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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - The Power of Thanksgiving (Part 3)

April 30, 2025 | S25:E1704

Lawson Perdue - The Power of Thanksgiving (Part 3)
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 - The Power of Thanksgiving (Part 3) | April 30, 2025
  • (cheerful music)
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  • - praise the lord friends,
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  • This is our final broadcast on the power of thanksgiving,
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  • And we're gonna talk about today
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  • How when you truly have faith,
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  • You're going to be a thankful person
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  • And as a thankful person and walking in faith,
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  • You'll begin to walk in divine authority.
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  • You don't want to miss this teaching today.
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  • I believe if you understand it,
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  • It will bring you into a new level of authority in christ.
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  • Blessings.
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  • (cheerful music)
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  • Now we're gonna begin to talk.
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  • We're gonna move on and talk about praise and thanksgiving
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  • And the connection between your relationship with god
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  • And praise and thanksgiving.
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  • So move into colossians 4:2.
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  • Look at what paul says here in colossians 4:2.
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  • "continue in prayer
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  • And watch in the same with thanksgiving."
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  • Keep praying, keep praying.
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  • You know what?
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  • If you have a relationship with god,
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  • You should keep praying.
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  • What is prayer? it's communicating with god.
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  • It's communion with heaven.
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  • It's not hard, it's not difficult, it's life.
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  • They asked smith wigglesworth,
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  • Smith wigglesworth raised a number of people from the dead.
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  • He got a lot of people healed of major ailments
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  • That we're supposed to die.
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  • And they asked him, they said,
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  • "how long do you pray, smith?"
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  • He said, "well, i generally don't pray over 10 minutes,
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  • But i generally don't go over 10 minutes without praying."
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  • And so he says,
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  • "continue in prayer and watch your prayers work."
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  • Did you know what? you can watch your prayers work.
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  • And you know what you do in between asking god for something
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  • And receiving it.
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  • You need to thank god for it. keep thanking god.
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  • Keep praising god. keep glorifying god.
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  • Keep magnifying god.
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  • And i'll be honest with you,
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  • Some prayers take longer to receive the answer than others,
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  • But we keep believing.
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  • Sometimes god shows us things.
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  • There's some things that god showed us
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  • When we first came here.
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  • They still haven't come to pass,
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  • But we had this lady, she came up to barbara the other day
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  • And she shared this word with her like it was yesterday.
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  • And barbara's like, "well, when did god show you this?"
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  • She's like, "oh, about,"
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  • It's when we were here about six years.
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  • So we've been here 23 years, so about 17 years ago,
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  • And we've had other people come and confirm them.
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  • We don't always tell them.
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  • Yeah, we believe that,
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  • But some things take longer to come to pass than others do.
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  • But you know what you do?
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  • You don't get mad, you don't get upset.
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  • You keep your eyes on jesus and thank god.
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  • Now, paul says this,
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  • Talking about our relationship with god and prayer.
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  • He says this in 1 timothy 2:1.
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  • He says, "i exhort that first of all, prayers."
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  • What's that? all kinds of prayers.
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  • There's all kinds of different ways to pray.
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  • He talks about a few of them in this verse,
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  • "prayers, intercessions, amen.
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  • Giving of thanks, be made for all men, for kings,
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  • And for all that are in authority."
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  • So pray about it. right?
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  • Supplication, i think he mentions in there,
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  • Supplication just means ask god about it.
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  • Giving of thanks while you're asking god for something.
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  • Giving thanks.
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  • Thanksgiving is a type of prayer, right?
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  • Intercessions. now, what is intercession?
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  • Intercession simply means
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  • To go to god on the behalf of another.
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  • Don't make it more than it is.
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  • Don't make it less than it is. that's what it means, right?
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  • So some people have tried to take the place of jesus.
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  • We are in no means trying to take the place of jesus,
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  • In the realm of intercession.
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  • Isaiah 59, i believe it is, talks about him.
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  • It says, "he made intercession for them
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  • And his arm brought them salvation."
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  • It's talking about jesus and you in no way become jesus.
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  • One thing that'll help you
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  • Is not trying to be jesus for people.
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  • Let jesus be jesus.
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  • - [audience] amen. - amen.
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  • Keep casting your cares on the lord. keep trusting the lord.
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  • Amen. but pray. pray to god.
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  • Go to god on the behalf of others.
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  • Some people, when they're praying,
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  • They have more focus on the problem than they do the answer.
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  • The answer is jesus.
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  • In fact, i've heard about people
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  • That they were praying for something,
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  • Somebody with something,
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  • And they ended up with that same problem.
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  • You know what the problem was?
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  • They were focusing more on the problem,
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  • The difficulty, the disease.
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  • Than jesus, the answer.
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  • In fact, if you don't ever get happy,
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  • When you get in the presence of god,
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  • Something's wrong when you pray.
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  • I used to have a couple ladies in my church
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  • Years and years ago, and they would,
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  • They kept going and praying and interceding.
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  • They kept looking terrible, right?
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  • Finally, i told them one day, i said,
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  • "you're not getting in the presence of god."
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  • You talk about offending some religious people.
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  • They got offended.
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  • "we're not gonna bring god."
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  • I said, "oh, no," i said,
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  • "the bible says, in the presence of the lord,
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  • There's fullness of joy."
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  • And if you get in the presence of god,
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  • You're gonna get happy.
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  • And if you never get happy,
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  • You ain't been much in the presence of jesus.
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  • They got a little happier, they're still friends with me.
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  • Hallelujah. that's good. amen.
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  • Sometimes we take ourselves far too serious. amen.
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  • We need to take jesus serious. amen.
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  • Don't take yourselves too seriously.
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  • But one type of prayer is thanksgiving,
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  • Prayers, intercessions, giving of thanks,
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  • Be made for all men.
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  • He says this in verse eight,
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  • " i will therefore that men," 1 timothy 2:8,
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  • "pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands
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  • Without wrath and doubting you."
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  • Do you know what? you can't make it happen anyway.
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  • Without wrath. without wrath.
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  • Just surrender.
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  • Everybody say surrender. - [audience] surrender.
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  • - to jesus.
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  • Do you know what things work better
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  • When you surrender to jesus?
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  • Amen. so pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands.
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  • Surrender to jesus.
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  • Amen.
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  • So keep praying.
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  • Then he says this, i believe you know, part of our prayer,
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  • I love the sandwich message method of praying.
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  • And we shared this scripture before,
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  • But i want you to go to philippians 4:6
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  • We're gonna read verse six on down through verse eight.
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  • "but paul says, 'rejoice in the lord.'"
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  • Where is your joy? your joy is in jesus.
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  • "rejoice in the lord, always."
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  • Now, paul understood this very, very well
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  • Because he's actually writing this from jail
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  • Where he is been thrown in jail for preaching the gospel.
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  • So count it all joy, james says,
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  • When you fall into different kind of trouble,
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  • Different kind of temptations,
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  • Some of you think you can't get happy,
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  • You get happy wherever you're at.
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  • If you can't get happy where you're at,
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  • You're not gonna be happy somewhere else.
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  • Count it all joy. rejoice in the lord always.
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  • And again, i say rejoice, keep on doing it.
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  • Let your moderation,
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  • That word in the modern english version,
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  • His gentleness, that's a good word for me.
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  • Let your gentleness be known to all men.
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  • The lord is at hand. keep your trust to jesus.
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  • Keep your focus on jesus. don't worry about anything.
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  • Be careful. don't be anxious for anything.
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  • Don't fret about it. don't stress it. (chuckles)
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  • I don't know if robbie's here this service,
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  • He was here last service,
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  • But robbie has this saying, "it's all good."
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  • Hallelujah. i love golfing with robbie.
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  • I don't golf very much.
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  • I'm not a very good golfer, but he'll say, "it's all good."
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • They like to go golfing in the summer at 6:00 pm on sunday
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  • 'cause there's a bargain deal.
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  • But i start about 4:00 am on sunday
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  • And i work out really hard.
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  • And then i come over here to church
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  • And man, by 6:00 pm i'm toast.
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  • And then they walk,
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  • And they're walking and i'm sitting on the green like a,
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  • I'm really enjoying this golf. (chuckles)
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • I shouldn't tell you those honest stories,
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  • (audience laughs)
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  • But he says, "don't worry about it, don't fret about it.
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  • It's all good."
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  • I know barbara, she got us a week of free golf
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  • In our neighborhood for a vacation, said,
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  • "i want to do a staycation."
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  • And she got us a week of free golf.
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  • And so she was just, we were, you know, we'd never done it.
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  • And we were golfing together
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  • And she's like, "listen, i see the pros.
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  • They hit them like that all the time." (chuckles)
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  • Glory to god. anyway, i better quit telling your stories.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • Anyway, he says, "don't worry about it,
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  • Don't stress about it.
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  • Be careful for nothing.
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  • Don't be anxious, but in everything by prayer,
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  • Ask god about it."
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  • And supplication, supplication again,
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  • Just means just to ask god with thanksgiving.
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  • At the same time that you're asking god again,
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  • You ask for it, then you thank god.
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  • Sometimes this thanksgiving part takes longer.
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  • And this is actually an aspect of prayer.
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  • Sometimes this thanksgiving part takes a long time, right?
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  • And then between asking and receiving is thanking.
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  • So when you sandwich your supplications between thanksgiving
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  • And when you thank god, amen.
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  • And then ask god and then thank god, guess what?
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  • Gratefulness will get a lot more accomplished
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  • In the realm of prayer.
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  • Thanksgiving will get a lot accomplished.
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  • So keep thanking god.
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  • Keep glorifying god. amen.
  • 00:11:02.270 --> 00:11:05.807
  • He says, "prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.
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  • Let your requests be made known to god."
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  • He says this in verse seven,
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  • "in the peace of god,
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  • Which passes all understanding will keep your heart."
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  • Where is the battlefield?
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  • In your mind, in your heart.
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  • Your heart is actually a combination
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  • Of your spirit and your soul or your soul.
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  • And the soul's been defined
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  • By many of our leading full gospel teachers
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  • As the mind, the will and the emotions.
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  • So when you thank god and you're praying about it,
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  • The peace of god which passes understanding,
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  • Will keep your hearts and minds through christ jesus.
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  • Finally, brethren, he says this,
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  • "whatever things are true, accentuate the positive.
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  • Focus on the positive.
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  • Focus on what's right, focus on what's good.
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  • Focus on what's," he says, "whatever's true,
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  • Whatever's honest, whatever things are just,
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  • Whatever things are of a good report.
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  • If there's any virtue, if there's any praise,
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  • Think on these things."
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  • You gotta focus on the good report. this is the good report.
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  • Andrew wommack years ago said,
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  • "in the realm of faith, you can look at the situation,
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  • You can look at the circumstances, you can look at the word,
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  • And then you make a decision.
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  • Which one are you gonna believe?
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  • Are you gonna believe the word
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  • Or just believe the circumstance?"
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  • Friend, i hope you've been enjoying this teaching.
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  • We are sharing all this week on the power of thanksgiving
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  • And the compassion of jesus.
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  • And when you understand the compassion of jesus,
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  • You're gonna be a thankful person.
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  • I have a lot more teaching on this
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  • And many more subjects
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  • Available free of charge
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  • On our website at charischristiancenter.com.
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  • You know, my grandmother told me
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  • When i was just a little bitty child,
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  • She told me, "birds of a feather flock together."
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  • And then a preacher told me a few years later,
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  • "flocks fly the same place."
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  • You know, there's some flocks you fly with,
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  • You're not gonna get what you want.
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  • And so you wanna hang around the right people.
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  • It's very important the relationships that you have.
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  • But when you pray,
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  • The bible actually says this in 1 thessalonians 5:16-18
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  • "rejoice several more. keep rejoicing, keep."
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  • That's a rejoice of evidence of faith also.
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  • "pray without ceasing,
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  • Keep praying like smith would, keep praying."
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  • Amen. "in everything give thanks."
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  • Keep giving thanks. keep giving thanks to god.
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  • Keep glorifying god, keep man.
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  • And did you know what?
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  • When you praise god, when you thank god,
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  • Thanksgiving will bring you into the presence of god.
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  • Turn with me to psalm 100.
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  • Let's look at this verse in psalm 100, praise the lord.
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  • Psalm 100 and verse, we'll just start in verse one,
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  • "make a joyful noise to the lord all you,"
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  • So if you ain't the best singer, just make a joyful noise.
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  • "put a smile on your face. serve the lord with gladness.
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  • Come before his presence.
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  • Praise will bring you into his presence with singing.
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  • Know ye the lord, he is god.
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  • It is he who has made us and not,"
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  • How many of you know he's good at what he does?
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  • And not we ourself.
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  • "we are his people.
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  • And the sheep, jesus is the great shepherd of the sheep.
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  • He's a good shepherd.
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  • And the sheep of his pasture
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  • Enter into his gates with thanksgiving."
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  • In the old testament time, in david time
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  • They built big walls around the cities.
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  • And when you went in the city gates,
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  • That's where authority was.
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  • That's where business was taken care of.
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  • What he's saying is you enter into authority by thanksgiving
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  • And into his courts, you come into his presence with praise.
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  • "be thankful unto him and bless his name.
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  • For the lord is good."
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  • Everybody say the lord is good
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  • And his mercy is everlasting.
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  • And his truth endures to every generation.
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  • The lord is good and his mercy is,
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  • And his truth endures to every,
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  • So praise will bring you into his present.
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  • I think it's psalm 22:3.
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  • It might be verse six, i think it's verse three.
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  • It says, "but you are holy, oh lord, god of israel
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  • Who inhabits the praises of his people."
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  • There's something about when you start praising god
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  • And when you start, you can be facing a terrible situation.
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  • You can have very negative circumstances,
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  • But if you'll start praising god and blessing god
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  • And worshiping god,
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  • All of a sudden it will bring you from seeing the problem
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  • To seeing the answer.
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  • I've had times when it looks like,
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  • "man, this deal's gonna wipe me out."
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  • And i just start praising and blessing
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  • And thanking god, magnifying.
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  • Sometimes i start praying in tongues.
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  • I start worshiping in tongues.
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  • Paul said this and that's a secondary thing.
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  • Praying in the spirit,
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  • Being baptized in the holy spirit to salvation.
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  • I was saved when i was eight years old
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  • And i was baptized in the holy spirit 46 years ago
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  • When i was 14 years old.
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  • And if i haven't spoken in tongues every day,
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  • These last 46 years,
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  • I've spoken in tongues almost every day these last 46 years.
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  • But paul said this, he said,
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  • "i will pray with my understanding" in 1 corinthians 14.
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  • And he says, "i'll pray with the spirit."
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  • In other words, "i'm already baptized.
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  • God didn't have to baptize me in the holy ghost again.
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  • I can pray in tongues whenever i want to
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  • 'cause the holy spirit's in me."
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  • And he said, "i will sing with my understanding
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  • And i will sing with the spirit also."
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  • I was in here and worship today singing in tongues
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  • And worshiping and glorifying god, amen.
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  • At my house, i sit down and i worship god
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  • And i play that beautiful mason hamlet
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  • Seven foot concert grand that jesus gave me.
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  • And sometimes i sing with understanding,
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  • But sometimes i just sing in tongues and i just worship.
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  • And many times when i'm facing a problem,
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  • I'll start praising god and i'll start praying in tongues
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  • And singing in tongues,
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  • And then god will gimme the interpretation
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  • Of what i'm praying.
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  • It wasn't very many weeks ago,
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  • I gave a word in tongues in this service.
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  • And we have a girl here,
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  • She's gone this weekend 'cause she went to a wedding
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  • Where she's from,
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  • She's from laredo and her daddy is a pastor
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  • And her mama is hispanic.
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  • And she said, i said it in perfect spanish twice.
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  • I didn't even know i said it. i know poco espanol.
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  • That means a little right, very little, okay.
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  • But she said, i said it very cleanly, satan be removed.
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  • And then i said it again, satan be removed.
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  • I tell the devil to get outta here.
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  • Now that kind of goes beyond my understanding about
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  • Beyond my teaching or whatever, but she said i said it
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  • And i will say that moses disputed, right?
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  • Or you know, that there was some type of dispute.
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  • Sometimes you gotta tell the devil and put him in his place.
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  • Take authority over it. amen.
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  • One way you can do it is praising god.
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  • So praise will bring you into the presence of god.
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  • Thanksgiving will bring you into the presence of god. amen.
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  • But another thing is when you're thanking god,
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  • It will lead you into generosity.
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  • And let's go to this last,
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  • Well, i got two more scriptures,
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  • Here in 1 chronicles 29:10.
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  • This is at the end of david's life.
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  • You know, david started out in the sheep folds
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  • When his brothers didn't even think he was important enough
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  • To bring to the sacrifice.
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  • And he went there because god called.
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  • Samuel called jesse to sacrifice.
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  • And samuel had seven of his,
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  • Or samuel had seven of jesse's sons pass by.
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  • And the lord said, "no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."
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  • Seven times, he said, "do you have any more kids?"
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  • "yeah, david, he's out there taking care of the sheep."
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  • They didn't even think nothing much of david's.
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  • They left him out there taking care of the sheep.
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  • He said, "go get him. stand up.
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  • You wait till he gets here."
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  • David comes in and the lord says,
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  • "anoint him for this is the lord's anoint."
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  • So he anoints david, right?
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  • But you know, david starts out, saul is jealous,
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  • Saul is threatened.
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  • Saul tries to kill david over 20 times.
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  • But david keeps worshiping jesus.
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  • And he starts out right
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  • With these 400 guys, start following him.
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  • They're everybody that's in debt, distress and discontent.
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  • So they had kind of a hard start.
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  • It ain't where you start that matters.
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  • It's where you finish up, right?
  • 00:20:33.975 --> 00:20:38.346
  • But david asked nathan, the prophet along the way,
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  • He said, "listen, i want to build a house for the arc."
  • 00:20:41.582 --> 00:20:45.953
  • And nathan said, "go do it.
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  • Go do all that's in your heart. that's good."
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  • I mean david barely gets out of the door
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  • And god tells nathan, "hey, go pull those words back.
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  • That's not my heart, that's not my desire.
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  • He's not the man."
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  • So he gives him a promise,
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  • Said, "your seed will sit on the throne
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  • Of the house of israel forever, but you're not the guy."
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  • He said, "okay, that's great."
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  • And you read about the seed of david in revelation 22.
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  • It's jesus, gonna sit on the throne
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  • Of the house of david forever.
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  • But i think david said when nathan came back,
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  • "hey, let me raise the money."
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  • So this is near the end of his life
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  • And he comes and he brings this offering for the temple
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  • Of his own personal wealth
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  • And then his 400 mighty men, right?
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  • They were the 400 people
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  • That were in discontent and district.
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  • They come behind him and they bring their offering
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  • And david gives like a $4 billion.
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  • Jesus, that's a lot of money.
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  • Personal offering.
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  • And then his mighty men come behind him and say,
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  • "we give 5 billion."
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  • You can't talk about how much money
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  • You read all over the old testament.
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  • This one brought this much.
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  • You just reading about a scripture
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  • That's talking about giving to the poor.
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  • 'cause god don't wanna embarrass the poor.
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  • And if you stand on the corner and give away money,
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  • You could prove it like our government.
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  • You're gonna go broke.
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  • I'll stop right there.
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  • That don't mean we shouldn't give to the poor,
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  • We should be wise about how we do it, in discreet.
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  • He says in here in 1 chronicles 29,
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  • This is near the end of david's life
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  • When he gave this offering,
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  • "wherefore david blessed the lord
  • 00:22:28.489 --> 00:22:30.591
  • Before all the congregation and he said,
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  • 'blessed be the lord god of israel, our father forever.
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  • Yours, oh lord, is the greatness and the power
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  • And the glory and the victory and the majesty
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  • For everything in heaven and earth is yours.
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  • Yours is the kingdom, oh lord.
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  • And you are exalted as head above all,
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  • Both riches and honor come from you.
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  • You reign over all
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  • And in your hand is power in mind,
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  • In your hand it's to make great and give strength to all.
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  • Now therefore, our god,
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  • We thank you and praise your glorious name.
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  • But who am i and what is my people
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  • That we would be able to offer so willingly in this manner?
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  • For all things come of you and of your own.
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  • Have we given you?'"
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  • Man, what an amazing.
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  • He said, "god, it's really all yours
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  • And you just let us have it.
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  • So thanks for giving it to us
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  • And thanks for letting us bless."
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  • See thanksgiving leads to generosity.
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  • Can i give you one more scripture?
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  • Not only that, but generosity causes thanksgiving
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  • And in 2 corinthians 9:10
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  • Paul's talking about the grace of giving.
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  • 2 corinthians 8:9 talk as much about giving
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  • As anywhere in the new testament.
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  • And he says this in verse 10.
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  • "now he who ministers seed to the sower
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  • Will both minister bread for your food,
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  • Multiply the seed zone,
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  • Increase the fruit of your righteousness,
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  • Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness,
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  • It leads to bountifulness,
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  • Which causes through us thanksgiving to god."
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  • So when people get involved in generosity,
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  • It causes thanksgiving to god.
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  • See that notice verse 12,
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  • "for the administration of this service
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  • Not only supplies the want of the saints,
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  • But it's abundant also by many thanksgiving to god."
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  • So what paul's saying,
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  • Number one, when people get involved in generosity,
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  • That causes thanksgiving.
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  • But when the leadership administrates that offering
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  • And they do a good job of administration
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  • That causes thank.
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  • In fact, in chapter 8 says,
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  • "hey, don't blame us for this abundance."
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  • And he appointed titus to help take care of the abundance
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  • That was flowing.
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  • So number one, they thank god because of abundance.
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  • Number two, they thank god
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  • Because the abundance
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  • Was being administrating well, generosity.
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  • He goes on to say this in verse 13.
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  • "while by the experiment of this ministry,
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  • They glorify god for your professed subjection to the gospel
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  • And for your liberal distribution to them and unto all men,
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  • And by their prayer for you,
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  • Which long after you for the exceeding grace of god in you."
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  • Ultimately he says this in verse 15.
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  • "now thanks be to god for his unspeakable gift."
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  • He said, when people get involved in generosity,
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  • It causes thanksgiving.
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  • When it's administrated well that causes thanksgiving
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  • And ultimately it causes us to thank god
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  • For his unspeakable gift, the gift of jesus christ.
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  • Friend, i'm so glad that you've been tuned in today,
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  • We've been talking about the connection
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  • Between faith and thanksgiving and authority.
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  • When you're truly a person of faith,
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  • You're going to be a thankful person
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  • And as a thankful person,
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  • You're going to begin to walk in the authority
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  • That jesus christ has given you.
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