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Episode 88: Free Me Favor Me - Part 6 · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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I love the Lord. He has heard my cry and he has pitied every
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one of my groanings. We welcome you once again to this another edition of
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End Time Revival Ministries US, a broadcast podcast. I am your host,
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Pastor al Zacraheen. Today we're going to continue in our mini series on this
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very personal prairie quest of mine that I've been sharing over the past five episodes,
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and so today we continue with part number six in this title, Free
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Me, Favor Me, Lord, Free me and favor me. But before
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we begin today, let's certain go to the Throne of Grace as we invoke
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the presence of the Lord in the midst of our listening and hearing what the
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Spirit would speak to our hearts. Father, we thank you for this glorious,
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beautiful, blessed day that you've allowed us, your people to a man,
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experience life more abundantly because of Jesus Christ, his great sacrifice, his
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blood that was shed for the remission of our sins. And Lord, we
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pray even now those who have a man not come into the knowledge of your
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truth today, if they will hear your voice, they will in turn turn
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from their way to your way, say yes to your will and not their
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will. And Lord, do it for your glory and for your honor,
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for your great namesake, for your kingdom. In Jesus' name, we pray
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and thank you in advance for all of your blessings continually upon your people.
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Amen, and Amen, Lord, free me, favor me. Amen.
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And if you've already been with us in the previous five episodes, of course
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you already are aware, and by way of remembrance, I will certainly touch
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on these momentarily. But the things that I'm asking the Lord this is personal
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for me to free me from. I listed four things that I've covered again
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in the very first four episodes, and now I am certainly asking the Lord
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not only to free me from certain things, but to favor me with others.
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But the four things that I a man, ask the Lord to free
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me from. Number one is fear. A man, Lord, free me
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from fear. God has not given to his people the spirit of fear,
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but the Bible tells us he has given to us love, power and a
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sound mind. Fear is of the enemy. Amen. And we need not
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live in fear. Fear not, Amen, anything that could come upon us.
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Don't even fear man, what man can do to us. Amen,
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because God is our keeper, God is our hepper, and we invoke Amen,
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the word of God Psalm number ninety one, for those of you are
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familiar with it. Amen, no evil shall befall thee neither shall any plague
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come. Notine thy dwelling, because the Lord gives his angels charge over his
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own. Amen. Lord number two, Free me from folly. Amen.
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This world is filled Amen with all kinds of Amen. Folly, the folly
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of men, Amen, the folly of the enemy, the adversary of our
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souls. And we need to be free from folly. Cover that. In
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episode number two of this short series on free me favor me, and number
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three we covered. Lord, free me from faltering. Amen. Thank you
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Jesus. Now unto him who is able to keep us Amen from falling from
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faltering. Amen, from certainly bringing a reproach up on the name of Jesus
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Christ, Lord, keep me from faltering. Number four, Lord, keep
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me from Free me from foolishness. Lord, free me from foolishness. Amen.
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And we certainly don't want to be and certainly are commanded not to be.
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Amen. And if we walk into wisdom of God, we will not
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be Amen. People of foolishness, making foolish decisions, and again perhaps even
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in so doing, bringing a reproach on the name of Jesus Christ. So
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those three four things, Brother, I've asked the Lord, and I'm continuing
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in my prayer life to Lord keep me from free me from fear, folly,
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faltering, and foolishness. And our last session we covered the favor of
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God that I want on my life. Number one I've covered in our previous
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session episode of this podcast. Lord, favor me with faith. Without faith,
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we know it's impossible to please God. Everyone has a measure of faith.
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But what we focused on is the gift of faith. And with the
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gift of faith, a man, people, a man in the Bible,
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and even people in the Kingdom past, a man. Many who preceded us
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into faith, who had the gift of faith, a man. And by
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the way, it is a gift of the spirit. Amen. They were
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able to do the extraordinary. Amen, the extraordinary because with God all things
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are possible to them that believe. Amen. We all have saving faith,
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but not everyone has the gift of faith. And my prayers to Lord favor
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me with faith to believe God for the impossible. Amen, All right today,
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our Amen, prayer request will focus on Lord, favor me with focus.
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Amen, Lord, favor me with focus. I certainly believe, and
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I'm convinced. I'm persuaded that a lack of focus within the body of Christ
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is perhaps the most underrated distraction and arguably one of the most powerful weapons of
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the enemy. A man of our souls, in our walk, in our
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pilgrimage, Amen, in our destiny, a man certainly to be more like
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Jesus. And of course a man to a man see his face in peace.
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And whenever the minds of a people are decisively focused on seeking the Kingdom
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above every other pursuit in this world, I am persuaded that the Lord is
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pleased, Amen with that focus, and he will always cause those who are
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focused in that regard on the Kingdom first. Amen, he will always cause
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them to triumph despite the obstacles and all of the cares of this life that
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we all have to face, that we all have to deal with. And
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it was Jesus himself who commanded us to seek the Kingdom first, and all
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these other things would be added. And however, the aim of the adversary,
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the enemy, the devil, the Satanic the demonic is to detour us.
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It is their aim to distract us, to derail us ultimately from being
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focused on the heavenly and on the spiritual, and certainly one of the most
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difficult things for people to do in our westernized world of personal prosperity, a
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man is to forsake everything for the cause of the kingdom. It was no
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different during the earthly visit of Jesus when he instructed, as you remember in
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your reading of the Bible the Word of God, that wealthy young ruler to
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sell all that he had give to the poor and come to be his disciple,
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the disciple of Jesus. The man simply could not do it. And
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remember, Lot's wife was a warning of Jesus that he also issued in his
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teaching, because if you know the story of Lot and his wife, Lot
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was very prosperous and rich a man, and he lived a man inside of
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sodom. He was a judge literally, and his wife perhaps was so attached
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that when they had to hurriedly a man leave and run and escape the city
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the destruction that was coming upon it, and leave all of that behind,
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it was so difficult for her that she turned back a man, she looked
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back a man. How hard is it for those who are rich in this
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world to enter into the kingdom? Jesus actually is the one who asked that
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question. Is it only because of their possessions? I believe it is more
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difficult because of the lack of being willing and able to focus on the Kingdom
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of heaven rather than their own kingdom that they have perhaps inherited or even built
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up themselves. Amen. But with God, Jesus says, all things are
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possible. And that's why I want the Lord to Amen. Favor me with
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a focus, a laser like focus. Amen. Focusing on the invisible and
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the hidden treasure is an impossibility for the man first and foremost who is not
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born again, because he cannot, as Jesus expressed in his conversation with Nicodemus,
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he cannot even see the kingdom. Amen. For the man who is
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born again, however, we all must be willing to forsake all of the
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temporary treasures of this world for all of the newly discovered when we are born
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again, eternal riches that the eye cannot see, that the ear has not
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heard of, that cannot be touched carnally physically that is revealed to us,
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as the scriptures tell us, a man by the spirit of the living God.
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Abraham, as if you remember in your Bible reading, he found focus.
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And there were times he, of course was distracted, and we all
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can be, but he certainly found that focus, and he was laser like
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focus, a man on a man's city, not made with hands, that
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was eternal in the heavens. If you remember, he also refused the richest
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of Sodom. The king of Sodom offered him a man the wealth, a
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man that had been reclaimed and restored by Abraham. Abraham, no, no,
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no, no, no no. He had already gotten the promise of
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God that I am your shield and i am your exceeding great reward. I'm
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gonna bless them that bless you. I'm gonna curse them that cursed you.
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David also, of course, during his time of ups and downs a man
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in his journey, in his pilgrimage, he had lost folks, but he
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regained it, Amen, and this can happen to any of us. He
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regained his focus. His son Solomon also lost and he also, accordingly to
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what we can read in the Book of the Ecclesiastes, especially in particularly,
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he regained his focus, and he closed that book a man with these words,
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this is the whole duty of man, because God is going to bring
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every work into judgment. Solomon I believe regained his focus. Daniel, when
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he was a captive, even as a slave, as a servant in a
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foreign land, he remained focused. He refused, along with his friends,
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to eat at the king's table, Amen, to defile himself. He refused
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the richest of Babylon. Amen, during the days of Belshazzar, a man
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when the kingdom was about to depart, the kingdom was about to fall,
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Amen that night, to be taken Amen by the means and the Persians.
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And we are, by the way, in that very last hour of this
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earth, and we need to be focused a man, just as Daniel was,
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to refuse a man the temporal, the cardinal, the richest of this
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world, and rather to be focused, lads, a focus on what God
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has in store for us. John the Baptist was one who also remained focused.
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John the Baptist said he must increase. I must decrease. Amen.
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The apostles, all of the apostles post resurrection, Amen, they were all
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focused on the mission that Jesus gave to them, having already, as the
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apostles had expressed a man in the Gospels, they had already forsaken houses and
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land to follow after Jesus. And if Jesus himself is the one who said,
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if any man is to come after me, a man, he is
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to deny himself, take up his cross and follow me daily, we are
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to follow after Jesus, seek his kingdom first, a man even, and
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all the way unto death. The apostle Paul, as you know, was
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perhaps the most intensely focused and lazily focused of all of the apostles, in
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his unquenchable zeal and thirst for the gospel of Jesus Christ to be preached in
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all of the world, and of course Jesus our Savior, who is our
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example, who is our high preach Amen to whom we are to gaze upon
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the one Amen. He was undeterred by the unceasing assault a man of the
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enemies of righteousness seeking to distract him from the mission that he had to finish
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with the wilful laying down of his life by the hands of the very people
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who had vehemently opposed him and would proceed to murder him in their ignorant pursuit
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of ridding themselves of his power, of his popularity by their own ill fated
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focus that they had, and very unfortunately and devastatingly eternal. For the same
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children of the Devil today who are lays a focus on exponging Jesus from this
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world, they too will meet with the same fate as their predecessors. A
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man who will blinded by being focused only on the earthly instead of the heavenly.
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Focus only on the flesh rather than the spirit, focus only on the
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temporary instead of the eternal. That's why Jesus told us to lay up store
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up our treasures where in heaven. Focus. Focus, Focus, I'm almost
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finished. Focus. Focus. Focus is what the Church of Jesus Christ is
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in dire need of in this day of this shar distraction, delusion, a
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man that is drowning men in despair and destruction and ultimately in death. And
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it is my personal prayer request that the Lord will favor me with focus in
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the midst of all of the disasters, the distractions, the distress, the
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disease, disturbances, delusion, a man, disillusion and the determination amen the
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determination of the enemies of the Cross of Jesus Christ to deter God's people from
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the mission mandated upon us by our Lord and Savior of Jesus Christ, that
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is, to go into all the world and to make disciples of all nations,
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teaching them, as Jesus said, to observe all things that I have
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commanded you, Lord, favor me with focus above all else. People of
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God, please, above all else, Church of the Living God. Keep
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your eyes on Jesus and on him alone. Do not gaze upon man.
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Do not elevate man, Do not exalt man in any way, Do not
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hope in man. Do not put your faith and trust in man. You
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will only be disappointed and guarantee to lose focus if you are following blindly and
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sheepishly after a fallible man. Mark the perfect man, the Bible says.
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And behold the Upright, with a gaze upon him, the Bible says,
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looking unto Jesus, who is the author in the finisher of our faith,
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behold the Upright, who alone is Jesus the Christ. For the end of
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that man, the Bible says, is peace, Lord. I pray,
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Lord, I pray, Lord, Ray even now again again again, for
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every listening year, for every obedient heart. Lord, favor each and every
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one of us, with a focus on your kingdom, for your namesake,
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for your glory, for your honor. Amen in Jesus' name, Amen and Amen.