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Hey, welcome to the City Point 
Church podcast. 

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Thanks for joining us. 
Every day is an opportunity to 

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take hold of, so we hope this 
message inspires you and builds 

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your faith, but it helps you 
have more of the God perspective

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for your day. 
Enjoy. 

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The time of the message this 
morning is what the Spirit 

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desires. 
So I'd love to open up God's 

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Word, His Holy Bible. 
We are going to read from Romans

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85 and it says this. 
Those who live according to the 

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flesh have their mind set on 
what the flesh desires, but 

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those who live in accordance 
with the Spirit have their mind 

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set on what the Spirit desires, 
what the Spirit desires. 

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When we talk about what Holy 
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gives us insight into the fact 
into the the personhood of who 

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He is. 
Holy Spirit is more than a 

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feeling, He's more than a force,
He's more than power. 

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He's a person, and he is a 
person who can be delighted and 

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offended. 
His desire is to glorify Jesus 

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and the Father in everything 
that he does and he does this by

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working through us, on us and in
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When we speak about Holy Spirit,
this is not a light hearted 

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thing. 
We have the Spirit of God 

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Almighty. 
He's the Spirit of Jesus. 

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This is a age-old spirit. 
He was there hovering over the 

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waters as creation was formed. 
He was right there. 

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He is the Spirit of all wisdom, 
all knowledge. 

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He's very clever. 
He knows all things, and he has 

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the love of Jesus here to pour 
out and to reveal to us His 

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great love and purpose for you. 
He's the Spirit, the Spirit that

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was there that raised Jesus from
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He was there in that moment, and
he's right here with us, the 

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Holy Spirit. 
He lives inside of us. 

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That's what the Bible says. 
And so when we engage him, a 

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good question to ask is what do 
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What do you want to see? 
Spirit of God, What do you want 

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to reveal in me? 
What do you want to reveal about

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Jesus? 
What do you want to highlight in

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His Word? 
What do you want to do? 

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What do you want to start? 
What do you want to stop? 

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What's your will? 
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Spirit, he's here to empower 
people to preach, lead, lead 

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people to give their lives to 
Jesus, be sent out, perform 

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miracles, see signs and wonders,
speak God's word either in 

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testimony or prophetically. 
He wants to see people healed, 

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transformed, delivered, set 
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And He does this through you and
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It is His desire to see these 
things established through you 

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and I. 
And so Holy Spirit is so 

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obsessed to be intimately in the
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He's obsessed with us and our 
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And he begins the trend of the 
process of transforming us more 

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and more and more into the 
likeness of who He is, of what 

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He desires. 
This is actually where Unity 

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begins. 
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process to to understand what he
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more of him. 
And that's where Unity begins to

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take place because we become 
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desires, into his likeness, into
his character, what the Spirit 

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desires as signs and wonders 
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people with miracle working 
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It is a wonderful part of the 
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It is a part that this church 
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and I am convinced it is a part 
that we will see more and more 

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and more of. 
I know we will. 

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However, it's a part of the 
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Those who live according to the 
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what the flesh desires, but 
those who live in accordance 

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with the Spirit have their Can 
their mind set on what the 

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Spirit desires? 
What's your mind set on? 

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What's it think about? 
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Is it work, bills. 
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When we talk about Holy Spirit, 
we can set our minds on what He 

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desires. 
What does He desire? 

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What does he want to do in you? 
What does he want to do through 

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you? 
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like taking a walk with someone,
you know, building a 

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relationship with Holy Spirit. 
It's not that unlike building 

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one with any other person that 
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It's time spent and it's taking 
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with my husband and we might go 
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You know, he, he never liked 
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I don't think he ever noticed a 
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entire life. 
And then he met me and we would 

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go on romantic walks together. 
I'd be like, look at this 

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amazing tree and look at how 
this plant forms and this one's 

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got flow and look at the texture
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And all of a sudden he starts to
see things that he wouldn't have

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otherwise seen because we're in 
relationship and we're going for

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a walk. 
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perspective starts to change 
because you start seeing things,

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you start valuing things that 
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with is singing or or talking 
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Now when we go for walks, he's 
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about this tree? 
What about this? 

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And he's taking photos and he's 
Googling it in the right 

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environments and it can grow and
how big it will get. 

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Not that one, Rachel, that's six
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No, it's too tall. 
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conversations when I go shopping
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Yeah. 
She pointed out that there was a

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Sephora shop. 
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is. 
I'm sure Pastor Melanie does any

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right. 
Some of you here know, some of 

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you don't. 
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You need to take a walk with a 
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And we're walking. 
And she goes, oh, Mum, look at 

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this. 
I now see Sephora shops 

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everywhere because I've learnt 
to see and value something 

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because I've spent time with 
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You start to see things that you
didn't see before when you walk 

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closely with someone building 
relationship with the Holy 

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Spirit, it's not that unlike 
building a relationship with 

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anyone, one person that you 
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in His image. 
He created and designed us in 

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his image. 
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with him, it's not that unlike 
how you would build a 

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relationship here when you spend
time with Holy Spirit, walk with

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him. 
Listen, lean in. 

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You're going to start to see 
what he values. 

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You're going to start to see 
things from his perspective. 

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You're going to start to 
understand what he desires. 

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You start to see what's actually
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When we come, when we come to 
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broken. 
Now beautiful Jesus, when he 

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died on the cross, he said that 
while we were sinners, he died 

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for us and the Holy Spirit 
testifies this to us, why we 

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were sinners. 
The thing is, is that when we 

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come to Jesus, we're often a 
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We often have it's almost, I 
imagine, like wearing a a jacket

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that's got buttons and when you 
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will come a different 
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That's not always pretty right? 
We have triggers, we have hurts,

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we have fast, we have filters 
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And so when we come and we just 
take a walk with Holy Spirit, he

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kind of mellows out the buttons 
and will reveal to you what's 

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actually important. 
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this particular circumstance or 
what that person said or the 

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fact that the church is black is
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whole world. 
And this is the thing that needs

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attention on. 
This is what we need to pay 

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attention to. 
And then you just go for a walk 

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with Holy Spirit and, and he 
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Our buttons, they're not his 
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our filter. 
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filtered. 
True Holy Spirit, and we start 

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to see things through his 
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We start to see what's really 
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I'll be honest, there's there's 
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If you want to build a 
relationship with someone, it's 

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time spent. 
There's no person here that you 

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have great relationship with 
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conversation with over, you 
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face to face. 
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with time spent walking it out 
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What the Spirit desires. 
He's here to transform us more 

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and more into His likeness. 
So one of the ways to understand

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what Holy Spirit desires 
actually found in his word, He 

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tells us he's really, he's not 
shy, He's not discreet about it.

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He actually wrote it all down 
for us in the beautiful Bible. 

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And so let's bring up the Bible 
in Galatians 522 to 23 where it 

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reads about the fruit of the 
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But the fruit of the Spirit is 
Lovejoy, peace, forbearance, 

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kindness, goodness, 
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Against such such things there 
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It is Holy Spirit's desire to 
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our life and out worked in our 
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In other words, they are the 
result of taking a walk, walking

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closely with Him. 
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start to feature. 
They're the fruits that start to

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show walking things out with 
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Holy Spirit might call for peace
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racing and full of fear and 
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And don't you know that the 
mortgage is due next week, Lord?

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But as you walk with Holy 
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things from his perspective and 
faith comes in. 

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He's the great revealer of 
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So you can't spend time with 
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come in and dwell on the inside 
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You start to see things through 
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He need leads you to peace and 
you start to mellow out and 

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chill out a bit and go, right, 
You're so stressed and anxious 

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and then you come in and then 
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The Spirit wants to bring joy 
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But often your flesh will 
struggle with that comment, with

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that, with that person, with 
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And so you want to sit here and 
boil in anger and then you go 

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for a walk, walk with Holy 
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And then he just kind of just 
starts pointing out, have you 

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considered this? 
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Have you considered the 
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Have you considered it? 
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through his perspective and it 
brings this great calm and your 

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heart begins to soften. 
Holy Spirit desires for you to 

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understand and be fully 
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That's actually what He's here 
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He is here to reveal God's love.
And now I just pray over this 

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place that through this message 
and through leaning in and 

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through taking walks with him, 
that you would be fully 

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convinced and that you would 
know of the love of God that let

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it fill your heart to 
overflowing. 

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I pray in this place right now 
that in the depths of those 

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spaces where you think he's 
abandoned you, where you think 

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he's disappointed, where you 
think he doesn't want to live, I

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just pray right now that you 
would be convinced of the love 

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of Jesus that says that he died 
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He still dies for you. 
That's for all time. 

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Just pray right now. 
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little bit. 
Holy Spirit desires, He wants 

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you to be fully convinced of 
God's love. 

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But you know, sometimes we want 
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Oh no, no, no, God, I don't 
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I know that you, you want to 
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want to see this come out, but I
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I can't because I'm not worthy. 
I know I'm, I'm stuck here just 

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just and you put up balls to the
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But he's here to, to minister 
and to reveal the love of Jesus,

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what he did on that cross, what 
it means for you, what he wants 

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to bring you into. 
And we figured this out by 

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taking a walk, walking it out 
with him, bringing it before 

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him, let him start to crack 
through the filters of those 

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walls that we put up. 
But it can be a bit of a 

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battleground within us. 
So these things, they're not 

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things that we need to sit here 
and feel bad about. 

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They're not things that we need 
to sit here and go and just get 

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all heavy about. 
Just look up. 

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Holy Spirit is here to help you.
He wants to help. 

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He wants to lead you to life. 
He wants to. 

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He wants God's love to pour out.
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convinced. 
He wants to develop gifts within

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you. 
He just wants to lead you 

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through. 
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your weaknesses. 
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all of it. 
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it, see, He's a person and he's 
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He's not controlling. 
He's not going to push his way 

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in. 
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He'll wait for you to come to 
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He's not controlling. 
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He's not like, aggressively 
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No, he'll wait. 
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with your spiritual development 
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If you desire, He will 
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you allow him. 
Let's have a look at Acts 1/8 on

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this day of Pentecost. 
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But you will receive power when 
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and you will be my witnesses in 
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Samaria to the ends of the 
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You will receive power when the 
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Yes for miracles, yes for signs 
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crusades, but also to strengthen
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Listen to this. 
In Ephesians 316 it reads, I 

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pray out of his glorious riches 
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power through His Spirit in your
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That word power is the same 
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performs the, the miraculous, 
the the, the, the, the legs that

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grow, the backs that straighten 
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that we saw last year at the 
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That same power is the same 
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strengthen us. 
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He wants to strengthen you. 
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your weaknesses. 
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moment here about that word 
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What is it to strengthen 
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If something needs to be 
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little bit weak, right? 
I've got Stew in the audience. 

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The Stew, my good friend over 
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junkie. 
So if you're at the gym and your

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instructor, what are they 
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Are they instructors, teachers? 
We need one person, Ryan. 

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Oh, it's Milena. 
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Personal trainer. 
APT. 

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Is that what they're called? 
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Sorry, my friend. 
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personal trainer comes to you 
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area is weak, does that mean 
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don't give it any attention? 
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They train it like more 
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to get more work done to it. 
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I feel like you're lying. 
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needs to be strengthened, 
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OK, sometimes it hurts. 
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the area, doesn't mean you just 
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don't worry about it. 
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It means that the weak spot now 
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And sometimes that is going to 
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He won't always remove the the 
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But He will give you power from 
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strengthen those areas what you 
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By His power, you can now do 
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overcome before. 
By His power from on high, you 

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can now overcome. 
And some of you might be sitting

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here with some hard stuff and 
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Where are you, Lord? 
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Some of you with the hard stuff 
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statement. 
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It must be from the devil. 
I understand that the enemy 

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attacks. 
I'm living proof of it. 

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He attacks spiritual pests is 
what they are, and it's the same

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antidote for them all as they 
come. 

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It's just the blood of Jesus. 
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resist the devil, he has to go. 
He has to go. 

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He has to go, friends, Not 
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spiritual attack. 
Not everything that hurts is a 

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devil. 
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He's he's not omnipresent. 
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than one place at one time. 
There's not a devil hiding under

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every rock. 
Every time you experience pain 

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or if something's hurting, it's 
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the devil. 
Let's have a look at this in the

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Bible. 
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story. 
I'll just take a breath and 

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we'll come and read this. 
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Hold on. 
This is about Peter and it says 

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when Jesus came to the region of
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Saraya. 
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So what that word Philippi? 
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who do say that the son of 
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Son of man is? 
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John the Baptist, some say 
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or one of the other prophets. 
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you say I am? 
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he's got a great response. 
You are the Messiah, the Son of 

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the living God. 
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Gold Star book and goes to plant
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And Jesus says this you are 
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because my Father in heaven has 
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You did not learn this from any 
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Now I say to you that you are 
Peter, which means rock and upon

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on this rock I will build my 
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hell will not conquer it. 
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the Kingdom of heaven. 
Whatever you forbid on earth 

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will be forbidden in heaven and 
whatever you commit on earth 

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will be permitted in heaven. 
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totally teacher's pet at the 
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I've had this amazing moment. 
I've had spiritual eyes to see, 

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to see what the what's going on 
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I've got spiritual eyes to see 
what Holy Spirit is, is, is 

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moving in and what he can do. 
And I've got my big shiny Gold 

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Star that Jesus just gave to me.
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Then everyone say, then here we 
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Then he, Stanley warned the 
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that he was the Messiah. 
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tell his disciples plainly that 
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to Jerusalem and that he would 
suffer many terrible things at 

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the hands of the elders, the 
leading priests and teachers of 

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religious law. 
He would be killed, but on the 

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third day he would be raised 
from the dead. 

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But Peter with his big shiny 
Gold Star that he got 5 minutes 

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ago took him aside and began to 
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living word of God to saying 
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Heaven forbid Lord, he said, 
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And Jesus turned to Peter and 
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are a dangerous trap to me. 
You are seeing things merely 

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from a human point of view and 
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Ouch Ouch. 
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He went from like 0 as a hero to
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minutes. 
His natural mind missed what was

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going on spiritually. 
He said, Oh no, this is an 

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attack. 
Not so, Lord, I'm not going to 

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stand for this. 
This will not happen on my 

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watch. 
It wasn't an attack. 

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It was the plan. 
Our natural minds can miss what 

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Holy Spirit's doing. 
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You know what happened in this 
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Peter was a very fast-paced man.
You see that because he's always

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talking or doing things before 
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He was fast. 
Slow down. 

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What is the Spirit desire? 
What is the Spirit doing? 

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Where is Holy Spirit in this? 
Go take a walk, right? 

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Not everything that happens is 
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If I'm can I actually grab the 
muses up, please? 

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If I'm late for work, 10 minutes
late for work because I've got 

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every red light, that's not a 
spiritual attack. 

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That's a time management 
problem. 

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If you have an argument with 
someone close to you and you are

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angry, unkind and aggressive 
guys, that's that's not 

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necessarily a spiritual attack. 
Holy Spirit allows these things,

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brings them to the surface. 
When you've got buttons on on 

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your jacket, he actually allows 
them to be pressed to bring it 

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out to the surface. 
So you can go take a walk with 

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him. 
Let her come out. 

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Let him let him just have a have
a bit of a wrestle. 

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What's what's your desire in 
this Holy Spirit? 

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The Bible says that you will 
receive the the sorry, the 

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passage in the Bible says that 
if if we ask for anything in his

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name that we will receive it. 
So I don't know where it is. 

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Look it up. 
Start in Genesis, get through to

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Revelation. 
It's in there somewhere when we 

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ask for anything in His name 
that we will receive it. 

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Do you know what the last line 
of that paragraph reads? 

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It reads something like this. 
And how much more will I give 

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the Holy Spirit to those who 
ask? 

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You see, he's not forceful. 
He's not aggressive. 

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He describes himself in His 
nature as gentle. 

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He's a gentle spirit. 
And so when we come to him, He 

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will do it gently what the 
Spirit desires. 

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I wonder this morning if we 
could just ask the question even

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in this moment. 
Feel free to close your eyes, 

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have a moment, take a walk with 
Holy Spirit. 

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What do you desire? 
Spirit of God in my life in this

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season, what do you want to see?
Holy Spirit in my language, 

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relationships, attitude. 
What do you want to do in and 

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through me? 
What do you want to reveal to me

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about Jesus?