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Episode 233 - The Good Gift Giver · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Oh, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt
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  Speaker 1: his name together. This poor man cried. The Lord heard
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  Speaker 1: him and delivered him out of all of his fears.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are those who put their trust in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I will trust in the Lord at all times. I
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  Speaker 1: will not lean to my own understanding. In all ways, always,
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  Speaker 1: I acknowledge him that he may direct my path. Thank you, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: again for another day that you've allowed us to see.
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  Speaker 1: We bless you. We honor you. We praise you. We
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  Speaker 1: give you glory for all of your blessings that you
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  Speaker 1: bestowed upon us. We thank you for the word of life,
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  Speaker 1: the word that gives us life and life more abundantly,
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  Speaker 1: all because the word came down from heaven, the word
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  Speaker 1: dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the only
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  Speaker 1: begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The
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  Speaker 1: word that was made flesh, that living word, the bread
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  Speaker 1: of life, the bread that came down from heaven, that
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  Speaker 1: we might eat thereof and live. Thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for all of your blessings, all of your
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  Speaker 1: benefits that you bestow on us each and every day.
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  Speaker 1: We are not worthy of the least of your mercies,
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  Speaker 1: but because you are the good God, the great God,
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  Speaker 1: the God of all grace, mercy, love, and compassion, you
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  Speaker 1: Love us with an everlasting love, and we honor you today.
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  Speaker 1: Bless now every listening ear and every obedient heart. In
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, the Christ of Calvary, we pray
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  Speaker 1: and give thanks. Amen and amen. All right. God bless
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  Speaker 1: you once again. We welcome you to this, another edition
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  Speaker 1: of In The Time, Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am
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  Speaker 1: your host, Pastor Al Zachary. And again, we are honored, honored, honored, amen,
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  Speaker 1: to be chosen by God. to be a spokesman for
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  Speaker 1: his word, for the truth of God. Amen. We need
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  Speaker 1: the truth in such a time as this. It's the
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  Speaker 1: only thing that can set us free. It is the
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  Speaker 1: only thing that liberates us and keeps us from the deception,
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  Speaker 1: the delusion that is in our world. God help us.
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  Speaker 1: God help us. God help us. And we always pray
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  Speaker 1: that God will open eyes and ears and that God
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  Speaker 1: will move upon the hearts of men and women, They
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  Speaker 1: will come to know that Jesus is the Christ. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is the way. Jesus is the hope of glory. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, if you've been tuning in to this podcast, amen,
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  Speaker 1: we're in a series, amen, of teachings, the teachings of Jesus, amen,
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  Speaker 1: talking about what Jesus had to say while he was
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  Speaker 1: here on this earth. That's what we need. We abide
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  Speaker 1: in the doctrine of Christ. We live by the doctrine
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. Amen. He, of course, again, is the living bread,
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  Speaker 1: the word that was made flesh. Man is to live
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  Speaker 1: by the word of the living God. So this is
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  Speaker 1: life for us. God's word is life. And so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to again examine some words from the gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Matthew chapter seven on today. If you have your Bibles,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew's gospel chapter number seven will be there in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. But first of all, again, as always, we
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  Speaker 1: want to thank each and every one of you who
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  Speaker 1: pray for and or support the work of this ministry
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  Speaker 1: financially and or again on your knees. Amen. Calling out
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord that his word will have free course.
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  Speaker 1: Praying for those who are lost. Praying for those who
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  Speaker 1: are in need of strength. Praying for those, amen, who
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  Speaker 1: are on the battlefield. Amen. On the mission field. Praying
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  Speaker 1: for the kingdoms. amen, for God's kingdom, amen, for God's people,
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  Speaker 1: for God's church, amen, praying that his will would be
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  Speaker 1: done on earth as it is in heaven. And so
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  Speaker 1: we want to, amen, thank God again for each and
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  Speaker 1: every one of you who pray for, intercede, amen, and amen. Also,
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  Speaker 1: by all means, those of you who share this, amen,
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  Speaker 1: podcast with others, please, if you have not already become
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  Speaker 1: a subscriber, do so. If you You have not already,
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  Speaker 1: of course, shared it with someone. Amen. Please, by all means,
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  Speaker 1: do so. Again, it is our endeavor to freely disseminate
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. Amen. We pray always that
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord will have free course and
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  Speaker 1: that it will work. Amen. God has sent forth his word.
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  Speaker 1: He said, my word is gone forth out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: It shall not return unto me void. It will accomplish
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  Speaker 1: that which I please. It will prosper forever. Wherein I
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  Speaker 1: send it. But we also are to intercede and pray. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Pray that God will, amen, open doors, open hearts, open ears,
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  Speaker 1: open minds, amen, to receive. No one can come except
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  Speaker 1: the Father draws. And that's what we pray, that God
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  Speaker 1: will draw men by his great power, love, grace, and goodness. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Gospel of St. Matthew. We're in chapter number
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  Speaker 1: seven and our focus today is on this topic. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to use this topic for our amen session on today.
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  Speaker 1: The good gift giver. The good gift giver. Everyone I
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  Speaker 1: am without it with very little exception. Let me put
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  Speaker 1: it that way. There are a few individuals or people, amen,
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  Speaker 1: especially in our world today. Does not like gifts. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we get gifts that, you know, we don't really
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  Speaker 1: necessarily care for. Maybe not need them. Amen. But nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: most people are thrilled to get gifts. And especially if
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  Speaker 1: you get good gifts. And that is all, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: that God gives. Good gifts. coming from the good God.
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  Speaker 1: And so, therefore, he is the good gift giver. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what he does. And he delights in doing it,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. And so, Jesus teaching us in the
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  Speaker 1: text that we're going to read, chapter 7, Gospel of Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: New King James Version. I'm going to begin reading at
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  Speaker 1: verse number 11. Matthew 7, 11. Hear these words of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and
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  Speaker 1: you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you.
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  Speaker 1: For everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds
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  Speaker 1: and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or
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  Speaker 1: what man is there among you who, if his son
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  Speaker 1: asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if
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  Speaker 1: he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?
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  Speaker 1: If you then, being evil, know how to give good
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  Speaker 1: gifts to your children, how much more will your father
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  Speaker 1: give who is in heaven, give good things to those
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  Speaker 1: who ask him, the good gift giver. Now, these teachings
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, as we have been exploring, examining, expounding upon
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  Speaker 1: week after week in this podcast, amen, These teachings are wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: They are much needed. They are necessary. Amen. And we
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  Speaker 1: would certainly do ourselves well if we would hear what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus teaches and apply, not selectively, by the way. So
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  Speaker 1: we don't, you know, we got a lot of cherry pickers.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot of cherry pickers. They want to
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  Speaker 1: cherry pick what they want, you know, from Jesus and not, amen.
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  Speaker 1: eat the whole scroll, as it were. And so when
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  Speaker 1: we hear the sayings, the teachings, the word of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: we need to apply them to our lives. And in
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  Speaker 1: this particular case, Jesus is, by the way, he's already
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  Speaker 1: taught us how to pray. And so in praying, amen,
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  Speaker 1: we need to learn how to ask. And Jesus gave
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  Speaker 1: us the model prayer. Amen. When he's taught his disciples, amen,
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  Speaker 1: after this manner, he said, it doesn't mean you have
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  Speaker 1: to pray in the exact same way all of the time. Although,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it is a great prayer. Amen. It
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  Speaker 1: is an example prayer. And it is something that can
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  Speaker 1: be prayed continually because it is sufficient in many respects
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  Speaker 1: of prayer. you know, our everyday lives and relationships, our
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  Speaker 1: relationship to him and our relationship to one another. He
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  Speaker 1: goes on in this teaching when he says, our father,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, we acknowledging God being in heaven, as
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  Speaker 1: he says, which are in heaven that establishes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the right relationship. We're down here. He's up there. We're
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  Speaker 1: of the earth. He's up above. He's from above. He's everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: He's God. He's sovereign. He reigns. He rules our father,
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  Speaker 1: which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. See,
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  Speaker 1: we are petitioning God. Thy will be done. We're honoring him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Your will be done. Not my will. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: it's no, no, no. It's not about me. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: your will be done. on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Give us. Now we are asking. Now we are petitioning.
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  Speaker 1: Give us this day our daily bread. And then, uh-oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is... Lead us not into temptation. Deliver us from evil.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the one that really, really, really is difficult
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  Speaker 1: for most of us. And I'm not going in order here.
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  Speaker 1: So forgive us of our trespasses as we forgive those
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  Speaker 1: who trespass against us. Forgiveness. We ask for forgiveness. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if we're going to ask for forgiveness, we should be
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  Speaker 1: willing to give forgiveness. So when Jesus teaches us how
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  Speaker 1: to pray, When we ask for forgiveness, we also forgive others.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, keep us from temptation. Keep us from
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  Speaker 1: the evil one. And again, acknowledging that the kingdom belongs
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  Speaker 1: to him. The glory belongs to him. Everything belongs to him.
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  Speaker 1: You understand where it comes from. So in this teaching
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, he says, ask and we will receive. See,
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  Speaker 1: that's an acknowledgement. You're acknowledging God as the source. Seek
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  Speaker 1: and you will find. Knock and doors will be opened.
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  Speaker 1: God is pleased when we demonstrate in prayer that we
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  Speaker 1: understand that he is the source of all that we
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  Speaker 1: will ever need in this present world. You're acknowledging him.
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  Speaker 1: You're acknowledging him. You're honoring him. Amen. Everyone who asks,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, receives. Everyone who seeks, they find. Everyone who knocks, open, open, open.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I love what Jesus said, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, to one of the churches in the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: Book of Revelation. Amen. I've set before you an open
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  Speaker 1: door and no one can shut it. Amen. Jesus opened
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  Speaker 1: up the way. And by the way, he is the way.
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  Speaker 1: And so God has given to us open access. And we,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the Bible teaches this for us to
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  Speaker 1: come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may
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  Speaker 1: obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time
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  Speaker 1: of need. It's just, it's open access, open access. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need a priest. You don't need an intermediary. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need anyone. Between you and God, you can just come. You. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the Bible teaches also that he has
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  Speaker 1: made us kings and priests. And so we have access.
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  Speaker 1: And so when we understand a man from the precepts
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  Speaker 1: in the word of God, we also understand from this
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  Speaker 1: text that Jesus is not giving away. Blank check prayer
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  Speaker 1: petition permission, if you will, for whatever we may set
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  Speaker 1: our eyes and affections on. And of course, the apostle
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  Speaker 1: John understood this. The teachings that Jesus was relaying here,
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  Speaker 1: asking you shall receive, seeking you will find, knocking it
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  Speaker 1: shall be. They understood that it wasn't just anything. Because again,
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  Speaker 1: when we align ourselves with the will of God, which
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  Speaker 1: is what John understood and teaches later on, in his
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  Speaker 1: letter to the church. Amen. When we align ourselves with
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  Speaker 1: the will of God, and again, not my will, not my,
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  Speaker 1: that's important. That's why the Lord's prayer, thy will be done,
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  Speaker 1: not mine, thine. That's what Jesus prayed himself. Amen. First
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  Speaker 1: John chapter five. I want you to hear this verse.
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  Speaker 1: First John chapter five, verse number 14. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: the confidence that we have in him, that is in God.
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  Speaker 1: when we pray, when we petition God, when we ask,
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  Speaker 1: when we seek, when we knock. Look what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: This is the confidence that we have in him, that
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  Speaker 1: if we ask anything according to his will, that's the key,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. This is why a line must be
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  Speaker 1: upon line, precept upon precept, so Jesus is not giving
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  Speaker 1: us a blank check. Petition permissions. slip, if you will. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: just ask anything, ask anything, ask anything. Yes. According to
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  Speaker 1: his will. John understood it. John understood it. When we
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  Speaker 1: ask according to his will, he hears us. James, the
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  Speaker 1: apostle James also understood both the precepts that are in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures. Amen. And of course he understands the problem
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  Speaker 1: of the hardness of of the human heart, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: the wickedness that can arise in our hearts. James understood that.
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  Speaker 1: So in James' letter to the church, now he's writing
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  Speaker 1: to the people of God now. It's not to the world.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this is only applicable to those who
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  Speaker 1: are in right relationship with God in the first place. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If you are a rebel, the only thing, if you're
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  Speaker 1: not in the will of God, in the church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, if you don't have the spirit of the
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  Speaker 1: living God, first of all, you're not seeking him. The
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  Speaker 1: only prayer that you need to be praying is, Lord, forgive, Lord, save, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: open my eyes. You need to be praying God's mercy.
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  Speaker 1: And God, by the way, you pray for mercy. No
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  Speaker 1: one in the New Testament, no one in the gospels,
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  Speaker 1: no one who asks for mercy has ever been denied. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we need to understand that. But again, James understands
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  Speaker 1: that this is not blank check petition permission, amen, to
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  Speaker 1: just ask for whatever you want, anytime, anything that comes
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  Speaker 1: up in your heart, comes up into your mind. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible is clear again. My thoughts are not your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: My ways are not your ways. So listen what James
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  Speaker 1: has to say to the church when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: asking Where do wars, James chapter 4, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: verse number 1, where do wars and fights come from
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  Speaker 1: among you? He's talking to people in the church, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, again. Do they not come from your desires
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  Speaker 1: for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and
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  Speaker 1: do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain.
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  Speaker 1: You fight and war, yet you do not have because
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  Speaker 1: you do not ask. You ask and do not receive
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  Speaker 1: because you ask amiss that you may spend it on
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  Speaker 1: your pleasures. That is people in the church coming to God,
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  Speaker 1: approaching God, out of the will of God, asking and
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  Speaker 1: lusting out of their own desires, out of their own pleasures,
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  Speaker 1: out of their own lusts, and God will not hear
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  Speaker 1: and he will not grant. And again, you're not receiving,
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  Speaker 1: James says, because you're asking out of the will of God.
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  Speaker 1: And we're, by the way, we're in a very different culture,
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  Speaker 1: kind of culture. Amen. Even over the last 50, 60,
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  Speaker 1: 70 years, we've been denigrating ourselves. And even in the church,
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  Speaker 1: And we're living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity. And
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  Speaker 1: a good majority of younger Americans, and I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: casting blame or casting a shadow on them, but a
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  Speaker 1: good majority of younger Americans in particular have been reared
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  Speaker 1: up and they have become very accustomed to being entitled
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  Speaker 1: to whatever they desire to have. And not only Are
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  Speaker 1: they feeling entitled? They demand that it be given to them.
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  Speaker 1: And if that mindset was not bad enough, what is
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  Speaker 1: all the more appalling is that no one is thankful.
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  Speaker 1: We're living in a generation, and again, this is not just, again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just casting this upon young people and I'm
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  Speaker 1: certainly not painting with a broad brush, but we have
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  Speaker 1: a whole world of people who live with an ingratitude.
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  Speaker 1: They're not thankful. And the Bible, by the way, this
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  Speaker 1: is an indictment in the scriptures, Romans chapter one, you
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  Speaker 1: can read it there. Neither were they thankful, but they
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  Speaker 1: became vain in their imaginations, all of this. And so
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  Speaker 1: this mindset of being entitled, this is supposed to be mine,
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  Speaker 1: it's owed to me, they're not thankful, even when it's
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  Speaker 1: given to them. And so what has become even more
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  Speaker 1: egregious in this culture is demanding without asking, and it
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  Speaker 1: has sadly, this attitude, this mindset, amen, is now in
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  Speaker 1: some who are in the church, professing Christians, professing believers. Again,
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  Speaker 1: in this very prosperous nation in which we live, where,
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  Speaker 1: of course, again, those of you who've been around long
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  Speaker 1: enough to understand how this Prosperity gospel, prosperity preaching, how
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  Speaker 1: it flourished in recent decades. People in the pews have
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  Speaker 1: bought into the notion that the God of heaven owes
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  Speaker 1: them whatever they desire in their hearts to possess. He
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  Speaker 1: owes them. Again, God is without question the good gift giver.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said it. The word teaches this. God delights in
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  Speaker 1: blessing his people. It is the will of God to
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  Speaker 1: give to us of his good pleasure, the kingdom. He's
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  Speaker 1: the good gift giver. And he, again, absolutely delights in
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  Speaker 1: blessing those who fear him and obey him. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, the beauty of being in a good and
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  Speaker 1: right relationship, fellowship with God is this. You don't even
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  Speaker 1: have to ask necessarily. When you are in good fellowship
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  Speaker 1: and good relationship with God, he will automatically pour out
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  Speaker 1: blessings and his benefits on you automatically. That's what he
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  Speaker 1: told his people. You know, children of Israel, when they
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  Speaker 1: came out of Egypt, came into the promised land, they
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  Speaker 1: were already brought into a place that would be filled
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  Speaker 1: with all kind of blessings. But he said, if you
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  Speaker 1: would diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your
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  Speaker 1: God to obey him, all of these blessings will just
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  Speaker 1: come on you and overtake you. In other words, again,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't even have to ask. So again, we don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily even have to ask. God knows everything we have
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  Speaker 1: need of. He's promised to do that and he will
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  Speaker 1: do it. And he does do it. But he also
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  Speaker 1: delights in us asking because in our asking, We are acknowledging.
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  Speaker 1: The psalmist understood this. Look, let me give you a
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  Speaker 1: quick psalm, and then I'm going to take you to James,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, again. Listen to this quick verse in
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 84 in verse 11. I'm almost finished. For the
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  Speaker 1: Lord God is a sun and shield. The Lord will
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  Speaker 1: give grace and glory. Listen to this. No good thing
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  Speaker 1: will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. And then
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  Speaker 1: James chapter one, verse 17, every good gift and every
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  Speaker 1: perfect gift is from above and comes down from the
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  Speaker 1: father of lights with whom there is no variation or
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  Speaker 1: shadow of turning. In other words, God has no respect
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  Speaker 1: to persons. Every good gift, every perfect gift comes down
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  Speaker 1: from God. But please, Please, let's understand this. Please understand
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  Speaker 1: that God owes us nothing. We owe him. We owe
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  Speaker 1: him for our very existence, our very being, life, breath,
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  Speaker 1: and all things that he so richly provides for us.
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  Speaker 1: And he does it out of his good pleasure. And again,
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  Speaker 1: God is pleased when we ask Because we demonstrate that
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  Speaker 1: we understand and that we acknowledge him as the source.
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  Speaker 1: That he is the one from whom all blessings and
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  Speaker 1: all gifts flow. Ask for help, you'll receive help. Ask
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  Speaker 1: for mercy, you will receive mercy. Ask for strength, he'll
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  Speaker 1: give you strength. Ask for patience and he will grow
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  Speaker 1: you in patience. Ask for forgiveness, you'll get forgiveness. Ask
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  Speaker 1: for wisdom and God will grant it more than you
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  Speaker 1: will ever need. Because Jesus said it. Ask and it
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  Speaker 1: will be given to you. Seek and you will find.
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  Speaker 1: Knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone
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  Speaker 1: who asks, receives. And he who seeks, finds. And to
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  Speaker 1: him who knocks, it will be opened. God knows. The
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  Speaker 1: good gift giver delights in giving good gifts to his children.
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  Speaker 1: Much more than any earthly father does with their own children.
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  Speaker 1: Ask the good gift giver. Seek the face of the
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  Speaker 1: good gift giver. Knock at the door. Not of the government. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Not of man. Ask, seek, knock at the door of
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  Speaker 1: the good gift giver because he delights in giving to
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  Speaker 1: his children anything and everything that we need that pertains
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  Speaker 1: to life and godliness in this present world. Father, again,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you for all of your blessings, all of
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  Speaker 1: your benefits today. Lord, we pray that somewhere someone will
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  Speaker 1: hear the voice of the Savior and know that you
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  Speaker 1: are good, the good gift giver. You give the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to them that ask. So we pray now that
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  Speaker 1: eyes will be open, ears will be unstopped, and hearts
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  Speaker 1: will be changed for the glory of your kingdom, majesty, dominion,
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  Speaker 1: and power both now and forever. We say amen and amen.