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Is God going to remember what you've done for Him?

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The answer is yes.

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Hi, I'm Leanne Freseman and this is Restoring Word.

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I want to share with you an amazing scripture today I had never really seen.

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And it's 1 Corinthians 4 verse 5.

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And I found this in an amazing devotional by Rick Renner called Gems from the Greek.

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And in this devotional he opens up with an illustration of a performance.

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Now this is near and dear to my heart.

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You know when a performer puts together a production, they work for weeks and weeks

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and weeks.

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And then in the very end when the performance is over, they get to stand in front of the

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crowd and the crowd will say bravo and stand to their feet and maybe even throw flowers.

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What an amazing moment for the performer.

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But do you know that when you stand before God on Judgment Day, you're going to get the

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applause from God.

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And it's scriptural.

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Look at this.

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This is so much fun.

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Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who both will bring to light

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the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the heart.

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So he will know the motives of the person and what they're doing.

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And then shall every man have praise of God.

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Now think about it.

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You've served the Lord your whole life and you wonder to yourself, does God know?

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Is he going to remember?

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Does he see what I'm doing for him?

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Does he understand?

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Yes.

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The day will come when what you've done in secret, it will be seen and acknowledged

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by him.

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And you know, I, I'm kind of convinced that the persons that are probably going to be

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at the front of the line when it comes to the, the thanks and the rewards from God,

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the father, it's going to be the prayer warriors, the intercessors, the people who have been

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in the prayer closets all over the world.

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No one knows their name.

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No one knows what they've done for the kingdom, but they have faithfully stood and prayed.

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And I can tell you from someone who's been on in ministry that you can't do anything

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without prayer.

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Everything worthwhile that is done for the kingdom, well, maybe not everything, but I

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would say maybe the difficult things that are done for the kingdom, they're carried

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by the intercessors.

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They stand in the gap.

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They speak the word.

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They fight in the spirit realm.

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They decree victory in Jesus name.

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They help those that stand in any form of leadership.

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They help them to stand and to stay strong and to hear from God and to be inspired by

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the Holy Spirit and to be led by the spirit of God.

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They are vital.

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So you know, maybe if you're not necessarily seen or in a visible position, you don't have

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to worry about it because in the end, we're doing all of this for the King of Kings and

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the Lord of Lords.

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It's not about us anyway, right?

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I saw an incredible illustration in a church magazine back in Iowa, my home state.

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And in this magazine, they had used the illustration of a battleship.

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And this is kind of near and dear to my heart because I love Navy.

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My dad was in the Navy.

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And you know, a battleship, everybody knows who that captain is, right?

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They might even know who the commanders or the lieutenant commanders are, the guys that

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are kind of calling the shots, so to speak.

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But the most important part of any battleship, honestly, is sonar.

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Sonar is those that look down below for the attacks that are coming up from below.

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And then you've got the radar, you know, those guys that are watching for the attacks from

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planes and things from up above.

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They keep the battleship safe.

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They tell the captain where the potential threats are and how to stay strong.

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And most of all, it's the guys down in the boiler room.

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Now think about it.

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The guys in the boiler room are the ones who are fueling the ship.

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The guys that are faithfully putting the fuel into the ship.

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a place where those engines can turn and can keep the ship moving forward.

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I was at lunch with a friend up in my home state in Iowa and she's on staff in this church

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in Sioux City and I said, please, please tell the men in the ship not to get discouraged,

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that they're vital.

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She goes, oh, they won't.

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They won't.

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They're strong.

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I said, okay.

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You know, I had never really thought about it until the Lord quickened that to my heart.

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Do you know that it doesn't matter where you are in your local church or in whatever ministry

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that you're involved in, the most important thing is that you do your job.

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If your job is to pray for the attacks above and below, do your job.

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If your job is to fuel the ship, God sees and knows what you're doing and that ship

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can't go forward without you.

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And in the end, according to 1 Corinthians 4 or 5, when you've done your job that you're

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called to do, and then every man shall have the praise of God, you're going to be appreciated.

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You're going to see and acknowledge that God knows.

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He remembers.

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He knows your labor of love.

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Maybe it was in a dark place.

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Maybe it was in a place where no one could see what you were doing.

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You know, the local church all across America is driven by volunteers.

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It's driven by people who actually have an anointing, really, for the Ministry of Helps.

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And the Ministry of Helps is vital.

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If ministry didn't have the volunteers, if ministry didn't have the people that were

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plugged in and working in the nurseries and the Sunday school classes and the Bible classes,

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if they didn't have the praise and worship band on the platform, and that is a ministry

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of help.

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Because the job of the worship band is to bring the presence of the Lord in the house

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so that people can get in God's presence and they can hear from heaven.

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That's what praise and worship leaders do.

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Whatever part you're playing in the body of Christ right now, just know that God sees.

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He knows.

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If you're called to do something, you know, maybe your ministry is the ministry of the

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giver.

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You know, the most powerful ministry out there right now are people who have an anointing

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to make money to sow into the kingdom.

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They'll have millions go through their hands so they can fuel the gospel.

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God knows.

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The gospel can't go forward without the people that are called to do their part.

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So whatever it is that you're called to do, whatever puzzle piece you fit in, whatever

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the specific gifting or gracing that you have in your life, my word to you today is don't

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grow weary in well-doing.

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You will one day stand before God.

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He's going to see your heart.

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He's going to look at the motives of your heart and you will be rewarded or applauded

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by him.

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Have a great week.

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Thank you for listening.

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I bet there's some people out there that you know that are worn out, discouraged.

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Maybe they've even pulled out of some sort of a leadership position and they're no longer

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serving and you just need to encourage them today.

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Would you share this message with them?

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Thanks for listening.