WOCOM SEPTEMBER 2024 Thanksgiving Service || 01.09.2024

00:42:52
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Summary

TLDRThis sermon is a heartfelt discourse encouraging gratitude and active spiritual growth. Delivered with passion, it emphasizes the theme of 'stepping up' spiritually during challenging times, urging attendees to express gratitude, partake in communal worship, and leverage divine energy from fellowship. The speaker urges believers to take initiative in their spiritual journey, reinforced by biblical analogies such as Jacob wrestling with an angel and John’s Revelation. They stress spiritual "stepping up" as expanding one's faith, responsibility, and action, supported by God’s grace. The sermon calls attendees to prioritize pursuing God, building faith, and embracing new spiritual challenges, ensuring their lives reflect God's transformative presence, while aligning with the theme of stepping up.

Takeaways

  • 🙏 Gratitude is fundamental; express thanks for God's grace each day.
  • 👥 Fellowship with believers generates strength and divine energy.
  • 📈 'Step-up' involves personal growth and advancing spiritually.
  • 📖 Biblical stories, like Jacob's and John's, provide motivation for spiritual ascent.
  • 📊 Personal responsibility is key; take actions that align with spiritual beliefs.
  • ⚡ Faith is vital; it helps overcome life's challenges and supports spiritual development.
  • 🔍 Broaden your spiritual vision for clearer understanding of your purpose.
  • 🎯 Spiritual maturity is a journey of progressive growth, like pressing toward higher ground.
  • 💡 Shift focus to God and let go of earthly distractions for deeper connection.
  • 💪 Empowerment through faith leads to discovering and utilizing hidden potentials.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker opens with a call for a wave offering of gratitude to God as they reflect on the grace received throughout the year. There's an emphasis on being grateful for God's protection and strength during tough times, attributing safety and success to divine intervention. The prayer highlights the request for God’s presence and illumination to guide them in life.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker reflects on the importance of being physically present in religious gatherings, emphasizing the divine energy and community strength found in being with others. He challenges the notion of virtual attendance, arguing that the physical gathering is crucial for spiritual energy and blessing, drawing on biblical references of God’s presence in assemblies.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The month is defined as one of 'stepping up,' which is both an instruction and a divine mandate. The speaker explains that stepping up demands personal effort, which God will support with His power. This involves both receiving God’s blessings and actively taking steps to improve and progress in various aspects of life.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The speaker is inspired by the hymn 'Higher Ground,' conveying it as a call for personal advancement. This involves spiritual, economic, social, and educational growth. Personal responsibility is stressed; one must strive and press on for greater achievements, aligning with the divine vision for constant improvement.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The biblical call to 'come up higher' is understood as an invitation for deeper spiritual experiences and clearer divine vision. This involves striving spiritually to understand one's destiny, illustrated by biblical stories such as Jacob wrestling with the angel to signify the need for persistent personal and spiritual efforts.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Abraham's story about seeing stars symbolizes recognizing potential and divine promises. Emphasis is placed on changing perspective and looking upwards spiritually, inviting deeper spiritual experiences and revelations. There are multiple calls to a more profound, mature spiritual life as a basis for advancement.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Stepping up requires a more profound commitment to God and building personal faith. The speaker emphasizes the importance of seeking God as a priority, managing faith to sustain spiritual and personal life advancements, drawing from scriptures that underscore the necessity of faith to please God and survive life's challenges.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:42:52

    The sermon calls for bold, massive action aligned with God's whispers to the heart, likening this to stepping out in faith even when circumstances seem daunting. Encouragement is given to act despite fear, using biblical examples to exhibit faith and action leading to divine fulfillment of promises and personal progress.

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Video Q&A

  • What is the main theme of this sermon?

    The main theme is spiritual "stepping up," meaning growing in faith and taking personal action supported by God's power.

  • Why is gathering with fellow believers important according to the speaker?

    Gathering with fellow believers generates divine energy, strengthens faith, and provides spiritual support.

  • How does the speaker suggest we respond to God's grace?

    By expressing gratitude and thanksgiving through worship and committing to spiritual growth and personal development.

  • What biblical reference does the speaker use to illustrate stepping up?

    References include the story of Jacob wrestling with an angel and the call for Christians to ascend spiritually, like John witnessing divine revelations in Revelation 4:1.

  • How does the speaker define 'stepping up'?

    It is defined as functioning at a higher realm across various aspects of life, strengthening faith, and being actively involved in one's spiritual journey.

  • What should believers focus on to achieve spiritual growth?

    Believers should focus on pursuing God, building their faith, and taking bold and massive actions aligned with God's whisper to their hearts.

  • What metaphor does the speaker use regarding spiritual maturity?

    The speaker compares spiritual maturity to understanding a higher road and urges believers to 'press on' through their spiritual journey.

  • What is the role of faith according to the speaker?

    Faith is portrayed as essential for overcoming life’s challenges and vital for spiritual business and the journey of believers.

  • What analogy does the speaker use to illustrate personal growth?

    The speaker compares personal growth to upgrading a phone to access new features, symbolizing unleashing potential.

  • Why does the speaker emphasize the need for action?

    Taking action is essential to fulfilling prophetic words and plans God has for individuals.

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    give him a wave of ring this morning
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    just give him a wave of ring we can't
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    thank him enough we can't appreciate
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    this Grace enough just give him a wave
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    offering
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    Hallelujah we are in the ninth month of
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    this
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    year has God not been gracious to
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    us father we are grateful
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    Lord blessed be your might name father
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    we want to say is thank you ABA father
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    faithful father
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    compassionate father Mighty father
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    loving father we say thank you Lord we
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    are grateful for the grace that have
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    sustained us over the months over the
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    weeks in this terrible and dangerous
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    time you have helped us you have
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    strengthened us you have seen us through
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    Even in our troubled time you saw us
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    through when we passed through the fire
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    you saw us through when we passed
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    through the waters you saw us
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    through and now you have given us the
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    privilege to express our
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    Thanksgiving thank you Jesus Blessed Be
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    Your mighty name let your name be
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    glorified thank you for your presence
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    again as you are
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    tabernacled your presence with us we
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    pray holy spirit that you will
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    illuminate our
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    hearts you will flood our hearts in the
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    remaining days of this year with your
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    light father Let Your Presence be strong
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    and tangible in our journey in the name
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    of Jesus as you are stepping us up we
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    pray Lord Jesus that your hand will
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    uphold
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    us your hand will sustain
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    us your hand will guide us in the name
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    of Jesus that at the end your name shall
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    be glorified only your name shall be
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    glorified
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    blessed be the name of the Lord I
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    receive utterance this morning by your
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    mercy and let the door of Fai be open
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    unto us cause us to receive life and
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    strength and direction in the name of
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    Jesus illuminate Our Lives thank you
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    Holy Spirit in Jesus's mighty name we
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    have
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    prayed amen let's celebrate the choir
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    great Servants of God thank you
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    you may be seated God bless
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    you in God's
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    presence Hallelujah every bit of this
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    service today had
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    been a flow of life to me I don't know
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    about you right from the beginning life
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    that's why it's good to always be in the
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    presence of God in the midst of his
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    people there is there
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    is energy that is generated from a
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    brother I don't know you know the
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    mystery that's why don't see that at
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    home you say I'm listening
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    via uh what do they call it now
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    online God knows why it is important for
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    us not to forsake the assembling of
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    ourselves by mere sitting with a brother
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    it
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    generates Divine energy to strengthen
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    you I don't know if somebody have been
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    strengthening this morning I tell you
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    it's a reality it's a reality because
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    every brother that is seated close to
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    you is carrying God and you can't sit
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    near God and your life remain the same
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    again so we must be conscious of this
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    and that's why it's good we come to the
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    presence the Assembly of the Brethren he
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    said he
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    holds he
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    holds the the
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    angel in his H or the leader the angel
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    of the house and he walks in the midst
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    of the candle the church so in the
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    presence of the garden of God's people
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    the presence of God is strong to do
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    great things that's why don't miss the
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    Gathering of God's people because God is
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    working in the midst of his people read
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    Revelation and his Blessing as you as
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    you are seated is touching you it's
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    blessing you it's releasing strength
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    when encourage you is shining his light
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    upon your pathway that's why when you
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    come out from some Services you come out
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    strong to be a blessing to people in
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    your sphere of influence we must
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    recognize this the Assembly of the bre
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    is a powerful assembly is more than any
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    political Gathering it's more than any
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    secular Gathering he say I was glad when
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    they said to me let us go into the house
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    of God we must know the importance of
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    gathering together in the presence of
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    you know in the midst of the
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    Brethren the Lord bless you
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    today the Lord make his face shine upon
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    you may he give you peace on every side
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    in the name of Jesus our theme this
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    month by the revelation of God through
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    his servant our father and the Lord is
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    our month of stepping
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    up I want us to see it in two ways
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    it's an instruction it's a mandate it's
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    a command stepping up or step up is a
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    verb it's an action word it's a mandate
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    to every one of
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    us and at the same time is back up with
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    the ability of
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    God he says step up and he's backing up
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    with his power that as you make effort
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    he elevates and increase you in every
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    sphere of life
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    so let's not just see it
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    as God blessing me fine that's part of
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    it but I also must take
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    action and that's what I want to share
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    briefly with us this morning God is
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    giving us this team number one as an
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    instruction God wants to instruct us is
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    commanding us as a father and as we take
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    the step he backs it up with his
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    power the part of the just is like The
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    Shining Light that shines more and
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    more your year your your life this year
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    will be far greater than last
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    year and next year is a
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    wow that's the part of the just it's a
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    progressive one God is a dynamic God
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    it's an ever increasing
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    God the step where you are now in few
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    moments will not be the same step you
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    will be it takes you and God is ever
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    increasing you can't said after a point
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    I will reach the the the AC me no no no
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    no no till till you leave this earth is
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    ever increasing you can't finish
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    God we can't finish God
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    and thank God he has put it in the heart
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    of his servant that is's taking his
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    people to a new
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    level God wants to bring out a new
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    version of you how many people are
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    ready that's why I say stepping up H few
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    days ago you know I I just I just bought
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    a phone know sometimes when we buy phone
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    we don't even know the function it's
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    only these young ones they can just
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    bring new things I so it's inside this
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    phone Pastor Steve was uh was uh he took
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    my phone he said ah you need to update
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    you know is he update or upgrade oh so
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    he took it he pressed on button and
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    something was rolling I was just looking
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    at it he said you need there are Futures
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    in this phone that you have not you have
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    not uh explored thank you sir you have
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    not explored and he press some button
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    and something was rolling after the
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    finished work I saw new thing he
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    upgraded it
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    so you need to upgrade your life
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    something good is embedded inside of you
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    that need to come up and be a blessing
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    in the people in your sphere maybe there
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    are some buttons you need to press and
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    that's what we will share this morning
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    that are better you that need to Spring
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    forth and be a blessing to all in your
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    sphere of influence see there's
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    something inside of me say
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    it he has to come out do you know
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    that God says let us make man in our
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    image after our likeness glory and
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    character and so when you look at God
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    and all that been said about God in the
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    scripture are we res are we are we
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    functioning like God to the extent to we
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    should
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    function that's to show you there are
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    still much that is lock up with within
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    us that need to be
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    upgraded there are things inside of you
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    that needs to be upgraded so that you
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    can function the way you should
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    function praise the
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    Lord praise the Lord Hall God wants you
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    to advance he wants you to make progress
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    he wants to
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    improve and bring another version a
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    better version of you
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    I love this song this song flashed into
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    my heart When I Was preparing this
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    message and is the song Higher Ground I
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    don't know if they can project it for us
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    but let me just read the first Sans of
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    Higher Ground it say I am pressing on
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    the upward way is that your testimony
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    too he say I am pressing on the upward
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    Way new heights I am gaining every day
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    wow that's a power powerful one we must
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    gain New Heights every day we study time
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    management this morning and I so much
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    love it how you will manage your time if
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    you can manage your time well doing
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    things in line with your purpose you
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    will gain New Height every day it's not
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    every year it's daily that's the part of
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    the just he a new height I am gaining
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    every day still praying as I am onward
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    bound then he said Lord plant my feet on
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    the higher ground I have my own respons
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    responsibility what's my responsibility
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    that the first line I press on everybody
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    say press on is an
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    effort to step up I have my own
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    responsibility I press on then the last
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    line say then Lord as I take my effort
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    you will back it up with your ability
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    we still come back to that song but
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    stepping up I see it as a call to begin
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    functioning at a higher realm higher
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    spiritually higher economically higher
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    socially higher education is every
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    sphere of life it's a
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    call it's not just to sit down and said
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    this month they said God will take us to
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    higher house
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    and I refuse to do nothing it won't work
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    that way yes the blessings of fathers
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    they are powerful the blessings of our
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    mentors they are powerful but if they
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    meet
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    nothing nothing will
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    happen they must that those blessing
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    must meet a people that are ready to
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    take actions I will show you in
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    scriptures so it's a call to begin
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    function
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    at a higher realm is also a climbing up
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    to an excellent Vantage stage where you
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    can see well in the spirit
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    realm it's a repositioning for clearer
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    vision John um uh John the Beloved saw a
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    revelation in Revelation
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    4:1 hearing a voice he saw open heaven
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    and he say Come on come up heer and
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    that's the call now come up heer where
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    you are you can't see what I want to
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    show you and when John went up he saw
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    everything that was written in the Book
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    of Revelation if he has sat down under
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    he will only see every Earthly things
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    it's a call for every one of us to come
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    up spiritually so that we can see things
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    that pertain to the destiny of our life
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    of our family and the church see the
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    Mysteries that is in the Book of
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    Revelation is because somebody got a
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    summon to come
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    up it's a summon to come
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    up it's a stepping up to a new version
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    of you 2 Corinthians chapter 3:18 we
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    with unveiled face beholding as in a
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    mirror the glory of the Lord have been
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    transformed onto his image from glory to
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    glory new version of you every day every
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    day when people see you today it's not
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    the same you they will see next week you
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    would have transformed your words are a
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    blessing your presence are a
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    blessing do you know that the presence
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    of a Christian can make a difference
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    without you even speaking I saw it in
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    the scripture David went to war and his
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    men when when they saw that ah the G
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    brother of wanted to take advantage of
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    his weakness they told him henceforth
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    you will not come to war again what do
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    they mean just your
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    presence just your presence can make the
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    difference concerning success or failure
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    concerning Victory or defeat your
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    presence so we will Reserve you just
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    your presence
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    alone praise the
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    Lord stepping up is a sermon from God to
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    see things things from his standpoint
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    and no longer from the Earthly realm
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    from which you've been looking at things
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    he told
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    Abraham see the stars Abraham was
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    rejected yes you are blessing me you are
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    my my my inheritance you are my
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    exceeding greatness but I have no child
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    so who will inherit all this property is
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    it the slave El ah God say look come you
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    are not seeing well and he showed him
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    the star and when Abraham looked at the
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    star he saw the faces of all his
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    children those present and those to come
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    he was
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    amazed he saw the faces of all his
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    children in the Stars he was amazed
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    that's why the Bible say Abraham
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    believed God and it was counted for him
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    as what
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    righteousness that God has to help
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    him what are you seeing you want to step
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    up you must change your
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    view don't look at the ground look at
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    the
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    stars look
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    up it's a call to look up not looking
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    dejected and
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    discouraged it's a call to deeper
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    spiritual experience in Genesis
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    32:4 when Jacob saw
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    that this life the life he was was
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    living he was
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    tired of that life he was tired and at
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    the same time they told him your
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    brothers Esau is coming ah he he
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    understood that what that coming meant
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    and he separated
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    himself in this stepping up there must
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    be time you will have to separate
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    yourself from the crowd he separated
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    himself and the Bible
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    says Angel an angel wrestle with him all
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    night
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    stepping up is a call to deeper
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    spiritual
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    experience you want to go
  • 00:17:10
    up you must have a deeper spiritual
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    experience he wrestled all night and at
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    the end what happened he told the angel
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    you can't go until you bless me until
  • 00:17:26
    you change this man we must set apart
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    time to wrestle with God the Bible say
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    he wrestled with God and what happened
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    he won that's
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    amazing he
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    prevailed he wrestled with God he
  • 00:17:43
    prevailed wrestling with God is not when
  • 00:17:46
    we say he Prevail doesn't mean he want
  • 00:17:47
    God no he stood on his ground I said God
  • 00:17:51
    this man you must change we must come to
  • 00:17:53
    a point and say this man this God this
  • 00:17:55
    situation cannot continue today is today
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    I saw it in the scripture the Copan
  • 00:18:00
    woman they told her I can't give what is
  • 00:18:04
    for the children to dogs that is that
  • 00:18:06
    was enough to discourage her said dog
  • 00:18:09
    even the crumbs that falls from the
  • 00:18:11
    master's table the dog we enjoying Jesus
  • 00:18:14
    CH was
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    amazed those are the people that Prevail
  • 00:18:17
    with
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    God you must be determined to Prevail
  • 00:18:21
    with God not just they say it's not
  • 00:18:24
    ready yet say it's not ready it's today
  • 00:18:28
    Jesus is told them when told told her
  • 00:18:32
    it's not my time yet he called the
  • 00:18:34
    servant whatever it tell you do
  • 00:18:37
    it it's as if
  • 00:18:39
    changing the decision of the
  • 00:18:42
    master so it's a call for deeper
  • 00:18:45
    spiritual experience is also a call to
  • 00:18:49
    entering stret dimension in the
  • 00:18:53
    spirit I pray you understand some of
  • 00:18:55
    these things we are sharing this morning
  • 00:18:57
    God wants us to enter a strange
  • 00:18:59
    dimension in the spirit Paul in uh in 2
  • 00:19:04
    Corinthians 12:3 and 4 he said I don't
  • 00:19:07
    know which man he was referring to
  • 00:19:09
    himself he was caught up in the third
  • 00:19:13
    heaven and he said he
  • 00:19:15
    had mystery of words that is not you he
  • 00:19:20
    wasn't allowed to say it he had
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    Mysteries when cut up to the third
  • 00:19:27
    heaven
  • 00:19:29
    God picked him up and show him things
  • 00:19:31
    that even Apostle Peter Apostle uh James
  • 00:19:35
    and John couldn't get such Revelation no
  • 00:19:38
    wonder he wrote almost to thir of the
  • 00:19:41
    New Testament because of Revelation he
  • 00:19:44
    received from the Lord so God is calling
  • 00:19:47
    us to a to a strange dimension in the
  • 00:19:52
    spirit and lastly a call to show us
  • 00:19:56
    there's more in God that is beyond your
  • 00:19:58
    present situation Revelation there's
  • 00:20:01
    more in God you want to step up you must
  • 00:20:05
    go
  • 00:20:06
    deeper with the master you want to go up
  • 00:20:10
    first of all go down it's not like
  • 00:20:11
    building a a
  • 00:20:13
    skyc when you want to
  • 00:20:16
    build towers the work force to go
  • 00:20:21
    down the better the
  • 00:20:25
    foundation the solid the structure that
  • 00:20:28
    will come from
  • 00:20:29
    later building engineer understand this
  • 00:20:32
    so they concentrate first on the depth
  • 00:20:35
    before the height you want to step up go
  • 00:20:39
    down
  • 00:20:41
    first have a deeper experience with the
  • 00:20:45
    master not in your casual time but make
  • 00:20:49
    it your life I want to give is quickly
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    give us four three or four
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    keys where or areas where we need to
  • 00:21:10
    step up and I want to say
  • 00:21:14
    this when you walk on your own path
  • 00:21:18
    leave the rest to the father every other
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    thing in life will pursue you Matthew
  • 00:21:24
    6:33 seek here first the kingdom of God
  • 00:21:26
    and his righteousness he say all of
  • 00:21:28
    things that the Gentiles pursue they
  • 00:21:30
    will pursue
  • 00:21:32
    you God can bless his children without
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    any
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    effort the one thing is that
  • 00:21:41
    every realm God is taking you
  • 00:21:44
    to he wants you to master it I pray you
  • 00:21:48
    understand what I'm saying every real
  • 00:21:51
    God is taking us to he wants us to
  • 00:21:53
    master
  • 00:21:54
    it he will not promote you if you let me
  • 00:21:58
    let me put in another way God will not
  • 00:22:00
    promote you if you don't have the
  • 00:22:02
    capacity to sustain that height do you
  • 00:22:05
    understand now if you don't have the
  • 00:22:07
    spiritual capacity to sustain that high
  • 00:22:10
    it won't take you there go and check the
  • 00:22:13
    scripture people said Lord all the
  • 00:22:17
    Thousand are yours make me a millionaire
  • 00:22:20
    fine that's a good prayer God can make
  • 00:22:23
    any of his children millionaire but if
  • 00:22:25
    he sees that you become a millionaire
  • 00:22:27
    today you will say say bye-bye to your
  • 00:22:29
    pastor he won't give it to you that's
  • 00:22:31
    what I'm
  • 00:22:33
    saying You must first of all generate
  • 00:22:36
    the spiritual capacity for any height
  • 00:22:39
    before that height will come he's a good
  • 00:22:41
    father I won't give my car key to to to
  • 00:22:45
    to my 5ye old boy because he's my son
  • 00:22:48
    he's the head he we we could hold the
  • 00:22:51
    property but I won't give my car key to
  • 00:22:54
    him even though he could press the pedal
  • 00:22:57
    I will allow him to mature
  • 00:23:00
    God will allow you to mature if you can
  • 00:23:03
    handle the height he's taking you to he
  • 00:23:05
    will take you
  • 00:23:14
    there so we need to step up number one
  • 00:23:19
    in our Pursuit Of God as the
  • 00:23:24
    foundation in our pursuit of God
  • 00:23:32
    one thing I desire and that will I seek
  • 00:23:36
    after Psalm 27 that I may dwell in the
  • 00:23:40
    house of the Lord all the days of my
  • 00:23:43
    life to do what to behold his Beauty wow
  • 00:23:48
    to behold his
  • 00:23:51
    Beauty what you behold is what you
  • 00:23:55
    become you behold God constantly you be
  • 00:23:58
    like God his Radiance will fall on you
  • 00:24:03
    but from the inside
  • 00:24:06
    out when they
  • 00:24:08
    saw the way Peter and his and and his
  • 00:24:12
    colleagues
  • 00:24:14
    spark within the in the midst of the
  • 00:24:17
    sendr they say these people have been
  • 00:24:19
    with
  • 00:24:20
    Jesus everything about Jesus robbed on
  • 00:24:23
    them to behold his Beauty and to inquire
  • 00:24:28
    in his
  • 00:24:33
    Temple God must be our priority if you
  • 00:24:36
    want to step up he won't take you to the
  • 00:24:38
    high you can't handle you have no
  • 00:24:40
    capacity to handle you will mess it up
  • 00:24:42
    we will mess it
  • 00:24:44
    up he will take you as you move that's
  • 00:24:47
    what happened in Ezekiel Ezekiel is it
  • 00:24:49
    Ezekiel 40 the the waters the the the
  • 00:24:53
    the water levels when is is on Ezekiel
  • 00:24:57
    mature when he
  • 00:24:59
    moved when he moved he was changing as
  • 00:25:04
    he mature as he as he was able to move
  • 00:25:07
    within the water God was taking him step
  • 00:25:10
    by step he didn't rush from beginning to
  • 00:25:13
    the end no God God is a king he won't
  • 00:25:15
    rush
  • 00:25:17
    you when you are mature he moves you
  • 00:25:20
    Ezekiel was moving from one kubit to the
  • 00:25:23
    next as he had the understanding of that
  • 00:25:27
    Journey
  • 00:25:29
    and at the end he went
  • 00:25:38
    through your destiny anchors on your
  • 00:25:41
    commitments to
  • 00:25:43
    God the pursuit of God and the quality
  • 00:25:47
    of your commitment determines the
  • 00:25:49
    quality of your
  • 00:25:50
    destiny so we must stop living for
  • 00:25:53
    things but living for
  • 00:25:56
    God don't live for
  • 00:25:59
    things don't surrender your life to
  • 00:26:02
    Earthly things of course we must engage
  • 00:26:05
    in business and other things but that is
  • 00:26:08
    not our life that is not the source of
  • 00:26:11
    our life and strength our source is God
  • 00:26:15
    when we seek God he he summon all the
  • 00:26:19
    things of life to our Advent
  • 00:26:23
    advantage that's why I say seek ye first
  • 00:26:26
    the kingdom of God
  • 00:26:28
    so we must be
  • 00:26:30
    committed to The Pursuit Of God God must
  • 00:26:33
    be my priority please say to yourself
  • 00:26:35
    God is my
  • 00:26:37
    priority say it again God is my priority
  • 00:26:40
    not things not
  • 00:26:43
    things the things of this life they will
  • 00:26:47
    come and pass away he say heaven and
  • 00:26:49
    Earth shall pass away but there's one
  • 00:26:52
    thing that will remain how you how much
  • 00:26:55
    of God's word and God you you have in
  • 00:26:58
    your life is how much of God it can't
  • 00:27:01
    pass
  • 00:27:03
    away and the the the challenges of life
  • 00:27:07
    is eroding is eroding things away these
  • 00:27:10
    days and people that cling to things is
  • 00:27:13
    is the the erosion is is is is too
  • 00:27:16
    powerful it's taking people it's
  • 00:27:18
    sweeping people
  • 00:27:20
    away said the house that is built upon
  • 00:27:23
    the sand the wind will come the flood
  • 00:27:26
    will come but the house that is built
  • 00:27:28
    upon the sun and the house that is built
  • 00:27:30
    upon the rock both of them we will face
  • 00:27:32
    challenges no matter how righteous you
  • 00:27:34
    are the wind will come against you the
  • 00:27:36
    wind of Life the flood of life will come
  • 00:27:38
    against you the rain of life will come
  • 00:27:41
    against you no matter how righteous
  • 00:27:43
    that's what
  • 00:27:46
    God has proposed for every man on Earth
  • 00:27:52
    but I want to tell you there are people
  • 00:27:54
    that with
  • 00:27:55
    stand people that have the posit of God
  • 00:27:59
    that have built their life upon that
  • 00:28:01
    Solid
  • 00:28:04
    Rock number
  • 00:28:09
    two to step up you have to build your
  • 00:28:14
    faith Hebrews 11:6 he
  • 00:28:17
    said 6B it is impossible he said without
  • 00:28:21
    faith it is impossible to please God
  • 00:28:24
    faith is our currency to do business
  • 00:28:28
    with spiritual business is Faith in uh
  • 00:28:32
    in uh Hebrews chap 10 verse 38 he said
  • 00:28:37
    the just shall live by faith the just
  • 00:28:40
    shall survive shall win by
  • 00:28:44
    faith what whatever is born of God
  • 00:28:46
    overcomes the War 1 John 5:4 and this
  • 00:28:51
    this is the victory that has overcome
  • 00:28:53
    what is that this your faith my faith
  • 00:28:59
    no one will
  • 00:29:02
    survive the challenges of this life the
  • 00:29:05
    way we are going without faith in God no
  • 00:29:14
    one the just shall live by faith habac
  • 00:29:17
    2:4 the just shall live by faith Romans
  • 00:29:20
    chap 1:1 17 the just shall live by faith
  • 00:29:23
    Galatians 3:1 the just shall live by
  • 00:29:26
    faith this is confirmation from
  • 00:29:28
    different
  • 00:29:30
    authors that didn't see each
  • 00:29:33
    other you want to survive the terrible
  • 00:29:36
    time that even in the midst of the time
  • 00:29:39
    you are being lifted you are been
  • 00:29:40
    promoted you are enjoying increase walk
  • 00:29:43
    on your faith faith cometh by hearing
  • 00:29:47
    and hearing so the word of God must be
  • 00:29:49
    our companion daily
  • 00:29:51
    companion daily
  • 00:29:55
    companion the just shall live by
  • 00:29:59
    faith I will soon stop because we have
  • 00:30:03
    the the
  • 00:30:06
    prophetic yes or we have the prophetic
  • 00:30:09
    uh pray Revelation and prayer gathering
  • 00:30:11
    tomorrow and Tuesday so we continue so
  • 00:30:15
    please don't miss those days but for
  • 00:30:17
    this morning I will I will
  • 00:30:19
    just stop at a certain point because of
  • 00:30:22
    our time then we have
  • 00:30:26
    to step up in our
  • 00:30:30
    boldness and Massive Action concerning
  • 00:30:34
    what
  • 00:30:35
    God is Whispering to our
  • 00:30:40
    hearts
  • 00:30:42
    bold step Massive Action our
  • 00:30:46
    father-in-law has said SE about taking
  • 00:30:49
    action God will be whispering by the
  • 00:30:52
    Holy Spirit to to us about what he wants
  • 00:30:55
    us to do the journey he wants us to take
  • 00:30:58
    the things that he wants you to lay your
  • 00:31:00
    hands on particularly as a business
  • 00:31:05
    person he wants us to take immediate
  • 00:31:09
    action I saw something in second Kings
  • 00:31:13
    chapter
  • 00:31:14
    7 there was farming in in the land in
  • 00:31:18
    Samaria to the extent that people were
  • 00:31:20
    eating their children they were it came
  • 00:31:22
    to that extent that people were eating
  • 00:31:24
    up their
  • 00:31:26
    children and a prophetic work
  • 00:31:30
    came through his servant is was it
  • 00:31:33
    Elisha that this time tomorrow so so so
  • 00:31:36
    we call so that was a prophetic word but
  • 00:31:40
    if that prophetic word was not back up
  • 00:31:42
    with action it would be
  • 00:31:45
    useless so God always want us to back up
  • 00:31:49
    every prophetic word God's servant Our
  • 00:31:51
    Father Lord has spoken to us this year
  • 00:31:54
    powerful word that the Fulfillment rest
  • 00:31:58
    on your action on my
  • 00:32:01
    action this is our month of stepping up
  • 00:32:05
    if you decide to sit down may may we not
  • 00:32:08
    step
  • 00:32:10
    down
  • 00:32:12
    yeah you will not step down you will not
  • 00:32:15
    step out you will step up let's take
  • 00:32:20
    action when the prophetic work went
  • 00:32:23
    forth for leprous men that's why God can
  • 00:32:27
    use anything
  • 00:32:29
    anybody anything for his work as long as
  • 00:32:34
    the people are ready to take action four
  • 00:32:36
    lepos men were at the gates of Samaria
  • 00:32:39
    they were not allowed to enter and they
  • 00:32:41
    look at themselves if we sit down here
  • 00:32:44
    if we refuse to take action with the way
  • 00:32:47
    things are going we will
  • 00:32:50
    die division will rough if will refuse
  • 00:32:53
    to take action it say sitting down here
  • 00:32:56
    is leading to death going back to the
  • 00:32:59
    city no food there is still death in the
  • 00:33:02
    enemy's camp three options there's death
  • 00:33:05
    there but they use wisdom that's why we
  • 00:33:08
    must walk with wisdom where they were
  • 00:33:10
    there was no food in the city there was
  • 00:33:13
    no food but there's and there's death in
  • 00:33:15
    each in the enemy's C there's two things
  • 00:33:18
    there's death there's also
  • 00:33:20
    life there's food there there's death
  • 00:33:24
    and they said it's better to go there
  • 00:33:27
    that's we
  • 00:33:28
    wiom we must that's why I say we must
  • 00:33:30
    take bold step there are some step or
  • 00:33:33
    there are some things God will be
  • 00:33:34
    ministering to you it will be like it
  • 00:33:36
    will be suicidal to go to the en Camp is
  • 00:33:39
    suicidal but they wait the options that
  • 00:33:42
    we available no food in the two option
  • 00:33:45
    but this one death and food we better go
  • 00:33:48
    there they might have mercy on us and
  • 00:33:51
    they took their step God Amplified it
  • 00:33:55
    when you take any step God will amplify
  • 00:33:59
    he will amplify
  • 00:34:01
    it I am pressing on as you press on you
  • 00:34:06
    gain New Heights every
  • 00:34:09
    day it's your responsibility it's our
  • 00:34:12
    responsibility to press then the lifting
  • 00:34:15
    comes from the
  • 00:34:17
    Lord and they stood up they say we go to
  • 00:34:20
    the enemy's Camp it it was dangerous but
  • 00:34:23
    as they were going God took over as you
  • 00:34:27
    make that effort God will just take over
  • 00:34:30
    look at the scriptures when people make
  • 00:34:32
    effort this is our month of stepping up
  • 00:34:35
    take the first step by the time you will
  • 00:34:37
    take the Second Step there will be an up
  • 00:34:40
    outstretch hand that will take you
  • 00:34:42
    higher than what your what your ability
  • 00:34:46
    can
  • 00:34:47
    sustain they took the first step and God
  • 00:34:50
    amplifi it the Syrian they they didn't
  • 00:34:54
    they they they said they have hired mer
  • 00:34:58
    to attack
  • 00:35:00
    them physically it was not so but
  • 00:35:03
    because God took
  • 00:35:06
    over they had strange noise and they ran
  • 00:35:10
    away and left
  • 00:35:12
    everything because God because people
  • 00:35:17
    made the
  • 00:35:19
    decision to take action the prophetic
  • 00:35:22
    war came to pass all the word that have
  • 00:35:25
    been spoken over your life they will
  • 00:35:27
    come to pass
  • 00:35:28
    pass I said they will come to
  • 00:35:31
    pass God is stepping us up but let's
  • 00:35:35
    take the first step that's your
  • 00:35:42
    effort let me stop here we continue at
  • 00:35:45
    the prophetic Gathering the pursuit of
  • 00:35:49
    God building your faith and taking
  • 00:35:52
    Massive Action take the first step let's
  • 00:35:54
    be on our feet
  • 00:36:05
    this month from this day God will be
  • 00:36:07
    ministering to
  • 00:36:09
    you he will be sharing some secret with
  • 00:36:12
    you
  • 00:36:14
    particularly let me say this
  • 00:36:16
    again we have noise everywhere
  • 00:36:19
    noise you must take time to separate
  • 00:36:23
    yourself to where you can hear him
  • 00:36:28
    we must take time God is a king You
  • 00:36:31
    Can't Hurry him up say father you know
  • 00:36:33
    it's 30 minutes I have to go to the
  • 00:36:35
    office go to the office continue with
  • 00:36:38
    the struggle with your own strength
  • 00:36:40
    that's what we that's what we do most of
  • 00:36:42
    the
  • 00:36:43
    time father you know so anything you
  • 00:36:45
    want to say say it within 30 minutes
  • 00:36:47
    it's a king You Can't Hurry a
  • 00:36:50
    king You Can't Hurry a
  • 00:36:54
    king
  • 00:36:56
    what you have struggled to get in one
  • 00:37:00
    year Revelation can come in one hour
  • 00:37:04
    when you T with him this is what we have
  • 00:37:08
    experienced why should we
  • 00:37:10
    struggle when the answer is with us just
  • 00:37:13
    staring in his
  • 00:37:15
    presence Hab is it Hab he say I will set
  • 00:37:19
    up my
  • 00:37:20
    rampant I will sit and wait to see or
  • 00:37:24
    hear what he will say and we in his
  • 00:37:28
    presence I don't want to do business as
  • 00:37:31
    usual using my own effort why can't I
  • 00:37:35
    spend time let me tell you the moment
  • 00:37:37
    you can hear what he's saying now and
  • 00:37:40
    you take action it will cover many years
  • 00:37:42
    of Labor and to I know God he can't he
  • 00:37:46
    can't see anything that will not make
  • 00:37:50
    you hit Target he will
  • 00:37:53
    not but human nature naturally will like
  • 00:37:56
    to carry
  • 00:37:58
    to go and work sitting
  • 00:38:01
    down
  • 00:38:02
    yes just go and carry caterpillar and do
  • 00:38:05
    all kinds of things that will bring
  • 00:38:07
    small dividends than sitting down and
  • 00:38:09
    receiving wisdom to touch a thing and
  • 00:38:15
    explode ask for
  • 00:38:18
    Grace my own responsibility I want us if
  • 00:38:21
    we can if we can if we can before we
  • 00:38:25
    take the communion this song is
  • 00:38:28
    loaded Higher Ground if we can project
  • 00:38:31
    it I'll be very happy let's let's sing
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    it the higher ground and pressing on the
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    upward way if we can project it but if
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    we cannot project it we just sing the
  • 00:38:43
    first line okay thank you God bless you
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    sir let us sing this song I want you to
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    look look at the lyrics of this song
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    and prayerfully let's sing it
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    prayerfully God is taking somebody to a
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    New Height this
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    morning let's
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    go
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    yes every
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    day
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    still
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    us our
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    yes Lord Grace Lord Grace on a Higher
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    [Music]
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    Ground Lord Lift Me Up Lord lift me
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    up let me stand yes by
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    faith
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    [Music]
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    on your
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    that
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    I sing it
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    [Music]
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    prayerfully the second stanza yes
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    my to where doubt arise and
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    fear and this
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    [Music]
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    where yes our prayer Lord my aim is a
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    Higher Ground
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    spiritually
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    economically Lift Me Lord lift up Lord
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    me up oh yes and let me
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    stand my f on
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    [Music]
  • 00:41:02
    St I have
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    [Music]
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    found plant our feet on the higher
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    [Music]
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    ground the
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    last I want to yes above the
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    world those Satan
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    that and
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    me
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    has a joyful
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    s that song of
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    [Music]
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    s lift
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    [Music]
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    [Applause]
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    up yes Lord
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    [Music]
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    thank you Jesus I
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    am let's say the chorus
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    [Music]
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    again Lord Lift Me
  • 00:42:22
    Up allt be up
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    let me
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    [Music]
  • 00:42:37
    stand
  • 00:42:40
    [Music]
  • 00:42:41
    highest I
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    have Lord
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    might on highest
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