Has your life become lukewarm? Reignite your passion for living with today’s encouraging message from Leon.
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Leon Fontaine | Energize Yourself | June 17, 2022
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- >>ANNOUNCER: World-renowned speaker, CEO of Miracle
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- Channel, and Senior Pastor of one of Canada's fastest growing
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- churches, Leon Fontaine is passionate about teaching you
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- how to tap into the incredible power of Holy Spirit.
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- >> Now from Calagry Canada, here's Leon Fontaine.
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- >>LEON FONTAINE: Hey, everybody! It is so good to
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- have you with me today. We've got to deal with something
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- really powerful today that's just been on my heart. And that
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- is helping you to live in this way of being energized,
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- excited, moving forward. Too many times as we get taught in
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- God's Word, it's always on defense. The enemy's attacking
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- us so bad, how to stay and how to make it through storm. Those
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- are all important teachings. But you understand that the
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- best way to do life is on offense, not on defense. And so
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- what are we supposed to do? We are to be building the kingdom
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- of God. We're to be living our lives with the promises of God.
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- And so that the world sees the blessing, the favour of God on
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- us. And the Bible says blessed means happy, fortunate, and to
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- be envied. The way the gospel works is that we rise up in the
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- blessing and the favour of God. And people see how real God is,
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- not just because we have to perform a miracle but that is
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- absolutely a part of it. But this incredible supernatural
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- favour on our lives that people look at us and go, "Whoa! How
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- in the world are you seemed to be so lucky etcetera, etcetera.
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- And so what stops so many people is that they have not
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- renewed their mind. They don't walk in this constantly renewed
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- fresh attitude and fresh mental excitement and passion. That
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- they're just trying to exist and get through. Now, they'll
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- quote everything I teach and say, "Yeah, the Word says. The
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- Word says. The Word says." But what I'm looking for is that
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- fire in the eye and that passion to get up and do
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- something with excitement. That ability to see all that's going
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- on around you, and to get up and just know God's going to
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- see me through and not just see me through. I'm going to
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- continue to build and to live out the call of God on my life
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- to do this. So let's dive into this. You know, when you talk
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- about this, years ago I was doing a leadership conference
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- and had a number of Navy Seals come out to it. They took me
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- out for lunch afterwards and, you know, we just started
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- talking about so many things. I mean, if you've watched
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- documentaries on the Navy Seals, you'll know as well that
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- they test out your mental toughness. They only accept a
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- small percentage of all the trained, you know, people that
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- come to them. And they want to know what will make you quit,
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- what will make you turn, what will make your mind to give up,
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- and it's crucial. Well, the same is true for the body of
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- Christ. But we have an unfair advantage. It's just that we
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- see ourselves as monks and religious men walking around
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- saying peace, God bless you, rather than men and women who
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- will rise up and build leaders of nations, generals of armies.
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- I mean, men and women in every sphere of life so energized, so
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- driven by the vision on the inside of them. That no one
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- wants to be a Christian and in many cases because they don't
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- want to be that lukewarm, vanilla, apathetic, barely get
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- by kind of life. People want to live with excitement and that's
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- no wonder that even the kids, our kids and grandkids. They're
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- not going to stick to Jesus and church if we just show them
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- some tepid, lukewarm. God understands how crucial this is
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- and He says, "Your lukewarm, I'll spits you out of my
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- mouth." He needs us red hot, passionate, excited, rising up
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- with zeal, living our lives in a way that people go, "Oh, my.
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- Where did you get the energy? Where do you get the vision?
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- Where did you get all this luck?" They think it is. And
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- it's because we're constantly. We can be constantly refreshed
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- in the renewing of our mind. This spirit of our mind. And
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- that's where so many Christians, they know the
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- teaching. They just don't, oh, they don't know the teaching.
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- They can parrot a few verses but they don't actually live
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- this out. And so the Bible teaches us further on in
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- Ephesians 4, that you must lay aside the old self. It says put
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- off the old self, put on the new. Now, I believe as I see
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- scripture, this is going on all the time. That has Holy Spirit
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- is in your spirit. And as you rec -, as a born again
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- believer. And the Bible says He searches your heart. What's He
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- doing? He is looking for things that need to be moved out so
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- that you will realize function and walk in the will of God.
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- Not the will of your mom, your dad, your background. Not the
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- wrong beliefs, the misbeliefs, not the things that cause fear
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- and cowardice. Holy Spirit with the Word of God and praying in
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- the Spirit, something powerful takes place as the entrance of
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- His Word brings light. And you begin to put off these areas in
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- you, and then you put on the Lord Jesus Christ. You put on
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- His Word. You literally putting on God's way of thinking. You
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- literally putting on, "This is the way God thinks. This is the
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- way God made you and what God thinks is fine with me." And
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- you live at an amazing place. Another incredible portion of
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- scripture is 1 Corinthians 15:34, it says, "Awake to
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- righteousness." We, so many people see this because it goes
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- on talk about your sin and do not sin. It says, "For some do
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- not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame."
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- Now, what does it mean to awake to righteousness? Well,
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- absolutely you realize the finished work of Jesus means
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- nothing you've done in the past is going to be haunting you
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- because you're a brand new creation. And when you awake to
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- righteousness, sin has no more dominion over you. You know who
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- you are, how powerful you are, you know desires. You see the
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- value, the beauty, the love that's within you, that to get
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- up and live for God. But it even goes in another direction
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- beyond that. To awake to righteousness is to know who
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- you are, who's you are, what Jesus has done. And so you
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- better get up and live a life. Get up and get a life. Get up
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- and live out the promises of God. God needs His children to
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- live out the promises of God. Not as some holy man sitting in
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- a cave with your legs crossed trying to find peace. You're
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- walking in peace, walking in joy. Now the family, your
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- career, your marriage, you know, your emotions. Just
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- walking into a room, they can just see the confidence. Your
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- brain is not, you know, just trying to find some kind of
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- peace and do I fit in here. And all these crazy emotions and
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- beliefs that just control so many people. No. We are to
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- awake to righteousness. I'm righteous. I'm right with God.
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- And I'm right with God so I can get up and be amazing. I can be
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- like God. I am to act like God. I'm to imitate God. I'm to get
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- up and live out an amazing future. I'm to believe and to
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- dream and take every promise in the Word and live that out. The
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- Bible says you've been blessed to be a blessing. The Bible
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- teaches you and I get up and prosper. Get up in health. Get
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- up with great relationships. Get up and lead people. Get up
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- with such rejoicing and excitement. This is the day the
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- Lord hath made. I will rejoice. You need to awake to
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- righteousness. Ephesians 4:23, it talks there about this
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- constantly being renewed in the spirit of your mind. Here is
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- where so many people fail because they do things to try
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- to get God to move. Now listen. God's already moved and He's
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- already given you all things that pertain to life and
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- Godliness. So this work that you should be doing is not to
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- earn anything from Him. It's been given. Holy Spirit is in
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- your reborn spirit. And so now, you've got to recognize that as
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- you renew your mind. The work here is involved in renewing
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- your mind, meditating in the Word, putting off the old you,
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- putting on the new. And Holy Spirit, that's what He works
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- with you on. Holy Spirit is your helper. And as you
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- meditate in God's Word, as you begin to just absorb what He
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- thinks, you begin to put off because you realize who you
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- are, who's you are, what you can do, what your mind is for,
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- your will is for. What your body is for? What your spirit
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- is for? Where your heart fits in? You begin to rise up and
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- understand yourself so well. That, you know, how to stay
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- motivated, energized. You know how to stay healthy. You know
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- how to make relationships work. The Bible is the most stunning,
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- amazing book. If you're downloading it, meditating in
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- it. If God's thinking is changing you. And so make sure,
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- Romans 8 says it this way. "The carnal mind is enmity against
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- God. God, I mean, "For it is not subject to the law of God,
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- neither indeed can it be." Okey, does carnal mind the old
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- way of thinking? And by the way your thinking is always around
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- your five senses, what you see. So if you see unhappy people,
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- then, you know, if you see results, if you don't feel
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- results, if you don't hear, if you don't taste it. Our five
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- senses, they're just king of our lives and they can't be. We
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- have to believe God's Word. We must be spiritually intuitive.
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- We must rise up and believe that we don't live by what we
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- see and what we sense. We live by what God is communicating to
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- our spirit and by what the Word of God is saying. And so if you
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- don't deal with this carnal mind of yours, you're going to
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- get whipped every day of your life. You're going to get up
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- with no energy. Get up believing your marriage is just
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- wah, wah. Get up believing, "Well, we're not going to be
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- able to deal with this." You get up believing that the
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- politicians are the most powerful. How are we ever going
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- to stop it? You get up believing like the armies of
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- Israel. Look at Goliath, he's too big. And then David comes
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- out of spending time with God, worshipping, meditating, and
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- says, "Oh, man! I'm taking him out." Believers must spend time
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- in the presence of God in God's Word, or you will not get up
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- and lead in this planet. You'll just go along with the flow.
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- You'll just be one of the citizens and one of the people
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- at work because your carnal mind is continually just
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- keeping you there. If you don't renew your mind. If you do not
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- think the way God thinks, meditate in His Word. Pray in
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- the Spirit. Let Holy Spirit go to work. And as He searches
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- your heart, He will find the beliefs your mom put in there
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- that are wrong. The beliefs your dad put in there that are
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- wrong. The beliefs you put in there because of hurts and
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- heartaches and brokenness and failures and just your
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- reasoning. And we must let the revelation power of God just -,
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- Just come in and all of a sudden, I'm going to do
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- incredible things, great things. I'm going to make my
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- mark on the planet for Jesus Christ. I don't care what goes
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- on financially and what goes on around me. I will walk in
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- favour and blessing, A thousand fall at my side, ten thousand
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- at my right hand. It's not coming near me.
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- That's what the Word says.
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- [Theme Music]
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- >>ANNOUNCER: We'll be right back with more
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- from Leon Fontaine.
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- [Theme Music]
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- >>ANNOUNCER: Do you wish your life was different?
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- God's desire for you is to have a full, and abundant life.
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- What if it isn't God's will that's stopping you?
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- What if it has everything to do, with what you believe?
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- It's crucial as believers, we begin to understand the power
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- It's crucial as believers, we begin to understand the power
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- of our words. In this series by Leon Fontaine, "The Power of
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- your Tongue", you'll learn how to steer your life with your
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- words, build inner dreams, and renew your mind in God's Word.
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- >>LEON: In my life, I got so excited when I found out about
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- the process of faith. And that you could literally overcome
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- anything in this world. And so, I want to give you one of the
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- teachings on this called "The Power of your Tongue". This is
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- a crucial part of the process of faith. We'd love to send it
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- to you, and I believe you listen to this over and over,
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- it will change your world.
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- >>ANNOUNCER: You can walk in an amazing future, by changing
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- what you speak. Get your copy of
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- "The Power of your Tongue" today.
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- [Music]
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- [Theme Music]
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- >>LEON: So the Bible is precious to me. I spend time in
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- it and I listen to other teachers. And when there's
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- truth, I meditate on that, so that I don't live in this
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- carnal mind. Which is always fighting the promises of God.
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- What God is trying to do through my life, my mind will
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- just keep fighting against it because what God wants is
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- greater, further. It's huge. It's big. It's amazing. It says
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- in Philippians 2:12-13, "Work out your own salvation with
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- fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you, both
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- to will and to do of His good pleasure." All right. Here's
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- where majority people are going nowhere as Christians. Here's
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- where they fail. Ah, they fail right here. Because first of
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- all, the voice says, "It is God energizing you." And we need to
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- recognize that. Now, when it talks about that you've got to
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- work out your own salvation. Now we know you can't work out
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- your own salvation as far as you getting saved and trying to
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- get God to move. He's moved. It's the finished work of Jesus
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- on the cross, His death, burial, resurrection, ascension
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- to the right hand of God. Man, you need to study the epistles
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- and realize that. Now, what is your work? Work out your own
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- salvation with fear and trembling. You are going to
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- have fear and trembling one way or the other. You're going to
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- look at the world and you're going to go, "Gosh, golly, gee.
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- How do we ever rise up with, oh, that everything's going the
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- wrong direction. Look at the politics. Look at what's going
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- on in our kids. Look at our universities." You can just
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- kind of give up, okay? But then as you begin to recognize if I
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- am in awe of God and His Word, then, because oh, yeah, God
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- hasn't moved. God's movement is through you. God's looking for
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- someone to move quickly on their behalf. His eyes are
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- roaming to and fro over the planet. I mean, He had an
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- entire army of Israel and He couldn't get one person to step
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- forward. So David did. He finally found one. I believe
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- God would do a lot more if God would find somebody who would
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- work out their own salvation. He can't use you in leadership
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- if you're not going to renew your mind, work out your
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- salvation, make your body a living sacrifice, and get
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- energized. Get all the wrong beliefs out of that heart by
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- allowing Holy Spirit to search your heart, pray in the spirit,
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- meditate in the Word. You just never will be ready. And so it
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- is, it says here for it is -, It says, "Work out your own
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- salvation." But then it says, "For it is God which worketh in
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- you." Well, which is it? Is it me working, or is it God
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- working? Yes, it's both. When you go to work with renewing
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- your mind. When you begin to meditate in the Word. When you
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- hang out with Holy Spirit. When you pray in the Spirit. You
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- begin to by your own will move towards God, while then God
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- goes to work on the inside of you. And here's what's
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- exciting. That He begins to cause your will to begin to
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- change to His. If your will is to be and do things that that
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- wasn't even His plan for you. Someone else put that desire in
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- there, or maybe you thought it was cute. Maybe, I just want to
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- be famous or, you know. But as you begin to work out your own
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- salvation and follow Jesus, something in you changes. And
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- this will, you begin to desire and will powerfully to follow
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- Him to do great things. The Bible is amazing but it won't
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- show you individually what your destiny and the plan of God is
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- for your specific life. That Holy Spirit has to show you.
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- And so as you begin to do this work of being in awe. I mean,
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- you work out your own salvation with fear and trembling and you
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- begin to pursue Him and His Word. And then as you go into
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- your everyday life, your relationships, raising kids,
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- your career. The things you desire. You begin to leave your
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- mark on this planet in a stunning way because as you
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- choose God, God begins to work in you, to will and to do of
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- His good pleasure. Now, I've met people who've been
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- Christians for decades. And when I speak with them and I've
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- known them for years. And there's no drive. There's no
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- Word of God in them. They don't really do anything for God. So
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- then you can't judge them. I'm looking at their actions. I
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- watch what they could be doing and their own words have judged
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- them. And you kind of go, "What in the world is going on?"
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- Well, you say, "Why isn't God at work in them?" Well, first
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- of all, there are two things here. It's you are to work out
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- your own salvation with fear and trembling until you get
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- this incredible awe of God, of Holy Spirit, of what He wants
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- to do in you, until you begin to be in awe of His church.
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- Now, maybe you're a part of a church is dead. Well, I'm not
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- talking about that. I'm talking about real life giving churches
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- that Jesus is building. You better be in awe with fear and
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- trembling about how amazing God is. And so then as you begin to
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- get into His Word, you're just in awe that of who He is and
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- what He's doing within you. And then God is at work in you. I
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- try often when people talk to me, "And oh, I've been praying
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- and nothing's happening here and nothing's happening there."
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- And their prayer is begging, bugging, and pleading. And I
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- try to move them into being in awe of God and begin to work
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- out your own salvation, renew your mind, fellowship with Holy
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- Spirit, pray in the Spirit. Go to church, worship. Get
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- involved in a church. Like wake up the mighty men. If that's
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- not in you, then God's not working in you. Oh, what do you
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- mean He's not working in me? Well, it says here it takes you
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- working out your own salvation, and then it is God who is
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- working within you. Holy Spirit is your helper. Holy Spirit is
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- here to help you. It's a stunning thing that you are to
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- follow the leading of Holy Spirit. He helps you by being
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- that guide out in front, you know, knowing where you should
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- go. He'll just lead you. But then at the same time, He's
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- also your helper. And so as you turn to the Word of God, as you
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- choose to build a relationship with Holy Spirit, you know,
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- something within you changes. Your will changes, instead of
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- this will you're always fighting with this being
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- tempted to go on in all these crazy areas. Your will begins
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- to want God, His Word and something happens. And then you
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- begin to do it. Now, this energy, this miraculous power
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- of God is working with you. Holy Spirit is helping you and
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- you begin to walk out this amazing life. Wake up the
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- mighty men. What is going on in so many people's lives? With
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- what is going on today around the world, where is the church
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- like we should be? Wake up the mighty men. You know, in
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- Hebrews 13:20-21, it says here in the second verse, "Working
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- in you. God is working in you. Which is, that which is well
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- pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ." Did you know
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- that as you begin to focus on Him and His Word and spend time
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- every day, to begin your day with that. That you begin to be
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- well-pleasing. Now, some people think that's just being good.
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- Let me talk to you parents. So you've got kids and the most
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- important thing to you is they behave. They got to behave.
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- They got to be good. They got to behave. They got to be good.
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- And as they grow up, you notice that all they do is behave and
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- be good. Now, you're going to get worried. Why? Where's their
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- drive to do something with their life? Now that they're
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- older and they're in their teens and they're behaving you.
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- Yes, Mama. Yes, Papa. Okay, can I help you today? And it's like
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- this passive mannerly thing that, you know, they're
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- well-pleasing and that's how you see. No, no. If you're
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- pleased with them and you're excited, it's because of the
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- drive in them to get up and do something with their life, to
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- find a spouse to share it with as passionate as they are, and
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- in love with God. And then to raise kids and launch them like
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- arrows. This drive if it's not in there, you're going to get
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- really worried. Well, Father God's really worried about you.
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- Where is that drive? Where is that get up and build the
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- kingdom? Where is that go into the world, in your world and
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- share Jesus. Build His local church. Jesus is building His
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- church. It is absent from so many Christians. But you know
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- what, those who choose to do this, you just get to live an
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- amazing life. And, you know, the ones who won't, they kind
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- of go, "Well, I wish I was as blessed as you. You must be
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- God's favourite on that." Everybody's God's favourite.
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- But until you choose to get, to work out your own salvation
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- with fear and trembling, renew your mind, spend time with Him,
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- which begins to get this momentum on the inside going.
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- You'll be in the same place years from today anyway. Now,
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- in Colossians 1:9-12, it says, "For this cause we also, since
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- the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to
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- desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will
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- in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. That you might
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- walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in
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- every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.
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- Strengthened with all might." This prayer in Colossians
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- 1:19-12 prayed it out loud over yourself and your family every
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- day because this strengthening takes place every day. This
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- work, any work that you do. Whether it's business work.
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- Whether it's finding a home, raising your kids, making your
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- relationship go to a new place. Whatever it is in your heart.
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- He wants you to bear fruit. The word bear fruit means you get
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- results. You want to get results? My person don't get
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- results. That's not the Word says. Start praying this
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- prayer. I'm telling you. I just want to light a fire under some
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- of you and get going because you can have a life so amazing
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- at whatever age you are. I decided this as a teenager. I'm
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- far from perfect and I haven't always known exactly what to
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- do. But this bit about follow Jesus and live with passion.
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- Get up and live, being in awe of God. That is what all the
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- great men and women in the Bible. You show me somebody who
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- did great things for God and they were in awe of God. And
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- the more time they spent with Him and His Word, the more they
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- were in awe. And they had this fear. No, I don't mean that
- 00:23:57.795 --> 00:24:00.498
- they were terrified of God. I mean, this overwhelming awe.
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- They goes, "Just the fact He notices me and wants me is
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- stunning. And if I let Him into my life, nothing can stop me.
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- Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world." Would
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- you please get a hold of this message. Listen to it every day
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- for a week until you start rising up and wake up the
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- mighty person on the inside of you. And never stop renewing
- 00:24:23.387 --> 00:24:26.991
- your mind. Never stop in your getting energized. Never stop
- 00:24:26.991 --> 00:24:30.160
- getting to know Holy Spirit, and let Him work with you to
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- renew your mind and establish your heart and grace. And get
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- up and be one of these stunning men and women of God. Your kids
- 00:24:37.868 --> 00:24:42.373
- need to see it. Your grandkids need to see it. Your neighbors
- 00:24:42.373 --> 00:24:46.176
- need to see it. The church needs you that way. And let's
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- see God do incredible things all around us. If you're
- 00:24:50.014 --> 00:24:52.950
- watching me today and you say, "Man, that's not how I've
- 00:24:52.950 --> 00:24:55.486
- looked at Christians and church." Well, this is way you
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- should have seen it. If you want to accept this Jesus I'm
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- talking about. You just make a decision right now wherever you
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- are to say, "Jesus, come into my heart. I accept You as my
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- Lord and Saviour." Just say that. Jesus come into my heart.
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- I accept You. I want to follow You the rest of my life. Guide
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- me, show me, in Jesus' name, amen. Now make sure you find an
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- alive church that is awake to the Word of God. Make sure that
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- keep following us and you will grow and learn. And you'll be
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- able to find and pick out a church where you can grow and
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- flow and become who you were called to be. And let's get up.
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- If we as the church will rise up and know who we are, awake
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- to righteousness. Man, this world will want to be who we
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- are, and they're going to recognize, how did you get
- 00:25:49.239 --> 00:25:51.275
- there? It's through Jesus. And we won't be fighting so many
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- fights in our countries and families and churches if people
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- would just rise up and awaken to righteousness, who they are
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- and all the ability of God. Well, tune in again. We love to
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- have you and my prayers is in Jesus' name. Something is
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- bless you. We love you.
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