You were created for relationship with God. Through daily prayer and listening to His voice, you can experience the love and guidance He has for you.
We we also said in Ephesians-3, Paul was praying something and he prayed that we would know the love of God that surpasses knowledge. And that's interesting. Right? Because we realize, wait a second, we can know something that our knower don't quite understand yet. We we also realize the way that we do that is our heart can receive what our brain isn't ready for.
Right? And a lot of times, that's the walk of faith. God will tell you to do something, and you don't understand why. And if you wait until you understand why, it's probably too late. So you have to receive his word knowing that he loves you and that he's good and take a step of faith out of trust.
And then after that, after the obedience, you realize why it happened and the understanding happened so that you can take the same steps over and over and over. Willingness to receive before you get it. It's a walk of faith because you trust his love for you. There's some people in here fighting that 1. If you don't wait if if you have to wait until your mind understands before you walk walk it out, it's just a signal that you don't really trust that he loves you.
If you know what you need to do and you don't understand all of why, but you know God's saying to do it and you're not gonna you're not gonna take a step until you can comprehend all of the whys, you need to grow in your understanding of God's love for you. I don't know how else to put that. Okay. Well, let's keep going. We also took a deep look at Hebrews-11:6, and it says this, without faith, it is impossible to please God.
For the 1 who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he's a rewarder of those who seek him. Amen? Amen. Now, I grew up memorizing that verse and the version that I memorized, I don't know if it was NIV or King James version, but a couple of different versions say, without faith it's impossible to please God because in order to draw near to him, you must believe that he exists and he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. Yeah.
Do you guys remember that? I always had a trouble with that word. You know why I had trouble with that word? Because diligently seeking him seemed like pleasing God was based on my effort, was based on me working hard enough in order to seek him. And if I worked hard enough and I sought him hard enough and I sought him long enough or consistently enough, then God would be pleased because it would be real faith.
The problem with that is, in the Greek, the original text that was written, the word diligently is not there. Your faith is not based on your work. It's not bait now now catch this. It's not based on your work. It's based on Jesus' finished work.
It's based on His *grace* and the gospel of grace. Grace means getting what you don't deserve. You can't earn God's pleasure. You can't work hard enough in order for God to be pleased with you. No.
*Faith* is based on "God's initiation" and on what God did. And because it's relationship, there has to be a response. So God initiates. Remember Hebrews-11:6. Faith comes by hearing, so God initiates by speaking to us.
And, there must be response. Without response, it's not relationship. And, the response is obedience, by the way. Think about a father and a son. Me and my boy, I wanna teach him to play catch, so I'm teaching him to play catch.
If I just initiate, I grab the my glove and the ball and I throw the ball to him. He's like, oh, dad. Thanks for throwing the ball, but he doesn't respond. He doesn't catch the ball and throw it back. There's no there's gonna be no growth.
There's gonna be no relationship when it when it comes to baseball. You understand? He's got to receive what I threw at him and throw it back. How? By imitating his father, by seeing the way that I threw the ball and then doing the same thing the best that he can at the time.
And so then the father catches the ball. I catch the ball and I throw it back to him. And the more that we do that, the more he receives and repeats what he saw, the more he'll be like his daddy in the game of catch. Yeah? *Ephesians-5:1*, be imitators of God as dearly loved children.
God initiates the relationship by speaking to us and showing his love. We respond by receiving his love and loving him back. Our love is not first. It's based on his love. We love because he first loved us.
We see, we receive, and we respond. Then he draws near to us, and then we draw near to him, and then he speaks again. We see, we hear, we receive, we respond. In doing that, we're drawing near. He draws near to us, and it's an endless cycle of an ever growing deeper relationship with the King of Kings.
Yeah? It's not just coming to church on Sunday, guys. Excuse me. So we learned last week, once again, that his drawing near to us requires 2 things, must. It says, you must believe.
That word must, by the way, in the original text is is the same word for bind. Like, so faith is bound to believing he exists and it's bound to believing that he's a rewarder of those who seek him. It's bound to believing that what he says is better for than you better for you than what you believe in the moment and you're gonna trust him. Without those 2 things, it's not faith. Okay?
So we when he speaks in relationship, it's not just when you were born again, but it's a continued thing. Let me tell you where that word diligently comes in. You know why those translations said diligently? You guys wanna hear that? Yes.
Okay. He's a rewarder of those who seek him. In the original text, the word for seek is present continuous. Alright. So, tense participle.
And present tense in the Greek, just follow me here. Present tense in the Greek is continuous, meaning it's an ongoing action. It's not just a 1 time thing and it's done. So, the seeking Him in relationship is an ongoing action. So, I heard His voice, I received it in the beginning, and I was born again.
And if that was real, then I'm not going to quit forever and just say, was good because I walked an aisle 1 day, and and maybe got some water sprinkled on me when I was a kid. No. I'm going to continuously seek him because that is faith. So it's a continued it's a continued walk in relationship with him. So I hear his voice and I believe that he exists, I believe that what he said was was him, I believe that it was God, and I believe that what he was saying is more beneficial for me now than what I was doing or what I wasn't doing.
So I follow him, but then I don't stop there and get all happy about it and say, I'm done following God now. No. I continue to do it for the rest of my life, day in, day out, moment by moment. That's a relationship with Jesus Christ. That kind of walking and hearing his voice is not just for the pastor.
It's for every born again believer. You are supposed to be growing every single day in your understanding of his love, and your understanding of how to hear his voice, and your willingness to follow him because you believe that what he said is better for you than what you're doing in every area of your life. And we said last week, I promise I'm a I'm a get to the short part of the the new message today. And we said last week that there's 4 lies, areas of lies that a lot of times we deal with that prevent us from doing that in different areas. 1 was pride.
Right? Pride prevents us because we believe a lie that we're the center of the universe. And if God doesn't do it exactly how I want it to be done, then then I don't have to do it. We believe a lie that we're the center of the universe or our insecurities, our our self, or we're so focused on self, and God opposes the proud. He opposes the proud not because he hates you, but because he loves you, because he doesn't want you to live for you.
You're not created to. You're created to live for him. So, he opposes you in your pride, so you'll be broken of self, so you'll look to him and live as you're created to. Amen? And then, said fear.
There's a lot of people that live a life of timidity and fear based on saying that's my personality. Right? I just wanna step on your toe a little bit because I love you. It's if you're a Christian, then it's no longer you who live, but Christ who lives in you. And Christ didn't give you the spirit of fear or the spirit of timidity, some versions say, but he gave you the spirit of love, power, and a sound mind.
Therefore, even though your normal habit back in the day would have been not to talk to people or not to do things in public or not to whatever, that's okay. That's who you used to be. But, the Holy Spirit, if those people need to be loved, he will challenge you. You'll have the thought to step out of your comfort zone and go do what he wants you to do instead of what you've always done. Your choice is, wait, believe that God exists, that that is actually his word to me, and believe that what he's saying is beneficial for me and for them.
And, if you do that, that's called walk walking by faith. If you don't, that means you're continuing to believe the lie of who you used to be is still who you are. That make sense? So, there's no fear in love. You're perfectly loved by him.
So, you can do things that you never would have done as empowered by his supernatural spirit that's in you. Amen? Amen. Fear is another lie that keeps us from walking in faith, tying us to who we used to be instead of who he says we are today. Condemnation, believing simply believing our past, what we've done and what we didn't do defines who we are, or what was done to us defines who we are instead of realizing we're a born again believer and not letting those lies of the enemy define who we are because our sins have been washed as far as the East is from the West from us.
Amen? So, we're clean and we're holy and that's what his word says and we're gonna put our faith in his word instead of what he what we think about us. We're gonna change our thoughts to what he says about us. And then, said, shame as well. Believing what other people say about us and our failures and our mishaps and believing that defines who we are instead of who he says that we are.
Those are the lies that prevents us from walking in faith. Amen? Amen. Alright. So now, the only way the only way that you're going to continue to follow him and what he has for you next is by continuously remembering what he's already done for you and what he's already done in the world and what he's always already done for other people.
There's a lot of people that are prevented from moving forward and here's some new stuff. There's a lot of people that are preventing from moving forward in this area of their life or in this area of their life. Because instead of focusing on what God has done, remembering what he has done in their life, or remembering what he has done in the world, or remembering what he has done in your friend's life, they focus on what he hasn't done. And by remembering what he hasn't done, you're building faith in what he can't do. You won't continue to seek him if you have your expectations set on this 1 healing, this 1 blessing, this 1 area of deliverance, this 1 area in your life that needs to be.
You won't continue seeking him if you have all your expectations set on that. And then, when that doesn't go exactly how you wanted it, you'll see it as God messed up. You'll blame him for what he didn't do and it will give you a license to not continue to seek him in that area of your life. Am I stepping on toes here? I love you.
That's why I'm telling you this. I care about you. I want you to walk in faith. I want you to walk in faith based on what he has done knowing that he will do. Because you have to remember, just because he didn't heal that person or heal you or just because he didn't work exactly as you prayed for with that job promotion or that thing that you had all your hopes set on and you'd fasted and prayed for and it just didn't happen.
Just because, you know, this person didn't give their life to Jesus when you wanted it to, or just because you didn't experience him the way that you wanted to at that church, or just because this or this didn't have this. If you set all of your expectations, all your prayers on him working exactly in that way, when it doesn't happen, you'll have a reason to blame God. And you won't call it blaming God. You'll call it something else. But in your heart, you won't seek him the same way in that area because your focus is on what he didn't do.
Let me give you an analogy just to drive this home. I'm playing ball with my son again. You guys see it. Right? And for any dads out there, if you've ever taught your kids how to a skill, you know, specifically with athletics.
If you ever taught them how to play ball, baseball, soccer, football, whatever it is. When you first start, you know, you throw the baseball and you're trying to hit their glove, you're trying to just hit it right in the pocket. And when you throw it, you throw it a little high just right here. And they don't know to move their glove yet. And so they miss it.
And you know what they say? Dad, you throw it too high. Now, it's not your fault. But in their immaturity and inexperience, they're blaming you. Dad's trying to train him.
But in their immaturity and in their inexperience, they're blaming you because they don't understand yet. You guys follow me? So then, what do you do? You throw it again, and you get it right that time. It hits the glove, but he didn't close it, so it just falls out.
Dad, you threw it too hard. Is it daddy's fault? In his eyes, it is. But in reality, I'm trying to train them. So they then my my son, Trip, has a choice.
He can get frustrated, blame me, pitch a fit, throw the glove down, and go inside. Is he ever gonna learn? No. He can realize that his dad loves him and wants to train him and say, hey, dad. I don't know why that didn't happen.
What do I need to do? If he's not willing to learn, he'll never grow. If he's always blaming daddy, he'll never grow. God loves you and God cares for you and his love is a love that surpasses knowledge. And, these things that have happened in your life, God doesn't steal, kill or destroy.
And, the things that you've been blaming him for, he probably didn't do. Some of you hadn't been in church in a long time because the church was all screwed up and you blame God for what the church did. It was people. It wasn't God. And and and just because I love you, you can get offended at me for this, but I'm telling you because I love you.
And if you get offended, walk away okay. But you're blessed. But the things that you've been blaming God for was your fault. Some of them some of them were other people. Things that other people did to you.
And, some of them, it was the enemy stealing, killing, and destroying from you. Stop blaming God and ask God, how do we overcome? What is it? How do I need to see this differently? How do I need to look at this differently?
Do I need to move my glove up? Do I need to close my glove? What do I need to do so that I can walk forward with you in this area of my life instead of shrinking back in condemnation shame for your guilt or just anger which is proud pride at God. Amen? So, it's humility and repentance.
Oh, Father God, I don't understand, and I can have peace that I don't understand in this area. And even though I don't understand, I can continue to seek you. That's called faith. Continuing seeking God. It's continuous.
Remember? So, can continue to seek you even in my lack of understanding because I trust that you're good and what you're saying is better for me than my lack of understanding in that area. So, you can go back to church because that's something he wants you to do. So, you can continue to tithe. That's something we so, you can continue to pray for people.
Something he wants you to do. So, you can continue to get in your word even though you didn't understand it the last time and you asked him, God, would you give me wisdom? And, you read it and it was like words on a page. Wait. I'm gonna stand that in what you said.
You said when I asked, you will give me wisdom. I don't know why I didn't have it yet, but I know that it will happen. I'm gonna continue seeking you even in my lack of understanding. Yeah? Amen?
So that means we need to change our mindset from an expectation to expectancy. Because every time you have an expectation and it doesn't go exactly as you expect, you're gonna get disappointed. But since we're in relationship with a God that we don't completely understand yet, but we're growing in our understanding and we can just trust that we love him, then in everything, when we walk in relationship with him, we can have a sense of expectancy. Meaning, God, I don't know what you're gonna do. I have a sense of what I think you're gonna do, and I think it's gonna be awesome.
But, I know whatever you do is gonna be awesome because you love me, and I can trust you. So, I can walk into this service knowing you're gonna move in some way, and I can't wait to see So, I can walk into this hospital room knowing that you're gonna move in some way, and I'm gonna trust you no matter the outcome. So, I can live and this job that I don't know, you know, what the future is or this whatever it is, I don't know what the future is, with a sense of expectancy knowing that your word says all things work together for good for those that love you and are called according to his purpose. And I love you. So somehow, even this situation I don't understand, I can stand in your love and your truth and continue to seek you even when it doesn't look like it's going my way because it ain't about me anyway.
Or you can say, no, want it my way. I'm a be mad, I'm a be sad, and I'm gonna go live however I wanna live. Please don't do that. Because that's the 6 year old who who missed the ball and blamed God. So how how do we and this is where we transition into what the next series is gonna be.
How do we continue to have that mindset? It's by being intentional to remember not what God hasn't done, but despite what we think God hasn't done. Being intentional to remember what he has done. Testimony. It's important.
And I told you guys this last week, and I'm gonna tell you again. This right here, it's the testimony of Jesus. There's a scripture we got coming up. 2 Timothy-3:16-17. Watch this.
All scripture is breathed out by God. Spoken all scripture. Why? It's profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training that the man of God may be complete and equipped for every good work. All scriptures breathed out by God.
It means it's his word. Now, in John-1, it says, in the beginning was the word. The word was with God and the word was God. John-1:14, it says, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. That means the Word became Jesus.
Jesus. Jesus always was and is. I'm not saying that. But Jesus is the Word incarnate, the embodiment of the Word. So, this testimony is supposed to lead you into a deeper understanding of who Jesus is.
And, I wanna repeat something again that I said last week. I want you to catch it so that you can tell your friends about it. The Pharisees read the Old Testament, which was the embodied was was Jesus. It's the word. Jesus is the Old Testament fulfilled.
They read it and they memorized it better than I know this word. Way better. And because they didn't do it in relationship with God, when the embodiment of what they had memorized showed up, they rejected him and crucified him. It's not about dead words on a page. It's about this "living word" that you're living and reading in relationship with the heavenly Father and letting it become alive.
Now, what that means is I'm reading it by faith. And so, what I'm seeing on the pages of scripture, I realize are not just history, but they're showing me the character and the nature and the love of who God is and that He wants to do those same things that He did in the past in and through my life. That's how I read Scripture. That's why it says James-5:16, 17, 18, 19, Elijah was a man just like us, a person just like we are. And he prayed it wouldn't rain and it didn't rain for 3 years.
And he prayed it would and it did. People read them and like, oh, that's good for Elijah. That's cool. It's a great story. I'm re I read that and I'm like, wow, God, do that in me.
You did it in him. You can do it through me so the world can see your glory more clearly through me. Americans read it and they're like, oh, that but but you know, only Jesus could do stuff like that. But other believers around the world read it and realize 1 John-4:17 says, in this world, we are like Jesus. What if we read the Bible as something that could actually happen in our lives?
I'm gonna share a testimony with you. Step out on a limb here and share all my testimonies with you yet. But you can you can hear this testimony and say, or you can hear this testimony and say, See, I'm not God didn't do this just because I'm a pastor or whatever standing on his God did this because I'm his son and I believe his word. I was in Mexico with a youth group. Spiritual is real.
And we go into the city of Takash and the kids are supposed to share their testimonies and preach the gospel. About 17, 18 kids, 4 or 5 adults. And in Mexico, man, they they blasted super. You think this is loud? They blasted loud to the whole city here.
Is that, you know, whether or not they come. So we set up all of our equipment on a stage in the middle of the city, and these kids are sharing the gospel. And it starts like, the rain cloud comes and it starts sprinkling our equipments there. And I get up on the on the microphone and I say, in the name of Jesus, rain stop. It was a hurricane.
That was a different time. So that's another testimony. I'm not telling my wife to be quiet. Just she's sharing another testimony. I ain't ready for it yet.
Alright. I say in the name of Jesus, rain stopped, and the rain stopped. And they kept they kept sharing their testimony. About 30 minutes later, it started sprinkling again. Now listen to this.
This is some Bible stuff. It's not because I'm special. It's because I have Jesus in me. Who's got Jesus in them? Alright.
It started to sprinkle again, and I heard in my heart that this is witchcraft. There's a lot of witches in the city. And so I get up on the microphone, the whole city to hear. And I say in the name of Jesus, every curse that every witch has spoken over this place and over these kids and what's going on, I command it to go back to you as a blessing. God loves you.
Rain stopped and it stopped. And the kids continued. And it was amazing and wonderful. It was awesome. And then right afterwards, you can roll your eyes at this if you want.
That's fine. Right afterwards, we went to a mountain top that was overlooking the place and there was a place where it looked like sacrifices and stuff were done near to it. And the youth, we were doing a conference at night. And the youth prayed over the city. And they prayed that the witches would come to our conference and come to know Jesus, be saved.
And the next night, a witch came, and she was born again. Came to know Jesus. I'm sharing testimony with you on purpose to show you this is not just some Sunday thing that you do. This is a relationship with the God of the universe. And you can believe it and receive it and know that he loves you and he cares for you and he can work in and through your life and man whatever's going on in your life right now, "God is your healer", he's your deliverer, he cares for you and he's real.
And that's real. Or you can say, nah, it's God's fault. Please don't do that. I want to do something with you as we close the next 5 minutes. I want to take communion because communion is remembering what God has done.
It's a testimony. It's a a lot of times, there's a physical representation of a spiritual reality and communion. Christ made it as a memorial so that you can remember as we take it what Christ has done for you and believe not just that what he did 2000 years ago was cool, but what he did 2000 years years ago matters for your life today. Before we take communion, I wanna give opportunity for people to know Jesus and be born again. Would everybody bow their head and close their eyes real quick?
Just just to give people nope. Just yeah. If as I'm talking about this, you realize you don't have a relationship with Jesus Christ. And, you know, you realize that he loves you. And and and you realize that you need to know him in a real way.
I ask people all the time if they've ever been born again. I I will first I say, have you ever believed in Jesus? And they say, yeah, I believe in Jesus. Even demons believe in Jesus. Then I asked them, have they ever been born again?
And most people I ask personally say, no. And I invite them. The Bible says, can't see the kingdom of God. You can't know God in the way that I'm talking about unless you've been born again. I'm not talking about being water baptized or sprinkled or whatever.
Baptism is important, but you have to be born again. And, that comes when you believe Jesus died on the cross for your sin. He rose again so that you could receive his life. But, not just that. You're willing to say, I confess you as my Lord, which means I'm not gonna live for me anymore.
I'm a live for you. I don't know what all that means, but I know that my heart's saying I need to declare I'm living for you, and I'm willing to take that stand today. I wanna ask everybody, if you've never been born again and right now you wanna be born again, would you raise your hand high? I see it. Anybody else?
Would you raise your hand high? I wanna receive Christ into my life. Is there anybody in here? Anybody else in here who is their hands being held down and they're like, nope, nope, I'm holding on. God loves you and he cares for you and he wants you to receive him as your personal Lord and Savior.
Is there anybody else? Just raise your hand high. I see you. I see you. Anybody else?
You can put your hands down. And I want you guys just to pray this with me. I'll help out loud as a declaration of faith. And everybody, you can say this, please. Jesus.
Jesus. I believe you died for me. I believe you died me. To forgive me of my sin. I repent.
I repent. And I believe you rose again. I ask you to come into my life. I ask make me new. Teach me what it means to follow you.
You are the Lord of my life. I receive you. Amen. Wonderful. I'll ask you this.
Do we have time to take communion, baby? Can we take communion? Okay. I wanna take communion with you because I wanna lead you in just how I take communion personally to remember what Jesus has done. If you'd like to take communion, come get a communion cup.
You can stand up out of your seat. Come back. Please do it quickly so that we can go get the kids from the kids area. Peel off the top plastic. It's the little wafer representing the bread, representing the body of Christ.
Sometimes it's kinda hard to get into. Now, I wanna show you the importance of remembering. Gonna show you something in scripture, and then we're gonna remember together. *1 Corinthians-11:27* says, whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. And when it says body, it's talking about the body and blood of the Lord.
This is I I wanna teach you something a little different. Some people got a little hesitant there. It says, let the person examine himself then so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, what was it talking about before when it said the body? The body and blood of Christ.
Of Christ. Without *discerning* the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. There's a lot of people that when they look at themselves, they're looking for sin. That's error. Jesus forgave you your sin as far as the East is from the West.
So when we discern ourselves here, when we're looking at our examine ourselves, we're discerning the body of Christ. That's what it says. The unworthy manner is to look at yourself as a filthy rotten sinner. The worthy manner is I look down and by faith, I'm seeing that Christ's righteousness has been credited to me. So, I'm worthy because Christ says I'm worthy.
I'm discerning his body. I am, 2 Corinthians-5:21, the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Now, that's hitting some new people like, wait, what did he say I was always taught? I know. Go read it.
It's right there. There's a verse for that. But here's the importance of remembering correctly with faith that Jesus' goodness was credited to you. Watch this. This is the importance.
It says, let the person examine self then then and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, the body of the Lord, the body of Christ, eats and drinks judgment on himself. And it says this, that is why many of you are weak and ill and some have died. Another version says, some have died prematurely. There's a time for all to die.
But sometimes, we die prematurely because we don't remember what he's done and it allows the enemy to steal, kill and destroy in our life. This is important because what you're doing is you're looking down at yourself and you're remembering, wait a second, his body is my healing. I don't need to get sick and die before my time. By his stripes, have been healed and I'll go on his time. So, the name of Jesus, cancer.
In the name of Jesus, bad ankle. In the name of Jesus, headache. It's the same God who heals a headache, heals a broke leg, know. Thank you Jesus that your body was broken so that mine could be restored and whole. My emotion, my my the chemical imbalances in brains, that all of those things can be restored in whole in you Christ.
I'm discerning the body of Christ by *faith* because I'm remembering what you did. Amen? So Father God, we do that right now. Well, we look down and we see by faith the body of Christ and thank you that your body was broken for our healing. We receive your goodness by faith in Jesus name.
Now, for the blood, we look down, a lot of people see their sin, their condemnation, their filth, their shame, all this kind of stuff. I look down because I'm holding this, I'm remembering his blood was shed and covers me. I'm wrapped in his robe of righteousness because of his blood. My sins past, present, future have been forgiven and my faith is in what he did not in what I didn't do or did do. So when I look down, I see the forgiveness of God and that gives me the boldness to stand boldly before his throne and to walk out every gift that he's given for me because that's Christianity.
He loves you, he cares for you, he's proud of you not based on what you have done or hadn't done, but based on the fact that you trust in what he did for you. So Lord God, we thank you and we just praise you for the what you did. It was personal so that we could publicly proclaim it. Lord, we remember. We're not remembering what happened yesterday where we messed up.
We're not remembering. No. We're forgetting what the past is and we're proclaiming your blood has covered it and we're reminded that we're in right relationship with you and you see us as pure and holy based on what you did. Thank you Jesus. Our lives live to lift you up.
We receive this. I dare you from time to time when you're struggling with condemnation or or, you know, sickness and other things, just take this to remember. It's not like a special, oh my gosh. No. It's it's the remembering the testimony of what he did.
Amen? Father, I thank you for these amazing people. Lord, I pray you bless them. I know we forgot to do tithes and offerings. So Lord God, we know that's an act of worship, and I pray as we're dismissed, those who wanna worship you through tithes and offerings, Lord God, let them do it, let them be blessed in Jesus name.
Lord God, those who wanna be in a small group and and and and be a part of it, Father, I pray you put it on their heart to sign up for that as well. Lord God, I pray that as they go throughout this week, the love that you that impacted them their hearts today, overflows out of their mouths and changes the culture and the atmosphere around them. Lord God, I thank you for these amazing mighty men and women of God. Let them see themselves as you see them and walk that out in every way. In Jesus' name.
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