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I wanted to put a pause button here

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on the series that I started at the

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beginning of the year on the book of

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1 Thessalonians.

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I just felt impressed this week that I'm

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to speak on something else, very vital.

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I just feel there's people in here, it's

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for all of us because it's from the

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Bible, but maybe there's some emergency situation here.

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You need to hear this.

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You need to hear this.

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You need to understand primitive, not just Christianity,

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but primitive about primitive worship of God, how

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this all began.

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We could find things like this, the beginning

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part, anywhere in the Bible, but then there's

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this one unique verse that I want you

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to focus on.

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The passage is just four verses found in

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Isaiah 64.

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Isaiah 64.

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Notice this is a prayer because you see

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you're catching it, oh that you, and that's

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to God.

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So it's a real prayer, but it has

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metaphorical language in it.

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It has imagery, which is not literal to

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be taken literally, but it's symbolic of the

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cry of this man's heart, Isaiah's heart.

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Oh that you would rend the heavens and

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come down, that the mountains would tremble before

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you, as when fire sets twigs ablaze and

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causes water to boil.

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Come down to make your name known to

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your enemies and cause the nations to quake

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before you.

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For when you did awesome things that we

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did not expect, you came down and the

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mountains trembled before you.

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Obviously imagery.

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Since ancient times, no one has heard, no

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ear has perceived, no eye has seen any

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God beside you who acts on behalf of

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those who wait for him.

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Now that verb that's translated there in the

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NIV, who acts on behalf, is a very

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powerful word in the Hebrew language.

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It has many alternate meanings.

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But literally how it could be translated is

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it has to do with make, manufacture, accomplish,

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and it could read in some literal translation

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have it this way.

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Since ancient times, no one has heard, no

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ear has perceived, the natural mind cannot understand

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this.

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It has to come to you by the

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Holy Spirit's teaching.

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No eye has seen any God beside you,

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and now God is called the God who

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works for those who wait for him.

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There's a trait about God that is highlighted

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here.

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He works on behalf, he accomplishes things for

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a class of people.

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What class of people?

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The ones who wait for him or wait

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on him.

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Now the beginning part of this is the

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very essence of religion.

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It has to do, I'm not going to

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talk long, because I want to see if

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we can see some people move to a

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new position of waiting.

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There's a need in the prophet's heart for

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divine intervention.

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Israel in the time of Isaiah were getting

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hammered by other nations.

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They had turned away from God, and because

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they turned away from God, God sent judgment

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on them.

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Try to get their attention, get them to

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turn back to him.

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And then also comes this horrible law of

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sowing and reaping.

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If you sow to the Spirit and to

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God, you reap blessings.

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If you sow continually away from God, worship

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idols, sow to the flesh, you reap back,

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because that's a law, God says, sowing and

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reaping.

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As Israel is being waylaid and hammered, the

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prophet cries out, and you'll find this from

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the beginning of Genesis through Revelation, Oh God,

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if you could just open the heavens and

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come down.

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Rend the heavens and come down.

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Make the mountains shake.

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Let the people feel your presence.

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In other words, there's a cry for divine

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intervention.

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Isaiah has surveyed the situation and realizes it's

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not in Israel's power to get out of

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the bind that they're in.

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This is a huge, huge pivotal point in

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every life or nation.

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When you come to the place where you

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realize that the situation you and I are

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in, the weaknesses that have been exposed in

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our own characters, the oppression of the enemy

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in our own life, the people who are

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plotting or planning against us as individuals or

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a nation, this is beyond us.

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If you believe in God, and this is

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from the beginning to the end, your look

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goes vertical, and you say, God, oh, that

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you would rend the heavens and come down.

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He doesn't mean literally like separate the sky

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and come down in some visible way.

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He's not talking about that.

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He's saying, God, look at the pressure we're

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under.

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Look at the heartache we're facing.

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God, you have to come and intervene because

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if you don't intervene, we're toast.

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We're going to be smashed to smithereens if

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you don't come down.

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In other words, we've run out of plan

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Bs.

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There are no plan Bs.

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No more human cleverness.

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No more trusting in Egypt or some ally.

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No more trusting in our educational degree.

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No more trusting in how smart we are

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or some friend we have who has influence.

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We're at the bottom now, and we have

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no one else to turn to but you,

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God.

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Oh, God, that you would come down and

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help us like you have before because this

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was Israel's great history.

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You'll find it all through the Old Testament,

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especially in the Psalms and among the prophets.

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They will go back to the time of

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Passover, the very thing that's being celebrated now.

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They will go back to Passover night when

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the blood was put on the doorpost, and

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God passed over, judged Egypt, the firstborn males,

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but gave salvation to Israel for only one

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reason, because they followed God's instruction.

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Put the blood on the doorpost.

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It's not that you're any better than the

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Egyptians.

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It's because you trust in my provision, and

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in that case, it was the blood of

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a lamb.

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You don't have to put the blood on

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any door in your house.

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All you need is the blood of Jesus

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in your heart, covering your heart by faith

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in what he did on Calvary.

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That's what salvation is, not by works, not

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by earning, not by trying to live a

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good life, not by trying to go to

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the Brooklyn Tabernacle, be a Catholic, be a

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Protestant.

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Those are dead ends.

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You need a personal relationship with Jesus where

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you know he died for me.

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Can we put our hands together and say,

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He died for me.

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But they would look back, the prophets, and

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say, oh, do we remember when you sent

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the plagues on Egypt, and then you got

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us out, and then we came to the

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Red Sea, and oh, how you extended your

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hand of power, how you delivered us.

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We were toast back then, but you saved

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that toast.

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We didn't end up toast.

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We end up conquerors, victorious, not because of

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us, because of you.

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You divided the waters.

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You punished the enemy who was coming after

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us.

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And then all the way through their history,

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you provided the manna in the wilderness, and

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then you led us by the pillar of

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cloud during the day, the pillar of fire

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by night.

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All the way through, you raised up David

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to be the king after your own heart,

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and you gave him the ability to slay

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the giant.

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And all the way through, they look back

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on what were the high moments of their

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life when God opened the heavens and came

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down.

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The highlight of any life is when God

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acted on your behalf, when he delivered you

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out of a situation, when he provided something

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that wasn't there.

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Now the prophet is saying, God, do it

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again.

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It's not like we don't know you can

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do it.

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You can do it.

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Oh, but if you would run the heavens,

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and if you would just come down and

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deliver us, we need divine intervention.

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Everybody say divine intervention.

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Say it together to two words.

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One, two, three.

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Divine intervention.

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Now if you don't have faith that God

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still divinely intervenes, well then according to your

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faith, so be it unto you.

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I'm not going to fight with you.

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But if anything is true in the Bible,

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anything is true, is that he's rich in

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mercy to everyone who calls upon him.

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Everyone who has enough faith to pray.

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You'll always know people who have true faith

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because they pray.

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They call on God.

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Not mental faith, not intellectual affirmation of certain

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truths in the Bible.

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We're talking about faith in su corazon, in

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your heart.

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When you believe that there's a God, you

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do what people have done from time immemorial,

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which was back to Genesis 4.

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And then men began to call on the

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name of the Lord.

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We don't know why, but that was the

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beginning of religion.

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No Bible, no synagogue, no Protestant church, no

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reformation, no choir, nada, nothing.

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But some instinct came in men where they

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looked around.

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Maybe a baby was sick.

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Maybe there was a drought, and the crops

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were going to perish, and they knew that

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meant no food.

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We don't know why and how it happened,

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but at a certain moment, men began to

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look up and say, he's not just creator.

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He's a God that you can call on,

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and he opens the heaven, and he comes

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down, and he intervenes in your life.

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He supplies things you didn't have.

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He opens doors that you've been knocking on

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for years.

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And that's how religion began.

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The first people who belonged to God were

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not called Jews.

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They were called men and women who call

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on the name of the Lord.

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They prayed.

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That's why Jesus said, affirming an Old Testament

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passage, my house shall be called a house

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of what?

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Not teaching, not singing.

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That's great.

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You ought to have been there and all

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of that.

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That's great.

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It all has its place.

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But if we don't have transactions with God,

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why are we coming to church?

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I don't know about you.

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I need God's help in my life.

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How many are with me?

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Lift your hand.

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I need God every day.

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How many need Him every day?

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I need Him in small ways, big ways.

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I need Him every day.

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And that's why God said, my house shall

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be called a house of prayer, because I

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love you more than you love me, and

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I want to help you.

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But the way I send help is when

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people call to me.

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When they ask, they shall receive, if they

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ask in faith.

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So let's bring this to a conclusion, because

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I told you I didn't want to talk

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long.

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I want to do this.

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Listen, there are two kinds of people in

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the world in one way.

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God doesn't see ethnic distinctions.

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He doesn't know Italian from Irish.

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He doesn't know black from white.

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That's the junk we've got into in society,

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putting up barriers between people.

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God just looks down and sees us all,

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and He loves us all.

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He loves us so much, He sent His

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Son to die for us.

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But someone has well pointed out, you can't

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distinguish all humanity this way.

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There are people who pray and people who

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don't.

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Possibly that's the way God looks at the

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earth.

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He also looks at those who are His

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children, who have been born again, and those

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who aren't, who either mock Him, ridicule Him,

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turn away from Him, or just merely religious,

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but don't really know Him.

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But if you know Him, you pray, because

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you can't get saved without praying.

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Nobody can become a Christian without asking God

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to forgive them of their sins.

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True or no true?

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And you have to ask Him in your

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life, God have mercy on me, a sinner.

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That's a prayer.

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True religion always is accompanied by prayer, always,

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at all times.

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And that's a sad commentary on what's happening

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in America today, because churches meet for teaching

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and singing, but the element of prayer is

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almost gone out of style like high button

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shoes.

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It's like a new day.

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But there is no new day, because God

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doesn't change.

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Your needs, He wants to meet, if you

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just ask Him, if you'll bring it to

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Him.

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But notice this verse goes deeper.

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What it says is this, He works for

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those who wait for Him, not who pray,

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but who wait for Him.

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So what's the picture?

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There's no God like the true God.

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There's all these false gods and false conceptions

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of God.

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But the true God is a God who

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says, trust in me, and trust in me

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enough that you pray the prayer of faith.

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You pray believing in me.

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You're able to come to Isaiah's position.

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God, you did it, done it before, come

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and do it again.

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Oh, you would rent the heavens and come

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down, and change our situation, and deliver us,

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help us.

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Bring that daughter back.

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Bring that daughter back.

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Heal this fractured relationship.

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God, you have to do it, because we

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tried everything else.

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We're sick and tired of being sick and

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tired.

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So God, you got to come.

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That's faith.

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But notice, faith prays, and then after you

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pray, things don't change immediately.

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And now here comes the crux.

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God is a God who works for those

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who trust and pray, and then after they

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lay it before the Lord, they have enough

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faith that even though nothing happens visibly to

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the eye, they're willing to wait for Him,

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for His timing, for His sovereign will, for

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His plan, which is not our plan.

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Neither are His thoughts our thoughts.

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Neither is His timing our timing.

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So now the Bible says, when you're striving,

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and working, and fretting, and worrying, God is

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paralyzed as it were.

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But the moment you stop and say, God,

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I trust in you, and I will wait

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for you to stretch out your hand.

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The moment you begin to wait, there's a

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new working by God, for He works for

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those who wait for Him.

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God's power comes to its maximum efficiency, not

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when you're working, but when you're waiting in

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faith.

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Now, for clarification, there are certain commands from

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God in the Bible that even though He

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has to work with us, it means action

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on our part.

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Like this one, go into all the world

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and preach the gospel.

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Do we need to pray that the gospel

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will be blessed, that it'll go out in

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power, that people will be converted?

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Yes, but we gotta go.

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You can't sit back and wait.

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You gotta go.

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That's an action verb.

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Go.

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Go.

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So you go.

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But then there's a lot of other situations

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in life, ladies and gentlemen.

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Oh, haven't we been there?

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Where you do believe, and you say, God,

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come down and help me.

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But nothing happens immediately.

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And now comes the test.

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The hardest part of faith is waiting.

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Because here's the alternative a lot of us

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have chosen.

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There's a mess.

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It's breaking our heart.

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It's pressuring us, keeping us up at night.

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We pray.

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We believe.

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Nothing happens.

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Oh, I don't know.

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I don't see God doing this.

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Let me try to help this thing along.

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And the more you touch it, the worse

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it gets.

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How many know where I'm coming from here?

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I know.

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In other words, you touch something that God

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has said, if you'll just wait, I will

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work it.

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My power is made perfect when you trust

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me and you wait.

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But if you try to do it yourself,

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that means you don't have confidence in me.

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And now you'll make it worse.

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Have we not all done that?

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Have we not all tried to solve our

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problems instead of God's way by waiting for

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him to do it?

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Why does God wait and ask us to

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wait?

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Because his timing is different than ours.

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And he wants maximum glory from that answer.

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So he's waiting for a few things to

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happen so that when he does answer, he

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will answer.

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He works for those who wait for him.

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When he answers, he'll get praise and honor

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and glory like you and I can't even

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imagine.

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Come on, let's say amen to that.

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Put our hands together.

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He works for those who wait for him.

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His timing is different than your timing.

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And what's the temptation?

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There's two.

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One I already gave you, and as I

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close, it's to try to help God along.

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Oh my goodness, how ridiculous that must seem

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to the angels.

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Oh, look down there.

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Jim Simba thinks he has to help God

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like God is a little short on power

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and on wisdom.

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And look at him.

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What a mess he's making of this situation.

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It's as if God says, angel, stop.

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Holy Spirit, just wait.

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I got to wait till he gets tired.

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And when he's run out of energy to

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try to fix it in his arrogance and

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his pride, then I'm going to work for

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him if he'll just learn to wait.

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What a revelation.

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He works for those who wait.

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That's against everything because we're all type A's.

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We're all going to fix it.

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Oh, we're going to fix it or worse.

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We try to fix it.

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We see it gets worse.

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Now we're waiting for God.

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Instead of waiting, we worry ourselves to death.

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If you're here today, I have a word

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for you.

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Your worry won't change anything.

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Your anxiety, you're laying awake at night, you're

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biting your nails.

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It will not change a single thing except

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negative stuff in your own body and personality.

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Worrying won't change anything.

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Those are the two alternatives we have.

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Working ourselves when God says, wait for me,

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or, all right, I give up on that

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and now I'm just going to worry and

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fret and be negative and cynical and unbelieving.

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God says, no, there's a better way.

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Just wait and worship.

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Have enough confidence in me that I'm going

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to come through.

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This church is here because people have prayed.

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I'm here because people have prayed.

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Nothing exceptional in me at all.

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I'm the most average, below average person around,

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but people have prayed.

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I won't go into all the stories about

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how this church was founded, its formative years.

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This choir is here.

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My wife is doing what she's doing because

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people pray.

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She can't read or write music, but she

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just keeps doing it, what she does.

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I'm happy.

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It's based on God's power and not our

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cleverness.

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How many find that a better way to

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do it?

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Say amen.

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I could tell you the time, as you've

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heard me say, when God supplied six million

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bucks that we needed as a church in

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10 minutes from two people that I didn't

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ask, but the gun was at our head

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timing-wise.

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He supplied that.

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I could tell you that story, this story,

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that story, all learning that lesson myself.

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Jim, stop and just trust me.

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Wait for me.

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I will do it.

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Just wait expectantly.

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Don't be worried.

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Don't be anxious.

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Don't be panicking.

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Don't be calling everybody and going off.

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Wait.

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Worship.

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I work for those who wait for me.

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But maybe the biggest lesson is when my

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oldest girl, that's a perfect example of it.

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She got away from my wife and I

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emotionally.

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She got away from God spiritually, and she

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was going down a terrible road.

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I should have picked it up earlier.

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I didn't, but now we're in the soup.

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I tried everything.

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Look at me.

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I'm going to tell you the truth.

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I tried everything.

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Name something.

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I tried it.

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Use money.

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I tried that.

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Screaming.

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I tried that.

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Emotional outbreaks.

553
00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:54,930
I tried that.

554
00:20:55,150 --> 00:20:55,390
Yelling.

555
00:20:55,610 --> 00:20:56,390
I tried that.

556
00:20:57,390 --> 00:20:57,890
Discipline.

557
00:20:58,010 --> 00:20:59,650
I tried that, but she was too old

558
00:20:59,650 --> 00:21:00,770
to discipline that way.

559
00:21:01,530 --> 00:21:03,870
Just name anything that you would try to

560
00:21:03,870 --> 00:21:06,210
do when your oldest girl, a daughter you

561
00:21:06,210 --> 00:21:08,810
love so much, is going to destruction, to

562
00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:09,590
destroy herself.

563
00:21:09,810 --> 00:21:12,890
I tried everything, and with everything I tried,

564
00:21:13,330 --> 00:21:14,110
she got worse.

565
00:21:14,930 --> 00:21:15,830
She got worse.

566
00:21:16,650 --> 00:21:18,190
Name anything that you could think of.

567
00:21:18,270 --> 00:21:18,850
I tried it.

568
00:21:19,510 --> 00:21:21,050
This is two and a half year nightmare.

569
00:21:22,110 --> 00:21:23,850
You know, when's your daughter, you just don't

570
00:21:23,850 --> 00:21:25,110
sit idly by.

571
00:21:25,590 --> 00:21:27,490
You want to try, and that's, oh, that

572
00:21:27,490 --> 00:21:27,910
was me.

573
00:21:27,990 --> 00:21:30,310
Boy, try, try, try, try, and then when

574
00:21:30,310 --> 00:21:31,430
I saw her getting harder.

575
00:21:32,070 --> 00:21:34,610
You ever pray for something, and instead of

576
00:21:34,610 --> 00:21:35,910
it getting better, it gets worse?

577
00:21:36,390 --> 00:21:38,470
How many have ever had that wonderful experience,

578
00:21:38,550 --> 00:21:38,810
right?

579
00:21:39,290 --> 00:21:40,890
A voice says, gee, you better stop praying.

580
00:21:40,990 --> 00:21:45,070
The thing will totally explode, and boy, God

581
00:21:45,070 --> 00:21:47,470
had to get a hold of my stubborn

582
00:21:47,470 --> 00:21:50,350
little heart and say, you've preached about prayer.

583
00:21:50,890 --> 00:21:53,270
You've read about prayer, but now I'm going

584
00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:55,090
to teach you something about prayer.

585
00:21:55,850 --> 00:21:59,070
Stop talking to her, and don't tell any

586
00:21:59,070 --> 00:21:59,750
more people.

587
00:22:00,630 --> 00:22:04,450
I told very few, just pray and wait

588
00:22:04,450 --> 00:22:09,570
for me, and that's when the breakthrough came.

589
00:22:10,170 --> 00:22:12,710
God turned her around in a way that

590
00:22:12,710 --> 00:22:13,810
I could have never dreamed.

591
00:22:14,110 --> 00:22:15,770
God visited her in the middle of the

592
00:22:15,770 --> 00:22:16,070
night.

593
00:22:16,690 --> 00:22:18,430
She wouldn't listen to my voice, and she

594
00:22:18,430 --> 00:22:20,390
might not listen to your voice, or that

595
00:22:20,390 --> 00:22:21,010
situation.

596
00:22:21,330 --> 00:22:22,330
You can't solve it.

597
00:22:22,390 --> 00:22:23,910
Can you get to that place where you

598
00:22:23,910 --> 00:22:25,450
know this thing is too big for me?

599
00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:27,370
I can't solve it, but I believe that

600
00:22:27,370 --> 00:22:28,930
there's a God who can open the heavens

601
00:22:28,930 --> 00:22:29,770
and come down.

602
00:22:30,010 --> 00:22:31,750
I believe in divine intervention.

603
00:22:32,170 --> 00:22:34,170
I believe in a Jesus who's not dead.

604
00:22:34,370 --> 00:22:37,890
He's alive, but he works for those who

605
00:22:37,890 --> 00:22:40,530
not just trust him and pray, but then

606
00:22:40,530 --> 00:22:42,430
who are willing to go the extra step

607
00:22:42,430 --> 00:22:46,490
and wait, wait with joy, wait with expectancy,

608
00:22:47,070 --> 00:22:49,530
so there was a breakthrough one night in

609
00:22:49,530 --> 00:22:52,870
that situation, and this was new to me

610
00:22:52,870 --> 00:22:54,090
back then.

611
00:22:54,730 --> 00:22:56,370
I was up at one o'clock in

612
00:22:56,370 --> 00:22:58,010
the morning sitting in the living room in

613
00:22:58,010 --> 00:23:01,270
Queens where I lived then, and pouring out

614
00:23:01,270 --> 00:23:01,770
my heart.

615
00:23:01,850 --> 00:23:03,330
Yeah, I had to preach, but you think

616
00:23:03,330 --> 00:23:05,250
that was on my heart preaching sermons?

617
00:23:05,750 --> 00:23:07,250
When your daughter, you don't know where your

618
00:23:07,250 --> 00:23:07,830
daughter is.

619
00:23:07,990 --> 00:23:08,470
Look at me.

620
00:23:08,630 --> 00:23:10,030
I didn't know where she was.

621
00:23:10,110 --> 00:23:11,270
Do you know what that feeling is?

622
00:23:11,370 --> 00:23:12,290
It's not a good one.

623
00:23:12,950 --> 00:23:13,750
She's a teenager.

624
00:23:14,210 --> 00:23:15,770
She has a baby now, and I don't

625
00:23:15,770 --> 00:23:18,370
know where she is, so I pour out

626
00:23:18,370 --> 00:23:19,910
my heart to God, and I felt the

627
00:23:19,910 --> 00:23:22,350
Lord speak to me and say, do you

628
00:23:22,350 --> 00:23:23,510
believe I can do this?

629
00:23:24,330 --> 00:23:26,750
Yes, I know you can.

630
00:23:27,290 --> 00:23:28,510
Do you believe I will?

631
00:23:32,730 --> 00:23:34,810
There's a big difference between can and will.

632
00:23:34,890 --> 00:23:35,650
How many say amen?

633
00:23:37,230 --> 00:23:38,290
But he helped me.

634
00:23:38,490 --> 00:23:39,230
He gave me faith.

635
00:23:39,590 --> 00:23:40,890
I said, you will.

636
00:23:41,610 --> 00:23:46,150
I can see myself, bathrobe on, and the

637
00:23:46,150 --> 00:23:47,970
Lord I felt speak to me and say,

638
00:23:48,410 --> 00:23:51,710
well, if you know I will, then stand

639
00:23:51,710 --> 00:23:52,950
up and praise me.

640
00:23:54,730 --> 00:23:56,830
But God, she hasn't changed.

641
00:23:57,630 --> 00:24:01,930
I know, but I work for those who

642
00:24:01,930 --> 00:24:05,190
wait for me, and if you'll just praise

643
00:24:05,190 --> 00:24:07,550
me for what you know I will do,

644
00:24:08,390 --> 00:24:10,710
you will see the glory of the Lord.

645
00:24:10,890 --> 00:24:13,450
You will see what I can do, and

646
00:24:13,450 --> 00:24:16,690
I remember hot tears coming out of my

647
00:24:16,690 --> 00:24:18,830
eyes, rolling down my cheeks.

648
00:24:19,030 --> 00:24:21,790
I see myself now, as God is my

649
00:24:21,790 --> 00:24:24,210
witness, pushing off the arms of the chair

650
00:24:24,210 --> 00:24:27,130
and standing all alone at 115 in the

651
00:24:27,130 --> 00:24:27,390
morning.

652
00:24:27,830 --> 00:24:29,490
No one saw it, but no one needs

653
00:24:29,490 --> 00:24:30,030
to see it.

654
00:24:30,110 --> 00:24:32,970
God saw it, and I lifted my hands,

655
00:24:33,070 --> 00:24:34,410
and I began to praise him.

656
00:24:34,550 --> 00:24:35,230
Was I crying?

657
00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:36,670
Yeah, but I was praising him.

658
00:24:36,730 --> 00:24:41,890
He works for those who wait patiently, expectantly.

659
00:24:42,090 --> 00:24:42,890
Close your eyes.

660
00:24:43,790 --> 00:24:46,510
If you're here today, you have a situation

661
00:24:46,510 --> 00:24:48,810
you want God to know you're going to

662
00:24:48,810 --> 00:24:49,750
wait for him now.

663
00:24:50,390 --> 00:24:51,670
You're going to take your hands off of

664
00:24:51,670 --> 00:24:51,790
it.

665
00:24:52,170 --> 00:24:53,250
God has spoken to you.

666
00:24:53,430 --> 00:24:55,530
Get your hands off that thing if you

667
00:24:55,530 --> 00:24:56,430
want me to work.

668
00:24:57,630 --> 00:25:00,050
You're going to stop worrying and be anxiety

669
00:25:00,050 --> 00:25:00,450
-driven.

670
00:25:01,430 --> 00:25:03,090
You want to give it to God, and

671
00:25:03,090 --> 00:25:05,410
you're willing now to say, I'm waiting for

672
00:25:05,410 --> 00:25:05,630
you.

673
00:25:06,250 --> 00:25:09,490
Stand up quickly if you're in a situation

674
00:25:09,490 --> 00:25:11,450
like that, and come quickly to the altar.

675
00:25:11,710 --> 00:25:13,630
Come quickly from the balcony or downstairs.

676
00:25:14,110 --> 00:25:15,570
If you're in the choir, come and stand

677
00:25:15,570 --> 00:25:16,230
behind me.

678
00:25:16,490 --> 00:25:21,390
God, I'm giving you today, Sunday, the 24th

679
00:25:21,950 --> 00:25:25,290
of April, I'm giving you this situation.

680
00:25:26,130 --> 00:25:28,290
I will not worry, and I will not

681
00:25:28,290 --> 00:25:29,090
fuss with it.

682
00:25:29,650 --> 00:25:31,830
I am tired of trying to fix it

683
00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:35,390
myself, but I believe what your word says.

684
00:25:35,490 --> 00:25:37,530
You're a God who works for those who

685
00:25:37,530 --> 00:25:38,250
wait for him.

686
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:43,920
Bring that daughter back.

687
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,820
We're waiting for that son to come back.

688
00:25:49,020 --> 00:25:52,600
We're waiting for that spouse to change his

689
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,980
or her attitude and be reasonable and soft.

690
00:25:58,860 --> 00:26:01,580
Open the door that has to be opened

691
00:26:01,580 --> 00:26:02,440
only by you.

692
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,780
Supply the monies that we've tried so hard

693
00:26:06,780 --> 00:26:08,180
to get, but we can't get it.

694
00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:09,460
You have to supply it.

695
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,300
Open the heavens and come down.

696
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:14,160
Rend the heavens.

697
00:26:15,220 --> 00:26:16,080
Come down.

698
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:17,780
Work among us.

699
00:26:18,020 --> 00:26:18,780
Show your power.

700
00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:20,700
Let the world know that you're not dead.

701
00:26:20,780 --> 00:26:21,460
You're alive.

702
00:26:21,460 --> 00:26:22,560
You're a living God.

703
00:26:22,980 --> 00:26:25,060
We just don't go to church to study

704
00:26:25,060 --> 00:26:26,960
intellectual principles.

705
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,000
You're the God who says, I'll never change.

706
00:26:30,260 --> 00:26:32,580
I'll never leave you, and I'm the same

707
00:26:32,580 --> 00:26:34,160
yesterday, today, and forever.

708
00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:37,400
We're going to wait.

709
00:26:38,620 --> 00:26:39,560
We're going to worship.

710
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,400
We're going to be expectant.

711
00:26:41,460 --> 00:26:42,500
We're not going to be negative.

712
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:44,220
We're going to be positive.

713
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,400
We're going to be happy.

714
00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:49,480
We're going to praise you even through tears

715
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,140
because sometimes it hurts, but we're going to

716
00:26:53,140 --> 00:26:55,420
wait because our God is never late.

717
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,420
He's always on time.

718
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,060
Lord, I pray one more thing before we

719
00:27:01,060 --> 00:27:01,620
dismiss.

720
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,520
Give us a heart to seek after you.

721
00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:09,340
Some of these folks, Lord, who need you

722
00:27:09,340 --> 00:27:13,140
so desperately, give them the grace of prayer.

723
00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:14,900
Daily prayer.

724
00:27:14,980 --> 00:27:16,720
Prayer in the prayer meeting on Tuesday.

725
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,620
Build faith in them that there's no telling

726
00:27:20,620 --> 00:27:23,420
what you can do to those who faithfully

727
00:27:23,420 --> 00:27:25,820
call on you and wait and worship.

728
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,380
Build our faith.

729
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,340
Build expectancy.

730
00:27:31,420 --> 00:27:33,440
Give us a good rest of the day.

731
00:27:33,980 --> 00:27:35,400
We thank you for everyone who's here.

732
00:27:35,540 --> 00:27:38,580
Bless them and their families in Jesus' name.

733
00:27:38,580 --> 00:27:43,100
And everyone said, every man hug about three

734
00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:43,460
men.

735
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,720
Every lady hug about three ladies.

736
00:27:45,860 --> 00:27:46,280
Come on.

737
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:47,620
God bless you.