Lawson Perdue - Prayers of Paul (Part 4)

May 22, 2025 | S25:E2105

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 4) | May 22, 2025

(lively upbeat music)
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- friend, i'm so glad that you're with us today.
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I'm gonna be sharing from paul's prayer in colossians 1.
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You know, in paul's prayer, he never talks about lack.
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He never talks about need. he never talks about fear.
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You know what he talks about?
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He talks about who jesus is, who you are,
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What god's called you to do,
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And what god's invested in you so you can get the job done.
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When you get a revelation of the gospel,
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It's gonna change how you pray.
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Stay tuned and you're gonna be blessed.
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(lively upbeat music)
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We've been sharing on paul's prayers,
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And there's four of 'em.
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They're ephesians 1, ephesians 3,
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Philippians 1, and colossians 1.
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In paul's prayers, paul doesn't talk about fear.
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He doesn't talk about lack. he doesn't talk about need.
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He primarily talks about who god is.
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He talks secondarily about who christ is.
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He talks thirdly about who we are.
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He talks forth about what god's called us to do,
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And he talks fifth about what god's invested in us
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So we can get the job done.
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Ephesians 1, first thing he says is,
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"i want you to know jesus.
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I want you to know what he called you to do,
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And i want you to know what he's invested in you to do it."
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That's primarily what ephesians 1 prayer is about.
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Our first sign out there on the wall says, "know jesus."
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In the second prayer, in ephesians 3, he primarily talks
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About getting a revelation of the grace of god
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Or the love of god.
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He said, "i want you to get rooted and grounded
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In the love of god so that you might know the breadth,
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The length, the depth, and the height
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To come to know the love of christ,
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To get a revelation of the love of christ
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That passes knowledge," right?
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He says, "that you might be filled
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With the fullness of god."
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When you get a revelation of love, of grace,
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You get full of god.
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And then he says in verse 20,
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"for he is able to do exceedingly, abundantly,
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Above all that you can ask or think."
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One version even says, "or imagine
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According to the power that's working in you."
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He's talking about the power of god's great grace
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Or the power of god's love.
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Get a revelation of love.
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Get a revelation of christ in you and his love in you
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And it'll revolutionize your life, amen?
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The third one, he talks about this in philippians,
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And i want to start before in verse three to eight.
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It's really a letter where he's so in love with this church
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Because they supported him from the beginning of the gospel
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When he started out to the end,
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And this is near the end of his life,
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And not a lot of people go the distance.
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So he's really right and he says,
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"i thank god for your fellowship in the gospel.
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From the first day till now, you've supported me.
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Thank you."
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He says in philippians 4:15, the last chapter, he says,
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"no church communicated with me
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In giving and receiving but you only."
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He's really thanking god for them.
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But he's talking about relationship.
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Our third sign out there is relationship.
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Now, when he prays the prayer,
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He prays this in philippians 1:9-11.
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"number one, i want your love abound.
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Number two, i want you
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To approve the things that are excellent.
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Number three, i want you to be filled
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With the fruit of righteousness."
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But now we're in the fourth prayer.
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Our fourth sign out on the wall is, "live with purpose."
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I believe that god has a purpose
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For every person who's born again.
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I believe that purpose is greater
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Than our own personal purpose.
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Amen? praise god.
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Now, in colossians 1, we find the fourth prayer of paul,
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The last one, verse 9 through verse 14.
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He says in verse 9, "for this cause we also,
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Since the day we heard of it, do not cease to pray for you,
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And desire that you might be filled with the knowledge
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Of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding."
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We want you to know the will of god.
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We want you to live with purpose.
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How can you live with god's purpose
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If you don't know what his will is for your life?
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Now, there's a number of ways to know the will of god.
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You know the will of god through the word of god.
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You know the word of god through the holy spirit.
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We'll come back to that.
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You know the will of god through the peace of god.
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You can know the will of god
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Sometimes through godly counsel.
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Read what proverbs says about counsel.
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And i have a question for you in the area of counsel,
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And it's this, who can tell you no?
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If you don't have anyone who can tell you no,
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You are in a very dangerous place.
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About 20 years ago, i told andrew wommack this.
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I said, "andrew, anytime you want to speak into my life,
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Anytime you want to tell me something, i'm here to listen.
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My door is open."
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He told me this. he said, "lawson, i already know that."
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I said, "how do you know that? i've never said that to you."
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He said, "it's the attitude in which you conduct yourself."
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Some people are very proud and they're very arrogant,
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And they don't have anyone who can tell them no.
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Do you know what, that is,
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"before pride comes destruction,
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A haughty spirit before a fall."
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That is a really dangerous place.
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And you need to have people in your life
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That you can listen to.
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So i have people in my life in different areas that can...
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I'll tell you one of 'em's sitting right here
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On the front row with bright red hair.
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(congregants laughing)
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Now, part of knowing the will of god, right?
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If you're married and your wife is born again,
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Husband is born again, baptized in the holy spirit
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And you both agree on something
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Without manipulating each other,
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You both really have peace about a major decision,
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I believe over 90% of the time,
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That, more than likely, is the will of god.
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There's also the gifts of the holy spirit,
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But that's the last, right?
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But let's go back.
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He says, "i want you to be filled
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With the knowledge of his will
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In all wisdom and spiritual understanding."
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I believe the only way
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That you can really know the will of god for your life
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Is by the holy spirit on the inside of you.
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Spiritual understanding.
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Romans 8:14 says, "as many as are led by the spirit,
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They are the children of god," right?
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Job 32:8 says, "there is a spirit in man.
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The inspiration of the almighty gives him understanding."
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Proverbs 20:27 says, "the spirit of man
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Is the lamp of the lord, the light of the lord
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Lighting all the inward parts of the belly."
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Amen? praise god.
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So you could know by the holy spirit on the inside of you,
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And you can have direction that comes from the holy spirit.
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I thank god for the revelation
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That i've received from the holy spirit.
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Now, number one, if you want to really know the will of god,
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You need to know jesus, right?
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You need to be born again because the fear of the lord
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Is the beginning of wisdom, right?
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But number two, your relationship with the holy spirit.
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Pastor lawson would not be where he's at today
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Doing what he did today
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If he is not baptized the holy spirit.
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In fact, when i got baptized in the holy spirit
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When i was 14 years old, right?
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That's when i knew what i was gonna do,
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And i've been baptized in the holy spirit right now
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For nearly 47 years.
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In other words, this is the second thing, right,
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To being born again.
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I was born again when i was eight.
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I was baptized in the holy spirit when i was 14 in 1978,
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And if i haven't spoken in tongues every day
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In the last 47 years
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Since i was baptized in the holy spirit,
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I have nearly spoken in tongues every day.
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So it's not just a, once i got it and that's it.
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This is a relationship with the person of the holy spirit,
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And the power of the holy spirit is this.
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When you pray in tongues, your understanding is unfruitful.
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You don't know what you're praying,
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But the holy spirit is praying through you
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And for you the perfect will of god.
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Amen?
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How many of you know your mind is the battleground?
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So when you pray in the spirit,
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You take your mind out of the picture,
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And you're praying straight to god.
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And a lot of times, when i'm in a challenge,
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I'll start praying in the holy spirit
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And god will give me revelation
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And i'll see it a different way and i'll say,
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"hey, i've never had an opportunity like this."
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But thank god for the presence of the holy spirit
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And the person of the holy spirit
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And the gift of the baptism of the holy spirit.
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The personal prayer language that's available
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To every born again believer.
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If you don't have it, you should come and receive it. amen.
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I'm gonna just stop right there.
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But he says, "spiritual understanding."
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Now, i want to take you to a scripture 'cause i believe
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A couple of ways we know the will of god is,
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Number one, by desire.
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Everybody say desire.
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- [congregation] desire.
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- see, psalm 37:4, and this answers a lot of question, says,
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"delight yourself in the lord
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And he will give you the desires of your heart."
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Desire, you got a desire on the inside of you
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As a born again believer, and you can tap into that.
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I'm not talking about a natural desire,
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A physical desire, and an emotional desire.
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I'm talking about a spiritual desire in your spirit.
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Jesse duplantis one time made this statement
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Years and years ago when he was in this church.
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He said, "most of the time, in the realm of faith,
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I made a decision and god honored it."
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If you're around me very much,
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You'll find out that i'm a very decisive person
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And i make decisions and i make them quickly.
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Now, sometimes i don't make the right decision
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And so i've still gotta be open, right?
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But most of the time when i make decisions, they're good.
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Now, let's go to acts 16.
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I just want to show you something
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That's happening in paul's life
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About knowing the will of god.
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In acts 16, paul is, he's just going, right?
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They're moving forward doing what god's called them to do.
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But in acts 16:6, "when they had gone throughout phrygia
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And the region of galatia, they were forbidden
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Of the holy ghost to preach the word in asia."
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I thought the bible said, "go into all the world,
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Preach the gospel to every creature."
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But the holy ghost said, "don't go there!"
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Have you ever had the lord tell you no?
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Now, i haven't had the lord tell me no a lot,
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But i have had the lord tell me no.
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And i know when jesus says, "no," he means no.
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I know when the holy ghost says, "no," stop!
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Hallelujah. i've had my wife tell me no a few times.
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You know, we were looking
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At doing a major business deal here,
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And it's just like we were running into a wall,
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Running into a wall, running into it.
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And sometimes it's the right thing, but it's the wrong time.
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And so in the middle of the night,
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The other night i was awake
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And i've been awake most of the night.
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And barbara, about two o'clock, said,
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"why aren't you sleeping?"
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I said, "well, i'm thinking about this."
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She said, "you need to stop right now."
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I said, "yes, ma'am." (congregants laughing)
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The next morning at eight o'clock or so,
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I was driving out here to work,
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And i've already been up doing a bunch of stuff before then,
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But i'm driving out to continue to work
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And i'm on the phone with one person,
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On the phone with another person,
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On the phone with another person.
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I stopped 'cause when god says, "stop,"
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When the holy ghost says, "stop," you need to stop.
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They were forbidden of the holy ghost. they...
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(lively upbeat music)
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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, burial, 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 of paul,
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Downloadable audio, downloadable video on our website,
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Free of charge, so check it out.
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Blessings.
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The world has tried to change the value of what is truth.
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So what is truth? jesus is the embodiment of truth.
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Jesus said in john 14:6,
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"i am the way, the truth, and the life.
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No man comes to the father except by me."
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(uplifting upbeat music)
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Look at the next verse.
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"and they were come to mysia, and they talked about..."
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Sometimes you're talking about something.
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You know, i know some ministers that right before covid,
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They were talking about how in 2020,
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They were gonna go to every continent on the globe
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And they had all these plans.
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Guess what, that was their plan, but it wasn't god's.
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"and they come to mysia.
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They talked about going to bithynia,
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But the holy spirit said, suffered them..."
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They were checked in the spirit.
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Do you know what it means to be checked in the spirit?
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Like on the inside you just get an unction
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From the holy ghost and it's just like,
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(grunts) "don't do that, son."
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You got an unction.
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1 john 2:20, "you got an anointing from the holy ghost
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And you know all things."
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Everybody say, "i have an unction."
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I have an anointing from the holy spirit,
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And i know all things.
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- [congregation] i know all things.
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- i know what to do and i know what not to do
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When i listen to the holy spirit.
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So the spirit said, "don't."
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"and so they, passing by mysia, came down to troas.
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And a vision..."
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So this is like a word of wisdom, right?
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This is a vision about the future.
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"appeared to paul in the night,
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And there stood a man of macedonia, and prayed him, saying,
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'come over here to macedonia and help us.'
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And after he saw the vision, immediately we endeavored."
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I mean, he is moving. this is the direction where to go.
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"into macedonia, and we endeavored to go to macedonia,
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Assuredly gathering, this is what the lord,
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This is where he's called us to preach the gospel."
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Right now, this is the time. this is the place.
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Now guess what happens when he gets over there.
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You'd think he has a great revival.
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You'd think a lot of people get saved, right?
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But you know, when he goes over there,
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He gets one woman saved, her name's lydia,
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And her house, right?
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And then he's got this demon-possessed girl
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That's been following him and his partners saying,
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"these men are of god!
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And tell us the way of the most..."
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How many of you know,
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You don't need demon-possessed people following you around
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Telling you that you're of god,
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Telling others that you're of god
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Because it's just not good advertisement.
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So paul, i mean, after, you know,
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He stays with it for a while,
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But after a few days, he's had a belly full of it.
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And he turns around and says,
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"come out of her in the name of jesus!"
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And he cast that evil spirit out. praise god.
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You don't play, you don't talk to the devil.
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You don't listen to the devil.
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You don't patty-cake with the devil.
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You cast the devil out in the name of jesus.
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Jesus never had a conversation with the devil. praise god.
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Just cast him out.
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Take authority over the devil in the name of jesus.
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Those who believe will cast out devils.
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They'll speak in new tongues.
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They'll do it by the power of the holy ghost.
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We leave that off till last. mark 16, okay?
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How many of you are believers filled with the holy ghost?
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(congregants affirming)
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Once in a while, you gotta cast out a devil.
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I had to deal with one this morning at the gym.
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I told dr. jim, who's with me, is my 94-year-old friend.
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I grabbed him up and said, "now, you come out with me."
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And i told the guy there, "call the security."
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Amen. we cast out devils more than one way.
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Those who believe cast out devils.
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We got authority over the devil,
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And we're not just gonna let the devil play around
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And have a heyday with us.
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But paul cast the devil out
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So her masters were getting gain because she was...
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Not only good people can give prophetic words.
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Evil people give prophetic word.
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We had a woman come to our church one time,
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And i mean, she had been a prostitute, and she got saved.
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She got changed, but you know,
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She was calling 1-900-dial-a-demon,
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And her phone bill was like $400 from talking
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To all these soothsayers out there in california.
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I'm never gonna let anybody read my palm.
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I don't play with an ouija board.
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I don't celebrate halloween in any shape or form.
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God bless you. i just don't.
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I'm not playing with the devil in any way, guys.
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And if you knew the roots of most of that,
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If you go back and look at the roots,
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I just challenge you, do a little study on it.
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I don't want any way for the devil
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To get involved in my life whatsoever.
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- [congregant] amen, amen.
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- that's just me. okay?
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I'm all in for jesus, and i'm all out for the devil.
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Paul cast the devil out of her.
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They take paul because now their money's gone.
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Their money source is gone, this demon-possessed girl.
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So they throw paul and silas in jail, beat them,
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Lock them in the stocks.
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At midnight, they're singing.
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And i mean, you'd thought they'd have a great revival.
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They got one woman in her house saved, right?
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So they start singing and worshiping and glorifying
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And thanking god in the middle of the night.
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The prisoners heard them.
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God shakes their chains loose, breaks their stocks off,
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Opens the prison doors, and paul walks out,
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And the jailer and his house get saved.
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And he said, "you can go on."
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He said, "no, they beat us openly and uncondemned
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And we're roman citizens and they're wrong and we're right.
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And they made this mess and they can clean it up."
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Hallelujah.
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So also, the jailer's life would have been...
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So they got that man saved and his house saved.
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They got lydia saved and then they went on.
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But did you know the church in lydia's house grew
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And became a great church that affected the whole area?
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It just, sometimes you're looking at something
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And you're thinking, "man, this is not working."
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Did you hear how billy graham got saved?
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There was this guy that was having a tent revival
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In north carolina.
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There's like a hurricane, some giant storm.
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This guy is used to having hundreds
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And hundreds of people come out.
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That night, only 40 people come out.
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It's a major mass storm.
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Only one person got saved,
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But it was billy graham!
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(congregants laugh and clap)
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I went to kit carson and preached to the whole town of 300.
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You think i'm discouraged?
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We got more than 300 people here today.
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We got more people in the church in this service.
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We got three times as many people in this church
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As in the town where i pastored for 13 years.
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But we have major leaders that were raised up
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Out of kit carson while we were there,
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And they're making a major effect in the body of christ.
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Hallelujah. one of 'em is sitting right there.
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Glory to god.
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Another one's up on the hill running a ministry. praise god?
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You never know the fruit of a seed.
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You don't know how far a seed's gonna...
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But you need to go where god tells you to go
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And do what god told you to do.
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- [congregants] amen.
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- praise the lord. hallelujah.
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I'm believing for this church to grow
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And be as big as the town that i grew up in or near.
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That's what i'm believing.
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It don't cost any more to believe.
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Hallelujah. so might as well put it out there.
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Now, god's gotta do it.
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I'm trusting god to do it, but i'm believing
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'cause you know what, believing little is expensive.
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You might as well believe big. all right, praise the lord.
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So i believe big.
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In fact, cathy was talking about
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How you can decide something and believe for some things.
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And that morning, i had written some things out
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For this church and i had written some things out
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For barbara and myself personally,
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And i thought it was amazing.
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I went back and went, "guys, i was telling barbara.
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Praise god, we could be like this if we live this long
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And god keeps us healthy and strong!"
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And you know, she said, "when you get there,
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Will you buy me a cup of coffee
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When we go out to eat, please?"
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I said, "i'll try." hallelujah.
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Glory to god. hallelujah.
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Anyway, but you can know the will of god,
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And the spirit of god will lead you
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And the spirit of god will guide you.
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You not only got the word, but you got the holy ghost.
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But you gotta learn 'cause the holy ghost
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Doesn't always say, "yes."
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Sometimes he says, "no."
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Sometimes he says, "slow down." sometimes he says, "stop!"
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The holy ghost says "stop," stop. know the will of god.
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So number one, i want you
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To know the will of god in all wisdom.
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Now, wisdom is the ability to use the knowledge
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That you have in a positive manner in your life.
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And spiritual understanding,
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"a person of understanding seeks for knowledge."
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In the book of proverbs,
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There's understanding, knowledge, and wisdom.
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A person of understanding seeks knowledge.
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Knowledge is the facts.
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Primarily what they teach in school is knowledge.
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A lot of people have knowledge,
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But a lot of people don't have wisdom.
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Wisdom is the ability to use the knowledge you have
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In a positive, productive manner in your life.
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And that circle should always be working.
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But it's spiritual understanding, right?
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You need spiritual understanding
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To understand the will of god.
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Then he says in verse 10, "that you might walk worthy
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Of the lord unto all pleasing,
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Being fruitful in every good work,
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Increasing in the knowledge of god."
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What is pleasing to god? what pleases god?
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- [congregant] faith.
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- faith.
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Without faith, it's impossible to please god
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Because he that comes to god must believe that he is, a,
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And b, that he is a rewarder, that he's a good god,
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A rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
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It takes faith to please god.
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God has a grace plan for your life,
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But it takes faith to walk it out.
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And so he says, "i want you to be pleasing," right?
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Faith pleases god.
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The bible says this in 2 corinthians 5:7, "we walk by faith
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And not by sight, being fruitful in every good work."
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Fruit pleases god.
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"herein is my father glorified
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That you bring forth much fruit."
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And increasing, growing in your relationship with god,
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Growing in your relationship with jesus.
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Now, god will lead you by desire.
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God will lead you by the direction of the holy spirit,
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But god will also lead you with, everybody say diligence.
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So number one, i want you to know his will.
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Number two, i want you to be pleasing.
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You gotta please god by faith.
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It takes desire, it takes direction, it takes diligence.
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Number three, look at what he says here in verse 12,
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"giving thanks to the father who has made us sufficient
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To be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light."
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One translation says, "he has enabled us."
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How many of you know that he's enabled us?
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You can't do what he's called you to do without his ability.
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Another translation says, "he's equipped us.
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He's equipped us." amen.
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Another translation said this,
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"we're qualified for god's best blessings in christ."
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How many of you glad that you today are qualified
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For god's best blessings in christ?
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How are you qualified? by the blood!
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- [congregant] yes! (lively upbeat music)
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- friends, i'm so glad you stayed with us.
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You know god has qualified us
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For his best blessings in christ,
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But are you receiving them?
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There's a couple of things that you can do to receive them.
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Number one, you can get prayer.
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Get somebody to stand with you,
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Believe with you, agree with you.
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But number two, you can get involved
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In partnering with the gospel
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Because i believe it's more blessed
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Lawson Perdue - Prayers of Paul (Part 4)

May 22, 2025 | S25:E2105

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