Better Together

Walk in Confident Faith - Episode 1134

January 8, 2026 | S8 E1134 | 52:34

Jesus has all authority! Now He empowers us to walk in faith in all seasons. Our circumstances change, and feelings shift, but He never wavers. He is our refuge and our strength. Faith is not wishful thinking; it is a powerful choice! | TBN Prayer Line: 714-731-1000

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Better Together | Walk in Confident Faith - Episode 1134 | January 8, 2026

For we walk by faith and not by sight.
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When god calls us into the unknown, we must choose to
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Trust him and learn to walk in our authority in christ.
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Come on, let's talk about it.
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You know, i didn't grow up in a christian community.
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I would go to church just
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Because i wanted to go to the movies.
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My mom used to say, if you want to go to the movies, you had to
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Go to church.
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So i would go then, right?
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And i remember just growing up and just going, but never
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Really had a relationship with the word or with christ.
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I didn't know.
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I just kind of went through the motions.
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It was like, you know, you just check the box and say
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You did something good.
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You went to church.
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Yay for you.
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And i remember when i got saved, i was probably a year
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Before i got married and my husband was very involved in
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Ministry, had went to ministry school.
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His dad was a pastor, his
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Granddad and his great grandfather.
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So he's a fourth generational pastor,
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Right, and he would teach me faith.
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He would teach me about the word and telling me things that
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I had to learn.
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And i became so comfortable and confident in his faith.
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Hmm. not in my own.
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I was like, oh, he knows god.
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And so when he would pray for certain things and i would see
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It come to pass, i'd be like, oh, that's what i'm gonna do.
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I'm gonna start trusting his faith, never still building up
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My own faith and confidence in the word.
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And i remember one day, holy spirit begin to minister to me
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And to tell me that i needed to start believing him for myself.
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I had no idea what that was about.
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Didn't even know how it looked.
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And so i started to now, instead of going to my husband
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To ask him to pray for me or believe god with me about
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Something, i started to stand and trust him.
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I mean, even through my marriage, my children, ministry
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And everything.
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Never knew that one day i would have to stand and believe god
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For myself.
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And so i remember when maybe 15, 20 years almost now, i went
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To the doctor and they told me
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That i had rheumatoid arthritis.
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I would try to put on my shoes
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And my feet would swell up so bad.
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I mean, really bad.
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And i'm saying, what is this?
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What is this even come from?
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I mean, i'm too young to have arthritis in my mind.
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This is what i'm thinking.
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And he's like, no, you know, we can just give you some steroids
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And help you deal with the pain or give you whatever to help
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Manage it.
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But this is something that you will live with for the
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Rest of your life.
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And at this time, i'm saying, okay, wait.
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I've seen how confident my husband has been in believing
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God and seeing things manifest in our lives.
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And he has walked by faith.
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So let me start applying what i have seen him do
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So the same god of peace could be upon my life.
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And i started to believe god.
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I started to exercise, started to do things,
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Change things up in my life.
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And maybe about a year later, i went back to the doctor and it
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Was like, well, i don't see any signs, but this is still
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Something that's present in your body.
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Well, i'm like, okay, whatever.
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I don't care what they say.
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I'm going to trust this word.
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I'm going to believe god. yeah.
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The bible tells us like four separate times,
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The just shall live by faith, right?
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But i love the one over there, habakkuk 2:4, because
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It says, the just shall live by his faith and the small h.
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So now it's like i have to live by my faith and trust this
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Process, regardless of how things look.
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So for years i've never had any problem with my feet.
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My feet never swell.
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But let me tell you, so
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Maybe about a year or so ago,
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My hands and stuff started to hurt.
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I'm saying, okay, well, they said rheumatoid,
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It travels, but like 15 years later, what's going on here?
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So i said, okay, god, if i believed you, then i'm gonna
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Believe you now.
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So still just exercising and doing certain things.
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About a couple of weeks ago, three weeks ago, i go back to
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The doctor and i'm telling them, i said, please, can you
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Do this blood work again?
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Because i truly believe that i'm healed.
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Sure enough, i get the results back.
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And it says your rheumatoid arthritis markers are negative.
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Oh, wow.
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So i'm saying who wouldn't be
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Confident in their faith?
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This is something that we live by.
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We don't pick it up based upon the circumstances in our life.
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We don't pick it up as a spare tire or something that we say,
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Okay, let me just see if it works this time.
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No. every day we have to trust that the word of god works
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And is real.
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I don't care how bad things look.
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So regardless of how my fingers started to feel, i kept saying,
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Well, god no, i haven't had any signs of that.
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And so i believe that i'm healed.
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So now i'm going to have to get this test again to make sure
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There's nothing there.
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This is the first time i got a test and it said it's negative.
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You cannot convince me that the word of god isn't real.
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I think i've probably learned
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To take god at his word at the times
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When i have started maybe doubting god
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And then seeing god actually do
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What he said he was going to do.
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Maybe not the way i thought it
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Was supposed to be done or the way
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I thought it was going to happen, but then all of a
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Sudden, god does something that's beyond anything i
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Could have prayed for.
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And my most frequent appeal for forgiveness has been in times
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Of that saying, god, i am so sorry that i ever doubted you,
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That you walked me through this.
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And normally it's at the 12th hour.
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That's my 12th hour.
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It's not his. it's mine.
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My 12th hour,
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It's just like, oh, god.
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And then god does something.
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And then you just think, why did i ever doubt god?
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Why would i ever do that?
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I can take him at his word.
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And i think doing that
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A thousand times in my life, to the point where all i was doing
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Was asking forgiveness for my faithless, um, plight, that god
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Actually did what he said he was going to do.
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And, um, so that's my story.
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When we're talking about faith,
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I could talk to you all day about faith,
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All day about victories, all day about things that i have
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Seen happen in my life because i realized that i do not have
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To make things happen in my own ability, but i can trust that
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The faith of god, it works and it is a healer.
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It is a deliverer.
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I mean, it is our provider in everything that we do.
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And a lot of people think, well, i don't have the faith
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That she has.
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So how do i get that faith?
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Well, you got to read over there in romans.
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Romans 12, it says that he has dealt to every man thee
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Measure of faith.
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And you read in the king james, it's the.
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But every other translation is like a measure.
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Well, if it's a measure, then that means that we all can have
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A different level of faith, right?
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But he says, i've dealt to every man the measure of faith.
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So that's definitive.
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That's a definite article. that's like, no, i have the
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Same faith that amy has. the same faith that has produced
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Everything that you have in your life is the same faith
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That sheila can have to walk in
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Victory in every area of her life.
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And so for those that are even viewing today, if they're
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Sitting there saying, god, i would love to have
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Faith like that. you do.
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We just have to believe the word of god if you don't become
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One with what he has said in his word, you will never see
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The manifestation of god in your life, right?
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And i think it comes as a result of knowing
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Who you are in him.
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Yes. walking in that authority.
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Yes. you know, when we walk in that authority in which he has
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Given us, you know, it gives you a whole different mindset.
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It gives you a different attitude.
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You won't come in the room like, i'm okay.
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No, i am healed regardless of what the, you know, the world
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Says, regardless of the doctor's reports, i am healed,
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And i have seen it over and over again.
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I can tell you so many different testimonies that i've
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Seen in my own life where i know the word of god works.
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I mean, like, how many of you had, like, faith episodes in
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Your life where you could say, you can't even convince me that
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This word doesn't-- like you to be have gone through being a
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Widow and now married with
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Six babies, having a beautiful family.
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No one can convince you that this word doesn't work for you.
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And i love that you're saying.
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And you don't always see it, you know?
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You don't always see it right before you.
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It's crazy because this past month, my husband leads
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A widower ministry.
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It's the only one in the country.
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And we feel very called that.
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God's told us to do everything for free.
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And so with that, we had a huge
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Need that came up this last month.
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And literally my husband pulled me in the office, told me this
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Need, and he said, we're just going to thank god for already
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Providing the need because we are going to walk in faith.
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We're going to plan this because we know we've heard
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From god on this, and he's going to make a way, he's not
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Going to tell us to do this and not provide somehow.
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So all month we are, lord, we believe you can do it.
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But this need and this, the timing is really tight on this.
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And so three days ago, it's late, it's 11 p.m., i'm folding
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Laundry and i'm like, lord, we trust you.
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God, you have never let us down.
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And something my husband says often is, god still has us, you
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Know, because god can have you in one circumstance.
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But we got to believe that god still
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Has us in all of our circumstances.
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So i packed up my bags to come here, loaded in the car for the
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Airport, and i go out.
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My husband walks in and looks at me and says, you will never
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Believe what god just did.
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Somebody called from a church far, thousands and thousands of
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Miles away, and it was to the exact dollar,
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The exact dollar what we needed that god had impressed upon
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Their hearts for that need.
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And here we had just prayed like god, like a george mueller
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Moment of god.
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We're asking you to do this, believing you to do it.
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And i mean, my husband just has tears in eyes and he said,
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Glory to god because only god can do that stuff.
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Wow. and so you do have those moments.
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And my husband said he's like, if we had done this on our own,
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Then you would feel like, oh, we got this.
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But because jesus does it and we had to depend on him for it,
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He gets all the glory and he just increases our faith.
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If he can do that in your story, he can do it in
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Your story, then he can do it in any story.
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I love that.
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The bible says that through
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Christ we are more than conquerors.
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What that means is that gives you the picture of a warrior
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Who comes back from battle, and he's won the war, and he comes
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Home with all the spoils of war, and he gives it to his
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Wife and to his children.
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Who's more than a conqueror in that picture?
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It's not the conqueror.
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It is the wife and the children
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Who didn't have to go fight the battle.
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But they still won, and they still get the benefit of that.
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It's so important that we see ourselves in relationship with
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Christ as more than conquerors.
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He's already gone before us.
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He's already fought the battle, and he is already reigning.
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He's already ruling and reigning, and now you just need
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To get the receipt so that you can then live the life of
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Overcoming that he has promised you and he's paid for.
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Well, i've shared before on the show that i was diagnosed with
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Cancer for the second time in 2020.
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The second time was stage four.
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Not good at all.
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And throughout my body.
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So i had like a real decision to make about how i was going
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To move forward.
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And i had to make some very quick decisions.
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And i have now walked through this.
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We're in 2026 and hit that five year mark.
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You know where there's no reoccurrence and it's all the
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Bells and chimes and everything you can ring
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I've rung at the cancer treatment center and grateful
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For that, but i do still have treatment.
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I have immunotherapy every 21 days, and i take a hormone
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Suppressant every day.
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And so i will have that treatment, my doctor says,
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For the rest of my life.
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And people respond to that as
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If it's some kind of failure of faith.
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I even had people come to some of our board members at the
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Church and say, we're concerned because amy is talking about
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Going every 21 days, and isn't she still believing
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For complete healing?
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And, and i had to go back and say, okay, well, let's talk
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About what faith really is, because what takes more faith,
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For me to believe that god will instantly heal me,
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Which i do believe,
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Or to have the faith to walk out a healing--
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I love that.
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Where i'm there with cancer, patients all look much worse
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Than i do and always ask me, what are you doing here
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When my scans probably look a lot worse than theirs?
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And so i go, what takes more faith?
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Does it take faith to believe that god will be with me, walk
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With me through the valley of the shadow of death, and that i
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Have nothing to fear,
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That i trust him?
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That takes a lot of faith to walk it out.
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And of course, i have seen and i believe in instant miracles.
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But i also believe that the greater measure of faith is
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That god trusts me with his reputation, that i can walk
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Into a place filled with cancer patients and not look like i
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Have cancer, not talk like i have cancer, not act like not
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Feel like i have cancer.
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And often they will tell me i can't wait in the waiting room
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Because this is for sick people.
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That's happened to me multiple times because there's little
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Volunteers that work there.
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The elderly community.
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And so it's not the same people all the time.
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And i'll go, but i, i am getting treatment today.
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Um, because i, my declaration was, i'm going to walk through
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The valley of the shadow of death, and i'm not going
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To look sick. i'm not going to act sick.
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I'm not going to feel sick because i'm not sick.
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So it doesn't matter what a piece of paper says.
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You know, the same god that breathed breath in my lungs is
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Recreating me cell by cell, moment by moment.
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But i have the opportunity to testify of his faithfulness.
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Yes, but the people who ask you that, you should ask them,
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How many of you were eyeglasses? yeah.
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Because, i mean, you're believing god.
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They're believing god for healing, but they put them
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Eyeglasses on every day so they can see better.
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Yes.
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So what's wrong with a supplement?
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You know. that's--
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To see the manifestation of what you're believing god for.
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You didn't create the doctors.
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The doctors didn't create themselves.
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But there's a lie, really, in christendom, that real radical
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Faith looks like rejecting any help, any treatment and saying,
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I'm going to faith it.
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And i have seen people that i would say are are really
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Not living by faith.
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They're living in denial. absolutely.
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And they don't want to own what it is that that diagnosis is.
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And listen, i never say my and the c word ever because it
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Doesn't belong to me. it's not mine.
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I will say i was diagnosed with, but it puts it separate.
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Absolutely right.
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And because that really it's, i have authority over this, you
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Know, and my body believes what my mouth says.
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But i have recognized a lot of people,
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They think faith is a feeling.
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Yeah. they think it's like
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This supernatural feeling.
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Faith is a substance. right.
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So that means faith is tactile.
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It's tangible.
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There should be evidence of your faith.
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Then i'm going to do everything that supports a long life.
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Yeah. faith is not a feeling.
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Faith is a choice.
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Faith is something that we choose to walk by.
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I am going to walk by faith.
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I'm going to forget what i see because
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Sometimes my sight isn't very well.
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Sometimes i don't see the things i think that the lord
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Should be doing.
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And sometimes my timing isn't the way i think god
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Should be doing things.
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But he has a plan and he has a timing, and he sees our faith,
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And he will be faithful to what he's called us to do.
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I remember when i first started to think about what it meant to
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Walk by faith.
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I thought, i don't think i have enough faith to walk by faith
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Until i began to understand
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That it's actually not about me.
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It's about the more i get to know jesus, the more i
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Understand who he is,
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And that because he lives in me through his holy spirit, we
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Have authority in his name.
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You can ask for anything in jesus name and the father
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Will hear you.
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Faith without works is what? is dead.
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And we know all of this stuff, but yet we try to manufacture
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How it's supposed to happen.
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Our job is just to walk this thing out.
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It's just to live it wow.
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And that's the thing is, is to walk it out, not get stuck.
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Right. because i think a lot of times
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People claim something as faith,
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Whenever it is lack of action, it relieves me of duty
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And puts it all on god.
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And i don't have to do anything.
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And they call that faith.
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That's not really faith.
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Because he's finished his part.
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Well, peter stepped out of the boat.
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He had to take a step of faith.
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Faith takes action.
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And i think that's how i always go,
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Is this fear or faith speaking in my life?
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Because if it doesn't require anything of me, it's not faith.
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Because faith will require that i step out of this situation
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And into the eternal purpose of god.
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And i have sat with many, many, many cancer patients and talked
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About end of life.
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And i did this with my children.
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I made videos for all of the occasions where i may not be in
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Their future, because i always thought when someone close to
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Me died, i would love to know what they would think about
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What's happening right now in the world, or what they would
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Think about a grandchild or whatever.
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So i began to do that and people said, is that
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Lack of faith.
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And i said, no, because my faith is not in an outcome.
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It's in a holy, sovereign, almighty god that i'm going to
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Spend eternity with.
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So if i really believe that my last breath here means that the
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Next time i open my eyes, i'm in the the cloud of witnesses
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And i get to spend time with my the heroes that i have read
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About all my life, i get to talk to jesus,
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I have no fear of that.
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Zero. i'm excited about that.
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But i also don't bury my head in the sand and go, okay, i'm
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Going to live forever.
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I think there's a gift, even in the diagnosis
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I have to go, i
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Know that, you know, the bible says teach us
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To number our days.
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I know that i'm not going to live forever.
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None of us get out of this alive.
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And so i invest very intentionally.
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That's faith. yes, i agree.
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That's not doubt.
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That's i believe,
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But i've also seen around and behind the veil to know that
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This doesn't always work out in everybody.
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We still win.
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We win no matter what.
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We still win. okay.
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I don't live here?
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Okay. i still live forever.
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So we still win.
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And i think that takes the fear out of whatever we go through.
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Yes. fear is what keeps us bound.
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And, you know, living like we're desperate for
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Something to happen.
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It's like, no, i don't have any fear.
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Like, i'm just going to walk in this thing and believe god.
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Fear actually-- internal distress is what causes disease.
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And so fear,
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This is why we see so many cancer patients find out what
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They have and go downhill very quickly, because they've
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Already been eaten up with
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Something that is bothering them.
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We were talking about this in the break, how jesus said, man
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Does not live on bread alone, but on every word that
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Proceeds from the mouth of god.
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And i realized early on i'm not sick because i drank doctor
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Pepper or i had some fast food.
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I'm sick because i'm internally eating on something, a word
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That is causing me distress.
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And i've got to fix that.
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What word am i eating on?
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What word is eating on me and changing that, flipping that to
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Okay, i'm going to live by the word of god.
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This is this is what i'm going to hold on to.
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What did he say about me?
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If you think about faith, like if i was to sit down, you and i
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Just have a cup of tea.
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And i said, how would you define faith?
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You might struggle.
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You might think, well, to be honest, i was thinking of doing
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This, but honestly, i'm afraid of that.
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Fear is a very real thing in life
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Because in fear we're aware of our own, you know, limitations,
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And we're aware of the limitations in the world of
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What could happen.
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But do you know what i find great comfort in is if you
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Haven't read psalm 139 for a while, read it again because
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You know what it says?
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It says even before you were in your mother's womb, god knew
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Every single day of your life. it was planned out.
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I used to tell my son that when he was worried, when i'd be
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Flying off to africa or camping in the middle of the desert,
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And he'd be like, but, but,
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Mom, how do i know you'll be safe?
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And i said, you know, we can let fear take over.
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Are we going to let faith take over?
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Knowing that god is a perfect plan for my life, i choose to
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To choose faith.
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And the interesting thing about faith is the more you use it,
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Start with what you have, even if it's a little, little bit,
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But the more you use it, the bigger that faith muscle grows.
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I remember oprah winfrey saying this when she was sued by the
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Cattle industry and everything, and she said that battle was
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Won when i was accused by them of coming into the set and
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Purposefully trying to cause harm to their industry.
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And she said, when i was accused of that, something
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Clicked and i went, that is not me.
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I do not plot destruction against people.
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So that's not me.
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Once you realize who you are and what god's called you to.
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And once i knew the world is better with me in it--
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Yeah. so i'm going to do
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Everything that god requires of me.
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That meant for me selling my house on the beach and
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Saying yes to stepping back into pastoring.
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Even though i had a sweet little life, i realized
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I'm going to have a longer life living in--
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Even if it is more difficult in
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The natural, there's more provision.
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There's more grace, there's more spiritual energy.
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And what's so weird is, you know, i've been pastoring most
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Of my life, but in the position i'm in now, which is sort of
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The tip of the sword, you know, a lot of the weight falling us.
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It's the easiest job i've ever had in my life because it is
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The yes of heaven.
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It's-- i know that i-- who would bet on me?
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I'm a cancer patient.
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Only a church that walks by faith would believe in a leader
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That has a stage four cancer diagnosis.
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But we're all walking by faith and leaving more room for
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The holy spirit. yes.
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And i think that's what i've learned more than anything
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Is our the greater our dependance, the more
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Evidence of faith. yeah.
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I love that.
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So let me just ask you a couple questions.
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I'm thinking of somebody watching this right now and
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Listening to what you said,
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Dee dee is saying,
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Absolutely. listening to what you've said and said,
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Absolutely, i believe that.
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Where do i start to get that kind of faith?
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What would you say to somebody who's like, i want to believe
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God, but i don't come from a family of faith.
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I don't have a background of faith.
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I wouldn't even know where to start.
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Yeah, for me, i would say it's a decision.
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Just like they decided to trust whoever else is in their life,
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Not based upon anything they
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Have done for them, but just a choice.
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I had to start choosing to trust god.
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I didn't understand what that was.
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I didn't know how that looked other than what i saw in mike.
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I saw him believe god, say he was going to trust god.
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His words were in alignment and his actions were in alignment.
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He would read the word and he would confess the word, and he
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Would act on it like it was already done.
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So faith says to me that it's already done.
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So it puts me from a in a different place.
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So now i started acting like everything was all right.
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I mean, even when my feet would swell, i didn't lay there and
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Say, oh, my feet are not swollen because that's denial.
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My feet were swollen and they stayed swollen for some time,
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But i still would get up and say, no, i'm going to put my
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Shoes on and i'm going to go walking.
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And so i would act like everything was all right,
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Even when it wasn't.
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Didn't matter how i feel, because faith, like you just
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Said, is not a feeling.
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It's not based upon how we feel.
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I wake up sometimes now and say, am i saved?
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It has nothing to do with how i feel.
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I wake up mike still laying there.
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I'm like, do i love you today?
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You know, it's like, yeah.
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Love is not a feeling.
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It's a choice. it's a decision.
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I decide that i'm going to believe this.
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And so i took out if this works. now i put in
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Since this works. faith is not an if.
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For me, it's
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Since this works.
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My circumstances really began to shift when i chose faith
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Over my feelings.
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See, faith is not a feeling and our circumstances can create
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This storm around us that causes us to fear or
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To doubt even god.
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But in those moments, we cannot base what we choose to do with
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Our lives on what we feel.
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Because then, wherever the wind blows would direct our lives.
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And that's not how god steers us.
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He steers us with the anchor of his word.
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So it's so important that our faith is built on the solid
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Revelation of who he is.
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This is why, when peter had the revelation about who jesus was,
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Jesus said to him, upon this rock of revelation, i will
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Build my church.
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Later, peter denied christ three times and he felt like a
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Total failure.
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Went back to fishing.
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But when jesus found him again, he reinstated him in ministry.
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Why? because peter's qualification didn't rest
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On his qualifications.
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His qualifications rested on his revelation of jesus.
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It was always, always about who jesus was and all who he was.
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He made more room for jesus, and that was the rock that
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Jesus could count on.
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So even in our lives, i think it's so important for us to
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Remember that it always goes back to that unshakable
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Faith that's built on the rock of the revelation of who jesus
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Is in our lives.
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He will never let us down. even when we let ourselves down,
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He is the rock that can never be shaken.
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And so now, because i've had one faith episode, i just trust
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God now for everything else that i go through.
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But people try to use or operate in their faith
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When things are bad.
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And that's not a good time because all work-- if you go out
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Even in the natural,
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If i'm building a tower and it is raining, it is storming,
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The work ceases.
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They gotta rely on the foundation that they have
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Already built for that building to stand up during the storm.
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Right? and so now if i'm sick
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And i'm going through, i can't scramble.
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That's not the time to scramble and say-- because your mind is
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All over the place.
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So for me, it's just a decision.
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And having the word of god deep inside you. deep inside.
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I remember when evelyn husband, i don't know if you
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Remember her, but she was the one
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Her husband was a commander of the space shuttle that exploded
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On reentry, and she and her two children were standing there
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Watching the countdown.
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And she said it was so exciting.
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Matthew and laura, her children, are so excited
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Watching it, but when
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It got to zero and it suddenly started to climb back
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Up again, the people from nasa immediately came running out
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And she knew something was terribly wrong.
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And i remember having dinner with her after that and she
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Said, it's too late in those moments to try and find
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Something in here. she said,
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But when you have the word of god deep inside you, because
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She said, what came to her was psalm 23, even if i walk
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Through the valley of the shadow, for there to be a
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Shadow, there has to be light.
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So even here,
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So having the having the word
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To me, that's where our faith starts.
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Having the word of god as deep as the marrow in our bones.
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And that's where the mistakes start.
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I love that y'all are saying that because a lot of people
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Try to believe god or exercise their faith based on something
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God didn't promise them.
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Start with the promises in the word.
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What did god promise you? then believe for that,
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Because a lot of times people will just kind
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Of kooky say, you know, god wants me to have this,
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Or god wants me to have that.
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I'm like, did he really say that?
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Aligned with the word? yeah.
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Or is that just your flesh really loud, that wants
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That big mansion or that big diamond or whatever?
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Uh, i think starting with what is god want for me?
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He wants abundant life for me.
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God wants peace for me in my home and my children.
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Yeah.
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God wants to settle my boundaries in pleasant places,
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To know the word.
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Knowing the word is what's going to build your faith
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More than anything else
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Because you see then the faithfulness of god in
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Everything displayed around you.
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You cannot walk in the authority in which god has
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Given you without knowing his word.
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How? you don't even know his word, so you don't even
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Know the authority that he has given you.
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You don't know how he has empowered you.
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So what are you walking in?
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You're walking in your own strength and your own ability
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When you don't know the word.
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That's why the scripture tells us to study, to show ourselves
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Approved unto him.
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So you don't have to be ashamed.
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If you want to walk in something, you have to walk in
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His word, knowing his word.
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I also think people think because i live by faith and i
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Trust god that i'm not going to have encounters of sickness
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Or, you know, poverty or whatever, anything, mental
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Depression, that i'm not going to deal with those things.
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But the scripture is clear. over there in john 16:33 it says,
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Because we're in this world,
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We're going to have trials and tribulations.
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So we're thinking, oh, well, god put this on me.
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God didn't put this on you. because you're in this world,
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You're subject to some of the systems that are in this world,
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And you can encounter those things, but he's given us a way
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To have victory in it.
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I love i think one time we were talking about, you know, peter
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And how he stepped out on the water and you made a comment
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About how, you know, the storm didn't stop until they
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Got back on the boat.
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So even though it's a storm happening, you can still have
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Victory inside of a storm.
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What i love about peter is that jesus was asleep in the storm.
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Yes.
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So he wakes him up saying, what are you doing asleep?
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You know, don't you care?
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We're dying here.
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Jesus again says, o ye of
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Little faith. where's your faith?
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And i've been out here showing you the miracles that i do, and
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Trying to tell you about the kingdom of god, and that it's
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Inside of you, and that you
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Have it, and you can do all things.
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So where is your faith?
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But then peter starts learning to sleep in his storm.
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The last night of his his life,
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He's getting ready to face the trial of his life.
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And what is he doing in prison?
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He's sleeping.
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Wow. he is sleeping in the storm.
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And the angels come to him.
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And they have to wake him up because he's learned how to
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Sleep during his storms. yeah.
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The bible says that we walk by faith and not by sight, so
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That can kind of mess us up sometimes when we're wanting
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To see god move.
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We want it to see it done quickly.
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We wanted to see it done this way.
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And that's not the way. god has a plan.
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God chooses to do things in his timing and in his order and the
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Way he wants it done.
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So we just have to rest in that, because sometimes i don't
00:34:40.501 --> 00:34:44.739
Feel like faithing it anymore,
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And i just want to see it accomplished.
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And god knows that. god sees our heart.
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God knows our desires, but god will do things his way and
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It'll be greater than we ever imagined or dreamed of.
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When i think of faith also, i think of in matthew nine where
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It talks about this man was sick and that his friends took
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Him to jesus and they took off the roof and they put him down.
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And in matthew nine, it says, and when jesus saw their--
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Faith. it's not even his.
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Not even his.
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And so i think if you are struggling with your faith and
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You're struggling in those times, i have been that
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Man that was sick.
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I have been that person that was sick that could not believe
00:35:27.348 --> 00:35:30.751
For it myself, and i had friends that would speak it
00:35:30.751 --> 00:35:34.355
Over me, that they would say, brittany, you think that you
00:35:34.355 --> 00:35:36.791
Are going to be lonely and alone the rest of your life and
00:35:36.791 --> 00:35:39.560
That your ministry and your life is over as you know it,
00:35:39.560 --> 00:35:42.630
But god has something so much bigger ahead of you.
00:35:42.630 --> 00:35:45.399
And so they would speak that over me, and they would lower
00:35:45.399 --> 00:35:48.402
Me down and meet with jesus.
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And god saw their faith.
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And when i saw their faith, it encouraged me to have faith.
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And it's crazy because god uses every little bit of things
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In our lives.
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And so often, if we are in seasons where you're giving or
00:36:01.082 --> 00:36:03.517
Receiving, and that season just like that sick person, he was in
00:36:03.517 --> 00:36:07.588
A season where he was receiving someone, speaking faith,
00:36:07.588 --> 00:36:11.158
Receiving healing, all that. but you know what
00:36:11.158 --> 00:36:13.361
One day he got to do?
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He got to be the person that gave it.
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Yes.
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And so i'm on the other side now, sitting down with that
00:36:18.065 --> 00:36:20.167
Lonely, tired, young widow
00:36:20.167 --> 00:36:22.970
Saying, you're going to make it.
00:36:22.970 --> 00:36:24.171
Your best days are not behind you.
00:36:24.171 --> 00:36:26.173
They're ahead of you, because jesus and heaven
00:36:26.173 --> 00:36:28.442
Are ahead and he is not done writing your story.
00:36:28.442 --> 00:36:31.345
But it was my friends who stepped in when i
00:36:31.345 --> 00:36:33.981
Didn't have the faith and brought me to jesus.
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To this community. yes.
00:36:36.284 --> 00:36:37.918
You know, that's why we have to fellowship.
00:36:37.918 --> 00:36:41.289
Like the bible tells us
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Not to fail to assemble ourselves together.
00:36:42.556 --> 00:36:44.759
He doesn't want us just to come together and have fun
00:36:44.759 --> 00:36:46.661
And have a good time.
00:36:46.661 --> 00:36:47.995
But there is power in community, you know, there's
00:36:47.995 --> 00:36:52.300
Strength in community, and we have to know how to bear the
00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:56.404
Infirmities of each other.
00:36:56.404 --> 00:36:58.572
It's the same way with that centurion soldier over there
00:36:58.572 --> 00:37:01.342
In luke seven.
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I mean, he walked in it for his friend, his servant.
00:37:02.843 --> 00:37:05.880
He says, hey, look, i need you to heal my servant.
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.683
It wasn't even about him.
00:37:08.683 --> 00:37:10.251
It wasn't even about a child
00:37:10.251 --> 00:37:11.986
Or his spouse, but it was a servant.
00:37:11.986 --> 00:37:15.156
And so when we can walk in that same authority and
00:37:15.156 --> 00:37:18.159
Understanding for one another, can you imagine a victory that
00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:22.463
We all could have as a body, as a whole?
00:37:22.463 --> 00:37:27.435
And i love that the centurion saw the authority of jesus.
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You're under-- yes.
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You know, he was under authority.
00:37:34.275 --> 00:37:36.043
He knew what authority looked like.
00:37:36.043 --> 00:37:37.878
And so you don't even have to come.
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You gotta come to my house.
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I'm not even worthy of you coming.
00:37:40.715 --> 00:37:42.917
You don't even have to come.
00:37:42.917 --> 00:37:43.918
Just speak the word
00:37:43.918 --> 00:37:44.985
Because i know the authority that you walk in.
00:37:44.985 --> 00:37:47.822
And jesus was amazed.
00:37:47.822 --> 00:37:49.290
And he was amazed. great faith.
00:37:49.290 --> 00:37:51.425
Great faith. that time was great faith.
00:37:51.425 --> 00:37:53.027
I was like, you haven't seen this in all of his own people.
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Yeah. and here it is.
00:37:56.197 --> 00:37:57.465
This is a gentile sitting here talking about just speak the
00:37:57.465 --> 00:38:01.068
Word using that authority.
00:38:01.068 --> 00:38:03.304
He's like, come on, all of you have been with me.
00:38:03.304 --> 00:38:06.874
And that's why it's so important for us to tell our
00:38:06.874 --> 00:38:09.610
Testimonies and share our stories of the goodness of god.
00:38:09.610 --> 00:38:13.147
But at the same time, the people that are listening, even
00:38:13.147 --> 00:38:15.983
Those that are home, can't discredit our stories because
00:38:15.983 --> 00:38:21.222
They look at us where we are now.
00:38:21.222 --> 00:38:23.991
And i think, oh, it can't be as bad as what i'm going through.
00:38:23.991 --> 00:38:28.329
And so when we share our stories, we pray that people
00:38:28.329 --> 00:38:30.998
Will really embrace those
00:38:30.998 --> 00:38:33.167
Stories as truths so they can change.
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Mhm.
00:38:35.903 --> 00:38:39.240
Welcome to better together i'm here with amie and i'm brittany.
00:38:42.877 --> 00:38:45.379
And we're going over questions from the audience that we have
00:38:45.379 --> 00:38:48.516
Sandra who watches from australia
00:38:48.516 --> 00:38:50.518
Sent in this question, how do you
00:38:50.518 --> 00:38:52.019
Move past fear and walk in faith?
00:38:52.019 --> 00:38:54.188
I used to feel fearless because of god's presence.
00:38:54.188 --> 00:38:57.291
But after surviving a pancreatic tumor and a stroke,
00:38:57.291 --> 00:39:00.294
I find it difficult to move beyond feeling profound fear
00:39:00.294 --> 00:39:04.231
That stops me from doing even
00:39:04.231 --> 00:39:06.066
The most basic things, like driving.
00:39:06.066 --> 00:39:08.769
Yeah, i can relate.
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I know what it feels like to wake up every morning and just
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Have that big c word over your head, but i would encourage
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You, sandra, in this, that god
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Says he's near the brokenhearted.
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And when we are most vulnerable, when we are most
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Broken, that's when we can expect more of his presence,
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Not less of his presence.
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So i would lean into that and allow him to heal you
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And heal you of fear.
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Because, listen, the worst thing that could happen to you
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Has already happened.
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And look how faithful god has been to bring you through that.
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You've got a story to tell, and i would focus on that.
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God wants to open up brand new avenues of healing, because
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People will want to come to you and ask you, how are you so
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Fearless after you've been
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Through what you've been through?
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I know i face that every day and i realize i can be a
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Walking, talking testimony.
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Yes, keep doing it.
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Don't let fear steal anything from you.
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Not even one day.
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Oh, that is so good and so powerful.
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For those who struggle with kind of like anxiety or
00:40:23.778 --> 00:40:26.848
Depression or any of those things,
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I really believe in the power
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Of speaking the word of god out loud.
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Amen.
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There is something that is so powerful.
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I can tell you that from my own life.
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Just even if i go all the way back to in the hospital when
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The middle of the night, dark,
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Alone, afraid, feeling like a failure.
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And you know how you hear the whispers then of,
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You know, you're a disaster.
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Nothing-- you know you're not going to make it out of here.
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And i literally-- because it's interesting, in a psych
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Hospital, they take away
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Anything you can hurt yourself with.
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They didn't take away the one thing i could heal myself with.
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They left me with my bible.
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And i remember dragging myself and planting my feet down and
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Saying, i believe i will live to see the goodness of the lord
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In the land of the living.
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I believe, and i would speak the word of god out loud, and i
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Could feel faith rising.
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You know, because if i was left
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To my own thoughts, it wasn't pretty.
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But there's power in speaking the word of god out loud.
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There's a difference between just reading it mentally and
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Speaking it outside. hear yourself.
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Yes, because even the atmosphere doesn't shift--
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A declaration.
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When you just read it,
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You know, quietly, internally.
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But when you speak it out, it shifts the atmosphere, and
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Every cell in your body responds to the word of god
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Because it's our shared dna.
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We were made from the very voice of god.
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And so was this.
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So it's like it's our dna.
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It repairs our dna.
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I love that you're saying that about it
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Healing you.
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But we need to know it.
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You know, that's so good what you're saying of, like, you're
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Speaking in authority.
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You're not just reading it.
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You're saying, god--
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I mean, i used to walk around my house, like.
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And i used that same verse.
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What was so powerful,
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Because i felt like i was dying inside.
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Now i will live and i will see the goodness of god in the
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Land of the living.
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Because i felt like everything was going to die, and i would
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Take out the passage that says,
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Great will be the peace of your sons
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Because i kept thinking, god, what's going on in this
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Little tiny newborn?
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His little heart?
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And i would just speak that over and over again.
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I would declare his goodness.
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I will speak of his name.
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I will declare it.
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God, you are good.
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You are faithful.
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I will not fear in the valley of the shadow of death, because
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You are going to lead me beside still waters when everything is
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Disturbing, when everything feels like chaos.
00:42:39.848 --> 00:42:42.150
But the word of god has power, and it also gives us words
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When we don't have words to pray or words to say.
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Because there are times where i have nothing, i come before the
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Lord and i'm like god,
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I literally have no words.
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But he has given us words.
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He's given us the hope that's living and active and sharper
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Than any two-edged sword.
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And i think that that is what's so powerful in our life.
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Yeah. if you are lacking in faith, go to the word and you
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Say it until your heart can believe it.
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I love one of the things that we say is you can't just tell
00:43:09.978 --> 00:43:13.915
Someone they're going to be okay.
00:43:13.915 --> 00:43:15.183
You stay with them until they can be, say i'm okay.
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And i think the same thing with the word of god is you say it
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Out loud until you start believing it.
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You know, you say the hope of god, the hope of glory.
00:43:23.925 --> 00:43:27.095
When all the fear, the anxiety, the depression, the questions
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Are coming, you hold on to the truth that never fails.
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Starting the new year in the spiritual authority that god
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Has given us is walking in his ways and in his truth.
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It's taking god and his promises as the truth that
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We can depend on.
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When all the life is storms and it's going the wind of
00:43:46.581 --> 00:43:50.385
Everything, the wind of change, the wind of pain, the wind of
00:43:50.385 --> 00:43:53.521
Suffering, and even the wind of good things that blow in
00:43:53.521 --> 00:43:56.291
And out of your life,
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You can know that the one thing that stands is the authority of
00:43:57.592 --> 00:44:00.528
God's word, his promises that stand true no matter what
00:44:00.528 --> 00:44:03.631
Happens in our life, and that
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We can stand on christ, our foundation.
00:44:05.100 --> 00:44:09.104
I remember when i was probably about 16-- 16, 17, 18,
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I guess. i used to lie so much about my age.
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I used to tell people i was much older.
00:44:17.712 --> 00:44:20.281
I know this is not the story you want to tell
00:44:20.281 --> 00:44:23.818
On television, but it was like i used to lie so much
00:44:23.818 --> 00:44:27.122
About my age. i did.
00:44:27.122 --> 00:44:28.723
I used to tell people, i'm 20,
00:44:28.723 --> 00:44:30.458
21, and i was nowhere near that age.
00:44:30.458 --> 00:44:33.294
And i remember when i really had to tell my age, the truth,
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I had to go back and subtract the years because i had lied
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So much about it.
00:44:43.104 --> 00:44:44.372
I had convinced myself that this was my age.
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And so it's the same way with the word of god.
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Okay, you don't believe this yet?
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Keep saying it.
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You keep saying it.
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You're going to believe it at some point.
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I'm like when you were just talking,
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We are created in his image, right?
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And he is a speaking spirit.
00:45:04.592 --> 00:45:06.728
He spoke everything he wanted
00:45:06.728 --> 00:45:09.697
Out of his mouth to come to pass.
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If you read all the way through genesis, in the beginning,
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It talks about
00:45:14.536 --> 00:45:15.804
And he said, and he said, and i think around the last one
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It starts talking about,
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And he saw. he didn't see it until he said it.
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You gotta keep saying it out of your mouth.
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And we think thoughts will change thoughts.
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Thoughts don't change thoughts.
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You got to say something out of your mouth to change a thought.
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And science has come in
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:39.828
Alignment even with the word of god.
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That's how we reframe our thinking.
00:45:42.263 --> 00:45:44.032
That's how we we change the whole processes and mechanisms
00:45:44.032 --> 00:45:48.403
Of our brain is by saying something out of our mouth.
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Okay, yeah, my feet do swell
00:45:52.307 --> 00:45:54.309
Up, but i'm healed by his stripes.
00:45:54.309 --> 00:45:56.678
So regardless of what you see, say something different until
00:45:56.678 --> 00:46:00.849
You can see what you're saying.
00:46:00.849 --> 00:46:02.584
And that's not sticking your head in the sand, pretending
00:46:02.584 --> 00:46:04.619
It's not-- that's,
00:46:04.619 --> 00:46:05.653
I mean, that is really what it looks like to
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Walk by faith. yes.
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You know, that you're declaring this is what is true.
00:46:09.257 --> 00:46:11.359
No matter what i might be feeling at this moment,
00:46:11.359 --> 00:46:13.261
Feelings do not have brains.
00:46:13.261 --> 00:46:15.163
But we can speak the word of god out loud.
00:46:15.163 --> 00:46:17.498
Oh, yeah. and i think, too, you know,
00:46:17.498 --> 00:46:18.800
I was in places where i couldn't read.
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:20.735
It was like my focus--
00:46:20.735 --> 00:46:21.803
I was crying or just hurting so much
00:46:21.803 --> 00:46:24.339
It felt like i couldn't even focus on the word of god.
00:46:24.339 --> 00:46:27.108
So i would play the word of god
00:46:27.108 --> 00:46:28.509
On my phone, and it would just play.
00:46:28.509 --> 00:46:30.178
I would have worship music going, because sometimes in
00:46:30.178 --> 00:46:33.615
Your hard season, you can come up with all these excuses of
00:46:33.615 --> 00:46:36.751
Not having hope poured into you, but hope can be
00:46:36.751 --> 00:46:39.487
Played over you as well.
00:46:39.487 --> 00:46:41.189
And so whatever season you're in, if you were in that season
00:46:41.189 --> 00:46:44.192
Where you can't see, or you're in a busy season where you're
00:46:44.192 --> 00:46:47.996
Just like, god, i can't even
00:46:47.996 --> 00:46:49.030
Focus, play the truth over yourself.
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Yes. that's good.
00:46:52.367 --> 00:46:53.635
Yeah. i was thinking, too, when you were talking about, um,
00:46:53.635 --> 00:46:57.071
Thoughts can't change thoughts and words change thoughts.
00:46:57.071 --> 00:47:00.975
But even actions change words.
00:47:00.975 --> 00:47:03.778
Yeah. and because you're going to the greater ammunition.
00:47:03.778 --> 00:47:07.048
Right? and so you taking that walk was saying, i am not going
00:47:07.048 --> 00:47:10.952
To be stuck in this bed with a pity party believing i've got
00:47:10.952 --> 00:47:14.889
This, because what action affirms what outcome.
00:47:14.889 --> 00:47:18.626
And we, i love how all of us, in talking about faith, have said
00:47:18.626 --> 00:47:22.497
Over and over seeing faith or what faith looks like.
00:47:22.497 --> 00:47:27.101
So it shows when we believe there is fruit our eyes see.
00:47:27.101 --> 00:47:33.408
I can see your faith because of what you're doing.
00:47:33.408 --> 00:47:35.910
I can see. i'm a witness to faith when i see it in action.
00:47:35.910 --> 00:47:40.014
And i think even for women today that might be watching
00:47:40.014 --> 00:47:43.284
That are like, i don't have any
00:47:43.284 --> 00:47:44.919
Friends that can lower me on a mat--
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Here we are. yeah. yeah.
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Every, every day.
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Every day.
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Isn't that wonderful?
00:47:52.694 --> 00:47:53.761
Because maybe they don't know what we think
00:47:53.761 --> 00:47:55.830
Or what we pray.
00:47:55.830 --> 00:47:57.065
But going into this, we're always praying, lord, for the
00:47:57.065 --> 00:48:00.068
Woman that you have-- yes.
00:48:00.068 --> 00:48:02.437
To for us to partner our faith with.
00:48:02.437 --> 00:48:05.139
Yes. i mean, that's powerful.
00:48:05.139 --> 00:48:06.975
There is no space.
00:48:06.975 --> 00:48:07.976
There is no time in the spirit.
00:48:07.976 --> 00:48:10.578
And we want to be the, the ones to raise you on that mat and
00:48:10.578 --> 00:48:14.849
Lower you down to jesus.
00:48:14.849 --> 00:48:17.986
Yeah. so probably the best thing that i get to do is to
00:48:17.986 --> 00:48:23.157
Tell you, our beautiful bt watchers that we're the ones.
00:48:23.157 --> 00:48:28.629
I'm the one.
00:48:28.629 --> 00:48:29.630
I'll fight for you.
00:48:29.630 --> 00:48:31.099
I will tear the roof off for you.
00:48:31.099 --> 00:48:35.269
Sometimes we just need someone to join their faith with ours.
00:48:35.269 --> 00:48:39.640
And i want to be the one to join my faith with you.
00:48:39.640 --> 00:48:43.611
I want to believe god well with you,
00:48:43.611 --> 00:48:46.814
That no matter where you find yourself, no matter if you're
00:48:46.814 --> 00:48:49.984
In despair, god has a way out.
00:48:49.984 --> 00:48:52.286
No matter what you're facing today, god sees you.
00:48:52.286 --> 00:48:55.390
God is near to you.
00:48:55.390 --> 00:48:57.191
He has peace for you.
00:48:57.191 --> 00:48:58.760
He has joy for you.
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:00.228
Your time is not over yet.
00:49:00.228 --> 00:49:03.598
He has life for you.
00:49:03.598 --> 00:49:05.867
Abundant life.
00:49:05.867 --> 00:49:07.869
He will never stop pursuing you
00:49:07.869 --> 00:49:10.705
Because he loves you so very much.
00:49:10.705 --> 00:49:13.408
And so i'll join my faith with you.
00:49:13.408 --> 00:49:15.710
And i'll believe for your family.
00:49:15.710 --> 00:49:17.612
I'll believe for your job.
00:49:17.612 --> 00:49:19.714
I'll believe for your future with you,
00:49:19.714 --> 00:49:22.583
That god has great things in store for you today.
00:49:22.583 --> 00:49:25.620
And just to let you know, i love you so very much.
00:49:25.620 --> 00:49:28.856
But god loves you so much more
00:49:28.856 --> 00:49:31.092
And he has good plans for you today.
00:49:31.092 --> 00:49:34.362
I want to end with this.
00:49:34.362 --> 00:49:35.630
You know, it may not happen the way you want it to happen,
00:49:35.630 --> 00:49:40.802
It may not manifest as soon as you want it to manifest, but
00:49:40.802 --> 00:49:46.240
Stay in the process.
00:49:46.240 --> 00:49:48.276
Keep your focus on what he has promised you, and you will see
00:49:48.276 --> 00:49:52.880
The desired results of your heart.
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.183
Amen.
00:49:55.183 --> 00:49:56.284
So, father, in the name of jesus, we thank you for
00:49:56.284 --> 00:49:58.920
Everyone that are viewing today.
00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:02.023
We thank you, father, that their hearts are full of faith,
00:50:02.023 --> 00:50:05.693
That they are trusting you, that they are believing you.
00:50:05.693 --> 00:50:09.197
Father, we cast down every imagination that exalts itself
00:50:09.197 --> 00:50:13.568
Against the knowledge of you. father, and we decree, just
00:50:13.568 --> 00:50:17.538
Like jesus prayed for peter,
00:50:17.538 --> 00:50:19.774
That their faith will fail them not.
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Father, we thank you that we can come together and add our
00:50:22.910 --> 00:50:26.380
Faith to their faith, that they will have the victory in their
00:50:26.380 --> 00:50:30.418
Life that they desire to see.
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In jesus' name we pray,
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Amen. amen.
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Walk in Confident Faith - Episode 1134

January 8, 2026 | S8 E1134 | 52:34

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