Lesson 1: Our Purpose in Prayer — Prayeradigm Shift • Featuring Pavel Goia

00:34:34
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Summary

TLDRIn this video, David Jameson introduces a virtual prayer weekend themed 'Paradigm Shift' with Pastor Pavle Goya, who emphasizes the transformative power of prayer. Pastor Goya shares personal stories about hostile neighbors and how he struggled to love them. Through prayer, he learned the importance of selflessness and compassion, paralleling the teachings of Jesus to love our enemies. He encourages viewers to genuinely care for their neighbors and engage in acts of kindness while praying sincerely for others, resulting in personal and relational healing.

Takeaways

  • 🙏 Prayer changes things and is key to understanding God's power.
  • 💔 True love for God reflects in how we treat our enemies.
  • 🤝 Acts of kindness can transform relationships with difficult neighbors.
  • 😇 Pray for others with intent as you would for your family.
  • 🥬 Sharing resources fosters community and connection.
  • ⚔️ Satan opposes genuine prayer, highlighting its power.
  • 🔑 Selflessness in prayer leads to personal breakthroughs.
  • 🌱 Growing compassion can shift our perspectives on others.
  • 💌 Listen and pray for your neighbors to build trust.
  • 🛐 Commitment to prayer is essential for true Christian living.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    David Jameson welcomes everyone to the virtual prayer weekend titled "paradigm shift" with Pastor Pavl Goya, emphasizing that prayer changes lives and can unlock the treasures of Heaven. He hopes participants will experience a transformative understanding of prayer, leading to blessings in their lives.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    A prayer is offered, expressing gratitude for God's attentiveness to human concerns. The speaker emphasizes unity and requests blessings and protection for Pastor Pavl, praying for clarity and strength in delivering God's message.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Pastor Pavl shares the discomfort of challenging audience perceptions about prayer. He encourages reflecting on personal prayer habits, illustrating this with his experience of recording and listening to his prayers to seek deeper understanding.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    He recounts a troubling experience with his neighbors, contrasting supportive neighbors with hostile ones who would curse at him. Their actions led him to struggle with feelings of animosity and discomfort, prompting reflections on how to respond amidst adversity.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Pastor Pavl's wife challenges him to pray for the neighbors, highlighting that true Christian love involves enduring hardships and self-sacrifice for others. Through prayer, he begins to see his neighbors in a new light and becomes more compassionate.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:34:34

    As he continues to pray for his neighbors, relationships improve between them, illustrating that genuine prayer and love can transform hearts and communities. He emphasizes that prayer should also focus on serving others rather than just personal needs, aligning with the teachings of Jesus.

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Video Q&A

  • What is the theme of the virtual prayer weekend?

    The theme is 'Paradigm Shift'.

  • Who is the main speaker at the event?

    Pastor Pavle Goya.

  • What is emphasized about prayer in the video?

    Prayer is a powerful tool that can lead to personal transformation and changes in relationships.

  • What kind of personal experiences does Pastor Goya share?

    He shares experiences with difficult neighbors and how prayer influenced his perspective on them.

  • How does the video address loving difficult neighbors?

    It emphasizes the importance of loving even those who may be unfriendly or hostile.

  • What advice does Pastor Goya give about prayer?

    He encourages praying for others selflessly and with compassion.

  • What outcome does Pastor Goya share about his prayers?

    He mentions that his perspective changed and relationships improved after sincerely praying for his challenging neighbors.

  • What does the video suggest about self-centeredness?

    It critiques self-centered attitudes and encourages caring for others in genuine ways.

  • What action does Pastor Goya suggest to create community?

    Acts of kindness towards neighbors, such as sharing food and offering prayer.

  • How does Pastor Goya relate prayer to personal challenges?

    He observes that focusing on praying for others can lead to resolution of personal problems.

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  • 00:00:01
    hello everyone my name is David Jameson
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    and I just wanted to take a moment to
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    welcome you to this very special virtual
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    prayer weekend entitled paradigm shift
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    with Pastor pavl Goya a mighty prayer
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    Warrior for God and I know that this
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    weekend you are going to experience a
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    shift in your understanding of prayer
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    your desire for praying and learning how
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    to pray more effectively and fervently
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    in your
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    life after all prayer changes things
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    doesn't it prayer is the key in the hand
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    of Faith to unlock the storehouse full
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    of the treasures of Heaven my prayer for
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    you this weekend is that you'll
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    experience a mighty paradigm shift in
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    your life from this moment forward and
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    that you'll be richly and deeply blessed
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    with a lifetime of understanding the
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    power of God through a paradigm
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    [Music]
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    shift
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    uh gracious Heavenly Father we are
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    honored um and humbled that you would
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    listen to us that you would care about
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    what we say that you would work so
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    diligently to disrupt our plans and put
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    your plans in place because you want
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    what is best and so father as we come
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    together we are all here our hearts are
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    united we are in agreement that you
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    bless pavle abundantly that you protect
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    him that you wrap your arms around him
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    that your angels that excel in strength
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    will be here and keep the enemy out May
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    the message that you want us to hear be
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    what we hear and that the your humble
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    servant here will have the strength he
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    needs to present it thank you Father for
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    hearing our prayer because we don't pray
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    it in our will and in our own strength
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    but we pray it in the name of Jesus
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    Christ and that his will will be done
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    amen I'm gonna
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    try to challenge you and be very open
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    and very
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    honest and I'm not sure you are going to
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    like too much what I
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    say uh probably is going to be more
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    challenging than you like and so if you
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    don't like it and you get upset I will
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    pray for
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    you but I would ask you
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    to before trying to judge or make a
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    decision in your mind to rather pray
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    about it because it's a little different
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    from what we do or
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    no so what do you pray about when you
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    pray have you ever recorded
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    yourself let's say one month and just
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    listen to your prayers to see what you
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    pray did it ever occur to you to do that
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    because I recorded about 6 months worth
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    of prayers in my family and in one of my
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    churches I didn't tell anybody I was
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    recording
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    [Music]
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    them and I erased the recordings I
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    recorded listen and then it was in the
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    church I recorded them in the church
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    public prayer listened to them again and
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    then erased it but I learned something
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    pretty strange about
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    prayers it's a it's an eye opening
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    let me give you an example when we moved
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    in Maryland I'm I'm going to give you a
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    story so you understand what I mean
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    because if I tell you don't do this you
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    will not agree with
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    me when we move to Maryland I need
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    wipers for my glasses I cannot see you
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    well when we move to
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    Maryland the neighbor in the right young
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    people uh kind of Countryside
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    people
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    I'm not going to say you know bad words
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    but
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    but
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    very raw wild people you know what I
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    mean if you see how they are dressed if
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    you see how they talk but good people I
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    mean you could count on them good
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    neighbors if you are in need those
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    people jump in fire for you good people
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    good-hearted people uh we had an an one
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    time a crazy guy attacked our
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    house not with the intention to attack
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    us he was running from the
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    government the government tries to kill
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    me and he came and he pushed the back
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    door and he broke the door and he broke
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    furniture and he hid in the bathroom and
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    said please call 911 the government is
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    trying to kill me but meanwhile he did
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    damage of over
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    $23,000 yeah anyway this we are not home
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    we are in Tennessee my mother-in-law
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    that had two her surgery was
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    home when this happened those neighbors
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    came first to help good people always
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    ready to help across the street in the
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    right a guy very good guy pretty strange
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    he always if you want to be friends with
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    him you you need to let him talk for
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    about 15 minutes and you need just to
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    have that time to listen but good guy
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    the guy in the left across the street
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    good guy um pretty strong in his beliefs
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    his church but nevertheless good people
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    but the people in the left next to our
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    house like demon
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    possessed evil beyond belief
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    evil as soon as we moved they would
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    start to come on the deck and scream
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    really bad words starting with a letter
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    that I'm not going to say even the first
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    letter you blank blank blank
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    immigrants you and you know the first
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    letter blank blank blank we hate you
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    when people scream loud that everybody
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    could hear it and curse you using
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    extremely dirty bad language how do you
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    feel about
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    it do you understand what I'm trying to
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    say the guys in the right side ready to
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    help the good guys they have a farm they
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    have all the animals you can imagine
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    sheep goats phasm I mean pigs anything
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    chickens and they start I mean they have
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    many dogs they start at 3:00 400 a.m.
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    and the The Roosters the chickens and
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    you know it's crazy it's a zoo you know
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    and their dogs bark forever and ever I
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    mean bark they and night they never stop
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    ho ho ho barking it's like you know the
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    bad people in the left would curse us
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    that our dogs bark my dogs don't even
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    know how to
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    bark they don't know how to bite they
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    miss the
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    class when they were taught how to bark
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    my dogs play and
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    sleep you know they called the police on
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    us their dogs bark the police came your
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    dogs bark Disturbed the neighborhood I
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    said come come I called the police
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    officer come come here where just come I
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    took him to my dogs do you see them yes
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    what they do they sleep but you still
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    here barking how could they bark if you
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    watch them and they are
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    sleeping and he says yeah it's seems his
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    coms from that direction ahuh it's the
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    neighbor's dogs not my dogs oh okay
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    sorry and the police officer left then
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    they call the Humane Society on us the
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    same neighbors that we abuse dogs our
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    dogs are more spoiled than many
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    children we bought buy the most
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    expensive organic treats and they eat
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    more treats than
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    food Gucci sleeps on my
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    pillow sometimes I have no room because
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    my dog pushes me and he takes my spot on
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    the bed
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    so the Humane Society came you abuse
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    dogs I said come come and watch them and
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    he says I wish everybody would take care
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    of the dogs the way you do and they left
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    but how would you feel about a neighbor
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    that calls the police calls the Human
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    Society curses you every time I would
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    get outside and hear him cursing me I
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    would get stomach pain and not feel even
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    being on my property outside they have a
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    drone and they would fly the Drone above
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    our backyard to to watch us that's not
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    okay you don't have any type of privacy
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    I could not go outside the house because
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    the drone on my nose my wife says why
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    don't you take the gun and shoot that
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    drone I want you
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    to and then I said let's do that and my
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    wife says I'm
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    kidding she said just calm down and my
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    wife said to me why don't you pray for
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    them I said you don't pray for
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    Satan Satan doesn't repent you know you
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    don't pray for Satan and my says yes you
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    do not for Satan but for the
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    neighbors and my wife said to me isn't
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    this what you
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    preach and my wife said to me it's easy
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    to go to church hello it's easy to keep
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    Sabbat in fact lazy people keep every
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    day it's easy to eat
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    tofu but it's very difficult to love
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    those who hate
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    you and my wife said to me that's what
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    Jesus actually told us love those who
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    hate us let me tell you you say that you
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    love God how many of you love Jesus Oh
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    How I Love Jesus anybody can sing the
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    song Satan can sing the
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    song you know how much you love Jesus to
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    the degree that you love the one that
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    hates you and makes your life miserable
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    to that exactly degree you love Jesus if
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    you really want to know how much you
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    love God ask yourself how much you love
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    somebody that has done something against
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    you and they criticize you and make your
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    life miserable how much you love that
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    person that's exactly how much you
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    really love God if you really want to be
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    honest with
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    yourself uhhuh you heard me and my wife
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    said to me how could you preach to
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    people to love one another when you hate
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    your neighbor I said Anna I don't hate
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    them I just don't like
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    them she said well pray for them I did I
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    started Lord be with this evil
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    neighbors and says no no no no no that's
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    not the way you pray for them pray for
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    them as Jesus would pray for them pray
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    for them as you would pray for your
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    children if your children were lost if
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    your children were involved in a car
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    accident if your children were in a ER
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    dying how would you pray for your
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    children so I started to pray a little
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    more and this is what happened when I
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    started to pray for Neighbors instantly
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    they became even more vicious you know
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    what I'm talking
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    about things didn't go up things start
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    to really fast go down and my wife says
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    well Satan is not
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    afraid of you when you are a good
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    Christian you go to church you eat
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    broccoli you return your tight you go to
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    camp meeting and sing
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    Kumbaya but Satan is afraid of you when
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    you pray and that's the reason he's
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    trying to discourage you you see prayer
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    doesn't work since I started to pray
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    things go bad you follow me so my wife
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    says why don't you pray more I well how
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    long should I pray for these neighbors
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    they don't deserve
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    it don't we think that
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    way yeah be honest it's easy to hear to
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    my story but you have your stories
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    too people that have damaged your life
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    people that have done something that has
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    affected you people that have criticized
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    you people that have fired you people
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    that have divorced you people that have
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    you follow me
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    that have
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    left a scar you follow
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    me and so my wife said to me something
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    that I will never
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    forget after 3 years of enduring this
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    terrible neighbors and I said let's move
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    let's sell the house I got tired let's
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    move she says what if God put you here
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    for
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    them because God loves those people
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    they don't know what they do they are
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    led by Satan and they have no clue they
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    think they are right and they are blind
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    totally blind and she says what if God
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    put you there for
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    them and she said to
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    me you cannot have a
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    victory before you are willing to be
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    like Jesus basically to die for
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    them you'll never win somebody that you
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    are not willing to die
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    for what did I
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    say you heard me and she said Jesus was
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    willing to Die For You Moses said take
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    my name off you know what that means
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    would you be willing to give up your
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    eternal life for a
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    stinker would you
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    honestly really think about it Moses did
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    that when they wanted to Stone him and
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    God says step aside I'm going to destroy
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    them Moses said no no no take my name
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    off
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    Paul says about Israel that was
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    following him in every country and
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    stoning him and put him in prison and
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    wanted him killed Paul says I would
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    rather be anatema that in Greek means to
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    be cut off from the Tree of Life Paul
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    says basically cut my name off and save
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    my
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    persecutors those that really know
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    Jesus they become like
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    Jesus
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    that's the fiery test so my wife says
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    why don't you pray Lord take my life and
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    save my
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    neighbors would you do that so I went to
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    prayer and I didn't have the strength to
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    do it and I said Lord I really really
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    really would like it to work with them
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    but I am not sure I'm willing to say
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    this words I was afraid to even say it
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    and then God spoke to me and said you
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    will never be a Christian before you are
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    not willing to lay your life for
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    somebody
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    else and he didn't say in my mind you'll
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    never be a pastor he said in my mind
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    you'll never be a
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    Christian you cannot be my follower
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    unless you do what I
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    did so I started to cry and I said
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    Lord I Surrender my life I give it to
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    you do whatever you want with it take it
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    if that's what it takes but give me
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    opportunities to reach my
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    neighbors after I was willing to
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    surrender my life a month later when I
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    started to pray that way something
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    happened to
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    me instead
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    of getting stomach pain only by seeing
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    them I started to feel sorry for them
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    and really started to desire an answer
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    to I wanted God to answer I started to
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    care I want wanted God to answer my
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    prayer I really started to care for them
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    I wanted results a month later something
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    strange happened after I prayed that way
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    when I started to be willing to put my
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    life down for my evil neighbors that
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    made my life miserable for 3 years one
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    day the two dogs of the neighbor the
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    evil neighbors escaped and guess where
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    they came the angel of the Lord LED them
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    right onto my property to my dogs and my
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    dogs are kind they just started to play
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    and I go out because I hear them playing
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    and having fun and I see four dogs
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    instead of two and I don't mind I love
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    animals elen says in the Patriarchs and
  • 00:16:44
    Prophet talking about bam that those who
  • 00:16:46
    abuse animals are led by
  • 00:16:49
    Satan and I went there and I gave them
  • 00:16:51
    treats to all four and I bent down and I
  • 00:16:54
    started to play with them and pet them
  • 00:16:55
    and kiss them and give them hugs and
  • 00:16:58
    give them treats and it was like a new
  • 00:17:00
    world you know like in heaven you know
  • 00:17:01
    and as we were playing the neighbor gets
  • 00:17:04
    out looking for the dogs and he sees me
  • 00:17:06
    and he turns really
  • 00:17:08
    pale you know he forgot to curse or
  • 00:17:11
    anything and I see him and I see him
  • 00:17:14
    looking for his dogs and I take the dogs
  • 00:17:17
    kindly let's go home puppies let's go
  • 00:17:18
    home I didn't know their names and with
  • 00:17:20
    trees let's go home and I get them right
  • 00:17:23
    at the property of the neighbor and I
  • 00:17:25
    say hey your dogs came over I hope it's
  • 00:17:28
    okay I give them some healthy treats you
  • 00:17:29
    can see you know and is sweet potatoes
  • 00:17:32
    dried sweet potatoes and they are
  • 00:17:34
    healthy and these are your dogs and uh I
  • 00:17:38
    just brought him back home to you he was
  • 00:17:41
    mute like no
  • 00:17:44
    voice no thank you no bye no nothing and
  • 00:17:48
    I said would you please come for a
  • 00:17:50
    second why just come a little you want
  • 00:17:53
    to show me the damages that my dogs did
  • 00:17:55
    to your property and call the police on
  • 00:17:57
    me said no no no come for you want me to
  • 00:17:59
    clean if they pooped on come for a
  • 00:18:01
    second he was afraid that I'm going to
  • 00:18:03
    complain look what they did you know
  • 00:18:05
    come for a second uh why just come
  • 00:18:08
    please just for a second if you don't
  • 00:18:10
    like it you go back he was like okay
  • 00:18:14
    come
  • 00:18:15
    more why I took him to the Garden our
  • 00:18:19
    garden if you see our garden you think
  • 00:18:21
    that he's in Canan I have pictures I can
  • 00:18:24
    prove
  • 00:18:25
    it lettu that is so long I have pictures
  • 00:18:29
    I'm not exaggerating watermelons 2 and
  • 00:18:31
    1/2 ft 4B
  • 00:18:34
    eggplants 2 three lb Tomatoes it's
  • 00:18:38
    heaven and loaded I mean loaded we used
  • 00:18:43
    to pick this summer between July and
  • 00:18:46
    last week every day several buckets of
  • 00:18:49
    tomatoes and peppers and just
  • 00:18:53
    loaded and I know I've washed them for
  • 00:18:56
    three years they have tried to plant a
  • 00:18:57
    garden and nothing not a plant not a Tom
  • 00:19:00
    nothing nothing nothing nothing zero
  • 00:19:01
    zero nothing not even one plant
  • 00:19:04
    survived and I took him to my garden I
  • 00:19:06
    show him the garden he was like who is
  • 00:19:10
    this possible what chemicals do you use
  • 00:19:12
    none what do you spray none what
  • 00:19:14
    fertilizer none it's all
  • 00:19:17
    organic how does the bugs don't eat your
  • 00:19:19
    garden how do you grow it because this
  • 00:19:21
    is Mountain solid bedrock and I took a
  • 00:19:25
    basket big basket put it in his hands
  • 00:19:28
    help
  • 00:19:30
    yourself uh you give me produce yes
  • 00:19:36
    why because we are neighbors that's what
  • 00:19:39
    neighbors
  • 00:19:43
    do he took literally two Tomatoes put
  • 00:19:46
    them in the basket thank you hold on a
  • 00:19:48
    second take more brother take more look
  • 00:19:51
    here I I give to all people I know I
  • 00:19:53
    give to friends I give to everybody and
  • 00:19:56
    I can and I freeze and I still have too
  • 00:19:58
    many I didn't tell him but one time in
  • 00:20:01
    Kentucky I had the church come over for
  • 00:20:02
    a tomato fight because we had too many
  • 00:20:05
    tomatoes
  • 00:20:07
    literally literally it was the best day
  • 00:20:10
    they could
  • 00:20:11
    remember and so I said take more he took
  • 00:20:15
    a few more he says can I call my wife
  • 00:20:17
    and my kids yes he call his wife she
  • 00:20:19
    comes with the boy and the girl you know
  • 00:20:22
    and I give them a basket too help
  • 00:20:24
    yourself and they start picking I say
  • 00:20:26
    put more and I started to put and I took
  • 00:20:28
    and I took this and I took that you know
  • 00:20:30
    okra and watermelon and calop and
  • 00:20:33
    lettuce and I just put and put until the
  • 00:20:35
    baskets are full and they look to the
  • 00:20:36
    baskets we cannot eat so much why would
  • 00:20:38
    you give us so much and she starts
  • 00:20:43
    crying and she says why would you do
  • 00:20:45
    that for us we are
  • 00:20:47
    neighbors we are supposed to do that and
  • 00:20:50
    she says can we do something for you I
  • 00:20:52
    said no not we are fine we made the
  • 00:20:54
    homemade bread we want to give it to you
  • 00:20:55
    we have bread now please take it please
  • 00:20:57
    take it okay okay I will eat it give me
  • 00:20:59
    the bread she brought the bread she sent
  • 00:21:02
    her son he came running this is the
  • 00:21:03
    bread we made it is is still warm thank
  • 00:21:05
    you we'll eat it and then they started
  • 00:21:09
    to talk and they Ted I mean their life
  • 00:21:11
    their story kids go to this college and
  • 00:21:13
    they is like we knew each other for 20
  • 00:21:15
    years we are best friends and they t t t
  • 00:21:17
    talk they warmed up right away and they
  • 00:21:19
    said oh we are so glad you are here you
  • 00:21:21
    are a wonderful
  • 00:21:26
    neighbor and all the the barriers
  • 00:21:29
    disappeared in a
  • 00:21:32
    second oh let me ask you how many times
  • 00:21:36
    do you pray saying
  • 00:21:38
    Lord take my life and save my neighbor
  • 00:21:41
    save my enemy do you pray that
  • 00:21:47
    prayer and we think that we love Jesus
  • 00:21:51
    but John 1 John chapter 4
  • 00:21:55
    says if you don't love your neighbor you
  • 00:21:58
    the love of God is not in you you are a
  • 00:22:01
    liar that's pretty heavy Bible verse
  • 00:22:03
    isn't
  • 00:22:05
    it more than
  • 00:22:08
    that more than that every time I have
  • 00:22:11
    challenges and trust me like everybody
  • 00:22:13
    else I do have
  • 00:22:14
    challenges plenty Satan hates Christians
  • 00:22:19
    Satan even more hates pastors if he can
  • 00:22:22
    get the pastor he can get the church you
  • 00:22:23
    know what I mean he attacks us because
  • 00:22:27
    he's like a li and trying to devour us
  • 00:22:29
    he hates us I have challenges like
  • 00:22:31
    everybody
  • 00:22:34
    else every time I pray asking God for
  • 00:22:38
    help for my
  • 00:22:40
    problems it seems to me that the more I
  • 00:22:43
    pray the more problems I
  • 00:22:45
    have did it ever happen to you just
  • 00:22:47
    honestly you pray and you see no result
  • 00:22:50
    but then you get another problem and
  • 00:22:52
    then you get three more and then you get
  • 00:22:54
    five more and you are buried you
  • 00:22:56
    remember and it seems to me when I
  • 00:23:00
    decide to ignore my problems whatever
  • 00:23:02
    happens happens if I die I die everybody
  • 00:23:04
    dies eventually okay I ignore my
  • 00:23:07
    problems and start praying for other
  • 00:23:09
    people and for their problems it seems
  • 00:23:12
    to me every single time I
  • 00:23:16
    plead interceding for others praying
  • 00:23:19
    earnestly not just Lord be with my
  • 00:23:21
    neighbor Lord be my interceding for them
  • 00:23:23
    as I would pray for myself is very
  • 00:23:26
    strange the more I pray for them
  • 00:23:28
    the more my problems get solved without
  • 00:23:30
    me even addressing them basically I just
  • 00:23:33
    get a phone call it was taken care of
  • 00:23:35
    well I want to go there no need anymore
  • 00:23:37
    Pastor solves I want to
  • 00:23:39
    basically if I care for others God seems
  • 00:23:42
    to care for me without me even worrying
  • 00:23:45
    it you follow
  • 00:23:49
    me has it ever occurred to you that God
  • 00:23:53
    called us to serve not to be
  • 00:23:56
    served and all we do we want to be
  • 00:24:00
    served by people and by God we want to
  • 00:24:02
    be served by our spouses we want to be
  • 00:24:04
    served by God we want to be served by
  • 00:24:05
    people you follow
  • 00:24:07
    me when we go to God In Prayer we ask
  • 00:24:11
    give me this give me that bless me heal
  • 00:24:12
    me save me forgive me my family my
  • 00:24:14
    children my job my health my house my
  • 00:24:17
    whatever there is nothing wrong to ask
  • 00:24:20
    the Bible says that we should cast all
  • 00:24:21
    our needs upon
  • 00:24:23
    him as long as God comes first
  • 00:24:29
    but usually in prayer if you monitor
  • 00:24:30
    your prayers we come
  • 00:24:32
    first number one number two we should
  • 00:24:35
    love God with all our heart all our mind
  • 00:24:37
    all our soul all our strength everything
  • 00:24:38
    we are everything we know all our power
  • 00:24:41
    put God first because whatever you put
  • 00:24:43
    first that's your
  • 00:24:45
    God if you put your needs if you put
  • 00:24:47
    your house if you put your children
  • 00:24:49
    whatever you put before God whatever
  • 00:24:52
    stresses you that's what you worship
  • 00:24:55
    that's your
  • 00:24:55
    idol put God first and then love your
  • 00:24:59
    neighbor just as
  • 00:25:01
    you
  • 00:25:03
    hello listen to what you just said as
  • 00:25:06
    much as you love yourself let me ex give
  • 00:25:08
    you an example my we have two
  • 00:25:10
    granddaughters one is 6 years old and
  • 00:25:13
    one is 6 months old my wife buys for
  • 00:25:17
    them way too
  • 00:25:21
    much and I keep telling her they grow
  • 00:25:24
    fast don't buy so many clothing because
  • 00:25:27
    before they can use them the clothing
  • 00:25:30
    are too
  • 00:25:31
    small next day she goes and buys again
  • 00:25:35
    honey you should have bought one but not
  • 00:25:37
    five because if you buy five uh let's
  • 00:25:41
    say sandals number six she can wear one
  • 00:25:45
    and three months later she needs number
  • 00:25:47
    seven because she grows
  • 00:25:50
    fast next day she goes again I say honey
  • 00:25:54
    please don't spend so much money buying
  • 00:25:56
    stuff clothing for our grand daughters
  • 00:25:58
    please and then I am preaching and then
  • 00:26:01
    Sunday she goes and comes with two pairs
  • 00:26:03
    of Sanders number
  • 00:26:04
    six you did it again she says no I
  • 00:26:06
    listened to your sermon I didn't yes you
  • 00:26:08
    did you purchased two sandals number six
  • 00:26:11
    she says no honey The Neighbors in that
  • 00:26:14
    side have a daughter that is six years
  • 00:26:16
    old like our granddaughter and they
  • 00:26:18
    don't have the money I purchased a pair
  • 00:26:20
    because you said love your neighbor just
  • 00:26:22
    as you love yourself I purchased a pair
  • 00:26:24
    for our granddaughter and the pair for
  • 00:26:26
    the neighbor's daughter
  • 00:26:28
    I said you do listen to my
  • 00:26:32
    serons how many
  • 00:26:34
    times think about it I'm not kidding I'm
  • 00:26:39
    serious how many times when you go
  • 00:26:41
    shopping you also buy for your
  • 00:26:43
    neighbor have you why not if you love
  • 00:26:47
    your neighbor so much as you love
  • 00:26:49
    yourself or it's just a slogan oh I love
  • 00:26:52
    my neighbor
  • 00:26:53
    really prove
  • 00:26:56
    it oh I cannot afford oh yes you
  • 00:27:00
    can if you love your children you afford
  • 00:27:02
    to help your children if you love the
  • 00:27:04
    neighbor if you love The Neighbor you
  • 00:27:06
    afford to help the neighbor you buy less
  • 00:27:08
    for you and you care also for the
  • 00:27:11
    neighbor when I planted our garden in
  • 00:27:14
    Kentucky and then in Maryland same story
  • 00:27:17
    when I planted in Kentucky we lived on
  • 00:27:19
    the mountain in Maryland we live on the
  • 00:27:22
    mountain it's not only rocks solid
  • 00:27:25
    Bedrock nothing would grow nothing
  • 00:27:27
    nothing zero nothing we tried nothing
  • 00:27:30
    the plants didn't survive I mean 2 in
  • 00:27:33
    dirt and then
  • 00:27:36
    rock you need 10 to 14 inches to plant a
  • 00:27:40
    garden I brought about 10 trucks of dirt
  • 00:27:43
    put it there planted the bugs ate it
  • 00:27:48
    all after three years of attempts I gave
  • 00:27:50
    up and my wife says have you prayed for
  • 00:27:52
    the Neighbors I said what does he have
  • 00:27:54
    to do with the garden have you prayed
  • 00:27:55
    that God would bless your garden to give
  • 00:27:57
    you to to the neighbors I said no so I
  • 00:28:00
    went in the garden I kneel down in the
  • 00:28:03
    garden I said Lord if you bless my
  • 00:28:04
    garden 50% of the garden I'm going to
  • 00:28:08
    share literally half that year my garden
  • 00:28:14
    exploded in such a way that people would
  • 00:28:16
    come and take pictures and they would
  • 00:28:18
    say we have never seen anything like
  • 00:28:20
    that I me it people literally would come
  • 00:28:23
    to take pictures 10t tall tomatoes 50 60
  • 00:28:28
    70 Tomatoes per plant 1 2 to 2.8 lb a
  • 00:28:34
    tomato can you grasp
  • 00:28:36
    it and I took half of the garden every
  • 00:28:39
    time I would Harvest and take boxes to
  • 00:28:41
    the church help yourself for free take
  • 00:28:43
    boxes to the neighbors and books and
  • 00:28:46
    listen carefully when I would go to a
  • 00:28:48
    neighbor and knock in the door and say
  • 00:28:50
    hey I picked so much from my garden that
  • 00:28:51
    I cannot use them and they are going to
  • 00:28:53
    spoil why would I waste them would you
  • 00:28:55
    use some peppers and tomatoes and
  • 00:28:57
    cucumbers and yes thank you these are
  • 00:29:00
    from our garden oh thank you neighbor
  • 00:29:02
    and say I have a book would you want the
  • 00:29:04
    book and I go second time and then I go
  • 00:29:08
    third time and third time I say listen I
  • 00:29:09
    would like to pray for
  • 00:29:11
    you people in our society are very
  • 00:29:15
    stressed moreover in the time we live
  • 00:29:18
    people are extremely stressed and they
  • 00:29:21
    may smile but inside they are
  • 00:29:24
    broken when you offer a prayer very few
  • 00:29:28
    people would refuse it amen we are more
  • 00:29:31
    afraid to pray for them than they are
  • 00:29:33
    afraid to be prayed
  • 00:29:36
    for and so I would say take some
  • 00:29:38
    Tomatoes let me pray for you and I will
  • 00:29:40
    not pray Lord help them repent and
  • 00:29:42
    become Adventist now I would say tell me
  • 00:29:46
    what you are me to pray for and they
  • 00:29:48
    would say always my wife has diabetes my
  • 00:29:50
    wife has cancer I lost my job our kids
  • 00:29:53
    take drugs and I would pray for whatever
  • 00:29:55
    they asked
  • 00:29:58
    that's it and leave after a few months
  • 00:30:02
    it started sometime in July by September
  • 00:30:05
    they all call me the pastor of the
  • 00:30:09
    neighborhood and they all say this is a
  • 00:30:11
    man of God this guy cares nobody cares
  • 00:30:17
    this guy
  • 00:30:19
    cares is that difficult to go with some
  • 00:30:21
    unhealthy cookies to your neighbor and
  • 00:30:23
    say we made cookies we want to share
  • 00:30:25
    them is it difficult
  • 00:30:28
    why don't you do it
  • 00:30:31
    literally imagine if every ahuh I heard
  • 00:30:35
    you if imagine if every SDA member would
  • 00:30:40
    go to the neighbors and share Garden or
  • 00:30:43
    cookies or bread or
  • 00:30:46
    something what message would that
  • 00:30:50
    give in a society that is selfish
  • 00:30:54
    self-centered divided hateful in a a
  • 00:30:57
    society where everybody lives for self
  • 00:31:00
    when you go and listen just for the fact
  • 00:31:02
    that you say what do you want me to pray
  • 00:31:03
    for and listen nobody listens in our
  • 00:31:07
    society nobody has the time or nobody
  • 00:31:10
    cares to listen when you let people talk
  • 00:31:13
    and you just listen and then pray for
  • 00:31:15
    whatever they ask Lord please bless this
  • 00:31:18
    family help them with this
  • 00:31:21
    situation you just pray and say bye
  • 00:31:24
    without any Bible studies without any
  • 00:31:26
    Doctrine s out state of the dead and
  • 00:31:28
    2,300 days and night prophecy those are
  • 00:31:31
    good they are biblical but people are
  • 00:31:34
    not willing to listen before you win
  • 00:31:37
    their
  • 00:31:39
    trust Christ method Alone says elen
  • 00:31:43
    white he would visit them he would
  • 00:31:46
    listen to them he would eat with them he
  • 00:31:49
    would heal them you remember the
  • 00:31:52
    quotation and he would win their
  • 00:31:56
    confidence confidence their trust and
  • 00:31:58
    then he would say follow me she says
  • 00:32:00
    Christ method alone works no other
  • 00:32:03
    method just this one she says not
  • 00:32:07
    everybody I have the quotation here from
  • 00:32:08
    Christian service not everybody could go
  • 00:32:10
    missionary in a foreign land but she
  • 00:32:12
    says everybody that has been converted
  • 00:32:15
    must go in his neighborhood and be a
  • 00:32:18
    missionary and she says those that are
  • 00:32:20
    truly converted are born in God's
  • 00:32:22
    kingdom as missionaries thank you and
  • 00:32:26
    then she says in the same chapter those
  • 00:32:29
    that have been converted they have a
  • 00:32:31
    burning fire a passion in the heart for
  • 00:32:33
    the lost they care for the lost and she
  • 00:32:36
    says those who don't care they have
  • 00:32:38
    never been
  • 00:32:39
    converted hello if you don't care for
  • 00:32:42
    the neighbor you need to be baptized
  • 00:32:44
    again you heard me you you need to
  • 00:32:48
    repent you are not a Christian you
  • 00:32:49
    should not come to
  • 00:32:53
    church I said it and you heard
  • 00:32:59
    it what is the benefit to go to church
  • 00:33:02
    and misrepresent God and the
  • 00:33:05
    church it's a we do a def favor we we
  • 00:33:08
    basically do damage to God's
  • 00:33:12
    name I don't know you I know just a few
  • 00:33:14
    among you but I am talking about me and
  • 00:33:18
    about everybody who wants to take it if
  • 00:33:20
    you want to be a Christian you must show
  • 00:33:23
    Christ character and compassion and love
  • 00:33:26
    to your nebor
  • 00:33:28
    neor that's
  • 00:33:32
    evangelism and that's where it starts if
  • 00:33:35
    every 7 Day Adventist would show
  • 00:33:38
    compassion and care and
  • 00:33:42
    kindness people would be really willing
  • 00:33:44
    to listen to us our church would be
  • 00:33:48
    packed people don't need better
  • 00:33:52
    programs better entertainment better
  • 00:33:54
    music oh if we have better music in our
  • 00:33:56
    church it's good to have better music
  • 00:33:58
    but if they want good programs they turn
  • 00:34:00
    the TV and they find good
  • 00:34:03
    programs what people are looking in a
  • 00:34:05
    church they are looking for God and if
  • 00:34:08
    they find programs but no God they don't
  • 00:34:10
    need a church people need to see God in
  • 00:34:15
    his
  • 00:34:17
    children that's the strongest sermon
  • 00:34:20
    that you can
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