Mike Signorelli - Strength For Your Darkest Season

July 15, 2026 | 27:29

Pastor Mike Signorelli brings bold, Bible-based teaching to help believers walk faithfully in today’s often compromised world

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| Mike Signorelli - Strength For Your Darkest Season | July 15, 2026

What if i told you that god did not allow your dream
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To be killed, but he did allow it to be carried away
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To activate a fight inside of you.
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What if i told you that your marriage, if you're married,
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Your marriage has not been killed,
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But it's been carried away
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And it's time to fight for it again?
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See, there are some things that are not killed.
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They're carried away.
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And it's because god wants
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To activate a fight on the inside of you.
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David, the great psalmist david, the anointed minstrel,
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He understood it's okay to be distressed,
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But david strengthened himself in the lord his god.
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David didn't seek a prophet. he became one.
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The distance between where you are
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And what you know god promised, stop calling it delay
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And start calling it what it really is.
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Hey, this is mike signorelli with the narrow way,
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And i've got some crazy testimonies to tell you.
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So first of all, my team just let me know
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That we had people reaching out saying that they decided not
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To end their life as a result of the message.
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They heard the sermon and they made a decision also.
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This is crazy, but i know you believe it.
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God is still a supernatural god who answers prayers.
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And we have prayer team members that have been praying
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For people on the phone lines,
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And we've gotten reports of medically verifiable miracles.
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We've been encouraging people go back to the doctor,
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Get the results like we believe.
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Yes, we believe in medicine,
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But also we believe that it will be confirmed what god did.
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And so those reports are coming in,
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But i wanted to sincerely thank each and every one of you.
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It's actually because of your support that we're able
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To get these messages out.
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So because you're a partner, we pray for you.
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I mean, as a matter of fact, we wanna pray for you today,
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But specifically continue support
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Because i believe that we've only just begun.
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How many of you believe
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That we're gonna see god do even greater things
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As we continue with the narrow way?
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So let's jump into this week's message.
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This path is already narrow
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And we will forge forward, making no excuse
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For why we can live uncompromised in this generation.
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Gimme a hundred people who will walk
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That narrow road
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And say, i may have some things in my family,
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But i where it runs out,
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The distance between
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Where you are
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And what you know god promised, stop calling it delay
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And start calling it what it really is.
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Disobedience. some of you're like, i'm so tired
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Of being single, where you rub a dub dub in the shower
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And you put that cologne on and you go ask a girl out
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And you righteously lead her.
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That is the distance between here
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And marriage is not delay, it's disobedience.
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He who finds a wife, go and find her.
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You know how you used to search on the dark web in the
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Safari, on the, okay, come on.
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Use those skills to search in real life
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For a wife, not a girlfriend.
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Can i get an amen? amen.
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So the distance between what you believe god promised
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And where you are is not delay.
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It is disobedience. okay? so we must be obedient.
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Now, let's look at first samuel chapter three.
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Is this already helping anybody?
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Okay, three people, praise god. let me keep going.
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I could stop right there and preach a whole sermon
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Just off of what we read.
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They killed no one. they carried them away.
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What if i told you that god did not allow your dream
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To be killed, but he did allow it to be carried away,
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To activate a fight inside of you.
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What if i told you that your marriage, if you're married,
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Your marriage has not been killed,
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But it's been carried away
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And it's time to fight for it again.
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See, there are some things that are not killed.
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They're carried away.
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And it's because god wants
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To activate a fight on the inside of you.
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And this, can i keep reading the bible? yes.
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Now, if you try to kidnap my daughters bella
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And everly, i'm gonna have a movie moment when i'm gonna
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Pick up the phone and say, i will find you and i won't.
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So you know, something was getting activated inside
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Of david and his mighty men.
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But it's interesting
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Because there's a deep psychology at play
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And the theology is coming from the psychology.
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Now by the way, the, these are not women weeping.
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These are men weeping. and these are not soft men.
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These are warriors.
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So sometimes you cannot regain what you lost
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Until you register what you lost,
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Until you acknowledge what you lost.
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Sometimes there has
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To be an acknowledgement of what you lost.
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And let me, let me talk to the men for a moment.
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When you punch a hole through the wall in anger,
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Your feelings, they don't dissipate.
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They actually relocate.
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So what happens is it manifested itself in anger when you
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Punched a hole in the wall,
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But the origin wasn't anger, it was a feeling of injustice.
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Life doesn't make sense.
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Why do i fill out job applications
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And never get a phone call?
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Why did i not have a good dad?
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Why did i not inherit anything other than curses?
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And that feeling of injustice turns into bitterness
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And bitterness and injustice doesn't dissipate or disappear.
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If you don't deal with it, it relocates into anger
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And it'll start in your heart
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And it'll come out through your fist and see, god wants
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To help you deal with it
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Because david's mighty men, they saw that their wives
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And children were carried away.
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They saw that their possessions were stolen.
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And in that moment of injustice, god, why is it
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So expensive in new york city?
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Why can't i ever find a good place to live?
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Why can't i start a fam? i mike's talking about dating.
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I can't even afford chili's, let alone a steak dinner. why?
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Why is it never? see, what begins to happen is
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That bitterness grows on the inside of you,
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But it doesn't stay bitterness,
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Bitter bitterness turns to anger.
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Anger turns to rage, rage will turn to murder.
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And see what'll happen is you'll end up making the heroes in
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Your life a villain.
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This is what happened to david. look at the story.
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Let's go deeper.
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These are the same people
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That david protected the same people.
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He killed giants for the same people that he administered
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To through music.
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The same people that he had comforted those same people they
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Spoke of stoning him
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Because all the people were bitter in soul, each
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Of his sons and daughters.
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But okay, i can't even,
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I can't even keep going with the text.
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We gotta stop right there.
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The people that were around david, not the, not the people
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Of ziklag, not the opposing army,
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But the people that were supposed
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To be on david's side side said
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That they were gonna stone him.
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Now, we all had the coloring book christianity
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Where we had the picture
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Of david killing goliath with a stone.
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Many of you don't know that years later
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That people are gonna pick up a stone and try to kill david.
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And it's not gonna be the philistines, it's gonna be his,
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The own israelites.
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This is what life is like.
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You know, i look into your cup to see if you need more,
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But you looked into my cup to see if i had more than you.
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We are not the same.
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There are some people that as soon as they, they, as soon
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As something hard in life happens,
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They switch it up on their day one.
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Anybody know what i'm talking about?
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There's people who are with you when you're, when,
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When it's good times, they're
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With you when you're providing for them.
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I heard somebody once say that a blind person,
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The day he receives sight will discard the stick
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That guided him the whole time.
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What does this mean?
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Oh, pastor matt, thank you for being there for me,
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But i'm gonna move on to another church.
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But wasn't pastor matt the one that guided you
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Through every other season to get here?
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And their commitment goes as far as their preference?
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Wow, this is why i'm talking about, oh, oh, hey,
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I'm gonna move on in this relationship.
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Why? because i said i was gonna stop sleeping with you
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Because i felt convicted that we were having sex.
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So you wanted me for my body, but not for my spirit.
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You were committed, you weren't covenanted. wow.
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Come on, we got a clip from last week's sermon going viral
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Right now, one of the main comments is somebody trying
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To convince my audience
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And the church's audience that if you love somebody,
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And this is what he, if you love somebody
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And even have a kid with them without marrying 'em,
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There's nothing wrong with that.
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See, what happens is i don't have an opinion.
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This is my opinion, and i don't care what the world says.
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This is a book of covenant, not commitment.
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This is a book that says that we are gonna come together
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And lay our lives down for each other, even
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As christ laid his life down for me.
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That's why you cry at a wedding
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Because your spirit is acknowledging what it looks like
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To see two people covenant.
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Our spirit knows what's right.
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Even if our flesh doesn't want to surrender, oh, come on,
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I'm trying to help somebody.
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Do we got some covenant people here in manhattan?
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Do we got some people that i'm not like that.
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I'm gonna go the distance, i'm gonna stay. come on.
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Do we have anybody like that?
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See, david was at the threat of getting stoned.
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How many of you know leadership is lonely?
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Leadership is lonely, and,
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But this is okay, want me
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To give you the algorithm of heaven?
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What do we do, pastor mike? how do we respond?
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It's very plain. and david was greatly distressed.
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I love the fact that we know david was distressed.
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Why do we know? because he didn't fake it. hello?
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It's okay to feel distressed.
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It's even okay to be distressed.
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But your reaction is what god's after.
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We don't have to fake it.
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We don't have to, you know, we don't have
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To act like we got it all together.
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But the, but what we gotta do is determine what we do
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After the feeling what we do after.
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Because remember, feelings don't dissipate
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Or disappear, they relocate.
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So david, the great psalmist, david, the anointed minstrel,
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He understood it's okay to be distressed.
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Matter of fact, i don't wanna attend a fake church
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Where everybody's like ned flanders.
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How do he duly do ya?
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I don't wanna go to church where it's just like, bless god,
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I'm highly favor of the lord.
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How y'all doing? sometimes i have
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To acknowledge the fact i'm feeling the crushing.
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I'm going through the weight
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And the anxiety of this situation.
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It's not easy.
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But how many of you know we have an opportunity
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To finish our sentence?
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Come on, jesus christ said, if this cup can pass
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For me, even jesus, in the anguish of of the garden
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Of gethsemane with sweat that turns into blood,
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He acknowledged that he was distressed,
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But he finished his sentence.
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He said, nevertheless, not my will be done but yours.
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See, there's a pattern, there's an algorithm of, oh,
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I might be distressed, but i'm not gonna stay here.
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Nevertheless, is there anybody
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Who will put a nevertheless in their spirit now, oh,
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I don't like manhattan.
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Sometimes i don't like how crazy and expensive it is.
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I don't like the drama in the church world
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Or the drama of the body of christ online.
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Sometimes i wanna abandon all this
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And just do my own bible study by myself.
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Sometimes i just wanna watch youtube
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And turn it off when i, it's convenient.
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I don't wanna be committed. i or covenanted i, i just, i.
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But nevertheless,
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My introversion kicks in my autism kicks in my a dhd kicks
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In my trauma, triggers kick in,
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My political affiliation kicks in.
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Oh, come on somebody.
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But nevertheless,
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We haven't been taught to suffer.
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And god says, many are the afflictions of the righteous.
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Why? because you got many lessons.
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How many of you wanna pass your test with me?
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I wanna pass my test.
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
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That means we got many tests,
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We are gonna suffer, but i'm gonna suffer.
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Well, nevertheless, somebody say nevertheless with me,
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Nevertheless, what's the end of that scripture?
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
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But the lord delivers them from them all.
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All means all are y'all with me? all means all.
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He delivers them from them all.
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So we have a promise that keeps us.
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And this is what david understood.
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So it says he's distressed
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For the people spoke of stoning him.
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But this is what he does.
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And i'm gonna give you the template it says,
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But david strengthened himself in the lord his god.
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David didn't seek a prophet. he became one.
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David didn't seek a worship experience.
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He became a worshiper.
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Say david strengthened himself in the lord.
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Listen, i know it feels so good to vent,
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But if you change the direction from your friends to heaven,
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It'll actually go from complaining to prayer.
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It'll actually transition from venting
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To victory if you give it to god.
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See, job, he just changed the direction.
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God, i i'm gonna talk to you about how i feel
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And what begin to happen is job made way
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For a double portion.
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I believe a double portion could be released in your life
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As you've just changed the direction of your complaining.
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I believe that god wants many of you
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To begin to talk to him.
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Can somebody gimme that share on the front row?
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I wanna show you something. i wanna do an illustration.
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Yeah, throw that share up here like it's wwe.
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Yeah, there you go. praise god. you could have thrown it.
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I gave you permission. one
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Of my favorite authors is a guy named brennan manning.
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Brennan manning said that he, you know,
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The woman approached him one time in their local church
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And you know, said, hey, my dad is on his deathbed
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And he's actively going through the process
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Of decline towards death.
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And we've reached out to the preacher, the pastor many times
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To make a home visit as he's in this transition.
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But the pastor is just too absorbed
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With his sermon preparation
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And has not been able to accommodate
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Coming over to our house.
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So brennan, you're a minister, would you be willing
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To come over to our house?
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And he obliged and said, yeah, absolutely.
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I'll come to your house. so brennan manning walks into the
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Bedroom where the father is dying and he sees a chair.
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When he sees the chair, he speaks to the man
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And he says, oh, i see that you're expecting company.
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The man on this deathbed said, brennan,
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Go ahead and close the door.
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I'll explain. when he closed the door, he said, i i want
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To tell you that chair, but i don't want my
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Daughter to hear me.
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I don't want my daughter to know. she might think i'm weird.
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He said, all my life i went to church
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And all my life i was told i was supposed to pray.
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But i'm ashamed to admit that i never learned to pray.
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I didn't know how to pray.
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And so he said, i went to my pastor
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And i said, hey, can you teach me how to pray?
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And my pastor said, absolutely.
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I'm gonna give you this book
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By a renowned theo swiss theologian.
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And he gave him this book on prayer.
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He said, brennan, i took that book home.
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I spent the first two hours in a dictionary just trying
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To define all the words.
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I didn't understand any of that theologian.
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So i just put the book back
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And i gave it to the pastor next, next week
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And quietly thanked him.
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And he said, but then it was years later that i was at work
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And one of my friends said that he had been trying
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To grow his relationship with god
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And that he was learning to pray, not knowing that
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That was my secret desire.
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And, and now i'm in this last stage
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Of my life towards death.
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And it was a perfect timing
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Because he said that, you know
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What he learned about prayer is
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That you could just simply talk to god,
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How you would talk to a friend.
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And he said one of the exercises that he started to do was
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To set out an empty chair in his bedroom and,
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And actually speak to that empty chair, believing
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That jesus said, i'll never leave you nor forsake you,
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And i'll be with you to the end.
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So in fact, the chair in the spirit realm is not empty,
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But i need to see the chair.
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And he said, brennan,
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That chair in the bedroom has become the only thing
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That's got me through this sickness.
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I spend two hours a day talking to that chair,
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But i know who's in that chair.
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And he says, i've learned to pray
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Because i've learned to talk to him like a friend.
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Brennan was incredibly convicted by this.
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And he prayed for the man and then he left.
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Weeks later, the daughter called to say,
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I just wanna give you the word.
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First of all, thank you for coming over to our house.
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And my dad, he just, he just died.
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And, and he said, i, i'm sending my condolences.
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I'm so sorry to hear that your dad died.
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And she said, yes, bren.
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But i was in the room when it happened
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And it was the most mysterious thing,
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And it does doesn't make any sense to me.
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She said he sat up in the bed
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And he just inched his way over to the chair that was next
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To his bed, and he laid his head on that chair
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And then he died.
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See, we cannot help what happens to us.
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I could not help
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That my di dad had a degenerative brain disease,
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That he was a murderer, that he w that he beat my mother
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And divorced her cheated hunter and loved.
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I can't help all that. that's outta my control.
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I can't, for as much as i tried
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To be involved politically in different seasons of my life,
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I just can't help that circus and how it unfolds.
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I can't change the economics. i can't.
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And what i've learned in life, even in the local church,
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I can't control other people.
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And, and it's almost like this man that's in his bed sick.
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You're just in this, this finality like, what else can i do?
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But like david, there's one more option put on the ephod,
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Put on the breastplate.
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This is what the priests would do when they
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Intercede and pray.
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But then in fact, you learn it's the only
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Thing that matters.
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You don't kill giants with stones.
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You don't take everything from ziklag back off of military.
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Might you do it with the permission of heaven.
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Because where there is permission, there is power.
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And many of us are prayerless.
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Many of us know how to text, we know how to call, we know
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How to whatsapp, but we don't know how to pray.
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We know how to scroll on our phone
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And we receive information,
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But we don't know how to receive in a dialogue with heaven
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And a download from the kingdom of heaven.
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And i believe that many of us need to go to the chair.
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Most people follow jesus without really knowing
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Where he went or why every place he walked was chosen.
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Every confrontation was intentional.
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Every step was advancing the kingdom of god.
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And he's inviting you to walk the same way,
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Not in confusion, not walking in fear,
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But walking in true authority journey with jesus walks you
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Through every step of jesus ministry, not just as history,
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But as a map for your life right now.
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So get your copy at the link on your screen
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Because followers of jesus don't wander.
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They actually advance.
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This is your time to take your next step in discipleship.
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Get the book. now,
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We may not have a biological father,
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But we have a father in heaven.
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We may not have an answer from a physician,
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But we have the great physician.
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Oh, i'm talking to somebody right now.
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We may not be understood by our friends,
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But we have a friend that has suffered in every way
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Who understands the depths of my affliction.
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And he is closer than a brother.
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He is the best friend that i'll ever have.
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Is there anybody who will go to the chair
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With me in this church?
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Is there anybody that will become a
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Person of prayer with me?
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Hallelujah. hallelujah.
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Because when you breathe your last breath, i believe
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That just like that man,
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He wasn't putting his head in a chair,
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He was putting his head on the chest of his savior.
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And i believe he transitioned from the
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Invisible to the visible.
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And i believe that our great hope that we have is
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That there is a king jesus and that.
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And he hears our cry.
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The other scripture says he's close to the broken hearted.
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So when all these men were bitter, when all
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Of these men wanted to stone david, they became victims
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With victim mentalities.
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And they learned to blame leaders instead of going
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To the leader of all leaders.
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And this is our generation, we've become victims
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And we know how to blame politicians.
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We know how to blame pastors.
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We know how to blame our friends.
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We know how to blame our parents.
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We have become victims with victim mentalities.
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And instead of using all that bitterness
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And instead of taking it to god,
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We punch holes in the walls.
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We shoot our veins with drugs, we snort it, we drink it.
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We do everything we can to be filled with everything except
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For the holy spirit.
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Because we know that we must be filled.
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So we fill ourselves with the wrong things.
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And this is what makes david the king.
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This is what elevates david while everybody else gets
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Demoted, is they go to throw stones at david instead
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Of fighting the real enemy, which was the the army of ziklag
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La we will not be the church
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That stones our leaders.
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We will not be the church that out
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Of our own bitterness blames somebody else.
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In a few moments, i wanna pray for you.
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You know, i've seen medically verifiable miracles
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All around the world.
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I wanna pray for you. i,
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I've actually seen people delivered from demons in moments.
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But the greatest miracle is salvation.
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It's when someone who's dead in their sin, literally headed
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To hell, is saved by jesus christ and made to be alive
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And headed to heaven.
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And that can happen if you do what romans chapter 10,
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Verse nine says, can confess with your mouth,
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Believe in your heart and you will be saved.
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It's that we don't earn it, we don't deserve it,
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We just receive it.
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So i want you to repeat these words with me
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Because i don't believe in accidents
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And the holy spirit's been drawing you.
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Say it with me. heavenly father, i thank you for the cross
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Where my sins were forgiven.
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Wash me with your blood. i am a disciple.
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I surrender my life completely
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And i will follow you on the narrow road in jesus' name.
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Come on, say it boldly. amen.
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Well, i'm so glad that you just made that decision
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To give your life to jesus.
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I would actually like to help you on your
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Journey as a disciple.
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And if you scan the qr code,
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We will immediately send you a free prayer guide
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That will actually give you access to prayers for anxiety
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And just different physical conditions you
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Might be struggling with.
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And it's a great resource and a tool.
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As a matter of fact, we also have prayer team members
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That are standing by waiting for you to reach out.
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Now, i'll see you in the next episode.
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Hey, i need your help.
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You know, here in new york city,
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I am reaching young people for christ.
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And we are seeing them from every different background,
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Just except jesus.
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I mean, it's truly like a movement.
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We're actually taking nightclubs
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And turning them into churches on sunday mornings.
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And it is a very hard thing.
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But the reason why i say that is
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Because these are young people like your grandchildren
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And you know, like your nieces and nephews
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And we're leading them to christ.
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But here's why i need your help. first of all, pray for us.
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And secondly, if you would consider give,
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Giving a gift to the ministry.
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If you call the number on the screen right now,
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We have prayer team members that'll pray with you,
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But just consider helping us on this mission.
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But i want to tell you one of the reasons why you might feel
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So connected to my preaching is
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Because you're not retired, you're refire
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And god is reigniting you
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And he's actually causing you to be on fire again
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And return to your first love.
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And so help us as we're on this mission.
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I never thought that out
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Of new york city i would be bringing a television show
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All around the world.
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And it's been a tremendous sacrifice for us.
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But i just believe that as we come together all
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Around the world right now, you can help us.
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And if you so into young people,
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Just like your grandchildren, just like your nieces
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And nephews, i believe
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That you will reap a harvest in your own family.
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So the information's on the screen right now.
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You can scan the qr code
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And you can sow a seed, you can support us
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And also you can call in now and
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And meet with our team as well.
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So thank you so much for being a part of the broadcast
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And being a partner for our ministry
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To help not just in new york city, but around the world.
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I would love to meet you in person as we retrace the steps
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Of the apostle paul on an unforgettable journey
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Through greece and turkey.
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It's gonna be a five star experience
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With not only incredible hotels, but also a cruise.
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And we're gonna go to the very places
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That scripture was written, including patmos, where the book
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Of revelation was written by john.
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I cannot wait to meet you in person, but seats are limited,
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Although they're still available.
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So you have to make the decision now.
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The information's here on the screen.
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Go ahead and take advantage of an experience
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That will last a lifetime.
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I want to pray with you at these locations
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As we invite the presence of the holy spirit.
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I want to teach you exactly what was happening in culture
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As the scriptures were written.
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I wanna have some incredible meals together with you.
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It's going to be amazing.
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But i need you to make that decision now
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Before all of the seats are gone.
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It's gonna be amazing, and i can't wait to meet you.
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Go ahead, make that decision to retrace the steps
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Of the apostle paul with mike signorelli on tour.
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Can't wait to see you there.
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Mike Signorelli - Strength For Your Darkest Season

July 15, 2026 | 27:29

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