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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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Hi Chess, This is a joy and a 
privilege to be able to bring 

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God's Word to you today even as 
you just watch the sermon 

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Bumper. 
We are doing an entire series 

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this summer called At the 
Movies. 

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My main intention is to take 
these cultural moments of some 

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of these movies that have come 
out, see what God's kind of 

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speaking to us through some of 
these narratives that have been 

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told. 
And many times it might come 

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across contradictory, but that's
because the Word of God is clear

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as to what it has to do in and 
through our lives. 

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And last week we saw from this 
movie Zootopia 2. 

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We've been going through that 
entire movie and the last week 

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was the first part of the series
and we saw the title was Snakes 

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are Not Cute. 
And in the entire movie, they 

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bring out this entire storyline 
of how the snake needs help. 

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And even as Tina spoke, there 
were three key things that she 

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actually spoke about with regard
to the entire sermon as to what 

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actually happens when we allow 
snakes to be around us. 

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You know, one of the things is a
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of these animals like snakes and
all these other reptiles. 

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But. 
And so our immediate response is

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there, but we forget to 
understand the implications that

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it has on a spiritual level, 
especially with some of the 

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things that happens around. 
We saw what the venom does. 

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The venom often takes the life 
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It injects poison and we start 
bleeding out and sooner or later

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we become incapacitated. 
We are unable to do what gods 

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called us to do. 
And so there were two key things

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we also saw with regard to how 
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First thing is the presence of 
God, which has to we have to be 

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consumed by God and we won't be 
consumed by the poison. 

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And so today I want to ask you, 
as we even continue on to the 

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series, there's a lot of overlap
because again, we're referring 

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our reference point is back to a
movie. 

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But when you look at these 
themes, am I willing to be 

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present in the presence of God? 
It's that experience that we saw

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what Moses had, where he went to
the Bush and the Bush was 

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burning, but it was not 
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That is what God wants to do. 
And 2nd we saw is people, people

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of God boldly proclaiming the 
truth, but especially in love 

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when it comes to people around 
us and the people that God's 

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placed in our lives. 
Many a times we realize we kind 

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of keep all that God's teaching 
to ourselves. 

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But God is also like, now that 
you've been freed, now that 

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you've tasted me, now that 
you've experienced freedom, now 

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that I've removed this poisonous
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wanting to do in and through 
your life, I have set you free. 

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Now go and speak boldly to 
others. 

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And in fact, when we look at the
entire New Testament from the 

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churches being established 
across all the different, one 

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thing that's evident is the 
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what God was doing. 
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second part today, we the second
part is about this entire fox 

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who plays the main character. 
His name is Nikki. 

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And when you look at that 
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You see that he's this too cool 
a fox, he's cunning, he's 

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finding his way out. 
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his entire movie, The entire 
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changes his behavior, he becomes
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He looks out for this person. 
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He's not concerned about his own
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But as I was dwelling deeper 
upon this, I realized there are 

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so many areas in our lives that 
we've allowed foxes to come and 

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trample over what God's doing in
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And these are not just, these 
are small little foxes that keep

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coming in season out of season 
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the fruit that God's giving us, 
do something so that we will not

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be able to bear. 
We will live in guilt. 

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We will live in shame. 
And so today my title is Foxes 

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are not friends. 
Foxes are not friends. 

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The reason being we realize that
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we are journeying and we are on 
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We are in the camp of our Lord 
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boundary line that's been 
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There's a battle line that's 
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The enemy is there. 
We are here, and often times he 

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is trying to come and mess with 
what God is promising us. 

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And I don't know where you're at
today in your Christian journey,

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but I want to see that we are we
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God's calling us, especially in 
the area of the what we are 

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bearing in terms of our food. 
When you read through Psalm one 

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and all those other things. 
He plants us by still waters. 

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He restores my soul. 
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foxes, which the Scripture keeps
referring, little foxes that 

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comes and causes confusion, 
causes dismay, causes, you know,

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distress in our lives. 
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place of how we will be clear as
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through our lives. 
You know, many a times we are so

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clear about our physical lives. 
We are so clear what our career 

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path is going to be. 
We are so clear of what our next

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steps are in this decisions that
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We are so clear if you're 
investing a house, we are doing 

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certain things. 
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But when it comes to a spiritual
life somewhere, we think God 

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will take care of it. 
But God's like, no, I want you 

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to be more intentional because a
lot of us have entertained these

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foxes. 
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When you look in as we in the 
character, when you look at 

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Nikki, he comes across as this 
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Especially you see Part 1 and 
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he's growing to love this 
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He's growing to, you know, care 
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He's always looked out for 
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He's always, like, been there. 
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people. 
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they don't trust him. 
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identify these foxes in your 
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work God's plan all your life? 
Because all these things are 

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distractions for us. 
So we see in this movie, Nikki, 

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he his rest is important. 
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everything about him that he 
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important. 
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He's impressing on his terms and
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He's looking down on others. 
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when he's around other people, 
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He doesn't strive for unity. 
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That's the whole thing. 
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his way. 
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to what other people are doing. 
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there's a passive scripture that
Solomon has written in the book 

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Song of Songs. 
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from Song of Songs, isn't that 
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Isn't that what he wrote 
towards, towards what a lover 

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would look like? 
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relationship between God and us 
and how we defile ourselves, 

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keep defiling ourselves because 
we are unable to overcome the 

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temptations and the pleasures 
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surrounding us here on this 
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Yes, that's in that passage. 
He writes something beautiful as

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a verse, which I would love to 
read and I that will be the key 

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verse for us today because I 
want us to identify what are 

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these key things that is 
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God's calling us to do. 
Solomon wrote three books, Song 

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of Songs, wrote Proverbs, and 
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And then you look at the 
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written. 
Song of Songs was early in his, 

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you know, into his reign where 
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And so he there was this desire 
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everything. 
Proverbs comes with instructions

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where don't go take this road. 
It's like when you look at 

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Solomon's life and what he's 
written, it's like a playbook of

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what you and I have to follow. 
It's not like 1 which you read. 

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Oh yeah, that's how that's 
that's his advice. 

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No, it's one which is lived out.
It's one which is coming out of 

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a place of, hey, I've done this,
I've made some mistakes and I'm 

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I want to tell you. 
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Ecclesiastes, he goes on to see 
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heart because everything will 
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everything is beneficial. 
And so when we move in this 

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direction, what are we looking 
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And so when he wrote in this 
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15, this is what it says. 
Catch for us the foxes, the 

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little foxes that ruined the 
vineyards are vineyards that are

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in bloom. 
Catch for us the foxes, the 

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little foxes that ruin the 
vineyards are vineyards that are

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in bloom. 
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from the Passion translation, it
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troubling foxes, those sly 
little foxes that hinder our 

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relationship for the raid, a 
budding veneer of love to ruin 

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what I've planted within you. 
Will you catch them and remove 

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them for me? 
We will do it together. 

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And the reason why I chose this 
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God saying I can help you 
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I can help you remove it. 
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Vineyard of our lives here? 
Clearly he's talking of his 

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beloved, you know, as as a 
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girl. 
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What are some of the things 
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relationship? 
But when you look at our 

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vineyard, what is what, What is 
our vineyard looking like today?

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You and I all have a lawn to 
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You know, there are so many lawn
jokes that we have in marriage. 

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But when you look at our lawns, 
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Lawns require a lot of hard 
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Lawns require us to really 
maintain at a particular height.

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Lawns require us to make sure 
that you're water they're not 

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dried. 
Lawns require us to make sure 

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that there's no infection there 
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Lawns require us to tend to week
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And so at the end of the day, 
it's we we can easily judge a 

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lawn by the way it looks. 
It'll show whether it's taken 

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care of or whether it's just 
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And so today I want to ask you, 
what are your vineyards looking 

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like? 
Because the scripture you 

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reference here as vineyards, I 
know we are entire theme for 

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this year in Divine takeover. 
We have the seed, we have the 

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vineyard, we have the ground, 
and then we have the dew of 

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heaven. 
And so as we look at all these 

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four things through the year, 
one of the things I wanted to 

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ask you today is what is your 
vineyard looking like? 

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Do you have a vineyard which is 
unable to bear fruit? 

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Do you have vineyards where it's
it's bearing fruit, but right 

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when it's bearing, something 
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Are you trying to cultivate 
something? 

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But there are patches of these 
places which look dry and empty 

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and you're unable to do 
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It's the patch which is on our 
feet, which we are on right now 

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that God entrusts us to Take 
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So I want to ask you, what is it
that He's entrusted you? 

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Because in every stage of our 
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who's here, who's a parent, 
who's a son, who's a son-in-law,

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who's a father, who's a husband,
those are all the different 

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roles that I play. 
But they're all also, they all 

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come under the same patch. 
So which means I need to tend 

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every area. 
And if I'm not careful, there 

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will be these little foxes that 
tend to come in and ruin some of

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these roles, some of these areas
that I'm doing. 

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And the fruit that I need to see
as a father may not be the fruit

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that I want to see as a as a in 
our marriage may not be the 

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first. 
Some of us. 

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It could be the fruit of being a
son-in-law may not be the fruit 

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of actually being a son may not 
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What do they come and put? 
Resentment. 

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What do they come and put? 
Fear. 

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What do they come and put? 
Deception. 

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What do they come and put? 
They come and put the confusion,

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they put they, they dig out the 
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leave it desolate. 
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been tending to this suddenly, 
why is there something like this

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happening? 
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aware of what these little foxes
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And so today as I just take you,
walk you through the sermon 

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which you've prepared, I wanted 
to ask you, are we in a serious 

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relationship with Jesus? 
Are we in a serious relationship

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with Jesus? 
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about the hinges and many a 
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these hinges, they seem 
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things that actually open our 
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They are things that keep doors 
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They got things which keep 
communication open for us with 

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God. 
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with these, we will soon realize
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little foxes, they come in, but 
after they come, they all will 

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be running around amok in our 
vineyard, trampling everything 

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that God's called us to build. 
And so today, why is our 

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vineyard important? 
Because the minute we come into 

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our understanding of Jesus, the 
minute we, you know, pray the 

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sinners prayer, the minute we 
come into the waters of baptism,

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the minute we start living out 
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live, our vineyard is starting 
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We suddenly attending it with 
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We suddenly attending it with 
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We suddenly are realizing we are
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We just don't rely on the reins 
to come and just the work of our

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hands. 
But we are committing everything

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into God. 
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fruit. 
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we are bearing fruit. 
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in which the fruit bears. 
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Then there's time for certain 
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experience the freshness of the 
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And so in this cycle, I want to 
ask you, how healthy is your 

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veneer today? 
How healthy is your if you're 

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single, how healthy is your 
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Is it, is it marred by abuse? 
Is it barred by inflicting 

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destruction over your bodies 
with all that you've consumed in

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terms of things that can harm? 
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Is it consumed by drugs? 
Is it consumed by your different

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relationships that you're 
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time, 1 of it might bring me 
peace? 

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If for those of you in in 
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it or are there things of the 
past that keep visiting and 

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ruining that vineyard of yours? 
For some of us, we are so good 

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that we can, you know, just fake
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grass, we can clear the entire 
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Just keep fake grass and it's 
and we feel like we can put this

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entire persona out in different 
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I have a persona for church. 
I have a persona for my family. 

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I have a persona for my work. 
But God's like, I'll strip 

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everything down for you to be 
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of the day, as we mature in our 
walk with Christ, as we grow 

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older, we will start bearing 
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And the, the thing with the 
vineyard is when you actually 

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understand the fruit of the 
vineyard is the older vineyards,

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when they produce wine, their 
fruit, they taste so good 

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because by then they have become
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Their fruit is concentrated. 
They, they are willing to go 

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deep. 
There's so much to the taste of 

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it. 
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will you and I make this 
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you're watching this. 
I mean, in a light hearted 

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sense, the movie is nice, but 
when we look at this, the the, 

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the nature of how the self 
preservation, you'll soon 

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realize, no, I can't be like 
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And so Psalm 92, verse 12 to 15 
says the righteous will flourish

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like a palm tree. 
They will grow like the cedar of

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Lebanon planted in the House of 
the Lord. 

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They will flourish in the courts
of our God. 

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They will still bear fruit in 
old age. 

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They will stay fresh and green. 
Proclaiming the Lord is a pride.

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He is my rock and there is no 
wickedness in him. 

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So today you can't discount 
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And it's interesting. 
The psalmist here says they will

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be. 
They will flourish in the courts

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of God. 
They'll be planted in the House 

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of the Lord. 
Today, even until your old age, 

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if you're planted in the House 
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that you will stay fresh. 
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the House of the Lord, me it. 
I'm falling back on last week's 

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sermon. 
You understand the importance of

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the presence of God. 
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the presence of his people. 
You will realize you are bound 

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to flourish. 
There's nothing else that can 

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happen. 
A lot of times, anyone who's 

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taken a step back from the 
presence of God, anyone who's 

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taken a step back from the 
people of God don't tend to 

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flourish, don't tend to 
flourish. 

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And the reason is you become 
ripe ground for the foxes to 

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come and disturb you. 
They come and disturb your 

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spirit. 
They come and disturb your mind.

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Sooner or later they are 
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the physical because everything 
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God's promise is that He will 
sustain us. 

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So today if you're old here and 
thinking, oh man, I can't be 

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doing this into my old age, 
remember? 

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And what says in Isaiah 46, 
Ford, even to your old age. 

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And Grey has I am he, I am he 
who will sustain you. 

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I have made you and I will carry
you. 

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I will sustain you and I will 
rescue you. 

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You know, yesterday, even as we 
were praying here for open 

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heavens, Tina was leading us 
into a time of intercession and 

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need. 
She took us to this passage in 

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John chapter 15 where Jesus says
I am the true wine and my Father

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is the gardener and he. 
And there's this beautiful thing

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about pruning and this constant 
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The minute we realize we are 
part of his vineyard when we are

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under his car, when we are under
his car, caring eyes, he will 

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prune us. 
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Because he wants us to yield 
much fruit. 

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So today, if you're thinking, 
you know what, last year, I, I 

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think spiritually I was doing, 
but God will actually still 

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bring in something for you to 
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And so today I want to ask you, 
as you and I give, as we strip 

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down everything that is not of 
our of us, as we strip down 

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things, as we allow God to walk 
in and through us, will we be 

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ready for God to touch us so 
that when he touches things that

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are not needed will fall off, 
we'll scoop it out and throw it 

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and we'll be able to tend to 
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So I want to ask you today, will
you don't discount your 

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vineyard. 
Don't think, oh God, I was 

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treated badly my ear. 
No, but God's sake, now you're 

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in charge. 
This is your piece of land. 

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This is something which you need
to safeguard. 

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And often times it's very 
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Salvation is personal. 
Your redemption was for all of 

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mankind, but it's also 
specifically for you. 

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And so when you appropriate that
redemption into your life, when 

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you appropriate a lot of Jesus 
into your life, you are claiming

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it for your ground, for your 
vineyard. 

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Sooner or later you will realize
that, yeah, you are a parent, 

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Yes, you have spouse, but again,
they have to make the same 

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decision of allowing Jesus to be
their gardener, for God to come 

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in and say I will prune you, I 
will do this. 

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Oftentimes you are trying to do 
things kids when we lead them. 

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A lot of us today are unable to 
speak into the life of our kids 

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because we've not even made 
church important. 

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We've not even come. 
We don't even bring them to 

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church regularly. 
Coming to church depends on how 

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I decide to wake up. 
You know, coming to church is to

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come from a deep place of God. 
I want to hear you speak because

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this is what enables me for the 
remainder of the week. 

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So I want to ask you today, are 
you willing? 

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To fake it or you're willing to 
do the hard work of really 

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seeing God grow your area of the
vignette, what he's given under 

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your care. 
And so how can we be on God? 

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See, The thing is, probably as 
much as we have to realize what 

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some of the tactics of these 
foxes are. 

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These foxes are cunning. 
These foxes are sly. 

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They come in quietly. 
These foxes are sharp. 

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They can see through night. 
These foxes are ones who will 

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come in, they will do their 
disruption and then they'll go. 

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These foxes will come for things
that are smaller, less 

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insignificant, but when we when,
when more insignificant things 

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in our life starting getting 
disrupted, everything starts 

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shaking. 
And so I have three things which

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I want to lead you to understand
what these foxes can look like. 

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And if it's if you're looking at
your own winner and like God, 

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these are some of the things 
I've allowed, we'll see God, how

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can we repent? 
How can we come back to you? 

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How can we stop striving so that
we can see God? 

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You're in control. 
The first thing which I want to 

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talk about with our with the 
foxes, that is the distraction 

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they bring, because the 
distraction leads to deception. 

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If you're not careful, if you 
don't pick up those 

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distractions, we'll soon move to
a place of deception. 

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Foxes by nature are deceptive. 
As I said, foxes by nature are, 

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are ones who are steeped in 
deception. 

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That's their game. 
They, they can act like they're 

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going here, but then they'll 
come from another place and 

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they'll grab the, the prey and 
they'll, they'll start targeting

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and they'll do that. 
Foxes are you won't even know 

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that they've come and gone. 
It's it's when you think you 

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need that rest. 
But to be ready to always know 

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if I am lethargic in this area, 
I'm leaving room. 

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And so we are meant to be on 
some kind of alert whether we 

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like it or not. 
Today you and I are living in a 

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world where we are distracted by
so many things. 

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You know, it's interesting when 
I'm looking through some of 

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these financial apps and I was 
just browsing through, they 

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start off with a good intent. 
I started using cred thinking, 

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you know, it's a one place where
I'll be reminded to pay my 

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credit card bills on time and 
all that. 

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But sooner or later they bring 
in so many other distractions 

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and suddenly they make sure that
they are offering loans where 

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we'll be. 
And that's probably the larger 

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business strategy. 
But at the end of the day, when 

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you look at it, if I'm 
distracted, if my provision has 

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to be on God, if my, if my sole 
source has to be on God, and if 

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I'm not praying and asking God 
what is what next? 

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I will soon tap into a loan 
which is so easy on my 

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fingertips, which I can just do.
And before I know I can justify 

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as to why I'm taking that. 
And then suddenly I realize I'm 

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struggling. 
I'm struggling. 

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Suddenly I, I thought I was debt
free, but suddenly dead started 

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mounting. 
Suddenly things just started 

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gathering way too much. 
And so these small distractions 

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will lead to deception. 
It could have been that just 

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that one, one text which I was 
entertaining. 

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It was just in a day, that 
distraction was just good. 

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But down the line doing it that 
my colleagues suddenly 

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distracted me away. 
And before I know it, my entire 

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vineyard is being deceived. 
I'm suddenly not liking what 

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God's given. 
There's suddenly a discontent. 

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And so today I want to ask you, 
what are your distractions? 

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Because the distractions take 
our eyes from the promise, our 

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emotions are through a roller 
coaster. 

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We start majoring on a minor, 
our focus suddenly changes and 

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without careful thought, we are 
deceived. 

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When you look at what deception 
is, deceiving someone for 

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personal gain, it's deliberately
caused to believe something that

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is not true, especially for 
personal gain. 

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So especially for when, when, 
when someone is wanting to 

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deceive you, they're doing it 
for themselves. 

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And often times we've 
camouflaged it. 

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We are also some on some level 
deceiving. 

448
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,280
We, we say certain things, we do
certain things so that it'll 

449
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,480
work in our favour. 
And so I want us to come to a 

450
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,960
place God in my vineyard. 
Am I distracted and have a left 

451
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:49,000
room for deception? 
Deception comes in the form of 

452
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,160
people. 
Also in Ezekiel, when we're 

453
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,880
reading this, Ezekiel 13, one to
six, there's this message that 

454
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,520
is being given by God warning 
that there are a lot of false 

455
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,560
prophets who are going around 
today. 

456
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,480
What are the distractions that 
you're looking for? 

457
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,600
Suddenly you feel as you're 
doing this Christian journey, 

458
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,880
God, I think I need to, I need 
to be prosperous. 

459
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,760
And so suddenly you're 
subscribing to the prosperity 

460
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,360
theology. 
You'll soon realize that those 

461
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:20,360
will be the lies of the enemy. 
Suddenly you'll suddenly be 

462
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,840
truncating gospel message for 
one which is without suffering. 

463
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,920
You'll realize that you will 
take the good and you leave the 

464
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,040
bad. 
But the realization is in the 

465
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,480
gospel that God's calling us to 
live in, there's everything. 

466
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,600
There's everything. 
There's seasons of blessing. 

467
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:42,320
There's seasons of tough 
hardship, but it will take us to

468
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,640
a place to realize in both 
seasons of blessing and 

469
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,520
hardship, it's God who sustains 
me, not me. 

470
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,520
And so today I want to ask you, 
are you giving here to false 

471
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,080
prophets? 
What are the false prophets 

472
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,960
telling you? 
They'll be hollow. 

473
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:57,320
That's what the word of God 
says. 

474
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,280
They'll be like whitewashed. 
They'll tell what your eyes want

475
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,240
to see. 
But before you know it, when 

476
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,960
foundations are shaken, they 
will they will fall down. 

477
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,280
So let's read that from Ezekiel 
chapter 13, verses 1 to 6. 

478
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,520
The word of the Lord came to me,
Son of Man, prophecy against the

479
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,400
prophets of Israel who are now 
prophesying. 

480
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,600
Say to those who prophecy out of
their own imagination, hear the 

481
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,760
word of the Lord. 
This is what the sovereign Lord 

482
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,560
says. 
Woe to the foolish prophets who 

483
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,840
follow their own spirit and have
been nothing. 

484
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,880
I've seen nothing. 
Your prophets Israel are like 

485
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:33,640
jackals among ruins, who have 
not gone up to the breaches in 

486
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,480
the wall to repair it for the 
people of Israel, so that it 

487
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,040
will stand firm in the battle of
the day of the Lord. 

488
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,960
Their visions are false and 
their divinations are lie, even 

489
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,840
though the Lord has not sent 
them. 

490
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,440
They said the Lord declares and 
expect Him to fulfill their 

491
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,280
words. 
Have you not seen false visions 

492
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,960
and uttered lying divinations? 
When you say the Lord declares, 

493
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,760
though I have not spoken? 
You know when you read verse 10 

494
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:05,280
in the amplified it talks about 
foxes, it says, it says jackals 

495
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,320
and foxes. 
It's the same group of animals 

496
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,680
because they leave my people as 
they saying peace when there is 

497
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,360
no peace, and because when a 
flimsy wall is built, they cover

498
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:18,720
it with the whitewash. 
Therefore tell those who cover 

499
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,760
it with whitewash that it is 
going to fall. 

500
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,600
Rain will come in torrents, I 
will send hailstorms hurling 

501
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,880
down, and violent will will 
burst forth when the wall 

502
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,520
collapses. 
Will people not ask you, where's

503
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,920
the whitewash you covered with? 
So today, you and I, are we 

504
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,240
giving room to be distracted by 
false prophets? 

505
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,400
So what happens to counter the 
false prophet? 

506
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,240
You need to know the true. 
And the true comes only when 

507
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:46,760
you're sitting and when you're 
meditating. 

508
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,200
True comes when you're willing 
to be still. 

509
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:54,080
By the presence of God, someone 
becomes very pivotal for us. 

510
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,880
It starts by saying, oh, the 
joys of those who don't follow 

511
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,600
the advice of the wicked, or 
stand around with sinners or 

512
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:05,440
join in with the mochas, but 
they delight in the law of the 

513
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,680
Lord, meditating on it day or 
night. 

514
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,520
And so today, what are you and I
standing around? 

515
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,280
What are we entertaining around?
Yes. 

516
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:23,240
If we are not careful, we will 
start being in places where we 

517
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,240
need not being. 
We'll entertain those things. 

518
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,600
It's easy to gather around 
people to talk bad about 

519
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,120
something else. 
It's easy to gather around 

520
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:33,720
people who are willing to pull 
down something. 

521
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:39,320
It's easy to gather around 
people and move around what will

522
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,520
work out because some things 
aren't working according to how 

523
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,840
they see it. 
It takes a lot more to actually 

524
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,280
wait in the presence of God and 
say God, is this something 

525
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,400
that's happening? 
Is this something that I need to

526
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,120
stand here? 
Is this something I need to do? 

527
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:57,680
And so as you wait on God, as 
you start applying the 

528
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,000
scriptures into your life, you 
will soon realize these foxes 

529
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,400
that are coming in are causing 
distractions. 

530
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,840
Today. 
The enemy can come in different 

531
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,080
forms. 
Just imagine you can be 

532
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,080
witnesses to the miraculous. 
And then when Moses goes up to 

533
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,640
meet with God, he's that longer.
He's he's in the presence and 

534
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,680
before you know it, our hearts 
are turned. 

535
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,560
We suddenly are asking for a God
thinking that God's gone. 

536
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,040
He brought us here and he's left
us. 

537
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,600
No, He just wanted us to remain 
calm. 

538
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,240
Just imagine, God wanted to give
40 days His people rest. 

539
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,480
Rather they got so fluttered and
so many a times. 

540
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,480
The vineyard that God's given us
takes time. 

541
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,520
The vineyard that God's given us
has to go through its course, 

542
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,200
which means if if a certain 
breakthrough or a certain 

543
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,880
harvest has to come and the 
growing period is 9 months or 

544
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,240
you know, couple of years, it 
has to take its course so that 

545
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,680
you mature. 
When you look at the entire 

546
00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:00,680
Scripture timeline, every 
character of the Bible has come 

547
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,320
at an appointed point according 
to God's will. 

548
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:09,520
There is a Kronos and there's a 
Kairos, and I believe your 

549
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,440
miracle will come in God's 
appointed time. 

550
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,240
My miracle will come in God's 
appointed because that's when 

551
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,560
I'll be able to handle it. 
I'll be able to work with it. 

552
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,800
I'll be able to see God do His 
work. 

553
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,000
I'll be able to understand a 
part of the unfolding of His 

554
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,280
will for you and me. 
So today, are we giving in to 

555
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,600
distractions because people 
around us are restless? 

556
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,640
Are we operating out of 
deception? 

557
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,400
How we are operating? 
Everything starts with 

558
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,720
addressing something that's 
happening in your body. 

559
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,360
A lot of us have started to 
entertain yoga. 

560
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,280
I would ask you, be mindful 
because you can't have the Holy 

561
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,000
Spirit and have another spirit 
where you're trying to Incarnate

562
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,240
and trying to draw attention to 
God is already in you. 

563
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,440
He is life. 
Don't dim the light and the life

564
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,360
that's in you through Him. 
You might say, yeah, you need 

565
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,160
enough peace. 
Your body has to come to a place

566
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:13,880
of realizing God is in control. 
It's interesting that before we 

567
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,720
know it, you, if you're not able
to take a stand, your children 

568
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,800
will not be able to stand. 
And then suddenly you're like, 

569
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,320
oh, we need to find a Christian 
School. 

570
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,560
You can find all the Christian 
schools possible and put your 

571
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,040
kids. 
But before you know it, they'll 

572
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,920
go into colleges, they'll go 
into workspaces. 

573
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,520
But because they're not founded 
right, they were not given the 

574
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,120
right armor. 
They were not allowed to stand 

575
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,200
and believe for what is true. 
They were not taught how to 

576
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,400
resist the enemy they were 
given. 

577
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,680
So today, don't think Christian 
schools are the big are the 

578
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,880
answers. 
It's the Christian way of life. 

579
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,240
It's that word of God. 
Are you teaching them to resist 

580
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,320
the enemy manifesting your own 
wishful thing today 2026, you 

581
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,240
you can go into any bookstore. 
There are books on manifesting 

582
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,600
what it is. 
They take this, speak it out. 

583
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,440
They just needed encouragement 
today. 

584
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,080
The Holy Spirit is your 
encouragement. 

585
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,560
He says I want to talk to you. 
Will you talk to me as much as 

586
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,040
you're talking to a mirror. 
He's saying talk to me because 

587
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,280
talking to a mirror, you're 
talking if you're broken, you're

588
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,200
talking to a broke, broken 
version of you. 

589
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,800
You're manifesting saying you're
whole, but your body is broken. 

590
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,120
You're manifesting that you're 
you're healed, but your body is 

591
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,640
broken. 
You're manifesting your spirit 

592
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,640
is right, but your spirit is in 
the wrong. 

593
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,920
Stop manifesting things when 
your entirety isn't broken. 

594
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,480
You need the healer. 
You need someone who will work 

595
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:38,000
you inside out. 
So today, don't fall to the lies

596
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,680
and the the deception that the 
enemy brings with regard to 

597
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,480
manifesting sudden interests and
things and others. 

598
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,440
Suddenly you'll realize you, 
you, you, you. 

599
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:52,120
You've lost that love. 
When Solomon writes this, he's 

600
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,560
talking about the distractions 
that are coming into his own 

601
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,200
vineyard. 
He's not being able to be 

602
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,120
faithful to the one. 
What are some of the things 

603
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,560
you're willing to give up? 
Give it up so that the spouse 

604
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,400
feels important. 
Give it up so that your children

605
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,960
know that this is a stable 
family. 

606
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,080
This is a stable home. 
Give it up so that you can raise

607
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,880
up a godly generation. 
You and I have a mandate. 

608
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,080
The minute God gives us 
children, he's saying I'm going 

609
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,560
to trust you with some. 
Would you do your job? 

610
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,680
And then when we dedicate a baby
in church, he's also asking the 

611
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,440
church, would you guys live 
right so that the child has an 

612
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,960
atmosphere to grow and see him. 
And so today, what is the thing 

613
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,480
with regard to overcoming 
deception? 

614
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,120
This entire thing of deception 
is disclosure. 

615
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,160
You need to make known to God 
everything you're struggling 

616
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,640
with. 
God, this is my area of 

617
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,440
struggle. 
God, this is the area I'm 

618
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,800
struggling with. 
Just a couple of days back, we 

619
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,920
were sitting and talking to a 
friend and as we're talking, 

620
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,360
this is the power of dining 
table conversations. 

621
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,480
I would say where we where we 
sit, where we can put down and 

622
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:10,560
disclosing happened of things 
that that that that need that he

623
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:11,960
needs help. 
We need help. 

624
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,960
We're able to freely talk. 
Why? 

625
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:21,239
Because it happens in a place of
realizing I need help. 

626
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,080
So today, where are we 
disclosing? 

627
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:29,120
Because if you're not careful, 
we'll give room to people who 

628
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,840
are not supposed to be telling 
us the truth. 

629
00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:35,480
And we'll be struggling in that.
Our faith has to be in Jesus 

630
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,000
alone, our fruit has to be 
borne. 

631
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:41,719
When we are rooted in Him, when 
we are rooted in His Word and we

632
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,159
are rooted in the garden where 
He is the gardener. 

633
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,719
Our future does not end here on 
earth, but continues with Jesus.

634
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,199
And so with this understanding, 
we may should not be deceived. 

635
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,440
We should not be deceived. 
Ephesians 5 verses one to seven 

636
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,000
says this. 
Follow God's example, therefore,

637
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,200
as dearly loved children walk in
the way of love, just as Christ 

638
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:06,000
loved us and gave himself up for
us as a fragrant offering and 

639
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,960
sacrifice to God. 
But among you there must not be 

640
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,120
even a hint of sexual 
immorality, or of any kind of 

641
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,520
impurity, or of greed, because 
these are improper for God's 

642
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,040
holy people. 
Nor should there be obscenity, 

643
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,200
foolish talk, of course, joking,
which are out of place, but 

644
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,920
other Thanksgiving. 
For off this you can be sure no 

645
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,200
immoral, impure or greedy 
person, such a person as an 

646
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,040
idolator, has in any indentance 
in the Kingdom of God. 

647
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,560
Let no one deceive you with 
empty words. 

648
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,000
For because of such things God's
wrath comes on those who are 

649
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,040
disobedient. 
Therefore do not be partners 

650
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:48,520
with them. 
So my prayer is that we will not

651
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:52,160
give it to the distractions that
the foxes bring, lest we get 

652
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,760
deceived. 
The second thing these foxes do 

653
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,080
is they always go and target 
things that are smaller to them.

654
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,320
They're not big in size. 
They're like like like a regular

655
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,480
dog, a large breed dog size. 
And so you'll realize they 

656
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,960
always follow the tactic of a 
large truck, small truck. 

657
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,760
They'll go and intimidate things
that are smaller. 

658
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:12,920
They won't go to things that are
bigger. 

659
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,480
And So what, when they come into
a farm or when they come, 

660
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,880
they'll go attack a sheep, a 
chicken, and they, they, they, 

661
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,960
they plunder more than what they
need also. 

662
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,120
And so when you're thinking 
about this, when I was thinking 

663
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,240
about this, God was reminding me
foxes, when I'm not leaving, if 

664
00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:33,760
I'm not careful, if I'm not 
alert, they dig out what is 

665
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,640
planted. 
So the second thing, that first 

666
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,280
one is distraction. 
So lest I be deceived, second is

667
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,800
they dig out what is being 
planted. 

668
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,680
So as Christ's followers, we 
need to be on a high alert. 

669
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,720
What is it about the enemy that 
we entertain that he comes in 

670
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:50,800
and decides to take things? 
Because the enemy is clear. 

671
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,120
He's got his agenda clear. 
Steal, kill and destroy. 

672
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,760
He steals it in that emptiness. 
He will kill it when once we are

673
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,200
down, He'll destroy us entirely.
He'll, he'll, he'll remove any 

674
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,440
form of hope. 
And so today I want to ask you, 

675
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,600
who are you allowing? 
Why are your gates left open? 

676
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,720
Put doors on your gates. 
Put, put, put. 

677
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:17,360
Just don't leave the gates open.
close it, be on alert, allow be 

678
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:22,160
on watch who's coming close. 
John 10 verses 9 to 10 says I am

679
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,080
the gate. 
Whoever enters through me will 

680
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,200
be saved. 
They will come in and go out and

681
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,800
find pasture. 
The thief comes only to steal, 

682
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,200
kill and destroy. 
I have come that they may have 

683
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:37,760
life and have it to the foot. 
So to even you are not careful, 

684
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:42,280
put good gates around what you 
listen to. 

685
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,800
Keep guardrails in your 
relationships that you have. 

686
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,560
Keep guardrails around your 
finances. 

687
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,600
Keep guardrails around your 
heart and the and the affections

688
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:57,200
of your heart because it's in 
this he'll always come and take 

689
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,000
what is planted because it's 
interesting when they're digging

690
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,920
out, all they need to do is 
disrupt what is going good. 

691
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,440
All they and when they dig out, 
what do they dig? 

692
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,320
They don't go for the stem. 
They don't go for the branch. 

693
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,800
No, they dig out the root. 
They kill the root. 

694
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,560
They they make sure that they 
are killing you from within. 

695
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,360
And so today I want to ask you, 
the enemy knows where to hit us.

696
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,000
The enemy knows where to hit us.
Where are you and I lacking in 

697
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,800
protection? 
Can we be deeply ingrained 

698
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,360
knowing that God, I want to be 
protected by you. 

699
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,520
So today I want to ask you as 
Christians who love God, his 

700
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,160
word, what is the one area I 
need to work on? 

701
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,600
Because he's constantly coming 
and digging for those of us. 

702
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:46,800
He digs our areas of 
contentment, especially you. 

703
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,120
You, you're content and but 
suddenly there's this unhealthy 

704
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,000
appetite that he's giving. 
And so suddenly you, you realize

705
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,320
you're spending more than what 
you actually ought to spend. 

706
00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:58,800
You're scrolling more than what 
you're what you usually do. 

707
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,280
Suddenly a discontent sets in 
and you're suddenly are looking 

708
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,720
at images and things which 
you're not supposed to see. 

709
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,560
You're suddenly entertaining 
people who you're not supposed 

710
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,720
to be even giving room to 
because you know that the 

711
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:11,680
choices that they make are 
completely wrong. 

712
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,440
So I want to ask you today, what
are you giving room for the 

713
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:23,600
enemy to come and dig God your 
vineyard, You know, the, the, 

714
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,680
the, it requires us to 
constantly keep tending, knowing

715
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,360
the condition of our route. 
You know, we've been living in 

716
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,600
this house, it's been 8 years 
and then periodically there's 

717
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,800
some work or the other, you 
know, I'm realizing because we 

718
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,000
are close to a lake, we can see 
a lot of rust settling in. 

719
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,520
And so we need to get that 
sorted out. 

720
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,680
We have so much of pesticide and
other things that we have to do.

721
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,600
We also have a lot of other 
things which electrically we'll 

722
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,120
have to do. 
So for example, suddenly when I 

723
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,320
was in the room that I'm 
working, there's a fan that's 

724
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,240
running. 
Suddenly the fan started slowing

725
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:55,200
down. 
And in peak summer, you know 

726
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,080
what the fan speed usually is. 
And I knew what the issue was. 

727
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,600
It was a condenser problem. 
And so when I'm not getting the 

728
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,760
right condenser, if I get a. 
If I go to the hardware store 

729
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,320
and I get a condenser which is 
not. 

730
00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:11,720
The, the, it's a duplicate or 
it's a knock off version. 

731
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,800
Within a matter of a week or 10 
days, the condenser will act up.

732
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:17,480
But there's this interesting 
thing. 

733
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,680
So in the condenser actor, 
because I'm already caught up in

734
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,600
so many other things, I am not 
bothered about going and getting

735
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,040
the correct one. 
I am surviving in that same 

736
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,800
mode, going in that same speed 
where whereas I'm supposed to be

737
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,400
actually having the right one 
and doing it. 

738
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:34,760
And so today I want to ask you, 
God was reminding me, many of us

739
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,720
are operating like that because 
of things that are gone. 

740
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,720
We are not going to the root. 
God is like, can you go back to 

741
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:43,000
the root before he digs it out 
entirely? 

742
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:48,000
Go back to the root issue, fix 
it, go back to the things that 

743
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,320
break that has broken you and 
fix it. 

744
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,720
A lot of us are wanting 
superficial fixing. 

745
00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:56,680
Now God's like, go to the root 
because the foxes are coming for

746
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,280
the root. 
They, they, they will dig out. 

747
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,640
They will that very identity 
that God's built over time, 

748
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,280
He'll come and dig that out. 
It's interesting, the more I'm 

749
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,320
starting to see people and 
journey with them, I'm seeing 

750
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:14,360
the minute you love him and he 
digs out your very identity in 

751
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,040
Christ. 
He digs out, he puts doubt, he 

752
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:21,040
puts shame, and then suddenly 
you are just drifting away. 

753
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,680
And so today I want to ask you, 
what is your prayer times 

754
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,400
looking like? 
Are those times where He's able 

755
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,120
to talk to you or are you just 
talking to Him? 

756
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,080
What is your Bible reading time 
looking at? 

757
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,840
Because when you're spending 
time in His Word, is this Word 

758
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,600
coming alive and telling you 
what you need to do? 

759
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,120
Because the changes that we need
to make are from His Word only. 

760
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,640
We can see that we will 
constantly have these foxes to 

761
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:48,640
come and dig these things out of
our lives because we have been 

762
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,040
busy with something else, but it
comes back to us. 

763
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,600
Can we go back and fix these 
issues? 

764
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:57,600
Can we be intentional? 
Can be intentional in two, 

765
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,840
Peter. 
One versus 5 to 9 Peter says 

766
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,800
this, so don't lose a minute in 
building on what you've been 

767
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,520
given. 
Complimenting your basic faith 

768
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,680
with good character, spiritual 
understanding, alertness, alert,

769
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,400
discipline, passionate patience,
reverent wonder and warm 

770
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,840
friendliness and generous love. 
Each dimension fitting and 

771
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:22,000
developing the others. 
With these qualities active and 

772
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,720
growing in your lives, no grass 
will grow under your feet. 

773
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,160
No day will pass without it's 
reward. 

774
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,880
As you met here in your 
experience of our Master Jesus. 

775
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,440
Without these qualities you 
can't see what's right before 

776
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:40,240
you, oblivious that your old 
sinful life has been wiped off 

777
00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:42,320
the books. 
What does this mean? 

778
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:47,800
It means that you and I have to 
constantly be tending to things 

779
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,640
with such because the enemies 
out to attack us. 

780
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,160
The talks, especially when you 
read was the same. 

781
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,480
When I'm reading the Passion, it
says if you bow alone, God's 

782
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,520
awesome presence, he'll surely 
exalt you and you'll leave the 

783
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,160
timing in his hands. 
Pour out all your worries and 

784
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,160
stress upon him and leave them 
there. 

785
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,120
This is from one Peter, for he 
always tenderly cares for you. 

786
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:16,080
Be well balanced and always 
alert because your enemy, the 

787
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:20,320
devil roams around incensely 
like a roaring lion looking for 

788
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,200
it's prey to devour. 
Take a decisive stand against 

789
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,960
him and resist his every attack 
with strong vigorous faith. 

790
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,280
So today when he comes to dig 
out those plants, you're going 

791
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,640
to say no in Jesus name. 
These roots belong. 

792
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,040
I'm rooted in them. 
There's nothing going to change.

793
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,720
I am going to be generous. 
Yes it it might seem like lack, 

794
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:42,880
but I will still be generous 
because that is the God I 

795
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,800
worship. 
Yes, when there is faithlessness

796
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,560
because of the situation of no 
God, my faith is in Jesus. 

797
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,720
He will come through. 
If you're saying the joy, God's 

798
00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:55,920
saying the joy of the Lord will 
be my strength, not these things

799
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,640
which I think will bring me joy.
The joy of the Lord will be his 

800
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,200
peace that sustains me and keeps
me in perfect peace. 

801
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,120
Those are the things that I will
run after, not things that will 

802
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,360
give me temporary peace because 
it's in that you'll be able to 

803
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,960
dig those, put those roots back 
and say whatever the fox has 

804
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:17,120
come, I will buttle it with the 
I will rebuttle it with the word

805
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,560
of God. 
Take that stand. 

806
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,600
Everyone is going through this. 
So if you and I have to do what 

807
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,240
God's called us to do, can we 
take that stand? 

808
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:33,120
Because the distractions that He
brings, the digging that He does

809
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,840
is so that we will become a 
wasteland. 

810
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,320
Which takes me to the Third 
Point. 

811
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,800
Dead end areas become 
wastelands. 

812
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:46,400
You see in these patches when 
they start happening a couple of

813
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,960
places, if you're not alert, as 
I said earlier, because he goes 

814
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,600
for the roots, we will allow 
that to spread. 

815
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,640
And before we know, what would 
seem like one thing will 

816
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,720
suddenly start spreading and 
look like a wasteland. 

817
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,240
Dead in the areas will become 
wastelands. 

818
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:05,600
So I pray that these, when you 
talk about these foxes running 

819
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,200
and pulling out, what do they 
come and pull out? 

820
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,120
What do they, what do they take 
out of you? 

821
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,440
Suddenly? 
This is Geshom here who's a 

822
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,320
Christian, but he's without joy.
Guess who I'm here. 

823
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,000
It was a Christian who's without
love. 

824
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:21,640
I might have certain things, but
this one area patch which 

825
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,120
supposed to have the love is 
missing because that's waste. 

826
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,800
That's become a wasteland now, 
because he attacked that 

827
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,240
particular thing continuously, 
and I didn't go back to the root

828
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,200
before I knew there was nothing 
else. 

829
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,240
It didn't bear fruit. 
It died. 

830
00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:40,880
That's why I realized so many 
people today have a wrong 

831
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:44,400
understanding of God. 
Systematically, they're taking 

832
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,640
you out. 
Systematically they're keeping 

833
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,280
you busy from the pursuits of 
God. 

834
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,080
Systematically, they are 
bringing things so that you will

835
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:56,280
be away from His presence. 
So find what is it that I can do

836
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,400
to be in the presence of God? 
Find what I can do. 

837
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,080
What are what are the things 
that I would subscribe to? 

838
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:06,960
Everything might look important,
but not everything is 

839
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,960
beneficial. 
Find out what's beneficial. 

840
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,280
Stick to what's beneficial. 
Accept that this is what God's 

841
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,960
created you for. 
He's not created me for 

842
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,040
everything. 
You know, this is a reel that 

843
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:26,200
comes where a wife is trying to 
sing and the reel says just 

844
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,560
checking if I can sing so I can 
have a career change. 

845
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,680
And when the song starts, she 
sings on a whole different key 

846
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:36,120
and she's going out. 
Be aware of what you're called 

847
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,680
for. 
Just because 10 other people are

848
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,440
doing something doesn't mean I 
have to do it. 

849
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,240
A lot of us are trying to pursue
and do things based on what 

850
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:49,480
we're seeing around us here with
amongst the people of God too. 

851
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,600
No, but what does God called you
uniquely to do? 

852
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,320
Are you confident in what he's 
called you to do? 

853
00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:00,000
And So what are these wastelands
today that we have because when 

854
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:06,560
God wants to set us free and 
want to wants to grow us, the 

855
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,400
when you read Psalm one, that's 
what it says he, he keeps us 

856
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,640
besides the streams. 
And what happens in those 

857
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,320
streams? 
They are like trees planted 

858
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,960
along the river bank bearing 
fruit in each season. 

859
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,920
Their leaves never were there, 
and they prosper and all they 

860
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:26,920
do. 
And because they do not allow 

861
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:31,080
the wicket, they are like 
worthless shafts scattered with 

862
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,200
the wind. 
They'll be condemned at the time

863
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,960
of judgment. 
Sinners will have no place among

864
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,360
the godly, for the Lord watches 
over the path of the godly. 

865
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,880
But the path of the wicket leads
to destruction. 

866
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:48,640
You and I have to realize that 
we cannot operate with patches 

867
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:52,880
of wastelands in our lawn. 
With patches of wastelands, a 

868
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,760
lot of us today are wanting to 
do life. 

869
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:01,200
With a patch of a marriage not 
functioning, a lot of us are 

870
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,720
wanting to do life. 
With a patch of us not being a 

871
00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:08,960
right parent, a lot of us are 
not wanting to do the life, the 

872
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,080
wanting to do Christian life 
with a patch of us, you know, 

873
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:17,600
having other things that we give
in to and thinking it's all OK. 

874
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:22,000
But God's asking us today, what 
are these patches that are done 

875
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,120
in your life? 
It's become a wasteland. 

876
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:25,800
Is it joy? 
Is it peace? 

877
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,080
Is it health? 
Is it finances? 

878
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,400
Is it your sexuality? 
Because broken sexuality you 

879
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,280
suddenly are exploring what are 
the other things that culture is

880
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:35,760
dictating? 
Is it your mind? 

881
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,520
Because when your mind is not at
peace, your your mind is 

882
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,240
circling back for so many other 
things. 

883
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,000
Is it marriage? 
Because you're not? 

884
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,720
Because you think your marriage 
has become a waste and you're 

885
00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,040
starting to look out for others.
Is it your friendships? 

886
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:52,960
Because you've not you, you, you
you've you've made friendships 

887
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,320
look very disposable that you're
looking and thinking now, OK, 

888
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:00,360
maybe I need to change my entire
circle family relationships. 

889
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,800
God's like I can still breathe 
and do my work. 

890
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,400
Would you come to a place of 
realizing that those are dead 

891
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,400
end things? 
Because what happens when the 

892
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,280
fox overcomes these things, The 
minute they cause you to 

893
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,960
distract, they dig it out. 
The minute it's a waste and they

894
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,320
make it their home, they will 
lie that they their weeds will 

895
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,560
grow. 
It's interesting that parable in

896
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,120
it says where Jesus talks about 
the weeds. 

897
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,000
He says the good are planted and
then the weeds are there. 

898
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,200
But at the time of the harvest, 
the weeds are taken and they are

899
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,320
thrown into the fire. 
There is a season for the weeds 

900
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,400
to be taken. 
There will be times when bad 

901
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:42,120
things will be thrown in, in a 
season identified. 

902
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,960
God will alert you that season, 
you take it out, you throw it. 

903
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,360
Seasons changed in a couple of 
months. 

904
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:51,520
That's where God's alertness 
alerting us, find it, take it by

905
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,840
the root, pull it out, throw it 
so that you'll be able to have 

906
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,600
the harvest that is needed. 
So today you and I, what are our

907
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:03,160
dead end areas that we have been
OK, because we can cover the 

908
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,720
patch with a fake patch. 
We can cover those patches with 

909
00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:10,560
the fake patch where God's like,
I want to be in a place where 

910
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,560
you're not deadened to it 
because if it becomes a waste 

911
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,680
and I can't do anything because 
when it becomes a waste and is 

912
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,600
when we discard the vineyard and
we move off, we choose another 

913
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,200
territory. 
For all those of us who've been 

914
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,800
here last year, our eyes were on
the promise. 

915
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,200
We are moving in that promise. 
And with this year with a divine

916
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,640
takeover saying God you take 
over. 

917
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,640
Can he take over these dead end 
areas so that they won't become 

918
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:41,200
wastelands. 
Foxes continually sit, linger 

919
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,480
and then they create a habitat. 
One Peter chapter 2 verses one 

920
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,000
to three before I close so 
abandoned every form of evil, 

921
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,760
deceit, hypocrisy, feelings of 
jealousy and slander. 

922
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:56,240
In the same way what nursing 
infants cry for milk, you must 

923
00:50:56,240 --> 00:51:00,600
intensely crave the pure 
spiritual milk of God's Word, 

924
00:51:01,240 --> 00:51:04,520
for this milk will cause you to 
grow into maturity, fully 

925
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:10,680
nourished and strong for life, 
especially now that you have had

926
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:15,120
a taste of the goodness of 
Yahweh and have experienced His 

927
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:21,160
kindness. 
Don't let the foxes sit on these

928
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,840
areas of wastelands in your 
life. 

929
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:29,240
Offense and I would ask you, 
would you speak the word of God 

930
00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:31,280
and the nature of God over every
offense? 

931
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:36,400
For those of you who consider, 
oh, this is not happening, would

932
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,080
you trust God and know that he's
taking you through it? 

933
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,840
He's not kept you there, but 
He's taking you through it for a

934
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,360
breakthrough, not insight. 
Would you still show up and 

935
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:50,240
boldly say God even in the midst
of this breakthrough, which is 

936
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:52,600
not insight? 
I still don't show up because a 

937
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,600
victory is yours. 
Victory is yours for those of 

938
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:01,640
you who are waiting in a place 
of you feel like you've been 

939
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:05,880
completely neglect. 
God is saying I am with you for 

940
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,840
you. 
Those of you who feel isolated, 

941
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,520
he's saying my presence is 
complete. 

942
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,400
My glory will come down for 
those of you who are like God, 

943
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,320
I've, it feels like I've 
inherited a lot of this and he's

944
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:23,480
like come submit to the altar 
and I will do everything. 

945
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:27,720
Stop striving. 
Let me tend to these roots and 

946
00:52:27,720 --> 00:52:30,840
allow God to go deep in because 
when he goes deep in what 

947
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,560
happens is he shows us things 
we've carried far too long. 

948
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,160
We've just come through Good 
Friday and Easter. 

949
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,600
You'll realize in the Good 
Friday the cross always brings 

950
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:45,680
us to a place of deep realizing 
that the past does not define 

951
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:50,120
us, that the future is through 
the blood. 

952
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,800
So allow the blood to permeate. 
Sprinkle the blood on the 

953
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,440
wasteland. 
Sprinkle Jesus. 

954
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:04,480
Declare Jesus, take the shovel 
and go and dig it and see in the

955
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,040
name of Jesus, I break ground on
the wasteland. 

956
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:11,520
So suddenly you'll see what you 
thought was dead and start 

957
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:15,800
springing with life. 
As I conclude, there are two 

958
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:20,520
passages I want you to read 
specifically for us as we wait 

959
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:24,960
on God to ask us so that we will
not give in to distraction lest 

960
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:28,640
we be deceived. 
For those digging off, that has 

961
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,920
been planted for whatever was 
going right, but yet the foxes 

962
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,560
came and dug those out. 
That He'll give us alertness so 

963
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,600
that we'll be alert to what He's
coming and doing. 

964
00:53:37,240 --> 00:53:40,160
And to the third, for those 
patches which we've forsaken, 

965
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,760
but God does not forsake, and 
He's telling us, will you trust 

966
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:48,760
me so that I can turn these 
wastelands into something more 

967
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,360
prosperous? 
You'll be amazed when we commit 

968
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,160
our wastelands to God, what He 
can do. 

969
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,480
So don't allow these foxes to 
inhabit these places. 

970
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,080
So I pray and ask that as we 
conclude, there are two verses I

971
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,520
wanted to read and I wanted to 
pray because the lifespan of our

972
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,320
vineyard is our entire lifetime 
and God wants us to come to a 

973
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:13,520
place where we have a rich 
harvest of producing and then 

974
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,120
even into our old age. 
He's saying so in the old days 

975
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,400
is when there's concentrate of 
wine when he's in these 

976
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,560
vineyards. 
And so in that, what does it say

977
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:24,280
in Amos chapter 4 verse 9, many 
times I struck your gardens and 

978
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,320
vineyards, destroying them with 
blight and mildew, locust 

979
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,840
devoured your fig and all of 
these, yet you've not returned 

980
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:32,960
to me says a lot. 
So what is it? 

981
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,240
God's sometimes allowed these 
things to come so that our focus

982
00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:40,560
will go back to him, but yet 
we've become people with 

983
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,920
soulless conviction and apathy 
that we're just saying God, it's

984
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,560
OK, I'll just sit here. 
This is I'll take this as my 

985
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:47,720
Lord. 
God said, no, I want you to 

986
00:54:47,720 --> 00:54:50,360
fight for it. 
I want you to pursue it. 

987
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,840
Anyone who's actually found 
victory in the Bible has 

988
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,640
actually stood on the 
battleground, said not given 

989
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,520
into the lie of the enemy. 
Isaiah chapter 65, verses 21 to 

990
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:01,760
23. 
This is what it says. 

991
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:03,920
They will build houses and dwell
in them. 

992
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:08,120
When you tend to your vineyard, 
when you don't, when you respond

993
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:13,120
to God's alarm, when you respond
to God's cry to sing, find when 

994
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,280
He says that, and I wanted your 
attention now I got it. 

995
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,840
Yes, these foxes were allowed 
into your lives so that you will

996
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,520
know who the true God is, so 
that your pursuits will be real 

997
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:24,960
if you pursue me. 
In Isaiah 65, this is what it 

998
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,360
says. 
They will build houses and dwell

999
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,640
in them. 
They will plant veneers and eat 

1000
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,480
their fruit. 
No longer will they build houses

1001
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,160
and others live in them, or 
plant and others eat. 

1002
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:36,240
For as the days of a tree, so 
will the days of My people. 

1003
00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:40,040
My chosen ones will be long. 
Enjoy the work of their hands. 

1004
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,800
They will not labor and vain, 
nor will they bear children 

1005
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,680
doomed to misfortune. 
For there will be a people 

1006
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:49,720
blessed by the Lord today and 
their descendants with them. 

1007
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,960
So today, you and I, I want to 
come to a place if you've been 

1008
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,880
stubborn, if you've been saying 
God, that my parents trusted 

1009
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,760
you. 
And so I'm seeing this lack. 

1010
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,640
And so I, I can't believe you're
like this. 

1011
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:06,240
God's like I want you. 
I want you. 

1012
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,480
Don't formulate everything based
on what has happened in the 

1013
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,080
past. 
As I said earlier, we came 

1014
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:18,240
through Good Friday and Easter. 
Good Friday tells us the past is

1015
00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:22,040
not what dictates our future. 
So today you and I are coming to

1016
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,640
a place where we're like God, I 
trust you, I trust you. 

1017
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,720
So I want to ask you today if 
there is a place in your heart 

1018
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,120
where you're saying God, there 
are wastelands in my life. 

1019
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,760
There are areas where I did 
mistake after mistake and today 

1020
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,720
it's this barren. 
You're going to say, God, I'm 

1021
00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:39,920
going to ask you for that rain. 
I'm going to ask you for that 

1022
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:42,360
supernatural rain. 
I'm going to ask you for that, 

1023
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,640
for that, for that wind that 
will come and clear off things. 

1024
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:49,200
Lord Jesus, I pray that, Lord, 
that the word of God will come 

1025
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:53,040
and will come and become alive. 
And so today, even as I pray, I 

1026
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:57,000
want you to, can you be on vigil
so that these little foxes don't

1027
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,560
come? 
One thing is that we stay on 

1028
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,840
God. 
We are alert, which means we 

1029
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:05,280
don't take anything lightly. 
If anything, if even in doubt, 

1030
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,520
we take it to God. 
We say, God, this happened. 

1031
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,200
Is this from you? 
What is happening? 

1032
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,680
Let it allow it to linger 
because it's in that you will 

1033
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,720
identify that there are even 
more smaller things that God 

1034
00:57:15,720 --> 00:57:17,640
wants to change in and through 
us. 

1035
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,240
So can we pray right now? 
Because I believe there are many

1036
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:24,240
of us who are struggling in an 
area where we are comfortable 

1037
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:28,560
with our wasteland because we 
can build things around it and 

1038
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,920
make it look nice and we can 
comfort ourselves saying you're 

1039
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,320
OK. 
But God's like, no, I want to 

1040
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,480
set you free. 
I want to make you whole. 

1041
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,320
So loving Heavenly Father, Lord,
we pray right now, Lord Jesus, 

1042
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:42,600
that even as we heard your word,
we thank you, Lord, that Lord, 

1043
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:48,600
you're making us aware of what 
we need to stand for, what we 

1044
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,960
need to do. 
And I pray we won't take it 

1045
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,960
lightly, Lord Jesus. 
I pray even as we read every 

1046
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:57,360
wasteland, Lord Jesus right now 
that your river will just run 

1047
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,960
through it. 
Lord, as we read Lord in Psalm 

1048
00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:02,640
one that we will, we will find 
ourselves by a river. 

1049
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:07,040
Lord Jesus we will we will be so
in tune of wanting to be around 

1050
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:11,120
the river. 
Thank you Jesus, would you start

1051
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,280
working in through US? 
I pray especially Lord for all 

1052
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,280
of us who are so easily 
distracted. 

1053
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,160
I pray Lord, would you guard our
hearts? 

1054
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:19,920
Would you guard our spirit man? 
Lord, would you guard our 

1055
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,600
eyesight? 
Would you guard our mind? 

1056
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,760
Would you guard our spiritual 
eyes so that we are not falling 

1057
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:28,480
into deception? 
Lord, I pray for those of us, 

1058
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,640
Lord, who allow these foxes to 
come and dig out, Lord Jesus, 

1059
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:35,160
right from the root. 
We're so sorry, Lord Jesus, that

1060
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,920
we've, we've just, we've been so
caught up with the fruit that 

1061
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:39,400
we, we didn't tend to those 
roots. 

1062
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,600
And we pray right now. 
Would you help us tend to the 

1063
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:45,520
roots, Lord, Help us find 
answers, Lord Jesus, so that 

1064
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:48,720
we'll be able to do it right, 
that we'll give room to you, 

1065
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:53,080
Lord Jesus, please, Lord, we ask
that you would come through. 

1066
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:57,200
Please, we're, we're waiting for
you, Lord, we want you to come. 

1067
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,520
We want you to do your work. 
I pray and ask even right now, 

1068
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,520
Lord Jesus. 
Lord, the third thing for those 

1069
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,400
of us who think because we've 
just allowed these dead end 

1070
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:09,880
areas to become wastelands, that
Lord, would you allow you, we 

1071
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:15,320
allow your river to run over it,
turn, wash us clean, breathe 

1072
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:20,080
life into it, walk. 
Would you would, would your wind

1073
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:26,040
come upon that land, your wind 
which brought shaped the earth, 

1074
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:30,080
which brought light into the 
darkness, which brought life? 

1075
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,560
Would you do that down to our 
wastelands? 

1076
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,160
Be glorified, Lord, be 
glorified. 

1077
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:38,960
Take charge, Lord. 
We're so grateful, Lord, for 

1078
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,120
you. 
We're so grateful that we come 

1079
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,000
get to be in the company of 
people and in your presence. 

1080
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,880
Lord, I pray your world will 
come alive. 

1081
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:48,720
Your your wisdom will come 
alive. 

1082
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:52,240
Lord Jesus in US, take charge, 
be glorified. 

1083
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:55,560
More than anything, we want to 
give you the glory and the honor

1084
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,680
because you believe in you is 
all things. 

1085
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,080
Lord Jesus, through you are all 
things. 

1086
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:05,720
So we give our hands, raise our 
hands and say, Lord, you take 

1087
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,520
all the glory, because whatever 
comes out of the vineyard is for

1088
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:12,040
your glory. 
We've tasted, we've seen, and 

1089
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:13,680
the fruit of it. 
You want to give it back to you.

1090
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:16,560
Lord Jesus, be glorified, be 
honored. 

1091
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,280
Your most holy name we pray. 
Lord, Amen. 

1092
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:20,560
Amen. 
Amen. 

1093
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:24,360
Pray even as you go out this 
week, do watch the movie. 

1094
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,080
It's really fun. 
But more than that, I pray that 

1095
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,480
these things will be of 
alertness for us, but we won't 

1096
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:33,040
allow these little foxes to come
ruin our vineyards. 

1097
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:35,920
God wants us to thrive in every 
area. 

1098
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,200
That's what the more I'm reading
His word, I'm realizing He wants

1099
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:42,960
the whole of us to thrive. 
So I pray whatever is 

1100
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:46,200
struggling, whatever area is 
struggling, committed to God, 

1101
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:50,760
because when you allow that, He 
will shine His light through you

1102
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,840
so that others will see Him 
through US. 

1103
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:56,800
Pray that even as you step out 
this week, God will bless you. 

1104
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:00,160
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1105
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,960
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1106
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1107
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1108
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1109
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1110
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