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Joseph Prince - Don't Blink: This Moment Can Change Everything

December 30, 2025 | 29:45

Joseph Prince - Don't Blink: This Moment Can Change Everything
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Don't Blink: This Moment Can Change Everything | December 30, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: many of us, we regret things in the past.
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  • We fear things in the future.
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  • Perhaps you received some bad news last year
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  • And the condition is still in your body.
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  • But let me say this to you: now is the day of healing.
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  • And as long as you live in the now,
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  • It's a place of healing.
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  • It's a place, god says, where i'll do miracles for you.
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  • Male announcer: as we say goodbye to 2025, let's look back
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  • With gratitude and step into the new year with hope.
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  • In today's message, joseph shares a word
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  • To help you enter the new year
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  • With a positive expectation of good for a better tomorrow.
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  • Imagine having the power to reset your day
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  • And the vision to redefine your future.
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  • Inspire your every day and your every tomorrow
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  • With more grace-filled truths.
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  • And now, here is pastor joseph prince with today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: time has accelerated.
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  • Well, this year, god is going to reverse time for all of us.
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  • And the way i received it is i was meditating,
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  • Or just looking at a passage of scripture
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  • That i know pretty well, i've read that,
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  • I've preached on that.
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  • But i never saw that until the lord just opened my eyes.
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  • You know, when you read the bible--
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  • That's the thing about the bible
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  • Compared with other books,
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  • You know, once you read a fiction book,
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  • For example, it's finished, you put it
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  • In your shelf, or you pass it to your friend.
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  • But the word of god keeps on speaking to you.
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  • There are layers and layers of god's wisdom
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  • And understanding in god's word.
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  • So i was reading that and then god spoke to me.
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  • And so one of the things he's going to do this year
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  • Is reverse time for you.
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  • So if time can be accelerated, and we all felt that, yeah,
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  • Time has accelerated for many of us.
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  • Amen?
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  • Time can also be reversed.
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  • Well the bible says, "i will restore to you the years
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  • The locust has eaten."
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  • By the way, that's not the scripture,
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  • That's very clear.
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  • It's a clear statement.
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  • God says, "i will restore to you the years that
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  • The locust has eaten."
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  • So the nation of israel is a husbandry nation.
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  • It's a nation involved with agriculture, farming.
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  • That's their business.
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  • So those with a large flock, they are wealthy.
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  • Those with a few meager flock, all right, they are poor.
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  • Some of them don't even have a flock.
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  • But they depend on the rains and they depend
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  • On the seasons to bring forth the right harvest.
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  • So when god tells them, "i'll restore to you
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  • The years that the locust has eaten,"
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  • Locusts always attack the harvest, right?
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  • So whatever it is, in our context today,
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  • God is saying he's going to restore to you
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  • The years--not one year, but the years--
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  • That the locust has eaten from you.
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  • This year it's going to happen. amen?
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  • In this year of-- it's going to happen.
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  • In this year of.
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  • And that healing that you are waiting for, amen,
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  • Is going to accelerate.
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  • Okay?
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  • So that's going to be our acceleration
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  • For the blessings of god.
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  • And when i say acceleration and healing,
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  • I mean the manifestation.
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  • We always believe we receive the moment we pray.
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  • Amen? god has great things in store.
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  • Definitely, this year is going to be a special year.
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  • God never regresses, he always progresses.
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  • The bible says, "the path of the righteous,"
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  • And you are the righteousness of god in christ,
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  • Child of god, "the path"--
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  • Listen, talking about you, "the path of the righteous
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  • Shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day,"
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  • The perfect day when jesus comes again.
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  • Amen. it shines brighter and brighter.
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  • Your path shines brighter and brighter.
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  • But inwardly, if you don't believe right,
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  • If you are not receiving the word of god,
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  • Teachings that will cause you to believe right,
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  • It's important you believe right,
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  • Then you can live right, amen.
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  • But you don't believe right, you are believing wrong.
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  • Even though god has a year full of his blessings
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  • And favors and goodness,
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  • His grace is abounding in this year, we all know that,
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  • And greater than before, because--by the way,
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  • It's going to be greater than before, amen.
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  • God never regresses.
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  • Always remember that.
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  • So the path of the righteous shines, what?
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  • Shout it!
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  • Yes, those in the other services, includes you.
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  • Shines?
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  • Those in grc, includes you.
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  • Shines?
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  • Brighter and brighter.
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  • The path of who?
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  • The righteous.
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  • The path. amen.
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  • So in other words, you are moving.
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  • You're not flat in a hospital bed.
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  • The path means you are moving.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • And you are moving from glory to glory,
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  • From strength to strength, from grace to grace.
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  • You are not regressing.
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  • This year, remember this.
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  • Whenever you feel the depression,
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  • You feel as if instead of the smile of god,
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  • The favor of god, you feel his frown.
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  • You sense like he's angry with you.
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  • You sense--just know this: you have come under the law.
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  • You might be a child of god but you've come
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  • Under the law.
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  • And when you're under the law, you always criticize others,
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  • You always find fault with others
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  • But not yourself, you are not joyful anymore
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  • Even though you're a believer,
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  • Because you're under this dark cloud, amen.
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  • You think that god is finding fault.
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  • Maybe there's something that you did or something that you are
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  • Not able to overcome, and the more you think that god
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  • Is angry with you or god is not smiling anymore
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  • On you, you start feeling like job,
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  • Where are all the good days?
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  • When the candle shined on my head,
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  • When people respected me,
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  • They honored me, when i washed my steps with butter
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  • And the rock poured me out rivers of oil,
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  • Days of abundance for a man in his profession, amen.
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  • He says that, where are those days?
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  • If you look carefully, god is always restoring.
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  • Like i said, the path of righteous
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  • Gets brighter and brighter.
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  • Whatever was lost in the dark ages,
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  • And also after that, god will restore back.
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  • For example, justification by faith was something
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  • That the early church taught.
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  • God gave it to paul.
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  • Paul calls it my gospel, the true gospel
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  • Of grace and peace.
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  • And it was lost.
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  • But there was a church in existence at that time,
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  • And they taught all kinds of things,
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  • All kinds of good works even,
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  • All kinds of penance, all kinds of forms
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  • Of repentance, but never justification by faith.
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  • And then god raised a monk, a german monk
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  • By the name of martin luther,
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  • To restore the truth of justification by faith,
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  • Not by your good works.
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  • You find that god is restoring, one by one,
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  • From martin luther's time since then.
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  • Then in the turn of the century, in the 1900s,
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  • God restored the baptism of the holy spirit
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  • To the church, amen.
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  • We had azusa revival, and it seems like
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  • The flow of the holy spirit,
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  • The holy spirit falling on people.
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  • People began to pray in tongues, and the gifts of the holy spirit
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  • Start flowing.
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  • It was so easy to be baptized in the holy spirit.
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  • God was restoring this truth to the church.
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  • Then came the '50s, right after the war.
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  • You know what restoration it was?
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  • It was restoration of healing.
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  • A restoration of healing.
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  • And people got healed easily.
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  • In fact, the ministers who lived during that time,
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  • They said that people got healed easily in meetings.
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  • They were healed of all kinds of conditions,
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  • Chronic conditions, cancers,
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  • Goiters dropping off from people in healing meetings.
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  • Behind you will find, on their rooftop,
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  • There are trophies of different kinds of,
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  • You know, like trappings they use for their condition,
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  • Like crutches, wheelchairs of real people
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  • Who walk out of them.
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  • Churches are filled with that. amen.
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  • It was the healing revival.
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  • Then came the charismatic revival in the '70s,
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  • In the '60s and '70s.
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  • And god restored again.
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  • It's like azusa street was the-- azusa street, of course,
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  • It happened on the day of pentecost,
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  • The former rain and then the latter rain.
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  • And we step into the era of the latter rain.
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  • A fuller restoration.
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  • Now do you think that god's people prospering
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  • To be a blessing?
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  • Prosperity with a purpose, amen?
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  • To glorify christ, amen, and to serve his purpose.
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  • Do you think that it is something that god is restoring?
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  • But the enemy of this kind of truth of god's restoration
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  • Is always the people of the previous movement.
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  • But the thing about every movement is this:
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  • It's that there comes with it some people
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  • On the parameters that are teaching things
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  • About it, but they're extreme.
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  • Yes!
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  • So for example, the voice of healing,
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  • You got people tell you,
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  • Don't have to go to doctors.
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  • Some of them even say doctors are bad, medicine is bad,
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  • It's evil and all that.
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  • These are the parameter of people.
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  • They are not the main people.
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  • So those who are in the previous movement,
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  • They are criticizing this movement
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  • Because of the people in the parameters, amen.
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  • Every movement will come with this kind of parameters,
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  • You know?
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  • But don't take them as the majority.
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  • See what god is doing.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • So likewise for the restoration of prosperity, in the church,
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  • God wants his people to prosper. amen.
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  • God wants you to be the head and not the tail.
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  • Amen!
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  • God wants you to lend and not borrow, to come to that place.
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  • Amen.
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  • That's in the bible by the way.
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  • I just quoted all that from the bible, amen.
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  • And all the promises of god in him are yes and amen.
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  • Now, look at this verse.
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  • 2 corinthians 6. "we then, as workers together with him
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  • Also plead with you not to receive
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  • The grace of god in vain."
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  • Ah, it's possible not to receive--it's possible
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  • To receive the grace of god in vain.
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  • And there's another restoration that happened,
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  • And it happened during my time--
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  • And i'm not the only one involved in this of course,
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  • But definitely it happened during my time--
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  • A restoration of the grace as the gospel,
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  • The true gospel.
  • 00:11:32.067 --> 00:11:33.803
  • And that happened again probably in the '80s,
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  • It started.
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  • '90s, more in the '90s.
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  • And it spread like wildfire.
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  • If it's not god, it cannot spread like that.
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  • Amen?
  • 00:11:48.350 --> 00:11:49.685
  • But then it goes on to verse 2. "'for he says'"--
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  • So both ways,
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  • These are the ways that people lose the grace of god
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  • Working effectively in their lives, amen.
  • 00:12:00.696 --> 00:12:05.434
  • First of all, they don't identify themselves
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  • With what god has made them.
  • 00:12:07.102 --> 00:12:08.470
  • That's why it starts with, "we then...plead with you."
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  • You know this, "we then."
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  • Whenever you hear, "we then," you must hear
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  • The previous sentence.
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  • If someone says, "that's why i."
  • 00:12:16.178 --> 00:12:18.781
  • That means you must hear what he said previously.
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  • "then i."
  • 00:12:21.450 --> 00:12:23.118
  • But what did you do previously?
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  • So it's tied up with the previous verse, right?
  • 00:12:24.620 --> 00:12:26.922
  • But it's also tied up with the verse 2
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  • Because it starts with, "for he says."
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  • So it's got to do with how to receive god's grace effectively.
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  • "for, he says."
  • 00:12:36.232 --> 00:12:37.566
  • So both has got to do with how we increase god's grace
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  • In our life, the favor of god in our lives.
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  • And we know it's not by doing more,
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  • It doesn't come by doing more, because it's an unmerited favor.
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  • Or else, work is no more work, and grace is no more grace,
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  • If it's by works.
  • 00:12:53.549 --> 00:12:55.551
  • So here he says, he quotes an old testament scripture
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  • From isaiah 49, i believe it is.
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  • Is it isaiah 49? show me real quick.
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  • It's isaiah 49.
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  • Okay, go back to 2 corinthians.
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  • "for he says, 'in an acceptable time i have heard you,'"
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  • God is talking, "'and in the day of salvation i have helped you.'
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  • Behold," look!
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  • "now is the accepted time; behold,
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  • Now is the day of salvation."
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  • Wow!
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  • You know, when i saw this, i always hear this verse
  • 00:13:32.488 --> 00:13:39.728
  • Used for salvation.
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  • Salvation call, right?
  • 00:13:41.997 --> 00:13:43.866
  • You will find ministers saying, "now is the day of salvation!
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  • Now is the accepted time!
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  • So accept jesus now!"
  • 00:13:49.471 --> 00:13:50.806
  • And that is true, that is true, but let's not forget the word
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  • "salvation" there, "soteria," is an all-inclusive word.
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  • It is not just saved from eternal destruction,
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  • It's not just saved to go to heaven,
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  • It includes safe in all its forms
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  • To do with things that came after the fall.
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  • For example, when jesus-- the woman was healed
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  • Who touched the hem of his garment.
  • 00:14:21.036 --> 00:14:22.371
  • He turned around and he told her this: your faith has "sozo" you,
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  • Healed you, right?
  • 00:14:27.943 --> 00:14:30.279
  • But the sozo is the verb of "soteria," the noun.
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  • It's the same word.
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  • So salvation also includes healing.
  • 00:14:36.552 --> 00:14:40.689
  • Perhaps you received some bad news last year
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  • And the condition is still in your body.
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  • But let me say this to you: now is the day of healing.
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  • Okay? now.
  • 00:14:54.803 --> 00:14:56.805
  • Now.
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  • So, you must not live in what the doctor said.
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  • That is past.
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  • It's no more now.
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  • All right?
  • 00:15:05.581 --> 00:15:06.915
  • You are in the now.
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  • Some of you are not living in the now because
  • 00:15:08.450 --> 00:15:10.719
  • You are living in the future also, you know.
  • 00:15:10.719 --> 00:15:13.422
  • Why?
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  • Or you see people around your cemetery,
  • 00:15:14.757 --> 00:15:18.494
  • You see people attending your funeral.
  • 00:15:18.494 --> 00:15:20.596
  • How dare you?
  • 00:15:20.596 --> 00:15:22.398
  • Are you there yet? no.
  • 00:15:22.398 --> 00:15:24.400
  • "but i got this condition."
  • 00:15:24.400 --> 00:15:25.801
  • That's not--listen.
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  • Your condition, i can tell you this, compared with those
  • 00:15:27.169 --> 00:15:31.607
  • That god has healed, there are many that god
  • 00:15:31.607 --> 00:15:33.876
  • Has healed of that condition.
  • 00:15:33.876 --> 00:15:35.844
  • There's no condition that god has not healed.
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  • With man, even the things that are impossible
  • 00:15:37.312 --> 00:15:39.415
  • Are possible with god.
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  • You are not there!
  • 00:15:42.484 --> 00:15:45.354
  • Gate, you're not there. you are in the now.
  • 00:15:45.354 --> 00:15:48.857
  • Yes, physically the problem is still there,
  • 00:15:48.857 --> 00:15:52.694
  • And perhaps your last visit,
  • 00:15:52.694 --> 00:15:54.096
  • The doctor says it's actually getting a bit worse.
  • 00:15:54.096 --> 00:15:56.865
  • But you are still not there!
  • 00:15:56.865 --> 00:15:58.267
  • You are now! you are in the now!
  • 00:15:58.267 --> 00:16:00.302
  • And as long as you live in the now,
  • 00:16:00.302 --> 00:16:02.871
  • It's a place of healing!
  • 00:16:02.871 --> 00:16:04.973
  • "it's a place," god says, "where i'll do miracles for you.
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  • I've heard you."
  • 00:16:09.912 --> 00:16:11.246
  • Now, many of us, we regret things in the past.
  • 00:16:11.246 --> 00:16:16.585
  • We fear things in the future, or we worry
  • 00:16:16.585 --> 00:16:19.421
  • About things in the future.
  • 00:16:19.421 --> 00:16:20.756
  • Fear and worry and regret cannot exist in the now!
  • 00:16:20.756 --> 00:16:26.562
  • But we don't live in the now.
  • 00:16:26.562 --> 00:16:28.597
  • Some of you listening to me preach right now,
  • 00:16:28.597 --> 00:16:31.633
  • You're not listening to me, yo!
  • 00:16:31.633 --> 00:16:34.369
  • You are thinking about what to eat,
  • 00:16:34.369 --> 00:16:35.704
  • How fast to go there before the queue comes.
  • 00:16:35.704 --> 00:16:39.174
  • You're not there yet!
  • 00:16:39.174 --> 00:16:41.376
  • You are now, here, now!
  • 00:16:41.376 --> 00:16:45.447
  • And the healing of god is flowing,
  • 00:16:45.447 --> 00:16:47.382
  • The salvation of god is flowing,
  • 00:16:47.382 --> 00:16:49.785
  • The grace of god is flowing, and it's all in vain.
  • 00:16:49.785 --> 00:16:53.755
  • It's all in vain because you're waiting for next time.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:00.562
  • So listen to the "now" word. amen.
  • 00:17:00.629 --> 00:17:05.167
  • So it "says,"
  • 00:17:05.167 --> 00:17:06.502
  • "'in an acceptable time i have heard you.'"
  • 00:17:06.502 --> 00:17:08.303
  • Acceptable time, very interesting.
  • 00:17:08.303 --> 00:17:09.872
  • It is the time that is "kairos."
  • 00:17:09.872 --> 00:17:12.040
  • Remember, "kairos" means what?
  • 00:17:12.040 --> 00:17:13.609
  • "seasonable time."
  • 00:17:13.609 --> 00:17:16.245
  • A time of favorable time.
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  • A time of god's goodness being shown, amen.
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  • It's not "chronos," it's "kairos."
  • 00:17:23.619 --> 00:17:27.422
  • And the word "acceptable" is the word "dektos."
  • 00:17:27.422 --> 00:17:30.626
  • Remember the "dektos" year?
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  • We had one year, the theme is the "dektos"
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  • Year of the lord.
  • 00:17:34.296 --> 00:17:35.631
  • "dektos" means what?
  • 00:17:35.631 --> 00:17:36.965
  • "favorable" year.
  • 00:17:36.965 --> 00:17:38.967
  • Jesus--we use that text in luke 4 where jesus says,
  • 00:17:38.967 --> 00:17:43.705
  • "the spirit of the lord is upon me,
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  • Because he has anointed me."
  • 00:17:45.307 --> 00:17:47.109
  • And one of the things he says-- "to heal the brokenhearted"
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  • And all that--one of the things
  • 00:17:49.344 --> 00:17:50.679
  • He says was, "to preach the dektos year
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  • Of the lord," the favorable year of the lord.
  • 00:17:53.448 --> 00:17:56.218
  • And i think it was vine, or one of the great commentators
  • 00:17:56.218 --> 00:18:02.191
  • On this word, "dektos," that says it's a year where
  • 00:18:02.191 --> 00:18:05.827
  • The favors of god profusely abound.
  • 00:18:05.827 --> 00:18:09.965
  • I love it. i love it.
  • 00:18:09.965 --> 00:18:11.700
  • In hebrew, isaiah 49, this quotation, it is the word,
  • 00:18:11.700 --> 00:18:15.537
  • "ratzon," which is also the counterpart, amen,
  • 00:18:15.537 --> 00:18:21.076
  • Of favorable, okay?
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  • Got it?
  • 00:18:24.580 --> 00:18:26.215
  • So how do i live in this "kairos" moment?
  • 00:18:26.215 --> 00:18:29.618
  • In this "dektos" moment?
  • 00:18:29.618 --> 00:18:33.388
  • Live in the now.
  • 00:18:33.388 --> 00:18:35.090
  • God is saying, "live in the now."
  • 00:18:35.090 --> 00:18:38.527
  • When you live in the now, you keep on abounding.
  • 00:18:38.527 --> 00:18:42.030
  • Now is the place of grace.
  • 00:18:42.030 --> 00:18:44.900
  • Now is the place of "kairos."
  • 00:18:44.900 --> 00:18:48.337
  • And in this place of now--i'm getting ahead of myself,
  • 00:18:48.337 --> 00:18:51.573
  • Let me read the whole thing, lah,
  • 00:18:51.573 --> 00:18:53.008
  • I'm getting very excited and i need to let you off.
  • 00:18:53.008 --> 00:18:55.277
  • "'in an acceptable time i have heard you,
  • 00:18:55.277 --> 00:18:57.846
  • In the day of salvation i have helped you.'"
  • 00:18:57.846 --> 00:19:00.682
  • So we heard this verse before in the old testament.
  • 00:19:00.682 --> 00:19:02.851
  • So everyone says, "i'm waiting for the accepted time,
  • 00:19:02.918 --> 00:19:05.320
  • The favorable time when god hears my prayer."
  • 00:19:05.320 --> 00:19:07.923
  • By the way, the word "heard" there in the greek is
  • 00:19:07.923 --> 00:19:10.826
  • "hear with favor."
  • 00:19:10.826 --> 00:19:12.628
  • Favor is all over this place.
  • 00:19:12.628 --> 00:19:14.830
  • It's "to hear with favor."
  • 00:19:14.830 --> 00:19:17.199
  • Isn't that good?
  • 00:19:17.199 --> 00:19:18.667
  • That means god will answer your prayer, right?
  • 00:19:18.667 --> 00:19:20.636
  • "to hear with favor."
  • 00:19:20.636 --> 00:19:21.970
  • God says, "'in an acceptable time i have heard you.'"
  • 00:19:21.970 --> 00:19:25.173
  • But if you look at the old testament,
  • 00:19:25.173 --> 00:19:27.242
  • Go back to the old testament
  • 00:19:27.242 --> 00:19:28.577
  • Where this is quoted from, it doesn't say
  • 00:19:28.577 --> 00:19:30.312
  • "now is the acceptable time," right?
  • 00:19:30.312 --> 00:19:32.614
  • "'in an acceptable time i have heard you,
  • 00:19:32.614 --> 00:19:33.949
  • In the day of salvation i have helped you.'"
  • 00:19:33.949 --> 00:19:35.951
  • Now go back to the verse.
  • 00:19:35.951 --> 00:19:37.586
  • But then paul, by the holy spirit's revelation,
  • 00:19:37.586 --> 00:19:41.790
  • He went further and says
  • 00:19:41.790 --> 00:19:43.425
  • All the past ages since isaiah prophesied
  • 00:19:44.526 --> 00:19:50.465
  • That an acceptable time
  • 00:19:50.465 --> 00:19:52.134
  • Is coming, a time when god will hear your prayers
  • 00:19:52.134 --> 00:19:54.670
  • With favor, a time when god will profusely abound on you
  • 00:19:54.670 --> 00:19:58.240
  • With his favor, amen, his goodness,
  • 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:02.411
  • And a day of salvation, it's a day of healing,
  • 00:20:02.411 --> 00:20:05.747
  • It's a day of being whole, peace of mind, amen.
  • 00:20:05.747 --> 00:20:09.851
  • God says that day is coming.
  • 00:20:09.851 --> 00:20:13.221
  • He never said now in isaiah, isaiah never said now.
  • 00:20:13.221 --> 00:20:16.591
  • So the people were longing, longing.
  • 00:20:16.591 --> 00:20:18.860
  • But the thing is this: paul, by the revelation
  • 00:20:18.860 --> 00:20:21.997
  • Of the holy spirit, he quotes that verse first,
  • 00:20:21.997 --> 00:20:25.500
  • And then he says, "behold! now is the accepted time!
  • 00:20:25.500 --> 00:20:30.772
  • Behold! now!"
  • 00:20:30.772 --> 00:20:32.507
  • Say now!
  • 00:20:32.507 --> 00:20:34.176
  • Is the day of salvation.
  • 00:20:34.176 --> 00:20:35.610
  • Say now!
  • 00:20:35.610 --> 00:20:38.647
  • Hey! where are you now?
  • 00:20:38.647 --> 00:20:42.484
  • Hearing god's word. what are you hearing now?
  • 00:20:42.484 --> 00:20:45.987
  • Now.
  • 00:20:45.987 --> 00:20:48.724
  • Are we gonna receive?
  • 00:20:48.724 --> 00:20:51.793
  • Actually, the key to receiving
  • 00:20:51.793 --> 00:20:53.795
  • Is to stay in the realm of grace.
  • 00:20:53.795 --> 00:20:56.131
  • And the realm of grace is in the now.
  • 00:20:56.131 --> 00:20:58.600
  • If you live in the now, what this verse
  • 00:20:58.600 --> 00:21:00.402
  • Is saying is that this place of now
  • 00:21:00.402 --> 00:21:02.738
  • Is the place where there's salvation all around.
  • 00:21:02.738 --> 00:21:05.374
  • This place of now is the place of favor, it's the place
  • 00:21:05.374 --> 00:21:08.577
  • Of "kairos," it's the place where god hears your prayer.
  • 00:21:08.577 --> 00:21:11.913
  • Amen.
  • 00:21:11.913 --> 00:21:13.348
  • It's a place where god will help you.
  • 00:21:13.348 --> 00:21:15.550
  • God says, "i will help you."
  • 00:21:15.550 --> 00:21:17.819
  • "in the day of salvation, i have helped you."
  • 00:21:17.819 --> 00:21:19.654
  • God's help is there. god's help is there.
  • 00:21:19.654 --> 00:21:21.623
  • Hallelujah. paul is saying, "now."
  • 00:21:21.623 --> 00:21:23.658
  • And by the way, "now" in the greek is the word "nun."
  • 00:21:23.658 --> 00:21:27.996
  • N-u-n. nun.
  • 00:21:27.996 --> 00:21:30.766
  • Now is a time of favor.
  • 00:21:30.766 --> 00:21:34.669
  • So today, our attention, everything, you know, must loop.
  • 00:21:34.669 --> 00:21:38.540
  • Pshew, pshew, pshew.
  • 00:21:38.540 --> 00:21:39.875
  • Your mind, fishball noodle...
  • 00:21:39.875 --> 00:21:42.511
  • Sermon going.
  • 00:21:42.511 --> 00:21:43.879
  • Nothing is--you are--your body is here in the now,
  • 00:21:43.879 --> 00:21:47.015
  • Your body is in the now,
  • 00:21:47.015 --> 00:21:48.583
  • But your mind is past or in the future.
  • 00:21:48.583 --> 00:21:52.087
  • And that's the realm of fear and worry, the future, anxiety.
  • 00:21:52.087 --> 00:21:56.324
  • And the past is regret, remorse, self-condemnation.
  • 00:21:56.324 --> 00:22:04.199
  • Live in the now.
  • 00:22:04.199 --> 00:22:06.401
  • Learn to live one step at a time, one day at a time.
  • 00:22:06.401 --> 00:22:09.838
  • Don't worry about the theme of the year next sunday.
  • 00:22:09.838 --> 00:22:11.907
  • Don't worry about it.
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  • I don't worry about it. amen.
  • 00:22:13.275 --> 00:22:15.644
  • I'm going to live one day at a time.
  • 00:22:15.644 --> 00:22:17.913
  • I'm going to enjoy every day with the lord.
  • 00:22:17.913 --> 00:22:20.415
  • Remember who is in the now? the "i am."
  • 00:22:20.415 --> 00:22:23.385
  • "i am the resurrection."
  • 00:22:23.385 --> 00:22:25.053
  • If you know these words, say it: "i am the resurrection
  • 00:22:25.053 --> 00:22:27.422
  • And the life," and i'm here now.
  • 00:22:27.422 --> 00:22:30.292
  • Those who say, "there used to be a god of miracles,
  • 00:22:30.292 --> 00:22:32.461
  • Yes; it's in the past."
  • 00:22:32.461 --> 00:22:34.196
  • These are scholars telling us that god
  • 00:22:34.196 --> 00:22:35.831
  • Doesn't do miracles today.
  • 00:22:35.831 --> 00:22:37.165
  • They forget that he is "i am," not "i was."
  • 00:22:37.165 --> 00:22:40.635
  • Okay?
  • 00:22:40.635 --> 00:22:42.003
  • So whenever you find yourself moving away from the now
  • 00:22:42.003 --> 00:22:45.907
  • To the future, in fear and worry,
  • 00:22:45.907 --> 00:22:47.976
  • Or to the past in regret, in dark thoughts,
  • 00:22:47.976 --> 00:22:52.180
  • Pull yourself back and say, "jesus, you are in the now.
  • 00:22:52.180 --> 00:22:55.183
  • I see you in this current situation."
  • 00:22:55.183 --> 00:22:58.253
  • Even at the clinic, pull back to the now and say,
  • 00:22:58.253 --> 00:23:01.156
  • "lord, you are 'i am.'
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  • You are listening to this conversation
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  • And you have the answer."
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  • And when you pray, live in the now,
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  • Believe that you receive it in spite of the fact
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  • That you don't have it yet,
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  • Because you will have if you believe, if you believe.
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  • Because that's a realm of grace, a realm of answered prayer.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • Joseph prince: the lord bless you with the blessings
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  • Of father abraham.
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  • The lord make his face to shine on you,
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  • Every one of you and your families,
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  • And grant to you and your loved ones
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  • Divine health, wholeness, and divine protection
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  • Throughout this week.
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  • The lord lift up his countenance on all of you, and grant to you
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  • And your loved ones his shalom, peace.
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  • In the name of jesus and all the people, said, amen.
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  • Amen. god bless you.
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  • Headlines change by the hour. values shift.
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  • Truth feels negotiable.
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  • What was certain yesterday is no longer clear today.
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  • But through all the noise and the shaking,
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  • There is one who is still the same.
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  • In the chaos, he is still the calm.
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  • In the panic, he is still the promise.
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  • Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
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  • He is still jesus, above it all.
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  • Female: i have been a smoker since i was in college.
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  • It's one of those habits that you picked up
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  • And, you know, i really liked it.
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  • For me it was so hard because i didn't want to let it go.
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  • Sitting under pastor's teaching so much,
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  • I understood i needed a rhema word
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  • For my particular situation.
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  • So he led me to "the battle is the lord's."
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  • I listened to that for probably about two weeks,
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  • That was the only thing i was listening to.
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  • And then i started memorizing some of the scriptures.
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  • I knew there's no success without that
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  • Just coming up inside of me.
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  • Pastor is so good in teaching us
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  • The identity of the old man and the new man.
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  • That new man does not want to smoke.
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  • Now after this, did i still have that des--
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  • The habit of like doing that?
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  • Because it was like a regular ritual?
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  • Yes, but every time, i remember, that's not me.
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  • I'm created in true righteousness
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  • And holiness in christ.
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  • I went to bed that night, slept like a baby.
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  • The next morning, i had no desire for cigarettes again.
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  • It was such--the lord, the power of his love,
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  • What the beautiful work that jesus did.
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  • And it's all him alone.
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  • ♪♪♪
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