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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Cedric Pisegna - We Walk By Faith | June 1, 2025
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- Father cedric pisegna: "blessed are they who believe
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- Without seeing."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father cedric: welcome to "live with passion!"
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- I'm father cedric pisegna.
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- I'm praying that this episode is going to mediate faith to you;
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- That you're going to grow in your faith, whatever level of
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- Faith that you have.
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- "we walk by faith and not by sight."
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- Comes from 2 corinthians, paul's second letter to the
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- Corinthians, and he says, "we're always of good courage.
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- We know that while we're at home in the body we're away from the
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- Lord, but we walk by faith and not by sight."
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- If god were to show us everything in our future, what
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- Would faith be?
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- I think god withholds sight from us because he wants us to
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- Have faith.
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- Faith is a gift from him, and he wants us to walk trusting in him
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- Not necessarily seeing everything.
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- And i'm producing this because i know most of you are believers,
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- You go to church.
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- I want to inspire you.
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- I want your level of faith, whatever it is, to grow and to
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- Deepen, and some of you are looking for faith.
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- "give me a reason to believe."
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- And i want to inspire you to trust jesus as your savior
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- Because when you have faith there's such a peace, an
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- Assurance that comes into your life; and i'm hoping that you're
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- Going to have that, that you will realize that christianity
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- Isn't just some religion but it's the truth.
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- Jesus said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life."
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- It is the truth that has revolutionized my life.
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- I love that song "blessed assurance."
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- Here are the verses: "blessed assurance, jesus is mine.
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- O what a foretaste of glory divine.
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- Heir of salvation, purchase of god, born of his spirit, washed
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- In his blood."
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- Assurance, peace, serenity, knowing that you're on the way
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- To heaven because you're a believer.
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- You can't earn it, you don't deserve it; but god gives it to
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- You simply because you believe that jesus died for you, that he
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- Rose for you, that he's in heaven and he's calling you
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- To himself.
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- I am praying that you will have that assurance that comes
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- Through faith, that peace that surpasses all understanding.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father cedric paul the great apostle said, "we walk by faith
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- And not by sight."
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- He was talking about the tribulations and the sufferings
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- And the turmoil and the trials that we all go through in life.
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- He was talking about his own body.
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- He says while we're in the body we're at home, but we're away
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- From the lord and one day god is going to give us not a tent--he
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- Spoke about the body as a tent.
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- He's going to give us a house in heaven.
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- He says while we're in the body we walk by faith and not by
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- Sight because we can't always see what's going on, what god
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- Has planned, and what god is up to, and what god wants from us.
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- So we walk by believing, by faith.
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- We all have tribulations and we all have trials.
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- We all have difficulties, and i want you to press on to keep
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- Believing in faith.
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- Love what it says in the book of hebrews.
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- Keep your eyes fixed on jesus in the midst of all your trials.
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- Keep your eyes fixed on jesus, the pioneer and the perfecter of
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- Our faith.
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- The bottom line is is that jesus went through all kinds of trials
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- And tribulations, as you know.
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- He faced crucifixion.
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- That is the hardest thing that any human being could ever go
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- Through, but he walked by faith and not by sight.
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- He trusted god.
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- He believed god, that god was going to raise him up and bring
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- Him through this.
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- For the joy set before him, he endured the cross and now has
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- Become the pioneer and the perfecter of our faith.
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- Wow.
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- Father cedric: keep your eyes fixed on jesus.
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- When you're going through a hard time, and i know some of you
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- Are, don't keep looking at the hardness and the trials and the
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- Difficulties and complaining and murmuring.
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- Keep your eyes fixed on jesus.
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- He's there with you.
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- We walk by faith, not by sight.
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- Wow.
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- But it's not just faith, it's faith in god.
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- God is the object of our faith, the subject of our faith.
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- God is the god of our faith.
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- Confidence in god.
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- Trust in god.
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- So we're not just believing, believing in god.
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- God is almighty, sovereign, loves us, created us.
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- When i talk about god, not the new age god that some people
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- Believe in with angels floating around everywhere, although
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- There are angels.
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- I'm talking about the god of the scriptures, and the scriptures
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- Give us faith in the one true god: father, jesus, holy spirit.
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- Confidence in god.
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- When you believe in god, especially in the hard times,
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- Opens the door for god to work.
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- It's like this channel of power, this conduit of power, your
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- Faith where god works in you and through you.
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- Faith is such an important virtue, and remember what it
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- Says in the scriptures.
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- Three things last forever: faith, hope, and love.
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- These are virtues that are precious to god.
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- When push comes to shove, this is what god wants from us, our
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- Faith, our faith.
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- Remember in the gospels jesus performed miracles, but it
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- Happened because, "your faith has saved you."
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- People came to him believing and that believing opened the door
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- For him to work.
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- In the catholic church we announce the words of a
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- Centurion who told jesus, "lord, i'm not worthy that you should
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- Enter unto my roof.
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- Just say the word, my servant will be healed."
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- And the church wants us to have faith in communion, that this is
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- The body and the blood of christ.
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- So right before we receive we say, "lord, i'm not worthy that
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- You should enter unto my roof, but only say the word and my
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- Soul shall be healed."
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- That's faith; believing, trusting in jesus.
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- Faith of course lasts forever, as i said, and i want--really
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- Want to impress this upon you.
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- Get this now.
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- Ready?
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- It is a gift.
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- God gives faith--a measure of faith to every person.
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- But faith can increase by our responsibility, by our reading,
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- By our hearing, by our listening; and i'm praying that
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- Your faith will increase.
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- That's why this program, that's why this episode--and especially
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- Those of you who have not yet come to faith, that you will
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- Believe and receive.
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- And if you want more faith, simply ask.
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- It's what the scriptures say.
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- Jesus said if you know how to give good gifts to your
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- Children, how much more will your heavenly father give good
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- Gifts to those who ask?
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- Ask in faith, not in doubting; believing that god is so
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- Good--and i talked about that in another episode, that god is so
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- Good that he will bestow faith upon you.
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- I remember when i was a young man i literally wasn't sure if
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- God existed or not.
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- I went into my closet and i simply said, "lord, i need you.
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- Please help me."
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- And that was the beginning of faith for me.
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- I deci--prayer.
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- Deciding to pray is faith.
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- You have to have faith simply to pray.
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- But it so increased, became like a tree, and now the birds of the
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- Year nest in my branches.
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- That's what jesus said in a parable one time.
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- Faith isn't just believing that god exists but that he's good
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- And he's a rewarder of those who seek him.
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- Believe for your children.
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- Believe that they'll come back to the faith.
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- Believe for your dreams to come to pass.
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- Believe for your health.
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- Believe for our nation.
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- Believe for our world that's in such turmoil.
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- It's a gift, but god works through it--through you, through
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- Your faith to do beautiful things in the world.
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- Believe that god is good and he will work in and through your
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- Faith, and then believe that god walks with you.
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- I'm talking now about what we believe.
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- Of course we believe in god, we believe that he's good, we
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- Believe that he's going to work through our faith; but we
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- Believe that he walks with us, and that's where we don't
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- See it.
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- God is invisible.
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- We walk by faith and not by sight.
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- And every once in a while during the journey as we're walking,
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- From time to time every once in a while you will see
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- Manifestations of grace that are immistakably god and that
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- Strengthens our faith and helps you to walk even stronger.
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- Believe that even though you can't see it that god is there,
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- Even though at times you don't feel it--i'm a spiritual
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- Director and people come to me and they say, "father, i--i'm
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- Trying to believe and to pray and i'm just not
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- Feeling anything."
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- Well, what is god doing there?
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- God's stretching your faith.
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- God is helping you in the midst of that to have a wider faith,
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- A deeper faith.
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- Because faith isn't faith if you can see everything, faith is
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- Faith when you don't see everything.
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- We walk by faith and not by sight.
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- You trust that god is there and then you trust that he's working
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- In your life.
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- And you may not see that either right away, but if you look
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- Backwards in retrospect, yes, you can see clearly.
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- One of the activities that i participate in is writing
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- A journal, and i've written journals now for about 40 years.
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- That's a--kind of like a diary for your life, and i journal
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- About what's happening and what god's doing in my life.
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- And oftentimes right when i'm in the midst of a situation and i'm
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- Journaling about it, i don't often see what god is doing but
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- Then years later when i read it back in retrospect i see; yes,
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- God was right there performing, working--working in me and
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- Through me, and you have to simply trust that.
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- You don't always see it.
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- We walk by faith, not by sight.
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- And believe that god is providentially guiding you.
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- You look back at your life, you will see that god brought you to
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- Your spouse or brought you to this job or brought you
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- To ministry.
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- God is working in your life and that's such a truth, and he's
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- Taking us this far.
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- He's not going to leave us there.
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- He's going to keep moving us forward.
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- That's the beautiful thing about faith.
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- It energizes us and activates us and opens the door, as i said,
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- For god to work.
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- Paul said that we walk by faith and not by sight because he was
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- Going through trials, paul the apostle, and he was saying that,
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- "even though i don't see god, i trust that god is working in
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- My life."
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- See, our faith is precious to god.
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- More than fire-tried gold, our faith is precious to god.
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- That's right from the scriptures.
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- And like gold is purified in fire, faith will be purified in
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- The fires of our experience.
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- People come to me for spiritual direction, like i said, and
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- They're going through all these different trials and hardships
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- And they feel lost and they say, "i don't know what god
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- Is doing."
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- The bottom line is is that god is at work in it.
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- He simply wants tri--that's where you're being stretched.
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- I--he wants trust.
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- He wants you to endure.
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- Remember, suffering brings endurance, endurance brings
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- Character, character brings hope, and hope doesn't
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- Disappoint us.
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- When i talk about endurance, we're talking about you just
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- Don't have faith for a little while then it goes away.
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- Scripture says that we go from faith to faith to faith.
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- We go from one level of faith to a deeper level of faith to
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- A greater measure of faith; that in every situation, in every
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- Circumstance we're to have faith and that's endurance.
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- God's inviting us to endure.
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- He wants faith that is unshakable and rock solid and
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- Continues no matter what and what you're saying is, "god,
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- I believe that you're bigger than this storm.
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- I believe that you're bigger than any trials or situations.
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- I believe that you are guiding me even though i don't see."
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- That's faith.
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- It's like a lighthouse guiding a ship.
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- Wow.
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- People come for spiritual direction.
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- They don't see, and it's hard for them.
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- I think about st. paul of the cross, the founder of the
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- Passionist community.
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- He lived to be 81 years old and during the last 10, 15 years of
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- His life, although he was a mystic, had many
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- Spiritual experiences.
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- During the last 10 or 15 years of his life, he actually went
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- Through a depression and a desolation in his
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- Spiritual life.
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- God withdrew the feelings.
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- But what made him a saint is he didn't just pray because of the
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- Feelings, he prayed because of his faith.
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- He trusted god no matter what.
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- He walked by faith and not by sight.
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- He endured, and that's exactly what god wants from all of us.
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- You see, feelings are fickle, but faith lasts forever.
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- Faith lasts forever.
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- Not feelings, faith.
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- Sometimes feelings come, sometimes you can see, sometimes
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- You get the manifestation, but we walk by faith and not
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- By sight.
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- It's great when we can see, but god stretches us when we
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- Can't see.
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- Jesus spoke to st. julian of norwich.
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- When she was going through her trials, jesus told her, "all
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- Shall be well.
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- All shall be well.
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- In all manner of things, all shall be well."
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- Now, i like to quote that to myself when i'm struggling, that
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- It's water off a duck's back.
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- I'm like teflon.
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- It won't stick.
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- Times will change.
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- Stay steadfast.
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- Endure.
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- Keep going forward.
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- Press on, one foot in front of another.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father cedric: many of you are going through a trial right now.
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- And if you are going through a trial or tribulation, james said
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- Count it all joy when you go through tribulations.
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- Why?
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- Because you're being stretched.
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- This is an opportunity not to lose your faith but for your
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- Faith to deepen, to have a greater measure of faith.
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- And we all go through trials and difficulties.
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- Every person in the bible did and it was very hard for them,
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- But in the midst of it--read chapter 11 of the book
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- Of hebrews.
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- It's the hall of fame of faith.
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- This is where people went through all these
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- Different--abraham with his trials and enoch and abel and
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- All these different trials that people went through but yet they
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- Triumphed because of their faith.
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- They were stretched.
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- They realized that god is true.
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- He was helping them.
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- He would never abandon them.
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- Father cedric: received an email from a man.
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- He said, "father cedric, thank you for your programs.
- 00:16:04.713 --> 00:16:07.449
- I have grown as a believer," yes, "i have come
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- Into recovery."
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- All right.
- 00:16:12.021 --> 00:16:13.355
- And he said, "thank you for becoming a mentor in my life."
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- I love it.
- 00:16:15.958 --> 00:16:17.292
- By faith all things are possible, especially coming to
- 00:16:17.292 --> 00:16:20.863
- That blessed assurance, eternal life through faith.
- 00:16:20.863 --> 00:16:25.034
- I'm going to invite you to partner with me in my ministry
- 00:16:25.034 --> 00:16:27.569
- Of reaching out to all people with this gospel of faith, hope,
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- And love.
- 00:16:31.573 --> 00:16:32.908
- You can give one time, if you would, or if you want to become
- 00:16:32.908 --> 00:16:36.478
- A partner with my ministry.
- 00:16:36.478 --> 00:16:38.113
- I see every donation that comes in.
- 00:16:38.113 --> 00:16:40.349
- I'm so encouraged by it.
- 00:16:40.349 --> 00:16:42.184
- All you have to do is write me in houston, texas 77024, call
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- The 844 number, or go to my new secure website.
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- You can donate there.
- 00:16:50.459 --> 00:16:51.827
- And, again, i see every donation that comes in and i pray for
- 00:16:51.827 --> 00:16:54.530
- Every person.
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- Thank you, thank you, thank you in advance.
- 00:16:55.898 --> 00:16:58.167
- Don't just live, live with passion.
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- Father cedric: heard about a tree up on a mountaintop.
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- It was being buffeted by the winds, and the tree looked down
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- Into the valley and he could see all the little trees down there
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- And he started complaining and he said, "why do i have to be up
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- On the mountaintop and get all these windy days up there and
- 00:17:14.249 --> 00:17:17.219
- Down in the valley they're all blessed and looks like they're
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- Having a good life and it's not even windy down there?"
- 00:17:20.522 --> 00:17:23.792
- One day this ferocious tempest, this huge storm came and it even
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- Hit the trees down the valley.
- 00:17:30.966 --> 00:17:32.367
- The tree up on the top of the mountain was buffeted and
- 00:17:32.367 --> 00:17:35.003
- Everything, but trees in the valley got hit and they all got
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- Knocked over.
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- But the tree on top of the mountain stayed fast, endured,
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- Held on because its roots had grown strong by the
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- Other storms.
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- But the trees in the valleys, they didn't have any roots
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- 'cause they hadn't gone through storms; and that's exactly why
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- We get storms, to make us be rooted and grounded in christ so
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- That when the final storm comes, and we all know what that is,
- 00:18:05.134 --> 00:18:07.936
- That's death--when the final storm comes, we will stand firm
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- And be strong.
- 00:18:12.941 --> 00:18:15.043
- I pray that your storms will root you in christ and help you
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- To be strong in jesus and not let you lose your faith but
- 00:18:19.481 --> 00:18:25.087
- Strengthen your faith.
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- Right now as you're listening, as you're watching, i pray that
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- You'll have a greater measure of faith.
- 00:18:30.959 --> 00:18:33.362
- I am distributing faith to you right now; faith in jesus, faith
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- In the holy spirit, faith in god your father.
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- You are more than a conqueror, and this is the victory that
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- Overcomes the world.
- 00:18:48.443 --> 00:18:49.811
- Right from the bible, 1 john 4, this is the victory that
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- Overcomes the world, even our faith.
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- We are more than conquerors through him who loves us.
- 00:18:57.252 --> 00:19:00.789
- The mighty sequoia tree, general sherman tree it's called, 2,100
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- Years old, this is in california, 275 feet tall,
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- 6,100 tons.
- 00:19:10.666 --> 00:19:12.634
- And how does it stand, big huge tree like that?
- 00:19:12.634 --> 00:19:16.672
- Because of its roots.
- 00:19:16.672 --> 00:19:18.040
- But the roots of a sequoia isn't necessarily deep, they're wide
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- And they connect up with the other trees.
- 00:19:23.812 --> 00:19:26.782
- That's simply why we need to go to church.
- 00:19:26.782 --> 00:19:29.651
- It's other believers.
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- We interconnect with them.
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- We talk with them.
- 00:19:34.957 --> 00:19:36.858
- You watch on television or radio, strengthens your faith.
- 00:19:36.858 --> 00:19:40.896
- We are a community of believers, not just individuals out there
- 00:19:40.896 --> 00:19:44.132
- Somewhere, rooted deeply and widely in christ.
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- And i've also noticed about faith--it's a gift.
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- It opens the door for god to work.
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- It's a channel through which grace comes.
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- But i have noticed, and i hope you do too, there is a toughness
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- To faith.
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- Faith makes you stand strong and tall, put your chest out, and
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- Face the difficulties of your life no matter what they are
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- Realizing that you are going to be victorious.
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- We've all made mistakes.
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- We all have difficulties.
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- Learn from them and press on.
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- Be tough in your faith.
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- Be strong.
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- Endure.
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- You can do it.
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- Through faith you are stronger than you think, and instead of
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- Being overwhelmed overcome.
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- This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our
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- Faith, as i said from 1 john.
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- Fight the good fight of faith, the scripture says.
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- There's a fierceness to faith.
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- It's unstoppable, indefatigable; and look at how christianity
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- Spread even though there was martyrdoms and all these
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- Problems and trials, yet people of faith proclaim the good news
- 00:21:05.580 --> 00:21:10.552
- And, wow, believers have spread.
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- A billion believers on the face of the earth now, if not more,
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- Maybe even 2 billion.
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- There's a song by rocker tom petty that i really like, kind
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- Of captures the--this toughness of faith that i'm talking about,
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- And tom's saying, "i won't back down.
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- I won't back down.
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- No, i'll stand my ground.
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- Won't be turned around, and i'll keep this world from dragging
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- Me down.
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- Going to stand my ground and i won't back down."
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- Whenever i hear that, i think, "yeah, in the midst of the
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- Trials, i've got faith and i'm not going anywhere.
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- I'm going to endure.
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- I'm tough.
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- I'm stronger than the world is."
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- Be audacious.
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- Be determined.
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- Be resolute.
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- Be strong.
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- You have supernatural strength, the grace of god to do what you
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- Need to do, what god is calling you to do.
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- And we're more than conquerors through jesus who loved us.
- 00:22:07.976 --> 00:22:12.047
- And then notice we walk by faith.
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- Walking is a verb.
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- Walk is an action word.
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- Faith is a decision.
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- It's an assent, it's a confidence, but it's also
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- A doing.
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- It's an action verb.
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- It's an action word, and i want you to understand that about
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- Faith; that faith is completed by works; not works of the law,
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- Works of faith.
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- God is calling us through faith to accomplish, to dream dreams,
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- To affect people in their life.
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- Wow.
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- James said, "show me your faith apart from your works and i by
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- My works will show you my faith."
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- The bottom line is, is that through faith people have
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- Conquered kingdoms.
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- This is hebrews chapter 11.
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- Talks about abel and noah and abraham and isaac and moses.
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- People conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received
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- Promises, won strength out of weakness and became mighty
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- In war.
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- Talk about the fierceness of faith and the toughness
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- Of faith.
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- Wow.
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- That's the hall of fame of faith, hebrews chapter 11.
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- It's an action word.
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- You don't just have faith and then go to your room and just
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- Sit there.
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- Faith--if you remember pentecost, they went out and
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- Proclaimed the good news.
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- You make a difference in a person's life, you be generous
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- Because of your faith.
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- Faith moves you to be a person of grace, person of generosity.
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- Let me recap now.
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- Faith is believing; believing that god is good, that he
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- Rewards those who seek him.
- 00:24:00.188 --> 00:24:03.291
- But i want to instill upon you that faith is a gift, and i'm
- 00:24:03.291 --> 00:24:06.228
- Praying now as you've been listening and as you've been
- 00:24:06.228 --> 00:24:08.230
- Watching that you will receive in a greater measure the gift of
- 00:24:08.230 --> 00:24:12.467
- Faith, the gift that god gives.
- 00:24:12.467 --> 00:24:14.870
- I believe that this episode is because god wants you to have
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- Deeper faith and especially as you're going through trials.
- 00:24:17.806 --> 00:24:21.176
- Remember what i said, that we walk by faith and not by sight.
- 00:24:21.176 --> 00:24:25.247
- We don't always feel it or see it, but feelings are fickle.
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- Faith lasts forever.
- 00:24:27.749 --> 00:24:29.985
- Receive in a greater measure the gift of faith.
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- You will receive peace that surpasses all understanding,
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- Blessed assurance.
- 00:24:39.561 --> 00:24:41.963
- Faith lasts forever.
- 00:24:41.963 --> 00:24:44.666
- It's such a precious gift.
- 00:24:44.666 --> 00:24:46.101
- Remember, it is a gift.
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- Ask god for more.
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- Ask god.
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- Pray for deeper faith.
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- Release your faith by speaking it.
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- Really quickly say things like, "father, i believe that you are
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- With me.
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- Holy spirit, i believe you're in me.
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- Jesus, i believe you died for me.
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- Father, i believe that my children are coming back to
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- The faith.
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- I believe that you are opening doors for my dreams to come
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- To pass.
- 00:25:13.028 --> 00:25:14.362
- I believe that i'm receiving a greater measure of faith.
- 00:25:14.362 --> 00:25:16.665
- Yes, i believe and so i spoke."
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- That's right from the scriptures.
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- Believe and then complete your faith by reaching out to others.
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- Remember, it's an action word.
- 00:25:26.708 --> 00:25:28.376
- You want to have a dynamic faith?
- 00:25:28.376 --> 00:25:30.979
- Then be active.
- 00:25:30.979 --> 00:25:33.148
- It's the works of faith that god wants.
- 00:25:33.148 --> 00:25:35.884
- Faith lasts forever.
- 00:25:35.884 --> 00:25:38.219
- And i'm praying that because you watched this episode and you
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- Listened to this episode, you will have a blessed assurance
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- That is yours through christ, that it will open a door for god
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- To work in your life in a beautiful way, and that even
- 00:25:48.129 --> 00:25:51.099
- Though you don't see it in the midst of your trials and
- 00:25:51.099 --> 00:25:53.535
- Difficulties you will walk by faith and not by sight.
- 00:25:53.535 --> 00:25:59.641
- Don't just live, live with passion.
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- Female announcer: the motto of father cedric's ministry is
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- Touching lives and saving souls.
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- His programs air on two major networks and many tv and
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- Radio stations.
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- His mission is to reach out to every person with the gospel.
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- Father cedric: believe in the love that god has for you.
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