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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Hello friend.
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I'm so glad that you're
with me today and I'm glad
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because we're opening the word of God
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and we're studying about
being an imitator of God.
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And I look that word up
and it means imitate God.
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Just act just like him.
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Well, what could that mean?
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I used to think, well, does
that mean that I'm supposed
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to act like that my floors
on my house are golden
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or, or that there's flowers
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that are amazing colors
nobody's ever seen?
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I mean, what does acting like God mean?
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But you go on in that verse
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and it tells you how to act like God.
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And it has a lot to do with our attitude.
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And we talked about acting like God. God is never a victim,
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he's always a victor.
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We can act like we are
the victor because we are.
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God is never stingy. He's always a giver.
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God is....he's is giving off a sacrifice.
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When Jesus died, he gave a sacrifice
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and it was a sweet
smelling saver to the Lord.
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And Romans 12:1 says
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that we are a living sacrifice
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and giving that sacrifice to God.
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That is acting like God, giving
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that living sacrifice.
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We talked about that.
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And today we are going
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to talk about God never worries,
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never worries.
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So we can act like God
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and not be a worrier also.
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And I wanna offer you my 5-part video series
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so this can get deeper down in your heart, this teaching.
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And also it comes with a steady guide.
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And if you haven't gotten my book, Jesus Is Your Healer,
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and maybe you need healing in your body
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or maybe you know someone else
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who needs healing in their
body, get this book for 'em
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because it's gonna encourage them.
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I'm getting testimonies
quite regularly of people
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who have been reading this book
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and seeing what God has done for them
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through the word of God
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and seeing that God is
not just their savior,
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but he is their healer.
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Well, stay with me and
I'm gonna be right back
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and we're gonna find out
how we can imitate God.
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It's time for big miracles
and changes in your life.
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Join Denise Renner
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and dive into the study of God's word, which has great power
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to strengthen faith, inspire,
change, heal physically
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and spiritually, and most importantly,
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help you learn about the power
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of Christ Jesus living in you.
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It's time with Denise Renner.
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God is not worried. He's
not even worried right now.
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He wasn't even worried yesterday.
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And I wanna show you
that in the word of God.
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Do you remember that song many, many years ago,
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Don't Worry, Be Happy,
Don't Worry, Be Happy.
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Remember that? Well, you know what?
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There is a lot of truth to that silly song
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because God's not worrying.
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And if we're gonna be
imitators of God, then we need
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to take on that characteristic of God
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and not be a worrier.
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And the Bible is filled with encouragement
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and instruction on telling us
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how we cannot be worriers
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and how it can absolutely happen.
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We've got the power of the Holy Ghost on the inside of us.
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Nothing is is impossible with God.
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And we be become not a worrier,
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but a truster and rester
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and one who is overcome
with the peace of God.
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So I wanna start this teaching
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with my own testimony
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because one day, you know,
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I was really upset about something and,
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and it was a few years ago
and we were traveling and,
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and it's, you know, and when Rick
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and I travel in the United
States, it's not a vacation.
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It's one airplane after another airplane.
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And, and it's all, it's
all these meetings.
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And I'm not complaining at all.
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I'm just telling you
that it's not a vacation,
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but it is wonderful.
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But so all of this was
kind of coming on me
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and then other things that were going on.
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And so I was like worrying.
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I was like upset and,
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and it was like I, I was talking to God
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and he said, Denise, I'm not worried.
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He said, I'm not upset.
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He said, I am completely
peaceful about this.
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And I thought, wow,
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God is at rest.
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God is at peace
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and maybe, maybe things
are going on in your life
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or around you
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and it's just seems like what is going
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to happen in this world?
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What is gonna happen with me?
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What is gonna happen with
my family? All the what-if's?
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And it seems like
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that everything comes crashing
down like even on your mind
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or your emotions or your body.
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And you're saying,
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how can I have peace in this world?
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How can I not be a worrier?
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Well, God is not worried.
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And because that verse says,
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Therefore be the imitators of God as dear children,
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Ephesians 5:1, to me, friends,
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that means that it is possible
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for us to be an imitator of God
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as a dear child and not worry.
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It's powerful.
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So I wanna show you how
much God is not worried.
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God is not worried about governments.
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God is not worried about political things.
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God is not worried about economics.
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He is not worried.
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And I wanna show you sometimes
when I think about what's
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happening in the world, this is
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where I draw my comfort.
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It's Psalm 2 and it's verse 4.
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And it tells us that our God is unmovable.
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Nothing's moving him. He is
the rock. He is the fortress.
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He is unshakeable.
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He is not changing. Look at this verse.
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He who sits in the heavens - that's our God - shall laugh.
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The Lord shall hold them in derision.
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God is not upset at all about evil men,
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about their power.
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He's not impressed.
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He's actually giving people
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who are really against God.
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He actually gives them the
very breath that they breathe.
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Now they don't acknowledge
him, but it's the truth.
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If he didn't give them that
breath, they'd fall over dead.
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If he didn't hold this
world together by the word
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of his power, as it says in Hebrews,
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everything would explode.
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God is holding everything together.
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Well, what doesn't matter
what man thinks or their power
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or their technology
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or their genius,
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they couldn't even think if
God didn't give him the brains
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to think; they couldn't even see if God didn't do a
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miracle in everyone's eyes to make them
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see. I studied this one atheist
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and he had a book this
thick, and he came to God
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because he studied the eye
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and he found out that
it's absolutely impossible
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for the eyes to see.
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It is a miracle that your eyes see. What am I saying?
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I'm saying that God is doing so much
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and we don't give him the credit for that.
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But he's moving. He's shaking things.
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He's he's holding things together
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and he is not worried.
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And because of the Holy
Spirit who lives on the inside
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of you and I, we can be imitators
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of God and we can also not worry.
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Another verse I love that shows
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how God is not worried is in Revelation 4
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and it's verse 3. Look at this,
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Revelation 4:3, and it says,
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And around the throne were 24 thrones.
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And on the thrones I saw 24
elders sitting clothed in
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white robes and they had
crowns of gold on their heads.
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And from the throne proceeded
lightnings and thunders
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and voices.
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Seven lamps of fire were burning
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before the throne, which are
the seven spirits of God.
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Before the throne there was a sea of class like crystal.
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And in the midst of the throne
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and around the throne were
four living creatures full
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of eyes in front and in back.
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Does that sound like that
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God is sitting on the throne worried.
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God is not sitting on the throne worried, friend.
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He is sitting on the throne being worshiped.
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He's not worried.
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And as I said, he gives you
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and I the power to not worry.
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Look at Matthew 6
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and we're gonna talk about
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what Jesus said about not worrying, in Matthew
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chapter 6.
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It's so fantastic. Look at this verse.
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It starts in verse 25.
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And it says, therefore, I say to you,
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do not worry about your
life, what you will eat
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or what you will drink,
nor about your body.
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What you will put on is not life.
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More, more than food
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and the body more than clothing.
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Look at the birds. That
means to consider the birds.
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Think about the birds of the air.
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They neither sow nor reap
nor gather into barns.
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Yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
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Are you not more valuable than a bird?
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Of course you are. And God's
taking care of the birds.
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Listen to this. Which of you by worrying
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can add one cubit to his stature.
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Worrying dear friend, it does nothing for us.
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It causes us to become older quicker.
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It can can cause disease in our body.
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It's a waste of our mental
and emotional energy.
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It can cause us to bring ourselves
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into a place
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where we put....guards
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and borders around ourselves
against other people.
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Worry. Worry is not
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a part heart of our born again, spirit.
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What's in our born again
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spirit is our trust
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and our reliance on God.
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That's who you really are, friend.
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And your born again spirit,
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your trusting God, you're resting in God.
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And the Bible's telling us in Ephesians 5:1,
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Therefore be imitators
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of God as dear children.
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Imitate what's on the inside of you.
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Just imitate.
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Just dare to imitate on the inside of you,
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the one who's not worried
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and you will not be worried.
You start imitating him:
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you see, to imitate him takes faith.
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And when you start using your faith, ho,
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I am not gonna worry about this
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one more second. God is not worried about it,
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I'm not worried about it.
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And we agree with what's
on the inside of us.
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We actually open a place
for God to do something.
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When we worry, it's like
we've got our hands on it.
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We are trying to figure it out. Oh, if I can just do this.
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Oh, if that person will stop doing this.
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Oh, what if this happens? Oh, what if that happens?
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Worry, worry, worry, worry and we're in control.
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But when we trust God,
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we are allowing God to
come into the situation
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and do something amazing.
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Oh friend, this is, this is great.
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I'll tell you, this will help
you sleep better at night.
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Think about the birds. We just read that.
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Consider the birds. If you consider the birds,
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have you ever seen a bird having a nervous breakdown?
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Well, of course not.
Because they're not worried.
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They don't sit there on the branch
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and just grab a hold
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and say, oh, I don't know,
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I'm gonna fall over in
the nighttime if I don't
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squeeze this twig.
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No, the Bible says they're
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not worried.
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Consider, think about, ponder
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about the birds.
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And are you not much more
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valuable than a bird?
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That song has sung it so many
times all over the world,
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His Eye is on the Sparrow,
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his eye is on you.
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The Bible says in 1 Peter 5:7,
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Cast all your care upon him
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for he cares for you.
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So if we just want to
take a hold of that care,
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we're ignoring that He cares for us.
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Oh, friend, I love you.
I'm telling you the truth.
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God is calling us in these days to
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look at the word of God
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and say, God, this is what
you've called for me to do.
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Not to be like the world and
just worry about everything
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and gripe about everything
and complain about everything.
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But to trust you,
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I wanna show you this other verse.
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It's Colossians 3:15.
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And in Colossians 3:15, it says,
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And let the peace of God
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rule in your hearts. When we say,
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Lord, okay, I am gonna be an imitator of you,
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and I am going to -
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I'm going to imitate
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that non-worrying God on the inside of me,
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and I'm going to use my faith
and I'm not going to worry.
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And I'm going to let the peace
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of God rule in my heart.
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That actually means that the
peace of God, when we open up
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to the peace of God, it's
so powerful that it will act
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as an umpire and the peace
of God on the inside of you.
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If you agree with the
peace of God, the peace
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of God will say, no worry,
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you can't come in here.
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No, strife. No, you can't come in here.
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No, confusion - stay out.
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This is a place of peace.
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I wanna show you another fabulous scripture.
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And this is in Philippians and it's chapter 4.
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And this was written when the apostle Paul was in a
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horrible prison.
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So if anybody could have been worrying,
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he could have been worrying
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because he was surrounded
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by sewage in this particular prison
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and death was all around him.
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But listen to what he writes.
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It says in chapter 4,
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and it's verse 6; be anxious for nothing.
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Be anxious for nothing but
in everything by prayer
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and supplication with thanksgiving,
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let your requests be made known to God.
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And the peace of God,
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which passes all understanding
will guard your hearts
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and your minds in Christ
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Jesus. It says,
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be anxious for nothing.
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And I know that that word, nothing,
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is a tiny little word in Greek and it's the word, te,
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and it means, don't be anxious about
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the tiniest, smallest detail.
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Little tiny thing, don't be anxious about it.
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So what are you supposed to do - to act like God
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and not worry, but in everything,
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by prayer and supplication.
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Supplication is talking to God,
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pouring out your heart about that matter.
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He wants to hear from you about that matter
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with thanksgiving.
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Then then let your requests
be made known unto God.
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And when we do that, friend,
I'm sure that I'm talking
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to somebody and you've done that
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and you've seen the
peace of God as you gave
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that problem over to the Lord
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and the peace of God just came
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and just surrounded you.
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And it's so interesting the
way the scripture says it
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because it says, let the peace
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of God which passes
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all understanding.
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We talked on the last program in this series
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that you're a fragrance.
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You are a fragrance to God. You're a fragrance to the world.
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When you and I, when we trust God
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and when things are going wrong
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and we are walking in peace, it is
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beyond understanding; it's beyond understanding.
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Haven't you had someone say
to you, I don't understand.
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I don't understand how you are
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so peaceful.
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It's because of the power of the Holy Spirit
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on the inside of you producing
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that peace
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as you cast your worries over
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on the Lord.
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Friend, we have the very power we need
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to be an imitator of God.
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To not worry,
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but to walk in peace,
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it's so powerful.
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Hebrews 12:14 says
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that we are to pursue this peace,
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like to be a hunter.
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Like when you try to hunt something down,
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hunt an animal down,
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you do it on purpose.
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I know people who sit in trees
and they look like the tree
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and they sit there for hours
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and don't, don't say a
word waiting for an animal.
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Well, they're not doing that by accident.
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They're doing that on purpose.
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And that's how you
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and I can imitate God by being on purpose
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to pursue peace.
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When we pursue that peace, when we cast
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that care on the Lord
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and we say, Lord, I'm casting this on you
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because you care for me.
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You are an imitator of God
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and you're fulfilling that scripture
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in Ephesians 5:1,
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Therefore be imitators of God
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as dear children -
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and you're imitating him by not
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worrying and trusting in Him all.
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Oh friend, you're more powerful than you think.
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There's not a bit of worry in your spirit.
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Agree with that and take on that action
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and imitate God as one who doesn't worry.
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Well, stay with me.
I'm gonna be right back
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and I wanna pray with you.
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Imitating your heavenly
Father is the greatest
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compliment you can give him.
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According to Ephesians 5:1, as a child of God,
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you are called to imitate him each
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and every day. By following his example,
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you can overcome obstacles, learn how to treat others,
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the Holy Spirit to not be a worrier,
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but to be a truster: to be one
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who cast your care on the Lord.
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Isn't that magnificent?
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You see, we don't have
to look like the world.
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We do not have to act like the world.
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You see the world, there's more anxiety
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and fear taking over people's
hearts than ever before.
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More people on medicine about anxiety
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and fear, and they're trying to calm down.
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But you and I, we have the power on the
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inside to live above
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that worry and cast our care on him.
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Father, I pray right now for my friend,
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as we agree together to act like you,
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to take on the actions that
are actually on the inside
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of us, to be a non worrier, to cast
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that care upon you right
now in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Friend. It's powerful.
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It is powerful.
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As you give that worry over to the Lord,
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healing can come in your body.
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and I'll see you on the next program.
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If you've never received
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and Lord, now is the time for
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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