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This. Program is made possible by the partners

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of Joyce My Or Ministries. We

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have to remember that

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love is the key

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word that describes Christianity.

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I'm Joyce Meyer and I

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believe. That God can heal you

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everywhere you turn. I

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want to talk. He lied about what is love.

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I want to talk. You know what it is? because

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it's a word that we throw around so much. And.

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You know we love ice cream and we like

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Katie Bears and will a puppy dogs and we

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located can't simply log on. Yeah,

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we. We. Have

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to learn what real love is.

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what. What? The

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God kind of love is.

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An. And Matthew

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Chapter Twenty four. A

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games are signs of the end times.

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And I suppose every generation has ever lived out

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there were living in the last days weren't out

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there for you know. But. One.

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Of these days or generations are going to be

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right. And

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it could be honest. I don't know. But.

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There's. Two things that it says

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Matthew Twenty. Four that. We.

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Really need to pay attention to won

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It says that in the last days

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many. Will be deceived. And.

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You not? I started thinking about that today and I

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thought. My. Gosh, there's

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never been any more deception and or years.

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On the Earth. Right

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now. And

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I do think a lot of people are

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just deceived and I want you to pray

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every day that you will not be deceived

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because the same people don't know, they're just

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a yeah. I'm

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not one of the things is gonna increase

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in the last days. And a bible actually

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so that of God and not shorten the days

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for the sake of a very elect, no man

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would be able to stand the deception common on

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the earth. So.

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Long get a prize. Latitude can happen

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to me. That's why

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you need this. Keep your nose in the word.

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And always learn the truth. And

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the other saying it says in Matthew

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twenty four. In. The last

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days. The laws of the great body

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of people which is odd. Will.

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Grow cold. Because.

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Of all the wickedness and

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lawlessness. And the land.

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And we have to be very careful that

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we don't get so caught up in all

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the fighting. Norman non sense has gone on.

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Not that we shouldn't stand up against it.

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I don't mean that, but. We.

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Have to remember that love

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is the. Key. Word

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That describes Christianity. And

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in Romans Twelve twenty one, it says.

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We overcome evil with good.

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Now please hear me. This is so simple. But.

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The world is full of evil and

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the only thing when you have to

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do to find it. Is.

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To just turn up the goodness?

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And start being as good the

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people as we possibly can pray

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and for people wanting to you

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for showing lot of the strangers

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random acts of kindness. Love

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never fails. And

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I saw that was my own father who

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abuse me for many many years sexually. My.

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Mom bless her heart, she knew what he was

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doing, but she just was too afraid of him

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to do anything about it. Which.

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Is sad. As

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a long story but I'll make it real short.

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As. I got older. And

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they weren't really tables. I fraught with her themselves.

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God. Put it on Mars that he wanted

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us to. Take. Care of them.

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For. I rebuilt it. I thought it was the job as.

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A Lot. There's no way God is asking me to

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do that. Not for what he did to me. Well.

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See, there is a little thing in the Bible that

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says know your enemy. We

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don't get it, just love the people we like.

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But it is time charged for us

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to get ourselves off our mind. And

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all of our own little problems. Be.

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More thankful for what God is

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doing in our lives and get

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busy about the business of the

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Kingdom of. We

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overcome. It was good. My goodness, what

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would happen if every Christian. Actually

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just did. One. Good

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thing for one person everyday. Brenda.

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That was just encourage somebody. Or

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pray for somebody or. Meet.

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Somebody is physical need. Help

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or more Something. The.

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More we have our mind ourselves a more

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miserable we get. Matthew

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Five Forty Six As if you

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only love those who love you,

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want reward, Will you get. Even.

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Tax collectors can do that. Now

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they use tax collectors because. They.

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Were the most hated him all

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people in Jesus' day because they were

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crooks. Producers.

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Put. What?

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Differences there in you and anybody else,

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what differences there and and me or

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any on believer after if I only

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love the people? Me back. Soon.

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Jesus died for us while we

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were still yet in. San.

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So. If you want to see an example of what love

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is. Just look at

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Jesus because he said. If

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you stay in may you seen the

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father and God is love. Love

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is not something God does. is who

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he is. And

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Celeste all he does, even

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when God chastises. Office.

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The only correct those have we lost.

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Everything. Everything.

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In the Bible. Their daughters to do or

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not to do. It for

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our benefit. It most of our lives better

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if we do what God tells us to

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do. It will get ever get

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that through our his. Quit.

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Thinking that god just trying to make

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a hard on as well as just

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hard to do that. This hard it's

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hard. It's hard to love. Think a

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polar bear mean to use. You know

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why? Maybe they don't deserve your forgiveness

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for you deserve this. Man.

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Outside one's own. forgiven on may

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be hard but hating I'm is

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harder. If

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you want to do some hard, you just

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hate people all your life. I watch my

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dad do it and he does not have

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any kind of allies. But

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we took care of them and. Bar.

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Miles mama com you to come to the doctor

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and had the house plane and all the things

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you do and. It

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took three years with my dad got saved. And

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I can tell you. I

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don't believe that real was can fail.

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i think that love soft hard hard

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I think it changes people. But sometimes

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you have to be willing to love

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somebody that's not loving you back for

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a long time. And

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I'm not suggesting that you stay with somebody that's

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abusing you, that's not what I'm talking about. You

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can love people from a distance. And

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some people you have to do that. God's

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not asking us to be around somebody that

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just mistreats us all the time and downgrades

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us all the time. But love is not

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how you feel about somebody. It's

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praying for them and not talking

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bad about them behind their back and it's meeting

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a need if they have a need. Boy,

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that blows them away. Why

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in the world would you do that? You know what

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my dad said to my husband whenever he finally

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apologized to me, he looked at Dave and he said, Dave,

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you have never done anything but love me. And

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he said, most men in your situation would have

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killed me. But

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you've never done anything but love me. Wow,

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I always say I thought I was buying a house but

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I was actually buying a soul. See,

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it costs Jesus a lot. It

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cost him to save us. What

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we have as a free gift from

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God cost him. Everything,

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every person that gets help,

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it costs somebody else. And

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I guess I'm just wanting to ask

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tonight, are you ready to start paying

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what it costs to

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take other people to heaven with you? And

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I don't intend to shut up about this. I may

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just preach some version of this from now until

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Jesus comes back, I don't know. But we just

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can't. I

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mean, I've lived both ways and I can tell

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you selfish is miserable. You

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cannot be selfish and be happy. And when

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you really, when you really get

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this love thing and you understand that

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it's not just something you're gonna

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feel like doing, if

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you're waiting to feel like it, you can forget it.

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It's something you do on purpose. The

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Bible says, above all that you put

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on, put on love. And

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put on is an action word. I

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have never gone in my closet to

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put on my clothes and had them

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jump off the hanger on my body.

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I have to pick them out, I have to think

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about it. And

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if I put on something that doesn't look good on me,

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I take it off and I put on something else.

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And I tell you, there's a whole lot of Christians running

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around out there with stuff that doesn't look good on them.

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Bad attitudes and grumbling

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and murmuring and gossiping and complaining and going

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to church on Sunday and then going back

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out and doing the same thing all over

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again. Love

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is action. It's

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not just a message we preach. It's

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action, it's not a theory. It's

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not just a word, but it can

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only be seen and felt in deeds.

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Oh yeah, love, love. I hear about that all the time.

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Jesus loves me this, I know, for the Bible tells me

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so. Jesus

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loves us first. The

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love of God is shed abroad in our

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hearts by the Holy Spirit because God never

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expects us to give away something that He

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doesn't give us first. But

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everything He gives us, He expects us

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to grow up spiritually and let it

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flow through us to other people.

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We are God's hands and shoulders. mouth

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and ears and eyes on the earth.

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Our people are going to see Jesus if they

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don't see Him through the church. Cuddle

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a cactus or hang out with that guy.

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that we prefer to avoid. But that's not

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how Jesus wants us to live. Joyce Meyer

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be really honest today, Joyce. Our candid conversation is

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just something I want to talk to you about.

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Okay, let's just have a chat. Jen, everybody

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else can just listen. My question,

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hopefully many others, but I read

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the line that said the spiritual life

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is not a passive one. So

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it makes so much sense. There's so much that

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God always wants us to do. But my question

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is this. How

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do we know when we need to ask God

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for more and to continue

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pushing and when we need to be

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content with

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where we are and what we have? How

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do you work out that balance? Well,

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actually, the two work together. The Bible

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says in James 4, too, you have not because

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you ask not. I

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think you can ask God for

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anything that you want to. Of

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course, hopefully that's not coming out of a greedy

14:08

heart. You know, just I want more,

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more, more, more, more. But you, I

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mean, God is our source of all things.

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And instead of trying

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to get what we want, because if you read the

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first part of that, it's just what causes strife. It's

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all the things that we want that we try

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to get, and we get jealous

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of other people who have them, and we don't have

14:30

them. And so we

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have all this mess in our life and lose

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our peace. And He said, you have not because

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you ask not. But when

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I first read those scriptures, they were, I

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can really say that was one of the things that

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was really life changing for me, because I

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was trying to make a lot of things happen

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to myself. Like I was trying to make my

14:51

ministry grow. I was trying to

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change day. If I was trying to change myself, I

14:55

was trying to do all these things. Instead

14:58

of just simply asking God to do

15:01

them. So I

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don't know that I think you can ask

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God for too much. I mean, you don't

15:08

wanna ask for stupid stuff that's not in

15:10

Dutch Riptural. But we're not talking about material

15:12

things as much as we are this walk with

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Him. Right, you don't wanna be silly, you

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know? Just not gonna pray, God

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make me a millionaire, you know? Just so I

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can, but you can ask God for things if

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you need a better house, if you need a

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better car. I

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would say mostly ask God for what you

15:30

need and occasionally ask Him for what you

15:32

want. But contentment

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is an interesting word. Because

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contentment is not what

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people often think it is. It doesn't mean

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that you never want anything to change. The

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word content means

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satisfied to the point where I'm

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not disturbed or disquieted in my

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current state. Now

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think about that. That's what

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the Amplified Bible says. Or

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Paul said I've learned to be content in

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Philippians 4.11. The

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Amplified Bible amplifies that and says,

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content satisfied to the point

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where I'm not disturbed or disquieted no

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matter what state I'm in. So

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I can

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ask God for something, but I need

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to be happy where

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I'm at. I need to be trusting

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God that if

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I never get it, I can still

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be happy. See, it's not, I

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don't like to hear people say, and I said this

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a lot in my own life too, but we should

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be careful about saying, well, I just can't be happy

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if, let's just say

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a single girl, well, I just can't be happy if

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I don't get married. Well,

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then you're actually

16:46

putting something ahead of God. You're

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saying God is not enough and

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he's not only enough, he's more

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than enough. A

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young couple might say, well, we just can't be happy

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if we don't have kids. Well,

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yes, you can. If

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God is the focus and the center of your

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life, then you can

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be happy no matter what. Well, I

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just can't be happy if I don't get

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healed. Well, yeah,

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you can. There are

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a lot of people that

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have a lot of serious things wrong

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with them that still find

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a way through the strength of Christ to have

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joy and to be

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a blessing to other people. So Paul

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says, I can

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do all things through

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Christ who strengthens me, and

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I've learned to be content whether I'm a

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based or a bounding. So

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that's really the answer. You can ask God for

17:53

anything you want to, but

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you need to be satisfied to the point

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where you're not disturbed or disquieted. in

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the state that you're in. Well, that's also

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why I love so much Psalm 37 for because

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it says, delight yourself in the Lord and

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he will give you the desires. He'll place

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in your heart the desires that line up

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with his word and what he wants

18:14

for you. And when your desires begin

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to change, that's a beautiful thing. And

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because then the things that you are

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praying for are more

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in line with what he wants. But let me

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ask you then about the story in the Bible.

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Oh, you've always got another question. Yeah, I know.

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There's always another layer of asking. But

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the story in the Bible where

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the judge is annoyed because

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the lady comes to the door and she

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keeps asking and he gives her what she wants

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just to make her be quiet. And

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so it's saying ask, ask for

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what you need. So

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when some of the things

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that we're asking for may

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not be exactly what

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God has for us, what's in

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line with his word. So we know that

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it's okay to ask and

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we know that we have to learn

19:06

to be content. When

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do you, is it

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something that the Holy Spirit does in us

19:13

that gives us that contentment that we stop

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asking, we stop pounding on that door because

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it's something we want so much? First

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of all, there's God's perfect

19:22

will and there's

19:24

God's permissive will. And

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there are times when

19:29

you keep it up long enough, God

19:32

will give you what you're asking for to

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show you that

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it's really not what you

19:39

wanted like you thought

19:41

it was. That is such a great point. Yeah,

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I'll give it to you but it's not gonna

19:45

be what you thought. I'll give it to you

19:47

but it's, I mean, like the Israelites, they

19:50

were getting manna every day, miraculous

19:53

bread rained out of heaven every

19:55

day, tasted like honey,

19:57

you know, but they

19:59

got this. satisfied, they wanted meat.

20:03

And so God got tired of hearing it, so he said,

20:05

okay, you want meat, I'll give you meat. He gave

20:07

them meat until they were vomiting meat. And

20:10

so he gave them what they asked for,

20:12

but it wasn't really, what they

20:15

needed to do was be content with

20:18

what was going on in their life.

20:20

It's the famous when the Israelites asked for

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a king, right? Right, they wanted a king,

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God said, I wanna be your king. I

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don't, having a king is,

20:30

you're not gonna be happy, but

20:33

I'll give it to you. So

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there are times when you can just

20:39

keep knocking, as you say, and God

20:43

gets annoyed and says, okay, here it is. What

20:47

I do is something is definitely

20:49

in the word. I

20:51

mean, we know God wants people to be saved. So

20:55

it's His will for all men to be saved

20:57

and come to the knowledge of Christ. So I

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don't have to pray if it be

21:02

your will, you know? But there

21:05

are things that we're not sure of, many

21:08

things we're not sure of. And

21:12

when I'm praying those kinds of things,

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it took me a few number of years to

21:17

get here, but I always say, but

21:20

God, if this is not your will, then

21:22

please don't give it to me. Because

21:28

after 45 years experience with the Lord,

21:30

I've learned that if I get something

21:32

that's not God's perfect will, it's

21:35

gonna be a burden to me. And

21:39

I don't want that. Yeah. You

21:42

know, maybe, I

21:44

don't know, maybe I pray for the

21:46

ministry to get bigger and bigger, because I think

21:48

that's, you know, well, maybe

21:52

that wouldn't be good for me. Maybe it would

21:54

put too much pressure on me and

21:56

I wouldn't

21:58

handle it right. And so

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God doesn't give it to me. Well, I

22:05

need to trust God. See,

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more than anything, he wants us to

22:09

love him and to trust him, to

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love him and to trust him. I

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want people listening today to get that.

22:18

Love God and trust him.

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I love you, Lord, and I trust

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you. And David said, trust

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is not something we wait

22:27

to feel. It's a

22:29

decision that you make. David said, I

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will put my trust in the Lord.

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Or what time I am afraid, I

22:35

will trust in the Lord. This

22:38

is the day the Lord has made, I will

22:40

rejoice and be glad. There

22:42

are a lot of places in the Psalms where

22:45

David is making a definite decision.

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And you might as well say, I don't feel like doing this,

22:50

but I will, because

22:52

I know it's your word. I

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used the example in

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Luke chapter five a lot. Peter

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and the guys had been fishing all night and

23:03

they had not caught anything. So

23:05

a whole night of work, they

23:07

didn't catch anything. That was how they

23:09

made their living. They

23:11

were washing their nets and putting them up,

23:14

which was no easy job. At

23:17

the time they were fishermen today. There's

23:20

probably all kinds of machinery that does that for you, but.

23:24

And Jesus appeared

23:26

to them and said, put

23:31

out into the deep and

23:33

lower your nets again for a haul. So

23:37

he's telling them, go back

23:40

to work only fish deeper

23:44

or work harder than

23:46

what you've been before. And

23:48

Peter basically said to him, you

23:51

know, look, we fished all

23:54

night and we didn't catch anything and

23:57

we're putting our nets up. So

23:59

he's basically. basically saying I don't want to, I don't feel like

24:01

it, and I don't think it's a good idea. But,

24:04

he said on the ground of your word, we

24:08

will lower the nets again.

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And they caught so many fish that

24:14

they had to call their partners. Yeah.

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And they loaded up not only their boats, but

24:20

everybody else's too. He doesn't want us just to

24:23

have enough for ourself. He wants us

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to be able to be blessed,

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but to be a blessing, and

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that's only gonna happen when you're in the perfect will of

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God. Yeah. You might get in the permissive

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will of God and have enough to squeak by yourself. But

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if you want to be a blessing to other people, you

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gotta be in God's

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will. So, I recommend

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you can ask for anything you want. You

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know, we always want everything right now. And

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we think we should have it right now. Because

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we think we're ready a long

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time before God knows that we're ready.

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So, we need to trust God's timing. And

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the big thing that God wants Ginger is

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for us to be happy little campers. To

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just be content. Yeah. And

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to love him. And to not worry so

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much about what we get or don't get. But,

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God proved his love for us by the fact

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that he sent his only son. To

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die a horrible death. To

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take our punishment, to take our sin. To

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take our guilt. And

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he's done enough for us that if he never did

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another thing, we should be just, I mean, we're

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going to heaven. We should be

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so happy all the time. And

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it's a shame when God has to keep doing

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something else for us all the time

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to keep us happy. So, I

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think the original question was, when

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should I ask and when should I be content?

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Well, just

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to make sure people leave

25:55

with something concise. You can ask for

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whatever you want

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to. have peace about. If

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you don't know for sure that it's in the word,

26:04

then tell God, don't please don't give it to me

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if it's not your will. But

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in the midst of all your asking, stay

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happy. I love what you said that

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that contentment and

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asking go hand in hand. Yeah, I

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think that's beautiful. And exactly what you said.

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I trust you. Right. Has

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just been my mantra for this year.

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Got you. Putting that so strongly on

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me. I trust you no matter what.

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So thank you. You're welcome. I love

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