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Those Unidentified Inner Promptings, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: We're not talking about UFOs. We're talking about uips, those
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  Speaker 1: unidentified inner promptings, those haunches, uneasy moments that say don't
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  Speaker 1: go there, or there's danger lurky, or there's harm.
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  Speaker 2: Life has a way of bringing us to the edge,
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  Speaker 2: seasons of impossible decisions, crushing disappointment, or dangers we can't
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  Speaker 2: see coming. In these moments. How does God break through? Well,
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  Speaker 2: not always in the way we'd expect. Today, on Insight
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  Speaker 2: for Living, Chucks Wendall shows us how God has guided
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  Speaker 2: his people through some of their darkest hours, not with thunder,
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  Speaker 2: not with spectacle, but with something far more intimate. If
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  Speaker 2: you've ever wondered whether God hears your cries of desperation,
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  Speaker 2: today's message will provide ample assurance that He truly does.
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  Speaker 1: Lord. When we look at the options around us, we
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  Speaker 1: realize that they are few. As we seek to find
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  Speaker 1: a place of peace, a reason for life, and the
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  Speaker 1: events of life remind us again, our Father, that there
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  Speaker 1: is a place to flee, There is a refuge, and
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  Speaker 1: there is a hope, and it is found in you,
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  Speaker 1: and you have never changed. You are the same yesterday, today,
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  Speaker 1: and forever. We pause to thank you for the warmth
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  Speaker 1: of your love that is constant, for your plan that
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  Speaker 1: unfolds in all of its mystery, For your word that
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  Speaker 1: lives and abides forever, even though the grass withers and
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  Speaker 1: the flower feeds. The Word of our God shall live forever.
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  Speaker 1: We stand on it, We trust in it, and we
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  Speaker 1: seek to know truth from it, to stabilize us in
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  Speaker 1: this decadent era which we live. Beyonnored our Father at
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  Speaker 1: this place of worship today, in the working of this church,
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  Speaker 1: in the life of the people of this church. Not
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  Speaker 1: simply here, Lord, but as we move our lives from
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  Speaker 1: this building into the dailiness of life, Go before us,
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  Speaker 1: and work through us, and work within us. Give others
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  Speaker 1: a reason to go on through our witness, free our
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  Speaker 1: lips and our lives to speak openly of you. You,
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  Speaker 1: in this time in which so many are searching, longing
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  Speaker 1: to find a reason to continue. We pause in this
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  Speaker 1: quiet moment to thank You for taking care of us,
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  Speaker 1: for watching over those who fight for the cause of
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  Speaker 1: right and freedom. We pray that you would protect them
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  Speaker 1: and bring them safely back in our nation's transitional time.
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  Speaker 1: Watch over us, guide clearly, Lord, through wise counsel for
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  Speaker 1: those in high places. May your truth speak through their
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  Speaker 1: lips into minds and hearts that will lead and make decisions. Now,
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  Speaker 1: our Father, we give you our gifts, and we give
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  Speaker 1: them gratefully and hilariously, and we give them generously as
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  Speaker 1: we invest in that which is eternal, for the glory
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, in whose name we worship and we pray.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone said, Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Searching the Scripture's Bible Study workbook by going to insight
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  Speaker 2: dot org. Slash offer Chuck title today's message those unidentified
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  Speaker 2: inner promptings.
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  Speaker 1: Something occurs in the unseen realm, down deep in our
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  Speaker 1: spirit that changes us and we feel this is right,
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  Speaker 1: and we go there or we are assured this is
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  Speaker 1: wrong and we don't. Amazingly, we look back on those
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  Speaker 1: times and feel so grateful that at the time of decision,
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  Speaker 1: that right decision was made. Why is it we don't
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  Speaker 1: realize that was the spirits working in and inter prompting
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  Speaker 1: in a realization of revelation or illumination. As we see
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  Speaker 1: truth like we've not seen it before, and the mystery
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  Speaker 1: leaves and clarity replaces it. The first thing I described
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  Speaker 1: we could call intuition. We just felt like we should
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  Speaker 1: do that or we should not do that. This which
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  Speaker 1: I've just described, we call insight. We get an insight
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  Speaker 1: into some truth that we had been wrestling with over
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  Speaker 1: a period of time. Can't tell you the times both
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  Speaker 1: of those experiences have happened. To me talk about this today,
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  Speaker 1: and in doing so, I have to tell you I
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  Speaker 1: have never heard it addressed publicly. I've never heard anyone
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  Speaker 1: talk about uips, those unidentified inner promptings. Now, why is
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  Speaker 1: it we never give the Spirit of God credit for
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  Speaker 1: such things? When Adam was originally created, he was created
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  Speaker 1: to have that sense of community and connection and communication
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  Speaker 1: with the one who made him. That broke down wasn't destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: it was damaged. I realized as I address this, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a realm that's, first of all, outside my expertise.
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  Speaker 1: For some of you, you would think it's in the
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  Speaker 1: realm of the paranormal. It could be called that. It
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  Speaker 1: certainly is in the extrasensory realm, but you cannot deny it.
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  Speaker 1: Occasionally we have premonition. Sometimes the premonition is wrong. Other
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  Speaker 1: occasions we were right, we have an uneasy feeling about
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  Speaker 1: going into partnership with an individual in business. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: it's an inner prompting that comes from this fearful and
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  Speaker 1: wonderful system of guidance. Romans eight sixteen says that God's
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  Speaker 1: Spirit testifies to my spirit, our spirit, that we are
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  Speaker 1: the children of God. Somehow there is a connection in
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  Speaker 1: that inner prompting that assures me I belong to the Lord. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some of you still have a little bewildered look. I
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  Speaker 1: understand this is not an easy thing to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's an important thing to address. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that as a result of not linking these promptings
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  Speaker 1: to the work of the Spirit, we devalue His presence
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  Speaker 1: at work within us. We have God, the Father who
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  Speaker 1: has planned our salvation. We have God the Son, who
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  Speaker 1: has implemented our salvation by dying in our place on
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  Speaker 1: a cross, giving his blood to cleanse us from sin.
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  Speaker 1: And then we're left with the Holy Spirit or what
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  Speaker 1: to link up with the Godhead to live our lives
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  Speaker 1: before our God in an intimate manner. It's the image
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  Speaker 1: of God in me in you that makes that happen. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know there's a risk. I'm going to make a
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  Speaker 1: disclaimer here so that no one goes off in the
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  Speaker 1: tangent in this area and lives by hunches or intuition
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. I realized when I opened the door to
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  Speaker 1: this that some of you are given to this kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing more than others others. If you were so skeptical,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to walk out before I'm through. But there
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  Speaker 1: are some of you who are saying, finally somebody agrees
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  Speaker 1: with me. All of the hunches I have are from God.
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  Speaker 1: Stop not saying that. I'm saying. There are times the
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  Speaker 1: only way He can communicate to us, whether it is
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  Speaker 1: through conviction or assurance or direction or reassurance or encouragement,
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  Speaker 1: is through the unidentified inner prompting. That's all I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm asking us to stop calling them intuition and
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  Speaker 1: coincidence and hunches and feelings, and to identify them as
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  Speaker 1: the work of the spirit. Let me show you a
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  Speaker 1: couple of three examples. Go from Psalm one nine back
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  Speaker 1: to First Kings nineteen. First Kings nineteen. The key person
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  Speaker 1: in First Kings nineteen is a courageous, valiant prophet Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: prophet named Elijah, a little background. He has stood toe
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  Speaker 1: to toe against the king named Ahab, Ahab's wife Jezebel.
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  Speaker 1: He has dared a hab to stand against the living God. Ahab,
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  Speaker 1: with the influence of Jezebel, has done that. It came
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  Speaker 1: to a final climax on Mount Carmel, where there was
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  Speaker 1: a battle. An altar was built, and Elijah said to
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  Speaker 1: the people, the false prophets of bail, you call on
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  Speaker 1: your God, and if he comes down and consumes the altar,
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  Speaker 1: we'll say that he is God. If he doesn't and
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  Speaker 1: mine does, then mine is God. It was some one
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  Speaker 1: of those standoffs, and as you would expect, they were wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah was right, and all four hundred and fifty prophets
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  Speaker 1: of bail are wiped off the scene, and this incenses Jezebel.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we read about in verse one of chapter nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and
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  Speaker 1: how he had killed the prophets with the sword. Then
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  Speaker 1: Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, so may the
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  Speaker 1: gods do to me, and even more if I do
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  Speaker 1: not make your life as the life of one of them.
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  Speaker 1: By tomorrow about this time, only the Bible could say
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  Speaker 1: it like that. We would say your history curtains. I'm
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  Speaker 1: wiping you off the earth. In twenty four hours, you'll
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  Speaker 1: be in the past tense, Believe me. Elijah understood what
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  Speaker 1: she was saying in her threat, and in a moment
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  Speaker 1: of weakness, perhaps exhausted from the stand off at Carmel,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps weary himself from the drought that has swept across
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  Speaker 1: the land, and it is wearisome to fight against false
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  Speaker 1: prophets and demonic forces, Elijah caves in and he runs
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  Speaker 1: for his life. Verse three tells us why he did it.
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  Speaker 1: He was afraid, rose and ran for his life, came
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  Speaker 1: to Bearsheba, which belongs to Judah, left his servant there.
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  Speaker 1: He goes another day's journey into the wilderness, and came
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  Speaker 1: and set down under a juniper tree. Watched closely, and
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  Speaker 1: he requested for himself that he might die. I can't
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  Speaker 1: speak for any of you, but I have the feeling
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  Speaker 1: that some of you know what that feeling is like.
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  Speaker 1: You have been so low you thought death is better
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  Speaker 1: than living. The thought of suicide never entered Elijah's mind,
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  Speaker 1: being a prophet of God, but he certainly is asking
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  Speaker 1: for God's aid. You gave me life. Now I ask
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  Speaker 1: that you take it. It isn't worth it. Every leader
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  Speaker 1: knows such discouragement. He says, it is enough now, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: take my life, for I am not better than my father's.
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  Speaker 1: He lay down and slept under a juni tree. An
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  Speaker 1: angel touched him and said, a rise and eat. He
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  Speaker 1: looked and behold there was a at his head of bread,
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  Speaker 1: cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a nice catering service when you're at the
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  Speaker 1: end of Europe. He looks over and he's got a
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  Speaker 1: warm meal prepared for him. So he ate and drank
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  Speaker 1: and laid down again. But that didn't break his depression.
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  Speaker 1: A similar event happens in verse seven. He arose and
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  Speaker 1: ate and drank, and went in the strength of that
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  Speaker 1: food forty days and forty nights verse nine. Then he
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  Speaker 1: came there to a cave and lodged there. So he's
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  Speaker 1: no longer under a tree. He's in a cave. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came to him and said,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing here, Elijah? Why are you here?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I've been very zealous for the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken
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  Speaker 1: your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets
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  Speaker 1: with the sword I alone, and left. They seek my
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  Speaker 1: life to take it away. I watch closely. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see one of those inner promptings. He said, Go forth
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  Speaker 1: and stand on the mountain before the Lord, and behold.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord was passing by, and a great and strong
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  Speaker 1: wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the
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  Speaker 1: rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in
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  Speaker 1: the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the
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  Speaker 1: Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake
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  Speaker 1: a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
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  Speaker 1: And after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pause there, because that's gotten a little press over
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  Speaker 1: the years. And you may have heard of the still
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  Speaker 1: small voice. The sixteen eleven King Jane version renders this
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  Speaker 1: a still small voice he heard. In the new King
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  Speaker 1: James version, it reads a delicate whispering voice. The NIV
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  Speaker 1: renders this a gentle whisper, a little whispering. Moffett's translation
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  Speaker 1: handles it the breath of a light whisper. There's a
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  Speaker 1: reliable old commentary named Kyle and Dalyitch Doctor C. F.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle writes this, it was not in the tempest that
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  Speaker 1: Jehovah was, and after the tempest an earthquake. It was
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  Speaker 1: not in the earthquake that Jehovah was, And after the
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  Speaker 1: earthquake fire, it was not in the fire Jehovah was.
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  Speaker 1: And after the fire, a still gentle rustling, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I call a uIP and unidentified inter prompting. God
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  Speaker 1: got through to his capacity, to his spirit, and he
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  Speaker 1: touched him as nothing in the sensory perception would have grasped. Earthquake, wind, fire,
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  Speaker 1: none of that moved him, but there was this gentle rustling.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle adds it was in a soft, gentle rustling that
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  Speaker 1: God revealed himself to Elijah. The result is that Elijah
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  Speaker 1: wraps his mantle around him and walks toward God rather
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  Speaker 1: than from him, comes to the mouth of the cave,
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  Speaker 1: and is led ultimately to meet up with Elisha, and
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  Speaker 1: they together as partners, make their way right on until
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  Speaker 1: Elijah's taken off the earth. With his mantle raptor around him,
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  Speaker 1: he began to pursue further and further God's plan for
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  Speaker 1: his life. It broke what had paralyzed him. But the
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  Speaker 1: point I want to make is the turning point was
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  Speaker 1: this unidentified inner prompting gentle quiet. If there's anything that
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  Speaker 1: troubles me about our culture and our times, it is
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  Speaker 1: the noise of it all and the pace of it all,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it works against the voice of God,
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  Speaker 1: quietly speaking to reach us. There's an old hymn we
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  Speaker 1: don't even have it in our hymno that says, speak
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  Speaker 1: Lord in the stillness, while I wait on thee hushed
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  Speaker 1: my heart to listen in expectancy, I warn you about
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  Speaker 1: being so busy you will miss his voice. Or in
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  Speaker 1: Crane wrote it in these words, slow me down, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of
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  Speaker 1: my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of
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  Speaker 1: the eternal reach of time. Give me amid the confusion
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  Speaker 1: of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break
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  Speaker 1: the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing
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  Speaker 1: music of the singing streams that live in my memory.
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  Speaker 1: Teach me the art of taking minute vacations, of slowing
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  Speaker 1: down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend,
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  Speaker 1: to pat a dog, to smile at a child to
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  Speaker 1: read a few lines from a good book. Slow me down, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and inspire me to send my roots deep into the
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  Speaker 1: soil of life's enduring values. Let me look upward to
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  Speaker 1: the towering oak and know that it grew great and
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  Speaker 1: strong because it grew slowly and well. Take time, Take
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  Speaker 1: time to listen God's voice. Maybe in the earthquake or
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  Speaker 1: the fire. There are messages there. You'll hear his voice
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  Speaker 1: in those quiet moments, when it comes like a gentle rustling,
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  Speaker 1: a soft whispering, a reassuring word that life is worth living,
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  Speaker 1: it's worth going on. His inner promptings will come in
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  Speaker 1: the deep well of our spirit, where he simply says, yes,
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  Speaker 1: go there, or wait or no, stay away from that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll not take your time, but I could to tell
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  Speaker 1: you of moments in my life when I've thought it
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  Speaker 1: just isn't worth it in light of all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: I feel stacking on top, and then in a quiet moment,
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  Speaker 1: it's remarkable how that all gets turned around and figured out,
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  Speaker 1: and I realize now it was the work of the
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  Speaker 1: spirit bringing reassurance. Turned from First Kings nineteen to Acts,
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty, here's another setting. Another person not a Hebrew prophet,
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  Speaker 1: but a Jewish apostle who's now born again and his
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  Speaker 1: life has been changed. His name is Paul. He's meeting
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  Speaker 1: with a group of elders from Ephesus, and he's saying
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  Speaker 1: his final goodbye, and he's on his way to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: But what he tells them troubles them. It's come from
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  Speaker 1: an inner prompting from the Spirit of God, one of
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  Speaker 1: those unidentified inner promptings Acts twenty Verse twenty two, Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: and now behold bound in spirit, I am on my
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  Speaker 1: way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.
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  Speaker 1: Look closely at the next verse, except that the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that
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  Speaker 1: bonds and afflictions await me. I find that intriguing. What
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  Speaker 1: was that? It was a uIP. I've been with the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and I've met with him, and I've sought his guidance,
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  Speaker 1: and he's told me You're to go to Jerusalem, Paul.
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  Speaker 1: But there's also been that inner sense, that spoken voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit saying, but beware, there's trouble ahead. And
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  Speaker 1: sure enough there was. It was there he was arrested
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  Speaker 1: more than once. It was from there he was sent
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  Speaker 1: to Rome or all to ma Lei, was imprisoned, had
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  Speaker 1: an audience before Nero, and finally beheaded. But all the
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  Speaker 1: troubles started in Jerusalem. The Spirit told him what happened, saying,
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  Speaker 1: testifying to me in every city, saying that bonds and
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  Speaker 1: afflictions await me. But look at his response, But I
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  Speaker 1: do not consider my life of any account, as dear
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  Speaker 1: to myself. Remember his words Philippians won twenty one. For
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  Speaker 1: me to live as Christ and to die is gain
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  Speaker 1: so that I may finish my course in the ministry
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  Speaker 1: which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly
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  Speaker 1: of the gospel of the grace of God. I think
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  Speaker 1: this kind of inter prompting explains the courage of the
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  Speaker 1: first century persecuted Christians and the twenty first century persecuted Christians.
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  Speaker 1: I think this explains how the reformers could stand against
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  Speaker 1: the established Church and the popular and majority opinion of
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  Speaker 1: the time and stand alone, knowing that in standing alone
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  Speaker 1: they would face, if you will, the same kind of
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  Speaker 1: persecution that their forefathers faced when they stood before the
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  Speaker 1: prelates of the Kingdom. The Spirit of God gave them
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  Speaker 1: not only an awareness of danger, but also the confidence
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  Speaker 1: that they could bear up under it. That explains how
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  Speaker 1: some of the reformers could be burned at the stake,
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  Speaker 1: and while being burned, offer up their prayer to God
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  Speaker 1: that God would forgive those who were taking their lives.
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  Speaker 1: It had come from this inner prompting of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: saying it is going to be dreadful for you, but
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  Speaker 1: I will give you the strength to endure. And the
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  Speaker 1: glorious reality is that God is not through giving that
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  Speaker 1: kind of strength in hard times. I've experienced them then
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  Speaker 1: my life right here at times, not knowing how I
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  Speaker 1: could go on. Most of you knew nothing of it.
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  Speaker 1: My wife knew all about it, my family knew most
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  Speaker 1: of it. But during those times I had to rely
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  Speaker 1: on the presence and the assurance of the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: God to stay at it. What I'm saying to you
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  Speaker 1: today is that sometimes these inter promptings are not relieving
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that they are taking away the pressure.
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  Speaker 1: They are just announcing to you ahead of time. By
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  Speaker 1: doing this, you know that trouble is ahead. But I
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  Speaker 1: will give you the courage and the conviction to stand fast.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the future holds for some of you,
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  Speaker 1: but you may have such a prompting in your experience
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