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Come Boldly

October 20, 2020

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Leon Fontaine is showing people across the earth how to unleash the miraculous in their everyday lives and take Jesus to their families; friends; and communities.

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-ANNOUNCER: What would youchange in your life?
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- What if you could unleash themiraculous in your
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everyday life?
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- Experience freedom, live inpeace, change the world. Become
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Spirit Contemporary. Join LeonFontaine, world renowned
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conference speaker, seniorpastor of Canada's fastest
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growing church, and CEOof Canada's only
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Christian TV station.
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-LEON FONTAINE: You choosecourage. You choose to rise up
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and to be bold, to stand forwhat is right, to stand for the
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King of kings, to stand upwherever you are.
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-ANNOUNCER: In John 10:10, itsays that Jesus came to give us
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life, and life more abundantly.So, why is there such a
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disconnect between this biblicalpromise, and how most Christians
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live today? Why have so manybelievers become spiritually
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weak, and ineffective at sharingJesus' message of love? THE
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SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY LIFE is theanswer. It's being led by Holy
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Spirit, but in a contemporaryway. It's being Jesus and
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demonstrating His love in wayspeople can understand and
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appreciate. Spirit Contemporaryis unique for everyone. It never
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compromises the truth, and itnever makes others feel
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uncomfortable. It's freeingyourself from religious
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constraints, and walking freelyin God's amazing grace, for His
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purpose. THE SPIRIT CONTEMPORARYLIFE is absolutely crucial if
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the global church and her peopleare going to change the world.
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- Later in the show, we'll tellyou how you can reserve your
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copy of today's resource. Enrichyour soul and renew your mind
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with this timely series.
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- And now, from Winnipeg,Canada, pastor Leon Fontaine.
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-LEON: I want to talk todayabout the believer. If you've
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made the decision to followChrist, did you know that it is
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a choice to be bold. It is achoice to be courageous. In
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Proverbs 28:1 it says, "Thewicked run when nothing is even
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chasing them, but the righteous,now they're as bold as a lion."
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So many Christians are runningfrom their lives the way God
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wants them to be thinkingthey've got some curse on them,
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their family. I don't know howmany people will say kind of,
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"Well, you know, I just feellike I'm cursed, or our family
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just seems cursed, or we can'tseem to get ahead financially.
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We just seem cursed." And youlook at them and realize this
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belief is chasing them away fromthe prosperity that God has
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called them to. Some people arerunning from things like, "Oh, I
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just, that God's going to get mefor what I've done in my past."
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And they think they're going tobe punished. They think there's
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an angry God out there and sothey're running from them. They
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don't even get out to church ordive into the Word because they
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feel so guilty about thingsthey've done. They feel like God
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doesn't want them. And sothey're running from the
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stunning blessing that's alreadybeen provided by Jesus because
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they don't understand thatrighteousness according to
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Romans is a gift. Romans 5:17and on, righteousness is a gift.
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Why can God smile at you and bepleased with you, be excited
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about you, and just see you asin right standing because Jesus
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is our righteousness. When itsays the wicked flee with nobody
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pursuing them. If you ever getback into the things of the
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flesh, which means you startthinking through your five
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senses that we talked about thelast couple of Sundays. You're
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going to be defeated. You'regoing to be so defeated. And
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there are so many people todaywho don't understand that
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boldness, confidence. Now, whenI say boldness, it does not mean
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arrogant, condescending,thinking you're better than
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anybody else. That is a worldlyboldness. You know, the world
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has this confidence that is sofake and so phony. They'll even
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say things like fake it till youmake it. That might work for a
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few of them but there'ssomething different about a
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believer. You see, as you chooseto be bold, the boldness is
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really there. It's in yourspirit. Now, you've got to renew
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your mind. You've got to getyour heart convinced with His
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Word, but it is the real you.Reminds me of watching a 007
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movie. You know, James Bond,when he's sitting there, and he
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said some kind of a card gamethat has the world is at stake.
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And they're bluffing. You know,he doesn't really have much of a
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hand. Like, I got news for you.If you were playing poker, you
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would have a royal flush. Thereis no better hand. You're going
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to win for sure, guaranteed.That's what it's like to have
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God's courage. The righteous arebold as a lion because they know
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they are righteous, not on theirown efforts but it comes from
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Jesus as a gift. And we've gotto understand that or you're
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going to spend the rest of yourlife running this pathetic life
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that is nowhere near theconfidence, the trust, the
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boldness, the faith in God'sgrace which is His ability.
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You're going to live up thispathetic thing that is so far
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removed from what you wereactually called to. It says in
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Ephesians 2:10 that God hascreated paths for your life
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ahead of time. That you shouldwalk in them. Those paths are so
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exciting, so blessed, soprosperous, so purpose-filled.
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It just filled with destiny. Butmost kids in churches today,
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they want to go back into theworld because at least there's
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some fun and passion. And let'sget to a party and live it up.
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I'm just so tired of beingaround my parents because it's
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all don't do this, don't dothat, don't do this, don't do
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that. And all there is, is Biblereading, go to church, and wait
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for Jesus to rescue you. Listen,God created the world. He
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created the beaches. He createdthe ability to create planes. He
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created the ability to createcountries. And so it is the
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believer Jesus says in John10:10, I am come that you could
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get a life and then to have itmore abundantly. Are you living
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the life you desire? Are youliving in the relationships you
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desire? I'll put it this way.Are they the kind of
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relationships you want? TheBible has a really cool verse.
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It says come boldly to thethrone of grace. I was reading
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this a little while when Ithought, "Oh, Jesus. This is
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amazing." It doesn't say comeboldly to the throne of
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judgment. Wow, I couldn't dothat. It doesn't say come boldly
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to the throne of punishment. Itdoesn't say come boldly to the
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throne of holiness that you'llnever be able to live up to. It
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says come boldly to the throneof grace. That word grace, you
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may as well read it this way.Come boldly to the throne of
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favors. That's what it means.Come boldly to the throne of
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favors. And the biggest favorthat God has done for you is
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that all of His ability is yoursas a favor. The word "grace"
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literally means undeservedfavor. It's how you get it and
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what it is that you get is Hisability. Come boldly to the
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throne of His ability. Comeboldly to the throne of the
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favors that you need because youcan't do it on your own. If we
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do not look to Jesus, you aregoing to fail every time. And
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when we stand before Jesus atthe end of this age, He wants to
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know. Did your life have anyeternal impact? Did you share
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your faith? Did you representChrist? Where you a person who
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shared the Gospel? We may aswell be on spiritual birth
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control pills if we're not goingto get up and boldly share the
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Jesus that we love and live thelife that makes them jealous.
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You know, the word "blessed"actually means happy, fortunate,
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and to be envied. I often asked,"Hey, are you happy? Are you
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enjoying your life?" Well, youknow. Oh, come on! The righteous
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are as bold as a lion. Bold todo what? Bold to come to the
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throne of grace and get Hisability to make relationships
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work. Get His ability to makeyour finance work. Get His
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ability that get your mind andemotions under control. This is
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such an amazing scripture. Oh,the wicked or anybody who is in
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fear, anybody who doesn't choosefaith. They run with nothing
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pursuing them. Nothing! But therighteous are as bold as a lion.
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Boldly come to the throne ofgrace. There's a verse in the
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Bible in Galatians 5 and it'stalking here about how
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Christians keep moving back intotheir own energy and they're
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back into their own ability,their own strengths. And in
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Galatians 5:4 it says when youdo this, you have fallen from
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grace. It's a term that peoplehave preached from. They think
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it means you lose yoursalvation. No. You don't lose
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the fact that Jesus is withinyou and you go to heaven when
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you die. But grace is God'sability. And if you do not learn
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to live at the throne of graceand you keep walking away in
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your own ability, your ownworries, your own anxieties,
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your own self. That it's time tocome back boldly to the throne
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of grace. You need mercy. Youneed His grace. You need His
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ability and get back there andstay there. Fallen from grace
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means you've fallen from theincredible ability to use His
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grace, His favor, His ability inevery area of your life. Pretty
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much whenever I really start tostruggle too much in some area
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of my life. I realize I've gotinto my own ability, my own
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work. That doesn't mean that Ishould not develop skills of
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management, skills ofadministration, skills in the
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Word of God, skills to preach,skills as a CEO, skills as a
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pastor. Oh, I love all thoseskills because we've got to add
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some skills. But my trust has tostay in the grace of God. The
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ability of God that comes to meas a favor. It doesn't come to
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me because I earned it. It comesas a favor. I'm challenging you
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today. What kind of a life areyou living? Stop! I'm not
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judging your life. I'm askingyou. Could you be real with
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yourself and say, "Do I enjoywhat I'm doing with my life? And
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is my life filled with purpose?"It's this purpose that Jesus
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brings us, that gets us up inthe morning. People are looking
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for a purpose. Man, they're justany kind of crazy thing out
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there. You have a purpose thatfar exceeds anything on this
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planet. Your life, whether youare in business or health care.
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As a mom, a dad, everything thatyou do every day is about
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advancing the kingdom of God.It's about getting the gospel
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out. You can't just sit aroundsaying, "Well, we're going to
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have a prayer meeting." Listen,prayer is mainly to get you
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fired up and believing. Yet it'snot just that but that's what
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it's mainly is. My prayer life-, People say, "Well, you know,
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how do you pray? I'm hanging outwith God, spending time with
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God. Making sure that Hisenergy, His ability, His
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strength, His peace, His joy,His grace, His gifts that are
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within me. So that everythingthat I do, I can do with the
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resources of God flowing fromme. And that resource can be to
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be a husband, to be a pastor, tobe a dad, to be a friend, to be
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a grandpa, to handle finances,to handle people, to deal with
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storms and problems. It is soincredible that this throne of
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grace. There are so many timesin my life where I'm struggling
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with something and I'll justremember. I've walked away from
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God's ability. And this verserises up and I just run back.
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God, I'm so sorry. I'm coming toYour throne of grace. I need
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mercy for this. I need Yourability, Your grace. It's always
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there. Thank God, it's a throneof grace. The church has a
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responsibility to its cities, toits nation, not just to pray.
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Now, I'm going to say something,and you better quote me right. I
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think in many cases prayer isjust an excuse for wimpy, weak,
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cowardly people to never sharewith anybody they know about
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their Jesus although we haveprayer meetings to pray for the
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nation. What good is it to prayfor the nation if the way souls
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are saved is through sharing thegospel, and the Bible calls it
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preaching and you're all calledto be preachers. So it says, but
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how can they hear unless someonetells them. And how can someone
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tell them unless someone issent. And it just goes to this
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whole line. Every one of us mustbe sharing from politics to
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medicine, to business, whereveryou are to represent Christ. Not
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in an arrogant, preachy way butin a way that lives it and
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shares it in a bold way that isunashamed. I love the word
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unashamed in Romans 1:16 becauseit says, "I am not ashamed of
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the gospel of Christ." It didn'tsay, "Don't be ashamed of some
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of the Christians." It just saidno. So don't be ashamed of the
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gospel because it is the power.What's the power? Somebody with
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this confident, bold thing thatspeaks up at a coffee table.
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Rather than, "Well, I don'treally want to turn them off."
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Listen, if they don't knowJesus, you can't get more off
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than off. If the light switchesoff, it's off. Somebody needs
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to, with intelligence and wisdomin a Spirit Contemporary way
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stand up for the way of life andthen leave it. And as you do,
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you're going to find that peopleare supposed to be attracted to
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the lives that we live asbelievers. So get up and pursue
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what God has called you to do.But here the apostle Paul is
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saying, he says, "Let yourconduct be without
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covetousness." And he says, "Becontent with such things as you
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have. For He Himself has said,'I will never leave you or
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forsake you.' So we may boldlysay, 'The Lord is my helper. I
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will not fear. What man can doto me?'" Which is quoting from
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Psalm 118:6. The apostle Paul issaying the help that I have got,
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I've got to get up and go dosomething for Him. This courage
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that I'm talking about is achoice. This courage is not a
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feeling. Everybody feels thesame push of fear. Everybody
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feels the same push ofuncertainty. Why? Because we are
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in these physical bodies with amind that is not renewed totally
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on a planet where Satan hasn'tyet been dealt with. There is a
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lease on this planet that Adamgave away. When that lease is
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up, he's done. In the meantime,we need Him. We need to choose
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courage. One of my favoriteverses about courage is Psalm
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27:14, it says, "Wait on theLord. Be of good courage, and He
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shall strengthen your heart."Well, I want Him to strengthen
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my heart so I can be courageousLeon. No, you've got it
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backwards. You choose courage.You choose to rise up and to be
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bold, to stand for what isright, to stand for the King of
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kings, to stand up wherever youare for the marginalized. Like
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stand up. And then it says,"When you do, you'll just sense
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the strength rise up in yourheart." Because the strength
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really is there. Someone mightsay to me as a Christian, "I'm
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just not strong!" Lie! It's inyour spirit. Somebody else might
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say, "Oh, I'm just so confused."Lie! Your spirit is not
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confused. Well, you know. Imean, I'm just, I'm just really
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shy. When shyness destroys yourfuture, it is not your
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personality. It is somethingthat you need to deal with. The
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Word is very clear that we needto choose courage. In 1
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Chronicles 19:13, it says, "Beof good courage, and let us
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behave ourselves valiantly."Listen to me, courage is not
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just an internal thing. Courageis seen by how you behave. Do
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you behave in a valiant way? Doyou stand up for truth? Do you
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look for every opportunity youcan to step into a situation and
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share Jesus as the hope of thefuture. We must choose courage
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and behave valiantly, and Godwill be all over you. I remember
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as a young man, my dad and Iwere talking. I would have been
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about 16. I would have been 17and 18. One day, we're talking
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about being a leader. And hesaid something to me I never
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forgot. That's 40 years ago. Hesaid, "Leon, confidence
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increases the presence of God onyour life." Confidence increases
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the presence of God on my life.I never forgot that. And then I
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began to recognize it's not aphony confidence. It's not a
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fake it till you make itconfidence. But there is a
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confidence of boldness, acourage that is in my recreated
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spirit. That when I choose,which is what you do with your
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mind. I choose to act valiantly.I choose to do the courageous
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thing. That is amazing howsomething rises up within me
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because all of that is in myspirit. Joshua, I don't know
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what was wrong with Joshua.Maybe nothing, but there are
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more verses telling Joshua to becourageous than any other leader
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I can find in the Bible. So itmakes me wonder. Did that
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gifted, wonderful leader, thatby the way goes down in history
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as an amazing leader of God'speople, if he did not struggle
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with courage. Over and over Heuses this line, it says,
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"Joshua, have I not commandedyou? Be strong and of good
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courage." If God says besomething. Then you simply are
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being who you is. You're beingwho you is. You know, often when
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men start talking to each otherand we get together. There's
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times that after you'vecounseled and you've chatted,
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and you've tried to helpsomebody. You just say something
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like, "Come on! Just be a man!"Why can you say that? Because he
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is one. Just be who you is. You,you're created in the likeness
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and the image of Jesus. You arecourageous. You are valiant. You
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are filled with the ability ofGod. You can run through a
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troop, leap over a wall. There'snothing that will stand before
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you all the days of your life.As God was with Moses, He will
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be with you. We choose courage.There's a verse I don't like in
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Revelations 21:8. It startstalking that just says, "But as
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for you cowards, youcontemptible." You, it says,
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"You cravenly lacking incourage. You cowardly
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submissive." It means you'resubmitting to the wrong things.
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And it goes on talking about,you know, it's this people that
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get involved that says in magicarts, idolatry. They get
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involved in witchcraft and allthis junk. It says they need the
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courage to stand up for what isright, what is truth. You know,
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courage is an incredible thing.Courage, when you choose courage
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and you begin to act valiantly,it does something to you. We
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become mentally stronger. Itincreases our confidence to
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choose courage and stand up forwhat is right. We increase our
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self-esteem. Standing up forwhat is right increases our
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feelings and our sense ofself-worth. We inspire others
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when we choose to be courageous.It literally becomes the culture
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of your team, your business,your family. Is there a culture
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in your family? If there isn'tone, then they're by accident.
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But choose a culture of courage,a culture of love, a culture of
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Christ. We inspire others withour courage. We create better
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communities, better homes,better workplaces, better
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schools, when we act out ourcourage. Courage enhances the
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moral climate of our cities, ourworkplaces, our country. It
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helps increase awareness inothers and it starts them into
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action. We become people ofintegrity. Without courage, you
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will never do anything in thisworld. Courage is one of the
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most important attributes inyour life because without
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courage, you won't attempt anyof the other characteristics.
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Courage choose, make a decisionthat there is courage within me.
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I don't care if you were raisedand trained to be weak. If you
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were raised and trained to be aloser. I don't care if you
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tattooed a big halo on yourforehead. It's a lie. The Bible
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says that God's Word be true andevery man a liar. You! You are
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made in the likeness and theimage of God. You! You've been
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washed in the blood of the lamb,forgiven, recreated in your
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spirit man. And as you just getinto His Word and renew your
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mind, make your body a livingsacrifice. He gives you the
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ability to do that. Why? So wecan live lives that makes this
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world jealous. And then we canshare this remarkable, amazing,
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wonderful Jesus that we havefound and fallen in love with.
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Amen? Amen!
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-ANNOUNCER: Are you feelingstuck, unhappy, or worn down?
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It could be that yourautopilot needs a reset.
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In Leon Fontaine'sbrand-new series,
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"Setting Your Autopilot",learn how the beliefs
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you hold deep in your heartare like a plane's autopilot
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determining thedirection of your life.
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-LEON: What do yougive attention to?
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What you give attention toin life, is programming
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and planting what theBible calls your heart.
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Your heart is theautopilot for your life.
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[Music]
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-ANNOUNCER: In this series,Leon shares how to guard the
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three gateways of your heart,how to deal with faulty belief
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systems, and how to changeyour thoughts and attitudes.
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-LEON: Whatever you believe,begins to influence your life.
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-ANNOUNCER: Call nowto request this series.
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Don't just learn whatto believe, but learn
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[Segment Music]
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-LEON: One of the greatestthings people struggle with
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today is, who am I? So manypeople are trying to get their
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DNA checked out to see ifthey've got European in them, if
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they've got Mongol in them, orthey're from Indian descent from
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India. That they want to knowand that they seem to feel a
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sense of, "I've gotta find outwho I am." And none of those
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things are your identity. It'sgood to be proud and not
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embarrassed of where you comefrom and to be excited about it,
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but your identity is in Christ.And I wanna challenge you that
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you might think, "I'm Canadian.I'm American. I'm East Indian."
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Or whatever word, but you areHeavenian first. You are made in
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the likeness and the image ofGod. The language that you
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speak, the color of your skin,and whoever your forefathers
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were, is not your identity. Youridentity is in Christ. You're
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made in the likeness and imageof God, designed in heaven made
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by God and that is the family.That is predominant thing that
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you need to understand. God mayuse everything else in His
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purposes in your life, language,color of skin, background, and
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He will. But your identity isJesus. Don't let anything take
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that away from you. And that iswhere you'll have a peace. That
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is where you will have astrength. Because whenever the
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enemy comes in to tempt you offcourse or to begin to make you
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feel like you are not enough.You need to know, I am a child
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of God. I know that the King ofkings is on the inside of me.
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That I was born with a purposeand there's something I'm going
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to do for Him. Father, I prayright now. That we would release
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the things we cling to as ouridentity, failures, even
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victories. And we would look toYou, Father, as the author, the
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finisher of our faith. We wouldlook to You, Father, as our
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Father and we would believe thethings You say about us, not the
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things that our even humanfather, or human people say
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about us. But what Your Wordsays about us and what You say
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about us. In Jesus' nameI pray, amen.
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