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Psalms 43, verse 5.

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Why are you cast down, O my inner self?

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And why should you moan and be disquieted within me?

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Hope in God, and wait expectantly for Him.

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For I shall yet praise Him, who is the help of my sad countenance, my God.

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So I'm going to give a prophecy for those of you that don't understand that.

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First Corinthians chapter 12.

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And it's me endeavoring to speak what God would want us to hear this morning.

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Have you forgotten?

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Have you forgotten who I am?

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I am the Alpha and the Omega.

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I am the beginning.

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I am the end, and I feel everything in between.

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I am the one who calls it, and it appears.

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I am the one who says, walk this way, and I make the way for you to walk on.

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When there's none before you, I will make it for you.

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I am the God who brought the Israelites out of Egypt.

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Put them in a desert, put them in a situation where they would certainly die of starvation.

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But I did something new.

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I fed them with the manna, the angels of heaven's food.

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Had never been done before, and it never has been done since on any mass scale.

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Have you forgotten?

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Why are you downcast?

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Put your hope in me.

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Put your hope in your God.

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Is anything too hard for me?

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Is anything too difficult for me?

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Is your faith so weak?

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That with a little bit of opposition, you turned from the Spirit to the flesh.

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I used my servant Paul to rebuke the church of Galatia for doing the exact same thing.

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When the pressure mounted in front of them, they turned from the Spirit back to the old,

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soulish ways of thinking.

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And my Spirit rebuked them for it.

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Do not follow their path.

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There's only one thing you need to understand and realize.

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Who you're serving.

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Who you're serving.

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I am that I am.

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I am that I am.

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And there's nothing that happens on this planet that I am not aware of,

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even to a hair falling out of a human being's head or a sparrow falling out of the sky.

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I know it all.

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Do not allow yourself to turn into

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thinking natural soulish human thoughts

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and allow yourself to become downcast.

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Have you forgotten who you serve?

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Have you forgotten who you are in covenant with?

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Have you forgotten my names?

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I am Yahweh.

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The self and all sufficient one.

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The self-existent one.

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I need no help from no one or nothing

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to remain eternally the Almighty.

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I am Yahweh.

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I am Adonai.

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I am the God who watches over my people

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in a bond slave relationship.

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You are not responsible for what I ask you to do.

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I am responsible.

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Have you forgotten who I am?

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The servant doesn't make the way.

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The owner makes the way.

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The servant just does what the owner says.

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Have you forgotten who I am?

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I am Yahweh.

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I am the God of covenant.

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I am the God who longs

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to take care of and satisfy

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and provide for the needs of my people.

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Have you forgotten who I am?

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I am Elohim.

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I am the God who sits on the circle of this earth

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like it is a stool to me.

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I am the God who sat there

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and looked at it when I recreated this earth

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and brought it back into a life-giving habitable planet.

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I am that God.

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The God of creation.

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The God of all power.

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And I am El Shaddai.

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The all-sufficient one.

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I provide.

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I dare one of you

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to accuse me of not providing for you.

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I provide the very breath you breathe.

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I provide the strength you breathe it with.

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I am El Shaddai, the all-sufficient one.

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The one who, by my covenant name,

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Jehovah Jireh, I am the one who sees and provides.

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I say this to you now

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not to try to make it seem like your pastor

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is trying to sway your opinions.

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I say this to you

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because I am asking you,

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between you and me,

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your Almighty God

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have you forgotten who I am.

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If you will remember who I am

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and believe it with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength,

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every obstacle in your personal lives,

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in your families, in this church,

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every obstacle becomes extremely minute.

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Not because the thing is not real and doesn't matter.

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It becomes extremely minute because of who I am.

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Do you remember who I am?

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Because when you do,

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your soul will no longer be downcast.

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It will be replaced with the fruit of who I am.

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And the hope and the joy and the confidence I carry

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will rise up in you.

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Remember who I am.

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Interesting.

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I spoke last night at TBO

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and I mentioned why so downcast.

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He would not have known that

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because he was traveling back from Red Lake.

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And I talked about what you can look it up.

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What downcast looks like

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is called the chin to the chest.

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Like when a person is sad,

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they are not with their head up.

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They feel shame.

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Their head is down.

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It's downcast from the chin to the chest.

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And he's asking us,

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why are we downcast?

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Look to the hills where does your help come from?

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To look to the hills, they're higher.

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I have to look up.

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Where does your help come from?

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It comes from the Lord.

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And so there's something about him

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also wanting to do that here today,

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just through the word that's being taught

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and the prophecy that came forward.

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He's literally going to us

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and wherever we're even a little bit downcast.

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He's the lifter of our head.

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He's the lifter.

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Let him lift it.

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Sometimes psychologically,

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we hold on to things

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and we're like, no, I want to feel sad right now.

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I'm going to watch a sad movie even to add to it.

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I mean, we do dumb things like that.

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I'm just calling it what it is.

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And the whole time he's like, just let me lift your head.

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So you can see,

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we have to yield to the spirit of God

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so that he lifts our head.

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When we look to the hills,

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that's what this next prophetic part is going to be about.

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What he's asking me to share.

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We're literally looking to the hills.

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So we're looking to see something higher

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than where we're at right now.

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And we won't have all the answers today.

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But corporately, we're going to look into something

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bigger.

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I'm going to ask that we save the

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tithes and offerings till the end.

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And I'm going to ask everyone to take your seats

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and thank you band.

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You might be called back up here.

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I don't know.

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We're just following the spirit.

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This makes

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makes people really uncomfortable a lot of times,

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especially if you're an introvert.

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And you know...

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Okay.

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You have something?

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When Vern was giving

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the talk,

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there was a stirring

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in here.

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I don't know what kind,

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but there was a lot of activity.

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Then when we started,

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how does this go?

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I saw

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it was almost like a fear.

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And I saw like a...

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one of those

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old huge ships,

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those massive ones

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that the pirates used to be on,

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but the good guys too.

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And there was a figure

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at the front.

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And it was a woman.

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And she was the symbol of that ship.

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And suddenly,

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people were running

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up to the ship.

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And they were getting on the ship.

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And then

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they were making sure

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that they were tied safely

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to the ship.

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To any part of the ship that could hold them

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from the storm.

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It was crazy.

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But they were running.

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And it was like a line of people.

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When Pastor Vern just gave this prophecy,

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during the...

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about the middle of it,

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I saw the ship.

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All of the people were undone.

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They were leaving the ship.

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They weren't running.

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They were walking

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with a mission

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off of the ship.

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There was a shifting.

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It just went on and on.

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Hallelujah.

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So she's sharing that.

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And I can see some things in that

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that I'm not going to talk about today.

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But I'm going to have our secretary type that up.

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Because when something prophetic comes forward,

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we're the same thing with what Pastor just spoke.

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That's all got to be typed up.

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Because how do you hold things accountable

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if we don't have something

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to look at, right?

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So,

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I can see and maybe it'll...

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maybe you'll see it,

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what she's saying as we go through this.

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I want to tell you something that happened to me

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when we were up in Red Lake

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for Woodstock.

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I'm going to ask the kids go ahead

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and leave and go to Children's Church

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right now.

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I was going to try to hold you in here,

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but then I look at all the little ones

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and I'm like, mercy.

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Have mercy on their parents.

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So let's turn our Bibles to Genesis chapter

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21

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and 22.

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We're going to be going over.

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Now in the future, I don't know

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if I'll be doing this in prayer or what.

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this came to me

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like the Joseph's anointing

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came to me years ago

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and it's the anointing that moved us

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up here and

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we just kept harping on the Joseph's

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story and God would show more

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and more out of it and

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you can't just grab a story in the Bible

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and be like, we're going to make this work for me

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in my situation.

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But when it's revelatory, God will give you

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different things and

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that's what he did, one deep thought

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at a time and then sometimes we'd have

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he'd show us revelatory stuff

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and that and we'd literally

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stay on that thought

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for weeks and you could feel it

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going through the body and bringing about

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change because he was moving us

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as a unit to be looking

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for the last days anointing.

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We are in the Joseph's

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anointing right now.

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God is preparing

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and making provisions

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and things like that because

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there are hard times coming. There's hard

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times here right now, but we haven't seen

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anything yet.

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So, let's go ahead

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Genesis chapter 21

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as we're going through the story of

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Abraham and Isaac.

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He

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he showed me

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some things out of here, but before I ever

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looked into it, I was reading on a

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different section of the Bible and

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we were up in our camper

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for Woodstock and you're up late

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and you know

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ministering during the day to people or whatever

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you know was going on

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and so I was in like a hardcore sleep

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plus many times

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if we get in a camper

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people ask us sometimes when we go on vacation

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they'll say what would you guys do

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and like passed out

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and then after that

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we ate something and then we passed out

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and I mean we'll do that two, three

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days in a row so I had this moment

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this night to really sleep

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and I was in a very deep sleep

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and I had some things

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on my heart that I had brought to God

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TBO and

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Red Lake and all the different ministry stuff

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and the portion of my life that I'm

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in because I want to finish strong

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I'm going to finish

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and I'm going to finish strong right

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and so this was personally about me or whatever

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and

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usually when the Lord

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shows me something that's like a vision

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or something like that I'm between a sleep and awake

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and any of you

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who have had that you know

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You know, you're very aware of your surroundings, but you're still asleep. Does that make sense?

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You're like, I can hear noises and whatever, but I'm still out of it.

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And I was between sleep and awake, and the Lord said to me, are you okay?

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And it was so strong in me. It sounds like, you know, it's not some big prophetic word.

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He said, are you okay? And without, I can't because I'm between sleep and awake, right?

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So I'm not talking, but I remember just saying inside of myself, no.

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Things are unsettled, all of this. I'm not speaking that out, but it's there.

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And then he said nothing. But I knew I was caught away with him, and I woke up out of that crying.

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Like tears, you know, and I'm kind of out of it, and I'm like, what am I crying about?

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I don't even know. And then you're aware that that took place.

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Well, then the next night, deep sleep, very much the same thing.

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He told me all kinds of different things I can't share with you.

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But there were some things that I'm like, I'm not sure how this is going to finish out.

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I mean, certain things I can't continue to do.

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I'm talking to him in prayer and that type of stuff.

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So I'm in between asleep and awake again. He had asked me the night before if I'm okay.

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And then he says to me, go find the ram.

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And I was like, what? I also had a picture before that.

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The attitude that I had on certain things was like, okay, if it's done, if it's not going to work, it's just done.

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You know, all right, let it die then.

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Almost like I'm Abraham.

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There were certain things bothering me enough that it was like, I'm tapping out.

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Even though I knew I wasn't going to tap out.

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You ever talk smack and then you're like, yeah, I'm not going anywhere.

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Kind of like sometimes when people are mad at their spouse or whatever, like, I'm leaving yet, really you are.

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Okay, you'll be back in about an hour.

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But if you say something, it's like a release of emotion.

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And so that's where I was at, like, I'm tapping out.

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And that was me saying, if you want me to Isaac this thing, I will.

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I'm not saying in a manipulative way, but in my emotional state, in my spirit.

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And this is without me saying anything verbally.

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When I'm caught away like this, it was, it was just the knowing that we're having this conversation without me speaking words.

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And I can hear him.

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And he's, he said, just go find the rem.

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He had brought me to a point in certain areas.

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And some of you sitting here have been brought to a point.

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The church has come to a point where we have to make a decision on different things,

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whether it's the building or what's happening in our personal lives,

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or where we're going to stay planted, all those different things,

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in a way that it's going to be sacrificial.

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It's going to be like, no, I'm holding the line.

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I'm not leaving this.

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Well, can you keep going in your own power?

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Some of you are in situations.

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Can you keep going in your own power?

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No, you cannot.

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You better go find the rem.

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So we're going to talk about...

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I started getting into this a couple of mornings,

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three o'clock in the morning.

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He likes three o'clock.

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I mean, Brian talked about this.

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It's like, I don't know, three o'clock.

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Wake up.

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And here we go.

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He gave me an outline.

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Well, the Bible gives the outline,

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but he gave me a way of seeing into the story

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like I'm looking at this church.

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At the same time, like I'm looking at my own life.

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So we're going to just talk about some things.

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And here's what, here's what will be the hard part.

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There's only so much time.

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Prophetic doesn't go, ah, I know the all of what was just said.

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Like what pastor spoke this morning on behalf of God,

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you can walk out and say, well, I know what that meant.

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No, you don't.

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What Sally just shared is like, oh, I kind of got an idea of that.

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No, I know what that means.

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No, you don't.

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Prophetic is unfolding as you seek the truth about it.

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Every time I go back to the story, more and more truth.

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I can't just say, well, he told me to go find the ram

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and I think I know how to do that.

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No.

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It could be a year from now

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before I get the full revelation of what he wants me to get.

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He wants us to stay in that seeking mode.

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So in the story of Abraham in chapter 21, let's go to,

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you know, I wrote everything down here.

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Okay.

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I was just writing it down for my own thing.

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This is all off the cuff, whatever the cuff is.

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Um, anyone uncomfortable for everything being changed this morning?

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You're rolling with it.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Good.

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All right.

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So in this story, we know that Abraham is the father of many nations.

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That is the promise.

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And what seals the promise and causes that to come to place is who?

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Isaac.

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We have things in our life that he has promised us.

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And there's things that are there like Isaac

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that tell us, well, he's given us this and he's promised us this.

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This is covenant.

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We've said yes to it.

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He's looking for covenant.

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He operates in covenant.

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And even the Old Testament, they even make covenant.

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There's covenants here like in chapter 21 verse 22.

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He made a covenant with a bemelech.

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Now bemelech, when I looked it up, I thought that was a dude's name.

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But I guess they used to call kings a bemelech.

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So if you were a king, you were a bemelech and so on.

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So it just meant that that was a ruler.

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And his commander of the army was Phil Cole.

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Said to Abraham, God is with you in everything you do.

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Like they were looking into Abraham's life and saw the blessing.

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We might be hurting where we're at right now.

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And people still look at us and we're like, wow, you got away better than I got it.

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Man, you get the blessing.

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And they don't even know how to interpret that.

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That's a side thought.

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But God is with you in everything you do.

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And because he's so with you, I need you, verse 23,

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to swear to me here by God that you will not deal unfairly with me

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by breaking any agreements we have or with my son or with my descendants.

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But as I have treated you with kindness, you shall do the same to me

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and to the land in which have sojourned temporarily or temporarily lived.

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And Abraham said, I will swear.

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So he's making an oath like a covenant that says, I'm not going to harm you or whatever,

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because he's got the blessing so on him.

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So he is the right that he could do some stuff if he wanted to, if he got a bad attitude.

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I want you to look at the fact that God has been dealing with attitudes

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through sermons in us since COVID broke out.

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It took a whole muscle, I don't know how long, on fear.

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And then, you know, don't be offended. What does offense look like?

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And how do you bring that to the... I mean, he's done these different things.

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So before the Isaac story happens, I find it really interesting prophetically

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that this is the start, this is the piece before it, to settle some affairs.

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And God has had us doing some really hard things within our family,

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within our businesses and things like that, where we have to go,

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okay, I have to have the right attitude.

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All Abraham would have to do is talk smack right there,

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and it would have jackknifed all kinds of stuff.

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But he didn't. He said, no, I swear that we're going to do that.

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But he also then Abraham complained to Abamelech about a well of water,

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which the servants of Abamelech had violently seized from him

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is how the Anvil fight says that.

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So he wasn't wanting to fight.

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He's like, since we're settling things, let's settle some more.

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That's the stage he's really had us in over and over in the last few years.

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So let's settle some things.

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There needs to be some restitution in areas.

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There needs to be things fixed where we broke it, where we personally broke it,

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or where our heart was broken because somebody did something to us.

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He's just been on us like white on rice when it comes to that.

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We need to see that.

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And then Abraham complained to Abamelech about a well of water,

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which the servants of Abamelech had violently seized from him.

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Abamelech said, I do not know who did this thing.

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Indeed, you did not tell me and I did not hear of it until today.

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Like, I didn't even know.

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The guy was like, sorry about that.

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I didn't know my servants were out doing this kind of stuff.

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So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abamelech.

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And the two men made a covenant or a binding agreement.

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So now they don't just have an oath.

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Now they're going to have a binding agreement.

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Then Abraham set apart seven eulams of the flock.

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And Abamelech said to Abraham,

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what is the meaning of these seven eulams which you have set apart?

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Abraham said, you are to accept these seven eulams for me

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as a witness for me that I dug this well.

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So we're not doing this again.

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Okay? I'm not going to harm your people.

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And you're going to mark this spot with these seven euls

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that we dug this well.

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So don't go in there and mess with it.

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We've been learning about boundaries

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because you cannot deal with offenses

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without figuring out where you have a lack of boundaries

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or where you better draw a better one.

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That's what's been happening with us.

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And I find it just interesting.

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So that's why I'm going through this real quick.

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That there was a settling of things.

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And so when his people,

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I mean, these are Philistines that he's giving the ews to.

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And so then when the people would look at that,

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they go, hey, these aren't our lambs.

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What's going on here?

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They go, oh, he made a covenant with Abraham.

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Now we can't be messing with his wells.

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So that settled it, right? Good boundaries.

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Abraham said, you are to accept these seven eulams

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for me as well as a witness that I dug this well.

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Therefore the place was called Bersheba,

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the well of the oath or the well of the seven.

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So they made a covenant at Bersheba.

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And then Abraham even took it farther

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and he planted a tamarisk tree.

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And tamarisk, where did I look that up?

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I found it interesting.

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We do certain things as types

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and sometimes we don't even know we're doing it,

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but they planted a tamarisk tree

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which just symbolizes hope and new beginnings.

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Some of the things that we've settled,

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we have to bring it all the way through and plant the tree.

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We have to come all the way and then plant the tree.

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Like, you know, not only did I make an oath with you,

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not only did I give you something,

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this is, he could have been an enemy status with these people.

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They were Philistines on top of it.

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And so they're the ones who dug up his well,

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but yet he did the right thing

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and he gave them those ills as a marking point.

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So here's a good boundary area.

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That's how we're going to operate from here on.

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And not only that, I'm going to plant a tamarisk tree.

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And when I do that, it's going to symbolize hope and new beginnings.

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I want this to be the marking spot.

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Now the prophetic is like a spectrum.

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Some of you could be in this story right now,

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in this part of the story in an area of your life,

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but then as we go on you can be in another part of the story,

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just like the Joseph's Anointing.

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We can be dealing with family members at the same time.

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We lost our coat of many colors,

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someone's selling us down the river.

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It doesn't follow exactly,

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but the types that come out of it,

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they'll speak and they speak deep things,

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but you have to look for it.

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You have to look for it.

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So some of you are in the middle right now of debating,

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you drew the boundary, but are you going to plant the tree?

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Are you going to say from here on now,

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I'm not going to be offended.

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We're going to let this well thing go

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where the boundaries are in place,

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but I'm planning to treat a mark like it's going new from here.

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Yeah, there you go.

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There's going to be new beginnings.

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All of this took place,

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and then it says that Abraham

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lived in that land with them for many days.

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As is far before,

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he had to take Isaac up to the mountain.

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So he lived there in peace many days.

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Some things that are going on

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spiritually right now in our lives

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is because we don't have that peace.

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We haven't planted the tree

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or we're not attempting to do the boundaries

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and we're stuck in this thing where we're spinning.

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And that'll make your head go down.

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You'll be downcast.

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Because it's too hard, it's too much,

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it takes up too much space time and energy in your brain.

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I'm just saying.

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So prophetic shows you,

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it's like you lay alongside of a ruler

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and it measures you and you're like,

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oh, that's where I'm at.

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It's not a condemnatory thing.

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It's not like, here, let's show you where you're wrong.

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It's just like, yep, I'm in that stage right now.

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You ever have that happen with the prophetic?

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It said it and you're like, well, where is it?

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But as it starts to walk out,

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you realize there's stages to this

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and it's unfolding.

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If we can't really go on to the rest of the story,

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if you're at a place where you're not willing to plant the tree.

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I have to let all this go.

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There's going to be new beginnings.

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That's sacrificial. That's gut-wrenching.

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In some situations, that's just like,

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why didn't it just stab me?

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It's that type of feeling.

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But Abraham, he wasn't going to hold bitterness or any of that.

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He understood. He has the blessing.

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What does he have to worry about?

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Just set some boundaries and he's going to plant a tree.

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Which is another marking point

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of the oath in the covenant.

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It marked it.

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So as people would walk by,

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they're like, oh, yeah, that's Abraham's tree

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and they knew what that meant.

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It's a new beginning spot, so leave the well alone.

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And here we go.

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So, just this portion of the story

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you can pray about and go over

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and ask God to show how it measures you.

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Show me when I lay my life at what stage am I in?

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Did I close things out?

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Sometimes we're out looking for the ram

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and we haven't gone through the rest of the story.

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We have to figure out closing things out

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and having forgiveness just flow.

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So now we're going to go on to the part

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that he said, go find the ram.

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It says in chapter 22.

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Now, after these things, God tested

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the faith and commitment of Abraham

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and said to him, Abraham,

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he answered, here I am.

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Well, we'll think that's just a little bit of something,

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but when you start looking at something

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from a prophetic side to it,

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that has meat in it.

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That's just not just a part of the story

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and we're waiting to get to the good stuff.

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Now, after these things took place,

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after he planted the tree and was willing to move on,

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after he drew some boundaries,

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after he made an oath,

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now, after these things,

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God tested the faith and commitment of Abraham.

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Who did he test the faith of?

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The father of many nations.

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Pastor's been talking about identity

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and Abraham's name was the father of many nations.

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Your name means something too to God.

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Now, sometimes they'll put some,

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like, one version says Mary means bitter root.

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Sometimes God uses me

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and that puts something bitter in someone's mouth.

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They had to taste it for a while.

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Some other places give it, you know,

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just a very loving kind of thing,

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so I don't always trust looking up

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at the meaning of the name,

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but what your name means to God

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when he calls your name

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says who you are in your identity.

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So when he says Mary Peltz,

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it's like the whole atmosphere,

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all the demonic realm knows, oh, that's that chick, right?

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Oh, that's her, right?

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So there's something to that

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and there's meat in that.

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The faith and commitment was being tested.

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That's what he's been doing.

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Some of us have planted the tree

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and now he's testing

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our faith and our commitment.

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So it would be just like the demonic realm

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to make you so downcast

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and you allow them to do that

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that you're not committed to anything anymore.

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I'm just going to tap out.

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You know what that means, tap out, right?

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Wrestling families know what that means.

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I used to wrestle my brothers

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and I many times tapped out.

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So they were bigger than I was.

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So any case,

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so the faith and commitment was tested

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and he says to Abraham,

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so he calls him by his identity

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by the promise he spoke over.

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Abraham.

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And who answered?

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He said, here I am.

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Now the phrase, we say I am all the time,

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like, you know, I am thirsty,

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I am whatever.

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But we're actually misusing that

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by labeling different things.

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Because if I say I am thirsty,

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the true meaning to the word I am

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is I am the complete of thirsty.

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Like, there is no more thirst.

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You can't add to how thirsty I am, right?

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You know, because when he said I am sent,

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he said to Moses, I am that I am.

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What that means there

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is I am the complete.

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You cannot add to me, you cannot subtract away.

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I am complete.

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And then he makes us complete in him.

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So he answers in this way.

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He says, here I am

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the complete of Abraham.

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I'm over here.

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He didn't say, well come on over here.

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You know, right?

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I'm on the mountain

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or something like that.

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He said, I am

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here.

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So all of him was present for God.

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He's been teaching us to do that.

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Plant the tree,

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testing our faith and our commitment.

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And then

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when we answer him,

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all of us needs to answer him.

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I don't think we've arrived

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on that for sure.

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I don't think

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we have our trees planted in a lot of areas.

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He's trying to show us this

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because he's getting us ready

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for sacrificing our life

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and the attitude of sacrificial giving.

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Sacrificing

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things that we want to hold on to.

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All kinds of things with sacrifice.

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That is going to be probably the theme

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of open heavens.

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Okay?

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So whenever he gives us like a theme of something

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we know we're headed towards, he's so gracious

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he doesn't go and bam sacrifice.

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You know, like we're in open heavens

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and that's where we get our information.

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It'll be weeks and months before

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he'll be teaching you personally

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in your quiet time with him.

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And all of a sudden dots will start to connect

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in sermons.

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Right?

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And it's a gathering of information.

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That's how the prophetic works.

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It's not dry word.

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It's word alive.

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Amen?

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So when we answer God

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right now it's so important

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with what's going on in the world

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what's going on in your business

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what's going on in what he's called you to do

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that you say, here

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I am

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the all of me has

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showed up.

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I'm not leaving something at home

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or something at a party somewhere.

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The all of me is here.

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God said take now your son

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your only son of promise

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whom you love, Isaac

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and go to the region of Mariah.

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Well, if we're taking

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that apart

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now God said take now

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your son that's so important

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he's got more than one son

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but this is the son the promise is tied to.

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This is the air.

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This is what makes

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this thing work.

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This is what makes him Abraham.

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Ishmael did not make

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him Abraham the father of many nations.

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Nations came out of

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Ishmael

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and the Lord blessed him like that

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but the promise came

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through Isaac.

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And so take now your son

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your promise

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your promise

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to whom you love

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the thing you're wrapped around

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the thing that God has called you to do

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the thing that you might be presently questioning

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whether or not you want to tap out on

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and go to the region

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of Mariah.

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I think I wrote down here what Mariah means.

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This was early.

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Mariah means chosen by God

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or Yahweh

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or God sees

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in a place of teaching.

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So I think that's

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interesting because he's telling him

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to take his promise

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and go to the region

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the area of

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a place of teaching

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the area of Yahweh

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the area where

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these other things will take place

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you go to that area, okay?

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Even in that he has to follow

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the whole time he has to follow

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there's something so amazing about Abraham

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even though his wife tried

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to talk him out of things

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and different things like that

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the guy had stamina where it was like

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I gotta go

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I'm pretty

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I think that's pretty cool

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and when you take him to the place

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you're gonna learn something because it's a place of teaching

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when you take him to the place

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that was chosen by God

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you're gonna be in the right place at the right time

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and offer there

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as a burnt offering

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on one of the mountains of which

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I shall tell you.

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So once again it's still him directing it.

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This is key

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that we show up with all of who we are

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I am Mary

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I am here

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the all of me is here today

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my heart is all here today

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and I'm going to go ahead

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to the place of teaching

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I'm going ahead to this place of promise

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the place where I'm going to be

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in the exact spot where he wants me to be

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and that's where I'm gonna offer him

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and it's gonna be in a higher place

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than what I'm at right now

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that's what mountains stand for

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there's gonna be a higher place

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Which he's going to have to climb up. So that's part we don't like when we're going

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through a lot and he gives us a new command. It's like, why do I got to climb the

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mountain? I mean he's going to want that and he says it'll be the place of

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which I tell you. Any of these little things did you think, well that's not a

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big part of the story. All you'd have to do is go, I like that mountain over there

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better. It changed the whole thing. The effect would be changed because he

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wouldn't be being obedient to God. Now I'm not talking about perfectionism but I am

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talking about covenant. In his part of the covenant it's like whatever you say God

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I'm going to do it. So even if in the area where I was getting disgruntled if I

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would have said, well I'm going to tap out, I don't have a right to. Not according to

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covenant. I made a covenant with him in 1981. You can have the all of me.

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Whatever you ask me to stand on my head in the corner Lord God for you and whatever.

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I will do it. You can have the all of me. That's why I've had a clown ministry, a

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children's ministry. I can keep... I mean whatever he asked me in the moment I'm

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like I guess we're doing this. He tells you when, he tells you on what mountain

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and he tells you. We have to switch totally tight into that. I'm not

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going up just some random mountain. I'm going to the one he tells me. So

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Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey and took two of his

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young men with him and his son Isaac. And I don't know if there's a significance to

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that. He took two some places say servants with him and he's but I haven't

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researched that part yet. And he split the wood for the burnt offering and

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then he got up and went to the place of which God had told him. So he's

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getting this whole thing ready carrying it up there. On the third day which

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represents the same as Jesus rose on the third day, right? On the third day of

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travel, Abraham, father of many nations, looked up and saw the place in the

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distance. Sometimes a fruition of what we're going after, we're like well he

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told me to go over here and all of a sudden it starts appearing. And that

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can be such a funky feeling. Because if it's appearing for something so

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great like there's a music park up there we can't wait to get up there

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then it's exciting. But it's like I just figured out I'm really close to

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where the sacrifice will take place. A lot of us are in that spot. We can see it

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in the distance and we're like oh how do I get out of this? I mean the wrestling

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that went on inside of his soul had to be there. He stayed faithful but he's

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still a human. So on the way it's like you can see it in the distance

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and it's like oh man you know this is what's coming. Some of you are in

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that spot. On the third day of travel Abraham looked up and saw the place in

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the distance. Abraham said do his servants settle down here or just stay here

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with the donkey. Which some would say like in dream language the donkey would

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be the mode of ministry. Stay here with the ministry. My servants are there

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or whatever. I got to go do this thing. But the confidence was there

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because this is what he also said. He said I will go over there and worship God

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and we will come back to you. I'm gonna do what he said on the right mountain in

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the right place at the right time with my son who is now they figure 20 years

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old like he didn't know it was coming. And so but we will come back to you.

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Why would he have that confidence? Part of why he had it is God doesn't break

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covenant. He doesn't give you the promise and then give you where the

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promise is gonna come through and then just take that away. Just kidding. So

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there was a confidence that Abraham had to have because he's like no

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actually this is a God who does not lie. And he said it was gonna come

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through Isaac and I'm the father of many nations so you got to remind

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yourself for who God is and who what your call is and you constantly are

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reminding yourself of that. And so he's saying this and he's moving forward

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knowing we're all coming back to you. Me and him we're coming back to you.

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So ministry you just sit over here. Servants you stay here. I have to go

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do this. That's many times what a head pastor has to do. What you saw in the

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covenant partner meeting this morning talking about the building and stuff

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like that. He's in that spot. I'm there with him. The leadership all the way

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down. It just breaks down like we're about to build this building. There's

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something to knowing. He made a promise to us and that's all we have to go

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on. We can't even have money support like well yeah it's easy to believe

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for that three millions in there already. You know and we can't we can't prop it

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up. He's leaving us in the spot right now for a reason. It divides the heart.

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It changes the heart and we have to say as leaders we have to separate

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ourselves from the motive ministry the donkey and the servants and we got to

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go somewhere to pray. Hallelujah. He'll ask you to do the same thing in

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your business and with your family and with your covenant between you and

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your husband or you and your wife. He'll set something aside. I got to cope be

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with God. I see this. It's in the distance but I got it. We're gonna go up

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there. Don't worry about it though. I have a covenant with him. I have a

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covenant with him. So then Abraham this is verse 6 took the wood for the

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burnt offering and laid it on the shoulders of Isaac his son. They break

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that down in the amplified because that's typical or not typical. It's a

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type of Jesus on the cross, right? Carrying the cross. And so that's

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being put on him as a type. And here he's 20 years old and he's like, all right

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I'll carry the wood over there and I'm seeing some stuff right now. And then

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Abraham took his position and he took the fire or the fire pot that had coals in

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it in his own hand and the sacrificial knife and the two of them walked

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together. And supposedly it's not just any knife. You don't like reach for the

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butcher knife or the filet knife in the drawer or whatever. They had a

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certain knife they used. So Isaac would have looked at that and be like

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sacrificial like where's the lamb, right? And I don't know because the

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story doesn't tell. We don't know if he talked to Isaac all the way up there and

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explain this is what he's asking to do but we're coming back. We don't know. It's

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like I'd like to see that part of the movie. And Isaac said to Abraham, my

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father and then the Bible has an exclamation point. So it was like, hey

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dad, you know what's with the sacrificial knife? It's like my

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father and he said, here I am my son. The all of me is right here for you. I am the

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father of many nations and here, right here, I am for you. See, words mean

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stuff. It's not just a location. He's so present for him and Isaac said, look

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the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for the burnt offering like

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what's up with that? And Abraham, father of many nations said, my son, God will

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provide for himself a lamb for himself. He's gonna provide, he's taking care of

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this for himself, this agreement, this part of his covenant, for himself a

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lamb for the burnt offering. So the two walked on together. After explaining

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that, you know, he had to be confident. My dad just said this, we're gonna walk on

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together. Here they go, right? He's carrying the wood, he's got the fire.

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When they came to the place of which God had told him, does it have to be

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that technical? Yeah. The bigger the covenant's built on, the bigger the

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thing, the cause and effect, the more detailed God will get with you. What

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kind of ice cream you're gonna go and eat? You know, you might miss it.

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Oops, I missed it. Went Dairy Queen instead of Culver's. You know, you're not gonna die

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from that. But when he calls you to something that's going to affect people

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and affect nations, you best listen to his every detail. And so, can you see where

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on your journey, on my journey, we can mess up at any point. Just, you know,

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everything's going good. You just pick the wrong mountain, or you can pick

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the wrong place, or you can say, I want to do this my way, or I don't

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really feel like doing this. Can you give me a couple days? No. The building that's

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coming forward, we had a prophet just say to me and we're gonna go meet with him.

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He said, I don't know what you're doing over there, because I haven't paid

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attention, because he's way down in the cities. And he said, but I saw a

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building. It looked like it could sit anywhere from, like, I don't know. He

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said, my gist when just viewing it in the vision was 700 to a thousand

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people. Are you doing anything like that? Because that's what I saw. We need to be

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detailed if we're helping five people. The fear of the Lord is on that part for

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me. I don't know if you can feel it, but it's like, yeah, I better get some

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things in order. We better make sure we're in the right spot at the right

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time. Not out of perfectionism, but out of what he told us to do. We're obedient. So

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then you're like, oh, I don't know. That kind of scares me. I don't know what

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I'm obedient to. Go back and look at the vision. Go back and do what Pastor

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did this morning. Listen to the sermon. See where we come through. Map this

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thing out. Am I in the right spot with him right now? It's not our job to

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be in the right spot only. It's the congregation that moves as a unity,

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moves together. You cannot stop the corporate anointing when we're bonded

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together. Can't stop it. We all have to determine that between us and him. So

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Abraham said, my son, God will provide for himself as verse eight, a lamb for

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the burnt offering. So the two walked on together. Makes it sound pretty

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peaceful. When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham

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builds an altar. When you come to the place, that next thing that you need to

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do, I don't care how many other altars you've built, stop and build an altar

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of prayer. We learned that last year, right? We've known it before that, but

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it got intense last year when it came to altars. Remember when Amanda Hill

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said about communion? Communions taken in that place of an altar. We got to go

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back and remind ourselves of what was said last year to make sure we're walking

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in that before we know where the next thing is, right? And so my son, God

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will provide. Then he says, when they came to the place of which God had

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told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. That was a

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long array. If that be me, I'll be like, just give me a second. I want this

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to be just, I'll be taking my time. I don't really want to have to do

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this, but yeah, you know, you're debating stuff. And who knows? He

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probably just laid it there. He's a bigger man spiritually, maybe, than I

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am as myself. Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood and bound

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Isaac, his son. I haven't gotten, like where I'd say, I have a full

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revelation on the binding. I have to research some things. Because if you

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look at it in the story, he was just binding him, so you'd hold still and

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you put him on the thing. And if you bound him with something that was

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burnable, that would help, right? After the sacrifice, the burning. I can tell

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just by talking about it, this is not a language of Americans. You know, it's

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like, you know, anything talking about sacrifice or anything like that. But he

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bound Isaac, his son, and placed him on the altar. So you're, for me, this

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is how I would see it for me. The thing that maybe I was tempted to tap out

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of, I just gather the whole thing, every little nook and cranny, and bind it

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together. Because it's really like, I'm sacrificing this. Like, it's done. Like,

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I'm not leaving any little thing or I'll sort of do this. Like, if we're

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going to do this, it's going to be the whole meal deal. I'm putting it on

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the altar and killing the whole thing. I don't know if that's what it

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means, but that's how I take it for me. And so here he is. He placed him on

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the altar on top of the wood. Abraham reached out his hand and took the

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knife to kill his son. I don't know how long a pause that was, but it was

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an intense moment. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven

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and said, Abraham, Abraham exclamation point and said it twice. That counts for

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something. Now I have the definition, like in the dream book, that what would

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you say two means? You said it to me this morning. Okay, so he didn't, he

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said that it means like to be settled from God's side, you know. And so

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here we are. And he says his name twice. Father of many nations, father of

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many nations. See, he's speaking his destiny. He's saying his name, which

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means the all of who he is and the whole purpose he was created was for

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that. And he says it twice so that it's settled. Why? Because he has this

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covenant with him. He gave him Isaac. Isaac's a promise.

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Hmm. Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son. He said

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Abraham, Abraham he answered. What did he say again? Here I am. The all of me,

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the complete of me in this moment stands before you. Here I am. You have

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settled this Lord God. And the Lord said do not reach out with the knife in

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your hand against the boy and do nothing to harm him. For now I know

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that you fear God. Now I know that you fear God. Sometimes God will bring us

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to a certain point. Maybe we don't have an altar with our son on it, but he'll

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bring us to a certain point of that test to test our heart. And we'll say

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the devil's coming against me right now. I mean he's hardcore. His cohorts

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are after me. And I take authority over the demon of the west and the

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south. And we're throwing up signs and doing all kinds of stuff. And

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actually God's just testing you. How he's testing you is he's like I want you

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to do this. And then what it does is it draws out the dross in your heart if

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there's anything in there. And it draws out the best of who you are that

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says I still remain. I will stand right here. You ask me to sacrifice them.

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I'll do it. I'm not tapping out. The tap out would have to be on your side

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God. And you're not a man that you can lie. So I know you're providing away.

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You're going to provide away. I know it says here the Lord says do not reach out

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against him. And it says for I know that you fear God and the amplified breaks

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it down in verse 12 with reverence and profound respect. It isn't just

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playing like a little respect. It's profound. It's like hanging out all

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over the place. How much he respects God in that moment. Since you have not

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withheld from me your son your promise. You're not withholding. You're not

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keeping it to yourself. You're not thinking it centers around you. You're

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not thinking you have to produce it. You're the one. You're the hero. You're

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this you know Superman superwoman. This is my thing. God gave me my thing. I

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don't want anybody else helping with that. All of those attitudes it's like

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he wants us dead to that. Because it's his promise and it's actually his kid. He

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just chose to make that happen through Abraham. What an honor and what a

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sacrifice. Wherever you're honored like we get excited especially you know

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sometimes we'll have prayer lines and you'll see different prophets here or

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going other places you've experienced this and and as moms

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especially we're like they're gonna prophesy over my son. It's so exciting.

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Oh he's gonna be called to ministry. He's gonna be worldwide known and some

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people speak that over people. I'm always like oh man you are asking for it.

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Because that son that daughter that standing up here should know that

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they're called to ministry because God called them. I don't need a prophet

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to tell me. You can confirm something but then also when it becomes this extra not

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I can feel the call of God on you you know that's that's like something you

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just notice. Feel the call of God on you. Do you know that you're called in

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this way? Oh yeah they know. Okay that's cool. But when we add the extra and

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we're like and you're just gonna go to nations and you're gonna be all

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over the place and you're and the devil's like just write all that

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down because we're gonna nail this kid right now. Because we don't know how

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this thing is gonna take place. And suddenly the person the young person

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this is a side thought but the young person is standing there like I have to

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produce this. Because prophet so-and-so said this over me rather than like thank

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you for recognizing the call. I'm trying to figure out that too and I'm

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gonna get with God. I don't know where it's gonna go. He might have me

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working you know in plumbing somewhere and that's where he uses me

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but I'm operating in my call. Plumbing's not your call. Loving God is your call.

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You see it? And so it's interesting God's breaking all of these types of attitudes

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and things off of us and whenever he asks us to do something big there's big

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requirements. That's why years ago I had a lady tell me I'm not coming on a

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missionary Sunday. I said why? I'll probably get a call to Africa. So if

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I don't go then I'll be okay. I'm like well if you're seeking God he'll tell you

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that in your secret place. You don't need the missionary to tell you that.

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So I find that interesting. So anyway then Abraham looked up here's the next

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key part. There was reverence and there was profound respect in verse 12.

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Since you have not withheld from me your son, your promise, your only

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promise. Without the call of God on your life what are you going to do? What are

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you doing? Who are you? Well I'm a plumber. I'm an electrician. Now that's

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something that's something you're doing to live here on the earth.

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Who are you? This is who he is. He's the promise that's going to usher

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in the stars of the sky kind of generations. It's going to come out

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of him. Oh my lanta. Anyways me, your son, your only son of promise.

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The eight and then Abraham looked up and glanced around and behold behind him

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was a ram. First thing when when the father was speaking through pastor

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this morning. He said why so downcast all your

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soul? Come right so downcast his chin to the

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chest. Here's Abraham. He's like this. His

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chin is to his chest. Right? You're gonna...

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You're coming down. You're looking down at the end. This is your son.

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We don't know if he's trying to make him comfortable with one hand and stab him

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with the other. I don't know. I wasn't there.

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But at the same time he's down. We know he's down because he says

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I can feel the anointing.

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I know that you fear God. We were in verse 13.

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The Abraham looked up. That's how we know

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his head was down. He had to look up and glanced around.

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That's that seek part. Like where is it? I don't see nothing.

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I don't see nothing. And behold behind him the amplify says behind him

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was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. Some of you have reached the

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point where you're you're like I'm gonna tap out.

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You're gonna have this whole thing. I'll sacrifice. That's what you want God.

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Is that what you're trying to tell me? You want this or what? I'll just tap

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out. I'll do this thing. Right? And then he calls your name.

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What he's doing is calling your destiny. Mary and suddenly here.

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Ah, Mary is kind of attached to evangelism and all kinds of other things

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when he calls that. Then I got to look up.

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I got a glance around. I got to check out what else are you providing?

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And it's not in front of you. It wasn't in front of him.

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So he had no point to be like oh there it is right there. I'll just go through

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this till he tells me to stop. It's in the thicket behind him.

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He had to glance to find it. So what the Lord told me when I was between

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asleep and awake. Go find the ram. He's saying the same thing to you today.

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Because he said pick up your head. Some of you are at the point of sacrifice and he's

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called your name which is your destiny. You know what you're supposed to be doing.

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Don't give up on it. Don't forget what he's told you.

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Pick your head up and start looking for the ram.

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Look for it. Glance around. I don't see nothing. I don't see. And here there it is.

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There it is. He provided. He kept his promise. He is the god of covenant.

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That is what is going to happen financially when it comes to the new church.

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It isn't about you know like come on we all got to get together and give so much each.

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And you know making all the math plans and doing all that kind of stuff.

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He's going to provide.

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He's going to provide. Amen. So he looked up and he glanced around.

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You might be in that spot where you need to look up and glance around.

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And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering ascending.

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It's an ascending sacrifice instead of his son.

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Find what God has for you and sacrifice that.

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Instead of taking your ministry your family or whatever and tapping out.

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Don't do that.

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Well you know do you know that lots of people leave churches when there's a building project.

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And you know it's so fickle about that. Statistic show.

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They also come back two years later once it's built.

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They're like oh well we were just called out for a bit.

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You know.

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Just roaming around. God had me doing some missionary stuff or whatever.

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And then when it's all nice and you get to use all the amenities and things like that you're like

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I'm committed here.

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Just letting that one soak. That was for free. Had nothing to do with this.

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So he does this and then 14 says in Abraham name that place the Lord will provide.

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This church is going to look up and we're going to keep glancing around until we find the ram.

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And then it's going to be guess what? We're going to name this place the Lord has provided.

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Not too rich guys in the congregation. Not some guy out and wherever.

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The Lord has provided. We will call it that place.

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And make it harder for Natty because she's having a hard time with finding letters for

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different areas. So that'll be a phrase you'll have in other letters. You might as well look

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now. So the Lord has provided. So you go all the way back through and look at the steps. There's

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so much more in here but I'm not going to go through it because you know eat too much meat at once you

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you can throw up. And then you won't you'll you'll miss it.

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You're going to have to listen to this. You're going to have to go through the story.

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You're going to have to look up the types yourself. You're going to have to do that

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in order to see. It's like a mapping. Like am I in the right place? Did I already plant the tree of

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new beginnings? Did word of life plant a tree of new beginnings yet? Or are we still working on the

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project of forgiving, having good boundaries? I mean I'm sure that'll be there all the time.

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But I'm talking about in the now. Have we just brought things to closure? And how you

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know it's closure as you plant the tree? This is over. If that's behind us, new beginnings.

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Let's do the new beginnings. God has something special for us. We're going to go new beginnings.

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I'm not going to have aught against my brother or my sister or hate myself.

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Which many times is the person that you have aught against the most is you.

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You're the most mad at you. You might need to plant a tree regarding yourself.

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Prophetic does that. It causes quietness.

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So Abraham named the place the Lord will provide and it said on this day,

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on the mountain of the Lord it will be seen and provided. We have to be in the place,

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that high place that he told us to go. We have to come up to the highest thought,

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to the place he said to go where he said the sacrifice would be, where he said to build an altar

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and he will provide. You don't take off in the middle of it. The angel of the Lord called

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to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, by myself on the basis of who I am

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and the completeness is who he is. I have sworn an oath declares the Lord that since you

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have done this, since you have done this thing, since you followed through, since you stuck with it,

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since you didn't tap out, since you didn't make excuses, since you looked, you glanced around,

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you tried to find where the ram is, since you're that guy, since you're that woman.

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Since you've done this thing and have not withheld from me your son,

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your only son of promise, indeed I will greatly bless you. Indeed I will greatly

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bless you and I will greatly multiply your descendants. I just happen to be one of those,

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you know, Father Abraham. I don't even know how the song goes anymore. Indeed I will greatly

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bless you and I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens.

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So what he's saying to him is not, I can't take who he is as Abraham and say, well that's

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what he's going to do for me. I'm going to have a lot of descendants. No, his call was that,

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but he's going to greatly bless me and greatly multiply what I'm doing. Mary,

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he's called my name twice, said don't sacrifice it. Look around for the ram. I got this. Look around

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for the ram. I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heaven,

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like the sands of the seashore and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

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I like that part. I'm a warrior, so that just speaks to me.

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Through your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. That just happens to be us too,

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because you have heard and obeyed my voice. That's why you'll hear Pastor Igor talk about it,

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Pastor Brown, all the leadership, Pastor Verne has talked about it, and it'll seem like maybe

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from your side it's like, why are they always harping on obedience and harping on,

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got to give your life down, you got to do, because of that.

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Because of this, because none of this stuff we've been called to we can do without him.

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You had something, lover? Yeah, yeah, Alicia.

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I just want to point one thing out, and this is a principle that applies in every area of life.

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The place God tells you to go is the place he will provide for.

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Had he chosen a different mountain, the ram would not have been stuck in the thicket on a

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different mountain. He said, this is the mountain, why? Because that's where the provision was

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being held. Number one, so we have to go where he tells us to go. In other words, do what he

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tells us to do if we want him to provide. And number two, the place you go to to beginning

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is not the place of victory. You're going to a place of sacrifice first, where you lay it

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all down, before it resurrects into victory. They came down the mountain on victory. They went

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up the mountain to make the biggest sacrifice Abraham had ever made in his life. Everything,

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his whole life was about to be killed. Oh, they came down excited and rejoicing.

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I'm sure Abraham didn't go up that way. He went up in faith. It's going to turn out good.

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I want to apply that, you know, you can apply it to anything, but I want to apply it to our

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nine o'clock meeting this morning for those of you that were there. What he tells us to do

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for the building. If we go to that place, he will provide for it. If we go to a different place

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and say, well, I don't know if we can... I don't know. Let's do this instead. And then we struggle

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because there's no provision. And then in our human mind, we say, oh, thank God, we didn't go

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where he originally told us to go, because that would have never worked. No, actually,

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that's what would have worked. The reason this isn't working is we didn't go to the place where he said,

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I'll provide for this. You can figure that one out on your own. This is huge application here.

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Huge application in your own life. When he tells you to do something, don't cut it short,

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don't make a different plan, don't go a different direction. Do what he said he told you to

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do. And it will look impossible because he never tells us to do something that we can figure out.

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Because then there's no faith in it. Well, I can see how I can do that. Well,

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then it's all you and he gets no glory at all. It's always, yeah, good luck with that.

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But I'm going there because he told me to, that's where the provision is waiting.

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No matter what the situation is, that's where the provision is waiting.

01:12:40.780 --> 01:12:43.900
You decide to go someplace else because it makes more sense to you.

01:12:44.440 --> 01:12:49.020
The provision of God's not there. I just wanted to make sure we didn't miss that.

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And when we go to where the provision is waiting, we don't see the provision going there. All we see

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is, my God, this is going to cost me. We see the sacrifice. This is going to cost me.

01:13:05.060 --> 01:13:12.460
How in the world? This is going to cost me. In Abraham's case, this is why I'm alive. This is

01:13:12.460 --> 01:13:16.560
going to cost me the very reason I'm alive. So once I'm done killing my son, if this doesn't

01:13:16.560 --> 01:13:20.100
work out right, I might as well kill myself too, because I have no purpose or destiny left.

01:13:24.600 --> 01:13:28.120
Because he would no longer be father of many nations. I just wanted to make sure. You

01:13:28.120 --> 01:13:38.220
said it. I just wanted to make sure. Let's stand. Sometimes we'll hear prophetic teaching.

01:13:38.220 --> 01:13:44.560
I mean, this is a word of God, but prophetic to us right now. This is prophetic to us right now.

01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:50.740
We could get the band up here and we could wind it all up and make you make decisions.

01:13:51.740 --> 01:13:58.180
We're not those people. This is for you to go home and study. This is for you to look at

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and let God wrench your heart regarding it. Some of you are in the last section of your life.

01:14:07.700 --> 01:14:13.880
The last place of your life that you got to finish out and finish strong and you're ready to tap out.

01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:19.520
Don't do it. Maybe we're not able to do certain things physically that we used to be able to do,

01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:25.740
but you can so be a part of the same thing and finish out well. Amen.

01:14:29.860 --> 01:14:33.400
Then we go back to the beginning before the story of the sacrifice.

01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:41.380
I just, God has this on my heart. It's like, I know there's people here this morning that,

01:14:41.540 --> 01:14:45.500
and those watching online, that you need to have a boundary about your wells.

01:14:45.940 --> 01:14:51.100
You're just letting people run over you. Well, it's so wicked in this world and you know,

01:14:51.160 --> 01:14:58.220
we talk like that. It's like, go address the thing. Hey, by the way, since I'm committed to

01:14:58.220 --> 01:15:01.900
being kind to you and your generations or your business or whatever,

01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:07.660
there are people violently digging up the well I dug. So let's talk about that.

01:15:08.820 --> 01:15:14.320
Oh, I don't like confrontation. Then you'll sit in the thing till it makes you so bitter.

01:15:16.400 --> 01:15:20.540
And then we'll say the devil's attacking us when really God's just like, just do the

01:15:20.540 --> 01:15:26.100
thing so you can plant the tree. Just come on. The trees have already been ordered.

01:15:26.540 --> 01:15:30.740
I want, I want to get them there. I'll have an angel help you plant it if need be.

01:15:31.100 --> 01:15:34.480
Get some friends around you. They'll help you plant the tree. It's a new beginning.

01:15:38.120 --> 01:15:43.320
And he's asking us to deal with heart issues before we get over there the same way

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he asked us or he asked them in this scripture before he asked for the sacrifice so that he

01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:59.680
could bless him. Do you see it? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I just want to see hands of anybody

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who you're like, I'm about to tap out. I mean, you didn't tap maybe you did tap out, but

01:16:03.940 --> 01:16:09.600
it's that like, I'm really tempted to tap out on something is getting really painful.

01:16:09.800 --> 01:16:13.220
I just want to see if there's anyone here. Yeah, quit.

01:16:15.420 --> 01:16:21.400
Yeah, it's just like, I'm, you get up and you try to reset yourself, but you're not quite reset on a

01:16:21.400 --> 01:16:30.510
daily basis. I remember the feeling of, I was wrestling my brother because I was the only girl

01:16:30.510 --> 01:16:38.070
for a bit for 10 years. My sister's 10 years younger than me and had put a move on me and

01:16:38.070 --> 01:16:41.810
I put a move on him. So I was all proud of myself, but then all of a sudden he did

01:16:41.810 --> 01:16:45.770
something that was putting a pressure on my neck and it was burning like crazy.

01:16:46.390 --> 01:16:51.450
And that's that debating like, there's a pressure and it burns. I don't want to, I'm not going to let

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him do, I'm not tapping out. And suddenly it becomes very convincing.

01:16:58.870 --> 01:17:04.150
You're holding on as long as you can hold on, but it's right there and you're like,

01:17:04.210 --> 01:17:06.890
hit the floor, right? You tap out and you quit.

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It's not the same thing, but I'm just describing there's pain before you tap out.

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Let me see those hands again of people. You're like, you know, I'm gonna tap out any minute

01:17:18.970 --> 01:17:22.630
and raise them high so that we can have people come around and pray if you're okay with us

01:17:22.630 --> 01:17:28.010
praying with you. It takes super on the natural. So let's look around. You see people back there.

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There's one here. There's one here. There's one there. It could be that you're not tapping

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out totally. You're not, you know, raising your hand. I'm suicidal or something like that.

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If you are, we'll pray for you, but it's more of like there's an area in my life. I'm about to tap

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out. So right here, right back there. Let's turn. And as you feel led, go pray for the people.

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And I'll pray for them up here. Can we do that right now? Let's do that. Did you see the hands?

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Get your hands in the air again just because I don't think everybody turned because they're

01:17:58.350 --> 01:18:06.550
trying to be obedient and face the speaker. Oh father, we thank you that you jackknifed the

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service this morning. We thank you for the prophetic. We thank you Lord God that you saw

01:18:12.030 --> 01:18:17.770
our need right where we're at right now. There's no shame in it. There's pain in it.

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And so we're asking right now Lord God that you would give us the ability to know what move

01:18:23.690 --> 01:18:32.470
to make next, how to change our position, how to push through the pain when you ask us to,

01:18:33.010 --> 01:18:38.570
or to get out of the wrestling match in a way where we're doing, we're approaching the whole

01:18:38.570 --> 01:18:47.550
thing differently, but we're still in it to win it. Father, I'm asking for supernatural anointing

01:18:48.150 --> 01:18:54.550
to come in this moment to help them reset. And I'm asking also Lord for all of us that

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we would be able to see the areas we're still struggling bringing closure. We're still mad

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about our wells. We're still threatening people around us and they're afraid that we're

01:19:05.130 --> 01:19:09.730
going to attack them and their family. We're still in the wrong on certain things.

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I'm asking God cleanse us from that. Cleanse us. Those are burdensome things that will

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actually help us to tap out quicker. Cleanse us from all forms of unrighteousness.

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From all forms of unrighteousness. Cleanse us. Cleanse us, oh God. Cleanse us.

01:19:36.690 --> 01:19:39.630
In the mornings that I'll be here, I'm going to be speaking on

01:19:40.890 --> 01:19:48.070
repentance during prayer and at different times. We're going to look into what does that really

01:19:48.070 --> 01:19:57.370
mean and how do you actually know you're in the process of it? There's something so cleansing

01:19:58.030 --> 01:20:02.250
that's going to come to this body and there's going to be a lot of trees planted.

01:20:02.250 --> 01:20:12.890
New beginnings. New beginnings. New beginnings. Thank you, Lord God. Cleanse us. Cleanse us.

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It's the washing of the water of the word. Let the prophetic word wash us today.

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Measure us. Show us where we're at.

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I don't know if it's for one of you that's tempted to tap out, but it's for all of us. There's something

01:20:48.110 --> 01:20:58.690
about pride that shame will say, tap out. Just do it. Just do it. And then our pride will come out

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and be like, I can't let anybody know this that I'm really wanting to tap out. I can't seek help.

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I can't get to other places. I just got to hold this. I just got to bear up under it. That's not God.

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Just letting you know that's not God. Ask somebody safe to pray with you. Ask somebody

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who has different information. Sometimes we're trying to use the old information to

01:21:24.070 --> 01:21:29.970
accomplish a new thing. And it didn't before, so why would we think it's going to do it now?

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God, you're so good. You're so good.

01:21:39.850 --> 01:21:43.150
Thank you for healing our hearts so that we can plant the tree

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and know what mountain to be on. All of those different things we'll pray into. If anyone,

01:21:50.730 --> 01:21:54.790
you know, the Lord reveals something to you prophetically regarding these scriptures that

01:21:54.790 --> 01:21:59.510
we went over this morning, or what pastors said, or what Sally said. Just text me. It's

01:21:59.510 --> 01:22:05.330
the best, you know, because I get between 40 or 50 texts a day and it's hard to... But if you text

01:22:05.330 --> 01:22:11.390
me, that's the one I'm going to see for sure. And let me know what's going on because it's a corporate

01:22:11.390 --> 01:22:17.290
thing we're going to go through. You go through it individually in your own houses, in your own

01:22:17.290 --> 01:22:24.250
personal life, and then as a body, he's taking us through some things. Lover, did you have anything

01:22:24.250 --> 01:22:32.070
else you wanted to add to it? Okay, that's it. All right. So, Pastor Igor, announcements? No?

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You got it. He's got it. He has the con. All right.

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I'm not getting released to just move on quite yet. Just wait here for a bit.

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Pray with me in the spirit a bit here. For those of you that don't understand this,

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if you have questions about it, please come up to me or Pastor Igor or one of the leaders afterwards

01:23:49.820 --> 01:23:56.060
and we'll explain it to you. We won't take time right here, but those of you who understand,

01:23:56.720 --> 01:23:59.580
it doesn't have to be loud, but pray with me in the spirit here a bit.

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You know, the longer we pray in our spirit language, the more I'm sensing somebody

01:24:54.230 --> 01:25:00.470
else says something God wants to use to speak into this service this morning.

01:25:02.970 --> 01:25:06.430
And please make no mistake, this service is way bigger than,

01:25:07.670 --> 01:25:12.210
you know, the building decisions we talked about at 9 o'clock. This is way bigger than that.

01:25:12.270 --> 01:25:19.330
This covers all of life. I just feel like somebody else has got something to speak

01:25:19.330 --> 01:25:24.070
into this. Before you just blurt out and start speaking, please come to me.

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Let me in on it before you go from there. You know, sometimes, you notice a couple of people

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went back and sat down. And sometimes it is hard to distinguish. Is this for the church or is

01:25:35.310 --> 01:25:40.750
this God speaking to me? And that's why I want to be able to filter that, because he'll let

01:25:40.750 --> 01:25:46.110
me know as the pastor, is this for them or is this for all of us? And I think they all

01:25:46.110 --> 01:25:51.110
definitely heard from God, but it wasn't necessarily for all of us. But there's a couple

01:25:51.110 --> 01:25:57.710
three things here that are for all of us. Several years ago at a conference, I heard

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something really valuable. And that was regarding this story. And it was that we

01:26:04.650 --> 01:26:10.570
need to develop as we've been talking about here, a resting place for God every day in

01:26:10.570 --> 01:26:15.830
our hearts, so we can hear Him. And the Holy Spirit is alive and we can hear Him.

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Often we will set vision and we'll go on a retreat, set vision, and then we'll follow

01:26:21.790 --> 01:26:24.890
that vision without hearing the rest of the thing. And the thing that I heard at

01:26:24.890 --> 01:26:30.290
this conference was, Abraham heard three days before that he's going to go up and

01:26:30.290 --> 01:26:38.550
sacrifice his son. And he also heard, because he was in constant communication

01:26:38.550 --> 01:26:43.870
with God and the Holy Spirit, don't sacrifice your son. Had he been listening

01:26:43.870 --> 01:26:49.110
from the Word of the Lord three days prior, Isaac would have died. But because he

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was listening on a daily basis of Holy Spirit, what do we need to do? We need to

01:26:55.010 --> 01:27:00.030
look up, we need to see, we need to be getting these pieces. And I just think

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that that's so valuable for all of us to really, really develop that dwelling

01:27:04.770 --> 01:27:10.570
place. And I work, I'm trying that in my heart to do that daily because there's

01:27:10.570 --> 01:27:15.410
so many critical things that we're faced with so that we don't want to kill what

01:27:15.410 --> 01:27:22.530
God wants, the promise. So in other words, Am I on? So in other words, what

01:27:22.530 --> 01:27:30.310
she's, what the Lord is sharing there is, if you haven't heard the whole

01:27:30.310 --> 01:27:39.730
thing yet, don't act. Because Abraham heard something, he knew he had to

01:27:39.730 --> 01:27:43.550
sacrifice his son. He could have just said, this is too painful, I'm just

01:27:43.550 --> 01:27:46.690
going to get it over with. While the kid's sleeping in his bed, I'll just

01:27:46.690 --> 01:27:51.950
go and kill him. And Isaac would have been dead because that's not the way

01:27:51.950 --> 01:27:59.010
God said to do it. So when God is leading us, if just because he says

01:27:59.010 --> 01:28:03.650
something doesn't mean jump out and do it now, make sure you're hearing the

01:28:03.650 --> 01:28:12.370
process and following the process of what, what he wants to happen.

01:28:15.710 --> 01:28:22.650
Share what you shared with me. So before Sally shared her vision of the boat

01:28:23.330 --> 01:28:28.570
as Pastor Burn was giving the prophetic word, I was seeing, I was seeing the

01:28:28.570 --> 01:28:32.890
ship in waters and the stormy waters and the people inside were bound. And I

01:28:32.890 --> 01:28:35.490
couldn't tell at first if it was negative or positive, but I think it was a

01:28:35.490 --> 01:28:41.730
positive in the sense of we were tied to the boat in unity and the ship was

01:28:41.730 --> 01:28:46.390
like just zigzagging through the stormy waters. And I heard the Lord say

01:28:46.390 --> 01:28:50.870
that he was the one navigating it. It looked, it looked chaotic, but he

01:28:50.870 --> 01:28:53.510
was the one navigating it because underneath the waters there were

01:28:53.510 --> 01:28:57.470
things that we couldn't see. So we had to trust him and not try to

01:28:57.470 --> 01:28:58.350
give free ourselves.

01:29:05.350 --> 01:29:08.890
Matt is shy this morning. He wants me to read it. Oh, you don't, you won't get

01:29:08.890 --> 01:29:09.310
through it.

01:29:13.650 --> 01:29:16.350
11 48 a.m. God spoke this to you.

01:29:19.390 --> 01:29:26.170
Take off the fear. That's in huge caps. Take, or huge lettering. Take off

01:29:26.170 --> 01:29:27.110
the fear.

01:29:29.970 --> 01:29:34.750
Going along with, have you forgotten who I am? Take off the fear.

01:29:35.990 --> 01:29:39.970
And then he said, Sally ship, people bound in fear.

01:29:40.310 --> 01:29:45.930
Isaac on the altar, bound in fear. Give your fear over as a sacrifice so

01:29:45.930 --> 01:29:48.750
that God's blessing can be seen and felt and moved to

01:29:48.750 --> 01:29:54.870
everyone that gets a part of it. Our identity is the fuel that's

01:29:54.870 --> 01:29:59.290
needed to get beyond our fear. Boy, that's true. That last statement,

01:30:00.990 --> 01:30:05.070
once we know who we are in Christ, once we know

01:30:05.810 --> 01:30:12.290
I am this, then our total dependency goes into

01:30:12.290 --> 01:30:16.190
into God and says, no, this is who I am.

01:30:17.130 --> 01:30:23.270
And like Abraham, like Mary said Abraham, I am the father of many nations

01:30:23.270 --> 01:30:26.770
and I am totally right here dealing with this.

01:30:29.350 --> 01:30:34.590
It's the fact that God had made a promise that looked like now he was going

01:30:34.590 --> 01:30:38.750
reverse on that gave Abraham's faith actually.

01:30:39.950 --> 01:30:43.830
Because Abraham knew what God had said, who he was,

01:30:44.610 --> 01:30:47.910
what was going to happen through him. And now God's asking him to do something

01:30:47.910 --> 01:30:51.950
looks like totally the opposite. Abraham knew God doesn't,

01:30:51.950 --> 01:30:54.610
that that's not God. God doesn't reverse, of course.

01:30:56.530 --> 01:31:02.090
Very good. We have to know that. So I say,

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Valerie's got something too, but I don't think it fits for this morning.

01:31:10.380 --> 01:31:15.940
Um, same way Nancy has something, I don't think it's this morning. I think

01:31:15.940 --> 01:31:18.820
hers is next Sunday. So we'll just wait and try to follow

01:31:18.820 --> 01:31:20.320
how God wants this laid out.

01:31:22.880 --> 01:31:28.840
It's one pastor, Mary and pastor, and we're talking. I mean, I can hardly stand up here.

01:31:30.760 --> 01:31:35.860
All right. I had a vision and I saw a vision like

01:31:37.340 --> 01:31:43.840
in a hotel or in a hospital in larger buildings, if you don't take the

01:31:43.840 --> 01:31:48.280
elevator there's flights of stairs. And a lot of times

01:31:48.280 --> 01:31:52.000
flights of stairs will go up and there'll be a platform.

01:31:53.380 --> 01:31:56.620
Then you turn a little bit and it goes up this way and you go up to the next

01:31:56.620 --> 01:31:59.900
platform. Then you go up to the next platform.

01:32:02.360 --> 01:32:05.100
And I saw this when they were talking. It's like, whoa,

01:32:05.940 --> 01:32:08.980
but then you went up and you guys went up all these platforms so far.

01:32:09.400 --> 01:32:13.240
Oh, you made it to this platform. Then you went up another platform,

01:32:13.840 --> 01:32:15.960
another flight of stairs to another platform.

01:32:16.620 --> 01:32:20.020
And as you're going up, you're going up towards the Lord calling.

01:32:20.980 --> 01:32:26.940
And right now, I think this is personally and corporately that

01:32:28.760 --> 01:32:32.040
we're on a platform right now. We've gotten so far,

01:32:32.560 --> 01:32:38.400
very far. And it wasn't easy. Each flight of stairs is hard and

01:32:38.400 --> 01:32:41.540
there's sacrifices. And God is saying,

01:32:46.400 --> 01:32:50.680
come closer to me. Come up to the next platform.

01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:57.260
Sacrifice. You know what to do. I'll tell you what to do.

01:32:58.120 --> 01:33:03.140
Come closer to me. Come closer to me. Come to the next platform.

01:33:04.140 --> 01:33:05.380
In Jesus' name.

01:33:07.560 --> 01:33:09.260
I totally agree with that.

01:33:10.400 --> 01:33:12.560
Another flight of stairs, another level.

01:33:14.040 --> 01:33:17.240
So Lord, I know you're working in us individually this morning.

01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:21.180
You're talking to people as individuals.

01:33:24.160 --> 01:33:28.740
You're probably talking to couples about decisions they have to make in their family.

01:33:30.260 --> 01:33:33.360
I know you're talking to us as a church body

01:33:34.020 --> 01:33:37.040
about decisions we have to make here in the next week or two.

01:33:45.580 --> 01:33:47.460
I pray one thing here.

01:33:49.700 --> 01:33:51.560
Every one of us

01:33:53.720 --> 01:33:55.680
help us not in the

01:33:55.680 --> 01:34:00.020
middle of all the things that get thrown at us

01:34:00.020 --> 01:34:03.560
and decisions and choices and situations.

01:34:04.840 --> 01:34:07.560
I pray by your spirit

01:34:10.280 --> 01:34:11.980
keep one thing

01:34:11.980 --> 01:34:15.820
thriving in us. And that is

01:34:16.460 --> 01:34:19.720
don't forget who you are.

01:34:21.120 --> 01:34:24.040
Don't let us forget who you really

01:34:24.040 --> 01:34:24.460
are.

01:34:27.320 --> 01:34:31.360
In the middle of it all, you are the answer to everyone.

01:34:32.100 --> 01:34:35.380
And if we forget who you are, we'll start

01:34:36.000 --> 01:34:40.020
rather than looking at Jesus, we'll start looking at the water and we'll start

01:34:40.020 --> 01:34:43.940
sinking like Peter did. We can't forget who

01:34:43.940 --> 01:34:47.800
you are and look around at

01:34:47.800 --> 01:34:51.900
circumstances or situations. Whether it's an

01:34:51.900 --> 01:34:54.880
answer for us personally, maybe it's a health problem.

01:34:55.980 --> 01:34:59.520
Maybe it's something in our own personal life.

01:35:00.160 --> 01:35:04.320
We cannot begin looking so at the circumstances,

01:35:04.580 --> 01:35:08.120
the situation that we

01:35:08.120 --> 01:35:10.800
forget who you are in this situation.

01:35:12.220 --> 01:35:16.320
You are the almighty.

01:35:18.360 --> 01:35:20.740
You are the all in all.

01:35:22.460 --> 01:35:24.120
You are the I am.

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Lord, help us not to forget

01:35:29.850 --> 01:35:31.170
who you are.

01:35:33.150 --> 01:35:37.410
And make all these things we're facing individually, facing in our families,

01:35:37.410 --> 01:35:40.990
facing in our job situation, our business,

01:35:41.490 --> 01:35:45.390
facing in this church. Make all of them come

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and kneel before who you are first.

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Not make you kneel before them.

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You're greater than anything.

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And we must, we must

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make them kneel. Every knee will bow

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and every tongue will confess who is in charge.

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And it's not cancer.

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It's not financial troubles. It's not marriage problems.

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It's not depression. It's not discouragement.

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It's not hormones that are off balance. It's not chemical imbalances.

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Anything that can be named kneels

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before our almighty father.

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Anything that can be named.

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It must kneel.

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And we choose to take that posture

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and everything in our lives.

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Do not let us forget who you are in the middle of everything

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we're facing in Jesus' name.

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Oh my...

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So here's a measurement.

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Here's a measurement. He just gave you

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make a note of this somehow.

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He said, here's how you can tell who's kneeling to who.

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The one you're talking about the most is the bigger of the two.

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So no matter what we're facing

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or the issue, maybe it's marriage trouble. Are you talking about

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how big God is and who he is and how he is

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able to change people's hearts, yours, your spouses

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how he is able to come in and mend, how he is able to inspire forgiveness

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how he can cause a future to be there

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when it looks like the whole thing is wrecked. Are you talking more about God

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in the situation or are you talking more

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about how bad the situation is and you just throw

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a sentence in about God after you've whined about the situation for

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a half an hour. Wow, that's

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a concept right there.

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The one we talk about the most is the one that becomes the biggest.

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Some people say it this way

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the animal you feed is the one that grows.

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So to know whether

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you've forgotten who he is

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you can tell by

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are you talking more about the problem or are you talking more about God

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as the solution to the problem. Which one are you talking about the most

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because the one you're talking about the most is the one

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you're making the biggest and you're forgetting about the other one. You're diminishing that one.

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So don't forget about God

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who he is. That means

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he should be being talked about the most concerning the situation.

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That's fresh off, that's fresh from the throne right there.

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You want to take credit for that? Good.

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Don't take credit for that. But you already said that in one of your

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messages. What you're trying to say. So there's a theme going here

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because he just said it to me.

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He said if you don't want to forget who I am talk about me the most

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not about the problem.

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Wow.

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That's good enough if you learn nothing else this morning. That one nugget right there

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that'll change our lives.