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We welcome you to the We Are 
Zion sermon podcast. 

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We are a church based out of 
Chennai, India. 

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We are thrilled that you tuned 
in today and hope that you will 

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be refreshed, revived, and 
energized by what you hear. 

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Our desire is that you will live
life with a renewed sense of 

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purpose that stems from a 
vibrant faith in Jesus. 

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This summer we are going deeper 
into heartwarming movies to find

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gospel gems and Kingdom truths 
for our everyday life. 

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As you listen in, we hope that 
through these familiar 

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characters and sweet stories, 
you have a fresh revelation of 

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the victorious life we have in 
Christ. 

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The sermon title for today is 
called Learning Mode Activated. 

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How many of you feel like you're
placed in a place like that and 

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you're completely clueless? 
All those who are working, how 

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many of you feel suddenly the 
workplace you went to look 

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familiar and now with AI and 
everything, it feels uncharted 

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territory. 
Some of us probably feels a 

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Homer like that. 
We need to learn. 

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How many feel like your 
marriages need learning more 

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activated by the laughs of it? 
I'm guessing all of us are there

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that same place. 
So one of the things that we see

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in this is he's sent into that 
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He's unable to communicate, He's
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to. 
He seems useless. 

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And there's a mode that he goes 
into activate himself. 

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And now as I was preparing the 
summon, I just felt like, God, 

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we're always in learning mode 
when it comes to your word. 

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What what more is there, God, 
for us to learn? 

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But I felt that we have 
resistant many a times to 

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learning. 
Like every Sunday we seem to be 

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hearing God's word, yet we feel 
like we lack faith. 

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How many of you feel that we 
hear keep hearing God's word? 

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We also struggle to get away 
from that sin pattern. 

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How many of you we are hearing 
God's word, but yet we fail to 

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become doers of God's Word. 
How many of you feel that? 

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And so today, as we look into 
this, I just want us to come to 

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a place of a renewed 
understanding that we're going 

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to learn no matter what age 
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Is that a settling thought? 
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man, only if I can get over 
college, I'm done. 

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I don't have to study. 
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you're to study after getting 
into work because if you want to

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climb up the ladder, you need to
write that certification course.

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You have to do this, you have to
do that. 

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There's always learning. 
So I pray and ask that as we 

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move into a different spheres, 
the more older you get, the more

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you have to learn. 
Just imagine your grandparents. 

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They lived at a time where, you 
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where the phone was something 
very distant. 

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It was never in their house. 
You have to go place a call 

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trunk call. 
You have to go there. 

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There are you used to talk 
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the minute it crosses over that 
you have to pay for the next, 

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next bracket, the pay bracket, 
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They've shifted all through 
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And today suddenly they're 
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just imagine they don't have to 
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That's the bane of that, that 
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They have to get the passbook 
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How many of you had grandparents
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And I have to go to the bank 
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I have to get my passbook 
updated. 

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So learning mode is there 
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As long as we're living in this 
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building a Tower of Babel, 
learning mode is there. 

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The minute we build a Tower of 
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not learning anything. 
We are so full of puzzles. 

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So one of the verses I wanted to
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was from Proverbs 19 eight. 
The one who gets wisdom loves 

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life. 
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understanding will soon prosper.
In fact, in the passion, it says

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this, do yourself a favour and 
love wisdom. 

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Learn all you can then watch 
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You know, a lot of times, 
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world. 
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pastors group and as we were, it
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were there, one of the pastors 
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He ended up praying Lord, we 
thank you. 

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We believe you're seated on the 
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We believe you will establish 
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We thank you for the new 
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And he told that and he finished
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pastors are like, I thought we 
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government to continue. 
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And he just realized how that 
one syllable can and change the 

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entire narrative, you know? 
And so today I want us to be in 

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a place, whoever God seats, 
whatever happens in my career, 

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whatever happens even in life, 
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are seated here, we've been 
through COVID, so now we can go 

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through anything. 
LPG shortage, yes, it's getting 

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worse. 
We think the war is going to get

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over. 
It's not getting over. 

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There's confusion in the world. 
Through all of that, God will 

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enable us to continuously keep 
learning and applying what He's 

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asking us to learn. 
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our own lives, if learning mode 
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can't have too much of God. 
We can't have too much of His 

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promises. 
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something of Him that sustains 
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So I pray that we'll come to a 
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God help me change my 
perspective. 

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How many of your first culture 
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up in the city, you've stayed in
the city, you got married in the

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city, you're doing your life in 
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How many of you are there like 
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OK, a few of you are there like 
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How many of you are second 
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another city that you moved 
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here, That's second culture. 
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culture kid? 
Your father and mother from 

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different states. 
You were born brought up in a 

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different state and we have 
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here. 
The learning mode that we have 

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to walk through is one of third 
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And when I was just reading 
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culture, it it it talked about 
those who've spent a significant

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part of their formative years 
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cultures in an identity formed 
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birth culture, adopted culture 
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culture. 
And so as I was reading through,

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I was just looking through what 
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that we as Christians have to 
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And I know which culture you're 
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If it's a first culture, all of 
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How many of you agree? 
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say religion background or 
whatever faith background you're

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coming from, you're all born 
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Can we agree to that? 
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And so that is our first. 
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actually in the world, we start 
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wrong. 
How many of you if we've not 

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come to that place of 
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wrong, everything is warped. 
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we the question was asked and I 
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government? 
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It's not laughing. 
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Yeah. 
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holes in the roads. 
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Yes. 
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definite things like is abuse 
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So can you see the there's a 
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second culture. 
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irrespective of our faith. 
How many of you know that those 

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who don't, there are so many who
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living lives of integrity. 
There are so many who don't even

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follow Jesus and yet are doing 
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During COVID, one of the first 
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They, when you look into the 
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the Jain community and the Sikh 
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been doing good for them. 
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with respect of what was 
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And so in the second culture, 
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realize that we are aware of 
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And suddenly you're put into all
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to go and live out your faith. 
Once you realize what Jesus has 

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done for your life, he's not 
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live in a world. 
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He's saying go back into the 
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You came now put this into 
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And that's what I wanted to draw
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of us are struggling in between 
these four walls on a Sunday and

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struggling to be our being what 
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culture between a Monday to a 
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How many of you say it's a hard 
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Lot of us if you have a bad 
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having a person who's making you
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It's hard if you're if you're if
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where you can, but God will test
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He will put you in situations 
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alone for this. 
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inherited first generation or 
growing in learning mode, we'll 

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need to understand that these 
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in the world, we are aware of 
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God's continuously renewing us. 
So he goes back in to all these 

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different formats and the 
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we've been talking is God will 
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change one aspect of society. 
The problem is we've so in tuned

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in our education system to do 
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success. 
How many of you took CSE in your

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engineering because CSE was the 
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When I was in engineering, ECE 
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take ECE. 
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Because we suddenly see, hey, if
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is going, this is where success 
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learning mode in your life and 
it gets activated will be for a 

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specific thing in the society 
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change. 
That is your plan and purpose. 

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One of the things we had in our 
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something called this dream 
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Circle of Dreams and dreams. 
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Yeah. 
Circle of dreams and, and one of

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the things they, they were 
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thought about that session, they
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done it differently. 
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realized kids aren't dreaming 
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And today with with all that's 
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informed machine language and 
all that all that is good, but 

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God wants the God depose a dream
that he's put on your heart for 

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you to follow as you grow older,
because that's where he'll be 

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able to see his glory come 
through far bigger than what 

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you've imagined. 
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wanted to post before I will 
give before you when my learning

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mode is activated, because 
that's a struggle. 

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All of us are learning. 
If I have to tell you if home, 

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if you've actually taken 
learning as a challenge because 

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of your ego is hurt. 
All of how many of you because 

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that person said that I will 
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No, we've we've all had that. 
The how many of you've taken 

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cooking like that as a 
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Lot, lot, lot of, lot of us are 
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But as I'm, as we are in this 
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believe a lot of us are unable 
to put what we are called, what 

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we are learning into practice. 
And so that's what I wanted to 

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draw attention to the 
environments that God has placed

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us in. 
So the first one is we need to 

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be poised in our reality during 
learning mode, poised in our 

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reality. 
How many of you are fluttering 

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in our in your reality today? 
How many are feeling jittery in 

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your reality? 
If the Prince of Peace is with 

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us, he will give us a place of 
calmness and realise what a 

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reality is, whatever that 
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And if that situation lacks 
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strength, patience, endurance, 
he'll give that. 

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He'll give that. 
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the meaning of poise, it says 
calm, confidence in a person's 

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way of behaving, ready to move 
or prepared and waiting for 

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something to happen. 
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does the inner work in you. 
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entirely. 
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And so today when we see in this
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robot, you know, it's funny to 
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robot. 
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the external circumstances, it's
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it's placed in. 
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you comfortable in the reality 
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You might be thinking, Yeshua, 
mine is a outcome of certain bad

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choices, but God saying, no, I'm
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your story. 
I'm not done with you yet. 

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I'm still working in you to take
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Would you be calm in this 
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from one Samuel chapter 1 was a 
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reflecting on Anna's life 
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look at the story, El Kana is 
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Yeah, El Kana had two wives. 
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that we're doing in church where
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two wives. 
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second, and then the second had 
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And so she's barren in this time
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visit as they go to the temple. 
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in the sense she doesn't have 
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where she can take it to. 
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draw our attention to one Samuel
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This is where she's prayed. 
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and says, Eli answered, go in 
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she said, May your servant find 
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Then she went her way and ate 
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longer downcast. 
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arose and worshipped before the 
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home at Rama al Khanna made love
to his wife Hannah, and the Lord

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remembered her. 
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line, if you have all this, mark
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So in the course of time, Hannah
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to a son. 
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because I asked the Lord for 
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When her husband Elkanah went up
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annual sacrifice of the Lord and
to fulfill his vow, Hannah did 

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not go. 
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the boys weaned, I will take him
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and He will live there always. 
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Her husband Elkanah told her, 
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him only may the Lord make good 
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So the women stayed at home and 
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weaned him. 
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the boy with her, young as he 
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old bull, an ephah of flour and 
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to the House of the Lord at 
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When the bull had been 
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to Eli and said to him, Pardon 
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live, I am the woman who stood 
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Lord. 
I prayed for his child, for this

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child, and the Lord has granted 
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So now I give him to the Lord. 
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given over to the Lord. 
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there. 
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would she do something like 
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entirely to the Lord? 
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which I wanted to ask is when we
are poised in our reality, we 

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will realize what we are asking 
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what He's calling us to do when 
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poised. 
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that when she made that prayer, 
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that time was from the priest 
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and made be granted. 
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that what she what she bought, 
what burden she carried, she 

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left it at the feet of the Lord 
and she walked out of that, not 

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with the burden of that what 
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She walked out and was normal 
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do her purpose. 
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she went, she ate and her face 
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had hurt her. 
Early the next morning they rose

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up before the Lord went back to 
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life and God remembered her and 
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And so today I would ask you 
because am I pulling back of 

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things because God has not come 
through or am I continuing to do

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sing God. 
You will do it in your perfect 

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time, whatever that looks like, 
whatever that looks like, 

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because many a times the miracle
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What she had asked was to leave 
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and imagine there's no you don't
read of any conflict going on 

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here. 
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and she knew if the mothers 
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There's a lot of wisdom that 
will come when we seek, when our

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learning mode is activated from 
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If you've been struggling, if as
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with the decision, let God allow
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I love God to have him because 
he's the one who's brought you 

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together. 
He's the third one who's united 

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you like a court that cannot be 
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Consult him. 
Consult him and you will see 

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things taking shape the very 
fear that a that a parent might 

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have the other person will have 
faith for what that God will 

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take care. 
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what what do we see? 
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the grand scheme in the in the 
bigger story, God had started 

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raised up Samuel to actually 
lead Israel and this is the back

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story of him. 
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is going to turn out today. 
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position that God's placed as 
when we are continuously putting

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what we're learning to practice,
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calmness to realize this is what
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I am calling. 
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the next chapter. 
She sings a song of praise and 

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it goes on to say, my heart 
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Lord. 
My horn is lifted high. 

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My mouth boasts over my enemies 
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deliverance. 
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Lord. 
There is no one besides you. 

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There is no rock like our God. 
Her exclamation is the one who 

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provided her her Son. 
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is happening, she is giving 
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He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash

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heap. 
He seats them with Princess and 

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has them inherit a throne of 
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She didn't even know that the 
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actually anointing. 
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So I pray and ask that when God 
is calling you to learn and walk

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in that you will be in a posture
of utter calmness today. 

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The world will tell you that you
don't have to be, that things 

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aren't going as per your time. 
How many think there's a world 

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you're, you're following either 
God's timeline or the world's 

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timeline? 
The the world's timeline is 

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really wonky. 
It gives you a false sense. 

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I don't know how many of you 
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this earlier. 
They talk about this this much. 

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If you have, you can retire at 
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How many of you have seen those 
YouTube videos or probably are 

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following some finance with 
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Or this if you, you might think,
oh, if I can just retire that 

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much. 
We don't know. 

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Our storehouses can't be, can't 
determine what God has in store 

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for us. 
If there's one thing I've learnt

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about storehouses is the fact 
that every season God wants to 

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empty our storehouses so he can 
fill it so that that's what is 

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in the storehouse is fresh. 
How many of you buy actually 

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have the habit of turning and 
buying, looking at the expiry 

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date before buying? 
Few of you, some of you we 

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don't. 
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the other day we were using the 
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We didn't realize and then 
someone said it's tasting of we 

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saw it was like past six months,
you know, and so, so then we 

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realized we have to buy a new 
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So many a times we are we are 
the timeline that we are in are 

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in. 
There's a running joke in our 

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family, especially my brother 
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early on married, they said hey,
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You don't know what all is 
expired because you know 

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whatever you're taking from the 
kitchen. 

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It was that bad. 
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look at what when God comes 
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heavenly timeline. 
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So for those of you who are 
still single, pray and ask God 

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that right person will come in. 
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Don't look at your neighbor and 
think, oh, how did she get 

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married or how did he get 
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Ask God. 
God, let me have faith, give me 

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discernment. 
Today we can be having every 

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information possible in front of
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For those of us especially who 
are who are married, ask God 

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early on, God, what is the plan 
for our marriage? 

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As much as, yes, you want to get
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you want to do an international 
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that, don't subscribe to the 
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Subscribe to God's timeline 
because you don't know how it'll

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end. 
It'll be fruitful. 

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Fruitful doesn't tell you the 
quantity of how much that tree 

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will bear. 
It'll keep bearing. 

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And so when you see here, when 
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what will happen? 
It says in verse 9, he will 

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guard the feet of his faithful 
servant, but the wicked will be 

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silenced in the place of 
darkness. 

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It's not by strength that one 
prevails. 

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Those who oppose the Lord will 
be broken. 

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The Most High will Thunder from 
heaven. 

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The Lord will judge the ends of 
the earth. 

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He will give strength to his 
King and exalt the horn of his 

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anointed. 
And so when we see here what we 

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sing, praise to God is very 
important. 

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Even as Tabita LED worship 
today, I was just thinking, God,

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what a privilege for us to come 
here and exalt you in our own 

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words, in our own language, in 
our own circumstances. 

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Each and everyone of our 
circumstance is so unique. 

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Lot of us don't have everything 
going. 

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But Lord, in the midst of this, 
I can still choose to lift you 

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up. 
One of the deepest 

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encouragements for as I was 
serving this VBS was to see 

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across the age group serving the
old to the young were serving 

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and I'm grateful that each one 
has found the their place to 

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serve in God's Kingdom. 
As I mentioned, when we are when

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we are poised, when we when we 
have that calmness in the in 

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that learning mode and are 
following what God's asking us, 

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we will be able to experience 
God's blessing. 

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And then it goes on to say in 
one Samuel 2 verses 18 to 21. 

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But Samuel was ministering 
before the Lord a boy wearing a 

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linen E4 each year his mother 
made him a little robe and took 

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it to him when he when she went 
up with her husband to offer the

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annual sacrifice. 
Eli would bless El Khanna and 

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his wife saying may the Lord 
give you the children by this 

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woman to take the place of the 
one she prayed for and gave the 

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Lord then would to the Lord. 
Then they would go home and the 

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Lord was gracious to Hannah. 
She gave birth to three sons and

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two daughters. 
Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew 

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up in the presence of the Lord. 
He didn't grow up with daddy 

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issues or mommy issues. 
Just imagine know he grew up in 

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the in the wholeness from the 
House of God. 

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He grew up in a place where 
there was definitely a lot of 

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wrong happening. 
Yet at an early age, God turned 

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his ears at an early age, he 
made the leader teach Samuel 

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what to say. 
When you read on to the next 

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passage, it's interesting. 
He didn't suppress Samuel. 

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He didn't he didn't push him 
down. 

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He he realized God had chosen 
him to do something through him 

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that he was literally coaching 
him was disciple him through 

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those seasons. 
And so today I want to ask you 

451
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:58,160
today, is my faith just a mouth 
utterance or is it really living

452
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:03,480
out through my existence today? 
Is faith just a mouth utterance 

453
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:09,240
or is it really today, am I just
telling my wife I love her or am

454
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,880
I really behaving like I love 
her? 

455
00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:14,480
Those are two different 
questions, two different thought

456
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,440
processes today. 
Do I am, I do I tell my kids I 

457
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,320
will look after you and care for
you, or I just say that, but I'm

458
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,360
not doing it. 
And so today in our learning 

459
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:30,240
mode, maybe be really clear that
what we believe in should also 

460
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,960
be seen in how we conduct 
ourselves. 

461
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,400
Hannah did a couple of things. 
She participated in what she had

462
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,880
according to a circumstance. 
She did not sit herself out. 

463
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,200
She had every opportunity to 
tell El Khanna, God has not 

464
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,080
blessed me. 
You go, you go. 

465
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,800
She knew if there's only one 
person who can bless her is God,

466
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:56,040
so she chose to be there. 
So I pray and ask that in your 

467
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,120
learning mode, don't sit 
yourself out. 

468
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,080
Please keep coming back to God's
house. 

469
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,520
It's in this you will see what 
God wants you to really take on 

470
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,400
for your life. 
Participating is showing up. 

471
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,520
Don't hide behind what has 
happened in the past. 

472
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,960
Don't hide behind. 
But you know what this is? 

473
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,240
This is my family history. 
No, you're not called to live 

474
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,280
history out. 
You're called to live out this 

475
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,160
new creation. 
That's who are who you are in 

476
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,720
Christ Jesus. 
Second thing we learned from 

477
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,080
Anna's life is when learning 
modus, you need to be careful of

478
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,720
where you're pouring your 
grievances. 

479
00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,920
How many of you have that one 
friend who you can tell 

480
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,360
everything? 
I hope it's your spouse, but I 

481
00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:44,640
would say that it's not if you 
don't have a spouse, if you're a

482
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,640
single person, I understand. 
But many times today we're 

483
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,280
living in a world which is 
telling us go give, talk your 

484
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,480
grievances. 
The only person if you're in 

485
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,280
Christ, who'll understand your 
grievances is Christ. 

486
00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:01,720
That's where you can pour your 
heart out. 

487
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:07,440
Tell him everything that I was 
listening to a podcast this week

488
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,680
as I was driving for that 
meeting, which I mentioned and 

489
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:15,640
the speaker was talking and 
saying post COVID lot of pastors

490
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,440
will come and say this week I 
sat with my counselor and this 

491
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,440
is what happened and everything.
And she said, you know what? 

492
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,720
We've come to a place of 
glorifying someone in the 

493
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,960
physical that we forget that we 
have the spiritual director with

494
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,360
us. 
We forget we don't. 

495
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,480
Revelation is good, but 
revelation doesn't dictate where

496
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,280
I'm heading. 
The spiritual guy director 

497
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,480
dictates where be informed of 
what you're feeling, but let not

498
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,600
that be 1 which dictates you. 
And so as she was saying that, I

499
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,480
realized many a times if we 
don't give room for the Holy 

500
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,960
Spirit, because the Holy Spirit 
will tell us to take that step 

501
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,240
where there is where there there
may not even be a step and that 

502
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,600
is faith. 
He'll say, do this right now for

503
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,360
my glory. 
And we, he'll say, Geshom, don't

504
00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:04,840
quit your job. 
Just stay, don't he'll tell 

505
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,880
he'll he'll tell. 
He'll say sometimes be quiet in 

506
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,400
this place. 
I'll fight your battle. 

507
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,040
Are we willing to listen to the 
counsellor who is the Holy 

508
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,800
Spirit? 
And the third thing we see in 

509
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,200
her life is with her learning 
more. 

510
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:24,240
She stuck to a promise. 
What she told God she did, what 

511
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,080
she told God she did. 
And so today I want to challenge

512
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,600
you church, other things that 
you've told God that you'll do, 

513
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,680
that you refrain from because 
sometimes the blessing of God 

514
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,400
over our lives is at a 
standstill because we've not 

515
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,360
done our part. 
He's done his part. 

516
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,520
And so whatever that looks like 
to you today, you know, I think 

517
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:47,840
next week is Mother's Day, isn't
it? 

518
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,920
Yeah. 
Just imagine Hannah dropping her

519
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:58,240
child in a temple and coming 
back just the next time for 

520
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,400
sacrifice again, not knowing, 
trusting God. 

521
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,560
But I believe that's where 
sometimes we have to come to a 

522
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,400
place of realizing that God, I 
will trust you no matter what, 

523
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:15,320
trust you no matter what. 
When we read from Samuel's life,

524
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,560
it's evident that we need to 
take God at His word. 

525
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,840
Poised is when I can take God at
His word. 

526
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,120
Voice is where Isaiah 55 when we
read it says a lot of us know 

527
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,080
this worse For my thoughts are 
not your thoughts, neither are 

528
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,400
my your ways. 
My ways declares a lot. 

529
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,560
As the heavens are higher than 
the earth, so are my ways higher

530
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,240
than yours, and my thoughts than
your thoughts. 

531
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,360
As the rain and the snow come 
down from heaven and do not 

532
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,600
return to it without watering 
the earth and making it bud and 

533
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,200
flourish, so that it will yield 
seed for the sower and bread for

534
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,360
the eater, so is my word that 
goes out from my mouth. 

535
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,120
It will not return to me empty, 
but will accomplish what I 

536
00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,240
desire and achieve the purpose 
for which I sent it. 

537
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,640
You will go out and join me LED 
forth in peace. 

538
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,640
The mountains and hills will 
burst into song before you, and 

539
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,080
all the trees of the field will 
clap their hands. 

540
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,560
Instead of the thorn Bush will 
grow the juniper, and instead of

541
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,320
the briars, the mortal will 
grow. 

542
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,880
This will be for the Lord's 
renown, for an everlasting sign 

543
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,240
that will endure forever. 
I want to ask you, Church, 

544
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,440
today, if you want to give 
thanks for the big things that 

545
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,320
God has to come through, start 
with what He's already done. 

546
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,120
Start with all what he's already
done, Hannah to come to a place 

547
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:41,200
of actually starting from her, 
her Baroness, her, her struggle,

548
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,280
her dryness. 
That's where she came and she 

549
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,400
gave thanks and said, Lord, this
is what I'll do. 

550
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,680
And I'm sure her praise after 
that looked different every year

551
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,200
when she went to the temple of 
the Lord. 

552
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,360
So I pray that we will, as you 
take this verse from Isaiah 55, 

553
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,160
go back and think through every 
plan that you've drawn out for 

554
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,200
your life. 
My thoughts, my ways. 

555
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,400
Last week, as Tina was talking, 
we had this huge thing between, 

556
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,880
you know, both of us about our 
son's college, where he has to 

557
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,280
admit as you're talking about 
it, suddenly the, you know, the 

558
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,080
as a couple, you'll know, the 
equation will suddenly turn 

559
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,280
different. 
The the parenthesis will 

560
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,080
suddenly become very enclosed. 
She suddenly thought, as a 

561
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,600
engineering student, I was 
taking a dig at a art student 

562
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,400
and I said, bro, that's not the 
fight, you know? 

563
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,600
But you see, suddenly in our 
course, we suddenly put brackets

564
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,080
and we suddenly stick ourselves 
into that and we start. 

565
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,920
But then to come to a place in 
God, we are learning also. 

566
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,400
You know, one of the things when
I was preparing the sermon, I 

567
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,840
was saying God, irrespective of 
which government comes tomorrow 

568
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:56,080
or which forms, irrespective of 
whether the FCFCRAS are coming 

569
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,760
in or not, Lord help us to be 
always be in learning more. 

570
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,760
God will destabilize everything 
that we want stabilized here on 

571
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,040
this earth. 
He's coming for us. 

572
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,120
He's not coming for the earth. 
A lot of us are thinking, oh, 

573
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,640
he's coming for the building, 
He's coming for. 

574
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,840
No, he's coming for us. 
We are the ones. 

575
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,720
So which means we will always be
in that mode of learning, 

576
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,280
undoing, leaving, going. 
There are so many things when 

577
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,200
you look in this Christian 
world, we are building 

578
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:28,240
securities. 
God saying I am everything for 

579
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,480
you. 
The second thing when we see 

580
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,120
when my learning mode is 
activated is we pivot in the 

581
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:39,280
direction where God is present. 
The first one, we are poised. 

582
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,320
The second, we learn to pivot in
the direction where God is 

583
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,280
present. 
How many of you realize you've 

584
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,320
pivoted out of Josh and realized
God was not there? 

585
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,840
Have we? 
There are circumstances, there 

586
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,080
are decisions, split decisions 
we've made thinking, you know 

587
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,160
what? 
I think this is a God thing. 

588
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,560
And we went there and then 
suddenly we realized God was 

589
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,920
absent, but He wanted us to go 
through that. 

590
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,360
But He's asking us, will you 
also still be learning? 

591
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,680
You know, I think I've mentioned
the story to you many a * 4 

592
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,440
years back before we got this 
place, we were in meeting in the

593
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,800
party hall and then you want to 
find a place. 

594
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,560
And I still remember we saw the 
place and it didn't work out. 

595
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,480
But quickly I had to realize 
God, you who's called us is 

596
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,800
faithful. 
I had to pivot in my mind before

597
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,400
I could pivot because a week 
later I was still starting to 

598
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,400
look for places. 
Tina was like you've gone mad. 

599
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,160
We've just lost money here. 
We've done this isn't worked 

600
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:35,960
out. 
Why are we looking? 

601
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,000
It's it just felt I had to 
really activate my faith when I 

602
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,560
when even when that came God, 
you told this is a time for us 

603
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,280
to move God and you won't 
believe we moved from there. 

604
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:50,280
We came here a month into it. 
The service Rd. got extended 

605
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,240
because they're building the 
metro and there wouldn't have 

606
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,640
been any parking for us to meet 
in the Dalita party hall. 

607
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,760
God is so good. 
He wants us to be pivot, which 

608
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,240
means he wants us to carry 
things light. 

609
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:13,730
How many of you pack light? 
How many of you pack light? 

610
00:34:14,530 --> 00:34:16,010
If you pack heavy, you can't 
pivot. 

611
00:34:17,370 --> 00:34:18,730
Your baggage has to come with 
you. 

612
00:34:19,969 --> 00:34:22,489
God saying when you're pivoting 
your baggage, leave the baggage 

613
00:34:22,489 --> 00:34:28,730
there now trust me and come. 
I'm asking you, Christian life 

614
00:34:28,730 --> 00:34:33,159
is hand carry luggage only. 
You're not sending cargos here. 

615
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,360
God's like leave the cargo, move
in faith. 

616
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,560
I'm your provision, I'm your 
sustenance, I am your 

617
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,719
everything. 
The second character I wanted to

618
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,560
reflect as I was looking at this
is a life of rehab. 

619
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,320
What is pivot? 
Pivot is a central point. 

620
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,080
I have are science scientists 
here. 

621
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,440
It's very difficult to give any 
scientific terms right now, but 

622
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,000
pivot is a central point or a 
pin or a shaft with which a 

623
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,200
mechanism turns literally just 
turns. 

624
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,600
It makes a hard turn. 
So today, what is God asking you

625
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,240
to pivot from? 
As we read from the life of 

626
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:16,000
rehab, it's interesting Joshua 
to it starts off the king of 

627
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,760
Jericho was told, look, some of 
the Israelites have come here 

628
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,400
tonight to spy out the land. 
So the king of Jericho sent this

629
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,400
message to rehab bring out the 
men who came to you and entered 

630
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,160
your house because they have 
come to spy out the whole land. 

631
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,800
When you read these first 2 
verses, if you're thinking Rehab

632
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:39,280
was quite an influential person,
isn't it for for her name to go 

633
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,280
into the courtroom of the king 
and for king to send word? 

634
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,560
But it's interesting here, even 
though she because of the nature

635
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,880
of her work and the nature that 
she was doing, she knew what was

636
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,640
happening outside the walls of 
Jericho. 

637
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,120
She was aware because travellers
were coming and she knew that 

638
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:03,640
the Jericho won't last longer. 
It might seem like she was 

639
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,000
selfish, but she pivoted towards
the God of Israel. 

640
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,560
In fact, when you read that, 
when she's talking to the spice,

641
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,440
before the spice laid on for the
night, she went up to the roof 

642
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,280
and said to them, I know that 
the Lord has given you this land

643
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,640
and that a great fear of you has
fallen on us, so that all who 

644
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,920
live in this country are melting
in fear because of you. 

645
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,440
We have heard now the Lord dried
up the water of the Red Sea for 

646
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:36,280
you when you came out of Egypt 
and what you did on Xion and all

647
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,680
the 2 kings of the Amorite east 
of the Jordan, whom you 

648
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,320
completely destroyed. 
When we heard of it, our hearts 

649
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,560
melted in fear and everyone's 
courage failed because of you. 

650
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:49,120
For the Lord your God in. 
For the Lord your God is God in 

651
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,120
heaven above and on earth below.
Now then, please swear to me by 

652
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,760
the Lord that you will show 
kindness to my family, because I

653
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,400
have shown kindness to you. 
Give me a sure sign that you 

654
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,000
will spare the lives of my 
father and mother, my brothers 

655
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,800
and sisters and all who belong 
to them, and that you will save 

656
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,600
us from death our lives. 
For your lives. 

657
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,200
The men assured, if you don't 
tell what we are doing, we will 

658
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,440
treat you kindly and faithfully 
when the Lord gives us this 

659
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:23,120
land. 
Rehab had a very short, you 

660
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,640
know, a window of opportunity to
respond to her occupation 

661
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:32,600
enabled her, enabled her to hear
what God was doing and the 

662
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,400
stories of victory God gave her.
Nature would have been 

663
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,400
transactional. 
That's her inert nature. 

664
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,880
Because of what she was doing, 
everything was transactional. 

665
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,040
But here she realized she wasn't
about building a Kingdom, it was

666
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,920
about saving her life. 
It wasn't about making her own 

667
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,640
storehouse. 
It was literally saving her own 

668
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,400
future. 
You see her when she's asking, 

669
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,200
she's not asking for just her 
and her family. 

670
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,920
She's asking father, mother, 
brother, sisters and all who are

671
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:10,480
with them. 
Yet in this inadequacy, what was

672
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,600
she actually looking for? 
She was looking for freedom. 

673
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,720
She was looking for freedom 
because whence imagine she goes 

674
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:19,480
out, She's no longer bound by 
the laws of these walls. 

675
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,240
And so today the pivot that you 
and I have called to make is 1. 

676
00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:26,720
Whether you let go of a baggage 
there, Jericho walls have to 

677
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:29,440
come down. 
Your baggage walls have to come 

678
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,880
down so you can pivot. 
What is holding you back today? 

679
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,960
What is holding you back today? 
Church Because if you and I have

680
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:43,400
to walk into the promises of God
is to face every Jericho wall 

681
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,120
that's there head on and say 
it's in crisis. 

682
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,920
Come to give me freedom and I'm 
pivoting towards freedom. 

683
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,200
I'm not pivoting towards 
captivity. 

684
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,600
I'm not pivoting towards 
stronghold. 

685
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,960
I'm pivoting to a place of 
seeing his Kingdom come. 

686
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:02,200
Are we holding back today and 
making the pivot after we've 

687
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,480
heard God, we've heard his word,
testimony, everything. 

688
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,640
It might seem hard, like when 
you look at through Joseph's 

689
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,120
lens, he had these dreams and 
the pivot that he had to take 

690
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:23,160
was completely different. 
But when he came through to the 

691
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:28,200
end, he says, God had prepared 
me for a time such as this so I 

692
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,200
can save an entire nation. 
And so today you and I can we 

693
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,640
realize what is God calling us. 
It's very comfortable, very 

694
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,280
comfortable right when you want 
to make the pivot, the job offer

695
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:46,600
will come for you to stay right 
when we had decided in 2014, 

696
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,040
when we had decided God, the 
next step is for us to go back 

697
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,560
to India. 
We came here, we got trained and

698
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,880
it was hard because the company,
the part time job that I was 

699
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,520
working for, they said, we, we 
love you as a video editor. 

700
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,400
We would like to sign you up as 
a full time. 

701
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,000
And the thought was, wow, it'll 
be nice. 

702
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,080
We can just settle off here as a
family with three kids. 

703
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,080
You know that that that conflict
is going on. 

704
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:11,000
The wrestle is going on, but 
God's saying no, I've called 

705
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,920
you. 
And so to do the full cycle, we 

706
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:18,680
came, stayed in service 
apartment and to end up giving 

707
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,720
up the house and then to a week 
in the service apartment as 

708
00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:24,600
you're leaving, we came as four,
we're going out as five. 

709
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,880
I just realized, God, I will 
still do this again because what

710
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,800
I was called for was ministry 
and nothing else. 

711
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,920
And so God keeps reminding me 
time and again, even when when 

712
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,000
the business side of it was 
going through a slump last 

713
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,200
couple of months back, God, he 
told Geshom, I've called you for

714
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,040
ministry and not for making 
money. 

715
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,920
Don't get confused, I'll 
provide. 

716
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,400
Will you trust me for that? 
And I had to pivot. 

717
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,360
There are certain things I don't
have to take up as project 

718
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,080
because he said I'll provide. 
Don't calculate. 

719
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,400
You don't calculate, trust me. 
And it's been hard because the 

720
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,080
seasons were hard. 
Dryness is hard. 

721
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,880
Looking at the soil, which is 
not, and not even that small 

722
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,400
growth happening is hard. 
But God saying, will you still 

723
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,240
pivot? 
Will you still show up? 

724
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,440
Pivot is all about obedience 
because it's all about God. 

725
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:25,040
In Philippians it says in 214 to
16, do everything readily and 

726
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,480
cheerfully. 
No bickering, no second 

727
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,200
guessing. 
This part I'm really working on 

728
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,040
no bickering and second 
guessing, guessing. 

729
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,160
Tina's laughing because she's 
the one who gets to hear it. 

730
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,640
Go out into the world 
uncorrupted, A breath of fresh 

731
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:42,000
air in this squalid and polluted
society. 

732
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:47,080
Provide people with a glimpse of
good living and of the living 

733
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,240
God. 
Carry the light giving message 

734
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,120
into the night. 
So I'll have a good cause to be 

735
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,560
proud of you on the day that 
Christ returns. 

736
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,800
You'll be living proof that I 
didn't go to all this work for 

737
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,240
nothing. 
And the interesting thing about 

738
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:07,760
rehab, she's mentioned in the 
hall of Faith in Hebrews Chapter

739
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,240
11, verse 31, it says by Faith 
the prostitute Rehab, because 

740
00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:14,840
she welcomed the spice, was not 
killed with those who are 

741
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,920
disobedient. 
As I was thinking of Rehab's 

742
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:23,280
plight, what she wanted, the 
freedom after that, it doesn't 

743
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,480
talk about her, what she did in 
terms of her work or anything, 

744
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,800
but what the family would have 
experienced was ultimate freedom

745
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,400
from every captivity. 
And you and I today, as we 

746
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,240
pivot, God is saying you will 
experience freedom. 

747
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,760
And the third thing he's saying 
is when my learning mode is 

748
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,600
activated, will you be 
persistent toward what God has 

749
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:51,360
called us for a lifetime? 
Would you be persistent to what 

750
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,880
God has called us for a 
lifetime? 

751
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:58,480
You know, today we have. 
When you look at these titles 

752
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,720
that all these CEOSCFOS and the 
C-Suite give, it's interesting. 

753
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,120
Each C-Suite person thinks they 
want to come up with something 

754
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,560
interesting. 
They feel like they're solving a

755
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,000
person's world, you know, a 
world problem. 

756
00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:13,920
They call themselves something I
know someone will say, I think 

757
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,680
one person says he's a gardener.
One person says he's something 

758
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:20,240
like the EE, All the chief 
people, officer, chief, they'll 

759
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:21,520
all come up with different 
things. 

760
00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:24,400
But again, there's a timeline 
for that. 

761
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,240
God's not asking us for that 
time. 

762
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:29,600
Within that, he's saying, hey, 
would you be my son and daughter

763
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,720
throughout? 
Would you be persistent to what 

764
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:37,320
I'm calling you to do? 
And so today as you and I are 

765
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:41,480
joining in this life, I want to 
ask you, would we be persistent?

766
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,080
Because when we are persistent, 
one of the things is it's 

767
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,360
difficult to get rid of. 
Who will actually attack us 

768
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,680
most? 
Satan, he'll be the one who'll 

769
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,000
call us out, who'll want to take
us out. 

770
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,800
If I can only dissuade them with
discouragement, their 

771
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,680
persistence will change. 
They'll grumble and then they'll

772
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,360
sit over there. 
They won't move today. 

773
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,160
He's like asking, would you be 
persistent in everything? 

774
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,600
And I want to look in the life 
of Paul as I talk about this, 

775
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:16,880
because Paul knew why God had 
actually set him apart, why he 

776
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,040
was saved. 
He was not saved to bring the 

777
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,680
gospel as much as he was a Jew. 
His focus was the Gentile. 

778
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:28,520
And it's interesting as he's 
doing his entire ministry, his 

779
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,080
end objective is to go to Rome. 
You know, when you read through 

780
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,240
the entire book of Acts and all 
that, it's interesting that his 

781
00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:38,760
focus is to go to Rome. 
And his mission was that to go 

782
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,080
there and to take the gospel all
the way there. 

783
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:43,160
He knew that was a seat of 
culture. 

784
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,720
And so everywhere he was 
learning. 

785
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:51,880
Just imagine he they did church 
planted it, moved on to the next

786
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:56,240
told God, God takes them. 
If you read in Acts chapter 13 

787
00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:00,120
verse 46, it says then Paul and 
Barnabas spoke out boldly and 

788
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,200
declared it was necessary that 
we first preach the word of God 

789
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,440
to you Jews. 
But since you have rejected it 

790
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,560
and judged yourselves unworthy 
of eternal life, We will offer 

791
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,480
it to the Gentiles for the Lord 
gave us a commandment. 

792
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,960
He said I've made you a light to
the Gentiles to bring salvation 

793
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,080
to the farthest corners of the 
earth. 

794
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,000
When the Gentiles heard this, 
they were very glad and thank 

795
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,600
the Lord for this message and 
all who are chosen for eternal 

796
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,960
life became believers. 
So the Lord's message spread 

797
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,680
throughout the region that 
throughout that region. 

798
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:38,400
And when you read you read in 
Acts chapter 19 was a 17 to 22. 

799
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,240
We read about Paul being in 
Ephesus. 

800
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:45,000
He says that that when this 
became known to the Jews and 

801
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,520
Greeks living in Ephesus, they 
were all seized with fear. 

802
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,280
In the name of the Lord Jesus 
was held in high honor. 

803
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:56,080
Many of those who believe now 
came and openly confessed what 

804
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:57,640
they had done. 
A number of them who had 

805
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,360
practice sorcery brought their 
scrolls together and burned them

806
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,280
publicly. 
When they calculated the value 

807
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,480
of the scrolls, the total came 
to 50,000 drachmas. 

808
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:11,000
In the In this way, the word of 
the Lord spread wildly and grew 

809
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,960
in power. 
After all this had happened was 

810
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,200
21, Paul decided to go to 
Jerusalem, passing through 

811
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,240
Macedonia and IKEA. 
After I have been there, he said

812
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,640
I must visit Rome. 
Also, he sent two of his 

813
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,680
helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to
Macedonia while he stayed in the

814
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,760
province of Asia a little 
longer. 

815
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,760
It's interesting when Paul is 
standing in the midst of 

816
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,600
Augustus and Felix, he says I 
appeal to Caesar. 

817
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,040
He didn't want to play The Dirty
politics that they were playing.

818
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:41,760
He says, I want to appeal to 
Caesar. 

819
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,680
He was clear with the mission 
that he had to go. 

820
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:50,680
So today as I, as we as we come 
to a close, I know where you 

821
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,800
find yourself in all these three
different things because each of

822
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,800
our life stages can be thing. 
But I, I know many of us are 

823
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,960
struggling to be persistent in 
what God's called us. 

824
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,320
Can we realize what he's called 
us is unique? 

825
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,200
What each and everyone of you is
unique. 

826
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:12,200
What he set you up is unique 
don't discount yourself. 

827
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,040
Don't set yourself. 
Don't don't The age has no bar 

828
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,160
Be persistent. 
Realize what you're called to 

829
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,400
do. 
You know, the, the the person 

830
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,800
who is listening to a podcast, 
she's a she's a very like, what 

831
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,000
do you say, a preacher of God's 
word. 

832
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,920
She's really held different 
positions and she's doing great 

833
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,400
things. 
And she said in that podcast, 

834
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,200
she's talking if I had to take a
step back and every time 

835
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,480
question was this, as a woman, 
was I able to do this? 

836
00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:45,520
I would have not been able to do
anything that God had called me 

837
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,200
to do. 
I had to push through. 

838
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,360
She was the country's National 
Youth director and she said she 

839
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,920
was the only woman till date who
has held that post. 

840
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:54,600
After that, no one else has held
it. 

841
00:47:54,720 --> 00:47:56,520
But I had to go through 
everything. 

842
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,160
Yes, where the insults, where 
the scoffing, where people 

843
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,200
looking down was, was there 
mansplaining, all that? 

844
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,400
Yes there was. 
But what God had called me was 

845
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:10,560
far bigger. 
This, The earth will never have 

846
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,560
the right environment for you to
complete God's Commission. 

847
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:19,120
It's meant to prevail through 
everything that you're going to.

848
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,160
So if you're going through work,
struggle, push through it, 

849
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:26,200
persist through it. 
Some of us get these words mixed

850
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:30,200
up, mixed up. 
You're serving God, you're 

851
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,240
working out there. 
Work well, serve God well. 

852
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,120
Serving God is a lifetime. 
Everything that we learn here is

853
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,200
for a lifetime. 
You're working on it. 

854
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:45,000
When you read the New Testament,
it says your earthly masters 

855
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,840
obey them. 
They tell. 

856
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,160
They tell you to come at 9, show
up at 9. 

857
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,520
Don't go there at 10. 
When they say deliver you as a 

858
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,320
Christ image bearer, deliver. 
Ask God. 

859
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,600
God, I really am struggling. 
Give me the skill. 

860
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,320
He'll give it to you. 
He'll give you situations to 

861
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,400
practice it. 
Well, start it. 

862
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:09,440
It might look but age like when 
you look at Paul, I'm amazed and

863
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,680
by the way in which he goes. 
He gets shipwrecked in that also

864
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,000
he's ministering salvation. 
Malta, they're doing great 

865
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,680
things, goes into Rome. 
He's in captive and in 

866
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,480
captivity. 
He writes some of the best 

867
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,440
letters that have gone out to 
the churches. 

868
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,960
He writes Ephesians, 
Philippians, Colossians, and 

869
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:35,520
Philemon, pivotal chapters. 
My favorite verses in Ephesians 

870
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,840
320 and I realized what 
circumstance to write in. 

871
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,080
He was persistent throughout 
till death. 

872
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:47,240
So today you and I, what stage 
are we in and we are saying God,

873
00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:52,720
I just I just want to enjoy 
retirement and she's in that 

874
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:54,960
podcast. 
She was telling she's turned 60 

875
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,320
and she just feels 60 is a new 
30. 

876
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,800
That's what she's saying. 
There's much more to be done if 

877
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,880
the, if the enemy is out there, 
which means I have to be out 

878
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,680
there. 
That's the spirit that we need. 

879
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,520
The position may not be there in
respect of the position. 

880
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,360
If I have to serve the next 
generation, I'll serve that. 

881
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,200
If I have to do something else 
for the people who are in the 

882
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,280
front and I have to be in the 
background, I'll do that. 

883
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,000
And that's what we see Paul 
modelled. 

884
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:31,520
You know, we read the we read 
the story of the talents which 

885
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:35,400
Jesus talks about and somehow we
take comfort in the fact that 

886
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,000
I'll just bury it and keep 
because it doesn't make sense. 

887
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,080
But God sing to whom much is 
given much is required. 

888
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,920
So I pray that we'll be faithful
this week. 

889
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,480
As we were reading, we were 
doing a Bible plan with couple 

890
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,400
of the youth guys and it says 
that be faithful where your feet

891
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,760
are. 
Lot of us want to be. 

892
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,720
Oh Geshum was faithful. 
No, but be faithful where your 

893
00:50:56,720 --> 00:51:00,480
feet are. 
If it's in Torepakam Omar, 2nd 

894
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,800
floor upper room, be faithful 
here. 

895
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,600
When I'm in Karapakkam at home, 
be faithful there. 

896
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Just imagine if every Christian 
lived that out. 

897
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:16,960
Faithful where my feet are. 
And so I pray and ask that as we

898
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meditate through this, God will 
work in and through us. 

899
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,760
In Psalms 145 four, it says that
each generation tell its 

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children of your mighty acts. 
Let them proclaim your power. 

901
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,360
When we read through judges, 
when we read through Joshua, 

902
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,600
it's interesting. 
After Joshua's time, that grew a

903
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,040
generation who didn't know the 
Lord. 

904
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,960
And they say Joshua could be 
considered a failure because 

905
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:52,280
they were so fighting battles, 
battles that they didn't get the

906
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:56,080
next generation ready. 
Today, you and I, what are we 

907
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,720
overcoming that we're telling 
the next generation you can 

908
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:02,760
overcome. 
The problem is a lot of us in 

909
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,240
our 40s have not overcome 
bullying ourselves. 

910
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,960
We've not overcome the our own 
identity. 

911
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:15,120
We still have identity with the 
colour of our skin, with the way

912
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,960
we look. 
What will we pass down to the 

913
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,240
next generation? 
What will we pass down to the 

914
00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:23,880
next generation? 
Should go back and say God, I'm 

915
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:27,520
learning right now from you if 
you made me in your image. 

916
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:31,640
It's interesting. 
We we say we've been woven, he's

917
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,000
woven us in in our mother's 
womb, all that yet we fail to 

918
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:41,520
understand wow God, what 
uniqueness is We think unique is

919
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:45,200
just this one aspect. 
No imagine if you and I are 

920
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:46,880
already created in the image of 
God. 

921
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:48,760
What does uniqueness look to 
Christ? 

922
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,040
What its uniqueness look to God,
it looks entirely different. 

923
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,240
What our minds can't comprehend,
what we can't understand. 

924
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,960
So today this persistence that 
I'm asking you is we have to 

925
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:06,520
wholly give up, give ourselves 
up for the mission so that the 

926
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:11,480
mission is accomplished. 
I was watching this show, I 

927
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,000
think a couple of weeks back 
about these Delta forces of how 

928
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,200
they go in to these places to do
whatever they are supposed to 

929
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,280
do. 
But one of the critical things 

930
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,200
you see is they don't just give 
up in the mission halfway. 

931
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,320
They give up only they they 
finish the task and then they 

932
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,960
get out. 
And that's what we all have to 

933
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,520
be as Christians. 
He's saying, would you be ready 

934
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,760
to take up the task, finish the 
task? 

935
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,480
And the problem is a lot of us 
today are fighting the battle 

936
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,240
internally, as I conclude, which
I feel is very important as 

937
00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:41,720
you're always trying to measure 
up. 

938
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,320
Christian life is not about 
measuring up. 

939
00:53:47,240 --> 00:53:49,160
Else it has been the easiest for
us. 

940
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,560
It's all about God up. 
You're measuring up is you're 

941
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,480
measuring up to someone else's 
standard in the world. 

942
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:58,840
You're measuring up to someone 
else's. 

943
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,920
You're probably like looking at 
your the C-Suite person in your 

944
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,800
office thinking I need to 
measure up to them. 

945
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:07,920
But gossaic. 
No, I have far bigger things for

946
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:11,280
you. 
Ask me those hidden treasures, 

947
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,640
I'll tell it to you. 
You're trying to measure up in 

948
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,600
your role as a father. 
You're trying to measure up in 

949
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,760
the role of your as a husband. 
Ask God, God, these are roles 

950
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:22,720
which you have given take put me
into. 

951
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,960
Let me measure up to you, not do
anything else. 

952
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,040
So today too, if you're a 
struggling father, if you're a 

953
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:34,600
doubtful mother, if as a 
husband, if you're struggling 

954
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,480
today as a wife, if you're 
struggling to be happy as a son 

955
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:41,480
and daughter, I would say don't 
measure up, would you God up so 

956
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,760
that God can lead you into that 
role and fulfill the role that 

957
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,920
he's given you so that nothing 
else can shake you from that 

958
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,920
place. 
James one concludes this. 

959
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:57,480
It says blessed is the one who 
perceives under trial because 

960
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,320
having stood the test, that 
person will receive the crown of

961
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,640
life that the Lord has promised 
to those who love him. 

962
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,680
So I pray and ask Lord, even as 
we're here today, as we receive 

963
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:15,000
your word that we would be in a 
place, Lord Jesus of saying, 

964
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:20,160
God, we are completely in this 
learning mode activated. 

965
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:24,480
Lord, I pray especially Lord, 
for those who are like, Lord, 

966
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:28,200
I'll, I'll just get tidbits of 
your learning here and that no, 

967
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,000
God is asking, would you be 
committed to my learning? 

968
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,240
Because when you when you're 
committed, would you be willing 

969
00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:35,720
to change? 
When you're really willing to 

970
00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:38,800
change, Will you be able to live
out what I've called you to live

971
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,240
out? 
So I pray and ask, Lord, for all

972
00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:46,160
of us who are struggling in this
learning mode, constantly 

973
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,760
activating it and deactivate, I 
pray right now we make a 

974
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:53,160
commitment to be fully activated
for you, Lord Jesus, whatever 

975
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,840
stage we are in, whatever role 
we are in right now, we ask Lord

976
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,760
that we will activate it so that
we'll be the best person. 

977
00:55:59,960 --> 00:56:02,240
You have marked us out, Lord 
Jesus, that we won't just 

978
00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:05,280
measure up. 
Lord, we will look to you for 

979
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:08,520
everything. 
Lord Jesus, we will look to you.

980
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:13,400
We will ask you, Lord, to make 
us the version that you intended

981
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:18,040
us, Lord, when you created us. 
I pray and ask even right now, 

982
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,960
Lord, as we receive the 
communion in our hands, that 

983
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:26,600
we'll also realize that if we've
been troubled and if your words 

984
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,560
have not been sitting in US, 
Lord Jesus, we've been unable to

985
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,520
be poised because of our 
circumstances. 

986
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:35,440
We take your life giving word 
and speak your Shalom into our 

987
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:40,760
hearts, Shalom into our minds, 
Shalom into our spirits that 

988
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:45,120
we'll find comfort in You. 
Lord, I pray especially, Lord, 

989
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,800
for those of us who are 
struggling to pivot in the 

990
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,880
direction you're calling us. 
Lord, I pray right now faith 

991
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,960
will be injected in Lord Jesus. 
I pray we'll be able to see the 

992
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,480
fruits that you want us to bear 
through eyes of faith. 

993
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:03,400
I pray and ask, Lord, you will 
show us, Lord, if we can let go 

994
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:07,440
of our Jericho right now, we can
take that step of faith and 

995
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:11,000
pivot to what you're calling us.
Lord, we'll be able to do that. 

996
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:17,400
Lord, we'll be able to do that. 
I pray, Lord, for those of us, 

997
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:21,200
Lord, who were on this journey, 
but we tapped out some time back

998
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,160
because it was getting hard, I 
pray, Lord, that we'll be 

999
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:28,000
persistent through it. 
Lord, we'll be persistent to the

1000
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:33,400
call that you've given us. 
Lord Jesus, we'll be persistent 

1001
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:40,040
to what you want us to do. 
We thank you, Lord, Thank you, 

1002
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:41,760
Jesus. 
Thank you, Lord. 

1003
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,200
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1004
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:52,000
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1005
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1006
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1007
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1009
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