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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
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Church podcast where we seek to 
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church, mobilize the equipped, 
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It's go time. 
Let's get into it. 

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Thank you, Effie. 
That's powerful. 

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Powerful word. 
What's so good to be with you 

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again and what a great subject. 
Faith that works. 

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I want to thank you, Pastor 
Terence and Pastor Julia, for 

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the honor of being able to speak
into this subject and to be able

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to preach from this platform. 
Thank you so much for all you 

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have done, all you've 
established here at Love Quest, 

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and all that God has for your 
future. 

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It's exciting to be a part of 
what God is doing. 

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Faith that works. 
Lazarus, Martha and Mary were 

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good friends of Jesus and they 
were from a town called Bethany.

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Now Lazarus had become sick and 
he was Jesus actually had gone 

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to the other side of the Jordan.
He was quite a ways away because

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he was they were trying to 
arrest him in Judea. 

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So they sent word to Jesus and 
said Lazarus whom you love is 

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sick, come come in and and heal 
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So we read in John Chapter 11 
and verse four when Jesus got 

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this message, he said this 
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It will become an occasion to 
show God's glory by glorifying 

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God's Son. 
Now what an interesting 

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response. 
This sickness isn't going to be 

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fatal, but it'll create an 
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God's glory to be revealed. 
Now wouldn't that put a 

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different perspective on our 
situation when we see the 

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challenges of our day and say, 
OK, well Lord, what's the 

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occasion that I'm dealing with 
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What is this circumstance that 
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actually an occasion for the 
glory of God to be at work 

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because we serve a good God, 
Remember, we serve a good 

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Father. 
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What is this thing that is 
looking so bad, looking so 

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terrible, but is in fact an 
occasion for the glory of God to

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be revealed? 
New perspectives, new lenses, 

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new ways of things, seeing 
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That's what we're called to. 
So he declared the Word of 

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Faith. 
The slide will come up in a 

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minute, but it says the Word of 
Faith is the word the Holy 

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Spirit carries and governs the 
Kingdom with. 

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And when Pastor Terence spoke 
about this, it really hit me. 

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There's a word that proceeds. 
There's a word from God. 

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And then we marry ourselves to 
the word of God as a Word of 

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Faith. 
And then the Holy Spirit takes 

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that Word of Faith and takes 
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To govern, to set a right, to 
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So the Holy Spirit takes the 
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space to govern with, as if 
Jesus here is declaking, making 

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it a firm declaration. 
This sickness is not fatal, but 

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it will become an occasion to 
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God's Son. 
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putting into the ethos, He was 
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He's putting into the spirit 
realm a declaration that this 

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circumstance was going to give 
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Now what happens is he takes a 
couple of more days there, which

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was curious, right? 
You got a friend who's not well,

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you've been out there healing 
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They're all going great. 
You know, we can deal with this.

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Why don't you just hurry up and 
get going, right? 

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But he waited a couple more 
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he said, OK, well, it's time to 
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Now. 
There's a whole part I'm going 

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to skip where they're worried 
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they were in Judea, they were 
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But he's going back to that 
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threatened. 
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disciples, he said these things 
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friend Lazarus has fallen 
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I'm going to wake him up. 
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he's going to sleep, he'll get a
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We're going feeling fine. 
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He's good, right? 
But Jesus was talking about 

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death while his disciples 
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taking a nap. 
Misinterpretation, a little bit 

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of confusion there. 
So Jesus clears it up and says 

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Lazarus died, and I'm glad for 
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You're about to be given new 
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New grounds for believing. 
Now, what happened to the 

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statement, the declaration of 
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Didn't he just say it wouldn't 
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It won't be fatal. 
He's going to be fine, but he's 

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dead. 
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Isn't the definition of fatal 
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And yet here he is saying he's 
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But I'm glad he's dead because 
this will be an opportunity. 

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This will be new grounds for 
believing. 

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You're about to see the glory of
God revealed. 

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You're about to see the power of
God at work. 

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This is the new grounds for 
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be revealed. 
Hallelujah. 

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This is God's rhythm and God's 
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Jesus waited for Lazarus death 
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You know, just like we were 
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sense to the disciples. 
I didn't get it. 

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You said it wouldn't be fatal. 
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And now how does this work? 
But it was God's rhythm, God's 

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purpose. 
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reason why he let him die was so
that we might believe and have a

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new testimony to declare the 
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Now let's consider that for 
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What things is the Lord allowed 
to die as grounds so you can see

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that He was the one who was 
going to bring it to life again,

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creating grounds for you to see 
His power at work, His rhythm, 

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his pace doesn't make sense to 
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But if we're patient, we're 
going to get that new testimony.

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If we're patient and we flow 
with the Spirit of God, we're 

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led by the Spirit, we're going 
to get a new testimony. 

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Verse 17 to 24, Jesus arrives in
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was coming and went out to meet 
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Mary remained in the house and 
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been here, my brother wouldn't 
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Even now I know that whatever 
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And Jesus said your brother will
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Martha replied, I know that he 
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resurrection of the dead at the 
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Here she is. 
Martha, if you had been past 

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tense, I could see how that 
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And you will be. 
Oh, I can see how that works. 

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What are we missing? 
The. 

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Now, if I'd only done it, then I
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Oh, I think sometime in the far 
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Yeah, this could work, but what 
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John 1125? 
Jesus replies and says you don't

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have to wait for the end. 
I am right now, resurrection and

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life, The one who believes in 
me, even though he or she dies 

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will live, and everyone who 
lives believing in me does not 

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ultimately die at all. 
Do you believe this? 

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He is the I am. 
She could believe that he could 

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be raised out of a death out of 
his sick bed, and she could 

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believe that she could be raised
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of time. 
But he was saying, but I am in 

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the now, right now, if you'll 
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Right now, if you will believe. 
My dad had a line when he 

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preached. 
He'd say it's not just pie in 

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the sky when you die. 
It's meat on the plate while you

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wait. 
We're not waiting for all these 

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exciting things to happen when 
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We're walking now in the 
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We're walking now in the 
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We're stepping in now because we
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Do you agree? 
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We have a right now God and 
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Right now Jesus is enough. 
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Jesus saw her sobbing, this is 
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sobbing, a deep anger welled up 
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He said, where did you put him? 
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see. 
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Now Jesus wept. 
The Jews said look how deeply he

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loved him. 
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he loved him so much, I got to 
do this in a voice because it 

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seems appropriate. 
Well, if he had loved him so 

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much, why didn't he do something
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Right? 
I mean, he opened the bias of 

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the blind. 
Come on. 

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Who's the complainers? 
It's never enough. 

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They want to interrupt your 
faith. 

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They want to intervene. 
They want to put a obstacle of 

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your belief, and Jesus says 
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He just moves on. 
Honestly, that's a great way to 

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go. 
All right, let's keep going. 

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Remember, Jesus kicked out. 
It was Jairus's daughter. 

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They kicked out all the mourners
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Like, get rid of these people. 
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OK, There's time to move on. 
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the anger again welling up in 
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It was a simple cave in the 
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laid against it. 
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That's bold action. 
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You don't remove a stone unless 
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come out of there. 
You don't get rid of that door 

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slab unless you're expecting 
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And people don't expect somebody
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unexpected. 
That's that's the that's the 

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radical response. 
He's bold action. 

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The sister of the dead man, 
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Master, by this time there's a 
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He's been dead for days. 
There are things you prayed for 

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and believe for and then you let
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Ask the Lord, is he breathing 
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Ask the Lord, is he breathing 
life into them again? 

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John 1140 says this is a 
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This is a critical verse. 
Jesus looked her in the eye. 

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Didn't I tell you that if you 
believed you would see the glory

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of God? 
Jesus said that the death of 

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Lazarus was so that the glory of
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And now he comes and says to 
Martha, Didn't I tell you, if 

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you believe? 
If you will believe? 

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If you will believe, you will 
see the glory of God. 

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If you will believe, you will 
see the glory of God, the 

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revelation of His glory 
manifest, giving you new 

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testimonies, new grace, a new 
love, a new peace. 

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You're born of the Spirit. 
You're born of the Spirit of 

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God. 
We have a new way of living. 

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If you will believe, you will 
see the glory of God. 

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Lazarus came back from the dead,
but the faith Jesus was modeling

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for us as a faith founded upon 
relationship, looking under 

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Jesus, the author and the 
finisher of our faith, Hebrews 

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12/2 says he is the one. 
He's modeled it and He's showing

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you the way He's modeling it, 
and He's going to bring his 

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glory through it. 
God's good. 

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As the children of God, our 
expectations should be that we 

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can be led by the Spirit of God.
Your faith is affected by how 

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you see God and what you believe
about him. 

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But I tell you tonight, believe 
God, believe God, believe him, 

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have faith in him. 
Press in because God wants to 

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bring new testimonies in your 
life. 

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I want you to invite and walk 
with me. 

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A mighty woman of God, a woman 
who has a heart for the people, 

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a heart of love and grace, a 
woman who loves to worship the 

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Lord, a powerful and mighty 
woman of welcome with the seon 

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up to the. 
Stage Amen. 

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How y'all doing? 
Thank you Brett and Effie for 

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paving the way. 
The Lord is speaking. 

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Can y'all confirm? 
Y'all need to make sure you 

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don't go sleeping on me? 
OK? 

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I got a word in my belly that I 
need to release. 

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Firstly, of course, I have to 
say thank you. 

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Pastor Terrence, Pastor Julia, 
you two are just built different

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and I've come to terms that 
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There's a lot of people in the 
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different and that made history.
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obedience to see us, to equip us
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Y'all are so blessed. 
You're blessed. 

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I pray that my life and the 
fruit that comes out of my life 

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that you would see the seeds 
that you have sown in me so 

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fruitful in your life. 
So thank you from the bottom of 

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my heart for the opportunity to 
speak to to God's people. 

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Y'all good, Amen. 
Let's get right into it. 

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Faith that works. 
Who's been blessed by this 

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series? 
Faith that works. 

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You can put up the slide train. 
The Raven is coming. 00 Who 

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remembers when PT spoke about 
this? 

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It was May 8th. 
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this up when he told us, when we
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Kings. 
And he said the Raven is you're 

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like, yeah, OK, let's go. 
See on. 

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All right, let's go, let's go 
first King 17 says, and then 

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this. 
If I mispronounce words, y'all 

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just keep a pushing, OK? 
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Elijah, the Tishbite from among 
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confronted Ahab. 
As surely as God lives the God 

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of Israel before whom I stand in
in obedience service, the next 

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years are going to see a total 
drought, not a drop of dew or 

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rain unless I say otherwise. 
This is Elijah speaking and then

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God told Elijah, get out of here
and fast. 

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Head east. 
Head but out of the Carruth 

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Ravine and the other side of the
Jordan River. 

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You can drink fresh water from 
the brook. 

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I have ordered the Ravens to 
feed you. 

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The Ravens are on their way, so 
you better get on yours. 

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The way God provides doesn't 
need to make sense to you in 

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order for it to be ordained for 
God. 

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From God, by God for you. 
Oh, what are you trying to play 

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God for? 
What are you trying to play his 

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role for? 
I just said the way God provides

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intellectually doesn't need to 
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it to be ordained by God for 
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Have you ever asked these 
questions when God has asked you

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to do something crazy? 
Where am I going? 

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Who going to be there? 
God, how is this going to work? 

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Why me? 
I know y'all asked that last 

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one. 
Faith. 

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I understand you just happened 
to be the first person I saw. 

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Why me God? 
Why, Where, what, how, why, 

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Who's, If you be honest, who's 
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We all have, we all have, we all
have. 

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Is your wondering out of a place
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grow? 
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The root of your questions will 
produce the fruit of your 

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actions. 
Obedience versus disobedience. 

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How many of you all remember 
when Elder John said you need to

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ask the Lord for some good 
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I remember he said that I was 
like, that's so true. 

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Instead of me, just Yappa, 
Yappa, Yappa, Yappa, Yappa, 

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Yappa, Yappa, Yappa, Yappa over 
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Lord, submit myself, humble 
myself, lay my pride, pride down

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and say, Lord, what do you give 
me the questions? 

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Lord, give me the questions 
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questions will produce the fruit
of your actions out of the 

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abundance of the heart. 
Oh, oh, OK, OK, OK. 

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Pay attention. 
God is giving specific 

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instruction to Elijah. 
He said get out of here fast. 

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Urgency. 
He said head east, hide out at 

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the Careth ravine on the other 
side of the Jordan River 

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direction. 
You can drink from fresh water 

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from the brook and I've ordered 
the Ravens to feed you 

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provision. 
The Lord will never lead you to 

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a place of confusion, but He 
will lead you to places that 

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required to trust him. 
Be honest. 

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Do you trust God? 
This ain't one of those messages

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where you can sit back and be 
like, yeah, I'm I'm talking in 

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this moment. 
Holy Spirit search my heart in 

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these moments created me a clean
and pure heart in the areas God 

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where I have doubted you, where 
I didn't have faith in you, 

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where I didn't trust you God, I 
repent. 

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Who says you need to wait till 
later for that? 

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He's a now God. 
It doesn't matter what it looks 

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like. 
Make the decision to be where 

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God told you to be. 
Have faith that the Raven is 

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coming first Kings continuing 
the Scripture, it says Elijah 

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obeyed God's orders. 
He went and he camped in the 

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Careth Canon and on the other 
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on the other side of the Jordan.
And sure enough, Ravens brought 

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him his meals, both breakfast 
and supper, and he drank from 

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the book Brook. 
Elijah had to put his faith into

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action by getting to the other 
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Provision wasn't where he used 
to be. 

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Provision was where God was 
calling him to be. 

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What is dead in your life that 
you are asking God to bless? 

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But He's telling you I ain't 
there no more. 

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I ain't there no more. 
What's your Jordan? 

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What is your Jordan church? 
Is it your past? 

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Is it your family? 
Listen, Is it yourself? 

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What are you willing to do to 
get onto the other side where 

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God has called you? 
Is the true provision the the 

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food and the water Elijah 
received in the midst of the 

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unknown? 
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God was a God of his word and 
worthy to be trusted in the 

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midst of the unknown? 
Come on, that's fully 

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perspective. 
What are you magnifying? 

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What have you put a lens to? 
Is it to know Him or is it to 

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get stuff from Him? 
I'm telling you the fruit only 

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comes from knowing him. 
Say this loud with me, y'all, 

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Lord, may we seek your face more
than we seek your hand. 

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Go ahead. 
The Ravens kept. 

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This is in the Christian 
standard Bible version of the of

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of 17 six. 
It says the Ravens kept bringing

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him bread and meat in the 
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he would drink from the Wadi, 
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God in this moment reveals 
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All sufficient or the God who is
more than enough. 

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God spoke, Elijah obeyed God 
provided God spoke, Elijah 

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obeyed God provided. 
It's in God's nature to provide 

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for his children. 
Obedience is better than 

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sacrifice. 
First Samuel 1522 tells us that 

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and I just want to go in this 
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for a second. 
Genesis 2210 says And Abraham 

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stretched, and this is when the 
instruction for Abraham to go 

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bring his son up to the mountain
to go sacrifice Isaac. 

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OK, Context. 
And Abraham stretched forth his 

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hand and took hold of the knife 
to slay his son. 

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But the Angel of the Lord called
to him from heaven and said, 

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Abraham, Abraham. 
And he answered, Here I am. 

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And he said, do not lay hands on
the lad or anything to him for 

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now I know that you fear and 
Revere the law and Revere God. 

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Since you have not held back 
from me or begrudged giving me 

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your son, your only son, go to 
the next scripture. 

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Then Abraham looked up. 
He glanced around and behold, 

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behind him was a ram which is a 
male sheep caught in the thicket

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by his horns. 
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ram and offered it up for a 
burnt offering and an ascending 

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sacrifice instead of his son. 
God told Abraham what mountain 

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to go to to offer his son as a 
burnt offering. 

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OK, it doesn't say that Abraham 
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him. 
God told him where to go. 

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What if Abraham decided I'm just
going to go to the mountain 

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closest to me? 
This is good, right God? 

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What if Abraham decided I'ma 
just go to the mountain closest 

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to me, God? 
This is good, right God? 

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That was not. 
There was not a ram awaiting him

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on the wrong mountain, but on 
the right mountain. 

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The provision he needed was at 
the location that God was 

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calling him to go. 
Stop trying to manipulate the 

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word or instruction God gave you
to fit your comfort. 

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This is not comfort season, this
is faith season. 

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God doesn't work like that 
beloved. 

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He just doesn't. 
The the Lord is faithful to 

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fulfill His word, not yours. 
Uh oh, Shereen, next slide. 

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Uh oh, Jeremiah one says then 
said the Lord to me, you have 

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seen well, for I am alert and 
active watching over my word to 

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perform it. 
OK need other translations. 

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I got you in the King James 
Version it says for I will 

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hasten my word to perform it. 
Hasten. 

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It means to be quick to do 
something. 

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The new King James says, for I 
am ready to perform it. 

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The NIV says, for I am watching 
to see that my word is 

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fulfilled. 
The message says, I'll make 

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every word I give to you come 
true. 

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Hasten, hasten, ready watching. 
Make action verbs. 

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I had to ask a couple of my 
teacher friends for this. 

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God is in the business of action
Baptist First Kings Eventually 

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the brook dried up and because 
of because of the drought, then 

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God spoke to him. 
Get up and go to Zarephath. 

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Zarephath incident and live 
there. 

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I've instructed a woman who 
lives there, a widow, to feed 

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you. 
Stop looking for provision in 

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areas that God isn't at anymore.
It's dried up. 

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Keep it pushing. 
Some of you are wondering why 

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God hasn't come through for you,
hasn't answered your prayers, 

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isn't giving you further 
instruction for your next 

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season. 
But the question that I would 

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ask you is, have you obeyed the 
last word and the instruction 

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that He did give you? 
Your next instruction comes from

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your obedience from the first 
word He gave you. 

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Be a good steward of the word. 
How do you keep The Word Alive? 

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Y'all know this one? 
Say it loudly with me number 

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12345 worship team. 
You can come up y'all. 

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The Raven is coming. 
I'm telling you, this is a 

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prophetic word. 
The Raven is coming. 

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Will you be ready when he calls 
you to go? 

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Why do you choose a Raven? 
Why not he choose a person? 

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Another human? 
I believe what God is doing is 

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so supernatural that no man is 
going to even remotely try and 

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take credit and glory for what 
he's doing. 

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We're going to sing this song 
called Ready. 

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It's a love quest original. 
The chorus is if you say go, I 

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will go. 
If you say stay, I will stay. 

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But this is the prayer. 
Either way, I live a life that 

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is ready for you, Lord. 
So I want you guys actually to 

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just take a moment and just 
reflect because that's a real 

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question. 
Are you ready? 

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Are you ready? 
In Jesus name? 

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Oh come on y'all. 
In Jesus name. 

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We are leaving this place 
victorious. 

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We've gotten the word in US. 
God has sown some seed into us. 

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And we will, we will. 
We will produce good fruit in 

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Jesus name. 
Amen, y'all, I love you so much.

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Did y'all enjoy tonight? 
Were you encouraged tonight? 

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Are you leaving different 
tonight? 

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Amen, Amen. 
Well, listen, how many of y'all 

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know that we are in our remnant 
project right now? 

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We what's the goal that what's 
the amount that we're believing 

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God is going to provide in the, 
in this short period of time, 

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$200,000. 
Listen, there is nothing my God 

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cannot do. 
Stand in faith and believe that 

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God will do what he said he will
do Amen. 

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So far, praise report, we've 
raised 54,328. 

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Come on, God is doing it. 
He is doing it, He is doing it. 

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And so listen, let's stand in 
faith. 

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Like Pastor Terrence has said, 
this is not something where just

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him and his family is is is 
burdened for. 

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This our city y'all, this our 
church y'all, this is sons and 

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daughters that we're believing 
are going to come and not only 

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just encounter God, but walk 
with him. 

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Be equipped to know how to be a 
son and daughter. 

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This place is holy ground, so if
you want to sow your seed at the

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back, you will have the 
opportunity to do that after 

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this experience. 
And then we have our Sunday 

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experiences, 2 experiences. 
Who enjoyed that this Sunday, 

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our morning experiences, just a 
reminder that they are at 9:00 

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and 11:30 AM. 
We will not be having our 

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evening experience until 
September. 

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OK. 
And so make sure you come out 

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even when you think that you 
know, oh, I don't want to come 

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to church. 
No, get to church. 

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Get in the house, y'all get in 
the house. 

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I'm telling you, there's a word 
here, fresh every week. 

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Amen. 
And then we have prayer, power 

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hour of prayer, 7:30 AM here at 
our Surrey location and then 

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10:00 AM in our Vancouver 
location. 

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So come out, come out. 
Let's stand in agreement with 

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one another and let's pray and 
let's seek the Lord, Amen. 

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And that's it for y'all. 
That is it. 

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I'm so blessed by what has taken
place tonight. 

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You guys are amazing. 
I love you with my whole heart. 

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Our pastors love you. 
They miss you and the can't wait

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to get home. 
Troy, can you bring us? 

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Up thank you so much for tuning 
into this week's sermon. 

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We pray you were challenged, 
equipped and encouraged. 

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Make sure to follow us on all 
platforms. 

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That's love quest intl church. 
We out here for real. 

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We're really doing it. 
That's Facebook, Instagram, 

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YouTube and TikTok. 
You can find us anywhere you 

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need to find us. 
But until next time you know the

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drill. 
You know the motto, get your 

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love fixed man and we'll see 
y'all real soon.