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So it's a shame that this is 
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time now in four years. 
Pastor Ken, this is a busy guy. 

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He's a popular guy. 
Everybody wants peace. 

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But, you know, we're getting to 
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So Pastor Ken, as you know, as 
my pastor, I talk about him 

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often. 
I'm very thankful to have him in

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my life. 
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might go, what does that mean? 
Like you're not sitting in his 

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church hearing his sermons every
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But what it means is he's the 
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He's one of the men primarily 
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can lean on and rely on and who 
shepherds me and wisely leads me

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and corrects me. 
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rebukes me, I don't figure it 
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that I was corrected. 
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it in and on and I have to text 
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And he's like, I knew he'd catch
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So I'm just very thankful for 
him completely different gifting

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from me, which is exactly what 
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need. 
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his ministry and by his 
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He encouraged me years ago. 
He brought me in front of the 

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people of White House and I'll 
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I mean, I hadn't been there that
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And he stood me up in front of 
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proud to call this man my pastor
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And it was a supernatural moment
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It was a supernatural moment for
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blessing and a healing and a 
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So I was very thankful for it. 
He loves you dearly. 

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In addition to, you know, our 
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church, I'm the elder, we have 
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and I use those words 
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In addition to that, we also 
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So the church has a 501C3 in the
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way that it's Pastor Ken is also
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So he's the treasurer on that 
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We're bringing another brother, 
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He's coming onto that team as 
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So that's just some of the some 
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church. 
But would you please honor my 

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pastor and our brother in 
Christ, Pastor Ken Framer all. 

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Right, I am suited up. 
Awesome. 

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Can I drink whatever's in this? 
It's salty. 

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It's salty. 
Not to be, not to be clever, but

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it's just electrolyte. 
Water, electrolyte water. 

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OK. 
Hey, it's great to be with you. 

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I wanted to invite Holly to come
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Oh, thanks so much, brother. 
I'd like to invite Holly to come

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up too, because I really 
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if it wasn't for this woman. 
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Bible college and I met her and 
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And as it were, I say I followed
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But you know, and you know, 
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anybody look good. 
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anywhere I am leading. 
But I do like to look around and

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see who's with me. 
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have with me. 
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a greeting and. 
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guys. 
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And Natalie, as I was just 
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so beautiful. 
You're beautiful on the outward,

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but the beauty of you on the 
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for you to bring the beauty out 
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And she serves the Lord with 
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I hear that in her. 
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the time, that that could be a 
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But the calling to draw forth 
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the beauty that's in you. 
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saw a picture of Jesus walking 
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just brushing his hand against 
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this one's ready. 
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waiting for a laborer to be 
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down. 
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on your church, but you have to 
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I love the way, Angelina, you 
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the harvest. 
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fields. 
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He's in your family's fields. 
He's in the grocery store 

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fields. 
He's in your workplace fields 

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and he's looking and he sees 
when there's one ready to be 

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harvested, but you can't hear 
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harvested unless you're close 
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the work for the harvest. 
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saying that some of you've been 
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breakthroughs or financial 
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your life. 
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harvest, if you'll tend to the 
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this one's ready. 
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chance for you to pray for 
somebody who's sick and the Lord

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wants to reveal himself to them 
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the time to bring truth. 
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bring harvest as well. 
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You're close to Jesus. 
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this one's ready. 
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And when the harvest is brought 
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the Father, then the blessings 
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forth because they're tied up in
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It's a season of harvest for 
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Stay close so you can hear when 
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That's right. 
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We love you guys would. 
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Pray, pray that over them. 
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Jesus, thank you for short 
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Thank you, Lord, for these four 
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the fields through prayer, 
through sewing, Lord, through 

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staying close to you, your 
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They walk it everywhere they go.
Everyone in this church is a 

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Tabernacle is carrying your 
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Lord. 
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done in the fields. 
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time of harvest, and you are 
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And you see when one is ready to
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this church, each person in 
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closely with you that they would
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is ready for harvest. 
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to them and show them very 
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bring forth that harvest. 
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would have the opportunity to 
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now sit here and taste and see 
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And as they serve and as they 
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and teach disciples, Lord Jesus,
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harvest. 
Thank you, Lord, for once it 

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stay close to you to hear you 
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Come take the harvest with me. 
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Praise God. 
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Amen. 
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but as an example, the word of 
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weeks ago, we had a guest 
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Shipley named Rob. 
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really one of these weird 
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He's a great brother. 
He is the head of missiological 

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resources for the Assemblage of 
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And he came and taught on for us
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conference, did a great job. 
And then he and I shared a pizza

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that night and then he went to 
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He was sick like all night. 
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we ate the same pizza, right? 
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sick, I don't know. 
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him like 6:00 in the morning. 
I think he said in 45 years this

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has never happened to me, but I 
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tomorrow morning. 
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whatever you need to do, you 
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I will preach. 
It's OK, I don't you know, and, 

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and so, but then he shows up at 
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near anybody, but I can preach. 
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his message and in that message 
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chapter 15 about the lost 
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And so, so he, he has a brother 
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Southern California. 
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of him. 
Rick Warren actually baptized 

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his brother, his brother's in 
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message was go find your lost 
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Well, one of the guys in our 
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said, Hey, I just wanted you to 
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church, gave his heart to the 
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Listen to a testimony. 
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This is also a typing testimony.
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somebody, one of our, one of our
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talked about tithing. 
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I am now is I can't afford not 
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And that brother sat right 
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check. 
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In three weeks, man, go find 
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He comes and gets saved and he 
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Isn't that amazing? 
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the harvest is right there. 
Holly, can you help me with my 

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little, with my little 
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I told Pastor John Michael, I 
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illustrated sermon or actually I
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I said, don't worry, I won't 
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teach and preach like Pastor 
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OK, Just so you know, I really 
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And I'm I'm thankful for it. 
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OK. 
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We got to be accurate there. 
Want the level, baby? 

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Want the level. 
We're trying to build a house 

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together right now. 
It's it's it's a chance. 

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It's just no, we're having a 
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What I want to talk to you today
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Everybody say growing in rest, 
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I I appreciate it. 
Craig's bodybuilding shirt back 

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there is it's his old school 
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You understand that they all 
want to see it now this model 

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your shirt for me right there. 
All right, all right, He's got 

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an old school bodybuilding shirt
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And, and you know, and I, I used
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and I used to run a lot and do a
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things. 
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about working out is that when 
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muscles down. 
And when you rest, the muscles 

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regrow stronger, right? 
And and so the, so you can't 

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just work out all the time, you 
know, you've got to actually 

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rest, right? 
So growth happens in rest. 

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And I want to talk to you today 
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rest, growing in rest in the 
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We can kind of get it backwards.
I think a lot of times we're 

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like, we're busy for the Lord, 
we're serving the Lord, we're 

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working, but you actually grow 
when you rest. 

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You actually grow when you're 
resting in Jesus, when you're 

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enjoying your life in Jesus, 
when you're just in his 

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presence. 
And that's all you need to be is

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just in his presence. 
So I'm going to reframe a couple

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of thoughts for us today, and 
then we're going to get into 

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Matthew Chapter 11. 
And I'm going to show you that 

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it's actually there. 
And Pastor Ken's not actually a 

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heretic, though I've been 
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never. 
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It's one of those dad jokes. 
It's a holdover from being in 

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I, I started out my first five 

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years of my ministry. 
I didn't teach to anybody that 

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was over 3 feet. 
You know, they had to walk in 

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and, and the line at the doors 
kind of like the, you know, and 

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so they come in, OK, you're 
under 3 feet. 

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I can preach to you. 
So you were one of them. 

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That's right. 
Back in the day, early 90s. 

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So, Angelina, can you help me? 
Can you? 

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OK, so here's what I want to do.
I'm going to give you this this 

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scripted. 
They're going to give us the 

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answers. 
OK, and you're just going to 

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write the answers up here. 
Let me ask you the question. 

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How does it feel when your soul 
is disconnected? 

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We're talking about being a 
we're going to talk about a 

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little bit about the soul today,
which is pretty spiritual, 

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general organic kind of 
language, but I'll tie it into 

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the Bible in a minute. 
How do you know if your soul is 

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disconnected? 
How do you know? 

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What are some? 
Give me one, one word, two word.

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Done. 
Go ahead. 

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Lost, lost. 
OK. 

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Can you write that? 
Lonely, lonely. 

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Empty. 
Oh, oh, oh, slow down. 

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She's got a right faster sister.
Lost, lonely. 

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What else? 
Despair. 

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Despair, Right. 
Despair. 

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Darkness, Right? 
Yeah. 

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She writes so good. 
You didn't pick me to write. 

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You would have. 
Yeah. 

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It would have been bad if you 
pointed to me instead. 

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Of her, we're all thankful. 
Chaotic. 

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Chaotic sadness, sadness, 
sadness. 

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No dude, that's good. 
I mean it's bad but it's in UMB.

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Does that have a kid? 
No, no, OK. 

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I don't dry it up. 
Dry it. 

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Up broken. 
Somebody else. 

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Depression. 
Depression. 

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Sure. 
I pray. 

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We could probably have two or 
three or four more, right. 

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Anybody ever experienced this 
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I kind of thought that as people
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disconnected soul. 
How many of you know, people 

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that are experiencing this, you 
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tend to see the, the thing that 
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But this is a source, right? 
So there are symptoms of sin and

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then there's the source. 
And that's the fact that we are 

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disconnected, right? 
We're disconnected from. 

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So what does it feel like when 
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when you your soul is connected?
I told, all right, One Cup per 

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point in my sermon. 
Joy, happiness. 

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I, I told him I normally drink 
about 24 ounces of water before 

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I preach. 
And so he's like, well, when you

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drink one, I'll give you more. 
So, OK, what did I hear? 

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Joy, joy, joy. 
Peace. 

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Peaceful. 
Happiness. 

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Oh, it's bubbling up now, thank 
greatness. 

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You're doing great. 
Love. 

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Wholeness or whole? 
Delight. 

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Hold up, Hold up, hold up, hold 
up. 

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You're doing great, Angelina. 
You're doing great. 

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You've got. 4 words on deck 
still. 

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Yeah, I know. 
I. 

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Missed. 
It Ding Ding, Ding, Ding. 

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Full, full, fruitful, fruitful. 
Oh, that's a good one. 

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Good. 
Thing you picked a good speller.

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Right. 
Yeah, anymore. 

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Living this what? 
Makes. 

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It alive. 
Alive. 

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That's good. 
Anchored. 

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Connected. 
Oh, that's good. 

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Oh, yeah. 
Connected and connected. 

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Yeah, it makes sense. 
OK, That is a good stopping 

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place right there. 
Thank you so much. 

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Let's give her a hand. 
You can hang on to that. 

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We'll, we'll come back in just a
minute. 

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Isn't it interesting? 
And, and Hudson caught it that 

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that this looks a lot like the 
fruit of the Spirit, right? 

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Let me let me just read from 
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The acts of the flesh are 
obvious. 

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Sexual immorality, impurity and 
debauchery, idolatry and 

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witchcraft, hatred, discord, 
jealousy, fits of rage, selfish 

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ambition, dissensions, factions,
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and 

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the like. 
I warn you, as I did before, 

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that those who live like this 
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God. 
But the fruit of the Spirit is 

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Lovejoy, peace, forbearance, 
kindness, goodness, 

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faithfulness, gentleness, and 
self-control. 

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Against such things, there is no
law. 

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Those who belong to Christ Jesus
have crucified the flesh with 

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its passions and desires. 
Since we live in the Spirit, let

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us keep in step with the Spirit.
Let us not become conceited, 

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provoking and envying each 
other. 

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You know, if you have your 
Bibles turned to Matthew Chapter

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11, we're going to get into this
in just a second in verse 25. 

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But I want to I want to submit 
to you the kind of the the crux 

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of this thought is that is that 
Jesus lived the way he did in 

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full connection with the Father.
That the that the person of 

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Jesus is actually for us, the 
normal Christian life that when 

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we look to him and we follow 
him, he he's showing us what a 

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connected soul looks like, 
right. 

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We know, according to the 
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spirit, we have a soul, we live 
in a body. 

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But sometimes our soul gets 
connect, disconnected from God. 

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When we when before you met 
Jesus, that's the way it was all

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the time. 
Now, though, occasionally we 

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can, we can start to wander off 
the path. 

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We can start to focus on the 
stuff rather than the the one 

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who created the stuff. 
We can. 

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We can get distracted and when 
we get distracted we feel 

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disconnected. 
So Christians can feel this, but

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it's easy for them to get back 
to connection because all they 

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have to do is look to him. 
Now, if you don't know Jesus, 

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you just go find a bottle, or 
you go find some pills, or you 

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go find another job, or you 
chase something else that you 

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hope is going to fulfill you and
connect your soul. 

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But your soul is not going to be
connected to God because you 

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need Jesus. 
He's the one that cleanses us 

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and washes us and gives us 
access to the Father, right? 

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So let me let me read to you 
from Matthew Chapter 11. 

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At that time Jesus said, I 
praise you, Father Lord of 

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heaven and earth, because you 
have hidden these things from 

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the wise and learned and 
revealed them to little 

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children. 
This is a compliment from Jesus,

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right, because he's only only 
children receive the the 

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Kingdom. 
And guess what, we're in good 

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company because Saul church is 
just four years old. 

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Hold up four and say I'm four 
years old. 

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Four years old, OK? 
Yes, Father, for this is what 

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you were pleased to do. 
All things, everybody say all 

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things. 
All things have been committed 

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to me by my father. 
No one knows the Son except the 

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Father, and no one knows the 
Father except the Son and those 

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to whom the Son chooses to 
reveal him. 

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Come to me, all you who are 
weary and burdened, and I will 

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give you rest. 
Take my yoke upon you and learn 

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from Me, for I am gentle and 
humble in heart, and you will 

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find rest for your souls. 
For My yoke is easy and My 

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burden is light. 
The first thing I want to point 

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out to you this is in the first 
couple of verses. 

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Rest is the revelation of the 
Father's heart to you. 

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Often times we don't think of 
rest as being a person. 

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We think about rest. 
You know, you, you see a, you 

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see a lounge chair in front of 
the ocean that's restful. 

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Or for some of y'all, it's, it's
up in the mountains, you know, 

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and you and, and you're in the 
woods or maybe up, you're up on 

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the top of the mountain and 
you're looking out and you see 

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that feels restful. 
It was a really restful climbing

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all the way up there. 
You know, you, you have 

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different pictures, different 
motifs of what it what rest 

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sounds like. 
But in the Bible, it tells us 

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that revelation is a rest is a 
revelation of the Father's heart

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that the Father wants you to 
enter into rest. 

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That the whole reason he came 
was so that you could cease from

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your work, so that you could 
cease from your stress, so that 

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you could cease from your 
anxiety. 

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It's a revelation, though. 
It's a revelation. 

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Jesus is, is saying, he said, 
Lord, you have revealed these 

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things from the wise and learned
people that have studied and 

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tried and, and, and spent years 
and years and years reading 

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books and writing books and 
saying this is how you do it. 

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But it's a revelation. 
You need a revelation of rest. 

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And you're only going to get 
that if you understand the 

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Father's heart for you. 
He's not trying to make your 

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life more difficult. 
He's trying to lighten your 

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load. 
He's trying to make your life 

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better just because you can live
in relationship with a father. 

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And when you understand his 
heart, he's not trying to put 

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more burden on you. 
He's trying to take burden off 

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of you. 
But in the body of Christ, we 

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don't always teach that real 
well. 

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Right here. 
Just think about this language, 

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you know, and I've used this 
language. 

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I'm a preacher. 
So I'm, you know, point, point 

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your finger right at me. 
I know I've done this. 

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Are you right with God? 
Are you right with God? 

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Well, that can immediately come 
with some condemnation, right? 

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To a person that doesn't know 
Jesus, it should be the kindest 

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question ever. 
But people don't take it that 

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way because the world is upside 
down. 

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You know, sounds like you're 
trying to put a burden on me. 

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But what if I said, how is it 
with your soul? 

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How is it with your soul? 
Why doesn't it sound a lot more 

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like you care? 
Like I'm just, I'm hey, we're 

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just, we're just people walking 
along. 

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And how is it with your soul? 
How is it with your soul? 

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You know, and immediately a 
person's like all of a sudden 

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they've got to do like this 
internal. 

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Well, I don't know. 
Maybe it's not, it's not good. 

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I'm not where I should be. 
Something's broken. 

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Something's missing. 
It's not, it's not ordered the 

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way I want it to be. 
My, you know, maybe it's my 

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private life. 
Maybe it's my relational life 

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that's affecting my soul. 
Maybe it's which one came first,

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right? 
Was my soul out of whack and, 

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and then I began to affect my 
relationships? 

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Or did the relationships trigger
me to, to, to get turned upside 

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down on the inside? 
Which is it? 

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Anybody ever watched that 
Snickers commercial where 

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somebody's just sitting there 
and all of a sudden that their 

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face morphs into some kind of a 
monster or something and all of 

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a sudden it's like, oh, I know 
what the problem. 

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You're hangry. 
And they hand them a Snickers 

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bar. 
Oh, thank you. 

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Anybody ever been hangry? 
If I preach till 12:30, you're 

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going to be hangry or I'm going 
to experience it. 

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It's, it's interesting, isn't 
it? 

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I mean that, that our, that the 
body that God gave us can affect

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our mood, can affect how we feel
about things, right? 

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You know, when, whenever I get 
around my, my grandkids, they'll

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be sitting there and it's like 
we're having a conversation and 

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all of a sudden somebody's not 
happy. 

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And, and one of the moms, it's 
either Mimi or, or one of my 

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daughter's looks over and says, 
Oh, it's nap time, right? 

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What are we, what are we saying?
We're saying, OK, it's time to 

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power down. 
It's time to put the head on the

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pillow. 
It's time to have some rest, 

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right? 
But sometimes in, in our souls, 

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we're disconnected. 
And the only thing that can 

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reset us is this revelation that
the father wants something good 

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for you and he wants to give you
rest. 

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He just wants you to enter into 
rest. 

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And it's so simple, but it's not
easy. 

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It's so simple to understand 
conceptually, but we've, we've, 

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we've added kind of some 
relation, some religious 

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components to it and, and we've,
and we've kind of muddied the 

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waters a little bit. 
Secondly, in, in your notes, 

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00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,880
this is the, the part where it 
starts all things Jesus says, 

450
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,600
all things have been committed 
to me by my father. 

451
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,800
No one knows the son except the 
Father. 

452
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,720
Think about that. 
Let me, let me take the Son out 

453
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,600
of there and put sonship in 
there which can speak about 

454
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,200
every one of us in here. 
Jesus is talking about himself, 

455
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,680
but what did he do? 
He gave us the spirit of sonship

456
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,360
we are adopted in. 
And so when you go to your 

457
00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:08,600
Father, he's the only one who 
really knows who you are. 

458
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,120
I've been married to Holly for 
35 years and she's got a pretty 

459
00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:15,440
good idea of who I am. 
But you know what? 

460
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,200
Only the father knows what my 
ultimate destiny is. 

461
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,800
Only the father knows who Ken 
Kramer is in his identity, but 

462
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,240
in his purpose, everything that 
goes along with that, only the 

463
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,400
father knows that. 
And and so when we, when we, 

464
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,400
when we recognize that rest is 
this restoration of purpose and 

465
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,680
dominion authority for you, if 
you're feeling weak, if you're 

466
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,920
feeling less than, if you're 
feeling been pushed down by the 

467
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,880
world, what if you just got a 
fresh revelation of what the 

468
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,720
Father has for you? 
There's a there's an 

469
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,920
illustration that I've used for 
years. 

470
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,360
I think I first heard it from 
Pastor Jack Hayford, but he 

471
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:56,600
would talk about gold coins. 
Gold is on kind of a good run 

472
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,680
right now, isn't it? 
And so back in the day when gold

473
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,640
coins were, were made, they're 
always minted with the face of 

474
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,320
of an emperor or a king or 
somebody on it. 

475
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,160
And they would take that, that 
gold, which is a malleable 

476
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,240
metal, and they would impress 
the the image of whatever 

477
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:18,360
government was issuing the coin.
And the coin was always issued 

478
00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:21,720
by weight. 
So you knew how much you had by 

479
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,040
you take. 
If you had five one ounce gold 

480
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,960
coins, you'd put them on a scale
and they ought to weigh 5 oz, 

481
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,360
right? 
And So what would happen though,

482
00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:32,920
as soon as you took that gold 
coin and you handed it out, you 

483
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,280
put it in the circulation and it
got it paid for this and it paid

484
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,240
for that. 
And it was around the 

485
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,720
circulation after a while, 
because gold by its nature, it 

486
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,680
could rub off a little bit 
something. 

487
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,080
And usually where it rubs off is
where it's embossed, where it's,

488
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,040
the images stand on it. 
And so eventually coins that 

489
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,480
would would that have been 
circulation for 5/10/15 twenty 

490
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,080
years, they had less of the 
image on them than they did when

491
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,440
they were first minted. 
But they were also worth less 

492
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,560
than coins that were just being 
minted because in the process of

493
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,280
handling, some of the gold wore 
off in somebody'd fingerprints 

494
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,560
and, and, and got in that 
drawer, gotten that, you know, 

495
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,160
wherever it was and it got, it 
got shook off. 

496
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,640
And so when you take those 5 
gold coins out that had been 

497
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,960
around for a long time and put 
them on the scale, they weighed 

498
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,440
less and so consequently they 
were worth less. 

499
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:31,400
Anybody ever feel worth less? 
Excuse me, Worthless. 

500
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,400
I did that somewhere. 
We feel worthless sometimes. 

501
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,400
You know how you discover your 
worth. 

502
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,120
Do you know how you really allow
the your soul to fill its work, 

503
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,240
feel it's worth get back into 
the presence of God and let him 

504
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:56,200
reconnect you let the you know 
the the word for glory in the in

505
00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:01,080
the Hebrew is the word wait and 
and so in I think it's in 

506
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:06,240
Corinthians, it says we we all 
with unveiled faces, see the 

507
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:11,160
Lord's glory when we come before
the Lord, he re stamps his image

508
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,200
on us. 
He re stamps our purpose on us 

509
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,400
when he re stamps our value on 
us when we're feeling worth 

510
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,320
less. 
Maybe what we need to do is get 

511
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:25,240
a fresh glimpse of who he is and
allow him to take his glory and 

512
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,720
re stamp his image on us. 
You're not worthless. 

513
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,120
You're worth the the price of 
God's own Son, He who spared not

514
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:39,080
his own son, but gave him up for
us all, how he will he not also 

515
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,960
with him freely give us all 
things. 

516
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,880
The value of a thing is the 
price it will bring. 

517
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,520
And God says you're worth the 
life of his own son. 

518
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,000
He bankrupt heaven on your 
behalf. 

519
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,440
Most valuable thing that he ever
had, He gave his Son for you and

520
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,600
me. 
Rest is restoration of purpose 

521
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,560
and dominion authority. 
Thirdly, today, rest is 

522
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,120
repentance leading to 
relationship with them. 

523
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,080
You know what, when when we come
together, you don't really think

524
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:16,320
about this, but church on Sunday
morning is an act of repentance 

525
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,200
because you're saying I'm going 
to exchange something that's 

526
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,160
temporal for something that's 
eternal. 

527
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,240
Now granted, y'all some 
beautiful people and I love 

528
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,760
hanging out with you, but 
sometimes on Sunday morning I'd 

529
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,480
rather stay in bed. 
Can I just be honest? 

530
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,880
Can I be a pastor and admit 
that, you know, sometimes like, 

531
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,920
you know, Holly's not. 
I was like, I don't feel like 

532
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,840
going to church today. 
Honey, you're the preacher. 

533
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:44,400
You got to. 
But the reality is, when we put 

534
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,760
God first, that's an act of 
repentance. 

535
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,800
When we give Him the first part 
of our day, that's an act of 

536
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,760
repentance. 
Whenever we, whenever we put Him

537
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,160
ahead in our thought processes, 
that's an act of repentance. 

538
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,560
What am I doing? 
I'm saying it's not me first, 

539
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,800
it's Him first, deny yourself, 
take up your cross and follow 

540
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,520
me. 
So you're, you're finding little

541
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,760
ways in your life to turn your 
mind toward him, to turn your 

542
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,160
attention toward him, to turn 
your affection toward him and 

543
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,360
say, you know what I want what 
he wants 1st and what I want 

544
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,360
second. 
I want to find a way to do that.

545
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,200
And so these things are all 
repentance that leads into 

546
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:25,400
relationship with him. 
And so, so it's so important for

547
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,200
us to, to understand this, that 
I'm, I'm going to get a couple 

548
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,920
secrets, OK, You need to look 
after your soul. 

549
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,240
And it's not what our world 
calls self-care, which is kind 

550
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,120
of like a little bit of 
hedonism, you know what I'm 

551
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,560
saying? 
It's, it's, it's all pleasure 

552
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,560
based and whatever, whatever, 
whatever. 

553
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:51,120
But there are things that are 
unique to you that cause you to 

554
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,600
have rest. 
And if we're not careful, we, 

555
00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,160
you know, it's, it's such a, 
it's so personal that it's easy 

556
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,400
for somebody to look at us. 
If it's not remotely religious 

557
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,360
or something, it's easy for, for
us to, to pull back from that, 

558
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,960
say, Oh yeah, maybe you're 
right. 

559
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,720
But I just want you to know, to 
me, sometimes the most spiritual

560
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,880
thing I do is stand in a river 
with waders on and cast a fly 

561
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:24,480
and my soul gets refreshed. 
I'm out there standing in what 

562
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,120
God made right. 
And if I don't want to catch 

563
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,640
fish, I don't put a lure on the 
end and I just stand there and 

564
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,360
cast. 
Nobody bothers me. 

565
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,480
I leave the phone on the 
somewhere else and and I'm just 

566
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,080
out there getting my soul 
refreshed. 

567
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,880
You know what's happening? 
My soul is, is reconnecting. 

568
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,760
It's reconnecting. 
What do you do? 

569
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,320
Let's. 
OK, this is where I need 

570
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,840
Angelina again. 
What do you do for soul care? 

571
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,520
I'll tell you one other thing I 
do for soul care and and then 

572
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,600
and then we'll, we'll start 
taking we'll start taking 

573
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:04,240
thoughts from here back during 
COVID back during COVID, I 

574
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,000
spelling is soul care for 
Angelina. 

575
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:16,440
Did you get that setting things 
in order back during COVID? 

576
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,920
I, I got into making sourdough 
bread. 

577
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,840
And, and so I, I mean, I like, 
got really into it. 

578
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,880
Like I bought a grain mill and 
I, I ground my own flour because

579
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,080
you couldn't get flour and blah,
blah, blah. 

580
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,840
And so, and it took me, I can't 
tell you how many loaves that I 

581
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,280
had to throw in the trash 
because they were just 

582
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,120
worthless. 
But I, I, I perfected the 

583
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,240
process of making sourdough 
bread. 

584
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,440
And, and it was just just that 
little bit of time studying what

585
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,240
the starter was doing, learning 
to mix it. 

586
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,240
It was chemistry, it was, you 
know, it was process, all that 

587
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,680
kind of stuff. 
And and it would refresh my soul

588
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,840
to just go and make sour of 
bread, you know, and my family 

589
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,160
didn't mind it either and 
neither did my waist. 

590
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,600
I gained about 5 lbs. 
But you know, results of COVID, 

591
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,760
right? 
So, so soul care. 

592
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,160
So what? 
What is it that refreshes your 

593
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,239
soul? 
Now we can do it. 

594
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:13,120
Go ahead. 
Double our salary, whatever it 

595
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,639
is. 
Yes, go ahead. 

596
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,280
Turning off the phone. 
Wow, that's a good one. 

597
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,080
Family time. 
Don't have to be doing anything 

598
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,360
particular, right? 
Just time with them. 

599
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:41,400
Stargazing, Fishing. 
Hey, Ben, sitting in the woods, 

600
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,480
deer hunting. 
OK, Range time. 

601
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:55,080
Project Car. 
It's the first time the guys can

602
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,840
say non churchy stuff in church.
OK, we're enjoying our 

603
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,920
deliverance right now. 
Prayer Walk. 

604
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,240
There you go. 
I like to prayer walk too. 

605
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:13,880
Salt water prayer walk. 
Walk. 

606
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,480
Well, I heard somebody else. 
What else Hunting was up there? 

607
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:24,800
Hunting. 
GG, my husband. 

608
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:32,040
Now you just make me stop. 
You're just. 

609
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,320
You're just wanting your spouse 
to see that up there. 

610
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,440
We're working. 
We're working. 

611
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,160
That's great. 
Date night. 

612
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,200
Date night shopping. 
Hang on. 

613
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,440
You like to chop wood, do you 
somebody? 

614
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,960
Said holding a baby. 
Holding a baby. 

615
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,520
I know some brand new moms 
should probably be happy to let 

616
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:11,840
you get some soul care. 
Painting. 

617
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,320
Painting like walls or artistic 
stuff? 

618
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,600
Artistic stuff, Yeah. 
Watching the sunrise. 

619
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,680
Sunrise. 
Watching someone. 

620
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,920
Yeah, good. 
You guys are on it. 

621
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,680
Reading the word. 
That's good. 

622
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:44,000
Amen, Chocolate. 
OK, Put chocolate and we'll stop

623
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:53,080
there. 
Thank you, Angelina. 

624
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,520
I once had, I, I once chaired a 
board meeting at at Lighthouse 

625
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,600
many, many years ago. 
And, and we, and we were going 

626
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,720
through some numbers and there 
was a women's meeting and one of

627
00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:08,640
the guys at the table saw the 
number that was for chocolate. 

628
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,720
And it was $50 for a ladies 
meeting for chocolate. 

629
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:17,920
And, and he, he had the audacity
to say, why did they spend so 

630
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,960
much money on chocolate? 
And we shouted him down right 

631
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,280
then just brother, don't even 
bring that up. 

632
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,760
It should have been $200 on it, 
$50. 

633
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:37,720
Not nearly enough. 
Not nearly enough next week. 

634
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,200
I love this passage in Isaiah 30
verse 15. 

635
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,040
It says this is what the 
sovereign Lord, the Holy One of 

636
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:50,800
Israel says in repentance and 
rest is your salvation, in 

637
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,320
quietness and trust is your 
strength. 

638
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,280
And then he adds, but you would 
have none of it. 

639
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,240
What is it that causes us to 
fight against rest? 

640
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,280
What is it that causes us to 
like, like a little baby that's 

641
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,040
you're trying to get him to go 
down for a nap and they just 

642
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,800
don't want to go down for a nap 
and they resist and resist. 

643
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,680
And is it fear of missing out? 
We're kind of into that in our 

644
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,280
world, aren't we? 
There's, there's got to be 

645
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,400
something more, you know, for us
and who are, you know, our, our,

646
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:27,120
our jobs or our, our finances 
are connected to, to we got to 

647
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,200
stay busy. 
If I'm not working, I'm not 

648
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,200
making money. 
If I'm not making money, the 

649
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,440
wolf is coming to the door, all 
of that kind of stuff. 

650
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,640
And, and so, but there's got to 
be a level of surrender to where

651
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,920
we say, OK, God is, is the 
provider and he doesn't want me 

652
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,480
to work 24/7. 
And we've got to put some 

653
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,200
parameters about around it. 
And how many of you have ever 

654
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,680
found that, that some of the 
best, most creative ideas happen

655
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,880
in your mind, happen, happen for
you when you're resting? 

656
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,800
You know that, that you, you get
out and about and then you come 

657
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,320
back to it later and you're 
like, Oh, this isn't so hard. 

658
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,080
Now. 
It was maybe you found yourself 

659
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,560
in a difficult place. 
Maybe while you were, while 

660
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,440
you're off, a client called and,
and, and left a message and 

661
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,640
said, you know what, I want you 
to go ahead and do that deal. 

662
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,120
And, and so then you got a 
contract and you weren't out 

663
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,960
there hustling. 
You were just resting, right. 

664
00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:20,240
And how many of you know that 
when we rest, God is at work, 

665
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,320
that he's working, that he's 
strengthening us, that he's 

666
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,760
renewing us, that he's changing 
us. 

667
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:34,080
We're, we're growing in rest. 
We're growing in rest. 

668
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,800
You know, when I was, when I was
a boy, my, my parents divorced 

669
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,160
when I was probably 7 years old 
and I'd just gotten into riding 

670
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:47,720
motorcycles at the time. 
And I had the town or the county

671
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:52,200
that I grew up in has more cows 
than people and it's very rural.

672
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,600
And back in the day, we could 
ride motorcycles on those dirt 

673
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,440
roads and most of the time not 
get caught because there was one

674
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,440
county cop and there was one 
state cop. 

675
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,720
And they had a really big, you 
know, I did manage to get caught

676
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:06,200
a couple of times before I was 
13 without my license. 

677
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:12,280
But anyway, I digress. 
I I found myself as a as a boy 

678
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:19,120
learning to just process. 
On on two wheels while I was 

679
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,200
working through my parents 
divorce the emotions of all of 

680
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,680
that. 
I would just go spend two or 

681
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,920
three hours a night riding 
sometimes get off the bus and go

682
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,360
ride motorcycle until I got back
until it until it got dark. 

683
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,000
I mean, that was kind of a thing
that I did and in in riding 

684
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,360
motorcycle just became part of, 
you know, me time and eventually

685
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,680
time that I would spend with the
Lord. 

686
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,720
Later on when I became 17 years 
old and got born again, having a

687
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:49,160
motorcycle was just a thing that
was sole care for me, right. 

688
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:54,720
And would you know that this is 
really kind of strange, but it's

689
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,560
a true story that over in the 
course of my life, I have been 

690
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:03,200
given 8 different motorcycles 
from from the time I was about 7

691
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,800
years old. 
Now, I bought myself more, I 

692
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,480
won't say more than 8, but I 
bought myself a number of them 

693
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,640
through the years. 
And then another season, OK, we 

694
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:11,880
have a baby. 
I don't have time. 

695
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,120
So I sell the bike and then I go
a little season. 

696
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:18,360
But most of the time I, I've had
two wheels in my life, but eight

697
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,120
of those motorcycles people just
gave to me. 

698
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,840
And that while, and, and it was 
just to me, it was my father 

699
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,560
saying, I, I know what you like,
I know what you like, I know 

700
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,760
what you know. 
And so I don't feel carnal or 

701
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,400
boastful at all. 
And I'm saying, oh, it was a 

702
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:37,640
brand new one or anything like 
that. 

703
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,640
Just no, somebody just thought 
of me and said, Hey, I thought 

704
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,560
you might like to have this. 
And they blessed me with it. 

705
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,720
And so I just want to encourage 
you with, with these thoughts. 

706
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:52,840
Here's a couple thoughts for for
your notes, action steps for 

707
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,600
you. 
This is Rick Warren he would 

708
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,240
talk about on Sabbath. 
Divert daily. 

709
00:41:57,240 --> 00:42:01,360
Whatever you do that relaxes you
in the day, do it. 

710
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,840
Take some time every day. 
Take some time every day. 

711
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:10,640
And it doesn't necessarily need 
to be related to something 

712
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,600
spiritual, but maybe your soul 
is just disconnected from your 

713
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,160
spirit. 
You can't hear your spirit. 

714
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,560
So do some soul care and let 
your soul and your spirit 

715
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,000
reconnect with your body. 
Are you with me? 

716
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,600
So divert daily, withdraw 
weekly. 

717
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,640
I believe church is part of 
that. 

718
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,880
And but in a minute, I'm going 
to tell you how pastors are the 

719
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,560
worst Sabbath Breakers there 
ever were. 

720
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,680
And I'm going to show you how to
make sure you look after your 

721
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:41,520
gift of your pastors and then 
abandoned annually, disconnect 

722
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:46,600
completely, divert daily, 
withdraw weekly and abandoned 

723
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,280
annually. 
If you have those things. 

724
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,560
And here here's what I'm going 
to challenge you to do. 

725
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,400
We're we're a few months in 
already to the new year. 

726
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,800
But what I've learned is that 
when I begin to plan my new 

727
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:04,760
year, I plan my vacations first.
Plan the plan the rest 1st. 

728
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,600
When do you plan to rest? 
Why? 

729
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,000
Because work will crowd it out, 
pressure will crowd it out. 

730
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,360
Everything else will crowd it 
out. 

731
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,320
Busyness will crowd it out. 
And your soul is going to get 

732
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,480
disconnected. 
You know it's going to. 

733
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,760
So plan on the rest and get that
going first. 

734
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,880
Get it, you know, bookend it in 
there. 

735
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,520
Plan the rest into your 
calendar. 

736
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:24,920
If it's not your calendar, I 
found this. 

737
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,560
If it's not my calendar, it 
doesn't get done right. 

738
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,280
And so, so learn to plan, rest 
right away. 

739
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,680
Get that out front. 
And 1st, I want to mention this 

740
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,600
to you and we're going to we're 
going to pray Ori in just a 

741
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:44,440
moment. 
But since I am John Michaels 

742
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:51,360
pastor and since I am on the 
board, let me let me shift gears

743
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,400
from talking about you to 
talking about the the pastoral 

744
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,160
role for a minute. 
I've served the same 

745
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:02,720
congregation for 35 years. 
This year I was an associate for

746
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,880
children's pastor for five 
years, associate for three 

747
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,400
years, lead pastor now for 27 
years. 

748
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,520
And, and so when you, when 
you're the one variable that 

749
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,960
doesn't change, you see a lot of
other things happen. 

750
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:18,040
You know, I, I've been looking 
at the same group of people. 

751
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,080
Sometimes I want to invent 
stories, you know, so that I'm a

752
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,000
little bit jazzier on a Sunday 
morning. 

753
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,120
But they've known me for 35 
years and so it ain't happening.

754
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:30,320
You know, I can't, I can't, you 
know, make up some story about 

755
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,040
my life and, and how Jesus 
redeemed me in a different way 

756
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,560
than he did. 
I can't because they know me. 

757
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,760
But well, here's a couple of 
things that I've learned. 

758
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,720
And I remember sitting in an 
ordination meeting for one of 

759
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:46,360
our guys that got ordained, 
actually became a Baptist 

760
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,960
preacher. 
And, and the guy who is doing 

761
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,120
the ordination service said 
something that that just really 

762
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,040
summarized how I felt, but I'd 
never heard it put in those 

763
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:01,920
ways. 
He said to be a pastor is to be 

764
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,800
is to be acquainted with guilt 
that you can't get rid of. 

765
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,040
He says when you're away, you're
thinking about how it is with 

766
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,160
others. 
Holly and I have to be 

767
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:17,600
intentional about not talking 
about the church at certain 

768
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,840
times in the week, certain times
in the day and then certain 

769
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,600
times in the month. 
If we're going away and 

770
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,360
traveling, we'll be driving down
the road and all of a sudden 

771
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:27,880
somebody, I wonder how it is 
with them. 

772
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,640
I wonder how they're doing. 
You know it you. 

773
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,240
You have to be intentional to 
shut it off. 

774
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:36,400
When you're studying, you feel 
guilty that you haven't called 

775
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,640
someone about their dying cat. 
When you are with your family, 

776
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,840
something triggers you about a 
family in the church and you 

777
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,520
make a mental note to check on 
them when you're not with your 

778
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,840
own family. 
To pastor is to be acquainted 

779
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,120
with this nagging sense of guilt
that you can't seem to shake 

780
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,240
off. 
You are less than the task you 

781
00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:57,000
are called to do and you know 
it. 

782
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,040
Pastors who think I got this are
the wrong kind. 

783
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:10,080
Pastors who recognize only God 
can help me, that this is way 

784
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,960
bigger than me. 
They're the right kind because 

785
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,840
they're called. 
You are less than the task and 

786
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,840
you know it. 
And you feel part of the time 

787
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,120
like you might be a poser or a 
hypocrite because failure seems 

788
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,360
one decision away. 
And there's a lot riding on your

789
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,440
decision on a daily basis. 
It's a lot of pressure. 

790
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:34,440
So This is why pastors need 
sabbaticals more than most. 

791
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,840
Wayne Cordero wrote a book 
called Leading on Empty. 

792
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,560
Wayne Cordero. 
It's an amazing pastor in 

793
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:41,840
Hawaii. 
Oh, God bless you. 

794
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,240
Why wouldn't you want a pastor 
in Hawaii? 

795
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:48,000
And he, he, they planted over, I
think 99 churches on the Pacific

796
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:53,160
Rim, just an amazing pastor. 
And he burned himself out and, 

797
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,040
and out of that, he wrote a 
book. 

798
00:46:55,240 --> 00:46:56,360
That's what you do when you burn
out. 

799
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:57,560
You write books, right? 
I don't know. 

800
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,440
It sounds counterproductive to 
me, but it's like he learned 

801
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,600
some things and so he said I got
to tell others. 

802
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,880
As I said earlier earlier, 
pastors rarely get a Sabbath day

803
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,720
off unless they have a large 
This is this is him speaking 

804
00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:13,880
now, not me. 
Unless they have a large church 

805
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,680
with multiple pastors on staff, 
most will put in an 8 to 10 hour

806
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,640
day on Sundays. 
In the marketplace, most workers

807
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,240
get at least a 2 day weekend. 
Added to that, most employees in

808
00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:27,720
the secular world get about 6 
long weekends a year due to 

809
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,440
national and state holidays. 
So I want you to think about it.

810
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,880
Memorial Day, there's a weekend,
right? 

811
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,640
4th of July, there's a weekend. 
And when you have a weekend, you

812
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,040
have a Sunday, right? 
So while everybody else is off 

813
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,080
and they're and they're enjoying
their chicken and thinking about

814
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,120
the weekend, the pastor's 
preparing A sermon for that 

815
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,280
Sunday morning, which is smack 
dab in the middle. 

816
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,000
And for half the people that are
not even going to be there 

817
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,080
because they're off enjoying 
their weekend, right? 

818
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,200
I'm not, I'm just, I'm just 
saying this is what it is. 

819
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,960
I'm not knocking anybody. 
I'm just saying this is the 

820
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,200
nature of this thing we call 
church, right? 

821
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:06,600
So this means that workers are 
off from late Friday afternoon 

822
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:11,840
until Tuesday morning 6 * a 
year, 18 days per year that 

823
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,840
pastors that you know probably 
don't get. 

824
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:21,400
So 18 days a year off from work,
pastors are still prepping for 

825
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,000
sermons, thinking through, 
getting things ready. 

826
00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:27,840
And, and so you got 18 more if 
you, if you just work the, the 

827
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:33,040
regular cycle, you got 18 more 
days off last year than Pastor 

828
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,720
John Michael, right? 
Think about it. 

829
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,200
Now let's apply some basic math.
If you multiply these three days

830
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:44,200
off times 6 weekends, then a 
multiply that number by 7 years,

831
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:49,120
it equals 126 days or the 
equivalent of a three to four 

832
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:54,080
month sabbatical to a pastor 
every seven years. 

833
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,040
We we've begun implementing A7 
year sabbatical cycle at 

834
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,760
Lighthouse because we want our 
pastors to stick around. 

835
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,640
We don't want them to burn out. 
We want the best version. 

836
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,720
We don't want them to lose their
families or their marriage for 

837
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:10,320
ministry. 
We want them to be at the top of

838
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,200
their game all the time. 
But they need rest and probably 

839
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:17,880
more than the average person 
because you know, you something 

840
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,200
goes on at work, you can leave 
it at work. 

841
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,840
Something goes on in the church.
That's the pastor's work. 

842
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,760
And so he's got to deal with it.
He's got to work through that 

843
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:31,640
stuff, you know, and so I want 
you to look after the gifts that

844
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,280
God has given you as pastors. 
Now they're not, they don't know

845
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,000
that they didn't know what I was
going to talk about today. 

846
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:38,560
They didn't know I was going to 
talk about this. 

847
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,640
But I, I would like to see for 
us, we're, we're just four years

848
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:43,800
in. 
So I'm not talking about a 

849
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,040
seven-year sabbatical, but I am 
saying that that we need to be 

850
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,800
intentional about putting 
together something in the 

851
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,360
church. 
It says we're going to make sure

852
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,600
our pastors are out of the 
pulpit sometimes. 

853
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,560
We're going to make sure that 
they are resting. 

854
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,000
Why? 
Because they grow when they 

855
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,680
rest. 
And you're actually hoping that 

856
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:10,280
they come back stronger and more
vibrant and more invigorated and

857
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,680
more excited and having more 
energy to do the things that God

858
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,320
put in their hearts to do from 
the 1st. 

859
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:21,080
And so I bring this up today 
because you are the church and 

860
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:25,480
you didn't exist except John, 
Michael and Natalie felt in 

861
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:29,160
their heart that they that this 
is this is the outgrowth of 

862
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,440
their life. 
God has called us to plant a 

863
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,560
church, right? 
So we're at the place now. 

864
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,440
We can have conversation. 
We can start to look and say, 

865
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,480
how do we look after one 
another? 

866
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:43,240
He tells you how to look after 
one another out here. 

867
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:47,440
But I'm going to help you look 
after them, all right? 

868
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:51,800
And, and I want us to do that. 
I want us to, to really help 

869
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:56,160
them grow in rest. 
I don't want them to ever have 

870
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,520
to think, oh, there's somebody 
else call in. 

871
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,080
I got a call at 5:15 yesterday 
morning. 

872
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,280
Hey, pastor, when you have a 
chance, can we talk? 

873
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,440
It happens. 
But brother knows I'm an early 

874
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,640
riser. 
Not a big deal, right? 

875
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:18,520
But they're, they're the, the 
idea that I'm doing a, that I'm,

876
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:22,720
I, as a pastor, I'm doing a nine
to five or an 8 to 4 or I have a

877
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:28,480
Friday off or a Saturday off. 
That doesn't exist in ministry. 

878
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,760
It does not exist. 
I'm just here to tell you and, 

879
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,720
and I know that John Michael 
would never come up here and 

880
00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:34,960
tell you all the stuff I'm 
telling you. 

881
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:39,160
So that's why I got to tell you.
I know how it is. 

882
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,600
I know how it is, you know, 
people, people don't die at 

883
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,600
convenient times. 
They don't go in the hospital at

884
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,880
convenient times. 
I've done funerals for dogs. 

885
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,080
Those don't happen at convenient
times. 

886
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,240
I mean, you know, I, I mean, 
just all kinds of the stuff that

887
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:58,880
you get asked to do, right? 
And, and so you, you have to 

888
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:03,000
say, OK, how do I do this? 
Jesus wants me to love his body,

889
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,880
but he also wants me to, to come
apart and be with him. 

890
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,560
Yes, right. 
And so we need to be this is 

891
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,120
just the start of the 
conversation. 

892
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,000
I'm not saying we have to do 
anything about it right now, but

893
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:19,080
but what I'm going to begin to 
do as I think through Salt 

894
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:22,360
Church, as we sit together with 
as a board is we're going to 

895
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,760
begin to put some things in 
place and we'll bring them back 

896
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,680
to you and say this is what 
we're thinking about and let you

897
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:31,360
speak into it, You know, so that
we can make sure that we always 

898
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,840
honor the gifts that God has 
given in the in the pastoral 

899
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,720
couple here. 
Amen. 

900
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,440
Soul care. 
How is it with your soul today? 

901
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:49,200
How is it with your soul? 
Are you at 100%? 

902
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:54,000
Is the battery recharged? 
Are you at 70%? 

903
00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:01,760
Are you feeling depleted? 
You're down around 30%, maybe 

904
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:08,640
less than that. 
In His presence is the fullness 

905
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:12,840
we need, right? 
The fullness, the fullness. 

906
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:18,320
But don't be afraid to go do 
some things that 'cause that 

907
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,280
fullness to return. 
Sometimes when we're trying to 

908
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:27,000
talk to God, it's really hard. 
Sometimes when we need to pray 

909
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:28,400
the most, it's really hard to 
cry. 

910
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,200
But sometimes you can just go 
be. 

911
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,200
I like to go be in a river. 
I like to go be on two wheels. 

912
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,640
I like to put my hands in some 
puddle. 

913
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,400
And when my body is doing 
something that I find enjoyable,

914
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:57,800
in those moments, I feel my soul
reconnecting with my spirit. 

915
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:05,080
And then this starts to happen. 
Holy Spirit begins to flow back 

916
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:10,320
in and reconnect to things. 
Then I start to feel like 

917
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,040
praying. 
Then I start to feel gratitude 

918
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,840
in my soul again. 
But you got to look after your 

919
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:22,680
soul, right? 
Jesus said, come to me if you're

920
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,040
weary and heavily and I'll give 
you rest. 

921
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,360
Let me tell you if you have, if 
you don't have rest, this is the

922
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,280
words of Jesus. 
If you don't want to have rest, 

923
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,400
you need to find your way back 
to Him. 

924
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,560
And I'm just telling you that 
your way back to him might look 

925
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,760
different than a church service.
It might look different than 

926
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,000
getting on your knees. 
It might look different than 

927
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,640
just opening a Bible. 
Can I just tell you that the 

928
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:46,160
heavens declare the glory of 
God? 

929
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:50,000
And if I walk outside and just 
look up and take a take a deep 

930
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,040
breath of God's air that he 
created and, and look at the 

931
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:57,400
stars or, or, or look at the 
clouds, then the refreshing of 

932
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,400
the Lord starts to come back 
into my soul, right? 

933
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,600
He gave me all things richly to 
enjoy anyway. 

934
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,480
He created that for you. 
He created that for me. 

935
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,520
Amen. 
Father, I pray right now over 

936
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,800
your people that we would 
prioritize soul care because 

937
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,320
Jesus, you did. 
You said when you're weary and 

938
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:22,760
heavy laden, you just come to 
me. 

939
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:29,400
You just come to me. 
Take my yoke upon yourself. 

940
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:34,640
Learn from me, for I am gentle 
and low. 

941
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:40,920
Father, I pray for each and 
every person here that soul care

942
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:46,000
would be their portion, that 
they would find the things that 

943
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:51,480
caused their soul to delight, 
and as they do, they would find 

944
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:56,640
their way to reconnecting their 
soul to their spirit. 

945
00:55:56,640 --> 00:56:01,680
The spirit of man is the candle 
of the Lord lighting all the 

946
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:05,240
innermost parts of the belly. 
There's nothing wrong with you, 

947
00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:07,640
God, and there really there's 
nothing wrong with us that a 

948
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,400
little reconnecting couldn't 
take care of. 

949
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:17,000
How is it with your soul today? 
Thank you Lord. 

950
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,720
Lord, we welcome the refreshing 
of your presence this morning. 

951
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:23,760
We welcome the things that you 
want to do in US. 

952
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,680
We welcome the opportunity that 
we have to to after we've been 

953
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,320
refreshed in your presence, to 
walk among the harvest and say, 

954
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:39,080
how is it with your soul? 
How is it with your soul? 

955
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:47,840
And we can tell him about our 
Father who loves us and his Son 

956
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:53,200
who came for us. 
And we can help people have a 

957
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:58,560
connected soul with heaven. 
Father, in the name of Jesus, we

958
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,920
just pray right now. 
We pray a blessing, Lord God, 

959
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,960
over this house. 
Pray a blessing over this 

960
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,120
church. 
Lord, there's more that you have

961
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,320
in store. 
There's vision, there's dream, 

962
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:14,200
there's, there's an 
expansiveness, Lord God, that 

963
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,680
you have out in front of us. 
Lord God, we're just getting 

964
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:18,120
started. 
And we thank you for that. 

965
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,200
But Lord, I pray that we would 
grow and rest today. 

966
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:26,320
We would grow and rest, that 
intimacy with Jesus growing. 

967
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:27,840
Rest right now. 
Halloween. 

968
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:33,720
Thank you father, thank you 
Father. 

969
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,240
Can I ask John, Michael and 
Natalie to stand right here? 

970
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,680
And I just want us to gather 
around them and pray over them 

971
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:43,800
today. 
I want you to stand right here 

972
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,560
and face everybody because y'all
are beautiful. 

973
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:54,520
Can we all stand and can you all
just come up and gather around 

974
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:57,640
them? 
I'm tired of hearing myself 

975
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,040
talk. 
I want to hear you all pray over

976
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:02,760
them today. 
And I want you to speak a word 

977
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:04,520
over them, speak a blessing over
them. 

978
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:06,080
And I want you to do it in the 
microphone. 

979
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:07,520
That's right. 
I'm going to take you a little 

980
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:10,800
higher today. 
I want them to hear. 

981
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:15,920
I want them to hear the the 
return on their investment from 

982
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,320
hearts that love Jesus today. 
Hallelujah. 

983
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:22,920
Thank you. 
Father God, we lift them up to 

984
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:24,520
you today. 
Lord, thank you for all the work

985
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:26,280
that they do, for all the 
sacrifice they do. 

986
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,560
Lord Jesus, I thank you that you
would bring them to places of 

987
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:31,480
rest. 
God, that you would give them 

988
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,960
clarity as to how to how to 
practice that rest and how to 

989
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:39,160
dwell in it. 
And how do you separate from all

990
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:42,400
the things that distract when 
they're in those places and that

991
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:46,280
their souls would be restored, 
that their relationship with you

992
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,400
would be deepened? 
That that would be a place where

993
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:55,280
revelation and insight bursts in
new ways as they meditate and 

994
00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:00,000
dwell on you and as they rest in
the creation that you've made 

995
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,280
and all the goodness that you've
poured out in there. 

996
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,440
Yes, God. 
Yes, God. 

997
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,560
Hallelujah. 
Father, we just come before you 

998
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,400
now, and we thank you and praise
you for that. 

999
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:13,040
Lord, We thank you for the love 
that you've put in their heart, 

1000
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,800
for the vision that you put in 
there their their soul for for 

1001
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,560
the church. 
Thank you, father, for thank you

1002
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:21,200
all that you've done through 
them. 

1003
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,840
Yes, we thank you for the family
that we call Saul. 

1004
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:27,200
Lord, thank you so much. 
Just to ask Father, that you 

1005
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,720
would just pour out your Holy 
Spirit upon that thank you on 

1006
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:33,480
your way and bring them that 
that rest Lord, yes, God, Jesus 

1007
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:39,480
name, yes God, Hallelujah, 
Hallelujah, somebody else good 

1008
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:44,320
thank. 
You so much the vision that you 

1009
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:48,520
paid them for told church from 
the lives that have changed in 

1010
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,880
the past four years since this 
was birth. 

1011
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:57,240
And I thank you God that Natalie
receives the rest that she so 

1012
00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:02,680
needs as she supports and loves 
the church and her husband, our 

1013
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,080
pastor. 
And may he receive the rest 

1014
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,200
also. 
And Lauren, I lift up their 

1015
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,880
family, and I ask you God, to 
touch. 

1016
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:18,920
Each one of them, Elijah, Block 
and Hudson and continue to 

1017
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:24,600
provide rest for them also as a 
family as they put you first. 

1018
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:29,440
Thank you, Father. 
Thank you, Father Holiday. 

1019
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,000
But I just thank you right now 
for violin and John Michael's 

1020
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:38,920
faithfulness. 
For their humility? 

1021
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,400
Yes, God. 
For their patience and the love 

1022
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,360
that they. 
Show to their congregation. 

1023
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:45,960
To all those. 
Around them, I tell you that 

1024
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:49,800
this will be a season where they
just feel an outpouring of your 

1025
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:50,280
love. 
Yes, God. 

1026
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:52,040
And. 
Peace from. 

1027
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:52,480
You. 
Yes, God. 

1028
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:54,440
That they would have the rest 
of. 

1029
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,200
The. 
That we as the congregation 

1030
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,600
would come around and support 
that and whatever. 

1031
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:06,400
I just thank you for these that 
have done so much for each one 

1032
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:12,000
of us in this room and we just 
continue to be fruitful and be. 

1033
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:14,760
Exactly what? 
It is. 

1034
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:28,690
Thank you, Lord. 
Thank you for the example. 

1035
01:01:28,810 --> 01:01:33,680
They said as a family, a unified
family devoted to continuing a 

1036
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:36,760
whole relationship with their. 
We're bringing everyone into the

1037
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,480
fullness of the Lord. 
They show it in their own family

1038
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:41,960
and they exhibited for the ones 
that are here before us. 

1039
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,960
They're exhibited for everybody.
And father, it's a true 

1040
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,080
relationship. 
It's a relationship with love. 

1041
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,920
They exhibit all the fruit of 
the spirit and they just have 

1042
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,280
the compassion and their love of
you into every part of their 

1043
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,520
lives. 
We thank you for that example 

1044
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:57,280
and for helping us to see that 
truly in our peace and every 

1045
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:58,280
life. 
Thank you. 

1046
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,400
Father God, we thank you for 
Natalie and John Michael, Father

1047
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:09,440
and Lord. 
The word says despise, not small

1048
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,520
beginnings. 
Praise. 

1049
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,680
God, thank you for that. 
Lord, we thank you for that 

1050
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:16,640
word. 
And Lord, I ask that you would 

1051
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:19,280
bless them. 
Lord, we come against any kind 

1052
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:24,200
of stress, any kind of anxiety. 
We cast it down in the mighty 

1053
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:26,440
name of Jesus. 
Thank you, Father and Father, 

1054
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:30,320
God, no weapons formed against 
them shall prosper, and every 

1055
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:32,800
tongue that shall rise up 
against them shall be held in 

1056
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,320
judgment. 
Father, we give it all over to 

1057
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:36,480
you. 
Lord, I ask that you would 

1058
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:40,040
blessed us. 
Oh family, Lord, bless their 

1059
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:44,120
children and give them rest. 
In the mighty name of Jesus. 

1060
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:45,560
Amen and Amen. 
Praise God. 

1061
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:56,360
Anybody else? 
That I ask to ask you bring new 

1062
01:02:56,360 --> 01:03:01,960
ways to that they can rest into 
their souls as you get them new 

1063
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:05,640
opportunities to rest whether 
it's painting for Natalie or 

1064
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,680
something else that JM is going 
to come across that they would 

1065
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:13,480
not be influenced by the world 
where we're constantly told you 

1066
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:16,840
have to monetize everything you 
have to make it have a purpose 

1067
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:19,440
because the. 
Purpose is rest. 

1068
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:23,680
The purpose is coming back into 
connection so they can connect 

1069
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,320
fully to you and then connect 
fully to your church. 

1070
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,160
And that's how they serve you by
serving us. 

1071
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:32,000
And we're so grateful for that. 
So I pray that you would just 

1072
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,720
put a hedge of protection around
their hearts as they come into 

1073
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:41,200
new ways to rest that they will 
not have deflection toward. 

1074
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,840
It has to be something more than
just what it is. 

1075
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:47,480
We thank you guys for who they 
are. 

1076
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:48,920
Hallelujah. 
For what they are to. 

1077
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,880
All us. 
And how they point us to you. 

1078
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:54,240
Hallelujah. 
They don't point us back to who 

1079
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:56,240
they are and how great they are 
they. 

1080
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:57,560
Point us to you. 
That's right. 

1081
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:00,360
We're so grateful. 
God bless them. 

1082
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:02,240
Yes, bless them. 
Bless us. 

1083
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:16,480
Through them. 
And Lord, I just want to thank 

1084
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:20,920
you for just putting the Clarks 
in all of our lives, that the 

1085
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:26,080
many blessings that they give 
us, not only just to praise you,

1086
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:32,440
but everything that they do 
they, they are, we are all more 

1087
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:34,080
than blessed to have them in our
lives. 

1088
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:38,480
And I just want to thank you for
guiding them through everything 

1089
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:44,960
they do, the many things that 
they have overcome to help all 

1090
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:48,080
of us overcome the same things. 
And. 

1091
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:49,840
Thank you for everything that 
you do. 

1092
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:58,440
Thank you, thank you. 
Let's just lift our hands and 

1093
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:01,240
bless the Lord. 
Lord, we bless you right now. 

1094
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:05,320
We thank you for your house. 
Lord, we love your house. 

1095
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,520
We love what you do in your 
house. 

1096
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:11,160
God, this is your living room. 
Lord, we thank you that we can 

1097
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,480
be with our Father in the living
room, in the living room of his 

1098
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:16,360
grace. 
Lord, I thank you for the 

1099
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,760
richness of this fellowship. 
I speak a blessing over the 

1100
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:23,800
richness of this fellowship. 
Lord God, may it go deeper, may 

1101
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:27,920
it grow stronger. 
May it be broader every day, 

1102
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:31,920
every week, every month from now
until Jesus comes. 

1103
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:35,920
We thank you for that today. 
Jesus name, Hallelujah. 

1104
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,040
Hallelujah. 
Thank you, the Lord Jesus. 

1105
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:42,360
Thank you. 
Praise God, Praise God. 

1106
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,160
Amen. 
Amen. 

1107
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:47,560
Thank you all. 
Hallelujah. 

1108
01:05:50,000 --> 01:06:09,320
OK, what happens next? 
Next is we eat. 

1109
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:12,400
But first I'm going to bless 
you. 

1110
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,600
Would you stand? 
And then who's going to be up 

1111
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:18,040
here for prayer? 
Adam and Angelina are going to 

1112
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:20,560
be available here for a couple 
of minutes for anyone who liked 

1113
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,240
prayer. 
Heavenly Father, we thank you 

1114
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,680
and we're just so thankful for 
your presence, for your weight, 

1115
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:31,200
for your glory, for your peace, 
and for your yoke. 

1116
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:33,840
That's easy and your burden is 
light and it just fits 

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perfectly. 
It's you're always the right 

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thing at the right time. 
But I pray you would refresh 

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your people in the same way that
they've just blessed and 

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refreshed me. 
And Lord, even as we go and 

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feast together as we should, as 
we go and celebrate together, as

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we should, continue to build us 
up, speak to it. 

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Pour in your oil and pour in 
your wine, all the right things 

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in all the right places. 
We thank you so much in Jesus 

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name. 
And now the Lord bless you and 

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keep you. 
The Lord make his face Shinedown

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upon you and be gracious to you.
The Lord lift up his countenance

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upon you and give you great 
peace in Jesus name, Amen.