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Joseph Prince - You Can Feel Broken and Still Be Chosen

November 11, 2025 | 29:45

From fear to faith, failure to purpose—see how God's grace rewrote the lives of Bible heroes.

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - You Can Feel Broken and Still Be Chosen | November 11, 2025

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Joseph prince: somehow we got this impression
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That when you are discouraged, when you are depressed,
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You cannot pray because god won't hear your prayer.
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Well, i'm here to tell you that the story of elijah
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Is placed there in the scriptures
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For us to learn it is not the end.
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God has a bright future for you.
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Announcer: in today's message from joseph prince,
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Discover how god's amazing grace
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Transforms weaknesses into strength,
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Failures into victories,
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And doubts into unshakable faith
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Through different characters in the bible.
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Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: we look at the story
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Of a man called elijah.
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James tells us in james chapter 5
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That "elijah was a man with a nature like ours."
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The old king james says: "a man of like passions."
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I like that. a man of like passions.
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He's a man with a nature like ours.
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He's like you and i, all right?
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He sat where you sat.
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He felt what you felt.
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He had the same struggles that you and i have, all right?
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So before you think of him as some great man
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Who called fire down from heaven,
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Which he did, okay,
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Think of him as a man with a nature like ours, amen?
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"and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain;
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And it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
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And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain,
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And the earth produced its fruit."
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Here we have the holy spirit
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Telling us that this man prayed with results,
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And yet he was a man of like nature as ours.
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Somehow we got this impression that when you are discouraged,
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When you are depressed, you cannot pray
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Because god won't hear your prayer.
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Well, i'm here to tell you that the story of elijah
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Is placed there in the scriptures
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For us to learn that god can even use
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A man who is depressed.
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Can i have a good amen, all right?
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It is not the end. listen carefully.
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God has a bright future for you.
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But let's open up the story with elijah being introduced.
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I love the way he introduced himself.
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What has happened is that the king of ahab,
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The king of israel, israel at this time
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Has been divided into two kingdoms.
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The north kingdom is the kingdom of israel.
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The south is the southern kingdom of judah.
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There's been a split after solomon's son made
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A very big mistake, all right?
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And there was a split.
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And ten tribes followed the kingdom of israel,
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Two tribes, judah and benjamin, were in the city of jerusalem.
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So they were divided at this time.
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The northern kingdom of israel, they had their own king.
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So sometimes when you read the bible,
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You have to know which king.
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Is it the king of judah
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Or the king of israel, all right?
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Usually, as a rule of the thumb, the king of israel,
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Many of them were bad, evil kings.
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They worshiped idols, amen, that disown jehovah god.
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But the southern kingdom, most of them are godly kings,
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Righteous kings, okay, amen?
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So in this story, we have king ahab,
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The king of israel.
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He was a wicked king, all right?
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But his wickedness stems
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Out of his love for sinful pleasures.
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He loves to eat. he loves to drink.
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Really, he doesn't even care whether--
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The people at this time are worshipping baal, all right?
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And he doesn't even care whether they worship baal
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Or they don't worship baal or whether they worship jehovah,
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As long as his stomach is filled.
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That kind of king.
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But his wife, however, is positively evil,
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In the sense that she puts in energy
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To promote the worship of baal,
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Which demands child sacrifices and all kinds of immoralities.
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And she destroys many
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Of the true prophets of the lord.
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And she is the wife of king ahab, okay?
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So you put these two together,
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You got an explosion of immorality
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And all kinds of filth and darkness reign
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In the kingdom of israel.
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So during this time--
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And they worshiped baal for rain, all right?
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So you can understand the nature of the famine.
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How god put baal to no effect.
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In this dark scene, appears this man
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With a leather girdle, a hairy man.
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His name was elijah.
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"and elijah the tishbite,"
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And this man got a bite to his ministry, all right,
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He got teeth and he bite, "of the inhabitants of gilead,
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He said to ahab--"
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Ahab, by the way, this evil king ahab,
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His name means love.
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So ahav, king ahav, "i'm the king of love.
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My wife is jezebel," all right?
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Jezebel, which is a wicked woman.
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And so you got two for the price of one
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In this kingdom of israel.
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In the midst of this, elijah appears.
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Elijah says, "as the lord god of israel lives,
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Before whom i stand."
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I love that. "before whom i stand."
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He is conscious of the lord's presence,
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Even when he stood before kings, amen.
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He didn't say, "before you i stand, king."
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He says, "before god i stand," the god of israel.
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"there shall not be dew nor rain this years,
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Except at my word."
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Then it happened.
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The famine started for three and a half years.
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Elijah said there will be no--not even dew.
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Not just rain, but dew. no dew nor rain, all right?
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"'except at my word.'
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Then the word of the lord came to elijah, saying,
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'get away from here and turn eastward.'"
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Now you understand, right?
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I told you just now that ahab and jezebel have been worshiping
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And leading the nation into the worship of baal.
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Baal is the god of thunder, the god of rain,
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The god that is supposed to bless their crops.
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But instead, god demonstrated that baal can do nothing
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In the midst of this famine.
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But then god told his servant--
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God takes care of his servant, okay?
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God says, "go hide by the brook cherith,
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Which flows into the jordan.
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And it will be that you shall drink from the brook,
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And i have commanded the ravens to feed you there."
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There is always--"there" is a place that god has for you.
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When you go "there," the provisions will be there,
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Even supernatural provisions.
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Can i have a good amen?
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Maybe god tells you to go there, but you want god to do it here.
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And god has been speaking to you, "go there.
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There is your provision."
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So i can't tell you where is your "there."
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You must ask god where is your "there," amen?
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Sometimes god's "there" for you is to remain
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Because that's your "there."
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"but there i'll provide for you."
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And the bible goes on to say: "the ravens brought him bread
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And meat in the morning,
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And bread and meat in the evening:
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And he drank from the brook."
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Very interesting because for the jew,
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They consider the raven an unclean animal,
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An unclean bird.
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Whereas like, a dove, pigeons, are clean birds.
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So the fact that already god's heart is showing,
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God is showing elijah that he's going to reach out
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Beyond the boundaries of judaism,
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Beyond the chosen and favored nation of israel,
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And reach out to the gentiles as well, okay?
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And the ravens brought him bread and meat.
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And water is provided for by the brook cherith.
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It's a brook, it's a stream.
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He can drink from the refreshing waters of cherith.
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So the ravens brought him bread and he drank from the brook.
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"it happened after a while that the brook dried up,
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Because there had been no rain in the land."
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Now, just because your area of ministry
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Or your area of work dries up,
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That does not mean that god didn't call you there
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In the first place.
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Sometimes the things that god calls us to,
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There is a timing involved, amen?
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And then it dries up.
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God can dry something up.
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It doesn't mean that it is the devil.
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And it doesn't mean that in the first place,
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That place wasn't from god.
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Because god told him to go there.
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But now god has something else in mind, all right, for him.
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"and it happened after a while the brook dried up,
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Because there had been no rain," next verse.
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"then the word of the lord came to him,
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Saying, 'arise, go to zarephath, which belongs to sidon,
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And dwell there.
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See, i have commanded a widow there to provide for you.'"
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Now, there's a new "there," okay?
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And this lady--
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This story was quoted by jesus
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At the synagogue of nazareth when they challenged him,
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All right, he quoted this example
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That of all the many widows
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In the land of israel during that time,
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But of all the widows that were in the land of israel,
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God did not send elijah to any of them
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But to a gentile widow.
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And this area of sidon is the northern part of israel,
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And that's where jesus was
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With the syrophoenician woman, okay?
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It's the highest part during that time you can go to.
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So the widow was there and he came to the widow.
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Now remember, god says, "i have commanded a widow."
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So obviously the widow has heard from god, right,
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That a man of god is coming and you have to feed him.
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But the next instance, right, what happened was that elijah
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Came and she was preparing a bundle of sticks
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And elijah says, "give me some food to eat."
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And she says, "my son and i, we only have a barrel of meal.
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That's all that's left.
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And we are going to cook our final cake,"
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Bread, all right?
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"and then we'll eat it and die."
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And the man of god, being the real man of god,
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Like every man of god, says, "don't worry,
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Feed me first," all right?
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All right, that's what he said. he said that, "don't worry."
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He said, "don't be afraid.
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Bring me the cake of bread," all right?
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So he brought--she brought the cake of bread,
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Gave to the man of god
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And thus says the word of the lord,
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All right, "she went away and did
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According to the word of elijah;
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And she and he and her household ate for many days."
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That's a long time.
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I believe for three and a half years, amen?
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Ate many days.
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"the bin of flour was not used up,
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Nor did the jar of oil run dry,
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According to the word of the lord
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Which he spoke by elijah," amen?
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You never lose out when you give to the lord, amen.
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You never lose out. praise the lord.
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You see, god sent him there
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Because god wanted to bless that woman.
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God has more than just elijah's needs.
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You know, when god send us somewhere,
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It's not just to bless us, it's to bless the people there.
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The time came for the famine to end.
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God in his mercy.
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But god said this to elijah,
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Okay: "it came to pass after many days
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That the word of the lord came to elijah,
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In the third year, saying, 'go, present yourself to ahab,
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And i will send rain on the earth.'"
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Why must--i mean,
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Elijah was in hiding, amen.
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And why must he show himself to ahab?
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Well, god knows when he sends the rain,
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If the man of god doesn't appear, all right,
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All the household of ahab might think
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It's their prophets of baal praying.
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It must be baal that's answering their prayer.
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So the man of god has to appear and he will say,
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"it was by my word that there was a famine
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And by my word, it will rain," amen.
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So they will know that there's only one god
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Who controls the nature.
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Can i have a good amen, people?
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All right, this god of abraham, isaac, and jacob,
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"go, present yourself to ahab,
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And i'll send rain on the earth."
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And what happened was that at the same time,
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He presented a challenge, elijah did.
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Elijah says, "you know what, get your prophets."
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And there were 450 prophets of baal.
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"meet me at mount carmel."
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How many of you have been at mount carmel?
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Mount carmel is the place where elijah called down
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A fire from heaven.
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So he had a challenge.
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He says, "go get your prophets, all right?
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And gather the nation of israel and meet me up at mount carmel
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And i'm going to ask god to answer by fire.
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If god is god, he will answer by fire, all right?
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You call upon your gods, you prophets of baal.
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You go first. you call upon your gods.
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If your god is god, he will answer by fire.
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If he doesn't, then when i pray and my god answers by fire,
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He is the lord god."
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So they met.
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They met up the mountain.
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And then elijah challenged the prophets of baal.
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"you guys go first."
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Ladies first, right?
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No, that's added, okay?
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You don't add to the bible, okay?
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So they went first.
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So for hours, since the morning, they call upon baal,
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They call upon baal, no answer.
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No answer at all.
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I love the way the new king james
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Put it, all right?
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"no one regarded them at all," from heaven,
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No one, all right?
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And then noontime, the bible says,
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"elijah mocked them.
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Elijah says, 'hey guys, shout louder!
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Maybe he's sleeping.
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Or maybe he's on a trip.
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Or maybe, you know, he took a nap.
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Must shout louder, wake him up.'"
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He was mocking them, the bible says.
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And then they got desperate from noontime.
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They took their knives and they lashed themselves
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And the blood spurted out
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And they called upon their god of baal,
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They called upon god of baal and no answer came.
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And then it came to the time
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About 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
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The bible says, "the time of the evening prayer."
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The time that jesus would die exactly at 3 o'clock,
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The time of the evening prayer,
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The evening sacrifice in the temple,
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Elijah stepped out and elijah told the people,
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"my turn," okay?
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Built an altar and the altar, was made of 12 stones
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Representing the 12 tribes of israel.
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This is what elijah did.
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"elijah said, 'come near to me.'"
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I love it. i love it.
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He told the people, "come near. come near to me."
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"so all the people came near to him.
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And he repaired the altar of the lord
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That was broken down.
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And elijah took twelve stones, according to the number
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Of the tribes of the sons of jacob,
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To whom the word of the lord had come,
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Saying, 'israel shall be your name.'"
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Elijah acknowledged the way god sees it.
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He prepared 12 stones for the 12 tribes of israel
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Even though at that time they're divided, i love it.
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Always pray according to god's perspective.
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Now, then he says this: build a trench around the altar,
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Put burnt sacrifice
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With the stones he built on the altar, all right.
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"he put the wood in order."
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He made a trench around the altar.
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"he cut the bull in pieces, laid it on the wood,
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And said, 'fill four waterpots with water, and pour it
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On the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.'"
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Now he's going to make it hard
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Because the god who answers by fire, right?
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Next verse.
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"do it a second time."
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And finally "he says, 'do it again.
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One more time.'
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And they did it a third time.
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So the water ran all around the altar;
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And he also filled the trench with water."
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Imagine that, he's trying to make it hard for god.
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And then he prayed his prayer, but because of time,
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I'm just let you know that this--his prayer
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Has the elements of an answered prayer.
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If you want answered prayer, pray like him.
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Number one, he prayed for god's glory.
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That all the nations will see god,
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The true god of israel.
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He prayed for god's glory.
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He didn't pray for himself, amen?
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For himself, he says that the people might know
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That i have done all these things
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According to your word, amen.
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Number two, he prayed
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For the blessing of the nation of israel.
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He said that they might be blessed.
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If you want god to answer your prayer,
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Whether you want god to bless your business,
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You want god to expand your career,
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You want to have more influence,
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Or you want god to bless your ministry,
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Bless your church, expand your influence and reach,
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You must have these two things in mind: number one,
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For the greatest glory of the lord jesus christ.
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In the scriptures, every time god is glorified,
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People are blessed.
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Like someone gets healed, god is glorified, amen?
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In the healing, when someone is blessed,
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The person getting healed.
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Every time, god's glory and man's profitability
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Is tied up together.
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You don't lose out when god gets glory, amen.
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Learn to give god all the glory.
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Learn to hide yourself, amen,
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And give god all the praise and all the glory.
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Can i have a good amen?
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Amen, then there will be profit for everyone.
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And second thing,
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Pray for the greatest good of the body of christ.
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Number one, jesus's glory, amen, the lord's glory.
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Then, number two, pray for the good of the church.
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Sometimes i think that once in a while,
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Coming to god's presence and not being too quick to pray
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And just sense his--who is this god you're talking to?
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He loves you. he gave up his son for you.
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Number two, is he strong or weak?
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Whoa, all powerful.
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Number three, do i have a title to his heart?
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Do i have a claim on his power?
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Oh yes.
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"how shall he not-- if he gave us his son,
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How will he not," almost like,
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"how shall he not freely give us all things?"
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And then pray short prayers.
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Rather than rushing through and going on and on.
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But that's not your problem, many of you, you know.
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Your problem is not even short prayer.
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No prayer, okay?
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So once you have heard this revelation, you'll be praying.
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Okay, so he prayed, and right after he prayed,
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Said, "god, hear me that the people
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May know you are god in israel."
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He called upon the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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Fire came, pshhh, and the bible says: "the fire of the lord fell
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And consumed the burnt sacrifice,
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And the wood and the stones and the dust,
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And it licked up the water that was in the trench."
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Everything disappeared.
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"now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces;
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And they said, 'the lord, he is god!
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The lord, he is god!'"
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And elijah says, "take the 450 prophets of baal
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And bring them down to the brook kishon."
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By the way, when you go to israel
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And you're on mount carmel,
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Ask your guide to show you where is the brook kishon.
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You can see the brook kishon winding down there.
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That's where the prophets of baal,
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451 of them were brought down there and they were killed,
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Every last one of them.
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Elijah killed every one of them and elijah went to the king ahab
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And said this: "king ahab, go down, eat and drink,
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For i hear the sound of the abundance of rain."
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Always remember this,
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After the judgment comes the blessing.
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You know why we are blessed today?
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Because there's been a judgment.
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Friend, after the judgment, there's always the blessing.
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So i hear the sound of the abundance of rain.
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For three and a half years, israel had no rain.
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But the prophet says, "king ahab, go and eat.
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Get down to your chariot,
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I hear the sound of the abundance of rain."
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And he went up back to mount carmel.
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You know what he did?
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He fell on the dust and put his head between his knees.
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And sometimes we must remember
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After a great victory,
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We are only saved when we fall on the dust and realize
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We are nothing, but he is everything.
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Ahab has gone back to eat and drink.
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You will find his priority's always eat and drink.
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He doesn't really care whether god is baal
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Or god is jehovah.
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There are people like that.
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There are people, they are sinners in a sense
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Like they don't care whether god exists
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Or god don't exist.
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All i care is my tummy.
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I care for my pleasure.
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I care for my own comfort.
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Jezebel on the other hand is positively evil
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In carrying out his evil--her evil agenda.
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And now she says, "i'm gonna kill you, elijah."
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"elijah rose and ran for his life."
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Why? he saw that.
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Elijah saw.
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He started to walk by sight.
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Elijah, the man of faith, the man of god,
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The man who stood in the presence of god,
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Who could say to god, "he is the one before whom i stand,"
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Who is conscious
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Of the invisible, invisible, invincible god.
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Elijah forgot the god who led him to cherith.
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He forgot the ravens that fed him by day and by evening.
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He forgot the woman that god commanded to feed him.
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And he forgot the barrel of meal that never wasted
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And the jar of oil that never ceased.
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He forgot the god of the resurrection
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That raised the boy from the dead,
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Even through him.
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He forgot the god who answers by fire
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And the rain that followed.
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Why?
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Because, like this, any of us can fall away from faith.
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Even we walked in the greatest faith yesterday,
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We can go back to sight today.
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Why did he run? for himself.
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Who did he pray for?
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For himself.
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It's all self now.
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Maybe if you want to see more of god's acts,
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We gotta see less of us.
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Our nothingness brings his everything.
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Elijah never died, right?
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And he has never died.
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But you know something?
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Neither will god let him die there,
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Discouraged, despondent, under a cloud of depression,
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In some remote place, in some lonely desert.
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No, god will not allow his servant to do that.
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What elijah doesn't know that you and i know now
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Is that god is preparing a chariot of fire, amen?
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And the chariot is revving,
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[making revving sounds]
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Getting ready, ready to transport
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The servant of god in grace and glory
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All the way to heaven without him dying,
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Without his heartbeat stopping.
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A chariot is waiting.
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God will not allow his despondent,
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Discouraged servants to die in some desert somewhere.
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Announcer: and now, a closing word
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From pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: sometimes, like elijah,
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We are not led.
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We walk into the valley of the shadow of death.
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Earlier on, the sheep says, "he leads me beside.
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He leads me.
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He makes me to lie down."
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Then all of a sudden, "yea, though i walk."
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No wonder there's a valley of the shadow of death.
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"but even then, you are with me."
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He goes into the valley.
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Oh, if he never went into the valley,
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I wouldn't be here.
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You wouldn't be here.
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You need to know that his heart is very tender.
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Yes, you see a god outwardly,
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You see a god performing judgments in israel.
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He has to.
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You see god punishing the wicked.
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You see god doing all that.
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But god would rather the fire fall
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On the sacrifice, on his son
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Than the fire fall on the nation or upon you.
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Friend, this is our god.
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This coming week, the lord bless you and the lord keep you.
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The lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you.
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The lord lift up his countenance on you and grant you shalom,
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In jesus's name.
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Announcer: we live in a world that moves faster than ever.
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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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So no matter what's popular today or forgotten tomorrow,
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This ministry will still always be all about jesus,
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Still the center of our call,
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Still the heartbeat of our people.
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Will you still choose to make
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Our mission your mission today?
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Make your best gift
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Before december 31.
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Visit josephprince.org
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To make your gift now.
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Female: 2022, i was diagnosed with cancer.
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I had a lump in my breast.
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They had diagnosed it as a stage 4.
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The cancer had spread to my liver, my bone,
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And the breast, of course.
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My husband and i were watching joseph prince one night.
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He called out somebody had a liver disease.
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And my husband goes, "look, that's you, stand up."
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And i stood up, we stood up in my living room,
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And he prayed over me about the liver.
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And in november of 2022, i got the report back
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That my liver was healing very, very well.
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In fact, by march, it was totally gone.
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And so i have no cancer in me today,
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And they released me from all medications
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That i've been taking for two years.
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So i am free from it.
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Thank you, jesus. thank you, jesus.
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Had i not known
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About the grace of god and this ministry,
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I don't know where i'd be.
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And i remember joseph prince said that those--
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That that scripture in thessalonians that said,
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"those that there-- will be alive and remain
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Until the coming of the lord."
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That was mine.
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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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Joseph Prince - You Can Feel Broken and Still Be Chosen

November 11, 2025 | 29:45

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