March 11, 2025
Prepare by Witnessing & Serving
Send us a text This episode of Christian Cafe invites you to delve into the essential calling of every believer: to witness and serve as empowered instruments of God's love. We explore how the Holy Spirit equips us to boldly share our faith with others, emphasizing that our testimonies of transformation can spark hope in those who are lost. Join us as we uncover the profound truth that witnessing is about more than mere words; it’s an embodiment of faith through acts of service. We’ll ...
This episode of Christian Cafe invites you to delve into the essential calling of every believer: to witness and serve as empowered instruments of God's love. We explore how the Holy Spirit equips us to boldly share our faith with others, emphasizing that our testimonies of transformation can spark hope in those who are lost.
Join us as we uncover the profound truth that witnessing is about more than mere words; it’s an embodiment of faith through acts of service. We’ll examine Jesus’ teachings on humility and selflessness, revealing how true greatness in God's eyes is measured not by our positions but by our willingness to serve others.
Fear often stands between us and our mission, and we address these common barriers while providing encouragement to step out in faith. With heartfelt stories, we discuss how serving not only enhances our witness but also transforms communities. It’s time to rediscover the power of love as the driving force behind our efforts to reach out, reconnect with those around us, and demonstrate the life-changing message of the gospel.
If you’re ready to make an impact and live out your calling to witness, subscribe now and be part of this empowering conversation! Let’s cultivate acts of service rooted in love and grace, sharing the bread of life with everyone we encounter.
00:00 - Welcome to the Christian Cafe
01:00 - Introduction of Today’s Special Message
02:30 - Empowered by the Spirit: Our Witnessing Mission
10:15 - The Importance of Witnessing in Everyday Life
20:45 - Understanding Serving as a Form of Witness
30:00 - Jesus as the Ultimate Example of Service
40:20 - Overcoming Fear and Asking for Guidance
50:00 - The Power of Love in Witnessing
55:30 - Closing Thoughts and Call to Action
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Hello, this is your host, glenn Kivett, and welcome to today's episode of the Christian Cafe, where the bread is made fresh and delivered right from the Word of God.
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Well, hello everybody.
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Guess what time it is.
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It's that time again.
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It's time for the Christian Cafe.
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Hope you are having a great day.
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Sit back and enjoy as we come to you for another episode of the Christian Cafe.
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We're here to see that we deliver the Word of God to you and that you are blessed.
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It's great to have you here today.
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It is a special day for us.
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I'll tell you what God has been good and he's blessing.
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I just thank God for what he's doing and how he is blessing and moving in our midst, and how he's just doing great and marvelous things.
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We're thanking God for that every day.
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I've got a special broadcast for you today.
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We're going to break away from the book for just a little bit, for this one episode, and I'm going to bring you a message that I preached at my local church a week or so ago and it was a blessing to me.
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It's really something that I'm passionate about, but it talks about how we are empowered to be a witness for Jesus Christ and to serve Him in the best way we can by getting His Word out, and I'm just thankful for this message.
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It was a blessing to me and, like I said, it's something that's dear to my heart, because we've seen God do great things and if we can't keep it to ourselves, then how is the world supposed to know about Jesus, when we're supposed to take the message to the ends of the earth and we are to tell the people about the truth, about Jesus Christ and how he loved them and how he has come to set the captive free?
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I'm just so thankful for this and I want you to hear this message today.
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Now, if you want to watch this episode coming up, you can see the episode on the YouTube page where I was ministering in our local church if you want to do that.
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But I want you to sit back and listen to the message here.
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It's a little lengthy, but enjoy it and I hope you can get something out of it.
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But enjoy it and I hope you get something out of it.
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Good morning, everybody awake, alive.
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Blessed day that we're above ground.
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Amen here to do something that God has called us to do today.
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If you're alive and well, then you're ground.
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Amen here to do something that God has called us to do today.
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If you're alive and well, then you're called amen.
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Shake your head, it won't fall off.
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Give me a minute.
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My thing does not want to work this morning for some reason, but it's an honor to be here this morning.
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I'm not normally down here.
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I'm usually stuck up there in that hole over there looking down on everybody, but I get to see a lot of things.
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But, here we go.
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I'm always nervous when I first get started, but if you'll give me a few minutes I'll get my horses going and we'll get through this thing.
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Bishop done told me I need to slow down and not talk so fast and stay on point.
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Now you guys that have been in our Kingdom Connection class, you know how I am.
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If I don't follow my notes, you'll see my wife over there telling me she can't come and slap me on the leg today, so, but you might see her.
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You do this right here or this right here or something like that, because I have a tendency to get away from my notes and when that happens there's no telling where I'll go.
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So we'll hopefully stay with our notes because, as I was talking to a friend of mine just last night, I told him, every time I sit down to go over my message, the Lord just keeps feeding me more and I keep making it longer and longer and longer and longer, and so I'm going to try and stick with my notes and kind of cut out what I'll need.
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But first of all I want to give honor to our bishop and pastor Tammy for allowing me to speak this morning and our pastoral staff that allowed me to take part in this series.
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It's an exciting series.
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When Bishop told us about it, I got excited, because a lot of the things that we have been talking about preparing the church we discussed in our Kingdom Connections class.
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Let me just throw a little plug in for our class.
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If you've never been in a class, I don't care how long you've been here, sign up.
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We have people in our class now that's been here for coming here for years.
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We got ones been here since the beginning of the church.
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That's in the class.
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Why are they taking the Kingdom Connections class?
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Well, there's a lot in it, and some of the things we've been talking about in this Prepared the Church series is what we teach, you know, and so it's good to get, I guess you might say, refilled, kind of rejuvenated, because sometimes we forget about the basics of what we're supposed to do as a child of God.
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Right, we forget and we begin to just say, well, I'm not needed any longer, I just sit here, be myself and not worry about, let everybody else do that.
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But God did not call us to do that.
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God called us to do a certain thing and that was to win souls, and that is our mission here at the Rising Church is to make disciples and win souls.
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Well, reverse that win souls and make disciples.
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That is our mission.
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And if we're not doing that, then we're disobeying what the Word says.
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Reading the Bible, equipping ourselves with the Word of God that was the very first thing we'll talk about.
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So if we call ourselves Christians, we should be obeying what's between those covers, right?
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And the next thing we'll talk about is very key is prayer and fasting.
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And I can tell you from experience and myself and your honesty and self we never do enough praying.
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We never do enough fasting, because the scripture tells us if we pray and fast, then things begin to happen.
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Right, without those things, it don't happen.
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And all the way to know that is to read the Word.
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And then last week, pastor Dustin talked about praise and worship, which is a very key.
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Praise and worship will bring us into the presence of the Almighty God.
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It will take us to a place that we may never go.
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Can we turn these?
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monitors off.
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I'm getting a lot of racket here, please, I don't like to hear myself talk so, bringing ourself into the presence of God, we begin to see things.
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We begin to see the scriptures opened up to us.
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We begin to see things that we have read and read and read and read through the Word and never really thought about them, right?
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How many of you have read a book that is your favorite book?
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Now, my daughter is here this morning.
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I'm glad to see my daughter, my new son, in love with us today.
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She loves to read and she will read a book in two hours, and that's not small ones either.
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She'll sit and read and read, and read.
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But if you'd ask her if she went back and read that book again, if she got something outside of it, I guarantee you she'll say yes.
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When you start reading things over and over, you begin to see other things you didn't see before because it's new to you, right?
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So if you've read the Scriptures one time, go back and read it again and I guarantee you there's going to be something new there.
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And that's what has been with me ever since Bishop had.
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Well, actually, bishop didn't ask me.
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I went to him and he showed us what he wanted to do, and this part kind of just slapped me in the face because it's one of my passions I love to talk about, because it's very important in a child of God's life, not just in the body of Christ, but also in every child of God's life, and I want to talk to you this morning about witnessing and serving.
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Did I say a bad word?
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I?
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saw somebody grabbed their pocket but ready to leave.
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No, I'm just kidding, but it's very important in a child of God's life.
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What do we know about witnessing, serving what do we know?
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I know we've heard a lot of things about it.
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I know we've heard that you know we need to go out and knock on doors and witnessing, but did you know that witnessing is more than just going and knocking on doors?
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There's more to it, and for a long time in my Christian life as a child, that's what we used to do every Saturday morning.
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We was meeting at the church and we was going out and we'd knock on doors telling people about Jesus.
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It was not until later in my life that I realized that witnessing was more than just doing that.
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There was a lot more to it.
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Let me ask you this question how many of us are actively going out and spreading the word?
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How many of you have added to the kingdom this week?
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What about last month?
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What about last year?
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What about last month?
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What about last year?
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What about ever?
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God called us to do this very thing.
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That's why Matthew 9, verse 37, says that the harvest truly is plentiful, because God knew that a lot of us wasn't doing it.
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That's why there's so many people out there that are lost and on their way to hell, because we as a child of God, as a church, are not doing what we're called to do.
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But you say, brother Glenn, how can I do that?
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We're going to answer that question this morning In our first text today, acts 1, 1, verse 8, new Living Translation.
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Jesus said but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses telling people about me everywhere, in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
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These are the very last words Jesus told the disciples before he ascended to heaven.
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He said that you will be endued with power.
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Now I was looking at and I was at work yesterday and I told you that things just keep coming back to me and I thought it was very interesting.
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I went over to one of my favorite translations of the Bible, and it's the Passion Translation, and that word received was replaced with the word seized.
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In other words, the Bible tells us that we will be seized with power.
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What does that word seize mean?
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I looked it up.
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It says it means to take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
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In other words, bishop, it's going to come on you and it's going to just grab you and it's going to move you forcibly.
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In other words, you're not going to sit still, all right, you're going to have so much power in you that you want to know you're going to feel something.
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It's not going to be something that just sits on you like let's see a weight.
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Right, it's going to move you, so it's going to seize you.
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In order for us to understand what Jesus is talking about, let's go back to Acts 1, verse 6.
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It says so.
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When the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel and restore to our kingdom?
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This was a question that they had asked Jesus many times.
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Lord, when are you going to free Israel, when?
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But see, jesus was looking at it a different way.
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It was just not only about the children of Israel, freeing them, or the church or Israel.
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It was about the kingdom of God.
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It was about everybody.
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He was wanting to free everybody.
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It was the kingdom of God, which does not have physical or time boundaries.
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So Jesus responded in verse 7.
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He says he replied the Father alone has authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know.
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Then he continued in verse 8.
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And he said but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be witnesses telling people about me everywhere, in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria and the ends of the earth.
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There are two foundations truths that we need to talk about this morning.
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Number one is we have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness.
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We have been empowered, we've been given that power.
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Number two we are to be God's witnesses everywhere, not just here, but everywhere.
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Well, brother Glenn, I'm scared.
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Yeah, we all are.
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But I just told you that we have been empowered by the Spirit.
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It's in us, it has seized us.
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If you're a born-again child of God, the power of God has seized you and it's going to move you forcibly to do that.
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Why are you moving?
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Well, that's the question between you and God.
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We have to desire to be empowered.
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We have to desire to go out and do the things that God has told us to do.
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We just can't say well, I guess I've been, the pastor asked me to go do this, I guess I'll go do it.
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Not going to work that way?
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I believe that when we do something out of desire, then the anointing has already been before us and it is profitable.
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But when we're doing of our own strength and because our own might, then God does not see that.
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That's what I believe.
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You may be me say it differently, but I believe everything that we do is done under anointing of God and God will bless it.
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God will use it for his kingdom and his glory.
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Who am I to say that what I'm doing is not good?
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We've been empowered.
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The first part of the verse Jesus said but you will receive power.
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Well, the word power means to be able or to have strength.
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You have the strength, pastor, johnny.
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You have the ability.
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You are able to do it.
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Do we always feel like it?
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No, no, there's going to be times that we just God, I just can't do this.
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But you never know who's going to need what you have.
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You never know it.
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You can just say well, you know, I'm going to keep that in my soul and I've done this.
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I don't know how many of you have, but I've done this.
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God, speak to me, tell them about my story, and I say, god, they don't want to hear that.
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I said God, they don't want to hear that, but guess what?
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Someone else comes along and tells them their story.
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See, if you don't do it, god's going to have someone else do it.
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His word's going to go out.
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The good news of what he's done is going to go out.
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You just need to decide whether you're going to be part of that or not.
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But, brother Glenn, I'm not recognized for what I do.
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It doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter whether you recognize it or not.
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The only person you need to care about is what God thinks of you, what he says.
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We have the strength.
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When did they receive the power?
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The day of Pentecost, they were in one mind, one accord, in the upper room waiting because Jesus told them.
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He says you go to Jerusalem and you tarry there and you will receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you'll be witnesses.
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If he didn't want us to be witnesses, why is it in his word?
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Why is it there?
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Everything that God has put in the precious pages of the Bible was meant for us.
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Every word, down to every T, it to am.
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There's a purpose for it.
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It wasn't just put there by accident.
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It was divine revelation from God.
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And when it's divine revelation, it means we better pay attention to it.
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It was not a command, but it was something he asked us to do.
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Well, this is my thinking.
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If I'm asked to do something, it means I'm commanded to do it.
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That's my thinking.
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Because why else?
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Why else would they ask so many times that we look at our leadership, our pastors, and they tell us and ask us to do something, we think, well, they just asked us, it didn't mean anything.
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But see, what we don't realize is that our leadership, our pastors, have a direct connection with the Father and they're there to lead the sheep.
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And when they ask us to do something, it may be asking, but I believe it's command.
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And God commanded us to witness to everybody, not just a certain few.
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The disciples had been with Jesus for a while.
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They had watched him heal the sick, cleanse the leper, open blinded eyes, had dead to raise, feeding 5,000 with just a minimal thing.
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They saw this with their very eyes.
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It was not nothing that wasn't true.
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A witness is someone that tells the truth about things because they've seen it.
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How many have been to court Been a witness?
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What did you have to do?
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Promise to tell the truth?
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Nothing true, for the sake of God Same concept.
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The disciples had seen everything that Jesus did.
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