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Now we're turning this morning 
in our Bibles to Second 

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Thessalonians chapter 2. 
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verse 15 right through to 3:5. 
So 2nd Thessalonians 2:15 for 

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those who have just joined us. 
Let's hear the word of the Lord.

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Reading, of course, from the 
authorized version. 2nd 

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Thessalonians 2:15. 
Therefore brethren. 

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Stand Fast and hold or 
Traditions, which you have been 

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taught whether by word or are a 
pestle. 

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Now our Lord Jesus Christ 
himself and God even Our Father 

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which of loved us and given us 
everlasting consolation and 

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Good. 
Hope through Greece Comfort, 

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your hearts and stablish you in 
every good word and work. 

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Finally, Brethren pray for us 
that the word of the Lord may 

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have free course, and be 
glorified even as it is with 

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you, that ye may be delivered 
from unreasonable, and wicked. 

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Man, for all men have not Faith,
but the Lord is faithful. 

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Who shall stablish? 
You and keep you from evil, and 

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we have confidence in the Lord 
touching you. 

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That ye both do and will do the 
things, which we command you and

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the Lord direct your hearts into
the love of God, and into the 

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patient wedding of Christ, a 
mammal of the Lord will stomp 

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with his own approval. 
And blessing, this reading of 

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his own precious and in fallible
word, My text this morning has 

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taken from 2nd Thessalonians and
chapter 3 and verse one that 

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reads. 
Finally Brethren pray for us 

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that the word of the Lord by a 
free course, and be glorified 

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even as it is with you. 
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today, praying for the man on 
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This morning, I want to say Lord
bless all the missionaries of 

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the gospel and the message of 
the Cross. 

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Now, it's lovely. 
Of course to hear the children. 

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Pray their bedtime prayers. 
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bedtime prayers, they often in 
their NSA, offers such prayers 

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as God bless Mommy and God bless
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Jimmy, and God bless Jian and 
And Judith, they name them. 

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God bless the minister, God 
bless all the missionaries are 

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met and I know your Swan derful 
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prayers of the children and 
these prayers that were going to

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call blanket prayers are okay. 
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individual requests but they are
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asking God's blessing on these 
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Groups of individuals. 
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Thessalonians chapter 3, verses 
1 and 2, the Paul is making 

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what. 
I'm calling an overall blanket 

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request. 
If you look at verse 1, he says 

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finally Brethren pray for us and
then he gives us three specific 

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reasons that we can pray for the
man and the message of the 

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Gospel. 
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Lord may have free course to 
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The word of the Lord, It would 
be glorified as it runs into the

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hearts and minds of men and 
women just like a dead in the 

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hearts and lives of the 
Thessalonians 3, that the 

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Thessalonians of the Lord's. 
People would stand strong in the

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spiritual battle that they would
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Why for all man of not fear that
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unreasonable and wicked man. 
Is he Paul knew that the 

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born-again believer in 
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opposition would in Fierce 
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He was also fully aware of the 
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teachers whose teaching was 
spiritually damaging the church.

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And so having exhorted them to 
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focus on praying for the man of 
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I'm for the message of the Cross
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help from these. 
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unless I thought of this tax 
which could easily be another 

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motto tax following on from last
week, I want to open it up a 

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little bit. 
I want to break it into 

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component constituent parts and 
I want us to learn the following

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things. 
One there, a prayer request that

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his sincere look. 
The words, finally Brethren pray

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for us. 
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all, it can mean that, but it 
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you, in other words, Paul is 
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things, but here's another thing
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finally Brethren, you see, he's 
addressing those who are born 

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again. 
Those who are genuinely 

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converted to Christ, brothers 
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Sisters in the family of God, 
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Father, you have Jesus Christ as
their lord and savior who are in

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dwelt on Born Again by the Holy 
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And it's to these individuals 
that Paul makes this prayer 

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request. 
And I believe this prayer 

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request and sincerely meant 
Brethren pray for us. 

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He repeated that if you look at 
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verse 25, he says Thessalonians 
chapter 5, 25 Brethren pray for 

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us. 
This is the second time he had 

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this request and two years, the 
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Paul is asking for prayer for 
himself, us includes n But it 

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includes the man with them Silas
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They're involved in the work of 
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They want you to notice the 
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prayer. 
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Brethren, pray for us. 
It includes himself. 

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They Paul's a great mom. 
A man with tremendous ability 

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and intellectual giant apar for 
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A man who knows the Lord man, 
who knows the book amount is 

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gripped with the gospel amount 
of courage and tenacity, A Good 

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Man 1. 
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the cause of Christ. 
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Holiness Vision energy. 
Amount of prayer and yet he 

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knows in his heart that he 
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others. 
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Paul is a real wonderful amazing
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And yet in humility and honesty,
he asked others to pray for him.

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It's like he's saying, remember 
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I don't believe it was a false 
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This man realizes that he needs 
personal help. 

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He needs help off the Lord, he 
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and intervene and bless them. 
Nall Paul that attempted to do 

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all his efforts would be in 
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You see, it's the spirit that 
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It's the spirit that gives life.
And true godliness does not lie 

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in a man's ability. 
True godliness is rooted in 

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total, dependence on the Lord, 
and the spirit of the Lord to 

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work on to bless. 
So, this is a very personal 

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prayer. 
It's also a belief, a partial 

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request. 
Notice the word, pray. 

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He knows. 
The power of prayer Devane 

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blessing and help. 
Only comes as we pray. 

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Someone has rightly said we can 
do nothing without prayer. 

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You see the Lord when he bless 
us and helps and ground 

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sustenance. 
As we pray, he only blesses and 

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helps and grunts assistance to 
us and direct proportion. in 

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regard to True prayer even 
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great Apostle and even though 
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converts Paul needed their 
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were-- rest on toss gifts, he 
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He knew that he had to depend on
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bless through prayer. 
So this is a powerful request, 

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isn't it? 
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It's sinful. 
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praying today in relation to the
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Sadly who pray and unbelief and 
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no blessing, little prayer, 
little blessing, much prayer, 

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much blood. 
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for and saith Africa, a great 
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You see the more we practice 
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That's a Biblical principle. 
God's blessing and help only 

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comes an answer to prayer. 
If I could use a Biblical 

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illustration and second Kings, 
chapter 13, we read about King 

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Josh. 
Elisha, the prophet had come 

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into his room. 
He told him to take his bow and 

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his quiver of arroz. 
A talk to birthday arroz of the 

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Lord's deliverance and he said 
to Joe eyes, the Lord is able to

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give and Grant, you total 
Victory and they have 

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opportunity to express your 
belief in this total Victory and

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seized hold of the promise. 
I want you to shoot a number of 

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arroz out your window. 
How many did you wash? 

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Should you only shot three? 
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He should have emptied, the 
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didn't know. 
We only Stopped at three. 

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And what did King Joe eyes, get 
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He got a partial Victory. 
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Because he was only half 
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He didn't fully believe in the 
need and the power of God 

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himself. 
His heart was not fully in it, 

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and he only received a partial 
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And this year 2023, I won't miss
self and I want you to learn the

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lesson that the more we pray, 
the more we will receive the 

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Blessing of God's divine 
intervention and help. 

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Rid of course and his Sovereign,
Grace and Mercy. 

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You see, we need to get a raise 
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On God's suffering, on God's 
power on God's Authority. 

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The prayer meeting. 
Is the PowerHouse of the church.

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We were talking at the week of 
prayer about the church 

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gathering for prayer and the 
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is the True Church of Jesus 
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So often when we gather for 
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take the word of God. 
Seriously, we read these 

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wonderful promises, but we don't
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We don't trust them 
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And we engage in a little bit of
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blanket prayer, Lord bless the 
missionaries. 

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Lord bless the minister, Lord 
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the families. 
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As far as it goes, but we need 
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deeper. 
We need to launch out into the 

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deep though. 
This year and release into 

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prayer and ReDiscover the power 
of Prayer. 

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I'm going to read again a book 
written by am binds. 

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That was lent to me by brother, 
Ryan. 

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That's it, volumes bound, and 
one. 

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That's a tremendous work on 
prayer and we need to 

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ReDiscover, yes, there's a 
personal request to prayer, but 

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there's also a powerful request,
the word, pray. 

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Or that we could understand that
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Praise our God, remission of our
sins, ask for specific things 

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yield ourselves to him because 
that's what the word pray means.

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Could I tell you something else 
as a practical aspect to this 

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request? 
Have you think of the word 

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brethren? 
Brethren, pray for us. 

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Did Paul not pray for himself? 
Yes. 

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The prayers of Paul are found in
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One such wonderful prayer is 
Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 to

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21. 
Encourage you to read it. 

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Study it prayer for yourself, 
make it your own prayer, and 

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that's what he once such prayer 
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So he didn't pray for himself, 
but twice, he makes this request

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brethren Pray for us. 
He's asking for the prayers of 

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the people in thessalonica, and 
the people in thessalonica. 

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He was in Corinth, they're just 
unique inverted, sugar ordinary 

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Christians, new converts man, 
woman, young people, boys, and 

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girls, and as if Paul is saying 
I'm dependent on you people, To 

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pray for me. 
And as you pray, you'll share in

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my work. 
And you'll bring my burdens and 

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needs before the Lord. 
And you remember my men astray 

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as I go forth to spread the word
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I'm teach the gospel. 
Is that not great encouragement?

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Ordinary prayers? 
Do you can't? 

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The prayers of the children. 
The prayers of the young people,

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the prayers of the mummy and the
kitchen at the sink or hanging 

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out the washing. 
The prayers of the Liebherr in 

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the field or in the factory. 
Lord bless me today in my 

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family, Lord bless the house of 
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Is he your prayers? 
Too kind and I earnestly Cree of

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your prayers for me and my 
family. 

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I'm the work of God. 
Here, we should treasure the 

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prayers of one another. 
We should pray for one another 

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and I attempt to do that on a 
Sunday morning, we've got the 

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prayer of adoration And then 
just before the offering our 

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after the offering we got the 
prayer of intercession including

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Thanksgiving for the offering 
and that's very important that 

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we remember in the in nimes 
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One after another, not just in a
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because the command of the 
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us, Now, that's the prayer 
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significant and he gives three 
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Here's the first reason that the
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Course, the word. 
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If he makes a request, here's 
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chief reason, I'm notice. 
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describes the gospel that the 
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course. 
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mater that he has in mind, the 
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to the gospel. 
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called. 
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It means god is the author of 
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Coach the producer. 
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It's not a must message that 
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It's not a message that other 
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Together is not something. 
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university or eight of some 
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and the maker of that word. 
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Romans chapter 1, the gospel of 
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him, the gospel didn't originate
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It's the gospel of God. 
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of the lord, it's not only the 
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word about the Lord. 
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of the Lord centers, and God's 
Eternal son. 

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The Eternal Lord Of Glory. 
Our Lord Jesus Christ. 

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He came to Earth. 
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took on him, human flesh. 
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He was born in the fullness of 
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Bearing the guilt and Punishment
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Lord. 
And Savior bearing, the guilt 

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and punishment that our sins 
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He shed his blood and we can 
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the finished work, a 
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Blood atonement Hebrews, 10 and 
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offered one, sacrifice for sins.
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hand of God. 
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As he shed his blog, he 
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Do you see him today as your 
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you the way of Salvation? 
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The one who offered a once and 
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behalf, the one who know lives 
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making intercession for you. 
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On the ground of the finish 
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He now rules over us, he's a 
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A king of glory, a king of 
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the one who has power to subdue 
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priest and King, God raised him 
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And, you know, lives in heaven 
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Parvin endlessly. 
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to this earth and Rule and reign
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So, when Paul talks about the 
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put the word about, The lord, 
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Jesus Christ. 
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ham. 
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This beware of substitutions, 
beware of counterfeits. 

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Sometimes you'll get a knock on 
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two men there and they'll tell 
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the Latter-Day scenes, or 
they'll put that was your 

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through the door from the see 
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Sooo cold Church. 
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The Seventh-Day, Adventists 
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Movement. 
It might even be about the 

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Jehovah Witnesses. 
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about some new novel extreme 
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That's emerging, the emerging 
churches, flourishing, Don't 

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like this. 
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We'll start a new church and 
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been a miracle. 
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from the dead. 
Somebody who's blamed as myth. 

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The see that the theme of walked
as in the days of Jesus, but you

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investigate it and then you 
discover what's not all about 

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Christ. 
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And as you pray a bit more, you 
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do with the true gospel. 
It's not the word of the Lord, 

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that's all about him. 
And him alone. 

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You see the true gospel is not a
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You see, I hear today this 
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Jesus will make you healthy and 
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millionaire believe in Jesus and
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As if baptism was the the 
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Believe in Jesus and other good 
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It's a word about him and him 
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As the only grind of Salvation 
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there salvation in any other? 
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Heaven, given among men whereby,
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I'll tell you something else. 
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It's called the word idea. 
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Lord, the word. 
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eternity. 
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and God, the Holy Ghost and The 
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Time began before the word was 
me and entered into a confident,

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they agreed to Covenant. 
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redemption and part of that 
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Holy Spirit involved promises 
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I'm the spirit to Christ as a 
reward for has his coming into 

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the World. 
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and companies and have full 
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And Christ was promised a people
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people who be with him in 
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people that would form the body 
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the household of fear, I want to
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people? 
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that one day, you'll be with 
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Are you one of the brothers in 
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Are you? 
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You see? 
This is all part of this. 

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Meaning the word of the lord, 
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It's a word about the Lord, out 
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Notice not only the gospel 
describe but notice the gospel 

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distributed. 
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The word of the Lord may have 
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Course, what does that mean? 
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And he's got an open road in 
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obstacles, there's nothing to 
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if the gospel Had good legs and 
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Minds. 
Those are dead and send those 

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that are darkened and send with 
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Fear of God, those who are 
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you've no real love for God. 
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gospels, Robert progress in the 
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I'm not prayer that the gospel, 
the word of the Lord, May our 

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free course, and be glorified. 
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Paul's day, the whole of Asia 
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whole of Asia was turned upside 
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But even in that day there was 
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impeding the gospel progress and
even as the gospel was 

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distributed and spread abroad, 
there was those rules up by the 

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evil, one to oppose it. 
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Then is true Knight the 21st 
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I want you to think of homes and
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They say to the children in 
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No sun disk, don't name the name
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house. 
They'll be no Bible here. 

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You're not be going to the 
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They feed their children to 
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information and they see to it 
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activities yet loads of Don't 
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from hearing the Simplicity of 
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them, that Jesus died to see if 
the new Jesus calls them to come

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unto him. 
So many Godless and heedless 

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mommies and daddies and they 
visit that Godless listeners and

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that heedlessness upon the 
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the children. 
I heard a story recently of a 

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man of the house told us wife 
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They couldn't get to the house 
of God, but they were receiving 

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CDs. 
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They got other literature to do.
Bible studies that were 

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listening online. 
This mom told him there'll be no

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religion, here. 
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and the size is, he's a guilty 
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What's he guilty of impeding, 
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many young people and their 
teens Through school University,

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went to the work please. 
And and there's those I'll poke 

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fun at them. 
You're a Christian, right? 

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You can't be serious. 
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You go to the free Presbyterian 
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They're a bunch of bigots their 
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You need to be a bit more 
free-spirited you, you need to 

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two ways up. 
And you see the fear of mine 

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comes because the fear of man, 
brings a snare on peer pressure.

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I'm wanting to be popular in one
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feeling a part of community. 
And and then they leave off with

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the word of God. 
And the Christ of God in the 

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house of God, At what about 
University? 

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Godless professors educated man 
intelligent man knew Gordon new 

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grease about them. 
No gospel. 

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And they urge you to read the 
philosophies of Plato and 

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Aristotle and others, and they 
want you to take on their views 

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and adopt their lifestyle, but 
they're not beasts in the word 

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of God. 
They have a different worldview,

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even the modern philosophies and
they're destroying the lives of 

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Manning underworld, it's okay to
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Or a drug culture or or adopt a 
party, pleasure hedonistic 

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lifestyle. 
But these young people, these 

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young people souls are being 
destroyed and murdered at the 

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hands of these Godless 
professors. 

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What about professing 
Christians? 

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With their lips. 
They say they love the Lord. 

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They've asked him to be their 
lord and savior. 

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Yet their life stage doesn't 
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They're Hypocrites in the eyes 
of many others and that's a big 

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obstacle to some and if you love
the Lord Jesus and that's love 

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them and truth. 
Let's love them indeed. 

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What a big man in the pulpit? 
You'll get Willy waffle, you'll 

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get morality. 
You told to be good, but it's 

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devoid of any call to repent of 
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It's devoid of a call that 
remission of sin is necessary to

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enter Heaven on without the 
blood. 

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There's no remission of sin and 
there's no call to Redemption on

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the ground of the savior's 
blood, unfaith and Christ, and a

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call to be born again. 
You're not going to hear that. 

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It's Hobson from me and stream 
churches. 

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And there's not a squeak about 
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And yet the wonderful thing is 
this. 

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God can open doors despite the 
obstacles. 

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God can make a way where there 
isn't a way I think of Nepal 

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1960s, it was closed, radio 
Ministry key and I know there's 

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110, free Presbyterian, churches
and Nepal. 

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I think of Muslim countries like
Iran and Iraq and Babel chirping

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distributed in those countries. 
Under their been read, their 

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been studied unpeople of got 
converted from a Muslim 

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background. 
You see the word of the Lord is 

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not brined. 
The word of the Lord has free 

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course, and those who attempt to
hinder, the progress and Withers

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manly. 
And the devil is busy, and they 

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put up barriers here and they 
are. 

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And that times, yes, it feels 
impossible. 

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But when it feels impossible, 
don't quit, don't give up what 

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we do. 
Supplicate God's Throne be 

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strong, be steadfast unmovable 
in the work of the Lord, pray on

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pray three, because people need 
to hear it. 

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People need the Holy Ghost to 
work. 

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People need the Holy Ghost to 
apply the word of truth. 

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That they might be brought to 
faith in Christ. 

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The gospel described, the 
gospel, distributed, the gospel 

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dignified, notice the words and 
be glorified, it's not 

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tremendous, you see as the 
gospel wrongs forth here and 

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there, here's the character of 
The Gospel and brings honor and 

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glory to the Lord. 
He's not only the god of pace 

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from the god of Hope and the god
of page, but he's the god of 

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Truth and he's revealed his 
word. 

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The Bible talks about the 
Glorious Gospel of our Lord, and

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Savior. 
Jesus Christ, listen to what 

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Paul says, in Corinth, he says 
in. 

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Second Corinthians, chapter 4 
and the verse 4 listen to these 

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words in whom the God of this 
world, hath blinded the minds of

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them, which believe not lest the
light of the Glorious gospel of 

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Christ, is the image of God 
should shine unto them. 

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That's what I'm talking about. 
Impeding this progress of the 

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Gospel, blinding the minds of 
those that believe not and yet 

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thus message as the Glorious 
gospel of grace. 

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It Part of change part of 
transform lives. 

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It was this message. 
It turned, the ancient world 

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upside down. 
It was this message that Paul 

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advised Tate us whenever he 
wrote and Titus Chapter 2 and 

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verse 10. 
He says not purloining, but 

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showing all good Fidelity that 
they may Adorn. 

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The doctrine of God, our savior 
in all things, adorning, the 

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doctrine of God, adorning the 
gosh. 

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People and that word adorned has
to do with beautifying yourself.

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You think of a girl going to eat
an idiot. 

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What'd she do she purifies 
yourself? 

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Think of a bride? 
Getting married or not wedding 

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day. 
She beautifies herself puts on 

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the best attire. 
Well that's what that word 

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adorned means I'm going to do 
that with the gospel be 

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beautified by the gospel Paul 
outs, even as it is with you. 

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Notice thirdly and lastly for of
got communion this morning, The 

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powerful results that is 
special. 

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He says here, if you look back 
at our taxed even as it is with 

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you, do you understand that? 
Can you grasp out this morning, 

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even as it is, With you, it's 
important because he was 

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thinking about those investment,
banker. 

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He was thinking about the 
police. 

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There's no - he was thinking 
about the people you Converse. 

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And it was easy and 
thessalonica. 

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The word of God had run into 
their hearts and Minds. 

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These Thessalonians were 
adorning. 

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The gospel. 
They had been beautified by the 

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gospel. 
Their lives have been changed 

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and transformed that. 
There was a difference 9, the 

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Bible says, therefore, If any 
man be in Christ, he is a new 

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creature, old things are passed 
away, and all things have become

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new and all things are of God. 
Now I've already told you Paul 

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was in Corinth whenever he wrote
to the church, that's asinine 

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Anka and this is what he says in
Acts chapter 18. 

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He says this about himself 
thinking of Corinth Acts, 

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chapter 18, verse 9 and 10 and 
with us we finally stay and 

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speak the Lord to Paul in the 
Night by a vision. 

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Be not afraid. 
But speak in, hold, not thy 

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peace. 
For I am with thee and no man 

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shall set a need to hurt the 
French. 

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Much people in this city verse 
11 and he continued there a year

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and six Months teaching the word
of God among you. 

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See, at that time, Paul wasn't 
discouraged. 

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It was the night time. 
Paul was depressed. 

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He was despairing. 
This is a city given over to 

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idolatry. 
And what am I going to do you? 

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Lord I feel like quitting. 
I want to leave this place. 

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I want to go home and the Lord 
comes and the Lord tells them 

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besides other things. 
I have much people in this city 

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and he stayed 18 months, and he 
saw many converts and a great 

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church that was raised up. 
What can I tell you that? 

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He wrote to the Thessalonians 
before he wrote first and second

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Corinthians and I believe that 
the Lord answered the prayers of

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the Thessalonians, it was not a 
waste of time for Paul to pray. 

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It was not a waste of time for 
Paul to encourage others to 

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prayer because there was the 
powerful result that a special, 

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even as it is with you, the word
of God come to them. 

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And here was part of the That 
word brethren, pray for us, and 

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they gave themselves to prayer. 
And I say this, as we finished 

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this morning, We can all do 
that. 

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So if you're converted to Christ
and you love the Lord Jesus, 

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then you can pray at home, you 
can pray in the prayer meeting. 

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We must pray. 
All we are praying people but we

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must pray on. 
We must pray up and all and 

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don't give up. 
We must not slacken, do not 

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think that your prayers are not 
needed. 

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If I could say this morning as 
we finished Brethren, pray for 

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us. 
What are you going to pray for 

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this year for souls to be saved?
Souls received last year? 

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But we need sold. 
See if this year. 

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We did you families brought and 
on these pews filter Again, we 

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lost 10 individuals last year, 
we can't afford to lose 10 

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board. 
This year, we need to attend to 

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be brought in and more We need 
our own families. 

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Converted pray for mine. 
Pray that the Lord will help us 

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to be faithful to the blood in 
the book. 

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Pray, the Lord will help in the 
children's ministry, the some 

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disc of the children's ministry.
And when you come into the house

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of God to pray, you know it's 
not complicated. 

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Think of the children as we 
finish the blanket prayers, Lord

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bless the church, Lord bless the
some of these God bless the 

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Children's Mercy. 
Lord bless that family plaster, 

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00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,600
Sewell. 
That's what you need to pray. 

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Specific individual prayers. 
That God would do this because 

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much prayer results in much 
blessing. 

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I pray this morning. 
That we will get a hold of this 

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thought, under the Lord will 
encourage us as we go forward 

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this year.