Believing What You Can't See
September 24, 2020
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Leon Fontaine is showing people across the earth how to unleash the miraculous in their everyday lives and take Jesus to their families; friends; and communities.
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Believing What You Can't See
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- -ANNOUNCER: What would youchange in your life?
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- - What if you could unleash themiraculous in your
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- everyday life?
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- - Experience freedom, live inpeace, change the world. Become
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- Spirit Contemporary. Join LeonFontaine, world renowned
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- conference speaker, seniorpastor of Canada's fastest
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- growing church, and CEOof Canada's only
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- Christian TV station.
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- -LEON FONTAINE: So, you'vegonna have to make a decision.
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- Are you going to look at onlythe physical world, and believe
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- that this is reality? Or are yougoing to be able to look at the
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- spiritual world, and recognizethat that is even more real?
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- -ANNOUNCER: In John 10:10, itsays that Jesus came to give us
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- life, and life more abundantly.So, why is there such a
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- disconnect between this biblicalpromise, and how most Christians
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- live today? Why have so manybelievers become spiritually
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- weak, and ineffective at sharingJesus' message of love? THE
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- SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY LIFE is theanswer. It's being led by Holy
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- Spirit, but in a contemporaryway. It's being Jesus and
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- demonstrating His love in wayspeople can understand and
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- appreciate. Spirit Contemporaryis unique for everyone. It never
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- compromises the truth, and itnever makes others feel
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- uncomfortable. It's freeingyourself from religious
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- constraints, and walking freelyin God's amazing grace, for His
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- purpose. THE SPIRIT CONTEMPORARYLIFE is absolutely crucial if
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- the global church and her peopleare going to change the world.
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- - Later in the show, we'll tellyou how you can reserve your
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- copy of today's resource. Enrichyour soul and renew your mind
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- with this timely series.
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- - And now, from Winnipeg,Canada, pastor Leon Fontaine.
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- -LEON: There's a real confusiontoday amongst so many of the
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- body of Christ. About a topiccalled, faith. The Bible says
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- that, we'd better understand itbecause the only way to overcome
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- the things of this world as abeliever in Christ, a follower
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- of Jesus, is by our faith.There's been an awakening over
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- the decades of, faith. Ofcourse, for every mile of truth,
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- there's two miles of ditch. Andso we have people who don't
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- understand it, trying to denysickness or deny the poverty or
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- deny the things they're dealingwith. So many feel like faith
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- is, just saying what's not trueand if you say it enough, maybe
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- God will do it for you. And ofcourse, that's not going to fly
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- because your heart knows what istruth and what isn't truth.
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- There's a story in the OldTestament, a true story about a
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- prophet named Elisha that shedsamazing light on how you can
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- walk on this planet and see theremarkable things the Bible has
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- promised you and I. Because ofthe confusion that exists in the
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- body of Christ, many people havebecome what I call, humanistic
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- Christians. They just see theBible as some kind of
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- psychological relief, theybelieve we're going to go to
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- heaven, they really don'tbelieve that there is some kind
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- of power outside of the humanexperience that does anything,
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- and that it's made-up, it's justhyper emotions. In 2 Kings
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- 6:14-17, an amazing prophetnamed Elisha. Now in this story,
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- the king of Syria is trying tokill and to take captive God's
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- people. He would plan hisattacks, and then Elisha would
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- send word to the king of Israel,saying Syria is coming through
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- this valley at this time, andthey're going to try to attack
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- with this strategy. He wouldknow exactly by the Spirit of
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- God, the attack of their enemy.Not once, not twice, but the
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- Bible says several times, thisevil king kept trying to attack
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- God's people and every time,they thwarted him. Destroyed the
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- soldiers. The king of Syria wassome ticked off, I tell you, as
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- he began to realize and hecalled his generals together and
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- those that would work with himon the war plans, and he said,
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- one of you is a spy. Who keepstelling the king of Israel, my
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- plans? Someone was about to dieon his staff, and back then
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- kings had a lot of authority soone spoke up pretty quick and
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- said, oh king. It is the prophetElisha who is giving wisdom to
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- his king. He knows what you say,even in your bedroom. They
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- convinced the king of Syria,that the prophet was at fault.
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- So they changed their battletactics. And he sent his massive
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- army to surround a town. Thenext morning, Elisha's help, his
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- servant, woke up, looks out, andthe town is surrounded by a
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- great national army of the kingof Syria. It is so
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- over-encompassing, so huge, it'soverkill to come at this little
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- town. As Elisha joins him, hisservant looks at him and he
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- goes, oh no! Look at this army.'Fraid, I mean scared, back then
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- when you lost, they killed you.Elisha looks at his servant and
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- says this line. He is, he saysthere is more with us,
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- than there is with them.
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- The servant looks around andgoes, are you kidding me? This
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- is a little town. That's anation's army on one little
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- town. Prophet Elisha says God,open his eyes. His eyes were
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- opened, and it says that theskies, 360 degrees around, was
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- filled with chariots of fire,horses, angels, and it was
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- greater and more in number thanthe king of Syria's entire army.
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- This is a very important story.Every story in the Bible has a
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- teaching point to teach us. Theyare often types and shadows for
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- us to understand, the NewCovenant that we have today. I
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- want you to notice, Elisha'seyes were not opened. He did not
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- see those angels and chariots offire with his eyeballs. He
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- didn't hear them with hisphysical ears or his physical
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- eyes, he didn't smell them inthe wind with his physical nose.
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- He had a sixth sense. This sixthsense is called faith. It is a
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- trusting, a knowing, a believingin God. He didn't need his eyes,
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- his physical eyes opened. So Goddidn't open his physical eyes.
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- He opened the servant's physicaleyes. And then he was in awe at
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- the help that was there. Faith,according to the New Covenant,
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- and this is a New Covenantreality. Is to believe in what
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- is done. To believe what hasalready been given. The unseen
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- world is real. You and I today,believe in the unseen even when
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- we're not believers. I'mspeaking into a mic that is not
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- attached to any cord. It's goinginto a trailer, and it's not
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- attached to your car. Butthere's some unseen force
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- bringing my voice to thisparking lot. It's bringing my
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- voice to this world. It'sbringing my voice to country
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- after country, and there'snothing that you can see. There
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- are sound waves, there are radiowaves, there are microwaves that
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- can't be seen yet you allbelieve in them. There are gems
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- you believe in, viruses youbelieve in. There are atoms,
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- there are subatomic particlesand everybody here, believes in
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- them. Why do you find it so hardthat a child of God believes and
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- knows the truth that in theunseen world of the spirit, is
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- an angelic army that is here foryou? In the unseen world of the
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- spirit, a price has been paidfor the healing of the body.
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- That in the unseen world, thespirit world, is a peace and a
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- joy that passes anything that isin the seen world. Faith,
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- declares a New Testamentreality. Faith declares what is
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- real in the spirit realm, andthen we learn to cross this
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- divide and our faith makesreality what's been done in the
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- spirit realm comes over intothis physical realm. So you've
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- gonna have to make a decision.Are you going to look at only
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- the physical world, and believethat this is reality? Or are you
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- going to be able to look at thespiritual world, and recognize
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- that that is even more real. Letme give you a very simple
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- definition. When you begin tofocus on the Word of God, it is
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- your mirror to the real you, orthe spirit-man. The only way you
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- are going to see your spirit, isin the mirror of the Bible. The
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- book of James teaches us, thatthe Bible is a mirror. And that
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- it is what reflects back to youwhat you look like in the spirit
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- realm. This is why reading theBible is absolutely crucial.
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- This is why, as you an I lookinto the Word of God, we see who
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- we are. And if you stop spendingtime in the Word, if you stop
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- getting out to a life-givingchurch, you begin to get your
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- mind focused on only thephysical world, the five senses,
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- your abilities that you have inyour physical body, and in your
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- mind, and you completely shutdown all of the incredible power
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- that is in your spirit. So to bespiritually minded, it says this
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- way in another translation. Toset your mind on the things of
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- the spirit, which is onlyexplained in the Bible as your
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- mirror, is where you're going tofind this life, this miracles
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- and health and joy and peace andwisdom, prosperity and blessing,
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- until the world looks at us andsees the goodness of God in your
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- life. And then wants what youhave. The Bible says in the book
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- of Psalms 92, that whoever isplanted in the house of God will
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- flourish. You'll flourish like apalm tree, by rivers. In other
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- words, you are keeping yourfocus on the things of the
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- spirit. As I look into theBible, I begin to discover who
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- Leon is. As I look into theBible, I begin to arm myself
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- with His peace and His joy.There is no way that your mind
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- and your emotions are going tostay healthy as a Christian if
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- you do not get help from thespirit of God. Well say Leon,
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- I've been asking Him. It's notin the asking. It is the Word of
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- God that begins to show you whoyou are. The Bible says in
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- Romans 10:17, faith cometh byhearing, and hearing by the Word
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- of God. Another words, as youlook into the Word, as you look
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- to the cross and how that Jesusbecame a curse for you. How He
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- took all your sins. He paid theprice. He's done this so that
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- you can be alive in the spirit.But when Jesus came into your
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- spirit-man, it was sealed. Youcan't dirty it, you can't even
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- do something wrong andcompromise that. You and God are
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- cool because it is the spirit.Your spirit, that is made alive
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- with the live of God. Now, youare to renew your mind and you
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- are to make your body a livingsacrifice. And all the power to
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- do that, is in your spirit. Howdo you get this power from you,
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- the spirit, to flow into thisearth suit on this earth? You
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- see, you are not your earthsuit. You are not your human
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- body. All of us, have had lovedones die. And we either have
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- those bodies buried or we havethem burned, and that person is
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- still very much alive. Thatperson, is still thriving in a
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- place called heaven if they gavetheir life to Jesus Christ. So,
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- we've got to stop thinking thatwe are only human. How many
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- times do you hear Christians saywell, come on. We're only human.
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- No you're not. If you've givenyour life to Jesus Christ, then
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- you are a new creation. This newcreation is as never before.
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- Yes, you have a physical body.Now, let's talk about faith for
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- a minute. We teach people totake the Word of God to meditate
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- on it, and to declare what itsays. So the Bible says, by
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- whose stripes we were healed. Orwe have been healed. So when we
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- look at healing as an example,and a person whose physical body
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- is sick, and dying, and theybegin to say with their mouth
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- and they say, I believe I amhealed. Healing is mine. It is a
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- done deal, thank You Father.We're not denying that sickness
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- in one-third of my being, beingmy body. If I'm struggling with
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- mental things, and we begin totake His Word and declare that
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- the peace of God is mine. I havenot the spirit of fear, but of
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- power and of love and of a soundmind. People say well, you
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- don't. You're the most afraidthing I've ever seen. I've never
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- seen anybody so filled withterror. Why are you lying, and
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- saying you are something whenyou're not? I'll tell you why.
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- Because my physical body, andthis mind is not the only me. I
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- am a three-part being, and inthis spirit-man is the life of
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- God. The peace of God. The joyof God. The healing of God. The
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- confidence of God. The faith ofGod. Everything that I'm ever
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- going to need in 2 Peter 1:1-4has already been given to me.
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- I've got a shocking statement tomake for all you people. And
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- that is that, God is not the onedeciding if your prayers get
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- answered. He's not looking atyou waiting for you to move some
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- kind of weird little forcecalled faith which is denying
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- reality, and when He sees youwork it enough, He'll go oh your
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- faith is high enough and give itto you. No. The Bible says, in 2
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- Peter 1:1-4, that grace andpeace are magnified in our life
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- through knowing Jesus, becausethis Jesus is in you. Galatians
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- 2:20 says, I am crucified withChrist. Nevertheless, I live.
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- Yet, not I, but it is Christthat lives in me. And the life I
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- now live, I live by the faith ofthe Son of God who gave Himself
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- for me. Who loved me. I've beengiven Jesus' faith. I've been
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- given every answer to myprayers. It has been placed in
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- my spirit-man, so when I get upand side with my spirit and say,
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- I walk in health. And it is minein the name of Jesus. And, my
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- body is sick, and it's notlistening. I am going to stay
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- declaring because life and deathare in the power of the tongue.
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- You can declare what's going onin your body, you can declare
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- what's going on in your mind, oryou can declare what's going on
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- in your spirit. Which is alivewith the life of God. Who am I?
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- I'm the healed. Who am I? I'mthe prosperous. Who am I? I'm
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- the joyful, the happy, thepeaceful, I am the confident.
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- Say well Leon, you're not. Andin fact most of the things you
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- just said, I can't even seegoing on in your life right now.
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- Well, you're wrong. Because thefive senses you have looking at
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- me does not show you what isgoing on in my spirit-man. And
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- the Bible says to be spirituallyminded, I set my mind on the
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- things of the spirit. I'm notsetting my mind on the things of
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- the flesh. I know there's adisease there, if that's what
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- you're dealing with .i knowthere's a depressing that seems
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- to own me right now. I know thatI'm walking through a poverty.
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- So I'm doing everything I can,in the physical. But are you
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- doing everything in the spiritrealm? Because if you're only
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- doing physical answers, thenyour mind is set on the things
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- of the flesh, which is your fivesenses. But my eyes, my mind,
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- needs to be set on the things ofthe spirit. How do you do that?
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- You get into God's Word. Youbegin to focus on the Word of
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- God, and the spirit of Godbegins to show you what God's
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- Word says about you. So what isyour identity? What is your
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- identity? Well, first of allyou're not a body because your
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- body's going to die. You're nota soul, although you are of all
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- three. Who you are is a spirit,your soul is wrapped in spirit.
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- You're made in the likeness andthe image of God. So while you
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- identify with all your problemsand all your failures and all
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- your losses and all yourheartaches and hurts, you may as
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- well go watch all the sad moviesand listen to Country and
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- Western. Then he goes,everything's going down. Or, you
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- can side with the Word of God.Now, the Word of God recognizes
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- you must make your body a livingsacrifice. And He gives you the
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- power to do it. You need torenew your mind to new thinking,
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- new beliefs. We have an enemy.He's after your beliefs. He
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- can't make you sick. He can'tsteal your life. All he can do
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- is begin to fire thoughts atyou, and try to begin to
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- influence what you think, whatyou think about, what you
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- believe. And, when you can'tcontrol your emotions, he's
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- having a hay day in your life.Because sin is conceived in the
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- emotions. He's trying to getyour mind which needs to stay
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- being renewed every day in theWord of God. He's going to try
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- to get it thinking about howlonely you are, how bad it is,
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- how life sucks, how thingsaren't going good. And, as you
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- can keep your mind focused onthe things of this life and the
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- five senses, he will whip youevery time. He will control your
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- thinking. Then he's going tocontrol your believing, and
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- these beliefs drop into yourheart. And they begin to control
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- the auto-pilot of your life. I'mchallenging somebody who's
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- listening to me today, who keepsblaming God. God, why didn't you
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- do this? God, why did you allowthat? God, it's not even up to
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- Him anymore as to what isallowed and what not is allowed.
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- Now we know He controls thetimeframe of this earth. That
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- Satan's time will be up. Thatthe enemy's never going to
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- overrun us all. So there aresome things prophesied in the
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- Word that are controlled on thisplanet by God. But your
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- individual life, the decisionsyou make as a sovereign being,
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- because you are. You have todecide. Jesus is teaching you
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- and I. I give you the keys tothe Kingdom. What are you going
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- to allow? You're going to allow.What are you going to let go?
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- You're going to let go. And mostof us have no clue as to the
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- forces and the principles of thespirit to begin to change the
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- things that are going on in ourphysical world. My challenge to
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- you, is that the only hope youhave is the Word, the Word is
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- the mirror. And when you don'tspend time in the Word, you do
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- not know what you look like as aborn-again believer, as a new
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- creation. The Bible says, youare an overcomer, that you are
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- born of God. That you are thehead and not the tail. You are
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- above, and not beneath. Thateverything bows to the name of
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- Jesus. I hope, that whatever hasgone on in these last couple of
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- months, will wake up the mightyman that is inside of you. The
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- mighty man that is inside of youis not your five senses and your
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- physical skills and yourphysical prowess, your talented
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- body and your brilliant mind andyour good-looking face. Thank
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- God for that, no, no, no. I'mtalking about waking up the
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- mighty man Ephesians says, whichis you seeing the real you in
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- the mirror of God's Word. Whywould you get up and look at
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- your physical face in themirror, put all your make-up on,
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- comb your hair just right, getyour suit and your tie on guys,
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- and launch out into a crazyworld that has got a spirit
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- realm that is literallyinfluencing everything, there's
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- a battle everywhere. Whywouldn't you first look into the
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- mirror of God's Word and seewhose you are, and who you are,
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- and get up and walk into a placedominating the forces of
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- darkness, knowing who you are,and walking easily in a world
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- where who you are in Christdominates and controls out
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- anything the enemy would try todo in your world.
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- [Segment Music]
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- -ANNOUNCER: Uncertainty,job loss, and health scares
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- all cause fear. And all areexperienced in the physical.
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- But did you know you can livebeyond your five senses?
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- In this brand-new series by LeonFontaine, "Living Beyond Your
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- Five Senses", learn how evenwhen your circumstances are out
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- of control, with Holy Spirit youhave the power to walk by faith,
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- not by sight.
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- -LEON: Sense knowledge, or thisworld's knowledge, there's a lot
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- of things they can't figure out.The purpose for creation.
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- The purpose for live. To onlybelieve what your
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- five senses say, Jesus callsthat unbelieving.
- 00:24:33.731 --> 00:24:38.035
- -ANNOUNCER: In this series,Leon shares the six deadly fears
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- and how to combat them, how tolive beyond your five senses,
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- and how to rebuke fear andexperience the peace of God.
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- Call now to request this series,and let today be the day you
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- begin to live in thesupernatural.
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- ♪ [Music] ♪
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- [Segment Music]
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- -LEON: So many people strugglein the area of their mind. I
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- have found in teaching andaround the world that when I
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- talk with people, very fewpeople can focus on something
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- for any length of time. In fact,almost say everybody is ADD or
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- attention deficit disorder. Now,that's not the way God made you.
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- He made you that you could focusand meditate on something for a
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- long time. And so, this iscrucial. There are others who
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- cannot control their emotions,their moods. We can go ahead and
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- blame it on hormones and we canblame it on others. And I know
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- there's a little bit of truththere. Hang around an irritating
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- person, and it's harder. I mean,if it's just a really bad day
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- for your physically, thathormones can be an issue. But
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- you know that God gives none ofthose things the right? And so,
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- He commands us to be joyful, bepeaceful. To rise up with the
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- fruits of the spirit so I wantto pray for you. I'm going to
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- ask Holy Spirit to guide you, toassist you. To begin to walk in
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- the fruit of the Spirit. Father,I pray right now. That those
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- nine strengths that you've givenus called the fruit of the
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- Spirit, the patience, the joy.The kindness, the
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- long-suffering. I pray thatYou'd wake each of us up to
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- this. And that we would live ourlives in a way that our minds
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- are thinking, our imagination iscontrolled by the very Word of
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- God and by the presence of God.Touch them now, and start them
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- on this amazing journey. InJesus' name, amen.
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