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And God notices our heart. God notices what's going on in our work, in our school, and in our relationship.

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It's not heroics. It's not the big outward things.

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It's those inward cries, those inward truces with God.

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We come and we say, Lord, I'm surrendering. I'm surrendering this area to you.

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No one in the Bible, human, fully human, I mean Jesus obviously was used to the greatest measure,

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but fully human, no one was used as powerfully in the Old Testament as David.

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The last time I talked about that the first quality that I see in David in 1 Samuel 16

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is his core identity, his heart, his intimacy with Christ.

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And everything in David is about being a worshiper and being a warrior.

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And he's a worshiper first before he's a warrior.

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And on those hills of Bethlehem, God had developed that intimacy with him

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to such a degree that when the prophet Samuel comes into Bethlehem and notices David,

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God's description of him is, don't look at his outward appearance, look at his heart.

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And then a few chapters before, in chapter 13, 14, it says that God has searched for a man

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whose heart is completely his, a man who's going after him, and that was David.

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So the first quality of the kind of man or woman that God can mightily use from the life of David

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is intimacy with God.

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So I want to look at the second quality.

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So we're in 1 Samuel 16.

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I started last time and looked at verses 6 and 7.

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So let's pick things up in verse 8.

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Jesse is bringing his sons to Samuel.

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So Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel.

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And he said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one.

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Then Jesse made Shammah pass by, and he said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one.

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Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass through Samuel.

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And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen any of these.

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And Samuel said to Jesse, Are all these young men here?

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Are all your young men here?

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Then he said, There remains yet the youngest, and there he is keeping the sheep.

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And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and bring him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.

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So he sent and he brought him in.

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Now he was ruddy with bright eyes and good looking.

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And the Lord said, Arise and anoint him, for this is the one.

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So the second quality of a man or a woman that God mightily uses is a secret history with God.

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And what I mean by that is that there are qualities in us as we see God in solitude

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or even away from anybody else knowing what we're going through that God notices.

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Even Jesse doesn't notice it.

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Even his brothers, they don't even remember to bring David into the room with Samuel.

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So he's not exactly esteemed in his own family.

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But David on the hills of Bethlehem and as a shepherd was building a secret history with God.

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And what I mean by that is that there are things in our life that nobody else needs to know about.

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There's things in our life that nobody should know about.

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Of our dialogue with God, we were asking for things and we're seeking Him for things.

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And we see answered prayer.

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We see God sees your tears and you're crying out to Him.

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And I'm telling you, men and women, that when we develop a secret history with God,

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God is hearing your prayers.

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And even if other people don't notice, maybe your boss doesn't notice,

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maybe your wife or your husband never notices as part of you, God does.

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And in sincerity, crying out to Him as a worshiper and a warrior.

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And so God is noticing David's heart.

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And God loves to see us in worship.

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In those times alone when we're worshiping God and we're crying out to Him

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and we're really confused about something in our life, it might be our relationship with our mom,

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relationship with our dad, relationship with a spouse, maybe personal upheaval in our life.

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I remember growing up and having acne really bad in high school.

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And I wasn't a believer.

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But I remember many a night crying myself to sleep wanting to be healed of my acne.

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And what's amazing is after I got saved, I continued those cries to the Lord.

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And for three years, nothing happened.

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was healed, it was unexpected healing that came to me.

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But I had a secret history with God

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during that time of crying out to God.

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And God notices our heart,

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God notices what's going on in our work,

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in our school, and in our relationship.

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It's not heroics, it's not the big outward things,

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it's those inward cries, those inward truces with God.

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We come and we say, Lord, I'm surrendering,

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I'm surrendering this area to you.

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So David had done that.

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The passage continues.

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Then Samuel took the horn of oil

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and anointed him in the midst of his brothers.

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And the Spirit of the Lord came upon David

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from that day forward.

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So the third quality of a man or a woman

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that God mightily uses

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is develop a spirit-anointed relationship with God.

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So the Spirit of God was poured out upon David.

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It says that he was filled with and anointed

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by the Holy Spirit.

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In Ephesians 5.18, Paul says,

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do not get drunk with wine,

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for that is dissipation,

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but be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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So it's in being filled with the Spirit

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that we surrender our throne to Christ.

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And we give him the power of our lives

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and the struggles of our lives.

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To be mightily used by God,

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men and women, you have to learn

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to surrender everything to the Lord

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and allow his power to flow through you.

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And there's kind of this really supernatural work

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that happens through the Spirit-filled life

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that's really exciting.

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I can't tell you how many times

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myself and many others, friends of mine I know,

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are in a dilemma, in turmoil about something,

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a really difficult situation,

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don't know what to do.

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And then you just know what to do.

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It's like you wake up one morning and you go,

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oh, that's what I need to do in this situation.

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Or we've got some kind of a situation

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in which you feel like you're in a corner

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and you can't get out.

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And all you can think about

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is this certain way of doing that.

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Well, when you get filled with the Holy Spirit

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and you allow the Holy Spirit

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to be running his power through your spiritual veins,

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you suddenly have a DNA of the Spirit of God

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that was not true before.

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And I remember one time I was in a situation

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with a leadership problem at our church.

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I was just convinced that this certain way

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was the only way to handle that.

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I had a secret history with God.

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I was crying out to God days on end.

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I didn't know what to do.

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And then one morning I woke up

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and I suddenly had a completely different perspective

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to the situation that I had not thought about.

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And it had to have been from the Holy Spirit.

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So when we become Spirit-filled,

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when we walk in the Spirit,

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we have wisdom, we have understanding,

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and we have discernment that we would not have.

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The other part that happens through the Spirit-filled life

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is God's character.

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God's fruit flows through our lives.

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And so in Galatians 5, it says,

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the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,

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patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.

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So the more those qualities are happening in our life,

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the more successful we are.

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And those can only come through the Spirit of God

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birthing, maintaining, and developing those in our life.

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So walking in the Spirit is about the growth

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of love, joy, peace, patience, and kindness in our life.

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So David was discovering that, even as a young man.

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It's quite interesting here that it says,

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Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David

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in the midst of his brothers,

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and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David

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from that day forward.

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Now that's very much the way in which the Spirit anointed,

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the Spirit-filled life is described in the Old Testament.

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In the New Testament, it's different.

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But the reality, here's where the similarities are,

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is that David had an outside-in experience

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with the Holy Spirit, not an inside-out experience.

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And what I mean by that is the Spirit came upon him.

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In Acts 2, it says the Holy Spirit was poured out.

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In other passages of Acts,

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it talks about the Holy Spirit coming upon

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or being poured out.

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There is this internal decision

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that we make to be filled with the Spirit,

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but the Spirit's gonna come upon us,

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and it's gonna transform us.

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And so I wanna challenge you to be a person

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that seeks to be filled with the Holy Spirit,

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that if you know of a man or a woman of God

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that is anointed.

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with the Spirit, ask Him to pray over you.

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And I've had just hundreds of experiences where the Holy Spirit has come upon me, and

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I'm just different almost simultaneously as that person praying for me.

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So God does His work through the filling of the Holy Spirit.

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God does His work through surrender to His Holy Spirit.

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So God mightily uses a man or a woman whose core identity is intimacy with Christ.

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God mightily uses a person who has developed a secret history with God.

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And then thirdly, God mightily uses someone who is Spirit anointed.

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So I want to challenge you to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to have that secret history

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with God, and learn to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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When you're walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, you're going to see signs and wonders.

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You're going to see miracles.

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And those miracles of healing, deliverance, and freedom, they're for everybody.

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Jesus said, the works you've seen me doing, you also shall do.

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So God can take any of us, housewife, mother, father, lawyer, mechanic, it does not matter

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what we do in our work, if we'll be surrendered to the Holy Spirit, God will do the works

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of Jesus through us.

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And let me tell you, that is just so exciting.

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And even this Sunday, when I was at church, I had the privilege of praying with someone

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who felt the power of God come, and I believe they were actually healed of the particular

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thing that they came up for.

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So God can use anyone, anytime, any place, if you're surrendered to Him and anointed

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by the Holy Spirit.

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So in my next message, I want to talk about two more qualities that I think are key in

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God using you in a mighty and powerful way.