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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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - When Life is Dry, Revival Shakes the Valley (Part 2) | December 2, 2025
- She. and your pain.
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- Your loneliness.
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- Through your sickness.
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- This truth still stands.
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- The lord will take a hold of you.
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- He is not abandon you because of your situation.
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- Even in despair. god is there.
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- All right.
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- I want to show you three truths right here.
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- Because there's
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- Some translations that state it like this.
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- The hand of the lord was upon me.
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- I want to show you
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- Three truths about the how, the how the hand of the lord works
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- In your life, even when you can't see it
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- And what you're going through. okay.
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- The first thing i want to show you is this
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- It represents that god is in control.
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- The hand of the lord over your life means that god
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- Is in control.
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- Because i want to look at this. verse two.
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- I want to show you this in chapter three.
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- Ezekiel three, verse 14.
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- I believe we can all relate to this,
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- Because it's not the first time
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- That the hand of the lord has come upon ezekiel.
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- And ezekiel stated, the spirit lifted me up.
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- Doesn't that sound amazing?
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- Then the sound good?
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- The spirit lifted me up and took me away.
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- But i was bitter.
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- Notice that the hand of the lord
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- Is not intimidated by your feelings.
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- Notice that the hand of the lord
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- Doesn't come up to you and say, oh, you're angry today.
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- Let's not let's not work together. you know what i mean?
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- Other people may be intimidated by you.
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- The lord is not.
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- And the holy spirit grabbed ahold of him.
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- I went in my bitterness and turmoil.
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- I was angry and bitter.
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- Who was he angry and bitter with?
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- He's angry at the people of god.
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- He's been preaching for a long time about repentance.
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- Nobody is listening to the message.
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- Nobody gets it.
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- They were still serving idols and demons.
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- And so he's angry with them.
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- Yet the lord's hand came upon him
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- And its hold on me was strong.
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- Notice that right there.
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- And so what i want you to see here
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- Is that even in ezekiel chapter 37, what is x stating
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- Is that i did not walk myself over to the valley of dry bones.
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- The lord placed me here.
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- The lord positioned me in a place
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- Where i can speak to the people.
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- The lord told me to speak, and so his hand is stronger
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- Than the way that i feel.
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- And he loves him.
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- He has grace and mercy to show them.
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- That's what it means to love like god.
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- And i think we need to be very honest,
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- Because there are some times we don't feel it.
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- We don't feel like loving people.
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- We don't feel like praying over them.
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- But at the hand of the lord god, you.
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- That's you.
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- I pray that you feel what the lord.
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- Feels for them.
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- With the lord for for you.
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- So again, the hand of the lord is stronger than your feelings.
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- And so ezekiel is saying, i did what myself
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- Over to the valley of dry bones got carried me here.
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- This is a prophetic vision that the lord decided
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- To give to him.
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- But also notice this.
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- Here's where the tension lies
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- That god would carry him to a place he didn't want to be.
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- Let's be honest.
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- When we talk about the lord lifted me up.
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- I don't want to go to a valley of dry bones.
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- Dead bones.
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- God, why are you telling me to look at death?
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- God, why are you telling me
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- To look at something that's in despair?
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- Not to discourage ezekiel, but again, to prove
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- The power of god.
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- God is going to lead you places that seem hopeless.
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- That's the teach you how to have hope again.
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- To teach you
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- That he's still in control.
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- And that's exactly what's about to happen here.
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- The second thing that i want to share with you is this.
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- The hand of god proves god's strength.
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- Ezekiel could not
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- Handle this message on his own.
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- Ezekiel could not handle this vision on his own.
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- Meaning the lord strength had to lift him up,
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- Place him there, and give him the words to speak,
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- Even when he's looking at death.
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- God commanded him.
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- Just speak life after me.
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- Speak what i'm saying.
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- Now what everybody else is saying.
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- It wasn't based upon ezekiel's thoughts, agendas,
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- Personal feelings.
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- It was all based upon the word of god.
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- What is god saying over my situation right now?
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- And here's the beautiful thing about that.
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- God will give you strength
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- To face battles you never thought you would face.
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- The face which you never thought.
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- You would face.
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- Ezekiel wasn't just strong on his own.
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- He was strong because of the hand of the lord was upon him.
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- Meaning that god is going to take you places.
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- The family members that.
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- You used to kind of get around.
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- Because you didn't want to have that conversation.
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- All of a sudden the holy spirit may
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- Speak to you and say, you know what?
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- It's time to have the conversation.
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- It's time to forgive.
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- It's time to let go.
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- Maybe in your workplace,
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- You've always been afraid to kind of share the gospel,
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- But now the holy spirit's on you.
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- The hand of god is on you.
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- You don't care anymore.
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- You don't care what they'll do to you.
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- And so you start speaking up about jesus.
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- This is the hand of god
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- Facing battles that you never thought you could face.
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- And here's what i love.
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- The third thing is this the hand of god
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- Positioned tim for a miracle,
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- Even if it's in a valley of dry bones.
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- God will not abandon you in the dry places.
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- God will not abandon you in the darkness of life.
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- God will not abandon you in the divorce.
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- God is not going to abandon you
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- When you feel like you lost your way.
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- God is not going to abandon you in the sickness.
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- God is not going to abandon you.
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- He's still calling you by name.
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- In fact,
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- Here's what we see out of the bible
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- And what we see in our own lives.
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- The hand of god will become more evident as you face trials.
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- You want to see god move in your life.
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- God work in your life. go through the trials.
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- Watch him work.
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- Psalm chapter 139, verse ten states it like this.
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- Wherever i go, your hand, oh lord, will guide me.
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- Your strength will empower me.
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- Just like moses at the red sea.
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- God turned a dead end into a pathway.
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- I want you to hear me on that.
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- There's some things that you're
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- Looking at right now that seem dead, that seem gone.
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- Seems like it never can be resurrected.
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- It seems like a dead end.
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- But my god can still create a pathway to the other side.
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- Because the hand of the lord is upon you.
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- But sometimes you gotta move by faith.
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- Sometimes you get a race to stop.
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- Sometimes you have to praise him
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- When you're hurting.
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- When you don't want to show up to church,
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- But you know that god is waking you up
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- To something bigger than yourself.
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- The reason that you're here today
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- Is that to hear me preach is to be in the presence of god.
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- Is to be in his presence and to worship his name.
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- Because we're seeing the darkness in the world.
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- But the good news from his word is that light
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- Will always overcome the darkness around us.
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- The hand of god will guide you.
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- But notice this about ezekiel.
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- Not only does he experience the hand of god.
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- God didn't just bring him there to be comfortable.
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- He showed him what was dead,
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- What was gone.
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- And then he commanded him to take action by faith.
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- Ezekiel
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- 37, verse three and four, that he asked me, son of man,
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- Can these bones become living people again?
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- When you have an encounter with god, he may ask you a question
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- To see what your faith really is.
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- And there's some things right now we'll we'll yell hallelujah!
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- All right, god, you can do it.
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- Okay, but what about in this area?
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- What about with that person that hurt you?
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- Can we not talk about that today?
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- Can i bring this back to life?
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- Oh, sovereign lord,
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- I replied, only you know the answer to that.
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- Then he said to me, here it is right here.
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- Speak a prophetic message to the bones.
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- Speak life.
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- Speak a word of god.
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- Let me make this very clear.
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- The people of israel who represented
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- These bones were not only dead, they were disgraced.
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- Why? because these
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- Bones did not have a proper burial.
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- He's looking at his people, his nation.
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- They didn't have a proper burial.
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- Their bones are scattered all over the floor.
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- They've been disgraced and god is still asking him.
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- Can i bring them back to life?
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- Can i do the impossible
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- In your situation?
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- And so i believe
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- We're all surrounded by problems that look dead.
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- They look gone.
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- But you know what?
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- It's almost like we think god's going to be surprised, right?
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- Oh, god.
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- You don't know how bad it is, though.
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- Like, if, you.
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- Know, like,
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- I don't know if you want me talking to that person, right?
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- God was a surprise.
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- But the dry bones, he showed him the prophetic vision.
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- Yet he still commanded him. speak life.
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- Speak life.
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- And so
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- I want to say like this. actually.
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- Stop declaring
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- All your problems all the time.
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- And start declaring the promises of god over your.
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- Problems.
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- Stop talking about the things going wrong.
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- We know there's things going wrong.
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- We see those things.
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- Yes, you can have people in your life
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- That you can just kind of talk about the situations too.
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- But make sure everywhere you're going, when you're
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- Driving, when you're walking, when you're at the store,
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- You're not always being negative about everything,
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- Condemning everybody. right?
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- There were times in your life where you see that person
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- And you're like, oh, and god is like, no.
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- You know what you have to do?
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- Because i've been there too.
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- I started watching my mouth and just,
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- Just let loose, let loose, let loose.
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- Have to turn around and be like, oh god, please help me.
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- You know.
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- We all fell in that area.
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- But we need to stop speaking about the problems
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- All the time and start speaking about the promises of god.
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- We need to start.
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- We need to start prophesying,
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- Building up edifying. right?
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- And so our team was blessed last week to go to orlando,
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- Pretty much to a worship conference,
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- And i set one of the classes there as a songwriting class.
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- And the teacher there said something very interesting.
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- He said, you know, when people come
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- Into the church on a sunday, we lead them to prophesy
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- The name of jesus over their situation.
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- And i got to be honest with you, i never thought about worship
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- Like that.
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- Like when we come together, we start declaring
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- How big our god is over the problems in our life.
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- It doesn't matter if you feel it.
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- It doesn't matter if you sometimes don't
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- Even want to be here.
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- When you come here,
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- You choose to glorify god over your problems.
- 00:10:52.450 --> 00:10:55.786
- And this is biblical, by the way.
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- Psalm 100, verse four, into his gates with thanksgiving.
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- Be thankful over what god has done in your life.
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- Come into his courts with praise.
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- This is how we open up the presence of god.
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- God, i know that i'm hurt, but i'm going to thank you anyway.
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- God, i know that it's rough,
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- But i'm going to praise
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- Your holy name because my bible teaches me
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- That what the enemy intended to harm me.
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- You can still use for the good.
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- So i'm not listening to the other voices around me.
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- And so i want to break some things down
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- About worship right here.
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- I think it's very powerful.
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- Maybe changes your perspective on some things.
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- Worship.
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- The first thing is this worship is not denial.
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- It's defiance against death.
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- It's standing up against death.
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- Meaning we're not pretending
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- That there's not a valley of dry bones.
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- We see the dry bones.
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- We know that it's hard.
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- We're not pretending that
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- There's not a lot of darkness right now in our nation.
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- And a lot of hurt and a lot of grieving, a lot of confusion.
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- We know that it's there, but we choose
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- To lift our.
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- Voices above it.
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- Meaning this praise is not ignoring reality.
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- It's declaring a greater reality that my jesus is still king.
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- That's what praises habakkuk chapter three, verse 17 and 18.
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- Listen to this.
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- Figs might not grow on the fig tree.
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- Grapes might not grow in the vines.
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- Olives might not grow on the olive trees.
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- Food might not grow in the fields.
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- There might
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- Not be any sheep in the pens or cattle in the barns.
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- But i will still be glad in the lord
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- And rejoice in god my savior.
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- You know what this means.
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- When the door that i prayed for to open closes,
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- I will still rejoice in his name.
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- When the relationship falls apart,
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- I will still praise his holy name.
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- When my food is low and the bills are high,
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- I will still praise his name.
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- The devil can't take away my praise.
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- You're being defiant
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- Against what the world wants to put on to you.
- 00:13:01.178 --> 00:13:03.314
- But here's the powerful thing about that, okay?
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- Listen to this.
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- Worship.
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- The second thing is this worship. retrains your.
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- Language.
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- It retrains your mind on how to be able to speak.
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- And again,
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- It's not being naive about what's happening in your life.
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- But you're just prophetically speaking.
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- But, you know, the lord is going to do.
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- And so your language
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- Must change before your environment changes.
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- We wish it were the other way around is not.
- 00:13:30.708 --> 00:13:32.943
- So many of us are waiting for our environment to change.
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- And then we'll praise god. no, no, no.
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- Praise him in the storm.
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- Praise him in the valley.
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- Praise him when it's full of darkness.
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- We must retrain the way we speak.
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- Because ezekiel spoke to the
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- Bones even before they came back together.
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- He spoke to the bones. he.
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- He prophesied over them.
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- So there's days you come in here
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- And you're going to sing and you're going to say, jesus,
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- Jesus, you made the darkness tremble.
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- Jesus, jesus.
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- But nobody knows on the inside.
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- You're so hurt.
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- There's a lot of people that don't even know that.
- 00:14:14.618 --> 00:14:16.420
- Just for you to say those words right there, sing those words.
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- Took everything
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- Out of you to come in here and worship him like that.
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- Because of what you've endured and what you have
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- Have gone through, nobody knows.
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- But still, in the midst.
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- Of pain, in the midst of hurt, you will come into this room,
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- The holy house of god, and say, jesus.
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- Jesus.
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- That's what praise looks like.
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- To be in the fight against your feelings,
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- Declaring that the lord is still
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- In control and it transforms you
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- Because the bible is very clear.
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- Proverbs chapter 18, verse 21.
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- The tongue can bring life or death.
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- Those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
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- Are you only speaking death over everything you see?
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- Ezekiel was staring
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- At the death of his nation.
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- He's staring at the death of loved ones,
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- The oppression of his people.
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- Yet he still has the courage to speak by faith.
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- So let me ask you right now, what are you speaking?
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- The bible also states it like this. it.
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- It's time to guard your mouth.
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- A lot of us are speaking curses over our own life, and
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- We don't even know it.
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- He's speaking
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- Curses over other people.
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- And so here's what i want you to do.
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- How do we guard a mouth?
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- Identify the dry bones. thoughts,
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- The dry bones.
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- Thoughts that tell you that you're nobody.
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- You're not going to get past this. no, no, no.
- 00:15:48.712 --> 00:15:50.347
- Look at the word of god and said, retrain your mind.
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- Retrain the way you speak.
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- Why do i feel this way? why do i feel anxiety?
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- Because i'm afraid of what people
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- Are going to say about me.
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- Then why am i afraid about what
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- People are going to say about me?
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- Shouldn't i only care about what god thinks about me?
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- So you start to retrain your mind
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- And free yourself from those things. all right.
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- I'm free from people because i've come to serve god instead.
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- Not people,
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- But by serving god, i'm going to love people better
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- And set them free.
- 00:16:18.175 --> 00:16:19.777
- This is how you retrain your mind.
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- Because worship, listen to this.
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- Worship can turn your pain into prophecy.
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- That's so good.
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- Not because i said it, but because it's true.
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- Can we make that clear?
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- But it's powerful.
- 00:16:35.459 --> 00:16:37.728
- Worship can turn your pain into prophecy.
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- The second point that i want to show you is this.
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- Okay, the first thing that god was speaking to ezekiel, speak,
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- Speak, speak.
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- The second thing. here.
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- The word of the lord.
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- Dry bones.
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- The dead bones scattered upon the ground, humiliated
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- By the world.
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- Word. world. excuse me.
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- By the world. here.
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- The word of god.
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- Right now, here, the word of the lord.
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- Because let's be honest,
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- In a dry season, it is very difficult to hear god
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- Because we choose to listen to other people instead.
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- There's a lot of loud voices around us.
- 00:17:13.764 --> 00:17:15.699
- Again, it's a lot of loud voices in the comment sections on
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- Tv around us and and telling us to to just walk away from god.
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- And so when you're hurt, it's really hard to understand.
- 00:17:24.041 --> 00:17:26.143
- I know god is good, but why am i going through this?
- 00:17:26.143 --> 00:17:29.480
- But let me also give you a revelation.
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- If ezekiel listened
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- To the people around him, he would have walked away
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- From the promise of god.
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- He would have been devastated.
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- How do i know that?
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- Because god revealed what the people were saying.
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- Ezekiel chapter 37, verse 11.
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- They are saying, we have become old.
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- We have dry bones.
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- All hope is gone.
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- Our nation is finished.
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- Everything is falling apart.
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- We're done for.
- 00:17:54.304 --> 00:17:57.508
- And so the bible teaches us it's
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- Very important on who has your ear,
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- Because whoever has your ear
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- Fills your mind.
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- Who are you listening to?
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- That's another big thing right now.
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- Because if you're struggling with fear, depression
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- And anxiety, why is that?
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- Could it be
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- The very first thing you get up and look at and hear is fear,
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- Depression and anxiety
- 00:18:22.933 --> 00:18:25.602
- And horrific things that we see all over the internet,
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- All over social media, all over the tv.
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- Are those the very first things
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- That enter into your eyes, that enter into your heart,
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- Influencing the way that you think
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- And speak to us today?
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- See here when i listen to them,
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- And in romans chapter ten, verse 17 states it like this.
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- Faith comes from hearing.
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- Do you believe that?
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- Faith comes from hearing.
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- So does fear.
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- By the way.
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- So you have to choose.
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- Faith comes from hearing the word of god.
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- But fear may come from hearing all the loud voices around you.
- 00:19:01.538 --> 00:19:06.310
- And we've seen this over and over again out of the bible
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- And numbers 2 to 13 and 14.
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- Moses, since 12 spies into the promised land,
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- The land that god destined for his people,
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- Full of many wonderful fruits, blessings.
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- But at the same time there were giants.
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- Ten of the spies came back and they did not give a good word.
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- Even though they saw the miracles of god,
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- They chose to only see the giants.
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- You have to
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- Choose what's your perception right now?
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- Are you choosing only to look at what's bad? or
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- Are you even seeing the miracles of god in your situation?
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- Number 13, 31 and 32.
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- Here's what they stated.
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- We can't go up. against so
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- The stronger than us.
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- That i sound like they're whining, we can't go
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- Up against them.
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- The bigger, the stronger their intimidating.
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- The loud.
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- And so because of that, we spread a bad report
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- And the whole nation of israel.
- 00:20:03.433 --> 00:20:05.235
- But joshua and caleb were like, hold up!
- 00:20:05.235 --> 00:20:07.471
- God already promised us this land.
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- And verse 30, let us go and take the land.
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- Let us conquer it.
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- But the people
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- Love to allow insecurities and fear to consume them.
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- And so they decided to listen to those without faith.
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- And because of that, their bodies died in the wilderness
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- Until the next
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- Generation believed.
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- But joshua and caleb, who spoke by faith,
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- Prophetically spoke with the lord had already promised.
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- They're not just saying things to say things.
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- Okay, you got to hear from the lord.
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- Hear from the lord. what is god telling you?
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- What peace is he placing upon his upon your heart today?
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- How do you know this came from god?
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- It comes from his word.
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- It's in line with
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- His character is not just all the things you want in life.
- 00:20:55.952 --> 00:20:59.389
- It's his desires for you, what he desires for you.
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- On how to impact the kingdom of god.
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- Joshua and caleb knew that this was their land
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- Because it had to be so for
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- The promise to be fulfilled with abraham,
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- They didn't doubt it.
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- But who has your ear right now?
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- Last point is this.
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- Remember i told you to underline
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- How god put his spirit in them?
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- Without the spirit, we have form.
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- But no life.
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- Without the spirit.
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- Of god living inside of. us.
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- We can have form.
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- We can look the part.
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- We can dress up for church.
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- We can carry our bibles.
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- But on the inside, we have no life.
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- Ezekiel 37 eight through ten.
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- Then i said, watched muscles and flesh formed over the bones.
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- Then skin formed over the bodies.
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- But they still had no breath in them.
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- Then he said to me, speak now.
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- A prophetic message to the winds sent a man speak a prophetic
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- Message and say,
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- This is what the sovereign lord says, o come breath
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- From the four winds,
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- Breathing
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- Into these dead bodies, so that they may live again.
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- Breathe, and to them speak the word of the lord.
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- Let his spirit come upon his people again.
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- So i spoke
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- The message as he commanded me,
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- And breath came into their bodies.
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- And then they came to life and stood upon their feet.
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- Then they became a great army.
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- Ezekiel spoke,
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- The bones assembled,
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- But they were just dead bodies, corpses
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- Without the spirit of the living god.
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- And then the word spirit, the word breathe right here
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- Can actually mean the breath of god to live.
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- We see this at the genesis account with adam,
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- But it also means the spirit.
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- The spirit.
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- So i started thinking, is there a reason right now
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- That the church has felt a little bit fearful?
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- Church has felt a little bit behind us
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- And just
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- Been a little truthful over what god's word
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- Actually says, and is standing up in a boat away
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- Because the truth is, without the spirit,
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- It may be the reason you feel stuck in empty.
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- Still, even though you're showing up to church,
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- It may be the reason.
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- It is the reason that there are churches
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- That still feel religious and cold
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- Without the spirit of the lord moving.
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- It may be the reason you're not willing to fight
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- Because you don't have strength,
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- Because you're not relying on the holy spirit.
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- So god spoke to physical first speak.
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- Speak my word.
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- Second, hear my word.
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- Third, has the holy spirit
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- To give you strength when you have none.
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- Breathe life again.
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- I started thinking about when my daughter was born,
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- And many of you already know the story.
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- When she was born, she couldn't breathe
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- Because she had trachea.
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- Malaysia, which means her trachea was underdeveloped.
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- And so every every breath.
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- With a was a gasp for air, a fight, a battle.
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- I saw videos of her chest
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- Sinking in every time she took a breath
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- And a little squeal coming out of her voice
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- Because she was fighting to breathe.
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- And i remember seeing her
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- In the hospital with all these tubes
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- And oxygen just hooked up to her,
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- And these ivs and stuff like that.
- 00:24:50.654 --> 00:24:52.188
- And i started to get this picture.
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- This has been the church.
- 00:24:53.890 --> 00:24:57.661
- Because the devil has tried so hard to knock our breath away.
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- And so there have been
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- Situations in your life and
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- And devastation and darkness in the world.
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- And we see these things.
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- And sometimes it feels like we have no breath left to give.
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- Like we we can't stand up
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- And we can't praise, we can't worship.
- 00:25:16.613 --> 00:25:18.548
- But i'm, i'm prophesying right now in the name of jesus
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- That we would have the breath again of god
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- Living and breathing within the church.
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- Again.
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- They will be able to stand up boldly and speak and preach
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- The truths
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- That we will be able to love people
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- Even when it's hard to love
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- People, that we will see the chains fall off the people
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- Because the breath of god is back in the church,
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- The spirit of god is moving through us
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- And he wants to move through you.
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- You have been called.
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- You have been called
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- To move and to speak.
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- And if that terrifies you,
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- Let me remind you you're not alone.
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- The biggest truth is you're not alone in it.
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- The lord formed your mouth.
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- He will speak through you.
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- He will not abandon you in the dry place
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- When things get dark again.
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- John chapter one, verse five.
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- In the darkness the light still shines,
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- And the darkness will not be able to overcome it.
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- God's light shines through you.
- 00:26:28.151 --> 00:26:32.922
- And demons will try so hard
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- To make your light not shine.
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- Don't allow demons to take away.
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- The authority god has given you.
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- You have authority.
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- You cast out those.
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- Demons, not the other way. around.
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- You have authority to rebuke the enemy.
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- You have the authority
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- But the name of jesus to speak louder.
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- Just be bolder and speak the truth.
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- Because what i love about
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- This story, okay, they became a great army.
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- Why did they become a great army?
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- Not to be comfortable.
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- They became a great army because it was a mission.
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- God would give them strength by his spirit.
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- And we know in 1948, this prophetic vision
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- Came true when israel became a nation again,
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- 2500 plus years since the time of ezekiel.
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- So god has saved you not to sit on the couch
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- And scroll all day long.
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- But to speak with.
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- Boldness,
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- To pray, to move, to trust him
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- Because an army of god must rise up right now.
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- We will not give this nation over to the devil.
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- We will not give our families over to the devil.
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- We're not going to give our marriage over to the devil.
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- We're going to stand as the army of god,
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- Because that's what we're called to do.
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- There's still hope in jesus.
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- And so i felt from the lord to.
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- Prophesy over you.
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- And here's what i want to speak right here.
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- Because, listen, i believe you came to church today to
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- To be able to breathe again,
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- To feel his presence.
- 00:28:20.530 --> 00:28:21.464
- And so right now, i prophesy that life
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- Over what has seemed dead and gone.
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- And hopeless
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- Will be able to come back again.
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- Right now i speak that faith will rise again, that your
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- Your families will be able to breathe again.
- 00:28:35.545 --> 00:28:37.580
- And i prophesy right now that there will be a great
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- Revival in this nation.
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- Hey, great revival within this city, but it must stir
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- From the inside out.
- 00:28:49.392 --> 00:28:52.228
- We must start to see the changes in our own life.
- 00:28:52.228 --> 00:28:55.431
- And again, what did he tell ezekiel?
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- Speak prophetically. speak by faith.
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- Be in the word. hear the word.
- 00:29:00.170 --> 00:29:02.505
- Allow the holy spirit to guide you.
- 00:29:02.505 --> 00:29:04.841
- This is how true revival takes place.
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- It is a process,
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- A process
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- Of transforming your mind.
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- But when the army of god stands up by faith,
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- The nation
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- And the world is transformed
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- Because of the gospel.
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- Of jesus christ,
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- The lord is with you.
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- He will never leave you.
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- What may seem hopeless
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- Is not hopeless.
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- In the darkness,
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- His light only shines brighter.
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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.
- 00:29:52.922 --> 00:29:56.826
- And listen, if you love this church
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- And thinking about giving to this church, all you have to do
- 00:29:58.962 --> 00:30:01.898
- Is visit our website at bobbie chandler ministries.com.
- 00:30:01.898 --> 00:30:05.802
- And it's very easy to give.
- 00:30:05.802 --> 00:30:07.303
- And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives.
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- Because of your faithful giving.
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- We're able to reach 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.
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- And listen.
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