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God Keeps You With His Power
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how many like to have joy unspeakable
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and full of Glory Pastor I heard that
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before but my joy is speakable
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I have Glory something I feel this
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almost a pinch of Glory would you like
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to have joy unspeakable and full of
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Glory so it says we are kept by the
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power of God notice the word kept there
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is passive in other words it's not
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active voice it's a passive voice in the
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Greek which means what you are being
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kept it's not you keeping yourself isn't
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that a relief
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God is keeping you how with his power
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his Almighty power he
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'll be good all right he keeps you so we
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are kept by the power of God through
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faith for salvation ready revealed in
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the last time in this you greatly
Joy Is Independent Of Your Circumstances
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Rejoice do now for a little while if
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need be you have been grieved by various
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trials
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so this is a paradox
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one part you see greatly rejoice
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I'm telling you
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you do not know what it's like to
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greatly Rejoice I'm telling you
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sometimes you feel like jumping up and
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down in your room you feel like it's not
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happiness which is outside happiness is
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happiness that happenings they happen to
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happen the way you want it to happen
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then you are happy
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Joy even when things are not happening
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the way you want it to happen there's a
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joy and this Joy can make you a success
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even in your Earthly career for example
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because that Joy levels your thinking
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gives you Clarity of mind it gives you
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the the the grace and the Charisma that
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people need I'm telling you greatly
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Rejoice you might say oh well I don't
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need that I need I need help in my my
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parenting I need help no that Joy is
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going to direct you
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just at peace also
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but what a paradox to say greatly
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rejoice and then various trials
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so listen we live in Two Worlds
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all right in terms of our circumstances
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and our events and all that we live in a
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world of various trials
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but in our heart
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in our mind
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is Heavenly
God Wants You To Be Heavenly-Minded
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we are in spirit we are seated with
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Christ and we always see Christ at the
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father's right hand we are in a realm
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where everything is living nothing is
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dead on Earth everything is dead
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everything is dead
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but in heaven nothing's Dead everything
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is living
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he said pastor brings my heart is
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beating I would have you know but you
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are dead spiritually
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even things that seem to have some life
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for a while a true flower Fates
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it dies
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grass withers
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people grow old
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it's not meant to be in heaven is not
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like that in heaven everything is living
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is sometimes you have a revelation of
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things that you don't even know in your
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own head not even based on your
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experience you have a knowing not to get
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involved with someone who is that the
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Holy Spirit The Living Water living
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water inside you is leading you that's
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alive just think about it we love
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someone that we have never seen
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a sign of that there's something living
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in you
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is living
Thrive Amidst Life's Ups And Downs
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so while we live in Two Worlds we
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actually
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citizens of heaven we are there where
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you see if you live come if you're even
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you're Christian you live completely in
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your heart and mind in this world you
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are subject to the to the vicissitudes
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of Life the ups and downs okay and uh
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when when your circumstances ameliorate
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all right it gets better then you you
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rise up okay you feel happy but then the
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higher the world is like this the world
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lifts you up only to drop you have you
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noticed that
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and the drop is called depression you
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get even more depressed
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you kind of wish it was more than like
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this because the the more Elation you
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have when it comes to dropping there's
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no living in the world it's got the
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vanity line actually she has this vanity
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of vanities uh a book of Ecclesiastes
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written by the men of wisdom what is it
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for it is to tell us what life is like
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under the sun
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natural life that's what the phrase
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Under the Sun is used
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the next book Song of Songs
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it's all about the s-o-n life above the
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Sun
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imagine
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how do you really Rejoice you live in
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your heart and mind you live in heaven
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where you see perfect goodness
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everything is living nothing to depress
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you the Bible says if you then be reason
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with Christ
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sit after the things
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at Christ's right hand
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seek for the things above where Christ
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is sitting at the right hand of God
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right be Heavenly minded doesn't say oh
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this person is too Heavenly minded to be
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Earthly good no it's only when you are
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like this what I'm sharing scripturally
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minded Heavenly minded that you come
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back with the wisdom of God because you
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have a god word perspective you're not
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crushed by the circumstances you come
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independent of circumstances with the
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wisdom and the floor The Living Water to
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arrest your problem
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to take care of your children
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do not be so hypersensitive with
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everything that happens around you to be
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so irritable all the time
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it shows straight away where your heart
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and mind is
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again I repeat
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say again if your heart and mind even
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you're a Believer it's under the vanity
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line not above
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you are subject to depression
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emotions that are like a roller coaster
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feeling of blah
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now imagine a person like that going to
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work
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can he be a successful even these things
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will affect you in the natural
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circumstances in your life
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can a person who is like this depressed
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speak with wisdom to a child
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that he's bringing up
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without the child saying that irritation
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the short-temperedness
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faster you're condemning no no I'm just
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showing you that this is not God's way
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for you God has a better way
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God wants you to live with joy
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unspeakable and full of Glory that the
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genuineness of your faith being much
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more precious than gold that perishes
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though it is tested by fire may be found
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to praise honor and Glory at the
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revelation of Jesus Christ
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home having not seen you love whom had
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he not seen you love honey and say I
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love Jesus but Pastor I have never seen
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him
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but I love Jesus
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that shows the resurrection power of
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Jesus
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from Heaven revealing himself to you
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all right that shows the the livingness
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of your faith what you have in you is
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living in a world that is dying and is
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dead
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you see Resurrection means like listen
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you step in when Jesus rose from the
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dead that means what death is behind
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listen Jesus did not rise from the dead
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the way less rest he raised Lazarus from
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the dead only for Lazarus to die again
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in the future
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resurrection of Jesus is totally in a
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different field altogether it is
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stepping into a realm where death
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everything on this Earth is Left Behind
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into a realm of perfect goodness perfect
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Joy
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unspeakable joy full of Glory around
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where nothing can go wrong anymore
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where there's perfect Beauty
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accurate symmetry
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Perfection all around
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and to be forever like that in this
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realm but meanwhile on Earth you ought
Guard Your Thoughts
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to have your thoughts like that you know
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Bible says whatever things are true
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virtuous praiseworthy think on these
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things
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you watch your mind in one day very fast
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going to negative in the Dark Realm in
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the Dark Realm I was just telling one of
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the pastors just now should we ever need
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to have a good announcement or whatever
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don't hesitate to come to the pulpit
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pass the note and uh whoever is the
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pulpit will share
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but I tell you this first announcement
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must always be don't worry it's good
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news
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because human way oh
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he interrupt the whole thing because
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there's news
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right we hope that that will never
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happen the bad news but we are more
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propensities towards
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bad news
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amen
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it might be some royalties coming
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and we all like to just stand up to
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honor that person
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right someone
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comes to honor all of us
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someone comes to participate in the
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house of God but instead we always think
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negative we are more so you see it's
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hard to whatever things are true
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virtuous praiseworthy think on these
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things and the god of Shalom the god of
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wholeness the god of well-being the God
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of Peace shall be with you
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wake up in the middle of night
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got your thoughts
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start to pray in the spirit and just got
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your thoughts
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amen
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what if I can't sleep pasta tell
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yourself that can't sleep if I meditate
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on him
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he's going to be a very active and
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energetic day
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he'll give me the strength
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don't let your thoughts go go dark and
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the holy spirit is there though now you
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do not see him that is physically yet
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believing you rejoice with joy
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inexpressible
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and full of Glory
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all right I use the word unspeakable joy
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from the old King James these new King
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James joy unspeakable and full of Glory
The Key Is To Look To Jesus
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but notice how do you get this bye
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looking at Jesus
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by loving Jesus because he first loved
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you it is when your mind is on Jesus
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that you abound with unspeakable joy
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and full of Glory imagine with the kind
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of spirit to attend to the Earthly
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affairs
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but the moment you drop
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I call it the vanity line
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okay
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and they actually has this line
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everything becomes dark becomes
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depressive
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Apostle you must be realistic can I just
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think of Heaven think of Heaven no I
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said we are citizens in both countries
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right
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but don't let your heart and mind be
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here
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let your heart and mind be there
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where everything you see is perfect
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Beauty
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absolute goodness
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I read the date the day that that
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happens that you see that you are in
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this Earth on this in this earth
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it's not about you
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it's all about Jesus
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and every time you are
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self-occupied self-focused to that
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degree of focus to that degree of
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occupation with yourself to that degree
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you are depressed to that degree you are
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pain in pain
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but the moment you see Jesus and you are
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occupied with his Beauty his glory
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there's no perfect goodness that you can
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find in this person
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Jesus
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In this sermon excerpt, Joseph Prince shares how, as believers, we can have joy that is independent of the challenges we go through.
This excerpt is from the sermon, Living Heavenly-Minded in Tough Times, preached on Sep 10, 2023.
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Excerpt Summary
0:00 God Keeps You With His Power
0:45 Joy Is Independent Of Your Circumstances
2:05 God Wants You To Be Heavenly-Minded
3:22 Thrive Amidst Life's Ups And Downs
7:49 Guard Your Thoughts
9:52 The Key Is To Look To Jesus
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In this sermon excerpt, Joseph Prince shares how, as believers, we can have joy that is independent of the challenges we go through.
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