Taking God Seriously Changes What Happens Next

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Thank you for joining me this week on Solid As They Come Podcast, where we journey into the presence of God, break strongholds, and discover and experience the love of Yahweh.
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Ephesians 3.19 in the New Living Translation says, may you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to fully understand.
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Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
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The goal is not to be perfect, but to trust in, to believe in, the perfect love of Jesus, the realest love you will ever experience.
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Spirit of the living God fall afresh on us.
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Let's put in some work.
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I think you should know that, Paul told Timothy.
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I got something important that I think you should know.
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Y'all, don't let that go over your head.
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This ain't nothing small.
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This is the love of God in motion.
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God gave it to Paul, and Paul gave it to Timothy.
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He gave him a heads up so he wouldn't be blindsided by some things that was about to go down.
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This heads up is the love of God in motion.
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But watch this.
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The love and the warning is no good if you don't believe it.
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You should know this.
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It can imply that the information that's about to be said is crucial for the listener to have and to understand.
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The apostle Paul and God wants us to understand how important this information is.
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And I pray that prayer today, that everything that God gave me to preach to you today, that you listened and it was clear enough for you to have an understanding of it.
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Watch this.
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There's power to produce a different outcome if you believe the information that's given to you.
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Oh my God.
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Preach PD, there's power to produce a different outcome if you believe the information that's given to you.
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Watch this from a reliable source.
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Lord, make me a reliable source.
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Remember a couple weeks ago we talked a little bit about unbelief.
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The right information from the right source.
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Watch this.
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It can give you peace.
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The right information from a reliable source.
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It can give you deliverance.
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It can give you a fresh start.
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I got one true source that I get my information from.
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And this reliable source hasn't ever gave me bad information.
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And all the information that it gives is true.
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That information comes from the B-I-B-L-E by the way of the Spirit of God.
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The info coming from the Bible and the Spirit of God is powered by the whole truth.
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But it only has power in your life if you believe it.
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You can listen to me, you can listen to other preachers all day long.
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But if you don't believe that we are a reliable source, then there's no transfer of power to your spirit according to the power that works in us.
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I don't know about you, but I trust God.
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Serious faith.
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Serious trust.
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Serious sacrifice.
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A serious life in Christ brings the serious results of God.
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Oh my God, preach BD, I just might.
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I'm gonna say it one more time.
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Serious faith.
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Serious trust.
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Serious sacrifice.
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A serious life in Christ brings the serious results of God.
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Some people get into this and it don't work for them.
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Watch this.
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You have to be serious about God.
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Because God takes you serious.
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He takes your pain serious.
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He takes your hurt serious.
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He takes your life serious.
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The only thing that he's asking is you take him serious.
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Come on, somebody.
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Preach BDIM preaching.
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Serious faith, serious trust, serious sacrifice, a serious life in Christ brings the serious results of God.
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And from that, you get the serious grace of God.
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You get the serious mercy of God.
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You get the serious healing of God.
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Man, God is so serious about your deliverance.
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God is so serious about loving you.
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Come on, somebody.
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Watch this.
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You know what serious grace is?
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This is what serious grace from God is.
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That power that works in you to what?
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To change you, to transform you.
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For you to be able to be free to move different.
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For you to be able to be free to think different.
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For you to be a witness to the goodness of the Lord.
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Do I have a witness that when you take God serious, God will take you serious.
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He will take your faith serious.
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And watch this.
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God will give you what you need to transform, to change, to be free.
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He'll set you free.
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Oh my God.
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And it also brings on, watch this, the serious mercy of God.
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This is what the serious mercy of God is.
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The serious mercy of God is the power that works in you.
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Watch this to keep you out the way.
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Oh my God.
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Did you hear what I just said?
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The serious mercy of God is the power that works in you to keep you out the way.
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That's when God, watch this, don't miss this.
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That's when God puts a restriction on the storms of life, the stuff that used to get you can't get you like it used to.
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The hurt, the pain that used to hurt you, it can't hurt you like that no more.
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Why?
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Because God has put a restriction on it.
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God has given you the power.
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Watch this to get out the way.
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God, He's moved your feelings and moved your emotions out the way.
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And He's replaced it with faith.
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Oh my God.
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So the stuff that used to get you, it can't get you no more.
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When they lie on you, the mercy of God will give you peace.
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God mercy, watch this, allows you to keep moving.
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God's mercy allows you to keep living.
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God's mercy allows you to keep having joy even when it hurts.
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Oh my God.
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It's the mercy of God.
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Amen.
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And wherever the mercy of God is, you best believe that the love of God is right around the corner.
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And it's the love of God, the power, the serious love of God that works in you.
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Watch this.
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It brings the healing that you need, it brings the deliverance that you need.
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It keeps you with hope that can't be broken.
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Oh my God.
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When you take God seriously, God will drop some serious grace on you, some serious mercy on you, some serious healing on you, some serious deliverance on you.
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Watch this.
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And he'll wrap you in some serious love.
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Ephesians 3 20.
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Don't forget the text now to him who is able to do.
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Let me stop right there.
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Somebody ought to be testifying right about now because they know he is able.
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It's some ex-dope boys that can drop the dope, put some Jesus on their life 10 and 20 years ago, and still live by faith.
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They take their life in Christ serious.
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It's some ex-alcoholics, some ex-prostitutes, some ex-crack smokers, some ex-thieves, some ex-atheists that know he's able.
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How you know, PD?
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Because I know them all.
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And I know one of the reasons that they still put some Jesus on their life years later is because they take the relationship with the Lord serious.
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I just swung by just to tell you to take it serious.
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I feel the Spirit of God moving now to him who is able to do abundantly above all that we ask or think.
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How many know that he can do it?
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If you believe that he can do it, have you put the part of your life, you know, that part that feels like something's missing?
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That part of life that feels like it just needs to be worked on, that part of life that feels like there's no love there, there's no trust there, there's no understanding there.
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That part of life, have you put that part of life out for the Spirit of God to work on?
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All right, hold on, hold on.
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Let me challenge you.
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What do you go to church for?
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Why do you do it?
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Why do you pray?
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What do you do it for?
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What do you read the word of God for?
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Why do you do it?
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Watch this.
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It's in your answer that will reveal the power that works in you.
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Come on, somebody, go back to the text in Ephesians 3 20.
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It says at the end, according to the power that works in us.
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How serious are you taking the preached word of God after you hear it?
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How serious are you taking your prayer after you pray it?
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How serious are you taking the word of God after you read it according to the power that works in us?
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Okay, let's rest right here.
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What's working in you?
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Because what you do after you hear it, after you pray it, after you read it, will determine what you get from it.
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Come on, somebody.
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The power that works in a child of God is from the faith you put in your relationship with God, from the confidence you put in your relationship with God, from the trust that you put in your relationship with God.
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2 Corinthians 5 7 in the Amplified Bible says this for we walk by faith.
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That's the power, not by sight.
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Watch this.
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I know him, and I know he's able to do it.
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I haven't got it yet, but I know it is coming.
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But we walk by faith, not by sight, living our lives in a manner consistent with our confident belief in God's promises, and I trust God, I believe God, I believe in the promises of God, I believe in the word of God.
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Come on, somebody, let me drop this in your spirit, the power that works in you, the faith that works in you, the trust that works in you is what brings the goodness of God to your life.
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I pray you got it in your spirit by now.
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Now, unto him who is able to do, he can do it.
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Alright, listen to me.
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Lean in, lean in.
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Before I say what I'm gonna say, I'm gonna read you this scripture.
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Jeremiah 29.11 in the NLT.
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For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.
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They are plans for good and not for disaster.
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To give you a future and a hope.
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Always remember when you get it from God, it is gonna be good and not for disaster.
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It's always gonna bring you, watch this, a future and a hope.
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If you get it from God, it's gonna be the best way to get it.
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Alright, now let me drop this in your spirit.
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God might not do it the way you want it done.
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That doesn't mean he can't do it.
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That just means that he done scoped out the scene of your life.
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The way you want it done is gonna leave some leftovers.
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It might leave some baggage, it might leave some hurt, it might leave some stress, it might leave some depression, it might leave some people that need to go.
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But when God do it, come on, somebody, preach PD.
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I thought that's what I've been doing.
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But when God do it, he's gonna get it all.
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When God brings the answer to your life, mountains have to move.
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Psalms 34 and 19, NLT.
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The righteous person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.
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You might have to go through some things, you might have to go through some challenges, but the word of God says, whoo, according to the power that works in us.
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And it's that power that's gonna attract God.
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And when that power attracts God, the righteous person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.
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Oh my God, when the Spirit of God set up shop in your life, it's gonna happen exceedingly and abundantly above what you thought or what you asked for.
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It might not happen the way you want it to, or when you want it to.
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But Jeremiah 29 and 11 tells us that when it does happen, when God's plan for you starts to manifest, it will bring with it good future and good hope.
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This is where you start living by serious faith and watch God start taking old things out of your life and start bringing new things in.
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2 Corinthians 5, 17.
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This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.
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Watch this.
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The old life is gone.
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No time for depression, no time for stress, no time for foolishness, no time to waste time anymore.
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This means that anyone who belongs to Christ, that's why you've been going to church, right?
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That's why you've been praying, right?
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That's why you've been reading the word of God, right?
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That's why you said you gave your life to Christ, right?
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Come on, somebody.
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This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.
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The old life is gone, a new life has begun.
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Come on, somebody.
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Let me work with 2 Corinthians 5.17 for a minute on my way out.
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2 Corinthians 5.17 means separation.
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It means when you leave, you leave and don't go back.
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It means you're serious about becoming a new version of you in Christ by way of God separating you from previous influences that hurt instead of help, that always take and give nothing.
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When you're willing to take the next step, God will expose you to new possibilities, to new options.
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Watch this, Ephesians chapter 3, verse 20, King James Version.
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He will expose you to exceedingly, abundantly above all that you ask or think.
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But you have to be willing to take the next step and be serious about it, according to the power that works in you.
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What are you working with on the inside?
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I pray that it's hope.
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I pray that it's faith.
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I pray that it's confidence.
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I pray that it is the word of God.
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I told you I wasn't going to hold you long.
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I just swung by it to tell you take the things of God serious and watch God take your serious faith and give you serious results.
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If you haven't given your life to Christ, say this with me.
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Lord Jesus, come into my heart and save me.
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I believe that you live, you died on the cross for my sins, and that God has raised you from the dead.
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I accept the free gift of salvation in my life.
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Lord, I give my life to you.
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Lord, use me.
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Father God, thank you for the bridge of reconciliation that came by way of the cross and by way of the resurrection.
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God, release that same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead in my life.
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In Jesus' name, I pray.
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Let me put some Bible on it before I leave.
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Romans chapter 10, starting off at verse 8, says this.
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In fact, it says, the message is very close at hand.
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It is on your lips and in your heart.
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And that message is the very message about faith that we preach.
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If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God.
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And it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.
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As the scripture tells us, anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.
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Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect.
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They have the same Lord who gives generously to all who call on him.
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For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
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And I believe that by faith.
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And I pray that you do too.
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Thank you for listening to this message.
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Remember, the key point was simply taking God serious, taking your faith serious, taking prayer, taking the word of God, taking the preached word of God serious.
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Taking God serious will give you serious results.
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Because what if the missing piece isn't putting in more human effort?
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But what if it was taking God more seriously?
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Serious enough to trust his word over your feelings, serious enough to trust his word over your emotions, serious enough to trust his word over what it looks like.
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Because remember, why do you pray?
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Why do you read the word of God?
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What do you expect after you hear the word of God?
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The power that works within you is revealed by what you do next.
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God bless you.
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I pray that the word of God was a blessing.
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I thank everyone for your support.
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And remember, hit that send me a text and send me what's on your heart.
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As I'm about to make my exit, remember, we're gonna win together.
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And until next week, family and friends, keep it solid.
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I used to have my head afraid of what they'd see.
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If we mark everyone that try to keep what no one else could see.
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I don't wear out face a tower.
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So my heart you were at my if it's got a test and devil's customer.