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Congruence of Agreement | Ps Rachel Eaton · Citipointe Church Caboolture

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Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.
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Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to
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take hold of. So we hope this message inspires
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you and build your faith, but it helps you have more of a God
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perspective for your day. Enjoy.
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Partnering with God, the Bible says that he who the sunsets
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free is free is free. Indeed, it's good news.
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Here's a question for you all. Free from what exactly?
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For most of us here, we have accepted Jesus to be our
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personal Lord and Saviour, and so we understand that we have
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been saved. We've been saved from sin, we've
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been saved from condemnation, and we've been saved from guilt.
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Once we walked in darkness, now we walk in light.
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We walked with the heaviness and the shame of sin and now we have
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been washed clean, pure white as snow.
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This is good news, right? This is great news.
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We used to walk around with that big blanket of, you know, yuck,
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and it's been removed and we now walk in the freedom of the
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purity that has has been given to us by the beautiful blood of
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Jesus. But is that where it stops?
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Don't get me wrong, it's great news.
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This is good news for you. This is good news for our
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region. It's good news for our
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community. But are there further freedoms
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in Jesus to experience? Does the good news just stop
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there? Is there more that is made
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available to us? God is a good father and He has
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prepared wonderful gifts for us. If you didn't know this book
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here His word. I say this pretty much every
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time I preach, so you should be all prepped on it.
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The word was with God and the word was God is God.
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So when we open up God's word, it's literally him speaking to
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us, right? Like I don't know what God says.
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He never talks to me. Open it in this book, in His
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word, Him speaking to you. There are 8000 plus promises,
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8000 plus promises from God, promises of good, not evil,
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promises to give you a plan and a hope and a future.
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That's in Jeremiah. The question is, how badly do
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you want them? Years ago.
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About 7 years ago. How long have we been married?
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27, Yeah. Thank you.
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Yeah, I really like being married.
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That was a good decision. About 20.
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Sorry. About 7 years ago we were coming
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up to our 20th wedding anniversary and we're all
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tossing about what should we do and, and some discussions came
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in and around it. We want to celebrate this
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because this is a milestone for us.
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And out came this notion. Why don't why don't we do a trip
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to Italy? Anyway, so this suggestion came
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out, I'm pretty sure it came from me and then there was an
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agreement made. We went, let's do it.
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And so we had an agreement. We're like, we're going to
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Italy. From that moment, my everything
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changed. My language changed.
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I'm like, I'm going to Italy. I don't have tickets yet.
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I don't have the money yet, but I've got a plan and an
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agreement. And so my language is like we
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are on our way to Italy. There was no obstacle that I
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didn't see obstacles. I saw opportunities to, you
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know, for, for answers. We need someone to look after
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the kids. Wow.
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Let's have a look around and see who's in our world, my
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everything. When we are on our way to Italy.
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John was actually, he became quite sick right before we were
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going. He became really sick, quite
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deathly sick. And I, I remember I came along
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as a Good Wife. I'm like, honey, you are so
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sick, maybe you just over work, didn't need a holiday.
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How's it only sound? I was motivated.
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I made sure that to pay very careful, careful attention to
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the conditions. It's like you need to get a
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passport. No worries.
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Here. Come and take my photo.
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No, no, don't smile. OK, we'll take another one.
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I was good for the conditions. You need insurance.
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No problem. I will meet every condition
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because I am on my way to Italy. And on my hardest days, I still
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have the memory of that cannoli. The cannoli, right?
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It was so good. My everything was in agreements
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with that decision. I had congruence.
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So we are invited to partner with God in his promises.
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And you might say, how do I partner with God, the things
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that he desires for me? And He's a good God, He's a good
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father, He has good things in store for you.
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So how do I come into agreement and partner with him?
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And it's through the power of agreement.
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If you could just bring up on the screen 2nd Corinthians 120
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to 22. If you want to read along in
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your Bibles, you may or look up on the screen behind us for all
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of God's promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a
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resounding yes and through Christ.
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Ow everybody here say ow my Amen, which means yes.
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It ascends to God for his glory. It is God who enables us along
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with you to stand firm for Christ.
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He has commissioned us and he has identified us as his own by
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placing Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment
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that guarantees everything he has promised through Jesus.
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God's promises are yes. If he's promised it, it's yes.
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And our job is Amen. Amen means let it be so or I
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agree. Our Amen ascends to God for His
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glory. God's promise for you is yes,
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sure thing it's done. It's a big yes.
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So we get to talk about what agreement looks like.
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Our part is to agree with what God says.
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The title of the message this morning is congruence of
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agreement. So the Bible speaks really
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clearly on the power of unity on congruence of agreement.
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You can look up such verses like Matthew 1819 to 20, Amos 33 or
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Genesis 11/8. When agreement is unified, the
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Bible says that it will be done, it will be done, that nothing
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will be impossible for them. And I want you just to think on
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that first for a moment. That's actually found in
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Genesis. It says nothing will be
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impossible for them. That actually when when God said
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that it wasn't in an overly positive context that was with
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the Tower of Babel. He's like, nothing's going to be
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impossible for these guys because they're in congruence of
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agreement, right? So James, hold on to that
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thought. James 16 versus 5 to 7 reads, if
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you can bring that up on the screen, do not waver.
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For a person with divided loyalty is unsettled as a wave
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of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.
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Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
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James is actually trying to to bring understanding about how to
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receive what you pray for, about how to access God's promises.
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And he's like, this inconstancy is not going to bring it about
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for you. So we've got to address
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inconstancy. Like I agree with what God says,
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but I also agree with this, which is contradictory to what
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God says. So when we agree, there's got to
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be this unification of agreement and then nothing will be
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impossible. Here's the thing about agreement
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I just mentioned in Genesis with the Tower of Babel wasn't an
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overly positive that nothing would be impossible for them.
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Agreement is amoral. Think it through for a moment.
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What do I mean by that? I mean agreements can be made
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that is super godly and aligned with God's word.
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Agreements can be made that is super ungodly access to the
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demonic realm. Who wants to come and kill and
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steal and destroy your life. But an agreement made, it's like
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a spiritual contract in the spiritual realm.
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They can be godly. They can be ungodly.
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Think about a courtroom. Now decisions have to be reached
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by a jury. There has to be an agreement
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made for the outcome. So tell me this.
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Have we experienced in our justice system someone who's
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murdered somebody and then a jury has decided, yes, they have
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murdered somebody and we've seen justice and they've gone to
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jail. Has that happened?
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Yes, that has happened. Have we also seen in our justice
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system people who are innocent, but a jury has come together and
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made a decision that they didn't even get to have any part of,
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but this agreement has now locked someone in a cell away
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from life. Agreement is powerful.
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Agreement is powerful, whether godly or whether ungodly, and
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it's the shame in the spiritual realm.
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Agreement is a spiritual contract contract, right?
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So whether godly, whether evil, sorry, whether godly or whether
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evil, what we agree with is often what our faith is carried
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on you, you believe it, right? So if you agreeing with
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something, you usually believe that agreement.
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So our faith is now carried on agreements, OK.
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And we've got to be careful what we make agreements with because
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faith, faith paves the pathway to what you will receive, what
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you believe. Your faith paves the pathway to
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what you're going to receive. So we've got to be very careful
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about what we come into agreement with.
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Agreements hold power, whether godly or ungodly.
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So when we're partnering with God in his desire, in his
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promises, which are found in his words, we want to ensure that
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our everything is in congruence and lining up with what he says.
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So when we say something, for example, when we're we're
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looking for healing, you might come and grab a verse in God's
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word in his promise. Let's look at Jeremiah 3017.
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It's not up on the screen, but says I will restore you to
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health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord.
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So we've got God's word, which is his will, which is his yes,
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which is his promise. So this is a promise that we can
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now declare, claim, and hold onto.
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While we're doing that, we want to ensure that our everything
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lines up with this promise, lines up with healing.
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What do I mean? So I want to ensure that what
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comes out of my mouth is in agreeance with God's promise.
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But sometimes we can then come and declare, I always get sick.
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Oh, I've just made an agreement in the spiritual realm or my
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cursed body. You're declaring God's word that
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says I'm going to experience healing and restoration.
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But you've got an agreement over here that says now my body's
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cursed. There's an incongruence of
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agreement. We want our everything to grab
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hold of what God says and walk in agreement with him.
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What about going to a doctor? If we're if our bodies are
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unwell, we can pray to God and we can claim this scripture.
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God's promise is yes. Now when we pray for people for
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healing, many times, many times people experience the
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supernatural ministering presence of God that see eyes
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open, that see legs grow, that see backs healed, that see
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cancer cancelled. And sometimes it doesn't.
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Why? I have no idea.
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I have no idea, no idea. I do know that the more people
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we pray for them will get healed and experience that supernatural
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healing and miraculous power from God.
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And so if you're on this altar and you're coming into a line
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with God's Word, we're going to pray for you and we're going to
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believe for healing, right? So if you don't get the
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miraculous in the moment, it is then congruent to go and get
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healing. Go and see your doctor.
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Actually, there it's their job description to bring healing and
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restoration. And then you go, Lord, I'm
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claiming healing, I'm claiming restoration.
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I pray you don't even make it to the doctor 'cause he's
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miraculously healed your body. But if you do, I pray then that
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the wisdom of God would be on that doctor to find out exactly
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what's going on in your body. I'm going to be congruent and
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declare healing like God word said.
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But sometimes if it doesn't happen the way we expect, God
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should move. Hey, I'm on the altar.
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I'm praying for healing, and you didn't give me the miraculous
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healing right here. That's it, I'm out.
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I'll go and make an agreement with my body's always cursed or
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you can hold on to God's promise and go, OK, it didn't happen
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here. Where is it?
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Where is it Lord? Because I've made an agreement
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with your word that says I'm going to be well, I'm going to
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be restored. I'm going to be healed in Jesus
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name. So going to your doctor, Luke.
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Luke was a doctor in the Bible who wrote the book of Luke, Luke
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Paul says to Timothy, I believe it's like go and and have some
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medicine and wine to help with your body so that you can be
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strong for the work of the ministry.
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It's literally a doctor's job to bring about health and
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restoration. So I am going to pray for the
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miraculous, but if it doesn't happen the way I think it
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should, I my eyes are going to be congruent with the promise of
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God. This all right?
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You might have the flu and go Lords, I claim this promise of
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restoration, of healing. I'm walking in and in
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declaration with this. But on the way home, you then
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grab McDonald's, followed by cheesecake and a thick shake,
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and then you go home to chocolate pudding.
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Do you see the incongruence? There's an incongruence of
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agreement. So when we declare God's
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promises, we want to make sure our everything lines up and is
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in agreement with what he says. God's word is power and we get
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so tripped up on the how that we lose sight of it or get
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discouraged. It's like, no, hang on to that
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thing. It's it's how if it's possible,
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then how you hear the words. I can't, but God's Word says I
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can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, but I can't
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because I'm too old. I can't because I'm too broken.
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I can't because I don't have time.
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I can't because I don't have money.
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I can't because I'm too disabled.
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And we've got all of these agreements going on that are
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contrary to what God's Word says.
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So a better a better question would be if God says I can, how
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could I? If it's if you say it's
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possible, Lord, how could I congruence of agreement.
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Is this OK? All right, Can I have some
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water, please? Thank you.
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On next to you, Pastor Graham, thank you.
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He's got his hands full. There's a demonstration coming.
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Another example of this would actually be in in provision in
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Malachi 310. It says bring your full tithe
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into the storehouse that there may be food in my house and
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thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts.
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If I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out a
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blessing until there is no more need, so we can pray the
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scripture and go God, I come into agreement with this
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scripture. I'm believing that the windows
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of heaven will be open to me, but then we don't meet the
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agreement. We don't meet the condition.
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Often where there's a promise in God's word, there's usually a
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condition. Just meet the condition.
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And so we're claiming in Jesus name.
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But there's an incongruent of agreement.
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Faith and actions are carried on belief, right?
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So we want to have our belief congruent with God's promises
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out everything to come into a line.
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I'm actually going to do a demonstration for you just to
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try and, and make this a little bit clearer.
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May I please have my 5 people? I've got pastor Well, Pastor
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Gray, if you could just come and line up here on the side.
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Believe I've got Chris Ebony, just if you could come and line
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up on the side there, I'll call you over.
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I don't need the lid, I don't think.
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All right. And so if I could have come up
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on the screen, please behind me the identity here we go.
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So God's word here says, according to God's word, I am
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complete in him loved eternally. I'm not condemned, I'm forgiven,
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pure and righteous, salt of the earth, fearfully and wonderfully
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made. I am a child of God.
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This is This is good news. These are God's promises to us
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and I'm here, I want to say yes, I want my identity formed in
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Jesus so I can walk in confidence, so I can walk in
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peace and in a sound mind. But then comes along Pastor
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Graham. Well, actually it's not Pastor
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Graham. We have insignificance comes and
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features and so it ties ties around here.
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OK, you can go and stand over there and then I've got what do
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we have here? Not enough.
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So if you could hold this awesome and right to the end and
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just stand back. Thank you.
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Then I've got unlovable that comes up and then divinity that
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comes up. If you could just thank you.
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And what have I got here? Unworthy.
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And so I've got God's promises up here in my identity with him.
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This is what I want to go for. Hang on.
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And I can't reach it. I need my scissors, please.
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Yeah. Can we all just do a shuffle
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over this way? I forgot them.
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This is actually quite, quite hard.
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And so insignificance comes up. This might feature through being
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overlooked. This might feature through an
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event where you you come and make meaning and say I'm
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unimportant. I, I don't, I'm not important in
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in this ministry. And so you make a new assigned
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meaning with it, and you've got an agreement.
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And so I've got to come in and go, well, what does God's word
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say? It says, I'm pretty sure here it
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says that I'm the salt of the earth.
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If I'm the salt of the earth, that means I'm one of the most
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important assets in the Kingdom of God.
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I hold great significance and I hold great importance.
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So, Lord, I come into agreement with what you say.
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And I'm sorry that I made agreement with this thing.
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I'm going to cut this thing off right now in the name of Jesus,
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out of my life. Then I see not enough.
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It's getting a little bit. All right, I'm doing OK.
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Not enough. At some point, something may
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have happened that told you you weren't enough.
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It could have been a parent that said your grades are not enough.
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You will never amount to anything.
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You are stupid, you're not talented, you're not skillful
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enough. But God's word here says I'm
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complete in Him. So Lord, I want to come into
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agreement with what you say you. This is a lie.
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I can see that now, God. So I break agreement.
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I'm sorry, Lord, that I said that I'm not enough.
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And by the spiritual blood of Jesus, I come in and I cut this
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tie. I break agreement with not
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enough and I declare I'm completing him.
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Whoo Hoo, Hoo. I'm feeling good.
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OK, move over here so everyone can see Unlovable.
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Something may have happened on your line that says I'm
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unlovable. Someone may have left.
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It could have been a parent. It could have been a partner.
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This could have been a child. Something in your line said you
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are not worthy to be loved. No one could love you and sat in
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your corner and you said everybody hates me, nobody loves
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me and start eating worms. And you can sit in your corner
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and stay stuck. Although God's promises are
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here, the good news for me to walk into, you can stay stuck
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with this agreement or by the blood of Jesus.
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I come in Lord, and I break agreement with this.
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I thank you Lord, that you said I am loved eternally, which
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means you loved me before I even made it here.
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From my mother's womb. You have had a plan and a
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purpose for my life. You have seen me, You have known
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me, You have loved me and eternally.
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So. I break agreement with this lie
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in the name of Jesus by the blood of Jesus out of my life.
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Oh, OK. Now this one, this one has got
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some stuff going on here in your process of identity.
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You might have been feeling not sure where I fit.
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So you've gone to a fortune teller to try and get someone
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else try and find something else to fill that space.
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This is fortune telling tarot cards agreement with Halloween
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that it's OK. It's not OK, I'm not going to
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tell you Halloween and and making an agreement that it's OK
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is OK. It's not OK.
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And so by I've got good news. If you've done that, you're
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like, oh, I feel like I need to repent.
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It's good news. You can break agreement with
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this right now in the name of Jesus, by the blood of Jesus, I
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break the power of this thing. I'm sorry, Lord, often these
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lines here, these spiritual contracts, spiritual contracts,
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agreements of spiritual contracts that hold power that
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will stop you from moving forward.
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There's oppression and there's power in and around them.
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When we break these, often there will be the need for repentance
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or forgiveness. OK, so I've made an agreement
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with divination. I'm sorry that I did that Lord.
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I don't want access to the supernatural realm that has
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nothing to do with you, with those creatures and pests that
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are here to kill and steal and destroy my life.
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So through my repentance, Lord, and by the power of your blood
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and by the power of Your name, I break any agreement I made with
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this and I cast you out of my life in the name of Jesus.
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And what have we got over here? Oh, unworthy.
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Actually, you know what? Let this one go like fully long
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I want to do. Hey, No, it's not.
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You've got heaps more there. Oh, that you've got somebody
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else's. All right, forgive us.
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We have a long friends as well as like working together.
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So unworthy. What I want to point out about
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not you. No, I just was giving you.
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OK. All right, we've got this.
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The word unworthy there. What I want to point out about
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these spiritual agreements just before I send Pastor Phil off
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the stage. These agreements sometimes could
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go beyond the trees. What do I mean by that?
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I mean, sometimes you don't even know their name because they
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were agreements made when you weren't even in the room.
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These are generational curses. These are agreements that have
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been made generations ago, before you were even born.
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Things like Freemasonry abuse that happened decades ago that
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has now carried a line through your bloodline.
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Blood is actually a currency in the spiritual world, which is
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why the blood of Jesus is so powerful.
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But these things are carried through a bloodline.
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Curses that we have to break agreement with.
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So unworthiness might feature from way back when, or it could
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feature through our own life. This often comes through abuse.
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It's so unfair. You, you didn't even have a
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choice in the matter. This was an agreement, like I
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said in the courtroom, that was made on behalf of you, that has
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locked you in a cell and kept you away from life.
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But I have good news. The blood of Jesus, the purpose
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of Jesus, wants to see you break free from this wicked thing that
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is holding me back from experiencing and walking in the
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life eternal, in the life that He has promised, in the goodness
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that he has for you. And so by the blood of Jesus,
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and the name of Jesus and the power of Jesus, I break
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agreement with this thing. No weapon, no weapon formed
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against us can prosper in the name of Jesus unless we're
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making agreement with it. There's no spiritual force that
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has the power to hold you back unless you take the power of
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agreement and make agreement with it.
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You're getting this this morning.
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They're arrows, darts of poison designed to kill, to steal from
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you and destroy your life. And you don't have to put up
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with it. You don't have to walk in that.
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You don't have to be bound. It's so much nicer not being
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bound. An agreement is a spiritual
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contract. We break free in the name of
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Jesus. We can move into a space of
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confidence, assurance, identity, and understanding our position
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of who we are in Christ. It's actually a position of
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authority. It's a position of freedom.
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It's actually fun. When we break free, peace lives
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there very quickly. Before we close this morning, I
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want to touch on two more types of agreements that we make that
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we may not be aware of. Agreements that can feature, and
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that's an agreement with sin. And this is twofold.
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So sins that we choose and sins that happen against us.
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OK, now the sin that we choose, I'm not talking about mistakes
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that we make. Everyone makes mistakes.
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I'm not talking about being perfect here.
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If you're following Jesus, I've got a news flush for you.
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You're going to make so many mistakes, mistakes in Jesus like
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it's OK, we're on the the journey of transformation, but
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I'm talking about an agreement with sin.
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And this is what it looks like. Lord, I know that Your word says
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this about this sin, but God, I don't really believe it.
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I think this sin is OK. So I break agreement with what
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you say about this sin, and I'm making my own agreement here.
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Guys, I'm sorry, but the agreement here, that line,
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that's property of the enemy, which gives him access into your
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life. Any agreement that is
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unsurrended to Jesus, the enemy has access.
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He actually, he, it gives him access.
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It's a spiritual contract that opens a door for him to come in.
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And so agreement with sin, it's not OK.
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And and it's not like Jesus is there with a big saucepan ready
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to hit you over the head. That's not the picture here He's
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got he's got freedom for you. He has got a life of purpose.
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There's this itching to get his promises to you.
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He wants you to walk in fulfilment, abundance,
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understanding who you are. But the sin, if you make
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agreement with it, it's going to hold you back from all that he
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has for you to walk into right? It's not OK.
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God's Word, God's word says to forgive sin, that he forgives
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sin. He doesn't excuse it.
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The Bible says that Jesus forgives sin.
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He doesn't excuse it. OK, the second type of sin that
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we make an agreement with is the sins made against us.
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Some of you, this might sting a little bit this morning, but I'm
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praying for wholeness and for healing for you.
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When somebody really hurts us and they say sorry, what's even
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the language that can come out of our mouth?
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It's OK, that's an agreement. It's all good.
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I'm OK. When awful things are done to
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us, we can push it down. Down pain.
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You're OK. You're fine.
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Get down there. How much can we push under?
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It doesn't matter. It's an agreement that hinders
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our healing muses. I'm hoping that you're coming
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out. We sweep it under the rug.
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Excusing sin against you will not bring healing and it won't
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bring freedom. Agreeing to ignore it is not
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going to bring you into God's promises.
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Can I just say if this has happened to anyone here, that
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hurting you was not OK? Forgiveness acknowledges that
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the sin against you was not OK. It wasn't OK.
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It wasn't OK. The betrayal, abuse,
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humiliation, gossip against you, none of it was OK.
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You are a child of gods crafted by the Almighty, beloved,
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precious, and highly valuable. And it was not OK to be treated
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badly. And I know that acknowledging
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this might be painful for some of you, but the Bible actually
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says blessed are those who mourn, for they're going to be
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comforted. And so I actually pray that as
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as you look at this, that the comfort of God has opportunity
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to come in and bring comfort and lead to wholeness and lead to
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healing and lead to peace and lead to rest for your souls.
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And it's all available right here with Jesus.
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But this pain, this thing that has happened to you, you've
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actually got to acknowledge it, not excuse it, not make
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agreement. Oh, it, it was all right.
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It's OK. That is where worthlessness
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breeds in this agreement. It wasn't OK.
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Break the agreement with it and then hand it to the very loving
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arms of Jesus. I just wanted to say like this
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unforgiveness, He helps us to release the unforgiveness to
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Him. And that journey truly can
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sometimes take years. It can take years.
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It's a process of acknowledging the pain for what it was,
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reconciling the pain. I think it was your mum, Pastor
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Sharon, who actually talks about having.
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It's like you've got a computer that's open with all of these
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tabs and you just go and shut it down.
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But you've got all of these tabs that are still open and you've
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got to go in and, and reconcile them, close them down to get a
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healthy shutdown of the computer.
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Sometimes that reconciliation is, wow, that was garbage.
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Sometimes you're going to need a little bit of help with maybe
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someone like Pastor Sharon or or someone who can come and walk
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through with you to reconcile these things.
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But there's got to be a reconciliation, not an agreement
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that it didn't matter. God Forgives, He doesn't excuse.
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So we acknowledge the pain, reconcile it, and then hand it
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to Jesus. And that's a process that might
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take a long time with him. But there's freedom on the other
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side of that. There's wholeness on the other
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side of that Jesus name. There's no sin that he actually
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can't forgive. There's no act that he hasn't
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seen. He's seen it all.
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Eternal. God is so personal and he, he
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wants to be close to you. He wants to bring you into
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release. He wants to bring you into
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freedom from these things, your fierce protector, to be your
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deliverer, your freedom, your joy.