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Can You See Me Now?

Frankie Mazzapica

November 8, 2020

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Frankie Mazzapica shares an encouraging message from Celebration Church in The Woodlands; TX.

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Frankie Mazzapica:There you go, welcome
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them, this is for you.
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There you go.
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Thank you so much fortuning in, my name is
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Frankie Mazzapica.
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The title of my messageis "Can You See Me Now?"
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I'll tell you where I'mgetting this, it's in John
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chapter 9.
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Jesus was walking down theroad with his disciples,
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and he looked on the sideof the road and he saw a
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blind man, and thenhe walked over to him.
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When I read this passageearlier this week, I
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smiled when Iread those words.
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He saw him and hewalked over to him.
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The reason why I smiled isI have a friend of mine,
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his name is Chris, helives in England now, but
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he lived here in Texasabout ten years ago.
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He was an experiencedmotorcycle rider, he had
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been riding a motorcyclesince he was a kid.
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And so, he went and renteda Harley Davidson so that
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he could ride his wifearound Texas for a week.
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Well, while he was riding,even though he was an
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experienced rider, hecould not prepare for the
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drunk driver that wascoming at him in the--in
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the opposite lane.
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So, the drunk driver cametowards him and crashed
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into the side of themotorcycle, completely
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smashing his left legand his wife's left leg.
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So, they had to amputateboth legs, and they were
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in a wheelchair forseveral months waiting for
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their prosthetic leg.
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What he told me while hewas in the wheelchair I
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will never forget.
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He looked at me and hesaid, "Frankie, people are
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uncomfortable with makingeye contact with people
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who are in a wheelchair."
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He goes, "It's a weirdfeeling to have people
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look around you or throughyou, but not make eye
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contact with you."
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He goes, "I'm not takingit personal, I understand,
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they're just uncomfortablewith looking at me, with
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making eyecontact with me."
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What I love aboutJesus is that he is not
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uncomfortable with peoplewho have a handicap.
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He's not uncomfortablewith people who have a problem.
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In fact, he'sdrawn to them.
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It's an interesting thingthat when there's someone
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who's a handicap or hasproblems on the side of
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the road, most people lookover them, or around them,
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or just continue to lookforward, but Jesus looks
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over at him andwalks over to him.
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Jesus loves everyone.
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If your heart is beatingright now, he loves you.
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But he made sure thatthere were a few verses in
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the Bible that wasspecifically for people
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who were broken.
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In Psalms chapter 34,verse 18, it says this, "I
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am close to thebrokenhearted, and I save
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those with acrushed spirit."
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In Psalms 56, verse 8, hesays, "I track all of your
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sorrows, and I catchevery tear in a bottle and
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record eachone in a book."
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He is drawn to people withproblems, he is drawn to
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people with a handicap.
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I want to say this, thecommon denominator in this
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sanctuary is we all havea problem that nobody else
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knows anything about.
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That's what we allhave in common.
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Some of us have a problemthat you brought on to
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yourself, and others havea problem that you didn't
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bring on to yourself,somebody inflicted you
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with the problem.
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They brought theproblem to you.
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Regardless of how theproblem came into your
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world, I want you to knowthat the Lord is drawn to you.
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He's drawn to you becausehe knows that you need
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him, and it brings him joyto step into your life and
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to begin toreshape everything.
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It brings himjoy to do that.
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And so, he comes acrossthe street, he sees the
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blind man on the sideof the road, and he does
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something veryinteresting.
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He spits into the groundand starts making mud.
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Now, when I read theScriptures, I don't try to
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read a whole bunch, I justtry to fully understand a
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little bit at a time.
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And so, when I read thepassage, I thought to
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myself, "How much spitdo you need to make mud?"
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Right?
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I have spit many times, asyou have as well, and it's
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like a little roundcircle of mud.
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How much spit do you need?
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That's where my mind went.
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Nevertheless, he startsspitting into the ground.
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Now, let's step into theworld of the disciples.
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They have seen Jesus dohundreds, even thousands
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of miracles.
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The last verse in the bookof John is John chapter
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21, verse 25, and it readslike this, "And Jesus did
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many more thingsthan these.
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Surely if we would'vewritten them all down, I
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suppose the entire earthcould not contain the
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books that wouldbe written."
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So, they have seen himdo thousands of miracles.
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Everywhere Jesus went, he wasdoing a miracle for someone.
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He is drawn to peoplewho are in need.
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But all of a sudden,he starts spitting.
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So, you know, you knowthat the disciples were
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backing up, saying,"Why are you spitting?
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You don't need spit.
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You just think it, youtouch them, you smile at
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them, you think.
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What are you doing?"
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Are you with me?
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Say yes, come on, let me hearyou, if you're with me, say yes.
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Why are you spitting?
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Now, if somebody walks upto a person who is blind
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and starts spitting in theground, do you think that
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that's going todraw some attention?
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Yes.
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I mean, people are comingup, so I think, I think,
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just give me some poeticliberty here, I think the
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disciples first werethinking, "What are you doing?"
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And then I think they werethinking, "Hurry up and do
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whatever you're doing.
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This is gettingembarrassing.
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This is becoming awkward."
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See, here's thething about Jesus.
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He promises to bless us,but he does not promise to
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tell us when or how.
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He doesn't promise that,he promises to bless us if
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we pursue him in Hebrewschapter 11, verse 6.
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It says, "We cannot pleaseGod without faith, for
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anyone who comes to himmust believe two things.
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Number one,that he exists.
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Number two, that hewill reward people who
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passionately pursue him.
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So, he promises to rewardus if we pursue him, but
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he does not promise whenand he does not promise how.
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In 2017, I becamespiritually frustrated
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because I was reading allof these passages in the
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Bible of people who wereexperiencing the tangible
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presence of God.
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And I had heard so manyother testimonies of
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people who experienced thetangible presence of God.
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Like, almost like youexperience wind, right?
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So, all of us experienceoxygen and air, but when
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you feel the air comeblowing at you, that's a
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different experience.
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And so, I started tellingthe Lord, "Other people
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have felt your presence.
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Other people have feltyour tangible presence."
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Romans chapter 2, verse11, as if he doesn't know
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the Scripture, I wouldsay, "God, you do not have
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any favorites.
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I am going to pray to youevery day with passion.
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I'm going to pray to youevery day longer than I've
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ever prayed in my lifebecause I want to feel
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your presence."
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Weeks went by, months wentby, and I would tell the
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Lord, "I am not giving up.
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I am not giving up."
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In Psalms chapter 5, verse3, the psalmist says this,
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"Every morning I wake up,I'll be back at it again,
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laying the pieces ofmy life on your altar,
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waiting for thefire to fall."
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And so, I toldthe Lord that.
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I said, "Every morning Iwake up, I'll be back at
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it again.
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I don't want myrelationship with you to
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be purely cognitiveonly with my faith.
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I want to experience it.
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Other people have,I want to as well."
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After weeks, after months,even over a year of
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praying for this, Iwent to sleep one night.
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And as I was sleeping,I don't know if it was a
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dream, I don't know if itwas a vision, I don't know
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what it was.
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I relate to the words thatPaul said, I was--I was
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not in my--I don't know ifI was in my body or out of
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my body.
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But I saw Jesus, I was inhis presence, and I was
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crying while I was in hispresence because I had
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never, ever, ever feltlove like that in my
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entire life.
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The love was so real andso thick that it was more
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real than anythingI had ever felt.
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It was morereal than wind.
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And here's the other partof it, I knew as I was
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before him that hislove had no end.
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I couldn't put it intowords at the time and I
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can't put it into wordsnow, but the Scripture in
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Colossians chapter1, verse 17 helps me
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understand or helps me put intowords what I experienced.
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In Colossians 1:17, itsays that he was before
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all things.
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Everything that was evercreated, he was present
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before it was created.
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But all things are heldtogether within him,
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within him.
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So, the same way yourbones and your heart and
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your lungs are within you,everything that has ever
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been createdis within him.
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So, the whole MilkyWay exists within him.
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Every single galaxy, all100 billion, and they
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think there's actuallymore than that, is within him.
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His presence has no end.
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There's nothing that existsoutside of his presence.
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And so, when you thinkabout how big he is, how
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vast he is, then weunderstand Ephesians
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chapter 3, verse 18, "Iwish you knew how far and
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how wide and how deep andhow high his love is."
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These are the things that'slike, "Oh my goodness."
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That morning or that evening,my life changed forever.
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But it didn't happen theway I thought it was going
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to happen, it didn'thappen when I thought it
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was going to happen,it didn't happen how I
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thought it wasgoing to happen.
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I say all that to saythis, whatever your prayer
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request is, whether it'sfinancial, whether it's in
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your marriage, in yourfamily, I want you to stay
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steady on pursuing him.
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You don't know how he'sgoing to answer your prayer.
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You don't know when he'sgoing to answer your prayer.
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But rest assured, he haspromised to reward you if
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you continueto pursue him.
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Do you receive that today?
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Come on, he promised, and so hewipes the mud all over the
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guy's face, and then he sayssomething very interesting.
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He says, "Okay, go washyourself at the pool."
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Go wash yourself.
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Now, it's interestingbecause if the man would
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have said, "You putthis mud on my face.
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I didn't put thismud on my face.
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You're asking me to cleanup something that I didn't
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even do."
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Have you everbeen there before?
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"This, I didn't cause thisproblem, she caused,
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he caused--"
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Are you with me?
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"I didn't do this to me,I'm the victim here."
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He tells the man who'salready blind to go to a pool.
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If he wasn't blind before,the mud is causing a
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major problem.
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He says, "Go to the pool."
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So, he's having to feelhis way to the pool.
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I don't know about you,but I know what that feels
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like to go and pray, andclose my eyes, and feel my
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way to where God istelling me to go.
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I don't know, do youwant me to go left?
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Do you want meto go right?
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Do you want me tokeep my mouth shut?
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Do you want meto open my mouth?
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We feel our way towardshis presence, towards his will.
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So he goes, "Go to thepool and wash your eyes."
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See, a lot of times peoplebelieved this lie, it's a
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huge lie.
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It sounds somethinglike this.
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If God wants me tohave it, I'll have it.
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If he doesn't want me tohave it, I won't have it.
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That's a lie.
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It's a huge lie becauseGod may want something for
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you and have every desireto give it to you, but
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your act of obedience iswhat ignites the miracle.
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Are you with me?
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Your act of obedience.
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What if the guy would'vesaid, "I'm not going to
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the pool"?
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And he's gothis eyes closed.
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"I'm not goingto wash all this.
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I'm not going to look likean idiot and crawl all the
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way over there."
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What if the wedding inCana of Galilee, when Mary
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came up to him and said,"We need wine," and then
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he looks at the disciplesand says, "Fill up the
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water pots with water."
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What if the discipleswould've said, "I don't
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think you heardher, she said wine.
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She said wine.
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We're not doing it"?
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Would the water haveturned into wine if they
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refused to participate?
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Would the water haveturned into wine if they
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were not obedient?
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One time, Jesus showedup late to a funeral.
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Lazarus was already dead,he was already in the
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grave, they already hadthis big, huge stone
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rolled in frontof the grave.
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He shows up and he says,"Roll the stone away."
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What if they would'vesaid, "No, you're late.
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You're late, you weresupposed to be here three
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days ago.
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You're late.
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No, we're not rolling thestone away, you roll the
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stone away.
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You're God, youcan do anything.
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If we're supposed to haveit, we're going to have it."
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Do you think that Lazaruswould've come back to life
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if they would've refusedtheir part in the miracle?
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One time, Jesus showed upon the Sea of Galilee, he
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was in disguise, and thedisciples had been fishing
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all night long andcaught nothing.
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And he shouts out from thebeach, "Hey guys, throw
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your nets on the rightside of the boat."
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What if the discipleswould've said, "Hey, mind
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your own business.
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We're the ones fishing.
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We're the onesfishing here.
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We've been fishingsince we were children.
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Mind your own business.
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Stay in yo lane."
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Right?
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If they would have donethat, then they would have
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never caught all thethousands of fish that
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they did catch when theywere obedient and threw
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the nets onthe other side.
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A couple weeks ago, I was inAlabama preaching at a church.
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And while I was preaching,I had this thought, this
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impression that the Lordwanted to heal someone who
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had a torn rotator cuff.
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I had the impression, butI just kept on speaking, I
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kept on giving my message.
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I was not 100% surethat it was God.
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There was a part of me,I was like wrestling back
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and forth, "Did God saythat to me or did I just
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think it?"
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And so, I'm going back andforth and I--so, I just
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finally said, "Hey, Ithink God spoke to me, but
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I'm not sure, so there'sonly one way to find out.
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Is there anyone here thathas a torn rotator cuff?
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Because if you do, Ibelieve the Lord told me
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he wants to heal you.
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Is there anyone here?"
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And on the sixth row,this young lady, she looks
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about 30 years old,she started going.
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When she started wavingher hand, my faith went
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through the roof.
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It went through the roof.
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I thought, "Yes."
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My faith was so high,I said, "Come down here
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right now, rightnow, right now."
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The whole church was like,"What is about to happen?"
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So, we prayed for her forabout 15 seconds, I just
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made sure we said, "Jesus,Jesus" a whole bunch.
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And then I said, "Well,go ahead and test it.
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Let's see ifJesus healed you."
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This was like two weeksago or a week ago, I can't
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remember when it was, goahead and--so, she starts
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raising both hands realslow because she doesn't
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want to hurt herself, soshe raised it real slow.
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And all of a sudden, her eyesstarted getting bigger.
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She raises them both allthe way up, she crosses
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her fingers like this, andstarts pulling it behind
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her head.
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And I'm thinking tomyself, "I would get a
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torn rotator cuffif I did that."
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So, all of a sudden, sheputs her hands down, she
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starts crying, her headdrops, the presence of God
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was all over.
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She was completely healed.
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And now, if that wasn'tenough, the faith in the
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room went throughthe ceiling.
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There were healings andmiracles started popping
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everywhere throughoutthe sanctuary.
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Now, let me askyou a question.
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Would that young lady havegotten healed if while I
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was preaching, I said tomyself, "I don't think
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that's God.
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I'm going to stay on thesafe side of the street"?
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Would she havegotten healed?
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Would she have gottenhealed if she did not go?
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Would the others in thesanctuary have gotten
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healed if shedidn't come down?
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Here's the principle, acts ofobedience ignites miracles.
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There's a Scripture inHebrews chapter 10, verse
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16 where it says that hehas a new covenant with
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us, very different thanthe one that he had with
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people in theOld Testament.
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It says that he haswritten his laws on our
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mind and he placedthem in our hearts.
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So, sometimes we will feelthe Lord tell us, "Stop
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saying that, don'twear that, be quiet,
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ask for forgiveness."
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Other times, he'llsay, "Stay quiet."
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And then another day,he'll say, "Open your mouth.
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Say something,do something."
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We have to respond to thatbecause acts of obedience
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ignites miracles.
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Are you with me?
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Say yes, absolutely.
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All right, so this ishow the story ends.
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The gentleman comes upto the Pharisees, the
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Pharisees want to judge thelegitimacy of the miracle.
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They said, "Whoheals you?"
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He says--he said,"Jesus healed me."
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They said back,"Who is he?"
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And he goes, "I thinkhe's a prophet."
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They said back to him,"Well, we think he's a sinner."
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He says back to thePharisees, "He might be."
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This guy got healed andhis faith level is lower
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than zero.
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The next time you think toyourself, "God's not going
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to move in my life becauseI don't have enough
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faith," I want youto think of this guy.
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Here's something that'svery fascinating.
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Sometimes, God healspeople with no faith.
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Sometimes, he heals peoplewith a lot of faith.
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But the common denominatorbetween all miracles is
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the presence ofJesus was there.
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When you and I are inthe presence of Jesus,
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anything can happen.
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When Isaiah was in thepresence of Jesus in
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Isaiah chapter 6, it saysthis, "And then I saw a
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seraphim, an angel, flyingto me with a coal off the altar.
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He touched my lips withthe coal and he said, 'See
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now, all your guilt hasbeen removed and your sins
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have been forgiven.'
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And then he heard the Lord say,'Whom shall I send for us?
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Who will go tothese people?'
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And Isaiah said,'Send me, God.'"
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What happened in thepresence of God?
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All of his sins wereremoved, all of his guilt
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was taken away, and theplan and purpose for his
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life had unfolded.
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When you and I are in hispresence, when we stay
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focused on alignment, Godunfolds our assignment.
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Do you receive that today?
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Come on, put yourhands together.
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Do you receive that today?
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Frankie: Hello, my nameis Frankie Mazzapica.
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Thank you for giving me anopportunity to speak into
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your life today.
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I'd like to encourageyou to order this series,
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"There is More."
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I know it will stretchyour faith and strengthen
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your prayer life.
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At the conclusion of allof our services here at
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Celebration Church, wealways pray for people who
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need a healingin their body.
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Consequently, we'realways seeing miracles.
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I hope this next testimonyencourages you to believe
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God for miraclesin your own life.
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Lula: Hi, my name is Lula,and I had been suffering
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with pain in my neck.
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I was diagnosed with twodiscs that was in my neck
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that was out forover five years.
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It had been about a monthago on a Sunday at the
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10:15 service, PastorFrankie had said, "Anyone
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that has been sufferingwith neck pain, can you
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come down for prayers?"
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Well, prior coming tochurch, I had got on my
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knees and Icalled out to God.
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And I cried out to himstating that I can't do
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this anymore.
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The pain was so severebecause I was on pain
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medication and alsodoing over the counter
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medication for my neck.
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So, when Pastor Frankieasked for, you know,
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whoever was having painin the neck come down for
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prayers, my husband tappedme, he said, "We need to go."
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And of course, you alwayswant to be in denial, you
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know, "Not me."
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So, I started walking.
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And as I'm walking, I'mtalking to myself, "You're
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walking, but you're notgoing to get healed.
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I don't know whyyou're going."
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But I said, "I'm goingto--I'm going to do this.
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I need this.
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I'm tired, and I'm tiredbeing in pain, and I'm
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tired taking medication.
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I've been doing this forso long and the pain is
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just getting worse."
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So, I walked down here.
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And when I got to thefront, to the altar, I was
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listening to the praisemusic, and Pastor Frankie
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was praying for theother individuals.
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And I startedpraying for myself.
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My neck started gettingwarm, and I continued to
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pray, and my knees startedshaking, and I had chills
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all over my body.
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And as I started to movemy neck, 'cause before I
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couldn't really move likeon the right side of my
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neck, but I startedmoving my neck.
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And when I started movingmy neck at this point,
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Pastor Frankie wasstanding in front of me.
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And when he stood in frontof me, he looked directly
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at me in the eyes and hesaid, "You're healed."
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And I looked at him andI said, "Yes, I am."
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And I started crying andgiving praise to Almighty
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God for healing me.
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♪♪♪
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♪ Over and over ♪
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♪ Pouring your love likeoil, I am yours now ♪
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♪ Nothing comparesto your great love ♪
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♪ Your great love ♪♪
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