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Accessing the Voice of God

Creflo Dollar

January 14, 2021

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Creflo: Now, we're gonna spendthe next few weeks talking about
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the importance of being able tobe led by the Holy Spirit, led
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by the voice of God, and thereare many ways that God can lead
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us, but if there's ever a timewe need the leadership of the
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Holy Spirit, if there's ever atime we need access to the voice
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of God, it would be today.
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We need God's voice to guide uswhere to go, where not to go.
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We need God's voice to guideus what to do, what not to do.
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We need God's voice to guide usbecause, in our attempt to try
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to hurry up to get back tosomethin' that's the norm, God's
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tryin' to take us in a newdirection and down another path.
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We have to have accessto the voice of God.
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And so that's what I wanna talkto you about tonight, "Accessing
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the Voice of God."
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And when you access the voice ofGod, I'm talkin' about showing
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you some--or giving you sometips of how to position yourself
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or put yourself in a positionwhere you can access the voice
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of God.
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Now, listen, I know thatwe're under grace, and God can
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basically choose to let us knowthings however he wants to let
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us know things, and he canchoose to lead us and guide us
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in dreams and visions whichwe'll speak about that soon, but
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I wanna give you some tips, inother words, maybe make some
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suggestions to you tonight onsome of the things that you can
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do to position yourself to hearGod's voice, and I want you to
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hear this, at the same time,having heard me say that, as
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people under grace, Godcan choose to do things.
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I may say you need to do this,but then God may say, "Well, you
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know what?
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It's fine if you do that,but I'll choose to do this
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particular thing."
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Now, let's begin in Isaiahchapter 30, in verse 21.
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Isaiah 30:21, he says, "Andthine ears shall hear a word
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behind thee, saying, 'This isthe way, walk ye in it, when you
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turn to the right hand, andwhen you turn to the left."
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Now, look at this in theNew Living Translation.
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Here he says that thisis the way of the Lord.
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He says, "Your earwill hear this."
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The New Living Translation says,"Your own ear will hear him."
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Wow, I thank God for thatbecause the Bible says that
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we're his sheep, and he said,"My sheep hear my voice."
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And so we have access andpermission to be able to hear
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God's voice.
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He says, "Your ownears will hear him."
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He says, "Right behind you avoice will say, 'This is the way
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you should go,' whether tothe right or to the left."
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I believe we have accessto the voice of God.
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I believe we have access to thevoice of God to direct us which
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way we need to go.
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You know, it's important thatwe understand that God wants to
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lead us in the waythat we should go.
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He wants to guide our lives, andI believe that the best results
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in a man's life will be asa result of being led by the
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Spirit of God.
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The Bible sayswe're sons of God.
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We are led by the Spirit of God,but not many people are still
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open to being led by God.
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They wanna be led bytheir own ambitions.
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They wanna be led by their owndesires, and, yet God knows the
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best path for us to take.
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God knows the path that willlead us to green pastures, and
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he also knows the paththat'll lead you to a wreck.
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And so I think that this isthe perfect time for Christian
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people especially to understandwhat they can do to gain access
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to the voice of God and to havethe attitude of where he leads
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me, then that's whereI'm going to follow.
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And so God is willing to offerdirections to as many people, as
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many people who arewilling to be led.
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And so my question tonight,"Are you willing to be led?"
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Because that's whereI believe it begins.
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It begins with awillingness to be led.
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"I want to be led by God."
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That's where itstarts right there.
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"I want to be led by God,"because you're a free
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moral agent.
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You can decide, "I don'twant his leadership.
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I'm not seekin' his leadership.
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I don't care about hisleadership," and you may end up
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in a wreck.
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But God who knows everything,who knows whether we should go
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right or left, it's time forus to learn how to access that.
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So I believe itrequires diligence.
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I believe it requires abusiness-like approach.
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You have to consciously programyourself to hear from God, and
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like I say it again, youknow, God can choose to do it
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regardless whether ornot you do that or not.
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You know, the Bible says thathe'll give more grace to
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the humble.
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So obviously, being humblepositions you for more grace.
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And so God's just tryin' to showus how to position ourself for
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the better.
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Now, just as you need to betuned to a particular frequency
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in order to pick up a radiosignal, you need to be correctly
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tuned to heaven's frequency inorder to hear God's voice
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of direction.
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I'm speaking specificallytonight about God's voice of
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direction, and I believe thatthis may require us--or maybe we
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need to get into a placewhere we have a very definite
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determination to be in aposition to hear from God, and
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so I think this isvery, very important.
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So I wanna share with you threethings that I think will help
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you to position yourself toget the voice of direction.
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I should've called the messagethis: "A voice of direction."
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And I believe the first thingwe need to do is found in
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Revelations chapter 4, in 1.
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This is very, very interesting,and I can testify to this.
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Revelations chapter 4, in 1,here's the first position I
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think we need to be in, in orderto get the voice of direction.
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Verse 1, says, "After this Ilooked, and behold, a door was
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opened in heaven, and the firstvoice which I heard was as it
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were of a trumpet talkingwith me, which said,"
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now watch this,"Come up hither,"
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underline that, "Come uphither, and I will show thee
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things which must be hereafter."
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Notice, he says, "You repositionyourself, and I'll show you."
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"Come up hither,and I'll show you."
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"Get into this position, cometowards me, and I will
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show you."
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Well, I believe that a climbingup is needed in order to hear
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from God.
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A repositioning is neededin order to hear from God.
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A coming to God, a sanctifyingyourself to God, is needed in
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order to hear.
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In other words, I don't knowwhere you may be, but where you
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may be might be a hindranceto you hearin' from God.
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You might be around a bunchof clutter, around a bunch of
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stress, around a bunch of drama,around a bunch of division, and
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God is saying, "Come up hither,and I'll show you some things.
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Reposition yourself, andI'll show you some things."
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And so, yeah, I believe this maybe also saying, "Come away from
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all those things keepingyou on the ground."
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Maybe this is talking abouta separation is needed, not a
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separation from God, buta separation unto God.
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That separation unto God isneeded to hear from God or to
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receive instructions anddirections, either from his Word
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or either from his voice,but either way, there's a
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repositioning here.
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There's a coming up to him.
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There is a separating yourselfunto God, not from God, but
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separating yourself maybe fromall of those distractions,
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separating yourself from all ofthe clutter, all of the worry,
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all of the news.
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I see what God is saying here.
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He says, you know, "Get awayfrom all of the things that
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could be clogging orinterfering, if you will, with
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the signal or the frequency,"so a separation unto God.
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I remember, years ago, when Ifelt like I needed to separate
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unto God to hear some thingsconcerning, you know, the call
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of God on my life, what Godwanted me to do, what God wanted
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me to preach, and so Taffi andI drove to Kiawah Island's--I'll
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never forget this--and we wentwith the sole purpose of, you
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know, separating ourselvesunto God, come up hither,
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repositioning ourselves to go sowe can hear what God wanted us
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to say.
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We needed some direction.
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I know I did.
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And, man, it didn'ttake long at all.
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I mean, I got in there, got onmy face, determined I wasn't
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comin' back until we heard fromGod, and, man, I heard from him
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that night.
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I was probably on my fourth hourof praying, and I heard from the
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Lord, and I realized that itdidn't take but a separation
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unto him.
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And so Galatians 1:15and 18, look at this.
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Galatians 1:15-18, thiswill be pretty important.
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It shows how Paul spent threeyears in Arabia, receiving
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insight and revelation to God.
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Paul separated hisself unto God,and Galatians 1:15 and 18, "But
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when it pleased God, whoseparated me from my mother's
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womb, and called me by hisgrace," Paul said, "to receive
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his Son in me, that I mightpreach him among the heathen,
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immediately," he says, "Iconferred not with flesh and
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blood," 17, "neither went I upto Jerusalem to them which were
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apostles before me, but I wentinto Arabia, and I returned
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again into Damascus.
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Then after three years I went upto Jerusalem to see Peter, and
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abode with him 15 days."
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So maybe it takes time because,in that time in Arabia, Paul
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began to understand whathe was supposed to preach.
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He was opposed to preach theGospel of Jesus Christ, and it
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was made plain because he waswillin' to come up hither.
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He was willing toseparate hisself unto God.
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And so a separation unto God isalways going to be to your
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own advantage.
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You gotta be willin'to go up to get it.
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You gotta be willing toseparate unto him to get it.
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You really wantdirections from the Lord?
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You really want God to beginto direct your path on what you
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should do, when you should doit, and how you should do it?
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Then you gotta be willin'to come up hither.
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You gotta be willin' to separateyourself unto God so that you
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can begin to do it.
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I think one of the mostfrustrating things you can
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experience in life is notknowing your purpose, not
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knowing what you're supposed todo, not knowing the next step
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you're supposed to make in yourlife, and I'm telling you, the
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greatest position for you to bein is in a position where God
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can begin to lead and to guideyou and to get you to the place
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where you need to be.
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So that's the first place Ibelieve can really help you in
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getting direction from God.
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The second place--now, you know,when I first looked at this and
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thought about this, I couldn'tdeny what was in the Scriptures
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where this is concerned.
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So the second adjustment Ithink needs to be made in your
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life--listen to thiscarefully--joy, joy.
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I believe that you positionyourself to get directions from
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the Lord, based on the level ofjoy that is in operation in
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your life.
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Watch the Scripture.
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Isaiah chapter 12, and verse 3,and I'll read a few more, but
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this originally got myattention, Isaiah 12, verse 3.
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He says, "Therefore with joyshall you draw water out of the
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wells of salvation."
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"With joy, you can draw waterout of the wells of salvation."
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So if you're not joyful, youraccess to him may be hindered.
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Notice, "With joy you withdrawout of the wells of salvation."
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I believe with joy you withdrawthe directions that are needed
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in your life to begin to get youto the place where you need to
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be, and so, if you're notjoyful, what's goin' on with
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your access?
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Is there a connection betweenthe joyfulness and the gladness
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that's operating in your lifeand the directions that you have
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an opportunity to walk in?
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So I believe it takes joy togain access into the mysteries
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of the kingdom of God.
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"The joy of the Lord,"watch this, "is my strength."
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See, with joy, youdraw revelation.
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I believe with joy youdraw instructions from God.
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With joy, you draw the voice ofdirection in your life with the
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joy of the Lord.
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Now, first thing, as I said,is, you know, I began to look
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at--all right, I don't recall,not many times where I'm just
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mumbling and complainin' all thetime that I heard somethin' from
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the Lord unless it was "Stopmurmuring and complaining," and
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I'm not necessarily saying thatthis is the only way or the only
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time God can revealsome things to ya.
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I'm just saying that you can, onpurpose, begin to focus on that
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joy level in your life andwithdraw some water out of the
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wells of salvation.
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Now look at this in Isaiahchapter 30, verse 29 and 30.
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He adds a little bit more tothis, Isaiah chapter 30, verse
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29 and 30.
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Let's look at this.
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He says, "You shall have a song,as in the night when a holy
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solemnity is kept, and gladnessof heart, as when one goeth with
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a pipe to come into the mountainof the Lord, to the mighty one
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of Israel, and the Lord--"
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Look what happensbased on how they came.
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They came with songand joy and gladness.
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"And the Lord shall cause hisglorious voice to be heard--"
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Whoa, that got my attention.
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I notice in verse 29 how theyapproached, "And then the Lord
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shall cause his glorious voiceto be heard, and shall show the
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lighting down of his arm, withthe indignation of his anger,
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and with the flame of adevouring fire, and with
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scattering, and tempest,and hailstones."
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The part that got my attentionwas they showed up with joy, and
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God responded withglorious voice.
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Gladness, and God respondedwith a glorious voice.
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When will he cause hisglorious voice to be heard?
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When you come to him with a songand with a gladness of heart.
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That's pretty convincing to me.
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So if there is no gladness ofheart--I don't know--maybe is
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there a temptation to becomedeaf if there's no gladness of
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heart, or are you able topotentially hear some directions
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that'll help you in your life?
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You know, I believe thathappiness is not found.
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I believe happiness is created,and I think a lot of people in
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the world are still tryin' tofind happiness, and I believe
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happiness is not found.
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Happiness is created, and ifyou're not a happy son of God,
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you will never be a winningson of God, and there's just
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something about the attitude.
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And you've heard the phrase,"Your attitude determines
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your altitude"?
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But we've gotta stop looking forhappiness, and we've gotta learn
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how to create that happiness,and I believe that happiness in
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your life is gonna open you upto be able to have access to the
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voice of direction, and you'llgo into being a winning son
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of God.
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You know, I know a lot of peopledon't think it really matters to
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God whether or not you arehaving gladness and joy, and
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maybe they don't think itmatters that you serve God with
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gladness of joy,but it does matter.
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It does matter.
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Even in the time of the law,there was even a law that was
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against you coming before Godwith no joy or no gladness, and
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I thought, "That's interesting."
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Well, look at Deuteronomychapter 28, verse 47 through 48,
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28:47-48.
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I'm convinced that I wanna comebefore God with joy, and I wanna
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come before God with happiness,and I wanna make sure I have the
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attitude necessaryto receive from him.
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Look what he sayshere in verse 47, 48.
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He says, "Because thou servethnot the Lord thy God with
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joyfulness, and with gladness ofheart, for the abundance of
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all things--"
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Did you see that?
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So even back in the time ofthe law, it was understood it's
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important for you to servethe Lord with joyfulness
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and gladness.
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Then in verse 48, he says,"Therefore shalt thou serve
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thine enemies which the Lordshall send against thee, in
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hunger, in thirst, in nakedness,in want of all things, and he
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shall put a yoke of iron uponthy neck," so, "until he have
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destroyed thee."
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All because they didn't serveGod with the joyfulness and
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gladness of heart, that theywould even put a curse, in the
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Mosaic law, put a curse onyou for not serving God with
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joyfulness andgladness of heart?
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Thank God that we're nolonger under the law.
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Thank God we're nolonger under the curse.
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Thank God we're no longer ina position where, if we don't
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serve God with joyfulness andgladness, that God, at least,
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won't curse us.
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But is there something toserving God with joyfulness and
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gladness verses serving Godwith complaining and murmuring?
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And so this is somethin'we need to consider.
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You know, I believe that, youknow, it's so important for us
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to destroy whatever causessorrow around our lives.
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You need to identify thatwhatever causes sorrow around
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your life, you need to destroyit because I believe that those
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things are out todestroy your destiny.
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You either destroy the sorrowaround your life, or the sorrow
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will destroy your destiny.
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And I know people that are stuckin sorrow, and that sorrow is
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designed for destruction in yourlife, and you need to destroy
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the sorrow in your life becausethat sorrow is trying to destroy
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your destiny.
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It's that important.
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I believe it's that important.
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Now, one thing that generatessorrow is remembering the
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irreparable pastthat'll generate sorrow.
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Now, Paul said in theScriptures--and a couple things,
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Paul said, "Forgetting thethings that are behind."
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Isaiah said, "Remember not theformer things," and Moses said,
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"Tell them to go forward."
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Now, what arethese three sayin'?
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The Bible says, "Out of themouth of two or three witnesses,
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let every word be established."
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Paul said, "Forget about thethings that are behind you."
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Isaiah said, "Remember not theformer things," and Moses said,
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"Tell them to go forward."
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You see, if you don't freeyourself from a failed
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examination, you'llnever be able to pass it.
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And some of you are stillin bondage to those failed
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examinations of your past, andyou need to free yourself from
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failed examinations, the failedtests, and some people have
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failed tests, and it'sstill haunting you.
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It takes a song to heara sound from heaven.
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It takes a goodattitude, I believe.
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It takes that joyand that gladness.
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I believe it'll open up yourears and position you to hear
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a voice of directionin your life.
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"Blessed are they that hearthe joyful sound," I believe.
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So we've got to sing acceptablesongs of praise with gladness of
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heart, and I believe that, whenwe do that, when we, you know,
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lift up our joy level, and whenwe praise God and we have a
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gladness of heart, then thesound from heaven will become
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our heritage.
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The sound from heaven willbecome our directions, and we're
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no longer lost, trying to figureout where to go and what to do
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and all that kind of stuff.
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So I believe when Elijah neededdirection, he said, "But now
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bring me a minstrel."
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That's 2 Kings chapter 3:15.
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Wow, he needed directions,and he asked for a
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musical instrument.
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What is that all about?
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You know, David began toexorcise demonic spirits from
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messin' with Saul.
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He had an instrument.
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And so he said, "Bring methe minstrel," 2 Kings 3:15.
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So the psalmist alwaysheard God's voice.
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He said, "Seven timesdo I praise thee."
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Wow, "Seven timesdo I praise thee."
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There is something aboutpraise and worship.
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There is something about, youknow, playing instruments before
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God and just sitting there andallowing God to minister to you.
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Some of my most significanttimes of anointing and
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revelation came when I satdown at the piano and was just
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playing and just praisingGod for no apparent reason.
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I don't even know if I wasplaying particular songs but
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just praying as the Spirit ofGod just kind of led my fingers
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to pray, and I wouldhear from heaven.
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I would hearinstructions from God.
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