Bobby Chandler - When Life is Dry, Revival Shakes the Valley (Part 2)

December 2, 2025 | 31:44

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,
  • 00:10:12.043 --> 00:10:14.779
  • Building up edifying. right?
  • 00:10:14.779 --> 00:10:17.081
  • And so our team was blessed last week to go to orlando,
  • 00:10:17.081 --> 00:10:20.518
  • Pretty much to a worship conference,
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  • And i set one of the classes there as a songwriting class.
  • 00:10:22.119 --> 00:10:26.257
  • And the teacher there said something very interesting.
  • 00:10:26.257 --> 00:10:28.793
  • He said, you know, when people come
  • 00:10:28.793 --> 00:10:30.461
  • Into the church on a sunday, we lead them to prophesy
  • 00:10:30.461 --> 00:10:34.965
  • The name of jesus over their situation.
  • 00:10:34.965 --> 00:10:38.269
  • And i got to be honest with you, i never thought about worship
  • 00:10:38.269 --> 00:10:40.237
  • Like that.
  • 00:10:40.237 --> 00:10:41.372
  • Like when we come together, we start declaring
  • 00:10:41.372 --> 00:10:43.541
  • How big our god is over the problems in our life.
  • 00:10:43.541 --> 00:10:47.244
  • It doesn't matter if you feel it.
  • 00:10:47.244 --> 00:10:48.746
  • It doesn't matter if you sometimes don't
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  • Even want to be here.
  • 00:10:50.448 --> 00:10:51.449
  • When you come here,
  • 00:10:51.449 --> 00:10:52.450
  • You choose to glorify god over your problems.
  • 00:10:52.450 --> 00:10:55.786
  • And this is biblical, by the way.
  • 00:10:55.786 --> 00:10:57.822
  • Psalm 100, verse four, into his gates with thanksgiving.
  • 00:10:57.822 --> 00:11:02.093
  • Be thankful over what god has done in your life.
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  • Come into his courts with praise.
  • 00:11:04.261 --> 00:11:05.863
  • 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.
  • 00:11:08.999 --> 00:11:12.703
  • God, i know that it's rough,
  • 00:11:13.304 --> 00:11:14.538
  • But i'm going to praise
  • 00:11:14.538 --> 00:11:15.473
  • Your holy name because my bible teaches me
  • 00:11:15.473 --> 00:11:18.309
  • That what the enemy intended to harm me.
  • 00:11:18.309 --> 00:11:20.878
  • You can still use for the good.
  • 00:11:20.878 --> 00:11:24.281
  • So i'm not listening to the other voices around me.
  • 00:11:24.281 --> 00:11:27.618
  • And so i want to break some things down
  • 00:11:27.618 --> 00:11:28.819
  • About worship right here.
  • 00:11:28.819 --> 00:11:29.720
  • I think it's very powerful.
  • 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:31.856
  • Maybe changes your perspective on some things.
  • 00:11:31.856 --> 00:11:34.058
  • Worship.
  • 00:11:34.058 --> 00:11:35.092
  • The first thing is this worship is not denial.
  • 00:11:35.092 --> 00:11:37.495
  • It's defiance against death.
  • 00:11:37.495 --> 00:11:40.965
  • It's standing up against death.
  • 00:11:40.965 --> 00:11:43.000
  • Meaning we're not pretending
  • 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.503
  • That there's not a valley of dry bones.
  • 00:11:45.503 --> 00:11:47.638
  • We see the dry bones.
  • 00:11:47.638 --> 00:11:49.106
  • We know that it's hard.
  • 00:11:49.106 --> 00:11:50.241
  • We're not pretending that
  • 00:11:50.241 --> 00:11:51.408
  • There's not a lot of darkness right now in our nation.
  • 00:11:51.408 --> 00:11:53.744
  • And a lot of hurt and a lot of grieving, a lot of confusion.
  • 00:11:53.744 --> 00:11:56.680
  • We know that it's there, but we choose
  • 00:11:56.680 --> 00:12:00.384
  • To lift our.
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  • Voices above it.
  • 00:12:01.252 --> 00:12:03.220
  • Meaning this praise is not ignoring reality.
  • 00:12:03.220 --> 00:12:06.791
  • It's declaring a greater reality that my jesus is still king.
  • 00:12:06.791 --> 00:12:11.061
  • 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.
  • 00:12:16.634 --> 00:12:20.237
  • Grapes might not grow in the vines.
  • 00:12:20.237 --> 00:12:22.840
  • Olives might not grow on the olive trees.
  • 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:25.309
  • Food might not grow in the fields.
  • 00:12:25.309 --> 00:12:27.411
  • There might
  • 00:12:27.411 --> 00:12:28.512
  • Not be any sheep in the pens or cattle in the barns.
  • 00:12:28.512 --> 00:12:31.816
  • But i will still be glad in the lord
  • 00:12:31.816 --> 00:12:35.219
  • And rejoice in god my savior.
  • 00:12:35.219 --> 00:12:38.289
  • You know what this means.
  • 00:12:38.289 --> 00:12:39.723
  • When the door that i prayed for to open closes,
  • 00:12:39.723 --> 00:12:42.393
  • I will still rejoice in his name.
  • 00:12:42.393 --> 00:12:44.662
  • When the relationship falls apart,
  • 00:12:44.662 --> 00:12:46.597
  • I will still praise his holy name.
  • 00:12:46.597 --> 00:12:48.566
  • When my food is low and the bills are high,
  • 00:12:48.566 --> 00:12:52.603
  • I will still praise his name.
  • 00:12:52.603 --> 00:12:55.573
  • The devil can't take away my praise.
  • 00:12:55.573 --> 00:12:58.375
  • You're being defiant
  • 00:12:58.375 --> 00:13:00.211
  • 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?
  • 00:13:03.314 --> 00:13:06.050
  • 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.
  • 00:13:11.655 --> 00:13:13.958
  • It retrains your mind on how to be able to speak.
  • 00:13:13.958 --> 00:13:17.528
  • And again,
  • 00:13:17.828 --> 00:13:18.996
  • It's not being naive about what's happening in your life.
  • 00:13:18.996 --> 00:13:21.699
  • But you're just prophetically speaking.
  • 00:13:21.699 --> 00:13:23.534
  • But, you know, the lord is going to do.
  • 00:13:23.534 --> 00:13:25.903
  • And so your language
  • 00:13:25.903 --> 00:13:26.837
  • Must change before your environment changes.
  • 00:13:26.837 --> 00:13:30.708
  • 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.
  • 00:13:32.943 --> 00:13:35.246
  • And then we'll praise god. no, no, no.
  • 00:13:35.246 --> 00:13:36.513
  • Praise him in the storm.
  • 00:13:36.513 --> 00:13:38.916
  • Praise him in the valley.
  • 00:13:38.916 --> 00:13:40.484
  • Praise him when it's full of darkness.
  • 00:13:40.484 --> 00:13:42.586
  • We must retrain the way we speak.
  • 00:13:42.586 --> 00:13:46.190
  • Because ezekiel spoke to the
  • 00:13:46.790 --> 00:13:48.492
  • Bones even before they came back together.
  • 00:13:48.492 --> 00:13:51.528
  • He spoke to the bones. he.
  • 00:13:51.528 --> 00:13:52.796
  • He prophesied over them.
  • 00:13:52.796 --> 00:13:54.598
  • So there's days you come in here
  • 00:13:54.598 --> 00:13:57.902
  • And you're going to sing and you're going to say, jesus,
  • 00:13:57.902 --> 00:14:00.104
  • Jesus, you made the darkness tremble.
  • 00:14:00.104 --> 00:14:04.808
  • Jesus, jesus.
  • 00:14:05.175 --> 00:14:08.479
  • But nobody knows on the inside.
  • 00:14:09.113 --> 00:14:10.381
  • You're so hurt.
  • 00:14:10.381 --> 00:14:13.617
  • 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.
  • 00:14:16.420 --> 00:14:19.757
  • Took everything
  • 00:14:20.124 --> 00:14:22.826
  • Out of you to come in here and worship him like that.
  • 00:14:22.826 --> 00:14:25.930
  • Because of what you've endured and what you have
  • 00:14:26.897 --> 00:14:28.933
  • Have gone through, nobody knows.
  • 00:14:28.933 --> 00:14:30.968
  • But still, in the midst.
  • 00:14:30.968 --> 00:14:32.269
  • Of pain, in the midst of hurt, you will come into this room,
  • 00:14:32.269 --> 00:14:35.239
  • The holy house of god, and say, jesus.
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  • Jesus.
  • 00:14:38.208 --> 00:14:41.111
  • That's what praise looks like.
  • 00:14:41.712 --> 00:14:44.248
  • To be in the fight against your feelings,
  • 00:14:44.248 --> 00:14:47.584
  • Declaring that the lord is still
  • 00:14:48.218 --> 00:14:50.154
  • In control and it transforms you
  • 00:14:50.154 --> 00:14:52.156
  • Because the bible is very clear.
  • 00:14:52.156 --> 00:14:53.657
  • Proverbs chapter 18, verse 21.
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  • The tongue can bring life or death.
  • 00:14:55.826 --> 00:14:58.963
  • Those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
  • 00:14:58.963 --> 00:15:01.198
  • Are you only speaking death over everything you see?
  • 00:15:01.198 --> 00:15:07.204
  • Ezekiel was staring
  • 00:15:07.671 --> 00:15:10.240
  • At the death of his nation.
  • 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:11.475
  • He's staring at the death of loved ones,
  • 00:15:11.475 --> 00:15:13.844
  • The oppression of his people.
  • 00:15:13.844 --> 00:15:15.346
  • Yet he still has the courage to speak by faith.
  • 00:15:15.346 --> 00:15:18.816
  • 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.
  • 00:15:25.089 --> 00:15:30.761
  • A lot of us are speaking curses over our own life, and
  • 00:15:28.492 --> 00:15:33.831
  • We don't even know it.
  • 00:15:33.831 --> 00:15:36.200
  • He's speaking
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  • Curses over other people.
  • 00:15:37.201 --> 00:15:40.304
  • And so here's what i want you to do.
  • 00:15:40.304 --> 00:15:41.372
  • How do we guard a mouth?
  • 00:15:41.372 --> 00:15:42.339
  • Identify the dry bones. thoughts,
  • 00:15:42.339 --> 00:15:45.676
  • The dry bones.
  • 00:15:45.676 --> 00:15:46.610
  • Thoughts that tell you that you're nobody.
  • 00:15:46.610 --> 00:15:48.712
  • 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.
  • 00:15:50.347 --> 00:15:53.484
  • Retrain the way you speak.
  • 00:15:54.051 --> 00:15:55.386
  • Why do i feel this way? why do i feel anxiety?
  • 00:15:55.386 --> 00:15:57.888
  • Because i'm afraid of what people
  • 00:15:57.888 --> 00:15:59.056
  • Are going to say about me.
  • 00:15:59.056 --> 00:16:00.224
  • Then why am i afraid about what
  • 00:16:00.224 --> 00:16:01.425
  • People are going to say about me?
  • 00:16:01.425 --> 00:16:03.160
  • Shouldn't i only care about what god thinks about me?
  • 00:16:03.160 --> 00:16:05.963
  • So you start to retrain your mind
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  • And free yourself from those things. all right.
  • 00:16:07.631 --> 00:16:09.733
  • I'm free from people because i've come to serve god instead.
  • 00:16:09.733 --> 00:16:13.637
  • Not people,
  • 00:16:13.637 --> 00:16:15.339
  • But by serving god, i'm going to love people better
  • 00:16:15.339 --> 00:16:18.175
  • And set them free.
  • 00:16:18.175 --> 00:16:19.777
  • This is how you retrain your mind.
  • 00:16:20.511 --> 00:16:21.745
  • Because worship, listen to this.
  • 00:16:21.745 --> 00:16:23.013
  • Worship can turn your pain into prophecy.
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  • That's so good.
  • 00:16:27.718 --> 00:16:29.987
  • Not because i said it, but because it's true.
  • 00:16:29.987 --> 00:16:32.890
  • Can we make that clear?
  • 00:16:32.890 --> 00:16:35.459
  • But it's powerful.
  • 00:16:35.459 --> 00:16:37.728
  • Worship can turn your pain into prophecy.
  • 00:16:37.728 --> 00:16:40.631
  • The second point that i want to show you is this.
  • 00:16:40.631 --> 00:16:43.333
  • Okay, the first thing that god was speaking to ezekiel, speak,
  • 00:16:43.333 --> 00:16:45.636
  • Speak, speak.
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  • The second thing. here.
  • 00:16:46.637 --> 00:16:49.173
  • 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.
  • 00:16:57.247 --> 00:16:58.882
  • By the world. here.
  • 00:16:58.882 --> 00:17:01.151
  • The word of god.
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  • Right now, here, the word of the lord.
  • 00:17:02.019 --> 00:17:05.322
  • Because let's be honest,
  • 00:17:05.322 --> 00:17:06.356
  • In a dry season, it is very difficult to hear god
  • 00:17:06.356 --> 00:17:09.660
  • Because we choose to listen to other people instead.
  • 00:17:10.727 --> 00:17:13.764
  • 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
  • 00:17:15.699 --> 00:17:20.003
  • Tv around us and and telling us to to just walk away from god.
  • 00:17:20.003 --> 00:17:24.041
  • 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.
  • 00:17:30.247 --> 00:17:31.715
  • If ezekiel listened
  • 00:17:31.715 --> 00:17:34.685
  • To the people around him, he would have walked away
  • 00:17:34.685 --> 00:17:36.453
  • From the promise of god.
  • 00:17:36.453 --> 00:17:38.489
  • He would have been devastated.
  • 00:17:38.489 --> 00:17:39.356
  • How do i know that?
  • 00:17:39.356 --> 00:17:40.424
  • Because god revealed what the people were saying.
  • 00:17:40.424 --> 00:17:43.127
  • Ezekiel chapter 37, verse 11.
  • 00:17:43.127 --> 00:17:45.262
  • They are saying, we have become old.
  • 00:17:45.262 --> 00:17:47.965
  • We have dry bones.
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  • All hope is gone.
  • 00:17:49.500 --> 00:17:50.868
  • Our nation is finished.
  • 00:17:50.868 --> 00:17:52.369
  • Everything is falling apart.
  • 00:17:52.369 --> 00:17:54.304
  • We're done for.
  • 00:17:54.304 --> 00:17:57.508
  • And so the bible teaches us it's
  • 00:17:58.142 --> 00:17:59.576
  • Very important on who has your ear,
  • 00:17:59.576 --> 00:18:02.980
  • Because whoever has your ear
  • 00:18:03.580 --> 00:18:06.049
  • Fills your mind.
  • 00:18:06.049 --> 00:18:09.119
  • Who are you listening to?
  • 00:18:09.686 --> 00:18:11.155
  • That's another big thing right now.
  • 00:18:11.155 --> 00:18:14.324
  • Because if you're struggling with fear, depression
  • 00:18:14.324 --> 00:18:16.393
  • And anxiety, why is that?
  • 00:18:16.393 --> 00:18:18.128
  • Could it be
  • 00:18:18.128 --> 00:18:19.396
  • The very first thing you get up and look at and hear is fear,
  • 00:18:19.396 --> 00:18:22.466
  • Depression and anxiety
  • 00:18:22.933 --> 00:18:25.602
  • And horrific things that we see all over the internet,
  • 00:18:25.602 --> 00:18:28.438
  • All over social media, all over the tv.
  • 00:18:29.239 --> 00:18:31.275
  • Are those the very first things
  • 00:18:31.275 --> 00:18:32.442
  • That enter into your eyes, that enter into your heart,
  • 00:18:32.442 --> 00:18:35.846
  • Influencing the way that you think
  • 00:18:36.580 --> 00:18:38.749
  • And speak to us today?
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  • See here when i listen to them,
  • 00:18:42.219 --> 00:18:44.555
  • And in romans chapter ten, verse 17 states it like this.
  • 00:18:44.555 --> 00:18:47.357
  • Faith comes from hearing.
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  • Do you believe that?
  • 00:18:50.360 --> 00:18:52.029
  • Faith comes from hearing.
  • 00:18:52.029 --> 00:18:53.197
  • So does fear.
  • 00:18:53.197 --> 00:18:55.732
  • By the way.
  • 00:18:55.732 --> 00:18:57.568
  • So you have to choose.
  • 00:18:57.568 --> 00:18:59.136
  • Faith comes from hearing the word of god.
  • 00:18:59.136 --> 00:19:01.538
  • 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
  • 00:19:06.310 --> 00:19:09.246
  • And numbers 2 to 13 and 14.
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  • Moses, since 12 spies into the promised land,
  • 00:19:11.181 --> 00:19:14.284
  • The land that god destined for his people,
  • 00:19:14.284 --> 00:19:17.020
  • Full of many wonderful fruits, blessings.
  • 00:19:17.020 --> 00:19:19.990
  • But at the same time there were giants.
  • 00:19:19.990 --> 00:19:22.092
  • Ten of the spies came back and they did not give a good word.
  • 00:19:22.092 --> 00:19:26.096
  • Even though they saw the miracles of god,
  • 00:19:26.096 --> 00:19:28.699
  • They chose to only see the giants.
  • 00:19:28.699 --> 00:19:32.469
  • You have to
  • 00:19:32.803 --> 00:19:33.737
  • Choose what's your perception right now?
  • 00:19:33.737 --> 00:19:36.673
  • Are you choosing only to look at what's bad? or
  • 00:19:36.673 --> 00:19:39.142
  • Are you even seeing the miracles of god in your situation?
  • 00:19:39.142 --> 00:19:42.579
  • Number 13, 31 and 32.
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  • Here's what they stated.
  • 00:19:44.681 --> 00:19:45.582
  • 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
  • 00:19:50.420 --> 00:19:52.723
  • Up against them.
  • 00:19:52.723 --> 00:19:54.524
  • The bigger, the stronger their intimidating.
  • 00:19:54.524 --> 00:19:58.929
  • The loud.
  • 00:19:58.929 --> 00:20:00.030
  • And so because of that, we spread a bad report
  • 00:20:00.030 --> 00:20:03.433
  • 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.
  • 00:20:07.471 --> 00:20:09.640
  • And verse 30, let us go and take the land.
  • 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:12.175
  • Let us conquer it.
  • 00:20:12.175 --> 00:20:15.612
  • But the people
  • 00:20:15.946 --> 00:20:18.448
  • Love to allow insecurities and fear to consume them.
  • 00:20:18.448 --> 00:20:21.918
  • And so they decided to listen to those without faith.
  • 00:20:21.918 --> 00:20:24.855
  • And because of that, their bodies died in the wilderness
  • 00:20:24.855 --> 00:20:29.493
  • Until the next
  • 00:20:29.826 --> 00:20:30.427
  • Generation believed.
  • 00:20:30.427 --> 00:20:33.864
  • But joshua and caleb, who spoke by faith,
  • 00:20:33.864 --> 00:20:37.301
  • Prophetically spoke with the lord had already promised.
  • 00:20:37.301 --> 00:20:40.203
  • 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.
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  • 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,
  • 00:23:37.747 --> 00:23:40.617
  • 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.
  • 00:24:08.845 --> 00:24:12.716
  • 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.
  • 00:24:57.661 --> 00:25:02.566
  • 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.
  • 00:25:07.137 --> 00:25:10.373
  • And we see these things.
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  • And sometimes it feels like we have no breath left to give.
  • 00:25:11.741 --> 00:25:15.011
  • Like we we can't stand up
  • 00:25:15.011 --> 00:25:16.613
  • 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
  • 00:25:18.548 --> 00:25:21.585
  • 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
  • 00:25:35.665 --> 00:25:37.033
  • People, that we will see the chains fall off the people
  • 00:25:37.033 --> 00:25:40.870
  • Because the breath of god is back in the church,
  • 00:25:40.870 --> 00:25:44.574
  • 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,
  • 00:25:58.388 --> 00:26:01.157
  • 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
  • 00:26:53.176 --> 00:26:54.511
  • 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
  • 00:27:00.383 --> 00:27:01.384
  • This story, okay, they became a great army.
  • 00:27:01.384 --> 00:27:05.755
  • Why did they become a great army?
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  • Not to be comfortable.
  • 00:27:07.223 --> 00:27:09.793
  • They became a great army because it was a mission.
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  • God would give them strength by his spirit.
  • 00:27:12.629 --> 00:27:14.798
  • And we know in 1948, this prophetic vision
  • 00:27:14.798 --> 00:27:19.069
  • Came true when israel became a nation again,
  • 00:27:19.069 --> 00:27:22.338
  • 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.
  • 00:27:56.773 --> 00:28:01.644
  • There's still hope in jesus.
  • 00:28:02.245 --> 00:28:05.381
  • 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
  • 00:28:13.556 --> 00:28:16.826
  • To be able to breathe again,
  • 00:28:17.427 --> 00:28:20.530
  • 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
  • 00:28:26.803 --> 00:28:29.305
  • Will be able to come back again.
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  • Right now i speak that faith will rise again, that your
  • 00:28:32.475 --> 00:28:35.545
  • 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
  • 00:28:37.580 --> 00:28:40.950
  • Revival in this nation.
  • 00:28:41.451 --> 00:28:44.754
  • Hey, great revival within this city, but it must stir
  • 00:28:44.754 --> 00:28:48.925
  • 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?
  • 00:28:55.431 --> 00:28:57.367
  • Speak prophetically. speak by faith.
  • 00:28:57.367 --> 00:29:00.170
  • 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.
  • 00:29:04.841 --> 00:29:07.610
  • It is a process,
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  • A process
  • 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:11.281
  • Of transforming your mind.
  • 00:29:11.281 --> 00:29:15.018
  • But when the army of god stands up by faith,
  • 00:29:15.018 --> 00:29:18.521
  • The nation
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  • And the world is transformed
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  • Because of the gospel.
  • 00:29:23.760 --> 00:29:24.661
  • Of jesus christ,
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  • The lord is with you.
  • 00:29:27.263 --> 00:29:29.632
  • He will never leave you.
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  • What may seem hopeless
  • 00:29:32.268 --> 00:29:34.938
  • Is not hopeless.
  • 00:29:34.938 --> 00:29:37.473
  • In the darkness,
  • 00:29:37.473 --> 00:29:39.509
  • His light only shines brighter.
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  • All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
  • 00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:45.181
  • But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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  • There is a reason you heard this word today.
  • 00:29:48.918 --> 00:29:51.454
  • 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
  • 00:29:56.826 --> 00:29:58.962
  • 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.
  • 00:30:07.303 --> 00:30:10.874
  • 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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