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Praise | Gary Zamora: Kingdom Prayer | Praise | July 8, 2026

>> coming up tonight on praise.
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>> we looked at the kingdom of god as a place to escape to. we
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Looked at it as a sanctuary to get away instead of invasion,
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To come and reign and rule. jesus said, the prince of
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Darkness has been cast out. the kingdom of god is at hand. turn
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The light on and the darkness is gone. they can't dwell in
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The same place at the same time.
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>> tonight, on praise from los angeles, prophet, pastor, and
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Founder of prophetic fulfillment church, gary zamora.
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And now your host, matt and laurie crouch.
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>> i heard somebody say from a pulpit the other day, when you
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Pray, pray this way thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on
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Earth as it is in heaven. welcome to praise gary zamora.
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You were talking about in service, the lord's prayer. and
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There's a little nuance moment there for me that you said.
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Jesus said, when you pray, pray this way, not like you know,
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Occasionally it might be a good idea to do this when you pray.
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So there's, there's, there's a model there, the model of
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Prayer. but one of the main things that you brought out,
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Which we want to talk about today. thy kingdom come, thy
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Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. the kingdom is what
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We want to talk about. and it's fun to be talking about that on
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This set.
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>> it really.
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>> is, because it feels as if when you kind of look out the
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Window here, that if you would have asked me a number of years
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Ago, i would have probably said, the kingdom is probably where
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We go when we die. or you know what, what jesus is bringing
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With him when he returns. that and that and that. certainly.
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Yeah. never really understood it. and that hollywood
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Certainly is not the place of the kingdom.
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>> certainly not.
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>> it feels as if that conversation is is hitting my
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Social media feed, and that people are discussing the
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Kingdom in a way that when i grew up in the 60s and you grew
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Up in the 50s or 40s or whatever it was, that.
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>> i look great for my age.
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>> don't i? you do. fantastic. but at some point, it just
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Feels like it's being discussed different. what's different in
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Our understanding about the kingdom, let's say then what?
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Maybe both of us grew up in.
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>> bringing it up closer.
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>> okay, what does that mean?
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>> i'll make it. it's more, you know, we when we grew up, when
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I grew up, which we weren't that far apart, but, you know,
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Make you feel better. it was right. everything was coming.
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Everything, you know, it's kind of like an order, you know,
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Like you go on amazon and it'll be here in a few days or maybe
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It's delayed. and we went through a lot of that. it's
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Coming. i mean, you and i probably heard how many times
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It's close. it's what's close, what's close. and it's kind of
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Abstract. it's kind of separate from the identity of christ.
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He's if he's present, then, then he's present. remember,
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They asked jesus one day. they said, well, show us the kingdom
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You keep talking about. where is it? when is it coming? and
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He said, no, no, no, no, you, you're, you're looking for the
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Wrong kind of kingdom. you're perception is skewed here. it's
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Not coming like that. here i am, i am he, i am the kingdom. and
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One day i'll dwell in you. and when i do, my kingdom will
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Dwell in you. my providence, my authority, my power. and it's
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Not one thing. it's not like just pointing at the kingdom
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Any more than you can point at god and say, well, he is this.
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He is that. i mean, god is love. he's holy, he's good, but he's
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God. and it's important to remember when you're praying,
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Who are you praying to? i mean, if you don't see god for who he
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Is, can you trust him? and a lot of times people pray like
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They're not sure if they can really trust god's judgment.
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You know what if god doesn't answer this prayer? so the
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Kingdom of god is an answer to every prayer. the kingdom of
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God is something more than a thing or more than a place.
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It's every place, it's every thing. it's every time. it's
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All the time. it's not one thing. and we have become
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Hungry. which he said. he said, if you'll seek first the
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Kingdom of god, let's say somebody finally wound the
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Clock. someone swung the pendulum. it's time the kingdom
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Of god is at hand.
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>> it feels like off camera. we were discussing this and, you
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Know, i look back and and it felt like my grandparents
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Generation would have said or what i would have understood
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From sunday school. and, you know, all those years ago is
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The kingdom is far away. but it's but it's coming. and, and
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So because of that, it was almost my parents that started
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Viewing it a little bit different that maybe when we
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Bought, bought a new tv station and use technology, that there
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Was another part of the kingdom that was being added. we were
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Growing the kingdom and, and, and it felt like at least i
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Started to understand that the, the other thing that it felt
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Like i started, you know, and i was, i was lucky my dad was
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Told by his parents, hollywood, the movies. roy rogers and dale
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Evans riding their horses and lassoing bad guys. those were
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Movie pictures. and if you went to the movie picture house and
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The lord came back, he'll just leave you there. you'll go
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Straight to hell right from that seat. yeah. and and so it
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Was a, it was a time when my mom and dad started grasping
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Something that their, their parents didn't. and be ye
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Separate, come out from amongst the world, be ye separate. you
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Can't go to hollywood. you can't do all that. and you know
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What, what, what made me think about doing this exact set that
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We're sitting on here and this location, what i thought it did,
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It was an analogize something because a lot of people don't
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Realize it, but that big sign on the hillside there above the
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101 freeway that used to say hollywood land, okay, hollywood
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Land. there used to be a another four letters on onto
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That. and what that was was a group of men that had bought
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That area of ground. okay. and they were giving away plots of
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Land to people that would move west to come and have influence
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Inside of the movie picture industry that existed, you know,
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You know, in the 20th century, early 20th century. and, you
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Know, at some point you realize the catholic church was the
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Rating system, right? that all pictures were kind of run
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Through. okay. we're a far cry from that now, and i understand
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That. but in my generation, all of a sudden that got lit up
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Inside of us, you know, on this picture that we have outside
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The, the, the window here, our house basically had roughly
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This view. we lived there, you know, 20 years. and anyway, the
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You pastored a church in hollywood for 15 years. you're
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Out kind of in the san fernando valley now. and, and so at some
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Point, we kind of understood it. my mom and dad understood the
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Idea that going to hollywood and creating pictures and doing
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All this, it feels like we're starting to understand that
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Better than we did. and, you know, off camera, you, you, you
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Brought in a story that at at one point, i wasn't sure where
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You were headed with it, but it was a lady that came to jesus
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And, you know, was seeking a miracle for, for her child kind
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Of hit, hit that for us. let's bring that back up.
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>> jesus said one time, remember when he said, the
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Kingdom of god is at hand? the greek means in your grasp. so
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That's what the lady did touch the kingdom. the kingdom can.
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You can touch the kingdom. it's a tangible reality here on the
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Earth. and she had a revelation by faith. she was sick. she was
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Dying. there wasn't anything could be done to save her life.
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And she thought in her mind again, that perspective,
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According to your faith, have to remember everything
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According to your faith, believer, nonbeliever. it's all
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According to our faith. we are a replication of our faith,
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What we believe we become. and she said in her heart, the
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Bible says that if i could touch the hem of his garment,
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Didn't say if i could put my hand on him, but if i can touch
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The hem of his garment, i'll be healed. and the word says, she
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Did. and when she did, virtue, power, the kingdom presence
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Came from jesus, and she was immediately healed. now she was
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Very humbled because of her state. she really wasn't
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Supposed to be touching her rabbi. she would have been
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Considered unclean, but her faith drove her beyond her
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Fears. her faith drove her beyond her needs. jesus didn't
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Answer her because of her need. he answered her because of her
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Faith. and that day, the kingdom of god became very
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Tangible to her. and when it was when she put her hand out
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And touched it, the word says that virtue went into her body.
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We can do that today. that's an aspect of the kingdom of god.
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You're talking about moving. i remember i've been to your home
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Many, many times. god gave you a perspective of what he was
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Calling you to. how long has god been pointing his finger
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Saying, look, look, the kingdom of god is at hand. and yes,
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This question a couple of times, why now? why now? and i think
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That's what god would be asking us. how, how long is it, you
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Know, finally someone is waking up to the understanding that
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The kingdom of god isn't metaphorically here. it isn't
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Just transcendent here. it's really here. the kingdom of god
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Is at hand. it's in our grasp. and when we exercise the
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Understanding that, hey, i believe i can put my hand on it,
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And i can see, as jesus said, it's going to grow. it's going
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To take over the earth. god is always with me. he said, i'll
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Never leave you. he said, i'll, i'll never forsake you. i'm
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With you always. it's no longer i that lives. the word says,
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But christ lives in me. we miss who he is even though he's
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Walking among us. we miss who he is, even though he's present
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With us, because we're looking for something that's associated
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With something far less than who he is within us. so instead
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Of considering that christ was coming to rescue me, i figured
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That he can't go anywhere without me. we didn't
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Understand that the kingdom of god is literally an invasion.
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We thought more about the kingdom of god. i did, and i
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Know we've talked a lot about this. it felt like a place of
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Escape, but it's not a place of escape.
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>> i wondered sometimes if it was at least the version i got
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In the 1960s. as i'm going to sunday school. i don't know
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What it was like in the 50s when you were going to the
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Sunday school or the, you know, late 40s when you were there.
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But but the version i got, it felt like if you had asked me,
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I would have thought maybe the kingdom was where we go at some
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Point. yeah. you know, for eternity. you know, i don't i'm
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Not sure exactly what i've learned lately as opposed to
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What i started understanding from years ago. i may i can't
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Really it's all merged into one thing now, but i, i, i'm pretty
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Much feeling like i would not have said there is a kingdom.
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We are to expand it and we are to enter it like a child
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Doesn't, doesn't, you know, how do you justify or how do you
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Reconcile this? enter it like a child, but it. but the kingdom
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Is also taken by force, right? what's the. how do you. how do
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You figure.
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>> that when it talks about. since the day of john the
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Baptist, the kingdom of suffered violence and the
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Violent. depending on what which version you're reading,
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Take it by force. it's literally saying the kingdom of
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God has been progressively being introduced. it's
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Progressively taking charge. god's kingdom is an eternal
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Kingdom. and this is the problem. it's it's this
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Separation. we, we see the the devil around every corner but
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Jesus somewhere in the distance, you know, he, his his kingdom
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Of darkness is prevailing and prevalent. but god's kingdom is
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On its way. so the difference is the distance. and i've
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Talked about this before, if you look into a telescope
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Correctly, everything is magnified. but if you turn it
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Around and look in the wrong end, everything is pushed away
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And pushed out. the theology that i grew up under was more
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Of a reverse lens. you're looking through the right lens
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Just from the wrong perspective, and it just seemed more pushed
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Out.
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>> like the kingdom was coming. maybe at christ's return, maybe
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Some distant time. and we are to just kind of hang on, hang
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On, hang in there, baby, until, until the time that the kingdom
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Is here to rescue us. is that is that kind of the way it was
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Back in the 50s when you were young?
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>> yeah, exactly. it felt more like a rescue. but the reality
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Is, is it's a recruit. it's not an escape. it's an invasion.
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>> it feels like unless you're moving by faith, and then
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That's when you get to enter the kingdom and you're now on
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The road. god's created for you because you've entered it by
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Faith. and that's when you see things happen that you would
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Never expect.
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>> you have to keep the wheels rolling. you know, when i
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Started riding motorcycle years ago, i was told as long as the
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Wheels turning, you won't fall over. you just have to keep the
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Wheel moving. you have to keep things turning. and it really
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Isn't about see prayer. we think about prayer as being
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Something we're supposed to do when we have a need. and we can.
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Of course, you can call on god and he'll answer you and and he
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Meets your needs. but that really isn't the reason for
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Prayer. the true nature of prayer. prayer means to to draw
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Close. so it's like i sat here and watched you kind of bait.
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Little shy to fall into your arms. well, you were doing that.
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You know he's going to fall. well, he's falling into your
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Arms. it isn't about to fall. it's about the approach. prayer
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Is the same thing. it really isn't, if you will. heaven
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Hands us an opportunity to to, to trust god for something. we
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Would call it a need. heaven calls it an opportunity. and
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It's the approach. god just wants us to approach him with a
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Certainty. i know who i'm praying to. you're god almighty
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And i can trust your judgment. the scripture that says this
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God, my god, his way is perfect. that approach, that's what
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Prayer is really about. it's really not about the petition
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As much as it is the approach. draw nigh to me and i'll draw
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Nigh to you. that's the kingdom of god. that's what he's saying.
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Trust the fall, you know. trust me, i'll catch you. and the
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Whole point is the whole point. i can do something that i
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Couldn't do. that must be god. that's touching the kingdom of
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God. now you're feeling you're having fun when your grandson's
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Falling into your arms, but so is he. so the joy is shared. if
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We knew my wife and i were talking about this last night,
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If we knew how joyful god is, if we knew. we see him as this
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Very stern, you know, sour, powerful, angry, god, he's so
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He's so joyful. he's so full of joy. the joy of the lord is our
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Strength. old testament the joy of the lord. he was quieting
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The people, saying, be still, be still. the joy of the lord.
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Let the joy of the lord be your strength. god loves it when we
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Fall into his arms. not only does he love it, we get to
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Enjoy the excitement of the trust. and that's what the
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Kingdom of god is about. it's the excitement of the trust.
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It's it's touching it. it's so many different things. it's so
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Diverse in its ways. it's endless. it's eternal like god.
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And it's here. it's right now. it's not in the distance, you
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Know, turn the telescope around in the right direction. we're
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Looking through the big end. you know, if you look through
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The big end, the other end, everything looks pushed away.
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Turn it around and dial it up. god put the power of life and
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Death in our hands. he told adam and eve, eat from the tree
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Of life and you'll live. eat from the tree of disobedience
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And you die. but the power is in your hands. the earth is the
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Lord's, but he's given it to man. a seed grows where it
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Doesn't grow in the sky. it grows in the earth. there's a
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Scripture that says, we are the planting of the lord in every
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Respect. he relates the kingdom of god, not as a place
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Somewhere far away, not as in the heavens. he always relates
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It to the earth. to the earth. i don't see anybody going
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Anywhere. you know, we'd like this elijah experience, but but
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We're still growing in the earth, okay? we're still here
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To produce fruit. god wants us here bearing the fruit of his
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Kingdom because he said, i'm going to. where's god going to
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Dwell in his kingdom? the word says it. and where did jesus
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Identify that kingdom? the kingdom of god is in coming the
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Way you think. it's not with observation. the kingdom of god
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Is coming out of you. god decided chose to plant the seed
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Of his kingdom right here in the earth. and we are the
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Earthen vessels. you know, this is the time. this is our time
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That we get to grow up. you know, not it's not our exodus.
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Okay, this is our entrance. yeah, this is the season. this
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Is the time where we, the kingdom of god, is manifest
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Through us. just like jesus said.
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>> this feels maybe familiar to you. you know, this location
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With that view?
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>> very much so.
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>> this is somewhat normal to you. that is something we need
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To make sure we communicate in this setting, that we're
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Supposed to go into these issues, into these, you know,
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Disciplines and bring jesus into them.
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>> well, just to reminisce for a minute, years ago, i've known
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You for.
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>> about a hundred years.
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>> yeah, yeah, a long, long time. god sent me, god sent me,
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Spoke to me, came to me in a dream and showed me hollywood.
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Now, i had never been here before, so i wasn't familiar
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With the hollywood hills. any information i had or any visual,
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Would have been from watching something on television. and
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God took me literally in my dream, took me around, drove me,
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If you will, around and just showed me, i guess you'd say a
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Bird's eye view of where he was sending me. god was sending me
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Here. so that's invading a culture that i would have been
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Taught.
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>> from. where?
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>> from arizona. tucson, arizona. i would have thought
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That as, like you said, come out from among them, be
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Separate. i mean, you don't go in there, you call them out.
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Well, if jesus had done that, our world would be a lot
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Different, wouldn't it? wow. i mean, the word says he talked
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To tax collectors and sinners and ate with them, drank with
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Them, and they said, what? you know, kind of some of that
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Generation we grew up in a little bit. what are you doing
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There? you're supposed to come out. and he said, it's not the
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The well, but it's the sick that need a physician. and what
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He's referring to are those that don't know, those that are
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Unaware of the kingdom of god, of who i am. aren't they the
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Ones that need to hear the message? and we look at a world
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Today thinking about it being so dark. if we would be as
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Curious if we would be as invasive, if we would be as
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Mindful of the kingdom of light as a lot of today's believers
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Are, of the kingdom of darkness. it would be like turning this
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Massive light bulb on in the entire world. but instead, you
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Know, we see the kingdom of darkness prevailing, the
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Kingdom of darkness doing that. but the word says, when the
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Kingdom came, when christ came, the darkness couldn't
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Comprehend it. it couldn't hold it back. it couldn't overshadow
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It. it couldn't overpower it. that's what jesus is talking
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About. that's what the kingdom is today. come in and invade
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The darkness. it's not an escape. it's an invasion. the
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Word says, the kingdom of this world become the kingdoms of
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Our god and of his christ. the light invaded the world and the
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World could not overcome it. it didn't have the power. we lost
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It. we lost our momentum. the wheels stopped turning when we
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Had to pause and address evil. instead of seeking and
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Approaching the kingdom of god, and then to make it even more
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Aggravated, we looked at the kingdom of god as a place to
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Escape to. we looked at it as a sanctuary to get away instead
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Of invasion, to come and reign and rule the kingdom of god. so
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Instead of looking at god as present and as power, we looked
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As evil, prominent and ruling and and people saying the world,
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You know, if you've asked a lot of people who the ruler of the
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World is, they'd say, well, i guess the devil, the prince of
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Darkness. jesus said, the prince of darkness has been
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Cast out. the kingdom of god is at hand. turn the light on and
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The darkness is gone. they can't dwell in the same place
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At the same time.
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>> what you just said, if we had as much faith in god.
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>> yeah, yeah.
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>> as we did in the evil.
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>> or awareness or awareness, awareness of awareness.
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>> of, of who god is as.
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>> we are to the. a devil behind every bush. but the
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Kingdom is really far away. yeah. see, the devil is behind
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Every bush.
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>> you know, gary, you talk so much though about giving our
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Attention to the devil. and that's what he wanted from the
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Very beginning.
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>> he doesn't have anything else.
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>> and and boy, we we sure give it to him. yeah. you know,
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Everything that that comes against me today is some attack.
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It's something that i have to fight or something that, you
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Know, just. it's going to eat my lunch if god doesn't do
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Something. if i had as much faith in god as i did that see
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Him, it would change our lives. you guys.
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>> change the world. that's that's the predominant feature
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Here is that the kingdom of god is at hand. we keep saying it
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Over and over, but what do we what do we mean? paul warned us
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About something. he said, listen, he said a two fold or a
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Double minded person is very unstable in everything they do.
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They're very unstable because they can't figure out or
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Determine who's in charge, you know? and so something happens,
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Something you're attacked. paul has a thorn in his flesh. well,
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It comes down to it. who's in authority? who's in control?
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God is. but but here's here's the issue that instead of
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Seeing god, we claim, we say, the lord is leading me. the
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Lord is my shepherd. i shall not want. and yet we say when
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Something happens that we don't like or we feel that our world
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Is went into total chaos, we immediately blame the devil.
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What if god is in charge? how many times have we rebuked the
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Kingdom of god? because the kingdom of god has come to do
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What god told adam and eve to do, have dominion, and subdue?
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Do you know what that means? draw the strength out and put
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It to purpose. manage. i've given you the ability to manage
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Chaos because i want my authority to be managed through
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You. but instead we. when, when, when there's something going on
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That we don't like or it can be anything i get, i get sickness
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And death and all the things that. but is god? god, the word
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Says, whether i live, i live unto god. if i die, i die unto
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God. we come live in faith and some die in faith, but
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Nonetheless, it's all to the glory of god. but if we would
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Look for god in the furnace, instead of trying to appease
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The king so we could stay out, how much more of a witness
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Would we be? sometimes in the flame, god could have
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Extinguished the flame. why didn't he? instead, he showed
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Up in it and the king says, i know i threw three people in
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There. and there's one guy that i did not have anything to do
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With. that's authority. and then the king says, can you
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Come out? i love this. my perspective is when the king
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Said, can you come out? they said, yeah, we're fine in here.
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We can come out. but i have a question for you. oh, king, can
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You come in? and that's what we're supposed to be doing is
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Saying, come into the places. how many times have we rebuked
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The hand of god because it just didn't look like something we
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Expected god to do? if the kingdom of god is all authority
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At all time, an eternal and ever present and ever powerful,
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And he has delivered us. colossians 113. he has
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Delivered us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us.
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That word means he has. we have exchanged addresses. we have
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Been re located to the kingdom of his beloved son. how can we
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Be attacked? how can the darkness invade the light? if
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We see god in everything that is taking place, we're touching
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The kingdom of god and things begin to change. the conditions
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Are perfect for the kingdom of god to rise up. there is a
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Generation of people that are getting it today, and while
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You're standing there getting a crick in your neck, looking up,
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Waiting to be rescued because you feel like you're in trouble,
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The angels are saying the same thing they said to the
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Disciples when they did that said, what are you doing here?
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Standing, staring up at the sky. go do what i called you to do.
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When i want you, i'll come get you. you don't have to worry
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About it. i know where to find you.
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>> you have to qualify for doing something god tells you
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To do. if you feel unqualified, you have to be qualified.
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>> then you do. well, there's a scripture that says, jesus said.
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It says, it says in colossians one, verse 12, it says, give
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Thanks to the father who has qualified you, the father who
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Has qualified you. he has qualified you to inherit the
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Saints in light, not just of light, but the saints in light.
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And it goes further on to say that he has delivered us from
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The kingdom of darkness and transferred, which means
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Relocated us into the kingdom of his beloved son. here's the
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Thing. when the woman addressed jesus and he said, it's not
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Meant to give the children's bread to the dogs, he wanted
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Her to elevate her perspective. she was looking at him from the
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Perspective of a need. he wanted her to see him from the
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Perspective of faith. i have prepared you. i have qualified
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You to ask. and her faith sparked more, spoke more boldly
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Than her needs did. it's an aggressive. it's the aggression
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Seeking the kingdom of god. we are here to shine in a world
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That is uncertain, and a religion has a lot to do with
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The way we look at it, because it's the kingdom of darkness
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That we have to overcome. instead of the kingdom of god,
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We have to approach.
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>> so if you have a vision in your heart and you step out to
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Accomplish it, that is the easiest way to enter the
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Kingdom. god will catch you there and you'll be walking
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Down a road he's already prepared for you.
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>> yeah. trust that what god's put in your heart. god's put in
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Your heart. he'll lead you in a way that you have to go. you
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Know, one of the simplest ways to put your foot where you're
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Supposed to is just believe my steps are ordered of god. if
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God has put something in my heart, and especially.
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>> if that by faith.
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>> yeah, especially, especially when you feel unqualified,
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Especially when you think you don't have the, the resources
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To do it. maybe you don't have the experience to do it, but
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You feel god pulling on you. that's the kingdom of god.
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That's, that's the power we're talking about.
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>> one of our dearest friends has had a very aggressive
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Disease for almost 25 years. that doesn't seem possible.
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Sometimes we we think about that. it just. and wait a
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Second. if we if we were using the analogy that we grew up in,
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Then the camp, the christ takes the disease away. he surely
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Doesn't walk with you in that. surely that's not how it works.
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But if we're if we're using that story, sometimes you're
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Going to request that you not have to have the diagnosis.
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You're going to pray against the, you know, proverbial
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Furnaces of life. but how much power was really shown that day
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When the three hebrew children were in the flame and they were
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Experiencing some something no one else could? yes, they were
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Exhibiting a power that the king couldn't understand. and
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When they came out, he fell at their feet.
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>> and said, anyone that denies this, god, you're in trouble.
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>> and we have been commanding the flame to be quenched before.
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We have to step in it all the time. peter. so thank because
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Like you were just saying, because he took his eyes off,
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Because he thought when he got to jesus, the storm would stop.
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Yeah, undoubtedly. and when he was supposed to just be there
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With him in that storm, that didn't compute. and that was
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Not what he expected. you know, god's probably asking us all to
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Do some of that. and man, how many times are we like a horse
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At the bit, you know, as it were, not wanting to go
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Somewhere because we had an expectation of what our
00:31:58.843 --> 00:32:04.616
Childhood understandings of who and what god was, you know,
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Didn't get met.
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>> well, one of the reasons too is instead of praising, we
00:32:13.024 --> 00:32:15.894
Rebuke instead of rejoicing, we resist. instead of surrendering.
00:32:15.894 --> 00:32:20.332
You know, we try to compel god. you know, sometimes praise and
00:32:20.332 --> 00:32:24.069
Worship almost feels like people are saying, okay, i've
00:32:24.069 --> 00:32:26.905
Got you, god, where i want you now i've got you where i want
00:32:26.905 --> 00:32:30.041
You. maybe now you'll answer my prayer somewhere in praise and
00:32:30.041 --> 00:32:32.978
Worship. and now i've got god right where i want him. but
00:32:32.978 --> 00:32:35.981
God's got you where he wants you. he's lord of lords. he's
00:32:35.981 --> 00:32:39.918
King of kings. and again, i've said it many times, it has to
00:32:39.918 --> 00:32:44.589
Begin with the cross and it has to continue in the kingdom.
00:32:44.589 --> 00:32:48.927
It's finished. the fullness of everything that is there. we
00:32:48.927 --> 00:32:52.530
Have a friend. he's you know him. he's a worshiper, a
00:32:52.530 --> 00:32:56.868
Worship leader. and he was recently i mean, one day he's
00:32:56.868 --> 00:32:59.804
Up on a stage singing. basically it was, you know,
00:32:59.804 --> 00:33:03.675
Something he had wanted for a long time. it was his dream
00:33:03.675 --> 00:33:06.544
Come true. and he's up on stage. and i think it's the
00:33:06.544 --> 00:33:10.181
Resurrection service. and he's singing in front of a big crowd,
00:33:10.181 --> 00:33:13.251
Big, well-known church and a strong faith believing
00:33:13.251 --> 00:33:18.857
Christians. and he's up there singing, and he told me he
00:33:18.857 --> 00:33:21.059
Thought in his mind, it doesn't get any better than this. and
00:33:21.059 --> 00:33:24.129
He said, god spoke to him and says, yes, it does. and when he
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Finished, he went up to his wife and he said, this.
00:33:28.133 --> 00:33:31.036
Something's coming. now, he had been under this teaching, so he,
00:33:31.036 --> 00:33:35.407
He had a little different perspective. but when god said,
00:33:35.407 --> 00:33:38.676
It gets better than this, instead of him going, yay! he
00:33:38.676 --> 00:33:41.579
Went, something's coming. and i say something, god's put in my
00:33:41.579 --> 00:33:46.151
Heart. and you've heard me say it many times, this is the
00:33:46.151 --> 00:33:49.120
Greatest season of your life. and i'll say that. and people
00:33:49.120 --> 00:33:52.290
Going through things, trust me, i've gone through my share. you
00:33:52.290 --> 00:33:55.493
Guys have to. we've known each other for a long, long time.
00:33:55.493 --> 00:33:58.496
We've walked through a lot of storms together, but there's
00:33:58.496 --> 00:34:01.766
Something different. i'm not saying this is what i was
00:34:01.766 --> 00:34:04.502
Hoping for, but what i'm saying is what i didn't know to ask or
00:34:04.502 --> 00:34:09.040
Think is about to take place. so he was diagnosed two, i
00:34:09.040 --> 00:34:13.144
Think it was 2 or 3 days. a week later, a few days later,
00:34:13.144 --> 00:34:16.815
He was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer. like,
00:34:16.815 --> 00:34:22.187
You're here about 30 days and you're gone from being on the
00:34:22.187 --> 00:34:25.723
Stage singing, saying, this is the this is the this is the
00:34:25.723 --> 00:34:30.428
Ultimate, it doesn't get any better. and god says it does.
00:34:30.428 --> 00:34:32.997
And then he ends up with that diagnosis and you have to look
00:34:32.997 --> 00:34:36.968
And go, oh, god, what do you mean? it doesn't get better
00:34:36.968 --> 00:34:40.004
Than this? and you say, yes, it does. and then is.
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>> this make sense? yeah.
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>> he did a podcast with me a month or a few days about a
00:34:45.577 --> 00:34:48.813
Month or so ago. and he says to me, he's sitting right across
00:34:48.813 --> 00:34:52.550
From the table. he said to me, he said, you know, he said,
00:34:52.550 --> 00:34:55.653
That was just a pinnacle moment for me. he said, but if i could
00:34:55.653 --> 00:35:00.024
Be cancer free today and yet be unaware, as unaware now as i
00:35:00.024 --> 00:35:08.933
Was then, he said i'd take the cancer any day. he said, i'd
00:35:08.933 --> 00:35:12.570
Rather be here dealing with this and knowing god the way i
00:35:12.570 --> 00:35:16.808
Know him, and understanding this is the greatest season of
00:35:16.808 --> 00:35:19.777
My life. i'd rather i would choose here if i could choose.
00:35:19.777 --> 00:35:22.981
Being there that day, thinking this is the greatest day of my
00:35:22.981 --> 00:35:26.217
Life as opposed to how i know the lord is what he was saying.
00:35:26.217 --> 00:35:29.888
What what have i, how i've experienced god? i would choose
00:35:29.888 --> 00:35:34.459
That instead of being free in cancer.
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>> in the book that has shaped a lot of theology, policy at
00:35:38.129 --> 00:35:46.070
Tbn was written by dad billheimer paul e billheimer.
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It's called destined for the throne. there's a there's a not
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A full chapter, but a little subchapter in one of the
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:57.916
Chapters where the headline is praise god for cancer. okay.
00:35:57.916 --> 00:36:04.355
And when you read that in that book, well, when you read that
00:36:04.355 --> 00:36:08.726
Title, you just go, you know what you know. and, and it goes
00:36:08.726 --> 00:36:15.166
On to make you aware that what paul billheimer was trying to
00:36:15.166 --> 00:36:22.040
Teach his generation, this is we're, we're amplifying and
00:36:22.040 --> 00:36:27.045
We're standing on the shoulders of, of others that knew this
00:36:27.045 --> 00:36:31.416
Truth in a way, but just it didn't it didn't catch the wave
00:36:31.416 --> 00:36:37.121
That a. the fire is going to be extinguished before you get
00:36:37.121 --> 00:36:43.628
There. theology espouses the cancer is going to be cured,
00:36:43.628 --> 00:36:49.767
Not you're going to walk 25 years with it and and live your
00:36:49.767 --> 00:36:54.806
Life. it's a. you know, paul billheimer is trying to explain
00:36:54.806 --> 00:36:58.543
To a generation that life sometimes won't make sense
00:36:58.543 --> 00:37:03.047
Until you stretch out and include eternity. exactly.
00:37:03.047 --> 00:37:06.651
We're on the job. training for eternity was what paul
00:37:06.651 --> 00:37:11.022
Billheimer and one of his subtitles is praise god for
00:37:11.022 --> 00:37:13.858
Cancer because he understood that's an opportunity to
00:37:13.858 --> 00:37:17.862
Believe god in an area of your life that you would never
00:37:17.862 --> 00:37:21.065
Choose for yourself. you know, how many things do we go
00:37:21.065 --> 00:37:25.003
Through? baaaaaaa our prayer request to stop it when god is
00:37:25.003 --> 00:37:30.074
Just saying, i'm going to be in this with you, and you're going
00:37:30.074 --> 00:37:33.678
To learn something that when you look at it in the rear view
00:37:33.678 --> 00:37:36.748
Mirror, you're going to go praise god for cancer.
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>> well, this gentleman is still alive today and he's
00:37:39.817 --> 00:37:42.320
Preaching all over the place. so what if your faith can
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.156
Outrun your disease? there it is. what if your perspective
00:37:45.156 --> 00:37:48.459
Can overshadow the the prognosis? what if the
00:37:48.459 --> 00:37:53.064
Diagnosis is faith in the kingdom of god? and what if the
00:37:53.064 --> 00:37:56.701
Prognosis is the faith and the kingdom of god? and what if the
00:37:56.701 --> 00:37:59.771
Outcome is the faith and the kingdom of god? whether i live
00:37:59.771 --> 00:38:02.940
Or whether i die, i do it as unto the lord. and what if in
00:38:02.940 --> 00:38:07.512
That idea of the kingdom of god we forget how to die for a
00:38:07.512 --> 00:38:12.183
Minute? what if we forget how to be sick for a minute?
00:38:12.183 --> 00:38:15.453
Because our mind is set on who god is? what if we stopped
00:38:15.453 --> 00:38:20.458
Rebuking the devil and started glorifying god? you know, the
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First thing, the only thing the devil ever wanted was the
00:38:25.463 --> 00:38:28.032
Attention that god was to have. and the church gives it to him
00:38:28.032 --> 00:38:33.438
Today. the church gives him exactly what he's wanted, all
00:38:33.438 --> 00:38:36.674
The attention rebuking. do i have to rebuke the devil in
00:38:36.674 --> 00:38:40.478
Order for him to leave? well, what if i'm walking in faith
00:38:40.478 --> 00:38:43.614
And he doesn't have any? can he really follow me? if i'm
00:38:43.614 --> 00:38:47.151
Walking in the light and he's in the dark, can he really
00:38:47.151 --> 00:38:50.355
Influence me if i know the truth and he's a lie? do i have
00:38:50.355 --> 00:38:54.158
To listen to anything he has to say? yeah, the focus has to be
00:38:54.158 --> 00:38:58.162
On who christ in us is.
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>> god says, when you pray, pray this way your kingdom come,
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Your will be done in earth as it is in heaven. we're still
00:39:03.668 --> 00:39:07.972
Here because we are a seed that is the peer, that the is is the
00:39:07.972 --> 00:39:12.310
Appearance of the kingdom and the revelation of who christ is.
00:39:12.310 --> 00:39:15.546
You're a mustard seed. jesus made it clear. he said, how
00:39:15.546 --> 00:39:18.483
Would i possibly explain the kingdom to you? i can't tell
00:39:18.483 --> 00:39:21.486
You that it's coming here or coming there, he said. that
00:39:21.486 --> 00:39:23.755
Doesn't work because that's not the nature of the kingdom, he
00:39:23.755 --> 00:39:26.691
Said, but i can explain it to you this way. think about a
00:39:26.691 --> 00:39:29.727
Mustard seed, the smallest of seeds, so no one in their own
00:39:29.727 --> 00:39:33.531
Intelligence, or lack thereof, will think that they don't have
00:39:33.531 --> 00:39:36.100
What it needs, what it takes in order to do or become all that
00:39:36.100 --> 00:39:39.737
I want them to be, because it has nothing to do with what
00:39:39.737 --> 00:39:42.807
You've done. get that it preached all the time, but we
00:39:42.807 --> 00:39:45.710
Don't hear it. it's the word of christ dwelling on the inside
00:39:45.710 --> 00:39:48.780
Of me that makes me do all the things that i do and believe
00:39:48.780 --> 00:39:51.916
All the things that i believe.
00:39:51.916 --> 00:39:53.818
>> we entered feeling very unqualified, you know, it was
00:39:53.818 --> 00:39:57.655
Very unqualified. we meet you somewhere along the way. you
00:39:57.655 --> 00:40:01.559
Have a church in hollywood lot going on, and that was us
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:11.702
Feeling like the kingdom was near.
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>> right? exactly.
00:40:14.572 --> 00:40:15.706
>> it was here in this area. this wasn't a place to be
00:40:15.706 --> 00:40:21.813
Avoided. this was a place to go into, to invade. yeah. and we
00:40:21.813 --> 00:40:26.451
Did that. but largely, i have to give credit where credit is
00:40:26.451 --> 00:40:30.254
Due. my parents at least put cultural things in movies and
00:40:30.254 --> 00:40:35.460
Film and television in a neutral category. my
00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:38.696
Grandparents had it in a negative category. my parents
00:40:38.696 --> 00:40:41.399
Put it in neutral. lori and i invaded, so it took three
00:40:41.399 --> 00:40:45.870
Generations to get a crouch into hollywood. and we've been
00:40:45.870 --> 00:40:50.942
There for a long time.
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>> but the the whole point again, is to that simple word
00:40:52.143 --> 00:40:56.080
The just shall live by faith. it's all about what? what? do
00:40:56.080 --> 00:40:59.951
You not feel qualified? what? what is it? we don't get that
00:40:59.951 --> 00:41:03.554
It's no longer i that lives, but christ that lives in me. i
00:41:03.554 --> 00:41:06.491
Mean, the first thing you need to realize when you pray is who
00:41:06.491 --> 00:41:10.194
You're praying to. i mean, you're not you're not asking
00:41:10.194 --> 00:41:12.396
Someone that is going to try and get you there. you're
00:41:12.396 --> 00:41:15.333
Talking to to god almighty. you're talking to this god, my
00:41:15.333 --> 00:41:18.202
God, his way is perfect. i look at it as it's kind of like it's
00:41:18.202 --> 00:41:21.439
All a setup. you know, we just, we just have to read the script
00:41:21.439 --> 00:41:25.343
And believe what god said. that's the script. and put your
00:41:25.343 --> 00:41:28.179
Foot in the places that you're not qualified or else paul did
00:41:28.179 --> 00:41:31.315
That. he said, listen, he said, a thorn was given me in the
00:41:31.315 --> 00:41:34.519
Flesh. he said, a messenger of satan came to buffet me in the
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.455
Flesh. this is something really interesting to me, the way god
00:41:37.455 --> 00:41:40.391
Revealed this to me. and he said, and i inquired of the
00:41:40.391 --> 00:41:43.394
Lord three times to to take it away. that's kind of us today.
00:41:43.394 --> 00:41:46.497
We, we, when something challenging happens, we
00:41:46.497 --> 00:41:48.900
Immediately think about it as an attack. well, most of the
00:41:48.900 --> 00:41:52.503
Time, especially to believers, i'm going to say all the time,
00:41:52.503 --> 00:41:55.806
It's god's kingdom because the word says, i've transferred you
00:41:55.806 --> 00:41:59.343
Out of darkness and transferred you into the kingdom of light.
00:41:59.343 --> 00:42:03.314
So how often do we resist god calling it evil when it's
00:42:03.314 --> 00:42:07.585
Really the authority of the kingdom making the way for us
00:42:07.585 --> 00:42:11.222
That we can't see clearly unless he puts us in a place
00:42:11.222 --> 00:42:14.225
Where we're totally dependent on him by faith? i have to see
00:42:14.225 --> 00:42:19.196
It. i have to know i have who are you praying to? god
00:42:19.196 --> 00:42:23.134
Almighty? is there anything too hard for me? is anything
00:42:23.134 --> 00:42:26.003
Impossible for god?
00:42:26.003 --> 00:42:27.038
>> where can i go from the presence of the lord?
00:42:27.038 --> 00:42:29.507
>> that's it. we're not going to invade the kingdom. isn't.
00:42:29.507 --> 00:42:32.376
It isn't a place of rescue. it isn't a sanctuary that we run
00:42:32.376 --> 00:42:35.713
To. it's the power of invasion. it comes and invades the world.
00:42:35.713 --> 00:42:40.051
It's authoritative, it's powerful. it's present. it's
00:42:40.051 --> 00:42:42.253
Here, it's now. so what is it that god has put on your heart?
00:42:42.253 --> 00:42:45.923
You know, what is it that you see or feel that god is calling
00:42:45.923 --> 00:42:49.894
You to do? forget the world around you and see the kingdom
00:42:49.894 --> 00:42:54.198
Of god within you? that's what it's all about, the kingdom of
00:42:54.198 --> 00:42:57.001
God. that's why jesus said, you're not going to see it. and
00:42:57.001 --> 00:42:59.937
They said, show it to us. we've done that too. we do it all the
00:42:59.937 --> 00:43:03.874
Time. show it to us. when is it coming? how long? how many
00:43:03.874 --> 00:43:06.978
Times have you heard it's getting close? i mean, it's
00:43:06.978 --> 00:43:09.814
Getting close. no, it can't get any closer. he said the kingdom
00:43:09.814 --> 00:43:12.783
Is not coming. in a way, you can observe it. you're not
00:43:12.783 --> 00:43:15.786
Going to see it coming anywhere. that's what clouds our mind is.
00:43:15.786 --> 00:43:18.789
We we see it in the distance. we don't see it for who it is.
00:43:18.789 --> 00:43:21.993
We don't see god for who he is. he said, if you call on me, i
00:43:21.993 --> 00:43:25.963
Will answer you. jeremiah 333 call me. i will answer you. god
00:43:25.963 --> 00:43:29.333
Answers you every single time.
00:43:29.333 --> 00:43:31.602
>> we all love psalms 23. yeah, gary preaches on psalms 23 just
00:43:31.602 --> 00:43:35.940
So beautifully, but i love that david being a shepherd and then
00:43:35.940 --> 00:43:42.647
Being a king, gets to look back over his life and right. psalms
00:43:42.647 --> 00:43:47.718
23. from a sheep to a guest. yeah. in the kingdom, right?
00:43:47.718 --> 00:43:55.292
Being served. and, and to me, he, he gets that perspective of
00:43:55.292 --> 00:44:02.466
Just life. the lord is my shepherd. i shall not want. so
00:44:02.466 --> 00:44:06.370
He goes through. it makes me cry. but to this point he says,
00:44:06.370 --> 00:44:10.775
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
00:44:10.775 --> 00:44:14.011
So a shadow can't hurt you, right? you can see a shadow of
00:44:14.011 --> 00:44:18.349
A of a sword. that shadow is not going to hurt me. yeah,
00:44:18.349 --> 00:44:23.020
Yeah. but though we walk through it, which means we're
00:44:23.020 --> 00:44:26.323
Going to walk through it. i'll. i'll fear no evil. yeah. so
00:44:26.323 --> 00:44:32.329
Evil's not even the point of what you get to experience
00:44:32.329 --> 00:44:37.401
Because god's with me and it's that sailor in the storm. it's
00:44:37.401 --> 00:44:42.440
It's god walking with you through these things to where
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:47.111
That shadow doesn't hurt me.
00:44:47.111 --> 00:44:49.246
>> yeah.
00:44:49.246 --> 00:44:50.314
>> because god is. god is with me.
00:44:50.314 --> 00:44:53.184
>> lori and i were sitting. we're doing a faith during war
00:44:53.184 --> 00:44:59.356
Set of interviews that are being put together here at tbn
00:44:59.356 --> 00:45:05.062
That are shot in the ukraine. and a pastor with a very large
00:45:05.062 --> 00:45:11.902
Church had an authority, a police officer or somebody like
00:45:11.902 --> 00:45:18.075
That, not a military person, but a civilian police officer,
00:45:18.075 --> 00:45:21.312
Run into their church offices. there's a big church in, in the
00:45:21.312 --> 00:45:26.016
In the ukraine and said, there's a 30 or 40 tank column
00:45:26.016 --> 00:45:33.557
Coming into our city. evacuate now. flee and get out of here.
00:45:33.557 --> 00:45:40.765
Tell everyone to leave. and and he said, we're not going
00:45:40.765 --> 00:45:46.504
Anywhere. and he said the police officer handed them one
00:45:46.504 --> 00:45:53.544
Anti-tank gun, 3 or 4 ak 47 seconds and a couple of hand
00:45:53.544 --> 00:46:00.818
Grenades. and the the pastor said, we're going to go. we're
00:46:00.818 --> 00:46:06.223
Not surrendering anything. we're we're we're going to go
00:46:06.223 --> 00:46:08.726
Meet this column. and he said, i had not one thought that i
00:46:08.726 --> 00:46:16.700
Was going to live past today. not one thought. they went put
00:46:16.700 --> 00:46:24.608
A couple of rounds in the first few tanks, some of that
00:46:24.608 --> 00:46:29.246
Scattered. they lived that day. they have repelled those forces
00:46:29.246 --> 00:46:36.821
Away from their church. they have been in a building program
00:46:36.821 --> 00:46:43.961
And they have been. the church has been hit. they've rebuilt
00:46:43.961 --> 00:46:47.765
It. they've done another finance campaign in the middle
00:46:47.765 --> 00:46:50.634
Of a war. they're building a thousand seat auditorium. and
00:46:50.634 --> 00:46:54.071
He said something that shook me when i was listening to the
00:46:54.071 --> 00:46:59.109
Translation of this beautiful content coming to tbn. and he
00:46:59.109 --> 00:47:03.781
Said. we live like there's nothing wrong until the moment
00:47:03.781 --> 00:47:11.355
We die.
00:47:11.355 --> 00:47:12.056
>> there you go.
00:47:12.056 --> 00:47:13.157
>> that's it.
00:47:13.157 --> 00:47:14.558
>> and that guy convicted me that i thought, you know, i
00:47:14.558 --> 00:47:20.397
Could sit there and i can't, i can't even i can't even start
00:47:20.397 --> 00:47:25.002
To compare challenges or this or that that we go through. and
00:47:25.002 --> 00:47:30.774
There's many, but not like that, you know, and, and you just,
00:47:30.774 --> 00:47:36.213
You just say there's a level of understanding of who god is and
00:47:36.213 --> 00:47:40.150
What his original call was to have dominion on earth, whether
00:47:40.150 --> 00:47:44.421
It's to hollywood or, or wherever it is. there is a lot
00:47:44.421 --> 00:47:49.927
That god is asking us to do, and we're praying for it to
00:47:49.927 --> 00:47:54.198
Calm down before we enter the storm. and doggone it, lord
00:47:54.198 --> 00:47:58.302
Says, get in there. and you know, earlier you were you also
00:47:58.302 --> 00:48:03.207
Mentioned another story where jesus was confronted and he he
00:48:03.207 --> 00:48:08.178
Was almost. you could read the passage in the bible that the
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Lord was shooing this lady away. you know, talk about that for a
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Minute. that i think it sets up kind of a an interesting way to
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Close out the program today.
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>> well, a in scriptures, remember, a lady came to jesus
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And asked him to heal her daughter. and jesus said, looks
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At her and he says, the king, the children's bread is not
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Meant for the dogs. you know, it sounds like, wow, wow.
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>> thanks.
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>> you know, if a pastor said that to you, you'd go, well,
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I'll never attend your church again, you know? but jesus,
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Jesus wasn't wasn't dismissing her in the way we think. and
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Again, if you if you if you will just take this perspective,
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Turn the telescope around the right way, look through the
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Right lens and draw it up close. everything changes. this is
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What jesus was doing. he wasn't trying to shoo her away. he was
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Baiting the passion of her faith. yeah, she came to jesus
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With a need, but jesus didn't address her need. he addressed
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Her faith when she said yes. but even the dogs eat the
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Crumbs that fall from the master's table. and jesus says,
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Great is your faith. what was he after? he wasn't. yeah, she
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Was after crumbs. yeah. but jesus wanted to give her his
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Kingdom. he wanted the power of his authority to have. and the
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Word says her daughter was healed and god was glorified.
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>> and i think he loves that he he enjoys. just give me just
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Give me that incentive to bless your socks off.
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>> yeah. it's what we come to god with in prayer is god. i
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Say this either god doesn't know, he doesn't care, or he's
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Lord over it all. and the first two don't count. he's lord over
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It all. so are the things that we have to deal with really
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Ever about the thing? or is it really about the approach and
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The one we.
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>> pray for the folks?
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>> father, we thank you for this great. thank you, glorious
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Day that you have made. this is the day that god has made. it
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Is the introduction not only to a moment in time, but to.
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Christ in us is. which is the hope of glory. glory is
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Manifest as god manifests his spirit and his presence through
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His people. and i pray for everyone viewing today. first
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Of all, if you pray this with me, jesus, i receive you for
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Who you are, beyond imagination, beyond calculation, beyond
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Reasoning, your lord and i just receive you by faith for who
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You are. come into my heart. forgive me of all that has
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Passed, and i receive you for my present and my future. right
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Here, right now. be lord of my life. i receive you, your grace
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And your mercy and your love. and father, we pray right now
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According to your word. holy father, our father, who is in
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Heaven, holy, reverent, mighty, is your name unmatched. your
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Kingdom come forth. your will be done in us, in these vessels,
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In earth, as it is in heaven. the same way, at the same time.
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So god be pleased, be praised, and be glorified. in jesus name
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We pray.
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>> thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth. you know,
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It's like sometimes you again, using this kind of an analogy,
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This beautiful view that we have out the window here, it's
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Like we're praying to change it instead of going in and letting
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God do something through it, you know, through us. and, and
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We're, we're, we're, we're maybe conditioned to pray for
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An outcome, for the problem to go away rather than having a
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Kingdom perspective, that god is in it all and wants to teach
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You something you never asked for, you never really volunteer
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For it. and, and maybe that's what paul was telling us
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Through all, all of scripture. his grace will be sufficient no
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Matter what the issue is. your final thoughts on your final
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Thoughts?
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>> i was just going to say, the lord uses everything, every
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Situation, every moment of your day. if if we can take just one
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Thing that we that gary said today, if we could just see god
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First.
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>> before we hand this over to any other entity that you think
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Has power more other than god, if we can just see jesus first,
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See god in it first and just say, god, what are you saying
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To me? today? we talk about satan. jesus telling satan, you
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Get behind me. i'm not going to look at you anymore. if we just
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Took him out of the picture, who would you see? now you say,
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You know what the lord we say. the lord is the lord of all.
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That's easy for us to all to say. the lord is the lord of
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All. but boy, something happens and it's like.
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>> devil you know. yeah, lord of all but that.
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>> but if we just kept our eyes on jesus, the author and the
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Finisher of my faith, everything that i hold dear,
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Everything that i have passion for, everything that god has
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Put on the inside of me. if i just look to jesus that i'm
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Going to have the grace, i'm going to see the glory of god.
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In this circumstance, all things work. just start
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Declaring what the what this says. it's what we talk about
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All the time. it's all right here. it's not hard. we've made
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It so hard.
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>> gary made it so difficult.
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>> made it so.
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>> boy, i don't know what god meant by that. and i know
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There's a lot of things that we won't understand, but i know
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That his grace is going to get us through. i know that i'm
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Going to learn through this. nothing can can harm me. if god
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Is for us, who can be against us?
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>> romans 828 is reohm.
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>> everything works together for our good.
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>> you know what.
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>> final thought gary?
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>> how can you miss if you're looking to god, the creator,
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The one that knows why everything was designed and
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Knows its purpose. the one that rules over all the nations
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Heaven and earth. who. how can you miss if he's the only one
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You look to? i mean, is there. is there any mistake? and how
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Much wasted time can we just do away with if we just go
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Straight to the king of kings and the lord of lords and say,
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Jesus, not my will, your will be done. and i know who i'm
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Praying to. almighty, ever loving, ever present god. your
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Way is perfect. i trust you, your kingdom come, your will be
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Done. whatever you want me to do, or go through your god with
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Me. and does anything else matter? if god is for you, who
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Can be against you?
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>> selah. we'll see you next time.
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>> bye bye.
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Gary Zamora: Kingdom Prayer | Praise

July 8, 2026 | 55:29

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