Bobby Chandler - Believe the Impossible (Part 1)

February 25, 2026 | 29:25

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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  • She. even
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  • While you wait, it requires faith to wait, right?
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  • And a lot of times when we hear the word wait,
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  • We think,
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  • Okay, i'm just going to sit down and let god do
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  • Whatever he wants to do and he can tell me when to move.
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  • No, he's telling you to move right now.
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  • I want you to think about waiting.
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  • Like waiting tables.
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  • You're serving,
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  • You're prepping, you're cooking.
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  • You're making sure everything is in order and ready.
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  • You're waiting
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  • For one day god is going to do something different.
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  • And guys, today we start a brand new series
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  • Titled believe the impossible.
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  • Now i say brand new.
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  • Every year we do this series, but it's always different.
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  • God is always showing us something new
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  • And something powerful
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  • About our church and about what he's going to do in your life.
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  • And so this series,
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  • I want to teach you what it looks like to move by faith,
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  • To believe that god is bigger than the problems
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  • That you face, but the trials that are in your life.
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  • Okay, but what's
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  • Also exciting about this series is that i get to share with you
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  • The future of authentic church,
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  • Because the bible is very clear where there is no vision.
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  • People perish, okay?
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  • They don't know where they're going.
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  • There's nothing to hope for.
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  • And so i believe that god is giving us a lot to hope for.
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  • We're going to talk about
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  • The new building on the land that we have fully purchased,
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  • Close to 23 acres of land that we're going to build on.
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  • It's time to build a god called us to build.
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  • We're going to show you what that looks like,
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  • How much it's going to cost us,
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  • And what we're going to do in the in between.
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  • Because as you can see,
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  • We're getting pretty full in this place.
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  • Pray over the leadership team.
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  • We have exhausted ourselves.
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  • I'll be honest with you.
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  • Some days it feels like hitting your head
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  • Up against the wall because everything costs money.
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  • It's also really hard
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  • To find the spaces that we need without having to do.
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  • To be honest with you, about a half $1 million
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  • In renovations just to be able to do
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  • Church in another set up in another place.
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  • And so god has given us some ideas.
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  • We're going to share those ideas with you.
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  • You all should have a book that says believe the impossible.
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  • So first time doing something like this,
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  • It actually shows you
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  • A little glimpse of the future building as well,
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  • And some of the things to be praying over.
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  • Okay.
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  • And so it's a really exciting, really exciting time.
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  • And so i want to ask you this question.
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  • Do you believe that god can do the impossible in your life and
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  • With whatever you're going through right now,
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  • Whatever problems are in your life, whatever trial
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  • That you're facing, do you believe that god can do
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  • The impossible?
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  • I want to share some encouragement with you today.
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  • If you're struggling, though,
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  • With that, if it feels like, you know,
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  • I just don't know if it's going to turn out good for my life.
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  • One of my favorite verses is in genesis chapter 18, verse 14,
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  • And actually have this written down
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  • On my whiteboard in my, my office,
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  • Because i like to remind myself of this truth.
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  • When life gets hard,
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  • Or when trials become very difficult for the church.
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  • And genesis chapter 18,
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  • Verse 14, it's very short, but it's powerful.
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  • And so it states, is anything
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  • Too hard for the lord?
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  • There, right there.
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  • I just i just want to show you that right there.
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  • It's anything too hard for the lord.
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  • The amplified version would state it like
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  • This is anything too hard or too wonderful
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  • For the lord to bring in your life?
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  • That verse alone.
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  • I have written it down in my office,
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  • And i stare at it almost every day.
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  • When i think about where this church is going,
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  • When i think about what god is doing in your life,
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  • I have to remind myself it's anything too hard for the lord.
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  • And that's what it means to believe god for the impossible.
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  • But what i love about this
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  • Passage of scripture is the context
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  • Behind this passage that i just read in
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  • That god is actually speaking to a man named abraham.
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  • Okay?
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  • And and abraham at this point is 99 years
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  • Old, his wife is 89.
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  • And god is speaking to them about the promise
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  • That he spoke to them 24 years ago.
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  • At this point in their life, okay, 24 years ago.
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  • And now it feels like to them, this promise from god
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  • Is impossible. it's not going to happen.
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  • So i want you to think about, like this 24 years of praying,
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  • 24 years
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  • Of of moving by faith, 24 years to get to a point
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  • Where you're thinking, okay, god, this is just comical now,
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  • Because what do they want more than anything else?
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  • A child,
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  • They wanted a child.
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  • And i'm very sensitive to that subject
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  • Because i know that there are
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  • A lot of people who watch this church and even come here
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  • That had the same desire,
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  • And sometimes it feels like if god is not giving you
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  • The thing that you want,
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  • It feels like he's distant from you.
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  • And that's not true.
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  • God is still working out things
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  • That you can't see behind the scenes.
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  • But i just want you to understand, okay?
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  • We look at this verse and we love it.
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  • Is anything too hard for the lord to do?
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  • Is anything too wonderful for the lord to do?
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  • Yet they have been waiting 24 years for a promise
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  • That god mentioned to them long ago.
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  • In fact,
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  • What i love about the story is that sarah even laughed
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  • At the idea that god could do it.
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  • Have you been there before?
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  • Promise was spoken over your life and you're like,
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  • You must not be talking to me because you don't know my life.
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  • You don't know where i come from.
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  • I don't think it's going to happen.
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  • Genesis 1811 and 12.
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  • Abraham and sarah were both very old by this time.
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  • Sarah was long past the age of having children, so she laughed.
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  • Now i think this is important to notice.
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  • She laughed silently to herself.
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  • She didn't even laugh out loud.
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  • I don't think anybody else heard her, but god heard her.
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  • See, god can hear your heart
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  • When you're laughing at his promise
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  • Dug in here on the inside of you.
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  • When you're doubting what he's going to do in your life.
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  • And so she laughed silently to herself.
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  • And then she said, though, how could a worn out
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  • Woman like me enjoy such a pleasure?
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  • Now this kind of makes me laugh
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  • Because you also put abraham on blast, she said.
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  • Especially when my master, my husband, is so old.
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  • Like this man is so old right now.
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  • Like, how can this be?
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  • All right, let's continue reading.
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  • Now then the lord said to abraham, listen to this.
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  • Why did sarah laugh?
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  • I'm thinking
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  • Abraham's like, oh no, like, what did she do?
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  • Where is he at?
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  • Is she in the tent laughing at this promise? you know.
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  • And the lord says, why does she say,
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  • Can an old woman like me have a baby?
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  • Then we get to the verse.
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  • Is anything too hard for the lord?
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  • And i will return. amen.
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  • There we go.
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  • And i will return about this time next year.
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  • Meaning
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  • The promise would take 25 years to take place in their life.
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  • 25 years.
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  • And he stated that sarah will have a son,
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  • And at the age of 19, she has a child.
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  • Abraham is 100 years old when isaac is born.
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  • I mean, it's like a two for one deal.
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  • They're buying diapers for their baby
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  • To buy and diapers for themselves.
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  • I mean, when you're 100, let's be honest.
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  • Like, all right, let's just let's just make this happen.
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  • Let's make it work for everybody.
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  • I love you all. okay?
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  • That is not a job in any way,
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  • But we're all thinking it, right?
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  • Okay, so i realized this.
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  • I was praying over this.
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  • I looked at this verse. i looked at it on my whiteboard.
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  • I'm like, okay, okay.
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  • I got to remind the people, was anything too hard for the lord?
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  • Because i feel like this is where a lot of us are today.
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  • We believe god, or we say that we believe god
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  • For the impossible, but at the same time,
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  • There are things and promises of god that we're laughing at,
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  • And maybe we're laughing silently,
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  • Like maybe nobody even knows
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  • That you're doubting everything that the lord is going to do
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  • In your life.
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  • And so on the outside, you're saying god can do it,
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  • But on the inside, maybe you're thinking, just not for me.
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  • Maybe that's where you are as well.
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  • It's very easy to say
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  • God could do it for them, and god could save
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  • Their marriage and god can intervene.
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  • But he he's not going to do it for me.
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  • And that was the conviction that i felt
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  • As i was praying over the church.
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  • As i was praying over this message.
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  • Today, i want to teach you
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  • What it looks like to believe god for the impossible.
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  • I want to teach you what faith is.
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  • It's going to be very practical today,
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  • But i think this is a great start.
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  • What is faith?
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  • What does it look like?
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  • What challenges will faith bring into your life?
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  • But why is it important to walk by faith?
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  • Here it is, hebrews 11 verse six.
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  • It is impossible to please god without faith.
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  • Note that right there.
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  • Write it down.
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  • It is impossible to please the lord without faith.
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  • It requires faith to believe that jesus died on the cross
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  • And rose from the grave.
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  • It requires faith to believe that god can intervene
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  • In your situation.
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  • It requires faith to keep moving when you want to sit down
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  • And give up. amen.
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  • And so you need this strength that doesn't come from you.
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  • It comes from above and again,
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  • This is what it means to be courageous.
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  • We just talked about that over the last few weeks.
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  • And so the title of today's message is this faith
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  • For the impossible.
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  • We gotta we gotta start with believing
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  • And then moving with faith
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  • To believe that god can do the impossible.
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  • Let me also point this out, because i think sometimes,
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  • And here's what i struggle to
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  • Is what is faithful and what is irresponsible.
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  • I don't know if you've ever struggled with that.
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  • Like, okay, god,
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  • I feel like you're telling me to do something,
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  • But on the surface it looks irresponsible.
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  • Let me state it like this and make it clear to you.
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  • Faith is not pretending.
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  • You don't see the problem.
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  • Okay, so so faith is not saying, oh,
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  • I'm just naive and i don't see the problem.
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  • Like, no, no, no, i see the problem.
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  • But i'm choosing to believe
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  • God is bigger than the problem i'm facing,
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  • That god is going to intervene. why?
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  • Because i know my father.
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  • I know jesus, i hear his voice.
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  • Okay.
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  • That's what the bible states,
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  • Is that the holy spirit lives inside of you,
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  • And he will speak to you and he will give you clarity.
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  • So let's break it down today.
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  • How does faith work?
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  • Point number one it says faith is born
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  • The moment you believe what god spoke.
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  • Faith
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  • Is born in your heart, in your life.
  • 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.588
  • The moment you believe in the word of god.
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  • The moment that god speaks to you.
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  • The moment that you get into the scripture
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  • And you have to see what the lord has spoken
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  • And write it down and say, okay, god, this doesn't
  • 00:11:11.565 --> 00:11:14.234
  • Make sense in my life, but i still believe it.
  • 00:11:14.234 --> 00:11:16.236
  • And so let's start here.
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  • Okay, the truth is, you will never step in
  • 00:11:17.337 --> 00:11:20.407
  • To a promise of god if you don't believe that promise exist.
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  • I'm telling you,
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  • If you hear that clearly, it will set you free.
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  • You will never step in to a promise of god
  • 00:11:30.751 --> 00:11:33.553
  • If you do not believe that promise exist. why?
  • 00:11:33.553 --> 00:11:36.523
  • Because you will never move forward.
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  • Listen to this hebrews chapter four, verse two.
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  • For we have heard
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  • The good news of deliverance, just as they did.
  • 00:11:43.163 --> 00:11:46.833
  • Who is they talking about?
  • 00:11:46.833 --> 00:11:48.635
  • The israelites that should have entered into the promised land?
  • 00:11:48.635 --> 00:11:53.206
  • Okay, so they heard the good news.
  • 00:11:53.206 --> 00:11:54.808
  • They heard the good news
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  • About the promise, yet they did not listen to this.
  • 00:11:55.876 --> 00:11:58.779
  • They didn't join their faith with the word.
  • 00:11:58.779 --> 00:12:01.882
  • They didn't believe what god said.
  • 00:12:02.616 --> 00:12:05.018
  • Instead, what they heard didn't affect them deeply. why?
  • 00:12:05.018 --> 00:12:08.789
  • Because they doubted.
  • 00:12:08.789 --> 00:12:10.924
  • They did not believe the word of god.
  • 00:12:10.924 --> 00:12:13.760
  • So guess what?
  • 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:14.628
  • They never stepped into the promise.
  • 00:12:14.628 --> 00:12:16.797
  • There were two men
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  • That believed that promise, joshua and caleb, right there.
  • 00:12:17.998 --> 00:12:21.067
  • The only two men that spoke by faith.
  • 00:12:21.067 --> 00:12:22.936
  • They're the only two men that entered into the promise.
  • 00:12:22.936 --> 00:12:26.072
  • You know the hard thing about a promise from god?
  • 00:12:26.072 --> 00:12:28.608
  • You may have a lot of people with you in the beginning,
  • 00:12:28.608 --> 00:12:30.544
  • But not everybody's going to step foot
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  • With you in the promise in the end.
  • 00:12:31.978 --> 00:12:35.849
  • You just need to know that you need to prepare for that.
  • 00:12:35.849 --> 00:12:39.186
  • Some people will step away.
  • 00:12:39.186 --> 00:12:41.254
  • Some people will become aggravated with you.
  • 00:12:41.254 --> 00:12:43.023
  • Some people will become aggravated with god.
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  • Some people will not be moving by faith.
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  • Don't allow others to pull you into the wilderness
  • 00:12:47.394 --> 00:12:49.930
  • For 40 years,
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  • Okay?
  • 00:12:51.798 --> 00:12:52.666
  • Don't allow others doubt and disbelief
  • 00:12:52.666 --> 00:12:54.868
  • To pull you away from what god has for you.
  • 00:12:54.868 --> 00:12:58.672
  • You must believe it exists.
  • 00:12:58.672 --> 00:13:00.540
  • Let's break this down even more.
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  • Okay?
  • 00:13:02.576 --> 00:13:03.210
  • You can't walk in healing
  • 00:13:03.210 --> 00:13:05.545
  • If you don't believe that healing can come from god.
  • 00:13:05.545 --> 00:13:08.748
  • Let me also say it like this.
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  • You can't see your marriage restored.
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  • If you've already decided in your mind, it's over.
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  • Yeah.
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  • I talked to a lot of men
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  • Who struggle with some addictions.
  • 00:13:21.261 --> 00:13:23.730
  • And i tell them this all the time, okay?
  • 00:13:23.730 --> 00:13:25.599
  • You can't be set free from these addictions in your life.
  • 00:13:25.599 --> 00:13:28.768
  • But the only way to be set
  • 00:13:28.768 --> 00:13:30.070
  • Free is to believe you can get there. yes.
  • 00:13:30.070 --> 00:13:33.240
  • In order to walk away
  • 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:34.541
  • From these addictions in your life,
  • 00:13:34.541 --> 00:13:35.809
  • You must believe you can be set free because the world
  • 00:13:35.809 --> 00:13:38.612
  • Is lying to you, telling you you'll never get away from this.
  • 00:13:38.612 --> 00:13:41.448
  • And eventually, if you start to believe
  • 00:13:41.448 --> 00:13:42.883
  • Those lies, will start saying, this is just who i am.
  • 00:13:42.883 --> 00:13:47.420
  • God can change you.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:13:49.389 --> 00:13:50.824
  • God can change everything about you.
  • 00:13:50.824 --> 00:13:53.927
  • You walked in here the way you used to be.
  • 00:13:53.927 --> 00:13:55.962
  • But you left. changed.
  • 00:13:55.962 --> 00:13:58.431
  • That's what jesus does in our life.
  • 00:13:58.431 --> 00:14:01.134
  • But the truth is,
  • 00:14:01.134 --> 00:14:02.235
  • You will never live in what you don't believe in.
  • 00:14:02.235 --> 00:14:05.438
  • You will never live in what you don't believe in.
  • 00:14:05.438 --> 00:14:09.709
  • What is god reminding you to believe today?
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  • Write it down.
  • 00:14:12.579 --> 00:14:14.447
  • That has been a battle
  • 00:14:14.447 --> 00:14:16.349
  • In your mind, in your soul.
  • 00:14:16.349 --> 00:14:19.185
  • Something you know is from the lord.
  • 00:14:19.185 --> 00:14:21.121
  • But it feels like it's attacked every single day.
  • 00:14:21.121 --> 00:14:25.392
  • So faith is important again.
  • 00:14:25.392 --> 00:14:28.061
  • How do we get it?
  • 00:14:28.061 --> 00:14:29.629
  • We hear the word of the lord.
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  • Romans chapter ten, verse 17.
  • 00:14:30.897 --> 00:14:32.532
  • So faith comes from hearing
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  • That is hearing the good news about christ.
  • 00:14:36.136 --> 00:14:40.540
  • I started thinking about this as well
  • 00:14:40.540 --> 00:14:42.375
  • Because have you ever noticed,
  • 00:14:42.375 --> 00:14:44.244
  • Or maybe you've seen in your own life
  • 00:14:44.244 --> 00:14:46.012
  • That two people can be in the same service?
  • 00:14:46.012 --> 00:14:48.982
  • I don't need the background music, but thank you.
  • 00:14:48.982 --> 00:14:51.384
  • Two people can be in the same service, right?
  • 00:14:52.252 --> 00:14:54.988
  • Two people can hear the exact same word, but leave the church
  • 00:14:54.988 --> 00:15:00.727
  • With completely different outcomes.
  • 00:15:00.727 --> 00:15:03.663
  • Why is that?
  • 00:15:03.663 --> 00:15:04.631
  • Because one person heard it,
  • 00:15:04.631 --> 00:15:07.367
  • But another person believed it.
  • 00:15:07.367 --> 00:15:10.003
  • One person heard it, but another person believed it.
  • 00:15:10.003 --> 00:15:12.839
  • And so if you have your bibles out,
  • 00:15:12.839 --> 00:15:14.240
  • We're talking about abraham.
  • 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:15.642
  • But i also want to take a another story
  • 00:15:15.642 --> 00:15:18.478
  • Into consideration and talk about mary.
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  • Okay. luke chapter one.
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  • If you have your bibles, you can turn there.
  • 00:15:21.982 --> 00:15:23.917
  • Luke chapter one,
  • 00:15:23.917 --> 00:15:25.018
  • Because we just talked about abraham and sarah.
  • 00:15:25.018 --> 00:15:27.120
  • What were they praying for a child?
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  • They waited 25 years for this promise to fully
  • 00:15:29.389 --> 00:15:31.825
  • Come into their life.
  • 00:15:31.825 --> 00:15:32.759
  • And now we're going to see another story
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  • About a miraculous child.
  • 00:15:34.527 --> 00:15:35.562
  • But this child is is the son of god, jesus christ.
  • 00:15:35.562 --> 00:15:38.631
  • Okay.
  • 00:15:38.865 --> 00:15:39.399
  • So in luke chapter one,
  • 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.534
  • The angel gabriel appears to mary. now,
  • 00:15:41.534 --> 00:15:44.838
  • I just want to point this out even before i start reading.
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  • She did not understand how any of this would happen,
  • 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.578
  • But from the very beginning
  • 00:15:52.178 --> 00:15:53.913
  • She chose to believe what god was saying.
  • 00:15:53.913 --> 00:15:57.951
  • You have a choice.
  • 00:15:58.385 --> 00:16:00.720
  • Either you can believe your doubt
  • 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.789
  • Or you can believe what god is saying.
  • 00:16:02.789 --> 00:16:05.025
  • So luke chapter one, verse 28 through 31, gabriel
  • 00:16:05.025 --> 00:16:09.629
  • Appeared to her and said, greetings, favored woman.
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  • That's how i heard in my head, i'm sorry.
  • 00:16:13.299 --> 00:16:15.535
  • Greetings favored woman.
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  • The lord is with you.
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  • All right.
  • 00:16:19.906 --> 00:16:20.907
  • I'm already dissecting this favored woman.
  • 00:16:20.907 --> 00:16:24.978
  • How many times have you prayed
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  • For favor in your life?
  • 00:16:27.814 --> 00:16:30.850
  • How many prosperity gospel messages
  • 00:16:30.850 --> 00:16:33.353
  • Have you heard that have lied to you
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  • And told you that favor
  • 00:16:35.188 --> 00:16:36.423
  • Means your life will be perfect and you'll get the mansion.
  • 00:16:36.423 --> 00:16:38.558
  • You'll get the house, you get the car.
  • 00:16:38.558 --> 00:16:39.692
  • You'll get everything that you want.
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  • You get the relationship.
  • 00:16:40.593 --> 00:16:41.528
  • Everything's going to be perfect. listen.
  • 00:16:41.528 --> 00:16:42.929
  • Favor comes with heaviness.
  • 00:16:42.929 --> 00:16:45.632
  • Let me just help you out here.
  • 00:16:46.232 --> 00:16:47.500
  • Favor from god actually comes with weight.
  • 00:16:47.500 --> 00:16:51.137
  • Favor from god.
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  • Does it mean that your life is going to get easier?
  • 00:16:52.205 --> 00:16:54.874
  • It just means that some of this.
  • 00:16:54.874 --> 00:16:56.409
  • The assignment just got bigger,
  • 00:16:56.409 --> 00:16:59.546
  • So it changes everything, right?
  • 00:17:00.180 --> 00:17:02.082
  • Okay.
  • 00:17:02.082 --> 00:17:03.049
  • When you understand that favor from the lord
  • 00:17:03.049 --> 00:17:04.217
  • Doesn't mean that your life is going to be easier now.
  • 00:17:04.217 --> 00:17:05.885
  • It just means, okay,
  • 00:17:05.885 --> 00:17:07.053
  • The assignment that god is handing me is actually bigger.
  • 00:17:07.053 --> 00:17:11.758
  • And it's harder.
  • 00:17:12.158 --> 00:17:12.826
  • In fact,
  • 00:17:12.826 --> 00:17:14.060
  • Let me let me also say this sometimes if i could be honest,
  • 00:17:14.060 --> 00:17:16.963
  • Favor doesn't always feel like you're living in favor.
  • 00:17:16.963 --> 00:17:20.233
  • Well, i'm not being attacked.
  • 00:17:20.867 --> 00:17:22.335
  • Why are these trials so hard?
  • 00:17:22.335 --> 00:17:24.070
  • Because you got favor on you.
  • 00:17:24.070 --> 00:17:26.106
  • You're a target now to the enemy.
  • 00:17:26.106 --> 00:17:27.841
  • But don't worry. god is with you.
  • 00:17:27.841 --> 00:17:29.976
  • All right, let's keep reading.
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  • So, the angel of the lord says.
  • 00:17:31.544 --> 00:17:33.513
  • Greetings, favored woman.
  • 00:17:33.513 --> 00:17:34.681
  • Now, this kind of makes me laugh as well.
  • 00:17:34.681 --> 00:17:36.049
  • Confused and disturbed.
  • 00:17:36.049 --> 00:17:39.285
  • This is how mary felt.
  • 00:17:39.285 --> 00:17:40.320
  • Confused and disturbed.
  • 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:42.088
  • Mary tried to think what the angel could mean,
  • 00:17:42.088 --> 00:17:44.491
  • And again he says, don't be afraid.
  • 00:17:44.491 --> 00:17:46.259
  • The angel told her,
  • 00:17:46.259 --> 00:17:47.460
  • You have found favor with god, but listen, you will conceive.
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  • Give birth to a son and you will name him jesus.
  • 00:17:51.865 --> 00:17:56.636
  • Verse 34 to 38 mary asked the angel,
  • 00:17:56.636 --> 00:18:00.673
  • But how can this happen?
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  • Because i am a virgin.
  • 00:18:02.442 --> 00:18:05.178
  • Now i love that she asked a question.
  • 00:18:05.178 --> 00:18:08.882
  • Did you know you can ask god questions?
  • 00:18:08.882 --> 00:18:12.318
  • It doesn't mean that you're not
  • 00:18:12.318 --> 00:18:13.419
  • Believing in his promise when you're asking a question.
  • 00:18:13.419 --> 00:18:16.723
  • It's actually good
  • 00:18:16.723 --> 00:18:17.824
  • Because you're asking the father for clarity.
  • 00:18:17.824 --> 00:18:20.860
  • You want to steward it well.
  • 00:18:20.860 --> 00:18:22.128
  • Ask questions.
  • 00:18:22.128 --> 00:18:23.596
  • All right.
  • 00:18:23.596 --> 00:18:24.564
  • God, i believe you're placing this in my life,
  • 00:18:24.564 --> 00:18:26.499
  • But i don't really understand how it's going to happen.
  • 00:18:26.499 --> 00:18:29.369
  • How am i going to get there?
  • 00:18:29.369 --> 00:18:30.436
  • How is any of this going to take place in my life?
  • 00:18:30.436 --> 00:18:32.639
  • And some of the answers god will give you is just supernatural.
  • 00:18:32.639 --> 00:18:36.943
  • The answer that the angel gives mary.
  • 00:18:37.744 --> 00:18:40.613
  • It's not something you can just see naturally.
  • 00:18:40.613 --> 00:18:42.949
  • It's a supernatural answer.
  • 00:18:42.949 --> 00:18:45.418
  • The angel replied, the holy spirit will come upon you.
  • 00:18:45.418 --> 00:18:49.422
  • And now listen to this, and the power of the most high
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  • Will overshadow you.
  • 00:18:54.194 --> 00:18:57.230
  • I looked at the text right
  • 00:18:57.230 --> 00:18:58.631
  • There, and i started to think of what it means to overshadow,
  • 00:18:58.631 --> 00:19:02.602
  • But the power of the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:02.602 --> 00:19:05.104
  • And there's a few examples of the bible.
  • 00:19:05.104 --> 00:19:07.140
  • We're not going to have this on the screen,
  • 00:19:07.140 --> 00:19:08.274
  • But in exodus chapter 4034 through 35,
  • 00:19:08.274 --> 00:19:11.878
  • It talks about what what people would call the shekinah glory.
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  • It's the glory of god's
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  • Presence, the holy spirit that came and filled the temple.
  • 00:19:17.083 --> 00:19:21.354
  • And the glory was so strong people had to leave the temple.
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  • It was so powerful.
  • 00:19:26.292 --> 00:19:28.361
  • God's presence overshadows
  • 00:19:28.361 --> 00:19:31.297
  • The temple out of the book of exodus.
  • 00:19:31.297 --> 00:19:34.867
  • And so now we're seeing that the same holy holy spirit
  • 00:19:34.867 --> 00:19:39.038
  • That filled the temple is now going to overshadow mary.
  • 00:19:39.038 --> 00:19:44.177
  • The same presence of god
  • 00:19:44.711 --> 00:19:47.513
  • Would cover mary.
  • 00:19:47.513 --> 00:19:48.781
  • So why?
  • 00:19:48.781 --> 00:19:49.716
  • So that the baby could be born?
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  • The baby to be born will be holy.
  • 00:19:52.852 --> 00:19:55.521
  • He will be called the son of god.
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  • What's more, is that your relative?
  • 00:19:57.223 --> 00:19:59.559
  • Now listen to this.
  • 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:00.660
  • Elizabeth has become pregnant also in her old age,
  • 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:04.230
  • People used to laugh at the idea that she could have a child.
  • 00:20:04.230 --> 00:20:07.267
  • They used to say that she was barren.
  • 00:20:08.067 --> 00:20:10.503
  • But guess what?
  • 00:20:10.503 --> 00:20:11.571
  • She is conceived a son and now is in her sixth month.
  • 00:20:11.571 --> 00:20:16.943
  • Like, can you almost see the angel smiling
  • 00:20:16.943 --> 00:20:20.546
  • Like waking a little bit like gabriel
  • 00:20:20.546 --> 00:20:22.248
  • Is just looking at you like they thought of going to happen.
  • 00:20:22.248 --> 00:20:25.618
  • But i see the presence of god.
  • 00:20:26.219 --> 00:20:28.688
  • You move him by faith.
  • 00:20:28.688 --> 00:20:30.957
  • But this angel, angel gabriel,
  • 00:20:30.957 --> 00:20:32.492
  • Has seen the presence of the holy god.
  • 00:20:32.492 --> 00:20:34.427
  • Now listen to what he says right here.
  • 00:20:34.427 --> 00:20:35.728
  • For the word of god will never fail.
  • 00:20:35.728 --> 00:20:40.833
  • But god
  • 00:20:41.067 --> 00:20:41.901
  • Speaks in your life will take place.
  • 00:20:41.901 --> 00:20:45.071
  • It's just up to you to believe it or not.
  • 00:20:45.071 --> 00:20:47.340
  • And you can step foot into the promise
  • 00:20:47.340 --> 00:20:48.908
  • So you can walk away from it.
  • 00:20:48.908 --> 00:20:50.009
  • But god's word
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  • Is still going to be fulfilled whether you're there or not.
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  • That is the truth.
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  • Hey, thank you for watching this sermon.
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  • I don't want to interrupt you for too long,
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  • But i just got to share with you guys that right now
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  • We are in the believe the impossible series,
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  • And that's exactly what we're doing.
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  • We're believing god for the impossible.
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  • If you haven't heard, our church is growing
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  • And we're reaching people all over the world.
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  • And we just purchased 23 acres, and now it's time to build
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  • What god has called us to build.
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  • So let me encourage you today if this ministry has impacted
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  • Your life,
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  • Pray about it and ask god if you would like to partner with us.
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  • And you can give online or you can scan the qr code.
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  • Today it's really easy and become a partner
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  • In investing into the kingdom of god.
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  • Thank you so much for listening.
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  • Hope you enjoyed the rest of the sermon,
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  • For the word of god will never fail.
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  • Mary responded, i want you to hear her response right here.
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  • I am the lord's servant.
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  • The first thing she does is identify
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  • As the lord's servant.
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  • That's who i am.
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  • I live for you, god.
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  • May everything that you have said about me come true.
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  • And when i highlight something.
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  • Then the angel left her.
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  • The powerful experience.
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  • Think about it like this seems to disappear
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  • In real life. begins.
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  • How do you hold on to the faith?
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  • So what can we learn about faith from mary from this story?
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  • The first thing is this mary does not lead
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  • With her feelings of fear.
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  • Okay,
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  • Keep your emotions in check again.
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  • Gaga has created us to feel, but it's not always a good thing
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  • To allow your emotions to lead you.
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  • Okay.
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  • How was she able to overcome her feelings?
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  • By the very first thing that she said.
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  • I am the lord's servant.
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  • I know who i am in the lord because when the angel
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  • Is speaking, i promise you she knows the cost.
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  • She's thinking about it all.
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  • House is going to happen.
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  • Not only could it happen supernaturally,
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  • But what if it does happen and it did.
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  • Then she also knows that she could lose the love of her life.
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  • Would you be battling that?
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  • That's the problem
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  • We have when we worship relationships over jesus.
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  • Then sometimes we actually
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  • Walk away for the promise
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  • Because we're worshiping a relationship
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  • And not a relationship with jesus at all.
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  • She understood she had a love of her life.
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  • His name was joseph, right?
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  • They were already engaged,
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  • Which meant in the jewish culture, legally,
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  • They would have to get a divorce.
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  • Just in the engagement.
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  • She knew that was coming.
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  • She knew that nobody,
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  • Nobody would believe that she was pregnant by the holy spirit.
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  • And to make it worse, the truth is she could be stoned to death
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  • Because she
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  • Was pregnant and may not have a husband.
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  • She can lose it all.
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  • And that's where a lot of us would allow the spirit of fear
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  • To speak.
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  • That's where a lot of us
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  • Would allow our feelings to get the best of us.
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  • So she declares right away.
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  • And the lord's servant,
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  • Let me just remind myself who i am
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  • And why god has placed this favor on my life.
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  • I am the lord's servant.
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  • My reputation could be ruined with people i don't care
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  • Because she cared about her reputation with god.
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  • This is why god found favor in her life.
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  • This is why the god.
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  • This is why god chose to use her.
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  • Her answer reveals who she is, not what she knows
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  • About the future.
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  • The crazy thing about this story is that we know how it ends.
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  • She had no idea.
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  • She had no idea what she was facing
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  • Or how it would work out.
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  • So she reminded herself, i am the lord's servant.
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  • All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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  • But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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  • There is a reason you heard this word today.
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  • It's not by mistake.
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  • You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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  • And listen, if you love this church
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  • And thinking about giving to this church, all you have to do
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  • Is visit our website at bobbie chandler ministries.com.
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  • And it's very easy to give.
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  • And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives.
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  • Because of your faithful giving, we're able to reach
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  • Not only the nation, but the world.
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  • We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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  • Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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  • So that they know the love of god and listen.
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  • If you want to hear more sermons as well, don't forget
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  • You can join us live every sunday, 815, 10:00, and 1145.
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  • So thank you for watching today
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  • And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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  • All right, before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
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  • And this one's a big one.
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  • Okay.
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  • This year
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  • We held our very
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  • First awaking conference in hickory, north carolina
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  • For authentic church.
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  • And we saw
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  • People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation
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  • And even outside of the country
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  • To experience what god is doing here.
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  • So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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  • We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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  • And if you want to look into more details
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  • Over the conference,
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  • All you have to do is click the link below.
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  • In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did.
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  • For me.
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  • And the
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  • Reason i even bring it up tonight
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  • Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus
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  • The man, the gospel message is all about
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  • Your understanding of the message about the man
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  • Who informed your methods of getting to know the man. who?
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  • There's this job doesn't work out for me.
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  • What if i move my life by faith and it all just
  • 00:27:38.484 --> 00:27:42.388
  • Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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  • What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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  • But i would rather move by faith.
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  • It even failed and failed and fail and know that i follow god.
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  • And i ended up exactly.
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  • Where i needed to be.
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  • You know what?
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  • Today is
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  • Pentecost.
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  • Sunday.
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  • Pentecost sunday.
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  • You. you better
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  • Not ask the holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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  • I came here to remind you.
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  • You need the holy spirit for.
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  • Many.
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