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Kevin O'Dea: Come on. Come on. Come on. Give him praise. Hallelujah. Yeah.

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Kevin O'Dea: And you have access to that God. You have

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Kevin O'Dea: access to that God. Man, God has been so good. If you have, if

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Kevin O'Dea: you've been in attendance to the conference in any shape, any of the days,

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Kevin O'Dea: would you just lift your hand? You've you've been a participant. Has it been a

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Kevin O'Dea: good week? Has it been a good week? Good. Good. I'm so

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Kevin O'Dea: glad, and I'm so thankful to, everyone who has,

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Kevin O'Dea: come and all of the work that has gone behind the scenes.

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Kevin O'Dea: The worship team has done a phenomenal job leading us. All of you

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Kevin O'Dea: people up in the loft that have been working behind the scenes in the tech

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Kevin O'Dea: areas, we so appreciate you. All of the volunteers

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Kevin O'Dea: who have worked with our kids and our teens all week

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Kevin O'Dea: long have done a phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal

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Kevin O'Dea: job. All of the people manning the tables, the ministries,

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Kevin O'Dea: we are so just so grateful. It takes an army to be able to

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Kevin O'Dea: do, what we did this week, and I'm so grateful. I do want

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Kevin O'Dea: to recognize a few key individuals,

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Kevin O'Dea: that I believe really just, there would be no conference

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Kevin O'Dea: without without these with the without these people. So if you are

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Kevin O'Dea: Joshua McLeod, would you come? If you are Dustin Theater

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Kevin O'Dea: individuals, have been here, you know, of course

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Kevin O'Dea: the paid staff is here through the week working on things, but these these

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Kevin O'Dea: guys have just been laboring behind the scenes,

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Kevin O'Dea: tirelessly, very joyfully, tirelessly,

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Kevin O'Dea: tying balloons, blowing balloons, cooking dinners, getting things organized,

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Kevin O'Dea: saying God this way, that way, and stay here, and don't do that, and do

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Kevin O'Dea: this, and all of those things. And, what I

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Kevin O'Dea: love so much about this group is that if we

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Kevin O'Dea: didn't do this moment, your treasure would've been in heaven and

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Kevin O'Dea: you're totally fine. But I believe that the word says, render honor

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Kevin O'Dea: where honor is due. And you guys, we just honor you. I thank you for

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Kevin O'Dea: making helping make the vision of All Access Conference come to

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Kevin O'Dea: fruition, for putting up with my shenanigans, and all of the all of

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Kevin O'Dea: the staff and working with us. You guys are the

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Kevin O'Dea: best. Would you guys show your appreciation and love for this team?

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Kevin O'Dea: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Kevin O'Dea: God is good and God saves the very best right now and I don't wanna

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Kevin O'Dea: take any more time from our guest speaker. Would you please welcome Tim

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Kevin O'Dea: Hooper?

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Love you.

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God is good, amen? Come

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thou fountain of every blessing, prone to

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wander, Lord, I feel it. It's so good to be in this place, but you

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know, we are in a broken world.

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We're in a broken world. It's so good to be reminded of who God

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is. Amen? Did they do a good job or what? Wow.

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Every book of the Bible, God is something to us. In

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our relationship with him, the spirit relating and speaking to

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us speaks into the moment who God is for us

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in that moment. And there's no way

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I can take any of what I've written scribbled and chicken scratch and crossed

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out and added to and said, God, maybe this direction or maybe that direction. There's

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no way that I can take that and apply it to this group

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today. So I pray, pour it out and

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God would you just fill this pray, would you come meet with us today?

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That's our prayer in Jesus' name. So praise God

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for everything that's already happened in the conference. Barby was

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preaching last night and said, the 3rd day wonderful things

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happen. And it was funny because as I was reading back through theatre

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text for today, there was a 3rd day in there. And I was

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like, Wow. And then it said in on the 4th pray. And so we're God

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get to that. So you are here on the 4th day. Can I get an

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amen? You're here on the 4th pray. It's been amazing. And

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I don't take for granted being put at the tail end of anything.

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I come from a big family and we pray that,

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that you exercise faith being at the tail end of the family because the

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Hebrews says, you know, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the

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evidence of things not seen. And, if you were at the tail end of the

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family, that was the platter of meat. It was the substance of things hoped

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for on that end of the table. And when it got down to you, it's

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was the evidence of things not seen. So, you know, being at the tail

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end, I don't take for granted, but if you were not able to hear some

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of the messages. I got to sit in Kevin's house yesterday

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afternoon and he just poured his heart out about the Spirit

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of don't pray in the hallway, God's door is wide open

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and oftentimes we've built the hallway all access to Him.

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And then he Holy me about, he said, if you get the chance to go

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watch Justin's message about putting our entire yes on the table,

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just everything, all in. And I will tell you

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that that is probably the battleground in all of our hearts,

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because right here in this moment, I'm all in. Are we all in this

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morning? Yes. We're all in. But the battle

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is real. We walk out that door, the battle is real. There is

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warfare, spiritual warfare, and somebody in the

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enemy's kingdom is saying, oh, pray. What's going on at

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Springhouse Church this morning? And they're God be on the lookout, they're gonna be

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looking for every opportunity to distract us. And then Barbee came on

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the 3rd day and talked about the veil being torn from the

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bottom down. It's funny. We're getting on a plane. My son Jeremy is here with

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me this morning. We're getting on a plane, first time on a commercial airline.

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And we were Ghost looking out the window waiting for our pray, there were several

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delays, and we were looking at the fin on the top. And I said, How

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thick do you think that thing is? Because we were looking at the wheels, and

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you know, we all think an airplane wheel is about this big, but then I

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was looking at the ground coordinator with the thing and it's up to here on

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him. So, I stood up in the terminal and I'm like, dude, that's like a

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tractor tire. Like, these wheels are massive. I said, how thick do you

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think that that that fin is? And then Barbie got up here and talked

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about horses couldn't even tear. If you tied 2 horses on either side of

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that veil, it could not have been torn. But God tore it from

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the top down. Only God can tear

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the veil of our heart open of the Holy of Holies and give us

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all access because of Christ and his finished work on the 3rd

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day. And then Kevin got out this morning and literally cut

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to the heart of our disappointments.

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Our disappointments. And I want to pick up right there where

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God and if you didn't get a chance to attend because of work or life

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or schedule, please go back. They're right on the line. Watch

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from start to finish. Go binge All Access because I

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think God does not want us to forget that we have

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access. There's only one power in this earthly kingdom

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that wants us to forget that we have all access to the throne,

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and that is the enemy, and he's a defeated enemy. His days are

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numbered, ours are eternal, and if he can just get us to be

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distracted from the all access posture we

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have, then he can win

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some of the battles, because he's already lost the war. So,

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go back and binge it. But he talked about the disappointments.

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And it was so funny because as I prayed about what to preach, I was

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considering John 11 and near to the heart of God, which

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you just completely did church a fantastic job with this morning.

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It's amazing. But what God gave me was,

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Tim, I want you to share the message on where am I

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looking? All of us can ask ourselves that question this morning,

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where am I looking? And we'll go to the word of God.

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In Psalm chapter number 25 verse 15, I'll read this out

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of the, NIV version, it's on the screen. If we could all stand, we'll read

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this together, and then we'll pray and then get into the message. But

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in Psalm chapter number 25, verse 15, David

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writes, and we'll read it together, My eyes are

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ever on the Lord, for only he

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will release my feet from the snare. Let's read it one more time.

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My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only

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he will release my feet from the snare. You may be seated.

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Let's pray. Father, our eyes,

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Our eyes, God. Will you just show

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us, Lord, like Joshua just got up here and said, Lord,

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the complainers and the those

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me, the complainer, me, the one who forgets to

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worship in the suffering, God, my eyes

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quickly are shifted off of you to

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the waves around me. Lord, would

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your spirit just lovingly and mercifully point out in our hearts

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where our eyes are, God. And

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will you just help us to shatter all of the

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lives of the enemy. All of the

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fear that he has spoken

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into our lives through maybe the lives of others,

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maybe through past hurt, maybe through the disappointments,

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but he has caused us to be fearful

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of looking up into your loving,

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matchless, wonderful face. Would

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you shadow those lies? Would you show us where our eyes are this morning?

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In your name, your precious name of

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Jesus. Amen. So in Psalm, David writes

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this, and I thought about our eyes. Scientists tell us that our vision, the sense

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of our vision, takes 50% of our brain.

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It's it's the it's the Ghost engaged sense is our

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eyes, our vision. And you know, our eyes do

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not see. Some people say, and I'm going to ask all of us, where are

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we looking? Some people say about faith, about God, about belief in God,

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they say, well, I'll see it when I believe it. Anybody ever hear that? I'll

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see it when I believe it. Well, that's actually a myth, and I'll tell you

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why. We bought this old house in Virginia, and

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we bought this old house, and it's from 19 thirties. And so, you know, big

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massive oak trees, the leaves have fallen, the soil, they've turned to soil, and

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the ground, you know, over time, the ground builds up. So the ground has raised

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a good foot over the last 80 years. And so the garage

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we we we dug it out a little bit and we put pavement in the

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garage but the garage, the eaves of the garage hang down just

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enough Ghost enough to where a 5 foot, you

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know, 10 guy or gal would clear just fine.

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But this 5 foot 11 guy doesn't clear just fine. The

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problem is my eyes are about 5 foot 7, somewhere in

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here. And that 5 foot 11, that little point of my head

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is right here. So I come out of the garage and I'm looking down.

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Pray I say I was looking? Oh, yeah. Down. So I'm looking down, I come

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out of the garage, trying to answer a few texts before I'm in the house.

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I walk out of the garage and Ghost BAM! Right into this little

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point of the eave. It's just BAM! I'm like you know? I

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didn't see that coming. But see, that's the myth. I'll see it.

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I'll believe it when I see it. No. I believe it and I didn't see

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it. Like, I believe it hit me right there. But here's the thing. Right? Where

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were my eyes? My eyes were down. I was looking down. You

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know, in life, we look down a lot. You know, it's it's

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part of it's just just here like, gravity.

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We have gravity that is called the little g. You know, gravity. You know, I'm

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a runner and people always say, oh, that little Jesus God catch up to you.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. I know. It will. Right? Generosity. Gravity. What does it

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do? It pulls us down. The weight of this life

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pulls us down. The things that maybe just entered into

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our life by surprise, the diagnosis, the news, the

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relational issue, they pull us down, they weigh us

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down. It's not any of our fault, but it is

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a problem that each of us live with. It's the reality. This

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thing body have a phone on in their pocket somewhere on them? Yes. How do

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we live without this thing anymore? Somebody said when phones had cords,

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people were free. They came unplugged and now we're tied

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up. But, so we're always looking down. Right? And

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it's just this posture. And I think whether

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it's by choice or just by default,

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our gaze has shifted downward.

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But see, our eyes don't they're not really what sees, it's our brain. In

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Ephesians, Paul calls them the eyes of our heart. And in our

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life a lot of times I know our physical eyes may be looking down

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but the eyes of our heart have shifted downward.

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Discouragement. Disappointment. They've

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shifted our eyes downward. I was driving home from,

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from, not Nashville. That's past life. I was driving

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home from D. C. Back to Central Virginia,

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considering some of the diagnoses and things my wife had been through on her 2nd

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round of cancer, and I was just

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downcast. And I was driving and, you know, kind

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of weaving in and out of the lanes, trying to make it home as best

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I can, just in the hubbub of life,

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just driving back. And it was a long day, a great day, nothing was

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incredibly wrong. There were some diagnosis things we had to deal with, nothing major at

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this moment in time. She was working through Ghost towards the end of

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her treatments, but I was just discouraged. It's been a long 3

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years, second round of cancer. I'm just

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discouraged. And I'll never forget, I

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was just looking and you know how a truck will pass you as you're Holy

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in traffic? It passes you this way, then it passes you that pray, and you

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feel like you're going backwards, because it's going faster than you are. I had

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one of those moments of, like, woah, a little equilibrium loss. And so I looked

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over, I'll never forget, it was one of Lauren Daigle's buses. And it

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just said, Look up, child. All plastered across

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the side. And I'll never forget in that moment the Holy Spirit whispered and

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said, don't forget to look

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up. It's just a simple reminder. My my mom, I I God to

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go speak at her church in Cedar Rapids. They had just lost

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her pastor, 56 year old, healthy, runner,

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fit, diagnosed with brain cancer, and within a year, gone.

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And I was going to fill the pulpit and I said, God, what do I

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say to a church who just lost their dearest

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friend?

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And he said, just what I told you on the interstate.

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Just look up. And if we could

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end this conference just remembering

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to look up to the throne room, where we

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are seated with Christ, heirs to Christ. If we can

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remember, we're not there yet,

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but we will be and we are spiritually seated with Christ, if I can

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just remember to look up. Not because I got it

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all right first, not because I got all of it together

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Ghost. Now, I'm ready. Daddy's God to be pleased. No, he's

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already pleased. I can just remember to look up.

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Kevin was talking about letting him have the final say.

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And I thought about some of the reasons I don't look up. I'm

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afraid. I'm afraid it's God be no again because I told

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him it was a no when really it's a no now cause there's a greater

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yes coming. I love the line of the song that says, if it's not

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good, then He's not done with it yet. I love that,

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because I can come looking up in confidence, in steadfast

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hope that He gets the final say. I can look up, I

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can overcome my fear that I'm not good enough, and daddy's not

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pleased, or father king, father God almighty. And I love what Barbie

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said. We need to raise our vision, our view, our the eyes of

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our heart and how mighty God is. The demon is in front of us,

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but the mighty army of angels, go back and listen to this morning's message.

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The mighty army of angels. Joshua, thank you for the vision. The

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mighty army of angels standing behind us. He looks ferocious

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because he's scared, and we're scared of him till we turn around and realize God

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is fighting for us. We need to look up. We need to see mighty

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King God on our side, and we have all

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access to Him because of Jesus and His blood.

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Look up, child.

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So the garage taught me that I gotta look up. Something else

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taught me to look up. I was driving to Roanoke to speak Roanoke, Virginia to

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speak. And, I'm driving over there and I'm talking to our senior vice president.

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I'm like, yeah. I'm headed over to Roanoke to speak. And and he said, oh,

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I bet you, you're gonna go see the star. I'm like,

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the star? The star do we have the picture of the star? Is

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it in the slides? There we go. He said, I bet you we're going to

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go see the God star. I was like, what's the star? Now, I had just

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moved from Nashville to Virginia. I wasn't totally accustomed to all the natural

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wonders and man made wonders, but this is the largest man made star in the

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world. I was like, wow. So he said, the star.

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He said, you don't know what the star is? I was like, no, I've never

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heard of the star. He said, you need to go see the star. So he

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gave me a little rundown. Well, I got up to speak. I was speaking to

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all these people from Roanoke about how to market their business and sales and

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whatnot and all this. And and I and I brought it up. It was it

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fit into the story. So I, like, brought it up. So I was driving out

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here this morning, and this guy told me, I need to go see the star.

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He asked me if I knew where the star Holy. I said, no. And the

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whole room gasped. Whatever. So I went

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so afterwards, I got done speaking. My buddy came up, Scott. He said,

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he said, Tim, do you have some time? Do you have to rush out anywhere?

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I'm like, no. I don't. He said, could I drive you up to see the

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star? So he drove me. We got in his truck. We drove up

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this little winding road, bikers coming up and down. The ones that were

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going up, I was like snickering. I was like, how on the, you know, these

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guys with the cabs, like, you know, let's pick us up. And I was like,

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dude, I mean, they're going to see the star. I mean, it's this windy, steep

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pray, and we're getting up there to the top. And I was asking him on

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the way. I was like, so, like, how big is it? He's like, oh, it's

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massive. Well, I've never seen it. Can you see it from Interstate

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81? He's like, yeah. Can you see it from this? And I've been on those

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highways. We came down pray 81 every trip

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over to Virginia from Nashville. I'm like, how did I not see

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the star? And the answer is pretty

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obvious. I wasn't looking up. I was looking

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at my GPS. I was looking in the back at the 4 kids. Maybe I

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was looking down, hopefully not texting and driving. Maybe I was looking at the

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speedometer. Maybe there was a police car behind me and I was checking that just

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right, you know how you just keep your eyes around, speedometer. I don't know

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what it was, but there was something, all those trips, that I didn't look

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up to see the

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star. I want to go to scripture and read a passage

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and then just make some correlations. Hopefully, practically, leave us

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with a few things we can leave here. And

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in our life, when it's chaos or

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confusion or our spirit we can't hear because the noise of the storm

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is so loud, we can go back and say, but here's

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where I stand. Here's what I do. Here's what I

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remember to look up. So in 2nd Chronicles, chapter 20 if you

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have your Bibles, it's a longer passage, it won't be on the screen, but I'll

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read through. It says, 2nd Chronicles, chapter number

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20. Jehoshaphat, he's faced with a

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situation. And I'll just read through and we'll make some practical application, then

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we'll wrap up. After this, the Moabites and Ammonites,

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and with them some of the Mennuites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

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Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, a great multitude is coming against you from Edom

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and beyond the sea, and behold they are in right at the gate, basically.

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And then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set

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his face to seek the Lord. Then

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Josh was afraid. I want to stop right there. Have you ever

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had news come to you? He was not expecting these men to come to him

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and say, there's a prayer. The enemy's at the gates. Would you, by show of

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hands, tell me, have you had a problem? Have you had something come into your

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life recently? A bill, a diagnosis, some sort of

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news that just took you by surprise? By a show of hands,

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yes. We're human. It happens. We're in a broken

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world. And here we are. A battle has been waged against

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Jehoshaphat. Secretly, they're all ganged up on him. They're

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at the back door and he is

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afraid. He's afraid.

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So we see Spirit away, there's a problem. It's unexpected.

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It's a surprise. He's that, this word, pray,

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means alarmed. He's alarmed by it.

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He's fearful. Now

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in chapter number 19, Jehoshaphat was

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busy. In 19, he's busy. He's fortifying

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the army. He's building walls. He's building cities.

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He is restoring God's house. In 19,

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he's busy fortifying the kingdom. He's

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been doing all the right things. And sometimes, some of us have

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this in our heart to say, God, why

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me? I've been doing all the right things.

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I'm sure in that fear, he had that alarm,

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that question, why me?

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But it says, just down here, it says, then Josh, if I was afraid and

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set his face to seek the Lord. I love this. He

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was afraid and he set his face to seek the

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Lord. We see right there, we see a prayer, but then we see a priority.

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And I think this is where Tim misses the boat

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so many times. I start going to my own wisdom. I

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start figuring out a solution or I go to chat g p t No. I'm

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just You're going we're going to find an answer

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elsewhere. But Jehoshaphat's pray. He sets

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his face toward the Lord. He makes it a priority

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that the word set means a resolve, a firm resolve

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to seek the Lord. Matthew 633

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says, seek first the kingdom. How many times is that

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5th or 7th or 21st for me? Because Ghost, I was

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seeking my own counsel, online counsel,

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complaining to my friend's counsel, complaining more to my friend's

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counsel, arguing with my friend's counsel. Right?

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And then finally, in surrender, I come to God. But he said, he was

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afraid and then number 2 Spirit. You say, Tim, I'm failing.

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Like you, Tim, I'm failing in the priority.

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Well, let's rewind to chapter 18, because

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Jehoshaphat in chapter 18 also was failing in the priority.

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Pray? He learned from failure. Failure is the greatest

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teacher. And besides, you have

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nothing to fear. I was told at breakfast this morning, you have nothing to feel

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theatre fear, because we're all going to fail. Just let let that be know,

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we're all going to fail. But, we have an advantage being sons and daughters

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of God, because when we fail, he redeems our failure.

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Can I get, wow? When we fail he redeems our failure. We have

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nothing to fear. But in 18, Jehosh

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phat fails. Why? Because Ahab comes to him and says, hey, body.

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How would you like to reunite the kingdom, buddy? I'm going to war

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against these guys, and I would love for you to be along. Just tag along

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and, help me out. We'll reunite the kingdoms. He

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paints this grand vision. Ahab is a great politician. And he Oh, did I

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just say that? I'm sorry. But, anyway, we're God to do this. And

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Jehoshaphat, he's been the king to

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pursue the Lord, but he thinks this sounds really good. He kind of

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gets his pursuit of discipleship and following Christ mixed

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with politics here. He really does. And he

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says, sure, Ahab. Well, then that ego of

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reuniting the kingdom blinds him so much to the fact

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and I read this in EMT. I'm like, how in the world did

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Ahab convince him to do this? Ahab says, I'll tell

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you what you do. You dress up like me,

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so everyone won't think you're the king. How did you like,

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how? So then, sure enough, he gets into the

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war. He gets singled out.

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God commander of the enemy army says, don't go for anybody else but the king.

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They see the king's clothes and they're after Jehoshaphat, and he's running

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for his life. Ahab gets killed in the

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battle, as prophesied by the Lord, by a pure accident.

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Jehoshaphat barely makes it out, dressed as the king.

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And so here he is, rebuilding the

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army, doing all the right things, problem comes and he

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sets a priority. He says, I learned from my mistake. I learned

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from my failure. I set a priority. I'm God look

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up. I am gonna first look up. Not second, 3rd, First

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look up is God be my priority. If you're failing in that today,

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contrast it. Just contrast it to what you've done before and say,

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God, help me to remember to look up. He will

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redeem.' Here's here's just a

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practical solution too. So I wear

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contacts in Nashville. And I don't live here anymore. But when I was

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in Nashville, I wore glasses more because in the spring, right about now, the

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pollen count goes from 0 to 96. Right?

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And, the sneezing starts happening. It was always

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horrible being at work and then the contact's in the back of my eyeball. And

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the rest of the pray, I'm like fighting, trying to get that contact out of

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the back of my eyeball. So, I just wear glasses a lot. Well, so anyway,

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I would wake up in the morning and the first thing I would reach for

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was my glasses. Without my glasses

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on my face, I was stumbling around, because I'm blind as a bat. So I'd

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be stumbling around the bedroom. And sometimes they'd fall between the thing, or the kid

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crawled in bed and cracked them in half or whatever, so you're trying to make

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them work. Right? That's happening. So you're going around without your glasses,

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you're stumbling. You're tripping. You're stubbing your toe. So practical application is

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I'm God to ask this. What is the first thing you pick up in the

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morning? What is the first thing you look at? I

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talk to executive teams all the time. You know how high percentage look at

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their inbox, their email very first in the morning? Some of

Tim Hooper: 00:27:21

us, social media, first thing in the morning. TikTok, first thing in the

Tim Hooper: 00:27:24

morning. Where are we looking? Where are you looking?

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Ghost priority. What am I going to determine when

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I lay my head down is going to be on my phone first thing.

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Maybe I'm God to text myself some lyrics to a song. Maybe I'm

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gonna text myself a Bible verse, the verse of the day. What am

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I looking at first? Is the priority there? Well, then

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we see the priorities there. He says, he set his face towards the

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Lord, and then he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

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And I love this because there's a problem. He makes a priority, but

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then he's, he has a proclamation. He has a

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proclamation. He proclaims a fast throughout all of

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Judah and he assembled to seek help from the Lord. All

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the cities of Judah, and they came to seek the Lord. And

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Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord,

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before the new court and said, and he lifts up his voice to pray.

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So before the prayer, there's a proclamation. We are going to fast.

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I love all the leaders across this stage today and yesterday, I'm sure

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in the Ghost few days of this conference that proclaimed,

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come up here. This is all access. There's no special pass here.

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Come claim what God has for you.

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You say, Tim, I'm not the king. I can't proclaim

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a fast for all of Smyrna, all of Murfreesboro, all

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of Rutherford County, all of Nashville, all of Richmond,

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Virginia, wherever you're at in the world. I can't proclaim a fast, but let me

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tell you in here, you're a mom. You've got 2 kids.

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You're a teacher. You have a classroom. You're a worker

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with you have a team. You're a father who

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has a family. When's the last time I've proclaimed

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something to my family? I've proclaimed a word of the

Tim Hooper: 00:29:13

Lord to my family. I've pulled the Bible out, dusted it

Tim Hooper: 00:29:17

off, and read and said, we are going to I'm sorry, family. I'm

Tim Hooper: 00:29:20

sorry. I take the responsibility for having not

Tim Hooper: 00:29:24

led in this department, but I am not perfect. I am bought

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with the blood. I have access to the throne. I'm going to

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proclaim for my family that we're God to follow

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Christ. I'm going to make a proclamation. I'm going to make a

Tim Hooper: 00:29:38

proclamation, we're going to pray together. I'm going to make a proclamation that we're going

Tim Hooper: 00:29:42

to love differently. That I'm going to treat your mother differently. I'm

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going to make a proclamation for my team that it's going to be the

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golden rule, treat others like we'd want to be treated. I'm going to make proclamations

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that are kingdom minded proclamations. This is what Jehoshaphat was doing.

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You don't have to be a king to make a proclamation. But what I'll tell

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you about the proclamation is, there is freedom

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from fear in the proclamation. He was

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afraid. He made the priorities seek help from the Lord. And then

Tim Hooper: 00:30:13

he said, I'm God to proclaim a fast.' There is freedom. When the

Tim Hooper: 00:30:16

proclamation's out, it is out body. There's no taking it

Tim Hooper: 00:30:20

back. Somebody now knows. The enemy wants us in isolation.

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The enemy does not want anybody to know.

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Proclaim the promises of God. Make a

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proclamation. And even if you don't know the word to proclaim, proclaim a

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Ghost, proclaim prayer, proclaim repentance,

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proclaim humility, a humbleness of heart. The sign of this

Tim Hooper: 00:30:43

was brokenness in the Holy Testament, was rendering of the clothes like Barbie

Tim Hooper: 00:30:47

talked about with Esther, and putting ashes on the head. You didn't have to

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know what to do in that moment. You just had to say, I'm

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here. I'm proclaiming I'm here till I hear it. It's like Jacob.

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I will not let you go until you bless me. He didn't even realize what

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that meant. It meant a limp and it meant a lot of things that

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he never planned on, but he made a proclamation, I will not

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let you go. Who needs to make a proclamation

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today to God and to your family, to your team, to

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your siblings, to somewhere in your life that

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there's something here I don't know, I'm afraid of, but I'm making

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a proclamation over this area. You don't have to

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be a king to make a proclamation.

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I love the song that says, I will speak to my

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fear and I will preach to my doubt that you were

Tim Hooper: 00:31:38

faithful then and you'll be faithful now. And I don't even know what that looks

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like, but I will speak to my fear and I will preach to my

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doubt. Make the proclamation. And then we see the prayer.

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And the prayer says this, O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God

Tim Hooper: 00:31:52

in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations.

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In your hand are power and might. Amen? Amen?

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He is our Father God because of Christ. But you

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have an enemy out there who wants to destroy you.

Tim Hooper: 00:32:10

He is our warrior king. Amen. And we don't

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have to fear that warrior king anymore because of Christ, but all of

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our enemies must fear that royal king. And we have

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access, all access to his power and

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his might, so that none is able to withstand you. And then

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he puts heaven on notice. He says, did you not our

Tim Hooper: 00:32:32

God drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people,

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Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your

Tim Hooper: 00:32:40

friend? I love the question here. He's putting heaven

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on notice. Did you not?

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And they have lived in it and have built for you in a sanctuary for

Tim Hooper: 00:32:53

your name, saying, if disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment,

Tim Hooper: 00:32:56

pestilence, famine we will stand before this house and before you, for your

Tim Hooper: 00:33:00

name is in this house and cry out to you on our affliction. And

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you will hear and save. And

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now behold, this great multitude has come against us to invade us,

Tim Hooper: 00:33:11

to destroy us. And

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then he ends his prayer. He says, oh, our God,

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will you not execute judgment on them for we

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are powerless.

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For we are powerless. I want

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to stop right there. We are powerless.

Tim Hooper: 00:33:35

In chapter 19, Jehoshaphat has built an

Tim Hooper: 00:33:38

army of 1 point 2,000,000

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fighting men. He

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is not a wimp. He knows what war looks like.

Tim Hooper: 00:33:50

He's been willing to fight before. He has a

Tim Hooper: 00:33:54

massive army and yet the humility

Tim Hooper: 00:33:58

here to say, we

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are powerless. I want to say

Tim Hooper: 00:34:06

this, he he he prays. There's the prayer,

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he has a priority to seek God first. He makes a proclamation and

Tim Hooper: 00:34:14

then he prays. And in his prayer, I realize a few things. He

Tim Hooper: 00:34:17

has reflection. He goes to the journal. He goes to the stone

Tim Hooper: 00:34:21

of Ebenezer. And he says, did you not? Did you not?

Tim Hooper: 00:34:26

But then there's humility. He says, we have

Tim Hooper: 00:34:29

no might. It reminds me of the verse that says, not by

Tim Hooper: 00:34:33

might nor by power, but by my

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Spirit, says the Lord.

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By my spirit. I

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believe that humility. We are powerless.

Tim Hooper: 00:34:49

I am refusing. I am absolutely saying

Tim Hooper: 00:34:52

no to my own counsel, God. I'm saying

Tim Hooper: 00:34:56

no to my own resource, God. He had a

Tim Hooper: 00:34:59

1,200,000 fighting men.

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But, Tim likes to look at my bank account and say, can we or

Tim Hooper: 00:35:07

can we not?

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I like to look at my time and say, do I have the

Tim Hooper: 00:35:15

time or do I not?

Tim Hooper: 00:35:19

Jesus said, you can't serve God and man and money. And and Jesus

Tim Hooper: 00:35:23

said that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. He created time.

Tim Hooper: 00:35:27

He is a star breather, like Kevin reminded us. He is timeless.

Tim Hooper: 00:35:31

We are time bound. But see, that's our counsel.

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He says, we are powerless, oh Lord. He says,

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I refuse to rest in my own

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sustenance. I want you to be our sustainer.

Tim Hooper: 00:35:47

There's a humility in that. There was also a public prayer here. I believe

Tim Hooper: 00:35:51

there is time for pray, in the closet

Tim Hooper: 00:35:54

prayer. But I believe that our church, like Jesus said in the New

Tim Hooper: 00:35:58

Testament, he said, we've made his house a house of commerce

Tim Hooper: 00:36:02

and we've turned it away from being a house of prayer. And I

Tim Hooper: 00:36:06

will tell you, this is where I sin the most. This is

Tim Hooper: 00:36:10

the sin that so easily clings to me and besets me in my pray,

Tim Hooper: 00:36:14

is a prayerless life. God is

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calling his people in this age of apostasy.

Tim Hooper: 00:36:21

He's calling his people to pray. He is asking he is

Tim Hooper: 00:36:25

just looking for a community of believers to gather in public

Tim Hooper: 00:36:28

prayer to say, Holy spirit, blow on the embers. Holy

Tim Hooper: 00:36:32

spirit, do something. Do a new work through us.

Tim Hooper: 00:36:36

So many of us grapple with how do we be Christ in this generation.

Tim Hooper: 00:36:40

We don't know how to be Christ in this generosity, and the church

Tim Hooper: 00:36:43

has lost its salt in this generation. We need a breath from heaven

Tim Hooper: 00:36:47

to say, Holy spirit, show us how to be the church.

Tim Hooper: 00:36:51

We have to gather in prayer again. Jehoshaphat

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proclaimed, then he prayed in a public pray. And he

Tim Hooper: 00:36:59

ends his prayer with this. He says, we do

Tim Hooper: 00:37:03

not know what to do. Have you ever

Tim Hooper: 00:37:07

stopped praying because you didn't know how to pray? Or you didn't know what words

Tim Hooper: 00:37:10

to say? Come on. Right? Come on. Somebody else

Tim Hooper: 00:37:13

prayed so eloquently and you said, I have nothing to say. I want you to,

Tim Hooper: 00:37:17

next time that thought comes into your mind, proclaim, God, I

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don't know what to say. That is one of the most powerful prayers you can

Tim Hooper: 00:37:24

ever pray. And it will shatter fear. It shuts the enemy up because

Tim Hooper: 00:37:28

he's God to push that button all day long. Yeah, you don't know what to

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pray. Or you're going to look stupid when you try to say

Tim Hooper: 00:37:34

something. They're God to laugh and he's going to tangle you in fear

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not to open your mouth and proclaim in prayer the goodness of God.

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So, Jehoshaphat, the king who's supposed to have all the answers,

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we do not know what to do, but our eyes are

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on you.

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Here we stand. Our eyes are on you.

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There's the star. Now, every time I drive through Roanoke,

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there's the star. I just need somebody to tell me, remind me, there it is,

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and by the way, look up. And every time I drive through Roanoke, I'm like,

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I'm God see the star because I'm looking for it. I'm looking

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up. And Jehoshaphat Ghost reminded the entire congregation, I I'm the

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king. I don't know what to do. God, I don't know what to do. We

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don't know what to do. But our eyes are on you. And when we pray

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that in humility, guess what happens? Go to the next church. Because once

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he drove me up there oh, man. I was like, oh, there's

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the airport over there. I took my son to that Roanoke airport. And, oh, what's

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that big building? That's the hospital. Did you know Roanoke's known for its hospitals? I

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said, I didn't know that. I was like, man. Look at those Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Aren't those beautiful? And I just stood up there. I took a panorama. I took

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a selfie. I did everything. It was so beautiful. The view

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was totally different. And you know what happens when we turn

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our eyes to pray to God and when we start seeing

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him and oh my goodness his face is lovely. He's

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not looking at me in anger. He's looking at me in acceptance and love. And

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oh my goodness he says that the verse before in Psalms

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that God read that whole Psalm 25. But the verse before says

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that those who are committed to God set their face towards God.

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He is a friend. He's he's used the word fellowship. And that word friendship means

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he gives the secret counsel to. He gives the secret counsel

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to. See, when we change the way we look at things, the things we look

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at change. Wayne Dyer said that quote, but you know what? So powerful about that

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quote from a spiritual perspective, God changes the way we look at things. We

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don't have to change the way in our own power. God does the work, brings

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us to his vantage point, and lets us see his secret counsel.

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He knows the beginning from the end. He may not show us the end, but

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he's God to give us the hope and the belief that this is not the

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end. I have the final say and it's going to be beautiful.

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If it's not good, it's not done. And then

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Ghost right after this, I'm going to summarize this, but Jahaziel stands up. Jahaziel

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is the Levite. Jahaziel stands up, full of the Spirit,

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says the spirit move into Jahaziel. And Jahaziel

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says, stands up, and he says this, he says, King, I have a word from

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the Lord. And he says, I have a word and here's the pray.

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You are going to be delivered. Who says, that's a good promise right

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there? I'm going to be delivered. I have access to the king. I am going

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to be delivered. I have a promise. And he said, and

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here is the plan. And Jahaziel gives him the plan. Now, let me ask you

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this. Jahaziel was around 2 chapters earlier. Jahaziel

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saw Micaiah, who stood up as a prophet, told

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Jehoshaphat, do not go with Ahab, and they had him thrown in jail.

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I want to ask, who are the Jehazials in the room who are fearful right

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now? Because Jehaziel had to be a little scared to get up and give the

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word of the Lord to the king.

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Who is a friend in this room right now, who the Spirit of God

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is moving, giving you a word and you are to give that word to

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body? You are to prophecy over somebody's life. You are to speak in

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and edify somebody's life, or come alongside and encourage somebody's

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life. Jahaziel, not by his own might, he said the Spirit of

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the Lord moved because of the humility of the king, because of the prayer

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in public. The Spirit of the Lord moved, and Jahaziel stood up and gave

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the plan and the promise to the king.

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And the worship team can come out, because we're wrapping this thing up. Because guess

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what happens. The plan is get all your mighty chariots

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together. Get all your horsemen. Get all the 1,200,000 that you've

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amassed. And we're God to engage in this valley. We're going to set traps.

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We're going to Ghost crush the enemy. Yes? No.

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This was not the plan at all. The

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plan was can you just step forward with me?

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The plan was can you just walk like forward? I'm going to walk behind you.

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The plan was that the soldiers were going to walk behind the Levites.

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And these people were going to walk into battle. These

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people who are hopeless against the spear, helpless

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against the sword, were God to lead the army into

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battle. You can back up Ghost for now, so you have to stand right at

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the edge. They're God to lead. This is bizarre.

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This is unconventional. This is what we call the upside down

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economy. This is God math, not ours.

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God miracles, not our plan. God,

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star breather, master of all the universe, who sees the beginning from the end,

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says, guess what theatre God to do? Now, they weren't just walking. Guess what they're

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gonna do? They're gonna praise. We are gonna

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praise Yahweh. Yeah. Capital l, capital o, capital

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r, capital d, Yahweh. We're gonna sing praises to Yahweh. Do you know

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they never lifted a sword? Do you know that Moab Moab turned about and

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said, they killed each other. When they came up over the hill into the

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valley, everything was a dead body. Gone.

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Because the Bible says God inhabits the praise of

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His people. And so, in the devastating

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moment, in the problem, in the fear, in the alarm,

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in the time where you do not know what to do, to pray,

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God, my eyes are on you, and I am God choose to

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pray? He said, it was a loud praise. They went

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out loudly praising. I love the song that says, you have a

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lion in side of your lungs, so get

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up and praise the Lord. You might not know what to

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say, just praise the Lord. Let

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your vocal speak. When you're a baby, you don't know how to put a

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word together and all you say is, oh, and mama and

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daddy come running, just praise the Lord. Just

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make noise to the Lord. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all

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ye lands. You talked about Paul and Silas. This is written right

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here. So Paul and Silas, they're in their tomb. They pray, the earth shattered.

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Peter saw the waves, but Jesus was reaching down his hand. And then

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Paul in Hebrews saw a great cloud of witnesses. He pray. He saw

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when the praise happened, the provision came. Elijah saw what no one

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else could. He saw the the the the armies

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of God surrounding him. In the praise, what are you gonna

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see? How are you gonna praise? It happens when our eyes look to

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the king, when our eyes look to all access and say,

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God, I need you. I'm God praise you. I'm

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gonna praise you anyway. I'm gonna end with

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this, Job and when Job was plagued with all of these,

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his kids were lost to the plagues and his animals, his herds, everything

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gone. And then the boils, he's church with boils. He's sitting

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there and he says, when I'm tried and

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purified, I'll come forth as gold.

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And I always thought that was such a beautiful verse. And then when Jen was

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going through her 2nd round of cancer, I became very, very

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bitter. I became disillusioned.

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The Ghost time made sense second time, like, why God? Why are you doing this?

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And why to her? And God, the Holy Spirit and I wasn't, I wasn't bitter

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towards him. I was bitter at the circumstance. And the Holy Spirit said, I want

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you to read Job. And I got to the end of Job. I'm going to

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read this first because it's so powerful. But the end of Job, in Job chapter

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42, this is after God has spoken to Job. After

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Job put God on trial, then God came and spoke to Job and showed His

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power and might. And Job said this. He

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said, therefore I have uttered what I did not

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understand, Things too wonderful for me church I

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did not know. He said this. He said, I had

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heard of you by the hearing of the ear,

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but now my eyes see you.

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And, I'll tell you that sometimes I want gold.

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I want to believe that there's gold on the other side of this trial.

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When I'm tried and purified, I'll come forth as gold. And I believe that's pray

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promise. But sometimes my gold is tomorrow or next

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year, and it's not maybe on my timetable.

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But Joe gets to the end and as he praises, as he sees who God

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is, as he lifts his eyes, he says, I had heard of you before.

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I had heard of you with my ears. I heard of the goodness, he said,

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but now I see you.

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And it changed everything for him. His circumstance changed,

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yes, but sometimes we just have to set our eyes on God. Just look up

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child and say, now I see you.

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Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His

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wonderful face. And the things of earth,

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they grow strangely dim in the light of his glory

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and grace. Church, I just wanna encourage you, let's

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assemble, let's encourage, let's

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remind each other that we have all access, when

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we simply just look up and say,

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almighty God, here I am.

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Kevin O'Dea: Stand with me this morning. As we close this

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Kevin O'Dea: out, we're God to proclaim a song that we've been singing for many,

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Kevin O'Dea: many weeks here. We trust in God and let's testify

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Kevin O'Dea: this morning of the goodness of our Lord. Let's, let's worship.