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Is there not a Cause, Why not now | Ps Dan O'Farrell · Citipointe Church Caboolture

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Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.
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Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to
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take hold of. So we hope this message inspires
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you and build your faith that it helps you have more of a God
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perspective for your day. Enjoy something.
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I do know that Anne and I, what we call the sunum bonum, it's
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Latin for you. I know little Hebrew.
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He owns a fish and chip shop near our place.
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But I know a little bit of Latin.
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The word sunum bonum means the ultimate, the supreme and the
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cause of God in our marriage is Jesus Christ.
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It's a, it's a sunum bonum, Jesus Christ and his cause,
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Jesus Christ and these calls and I want to talk about the cause
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today. This is a scripture I've got for
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my year. I don't know if you've got a
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script a few a year, but every year we have a, a scripture or a
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saying. Last year it was God had to be
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new and it had to be interesting.
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Whatever we do, it had to be new.
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Like as you get older, I'm 74 and as you get older, you know,
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the same old, same old. That's not good enough for old
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people. If you're old person the other
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day, it's not good enough. You must Ah, Dan, I've worked 50
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years my 2 day. No, it's not, Not while you
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breathe, breath. You might get old, but the call
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of God doesn't. The call of God doesn't.
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It's a lie. You've never been more.
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You've never been more knowledgeable.
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You've never been had so much experience.
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You've never had so much wisdom as what you've got now.
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And if you're older, you should be doing bigger miracles than
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you've ever done. You should be getting people
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saved. It's not good enough.
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So I'm retired. We're we're reforming what
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retirement means. Why not?
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We're pioneers in this area. But there's a couple here still
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in the Kingdom of God, still still serving in the Kingdom.
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And so today I wanna read through, I wanna read here from
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Hebrews chapter 12, verse one to three.
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And this is my scripture for the I don't know what you've got.
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If you've read your Bible this week, say oh Amen.
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If you didn't just say Oh my, read your Bible study the word
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of God and says he is there for when you see.
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Therefore in the Bible, you gotta see what is there for and
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it's therefore because something went before and in Chapter 11,
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it talks about all the great men and women of God who who grabbed
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a hold of the cause of God. People like Abraham, Sarah at
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the age of 90, he has a kid at the age of 90, full mate.
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What a thing to think about. That's a miracle itself.
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But then talks about Caleb talks about Joshua, he talks about
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Isaiah, get this about Isaiah. They put him in between two
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slabs of timber and sword him in half from top to bottom.
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But he wouldn't let go of the cause.
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And he talked about all these great people of God and and it
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comes near the writer of Hebrews.
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This is therefore, since we're surrounded by such a great cloud
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of witnesses. You're you're not by yourself.
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You're never alone. You might feel alone in your
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workplace, you might feel alone in your in your neighborhood,
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you might feel alone in the situation you are, but you would
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never. You are surrounded by such a
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great cloud of witnesses. And let us lay aside every
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weight, every sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us
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run with endurance the race that God has set before us.
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You've got to race, so you've got to race.
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I'm still around at this age because God's still got to race
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for me. He's still got something there
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for me. And let us run the race.
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Let us run with endurance the race that has set before us,
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looking unto Jesus, the author, the finisher or the the master
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architect or the designer, the author, the finisher, the
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perfector of our faith. I don't know about you, but I'm
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still feeling that Jesus is perfecting me.
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I still feel he's taking me into situations.
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I was talking to a young guy this morning.
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He said he's going grade 12 this year and I said how do you feel
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about going to grade 12? He said I'm a bit nervous.
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I said, mate, if it's not nervous, it's not worth doing.
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In some of the situations and I go into, I'm spitlessly scared,
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but it only means I'm going to see the power of God work.
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You might go in and you might manifest a bit like me, but I'll
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tell you what, when you're at that edge there, you're going to
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see great things happen because you've never walked this journey
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before. And I don't want to go back to
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the same journey as I went last year.
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I want to go somewhere new. I want to see New Horizons.
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I want to see new miracles. I want to see more salvations.
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I can't say I did it last year or I worked for 50 years and,
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oh, that's it for me, mate. It's time for me, you know?
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What are you doing this year, love?
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Nothing. But you did that all last year.
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Yeah. I didn't finish it yet.
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Don't want to be like that. God's got a whole world out
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there that needs to be touched by me, by you, the author who
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for the joy that is set before us endured the cross, despising
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shame and sat down at the right hand of the Father, the joy, the
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joy. Last night I got a text message
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from a young guy who came out of our church in Atherton and and
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I've trained up 7 senior pastors in our ministry walk and one of
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them last night text me and he's got a church, City Bridge
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Church, just South of Brisbane Inc Church.
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Borndly, how you going aboard? Great, great.
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You've got a fire on your belly. Great.
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How long you been there, boy? 26 years, 26 years preaching.
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You didn't think that'd bring joy to us?
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For the joy, for the joy. If you see, The thing is, is you
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see a lot of Christians got no joy in their life.
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They think, you know, that joy is just having this nice little
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time with Jesus. No, the joy is when you see
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people touched by God through your ministry.
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And Pastor Graham Melanie's, their role here in this church
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is to train you and I equip you and I to do the work of the
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ministry, to lay hands on the sin, to see them recover.
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So 2026, what's it going to look like for you?
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Is this a year where your faith comes alive?
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Is this a year where you go to another level in God?
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Is this a year where I enter into the world of miracles?
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Oh, friends, you see miracles when you see legs grow, when you
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see broken marriages restored, when you see the lost and the
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broken and the orphan. Find a home in church and home
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with Jesus. The joy that it brings.
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I feel sad to many Christians because I never, ever entered
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into that joy. They think it's this couple's
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job or couples like us who've got a fire in our valley.
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But the joy is for you. So what's 2026 going to bring
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the salvations of souls. Maybe it's your next door
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neighbor, maybe it's meeting your next door neighbor, having
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a BBQ with them when then I go away.
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We used to have a cat. When we go away, we'd get our
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neighbors would fight over who was going to look after the cat.
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And I didn't realize why until I came back and found they said to
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us, well, we just come, we just sit in your home because there's
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something about your home. So you can touch the world just
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by bringing, building a good marriage, just by building a
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presence of God in your home and then inviting your neighbors
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into it, having a BBQ. So you just don't know.
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Is this a year? Maybe this is a year.
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You might say, Dan, I just don't want another year like last
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year. Maybe last year was a tough year
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for you be many of us here who had a tough year last year, but
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the Bible saying here, put it aside all those weights, put
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them aside, put them aside and I so this year could be a year you
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look back on like in Isaiah chapter 6, verse one where
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Isaiah said it was the year that King Uzziah died that I saw the
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Lord and maybe 2026 is going to be the year where you can sit
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back and say 2026 was the year that I saw the Lord and I saw
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the Lord working through my life.
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I saw the Lord when I laid hands on someone, he actually healed
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them. I mean, I'm still dumbfound.
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I'm still dumbfound and and I some year ago we were in Beijing
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and we was just doing the touristy thing.
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We're up on the Great Wall having walking around the Great
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Wall and, and there was this young and Italian every time we
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travel, I said, and I'm multilingual, you know,
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multilingual Monjourno, you know, and then I start talking
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Italian. And Neil, is this a young
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couple, not a young couple, a 35 year old.
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And we got talking, you know, the Bible says out of the heart,
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the mouth speaks within within 5 minutes.
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This young couple, they just don't poured their heart out.
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We didn't say who we were poured their heart out.
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See, the world's in need. This young couple said, you
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know, we've been trying for years to have a baby.
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We just can't have a baby. We've tried everything.
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We just can't have a baby. And with that whole mouthpiece
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here says, Oh, well, we're Christians.
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We pray for quite a few couples who can't have babies and they
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have babies. How about we pray for you?
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These people didn't know God. So we prayed for them, didn't we
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love? And we gave them our e-mail
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account and said, now what? We want you.
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The dealer says, we'll pray for you.
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But when you have come pregnant, we want an e-mail from you.
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And they said, well, we've been trying for years.
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Yeah, well, I know that just now.
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Here's our e-mail. I want to hear from you.
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Two months later, we got this e-mail saying, ha, ha, we're
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having a baby. You think we weren't surprised?
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Give it a go, you mug, you might win.
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That's what Clark Carly used to always say to us.
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Give it a mug. Go, you mug.
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You never know, you might win. But see, if you don't pray for
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them, the answer's always the same.
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But if you do pray for them, you never know what would happen.
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And it says, lay aside. Those weights that hold you from
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last year, lay them aside, you might say, well, Dan, I've been
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a Christian for 50 years, mate. I've heard it all.
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Are you? And I would say to you, you
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haven't been a Christian for 50 years.
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You've been for Christian one year, but you've done it 50
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times. Is this all right?
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One year, 50 times. How boring.
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How boring. Oh, have you ever prayed for
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anybody? No, why not?
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Oh well, you ever lifted your hands in church?
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Oh, I could if I wanted to. Has the alcohol gone?
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Oh, I could give it up anytime. Give it up today.
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Then. See, this could be the year
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where you see the Lord. This could be the year where you
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say, I didn't realize that God could move through me, but I've
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got this problem. We got that problem, mate.
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You want to see the problems I've got?
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If I went to confession today, we'd be in there all week.
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Sin, that sin, that sin, that sin.
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But God still loves you and He still works through you.
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We're not going to get through this message.
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Put aside every burden, young people, What are the burdens
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you're carrying? The burden of trying to get a
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career. We understand that.
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What about the burden of trying to find a a wife or a husband?
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Oh, that's that's a heavy I got I got 8 grandkids, 6 of them
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girls pop. We just want to find ourselves a
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good man. All of them in church except
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one. The birds.
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Put aside the birds. What am I going to do?
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I'm nervous, I'm scared. They're burdens, the birds past
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disappointments. But I prayed for people who
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never got. I've given money away to people.
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I've been conned. Well, get over it.
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I've given Whitby hurt. But see, if you let the hurt
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stop you, you never do anything for God.
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Is that right? It says here in the Scriptures
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that Jesus despising the shame, He despising the shame.
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How do you think I felt going into the mining industry?
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The Rev. The Rev. But lies were touched.
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Lives were touched. People would laugh at me and
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scoff at me. Well, that's all right.
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They chuckle for how tall I am, too.
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They always should have messed here.
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They're gonna Chuck off you anyway.
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Who cares? Friends, The year 2026.
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What's it gonna mean for us? Put them aside.
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Growing old. You might be an elderly person,
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he said. Dear.
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No, you know, made the sickness in my life.
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Look, I've been the last 414 years, not with a sickness, but
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plagued with sicknesses. Got to put them aside, not just
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once, not twice, played with them, put them aside, put them
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aside because there's a call and there's a cause and there's a
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lost generation. And if you're in hospital, talk
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to the woman doctor about Jesus. What an opportunity.
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But Jesus, I've got to serve you.
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You know, when I first got saved, my Christian walk was all
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about me. Now, I don't know about you
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guys, but I had a lot of things to fix up.
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And if you talk to my wife, I've probably still got a few.
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I had some addictions. Alcohol plagued my life.
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How do I overcome that swearing, mate?
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You know, I just took the swearing out of my day.
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I'd save 1/2 hour out of every day in my conversations.
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There was so much of it there. Who's been there by three of us.
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Oh my. Through my behold.
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I had a whole heap of issues. We had a marriage to get back.
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Anne was walking out on me. She'd had enough of me.
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Mate. I was a workaholic.
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I'd built and owned my own home. By the time I was 24, I was a
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workaholic. 80 nowadays were nothing, 6-7 day weeks, you
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know, she was walking out. I had a marriage to get back on
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deck. I had a life.
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I, I had mental health issues like you'd never believed.
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Depression plagued my life. It was all about me fixing my
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life up, developing a prayer life, learning how to read the
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Bible. I mean going to church, let
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alone tithing. I mean, I was used to putting to
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Bob at the time on the plate, you know, tithing.
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I had all of these issues to fix up and what we did, we enjoy
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internship to Dan and Anne. This young couple messed up
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still trying to get his act together and look holy.
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Couldn't string 2 words together unless a profanity come out.
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We interned in internship, it was called Bible college.
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You know, did two years of it. You know that two years if
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you're in a place where I mean, you need to get your butt into
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going to say that you need to get along to internship, you
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need to learn the ways of God. And in that our pastor, Kevin
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Dales, he'd sent us our door knock and he he would go and do
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outreach meetings and he he taught us that it wasn't just
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about me, God, church, my mum. I was a Roman Catholic, six kids
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in our family. And one thing we learned was it
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wasn't about me and it's not about you.
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And you give your life to Jesus. Jesus wants to put you on a
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journey of miracles. He wants to take you on a
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journey that's beyond your furthest expectation.
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We never knew what God would do with us when we weren't along
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That time. I remember saying to my pastor,
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pastor, I'll fix your windows up because I did 20 years of
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engineering. I'll do this and that, but don't
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never ask me to preach. What did he do?
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He just didn't listen. He put us on a journey and a
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journey was the cause of God and we grew and we developed and,
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and, and, but the time came when I realized that if I didn't
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embrace the call of God and the cause of Christ, my faith, the
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one that Christ designed of saving souls and seeing miracles
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and life transformed, If I didn't do that, my life would
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become introverted. My faith would become stale.
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It would become all about me. I wouldn't learn.
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I wouldn't have had to hear the cry of the poor.
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I have a critical heart to those who are less off.
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Oh well, if you worked hard, you'd have a job and you'd have
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a house. You know how we can get
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self-righteous? I knew that would happen to me
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very quickly, very, very quickly.
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And today, if your faith all revolves around you, I'm sorry.
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It's just going to get boring. And if you're happy with that,
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we're going to have a prayer meeting later.
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We'll pray for you because the adventures in God are far
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greater than you could ever expect.
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The joy that comes over your life is just amazing.
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My boss said to me one time I when I was a chaplain, I, I work
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for Australia's biggest logistic company.
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We had our own aeroplanes, our own ships, our own trucks.
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We had mining happening also. And I remember I was in Saint
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Kilda Rd. at our head office up at level 12 in Saint Kilda Road
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and we were doing a par, what they call APAR.
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It's a performance review. We had to do them every six
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months to be able to justify why we should be employed as a
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chaplain. And my boss said to me in front
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of everybody, oh, Dan, what do you want to do with your life?
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Pastor Graham, this is true. What do you want to do with your
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life? And I and I, I looked at Ruth.
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We were talking yesterday on the phone, and I looked at Ruth.
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I said, Ruth, I want to change the world.
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And she looked at me, Henry. And you can see this patronizing
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smile come on her face. And she, you want to change the
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world? And I said, yeah, I do.
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How are you going to do that? Then I said, easy, Ruth, just
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one person at a time. Just one person.
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That's all you've got to do. That's all you got to do.
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When you go to work, say hello to someone, ask me for a cup of
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coffee, just one person at a time.
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So I tell this story. I, I train mental health first
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aid people in industry and I go into workplaces and train and I
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told a story because see, today you can pick up a lot of
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knowledge. You can pick up revelation and
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the training I do, the people can pick up a lot of know how.
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But I said the most important thing you're going to pick up
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today is not knowledge is not knowledge.
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So I told a story. A man was walking through life
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one day as all of us, and that man ended up falling in a rut
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like most of us have been. And that rut could be a broken
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marriage. It could be depression.
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Could Do you realize, do we have 10 people sitting across here?
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Do you realize statistics tell us today that 20%, one people in
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five is suffering and anyone here is suffering from a form of
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mental illness That means there's two people in every row.
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Two people. One thing I know about mental is
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a very lonely way to go. Do you remember 13.6% of boys,
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young boys today in Australia are registered with the NDIS.
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They told me there's not a need out there, it's everywhere.
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This man was walking through life and he fell in this rut and
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he's yelling out like most people help.
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Can somebody please hear my voice, can help me?
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And time would go by and you'd keep yelling out.
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Can anyone help me? Please help me.
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I'm in a rut. I'm stuck.
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I'm stuck, I'm stuck. And this is what the world is
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saying. Please help me.
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I'm stuck, I'm stuck. And they know they're stuck.
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They know they're stuck. But they don't know how to get
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out of the rut. And one day this Christian guy
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walks around and he hears his voice, Help, Please, someone
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help me. So he jumps in the rut with this
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guy. And the guy in the rut said,
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well, you'd be a bright spark, wouldn't you?
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Now both of us are in the rut. And the Christian guy said,
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yeah, I know, but I've been in the rut and I know the way out
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and we can walk out together. And I try to teach them in
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industry. I tell them I'm a pastor.
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I said you've got to get a heart for people because if you get a
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don't have a heart for people, everything else I'm going to say
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from here is not worth a cinch to you.
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This is the cause of Christ in Luke chapter 4, Jesus said, for
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the spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me
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to preach the gospel to the poor.
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He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim
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liberty to the captives, to open the prison to those who are
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bound to the recovery of sight, to those who are blind, and to
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preach that this is the acceptable year of the Lord.
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And friends, today, 2026 is an acceptable year for you and I to
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say, today I want to stand up with Christ.
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Today I'm in a rut. And today I want to give my life
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to Jesus Christ because I've tried everything else.
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Do you realize that hell has a theme song that everyone in hell
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sings and it's called I Did it My Way and I did it my way for
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33 years? And man with all the hope I
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wanted was taking me nowhere to one night full of alcohol.
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My wife was walking out drunk, walked out the backyard of
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Marillion Harbor and said, Jesus, come into my life, be my
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Lord and say forgive my sins because I give my life to you.
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I've been in the rut, been in the rut.
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Maybe there's people here today. You're in a rut, you're stuck,
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you're stuck. You don't know the way out,
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you're hurting, you're broken. You've tried this, you've tried.
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I've tried everything to counsellors.
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My I was on medication in grade 4 at school, deep rut for a lot
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of years to one night I said, Jesus, come into my life.
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If that's you today, come on. If that's you today, how would
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you just slip your head up and say, Dan, I want to accept
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Jesus. Come on, cross this all the
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time. How many?
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There's one down there. Thank you.
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Is there another one? Come on.
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There's got to be. There's no one.
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Come on. Is there any more?
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You know, you need to get you're in a rut, mate.
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You're stuck. You're stuck.
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I said to Jesus that day. Jesus, mate, I'm going to be a
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liability to you. But if you ever accept me,
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accept the consequences they accept to me, I'll do anything
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for you. That's you today.
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Is there another person here I get to?
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Is there another person? Come on.
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Oh, thank you. Thank you, man.
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This is the best thing you've done.
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The best thing you've done. God can change your life today.
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You'll change your life. You'll come in and it'll be
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slow. I tell people, they come to me.
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The addicts come to me. I said it'll work.
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You just got to give me 12 months.
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You just got to give me 12 months.
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If we walk together, 12 months. Songs, you're honest with peace.
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Songs, you're honest with God. Doesn't matter.
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God's seen it all. He's seen it all.
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That's all right. He'd buy you out, lock stock and
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barrel, pay your debts. It'll take you on.
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So if that's you today, if you're very, how about we all
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pray this prayer together? Come on all together as a
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church. Let's help these new people.
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Dear Jesus, I asked you to come into my life today.
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I asked you to forgive my sins. I ask you to set me free and I
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ask you to give me a new life in Jesus name.
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Amen. Now, if you've prayed that
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prayer, there's some people we'll see you outside.
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I'm not finished yet. Don't.
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Did I say something to everyone's name?
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It's about the cause is about what you carry.
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It's about what you carry. I carry the Kingdom of God in
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me. The Kingdom of God is
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righteousness, is joy, it's peace and it's power and the
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Holy Ghost, it's what you're carrying.
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Anne and I, we were two year ago, we were on, you know, those
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long boats you have in Europe, you go up to the rivers.
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We're going up one again this year.
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But like a couple of year ago we were on one going up the up the
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Rhine River and we're just doing our thing as a couple.
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But always knowing, always knowing that you carry the
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Kingdom. You are a representative of the
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Kingdom, no matter whether you're on holidays where you
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are. And and we were sitting at this
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table and this Catholic couple beside us and me being an old
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Catholic, see the it's on the cross and said grace.
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And of course, I couldn't help myself and my hands under the
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table cringing. Oh, you're Catholics.
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Hey. Good.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You're a Catholic. Yeah, I was, but I'm not.
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Now. I'm a pastor.
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Now stir it all up. Little did we know there's
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people in the table beside us because those boats, they're
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only 150 long. You have 150 people.
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Everything's spirit is squashy. And we know there's people in
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the table next to us. They heard it.
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So we finished our meal, hopped up next with this couple next to
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us. They come over, said, oh, we
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heard that you're Christians, do you mind if we have a meal with
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you? Because we would.
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We just need to talk to someone. Oh yeah, not a problem, haven't
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we? Then the word got around the
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boat. The word got around the bunch.
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The next man, Anne, Anne's a lady with the the diary.
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She, she's my managing director. The war of the Minister of War
28:06
Finance isn't every good idea. And so she's almost filming
28:10
there. People are lining up.
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People are lining up. Can we have a meal with you?
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And we had a broken lady come, people come.
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And I thought, geez, this is a good gig.
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We could get on to say permanent.
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As pastors travel the world with them, friend, the world is
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crying out and the world needs you.
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The world needs you. But not only that, the Christ in
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you, the Christ in you needs to see miracles through you.
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The Christ in you is crying out for you and I to take this
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gospel message to a broken world.
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This is the cause of Christ. The Christ in you hungers.
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The Christ in you hungers to see revival throw through you, the
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Christ in you and I and wants to see you and I move in the gifts
29:14
and the power of the Holy Ghost. Young people, you're starting
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your life. You're starting your journey.
29:22
You're many years ahead of you and God's not saying don't go to
29:26
uni, not saying don't get a degree in medicine and actual
29:30
fact he's saying do that. But when you're in the operating
29:33
field, you pray of your hands and Lord, these hands are
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anointed. The school teachers here, you've
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got a whole generation. Our daughter, amazing woman of
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God, this is how it works. She is in a school head of
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curriculum. And they had a right in one of
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the school rooms. A little 7 year old just went
30:02
ballistic, throwing chairs, tables, Everything Everywhere.
30:07
The teacher and the teachers help.
30:10
They just got out. The principal, he got out and
30:13
they called Renee when I went into this room, she stood in
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front of this the classroom, this kids going ballistic and
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she just started to sing a hum Sorry, Amazing Grace.
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That's all she did just hummed Amazing Grace and the anointing
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flowed from her. And next month, this kids put
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everything down, sitting down in a chair, Quiet.
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You carry that. Come on.
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There's there's no you must say, Dan, I'm not smart.
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Well, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer either.
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But one thing I do know, you haven't got to know much.
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You you just got to know that you carry the gift of God over
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your life and that you are the salt of the earth.
31:04
You are the light unto the world.
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You do have the answer, it's just within you.
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And maybe your starting point today is giving your life to
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Jesus. That was my starting point.
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Maybe your next point is going up and seeing Pastor Graham
31:18
Mountain. So you know what?
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After this morning, I need to get into internship because I
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need to understand the Word of God.
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I need to understand what? I need to know how to share my
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faith. I need to know how to say my
31:30
testimony. I need to know how to do it so
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that God can use me in a bigger and a greater way.
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We didn't start off growing good.
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We started off getting our marriage together.
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About five years after that, we were pastoring a church.
31:48
After that we were pastoring. Why?
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Because it became the sunum bonum.
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And if I had a problem and would say to me, would you best go and
31:57
talk to Jesus about that mate. Jesus.
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Ever tried to fight with Jesus? I know times.
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Goodbye. I fought with Jesus one day.
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I've had a couple of spouts with him, a mate.
32:14
I've been punched to the ground a few times in my life and I
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know Jesus. It's harder.
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A few year back I got quite ill and had to retire from local
32:26
church pastoring and I got a gig as a consultant in the mining
32:32
industry. And I was fighting with God and
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I was annoyed with God because I believe that.
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I believe that ministries were positioned.
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I was a senior pastor and that was going to be that for life.
32:45
But then God wanted to move me. See, some of us, some of the
32:50
burdens we carry are our careers.
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The average person today is going to have six careers in
32:56
their work time. Did you realize that I'm a life
32:58
coach, career coach, 6 careers, we hold them and.
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And I didn't realize that God wanted to make me more effective
33:06
in different areas. And so I was a consultant in the
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mining and they'd shift me around from mine to mine in New
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South Wales and Queensland. And one day I was standing in
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the master room where we have a toolbox before we go
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underground, and I was all dressed up to go underground and
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fighting with God. God, you could have your
33:28
ministry. I don't want to talk to you,
33:29
bro. And he spoke to me in my heart.
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And there was three guys sitting on the chair across the way.
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You need to go and talk to those three guys.
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I said no, I can do that. Some of us today were saying no,
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the same as I was, but the voice persisted 3 times.
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The third times, you know? Have you ever been there?
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Yeah. OK.
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It's like talking to your eyes. Yeah, OK, That's what you want.
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So I did it with a bad attitude. And if I go across with all of
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these, walking through all these miners, I realized that miners
34:08
don't die. They just smell like they did,
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you know? Oh, mate.
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But anyway, I get to the other side and there's three guys
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sitting on this bench and they're talking stuff and just
34:18
stuff. Next minute two of the guys
34:21
hopped up and walked away and there was one guy left there.
34:24
I thought, oh geez, this is going to be great, what I'm
34:25
going to talk about now, John. That only upped their feet and
34:30
went down to the drifty ready to go underground.
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And this guy looked at me and he said, do you know who I am?
34:39
And with my very graceful attitude, I didn't swear, OK?
34:44
I said no mate, I don't really know who you are.
34:47
He said I'm your nephew. I'm your nephew.
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With that, he hopped up in front of all of these miners.
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Now, miners don't cry in front of their horse.
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I mean, they don't do this intimate stuff.
35:05
With that, he just hugged me and hugged me and hugged me and
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hugged me. See, I didn't realize just
35:10
before that a month before that his mother and father had
35:13
disowned him. He had no one but see, this is
35:19
the cause of Christ. And this has gone back some
35:24
years now. Christmas time this year.
35:26
He, he, he rings me up. Now we talk for hours on the
35:30
phone about Jesus and he lives in Mackay, teaches at the
35:37
university there. Smart young guy.
35:41
You see, he had no one. When you come across those
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people every day of the week, they get no one.
35:51
You're the light, you see, You are the salt of the earth.
35:55
This is the cause of Christ. This is don't, Jesus said don't
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be afraid of their faces. I've seen my face, some of the
36:08
photos of my face before I saved it.
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It looked like the back of a bus.
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I'm telling you, it didn't look real pretty because I was
36:14
carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders.
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And the people you meet are the same.
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Some of them are rich, some of them have got power, some of
36:25
them have got authority. But they're still in a rut and
36:29
they're crying out for you and I.
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You can do it. You know, Victoria, on the
36:36
workplace, there's men there. Every day you meet them.
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Driving down to Brisbane, praying.
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Father, he got open the door today.
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Just one. That's all I want.
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I just want one. How do you change the world?
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Just one person. Eli, you're here today for a
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reason. Just one.
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Just one. Just one.
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Don't be afraid of them. Just one.
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Because you have the truth. You don't have a truth.
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You have the truth. So this morning we're going to
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stand. And if that's you today, say,
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Dan, I want my 2026 to be the one where I see miracles.
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I want 2026 to be the one where I embrace the cause.
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I want 2026. I want to pay the price.
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I'm going to cast off the burdens and I'm going to grab a
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hold of this. I'm going to run with endurance.
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This race. I'm going to run with endurance.
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I'm going to put off disappointments.
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I'm going to put off whatever it may be, and I'm going to grab
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it. Going to stand.
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And if that's you, I want you to come to the front today.
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Come on, come on, come on, you slackos.
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If you're a slacker, wives, if your husband's a slacker, give
37:42
him a kick. Tell him to come to the front.
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No, just if. If that's you today.
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Thank you, Sir. In fact, come on.
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In fact, Jesus will take you on an adventure that you never,
37:57
ever dreamt possible. Or will you fail?
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Yeah, you will. But you're failing now.
38:05
Better to fail for Jesus. Will you pray for people and
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every one of them get healed? No, unfortunately.
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Will everybody accept your testimony?
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No, unfortunately they won't. But I'll tell you what, You only
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need one. You only need one.
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And you've changed the world. That's all you need there.
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That's all you need. You only need the 1.
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You only need the one. Come on.
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Those guys down there in Melbourne and they're buffets,
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aren't they? But they need Jesus.
38:29
They're good buffets. They need Jesus, don't they?
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They need steam. He's going to carry a message.
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God's touched your life. He's touched it for a reason,
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not just to make you feel better about yourself.
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He's touched it for a reason because there's a heap of people
38:47
out there. He wants to use you to touch.
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That's why he's done it, Thomas. He's going to use you.
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Pull your shoulders back. Come on.
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Stand up straight. Pull your shoulders back.
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Why? Because you're a representative
39:02
of the Kingdom of God. And your words do mean things.
39:06
Your words do have power. Your words do have freedom.
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Your words do have liberty. They do.
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They do. Come on, Gordon, you're not in
39:18
your job traveling over Australia and New Zealand for
39:21
nothing. You are a traveling evangelist
39:24
disguised and somebody selling medical equipment.
39:28
That's what you are. You are a travelling evangelist.
39:31
You carry the Kingdom of God within you.
39:33
And God wants to he. He wants you to start laying
39:35
hands on people. He wants you to see you start
39:39
seeing miracles. Come on, it's a time to fast.
39:42
It's a time to say come on, come on you young people, you've
39:46
never been up dry gullies before.
39:49
Isn't that a blessing? Hey, your whole life is fresh in
39:55
you say God today with my education, Lord, I want to be
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able to change the world just one at a time.
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Come on Father, today of every person out here this morning,
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Lord, I pray you stir the gift of God within them.
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Lord, to stir the gift of God to stir the power of God over their
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lives. Lord, let them be a beacon.
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Lord, let them be the light. God over.
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Jess. Oh, Jess.
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Jess. God wants to open your eyes to
40:30
what's out there. New Horizons.
40:35
It's got to be new. It's got to be interesting.
40:38
It's got to be miraculous. Father, today over this couple.
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Come on YouTube. You've been married for a lot of
40:48
years. Oh jeez, a lot of years and
40:53
God's going to use that testimony to get around young
40:57
people, to be able to get around people who are broken, who don't
41:01
know how to do marriage, who don't know how to do
41:04
relationship. God today over their lives,
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Lord, let the anointing, let the anointing and the power of God
41:11
rest upon them, rest upon them, rest upon them.
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Come on, you got to start getting more radical, girl.
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You too get too brim and proper. Get too brim and proper.
41:28
Start dancing on the tables. God put a song in your heart.
41:33
Come on, come on as you go. As a school chaplain, you got to
41:37
take something to those young people.
41:39
They're going to touch their hearts and their lives with the
41:42
Kingdom of Godfather. Let these hands be hands of
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miracles today. Let it be hands of miracles
41:48
today. Holy Ghost over these hand
41:52
miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles.
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Oh, you're going to speak a word and cease.
42:04
And to him who is weary and you're going to hear specific
42:10
words and people are going to go home after you've preached
42:16
Pastor Melanie and they're going to say there's something she
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said today. And it's going to be 1 phrase.
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It's going to be 1 phrase. And the power that God's going
42:29
to put on that one phrase is going to change people's whole
42:34
paradigm of life, to set people on new directions.
42:40
Father, let it rest upon a life today.
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Come on, Henry, you're a brickie.
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You know what it is to build a house 1 brick at a time.
42:52
You know what it is to lift the weight of the brick.
42:55
You've learned endurance. You've learned endurance.
42:58
You've never been as smart. You've never been as
43:00
knowledgeable. You've never been as wise.
43:04
Don't hide it. Don't hide it.
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Speak it out. Speak it out with power.
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Speak it out with power in Jesus name.
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Gordon and Rachel, it's time for you to cut the past off.
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Go on, Rachel, time to cut the past off.
43:21
God and Rachel, there's some relationships you need to cut.
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You need to cut. They're not healthy for you.
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They're going to stop you from growing up.
43:28
They're going to stop you from maturing.
43:29
You need to step out of that world.
43:32
You need to step into the world of maturity.
43:35
You need to take the load of the anointing, the load of the
43:38
Kingdom, the cause of God and go out with authority and power in
43:42
Jesus name. Come on, give me your hand.
43:45
Come on this week you need to lay start laying hands on
43:50
people. It's going to sound stupid and
43:56
there's some are not going to get touched, but by G you get
43:59
one in every 50. That's worth it, worth it.
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Endurance father over these hands.
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Let them be healing hands, healing hands today thought in
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the name of Jesus, Jesus name. Well, we better close this
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meeting. We've gone over time Victoria of
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you. And so as you're looking at
44:23
retirement, don't get the definition from the Oxford
44:29
dictionary. Get it from Hebrews 11.
44:35
What does, what does retirement mean?
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People say to me, oh, you're retired?
44:40
And everyone laughs. Oh what?
44:41
No, it still starts his day. It's 3:00 in the morning.
44:43
Wait, you're retired? Why?
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Because I've got things to do, place to go, people.
44:46
See. So he's going to read, he's
44:50
going to be re firing you. Re firing you.
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He's going to be re firing you. So put the old off.
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He's kept you alive this long for a reason.
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The days ahead of you are far greater than the days have past
45:08
you that have gone past. They've gone past past John.
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Forget the dyslexia. Forget it.
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I got it too. It's been my power, mate.
45:24
It's been my power. I may not read a lot of the
45:28
Bible, but I tell you what, I might read one verse a month,
45:30
but that one verse a month changes the world.
45:35
Don't get hung up on it. Don't get hung up on it.
45:38
Get hung up on the call and the purposes and the power of God.
45:43
Come on, there's a whole new world waiting for you.
45:47
But you got to be prepared to change, and it takes energy to
45:50
change. I'm an engineer, I know takes
45:53
energy to change water into steam takes energy.
45:58
It's going to take you energy, but you got to prepare to do
46:00
some things differently. Oh no, the old.
46:04
No, the old thing's got you where you are today, and that's
46:07
good. That's not going to work for
46:09
tomorrow. Some new ideas, new stuff, new
46:13
stuff, new stuff, new stuff. Father, touch their lives, touch
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their lives, touch their lives. Touch the schools.
46:21
I see you guys starting Bible studies in your schools.
46:24
I see you guys starting Bible studies.
46:26
I see you guys starting in the universe.
46:28
I see you starting stuff in university, the strawberry
46:33
grower. Your days are growing
46:38
strawberries are over, but your days for growing people are not.
46:44
Make your voice heard. There's some good stuff in
46:48
there. You need to open up that voice
46:51
and let it out. You need to let it out.
46:53
You need to have confidence in yourself.
46:56
You're more than a strawberry grower.
46:58
Jesus said to the disciples, Come follow me and I'll make you
47:01
fishermen of men. And that's what he wants to make
47:04
you, a fisherman of bed. Got good stuff in you, but don't
47:08
put it under a bushel, don't hide it, don't hide it, Don't
47:12
hide it, don't hide it, don't hide it.
47:15
And those guys in that government job, they need a move
47:19
of God. They're style, they're boring
47:22
and they're stuck. And he's got you in that job for
47:26
a reason. Don't get him cranky with you
47:29
because you're not doing your job.
47:31
You've got to take the call of God into that workplace.
47:35
Father, today we thank you for this meeting.
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We pray this great awakening Lord would brood in our hearts
47:45
tonight. It would brood in every soul
47:49
that would wake us up during the night and stir our hearts afresh
47:54
to see a greater move. A greater move.
47:58
Father Day, let this message, let it be your word that births
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as in the day of creation. Lord it be the author and the
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finisher of our year, our perfector of our year, this year
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in Jesus name, Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Can you come down here for a moment, Holy Ghost?
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I just want to do this quickly before we close, and I want to
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do it here and now because it's important for the whole church
48:35
to hear. So Graham Mountain, you can just
48:41
stand really close together and hold your hands.
48:44
I want us as a church to just extend your hand towards this
48:47
couple. Now I know somewhere on your
48:53
calendar you have a commissioning somewhere there,
48:58
whatever that is. As I was praying this morning,
49:02
God said to me that it's not a matter of commissioning people,
49:07
but He's decided to recommission this church and He's putting His
49:14
stamp upon it like He's never put it on before.
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It's a corporate recommissioning of this place.
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He's putting His grace upon this place in a greater measure than
49:28
it's ever been before. And I don't feel to share too
49:33
much more. And then I I just want God to
49:36
unfold that as time goes forward.
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But he says prepare your hearts because over this house is going
49:45
to come an outpouring of grace because of his cause and his
49:51
commissioning. So let us all pray for what God
49:55
wants to do in 2026, because He's begun a good work.
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Father, Father, let the anointing the Eunice the grace.
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Lord another level in the spirit.
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Father, over their lives, over the ministry of this church,
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over Pastor Graham, over Pastor Melanie.
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Lord, today a new authority. Lord, a new authority, a new
50:21
word. Father, today as we team beside
50:25
them and come alongside, Father, Lord over this church.
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Lord, today we pray, let that grace a grace for growth and
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grace for enlargement, a grace for maturity.
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Father, today let a new level of the Holy Ghost rest upon them
50:41
and upon their church. Today in this church.
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Lord in this church and bribey Lord, in the name of Jesus let
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it rest growth increase Jesus name.