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I want I want to give you a 
phrase or sentence in the 

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scripture that you would hold 
dear to your heart going into 

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2023. 
You would hopefully hold on for 

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the rest of your life, with 
whatever years, the Lord, and 

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his goodness would give to you. 
Psalm 31. 

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And let's begin here in verse 
11. 

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Here's what David writes, 
because of all my adversaries, I

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have become a reproach, 
especially to my neighbors and 

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an object of dread to my 
acquaintances. 

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Those who see me in the street, 
flee from me, I've been 

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forgotten like one who is dead. 
I've become like a broken 

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vessel. 
For I hear the whispering of 

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many Terror on every side as 
they scheme together against me 

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as they plot to take my life. 
If you want to know the dominant

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theme in the Book of Psalms it's
lament sorrow, it's not praise, 

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it's not Thanksgiving. 
It's lament. 

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And that's the honesty of the 
holy spirit in the Bible to show

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us what can really occupy the 
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Even for those who are Jesus and
this is David lamenting 

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lamenting and praising at the 
same time, but here he is. 

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Experiencing certain level of 
suffering, that is overwhelming.

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He's experiencing the slander, 
the accusation, the 

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assassination of his character 
even as acquaintances are now, 

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betraying him those who are 
familiar with him, those who 

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he's probably work with talk 
with eight with are now also 

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joining with his enemies to try 
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And so he's overwhelmed, he's 
overwhelmed, some of you have 

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known what it can do to you. 
When you even hear somebody 

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who's Told You Secondhand, that 
so-and-so said something. 

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About you, you lose sleep, you 
wonder you think you question. 

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You doubt. 
This man is not only 

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experiencing the trouble of 
people scheming against him. 

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They're planning to actually 
kill him. 

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Now, think about what that will 
do to you and so he can only do 

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what he knows what to do, and 
that's to come to God. 

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And to pour out his heart to 
spill his soul, in the presence 

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of the Lord. 
And as he's crying out to the 

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Lord, something happens, there 
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messages of faith in this song. 
But there's a there's a 

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Monumental statement that he 
makes and he rehearses over 

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himself and even to us who would
read this thousands of years 

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later and verse 14. 
He Comforts himself by saying 

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but But I trust in you. 
Oh Lord. 

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I say you are my God. 
You're not just the god of the 

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world, you're not just the god 
of the universe, you're not just

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the god of Israel. 
You're my God. 

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You're a personal God to me. 
You're a God. 

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Who sees me? 
Who knows me and who will do 

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something for me, you are my 
God. 

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And then this is the phrase that
I want you to etch on your 

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heart. 
It's in verse 15. 

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My times are in your hand. 
My times are in your hand rescue

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me from the hand of my enemies 
and from my persecutors So, in 

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all of this, what was a bomb to 
his soul? 

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Was the Revelation that in the 
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David. 
Notice he didn't say, this time 

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is in your hand, he could have 
said that and I would have been 

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right. 
But the holy spirit's revealing,

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something greater than my times 
plural. 

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What he means by that is the 
totality of my life. 

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And with all the seasons that 
color, the timeline of my 

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existence, every chapter of my 
life is in your hand, you are 

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the author of it, you are the 
one who determines every single 

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up, every single down the 
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moments of persecution, you were
the one who is constantly 

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supervising my days, and this is
what comforted him in a time 

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where he seemed like he was 
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Up by those who hated him 
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God and says, my times are in 
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Meaning no one can do anything 
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Unless you allow it, you 
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And you are the one who keeps me
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for me to not be kept anymore. 
You know, the picture in the 

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Bible of a hand, speaks of 
strength, speaks of security, 

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speaks a Power and Jesus to 
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Salvation says of us that we 
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We're in his what hand? 
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from him. 
No one can pry. 

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Open his fingers to capture us 
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It is settled. 
It is eternal. 

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It is set and the same hand 
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Who holds secure your Eternal 
fate, is the same hand who holds

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together your times on Earth. 
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What? 
What times are we talking about?

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Well, you know what? 
We'll do it. 

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Everything that you can think of
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Is under his control of your 
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And let me just brush over these
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You might feel like you're 
drinking out of a fire hose, but

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it's okay. 
I want to talk to you about the 

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times of your trials. 
He is, the determiner, he is the

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one who writes and etches and 
creates the curriculum of your 

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sanctification. 
Can I show that to you in 

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Revelation, 2, and Revelation 2?
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says to this church. 
Barrett mentioned the two 

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churches that received no 
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And this is one of them, the 
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here in Revelation 2:9, I know 
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poverty but you are rich and the
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they are Jews and are not, but 
are the synagogue of Satan do 

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not fear what you are about to 
suffer behold? 

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The devil is about to throw some
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be tested and For 10 days, you 
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This is, this is one of the most
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to trials. 
This, this verse came into my 

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life when I was in during a 
trial that I thought would never

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end it, just, I couldn't catch a
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It was so intense that it felt 
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I was perfectly fine in terms of
my breathing and my health and 

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on my everything. 
God in his Providence, put this 

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before me. 
And this is what he revealed. 

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Do, not fear what you are about 
to suffer, behold, the devil is 

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about to throw some of you into 
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And here's what bless me because
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Imagine the Lord writing a 
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So this church in sink some of 
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Jail's of this time did not look
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That you may be tested and for 
10 days, 10 days, who determined

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that Satan. 
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for 10 days, is God? 
Jesus himself. 

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Satan is going to come, he's 
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put you in prison, but it's 
going to only be for this amount

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of time. 
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Jesus? 
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revealing it, but because if we 
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character of the evil one, he 
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you. 
He doesn't want to steal from 

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you. 
He doesn't just want to kill 

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you. 
Jesus says, he wants to destroy 

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you. 
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things would stop at kill. 
No, he wants to destroy you. 

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And you see that feverish desire
in jobs life and it wasn't for 

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the hedges that God put Joe 
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moment. 
Satan would have been eaten up 

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like a bowl of cereal. 
And so it is the Lord Jesus who 

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says, this trial will only 
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you're coming out. 
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don't care what it is, I don't 
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I don't care how much you think,
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I don't care how unique it may 
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If you were in the hand of 
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an expiration date at one point,
it will come to an end and you 

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will come out of it. 
If you are faithful like this 

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church, not just with rewards in
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at the end of it all The timing 
of our trials are set in stone 

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by our savior. 
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our deliverance, the timing of 
our provision I think about that

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man in Acts chapter 3 who was 
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Beautiful at the temple and he 
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alms and yet in Luke 21. 
I also read that when Jesus was 

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on this Earth near the end of 
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We are told that every day not 
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week, every day, he was at the 
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He even says that in Matthews 
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right? 
And his trial, and he goes, I 

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am, I was in this Temple 
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So, even from his own admission,
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and he taught. 
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crippled for so many years would
never had never received a 

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healing from the hands of Jesus.
Never, I'm sure Jesus walked by,

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and I'm sure the Lord Jesus 
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who sat on a mat and cried for 
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and the Lord would walk by him 
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Acts 3, when the Lord ascends 
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and John were the vessels that 
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his feet to see strength. 
Come to his legs for him to 

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leap, and praise God, in the 
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And it says that those who saw 
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one who was at the gate. 
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And I think to myself, well, 
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together if the Lord, while on 
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single day. 
Surely he must have come across 

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this man. 
At least, once, why didn't the 

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Lord Heal him? 
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And then, wouldn't that been 
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prove his messiahship wouldn't 
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Great testimony for people to 
realize that this man is 

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unusual. 
And instead in God's wisdom, he 

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delays this man's deliverance 
and he waits for him to ascend 

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into heaven to empower his 
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And for him to be brought to 
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Do you know why? 
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wonderful for Jesus to be able 
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While he was on Earth, it would 
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Testament of who he was and 
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Why he came into this world, but
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something else. 
He did enough healing with other

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He does enough Miracles. 
And yet with this man, he kept 

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them aside and he waited, why? 
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would be used to bring healing 
to this man, people wouldn't 

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just know Jesus was different, 
or that this is surely the son 

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of David. 
They would now know this Jesus 

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has raised from the dead. 
Wow, because Peter says there in

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Acts 3 that faith and his name 
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Well, it was a testament to the 
fact that putting trust in this 

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name, in Jesus name. 
Mmmmm the name, who is alive the

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name that has power today, was 
to make proof of he did conquer 

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death. 
Do you see the Lord's wisdom? 

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The Lord's, wisdom and delaying.
Abraham wanted a son. 

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God wanted a testimony. 
Abraham wanted the joy of 

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Offspring. 
God wanted more glory for 

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himself. 
And so Romans for we are told 

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that when Abraham and the author
of Hebrews Echoes, the same 

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phrase when Abraham was As Good 
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I'm gonna wait until your body 
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That even the thought of you, 
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And it was because they named 
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And it meant something along the
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And so, when you have your life 
in his hand, the timing of your 

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provision is determined, what 
about the timing of your 

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promotion? 
This is for those who are 

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serious, about serving God, in 
your eager, you're eager to 

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serve the Lord. 
You want to give your life to 

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him and live. 
Every moment as I said earlier 

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for his pleasure, And if you're 
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serve God, I'm sure that there's
something in that Harpy that 

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says, Lord I want to touch as 
many lives as possible. 

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Lord, I want to produce as much 
food as possible. 

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Lord, I'm on ashamed. 
I'll Harold my voice in any 

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platform. 
Just give me a platform and I'll

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make your name known by your 
grace. 

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And yet, what do you see year 
after year goes by nobody 

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notices? 
Your gift your after year goes 

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by and no doors are opening year
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you are still in the same place.
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seeing very little little 
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Does God not want to answer that
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There's God not want to do 
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No, I just because his timing is
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promotion is also something that
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A lot of this stuff is review, 
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at the end of the year. 
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the timing of promotion, the 
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level to the next, I can't help.
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king Three Kings of Israel were 
who this Bible study now? 

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Who are the three first three 
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I don't have a prize, but I 
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heard the similar name Solomon, 
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Each rain for how long. 
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Each of them, 40 years. 
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No, two of them ended. 
An apostasy two of them ended in

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a tragic way. 
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I mean, just horrible. 
One married, a bunch of women 

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and they let him into adultery 
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And summoned, the prophet to get
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Army and the war that he was in.
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David's Journey was much 
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when you put these three men 
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length in the Kingdom, or the 
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throne, the same Nation, the 
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I'm sure. 
There's many things you can make

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an in-depth study, especially 
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It was that David was different.
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The Bible that sticks out to me.
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Was led through so much of the 
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before he was promoted. 
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the Kingdom on a silver platter.
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about David was that God took 
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him to taste a little bit of a 
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back down and have some small 
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can just read the roller coaster
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Psalms. 
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believe that routes were 
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experienced. 
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imposing that on the text, it is
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It's a true principle throughout
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Romans 5 tells us, that 
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endurance character. 
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He takes those that he's going 
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time with them. 
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coming up to 2023 and you're 
wondering, where is this leading

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to? 
I want to be used by, I want to 

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see things happen and nothing 
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In fact, all them experience 
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Waiting after waiting suffering 
after suffering, you're in a 

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good class. 
You're in a good place when God 

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doesn't dish things off to you 
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He takes his time, believe that 
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take his time even more before 
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in the Lord. 
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our death. 
The timing of our death. 

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I love this in John 21. 
Jesus, prophesies how Peter is 

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going to die and Peter like many
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of John 21, Peter turned and saw
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following them. 
The one who was also leaned back

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against him during the supper 
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That is going to betray you when
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Lord, what about this man? 
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We always do that as Christians,
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He's around my age. 
Why are you doing it that way 

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for him? 
She's around my age. 

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Why is she getting married 
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That church started around when 
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We always do that. 
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other viewers wondering why God 
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peoples, lives of, and then it 
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goodness in our lives. 
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Lord, what about this, man? 
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will that he remain until I 
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What is that to you? 
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That it's none of your business.
It's none of your business. 

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If it is, my will that he remain
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What is that to you? 
You follow me. 

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So, the saying spread of spread 
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this disciple was not to die. 
Jesus did not say to him that he

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was not to die. 
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It was all, he's not gonna die. 
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Jesus. 
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Jesus did not say to him that he
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will that he remain until I 
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What is that to you? 
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Great practical lessons here. 
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out, in terms of understanding 
my times in his hand, if it is, 

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my will that he remain until I 
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You know what that means? 
It's up to Jesus, how long I 

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Stay? 
It's up to Jesus. 

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How long I'm here? 
It's the will of Christ that 

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determines whether or not I 
stay, or I go and that's true 

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for you if you belong to Christ.
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I wouldn't want to have it any 
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I wouldn't want to have it any 
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What's the alternative you want 
to give your future up to Blind 

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fate? 
Is that what you want? 

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Oh, no Satan. 
So powerful. 

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He can determine when you 
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Two people have trouble with 
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The sovereignty of Jesus. 
The sovereignty of God. 

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So also, what else would you 
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So powerful, do you want to give
your future to the possibility 

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of men's envy overpowering your 
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thought to know that it is up to
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That determines whether or not I
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And I'm glad that he is the one 
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And what if he does give us 20 
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What if all of us here live 
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I'm going to end here. 
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when I read the Apostle Paul, 
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that he might die very soon but 
he didn't God prolonged his 

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life. 
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who had this tension between 
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Philippians 1:21, you know, this
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to die is gain. 
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that means fruitful labor for 
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Pay attention to that. 
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That's glorious for to me to 
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gain fine to live in the flesh. 
That means fruitful labor for 

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me, meditate on that. 
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He goes look if I am to live. 
The only reason why I would want

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to remain here, the only reason 
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preserve my neck. 
From being chopped. 

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Is fruitful labor? 
That's the only reason why You 

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know what that means? 
Lord, the only reason why I 

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would want 2023 to be lived out 
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Ah, Do you think Christians 
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What are you looking forward to?
In 2023 vacations. 

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Vacations, are good. 
Updates on your house. 

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It's nice. 
What making memories with 

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people. 
You love wonderful. 

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That's a gift from God to Can I 
tell you what was consuming this

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man of God, all Lord, I just 
want to serve you. 

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Because I want to tell you 
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heaven, we will glorify God for 
all of eternity. 

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We will glorify him perfectly, 
but let me tell you there's 

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going into 2023. 
You will not be able to glorify 

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him. 
You will not be able to glorify 

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him in the way that you can 
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Because there is no temptation 
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There are no trials to endure 
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him even though he slay me. 
There is no opportunity to sing 

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to the Lord Jesus, even though 
you've been whipped by Sinners 

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and Satan throughout that week, 
when you crawl into this place 

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on Sunday morning, when 
everything in your body was 

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screaming, stay at home, watch 
it live and intermingle with 

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Netflix in the process. 
You will sing because God will 

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give you the grace to sing and 
the body to sing, and even the 

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voice to sing, and that's a 
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You will be able to say no to 
Temptation because there won't 

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be Temptation you will be 
perfectly. 

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Holy you'll be perfectly kind 
perfectly loving perfectly 

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forgiving because your 
resurrected body will enable you

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and you will have the option 
otherwise but only in this life 

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only in this segment of this 
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Can you glorify God in a way 
that when you enter into 

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eternity' morning? 
You won't be able to again, 

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think about that. 
That's profound. 

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And so I want to challenge you, 
come tomorrow and God willing 

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there will be a comforting 
message coming in to 2023, but I

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want to challenge you on the eve
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Serve god with everything in 
you. 

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I'll say this before I end. 
Our family was together on 

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Wednesday night and there was a 
big box filled with pictures so 

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we open it and we just had a 
laugh looking at some of these 

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men reason, we tried our best to
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nieces and nephew came in and 
rearranged everything. 

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So we're going through pictures 
and we spent an hour or two 

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doing that and something caught 
my attention in that ancient 

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box. 
It's a piece of paper. 

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There's a white piece of paper 
and I slipped it out and I 

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looked at and I realized it was 
my handwriting. 

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And I looked at the back and 
there was some verses that were 

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repeating. 
That's how you use your 

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memorize. 
I take a piece of white paper, 

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have the verse in front of me. 
I just write it over and over 

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again before I repeat it on my 
mouth, but on the back of it, 

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there is half of the page 
written with my handwriting and 

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I looked at, and I quickly 
realized what it was, it was a 

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prayer. 
It was a written prayer. 

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And after a long drive, being 
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what was why we were in Canada 
loss of our grandfather. 

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All that, seeing our loved ones 
upset. 

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I look at that. 
And my heart started to race. 

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My heart started to beat and I 
just kept it to myself until 

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now. 
Obviously and I looked at that 

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and it tears to things that came
to my mind. 

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The first thing was this You 
made some vows to God that that 

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piece of paper was probably I'll
say between 8 and 10 years old. 

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I don't know how it got there 
but it was there and I take take

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it to God's Providence for how 
it arrived in my hands. 

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I look at and I totally forgot 
about this. 

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And here's the thing that came 
to my mind. 

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You made some vows to God. 
Did you keep them? 

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Did you keep them? 
And I looked at that, and I 

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realized there is a fervency. 
In those words, there was a 

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fervent. 
Seen those words? 

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It was like a personal letter to
Jesus. 

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Is that fervency still there? 
And here's the third thing that 

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ran through my mind, I said to. 
But here's the third, the third 

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thing was this, God answered 
your prayer. 

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God answered your prayer. 
That's as though, the Lord 

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wanted to put it in my face. 
You wrote this down and I can 

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guess where I wrote it, you 
wrote this down. 

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And I read it. 
Here you are 10 years later and 

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you're living the very thing 
that you prayed for. 

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That's a scary thought. 
Scary in a good way. 

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I'm telling you. 
If you are, if you have no 

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reservation in your heart 
tonight, if you're dead serious,

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about fruitful labor for the 
Lord, he will scare you and how 

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he will answer that prayer. 
He will and maybe you will give 

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you the opportunity 10 years 
from now to remind you how he 

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answered it. 
Maybe not. 

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But I just had a fresh jolt of 
Faith to see. 

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Oh God, you answered this. 
You answered. 

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I took it. 
It's with me. 

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I brought it back with me. 
You answered this. 

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God will answer you tonight but 
he's not going to answer a 

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prayer of the end. 
They'll use me and he went, no, 

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it's not. 
That's not the kind of prairie 

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answers. 
And so in these next few 

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moments, I am fully aware that 
there can be some people who 

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will pray for 5 minutes and for 
the rest of the 25 minutes, 

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we'll talk. 
And catch up with people. 

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If you that's you do it just 
don't distract other people. 

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I'm talking to the person. no 
matter how you live up to this 

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point, there's a new year, new 
Mercies and even if you have to 

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get on your knees, You would say
Lord, if you're giving me 2023, 

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make it all about fruitful 
labor. 

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You'll answer it. 
He will answer it. 

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Your times are in his hand that 
comforts me but let me challenge

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you, what will you do with your 
time? 

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Serve the Lord. 
Jesus Christ, There's No Greater

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Joy. 
No Greater blessing, no greater 

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Delight. 
Here's what we're going to do. 

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In this moment, I'm going to 
give you the time to seek the 

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Lord on your own. 
And you can do that in any way 

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you would like, as long as it's 
not distracting, you can come up

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to the front. 
You could kneel here, if you 

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want, you can kneel your pupil 
put your elbows on the chair, 

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you can Pace back and forth on 
the side. 

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If that helps you get just 
focused, you can do whatever you

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need to do to seek the Lord. 
At a certain point, I will come 

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up and ask you to pray with 
maybe two or three people. 

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And what you're going to do is 
you're going to pray for this 

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church and then 20:23 we would 
see a move of the spirit and 

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that God would do incredible 
things that will just make us 

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feel as though, We are dreaming 
and so I'm going to stop here, I

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can say much more. 
I'm going to trust that, you 

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know, how to pray and you know, 
in your own way how to pour out 

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your heart to God, but all I ask
is I again, I'm fully aware that

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some will not take this 
seriously, and if you are that 

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person, just please keep to 
yourself and allow the Holy 

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Spirit to work on the person who
might be sitting beside you. 

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That needs you not to distract 
them so that they can do what 

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they need to do with God. 
And so I invite you to pray. 

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And it's going to be short as 
you're by yourself because we're

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going to pray in groups. 
We're going to sing and we're 

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going to count down hug each 
other, love each other and go 

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back home and trust that God is 
going to start 2023 and amazing 

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ways. 
So would you do that? 

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Please find a place to pray seek
the Lord And it's going to be 

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short as you're by yourself 
because we're going to pray in 

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groups. 
We're going to sing and we're 

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going to count down hug each 
other, love each other and go 

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back home and trust that God is 
going to start 2023 and amazing 

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ways. 
So would you do that? 

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Please find a place to pray seek
the Lord