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He Is Willing · the new Jerusalem

• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, everyone, and uh welcome this beautiful morning.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you that uh I want to get straight into God's word this morning, and uh I'm excited to share it with you.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I have a short word this morning, it's not uh very long, and as I said, I want to get straight into it.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: And um I want to share a story from the time on the life when uh uh when Jesus was on this planet, and I want to tell you that um, you know, it's um Jesus did many things when he was here, and uh it was a wonderful time.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, for most of you who don't know, maybe most of you do, but I'll tell you that there's this time when uh you know Jesus makes disciples, he's uh following from one place to another, and he has crowds after him, and the Bible says that he heals every kind of disease.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: And um, it's important that you know this because Jesus came to this planet at a time when most things uh you know were a different time altogether.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, working places were different, uh, you know, people had not experienced the kind of healings that uh Jesus was doing in the streets of the places that he was going.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to tell you that before I get into today's story, that is this that is the thing that used to plague the earth at that time.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and uh it was a uh it was a particular disease which is not there today, but I want to tell you it was called leprosy.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: And as I said, it's there today, but not as rampant as how it was before.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, it was not a very nice thing.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Because number one, it was highly contagious, and number two, you know, they were just treated as untouchables because of that.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to tell you that people who had leprosy at that time used to be thrown out of the city.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: Now you should imagine all the times it's a city and there are walls built around it, whether it's wood or it's uh, you know, stone.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: And then people would do trade within a city, so there were certain parts of the city allocated for trade, certain parts of the city allocated for markets, and people living within the city.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: And you should understand that people who had this disease were not allowed anywhere close to any of these places.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, in most of the cities, they were thrown out of the city, they were put outside the walls because this disease was highly contagious.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: And you should understand this that people would shoe them away, people would, you know, throw stones at them.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people would uh and you can go back and check this, people would refer to animals and lepers as the same, which is horrible.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: They would push them away with long sticks if they came nearby.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you, they didn't have access to drinking water, they couldn't go next to wells.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: These were the time of you know, wells where people would draw water from the wells and drink it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They didn't have access to food, they didn't have access to people besides people who had leprosy.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had to cover themselves in any place that they were in.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were not allowed to use utensils or tools that were used by normal humans.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you understand this was not uh it was not a nice time at all for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was not easy at any level for anyone who had leprosy.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: And you can only imagine what sort of a life they lived when they were on this planet at that time.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to tell you that the Bible says that Jesus was there in one of these places, and Jesus is he uses one of the boats of a fisherman whose name was Simon, called Peter.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: And it so says that Jesus is just he's just come onto the scene and he's he's talking to the crowd and he's teaching them, and he stands in this boat because the crowd is pushing against him and he's reaching the edge of the beach.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he stands on the boat and he asks them to push him a little out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, he asks for permission if he can use the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he goes out slightly into the water and he starts preaching and teaching the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's something wonderful that happens after that.
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  SPEAKER_00: He tells the fishermen to put their nets.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he's grateful that he allowed them to use his boat, allowed him to preach their boat.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, put your nets down for a catch.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: And the fishermen turn around and tell him, Look, Lord, we've been toiling all night.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: And if there was any sarcasm here, he would probably say, We are fishermen.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: Don't tell us our job.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've fished all night and we found nothing.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: But he says, let down your nets, and they turn around and they let down their nets, and they say, At your word, Lord, we will let down our net.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says that they catch so much fish that the two boats begin to sink.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Believe it, it's in the Bible, and then they believe that, oh my gosh, we are actually in the presence of the Most High.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where Jesus makes four disciples.
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  SPEAKER_00: Simon, who was called Peter, his brother Andrew, James, and John, and he tells them to follow him, and they blindly leave their boats and they follow him.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: And this is where I want to share the story from the morning.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says that Jesus goes into the city immediately after this.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: He goes into the city, and now he's got four disciples with him, and this crowd that's following with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going directly now into the Bible and sharing to you from the word of God from the book of Luke, the fifth chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the Bible says he's finished preaching from this boat and he's gone into the city, and there are crowds behind him.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are these four new disciples he's made.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for those of you who have an imagination, go for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here it goes from 5.12, Luke 5.12, when he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another version says, implored him, saying, Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Jesus is in this leper.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's in the city and there's a leper.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says the man is full of leprosy.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know these uh little diseases, sometimes they're in initial stages and sometimes they're in the last stages.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I get from this, what's written here is that he was full of leprosy, which means his entire body must have been infested by it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He must have been badly affected by it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He probably would have been in what they call as the last stages.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I'm not here to talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it says that this man, this man with leprosy, he sees Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he falls on his face.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you what imploring means.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: Imploring is it's a way of pleading, and that's the only way somebody will actually go down with their face on the ground, and he's pleading with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, probably a point which is of deep, great emotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he turns to Jesus and he says, Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've already given you the description of a leper and the lifestyle of a leper.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can only imagine the kind of trouble that he would have gone through in his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, the Bible says that Jesus was in the city, which only means I can't even imagine how the leper got himself into the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: He would have been kicked, he would have been poked at, he would have had stones thrown at him, people would have probably spat at him and shoot him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shoo, shoo.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yet he makes his way into the city where Jesus is.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to think today about the state of mind of this man who's got leprosy.
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  SPEAKER_00: His body is degenerating, he's he's reached a place where it's not fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: His family has probably deserted him, probably has no friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible says nothing about him besides the fact that his entire body has leprosy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he has nowhere to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you should think about this this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: That this man, his body is given up on him, is degenerating and rotting.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has nowhere to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: He probably has no family.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Jesus is in the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now he just does one thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He reaches the place where Jesus is.
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  SPEAKER_00: He falls in front of him with his face on the ground, probably crying and weeping deep deeply.
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  SPEAKER_00: And probably knowing that my life has probably nothing more that I can do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am at this last stage, and I've heard about this man, Jesus, and he's in the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to try to go to him and fall on my face in front of him and beg him that if he can heal me, if he's willing to heal me, he'll do something for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: And again, I want to go back to this person, and you should understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason why I'm spending some time on the story, and this person is because you need to understand that the work that he comes up with, Lord, if you are willing, is probably he's been in this place for so long that that's the only words he understands, or the only word that he can relate to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sir, if you are willing, maybe you can give me some water to drink.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lady, if you are willing, maybe you can give me some food.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you are willing, it's really cold, and maybe you can give me a cover that I might cover myself.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Lady, if you are willing, please give me some money that I can buy something for myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe he reached a point in his life where his lingo became if you are willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last option for a desperate man who has nowhere to go, no people to turn to, probably nothing to even look forward to in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably the end of his journey because the Bible says his entire body had it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And probably a man who had no hope.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm not here to give you bad news this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm here to give it good news because Jesus is always the carrier of good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the good news this morning, Luke 5.13.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the response of Jesus to this man who has reached a desperate, desperate stage of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he says, he reaches out his hand to this man and he touches him, saying, I am willing to be cleansed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says immediately the leprosy left him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going back to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this man who's reached a desperate stage in life has gone in front of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't even ask me how he got into that city.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, he probably ran, he probably crawled, he probably took stones and sticks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as I said, people might have even spat at him and shooed him and kicked him, but he made it there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he falls in front of Jesus, saying, Lord, if you are just willing, oh Lord, if you are willing, make me clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: That means he knows he's dirty.
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  SPEAKER_00: In his mind, he's probably reached a point where his lingo is restricted, his thought process is restricted, he has nowhere to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: But look at Jesus' response where he puts out his let me tell you, the lepers were not allowed to be close to people, but Jesus puts his hand out and touches him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he says, I am willing to be cleansed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, hallelujah! And immediately the Bible says the leprosy left him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not getting into what happens after that.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, Jesus tells him, I'll tell you this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus tells him, Don't tell people about this because he does not want too much attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants the attention to go to God and not to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he says, Don't tell too many people about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a man on a desperate end obviously went and told everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I don't want to deviate from this uh the message of this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, Jesus reaches out and touches this man and says, I am willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says, immediately, and you can read it anytime you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says it from the book of Luke 5, 13, immediately the leprosy left him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you the leper's life changed overnight.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Years of rejection, loneliness, no family, lack of food, lack of proper clothing, shelter, being pushed around, as I said, probably seen as his uh you know, stage of uh getting hit with sticks and stones, having been, as I said, probably being pelted by stones, being spat upon by people without love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even I don't think these kind of people even had families who would hang around them because this was so contagious.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I said, I don't have bad news this morning, I have good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: All gone, all changed after Jesus enters the scene, after Jesus enters the city, after Jesus enters his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today I want to ask you this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I told you I have a very short word, but it's important to understand the trucks of the word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you currently in a situation where you feel rejected and alone?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure your situation cannot be as bad as a leper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where I feel it's reached its end.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, maybe you you're feeling that way, but are you lonely?
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  SPEAKER_00: This beautiful morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you fighting a situation that you don't know how to handle?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you maybe dealing with an addiction?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe a health situation?
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  SPEAKER_00: As I said, maybe you're you feel like you're dealing with something all alone and you can't talk to anyone about it, and that's just the place that you are in, and because no one else might understand it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you feel parched and dry without food?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like sometimes this leper would have felt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without spiritual food for your soul.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: Do you feel persecuted about something?
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  SPEAKER_00: You constantly hear that you're not good enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not good enough.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: Look at your cousin, she's so good.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Look at that guy, he's so successful, not as horrible as you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have no goals, no ambition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you feeling that way?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because people have made you feel that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just this leper felt that way only because of the people of the planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to ask you a critical question this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is your hope in Jesus today?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is your hope left at his feet like the leper, went down in all desperation, flat on the ground?
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  SPEAKER_00: I can probably picture him flat on his face with his hand stretched out on the ground, crying, weeping deeply, saying, Lord, if you are willing, just change my situation, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are willing, change my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to tell you this beautiful morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, He is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said to the leper, I am willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he is saying to you this morning, I am willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever the situation might be for you this morning, I told you, I'm here to give you good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm here to give you hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is your hope in Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to tell you, whatever it is that you are thinking, you are fighting in your mind that you are dealing with.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you this beautiful morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever it is, Jesus' words, he is willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just as he was willing for the leper and went out of his way to even go and touch him, I will tell you, he will come down from his throne and reach out his hand and pull you out of that situation because he is willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I'm here to tell you this beautiful morning, that he is willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do have this important question to ask you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is always willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But are you in that position where you have gone and put your hope in Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, we can put a hope in a lot of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm confusing the word hope because we can go to a 9 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: friend and call them for their advice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's a 2 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's that uncle who's really successful and has tons of money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's that older brother who your family themselves call him more successful than you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask him, he'll tell you what to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes it's just you don't know where to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: But today I want to tell you, if you do what the leper did, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: When, and again, I told you, probably you can imagine it or think about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: When a person is diagnosed with something, the first thing they do is go to a physician or a doctor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think this person in this story doesn't even have a name, but it's so beautiful because he would have probably gone to every possible place when he knew he had something wrong with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he would have probably spent all his money and realized if this is what I think it is, after some time I won't have a home, I won't have a family.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let me try whatever it is to get done and get this out of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can assure you, he probably spent everything he had.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing worked, and you'll say it was a disease at that time that nothing would work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: But he coming back, he would have tried everything possible, and then he just came to the one stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: The one stop that will change everything, the one stop that the Bible calls the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the one stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, where when his name is used, the Bible says every knee bows on the earth, above the earth, and below the earth, that one stop changes his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today I want to ask you, and I'm coming back to it, and as I said, I'm coming to the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is are you willing to turn to Jesus and put your hope in him?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he is willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But are you willing?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: And today, as you take a few seconds, and I'll give you a few seconds to just take some silence and think about those things that are bothering you, think about your own personal little.
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  SPEAKER_00: Challenge that's in front of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then if you want to Jesus to put a hope in him this morning, no matter what I said, what the situation it doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if it even if it's a situation that you think has taken you to your end, it is not.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the world that will make you believe that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a situation that will make you believe that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is your society that will make you believe that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in Jesus' kingdom, that is not such a thing as end.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this beautiful morning, I want to tell you what you want to Jesus' city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just as a level would have tried everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, What's up?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is in the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just have to go to him and if he's willing to do it for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't give him the benefit because Jesus never came there before.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think you're going to probably do him before.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: But as I said, whatever situation you might be in, Jesus, this beautiful morning, and leave your hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like this level at his feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just leave it at his feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to leave you with this beautiful passage of scripture this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you should mark it down in your apps or your physical Bibles, whatever it is that you use.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jeremiah 29 11 says, and this is for you this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's for each and every one of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because each and every one of us battle different situations.
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  SPEAKER_00: We battle our own little challenges.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is for you and me this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coming from the most high.
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  SPEAKER_00: For I know the plans that I have for you, he says.
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  SPEAKER_00: From Jeremiah 29:11.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plans with a hope and with a future.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another version is says, I know the plans for prosperity that I have for you, not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: He knows the plans he has for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are only to prosper you and not to harm you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are only plans that have a hope and a future.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: No father on the planet, no father on the planet will plan destruction for their child.
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  SPEAKER_00: No father.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can tell you that much.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a father, I can assure you that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the father today is telling you and me, he knows the plans he has for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not for destruction, they're of peace, they're of prosperity, they are of a beautiful life.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are plans that have a hope and a future.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has a plan that has a hope and a future for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And believe me, if your father in heaven is saying that to you this beautiful morning, you should be rest assured and believed that it'll be one of the best plans ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in your head, your plan is X, Y, and Z.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you in the head, in the plan of the Most High, it is X, Y, and Z into infinity, but you are restricting him because you are only asking for your plans.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: This beautiful morning, I want to tell you, and this is what I want to leave you with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just like the leper had no place to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he went to Jesus, the author and the perfecter of his faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he knew somewhere, he knew it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: You could have heard about Jesus and let him go into the city and let it be.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: He knew somewhere in his system that if I get there, and if he is willing, because I'm a leper, I've reached this point where people are not willing to even look at me and shoe me away.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if he is willing, he will change my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he knew it in a system that all he needs is for the father's will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're getting it, you're getting it this beautiful morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he went in there, and the father's will was to do so.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this beautiful morning, the father's will for you and me is to have a plan with a hope and a future.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this beautiful morning, I think, and I'm here only to share this with you, you should go to the Father and leave everything at your feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever situation, challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna call it nonsense that you're dealing with, which for you and me is really big because our the Bible says our wisdom is his wisdom is not of this earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our wisdom is restricted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our wisdom is restricted where we think, oh wow, we've put a satellite into Mars.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's restricted, it's a joke for the creator of heaven and earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that creator of heaven and earth is telling you this morning, he knows the plans he has for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you leave it at his feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leave your hope to him, the father.
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  SPEAKER_00: The father who loves you, the father who sent his son to die on us for you, is telling you this morning he knows the plans he has for you to prosper you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plans with a hope and a future.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd like to pray, please stand up and I'll pray for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, for this beautiful day that you have given us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where you are in control, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your word says, Your mercies are new every morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your word says, Your mercies are new, that they protect us every morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thank you for your beautiful mercies every morning that we probably don't even know of.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your beautiful blessings that are turned to us each morning that we probably don't even see.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thank you, Lord, for your word.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thank you for your hope that you have made into our life and all our lives this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you that you are completely in control, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, that you know the plans you have for us, plans to prosper us and not to harm us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plans that have a hope and a future, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: On this beautiful day, whatever our situation, just like that man who came at your feet and implored.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of us who had these situations which are feeling like they are above us, Lord, we come to your feet, we leave it at your feet, and we implore you, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we thank you that you are willing to take it over.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are willing to change it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're willing for your plan to supersede the situation of us, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once again, thank you for this beautiful morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, for always being in control.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, for the plans once again you have for us, plans to prosper us, not to harm us plans with the hope in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for this beautiful day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for this beautiful time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your word.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does not go back until it has achieved what it has been set up for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name I pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.