Lawson Perdue - Power of Praise (Part 2)

November 11, 2025 | 29:55

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Power of Praise (Part 2) | November 11, 2025

(uplifting music)
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- praise the lord, friend,
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And thanks for tuning into our broadcast.
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I am so glad that you are here.
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We're gonna be sharing today
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About how you can move out of what may seem like
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Is an overwhelming problem,
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And move into possess what god has promised you.
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We're gonna be talking about how you do that
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By praising god for what he's given you.
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Stay tuned.
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Friend, i'm so glad that you're watching today,
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And it's so good to have you with us.
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I've got aaron with me.
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We're actually sharing from his series
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On the "power of praise."
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You know, the bible talks about how praise stills
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The mouth of the enemy and the avenger.
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You know, there's not only a god who loves you,
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Who wants to bless you,
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Who wants to heal you,
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Who wants to help you.
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There's a devil, and he comes to kill, steal, and destroy.
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That's what jesus said.
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But you can move from the defeat
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That the enemy wants to bring your way
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Into the victory that god wants you to have
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Through jesus by praising god.
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And we're gonna see an example of that today
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In the word of god.
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- yes.
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If you have your bible,
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This would be a great time to get your bible
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And get it out.
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We're gonna go through some great scripture
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In the old testament, 2 chronicles 20.
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This is the account of king jehoshaphat
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When he was being attacked from every angle,
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Multiple, you know, foreign peoples
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Were attacking him all at the same time, simultaneously.
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And we're gonna read the entire account.
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But you know what ultimately happens is that
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He actually puts the praise band,
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The worshipers in front of the army
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As they go out to battle.
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And i was just thinking about how powerful praise is.
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And praise, you know,
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There's different forms of praise.
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There's praise just by thanking god.
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You don't have to be a great singer
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To be a great praiser. - that's right.
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- you can actually praise god through generosity.
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You can praise god through thanksgiving.
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You can praise god through even instrumental music.
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You know, i have a doctorate in flute playing.
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And, you know, flute playing,
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It's not a verbal form of music,
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It's just instrumental.
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There's no words.
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But an anointing to even instrumental music.
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You know, i was reading about jesus
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When he went to jairus's house
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Because his daughter had died.
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And when jesus got there,
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It said he kicked the flute players out.
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And i was thinking about that.
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These flute players,
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They were doing something with their instrumental music.
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They were mourning, they were downcast.
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It was worshiping the wrong thing.
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It was focusing on death.
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It was focusing on defeat.
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It wasn't, you know, so flute playing is powerful.
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And jesus even realized that.
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So he kicked these flute players out
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That weren't in the right flow.
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They weren't in the praise flow.
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He actually kicked them out.
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But jehoshaphat put the flute players
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In front of the army,
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And wanted them to glorify god.
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And with the singers, you know,
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The instruments and the singers
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And the cymbals and the trumpets,
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They were worshiping god.
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And they were saying, "praise the lord
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For his mercy endures forever."
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So that sound was a different flow.
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It was a praise flow.
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It was a powerful flow that silences the enemy,
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That everything that he's trying to do.
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So you have to know what the enemy's trying to do.
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Jehoshaphat knew that these moabites,
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The ammonites, all these people coming against him,
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It was from the enemy.
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It was from the devil,
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Trying to wipe out god's covenant people.
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So when things come against you,
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I know that sickness is not from god.
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I know that it comes from the devil.
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So the praise flow shuts that up.
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- amen. - this is really good.
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2 chronicles 20.
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We'll start at the beginning of this account here.
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This is a very ugly situation.
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Yeah, when you're being surrounded by three enemy armies,
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And it looks like that you're gonna be wiped out,
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It's an ugly situation.
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So israel was surrounded by the moabites,
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The ammonites, and the syrians.
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All these people that hated them,
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Just like many times,
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Israel's surrounded today
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By a lot of people that hate them.
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But by the grace of god, they stand,
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And we'll see how,
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By the grace of god and through faith,
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Because praise is really a form
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Of releasing your faith,
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That they moved into the victory
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That god had for 'em.
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- so it says here in 2 chronicles 20, verse 1,
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"it happened after this
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That the people of moab
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With the people of ammon,
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And others with them besides the ammonites,
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Came to battle against jehoshaphat.
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Then some came and told jehoshaphat, saying,
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'a great multitude is coming against you
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From beyond the sea...'"
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So beyond the sea.
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That's like from greece.
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That's where they think the philistines came from.
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So they crossed...
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There's people that weren't even in canaan,
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They came across the sea.
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So these early grecians probably
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Came across from syria,
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And they're in hazazon-tamar,
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Which is in en gedi.
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"and jehoshaphat feared,
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And set himself to seek the lord,
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And proclaimed a fast throughout all judah.
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So judah gathered together
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To ask help from the lord;
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And from all the cities of judah
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They came to seek the lord."
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So they did something right here
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When they were facing this,
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You know, just difficult situation,
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This ugly situation,
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Being attacked from every angle--
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From the north, from the south, from the east,
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Even from across the sea,
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You know, on these boats
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That these people came across on.
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They sought the lord.
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They asked for help,
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And they sought the lord.
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That's a powerful prayer to jesus
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To just say, "help."
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- yeah, it is.
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You know, we shouldn't stay in fear,
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But we should ask god for help.
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You know, the bible says
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In 2 timothy 1, verse 7,
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That god hasn't given us a spirit of fear,
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But of power and love and a sound mind.
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That word, "a spirit of fear"
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In 2 timothy chapter 1, verse 7,
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Is really talking about
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A spirit of intimidation.
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And it would've been really easy
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For israel and judah
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Right at this point in time,
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To be intimidated by their enemies.
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But rather than being intimidated
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By their enemies,
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They asked the lord for help.
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You know, the bible says this
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In romans 10, verse 13,
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"whoever calls on the name of the lord
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Shall be saved,"
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Shall be delivered, shall be freed.
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And they needed deliverance.
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They needed salvation
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In a physical sense.
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That's talking about a spiritual sense
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In romans 10, verse 13.
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But they needed deliverance
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In a physical sense that comes from god.
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- yeah, so i love what happens here.
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You know, jehoshaphat began to pray.
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In verse 5, it says,
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"he stood in the assembly
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Of judah and jerusalem,
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In the house of the lord,
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Before the new court, and said:
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'o lord god of our fathers,
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Are you not god in heaven,
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And do you not rule over all
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The kingdoms of the nations,
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And in your hand is there not power and might,
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So that no one is able to withstand you?'"
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So he was actually comparing
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All these nations to god. - amen.
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- you know, don't just look
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At your giant on his own.
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You need to size that giant up to god
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And realize who's bigger.
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So that's what jehoshaphat's doing.
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He's saying, "you rule over
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All these kingdoms,
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Over all these people.
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Their power doesn't compare to yours."
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Verse 7, "are you not our god,
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Who drove out the inhabitants
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Of this land before your people israel,
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And gave it to the descendants
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Of abraham your friend forever?"
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He's going back to the promise of god,
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To the covenant,
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"you told abraham that this would be
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His land forever,
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To his descendants, forever."
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We're descendants of him.
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We have that covenant,
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We have that blessing,
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We have that protection.
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- so what he did, really,
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When you look at this,
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Is he began to magnify.
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He began to glorify,
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He began to praise god.
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When you magnify god,
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When you glorify god,
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When you praise god,
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You begin to make god big in your eyes.
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And rather than magnifying all these enemies,
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The moabites, the ammonites, the syrians,
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The people from across the sea
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That were coming against them,
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Rather than magnifying them,
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He magnified and glorified god.
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Do you know, jesus talked about
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When we have mountains, what'd he say?
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"have faith in god,
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For whosoever shall say unto this mountain,
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'be thou removed,
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And be thou cast into the sea,'
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And shall not doubt in his heart,
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But shall believe that those things
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Which he saith shall..."
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Have whatsoever he says.
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And so when jesus was talking
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About having faith,
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He begins to talk about
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Speaking to your mountain.
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And you know what?
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We are not to speak to god
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About the mountain.
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We're to speak to the mountain about god.
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And the fact is,
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Because if you begin to focus on the mountain,
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You make the mountain bigger
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If you begin to magnify the mountain.
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So you don't want to focus on the enemy,
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You don't wanna focus on the problem.
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You don't wanna focus on the disease.
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You don't wanna focus on the lack.
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You don't wanna focus on the fear.
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You wanna focus on god.
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You wanna focus on the promise of god.
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You wanna focus on his promise of healing,
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His promise of provision,
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His promise of peace,
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His promise of victory.
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And you begin to focus on god.
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It causes the enemy to be defeated.
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And we'll see this in a physical sense,
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How it happened.
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But not only did they do that,
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They began to focus on god and said,
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"aren't you... you're the god of heaven.
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This is what you promised us,
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And you're our god."
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It's important that we have
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A personal relationship with god.
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And you know, that's what salvation is.
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Salvation is a personal relationship
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With god through jesus.
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And if you don't know jesus
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As your personal lord,
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Your personal savior,
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You need to get to know jesus.
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You know, the bible actually says,
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Jesus said this in john 17:3.
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He said, "this is eternal life,
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That they know thee,
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The only true god, and jesus..."
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So they had a personal relationship
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With god and they said,
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"you're the god of heaven.
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You're the creator.
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You're our god.
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You made these promises."
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And we need to personalize it.
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So this is very personal
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And very real.
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Okay, so go ahead and share that.
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- so you're talking about abraham,
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And verse 8, he goes on and says,
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"they dwell in it and have built you
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A sanctuary in it for your name, saying:
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'if disaster comes upon us...'"
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I notice all these different types of disaster.
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There's similar disasters
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People can face today,
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"...sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine,
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We will stand before this temple
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And in your presence
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For your name is in this temple...'"
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There's power in the name of god.
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- [lawson] and there's power in the presence of god.
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- and it says,
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"'...and cry out to you in our affliction,
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And you will hear and save.'
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And now, here are the people of ammon,
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Moab, and mount seir--
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Whom you would not let israel invade
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When they came out of the land of egypt,
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But they turned from them
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And did not destroy them--
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Here they are, rewarding us.
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So these are people that they allowed to live, right?
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So they were kind to,
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And he says this sarcastically,
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"this is how they're gonna reward us."
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This still happens today.
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You may be really kind to someone,
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And then they just flip a switch
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And try to attack you.
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That's how they reward you,
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By trying to come against you,
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"...throwing us out of your possession,
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Which you have given us to inherit.
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O our god, will you not judge them?"
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There is a judge. amen.
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- and god will judge them.
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"for we have no power
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Against this great multitude
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That is coming against us;
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Nor do we know what to do,
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But our eyes are upon you."
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Keep your focus on god.
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Keep your focus on his promise.
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Keep your focus on jesus.
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Turn your eyes upon jesus.
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He said, "our eyes could be on
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All this great multitude
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Coming against us from every side.
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But our eyes are on you."
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(inspiring music)
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- you know what,
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When god tells you to do something,
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You need to do it.
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And you don't need to worry
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About every tom, dick, and harry over here,
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And what they're gonna say.
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How they're gonna try to manipulate you
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Or treat you.
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You just keep on plugging on,
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And you keep doing what god told you to do,
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And he will work them out.
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You have to let god be god,
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And you have to do what he tells you to do.
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- and what a powerful prayer.
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You know, this is almost like a prayer of paul.
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This is a pretty faith-filled prayer here.
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It's not like a- - line in prayer.
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- yeah, this is a powerful old testament prayer here.
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Verse 13.
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"now all judah, with their little ones,
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Their wives, and their children,
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Stood before the lord.
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Then the spirit of the lord
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Came upon jahaziel the son of zechariah,
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The son of benaiah, the son of jeiel,
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A levite of the sons of asaph."
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He's a levite of the sons of asaph.
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The sons of asaph were musicians.
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- wow.
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- they were the levites,
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The priests that were...
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They were the worship pastors.
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So he, jahaziel, was in that worship flow.
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He was probably a flute player,
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A prophetic flute player, jahaziel.
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I had a friend in college years ago,
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Played clarinet, and he was from mexico,
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But his name was jahaziel,
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But it's pronounced jahaziel.
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A lot of, you know, countries,
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They don't pronounce a hard j.
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I saw a funny joke
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As this guy being interviewed for a job,
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And the interviewer said,
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"well, i notice that, you know,
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There's a four-year gap in your resume.
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What happened?"
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And he said, "well, i went to yale for four years."
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And he said, "oh, well that's awesome.
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Well, you have the job."
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And he said, "i'm very thankful
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For this yob."
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So he wasn't saying, "i went to yale,"
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"i went to jail."
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You know, but he can't pronounce the hard j.
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- (laughs) that's funny, aaron.
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- so it came upon jahaziel, you know,
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If you're from mexico,
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You might say jahaziel.
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If you've been to yale,
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University of yale, for prison.
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God can still do awesome things.
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So the spirit of the lord came upon jahaziel.
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And this is what he said in verse 15.
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"listen, all you of judah
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And you inhabitants of jerusalem,
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And you, king jehoshaphat!
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Thus says the lord to you:
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'do not be afraid nor dismayed
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Because of this great multitude,
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For the battle is not yours, but god's.'"
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We do a song here at church.
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It's called, "the battle belongs to you."
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The battle belongs... - belongs to the lord.
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- "tomorrow go down against them."
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He said tomorrow.
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That's not a whole lot of time
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To go out and face this big army,
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All these enemies,
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But "tomorrow go up against them.
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They will surely come up
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By the ascent of ziz,
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And you will find them
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At the end of the brook
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Before the wilderness of jeruel.
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You will not need to fight in this battle;
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Position yourselves.
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Stand still and see
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The salvation of the lord.
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Having done all, stand."
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- amen.
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- you know, ephesians 6 talks about
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How to fight against the enemy.
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What to do.
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And having done all, you stand.
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You stand from your position of victory.
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- and you know, when you read
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Ephesians chapter 6,
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Did you know that every weapon
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Of our warfare,
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Ephesians chapter 6,
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You can read verse 10 to verse 18,
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It names the weapons of our warfare, right?
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The breastplate of righteousness,
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The helmet of salvation,
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The belt of truth,
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The shoes, what, of the gospel of peace?
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When you read about all these different aspects
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Of the weapons of our warfare,
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Every one of 'em is...
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There's only one offensive weapon.
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And the offensive weapon
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Is the sword of the spirit,
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Which is the word of god.
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And you know, when you think about
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The sword of the spirit,
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The bible talks about jesus
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In the book of revelation.
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And it says, out of his mouth comes
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A sharp two-edged sword
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That with it, he would judge
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Or smite the nations.
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And the lord showed me
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At one point in time,
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There's two edges of that sword.
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And one aspect of the sword is
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When we are using it for defense.
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But the other aspect of that sword is
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When we're using it for offense.
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And you know what,
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If you're gonna take territory
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For the kingdom of god,
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You're gonna fight some battles.
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In fact, we have some people in our church,
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They've been in the church about 14 years.
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They said, "ever since we've known you pastor,
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There's always a battle.
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There's always something you're fighting.
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And we're gonna pray
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That these battles stop."
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But then we got this great message
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By nancy defray,
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And she was talking about
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How the giants are bread for us.
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From numbers chapter 14,
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Joshua and caleb said,
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"these giants are bread for us."
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And did you know what?
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If you're not fighting battles,
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If you're not having giants,
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Then you're not taking the territory
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That god wants you to possess.
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And i believe that reason
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That we've been in battle
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Is because we're taking territory
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And we are possessing what god promised us.
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There was a senior minister
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That really ministered in colorado springs
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In el paso county for years.
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His name was pastor bill long,
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And he was one of the pioneers
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Of the word of faith in this area.
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And pastor bill spoke to me years later,
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Ended up after he retired from pastoring,
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Coming to our church
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And being a very vital member of our church.
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But he said, "when you came here,
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God told me that you were gonna make
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A major difference in this area.
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But," he said, "when you started,
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It was gonna be hard plowing."
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And so he said, "i prayed for you
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Because i knew you were breaking ground
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And i knew you were taking territory
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For the kingdom."
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And you know, i believe the reason
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That we've fought many battles
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And we've won,
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And we keep winning and winning
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And winning and winning.
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If you know me, you know,
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Defeat is not in my name.
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Defeat is not what i accept.
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And i fought major battles financially.
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I fought major battles physically.
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I fought major battles in different areas.
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But the way i win
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Is through believing god
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And through believing the promises of god.
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But it really encouraged me,
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You and heather actually found this message
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By nancy defray,
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And it encouraged me
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When you brought this up,
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That these giants...
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I didn't know what it meant at first.
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I'd never heard this,
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That these giants are bread for us,
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And that means that we are moving in
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And taking territory.
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And so some of you today watching
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Are fighting major battles.
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And it's because you are moving in
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And taking the territory
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That god wants you to take.
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So don't lay down and play dead.
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Don't let the enemy steal your joy.
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Don't let the enemy steal those things
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That god has given you,
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And keep believing god
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And keep praising god,
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Because praise stills the mouth
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Of the enemy and the avenger.
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Go ahead, aaron.
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- well, i was gonna talk about,
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You know, just giants are our bread.
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You know, when you conquer giants,
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It makes you stronger.
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It nourishes you,
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It makes you more of a force
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To reckon with.
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And you know, david kind of recognized that
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No one would face goliath,
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But he stood up to goliath.
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And the reason why he did
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Is because he had purpose.
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He said, "is there not a cause?"
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You need to have a purpose-filled life.
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And if you're not really facing
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Much difficulty, much obstacle,
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You know, a lot of people just want to take
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The path of least resistance.
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And that's not always god's path.
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And you need to have a cause.
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You need to have a purpose.
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And if you do,
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You're gonna have some challenges,
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Some obstacles,
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Some things you're gonna have to face.
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But it'll give you purpose,
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It'll give you direction,
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It'll strengthen you.
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I was thinking about
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Just comparing different generations.
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You know, there's like boomers,
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There's, you know, millennials,
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I'm a millennial,
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There's gen z, gen y,
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All these different generations.
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But i was thinking about
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The world war ii generation,
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Like your parents, that generation,
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They're called...
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- well before, a little bit before.
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- a little before them.
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Yeah, people like that,
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That they're called the "greatest generation."
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What made them great
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Was because they had some giants to face.
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You know, a lot of people had to go to europe
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And fight against hitler,
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Which is, you know,
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This huge demonic thing
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That was happening in the world,
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But the younger generation right now,
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You know, kind of 25 and younger,
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They haven't really had much to fight.
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So they don't really have this cause.
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So a lot of them struggle with identity,
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Struggle with, "well, what am i?
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What gender am i?
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What species am i even?"
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Like if you don't have a cause,
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If you don't have purpose,
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If you don't have something
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To strive for,
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To believe for,
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To hope for,
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To put your faith towards,
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You're gonna suffer in your identity.
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- one key to really walking in victory
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And living out, you know,
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What god wants you to do
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Is living with purpose.
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You know, one thing,
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Like nehemiah is a great study in leadership,
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And nehemiah lived with a purpose, right?
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Daniel is a great book in leadership.
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Daniel was a young man
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Who was taken to a foreign nation as a prisoner.
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And yet he became a great leader,
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And he led in three different world empires,
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Four different world leaders.
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He led in babylon,
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Under belshazzar and nebuchadnezzar.
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Nebuchadnezzar first,
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Then belshazzar, his son.
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Then he led in media and persia
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Under cyrus and darius,
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And daniel got great victory.
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But daniel lived with purpose.
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And you know, we need to understand
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That we have a god-given purpose.
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I think this is one thing
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That's been robbed from this younger generation, aaron,
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That you're talking about,
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Is they don't have a very clear-cut identity.
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Identity really comes
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From knowing god and knowing christ.
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And god created mankind.
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And he gave him a very clear purpose, right?
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He created them male and female.
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He said, "be fruitful and multiply,
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Replenish the earth and take dominion."
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And then he gave them
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Every herb-bearing seed,
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And he gave them every animal
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That had life, everything.
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It had the power to reproduce.
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And so if god calls you to do something,
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Then god has given you
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What it takes to do the job.
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But it comes generally in seed form.
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And so a lot of people don't realize that,
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"hey, god wants me to do something."
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And a lot of people, for instance,
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Will say, "well, god wants me to do something,
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But i don't know how i'm gonna do it."
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But i've always said
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I have everything i need to do
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Everything that god called me to do.
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I have no lack in any area of my life.
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We came here to start this church
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24 years ago.
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We had almost no people and no money.
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And yet we've moved in,
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We possess a building
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That's completely paid for.
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The tax valuation now
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Is like $40 million.
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Right?
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And we have resources in store
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To move into and possess
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What god wants us to possess.
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But you know, we've done it the whole time
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Through not looking at what we don't have.
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We've done it by looking at what we do have
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And using what we do have
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As a seed to sow in our future.
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And you know, today,
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Some of you watching us,
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Maybe you don't have everything you need,
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It seems like yet,
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To possess what god's promised you.
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But the bible says,
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"god's given us all things
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Pertaining to life and godliness,"
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But it may be in seed form.
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And the way we've done it
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Is by taking a portion
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Of what god's given us and sowing that,
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Because when you sow a seed, right,
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It goes into your future
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And it produces a harvest.
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And some of you today, you know,
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God may be moving on you
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To sow a seed in the gospel,
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To sow a seed in this message
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That we're preaching of faith
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And grace and victory.
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And if you'll sow a seed,
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I believe those seeds go into your future
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And those seeds produce a harvest
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For your life.
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And i know there's times
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That god's told us to sow significant seed.
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And some of you may be like that.
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And maybe god's calling you
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To sow a seed here.
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Maybe god's calling you
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To sow a seed somewhere else.
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But listen to the voice of the holy spirit.
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Lawson Perdue - Power of Praise (Part 2)

November 11, 2025 | 29:55

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