Let Go And Move Into Your Destiny

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Welcome to A Word in Season with Doug Stringer and friends.

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We share good news and godly wisdom to empower you to be salt in light in every season of

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life.

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It's time to move into your destiny.

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Every year we go through a re-evaluation of the previous year, but sometimes we can allow

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the past to keep us from our future.

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Listen as Doug shared on a New Year's Day message how God is bringing us into a new

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season.

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This powerful message will equip you for the days ahead.

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Now let's join our host, Doug Stringer.

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The first thing that I did last night at midnight, I wanted to tell the Lord I loved him and

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also to have communion with him and my wife and my mother-in-law.

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So the first thing I said is, Jesus, I love you.

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What a great way to start the year.

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I know that every year we go through this re-evaluation of the past.

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We tend to reflect and review of this past year.

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But I find that sometimes we can let the past keep us from our future.

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We have to let go of some things of the past so we can move into our destiny.

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Romans chapter 8 says that the whole earth is groaning with expectation and earnest desire

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for the Lord.

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So I find for me, I have to let go of the things I wished I had done.

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I have to let go of the things that I've been disappointed with.

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I can't change what happened last year, but I can have an eager anticipation for the presence

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of God.

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As Pastor was saying, it's the presence of God.

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There's something about the manifest presence of God and His glory that changes everything.

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I was talking to my wife yesterday and I was remembering a famous, they call him the Godfather

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of physical fitness.

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You young people wouldn't remember him, but his name was Jack LeLane.

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On his 70th birthday, he took 70 boats with one person on each boat.

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That 70 people, 70 boat.

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He had his hands tied and his feet shackled, but he pulled those 70 boats and 70 people

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across the San Francisco Bay.

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Every year he did something crazy like that.

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He was only 5'6", just a little bit shorter than me.

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I actually am probably now about 5'7", but when I see people like Jack LeLane or Altuve

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at 5'6", I'm thinking, wow, there's redemption for us short people.

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When I think about this great thing that Jack LeLane did and the physical fitness legacy

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he's left encouraging people, he did that with intentionality to prove that what seems

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impossible can still be accomplished.

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In reality for me, if I'm going to be free to move into my future, I have to take some

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of the weight off.

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I think many of us throughout our years, we carry excess weight, burdens, heartbreak.

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I wished I had done.

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I wish I didn't do.

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We spend so much brain width and energy about the past that we're carrying too much excess

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weight.

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I really believe that God is having us enter into a new season, a day of new dawning, so

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to speak, with the glory of God's presence.

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And we can't worry about the past.

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We need to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

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If I'm going to move forward, I can reflect and review my past, but I shouldn't live there.

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I need to be free and liberated to be able to move into the destiny God has for me in

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this new day dawning.

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There is a corporate release I believe God's about to bring.

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2024 is called a leap year.

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But I believe we're getting ready to leap into something fresh.

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We need to be released of the burdens that hold us back.

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I looked at Philippians chapter 3, verse 13 and 14, and it says, brethren, I do not count

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myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forget those things which are behind

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to reach forward to those things which are ahead.

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So I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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So we may not be able to accomplish or comprehend or even apprehend everything we wished we

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had last year.

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But we can decide today to press forward into the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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We can't change our past, but the decisions we make every day determine our future.

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I want to let go of the past so I can move into my future.

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In my reflection of the past, I don't want to dwell too much on those things I could

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have wished I had done.

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But like Paul says in Hebrews chapter 12, verse 1 and 2, let us fix our eyes on Jesus,

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the author and finisher of our faith.

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Circumstances do not change who God is.

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God still changes circumstances.

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In a moment, I want to pray because I believe that God is about to release a generational

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blessing, a fresh anointing of His presence, because in His presence, He still saves, He

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heals, He delivers, and He sets us free.

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He takes the burdens and the weights of the things that have held us back and does something

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fresh and new in us so we can move into our destiny.

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How many of us are believing for miracles this year?

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Is God still the one that does miracles?

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Jesus is still the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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We have seen some very heartbreaking things this past year.

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I know in this very congregation we grieved over what happened in October in Israel.

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And shortly after that, my wife and I went on a long trip to Kiev, Ukraine.

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And after a long journey there, hearing the stories of heartbreak and yet there's a sense

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of expectation of what God is still going to do in the midst of war.

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One of the leaders that I was ministering to, he works with military.

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He said in the midst of the crisis, he was able to lead over 1,000 military to the Lord.

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Romans 8.28 says, all things work together for the good of those who love God and are

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called according to His purpose.

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Circumstances may not always seem comfortable, but every circumstance is an opportunity for

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the light of Christ to work in and through us in the midst of those circumstances.

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The world has no answers, but the Lord in His people is an answer.

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We are to be a lighthouse in the midst of the storms of life.

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Lighthouses are created to help people come through the darkness or help people maneuver

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through the fog.

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The world is in a storm.

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The world is in darkness.

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Even in the church, many people are clouded and foggy in their thinking.

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But as we fix our eyes on Jesus, we begin to see more clearly.

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Through His presence, He does a work in us to let His light shine through us to help

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people come out of the storms of life.

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This is going to be a year of evangelism.

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The circumstances are in such a situation now that when God's people get into His presence

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and our vision is clear and His light shines through us, eyes will be open and they'll

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come through the fog.

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I believe we're going to see a great harvest and there will be a generational release of

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God's blessing, not in the world, but first in His people.

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So the world will see that we have something real.

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Every great revival of the past in the last 2000 years have come out of difficult circumstances

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and God does a work that only He can do.

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So we let go of the things that have held us back so that we can move into our freedom

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into the future.

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And the world may still have its news, but we know that God has news from heaven that's

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greater than the news of this world.

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So with eager and earnest expectation, my spirit longs for the manifest presence of

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God.

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And I say to the Lord every morning, there are so many things that I'm not proud of in

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my past.

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I can't change what I did in my youth.

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I can't change the bad decisions or things that I've done in my life.

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I don't want to be held to those moments, but I want to walk in the abounding and great

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and amazing grace that you have for me so I can be liberated to help serve you and love

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people.

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A young man gave me a shirt for my birthday.

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It says, born to serve since 1956.

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People look at me and say, what does that mean?

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First I say, well, I'm 50, 67 years old.

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I was born in 1956.

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So it says, born to serve, when we get the revelation of who Jesus is and we are born

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again, we are called to serve.

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And there's something about when we serve and we show honor that God releases his blessing.

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Even people that disagree with us, their mind might want to argue with us.

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Their hearts are moved by what they see in us.

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Do you remember at times that people you'd work with or go to school with would say things

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like, you know, I don't want to hear about Jesus.

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They're always trying to resist the gospel.

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But when they go through major difficulty, they come up to you and say, hey, you know

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the guy upstairs.

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Can you talk to him for me?

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My wife mentioned earlier, we'll come to our knees by choice or by circumstances.

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Circumstances give opportunities for the church to let his light shine in us so that people

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see that they need us to be able to minister to them.

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We're entering into a season where we will see a harvest.

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I can't say that it won't come without circumstances, but God is faithful to his people.

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And King David said, I've never seen the righteous forsaken or their seed beg for bread.

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If we need wisdom, God will give wisdom.

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If we need discernment, God will give discernment.

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If we need the multiplication of fishes and loaves to do more, he will give those.

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If we need supernatural provision and we have nothing, if God is still the same yesterday,

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today, and forever, he can still provide like he did for the woman who had nothing.

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This will be a season of seeing and observing the miraculous presence of God.

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Let's let go of the weight of the past and let's ask God for renewed expectation and

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earnest desire for his presence to walk into the future.

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And whatever we may be confronted with, that God is faithful.

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And if he is for us, who can be against us?

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When we fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, I was thinking

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about the eagle and during the storms of life, the eagle knows how to use the storm to get

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above the storm.

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And an eagle has an ability to see up to two miles.

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But during the storm, it takes the wind in the storm and goes above the storm, fixes

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its eyes on the brightness of the sun and regains its strength.

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But we are those who mount up with wings like eagles.

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And no matter what storms in life there is, we fix our eyes on the brightness of the son

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of God by which all things were created by him, through him and for him.

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So Jesus, our savior, our healer, our deliverer, our life helps us to lift up above the storm

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as we fix our sights and our hearts on his brightness.

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And we they can soar like wings as eagle.

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We're not victims.

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We're eagles of the Lord.

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This is our moment.

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This is our destiny.

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This is our season to see the glorious manifestation of the presence of God.

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In a release of a prophetic generation, old and young, working together to prepare the

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way for revival and the coming of the Lord.

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How many of Jesus coming back?

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We have a lot of work.

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We have the privilege of being used by him to walk in the destiny of his scripture.

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For in the latter days, we will see the outpouring of God that God has spoken of and the glory

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of the Lord.

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We manifest throughout the earth starts right with us.

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Let it go all the path.

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Take off the weight.

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Release the burdens.

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Make a choice today to earnestly seek with anticipation presence and the glory of God

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so we can enter into this 2024 into this new season in the dawning and awakening and to

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see that God will use you to see the eyes of the blind open to see those in darkness

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come out of the storm.

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And I have a sense it won't take a lot of cumbersome labor, but a willingness for us

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to let go of the weights of the past.

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Fix your eyes on the brightness of the son of God and say, Lord, do a work in me to do

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a work through me.

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Hallelujah.

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We can't change our past, but the decisions we're making today is determining our future.

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Are you believing for someone to be saved?

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Are you believing for a personal miracle in your life?

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Are you believing for a breakthrough?

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You're at a breakthrough moment.

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How many in here need a breakthrough?

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How many are believing for an unsaved loved one?

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How many need a personal, physical healing right now?

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Let's stand together and let's raise our hands to heaven and let's pray together.

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Jesus, you are the son of the living God.

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You are the light of the world.

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You bring me from my past with great grace so that you could do a work in me to do a

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work through me.

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I give you the right to do whatever you need to do to help me to be what you called me

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to be.

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I walk into my destiny to see with my eyes all that you have promised to see salvation

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and healing and deliverance and freedom.

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Do a work, Lord God, in my generation that we will be able to go into our future to experience

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the manifest glory of God.

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Lord, I receive salvation from my loved ones.

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I receive into my body, spiritual and physical healing, emotional and mental healing, financial

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and relational healing.

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I receive it into my life because I cannot live alone without you.

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You are my life.

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You are my hope.

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There is none like you, oh God, in Jesus' name.

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Now, if you need a physical healing, I'm going to pray right now.

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We hope you enjoyed this episode of A Word in Season with Doug Stringer and Friends and

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