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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 friends, my name is Denise Renner
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and I wanna welcome you to my program.
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We've been talking about The Anchor in The Storm,
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and that anchor is your faith in the power
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of God.
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And I wanna talk to you
today about an amazing story
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that we have in the Bible of
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of 4 men's great faith
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and the miracle started with their faith.
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And that's how I wanna
encourage you today.
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And we're gonna see how their faith
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touched the heart of Jesus.
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And Jesus does amazing things
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after he sees their faith.
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Oh, you don't wanna miss a minute of it.
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And I wanna offer you my 5-part video series,
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and it's called, Faith Will Be Your Anchor In The Storm.
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And it also has a companion study guide
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that you can order
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and then you can go right
along with the study guide
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and open the scriptures
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and get this teaching deeper
down inside of your heart.
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And then I wanna offer you my book,
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Jesus Is Your Healer - because he is your healer.
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And many of you right now
that are listening to me,
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you're in that kind of battle.
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You're in that kind of storm.
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And you need that anchor of God's word
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and a revelation that Jesus is your healer.
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You know, many years ago,
the Lord told me, he said,
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and I'm not against doctors
in any way, I thank God
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for doctors, but he said,
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doctors did not take slashes
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and bruising on their back for you.
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Only Jesus did that: only Jesus.
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So I want you to have this book
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because it's gonna open your eyes
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to see our magnificent,
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powerful savior who is our healer
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and our savior.
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Well, stay with me 'cause
I'm coming right back
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and we're gonna open this amazing story
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and you are gonna be so
encouraged by the faith
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that Jesus saw on that day.
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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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spiritually 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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I wanna encourage you
with some testimonies
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before we start.
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And this testimony says - I want to testify.
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This is what they wrote. - The Lord has healed me.
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I received deliverance
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and healing: deliverance from a fear
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that had tormented me for 35 years.
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The Lord normalized my blood pressure, peace,
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and wholeness from the Lord has come.
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I am truly healed by the stripes of Jesus.
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Isn't that wonderful? And then listen to this one.
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I suffered from headaches for many years.
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Spending days in bed; the pain accompanied
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by nausea
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and vomiting, the attacks increased
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to twice a month.
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I prayed
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and I believed. I asked
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for this ministry to send
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to me some scriptures about healing.
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I read them every day.
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I haven't had headaches
for two months now.
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I prayed and I believed - Praise the Lord,
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he is my healer.
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Isn't that a great testimony?
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Maybe you're listening to that testimony
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and you yourself have had struggles
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with maybe migraine headaches.
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Oh, they're so horrible.
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You can see that Jesus is the healer
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of migraine headaches
and he's your healer.
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I wanna announce that to you
right now. He's your healer.
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And I believe as you
watch this program today,
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that God is gonna come by his spirit
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and he's gonna open your heart
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and your mind to see
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that he has healed you
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and that it's faith in His name
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and in his power, it opens up that place
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where his power can come
rushing into our heart
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and make changes in our physical body.
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Well, are you ready to get started?
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So go in your Bible to Mark 2,
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and the Bible says - And again He entered Capernaum
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after some days,
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and it was heard
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that he was in the house. Immediately,
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immediately, many gathered together so
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that there was no longer room to receive them,
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not even near the door.
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And he preached the word to them. So just imagine -
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so in this room, we don't know
how big it was, we don't know
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how small it was, but we know
that Jesus is in this room
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and we know that these
people, they crowded in there
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so close that it's
spilling out of the door
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and outside
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and that it's absolutely impossible
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to get one more person
in there to hear Jesus.
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And Jesus is teaching.
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And all these people - I pictured them so crowded
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that they're just crammed
up against each other and,
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and they're listening to Jesus.
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Verse 3: Then they came
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to him bringing a paralytic who was carried
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by 4 men.
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And when they could not come near him
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because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was.
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Okay. Now I want you to see friend, that faith,
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faith in these 4 men.
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Now...I don't know about this guy
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that they're carrying, but I know those 4 men had faith
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because when they came up to the house
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and all the people are coming
out of the door listening
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with all their heart to what
Jesus said, and they come up
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and they've got their
friend one on one end,
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another two on both ends,
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and there they are with their friend
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and they're trying to get him to Jesus.
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Oh, well, now what are we gonna do?
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We can't even get in the
room. Jesus can't even see us.
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He can't hear us. We can't tell him our problem - nothing.
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So it looks like they could have said -
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Well guys, let's call.
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let's call the guy in the bed, Joe.
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Well, Joe, it's just, I'm sorry,
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but we just can't get in there today.
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Maybe Jesus will show up
somewhere else tomorrow
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and we can take you then.
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No - these men are so full of faith,
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they are not going to
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bow to that obstacle of not getting in.
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So there they are with Joe
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and they decide - well, we could
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go up the stairs, tear off the roof
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and lower him down to Jesus - who thinks like that.
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Only people with faith.
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And you know, when I read this story, I think
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What am I willing to do for my friends
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that are in trouble?
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What kind of faith am I willing to
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exert that they would receive from Jesus?
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Let me ask you that question. What kind of faith,
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how long are you willing to stand with somebody
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until they receive from Jesus?
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It's a good question.
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But these men - they're willing; they're filled with faith.
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So here they care. You could
just imagine them going up
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those stairs carrying Joe,
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and I'm sure they're
saying, don't drop him,
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guys, don't drop him.
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And Joe's going, don't
drop me, don't drop me.
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And they go up those stairs
and now they're on the roof.
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There's Joe, he's laying on his bed,
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and now they start tearing
things off of the roof.
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They start bringing
destruction to this house
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that Jesus is standing in. Now,
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everything is changing.
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Jesus is standing there,
preaching, teaching,
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everyone's just so delighted to hear every word
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that comes out of his mouth.
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But now - things:
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something start dropping on their heads.
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And it's...the straw
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and it's everything that the roof is made of.
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And now it's dropping down on the people
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and it's dropping down on Jesus and,
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and then the next thing they see is
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4 men looking down from above
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with a rope to attached to this bed.
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And now this man is just being lowered down -
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I'm sure probably gently - lowered down,
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lower down, lower down,
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and Jesus, he sees now this man
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and they lower him and
lower him and lower him.
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Well look at verse,
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look at verse 5.
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This is so key to our story
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and tells us of the hearts of those men.
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It says - when Jesus saw their faith.
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Friend, it didn't say when Jesus felt the debris coming
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down on his head and the dust in his eyes
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or the crowd going - Ah! - none of that.
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Jesus said, it says -
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When Jesus saw their
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faith. Oh friend, your faith is
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so powerful; the faith that you have on the inside
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of you that God gave you
when you got born again.
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That faith is so powerful.
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And here are these men,
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they're exerting their faith to this point,
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to tear.......open a roof
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and to lower their
friend in front of Jesus.
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And so now we see what Jesus says.
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The first thing he says - Son,
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your sins are forgiven you.
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Well you would think, now Jesus,
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his sins are not the problem here.
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It's it's that he's crippled - he's very crippled.
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But Jesus sees past these eyes.
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He sees into the heart.
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Jesus knew what this man did.
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And possibly Jesus knew that the guilt
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of this man that was in his heart,
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that maybe he couldn't receive healing
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because he wasn't worthy to be healed.
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He wasn't worthy to be in that place.
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But the first thing that Jesus said
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to him was - Son -
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and isn't that something; He said, son,
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your sins are forgiven you.
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You know many people, many of us, we want a miracle.
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We want healing.
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We want God to operate in
our life or in our family
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or in our finances,
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but we're not willing
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to seek the Lord about
what's in our own heart.
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But Jesus knows what's in our own heart.
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And James 4:8 says, Draw near
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to God and he'll draw near to you.
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Well, what does he draw near to you with?
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He draws near to you with his power
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and he draws near to you with answers.
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So when we are in a situation that seems
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to be overtaking us - a storm that seems
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to be overtaking us, Jesus doesn't want us to just cry out
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for a miracle healing
or call the prayer line
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or ask for everybody to pray,
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he wants us to draw near to him
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because when we draw near to him, he -
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with his power
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and with his answers is gonna draw near to us.
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And we see in this example
that Jesus saw into that heart
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of the man and he forgave the man.
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Then it goes on and it says,
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and some of the scribes were sitting there
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and reasoning in their hearts -
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Why does this man speak blasphemies like this?
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Who can forgive sins but God?
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But immediately when Jesus
perceived in his spirit
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that they reasoned thus within themselves,
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they never said a word.
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All they were doing was thinking.
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And Jesus knew every single word
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that they were thinking.
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They were thinking -
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Why does this man speak blasphemies like this?
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And who can forgive sins but God alone?
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Jesus knew absolutely every thought
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exactly like a ticker tape,
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what those Pharisees were thinking.
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And Jesus said to them - they
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Jesus said to them,
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Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?
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Again, Jesus knows our hearts.
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He knew the heart of this paralytic
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and he knows the hearts
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Which is easier to say to the paralytic,
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your sins are forgiven you,
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or to say - Arise, take up your bed
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and walk.
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Now, I want to point out
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that Jesus knew exactly
what he was sent to do.
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He knew that he was sent to die.
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He knew that he was sent
to give his life for us.
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He knew that he was sent to bare our sins and our sicknesses
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and go to hell and rise again.
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He knew that.
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But he also knew the scriptures.
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And it says in Psalm 103,
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it says - Bless the Lord oh my soul
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and all that is within
me, bless his holy name.
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Bless the Lord oh my soul,
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and forget not all his benefits:
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who heals all my diseases
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and forgives all my iniquities.
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Actually, it first says - who forgives all my iniquities
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and heals all my diseases.
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Jesus knew exactly why he was there.
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And he had the right to say to that man,
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your sins are forgiven you.
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And then also in Isaiah 53:5,
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it says exactly what Jesus was going to do -
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But he was wounded for our transgressions.
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He was bruised for our iniquities,
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and the chastisement of our peace was upon him
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and by his stripes, by his wounds, we are healed.
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Do you see that
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he was bruised for our iniquities,
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for our sins and the chastisement of our peace.
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Anything that would take our peace, it came upon him
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and we were also healed in our bodies.
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Jesus knew that he didn't just come to forgive sins, he knew
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that he came to heal the sick.
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So here he is
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before these scribes
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and he says to them, he says to them,
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But that you may know
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that the son of man has power on earth
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to forgive sins.
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He said to the paralytic - I say to you,
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arise, take up your bed and walk.
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Take up your bed and go out of this house.
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That's what Jesus said.
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Jesus said - I didn't read this to you,
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but in verse 9: Jesus said to those scribes, he said,
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which is easier?
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Which is easier?
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When I saw this years ago, friends
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and I saw that Jesus said, which is easier
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to forgive you or to heal you.
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I said, Lord, it's a package deal.
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Your blood took care of all sickness
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and disease and of all forgiveness
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of sins.
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And that as much as we believe him
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for our eternity,
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we should believe him that
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he is also our healer.
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And he said to those scribes - Which is easier?
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You think it's easier for me to forgive sins
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or to heal this man?
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He said, it's the same. He
said, I'm gonna show you.
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And then he said to that crippled man - Get up
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and go to your house.
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Oh friend, it all started
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with those 4 friends.
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This amazing display of Jesus
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that we see started with 4 friends
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that day.
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I don't know, I'm sure they heard
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that Jesus was in the
house and they got together
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and they said, let's take Joe to Jesus.
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And when they met those
obstacles of not being able
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to get in the room and then
climb up on the roof with Joe
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and then lower Joe down through the roof,
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their faith was speaking
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so loud to Jesus
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that it opened that place for God
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to do an amazing miracle.
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And look at the verse 12.
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It says, immediately he
arose, took up the bed
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and went out in the presence of them all.
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So that all were amazed
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and glorified God saying -
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We never saw anything like
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this. Friend,
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God wants to show up
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and he wants us to be amazed and wonder.
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It's called signs and wonders.
You know what that means?
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It means I'm wondering, I'm wondering
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how this happened.
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I don't understand this.
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That's a sign
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and a wonder. God wants to do things
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through our faith, in his great power
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that we stand back and say - Wow,
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Oh wow. This is a wonder.
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That's exactly what happened that day.
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And those people who saw it said,
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I've never seen anything
like this in my life.
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And I wanna tell you one
more thing about Joe.
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When Jesus does a miracle, heals somebody,
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it's so wonderful,
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but it's also Jesus in his
compassion and his love.
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He's giving your life back to you:
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like what the devil has stolen through torment.
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Maybe doctors maybe spending money,
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maybe sleepless nights,
maybe great frustration
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and fear all that, that the devil does,
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well, Jesus in one moment,
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can defeat the devil
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and give your life back to you.
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Friend, are you ready to pray with me?
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Are you ready to use your faith:
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that precious, amazing gift that God gave
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whatever it is, whatever it is: finances,
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divided relationships, broken bodies,
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whatever it is that's broken, Jesus wants
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to bring wholeness, wholeness.
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Jesus said in John 10:10, he said
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The thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy.
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But I come,
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I've come to give you life and life more abundantly.
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Father, right now, we reach out
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with our faith in your mighty power
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and the presence of the Holy Spirit right now,
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and we receive what it is
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we're asking for right now
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in Jesus' name.
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Just receive in Jesus' name.
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And if you need prayer, please call us
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because we're there to pray for you.
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Well, I love being with you
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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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