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project Church how we doing

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if you're new yeah if you're new my name

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is Caleb and this is my bride of 14

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years going on 15. uh Chrissy and we got

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dressed up for you today church we

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figure Vision Sunday let's pull out the

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big guns no honestly they say that if

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you're a speaker people receive the

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message better when you're wearing all

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black so every every single Vision

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Sunday we're in all black except he's in

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red yes okay cool but hey good to see

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you guys man God's doing something

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amazing in our house right now you've

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heard over this 10-year celebration

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month as we've declared we are a house

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of Life a house of Freedom last week

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Chris he talked about a house of unity

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and today we are declaring this Vision

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Sunday that we will be a House of

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Miracles I want to invite you back next

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week we are jumping back into the Book

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of Genesis this is something we've been

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doing uh for the last several months

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walking chapter by chapter through the

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Book of Genesis we love going through

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books of the Bible here at project

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church and this is the final stretch

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we're going to close out Genesis right

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before Easter can you believe we're only

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a few weeks away from Easter and so

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we're going to close out this book so

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next week we're jumping back in you

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should have got a calendar on your way

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in with everything happening this month

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uh the month of March and so we're

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excited to be jumping back in there so

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come back next week Book of Genesis is

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going to be amazing

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but you know this is a different Vision

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Sunday than normal to be honest Chrissy

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and I came to this Vision Sunday with a

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very different perspective you know in

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the past we do Vision Sunday the

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beginning of every year like this and we

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come with a lot of initiatives and ideas

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and plans and usually we have a list of

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here's all the great things we're going

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to do and our church gets excited about

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it and we're motivated by it and we have

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done much of what we've declared over

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these last years you know this year at

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first I I really had this burden this

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heart that we would put a beam on the

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top of our building and when I preached

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we would light it at the end of every

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snow I'm just kidding but come on House

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of Miracles look at we want to talk

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about miracles church God is doing

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something in the Sacramento Kings glory

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be to God keep praying for them we're

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almost there playoffs come on Breaking

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um but no I'm kidding uh but you know we

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we had we have always laid out these

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ideas these initiatives

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and this year this idea of just being a

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House of Miracles

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um we felt like God was saying you don't

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have to have all these strategies

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you don't have to have all these ideas

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what I want you to do is to just build a

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house that pursues me I really believe

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that the time for casual Christianity

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for comfortable Christianity for a

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church that that goes as wide as

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possible but not very deep that time is

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we are living in a day and age where the

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church needs to rise up be set apart

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consecrated to be the church that he's

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called us to be and he's called us to be

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a holy people a set apart people a

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different people a people that long for

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more of him and his presence not great

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initiatives and great ideas but more of

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the spirit of God moving in them and

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through them as they go out from this

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place but it has to start here Church it

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has to start with us and so I want to

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read Joshua 3 5.

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it says this Joshua said to the people

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consecrate yourselves for tomorrow the

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Lord will do wonders among you

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now the context of this is the

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Israelites have wandered in the

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wilderness for 40 years they were given

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a Promised Land but when they got to the

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promised land they were outside of it

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and they sent spies into spy the land

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and they sent 12 Spies and 10 of them

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said the Giants are too great The People

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are too big we cannot overcome them and

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two said our God is bigger than any

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giant some of you need to receive this

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over your life today you may be facing

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some Giants your God Is Bigger and

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because the people had not faith and

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they sided with the ten spies instead of

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the two one of whose name was Caleb just

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want to mention that um

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because they sided with the 10 and not

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the two God made them wander in the

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wilderness for 40 years

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and so now an entire generation has died

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off and there's a new generation that's

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risen up and they're one that God is

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calling to a deeper place

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and so he does actually something

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significant it's the same thing he did

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when he brought them out of Egypt he

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so just as a part of the Red Sea now he

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Parts the Jordan River they walk across

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on dry land after the Ark of the

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Covenant and the priests step into the

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water the water stops they could walk

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across on dry land but he asked them to

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do something this time before the

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miracle

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he said consecrate yourselves

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for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders

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among you

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you see he had them walk through a

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moment of preparation before they

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received the miracle and so today what

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Christian I want to implore to you and

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impart to you is that a House of

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Miracles is prepared through the hearts

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of its people

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so today is going to be a day of

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preparation well we are challenging you

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that you would prepare your hearts to

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receive the Miracles that God wants to

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release here's what I believe this is

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going to be House of Miracles God wants

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to release miracles in this house but

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also miracles in your life many of you

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been waiting on Miracles you've been

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expecting Miracles you've been patiently

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asking God for miracles I believe right

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now God is calling us to prepare our

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hearts for the Miracles that God wants

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to do to consecrate ourselves for the

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Miracles that God wants to release in

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this house and here's the thing so many

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times we think that Miracles are very

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external we want to see God do something

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great in our midst we want to see the

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healings we want to see that you know

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the crowds of people maybe a miracle of

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God for project church is that the the

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house is overflowing we can't fill we

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can't we can't contain everybody

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and I'm sorry that's not the vision this

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the external stuff is not what God is

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leading us to in 2023 God is imploring

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that we would work underneath the

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think about Jesus's life for 30 years

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before he had his public Ministry he

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lived in obscurity

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anonymity Church we've got to be so

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Vigilant about how we're taking care of

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things underneath the surface but here's

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the thing I want you to understand that

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you're not doing the work only God can

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do the work and the Miracles that take

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place are the Miracles that happen

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inside us and it's only what he can do

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sometimes again we think that it's just

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about the external but God I think does

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miracles in the private secret places of

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Our Lives when imperfect People Say Yes

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to God in the private places not in

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front of people not in front of the

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lights not on their highlight reels but

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when they say yes to Jesus in the

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private spaces of their life then that's

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the miracle that only God could have

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I mean there's there's revivals that are

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happening across the country we're

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hearing about it at different college

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campuses and I I honestly I've been

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disheartened when there have been a lot

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of cynical people and maybe some in this

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room and maybe even moments in my in my

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mind where it's just kind of it's like

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is God really moving there are we people

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are we seeing people saved or are people

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actually like are we actually seeing

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this this this this and that and no no

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no church we cannot have that attitude

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we have to be Seekers

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of God we have to be Seekers and we have

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to hope and want for greater and not not

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willy-nilly believe everything that's

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going on but also not being so cynical

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we need to continue to seek the face of

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God and if if it looks like the presence

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of God then we want to want that for

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ourselves we we want to have that desire

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whether it's real or not other places we

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want to just trust that God's going to

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do things in the private places let's

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stop judging

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there's no room for that

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God wants us to stay soft with him he

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wants us to be malleable in his hands

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and so we've got to prepare our hearts

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for a miracle

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and we're kind of first prepared with

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purity

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we have to get pure again that's

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something that only God can do sometimes

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we're like we'll get we'll get rid of

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this we'll pray this many times and then

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we'll fast about all these things and

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we'll do this this that and the other

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and God's saying not the list church not

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the list it's what am I going to do

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Psalm 51 10-15 12. it says this created

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me a clean heart oh God and renew a

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right Spirit Within Me cast me not away

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from your presence and take not your

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Holy Spirit from me restore to me the

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joy of your salvation and uphold me with

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a willing Spirit you know when I sing

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that song There was a song that if

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you're in Sunday school a long time ago

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um you may have sung the song

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creating me I clean anybody are

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oh my God come on if you know it thank

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you and renew a right Spirit

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oh I hear it a few of them know it and

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cast me not away from your presence oh

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Lord yeah right

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this is me this is me when I was a

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little kid keep saying

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created me a clean heart I suck I'm so

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good okay so that's really dramatic but

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I think that we get into these places in

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these spaces and we're like oh God I

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suck oh help me and we feel like

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surrender and consecration is like

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and God wants to remind us that

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surrender and Consecration and him doing

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the work in US frees us up

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it gives us access to life and freedom

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and Jesus and this isn't a moment of

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Sorrow this is a moment where we realize

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that he can restore unto us the joy of

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his salvation that he gives us and then

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he upholds us so that we are willing to

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do what he wants us to do consecration

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leads us to obedience

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and when we are obedient there is a

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different kind of joy that is restored

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unto us it's not like I have to do these

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things and consecrate myself

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God says I will restore unto you the joy

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of my salvation I give to you and I will

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uphold you with a willing spirit I

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believe that this house in 2023 will be

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singing in the most joyful manner that

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we've ever sung before

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when the house of the Lord has joyful

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singing then that's a house that is

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ready to experience a move of God that

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means God is doing something deep in our

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hearts bring up a well inside and nope

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just all the old songs are coming to me

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okay the joy of the Lord is my strength

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okay just us it's fine that's right it's

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okay so anyways the joy of the Lord is

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kind of renewed in us a right Spirit it

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will uphold us and that Joy will lead us

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to the preparation of praise

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preparation with Purity then preparation

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with praise Psalm 34 1 says this I will

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bless the Lord at all times his praise

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shall continually be in my mouth when we

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have the joy of the Lord and we realize

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that we've been free in him that we have

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life and life eternal in him when we are

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so desperate and dependent on the Holy

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Spirit then we become grateful

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a grateful church is a joyful Church a

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grateful church is positioned for God to

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do what only he can do because when

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we're

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in our own spheres upholding ourselves

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and we're doing what we can do in our

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own strength there's no room for God to

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move we're taking up too much space and

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let me tell you a reason why I love the

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second song that we're saying it's all

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about the altar it's all about

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Consecration and it's saying be

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glorified the goal of making a sacrifice

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of praise and we bring the sacrifice of

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praise so when we praise God when we

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sacrifice things we're giving him room

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to move so that he would be glorified

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church I'm afraid that there have been

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moments either in our church and in the

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church in America in the church globally

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where we have taken and stolen credit

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from where credit is due

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good are we glorifying god with some of

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our visions and some of our plans or are

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we actually glorifying ourselves

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so we've got to get to a place of

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Consecration and purity of the Lord and

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so when we're prepared and Purity we're

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prepared In Praise

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let's never let the praise of who he is

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and what only he can do and only glorify

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his name let that never leave our lips

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gratitude gratitude it's good I think

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that

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we have a natural Incarnation to lament

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what we don't have rather than praise

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God for what we do have and it's why I

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see a lot of Christians discouraged

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defeated depressed because we're

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focusing on the wrong things and I know

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there's some things missing in your life

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but there's also a lot of things that

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you could give God some praise for and

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so I just want to challenge you that you

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would wake up every morning with an

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attitude a mindset a spirit of praise

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and gratitude because it will shift your

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life I believe I've seen it in my life

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when I wake up in the morning and I'm

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feeling sorry for myself for all the

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things that haven't come to pass that's

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how I live that entire day but when I

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wake up in the morning saying God I

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praise you because you've blessed me you

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give me this that that you came through

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in the past I know you're going to come

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through again for me in the future even

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if I'm still waiting on some things so

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let's be a people of Praise church this

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is how we prepare ourselves for the

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miracle that God's going to release

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we also prepare with prayer prepare with

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prayer we have decided and determined

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that this will be a House of Prayer

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we can't be a House of Miracles if we

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are not a house of prayer and I'm going

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to be honest that we have not been the

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house of prayer that we were meant to be

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for several years of this church but no

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longer Church part of the vision today

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is that we are rolling out regular

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prayer rooms in this house every single

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week that is the vision it's not the

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sexy strategy that maybe you were hoping

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for it's not all the cool things that

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maybe you thought we would do but I

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believe that prayer is where our power

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comes from and if we determine to be a

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House of Prayer we will see God move in

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a way like never before we don't need to

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have all the strategies prayer is our

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strategy seeking God is our strategy his

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presence is our strategy the prayer room

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will be our war room

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so here's what's going down every

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Wednesday we've been doing this for a

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year noon to one we have prayer and we

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haven't talked about it a ton but now

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we're putting it out there it's our

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prayer room you can be here in this room

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12 to 1 every single Wednesday Tuesday

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Mornings Christy's been doing this with

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a handful of girls for the last six

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months 6 a.m to 7 A.M prayer room if you

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want to get up early you're an early

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riser not me praise the Lord

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um I'll walk with God in the cool of the

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evening but my wife loves my wife loves

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to get up early and pray

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she'll be here a group of people will be

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here you can come 6 a.m Thursday nights

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7 P.M right we're gonna have an hour of

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prayer as well regular prayer rooms

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happening in this house and I believe

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when we prioritize this and we say

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prayer truly is our power and we live as

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a House of Prayer we're going to start

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to see the move of God we've been hoping

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for we're going to start to see the

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Miracles that God has called us to to

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have so let me let me read this so you

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guys know Ephesians chapter six the

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whole armor of God I'm going to read the

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end of it

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verse 16 says in all circumstances take

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up the shield of Faith with which you

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can extinguish all the Flaming darts of

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the evil one take the helmet on

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salvation the sword of the spirit which

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is the word of God verse 18 praying at

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all times in the spirit

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not sometimes at all times in the spirit

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with all prayer and supplication to that

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and keep alert with all perseverance

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making supplication for the Saints we

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are going to prepare this house to be a

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House of Miracles by saying we will be a

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place and a house of prayer as well so

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that's what we're declaring church

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that's the vision of 2023 part of it is

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that we will be a place of prayer a

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house of prayer and I believe God's

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going to honor this and he's going to do

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Mighty Works through his people but can

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I tell you the War Room the prayer room

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is hard work yes

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praying without ceasing is hard work

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and I know some of you going well that's

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not me I'm not a prayer Warrior I'm not

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an intercessor can I tell you we are all

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called to pray God has called every one

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of us to pray you may not be able to be

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out of these prayer rooms all the time

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but I would encourage you that you would

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prioritize prayer in your personal life

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daily because I think that God is

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raising up a church of Prayer Warriors

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and that because of that he's going to

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pour out his spirit in this house like

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never before let's pray let's prepare

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with prayer yes and if we prepare with

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prayer we're also saying that we're

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preparing with presence

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so when we first started our church we

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had about 10

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10 blueprints which are our core values

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and you've heard us talk about this a

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lot so Jesus is our message Bible is our

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God creative is our spirit oh man you're

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blessing me by coming back with me team

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is our strength Community is our heart

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prayer is our power

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and generosity is our privilege and

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generations are our goal and then my

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father-in-law came on came on staff and

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he's just like you know there's

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something missing he's like you guys

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don't say anything about servanthood and

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we're like ah servanthood servanthood

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our calling so then we had 11. 11

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Blueprints and then this year rolled

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around in October the Lord was speaking

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to us and one one thought it wasn't

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really from the Holy Spirit but one

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thought that I had was that there were

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12 disciples

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it's a joke guys

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12 tribes of Judah yeah right 12 is the

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round number but honestly he gave us

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this idea

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that you've got to prioritize my

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presence

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you can do all these other things but

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which is the which is the priority

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which is a priority

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the presence of God has got to be our

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priority and when we say that the

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presence of God is our priority we're

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saying that we're so desperate to be in

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his presence that if we are outside of

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his presence we are probably walking in

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disobedience

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and when where is not presence and I

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talked about this last week and I really

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encourage you to go back and listen to

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the message on Unity without Unity there

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is no presence

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and I want you to hear this this is um a

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moment that Moses had with God on a

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Mountainside and he's it's Exodus 33

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14-15 and God is telling him I'm going

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to favor you I'm going to help you I'm

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gonna go with you Moses but sometimes

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when we have conversations with God

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sometimes we hear him but we're like I'm

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still scared but I still you know

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anybody else like when he's trying to

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encourage you the thing about this the

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story that I stumbled upon is that Moses

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is having a a Moses intercession is what

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the subject line is for this portion of

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scripture he's is having intercession

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with God and it's like Caleb said every

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one of us is called to be an intercessor

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a lot of us are called not to just be

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like sad look no it's for us to be

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joyful intercessors because an

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intercession moment is a moment with an

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appointment with God

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all of us should be making appointments

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with God and so this is a like you see

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an intercession here in the Old

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Testament God meeting with Moses and

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he's trying to encourage

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Moses and he's saying my presence will

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go with you that's a promise he's

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promising when you are in the presence

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of God you have access to his promises

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he says my presence will go with you and

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I will give you rest when we prioritize

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the presence of God we stop relying on

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ourselves

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self-dependence is no longer

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self-sufficiency is no longer when we're

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in the presence of God we have an

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opportunity for that to be broken off of

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us and we say that we are going to find

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rest the promise of being in his

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presence is that we find rest

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my presence will go with you and I will

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give you rest verse 15 and he said to

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him Moses it's like bro were you

544
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:18,539
listening he says if your presence will

545
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,460
not go with me do not bring us up from

546
00:21:18,539 --> 00:21:22,320
here

547
00:21:20,460 --> 00:21:24,240
it's okay that even when you're in the

548
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:27,179
presence of God there's some uncertainty

549
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:29,280
but I promise you you'll find rest and

550
00:21:27,179 --> 00:21:31,320
when you find rest you'll stop doing

551
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:34,380
things in your own strength that will

552
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:36,840
lead you to the wrong places

553
00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:38,760
so God wants us to prioritize his

554
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,380
presence and he wants to encourage us

555
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,000
that I'm going to give you rest that

556
00:21:40,380 --> 00:21:43,799
it's not about the list it's not about

557
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,320
the how good of a Christian you are it's

558
00:21:43,799 --> 00:21:48,900
about how much you dwell in me and know

559
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,700
me in the secret place you guys this is

560
00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:53,880
under the service

561
00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:56,400
surface our appointments with God when

562
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,980
we're either in these settings or by

563
00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,020
ourselves there are under the surface

564
00:21:58,980 --> 00:22:03,480
work that God says if this is going to

565
00:22:01,020 --> 00:22:04,980
be a deeper people then they've got to

566
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,080
meet with me

567
00:22:04,980 --> 00:22:09,840
and we are going to be a church that

568
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,460
goes deeper with him by making the

569
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,860
presence of God our priority and like I

570
00:22:11,460 --> 00:22:16,440
said last week Unity doesn't happen

571
00:22:13,860 --> 00:22:18,299
without the presence of God

572
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,100
if we want the presence of God we're

573
00:22:18,299 --> 00:22:22,020
going to prioritize unity and you know

574
00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:24,059
there's a moment a couple years ago

575
00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:25,679
where I had a friend and she has a lot

576
00:22:24,059 --> 00:22:27,059
of prophetic dreams and she spoke to me

577
00:22:25,679 --> 00:22:29,100
and she was just like I had this dream

578
00:22:27,059 --> 00:22:32,159
I'm not sure what it's all about but

579
00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:34,440
there was a window that was open in your

580
00:22:32,159 --> 00:22:36,299
in a house and I think I think it was

581
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,880
you I think it was your house and this

582
00:22:36,299 --> 00:22:42,360
demon came in it was a crazy chick crazy

583
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,679
crazy chick sometimes demons look like

584
00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:46,100
crazy chicks okay

585
00:22:43,679 --> 00:22:49,860
um came in and ransacked your house

586
00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:50,900
it was crazy and it was so interesting

587
00:22:49,860 --> 00:22:53,400
that

588
00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:55,320
the next year

589
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,780
um when I looked back on it a year after

590
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,520
she had shared this with me I realized

591
00:22:57,780 --> 00:23:01,559
that I had access

592
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,900
in my life and my life kind of looked

593
00:23:01,559 --> 00:23:05,580
like it was in disarray privately you

594
00:23:03,900 --> 00:23:07,980
guys may not have thought so up here I

595
00:23:05,580 --> 00:23:09,840
was I was like but me I'm preaching on

596
00:23:07,980 --> 00:23:11,580
Sundays I'm helping people I'm doing the

597
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:14,640
right thing I'm like I'm following my

598
00:23:11,580 --> 00:23:16,500
calling but I realize that there was an

599
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,780
access point in my life and you know

600
00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:22,320
what access looks like

601
00:23:18,780 --> 00:23:25,440
it looks like wounds that are unhealed

602
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:28,380
it looks like vulnerabilities

603
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:30,720
that you are being self-sufficient in

604
00:23:28,380 --> 00:23:33,720
it looks like weaknesses that you are

605
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:37,200
applying your own strength to and I

606
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:39,600
realized that that was a warning that

607
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,520
dream was a warning and I had to repent

608
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,500
because there were areas in my life and

609
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,260
therapy helps conversations with loved

610
00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:48,659
one helps and being in the presence of

611
00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:50,760
God is the ultimate help

612
00:23:48,659 --> 00:23:53,580
where he illuminated some things about

613
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:55,559
myself he healed some areas that needed

614
00:23:53,580 --> 00:23:57,600
to be healed he showed me where I had

615
00:23:55,559 --> 00:23:59,820
some doors open to enemies and let me

616
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,220
tell you division happens in the body of

617
00:23:59,820 --> 00:24:05,580
Christ because there are wounds

618
00:24:02,220 --> 00:24:08,220
and when those go unhealed we stay

619
00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:10,740
severed from the body of Christ and when

620
00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:13,020
we are not repaired how are we going to

621
00:24:10,740 --> 00:24:16,380
hold the presence

622
00:24:13,020 --> 00:24:18,840
if there's Brokenness everywhere

623
00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:22,260
God wants us to prioritize the presence

624
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:24,900
and for us to be unified as a body so

625
00:24:22,260 --> 00:24:27,960
that we can hold his presence so that

626
00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:30,600
all of us can be presence carriers

627
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,760
because this is what needs to be served

628
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:37,200
to the rest of this world

629
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:39,659
hope love peace that happens when the

630
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,220
presence is in us but I believe that God

631
00:24:39,659 --> 00:24:43,140
wants to heal someplace some marriages

632
00:24:41,220 --> 00:24:45,960
there's some division in marriages

633
00:24:43,140 --> 00:24:47,940
because we're unwilling to be healed

634
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,280
we're we have some issues at our

635
00:24:47,940 --> 00:24:51,600
workplaces we have some issues with some

636
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,820
family members

637
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:55,380
and God wants to heal that up so that

638
00:24:53,820 --> 00:24:57,179
you can carry the presence of God he

639
00:24:55,380 --> 00:24:59,580
wants to cauterize some of those wounds

640
00:24:57,179 --> 00:25:02,640
that you're experiencing where it is

641
00:24:59,580 --> 00:25:04,500
just access points for the enemy so I

642
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:07,919
want to just declare right now that we

643
00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:10,880
are going to be healed in Jesus name

644
00:25:07,919 --> 00:25:14,880
and we are saying you have no access

645
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:16,559
to me or to this body I am keeping my

646
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:19,080
eyes on him it doesn't mean that you're

647
00:25:16,559 --> 00:25:21,240
gonna feel healed the next day or maybe

648
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,380
he can do a miraculous work but we're

649
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,900
going to say I'm going to be so

650
00:25:22,380 --> 00:25:27,419
dependent on God that there's no access

651
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:31,140
for the enemy to have in my life

652
00:25:27,419 --> 00:25:34,799
so with this presence and preparing a

653
00:25:31,140 --> 00:25:38,940
heart with the presence of God we felt

654
00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:41,580
led to shift our first Wednesdays to

655
00:25:38,940 --> 00:25:42,860
call them now presence nights where

656
00:25:41,580 --> 00:25:47,340
we're going to

657
00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:50,640
Foster welcome and and encourage the

658
00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:52,799
presence of God to be in this place now

659
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,720
I know he's here because When Jesus

660
00:25:52,799 --> 00:25:56,640
ascended to heaven the Holy Spirit came

661
00:25:54,720 --> 00:26:00,120
down dwells in every one of us

662
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:02,640
but when we gather together there is a a

663
00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:04,860
power in it because now all of us as

664
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,260
presence carriers coming together

665
00:26:04,860 --> 00:26:09,419
there's a heavier presence in the room

666
00:26:07,260 --> 00:26:11,840
that

667
00:26:09,419 --> 00:26:11,840
is

668
00:26:31,559 --> 00:26:36,720
this is this guy it resets sometimes

669
00:26:34,380 --> 00:26:38,520
it's no worse we're not live anymore

670
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:42,140
like that here we said sometimes so okay

671
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,140
have y'all said something no

672
00:26:46,559 --> 00:26:52,140
what does that mean Caleb

673
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:56,460
that means you were meant to do this

674
00:26:52,140 --> 00:26:58,039
Faith Journey alongside others

675
00:26:56,460 --> 00:27:01,140
you know I think we live in a very

676
00:26:58,039 --> 00:27:02,240
individualistic society and I can relate

677
00:27:01,140 --> 00:27:04,260
to this because I'm a very

678
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,940
individualistic person

679
00:27:04,260 --> 00:27:07,500
it's been a challenge on our marriage

680
00:27:05,940 --> 00:27:09,900
Chrissy will tell you

681
00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:12,179
because I like to do me

682
00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:15,480
I just like to do me I got my own time

683
00:27:12,179 --> 00:27:17,820
with God I like to work out by myself

684
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:21,299
um I like to to you know study the Bible

685
00:27:17,820 --> 00:27:23,760
on my own worship on my own and there's

686
00:27:21,299 --> 00:27:26,100
this tendency in our culture I'm just

687
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,559
gonna do me

688
00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:30,240
it's not how God intended it in the

689
00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:32,580
family of God

690
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:35,039
he said you're a family

691
00:27:32,580 --> 00:27:37,500
there's unity in community

692
00:27:35,039 --> 00:27:40,320
he saw that it wasn't good for Adam to

693
00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:44,279
be alone so he made him a Helper and

694
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:46,320
then he called us to be one in Christ

695
00:27:44,279 --> 00:27:48,600
so I just want to say this over you

696
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,760
you're not gonna agree with every

697
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,620
perspective of everyone in the room

698
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,170
you're not going to see everything the

699
00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:54,419
same

700
00:27:53,170 --> 00:27:56,340
[Music]

701
00:27:54,419 --> 00:27:58,500
but in this room

702
00:27:56,340 --> 00:28:01,799
black white

703
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:05,100
Brown everything in between

704
00:28:01,799 --> 00:28:07,380
We Are One in Jesus Christ you don't

705
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:09,020
come from the same side of town maybe

706
00:28:07,380 --> 00:28:11,580
you don't have the same Financial

707
00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:13,620
backing maybe you didn't have the same

708
00:28:11,580 --> 00:28:15,299
upbringing you didn't grow up in the

709
00:28:13,620 --> 00:28:18,360
church or you've been in it since you

710
00:28:15,299 --> 00:28:21,419
were born it doesn't matter we are one

711
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:23,159
in Jesus Christ and we must align

712
00:28:21,419 --> 00:28:25,620
ourselves with one another under the

713
00:28:23,159 --> 00:28:28,020
banner of Jesus watch because it's under

714
00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:30,480
him that we were called to bring Heaven

715
00:28:28,020 --> 00:28:32,940
to Earth it's under him that we were

716
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:36,779
given dominion over this Earth and said

717
00:28:32,940 --> 00:28:37,919
bring Heaven here build my kingdom here

718
00:28:36,779 --> 00:28:40,860
on Earth

719
00:28:37,919 --> 00:28:43,200
so how do we prepare Church

720
00:28:40,860 --> 00:28:45,779
we prepare with each other

721
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,120
how do we prepare for the Miracles we

722
00:28:45,779 --> 00:28:50,460
have to be one

723
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,440
in Christ

724
00:28:50,460 --> 00:28:55,260
can I tell you you you're never going to

725
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:57,000
be one apart from Christ

726
00:28:55,260 --> 00:28:59,179
because apart from Christ you're too

727
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,179
different

728
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:04,260
apart from Christ you have too much of

729
00:29:01,980 --> 00:29:06,900
your own perspectives

730
00:29:04,260 --> 00:29:09,179
but in Christ

731
00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:10,980
We Are One

732
00:29:09,179 --> 00:29:12,419
and so I believe that the unique

733
00:29:10,980 --> 00:29:14,760
Christie talked about last week and

734
00:29:12,419 --> 00:29:18,659
unity he's called us to as a church it

735
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:19,980
is the going to be the precursor for the

736
00:29:18,659 --> 00:29:21,840
Miracles that he wants to release in

737
00:29:19,980 --> 00:29:23,760
this place so you must right now say I

738
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,679
am going to build the kingdom of God

739
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:28,679
with the people that he's aligned me

740
00:29:25,679 --> 00:29:30,659
with with the people that he's placed in

741
00:29:28,679 --> 00:29:33,179
my life

742
00:29:30,659 --> 00:29:36,860
Matthew 9.

743
00:29:33,179 --> 00:29:42,799
there's a story Jesus is teaching

744
00:29:36,860 --> 00:29:45,720
and he tells using this powerful analogy

745
00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:48,539
he says no one puts a piece of unshrunk

746
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,460
cloth on an old garment

747
00:29:48,539 --> 00:29:51,480
for the patch tears away from the

748
00:29:50,460 --> 00:29:54,179
Garment

749
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:57,480
and a worse terror is made

750
00:29:54,179 --> 00:29:59,220
neither is new wine put into old wine

751
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,960
skins

752
00:29:59,220 --> 00:30:03,000
we don't really understand this but in

753
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,799
that day this is how they would prepare

754
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,600
wine they would take wine they would put

755
00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:09,059
it in these leather pouches these wine

756
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,320
skins but you always put new wine and

757
00:30:09,059 --> 00:30:13,559
new wine skins

758
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:16,620
and as the wine AIDS the wine skin would

759
00:30:13,559 --> 00:30:19,559
Age with it they were in tandem together

760
00:30:16,620 --> 00:30:22,500
if it is if you put new wine in old wine

761
00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:25,200
skins the Skins burst and the wine is

762
00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:27,659
spilled and the Skins are destroyed

763
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:32,520
but new wine is put into fresh wine

764
00:30:27,659 --> 00:30:34,679
skins and so both are preserved

765
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:37,500
this is talking

766
00:30:34,679 --> 00:30:39,840
about this new message

767
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:42,120
that God had called him to release on

768
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,279
the earth that he was establishing a New

769
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,320
Covenant he was the Fulfillment of the

770
00:30:44,279 --> 00:30:47,880
Covenant which they'd seen in the Old

771
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,580
Testament

772
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:53,039
and in the same way I felt like today as

773
00:30:50,580 --> 00:30:56,279
we came in here

774
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:58,500
that there are people in this room

775
00:30:56,279 --> 00:30:59,700
that have not allowed the old things of

776
00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:02,520
their life

777
00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:06,000
to be put to rest

778
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:08,700
they have not let go of the old ways

779
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,779
maybe it's sin that you have not let go

780
00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:13,380
of

781
00:31:09,779 --> 00:31:15,600
that you stayed connected to maybe it's

782
00:31:13,380 --> 00:31:17,820
trauma and pain that you have not been

783
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:20,100
healed of that Chrissy talked about it's

784
00:31:17,820 --> 00:31:22,080
baggage that you haven't laid down at

785
00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:25,500
the foot of the cross

786
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:28,919
it's unforgiveness that you've held on

787
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:31,740
to and it's become this toxicity in your

788
00:31:28,919 --> 00:31:33,299
life it's bitterness that you have not

789
00:31:31,740 --> 00:31:35,220
given over to God here's what I want to

790
00:31:33,299 --> 00:31:36,899
say to you God is doing a new thing

791
00:31:35,220 --> 00:31:39,840
right now in our house

792
00:31:36,899 --> 00:31:41,820
he wants to release some new wine and

793
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:44,279
new Miracles over your life

794
00:31:41,820 --> 00:31:46,200
you will not be able to receive it if

795
00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:49,500
you don't let go of the old

796
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:52,320
you can't put new wine in old wine skins

797
00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:55,020
you can't receive the new promise the

798
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:57,179
new anointing the new touch from God the

799
00:31:55,020 --> 00:31:59,580
new Miracles if you're still stuck in

800
00:31:57,179 --> 00:32:01,740
all the things of your past you're still

801
00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:04,320
staying how you were when you first met

802
00:32:01,740 --> 00:32:06,059
Jesus and so today in this place I felt

803
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,380
like I want to say there are people that

804
00:32:06,059 --> 00:32:09,120
are still holding on to the old wine

805
00:32:07,380 --> 00:32:11,880
skins it is time for them to lay them

806
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:14,279
down so I can put the new wine in the

807
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,559
new wine skin of their life heads bowed

808
00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:18,419
eyes closed across this room that's you

809
00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:20,520
you say Caleb that's me I've been

810
00:32:18,419 --> 00:32:23,820
holding on to things of old sins

811
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:25,440
bitterness unforgiveness trauma pain I

812
00:32:23,820 --> 00:32:27,240
haven't let it go I haven't given it to

813
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,340
God I've allowed myself to stay in

814
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,559
bondage and today you're saying I'm done

815
00:32:29,340 --> 00:32:33,600
I want the new wine to go in the new

816
00:32:31,559 --> 00:32:35,580
wine skin I don't want to stay stuck in

817
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,620
the old way of thinking the old way of

818
00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:39,840
life the old wine skin that I've been in

819
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for all these years today that's you I

820
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want you to lift your hand come on go

821
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ahead that's you put your hands up yes

822
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hands going up around the room you got

823
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yourself stuck in the old ways and God's

824
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wanted to do a new thing thank you thank

825
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you for your honesty for putting your

826
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hands up you can put them down

827
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second thing you're in this place you

828
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say Caleb honestly

829
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I don't even have relationship with

830
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Jesus I don't know Jesus I've never

831
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surrendered my heart to Jesus maybe you

832
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,840
ran from him maybe you turned your back

833
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,700
on him you tried to do it in your

834
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strength your way but today you know

835
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that in order for you to receive the

836
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Miracles in order for you to receive the

837
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the faith that God wants the new wine

838
00:33:11,159 --> 00:33:15,000
that God wants to put on your life you

839
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have to surrender your heart fully to

840
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him that's you

841
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I want you to lift your hand right now

842
00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:20,399
go if that's unique give your life to

843
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,799
Jesus a first time rededicate yourself

844
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yes I see that hand yes I see that hand

845
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anyone else

846
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:29,159
yes I see that handle

847
00:33:27,179 --> 00:33:31,260
come on that's what is yes I see that

848
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hand

849
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you can put your hands down pray this

850
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with me Church everybody in here right

851
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now

852
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say this with me say Jesus today I

853
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:45,179
receive forgiveness

854
00:33:41,940 --> 00:33:49,399
over my life over my sin

855
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today we are laying down our old ways

856
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our old sin old way of thinking

857
00:33:53,340 --> 00:33:59,700
old perspectives

858
00:33:55,279 --> 00:34:02,640
unforgiveness trauma God pain we're

859
00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:03,779
asking you to heal it we want new wine

860
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,940
skins

861
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for the new wine you're going to pour

862
00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:09,960
out on our lives we pray all this in

863
00:34:08,460 --> 00:34:12,179
your name Jesus

864
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:15,540
amen amen come on Church stand your feet

865
00:34:12,179 --> 00:34:16,679
with us here's what I want to do

866
00:34:15,540 --> 00:34:19,139
here's what I want to do I'm going to

867
00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:20,159
invite the prayer team forward uh to

868
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come

869
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up to the front

870
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As we sing this this is a House of

871
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:30,000
Miracles that we come alive in the name

872
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,240
of Jesus there's some people in this

873
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,879
room that you need to be healed

874
00:34:32,240 --> 00:34:37,560
the old things that have held on to you

875
00:34:35,879 --> 00:34:39,960
the unforgiveness the bitterness the

876
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,780
pain that which you have not allowed God

877
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:45,540
to heal I want you to step out there's

878
00:34:42,780 --> 00:34:49,440
no judgment here this is a house of life

879
00:34:45,540 --> 00:34:50,700
and freedom and love and unity and so I

880
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,020
believe there's people in this room you

881
00:34:50,700 --> 00:34:54,240
need healing

882
00:34:52,020 --> 00:34:56,820
take a let go of the old wine skins and

883
00:34:54,240 --> 00:34:58,320
step into the new and so as we sing this

884
00:34:56,820 --> 00:35:00,119
I want you to come our prayer team wants

885
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,339
to pray with you encourage you uh Speak

886
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:04,560
Life over you but let's sing this and

887
00:35:02,339 --> 00:35:07,560
let this be our declaration that this is

888
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:09,180
a House of Miracles that in Jesus we

889
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,160
will find the light that we've been

890
00:35:09,180 --> 00:35:12,900
called to so come on lift your voices

891
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:16,099
with us step out if you need prayer

892
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:16,099
today our prayer team is here