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Episode 56: Prayer, Praise, And Worship · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Lord Jesus Christ, we honor, we think, we bless. We extore
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your great name that is above every name. Every knee shall bow, every
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tongue shall confess that you are. Lord. We thank you for this great
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and glorious day that you have made, that we shall rejoice in and be
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glad in, be glad in You, the God of our salvation, the
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one who redeemd us from all iniquity, who casts into the sea of forgetfulness
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all of our sins. No transgressions charge to us, Lord, because you
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laid on him, on Jesus our redeemer, the iniquity of us all.
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And so Lord, we are grateful to day that we are now the people
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of God, will now the sheep of your pasture. And so we enter
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joyfully into these gates, with thanksgiving in our hearts, with praise upon our
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lips, the fruit of our lips, giving praise to your great name.
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Lord, We pray to day that you will open the doors that no one
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can shut, and shut the doors and no one can open. Lord,
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that blinded eyes are opened, deaf ears are unstopped, that many women everywhere
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will come to know and see and believe that you are the true of the
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Living God, and there is none other beside THEE. Be thou glorified,
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Be thou magnified this day in the midst of your people everywhere in Jesus name,
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we pray and thank you for all things. Amen and Amen. All
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right, God, bless you again. We thank God again for one more
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day, Amen, one more day to sing his praises, to shout the
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victory, to know and have this blessed assurance that Amen, we belong to
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him, Amen, and that he is our saved, He is our refuge,
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he is our resting place. He is our God, King of kings
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and Lord of lords. Amen. Thank God for this great salvation in which
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we stand. Amen. All right again, we welcome you to another edition
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of End Time Revival Ministries US A broadcast and podcasts. I am your host,
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Pastor al Zachary, and today we are going to continue in our series
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you, Amen. God bless you, Amen. And certainly we are grateful
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to the Lord for each and every one of you. Amen. All right,
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Today we're to be a man dealing again with these biblical proofs of salvation
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that must be in every one of us as the children of God. We've
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already dealt with six of them, and we're going to deal with the final
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three of them combined today in this broadcast. We've already looked at the change
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that must take place in each and every one of us. If any man
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being Christ, he is a new creation, the oldest passed away. And
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behold, all things become new. The love of God that is in us
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a man, the love, the love, the same kind of love that
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Jesus had demonstrated toward us, the same love. It's in us, the
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love of God shared abroad in our hearts, the Bible says, by the
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Holy Ghost that is given to us. And then faith a man, faith,
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the Bible says. Without it, it is impossible for us to please
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God. And certainly, if we're not pleasing to God, how can we
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be saved? A man? Then, of course God demands fruitfulness from each
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and every one of his creation a man. All of us in creation are
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commanded to be fruitful, especially in particularly the people of God. The mission
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of the church is to go and make disciples. Jesus said, to the
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disciples, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. He
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said, your fruit should remain a man, And certainly the fruit of the
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spirit should be first and foremost in each and every one of us. And
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God expects a return on his investment. I am the vine, You are
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the branches. You are to bear much fruit a man, Jesus said.
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Without me, apart from me, you can do nothing. And certainly,
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of course, of course, another biblical proof that we've already looked at,
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of course, is the forgiveness a man, the ability to forgive a man,
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even your enemies a man. Forgiveness. We have been forgiven, and
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we forgive a man. And then, of course obedience. We talked about
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that in our last session. A man, how can you be a child
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of God? Jesus said, how can you call me? Or why call
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ye me? Whether Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say.
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If you love me, keep my commandments. Those who are saved are
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obedient to the Word of God. They love the Word, they love Jesus,
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they love their Savior, and they walk in obedience to Amen, the
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commands of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. It's adult.
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And so today, on today, we're going to deal with prayer, praise,
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and worship. The biblical proofs of prayer, praise and worship. Amen.
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Save people, pray, saved people, pray. I'm gonna say it
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again, saved people, pray. Save people, pray to the Lord.
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They make intercession. Amen. Save people, offer praise to the Lord.
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Save people are worshipers of the Lord. So again, prayer, praise,
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and worship Psalm number fifty five, verses sixteen through eighteen. And I'm gonna
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give you the Word of the Living God, Amen, Psalm number fifty five,
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verses sixteen through eighteen. As for me, the Psalm is says,
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I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me. Listen what he
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says evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud,
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and he shall hear my voice. He has redeemed my soul in peace
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from the battle that was against me, for there were many against me.
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Listening to the Bible says, let the Redeemed of the Lord say so.
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Let the Redeemed of the Lord pray also, if ever there was a time
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that the Redeemed of the Lord needed to pray, and to pray without ceasing,
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as the Bible tells us to do admonishes us to do. In the
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New Testament, men should pray, always pray, and not faint, pray
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without ceasing. If ever there was a time that the Redeemed of the Lord
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needed to pray, it is now. As a matter of fact, it
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is yesterday, it is tomorrow. It is until Jesus returns. Amen,
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that we need to pray. God's people need to pray. A man saved
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people pray, and we need to turn it up even more. The Bible
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says, as we see the day approaching, do you see do you see
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do you see what's transpiring in our world? Do you see what's happening in
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this culture? Do you see the gravity, the depths, of the depravity,
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of evil, of wickedness that is in the heart of man. Amen?
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And there is no way that anyone can be saved without praying, without
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prayer, and surely no one naming the name of Christ is attempting to live
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in this world of wickedness, in this world of rebellion, in this world
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of pain and sorrow and grief and suffering and misery and strife and warfare.
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No one that is saved is even attempting contemplating. How can you living and
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surviving in this world without the power of prayer? Save people. Pray,
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y'all, save people interceived, for one another. They even pray for those
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who are Certainly we are praying for those who are lost. Will brought God
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help us? That's my prayer every day. I'm praying that God will open
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the eyes of the blind, the ears of the death. Amen, that
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He would change the hearts as only he can do. Only he can do
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that by his spirit. God has to move up in the heart of a
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person. It is the goodness of God, the Bible says that brings a
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person to repentance. Amen. So save people praying intercede, Amen for each
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other. Amen, for those who are lost, and even for those who
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are enemies. It is our first order of operating in this world. In
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a world that is hostile against the mission of the Church. Amen, this
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mission that we have to be disciples, disciple disciple makers. Amen, even
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as we ourselves are following in his foot steps Priority number one. Amen,
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as the as the apostles, As the apostles, you know, when they
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were met with the challenge of you know, the dissemination of food and supplies,
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as it were in the early Church, they say, we are going
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to give give ourselves to prayer and the Word of God. That's that's pre
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eminent, the Word of God and prayer, prayer, prayer, save people,
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pray, save people, love the Word of God. Amen. And
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in the Word of God, it's where we find all kinds of prayer.
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Amen, the practice of prayer. Amen. How can we be in the
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faith? How can we live in the faith? How can we grow in
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the faith without prayer? Again, all throughout the scriptures, in the lives
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of all of those who were redeemed by the save than grace of God,
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we can see the presence of prayer being an important and necessary part of their
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faith. I don't care if you can begin with Abraham. You see it
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with him, You see it with Isaac, Jacob, with Joseph, with
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Moses, with Joshua with a Gideon, with Sampson, Samuel, David,
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Solomon, Hezekiah, Amen, Jehosaphat and all of the other God fearing,
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faith walking kings and people of God. A man in antiquity that knew where
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their help came from, that knew that they needed the Lord. They needed
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his guidance, They needed his protection, They needed his salvation, They needed
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his intervention. They needed his wisdom, his his word of a man power,
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his authority, his ability to do exceeding abundantly and above all that we
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can ask us or thing. They knew this, and they realized it.
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They recognize it, and they made it an integral part of their living and
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walking and moving and operating in this world. To pray. All of the
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prophets prayed, every one of them. Every single one of the prophets prayed.
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God singled them out, sent them amen on missions primarily to His people,
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to speak to His people, and every single one of them prayed,
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Amen and intercedeed. Amen. How can you be a preacher? How can
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you be a preacher without prayer? Job prayed, Ezra prayed, Nehemiah prayed.
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They all prayed. Y'all, this is old Testament folk, they all
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prayed. And then there are many examples of God fearing women. Women are
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not excluded, who prayed, who trusted the Lord. You have beautiful examples
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such as Hannah a man, and and and and that's in the Old marry.
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In the New Testament, prayed and praised. Amen. The Bible contains
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a wealth of sample prayers, for example, that that we can that that
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that that we can draw from, that we can even repeat for ourselves.
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Because many of these prayers that were uttered by and they're they're replete throughout the
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psalms, of course, but many of these prayers a man that that that
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that we can see in the Bible, that we can read in the Bible,
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that we can use in the Bible. They are transcendent, and they
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are applicable even to this very day, to this very hour. Amen.
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They will never be obsolete. See the efficacy of the prayers of the righteous,
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the Bible says, avails much. Elijah James uses as an example,
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was a man of like passions. He was an ordinary man, flesh and
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blood, just like we are. But he prayed earnestly. Amen. See
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God hears and answers every one of our prayers. The potency of prayer is
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unrivaled. There is nothing that can stop the potency and the power of prayer.
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And as a matter of fact, please understand this, and I've talked
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about this in the past. Prayers one of those weapons that we have in
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our arsenal amen is indispensable that can never ever ever be taken away from you.
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Man can take away. Perhaps it's possible that the word of God,
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the written Word of God, your Bible, for example, and I know
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we have the Bible in all kinds of forms and formats now, but it
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is possible that you can be in a place where you don't have the Bible,
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you don't have the Word, the written word of God. Now,
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this is why it's so important that the word be hidden in your heart,
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that it be written in your heart, that it that it is absorbed in
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your heart. You don't just hear, you know, Jesus give that that
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parable about the seed, the sore and the seed a man the word.
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People here, they hear, they hear, they hear, they hear,
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But is it rooted in them? Is it here in them? See?
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The word, the written word, your Bible can be taken away from you.
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But there is one thing that cannot ever be taken away from you.
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One of the most powerful weapons that we have that can never be taken away
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from you, and that is prayer. Prayer. This weapon that we have
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in our arsenal is an indispicable and formidable weapon that has proven to be far
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more powerful than anything else we can do on our own, in our own
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strength and our own power. Amen. And God desires for us to pray,
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to look to Him, to depend on him. Amen, Listen what
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the Bible says about prayer. I'm gonna go to one more example in the
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Old Testament, Proverbs fifteen, verses eight and verse twenty nine. This is
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one the Bible says, the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the
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Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. God delights in
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the righteous, praying to him, looking to him, trusting in him,
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calling upon him. We are invited to come boli to the throne of Grace.
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We're invited and mean to cast our cares upon him. We're invited to
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make our petitions known to him. It's an open, open invitation for us.
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Why why why are we suffering and going through? Are unnecessarily certain things.
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Now we're gonna have sufferings. We're gonna have persecution. We're gonna have
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all these tribes and revelations, all that that comes. That's part of the
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territory those that will of godland Christ Jesus. The Bible says, shout,
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suffer persecution. We understand that. But they are needless. As the Psalm
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song writer wrote, Oh what needless pains we bear some of us because we
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do not carry everything to God in prayer, Amen the Lord Verse number twenty
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nine, Proverbs fifteen is far from the wicked. But he hears. Listen
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what the Bible says. He hears the prayer of the righteous God. Will
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hear your prayer. He hears every prayer Jesus admonished us. In the New
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Testament Matthew, chapter number six, verses five through thirteen. Let me just
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read to you the word of the Lord. This is what Jesus said when
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you pray. Jesus by the way he prayed. And we're gonna talk about
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that. Certainly Jesus prayed, and he certainly taught his disciples to pray,
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and he admonishes us to pray. And it's not if you pray it's prayers
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not optional. By the way, it's not optional. Jesus says. When
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you pray, say people pray, And when you pray, Jesus say,
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you shall not be like the hypocrites. He's given us instructions guidelines as to
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how we are to order our prayer life. Listen to what Jesus says.
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When you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love
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to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that
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they may be seen by men. Or surely I say to you, they
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have their reward, but you when you pray. When you pray, go
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into your room, when you have shut the door, pray to your father
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who is in secret, who is in the secret place, And your father,
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who sees in secret, will reward you openly. And when you pray,
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do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that
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they be heard for their many words. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, people
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of God, Church of been God, please understand this prayer. This is
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how easy it is, how simple it is, how powerful it is,
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how indispensable it is. We don't have to use an entire vocabulary, dictionary
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of words. Prayer is not about the volume of words. Listen again what
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Jesus teaches. When you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen
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do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
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Therefore, Jesus says, do not be like them. For your thought.
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Listen, listen carefully, for your father knows the things you have need of.
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Be for you ask him. He already knows. He knows all of
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and he promised to even supply all of our needs according to its riches and
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glory. God knows what we need. Amen. In this manner, therefore,
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Jesus gives us an example. This is a sample prayer, very good,
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and we should We should never forget it. We should practice it because
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it is pretty much all inclusive. Listen what Jesus says. Therefore, in
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this manner, pray our Father in heaven, Hollywood, be your name,
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your kingdom. Come, Your will be done on earth as it is in
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heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,
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as we forgive our debt towards. And do not lead us into temptation,
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but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the Kingdom and
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the Power and the glory forever. Amen. Jesus had a lot more to
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say about prayer and again. Jesus himself prayed on multiple occasions recorded in the
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Gospels. And he also said this from the Old Testament. By the way,
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my house shall be called a house of prayer. Now, how can
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we be in him? How can we be in his house, the house
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of prayer? How can we be saved? And do not pray? Saved
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people? Pray? Save people, pray to the Lord. And number two,
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save people off a praise to the Lord. Praise, praise, praise.
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We pray and we praise. Praise is an offering. Praise is a
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conscious act of the will. Praise is also commanded of every living thing some
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one hundred. I believe it is that has the breath of God, very
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God, who is the Creator, who is the Giver, who is the
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sustainer of life itself. In Him, we live and move and have our
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being old. That men would praise, Oh, that men would again Genesis
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the Revelation. Look at the Book of Exodus, chapter fifteen, verse number
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two one verse. I'm going to read there. Listen what this is.
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I believe when Moses and that you're of Israel, Amen would delivered. They
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sung this song of praise to the Lord. Listen what he says, verse
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number two. I'm just gonna read verse number two. I would invite you
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to read the entirety of that song, which is a few verses in Exodus
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fifteen. He says, the Lord is my strength and song, and he
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has become my salvation. He is my God. And listen what he says.
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I will praise him. I will, I will. It's an act
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of the will. Amen, it is an act of the will. God
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does not listen. God wants the offering of praise, not the coersion of
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praise, the offering of praise. Listen, Moses, Amen, recognize,
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he underst stood. He saw the glories, saw the power, he saw
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the amen, the salvation. He experienced the salvation of God. And he
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says again, the Lord is my strength and song. My help comes from
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him, and he has become my salvation. He is my God. Are
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you making that? Are you making that? Amen? Declaration in yourself of
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yourself? Is he your God? He is God? Is he your God?
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Amen? He is my God? And I will praise him, my
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Father's God. And I will exalt him man, Thank you Jesus. That's
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praise. That's an offering up of praise. And we know the I mean
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the praise Saint Extraordinary of the Old Testament. David a man who wrote many
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of the psalms, not all of them. Many of the psalms psalms of
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praise that also contained prayer. Amen. Many of the psalms had prayers.
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Many of the psalms were prayers, but many of the psalms also were all
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about praise praise to God. Old Testament, New Testament. Those who are
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saved, those who are redeemed, those who have been delivered, they praise
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the Lord. Second Samuel, chapter number twenty two, verses one through four,
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David praising God upon his deliverance from his enemies. Listen what the Bible
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says. Then, David spoke to the Lord. This is to the Lord,
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Daryl, listen, praise is to him. Amen, offer your praise
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to the Lord. Is not about impressing somebody. It's not about a man
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being seen being heard, as Jesus already told us, no, no,
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no. Praise is not about putting on a show in a sanctuary in a
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building. When only only when you're at church. Only when you're in a
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crowd, you're you're the number one praise, or you're the number you're the
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praise leader, You're the loudest. No, no, no, Amen,
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your praise. My praise is to the Lord, even in the sea,
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even in my house, even when I'm not no one but me all by
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myself, in my car, in my cubicle. Amen, praise. It's
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calmly. The Bible says, for the upright some, I'm sorry. Second
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Samuel twenty two, verses one through four. Then David spoke to the Lord,
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to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord
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had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of
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Saul. And he said, listen, the Lord is my rock and my
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fortress and my deliverer, the God of my strength, in whom I will
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trust my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my
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refuge, my savior. You saved me from violence. And listen to this
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verse number four. I will. It's an act of the will. This
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is David saying what not only what he was doing at that moment, but
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what he was going to continue doing in the future. I will call upon
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the Lord, who is worthy to be praised? Soul. Shall I be
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saved from my enemies? God's salvation is for now, is for tomorrow,
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is forevermore, soul, Shall I be saved? There is the Listen.
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We have a We have enemies that are relentless, the demonic forces. Amen.
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Those who have sold themselves to work iniquity. Amen, they are always
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going to be a man attacking, always going to be a man a coming
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for your soul. Amen, Satan, Peter said, Peter, the Lord
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said to Peter, Satan has desired to have you. He wants you,
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he wants to sift you as sweet. But what did Jesus say to Peter?
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I have prayed, See Jesus prayed, I have prayed for you,
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that your faith fail. Not. I will call upon the Lord. The
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psalmon, says David said, who is worthy to be praised. God is
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worthy of all of our praises. Amen. Again, let the redeem of
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the Lord say so. Amen. Listen, if you're saved, if you
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delivered, if you're set free, Amen, He whom the Son sets free
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is free. Indeed, if you are living in freedom, if you are
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living living in liberty. Amen, if you are saved, the saved sing
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the praises of the Lord. The redeemed opened their mouths, and with the
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fruit of their lips they give praises to the one who has saved them from
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their sins, who has rescue them from the hand of the enemy, who
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has delivered them from the power of the darkness, who has snatched them out
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of the pit of hell, from the pains of death, and from the
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grip of the grave that can no longer hold them down. Let the redeemed
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of the Lord say so. Psalm number nine, verses one and two says,
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I will praise you, Old Lord, with my whole heart. I
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will tell of all of your marvelous words. I will be glad and rejoice
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in you. I will sing praise to your name, Old most High.
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You are saved, and you don't sing the praises of God. You are
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saved, and you don't praise Him with your lips, with the fruit of
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your lips, with your whole heart. Are you telling of His marvelous works?
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Amen? Psalm number thirty, verse number four, sing praise, sing
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praise to the Lord, you saints of his Are you are saint? Are
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you one of the saints, your saints, saints, but saints, by
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the way, saints are Old Testament and new This is an Old Testament,
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y'all. Saint is not a New Testament term. Only the Saints of God,
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are the saved, are the redeemed? Amen, Saints. That word
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is in the Old Testament. Saint. Praise to the Lord, you saints
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of his Do you belong to him? And give thanks at the remembrance of
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His holy name? That some thirty verse number four, some thirty three,
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verse number one, rejoice in the Lord or ye righteous, For praise from
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the upright is beautiful. Oh God loves it. Then the Psalm as you
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know this one thirty four and one. I will bless the Lord at all
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times. His praise, y'all continually be in my mouth. Psalm number fifty,
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verse number twenty twenty three. Whoever offers praise, listen, listen,
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Listen to key word there is offers praise, offers See God wants free will
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offering of praise, Amen. Praise is what we offer to God willingly.
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Whoever offers praise glorifies me and to him who orders his conduct a right.
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I will listen what the Bible says, show the salvation of God. Are
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you saved? Have you received the salvation of God? Amen? Whoever offers
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praise glorifies God. And to the one who orders his conduct a right.
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He says, I will show the salvation of God. Psalm number one,
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eighteen, verses nineteen to twenty one. Open to me the gates of righteousness.
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I will go through them, and I will praise the Lord. This
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is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous listen what the Bible says,
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shall enter. I will praise you for you have answered me and have
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become my salvation. Oh, thank you Jesus. Oh. I can go
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on and on in the psalms, but let me close with this one last
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Psalm Psalm one forty six, verses one and two. Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord, Oh my soul. While I live. Oh, that's
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crucial. You can only do it while you're living. You can only do
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it while you have the breath of God in your body. Amen. While
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I live, I will. There it is again, I will. I
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will. It's a declaration. It's a decision of the heart, of the
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mind, of the will that this is what I'm going to do. As
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Joshua, say, as for me and my house, We're gonna serve the
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Lord. We're gonna bless the Lord. We're gonna offer praise. We're gonna
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worship Amen. We're gonna stand while I live. I will praise the Lord.
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I will saying praises to my God while I have my being, while
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I'm still here, while I'm breathing the breath that God has placed in my
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body, I'm going to praise Him. Let everything that has breath praise the
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Lord. Now. One of my favorite examples of someone offering praise in the
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Old Testament extraordinary Amen reversal. An extraordinary conversion found in Daniel chapter number four,
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a man by the name of nebuchadnezza Amen, who was the king of
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Babylon, who took the people of God into captivity. The Daniel shatrack me
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Shat had been the Gold group that went into exile into Babylon. It was
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this king, Nebuchantz, who was cruel, who was vicious, who was
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proud, who was arrogant and full of pride. But God, but God,
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but God, who is rich in mercy, even to those who are
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obstinate, who are arrogant, who are proud, who are haughty? God?
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God had mercy on such a such a man as this, God can
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say, Hey, he does save, he does say he, Oh my
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God. I could go on and on with examples of the kind of people
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that we would write off, that we would say never, never, ever,
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this person be one who would praise God? Would this be a person
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who would give glory to God? Would this be a person who would be
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saved? God can save anybody, and he did for this man. Never
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can as it was purely the mercy of God. God had mercy on him.
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He disciplined him for a whole period of seven years. Look at verse
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number thirty four. I'm just gonna read verse thirty four. In verse thirty
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seven, I invite you to read the entire chapter of Daniel, chapter four.
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If you are not familiar with it, certainly if you are, hey,
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refresh yourself. At the end of the time, the speaking of those
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seven years when God removed him from his throne, deposed him in this discipline.
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Listen what he says. I never Canezzar lifted my eyes to heaven and
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my understanding returned to me. Listen what he says, and I blessed the
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most High, and praised and honored him. Thank you Jesus, who lives
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forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from
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generation to generation. Listen what he says in verse thirty seven. Now I
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eyes, he is you, it's me. It's an individual praise is an
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individual thing. And again it's an act of the will of the heart.
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Amen, it isn't what he says, now, I nebugnezza. Praise and
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extoll and honor the King, capital k of Heaven, all of whose works
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are truth and his ways justice. And those who walk in pride. He
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knew this from personal experience. Those who walk in pride he is able to
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put down. Oh, let me leave you with with with a few three
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three instances from the New Testament, very quickly of praise. Because we are
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again, if we're saved, we're redeemed, we praise. This is what
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we do he Brews, chapter thirteen, verse fifteen. Therefore by him let
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us let us who is us the redeemed, those of us who are saved,
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the brethren who are in the house of prayer, the house of praise,
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the house of worship. Therefore, by him Jesus let us continually.
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Isn't that? Isn't that what the Psarmon said some I'm thirty four and one.
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I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise share continually be
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in my mouth. Therefore, by Him, let us continually offer the sacrifice
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ice of praise to God, that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks
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to His name. First Peter two and nine. But you are chosen generation,
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a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own, special people,
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that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into
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his marvelous like acts. Chapter sixteen, Verse twenty two and twenty five.
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Oh, this is such a beautiful example of praise in the midst of persecution,
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in the midst of trouble, in the midst in the midst of God,
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a situation where we could feel forsaken. This is what happens. This
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is Paul and Silas. You know the story. I don't have time to
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go through the whole of the story. But Paul and Silas and man we're
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witnessing, testifying, preaching the word of God, and people got upset.
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The Bible says in verse twenty two. Pick it up. There the most
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two rolls up together against them. The magistrates ran off their clothes and commanded
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to beat them. So first they were beaten. The Bible says, when
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they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging
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the jailer to keep them safely, who, having received such a charge,
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thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.
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But listen what happens y'all. At midnight Paul and Silas prayed. I told
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you say, people pray and saying praises unto God. Oh, thank you
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Jesus, whoa helpers, Jesus, help us, Jesus, help us,
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Jesus, all help us, Jesus, helpers Jesus. Oh that men would
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pray, Oh that men would praise, And Oh that the people of God
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will learn to learn and everything to give thanks for this is the will of
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God in Christ Jesus concerning us at midnight, in the midst of a Philippian
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jail, unjustly accused and beaten. Paul was a Roman citizen, by the
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way, thrown into prison. What did they do? The Bible says,
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they prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners hurt them. Thank
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you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Let the redeem of the Lord say so.
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And everything we give thanks for this is the will of God and Christ.
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Jesus concerning us and God had a purpose, and that even though they
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suffered hoefully, no one suffered more than Jesus. Don't ever forget that.
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But save people, pray, Save people, off a praise to the Lord.
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Save people, worship, worship, pray, prayer, praise, worship.
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That's what we do. If you're saved, you pray. If you're
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saved, you praise. If you're saved, you worship. Jesus intentionally initiated
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and engaged in a conversation with a Samaritan woman Gospel of John, chapter four,
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And in this conversation he, in essence clarified to her and also certainly
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to us, what God is looking for, if you will in true worship,
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and from where it must be, where it must come from. I'm
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going to pick it up. Verse number twenty. The woman is speaking to
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Jesus. She says these words. In verse number twenty, our fathers worshiped
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in this mountain. She's talking about worship. She's talking about worship. She
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she's talked. She introduces the topic of worship. Our fathers worship in this
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mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
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worship. Now, a lot of people get hung up on the place of
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worship, and truly the church. Of course, we understand the building,
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the gathering place of the saints of God. Amen. We refer to that
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as the house of worship, and it is as the house of prayer.
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Jesus said it is. The Bible says it is, and so it is.
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Is it is a common meeting place of worship. But that's not all
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there is to worship. That's not. And see that's what again, people,
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So many people get hung up on the idea of church, only of
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a building, only of a location. This is which the woman's problem here.
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Also, our fathers worship in this mountain, but you say it is
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in Jerusalem. It's it's the temple. But Jesus said, unto her,
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and verse number twenty one, woman, believe me, the hour cometh when
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you shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. Oh
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what what are you? Wait a minute? Wait a minute, Jerusalem,
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the temple. The women where the sacrifices are offered where the priests are,
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where the Holy of Holies is is, where the ark of the Covenant is.
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You're wait a wait, where what do you mean That's not that's not
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going to be the place of worship. Jesus goes on to say, you
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worship, you know not what we know. What we worship for salvate salvation.
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There are you saved. Salvation is of the Jews. And now what
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he means by that, of course, it came through Abraham, Isaac Jacob,
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the Jewish people. The Messiah came through that bloodline, the sea,
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the promise Messiah, all the way back into the garden of Eden. Amen,
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salvation is of the Jews. But the Our cometh, And now is
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Listen what Jesus says, When the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit
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and in truth. For the Father seeketh such true worshipers to worship him God
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Verse twenty four is a spirit. God is spirit, and they that worship
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Him must worship him in spirit and in truth. True worship must be in
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the spirit of the man, must be in the soul of the man,
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must be in the heart of the man. True worship is derived from knowing
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the truth, capital tea Jesus, the Way, Truth, the Life.
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As he said, no one can come. You can't come. You can't.
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You can't be a worship of worshiper of God, not a true worshiper
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of God without coming by Jesus. No one comes to the Father, he
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says, but by me. And as he went on to say that a
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woman, he said, if you knew the gift of God, if you
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knew who I was am, if you knew who you were conversing with,
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you would ask of me, and I would give you the living water.
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I would give you that well of water that would spring up inside of you,
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that would bubble up inside. The praise, the worship, the adoration
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would spring forth out of your soul. Oh, when you are saved,
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when you are truly saved, when you are truly redeemed, when you are
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truly set free, when you are truly delivered, Oh, praises in you.
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Prayer is in you, Amen, if you are a true worship,
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it is evident in your prayer life, in the praises that you offer up
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to the Lord. Notice again, offer up, you offer it up.
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It's an act of your will. A man prayer and praise to God are
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inseparable from worship. You can't separate prayer and praise and worship from each other.
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Again, from the Book of Genesis all the way through to the Book
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of Revelation, true worship is shown to be essential. It is shown to
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be practiced by those who are saved, saved from the inside out. You
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had you had a lot of false worship in the in the in the Bible,
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false worship. And I'm not talking about of idle gods. You have
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people that again honored the Lord with their lips, but the heart, the
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heart. They engaged in all of the output show of worship, the offering
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up of sacrifices, and all of those things, coming to the temple,
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in doing this and going through the you know, the rituals and all of
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that, but the heart. See, this is where true worship. This
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is why Jesus, true worship in spirit and in truth. Abraham was a
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true worshiper. He built multiple altars, and he offered his prayers, his
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praise and worship to the Lord. His faith and his trust in the Lord
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grew so a man so much amen that by the time of the testing of
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offering up Isaac. Abraham was so full of faith, he was so practiced
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in his worship, that he believed fully in the truth, in the Word
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of God. He had met the truth, he had conversed with the truth,
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he had lived it, he had experienced it. And so when he
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went to offer up Isaac his son, and the Lord commanded him to go
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do Abraham took with him Isaac the necessary things, the wood and all of
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that, and he took a couple of young servants with him as well.
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The Bible says in Genesis twenty two and five, just one verse, Abraham
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said to these young men who had come with him and Isaac, stay here
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with the donkey. Listen what he says. He says to them, y'all
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stay here. The lad and I. He's speaking of Isaac, his son.
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The lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come
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back to you. Oh I, Oh, I have the time to whoa
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thank you Jesus, worship worship. This is the first Chronicles sixteen and twenty
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nine year to the Lord Glory, do his name, bring an offering,
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come before him or worshiped the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Amen.
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Amen, listen, Listen, listen. I'm going to close with this.
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You already know about it. One of the greatest examples of a true God
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worshiper and all the Bibles found in Old Testament with the man Job. After
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all that he went through, everything that he lost, the Bible says in
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Job chapter number one, verse twenty, job a robes tore his robe,
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shaved his head, fell to the ground. And what did he do,
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the Bible says, worshiped. And he said, naked. I came from
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my mother's womb. Naked shall I returned there? The Lord gave, the
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Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. This,
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ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God, is the heart, the
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attitude and gratitude of a true worshiper. And when we are able and willing
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to worship in the midst of the sorrow's disappointments, set backs, pain,
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trouble, trials, tribulations, persecution that will befall us in this world,
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this is proof of our genuineness of salvation in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
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The trueness of our salvation is not simply in lip service or in church building
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attendance, but It is in the every day and day today biblical proof of
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our faith when we regularly engage in prayer, praise and worship. God help
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us today. God help us today. Prayer, praise and worship must be
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pre eminent in the lives of your people. God help us to run in
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this race to finish this faith. Hearing your voice say, well done,
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good and faithful servant, be glorified in your people today. In Jesus name,
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we thank you, a man and a man