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This program is made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Hello, friend.
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My name is Denise Renner,
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and I'm so glad that you're with me today.
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We've been talking lately about bringing down that giant,
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and this series is called, Giant -
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It's your time to come down.
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Is there anything in your life
that you're like looking at
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or thinking about or that's bothering you?
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And you're saying it's
time for you to come down?
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Boy, I understand that statement
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because we have to be the
one who is the aggressor,
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not the enemy.
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Jesus stripped him of his power.
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He's actually, I've seen
people talk about him, is
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that he's a roaring lion, but
he doesn't have any teeth.
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All he has is deception and lies.
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Jesus stripped him of his power.
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But when he starts speaking
or when he starts deceiving
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or when he brings sickness
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or disease, what do we
do against that giant?
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That's what I'm gonna
talk to you about today.
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And today I'm gonna talk
to you about a weapon
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that no enemy can resist.
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And you're gonna see what that is
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in just a few minutes,
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I wanna offer you my 5-part video series.
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Now, I want you to have this
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because maybe you need
to watch this again,
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or you need to give it to somebody else,
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or I have a study guide that,
that when you read this,
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then the teaching can go deeper down on
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the inside of you.
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And honestly, friend, if we
are gonna be giant killers,
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we've got to be unstoppable.
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And I wanna offer you my book, Unstoppable,
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because there'll be many things that will come against you
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to make you stop in your race.
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But when we know that the greater ones on the inside of us
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and that fear and unforgiveness
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and the opinions, negative opinions
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of other people can't stop us,
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we can keep moving forward.
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I want you to have this book
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because I believe it's gonna encourage you,
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but I want you to stay with me
and I'm gonna be right back.
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And if you need any prayer,
please do not hesitate
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to let us know how we
can be praying for you.
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I'll join you in a minute.
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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,
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heal physically and spiritually.
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And most importantly,
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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So I wanna talk to you about the weapon
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that no enemy can resist.
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That is the weapon of love.
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The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 13,
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that love never fails -
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never fails.
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And I wanna tell you a
story about a godly man.
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Years ago this happened.
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He lived in Texas,
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but God started speaking to his heart
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about the gangs in New York City.
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And these gangs were so dangerous
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and they were hurting other
people, killing other people,
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robbing from other people.
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And this godly man in Texas heard about that.
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And the Holy Spirit said to him, I want you
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to go there and I want you
to preach to those gangs.
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I want them to know
about my love for them.
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So this godly man, he
goes to New York City,
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he goes in these horrible streets at
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that time in New York City
and there's all these gangs
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and darkness.
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And he comes up to this one group
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and he begins preaching
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and he begins telling
them that God loves them,
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that Jesus loves them,
that Jesus died for them.
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And this one guy in the group,
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his name was Nicky Cruz, he said,
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if you say to me one more time
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that Jesus loves me,
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I am gonna cut you into pieces.
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The godly man said, Nicky,
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if you cut me into pieces, every piece
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of me will say the same thing.
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God loves you and I love you.
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Well, his name was Nicky
Cruz, the gang member.
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He couldn't take it.
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He could not take this kind of love
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and that love melted his heart.
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He gave his life to Jesus.
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He became a powerful evangelist.
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And what won him to the
Lord, what delivered him?
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Was somebody coming up and
telling him how wrong he was
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and you're gonna go to hell? No, it wasn't that though
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that was true.
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It was the love of God
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that was pouring out of this godly man
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to Nicky Cruz.
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It was that love that
changed that man forever.
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Oh, friend, I'm talking
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to you about the most
powerful weapon that you
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and I have against the enemy,
against any of his assaults.
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And that is love.
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Oh, I'm excited to get started.
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I wanna tell you some attributes of love.
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Look with me in Proverbs 25
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and it's verse 15.
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Now, this is how powerful love is.
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It says - By long forbearance,
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a ruler is persuaded
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and a gentle tongue breaks a bone.
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A gentle tongue, a tongue that's filled
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with love, not criticism,
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not I'm gonna get even with you,
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but a tongue that is quieted,
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patient, filled with love.
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That kind of tongue, that
kind of speech the Bible says
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can break a bone.
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That's powerful.
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I want you to think
about that for a minute.
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Like what kind of speech
comes out of our mouth when,
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when someone attacks us?
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Is it patience? Is it a kindness?
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If it is, it's gonna break the bone.
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That's what the Bible
says. It's so powerful.
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Love is so powerful
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that it will break the bone.
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I wanna show you something
else that love does.
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In Proverbs 15:1, it says
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that a soft answer turns
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away wrath.
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Well, if someone's angry with you
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and anger's coming towards you,
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and you give them a soft answer, now where did
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that soft answer come from?
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That came from a strong position of love.
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And when that person comes
at you with those words
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and that you speak soft words,
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you don't give back that same
anger, that same criticism,
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that same hate, that same I'm
going to get even with you,
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that I'm gonna guard my heart from.
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Not that. But a soft answer
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will absolutely stop wrath.
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It will rebuke wrath.
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Wrath will have to bow
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to a soft answer, sir.
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Wrath will have to take second place
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to a soft answer. Is that powerful? Oh friend,
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I'm talking to you today about a weapon
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that is un-defeatable.
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Why would I say that? Look
at what Jesus did for us.
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He came, John 3:16 says,
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for God so loved the world,
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this love that he gave his only begotten
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son that was that love,
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this unstoppable undefeatable
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love that came out of God
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to send Jesus, to save us and to heal us,
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and to deliver us. That kind of love
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is on the inside of you,
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I'm gonna show you that in a minute.
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I always show you one
more thing that love does.
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In 1 John 4:18, it says,
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and I'm gonna read it to you, it says,
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there is no fear in love,
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but perfect love -
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perfect love - cast out fear
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because fear involves torment.
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There's no torment in love,
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but he who fears has not
been made perfect in love.
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It says to us that love is so powerful
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that it will cast out
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fear. Again,
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it will rebuke fear. It will put fear down.
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It will cause fear to run from us.
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I studied this one other time
in, in another commentary,
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and when it said, love cast out fear,
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it's a disciplinary action.
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It's like, it's like a, a bad dog wanting
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to bite you
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and you, you say - no, you don't.
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And you start coming against that dog,
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and that dog goes off in fear
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because it's been disciplined.
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Well, perfect love disciplines, stands
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in complete authority over fear.
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Now that is encouraging; that is powerful.
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That is a weapon
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that no enemy can stand against.
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Now let me talk to you about
the love of God that's in you.
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In Romans 5:5, when you got born again,
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the very love of God,
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I'm gonna show you in John chapter,
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John 17:26, the very love of God
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that God loved Jesus with
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is the love that lives inside of you.
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It's not a junior love,
it's the exact love.
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It's not like you got a little tiny bit of this love
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and God has a whole big,
big part of this love.
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No, he gave you the same measure.
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Oh, isn't that magnificent?
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He gave you the same measure of love
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that God loved Jesus with.
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So let's say that God's love
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to Jesus is like this tall.
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Of course we can never measure his love,
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but let's just say. So when you got born again
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and it says that the love of God,
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by the Holy Ghost was shed
abroad in your heart: the love
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of God, the very love of God,
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it's not this love of God,
it's this love of God.
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It's the same, the same love
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of God that God loved Jesus
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with is what the Holy Spirit put on the
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inside of your heart. Friend,
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do you see this weapon?
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I mean, this is a weapon that
no enemy can stand against.
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I want to tell you a story,
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another story about the power of love.
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And many years ago, I started at
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another women's ministry
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and another part of this
region of the world.
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And I met with those women.
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And one of the women - one of the leaders
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that was in this ministry,
she always walked in
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to every meeting that we had
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like she was a princess.
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I'm telling you, she
had her shoulders back,
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she had her head up.
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She always looked beautiful.
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So one day I asked her,
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and I said, I said, Ola,
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every time you come to these meetings,
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and every time I see you,
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she always carry you like
yourself like a princess.
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And she said, would you like
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to know why I carry
myself like a princess?
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And of course, we all
said, yeah, we, we'd like
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to know why you carry
yourself like a princess.
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And she told us her story.
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Her story began with her
mother, who was so abusive,
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beat her so much that,
that she would bleed and,
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and have cuts on her body.
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And I mean, it was horrible.
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And it caused a so much
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psychological problems in her.
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And finally she just became
paralyzed all over her body:
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terrible, terrible, terrible.
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And then everyone around her
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said, just, you know,
you just need to give up.
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Because in those days,
there weren't, there weren't
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the friendliness to people
who are in wheelchairs now.
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Now people can get
around much more easily,
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but back then, if you
were in a wheelchair,
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if you couldn't walk, you
just stayed in your apartment.
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She's 21 years old.
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And her relative said,
you just need to give up.
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And she said, I'm 21 years
old, I don't wanna die.
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And so she had a will to
live. Well in the next,
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next apartment to theirs,
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there was a woman who
had just been, was saved
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and filled with the Holy Spirit and just on fire for God.
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And God said to her, I want you to go
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to your next door neighbor
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because there's somebody there
that you need to pray for.
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So she went over there,
she's so bold as a lion.
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She went over there
and she said, I've come
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and there sat Ola in that wheelchair.
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And so the lady knew this is
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who I'm supposed to pray for.
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Well, she was listening to the Holy Spirit.
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And the Holy Spirit said, I just want you to take some water
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and I want you to pour it on the top of her head
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and let it run all the way down her body.
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This Christian woman, she did exactly
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what the Holy Spirit said.
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And as that water went down,
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e every drop coming over
her head, down her shoulders
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and down her body, the
power of God was touching
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that woman and she was
miraculously healed.
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Well, you'd think, well,
that's a, that's fantastic.
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That's a great story. Well, that's not the end of the story.
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So here was Olga and
she was, she was healed.
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She's 21 years old,
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but at that time, she didn't
give her life to Jesus.
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So she falls in love with this man,
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and she just, she doesn't marry him.
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They live together. They have a daughter
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and things are pretty
good at the beginning.
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But then this man, he starts to drink
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and then he, he's, he doesn't work
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and he's cussing her out every day
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and she is getting broken hearted.
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She said she even had a calendar
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and she would check each day
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when he came home drunk: okay
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this day came home drunk
this day, this day, this day.
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And she's checking all
the days on her calendar.
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And finally she just
said, I don't know what
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to do with this man.
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And, and she so hurt. Somebody
invited her to church.
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She gave her life to Jesus.
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Well, she came back home
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and she told this man she
was living with, she said,
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I am not married to you, so I
cannot sleep with you anymore.
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And she moved to another
room of the house,
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but still, what am I gonna
do with this horrible man?
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And the Holy Spirit gave her a strategy.
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And the Holy Spirit said,
tonight, when he comes home,
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your weapon is love.
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That's how you're gonna
pull this giant down.
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And I want you to dress
in your best dress.
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I want you to make his favorite food.
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And when he comes through
that door, I want you
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to open the door
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and I want you to say, oh my love.
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You've come home.
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She does exactly what the
Holy Spirit told her to do.
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He comes in late, he's drunk, he's ugly,
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he smells, but she presents herself
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like this princess and the
delicious food is ready.
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She said that she did this
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for two years.
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After two years, he got saved.
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He married her, he adopted
their daughter. He got a job.
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He quit drinking.
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Now, my question to you is friend; would
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all the criticism, all the anger, all the I hate you,
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I'm leaving you,
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would any of that ever have changed that man? No.
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No, it wouldn't have changed that man.
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What changed that man?
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It was the weapon of unconditional love
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that had been shed abroad in
her heart by the Holy Ghost.
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Just like the weapon that's
on the inside of you.
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You are facing a difficult situation.
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Think about the love of God
that's on the inside of you.
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I wanna give you another verse, and it's Ephesians
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and it's chapter 3.
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And in this verse it
says that we are rooted
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and grounded in love.
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Well, I started thinking
about that - being rooted
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and grounded in love.
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And I started thinking about
the root system of trees.
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And I learned that there
are 10 trees in the world
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that have the deepest root system.
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And these trees are very difficult,
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even in cyclones and storms to blow over.
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Why - because they're rooted.
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They're grounded.
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And friend, that's what
I'm talking to you about.
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That through the Holy Spirit's
power, as we acknowledge him,
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as we use our faith
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and believe that the love
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of God has been shed abroad in
our heart by the Holy Ghost,
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and that we do not have
to act like the world
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and that we can love
people unconditionally.
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We can give mercy, we can give
them what they don't deserve.
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We can give them what God gives us.
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Does God give us what we
deserve? No, he doesn't.
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He gives us mercy.
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In fact, the Bible says
every day his mercies are new
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every morning.
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I'm telling you, friend, it is time for us
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to use this weapon that God's given us: the love
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of God that's in us.
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And to meditate on it, to think about it, to read about it,
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to study about it, and let's get rooted
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and grounded in this love.
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And when the storms come,
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we will not be blown over.
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That's powerful.
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You say that's so opposite the world.
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Yes, it's opposite the world.
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But 1 Corinthians 13 says,
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love never fails.
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This is the weapon that you
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and I have that no enemy
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can withstand.
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Stay with me. I'm coming right back
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and we're gonna pray together.
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When David faced Goliath,
he didn't allow the doubts
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or negative opinions of others
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to keep him from claiming the victory.
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Likewise, when Jesus faced the storm,
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he didn't allow the wind to intimidate him
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and his faith produced great
peace to calm the waves.
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The moment you were born
again, that same unwavering,
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giant killing faith was deposited in you.
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Friend,
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no foe can stand up against the power of love.
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You have a weapon that
will defeat the enemy.
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It will defeat fear, it will defeat hate,
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it will defeat, betrayal, it will defeat denial,
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it will defeat someone falsely accusing you.
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When we give the love of
God that's on the inside
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of us, why is it so powerful?
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I'm gonna tell you
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because the Bible says - God is love.
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When you give love,
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you give the very power
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and presence of God.
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Well, I wanna pray with you.
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I wanna thank you for being with me today.
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It's been my pleasure so
much to share the word
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of God with you.
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Father, we're so thankful. God,
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it's miraculous that you put this kind
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of love on the inside of us.
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Lord, I pray for my friend right now
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that they will take notice.
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They will pay attention to,
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they will become acquainted with
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that powerful love that's on the inside
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of them that no enemy can
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stand against.
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Help us Lord, to use that weapon
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and we pray Father, in the name
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of Jesus - Amen.
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Well, it's been my privilege to be with you.
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Love someone unconditionally today.
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I love you and I'll see
you on the next program.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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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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Amen.
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