
That's going to bring you glory.
00:42:49.492 --> 00:42:50.693
You can have.
00:42:50.693 --> 00:42:51.694
I was never in that position before.
00:42:51.694 --> 00:42:53.596
I thought i was. yeah.
00:42:53.596 --> 00:42:54.830
But when you realize the faithfulness of god, when you
00:42:54.830 --> 00:42:58.034
Literally cannot control anything
00:42:58.034 --> 00:42:59.502
And god is still faithful,
00:42:59.502 --> 00:43:00.970
How could you not have faith in a god like that?
00:43:00.970 --> 00:43:03.639
Yeah.
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I mean, i just love how everyone's stories,
00:43:04.640 --> 00:43:07.276
Um, your faith looked so messy-- yes.
00:43:07.276 --> 00:43:12.048
In that time, because i think
00:43:12.048 --> 00:43:13.649
We have this interpretation of faith.
00:43:13.649 --> 00:43:15.117
Like it's like this epic thing for epic christians and, and,
00:43:15.117 --> 00:43:20.656
Um, it gives you these epic stories and epic results.
00:43:20.656 --> 00:43:24.293
Um, but there's a cost to faith, and that cost is not everyone's
00:43:24.293 --> 00:43:28.464
Going to understand you.
00:43:28.464 --> 00:43:30.299
Um, and it's not going to make sense.
00:43:30.299 --> 00:43:33.369
And it doesn't really hold to human logic.
00:43:33.369 --> 00:43:37.573
Um, and yet there is a heavenly reward, right?
00:43:37.573 --> 00:43:42.411
And i remember, uh, before we started church planting, um, i
00:43:42.411 --> 00:43:46.449
Had this dream and i was, i was in my home and i heard a knock
00:43:46.449 --> 00:43:52.788
On the front door and it was
00:43:52.788 --> 00:43:55.057
Someone bringing like groceries.
00:43:55.057 --> 00:43:57.693
And in my dream, i'm like, thank you for the groceries.
00:43:57.693 --> 00:43:59.962
I really needed this.
00:43:59.962 --> 00:44:01.230
And then i closed the door and i look up and all around the
00:44:01.230 --> 00:44:05.000
Shelves around the house, there
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.470
Were old food, food left uneaten.
00:44:07.470 --> 00:44:11.974
And i had actually too much produce in the house.
00:44:11.974 --> 00:44:16.112
And i woke up and the immediate thing i felt was, um, kind of
00:44:16.112 --> 00:44:21.717
Like what you were saying before.
00:44:21.717 --> 00:44:22.952
Like, i have so many backup plans and there is no stakes
00:44:22.952 --> 00:44:28.090
Actually to the way i'm living.
00:44:28.090 --> 00:44:29.992
There's no stakes. like faith is high stakes.
00:44:29.992 --> 00:44:33.395
Right. right.
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And i'm like, i, i'm not--
00:44:34.830 --> 00:44:37.199
It's like, if this doesn't work out, i have this.
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:39.135
If this doesn't work out, then i have this.
00:44:39.135 --> 00:44:41.203
And i'm like, i wonder, do i
00:44:41.203 --> 00:44:42.938
Even need faith to live my life? yeah.
00:44:42.938 --> 00:44:45.674
And most people don't.
00:44:45.674 --> 00:44:47.376
I was not living by faith.
00:44:47.376 --> 00:44:48.944
I know that prayer.
00:44:48.944 --> 00:44:50.079
I was like, lord, give me real faith.
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:51.947
And then we started church planting.
00:44:51.947 --> 00:44:53.415
Yeah. and then, like, we lost everything.
00:44:53.415 --> 00:44:55.584
And it was just like a whole journey.
00:44:55.584 --> 00:44:57.219
And then that's when i knew,
00:44:57.219 --> 00:44:58.888
Okay, like, this is what it takes.
00:44:58.888 --> 00:45:01.891
It takes faith.
00:45:01.891 --> 00:45:03.225
Yeah. yeah.
00:45:03.225 --> 00:45:04.794
Where there's no plan b.
00:45:04.794 --> 00:45:06.028
Yeah, i love that.
00:45:06.028 --> 00:45:07.897
Spiritual hunger always leads us closer to god.
00:45:07.897 --> 00:45:12.535
Towards god,
00:45:12.535 --> 00:45:13.636
My hunger for something more of god.
00:45:13.636 --> 00:45:16.372
I think each and every one of us down deep in our souls,
00:45:16.372 --> 00:45:19.508
We want more of god in our life.
00:45:19.508 --> 00:45:22.044
So having that hunger inside the bible says, you draw near
00:45:22.044 --> 00:45:26.248
To me and i'll draw near to you.
00:45:26.248 --> 00:45:28.350
That is a promise of god that we can bank on.
00:45:28.350 --> 00:45:32.521
So keep that hunger.
00:45:32.521 --> 00:45:33.889
Stay hungry for the lord.
00:45:33.889 --> 00:45:36.358
You know, i was, i'm in the midst of planning a women's
00:45:36.358 --> 00:45:40.196
Conference and i am, um, like
00:45:40.196 --> 00:45:43.666
Two years out, very strategic in it.
00:45:43.666 --> 00:45:46.936
I love planning stuff.
00:45:46.936 --> 00:45:48.370
I love having everything organized.
00:45:48.370 --> 00:45:50.940
This year i had a meeting with my staff just not long ago, and
00:45:50.940 --> 00:45:55.945
We were talking and i said, this year i am the most
00:45:55.945 --> 00:46:00.482
Uncomfortable that i have ever been in ministry.
00:46:00.482 --> 00:46:03.853
Wow.
00:46:03.853 --> 00:46:05.120
It's like i've been in ministry now for almost 33 years and
00:46:05.120 --> 00:46:08.157
This year has thrown me way out there.
00:46:08.157 --> 00:46:11.460
And i'm saying, god, why?
00:46:11.460 --> 00:46:12.962
I mean, people that i wanted to bring, order and structure, that
00:46:12.962 --> 00:46:17.533
I wanted to create, it just-- and it wasn't because i
00:46:17.533 --> 00:46:20.870
Reached out to them and they couldn't come.
00:46:20.870 --> 00:46:23.806
It's like i think about it and
00:46:23.806 --> 00:46:25.741
I don't-- it's like, what is happening?
00:46:25.741 --> 00:46:28.544
And i was telling the staff and i said, i feel like i'm at a
00:46:28.544 --> 00:46:33.015
Place now where it's like, i just gotta put it all out there
00:46:33.015 --> 00:46:37.553
And say, god, i create space for you.
00:46:37.553 --> 00:46:39.822
Yes. whatever you want to do.
00:46:39.822 --> 00:46:42.024
I mean, i know the scripture, man will devise his plan,
00:46:42.024 --> 00:46:45.928
But god will order his steps, right?
00:46:45.928 --> 00:46:48.530
And so i'm like, god, just order my steps, whatever you
00:46:48.530 --> 00:46:51.400
Want to do, because i want people to have an encounter
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:54.036
With god, not in what i create. yes.
00:46:54.036 --> 00:46:57.039
And so i'm seeing that now.
00:46:57.039 --> 00:46:59.575
I believe that the body of christ at large is hearing
00:46:59.575 --> 00:47:04.980
The same thing. i totally agree.
00:47:04.980 --> 00:47:07.449
Totally agree.
00:47:07.449 --> 00:47:08.751
It's like, come on, let's make the main thing the main thing.
00:47:08.751 --> 00:47:11.720
It's not about the production.
00:47:11.720 --> 00:47:13.722
It's not about the creativity.
00:47:13.722 --> 00:47:15.891
It's not about, you know, the
00:47:15.891 --> 00:47:18.460
Status or whatever you have built.
00:47:18.460 --> 00:47:20.896
But let's really create this platform to be used to
00:47:20.896 --> 00:47:24.800
Glorify the father.
00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:27.369
And so it's, but it's a very uncomfortable place to be.
00:47:27.369 --> 00:47:32.708
I always wondered why when moses was getting the children
00:47:32.708 --> 00:47:35.811
Of israel out of egypt, and it was the final curse, you know,
00:47:35.811 --> 00:47:38.681
That the firstborn is going to die,
00:47:38.681 --> 00:47:40.182
Why did they put blood on the lintel on the
00:47:40.182 --> 00:47:43.552
Doorposts of a lamb?
00:47:43.552 --> 00:47:44.920
Why didn't they put a big x in the middle of the door?
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:47.556
I mean, that would seem more
00:47:47.556 --> 00:47:48.390
Obvious to me, until i understood
00:47:48.390 --> 00:47:50.192
400 years in egypt, they've adopted a lot of egyptian ways.
00:47:50.192 --> 00:47:54.129
And egyptians believed in an afterlife.
00:47:54.129 --> 00:47:56.365
But it all depended on your name.
00:47:56.365 --> 00:47:58.200
So they would carve their names on buildings.
00:47:58.200 --> 00:48:00.602
And even the children of israel had learned to put their name
00:48:00.602 --> 00:48:03.572
On the lintel above the door.
00:48:03.572 --> 00:48:06.075
And i think the great message was, your salvation will never
00:48:06.075 --> 00:48:08.844
Be in your name.
00:48:08.844 --> 00:48:09.878
It's going to be covered by the blood of jesus.
00:48:09.878 --> 00:48:11.981
And that's why. that's why you're saved,
00:48:11.981 --> 00:48:13.983
Because his blood, covers our name.
00:48:13.983 --> 00:48:17.353
And that's how we truly have
00:48:17.353 --> 00:48:19.521
Radical faith because of who he is.
00:48:19.521 --> 00:48:21.623
Absolutely. and that's the type of faith that creates
00:48:21.623 --> 00:48:24.226
Generational impact.
00:48:24.226 --> 00:48:25.861
It truly does.
00:48:25.861 --> 00:48:27.162
And my hope for everyone who's been watching this, number one,
00:48:27.162 --> 00:48:29.999
Is that their hope in the lord would be restored.
00:48:29.999 --> 00:48:34.103
We place our hope in so many things, but we're made a
00:48:34.103 --> 00:48:37.539
Promise that they that hope in
00:48:37.539 --> 00:48:39.108
The lord shall renew their strength.
00:48:39.108 --> 00:48:41.377
So when your faith starts to fade or circumstances start to
00:48:41.377 --> 00:48:45.514
Make you question, does god really hear me?
00:48:45.514 --> 00:48:47.249
It's the hope that we have in the lord and our willingness to
00:48:47.249 --> 00:48:50.085
Actually obey him when we don't understand, and when we may not
00:48:50.085 --> 00:48:53.655
Even see what we're hoping we're hoping in the lord for.
00:48:53.655 --> 00:48:57.393
So let's just pray.
00:48:57.393 --> 00:48:58.761
Let's pray for those who are watching.
00:48:58.761 --> 00:49:00.195
I pray for everyone watching this, god, that their faith
00:49:00.195 --> 00:49:03.699
Would be ignited through this conversation, and that they
00:49:03.699 --> 00:49:06.769
Would understand that even if they don't see the
00:49:06.769 --> 00:49:09.872
Manifestation of what they have prayed for, because you are
00:49:09.872 --> 00:49:13.042
Faithful to the prayers of the righteous, that they understand
00:49:13.042 --> 00:49:17.413
That they will still see generational impact.
00:49:17.413 --> 00:49:20.416
God, give us the peace that surpasses all understanding to
00:49:20.416 --> 00:49:23.585
Guard our hearts and our minds through christ jesus.
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In your name i pray, amen.
00:49:26.722 --> 00:49:28.690
Amen. amen.
00:49:28.690 --> 00:49:31.493
Connect with us on social media and let us know how our team
00:49:31.493 --> 00:49:34.363
Can pray for you.
00:49:34.363 --> 00:49:39.268
Okay. so, nona.
00:49:42.104 --> 00:49:43.272
Yes. christine sent us this message on instagram.
00:49:43.272 --> 00:49:46.975
Okay. so she asks, why is it so hard to trust god? whenever i
00:49:46.975 --> 00:49:51.880
Feel like i am trusting him, a harder or more painful
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:55.284
Situation comes.
00:49:55.284 --> 00:49:56.885
Oh, christine, this is real.
00:49:56.885 --> 00:49:58.454
This is really real.
00:49:58.454 --> 00:49:59.888
We have to discipline ourselves to begin chronicling
00:49:59.888 --> 00:50:02.357
The goodness of god.
00:50:02.357 --> 00:50:04.126
But philippians four and six, it tells us, be anxious for
00:50:04.126 --> 00:50:06.628
Nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
00:50:06.628 --> 00:50:09.565
Thanksgiving make your request to god.
00:50:09.565 --> 00:50:11.934
And the peace of god, which surpasses all understanding,
00:50:11.934 --> 00:50:14.036
Will guard your hearts and minds through christ jesus.
00:50:14.036 --> 00:50:16.138
What activates the peace of god is not just the prayer.
00:50:16.138 --> 00:50:19.508
It's the thanksgiving
00:50:19.508 --> 00:50:20.943
Because what thanksgiving does is it actually forces you to
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Remember god's goodness and his faithfulness.
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And so when the crazy things are happening and the chaos is
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Erupting and everything is falling apart, i now have an
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Inventory of god's goodness
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That i can reflect on and remember.
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And that's how the peace of god becomes real in my life.
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Amen. so thanks for asking these questions, y'all.
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Watch better together on the go.
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Download the free tbn+ app
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To stream all of your favorite conversations.
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The Blessing of Radical Faith | Better Together Episode 1167

May 19, 2026 | S8 E1167 | 50:59

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