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Unshakable: A Father's Greatest Legacy · Wow God

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Well, are you ready for God's Word today?
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The series that I've been preaching this month, it just ties along with everything
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that has already been spoken today.
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The series is entitled, Unshakable.
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You know, Andrea could have been all shook up in the midst of the storm that she was going through.
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But guess what? When you have the cornerstone, Jesus Christ,
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in your life, and you put him number one, you become unshakable.
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And today, I just want to encourage somebody that has come today,
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what you put into this service today is what you're going to get out of it.
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And so today, I encourage you to lean in on this word because this word can transform your life.
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It's not about me. It's all about Jesus. And he's the only one that can perform
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the miracles and the signs and the wonders in your life today.
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I don't know what you came in for today, but the Lord's saying,
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get ready. You're going to leave with victory today.
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If you lean in on this word, the miracle working power of God can operate in your life today.
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If you need a healing in your body today, this is the place to be.
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Because there is a river in this house today and it's for you today.
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This place has been prayed up.
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And prepared for what God wants to do in your life today. This isn't going to
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be just an ordinary Father's Day message.
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Because we believe today that
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there's miracles, signs, and wonders that can happen in your own life.
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Whether it's a physical need, whether it's a spiritual need,
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God wants to perform that miracle in your life today. Because He's a God that is unshakable.
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Amen? Man, the theme of this series is standing strong when everything around you is shaking.
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Has anybody ever had something shake you up?
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When everything around you is shaking, God's still in control. God is still in control.
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And so today on this Father's Day, I just want to encourage you.
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You know, I have been blessed with a wonderful dad.
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My dad last year turned 90 years old,
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getting ready to turn 91 in September, and I've been so blessed,
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not just with a great dad, but I have had a great father-in-law,
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the best father-in-law I could have ever asked for.
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He went to be with the Lord a couple years ago, but he is what I'm going to
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be talking more about today because it's people like him that changes the world.
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Because the title of my message today is entitled, A Father's Greatest Legacy.
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You know, that's one thing that my father-in-law did is he was able to send
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forth a legacy, not only to Iris and I, but to my kids and to his great grandkids and,
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all of the people in his life.
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And God does many things with fathers and their legacy.
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I know my dad, even 91, getting ready to turn 91, we evangelize.
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And so we go out and we preach in a lot of different churches.
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And my dad keeps track of everywhere I go.
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And I mean he wants to know when we leave I'm I'm 56 years old and he still
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wants to know everything he wants to know when we leave he wants to know where
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we're at he keeps track of us,
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and every time I check in with my dad my dad always says this son you're making good time.
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Boy, I feel like that's a revelation for somebody today because I come to give
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somebody this word today.
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You're making good time. Even though things are all shook up right now,
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the Lord's saying today, you're making some good time today.
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Even though you've had some setbacks, even though you've had some upsets,
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the Lord's saying today, you may have had a tragedy, but the Lord's saying today,
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you're making good time.
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Brian, I just come to tell you today, you're making some good time, sir.
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There's a release in this place today, and the Lord's saying he is about to
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download a legacy in your life today.
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You may not have had a good dad.
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You may have not had a good past, but the Lord's saying, if you keep your eyes
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upon me, I'm your legacy.
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I'm the one that you need to keep your eyes upon. Don't stray away.
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Keep your focus on me, and watch what I will do for you.
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A father may leave many things behind. He may leave money.
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He may leave property. He may leave possessions.
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He may leave accomplishments.
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Yet the greatest thing a father can leave his family is a godly legacy.
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That's the greatest thing a dad can give is a godly legacy.
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As a dad, we need to be that dad that sets the bar for our family so that we
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can show them that God is in control of all things.
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It doesn't matter if things begin to shake.
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We've been at that point in our ministry and in our life where we could have been all shook up.
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We were pastoring in Paonia, Colorado, and there was a moment where we were down to nothing.
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But can I tell you, when you're down to nothing, God is up to something.
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And I won't go into details of the whole story, but I will share a part of that story.
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When Iris, she went down into our basement and opened up our freezer,
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and all there was was one more package of hamburger meat.
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We didn't have funds in our account, but God is faithful,
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and I'm telling you, I'm sharing this today because God is always faithful no
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matter what we have and what we're doing, and I'll never forget.
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She told me this. She said, I grabbed that last bit of hamburger meat,
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I closed the door, and then the Holy Spirit came all over me,
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opened it back up, and began to prophesy out of the freezer by saying, Thank you, Lord. Woo!
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Thank you, Lord, that you're about to fill our freezer back up.
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I didn't know that. This is on a Sunday morning. I didn't know that.
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I'm in my office Monday morning, and we had no money in our account,
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and I didn't know what we were going to do.
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And you can go on our podcast and look up Miracle Monday because you can get
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all of the testimonies because we had one testimony after another.
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But I'm just sharing you one because in that moment, on that Monday morning,
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I get a phone call from a lady that says, I have a lady at my work and she owns a ranch.
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And she had a bull break its leg.
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They had to put the bull down and they had to grind the meat up into hamburger meat.
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And she said, Pastor, do you have enough room in your freezer for 100 pounds of hamburger meat? Huh.
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To God be the glory. I'm like, yes, we do. Yes, we do.
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See, when you're down to nothing, God is up to something.
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And I come to tell the daddies today that you need to leave your children a legacy.
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You need to leave them testimonies just like that, where your faith didn't waver.
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But you begin to speak to your situation.
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You need to be that example where you're saying, God, God has not left me.
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He has not forsaken me. He's been here the whole time.
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And if God can be with me, just like God was with Daniel in the lion's den,
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God can be with you in every situation that you're going through.
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And the Lord's saying today, get ready, get ready, get ready.
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Because some big things are about to happen for you today.
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Long after earthly possessions are gone A spiritual legacy continues to impact
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generations from daddies My father-in-law, he was a godly man.
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Every time I was around him and when he prayed, his prayer was glory to God.
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Glory to God. He would always say glory to God. Even at his funeral, the minister preached.
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This man, all he would say was glory to God.
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I'm telling you something. When you hear that echo of glory to God in the background,
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I'm telling you, it shakes you.
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It shakes you spiritually because I'm telling you, that's a man that reached
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heaven and heaven reached him.
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That's the kind of legacies we need to leave. Legacies where people,
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where our kids remember, because they're going to forget about all the possessions you have.
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They're going to forget about all that. But what they're not going to forget
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is what happens spiritually.
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What happens spiritually. So I want to go to Joshua chapter number 24 and verse number 15.
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And I also want to jump over in the New Testament to 2 Timothy chapter number 1 and verse number 5.
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So I believe Isaac has those up for us today.
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So in Joshua chapter number 24 and verse number 15, the Bible says,
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But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve.
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Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates?
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Or will you be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live?
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Now, I want you to get a hold of this one.
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But as for me and my house, come on, Joshua's speaking.
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Joshua's prophesying. Joshua's prophesying to somebody today.
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And he's saying, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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I just want you to know this isn't just a Hobby Lobby phrase that you can put over your doorstep.
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This is a word from the Lord. This is a word,
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from Joshua saying, as for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord.
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I'm sorry, I'm giving you a little oaky vernacular here. We're going to serve
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the Lord no matter what. We're going to serve the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
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And God wants us to put him number one.
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See, the Bible says in Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, if we just trust in the Lord with
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all our heart, what are we saying? As for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord.
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As we trust in the Lord with all our heart, lean not on our own understanding,
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in all our ways acknowledge him.
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He's going to make your path straight.
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If somebody's path's crooked today the lord's saying if you just get your focus on me,
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i will recalculate just like i said last week i will recalculate your path and
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i will make it straight once again how many are ready for him to make it straight for you,
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hallelujah let's look at second timothy chapter number one and verse number
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five the bible says i remember your genuine faith For you share the faith that,
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first filled your grandmother Lois,
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and your mother Eunice.
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And I know that same faith continues strong in you.
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Daddies, I come to tell you, we need to leave a legacy. We need to leave a spiritual legacy.
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Because one thing your children will never forget is how you serve the Lord.
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Because when God does something in the midst, when he does a miracle in your
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life, that's something you can't erase.
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You can't erase anything. I mean, I don't care how young you are.
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I don't care how old you are. If God performs something and if God speaks to
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you in a fashion that changes your life.
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It was like me when I was seven years old. My parents didn't go to church.
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My parents, I never remember going to church up till seven years old when I
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was invited to church And I ended up going to a little Pentecostal holiness
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church in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
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And as I'm in that church, I remember Grandpa Cerny's the one invited me.
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And I'm sitting right next to Grandpa Cerny.
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And I'll never forget this lady comes down to the front and she was deaf in
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one of her ears. And the Spirit of God came upon her.
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The pastor laid hands on her. She was slain in the Spirit.
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When she got slain in the Spirit, something happened. and Grandpa Cerny just
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tugged me in and said, it's going to be okay.
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Never experienced anything like that. But when that woman got up, she could hear again.
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And at seven years old, sitting there next to Grandpa Cerny,
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something came all over me.
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And I heard a voice. And that voice said, when you grow up,
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You're going to lay hands on sick people. Come on, are you with me today?
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You're going to lay hands on sick people, and they're going to recover.
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You know what that means? That means sickness is going to leave their body.
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And at seven years old, the Lord spoke that to me.
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Why am I telling you this story? I'm telling you because when anything happens
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to you from God, a miracle happens. you will never forget it.
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You will never get it out of your mind.
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You may say, well, I can't remember everything. But when you come to a point,
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in life, when something similar that the Lord has spoke to you years ago,
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it will rise back up.
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And there's something that's stirring today because somebody needs to hear this
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word today because there's something that is stirring on the inside of you that
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the Lord has spoke to you years and years ago.
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There's a stirring of his legacy.
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Is anybody hearing this today? I'm sorry. I'm not even in my points yet.
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There's a stirring of his legacy that wants to stir again in this place.
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Well, pastor, why hasn't things happened like you've been speaking.
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Because it's just a matter of time. Yeah, we're still in the alley church,
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but we're not going to stay here for long because miracle signs and wonders,
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are happening even right now as we speak.
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Yeah, we may have to drive through the potholes to get here.
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Come on, anybody notice any potholes today?
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Got new guests here today. They had to go through the potholes.
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But God is about to do a shift.
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Come on, are you with me today? There's a shift that is about to happen.
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That a legacy is already been planted.
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And God is about to bring expansion to epicenter church. What is epicenter church?
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It's the center point above an earthquake. And we believe that earthquake is revival.
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Where miracles, signs, and wonders happen. Hallelujah Let me give you point number one.
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Legacy is built by example. It is built by example.
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People follow what they see.
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They will say what you say. They will do what you do. They will follow as you see.
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Children learn from observation. I mean, they learn quick.
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Man, they learn quick. They'll watch every step you take, and they will do everything you do.
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You got to be cautious of what you do and what you say as a daddy, even as a mama too.
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Actions preach louder than words.
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We've got to watch what we do. We got to, if you want to see your kids be godly
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kids, then become a godly person. Read his word.
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Pray, go to church. There's two times to read his word.
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There's two times to pray. There's two times to go to church.
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And we all know that when you want to and when you don't.
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We've got to set the bar for our family.
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Faithfulness creates influence and godly examples shape our future generations,
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because what we're doing here, I mean, that's why we have.
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The ministries that we have at our church so that we can help our children because
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they're our future. Amen.
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They're our future. Children may not always listen to our advice,
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but they will always watch our example.
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Life you live becomes a legacy that you leave.
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Point number two today, faith must be passed down.
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We must pass down our faith, our faith that is in God.
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In Deuteronomy chapter number six and verse six and seven, the Bible says,
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and you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.
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In verse number seven, repeat them again and again to your children.
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Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road,
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when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
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We've got to speak life into our family.
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If we're going to set a legacy example, a faith example. We got to speak life into our family.
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We got to speak life into our family. See, faith shouldn't be taught intentionally.
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See, spiritual conversation matters.
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See, families need to pray again together.
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They need to pray again together. See, biblical values create stability,
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and every generation must know God personally.
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They need to have an experience with God, because a faith without having.
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Is a faith worth sharing? We've got to begin to share our faith.
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It's like what we're doing here with our tithes and offering,
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how Scott began to testify how God has paid his house off.
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Why? Because he's a tither.
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He's faithful with God. Miss Andrea,
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she had setbacks, but God was with her the whole time see it's through the blood
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of the lamb and the word of our testimony how did she make it through even though it was,
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her life was shook up she was still faithful with her giving,
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i'm not taking up another offering so don't worry but i i just want you to know,
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that when you're faithful with
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the little he'll make you ruler over many and all we have to have is the,
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is faith in God.
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When we have faith in God, God will perform miracles after miracles.
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See, the greatest inheritance is not wealth.
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The legacy is not wealth. It's faith. It's the faith that we leave.
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Our family. Point number three, a godly legacy outlives a lifetime.
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A godly legacy outlives a lifetime.
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In 2 Timothy chapter number one and verse number five, I remember your genuine
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faith for you share the faith that first filled,
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your grandmother, Lois, and your mother, Eunice.
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And I know that same faith continues strong in you.
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See, Timothy received faith from previous generations.
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Not everybody has had people before you that walked in faith.
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I'm the first minister of the gospel in both my mom's side of the family and
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my dad's side of the family.
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But what I'm grateful for is my mom, I got saved, filled with the Holy Ghost,
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become a prayer warrior before she died. And my daddy, he is a faith walker, taught me how to tithe.
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Amen. And prays every single day, reads this Bible to God be the glory.
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See, God can change things.
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God can change your life. He can make you that one. He can make you that Lois or Eunice.
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He can make you that, where you pass it down from generation to generation.
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Let it start today.
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Come on, church, let it start today. See, godly influence extends beyond death.
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See, legacy impacts grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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One faithful life can change an entire family line. It can change it all.
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I have Iris' dad, William Williams' testimony on our podcast.
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And if it wasn't because of an evangelist that went through Paradox,
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Colorado, it changed the legacy of their whole family.
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To God be the glory. He got saved in Paradox, Colorado.
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If you look that up, it's just a little dot on the map.
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But it changed their generations. I don't know how many ministers they have
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in their family, but guess what? I got to cash in on that.
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I got to cash in on that legacy because I got to be under that legacy. To God be the glory.
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One faithful life can change an entire family line. Eternal investments never lose value.
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They just increase.
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Instead of seeing how much wealth or how much land or how many possessions you
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can collect to pass down, this is what I want you to do today.
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See how much faith in God you can pass down to the next generation.
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Because a godly legacy is the only investment that keeps growing after you're gone.
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So when you're gone, that legacy will be passed down from generation to generation.
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What you pass to the next generation may outlive every achievement in your whole lifetime.
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If somebody's life can be totally changed, how many know one situation,
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One word from God can change everything.
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I feel you're not here by accident, but by divine appointment to hear this word today.
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God wants to fill you today with his faith, with his wisdom,
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with his knowledge, with his understanding.
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I feel there's a shift in the atmosphere for someone today because God wants
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us to carry on a powerful legacy. for his kingdom.
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Because just as our word is here today, Epicenter is a place where we love God,
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we love people, and it's all about Jesus.
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It's all about Jesus. It's about him. And when he comes in and changes your life, hallelujah.
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I'm so grateful for September 17th, 1988 at 11 o'clock at night in a McDonald's
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drive-thru in El Reno, Oklahoma.
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Yes, I had an experience with God speaking to me at seven years old,
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but the greatest experience I had is whenever I showed up to get my quarter pounder with no cheese,
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large Coke and my large fries at an El Reno McDonald's, and I'm sitting there
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in my cool Mustang with limo tent on the windows,
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and had my Norman Lab kicker in the back with the good music,
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but that night when I turned that music up a little bit, after I made that order,
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the song on the radio was...
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The Radio...
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Don't worry, be happy now. And at 18 years old, I'm like, God,
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I just graduated high school.
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I don't know where I'm going. And all you you're speaking to me saying,
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don't worry, be happy now.
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And all of a sudden, somebody knocked on my passenger window.
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I kind of freaked out and locked the doors.
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And all of a sudden, this blonde headed girl come be bopping around.
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Her name was Candy Reeves. And she come to my window and she looked at me and
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she said, I just got out of revival.
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And when I was in revival, the preacher preached, Jesus is coming again.
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And she looked at me in my eyes and she said, if he was to come today,
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would you spend eternity with him?
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As the song's going, don't worry, be happy now. And I burst into tears right
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then and there. I said, no, I don't.
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I won't make it. And she said, well, if you pull up, I will lead you in a prayer
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that will give you everlasting life.
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I pulled up. She led me in that sinner's prayer.
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I'm telling you, when the Lord came in, his Shekinah glory came in and washed
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every sin that was in my life out.
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He cleansed my mind from every evil thing that I ever thought of or ever did.
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I'm telling you, he came in and washed me with the blood.
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Come on, we need the blood back into the church again, church.
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If we want to see Holy Ghost revival again, we need the blood of Jesus back in the church.
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And the blood of Jesus washed everything away.
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That young lady said, now you need to do four things. Four.
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Need to pray every single day. You need to read your Bible every, every time, every day.
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And then she said, you need to go to church every time the church doors are open.
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And then she said, the fourth thing you need to do is you need to go tell somebody
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what you just experienced.
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Man, I'll never forget. It was raining that night. I'm on my way home to Kingfisher
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and I'm crying all the way home. I didn't know what to do.
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And the only song I could think of singing was Amazing Grace.
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And my mind's going because my parents weren't home. I couldn't go tell them what happened to me.
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But I knew of a buddy.
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I knew he was partying that night because I'd already been asked to come.
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And I was like, I'm showing up at his house and I'm going to tell him.
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And I knocked on his door.
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And when I knocked on his door, he answered, I'm bawling like a baby.
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He said, what happened? I said, I just accepted Christ into my life.
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And he looked at me and he burst into tears. And he said, I want that same Jesus.
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I don't know what it is about you, but you have changed.
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There's a glory cloud that's over you. I want what you got. And I said, come on into my Mustang.
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I led him in the sinner's prayer right then and there. Became a soul winner right then and there.
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To God be the glory.
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I don't know why I'm sharing that message to you today, but it's a message that
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will be sent from generation to generation.
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To God be the glory. And today, you can make a start.
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You can have a change. Somebody that's listening online or on the podcast,
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God can change your life today, and you can start a new legacy.
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Would you stand with me this morning?
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I feel the power of the Holy Ghost in this place today.
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The Lord's not here to condemn you, but here to love you.
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All he wants you to have is his presence in your life.
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I don't know who this is for. Maybe it's for somebody online or maybe it's for somebody here today.
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But his heads are bowed and eyes are closed. And I just want to ask this question today.
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If you're ready to make a change in your life, if you're ready today to accept
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the Lord into your life so that you can give a new legacy to your family,
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If that's you today and you need the Lord in your heart,
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would you just signify that just by raising your hand today?
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. There are hands going up.
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Would you pray this today? Maybe your hand wasn't raised, but you need the Lord in your heart today.
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Maybe you're watching online, listening to this. in a recording.
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Today is the day for salvation.
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Romans 1 16, the Bible says, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ
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because it's the power of God unto salvation.
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And so today, I just want the whole congregation to repeat this with me today.
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You may not even have raised your hand, but you need to accept the Lord today.
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What a wonderful gift to the Father today, to accept the Lord into your heart.
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Repeat after me would you just say lord jesus forgive me of all my sins wash
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me with your blood jesus come into my heart,
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be lord of my life and be my savior in jesus name amen amen,
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hi i'm jamie crawford lead pastor of epicenter church in oklahoma city,
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Worldwide Evangelist with Breakthrough Ministries And Lead Host of Wow God Podcast
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Our ministries are actively reaching lives across all 50 states in every region
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of the world With the transformative power of the gospel,
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You're invited to worship with us this Sunday at 1035 a.m.
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At Epicenter Church 11122 North Rockwell Avenue, Suite No. 17,
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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That's Epicenter Church 11122 North Rockwell Avenue, Suite No.
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17, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Can't make it in person? Stay connected with us online through our websites,
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epicenterchurchok.com.
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BreakthroughEvangelism.com Subscribe to our Wow God podcast available on all podcast platforms.
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Our mission is clear to reach every race, every nation, and every land with
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a message of hope and breakthrough through Jesus Christ.
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Partner with us and let's make an eternal impact together.