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We looked on Friday at the word expect
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We looked at stories last night
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You see everything Jesus did was
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giving his self to us
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in reality stories Jesus was the first one on reality TV
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He’s the first one who brought
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the power of storytelling
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And that story telling fits with where we are
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because he too was human
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He too understood
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our issues struggles needs and desires
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He said I I’m doing all of this because I’m preparing
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a place for you
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Now that is not just a place called heaven
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but I want to have a preparation
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of a habitation of Jesus right here
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and bring heaven to earth to my earth to Lindon eyes
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walk with God
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I want to share with you an unusual
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portion of scripture
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and then bring it to a usual conclusion in this word preparation
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Prepare yourself for your miracle today
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I I I am not an extremist
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I’m not an absolute conservative
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I heard someone say this morning
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Uh I’m just a believer
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I’m just a believer
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I like David’s hungry heart I’ve known him for many years
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I was surprised to hear all of the physical issues He’s gone Through and I felt it when he stood in front of us this morning and said it’s good to be here with family
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and everybody clap their hands It’s good to have you back
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Well it is always true in the storytelling of Jesus that he was preparing something to happen with every story that he told I do not know what’s going to happen But I like you have prepared my heart for this morning And I’m a believer God wants to do something
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miraculous
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lovingly
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and with great manifestation of grace So I am going to read to you and everybody give you time to open your Bibles You need to see this story with me Luke chapter 13
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and it starts at verse 31
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Luke chapter 13 and it starts with verse 31
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at that very hour Luke 13 31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him meaning Jesus get away from here for Herod wants to kill you And he said to them go and tell that fox
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my message to you this morning is
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being prepared to outfox the fox
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go and tell that fox
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And then Jesus gives us a tremendous outline
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I want to stop here a moment and say this to you
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I haven’t seen you for 20 years I haven’t been here in this area for 20 years
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but evidently
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you have been
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tricked by the enemy
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You’ve lost something
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you’ve misplaced something
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I’m surprised to find you where you are here
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I am
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extremely
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convinced
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As pastor said this is an assignment from God
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because he wants to bring to pass
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what you’ve been preparing yourself for for years
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You’ve got a
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great facility
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You’re in a great area a growing area of the world
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My goodness gracious The traffic here is horrific
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and that traffic ought to be coming here
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and that traffic belongs to you
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and belongs to the prophetic word that I’ve known has been here for many many years So I’m going to be a father to you today
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an apostolic father
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to encourage you
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in the words that Jesus gives in this story right here
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of the direction he wants you to take Let’s finish it And he said to them go and tell that fox
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the old I cast out demons and perform cures today And tomorrow
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and the third day I will finish my course Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow notice two times today and tomorrow today and tomorrow and the day following that’s who you are
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That’s where you are You are the day following
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all of the deceptive works of the fox
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and what he’s tried to do in the territory that belongs to the lord the territory of your hearts the territory of your gifts the territory of the prophetic words that belong to you
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all of those things He’s telling us
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that the day following he says for It cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem Old Jerusalem Jerusalem the city that kills the prophets and stones Those who are sent to it How often what I’ve gathered
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your Children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings and you were not willing behold your house is forsaken And I tell you you will not see me until you say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
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This is a powerful prophetic word
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It’s a very strong indictment
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of God over his house and over his people in terms of what he wants to accomplish
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and what he wants to release
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As I sat here worshiping with you this morning or stood and worshiped with you I looked across and I saw this whole row of little girls
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and there were three of them that were singing their hearts out
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They had their voices lifted up they knew the words they could read them they could say them
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and it just stirred my spirit man to say it’s always when we see the Children worship
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it’s always when we see the hand of God upon the younger generation
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that we have hope for tomorrow
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Somebody said this guy right here is just a great big kid
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That’s what they told me this morning He’s just a great big kid
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because I saw you playing with the Children
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I saw them running to you and
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hugging you
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friends We’ve got to get back
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to our child like confidence
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that the Lord never deserts anywhere
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Now he talked about the 99 in one of the songs
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and I am in 99 great churches
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But he’s always coming seeking for one
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who needs to be greater
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That’s the reason I’m here sent by the Lord
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because you’ve spent a lot of time hearing the stories of the 99
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But the Lord is saying I want to bring you myself in your time in your season to fulfill fulfill everything that’s been prophesized and cried over this people Now it’s going to mean a shift
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and God is getting ready to do a shift within this body
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Linda And I have spent our lives
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working with the Children of Ishmael Muslims
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And you recall whenever we had 911
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and then all the follow up of terrorism
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and all the struggles in which we had these words they’re coming to kill you
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And we developed within our hearts
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AAA sense of antagonism a a sense of fear You you could not after that period of time And even up till now look at people who have the Muslim coverings on as the women and the men with the beards and and and you were in some sort of a public place and and you were caught
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in that area
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of struggle
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Have I run into the wrong place at the wrong time
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We were born fearful
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from the moment we are birthed naked into a cold and confusing world
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There’s a cry of fear
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Maybe just plain terror
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and from then on we need from somewhere or someone an authoritative fear Not
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Maybe it’s the soothing voice of mother saying hush Little one Mother is here or in latter years It’s grandmother saying as you’re sitting at the table at grandmother’s place and you spilt the milk and it poured over everything and terror filled your heart
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And she said that’s ok Sweetheart Here’s another glass fool
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Don’t worry Milk is easy to clean up
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Yes Friends this morning milk is easy to clean up But fear is not
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frustration is not
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failure is not murder and mayhem
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that thrown at us daily V R televisions and Twitter and tiktok
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These are the voices of that old fox Satan
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trying to draw us away from the voice of Grace
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saying to this body to this place to this community Fear not
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I am with you always in this world You will have trials and tests
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but fear not I have overcome the world
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I never liked Muslims at all
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especially
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in terms of misunderstanding them when we were first invited to go to
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Asia
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My first assignment was Saigon South Vietnam where I built the largest teen challenge center David Wilkerson paid for me He supported me He stood with me So I built the largest drug rehab center in Saigon South Vietnam I was there when that country fell I was on one of the last airplanes that left I didn’t think it was ever gonna leave Linda was home having our third child and I wasn’t even there and and
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she would talk to me on the phone She said aren’t you watching TV I said I haven’t got time for TV I’m not I’m I’m right here in the midst of a war This is and I held the telephone out in in the window and and the North Vietnamese were coming in to Saigon and the machine gun fire was there and I said I’m in the midst of revival
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I’m in a war I don’t have time to watch television
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And then from there after the fall of Vietnam we moved to the largest Muslim country in the world I had no understanding of Muslims What I’m wearing for you right now is the Islamic or Muslim dress shirt from Malaysia and Indonesia
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The language that I speak is the Indonesian language that Linda and I preach and teach in Jerusalem I I I am not a tourist I I even though my face is white my heart is the same with Asia I’m a preacher of the good news of Jesus Christ and who he is
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Who’s that sitting over there
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Is that Ron
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My goodness Ron I’m here because of you
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and so many of us are here because of you You look good Ron You look great
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I I wasn’t sure I said but he’s too handsome to be Ron I I thought I thought Ron went downhill a little bit
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So good to see you You came back up
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So I had no understanding of the Muslim people
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I was sent to Indonesia to establish teen challenge there Drug rehabilitation because Asia has a mammoth problem with heroin addiction during my time it was always heroin Uh They they didn’t have cocaine as much During those days
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I was sitting in my office reading a newspaper about a drug rehabilitation center
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in IPO Malaysia Malaysia and Indonesia are are uh two hours three hours away from each other by airplane flight But they are similar in terms of their ethnic identity and they speak similar language So I speak Malay I speak Indonesian And uh I learned Vietnamese when I was there But enough Vietnamese to get me in trouble and enough Mandarin uh to also get me in trouble So my major preaching is Malay and Indonesian language and I was reading the newspaper
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You gotta know where this is taking you
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Who are you going to listen to The fear not
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of the fox
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The fear not be hold I am with you
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I had the fear
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of Muslim people within my heart I didn’t know Indonesia was Muslim I just wanted to get overseas again I didn’t know what I was getting into As I was reading the paper it talked about this drug rehab center in IPO Malaysia under the leadership of a uh former Catholic priest who had renounced Catholicism married a Muslim girl in Malaysia and has now
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going under the name of Bapa Yakub Uh his name is James Schuler and he’s now going under the name of Yakub Uh And Bapa is the honorific title in the Malay and Indonesian language for for father but it was not the same as Catholic father even though he had been one
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he married the Muslim girl He renounced Catholicism developed a neo orthodoxy trying to wed together Uh all these various aspects of Islam and Christianity and Catholicism liberalism a lot of areas But I read that he was dealing with 200
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Muslim drug addicts Well I’m in Indonesia
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I’m gonna be working with Muslims How am I going to go about doing this So I call long distance that James I introduced myself I’d like to come and and live a few months in your program and see what you’re doing And and just as an observer a sociologist my degree is in cross culture communication and psychology And I would like to view your program from that frame He said you’re an evangelical Christian missionary I said yes you’re Charismatic
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Christian
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Yes you’re Pentecostal Christian Yes He said on the whole I’d rather you didn’t come
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He said when I was a Catholic priest
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and I married a Muslim girl and I left the Catholic church
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The Christians came and prose all of my people away from me the Muslims were totally suspicious of me So for a good while I was in the wilderness
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I said James I understand that but I assure you I will come and see what you’re doing totally from a sociological psychological I’m in a journey of discovery
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Jesus’s words here is saying I want you to discover something different I’m in charge of everything that’s going on
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I’m in charge of everything that has ever happened in this church and that ever is going to happen in this church
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And Jesus is in charge of every
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people group every ethnic identity and every individual person
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on planet Earth
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He knows who you are he knows who I am
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He knows the hunger
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he knows what he has to do to prepare us for a change
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prepare us for a breakthrough
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And I was in the process of being prepared for a unique breakthrough
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He said ok if you do it on that frame of reference you can come So I flew to IPO Malaysia from Jakarta Indonesia
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and they had an old tuberculosis center Tuberculosis used to be bad in those days but now it was no longer there and there was individual uh uh uh cabins uh bungalows all over that property pretty good sized piece of property And they gave me my own bungalow to stay in
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because I spoke the Malay language and the Indonesian language But I was I was the white man All of these young people were enamored with me The fact that I spoke American English the fact that I was from America but that I also spoke their language and they were just drawn just to ask questions in the morning
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my windows and that little cabin opened up on the parade ground And James was a very disciplined German that was his background in German So he had physical calls that they did every single morning And then they practice this uh uh uh psychological approach called Primal Scream By now you can get his book it’s entitled Primal Primal Scream And that is that they had this
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room this good size room I would say it’s it’s about as big as from here to that area there And inside were mattresses on the wall and mattresses on the floor And they gave you rubber knives and pillows and you could stab the authorities that you hated They would get you all the way down into the fetal position and people would be in there just moaning and crying and then
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they would come in and take you out and layer by layer try to bring you back into reality It was just a whole lot of psychological mumbo jumbo as far as I was concerned
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And so I was watching this take place
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and one morning as I was reading my Bible
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two young men approached my window open and in very precise British English because you know the British uh colonized uh Singapore and Malaysia for many many years And so these young people they learn British English and then they learn their ethnic whether they’re Chinese they used learn uh learn Mandarin or whether they’re Indian they use Tamil uh whatever uh background they might have
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And b but but English becomes their primary language and because it’s taught by British folk it has that British background I told some of you on Friday night I have a uh a British son in law and my daughter they past her at church in Manchester England So I’ve got two little Brit brats Chloe Anne and Benjamin James And I love listening to their little Yorky accents Do you want to meet them
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Uh It’s lovely to listen to them So here these two young men approach me and they say good morning sir what is it you are reading now That sounds like British English to me But when I do this uh any place where Brits are there they don’t really like that Uh So I apologize if there’s any Brits in the auditorium And I said uh well I’m reading God’s book
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It speaks to me concerning my spiritual need One boy threw his head back and he said what you mean You an educated Westerner would read that collection of fairy tales He said I myself I’m a Muslim but I don’t even read the Quran It has no relevancy for us today
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He said do you have any books on psychology human behavior I said yes I’ve got 66 of them
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And I opened my Bible and begin sharing with him reality therapy punishment and reward I’m ok You’re ok All the psychological things that I had learned in university but now I know the reality of it in the word of God Jesus said you go tell that fox I’m working today and tomorrow and I will finish the work
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Church God’s going to finish the work that he started here
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He’s not going to let you down
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but you got to learn to speak to the fox
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You’ve got to learn to speak directly to the fox
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So I
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said I I I I have these 66 books I begin sharing with him and one of the young is wow And I didn’t know those things were in that book And later that morning at about 11 o’clock there was about 80 young people under uh no more like 40 40 young people under a tree and they were having one of their their uh psychological discussions And so I went and joined them and one of the boys that
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in front of my window was in that group of 40 And he said sir sir when there was a break in the talking he said sir sir would you go get your psychology book and come and tell everybody what you told us this morning I said no no I told your leaders here I would not get involved in religious discussion They said oh it doesn’t make us any difference Go and get your books short Their insistence I went and got my psychology book They were calling it now
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And at the back of the crowd as I was teaching these young men
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and they were all young men all of these young men teaching them
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concerning my particular walk of faith At the back of the crowd was a young Muslim or teacher white hat on white dopey long white robe
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and I tried to catch his eye and he wouldn’t even look at me He put his head down every time I was trying to diffuse any anger he might be feeling because all of a sudden I’d stepped across the boundary and and I was doing religious discussion but I was couching it in psychological terms I was not saying Jesus is the son of God I was not dealing with those issues I was trying to establish rapport and out fox the fox
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And while
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I was sharing he wouldn’t look at me the next morning under my window there were 40 young men under my window
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Now everywhere I was going I was doing exactly what an Islamic teacher does He sets and everybody sits around him and listens
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11 o’clock The next morning there were 80 young people under the tree
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and now it was growing
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James and I had discussions because of his neo orthodoxy and his own particular faith struggles and the background that he had in Catholicism And now uh the new uh learning that he was having in Islam And so we had these late night discussions and I enjoyed talking with him He had a very sharp mind and we had a great time together
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But he came to me after all of this was happening And he said Irvin I’ve enjoyed speaking with you But our young Muslim teacher is very angry with what you’re doing
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And he came to me and asked if you would meet him at the last building on the property where nobody could see you meeting together He doesn’t want to see uh have the young people see you meeting with him Would you go meet with him Well there’s a lot of things they don’t tell you in bible school or seminary And one of them is how to deal with an angry Muslim teacher
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So I left my psychology book behind I went behind the property and there he was he had a chair for himself and a chair for me White on white hat long white robe seated in the chair And I walked up to him and looked him in the eye and I said good morning sir I understand that you wanted to talk with me and he looked right through me and he said I want to pray
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You said that earlier didn’t you David Prayer is the voice He said I want to pray Oh I was so glad He said that because I’m a man of prayer I understand prayer I said please pray for me We are cousins in this spiritual journey I didn’t know if he was gonna say I want to fight what I was gonna do
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or I want to argue But he said I want to pray I understand prayer He closed his eyes put his hands palms upward and he began to rock back and forth and chant his prayers in sing song Arabic
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Now I did a very biblical thing David the Bible says watch and pray
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I watched as he prayed because I didn’t know what he would do to me if I closed my eyes 100%
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And as he began praying I was listening to his prayers And when he finished I said thank you for that prayer And because you prayed may also may I also prayed And he said which is me yes you may And because you prayed in another language may I pray in another language He said yes I’ve never been more happy friends that I’m Pentecostal
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because
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it’s only the Holy Spirit that can change your circumstances here
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It’s only the only spirit that can bring a release of life
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of intentional
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discipleship
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of blessing the future of these little girls that were sitting in this seat
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The Holy Spirit can do it
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Quickness of mind is not going to do it
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A greater
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reshuffling of programs is not going to do it
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I was so thankful
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that I have lived
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with my wife Linda
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in our ministry
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led by filled by directed by the Holy Spirit
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You remember the old man Simeon
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when they brought the child Jesus in to do according to the custom
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for him to be circumcised or offered every male child shall be offered to the Lord
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And it said Simeon had had this prophetic word You’ll not see death until you have seen the Christ The Lord’s Messiah
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Luke chapter two and here’s Simeon
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took Jesus up in his arms but it said Simeon was waiting Simon was led by Simeon had revealed to him by the spirit all friends everything that God wants to do in this church And in this community has got to be the work of the Holy Spirit
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of Him making it happen And
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I was so grateful that I know what it is to listen to and to be led by the Holy Spirit And so I put my hands palms upward in case he was watching as I prayed
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And I begin to pray I close my eyes and I begin to pray in the Holy Spirit I begin to pray in a manner I have never prayed I said vowel sounds and sentence structures and words in the spirit world that I had never prayed before In fact I was so caught up listening to myself pray and the shape of my mouth and the way I was expressing it I was so caught up that I didn’t notice until the last moment
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but somebody’s nose was touching mine We were eyeball to eyeball and nose to nose I was spitting on him and he was breathing on me
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as I was praying in the holy ghost And when I finished praying all that I could pray in the spirit
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His eyes were intently looking at me And he jumped to his feet I jumped to my feet and he came after me and I didn’t know what he was gonna do So I started going backwards and he came and he threw his arms around me and he said he said God has told me
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but you’re a man
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who’s been sent from God
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and we need to listen to you
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And then he ran away
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as fast as he could run
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I was so shocked I had holy ghost bumps all over the back of my neck
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I went back to my little cottage
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and I stood in the middle and I said Father what took place Where’s this thing going
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Speak to the fox this morning Father what’s taken place
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Where’s this thing going
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What’s your plan
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for Liberty Hill I got it right
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What’s your plan
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for
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spring
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Life Spring
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been so long run life Spring
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I stood in the middle of the room asking
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and all of a sudden my door burst open and didn’t walk James
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And I said hey man uh I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I did not know I was gonna get into that kind of a thing Uh I I don’t know what I said and I don’t know why he ran away He said it ran straight to me
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He came right into the room
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I said oh James I’m so sorry I’m packing my bags and I’m leaving now He said no you can’t leave
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You’ve got an answer for this Oh I didn’t know what was going to happen Do do do uh are these Muslims gonna roast me What’s going to take place
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And the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said
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I sent you here
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to teach you something
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about my love for all humanity
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and for all places
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I said James I I whatever you asked me to do he said here’s what you’re going to do He just said let that man speak to everybody tomorrow morning
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bring all 200 of them together That man has something to say to us and all friends I’m telling you right now This man has nothing to say here But the man Christ Jesus
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the spirit of the living Christ has something to say to this body Speak to the fox God can turn everything around
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speak to the fox
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He can give a breakthrough
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He can change things to the Jew the fox
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with a symbol
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of the slightest of animals
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It was regarded as the most destructive animals
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and it was also the symbol of a worthless and significant insignificant man
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He’s just a fox
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He’s worthless
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We’re always
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faced by someone
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or something
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wanting to create fear
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wreck our Christian trust in the holy one
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And like Harrod who thought himself a lion Jesus was mocking Harrod’s ability to do anything against him You go tell that fox Herod’s coming to kill you You go tell that fox today and tomorrow and forever
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today and tomorrow
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I’m going to be doing something
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So
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the next morning
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at nine o’clock
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they had a chapel that was about this size with this group that was here
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and they all
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were packed in there
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Maybe it was maybe a little bit bigger than that
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They’re all packed in there And I’d ask for a whiteboard where I might draw my spiritual journey by using a marker and a whiteboard
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I’ve always learned that in the world of Islam Abraham is still the father of faith of a Christian and the Jew and the Muslim
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So I started with the story of Abraham
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and was going to bring it all the way up They actually believe that that it was Ishmael that was sacrificed on the on the altar and not Isaac
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but I was trusting the Holy Spirit would do something unique So they were all there I began drawing my spiritual And they said James said to me you have 30 minutes
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30 minutes turned into three hours just like this Sunday morning
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30 minutes turned into three hours and for three hours
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under the anointing of the spirit Oh And by the way that young Muslim teacher came in and sat right at the front and everybody’s eyes were intently watching what was he going to do What was going to happen He walked up and gave me a great big hug
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and then he sat down and for three hours I shared my personal faith with Father Abraham
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that led me to the person of Jesus Christ And because I spend more time reading the Quran than most Muslims Do I use the words of the Quran concerning Jesus who is the of God spirit of God That Jesus is the breath of God That Jesus is the wonder worker the miracle worker He’s the virgin born And all of those things I said and Jesus brought me here
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to tell you of his love for you
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And when it was over
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I’m telling you
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that the fox was fully defeated
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and the name of Jesus was lifted up And for 15 years from Indonesia I robbed that place I robbed it You gotta open it son I robbed that place Thank you sir
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I robbed that place
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for leaders My greatest drug rehab leaders came out of that facility and I built 77 drug rehabilitation centers throughout Asia Go tell the fox go tell the fox I’m working today and tomorrow and I’m going to finish my course and I want this church to hear this word Go tell the Fox of hurt
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Go tell the Fox of confusion
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Go tell the fox of disagreements
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Go tell the Fox of struggles
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Jesus is in charge of this church Jesus is in charge of this place
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Jesus is in charge of lives that are being changed
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Jesus was saying I’m not afraid of you
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You are weak as a fox
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and as corrupt in your craftiness
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We have no need to be afraid of you
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And it’s the same thing today for anything coming against the true believer This fleshly corrupt world cannot destroy a praying church
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a worshiping church
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and most of all
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a disciple seeking church intentional discipleship right now I’m a part of a group in an organization that has planted 1986 churches throughout the United States and the world
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Why Because it’s intentional discipleship Everyone winning three everyone is challenged to bring three people into a relationship at a coffee shop
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at some kind of restaurant every day of the week You’re meeting with three people Well I’m personally meeting every day of the week with 100 young men and I’m saying
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speak to the fox is that your son
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said oh my goodness you like me I said yes we did get there didn’t we
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speak to the fox
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We are going to disciple more of these little girls We’re gonna bring the we’re gonna still keep this guy as a as a boy in his heart As a kid enthusiastically hugging young people involved Speak to the fox
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You see the fox is always out
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to cunningly
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deceive and destroy The first question we ask is are you bold enough
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to speak against the fears
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over this church
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in your lives
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Go tell the fucks
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every single morning for
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around 12 years now
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because it happened Lyn and I have lived there in Shreveport 11 years and gone to the nations from there But about 12 years before we actually moved there we begin coming and every morning
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at
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10 minutes till seven until 7 30
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we have people from five different denominations churches
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that come in and meet for a time of prayer Now I am up early in the morning and I have a 6 to 6 36 AM prayer via uh uh streaming every day But then after that we have what we call the gate
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where we have men and women in accountability who come together
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to speak to the Fox
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A declaration of who we are in God over church planting
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are for individual soul winning Our prayers are a violent reversal of our fears
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of the foxiness of our present age Jesus said Matthew 28 Before you enter the house you must bind the strong man before you enter the city you must bind the spirits that are there Matthew 11 12 from the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force It was a violent faith for Abraham to offer his son in the altar But it’s a violent mercy for God to provide a ram
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in the thicket It was a violent request You feed the 5000 with so few loaves and fishes for so many It was a violent break of physical science and nature that a miracle of 12 basket fools were left over of just the small loaves and fishes There was a violent earthquake in Jerusalem when Jesus cried it is finished and breathe his last And it was a violent act of retribution redemption
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When at the same time the veil in the holy of Holies was torn from the top to the bottom It was a violent act that brutalized the body and the soul and spirit of Jesus But this morning he said to us don’t fear the fox as we took the emblems of his body and his blood in that violence became our victory
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And that’s where this church is today is in the violent acts that seem to be happening around us that the fox says you’re not going to grow you’re not going to see changes you’re not going to be able to see the power of the Lord’s miracles happen But we speak to the fox
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and we say
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you’ve done nothing but lie
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and you’re the father of lies
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when they wrapped and anointed him with spices
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It was a violent act of love and power that raised him from the dead on the third day
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And because of violence in his kingdom we speak to the fox today
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I told the young people
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on
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Friday Thank you
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on Friday night that
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I was asked to speak
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in Davao the Philippines at a youth camp of 220 young people When I got there late everybody was by the seaside
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and they were totally quiet except for the leadership on the front
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and two boats out in the ocean And they were saying over here
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and then over here and these fishermen were diving into the water and coming up shrugging their shoulders And the people on the shore would say over here that maybe this way or maybe this way I said what happened here Why is everybody out here They said early this morning five of our girls were waiting in the ocean Two of them were caught in the undertow an hour and a half ago were just looking for their bodies We’re just looking for their bodies
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That’s not how you start a youth camp
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in a little while
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One of the divers brought up a bundle of clothes and pushed it into one boat another brought up another bundle of clothes and pushed into the other boat and slowly rode rode into the sea shore
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and unceremoniously laid those two girls up on the sand The leader said Pastor Irvin would you check with me to see if they’re alive We felt their neck and their pulse on their arms and we both look it was obvious they were dead
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And I said no they’re gone
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and everybody was in shock I was in shock
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I’d never experienced this at a youth camp before
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And as we looked at those white faced girls laying there
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all of a sudden there came this awesome roar
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Oh it went on and on And I became aware that scream is coming from my belly It’s coming from me And I said everybody know on the ground all of you on your face praying in the spirit praying any way you can But I want you to pray life life life Because in my mind’s eye I saw the prophet laying up on the dead boy mouth to mouth hand to hand feet to feet And I didn’t want them to see me laying on those two girls
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mouth to mouth hand to hand feet to feet And I laid on them and I moved back and forth for 15 minutes saying life I command life in the name of the resurrected Christ And after 15 minutes of prayer one girl coughed up water the other coughed up water and they lived we rushed them to the hospital 30 years later
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at the Teen Challenge Center in Singapore that I had started in 1976
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They invited me to come for the 30 th anniversary
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of that Team Challenge Center They said Pastor I we’re not gonna give you the microphone right away because we know we’ll never get it back but we’re gonna have AAA barbecue And then we’ve got a lot of friends that you uh know from the past that you led to the Lord we want them to testify
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And so they did and they presented Linda and I with a uh a silver uh set of uh tea pots and trays and all the nice things they gave to us and one by one different ones we had seen them as teenagers and now they’re young adults and now they’re married and now they’ve got their own Children and we’re listening to their stories and weeping
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They said now pastor we’ve got the last person here today that we’ve flown in specially
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and I was sitting about right here and this lady comes down and she stands in front of me and she said
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do you remember me Man of God
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I said no I don’t But I can tell by the sound of your voice You’re a Filipina She said no wonder you don’t remember me I was 17 years old and I was dead
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I said Janet mudd is that you is that you Janet she said yes pastor
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it’s me Thank God that you came to my nation and spoke the word of life over me It was such an astounding experience I never even told Linda I never even told any other until much later and began to in especially after that time when we were together And she said yes my pastor and I my husband and I pastor a church of 1000 people in Metro Manila and we have three Children Now thank you man of God for coming and speaking to the fox
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speaking to the fox Oh friends
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Jesus said you go tell that fox
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I’m going to do what God the father has asked me to do today and tomorrow and I will finish my course Listen to Isaiah chapter eight
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verses 11 to 18 in the message Bible God spoke strongly to me grabbed me with both hands and warned me not to go along with this generation He said don’t be like this People always afraid somebody is plotting against them don’t fear what they fear Don’t take on their worries if you’re going to worry worry about the holy one fear God of the angel armies the holy
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one who could be either a hiding place or a boulder blocking your way The rock standing in the willful way of both houses of Israel a barbed wire fence preventing preventing trespass to the citizens of Jerusalem Many of them are going to run into that rock and get their bones broken get tangled up in that barbed wire and not get free of it
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Gather up the testimony preserve the doctrine for my followers while I wait for God As long as it remains in hiding while I wait and hope for Him I will stand my ground and hope I and the Children God has given me as signs to Israel warning signs and hopeful signs from God of the angel army who makes his home in Mount Zion
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That’s what our young worship leader by the way you’re a great guitarist You let us this morning You said don’t worry isn’t that what you said Don’t get caught up in worry
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Don’t look at what’s going on around us
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speak to the fox through your worship
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speak to the fox before you go to bed tonight That all of these little girls will see the notable miracles happen in their life Speak to the fox that will not just be gray hairs getting more gray hairs here
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but it will be those who have a child’s heart
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Those who draw in every one of you need to go see the new movie coming out Jesus revolution about Chuck Smith
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And now he just had a dried up church
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and he had no way of getting out of it
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until somebody showed up at that church and said why don’t you reach the hippies
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Why don’t you reach out to that generation
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Hey listen
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this generation is not going to respond in the way we did
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They’re gonna respond to Jesus
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in a way in which
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they out Fox the fox
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Every generation is thrown aside The past generation said we can’t be doing that But every generation is coming along
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with a fresh revelation of who Jesus is
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We speak to the fox We say you have no power over me My violent declarations of Christ have set me free I will speak of the things of God in the words in which the Holy Ghost teaches
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and I’ll be ruled by them
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Are you bold enough
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to speak against your fears over this house Second are you bold enough to declare your destiny
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Are you bold enough to declare your destiny Go and tell that fox behold I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow And the third day I finish my course Jesus came to declare a new kingdom a new destiny to fulfill
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the suffering cross and the shed blood
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And the empty tomb was the goal of the God man Jesus
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And the destiny of Jesus is ours We die to self
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we die to fears
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we receive resurrection life It’s worth telling again Just because most of you gray hairs were not here on Friday was set aside for the youth and I felt young being with him
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I shared with him
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how that
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my destiny
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But the tricky fox was almost cut short
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in that
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I worked as a
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a uh
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stacker
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of empty grocery shelves for I G A food store
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We called it I jip anybody
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And when I was 16 I was working in that food store and into that food store came Donna
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My very first heart throb I followed her up every aisle I became a stacker stalker
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I stalked her all over that food store working up the courage to greet her And finally I caught her in one area of the grocery store and I was going to use my most famous and effective pickup line Hi
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that’s about as bold as I could become high
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Well I dated Donna all that summer and it was coming down to September and she had to go back to Arkansas Her brother was his name was really genuinely Billy Bob
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They were from Arkansas
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and Billy Bob was uh in charge of a Barbara Green You know what a Barbara Green is on the highway It puts out all that asphalt It’s the big thing where they dump it in the back and it comes out and it lays out the asphalt So they were going back to Arkansas They were building it was in 1962 It was the interstate 35 that was being built
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So I announced to my dad I’m in love
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I’m going to Arkansas with Donna
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No you’re not You’re only 16 years old
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I know who I am I’m going to Arkansas
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No you’re not Yes I am No you’re not I started the next sentence with the wrong words Any of you young people should never use to your dad And that was old man
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I was going to say old man I’m 16 years of age I can make up my own mind
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But my dad knew that at eight years of age I was genuinely born again 12 years of gay age I was filled with the Holy Spirit
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And at 15 years or maybe a little bit before I turned 16 I was with uh uh T L Osborne in his great uh camps where he showed his movie Black Gold about the great revivals in Africa Stacks of crutches blind eyes open
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And I ran to the altar and offered myself to missionary service And so when dad was saying no you’re not Yes I am No you’re not son He said don’t you know you’ve got a call of God on your life Don’t go waste it by running off to Arkansas But when
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I said old man
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he knocked me out cold
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I mean he just knocked me right in the forehead and knocked me out cold The next thing I knew I was laying on the bed and he tears were running down his face and he was mopping my forehead with cold towel saying son I’m sorry but you cannot run off to Arkansas You’re too young to know what love is you’ve got a call of God on your life Your destiny is in front of you
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And I stubbornly turned my head to the wall wouldn’t even look at it
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And at 2 33 o’clock in the morning I took my little cardboard suitcase put my clothes in it and climbed out the window That’s got the tree there
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And I ran off to the bus station
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and I went to Arkansas
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and all that summer I was with Donna and her family in Arkansas I don’t know if I was in love with Donna or the horses they had in the stable because I’ve ridden horses all of my life and she had a beautiful white stallion that was 17 hands high And if you know how to measure horses 17 hands high Horse is a big horse And all summer long I was the lone ranger high ho silver away
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I was going down country roads and the beauty of the the birds singing and the trees and and the green grass and all of a sudden that horse reared up in the air and pawed the air and it didn’t bother me I’d done that many times with horses myself And I said to myself we’re on a country road A snake has gone across the road and it has frightened him when he came back down and his hooves hit the ground right in front of me was a man dressed totally in white
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9.5 ft tall
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All I knew was he was big
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and he pointed his finger at me and he said go home Irvin
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Now is the time to go home remember who you are
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And I knew it was an angel of the Lord
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sent to speak to the fox I tell you something friends
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Somebody in this church has not been able to speak to the fox but the Holy Spirit has been speaking
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It makes no difference whether you do it or don’t do it
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God has his hand on the prophetic word
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that’s been laid over this people for many years
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You just need to speak to the fox I turned that horse around I galloped back to the stable I took the the the saddle and the the blanket off and I I rubbed him down took the halter off gave him some oats and and cold water I didn’t even go get my suitcase I didn’t even kiss Donna Goodbye I ran with the fear of the Lord to the bus station I went home
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and walked in at supper time
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eight kids
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I was missing So there was only seven around the table Mom and dad
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dad never said a word
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He just said
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mom give her a plate
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Oh I wanna tell you something
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There’s still a plate
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waiting for you
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waiting at God’s table
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because sometimes we don’t know how to speak to the fox
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and God has to do it for us
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God shows up
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and he speaks to that fox and said you’re not going to take Irvin’s life
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You’re not going to destroy
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the destiny that’s here
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that has been spoken over this place
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Thirdly
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are you bold enough
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to cry for a prophetic awakening
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Notice the words he said
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Nevertheless I go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem
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today tomorrow and the day following
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Are you bold enough
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to speak the prophetic word
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to declare the prophetic word
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for a new awakening
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Somebody’s been doing it on college campuses recently
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Somebody’s been doing it in quiet corners
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with hungry hearted people
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in different places asking
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for a spiritual awakening
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Bold enough
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small groups
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university students
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hungry hearted church leaders
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saying God meet us
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with a prophetic
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awakening
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do something healing
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and restoring
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in this community
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You know the
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greatest prophetic speaking Jesus ever did that he ever did which comes down to us today was to 12 men
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prophetically He said follow me
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and I will make you fishers Amen That’s the greatest prophetic word that’s ever been spoken in history And Paul carried it on Follow me as I follow Christ Oh friends There is an awakening that’s happening in contemporary America There is an awakening that’s going on deep within the the the the spirit of people who know there’s gotta be a change
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something’s got to happen a door in heaven has got to open up There’s some way somehow
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redemption
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and freedom
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He has got to come to the people of God
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in teaching these 100 young people
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every morning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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on Bible doctrine And for two months we’ve been in the book of acts going step by step in the person of the Holy Spirit
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The fox always shows up
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and tries to put some hiccups in there
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and tries to pull you aside because we’re a Christian school of 400 students which I understand you are here as well Uh We give a lot of scholarships because we are the number one football
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uh uh winning his football team in our area in a Christian school But we also play play uh public schools but nobody will play us because we’ve been winning for 14 years straight and and they just are angry at us So we have to go all the way to Oklahoma and all the way to Arkansas and and all the way down to uh uh uh New Orleans and other places just to play somebody who doesn’t know who we are
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so that our guys can get practice
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So we give a lot of scholarships away We give a lot of scholarships away to uh gang members in our community young men that’s lives have been struggling with some of the issues that they have
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And in this teaching every morning these young men didn’t know anything about raising their hands didn’t know anything about singing songs didn’t know anything about the person of the Holy Spirit And I’ve been doing this with him for two years now
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every single day an hour for two years And it’s amazing to see
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that when you are consistent in discipleship when you are intentional
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in discipleship things begin to grow The fox is defeated over and over again
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We have to raise our own money for because we’re a private school So those of you have a uh a church related school know that sometimes you wish you didn’t have a church related school especially the leadership when they gotta pay money over and over again And always every one of us on the staff are in fundraising mode
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Linda and I adopted three little Cambodian girls Now we didn’t adopt them physically into our home We adopted them because they were in public school They’re teenagers they were in public school but they were being brutalized They were being bullied Uh They were being hurt because they’re Asians and they’re the only Asians in a public school And they were being saying uh Ching Chong go home uh and making all kinds of uh uh advances to them And and so when
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their parents I they they own a a doughnut shop saw me come in with the school uh lettering on they said do you go to that Christian school And I said Yes Uh are you one of the leaders there I said no Uh uh I am the chaplain the spiritual chaplain They said well we have three girls that are in a lot of trouble in the public school over here And uh do you think you could get them into that school
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I said well I’ll check with uh uh our chancellor which is uh pastor Danny Duron Uh and he’s uh quite a football star himself in the past and he is the coach of our football team as well as the pastor of the church Uh well one of the pastors he’s turned it over to his son Uh and I I’ll ask him well I went to Denny and I said Danny I’ve got three little Cambodian girls and
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sure enough we Denny is so generous He brought them in to the school and and it cost $6800 a person to go to a private school Uh We’re trying as all of us are trying to do is to get the money to follow the student instead of follow the school It follows the student and therefore if they choose to go out of public school into private school then the government ought to give them the same amount of money for them to go to the private school
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So it cost $6800 in comparison Some others are much more expensive than that But that’s what it cost Well
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we’re always in a fundraising mood
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and sometimes when you’re building and planting and developing a work of God
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the fox can lie to you about authority and finances
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more than anything else
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So in the fundraising mode with this I’m going to close and now some of you are really waiting for me to close
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all of our football players basketball players
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all the school teachers
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everybody has fundraising projects because we travel such a long distance to play people who don’t know who we are so that we can get practice for our boys to keep a winning football team Well there’s the food cost there’s the bus hiring cost Uh There’s the equipment cost all of that So we’re having a fundraiser
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and I was backing out of my driveway I only live a couple of blocks from the school
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backing out of my driveway when a truck a pickup pulled in and stopped me from backing out and a man got out and he said uh I recognize his face but I didn’t know his name and and he was a man in the church He said pastor I I love listening to you every morning at six o’clock on your six AM prayer And he said I just want to bless you And uh he gave me a Pentecostal handshake Well I knew something was in there in that handshake but I just said thank you so much and put it in my pock
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and I went to the school and as I was that afternoon uh setting out they asked me to come to all the sports things with my bottle of anointing oil because kids get hurt And the first thing they all do is say uncle uncle bring that oil over here somebody needs to be healed So I’m always getting up and going out on the field Even when we have mega games I’m sitting right at the front and if somebody gets smashed out there on the field the whole
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audience says Uncle I we need you on the field So I get to rush out on the field take a bottle of it one day I did it and there was this boy he was all down and groaning and and I said son fear not the Lord’s here to touch you and I anoint him and they love that anointing oil I slapped a bunch of that anointing oil He jumped to his feet and the whole crowd went wild Uh I tell you sometimes speaking to the fox publicly
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is what we need to do more of today And so he gave me that $100 I was on the field and some of our boys were doing fundraising One that I call Mr Smiley He’s got the greatest smile and he was fund raising
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I didn’t know he was fund raising uh because he was at the the uh junior varsity game but he’s senior varsity And I said Mr Smiley what you doing at the junior varsity game Are are you going to coach today He said no I’m fundraising I’m getting parents to give me their email or the leadership in the church can uh or in the school can send them the email telling how we need funds
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I said oh well come here I said somebody handed me and I reached my pocket and that was the first time I saw it it was what it was it was $100 bill And I said here take this for the fundraiser I said do you get a prize if you win in the fundraising His eyes put when he held that $100 bill said yes we get a good prize if we win Well I said I I hope you win
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the next morning I was standing in front and I was talking about generosity the generosity of the Holy Spirit in our lives And I said and and just yesterday a man gave me $100 bill and I was able to give it to Mr Smiles right there among the group and he was able to give it to the school and he was shaking his head
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and I was shocked I didn’t say anything He he was shaking his head saying I didn’t give him $100 bill I didn’t And and I was stunned So afterwards I went to him and I said Mr Smiles I gave you $100 bill yesterday and you told me it was for for the buying the equipment and such And he said no you didn’t Uncle He said you white folks say oh we black folks look alike You call two of us Mr Smiles
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I’m Mr Smiles Two I’m not Mr Smiles one And then he told me the name of the guy who was Mr Smiles it was Diggs is his name And so I got on the phone at the school and I called him up to a conference room and I said and and and the first guy I confronted he said I saw him yesterday after he came back he showed 100
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dollar bill and he was trying to cash it into $20 bills because he wanted to buy a Coke and a hamburger and some other things And I said where did you get that $100 bill And he said Uncle I gave me 100 buck He said Uncle blessed you with $100 Yes He blessed me with $100
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Learning to speak to the fox Has to start early
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Has to start when our hearts tinder
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when we’re in a learning moment And so I said Mr Diggs
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I said I was told by Mr Smiles number one
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that you
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had $100 bill and you cashed it
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and you were buying a Coke and a hamburger and you told him Uncle Lord blessed you But Mr Diggs
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didn’t I give that to you Because you told me you were collecting for the equipment fund
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for the football team
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What did you do with that $100 He said oh I took it home and and I gave it to my mother and and she’s going to uh put it in with the other uh money that’s going to be collected I said Mr Diggs I’ve already talked to coach Duron
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and he said if he lies
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I’m going to take him off the team
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and that kind of lying will get into the school and I’m gonna send him out of the school for a two week period of time So I said Mr Diggs before you answer
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here’s what coach told me to tell you is going to happen If you lie
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what did you do with that $100
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He said I spent 20 of it 80 of it is hidden in my room at home
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I said Mr Diggs because you’ve told the truth
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we’re gonna extend grace to you The next morning
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I told actually that afternoon I told Danny and the next morning he called all the guys together and there were 100 of them
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and he said here’s a teaching moment
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He said Mr Diggs
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come up here
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tell the men what you and uncle I did with that $100 and with his head down and tears running down his face he said I lied
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I stole it
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I took it
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And then he said
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because you’ve told the truth he put his arm around him and said we forgive you
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He said guys lift your hands towards him and I want all of you to say digs we forgive you
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And after that was over the next morning Diggs ran out on the football field and he’s a big guy He picked me up he hugged me
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and he said I’ve learned
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never to trust the fox
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I’ve learned to never listen to the fox
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old friends
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What have you got yourself into
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What have you got this body into
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What have you got this community into
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Because for some reason or another
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you’ve been listening to the Fox
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Are you bold enough to speak against your fears
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Are you bold enough to speak an awakening
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Are you bold enough to lay aside things that are keeping others
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from getting into the kingdom Bow your hearts in prayer
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I want to thank this church for its generosity for Linda and I
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the fine hotel room you’ve given us the food you’ve fed us
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most of all the restoration of fellowship
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being able to see those we’ve loved for years
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especially this morning
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to be able to see pastor and his grandson
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The fact that
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Buddy Hicks
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Ron
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spoke to the Fox
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over our lives over this community
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gives us the boldness as well to say you go tell that Fox I’m gonna finish my course in this church
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I’ve got a today and tomorrow and another
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it’s not finished yet Church
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father in the name of your resurrected son
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I speak to the fox that has tried to rob this fellowship this place and this community
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of its portion
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of growth
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discipleship
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and holy ghost awakening
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Send a notable miracle of boldness to speak to the fox Send a notable miracle of divine assignments again
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that bring forth
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the fulfillment of the words of Jesus I’ll finish my course father
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by your spirit and grace finish the course of this people
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by a fresh manifestation
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a fresh habitation
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of the presence of the resurrected one
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I want everybody here to come and stand with me at the front just on our final prayer and know I’m not gonna start all over preaching again
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I did not plan
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on this message
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as it has come out today We never do
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but I am convinced
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the here is a nucleus
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of hungry hearted ones
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that are ready to speak to the fox I’m trying to remember who you are
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Different ones here I see faces but I can’t remember the names
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what God does
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And I am intently focused upon this age group
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All of you have to a great extent
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built yourselves up for this generation
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You have been speaking to the fox for years
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Give us victory in the next generation
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I told you folk and I I I I don’t wanna keep it long I told you folk that I selected all of my son in laws
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three daughters throughout the world I went looking when they were little girls I told them I’ll find your husband for you And I told the young people on Friday didn’t I
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I found the husbands for the first two
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But I said I’ll tell about the third one
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The uniqueness of the she’s the most famous because she has given us seven of our 11 grandchildren
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She and her husband Doctor Ryan Divens is a math professor in East Tennessee State University in uh Johnson City Tennessee
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And she has worked as a teacher for autistic Children
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but now she’s got seven of her own Children So that’s her main goal in calling now
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And the way that son in law came into our family was a total disagreement on my part
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I didn’t want him
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because I didn’t see him as God saw him
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I didn’t see him
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in what he was to become
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the father of seven
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of my awesome grandchildren
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There’s something that’s going on here that you need to set aside and that is everything from the past is not going to create what the future is not everything
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it is the now faith moment
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It’s the now faith that arises in these young hearts in these grandchildren that we have I’m leaving for Israel
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and I’m taking my daughter of seven grandchildren
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and her husband the phd I’m taking them to Israel with me because I’m investing in their future
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When he first came into my daughter’s life I did what I’ve done with all of my girls I take a picture of them sitting on the couch the one they want think that they want to go with Because before I selected their husbands they they did have friendship dating They they were allowed to go out to mcdonald’s with other friends But I would bring them to the house I would take a picture of them and then I would go into my closet of prayer with a pair of scissors
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And I would cut that boy out of the picture
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I would say Holy Spirit help me with these cutters And I would cut out the picture of the boy if he wasn’t the right one But this one that came along
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and here’s the important thing
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Something new is coming along
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something new is going to enter this fellowship
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And God has given you an opportunity to speak to the fox because nobody wants the new They keep wanting to go back to the old
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So I took the picture of he and and Tanya my daughter and I went into the closet of prayer and I took the scissors and I was prepared I don’t like him
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but I couldn’t move it
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My hand was frozen
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I couldn’t cut him out So I said well maybe I’m just too disturbed I’ll wait a little while longer And every time I went into the closet I could not cut him out My hand was frozen
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God’s going to get something in here
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because it won’t let you cut out
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the ability he’s given you to speak to the fox Hold your hands out In fact make a cup make a cup of your hands
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Those of you at the old Trinity
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remember that this is how I led you in prayer many times
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I said make a cup of your hands
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I want you to humble your heart as I’m doing with mine Now
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close yourself in personally with Jesus
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as our young guitarist said don’t worry about what’s going on around you
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and what others are doing
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Put your focus
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on Jesus who said today and tomorrow
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and at any other time I’m going to finish my work
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I want you to pray this prayer from your heart
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Come holy spirit
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feel my heart
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and feel my hands
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with fresh boldness
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to speak to the fox
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that has tried to rob us
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and trick us cunningly
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away from the things of the spirit
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the things of destiny
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and the prophetic word
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over our fellowship
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We declare now
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that the prophetic word
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we’ll bring fruit
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that will abound for the glory of God
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We want a time of refreshing
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for us Uniquely
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we’ve heard of the 99 others
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But you said you came seeking the one
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We are the one
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who wants that fresh word
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and that clarity of who we are
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in The Lord Jesus
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come holy spirit
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and give us notable miracles
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that come from the hand of God
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And we know it’s Him
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May every story Jesus told
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resonate within us
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and come to life
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in our community
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The lame walking again
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the bitter singing a song of joy The prisoner being set free
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the multitudes being fed
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Give them to us
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in the name of the resurrected Christ
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I lift both hands high Now
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come Holy Spirit and fall upon us
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with a sense of purpose
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and divine destiny
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Lift those hands high Young people come Holy Spirit
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in Jesus name Now friends cry out the hunger in your heart with your hands lifted up
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receive fresh boldness in Christ Father bring forth bring forth in this heart in Jesus
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Jesus name just lift up your voice in the spirit So now so just turn it into a speech of praise just simply the Holy Spirit is upon you
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The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is now wanting to speak to you through praise Yeah you don’t need to yell Now would you do this for me Just allow the spirit to pray to you in the language he’s given to you the same way
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Pray it out because it’s in you And your generation pray in the spirit Sister pray in the spirit as an act of faith is within you That language is within you That’s the that’s it Just speak it out That’s it Don’t be shy even if you sound like a little baby That’s it That’s the
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that’s your language You speak it out That’s it That’s the Holy Spirit speak it like a prayer prayer Use it use that new language Use it as a song to Jesus It is a song to Jesus A song of worship Keep praying it set your spirit
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free set the creative free inside of you Keep praying in that new language That’s your spirit praying out to Jesus going directly to his throne room That’s it Just tell Jesus how you love him with that new language That’s it
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Oh Father bless these young people bless this church with a revival of youth bless this church with a revival in the hearts of youth
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stir up child like faith again in this church
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let the examples of these young leaders
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show forth love affection
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and generosity
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to this younger generation
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Father calls this young man to be a disciple maker extraordinary
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So I don’t want you to pray in the spirit the language God’s given to you pray in the spirit as an act of faith The Holy Spirit is with you I knew that there was something you needed today something deeper something more refreshing
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just pray it Now that’s it The Holy Spirit is within you You have the spirit of Christ within you Now he wants you to pray in the language of love Yes he no matter if it sounds like baby talk that’s it Pray it out That’s your language
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Just turn loose that language of praise God’s going to use you as a powerful disciple maker She manifest your presence in this young leader Fill him up Lord see yourself worshiping at the feet of Jesus with this new language of love
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Pray in that language It’s refreshing you it’s strengthening you fill this church up with worshipers in the spirit and with the power of the notable miracles that they are Receive his grace in Jesus mighty name
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receive fresh grace Pastor I turn it to you
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Thank you so much
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Let’s just uh before I wanna keep praying but let’s just pray for Irvin and Ruth or Linda I think Rutherford Um but lord we just lift up Irvin and Linda to you right now Lord God Lord their heart for the kingdom their heart for the Lord their heart Lord God to see a breakthrough to see not just a national but an international breakthrough to see the nations have a sweeping revival Lord God I just pray Lord God that you would just open
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up even new doors that you would open up new opportunities Lord God that you would make their words like fire Lord God that would ignite Lord God in generations Lord God I just pray Lord God that there would be an awakening all over this earth Lord God that these nations that they hold dear Lord God these Asian nations that they hold dear Lord God the enemy of the fox has said that all of these unjust wicked systems will rule But lord we stand in agreement and
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say before the name of the Lord they shall fall and the kingdom of God shall arise The kingdom of justice and righteousness shall arise in the muddy name of Jesus That among the youth Lord among the youth among those that seem like they have no power and strength will be a generation that will storm the throne of heaven and they will call down fire from heaven And we will see that before the spirit of the Lord All of these strongholds are nothing
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the mighty name of Jesus And Lord we do speak to that fox Lord God that has tried to rob destiny over every member of this church We speak to the fox that has tried to hinder people from coming in that has spoken lies and deceptions and that has spoke bondage We just break it in the mighty name of Jesus We break every lie of the enemy We break every oppression of the enemy We break every scoffing doubting
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unbelieving spirit in the mighty name of Jesus And we speak fire We speak life we speak victory in the name of Jesus and we speak to our nation and we decry there will be a generation that will restore the fear of the Lord We speak that a generation is arising that will restore the fear of God Lord there’s more power in the name of Jesus than all the power of the devil than all the power of sin And we just speak Lord God
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there will be a great harvest among the LGBT Q There will be a great harvest among those that are broken and lost and those Lord God that see no hope and see no future We speak Lord God revival Lord God to this nation we speak revival to this community We speak revival to this church in the mighty name of Jesus Hallelujah Lord Hallelujah Lord amen
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Well may the grace of God be with you but we’re not done We I’m gonna invite the prayer team up and if you are hungry don’t leave here until your hunger is satisfied in Jesus Christ and and don’t and you don’t need to just come up for prayer You can grab somebody and pray but do not leave if you are still hungry for more
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But if you if the Lord has called you to go on may the grace of God be with us all May his holy spirit move through us and may this world experience a tsunami of the holy spirit going forth out of our innermost being because Jesus is enthroned in our hearts Amen
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