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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner and I'm
here again with Joel Renner.
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Dad, it's good to be with you.
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Oh, I love it when you call me dad.
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There's only three guys in the
world that can call me dad,
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and I love it when you call my name.
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I am, I'm one of 'em.
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And one is your brother Paul,
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and one is your brother
Philip, by the way,
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Philip has a tremendous ministry.
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You gotta look him up.
He's traveling across the
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United States going where
few people are willing to go
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to preach the gospel.
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And Paul, your elder
brother, my oldest son,
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is now the lead pastor of
the Moscow Good News Church,
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doing such a great job.
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But y'all, thank you for being here.
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And by the way, Joel, what do you do?
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I run the US side of the ministry.
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You do in everything in English language for you and mama.
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And it's an honor to do it.
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You know, when we put Joel in charge
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of the US-based ministry, the Lord said to me,
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If you'll obey Joel, I'll bless your ministry.
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And so I've been obeying Joel ever since
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we put him in charge.
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And you know, God has
really done amazing things.
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And Joel, you're a real partner
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and I wanna say thank you,
thank you, thank you so much.
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But this week we're
answering your questions.
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We always do this once a year,
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and we want you to get the whole series,
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which is called -
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Questions And Answers with Rick Renner, 2025.
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And every year I do this with Joel,
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and we really look forward to it, don't we?
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Oh yes. The questions are always so
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good.
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Thank you. And the answers I think are so full and complete.
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Thank you, Joel. I really enjoyed the last
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program. By the way,
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this comes with a great study guide
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and I want to draw your focus to one book
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that I rarely talk about,
but it's really a great book.
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And that is my book called, A Life Ablaze:
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10 Simple Keys to Living On Fire for God.
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Now, honestly, right now,
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everything on our website is 25% off if it
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But you gotta get this book
because it is really an
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amazing book.
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But 25% off, that's a big
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discount.
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You know what I like about that book the most?
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What? - Your point, when you
talk about how you need
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to remember - to kindle the fires. You need
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to remember everything God's done for you. - Well, that's
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right. - And that is just so practical.
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Any Christian can follow those.
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Wow. Well, today we're gonna
talk about faith questions.
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What if your faith is not working?
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What if it's taking longer for your
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prayer request to be answered?
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Those are really important questions.
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And by the way, if you need prayer,
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call the number on the screen
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or reach out to us by sending us an email
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and we will pray for you.
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And we're waiting to
hear from you right now.
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But Joel, what's our 1st question?
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When you're believing and trusting God
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for something in your life
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and it doesn't come to pass yet,
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how do you know whether
it's just not the right time
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or whether it's the
enemy coming against you?
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Well, I knew that was
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question No.1,
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so I opened my Bible to James 1 - by the way,
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I love the book of James.
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And in James 1, James is writing to his readers
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that are discouraged
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because they've been waiting
a very, very long time
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for some things to happen.
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And he says to them in verse 4,
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But let patience have a perfect work that you may be perfect
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and entire wanting nothing.
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Well, no one wants patience,
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but patience is really important.
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And Joel, the word patience in Greek is the word, hupomone.
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It's a compound of two words.
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It's the word hupo and the word meno.
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The word hupo means to be under
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as if you're under a heavy load.
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And the word meno means,
I'm staying in this spot.
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I abide, I stay. This is
my spot. I'm not moving.
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It's the same word that Jesus used
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in John 15 when he said,
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if my word, meno, abides in you,
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and if you abide in me: the word meno. He uses it over
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and over in those verses.
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It means if my word, it's
fixed in you and unmoving.
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And if you are fixed in me
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and unmoving, the word minnow
describes a resolution -
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this is my spot, I'm not moving.
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But when you compound the word meno with the prefix hupo,
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it becomes hupomone,
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and it describes a person
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heavy, heavy load,
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but meno, he has resolved,
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I'm not moving. I don't care how heavy the load gets,
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I don't care how much pressure you put on me,
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I'm not budging. I am not flinching.
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I am not surrendering one inch of space.
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This is my territory, this is my promise.
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I am not moving. That's really what it means.
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And it was used in a military
sense to describe soldiers
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that were to stick it out.
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They were to outlast all
assaults and all pressure
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and maintain their territory.
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All of that is in the word patience.
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And a better translation would be - hang in their power.
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That's really what the word patience means.
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The word, hupomone: the ability to hang in there, hold on,
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outlast, persevere, hang in their power.
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That's really what it is.
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And James says, you've gotta
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And also interesting that
the word patience is feminine
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and he's talking about a perfect work.
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Well, let's talk about a
woman who becomes pregnant.
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Let's use an example.
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When a woman becomes pregnant,
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does she have the baby the next day?
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No.
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And aren't we glad she doesn't
have the baby the next day?
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If you're a woman, aren't you
glad you didn't give birth
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to a baby in 24 hours?
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That would be the worst
horror movie ever made.
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Can you imagine if you became pregnant
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and immediately your body
began to change so fast,
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it began to contort.
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Your hormones begin to change.
Everything begins to change.
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Stretch marks like you've
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as your body enlarges to
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and then give birth to
a baby 24 hours later.
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And even if you could give birth to a baby 24 hours later,
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the room would not be ready.
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You would not emotionally be ready.
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You would not be ready
for the arrival of a baby.
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And the very same way,
many times when we pray
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or when we're asking God to
do something in our life,
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or if God is promised he's gonna do something in our life,
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we're believing correctly.
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The promise is correct,
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but we're not ready for the manifestation.
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And the problem, Joel, is
never God. It's never God.
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God's ready to give right
now, but we are not ready.
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It takes us time to get ready to receive
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and to accommodate
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what God has promised
he's going to give us.
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And I'll give you an example.
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When your mother and I first got married,
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God spoke some things to me.
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I mean, he spoke it so clear to me.
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I knew I'd heard from God.
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And you know, I tried to run out
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and immediately make those things happen,
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and I just messed everything up.
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You know why? I did not have the maturity for
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what God promised?
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I wasn't ready for what God promised.
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I didn't have the experience
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to accommodate what God promised.
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But now in my life,
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I'm seeing all those things come to pass.
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45 years later,
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I'm seeing the manifestation
of all those things.
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You know why? Because I'm ready for it.
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My experience is up to a
place that I can receive
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what God promised.
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I can accommodate what God promised.
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I had to grow into God's promise. I had to grow into it.
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And sometimes we're believing right,
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but we're personally not ready to accommodate
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what God wants to give us.
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So rather than say, why
is God holding out on me?
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I think it's better to take
inventory to look at your life
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and see - Am I doing what I need to do so that I can receive
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what God wants to give me?
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But let's look at the rest of the verse.
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Verse 3 says, Let patience have her perfect work.
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You gotta let it go full term,
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go all the way - that you may be perfect
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and entire wanting nothing.
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Now I have right the RIV. By the way, this is one
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of the products that's being offered
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for 25% off right now on our website. - And
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that's an example of what you're talking about.
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It is the RIV, the Renner Interpretive
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Version.
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It was on your heart for years.
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Oh, I talked about doing this -
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thank you Joel - for decades actually.
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But then the time came. The time came.
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But I wanna read to you the
Renner Interpretive Version
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of this verse.
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And when you go to James 1:4,
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the King James Version says,
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But let patients have her perfect work
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that you may be perfect
and entire wanting nothing.
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The RIV, which is not a
word for word translation,
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but it is an interpretation,
but it is from the Greek text,
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here's what the RIV says -
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But you're the one who must make the choice
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to let this God-given endurance do its work.
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And if you'll let endurance
run its full course,
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it will advance you into higher levels
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of spiritual maturity.
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Choosing to let endurance run
its full course takes work.
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But if you'll stick with
this process all the way
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to the end, you'll advance
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to higher spiritual levels in your life.
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Isn't that amazing? Beautiful.
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So if it seems like it's
taking a while for the promise
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of God to come to pass,
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don't wag your finger
at God and blame him.
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Look at yourself and say - What do I need to do
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to change in my thinking?
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Maybe you need to make an adaptation in your relationships.
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Maybe you need to make a
change in your finances so
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that you can accommodate
what God wants to give you.
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I think about Abraham.
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You know, God promised Abraham
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that he was gonna have a baby.
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It took 20 years for him
to receive that promise.
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Do you know what? He
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and Sarah could have
received it very quickly.
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Abraham was not ready
for the manifestation.
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He was messing up, he
was doing things wrong.
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He had to grow into the promise before he could receive it.
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And I think it's encouraging
that we can grow into
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what God has promised us. Amen. Amen.
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Next question. - How do you
know if you are moving out in
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blind faith to a land God
will show you like Abraham?
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Or if you are trying
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to find God's promise in
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for you, and you are making an Ishmael
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decision?
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Well, I believe that if
you're gonna move out
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and do something dramatically
different than you're doing
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right now, you need to
have several confirmations.
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You need to have the
confirmation of your spouse
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if you're married; you should have the confirmation
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of authoritative spiritual
voices in your life.
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There's all kinds of
lights that are green.
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You should have the voice
of experience, the voice
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of confirming things
happening in your life.
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Don't move quickly if you're
gonna do something dramatic.
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you're supposed to do it,
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then you gotta go through
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Now, personally, I did an Ishmael when I was young,
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I did. I got offended with our pastor.
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And by the way, Joel, I write about this in our book,
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our autobiography, which is called Unlikely.
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That book is so transparent.
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But I got offended with our pastor
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because one day he said to me, Rick,
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I know you're very impressed with yourself.
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I was young, I didn't even know I was impressed with myself.
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He said, but I want to tell you, you don't have the ability
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to go out and ever do a church on your own.
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And you know, Joel, that offended me.
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I heard God say, start a church.
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God did not say that to me.
My flesh said that to me.
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But I interpreted as God speaking to me,
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and I was gonna show that pastor he was wrong.
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So I went out and started
a church, and Denise
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and I were in that church
for a couple of years.
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And do you know Joel? God is so good.
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He blessed people in that church.
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People got saved in that
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It was never very successful.
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People got healed, people got delivered.
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back to that, who went to
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that church, they looked
back at that experience
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as a precious time.
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But I was not blessed. You know why?
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Because God didn't tell me to start that church. I did.
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And I call it the Ishmael Church. I did it by myself.
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I made a mistake. But here's the good news.
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If you have made a mistake,
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it doesn't mean everything's over.
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Ishmael is from the story of Abraham.
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It was a major mistake,
but he wasn't discredited
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and cast aside because he made a mistake.
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He just went on and did it right.
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And in the same way, if you've
made a mistake, don't become
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so discouraged that you say,
I'm just gonna quit trying.
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Repent for your mistake
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and say, all right, Lord,
now let's do it right
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and you can move on from your mistake.
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That's what I did. Next question.
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Often what God asks us to do
can be scary or cause anxiety
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because it pushes the
boundaries of our faith.
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How do we know the difference
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between something God is moving us towards
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for growth are something
that we shouldn't do
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because we don't have peace
on the inside? Well, peace
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In fact, we're told in Colossians 3:16,
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that peace on the inside of
us wants to be an umpire.
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And if you'll listen to peace,
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you'll know when you're
supposed to do something
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and when you're not
supposed to do something.
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Now, if God's asking you to
do something you've never done
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before, it's natural for you to have a trepidation about it.
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For example, when God told Joshua to lead the people
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of Israel across the Jordan, it was at a flood stage.
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And God said to Joshua, if you
put your foot in the water,
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you put your foot in the water
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and the water will begin to separate.
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Well, I think about my life,
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here we are in a studio in Moscow, Russia.
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When our family moved here,
Joel, you were very young.
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You were just 2-years old. Thank you, Joel.
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Thank you for bringing me here. Havn't
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we had a wonderful experience. Absolutely.
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But you know, when we came,
there were naysayers who said,
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you shouldn't go.
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You're moving to the
Soviet Union, you're moving
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to the land of communism.
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What are you doing? But I just
knew at the core of my being,
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we were supposed to do this.
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It's kinda like when God called Abraham
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to leave Ur of the Chaldens.
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He was the only one that heard from God,
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but he knew it was right
and he stepped out in faith.
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And when God called us to
this part of the world,
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God didn't speak to your mother.
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God didn't speak to your
boys. God spoke to me.
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And I knew that God spoke
to me. I just knew it.
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But Joel, there were confirming voices.
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I went to my pastor who was Pastor Bob Yandian.
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And Pastor Bob said, Rick, I just feel in my heart
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that you are right on track. That
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voice was very important for me.
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You need to listen to your pastor.
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God can speak through your pastor.
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God can speak through a sermon.
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God can speak through a friend.
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The very root of the matter, you have
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to know - you have to know.
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And when you finally make
the decision, the day comes
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when you gotta stop praying
about it and you gotta do it.
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That day happened for us in
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January 27th, 1991, when
our family walked onto
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that plane to move to
this part of the world.
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And when we took off
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and I heard the roar of the engines,
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I heard God speak almost audibly.
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Now your ministry begins.
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And I understood we were starting a significant new chapter,
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but God didn't speak that word to me
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until we were on the plane
and the engines were roaring.
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He waited till I was on the plane.
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And likewise, when you
step out to obey God,
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God will begin to speak to you.
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And you know what? I'm so glad we obeyed.
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And if you know that God
has spoken to you, you'll be
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so glad that you obeyed.
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There is a life of
adventure waiting for you.
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If you feel like you've
been living in a black
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and white world, the moment you say yes
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and you walk through the door to obey,
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you will step into a full color spectrum
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and you will experience
life as never before.
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Amen. Amen - Joel.
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The Bible talks a lot about small beginnings
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and being faithful in little things,
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but God always gives people assignments
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that are bigger than they
are able to do on their own.
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How do you make progress
to reach the vision?
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Well, you do it one step at a time.
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You know, when I was
a younger man in 1977,
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the Holy Spirit spoke to me
and said, write, write, write
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and I'll prosper what you write.
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So I went to the keyboard
and I began to write.
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And you know what I wrote first - tracks.
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I wrote small little leaflets
because that was my level.
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But God was watching to see
if I was gonna be faithful.
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And then I wrote a second book.
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My very first book was called The Perfect Gift, has
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never been published.
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I was just 17 years old. But
I begin to obey the Lord.
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And sometimes you don't know how
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to do everything God's told you to do,
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but you just gotta get started.
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And you know the next step
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after you take the first step.
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It's like in our TV ministry
reaching around the world
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Joel. Think about all the times that you and I sit together
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and we talk about what we should do, what we shouldn't do,
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where we should expand.
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We wanna take the trusted teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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And of course, it takes a
lot of finances to do it.
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So you pray, you analyze and
you take one step at a time,
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and then you see the next step to take
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and the next step to take.
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But if you're afraid to
begin with small beginnings,
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then you're never gonna get started
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because everything starts
with small beginnings.
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And by the way, it's a good thing
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because you are not ready for a big bang
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if you've never taken the first step.
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All of those steps
contribute to your growth
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and to your development
so you can accommodate the
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whole thing that God wants to give you.
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Joel. - What do you do if you know the call
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of God on your life, but it is a fight
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to see it come to pass in your life? - Well, you just keep
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fighting.
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You just keep fighting. You
say, well, why am I fighting?
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Well, first of all, you
gotta fight yourself.
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Your biggest enemy is you.
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If you can overcome you,
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you can overcome the
devil and everything else.
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You gotta overcome your fear.
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You gotta overcome your worrying
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about what other people think.
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You got a lot to overcome.
You gotta overcome the enemy,
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but you just keep overcoming.
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And remember that you are an overcomer.
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Anyone that is born of
God is an overcomer.
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That's what the Bible says.
You have everything in you.
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You need to do whatever
God's asked you to do.
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God just needs you to say yes
and decide to get started.
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Joel, we're outta time.
This has been so good.
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Thank you, son for being with me today.
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And thank you for being with us today.
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And we'll be back in just a moment
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and we're going to pray for you.
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Hey, my name is Rick Renner,
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Rick, what do you think
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of artificial intelligence
and all the new technologies?
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Well, it makes me think of
when the TV first came out,
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everybody was afraid of the TV,
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We need to know what we're willing to do,
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and we need to do the best we can,
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Jesus Is Your Healer: Mike Clark's book,
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There's A Light At The End Of Your Tunnel, and The Fire
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And Foundation bundle.
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Call the number on your screen now
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or go online to renner.org
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to order Renner products at
a special holiday discount.
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Call or go online now.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm standing inside the Partner Care
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department of our ministry.
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And this is where the action takes place.
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Thousands of phone calls every day
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and every month come into
this place from people
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reaching out to us.
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And this is my precious
mother who is in heaven,
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and she established this
part of the ministry.
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But these are the principles are dedicated
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to:
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* To feed the entire flock God has brought to this ministry.
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* To strengthen those who are diseased in any area
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of their lives. * To bring healing to those in need
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of any type of healing. * To bind up those
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who are broken in any area of their lives.
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* To bring back those that have been driven away.
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* To reach the lost, and to take the gospel
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and the trusted teaching of the Bible to the ends
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of the earth. * To shepherd the flock that God has caused
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to hear the voice of this ministry
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and to help them grow in
their relationship with Christ
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and become powerful
Bible-based believers equipped
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for these last days.
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And * To thank and minister to partners
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who sacrificial gifts have enabled this ministry
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to fulfill its call around the world.
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And we are very committed
to these principles.
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And if you're a partner, you know we're very
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serious about that.
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But hey, right now we're trying to pay off this facility.
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So would you please become a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Giving Team
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so we can pay off this facility
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and then keep taking the gospel to the ends of the earth
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and my friends together, we can do this.
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And I want to say "thank you" so much.
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Well, today I've been here with Mr. Joel Renner.
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Hasn't been good, Joel. - Absolutely.
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We've gone through so many questions.
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Joel, why do we only do this once a year?
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I have such a good time when we do this.
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Well, we should do it more often.
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Well, we're doing programs called Questions
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and Answers with Rick Renner.
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We do it every year.
And this is number 2025.
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So this is Questions and Answers for 2025.
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If you have the others, you don't have this one
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because these are brand new questions
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and it comes with a study guide.
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And Joel, we work hard on
these study guides, don't we?
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Absolutely. Joel, how many
study guides do we have?
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At this point? We have over
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160 - 160 study guides.
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Think about that. We put
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so much work into all these materials and we do it for you.
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But you can get these things by going online.
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And right now, everything at our ministry website,
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if it is a Renner product, is 25% off.
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You know, Joel, we're in the season when people are thinking
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about what to buy for the holidays.
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I just want people to be
able to load their friends
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with wonderful teaching
from the word of God.
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So we've offered everything,
if it's a Renner product
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for 25% off, and just go online to order whatever you want
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or give us a call.
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And when we reach out to us, remember,
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we're waiting to pray for you.
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We really are. So call the
number that's on the screen,
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or if you wish, you can send us an email.
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And when we hear from you, we're gonna obey the word of God.
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We're gonna pray scripturally.
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God's gonna hear us,
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and Jesus is gonna do
what needs to be done.
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And we're gonna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Father Joel and I right now,
pray for my friend, Lord,
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we pray that you would
help them get started,
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whatever you've called them
to do, and give them the faith
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and their courage and the
stamina just to keep going
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and push through every obstacle.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Well, tomorrow we're gonna be back
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and we're gonna answer
another category of questions.
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So don't miss it. But until then, remember
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Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word of a king is,
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there is power."
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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 repented 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. Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.