Lawson Perdue - Prayers of Paul (Part 2)

May 20, 2025 | S25:E2103

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 - Prayers of Paul (Part 2) | May 20, 2025

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- friend, i'm so glad that you've tuned in today.
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We're gonna be sharing from ephesians chapter three,
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Paul's prayer, where he's saying that god is able
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To do exceedingly, abundantly above
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All that we can ask or think.
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But what makes that work?
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The thing that makes that work is a revelation
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Of the love of god.
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And when you get a revelation of the love of god,
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It's gonna completely change the way you pray.
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See how it works.
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Paul prays in light of what jesus did
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In his death, burial, resurrection,
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And the sending of the holy spirit.
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And in paul's prayers, in ephesians 1,
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Ephesians 3, philippians 1, in colossians 1,
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There is no sense of lack,
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No sense of fear, no sense of intimidation,
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But only a sense of who god is, who christ is,
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What christ has called us to do,
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And what jesus has invested in us
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So that we can get the job done.
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Paul wrote these prayers from 67 to 69 ad,
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So approximately 25 to 30 years
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After jesus died and rose again, amen?
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And there is great revelation in them.
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In ephesians 1, he talked about knowing jesus,
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Praise god, knowing what jesus called you to do.
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And knowing the power that jesus has given us
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So we can do what he called us to do.
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On our wall, we have these signs, know jesus.
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The second one, he's talking about getting a revelation
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Of the love of god or the grace of god.
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Our second thing on the wall out there
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Says experience grace.
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You need to know jesus
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And you need to get a revelation of the love of god
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Or the grace of god for you.
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So i'm gonna begin with this verse.
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Many of you know in ephesians 3:20.
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It says, he is able to do exceedingly,
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Abundantly above all that we can ask
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Or think according to the power
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That works in us.
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How many of you thank god for that promise?
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He's able to do exceedingly, abundantly,
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Above anything we can ask or think according to the power
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And he's actually talking about the power of the grace
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Of god or the power of the love
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Of god working on the inside of us
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And i'll show you that, amen?
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So let's move back up to the beginning
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Where paul says this in verse 14 and verse 15.
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He says, for this cause, i bow my knees
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To the father of our lord jesus christ,
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Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.
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Say with me, god is my father and i'm in his family.
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How many of you glad that god is your father
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And you are in his family, amen.
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God's my father and i'm in his family.
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Now, say this with me, god's my father,
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And i'm in his family.
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And i know that my father loves me.
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And he always takes care of me in grand style.
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Amen, make that your daily confession
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And see what begins to happen in your life, amen?
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I know that god is my father.
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I know that he loves me and he always takes care of me
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In grand style.
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It won't just be saying, god's been good to jesse.
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Well, god's been good to pastor lawson,
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But you'll be saying, god has been good to me, amen.
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God is actually good to everyone everywhere all the time.
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Just some of them don't have a revelation of it.
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Now, the first thing that he begins to get into in verse 16,
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He says that he would grant you according to the riches
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Of his glory, to be strengthened with might
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By his spirit in the inner man.
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Do you know the difference in the old testament
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And the new testament?
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In the old testament, the spirit of god would come on them.
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In the new testament, the spirit of christ lives in you.
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And if you begin to understand the scripture,
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The anointing in you leads you
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To the anointing on you.
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The anointing in you is christ in you, strengthening in you.
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The anointing in you will help you live out
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Your christian life.
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Jesus said in john 4:14, whoever drinks the water
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That i give him will have in him a spring of water,
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Bringing eternal life to him.
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That's talking about you and your relationship with god.
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You are just as anointed as any other believer
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To live out the christian life,
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But the anointing in you will lead you
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To the anointing on you.
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Jesus went on to say in john 7:38,
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Whoever believes on me out of his belly
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Shall flow a river of living water.
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Now the anointing in you is bringing life to you.
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It's helping you live out the christ life.
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But the anointing on you is an anointing
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That affects other people.
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Jesus said, you'll receive power
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After the holy spirit comes on you
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And you will be witnesses unto me in jerusalem, judea,
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Samaria, and the utter most part of the world.
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Praise god, you've got an anointing on you
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To make you a witness to other people.
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I got barbara to go to the gym with me last week
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'cause it was so cold outside.
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And so she said, i was in the gym,
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She said this at one of the service,
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I don't know, last sunday or last wednesday,
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I don't know when she said it, but i heard her say it.
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She said, pastor was in there running on the treadmill
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And he was just shouting, glory to god.
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And i didn't even know that i was shouting glory to god.
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And jim knew that i was shouting glory to god,
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But i wasn't even thinking about it.
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But it just flows.
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It's a well, it's a river that just flows out of you.
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Tanya said, she's caught me on camera just glorifying
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And praising, magnifying god.
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She said, nobody even around, nobody's around you at all
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And you're just glorifying.
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It's a river, it's a well in you.
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It's a river flowing outta you.
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You got the spirit of christ in you
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And you've got the anointing of god on you
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To make you a witness to people around you, praise god.
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They said that you might be filled
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With the mighty power of the holy spirit
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By his spirit in the inner man.
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How many of you know
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That we need the holy spirit in our life?
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I wanna take you to an old testament example of this
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In 2 samuel 5, 2 samuel 5:17.
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This is when david is made king over all of israel.
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So david has been king over judah for seven years
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And then god makes him king over all of israel.
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And it says in verse 17, when the philistines heard
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That they had anointed david to be king over israel,
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All the philistines came up to seek david
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And david heard of it and went down to the hold
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Or the stronghold and the philistines also
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And came and spread in the valley of rephaim.
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Don't think just because god has anointed you
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And brought you into your purpose
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That you're not gonna face some challenges.
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Joyce meyer said this years ago,
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And i believe it's true, another level, another devil.
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So here they came.
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And david inquired of the lord.
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He asked the lord saying, shall i go up to the philistines
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And will you deliver them into my hand?
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And the lord said to david,
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Go up for i will doubtless deliver the philistines
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In your hands.
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So he asked god, it's important to ask god about what to do,
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Especially when you got some enemies out there.
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And david came to bell par them and david smoked them there
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And said, the lord has broken forth on my enemies
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Before me as the breach of waters.
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Therefore, he called the name of that place baal-perazim.
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In other words, god of the breakthrough.
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How many of you're glad that god is still the god
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Of the breakthrough?
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Some of you need some breakthrough right here
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And right now.
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As we were worshiping, the lord said,
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The spirit of god is on you
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And i have called you and anointed you
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And appointed you for this time.
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And you need god to work some breakthrough in your life.
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And when they left their idols,
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David and his men burned them
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And the philistines came up again.
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How many of you know the devil is a persistent cuss
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And they spread themselves in the valley of rephaim?
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And david inquired of the lord again.
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Sometimes you need to ask god again.
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You don't just take things for granted.
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And the lord said, you shall not go up
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But fetch a compass behind them
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And come up on them over against the mulberry tree.
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I want you to go with those mulberry trees.
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I remember when i was a kid,
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We had a mulberry tree on our farm
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And it was growing just out by itself
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On an irrigating ditch.
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And i had a little shetland pony, her name was cocoa
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And she was dark brown, chocolate brown and white.
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She was just a little bitty shetland pony.
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And she was ornery.
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We had about 30 to 40 mares
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And we'd put her in with our mares,
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But we had these big hay feeders.
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You could put four or five horses, six horses on one side,
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She'd get right in the middle, she'd kick her little feet
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And she'd fit right under their belly,
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Kick 'em all in the belly, get 'em all out that side.
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Then she'd go this way, kick her feet,
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And she'd keep a whole side of a feeder just to herself.
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She was a ornery little horse.
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Don't think them little ponies,
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Those little ponies can be really ornery.
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And we bred her to a black arabian stallion.
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And she had a kind of medium size.
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He was jet black all over, didn't have a white marking,
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Didn't have a white foot or anything.
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We named him poco nochi, little knight, hallelujah.
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He's had a little better attitude than cocoa, amen.
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But i remember i rode this horse one time.
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I was 10, 12 years old
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And i rode her over that mulberry tree
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And the mulberries were ripe.
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And so i had this white t-shirt on, it was in the summer.
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And so i filled this t-shirt up with mulberries
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And i rode the horse about a mile back home.
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By the time i got home, my shirt was purple.
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I don't know if the stains ever got out of it,
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But boy, those were sweet mulberries.
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So he said, i want you to go over by the mulberry trees.
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And when you hear the sound of the wind
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In the trees, then you go forth against them.
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Friend, we've been sharing on the prayers of paul,
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And when you get a revelation of what happened
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Through the death barrel resurrection of jesus christ
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And the sending of the holy spirit,
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It will revolutionize your life.
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We have these teachings on the prayers
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Of paul, downloadable audio,
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Downloadable video on our website, free of charge.
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So check it out, blessings.
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If you're really operating in faith,
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Two things are gonna be happening.
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Number one, you're gonna get joyful.
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And number two, you're gonna get thankful
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And you're gonna start seeing what you have
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Instead of what you don't have.
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You're gonna quit complaining, you're gonna quit whining.
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You're gonna quit acting like a victim.
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As you have received christ, jesus the lord
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So walk in him, rooted, built up, established in the faith
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As you've been taught, abounding there in with thanksgiving.
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God will give you specific direction
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If you're listening to him, amen, hallelujah.
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He's given me direction recently about two different things,
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It's been amazing.
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And then after they happen, i'm like, oh,
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That was what the lord was showing me right there.
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That's what he meant and it's gonna lead
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To great victory in my life, hallelujah.
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But keep listening for what the spirit of god is saying,
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How the spirit of god is directing you.
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In this case...
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And so inquired and when you hear the sound,
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When you hear the sound,
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When you hear the sound on the day of pentecost,
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They heard the sound as a rushing mighty wind.
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And it filled the house where they were sitting
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And they all began to speak with other tongues
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As the spirit gave them the utterance
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Of a going and the tops of the mulberry trees,
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Then stir yourself for then you will go out,
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The lord will go out before you to smite the army
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Of the philistines.
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And david did so and as the lord commanded him
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And he smoked the philistines from geba to gezer.
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He defeated his enemy, hallelujah.
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Glory to god, we can have great victory,
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But we need to continue to rely on the spirit of god.
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Then the other thing we need to realize
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About the spirit of god is this.
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The spirit of god moves where the grace
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Of god is proclaimed.
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In zechariah 4, you all know it, verse six,
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It says, not by power, but by my spirit, says the lord.
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And they had begun to build the temple
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Or to rebuild the temple.
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They had laid the foundation, right?
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They had begun to build, but then they were stopped
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By king artaxerxes.
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He said, you can't be building that, that's in rebellion.
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But then the prophet of god spoke
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And the prophet of god said, listen, it's not by your mind,
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It's not by your power, but you're gonna finish.
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Your hands laid the foundation
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And they're gonna lay the capstone, they're gonna complete.
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You are gonna finish what i called you to do.
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And he says, this mountain will be removed
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By shoutings of grace.
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Did you know your mountain needs to hear your voice?
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And if you don't have any mountains,
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Maybe you're not taking enough territory.
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Do you know i got some mountains in my life
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And i'm speaking grace, grace, hallelujah.
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Grace!
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Everybody say grace, grace to the mountain.
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We got some mountains in the ministry,
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I'm saying grace to this mountain.
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I got some mountains in my own life.
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I'm saying grace to this...
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Your mountain needs to hear your voice.
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And great power is released
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Where great grace is proclaimed or preached.
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So he prays, first of all, in ephesians chapter three.
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Number one, god's our father and he's our family.
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But the second thing, he says,
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I want you to get a revelation
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Of the spirit of god living in you
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And rely on the spirit of god.
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Then he says in verse 17, ephesians 3:17,
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That christ may dwell in your heart by faith.
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Said, oh, if you're gonna take your mountain,
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It's gonna take some faith.
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And he says, i want christ to take up residence
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On the inside of you by faith.
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Some of you're not gonna get some things
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'cause you don't believe them.
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If you don't believe them, you won't receive them.
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Isaiah says this in chapter seven,
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Surely if you will not believe, you will not be established.
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I just was asked to share...
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At a church, i was asked to share.
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They wanted me to share something in the realm of finances,
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But god directed me to teach on grace
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And faith concerning giving and receiving.
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And most people when they look at that
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Look at our giving as faith and receiving as grace.
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But the lord showed me giving as grace
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And jesus as the greatest example of grace
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And receiving as faith that they're actually both
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By grace through faith.
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But giving is a grace that we need to operate in.
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And did you know what, you need to put faith
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With your giving and not only just give to give
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But believe to receive.
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And the lord said, some people don't receive
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Because they don't believe.
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So if you wanna receive in that realm,
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You've gotta believe it, hallelujah.
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So keep believing, good things come when you keep believing.
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Jesse duplantis said this most of the time.
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He said about in the realm of faith.
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I made a decision and god backed it.
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Now he said that years and years ago, it stuck with me
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And i just couldn't let go of it.
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And so i got him in and talked to him about it.
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And when i talked to jesse about it, jesse said this.
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Jesse said, you got jesus living on the inside of you.
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You've got the spirit of god living on the inside of you.
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So when you make a decision out of your spirit,
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You're being led by the spirit of god.
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You're being led by christ in you.
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That's god's desire that's working in you.
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And so he says, most of the time, in the realm of faith,
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I make a decision and god backs it.
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Amen, because your decisions are synonymous
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When you're listening to the spirit of christ
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On the inside of you.
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When you understand there's a power in that.
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In fact, one of the first things
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In the realm of faith is a making a decision.
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You put that with deuteronomy 30.
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That's one of the first acts of faith is make a decision.
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Believe it, amen, hallelujah.
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Another person, a friend of mine,
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Great man of faith is andrew wommack.
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But you know where great faith is released
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Is where grace is understood.
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And the bible actually says this in galatians 5:6.
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It says, in christ jesus, neither circumcision
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Nor uncircumcision avails anything
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But faith that works by love.
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And when you understand that,
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What paul's saying in context is when you understand
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The grace of god, when you understand the love of god,
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When you get a revelation of the love of god,
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Your faith is gonna work.
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Now let's turn to 1 john 3.
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I wanna read a few verses
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And just show you this in 1 john 3
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But in 1 john 3, it says this in verse 19,
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It says hereby, we know that we are of the truth
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And shall assure our hearts before him,
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For if our heart condemn us,
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God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
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Sometimes people are struggling with condemnation.
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Now you know romans 8:1 says, there's no condemnation
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To those who are in christ jesus.
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However, sometimes they have an overactive conscience
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Or they're not living in a real pure conscience
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And they're struggling with condemnation.
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And the scripture says here
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That if your heart does not condemn you,
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He says, then we have great competence
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Or great faith towards god.
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If our heart condemns us, see, there's both sides of this,
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God is greater than our heart.
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Now i told you that andrew wommack
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Is another good friend of mine
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And he's a great man of faith.
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In fact, when andrew makes a decision to do something,
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When he believes that god has told him
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To do something, he doesn't care
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How many people think he's wrong.
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Because in his mind, he knows that he is right.
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You may not think he's right, but he don't care.
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But i'll tell you, andrew operates
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In a very pure conscience.
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And because he operates...
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So does jesse duplantis by the way.
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Jesse talks about, i'm not making a practice of sin.
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Amen, hallelujah, so andrew lives in a very pure conscience.
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Because he lives in a pure conscience,
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His heart is not condemning him
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And he has great confidence toward god.
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Now, he goes on and tells us this,
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And whatever we ask, he says in verse 22,
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We receive of him
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Because we keep his commandments
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And do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
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You want all your prayers answered.
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He said, whatever we ask, we receive
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Because we keep his commands
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And he goes on to tell us what the commandments are,
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And we do those things
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That are pleasing in his psych.
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So what are the new testament commandments?
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He goes on and tells us what they are.
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He says, and this is his commandment,
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That we believe on the name of his son jesus christ
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And love one another as he gave us commandment.
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They asked jesus, what are the greatest commandments?
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What's the greatest command?
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He said, the first one is love god with all your heart,
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All your soul, all your might, all your strength.
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Spirit, soul and body, amen.
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And benny said, and the second is like it.
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Love your neighbor as yourself.
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Now we go back to this.
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He says, we know in verse 22, whatever we ask,
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We receive of him because we keep his commandments
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And do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
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This is his commandment that we believe on
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The name of jesus.
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Is jesus your lord?
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And number two, and love one another
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As he gave us commandment.
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1 john 5:3 says, this is his command.
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What's he say, let me read 1 john 5:3.
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1 john 5:3 says this, for this is the love of god
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That we keep his commands
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And his commandments are not grievous.
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They're not hard to bear.
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See when you love god, amen, it's not hard
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To keep the commands, but at the same point in time,
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It's when you understand the love of god for you,
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It's easy to walk in his command
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'cause when you understand the love of god for you,
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You know that father always knows best.
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Friends, we've been sharing
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About getting a revelation of the grace of god.
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And when you get a revelation of grace,
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It changes how you pray.
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It changes how you live, it changes how you react
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And minister to other people.
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And i want you to get this same revelation
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That i've received that's changed my life.
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I know if you get it, it's gonna change your life too.
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So we've made many tools available
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Absolutely free of charge.
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They're on our website, charischristiancenter.com,
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We have so much to say about this, so we want you
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To go there and check out those teachings.
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Because when you understand the scriptures
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In the book of ephesians, you can understand
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That god wants everyone to win.
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And when you understand what christ has done for you,
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It changes how you live your life in this world
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And how you stand against the devil.
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So go to our website and get my book, ephesians,
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Lawson Perdue - Prayers of Paul (Part 2)

May 20, 2025 | S25:E2103

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