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as I read over that again I remember I

cried the Lord heard me and he delivered

me from all my fears see it’s so it’s a

memorial stone they’re all through here

this book is a Diary of a history of a

journey of Walking with God and I cannot

afford to forget because if I forget the

enemy has many things he’d rather I

think

about nice to see

you thank you it’s good to be seen

saw this a week or two ago liked it I

was at the McDonald’s drive-thru this

morning young lady behind me leaned on

her horn started mouthing some ugly

things because I was taking too long to

place my order when I got to the first

window I paid for her order along with

my own the server must have told her

what I had done cuz as we moved up she

leaned out her window and and waved at

me began to mouth thank you thank you

probably feeling a bit embarrassed that

I had responded to her rudeness with

kindness when I got to the second window

I showed the server both receipts and I

took her food

too now she has to go back to the

beginning of the line and start all over

me

don’t honk your horn at old people was

the was the moral of that

story and I I had this in my Bible for a

long time I don’t think I ever read it

to

you so I got my concealed gun permit

yesterday now the first service cheered

so you guys are obviously no it’s it’s

it’s too late you you’re much more

politically correct

so I went to the local Bass Pro Shop to

get a small 9mm pistol for home home

[Applause]

protection when I was ready to pay for

the gun and bullets the cashier said

strip down facing

me making a mental note to complain to

the NRA about gun control whacko running

a muck I did just as she had instructed

when the hysterical shrieking and alarms

finally subsided I found out she was

referring to how I should place my

credit card in the card

reader

I’ve been asked to shop elsewhere in the

[Laughter]

future oh they need to make instructions

to seniors a little

clearer I still don’t think I look that

bad

so oh so funny all right um Book of

Judges chapter

6

Judges chapter 6 I’m going to talk to

you

um about uh about

Gideon and it’s it’s not so much a a

well it is it’s not so much a study just

on Gideon his life we I’ve done that

before it’s been years but I really

enjoy

reading almost all the Old Testament

stories and I really love the story of

Gideon he was a he he was he was afraid

he was a guy with very little sense of

self-worth at least that’s what it

appears he’s hiding in a a wheat press

or wine press beating out wheat which

it’s it’s hard to get the revelation of

wheat the word of God when God is

pouring out wine but that’s a another

subject many people still try to do it

when God serving wine drink when he’s

serving bread eat and uh and he knows

the seasons for his movements

and so he’s trying to beat out the wheat

and the wine press and um and the Lord

shows up and calls him Mighty Man of

Valor and he responds it’s amazing to me

that God could show up and you just have

that quick of an answer oh

yeah if God is with us and where are all

the Miracles that our father told us

about I mean how do you how do you carry

an offense so deeply and for so long

that you have an immediate answer to an

angel that shows up anyway so they uh he

has this dialogue there’s amazing thing

happens the Lord shows up there’s an

offering uh it’s it’s a pretty cool

scene then he starts doing what the Lord

said as far getting an army together so

he’s got he’s got enemy armies around

him that are just enormous in number and

he puts together an army of 32,000

soldiers and he and he goes to the

soldiers and he says the the Lord gives

him the first test he says everyone

who’s afraid just go home and so out of

32,000 2 2,000 go home so there’s 10,000

left how many know if if you’re in the

10,000 you want the second opportunity

to go home if you’re afraid because

two-thirds of your army just left you

know so they’re already way outnumbered

when they had 32,000 but now they’re

reduced to 10 and there was one more

test and this test was um was was

unrecognizable he just invited all the

guys to come and to and to drink so at

they’re at this pool and they drink and

all the soldiers who got on their hands

and knees and just got down into the

water and began to drink was 9700 of

them there was only 300 that took the

water brought it to their mouth while

they kept alert to their

surroundings so when God

reduced 32,000 down to 300 it wasn’t

just a reckless selection of 300 people

it was the 300 best it was it was the

group he could build on it often times

when the Lord reduces us here he reduces

us to our place of strength so what he’s

about to build next will have a

foundation that will last and that’s

what happened in this moment so he’s

reduced to the 300 the most alert

Fearless soldiers and they were the ones

that were equipped and ready for battle

it’s it’s it’s a strange uh battle

strategy that only Jesus could come up

with but he he puts them around this

camp and and they’ve got these pictures

and torches and they break it and and

the enemy just thinks they’re you know

going to die and they

do

but right before that the Lord speaks to

Gideon he says if you’re afraid go down

into the enemy’s

camp and he does wow it says he was

afraid all the soldiers that were afraid

got to go home leaders don’t get that

option you have to deal with your

stuff word and sometimes the way you

deal with your stuff is not going where

you think you should go to get

encouraged the enemy sends him to the

the Lord sends him to the enemy’s

Camp I remember uh years ago in waville

we actually had there was a period of

time where the Lord was doing so much in

a city that unbelievers would boast of

what God was

doing sometimes you actually hear the

confession or the proclamation of of

what God is doing that you maybe didn’t

know and you hear from those unexpected

Places I Remember way back when there

was there was a older couple in the

church here and the the the wife was a

strong believer the guy wanted nothing

to do with it and and stayed away but

the wife was very

devoted but where this guy worked there

was a person who worked there that knew

that he was the husband of a

Believer and he wanted to be born again

so he asked the unbelieving husband how

to get born again and he led him to the

Lord so you never know where the good

news is going to come from you just just

know it’s going to come just recognize

it when you hear it so here’s this

really a strange story that ends it ends

triumphantly and then there’s three

verses where there’s a tragedy and I

want to talk to you about that so we’re

going to work our way through the story

and let’s just see see where we get

chapter 6 we’re going to start with

verse um 10 I said to you I am the Lord

your God do not fear the gods of the

amorites in who whose land you dwell but

you have not obeyed my voice look at

that verse again I am the Lord your God

I told you don’t fear the gods of the

amorites in whose land you dwell but

you’ve not obeyed me so how was their

Disobedience evident okay now think with

me they are commanded Don’t Fear The

enemy’s Gods yeah got it how did they

how did they reveal that they feared the

enemy’s Gods because they worshiped the

enemy’s

Gods what you fear will always affect

what you

Worship the Lord works hard to deal with

the issues of fear in all of our Lives

because it affects and infects dilutes

if you will the authentic Heart of

Worship that we had for the

Lord

Matthew 21 talks about or I forget the

chapter I think 22 but any it’s in

Matthew it’s in the last half how’s

that the the Lord says it talks about

Mammon Mammon is a is a I believe to be

a demonic being that works to influence

the economies of the world and God so he

says you can’t serve God and

Mammon and then he uses this

illustration he says either you will

love the one hate the other or you will

hold to the one and despise the other so

for those those who are devoted to

Christ you love the one and you hate the

spirit that steals and kills and

destroys that Spirit of Mammon that

works to ruin people’s lives but then he

reverses it he says now for those of you

who are devoted to Mammon you hold to

the

one fear being broke it’s affecting

worship you hold to the one and you

despise anytime finances are brought up

in

church

to

fear always affects or infects worship

if I have the fear of man in my heart I

am bowing to the opinions of others

before I make a

decision if I fear some sort of tragedy

I will constantly live in reaction to

things the Proverbs talks about the

sudden fear that comes in the

night and all of us have been given a

reason to never fear again and yet all

of us deal with it right one time or

another so it’s just it’s owning up to

that that what the enemy is trying to do

he’s trying to infect my adoration my

affection for him and it’s affected by

fear so the Lord shows up and speaks to

Gideon and he says um it says verse 12

he says the angel of the Lord appeared

to him and said the Lord is with you you

mighty man of Valor Gideon said to him

oh my Lord if the Lord is with us why

then all this happened to us where are

all his miracles which I wish more

Believers

would say that

one yeah I I I still

do thank you thank you got a better

response out of that

screen the presence of God is is the is

the manifested presence of the Lord is

the Tipping Point for the

miraculous and he reveals himself to to

be with people because they’ve been

we’ve been given an impossible

assignment he said to Moses I’ll be with

you why did he do that because he had to

lead Israel out of Egypt into the

promised land he tells Gideon same thing

all through scripture every time you

manifest themselves because it’s

connected to an impossible

assignment so the manifestation of the

spirit of God upon us is the position us

to to see things bow their knee for the

name Jesus amen yes

I want you to move on in this chapter he

says way over in chapter 7 it says um if

you are afraid to go down go down to the

camp with purra your servant you will

hear what they say and afterward your

hands will be strengthened to go down

against the camp so he went down with

per servant to The Outpost of the Armed

men who were in the camp and this is

where they’re standing next to a tent

and they hear two guys inside the tent

talking about a dream one of of them had

a dream of a barley Loaf and the other

guy goes he has the interpretation says

that’s none other than Gideon so the

Lord had already been working on the

enemy’s Hearts if you will to cause them

to be nervous about a man who doesn’t

know who he

is

wow

brilliant he does he doesn’t get it yet

but the master Craftsman is at work

shaping him for his purpose and his

destiny

God likes to talk to us about where

we’re going not where we

are so when he speaks to Gideon as this

Mighty Man of Valor it’s the same thing

he did with Peter he called him a Rock

when he lived as a broken Reed he has

this habit of speaking into our lives

the things that are necessary to get us

into our destiny into our purpose so

here’s the thing that I that really

spoke to me this week when I was reading

through the story in my own my own

devotions is that we start with Gideon

going you know who am

I and we come all the way up here and

we’ve got in verse 18 of chapter 8 we

have

um Gideon speaks to zubba and zuno two

kings enemy Kings what kind of men were

they whom you killed at tabore and they

answered as you are so were they each

one resembled the son of a

king what had happened from chapter 6 to

chapter

8 is he finally stepped into his purpose

and as soon as he stepped into his

purpose his entire appearance shifted

into the appearance of the son of a

king it happens for every person in this

room I forgive me but I I tend to get a

little bit of annoy annoyed at people

who only volunteer to serve where they

think they’re good

yeah

you know I I I have my I remember my my

dad’s story I remember different

relatives of mine and different

missionaries and friends of ours that

we’ve known through the years and so

many of them have had these amazing

encounters with the Lord where he called

them into Ministry called them into

service I’ve never had that

experience I’ve never been called into

the

ministry my dad was a pastor here and

and they needed

help so I volunteered to teach the

Junior High boys they needed a

newsletter so I said I’d do

that needed a bookstore so I started a

bookstore don’t know anything about

business needed a single adult Pastor so

I volunteered to do that and did that

year after year just serving where I

could I had like eight responsibilities

six were administrative so you know

Divine humor is in is in is in place but

sometimes you need to serve where you’re

not good I mean why did God assign Paul

the

Jewish genius to minister to

Gentiles why did he take the rough cut

Peter and assign him to the Jews because

sometimes working outside of where

you’re good causes you to automatically

be more dependent on the Holy Spirit and

if I can learn to serve where I’m not

gifted well not only do gifts develop in

me but I become more trustworthy where I

am skilled because I develop this

lifestyle of

[Applause]

dependency so we come to the end of the

story and there’s so many things in here

while like verse four of chapter 8 says

Gideon came to the Jordan with 300 men

who were with him they crossed over

exhausted but still in Pursuit I think

New American Standard said weary yet

pursuing I love that

verse it comforts me

you know you may be a wounded soldier

but you keep fighting you may be tired

for whatever reason it may have been a

rough season you just keep marching

forward I may March slower but I’m going

in the same direction I may not swing

the sword as hard as I did last week but

I’m still swinging the sword the whole

point is is you don’t stop there it’s

it’s important to take rest it’s

important to take care of ourselves but

sometimes it’s a day or two before we

get to that right now I have to be weary

yet pursuing I still have to be in

pursuit of the very things for which I

was

assigned Gideon took on the appearance

of

royalty when he finally embraced his

assignment now let’s get to the reason I

have have us here talking over this

story today towards the end of chapter 8

we have three verses verse 33 is where

we’ll

start so it was as soon as G Ian was

dead that the children of Israel played

the Harlot with Bales and made Bale

Barth their God thus the children of

Israel did not remember the Lord their

God who had delivered them from the

hands of all their enemies on every side

nor did they show kindness to the house

of zerubabel that is Gideon in

accordance with the good that he had

done for Israel look at verse 34 again

thus the children of Israel did not

remember the Lord their

God

Jesus at one point with his his

disciples he’s got he’s giving them this

profound lesson on influence of values

in the mind or thought processes and

he’s talking about Herod and the

Pharisees and he’s giving a brilliant

lesson and they’re not they’re not

getting it at

all and and he had just multiplied food

he reminds them he’s reminding them in

this storyline about the multiplying

food and then he asked him this question

it’s in Mark 8 I think it’s verse 18 he

says he says can’t you see now Jesus is

talking about the

Unseen he’s not saying can’t you see the

boat we’re in he saying can’t you see

because he’s talking about realities

that they have no connection with but

they should they’ve seen enough of God’s

activities to be connected with what God

is doing but they’re not getting it so

he asked the question he says can’t you

see there’s no

answer can’t you

hear no answer

says can you

remember here’s the deal we tend to

think that seeing perceiving unseen

things hearing the voice of the lord we

attribute that to either maturity and or

spiritual

gifts remembering as a

choice there’s there

is there is the deliberate the

intentional grasping of past past events

as as markers along the way that reveal

to me who he is and it’s that

intentional pursuit of remembering that

keeps my heart calibrated to what God is

saying and doing and I’ve noticed that

for me is if I can if I can remember

I’ll be in a hard situation that things

just seem to be swirling and I I can’t

remember anything that God has done

which is just as stupid as can be and

then all of a sudden you just you just

determine to remember and then you work

your way back and you go oh yeah on that

day oh this happened I I remember right

here right right there a young gang

leader came to us from another city

dying of colon cancer he was he was

healed right there come on I remember

right over here missionary came four

diseases in her body they didn’t want to

let her out of the country because of

her health condition she snuck out the

Lord spoke to her and said if you get to

Beth I’ll heal you she was healed of one

disease on the way the other three over

here she was healed right over there

right over there one of them was Ms

right over there she was

healed right over here a woman paralyzed

56 years wow gets up out of the

wheelchair and walks her daughter who

never had a mom that could interact with

her is just sobbing because right there

she got out of the wheelchair right back

over here a woman who had broken her jaw

10 years earlier had very restricted

movement extreme

pain pop and her jaw is completely

healed right over here an Olympic

Athlete working out on a trampoline had

severed his foot from his leg only

attached by the Achilles tendon they are

reattached everything but he’s got

excruciating pain and a limited movement

some people gather around him he said

his ankle got cold he heard a pop and I

was healed I walk around this room is a

memorial stones God said to Israel when

you cross into the Promised Land go back

in the river get stones out of the river

and make a pile don’t cut them don’t

shape them just pile them because you

need tangible physical reminders of what

I’ve done and where I did it

at your home and my home they’re filled

with memorial

stones I

think I think we have a

responsibility to capture the

meaning of material things that God has

given to us

now I’m not saying accumulate material

things I’m

saying you had a desire for that

fountain pen and a relative gave you

one it’s a pen but it’s a memorial stone

God knew of this desire that was in my

heart and he honored it with such a nice

but insignificant thing maybe it was you

finally got a chance to buy the home

maybe I remember a time I could take you

through my house we had a couch and and

it wasn’t a very nice couch but we

needed a couch and the Lord provided a

couch for us and I could take you

through the home I remember when this

was provided for us I remember when this

happened several years back Benny and I

sold our our home on the west side of

town we bought one over here on the east

side and we’ve been remodeling it for

five years

plus oh

Jesus and so finally after like four

years in in the other house we sold

almost all of our furniture in that with

the home including my piano and I I’m

not a great pianist but I love to I love

to play and have time of just uh with

the Lord and uh yes yes Mom thank

you by the way my mom is here the second

time second time in a

row has because of nightmarish

accident 7 months ago she’s been gone

she’s here two weeks in a row so this is

revival time right

here so a year or so ago um we Benny and

I started thinking you know it’s time to

get a piano well they’re they’re

expensive and uh so it just started

praying into it and somebody I’m not

sure if I’ve ever met

them they don’t live in this

country set me enough for a piano

wow it’s a piano

but it’s a memorial

stone you know if you if you stay

connected to what God has done in your

life that is represented sometimes by by

a a couch sometimes it’s represented by

a friend a connection to somebody in in

high position that you never could have

earned the right for their friendship

yet they value you and there’s there’s

something about that that friendship

there’s that opportunity at work there’s

these memorial stones and they’re all

there to remind us of who he is and once

the piano just becomes a piano I start

to get disconnected from the memories

that keep me calibrated to the values of

God to his presence and his purposes in

this in this life Israel fell for false

gods after they forgot yes they just

forgot see if my mind isn’t f

with the memories of God’s activity in

my life they will be filled with

something else and it will always work

to uproot and to dissuade my affection

from him to anything and everything

else I want you to look at Psalm

78

please

one of the things I I want to encourage

everyone to do is just prayerfully walk

through your life and have have him

remind you oh yeah we we got that we got

that piano in this

season we we we were able to buy that

car at an unusual time but it was it was

the kindness of the Lord and what

happens is is you start you start

stirring up that Grace for

thankfulness that is one of the most

profound weapons we have in our

Arsenal thankfulness removes the tool

out of the enemy’s hand and gives it to

the Lord’s hand where he uses it to

build us what the enemy meant for evil

to destroy the Lord uses to

build and it’s thankfulness that makes

that transition happen

yes Psalm

78 uh testimonies of course is that

which uh is is what we remember uh that

helps us to stay uh focused in verse

five he established a testimony in Jacob

he appointed a law in Israel which he

commanded our fathers that they should

make them known to their children so

we’re we’re telling testimonies The

Works of God to another generation verse

six that the generation that come might

know them the children who would be born

that they may arise and declare them to

their children so we now have multiple

Generations in repeating the works of

the Lord not allowing any generation to

forget repeating the works of the Lord

why verse 7 that they may set their Hope

on

God the failure to remember and to keep

in conversation The Works of the Lord

actually affects the destiny of future

Generations right

wow

wow if I’m

unwilling to put before a

generation works or Revelations of

nature if I’m unwilling to put before

Generation The Works of the Lord that

testify of who he is if I’m unwilling to

give them that space that information

there’s somebody else out there that

willing to give them other

information it is space that must be

occupied with information and it’ll

either it will be that which causes them

to remember or distract their

affection in verse 9 it says um the

children of Ephraim being armed and

carrying bow so here’s here’s one of

that’s a Hal tribe of Israel and they

are trained for battle they’re Warriors

they’re trained they’re ready for war

but but they turn back when the battle

comes all right so so at why children of

Ephraim being armed carrying bows so

they’re they’re in Pursuit Of War they

turned back in the day of battle why

because verse 10 they didn’t keep the

Covenant of God they refused to walk in

his law why didn’t they have the courage

to walk in obedience verse 11 because

they forgot his Works

yes and the Wonders that he had done

they lost contact see it’s the it’s the

exposure to The God Who works above my

talent above my skill level above my

ability sometimes to even believe for

The God Who involves himself in my life

at that level living aware of that

shifts and changes what I can expect

from my

life and so you have a whole tribe that

is assigned to a victory they approach

the war and they turn around because

they’re afraid and they’re afraid

because they haven’t been obeying and

they haven’t been obeying because they

forgot who he

was

verse 40 how often they provoked him in

the wilderness grieved him in the desert

yes again and again they tempted God and

limited the Holy One of Israel that’s a

stunning statement to me they tempted

God you don’t want to tempt God they

tempted God how did they do it they

limited

him that’s got to be one of the easiest

things in the world to do is to is to

limit God I don’t mean we control him we

we never we never do enough to ever

control him thankfully but the the

effort to restrict what what what we are

willing to believe for what we think

he’s capable of doing it’s the guy with

the son who’s demonized if you’re able

Jesus would you set my son free it’s

that limiting thing and how how is it

that the ability to limit God becomes a

skill that we

develop verse 42 they did not remember

how did they limit him how did they

restrict what they expected and thought

of him they just they forgot they forgot

who he was forgot his

history Israel goes through that River

and they pile Stones because God knows

they’re going to need a natural physical

reminder something that draws their

attention their affection back to their

history in God they need continuous

reminder the pile of stones never leaves

so there’s the constant reminder yep he

delivered us he brought us through the

promised land when when do people tend

to forget what God has

done it’s easy to remember when you’re

in the middle of a great miracle season

right in fact it’s hard to

forget but when there’s the pause

between the greatest breakthroughs

you’ve seen and the Readiness for the

next season in that

that people

forget and that’s where that’s where our

life is set up

around encounters experiences with God

the subtle little touches of the Lord I

still to this day when uh I I I was up

uh early yesterday and and when the

clock said

6:38 I had an encounter with the

Lord in 19 95 in

October and it started at 3:00 a.m. and

it lifted at 6:38 wow and so I I see

that on the clock am or p.m. doesn’t

matter it triggers the

memory I encountered

God it happens all through the book

here right God I I was crying out to you

for help and and I was walking in the

woods and I had my Bible with me and you

spoke to me out of this verse and I I

underline it and and so that as I read

over that again I

remember I cried the Lord heard me and

he delivered me from all my fears see

it’s it’s memorial stones it’s they’re

all through here this is this is this

book is a diary it’s a diary with little

notes and notations of of a history of a

journey of Walking with God and I cannot

afford to forget because if I forget the

enemy has many things he’d rather I

think

about yet again and again they tempted

God limited the Holy One of Israel they

did not remember his power the day he

redeemed them from the enemy when he

worked signs in Egypt in his wonders in

the field of

Zone I think um one of the things that

the Lord has instituted or brought into

our

life is the I’ve already made reference

of it but it’s the it’s the act or I

don’t want to call it discipline I guess

discipline of Thanksgiving giving

thanks David had this uh this Tabernacle

where there was worship from the priest

in the actual presence of God which is

forbidden previous to this time and they

would Minister to God with Thanksgiving

praise and worship and what he would do

is let’s just say this is a group he he

says all right all of you here um show

up uh this morning at 3:00 you have the

shift from 3: uh to 6:00 and I’ve got a

list of 100 things here I want you to

give him thanks

for well that doesn’t feel very genuine

oh shut up just do it just just give

thanks just give thanks right here it

says he delivered us from Egypt okay

just give him thanks mybody he’s giving

him thanks for that just do it again do

it again remind yourself you get into

that flow of thankfulness you started

remembering who he is what he’s like and

by the end of your list you’re going and

therefore you know just pushing into

another level God is activating the

remembrance of who he

is I I’ll tell you I I I wonder we we

have a we’re at a time in our our

nations of the world where so many

people so many wonderful people

are experiencing

Alzheimer’s and Dementia

and I

wonder if maybe it’s the enemy’s attempt

to dislodge us from the memory of who

God is and what he has

done I don’t I don’t know I’m I’m

wondering I’m wondering also if if maybe

the unwillingness to remember as a

discipline has allowed a thief to come

in to steal one of our most important

tools and gifts that we have as

people whatever whatever it is we’ve

been given the responsibility to

remember yes yes to remember and I know

for me I’ve been in situations lately

where it’s it’s hard for me to

remember it’s it’s hard for me to

remember the things that I remembered

well six months ago but but today there

it takes more work to recover them you

know because things get kind of swirly

things things get kind of clouded when

you’re when you’re in a difficult

situation and and if you don’t if you

don’t work to remember the specific

things that God has said the specific

things that God has done you will fall

for the

inferior and if you fall for the

inferior you’ll end up with a God who

looks like

you

God who he is and what is like has to be

spoken has to be declared I love the

songs that our team’s right because

they’re just day after day just decrees

declarations I came to you as a beggar

yeah you bled for my

pardon it never gets

old those themes you and I will

celebrate throughout all of

eternity we will never never exhaust the

wonders of who he

is and grabbing our moments

now is a huge part of what keeps us safe

and healthy in a crazy world because we

remember who he is why don’t you

stand

Lamentations as this verse of chapter 3

I think it is says this I recall to my

mind therefore have I

hope this I recall to my mind therefore

I have I hope it’s of the Lord’s mercies

that were not

consumed uh one of the things that I

enjoy a lot is is I I especially when I

travel I get to spend time with

alumni and uh we’ll we’ll try to say if

I go to Spokane or Tokyo or wherever we

always try to set up a meeting with

alumni that are going to come to the

conference the event uh that we’re

at and and I always try to give them

chance to ask any question they want and

and during the dialogue there will

almost always

be do you remember that

day you do you remember that day and

then there’ll be some some story about

the the colon cancer or the

MS this last week the Blind

Eye Blind from birth

opens I don’t know how I forgot this

when a guy came up do you remember when

we were in St Louis and the guy who had

no hip joint got up out of his

wheelchair and climbed the stairs

how did I forget that

one

wow do you remember the day we had about

10 people here a Sunday night I I gave

an Altera said anyone who has any kind

of an addiction come forward wasn’t a

long one 10 maybe 15 people right stood

right

here and we just prayed for him as a

group we didn’t Minister oneon-one we

just prayed as a

group 6 months later or so one of the

guys comes to me says do you remember

the Sunday night you you did I said yeah

he said my friend and I were both heroin

addicts for over 20 years

each in that prayer we lost all appetite

for

heroin

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all H yes I

remember yes I

remember

it reveals who he is it reveals what

he’s

like it reveals The Wonder of this

Covenant we’ve been brought into this

relation this

family where we get to explore and enjoy

this mysterious one every single day of

our

life if I think he’s in my life to

fulfill my dream I will be disappointed

the rest of my

life but when I realize I’m alive to

fulfill

his every day is a

dream so put your hands in front of me

let’s pray father we ask right now in

the mighty and The Wonderful Name of

Jesus that you would rid us of

spiritual

Amnesia

dementia all these things that just

caused us to Only See a present problem

and not our Victorious history that you

would heal us and that you’d forgive us

and that as a people would be known for

remembering remembering what you’ve done

remembering who you are I ask this in

Jesus

name amen