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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.
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Yes, Father God, we thank you for this opportunity to dwell in this place and
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fight the good fight of faith.
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We thank you that the war has already been won because you are victorious and you have overcome.
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Thank you, Lord, that your will be done, even as it has been done this year,
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be done this day now in the name of Jesus Christ.
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And we thank you, Lord Jesus, for accomplishing your mission in coming here
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to die for us, shed your blood, pay the price, and release whosoever will.
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So, Lord, I pray that now many will see this gift of salvation and cry out to
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you and receive their forgiveness, receive their passageway into heaven.
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I thank you for the power and authority also that you've given us,
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Lord God, to do this, to stand in having done all, to stand and to withstand
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in the evil days. And we thank you again for your grace, your wisdom,
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your revelation, and the breakthroughs.
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Father, we ask for breakthroughs for 2025 as we seek your face to do your will
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and rejoice in the strength that you've given us, Lord.
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And we also ask one more thing, actually lots more things, but one especially
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that you've promised us that no weapon formed against us will prosper.
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So may the evil intentions and schemes of the enemy be brought to nothing.
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The words, the plans, the plots fall to the ground covered with the blood of
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Jesus, that they will not be able to take hold of our families or ourselves,
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Father God, that your will be done in our lives unhindered, and that you'd send
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the angels of God to watch over us all as you keep us in this place to do your
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will. In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Well, I've got a question.
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Uh-oh, another question. For those that are listening today,
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are you circling or conquering?
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Are you going in circles or are you conquering?
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And we want to look at Deuteronomy chapter 1 as our basis here today.
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Verse 6, the Lord our God spoke to us. This is Moses speaking to the new generation,
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the younger generation that was going to go into the promised land.
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That survived the 40 years in the wilderness. That survived the 40 years of the wilderness.
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These are the 20-somethings here that he's talking to then. Yeah,
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well, the 20-somethings that were probably teenagers at the time when they started
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wandering in the wilderness, 40 years old.
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Now, some of them could be like in their 60s, but they're still the new generation. Okay.
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So what Moses says is he says he's giving a review to the new generation of
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what had happened and what they were going to be doing as they entered the promised land.
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The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, which is the same as Mount Sinai, where the law was given.
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You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey and
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go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain,
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in the mountains, and in the lowland, and in the southland, on the seacoast,
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to the land of the Canaanites,
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and to Lebanon, as far as the great river Euphrates.
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See, I have set the land before you.
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Go in and possess the land which the Lord God swore to your fathers.
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So basically, he says, you've been around this mountain long enough. It's time to get going.
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It's time to get away from where you've been. The circles. And move in.
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The cycles. They were going around and around.
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And what happened with that older generation, Marjorie, is that they were disobedient to the Lord.
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They were called to, they came to Sinai to receive the law of God so they could
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go into the land, take over the land of their enemies and live there and enjoy
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that land and serve the Lord their God.
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But they were afraid, the 12 spies that went out. Yeah, I remember the story.
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Two came back with a positive report and the 10 said, we can't do this,
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there are giants in the land.
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And so the people freaked out, they got afraid. They said, okay,
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they actually left Mount Sinai, but they wandered.
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Forty years. Forty years they went in circles in the wilderness.
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And some of us are. Well, that journey actually would have taken 11 days.
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It was an 11-day journey from Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb to the edge of that promised land.
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It wouldn't have taken them so long if they wouldn't have been so fearful and double-minded.
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And I think that's the problem with our lives, too. We go in circles,
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and I think you have a good definition of a circle there.
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Yeah, well, we've all heard the expression going in circles,
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and basically what that is is this.
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It means to repeatedly do the same thing.
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Without making any progress toward a goal.
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Wow, that's defeating, that's futile, that's discouraging. Yeah.
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But I think that's what a lot of people's lives look like. They go around in circles.
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They just try to survive today, tomorrow. They're just kind of,
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some of them just even like laid aside their life because they don't even want
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to live it anymore. It's like a merry-go-round. Yeah.
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You're moving, but you're not getting anywhere. Not making any progress.
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No progress. Nothing new, yeah. And again, going in circles means getting stuck
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and not achieving anything by continuously returning to the same point or problem.
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It's a frustrating cycle of unproductive repetition. Repetition.
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So you're returning, you're going around, but you go to that same point and
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you're not getting anywhere.
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Well, I think one of the things that causes that is, you know, we get into these ruts.
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We're programmed actually and we are stuck with
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or addicted to or enticed by or mesmerized
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by or stupefied by bad habits and fears and we become unfruitful because we
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don't realize the enemy within us there's a lot of enemies outside of us and
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they can weary us enough but when we become our own worst enemy as Paul said to Timothy.
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Being set up in opposition to ourselves, we can really talk ourselves out of a lot of things.
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And it's really important to discern the voice and guidance of the Holy Spirit in this journey.
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Otherwise, we're just going to be going in circles and always the fear is feeding
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more fear and failure just brings forth more failure.
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And so when God is telling them to get up and go, So, you know,
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actually, you've been around this mountain too long.
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Well, what are some of the mountains that we have been hanging around?
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Maybe it's time today to look at personally, let the Holy Spirit examine you.
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So what are the mountains that are in your way that are holding,
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what obstacles are holding us back?
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Well, everyone, we all have mountains in our lives that we circle around.
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Obstacles, opportunities, opposition. You know, sometimes, here's another thing.
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Sometimes God brings us to a certain place in our lives, right, for a season.
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For a season, for a reason. And we stay there, and that's good.
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But then God is saying, okay, time to move on now, and I've got something more for you.
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And then sometimes we get to mountains that the enemy erects in our lives.
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And we surround those. We go around and around those. And these are mountains where we don't belong.
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But in the meantime, interesting too, just an aside, when the people of Israel
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were wandering in the wilderness,
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Even though they were being disobedient, they were rebelling,
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they were complaining, they were still being taken care of.
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They had manna, they had water, their shoes didn't wear out,
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their feet didn't swell.
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They had the pillar of fire by night to guide them and the pillar of cloud by day to guide them.
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But let's look at some of the mountains that we may have in our lives.
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So God was in the midst of them even though they didn't really recognize it
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or began to take it for granted and didn't count their blessings.
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I think that's one of the problems, too.
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When we get hanging around a mountain too long, we lose our ability to be grateful
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and to recognize what God is doing and has done and continue toâwe murmur and
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complain like they did because we're not thankful, actually.
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Yeah. Well, what about mountains?
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Things in your lives that you just kind of circle around that are there,
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and there's something that they're always there, and you don't seem to leave them, right?
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You're used to them. They're familiar. You get used to them.
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You adapt. This is a problem with so many things is we get so used to things.
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Substandard, yeah. We get used to things.
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How about Mount Offense?
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Well, I want to stay mad until God will bring justice. That's kind of the attitude
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is if I stay mad, I don't forgive.
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I'm going to keep this in my mind until God does something about it.
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Well, God did something about it 2,000 years ago when he gave you the opportunity
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to forgive that person so that crime, that injustice could be turned over to
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the court of heaven where God could deal with it.
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But then that requires that we trust God to do something right and do something in our favor.
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And so many of us, we think, I can't let go of this because after a while,
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after a while, it becomes a rut.
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It becomes your rite of passage, your excuse, your victim. It becomes a grave. Yeah, exactly.
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So some of us may need to, for this new year, lay down that spirit,
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demonic spirit of offense that has been nurturing and watering and growing this
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bitter fruit in your life.
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Because the offense is going to bring you to physical problems in your body, Hebrews chapter 12.
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Lest any root of bitterness spring up, defile many. So it shows up in your joints.
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It shows up as arthritis. It shows up as friction in relationships.
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Bitterness is not okay. So you can tell that spirit of bitterness to go and
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then ask the Holy Spirit to root it out.
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I mean, you can't wait for somebody to come along and give you a word of knowledge,
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a prophetic word, or a root.
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Some of these things, you know, I have to pull the weeds out of my own garden.
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And I don't wait for my neighbors to come by and pull my weeds because I'm tired
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of pulling my weeds or I'm too, whatever, bored or whatever.
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You get on your knees, take a hold of your own life.
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Most people have just laid their lives aside. You know, I'll deal with my life
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later. Right now, I want to watch TV.
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Right now, I want to eat this fine, you know, French steel cake pie.
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I don't have time because I'm too busy feeding and nurturing and coddling my
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poor wounds and my poor me. So offense.
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Go. What's the next one? Well, like you said, the offense leads to unforgiveness.
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Unforgiveness leads to bitterness. Well, bitterness against God,
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too. And that can be just a stronghold.
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And so forgiveness, true forgiveness unhooks us, gets us away from that mountain. You know what?
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Just speaking of unforgiveness, I think unforgiveness is the thing that unhooks
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us from all these mountains.
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You have to unforgive yourself. You have to forgive others. You have to forgive
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God, which means you release them from your judgment. It doesn't mean,
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oh, it's okay what just happened to me. It's fine if they just run over my dog.
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No, it's not okay. But what are you going to do about it that's not going to
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get you in more trouble? Because if we try to judge, we're going to become judged by the devil.
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So give it up to God. Say, Lord, here's the deal. And so for the next mountain
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you talked about a moment ago is fear. Yeah, fear.
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And the thing is too, so much.
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Unbelief. Of what we do is fear. Fear of what other people think.
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Anxiety. fear of panic yeah fear and
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anxiety basically are the root causes of
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pretty much every disease yeah exactly this
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is what i was going to say fear stress and
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anxiety and so fear is the absence of love so the problem with people who can't
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get well a lot of times or stay sick sick or in pain not all the time but a
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lot of times is that they don't know the compassion and the love of god and
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As a matter of fact, they're very much questioning the love and compassion of God,
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because if He were so loving, why would He let me be in this place for so long?
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So that's an endurance test. I mean, there's many tests we go through down here.
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You don't just get one test, pass it, and you're done. It's usually they're
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coming right one after another, and we're walking.
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And many times, the Lord is just simply carrying us on this path because it is so treacherous.
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Now, it's interesting. I was hearing the other day about a book,
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about, it's basically a compilation of scriptures.
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366 verses that just specifically say, don't fear.
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Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. And in other words, it's one for every day
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of the year, including leap year.
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So perfect love, perfect love is the antidote for fear. So if you know that
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God loves you, he's going to take care of you. He's keeping his word to you.
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You're more precious to him than anything else. He's died for you.
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Then really it's all on him.
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The problem is on him. The solution's on him. The escape, he is the God of escapes.
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He's the God who is the escapes from death. Fear is not good for you.
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It's not good for any of us, but yet that is the whole atmosphere of this snake
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pit is to create anxiety, fear, trouble, worry about this, worry about,
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and all this kind of stuff, worrying about stuff you cannot even change.
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Most of the time we're upset and worried about what other people are going to
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do or not do or should do, and you have no control over that.
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Your control is over you and your ability to give your fears to God and trust God for them.
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So there's another mountain that we call a discouragement.
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There's a mountain ofâso fear can lead to discouragement.
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It's likeâ Defeat, yeah. Think of it, discourage. In other wordsâ No courage. The courageâ Is gone.
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Your courage is gone. Drained out of you, yeah. And it's like we need to have
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courage to live in this life. Well, then we're gonna have to ask God to give
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us courage because Satan is here to beat the courage out of us.
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Yeah, I think of David in 1 Samuel chapter 30, there was a place at Ziklag where
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he had gone away with his men and the enemies had come in and taken away the
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wives, the children, their substance, it was all gone.
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They come back, they found everybody was gone. They'd been stripped away, taken away by the enemy.
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And they were all mourning.
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He and his men were crying, mourning. Where are they? What's going on?
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This is terrible. And then they wanted to kill David on top of it.
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Blaming him for what had happened. And there was nobody around to pat his back
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and say, it's going to be okay, David.
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So what does it say? says particularly, and I like the way that the old King
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James says it, David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
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Now, sometimes, thank God we have people that come alongside us at times and
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encourage us, lift us up.
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It's such a blessing. But sometimes, what do you do when there's nobody around to encourage you?
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You have to come to the point of encouraging yourself in the Lord.
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And then at that point, you're inside of yourself, and then the question becomes,
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well, whose report am I going to believe? Am I going to believe what it looks like?
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What Ziklag looks like was a mess, loss, kidnapped, whatever.
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They didn't know. Am I going to believe what it looks like, what it feels like,
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what people are saying about it?
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Or am I going to believe what the Lord God says about it? And what happened
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there, he encouraged himself and the Lord.
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They went back. They got built up. They got over their boo-hoo stuff,
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and they said, let's go get the enemy. They went after the enemy.
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They recovered all their wives and their children.
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Yep, so they recovered all. There's a scripture that says there when it was
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all said and done, David recovered all.
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So there's a recovery when we can, you know.
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Turn this trouble over to God. It's turned around. Yeah, if you have trouble
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in your life like a sick light going on in your life, you know,
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you can go down to that place of discouragement, sit down and.
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And weep and give up, or you can say, God, here's a big opportunity for you
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to pull me out of this mess, because really, we're in this with God,
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and God is in this with us, and Jesus said, I will never leave you or forsake you.
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So some of these things say, what am I going to do? I can't do this. It's too much.
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It's never going to work. It's too big. I need a miracle, and I don't believe in miracles anymore.
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So why don't you just settle down and say, God, this is your problem.
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This issue, this relationship, this sickness, this word against me,
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this job is your problem.
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If you would do that, if we would start to surrender our problems to the Lord
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instead of trying to solve all of our problems ourselves, we would be in way better shape.
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And when you're encouraging yourself in the Lord, you cannot listen to that
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little voice inside of your soul that says, oh, it's your fault.
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You're never going to make it. You need to tell him to shut up.
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Shut up. You're not listening to that counselor from hell that's impersonating
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you to yourself and speaking to your own mind as a thought, as a temptation to be discouraged.
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You're going to say, shut up to him, and you're going to say,
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Holy Spirit, what do you got to say?
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And that's how David encouraged himself in the Lord. He didn't listen to the guys around him.
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He didn't listen to what it looked like. He didn't even listen to himself.
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He encouraged himself in the Lord.
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Yeah, and jumping to another one here called Mount Self-Condemnation.
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That's a big one. He could have condemned himself. He said, oh,
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man, I shouldn't have been here. Never should have left the town.
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Never should have went out. What was I thinking? What was I thinking?
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If I would have been here, this wouldn't have happened.
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You know, we are so prone to live with self-condemnation. We didn't do it right.
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You know what that is, Jerry?
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That self-condemnation, making yourself the center of every problem,
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making yourself the center of every victory.
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You become the center. You are the idol. your failure or your success and it's all about you,
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And so self-condemnation is an inverse of pride. It's pride in reverse because
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you're still thinking about you and it's my fault.
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You and I don't have that much power to do anything except to cry out to God.
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And that's where our peace comes from because he is faithful.
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He is faithful to complete the work he's going to ask. Yeah,
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and along with self-condemnation, there's how about Mount false identity?
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Mount false identity. In other words, we've got a wrong concept of who we are.
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That's come from our environment, our upbringing, birth order in the family, our relationships.
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And a lot of it is coming from hell. The snake pit.
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Because we're just saying, oh, you're such a bad person. Yeah.
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You failed here. You failed here. And again, it's a focus on yourself.
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It's an inverse form of pride.
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But we develop our self-concept based on our experiences and thoughts and the
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lies that come into our minds and our hearts from the enemy and our identity.
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And so to get away from that mountain.
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We have to realize.
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Go to the word. Yeah, realize that, yeah, oh, I'm missing it. That's not who I am.
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And then to look to the Word of God to see who we are.
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We're chosen, we're accepted, we're redeemed, we're loved, all that sort of
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thing to recognize who really we are in Christ Jesus.
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Well, to recognize who we are, we have to recognize where we come from.
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We came from God created by him. We're his idea, not our idea.
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And the second thing is to know where we are. We are here in the devil's snake pit.
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And the devil has changed the rule from one of identifying us through where
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we've come from through our being
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and changed it, flipped it around to be you're defined by what you do.
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So everything is based on performance or lack thereof, all praise and recognition
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and promotion and money.
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Everything that comes through that system is based on a reward where you've
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earned something, which teaches us over and over and over, you've got to earn something.
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You've got to do something to be something. And this is all backwards.
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And as long as you want to stay in that backwards mentality and that backwards
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paradigm, you're not going to get away from these mountains at all.
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You have got to recognize that we are trapped, tricked, and hoodwinked in this
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snake and the only way to get out of it is to go back to the word of God.
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Who says, no, no, that's not the way. This is the way. I am the way.
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Let go. Trust me. Believe me. And so if your things that you're doing and trying
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to do to fix something don't work and you do it again and it doesn't work again
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and you do it again and again, and then you add a little bit more something
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to it and it still doesn't work,
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then that's called stupidity. That's called insanity.
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That's called that is not working. That is called recognize that what you're
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doing is not working and sit down for a minute and look up and say,
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God, what do I need to do? What do I need to know?
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What do you want me to know here? We've got to turn our problems over to God
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in 2025. You just have to.
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And that begins with a place of surrender and repentance and laying down our
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ideas and our plans and our attempts to fix things and say, God,
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I can't of my own self do nothing, but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
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Yeah, and we're at a place, too, where it takes a revelation.
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Exactly. Otherwise, we just kind of live in that, I so hate that phrase, it is what it is.
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Don't even say that over yourself anymore, because that is just recycling the problems.
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That's not giving you a solution to anything. It's just giving you permission
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to not deal with anything. And when you don't deal with something, it doesn't go away.
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Yeah, and it takes, see, the thing is we get so familiar.
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With these things. Used to it, yeah. We get so used to being sad.
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We get used to being depressed.
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We get used to being fearful. And then. We get used to being addicted.
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Yeah. We get used to being discouraged.
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We get used to being bitter and unfamiliar. These are the familiar spirits,
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honey, that just surround our thing. They're like the rooms we live in.
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They're familiar. The defeat, the hopelessness, the poverty,
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the lack of hope to be able to get out of this mess.
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We're trained and programmed in certain specific boxes or programs and mindsets, and they're familiar.
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They're like the rooms you live in, and sometimes you have to step out of that
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room to get out of it. You have to step out of the room of familiar poverty,
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stupid, sickness, condemnation, self-condemnation.
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You have to step out of the room and you say, well, I'm used to this.
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Well, it's not fun. If you be honest with yourself, you don't like your life
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unless your life is dedicated to and hooked on God and believing his report
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instead of the devil's fearful reports.
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Well, going back to Israel there, they were there at the mountain.
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There was this powerful physical demonstrations of earthquake and light and
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sound. They just got through the Red Sea.
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And they're heading out to, you know, they said, wow, this is the place where
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we need to be. I mean, God is here. God is here.
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But God says, okay, yeah, I'm here. You were here.
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To get this law, you were here to see something of my power and greatness,
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but now you're called to leave this mountain and you go take the land.
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There's something that I have for you. I've prepared things for you.
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You have to leave this comfort, this familiar place, and go into what you have.
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Well, here's what he was sending them. Here's another thing.
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He was sending them into, like you're talking, He was sending them into,
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he said, you go to the north, go to the south, go to the seacoast,
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go to the, but where was he sending them?
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He was sending them straight into enemy territory.
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Enemy territory. To take enemy territory. Because the enemies had overrun the
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inheritance God had given his people.
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So he was going to send them back in there to take back that which was rightfully
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theirs. And this is what Jesus has called us to do.
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You know, he's called us to go and take territory. He said, go into all the
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world, preach the gospel, make disciples of all the nations.
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He didn't say it would be easy. He didn't say just sit around and have church and have pot blessings.
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There's a place to have time to have church services.
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There's a place for getting together, eating and supporting and encouraging.
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That's very important. But we just can't stay there in comfort zone.
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The church at Laodicea was in their comfort zone. They thought,
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oh, we're rich, we're increased with goods, we have need of nothing.
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Need of nothing, and they were poor, wretched, blind, and naked.
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And they were poor, miserable, blind, and naked.
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And they didn't know it. And they didn't realize that.
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So we're built for worship. And war. We're built for warfare.
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We're not built for wandering and wasting our lives. Yes, exactly.
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And I was just thinking about the prodigal son, you know, that lived in,
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his mountain was rebellion, self-centeredness.
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So he gets up, spends all his money, thinks, I got this, I'm young,
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I'm strong, I'm going to get all this.
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He ends up feeding pigs, and he is thinking about eating the stuff that the
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pigs wouldn't even eat. And it's that nobody gave him anything.
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There was nobody there to enable him to keep him going in the wrong direction.
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The enablement stopped.
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Yeah, and that has to stop for some of you, too. You have to stop enabling because
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you're afraid if I don't enable them, then they will fall and they'll die.
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Well, yeah, that could happen.
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Not to say in that, but it's not your job to keep them alive anyway.
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It's your job to bear one another's burdens, but also to know when it's time to let go.
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But that's another subject for maybe another day.
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Well, here's what happened with the prodigal and the pig. Yeah.
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He had the revelation. Yeah. He said...
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What am I doing? Basically, he said, what am I doing here?
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What am I doing here? He says, I... You know, that's the revelation people need
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to have. That's it. What in the world am I doing here?
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What is this? This is not where I belong. Is this the life I want?
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I belong in Father's house. I belong in relationship with the Lord God.
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To something better than this, yes.
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And so that revelation, it says in the scripture, it says, when he came to himself,
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he came to that realization that I don't belong here.
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This is a mountain where I don't belong to.
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I'm circling around this mountain. I can die on this mountain if I don't get
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out of here. I can die here with the pigs.
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And he says, I'm going to go to my father's house. He's got plenty of food.
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Everything's good. And he did. And he made a decision. The revelation led to
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an action of him going to his father's house.
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And he was fully restored. Some people say he would say he hit bottom or the
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bottom. Well, he was at the bottom.
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He was wise enough. He had enough love. His father was praying and he took that
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opportunity to get up and know that he could go back there and at least be a
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hired hand in his father's household.
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So the thing is, but Jesus doesn't want us to be a hired hand.
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He wants us to know that we are sons and daughters. So the thing is, here's the deal then.
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We've got to get sick of the mountains we're hanging in. you've got to see this mountain is not you.
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It's not helping you. And you might need to get some deliverance.
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You might need to take some action to just say, this is enough because it's
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your life and you, and you maybe have to repent for having laid down your life.
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Laid it aside, not in a good way, laid it aside and let other people run over
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it because you don't care for it.
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You don't value it. You don't treasure it because you know, you've believed too many lies.
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And there's so many people right now that are just, they have no strength left
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to live. They don't know how to eat right.
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They don't know how to get themselves out of their mess. They go somewhere to
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get help and they get pushed deeper in the pit.
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So there's just a whole lot of things that the only, only one that can help
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you for sure, that will not let you down is the Holy Spirit who's been sent to live inside of us.
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And he brings the word of God to us. So the only real escape from this mess
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is through the Lord Jesus Christ. Exactly, because back then.
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They said, you've got to leave this mountain. There was one mountain they went
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to, and then there was another mountain called Mount Seir that they wanted to.
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They hung around for a while, and God said, you've got to leave this.
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And the way, the only way, they left the mountain under this new generation,
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left the mountain under the leadership of Joshua.
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He's the one that led them in to possess, to conquer and possess that land that
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God had promised them. And so
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right now what you're saying is that Jesus Christ is the one who leads us.
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He leads us away from circling and losing to a place of conquering and possessing.
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And sometimes, you know, it looks like, well, they kind of went out as a group, which was nice.
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They had one army and they pretty much had one task and that was to go and conquer.
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Sometimes we have to go out with one. That's just me.
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I don't have a whole bunch of people following or cheering me on or wanting,
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you know. or wanting the best for me or even giving me good advice.
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What I have to do is know that I need to change, and God's the only one who
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can change me. I'm not going to make a resolution.
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I'm going to ask for a revelation. Amen.
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And so, Father God, for today and for this next year, Father,
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we petition for the revelations to be just poured out among the prodigals, among the lost.
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Among those who are hanging around the wrong mountain, been dwelling there too
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long, giving up on their lives, giving up on hope.
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Father God, you are the only one. You are the only one who has the power and
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the truth and the revelation to pry us loose from these pits.
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So Father, we're praying right now in the name of Jesus Christ that 2025 will
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be a year of absolute recovery of all, a restoration, moving out of this mountain
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that's been bound and we don't belong here anymore.
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Let us as warriors and worshipers, go forward in the authority and the anointing
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that Jesus Christ died to give us.
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Let us not be fearful or afraid, Father.
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So in anyone who's listening today, Lord God, inspire their mind and heart right now.
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If they've been in this thing a long time, whatever it is they've been used
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to, almost getting used to it, almost giving up and thinking that it'll never change.
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Lord, will you just minister to them by your spirit, visit them,
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pull them up out of that quicksand and set them on the solid rock.
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Christ Jesus, put your hope in their heart, your joy in their step,
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and deliver us from evil.
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Father God, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
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So what would you suggest for reading material as we enter into this new year?
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You've got a lot of it, but let's focus on one particular one.
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Well, you know, the newest book I've written is called Spiritual Warfare and
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How Deliverance Can Change Your Life.
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And it's really getting familiar with the rules of the war, how to understand
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why Satan gets to do what he does and why God lets him, et cetera,
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all those kinds of questions. If God is so good, then why?
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So I would say the best thing you can do for yourself if you like to read is get a hold of that book.
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You can get it on Amazon, Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life.
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It's a whole bunch of very important information written quite simply and easy to understand.
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So God bless you. And we're looking forward to being with you in this next new
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year and seeing great victories in your life and in ours for the kingdom of God and for his sake.
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Amen. And amen.
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