Thank you, jesus. Iman alabos shatala alabasi atoramanda isanoramaki onoramasatana.
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Iman alabos shatala alabasi atoramanda Recalde samin. Well, praise the Lord, everybody, and welcome to Apostolic Mentoring. I greet you in the mighty name of Jesus from Pensacola, florida. In this week we had such a great Wins Conference all the way on the East Coast of Florida and, as some of you already heard, brother Trond from Norway was speaking a few moments ago about how wonderful the conference was, and we wanted to just take a moment and encourage everybody who has not yet listened to or watched the Wins Conference messages. You need to do so. There was such a revelatory, just word that came forth in every single service, and if you don't have time to watch all of the services, I'm going to give you my top two services that you must watch. The first service was the Thursday Night Service by Pastor Gentry Mangan. That message was a Kingdom Critical Message. You've got to do yourself a favor and the Kingdom of God a favor and go watch that message. The second message that was a game changer for the Kingdom of God was the message by Joel Urshen on Friday Night. You're going to have to watch that message about 10 times. You know he is just such a brilliant man of God and so that's his brilliance. His brilliance is woven throughout that message. But he preached with such apostolic revelation and it was literally on my feet almost the entire service. Now, you all know that's not much of a shock I'm always on my feet throughout the whole service, but this time I meant it. And once we get going and apostolic mentoring here in a few moments I'm going to put the link to my two favorite services in the chat so that you guys will have those already.
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I want to say thank you to everybody who has been partnering with our family with new PIMs. It has been such an amazing blessing the response that we have been receiving from pastors and apostolic mentoring family members all around the world as they've been joining our monthly partnership team. It seemed that there were some people who thought we were no longer appointed missionaries anymore. So let me just clear up that misconception or false narrative. We are still fully appointed missionaries of the United Pentecostal Church and, as of today, we only need about 49 more partners to be completely done with deputation. So we thank all of our apostolic mentoring family and all the pastors and churches and believers across North America for your continued support. But today we are so excited to have my friend, pastor Abidas with us today from Massachusetts. This man is a prophetic voice in our generation.
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We are so very humbled to have him with us today.
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I had the privilege of connecting with him a few years ago during the prophecy conference northeast or something like that. I never know where I am in the world, so I don't remember where that prophecy conference was, but I got to connect with him and his precious wife, who is a fierce apostolic warrior, and the Lord just has been knitting our hearts together over the last few years even more closely as we have worked together in multiple meetings. I thank God for his family, their passion for the kingdom and for their willingness to serve apostolic mentoring. Today, pastor Abidas, please take your liberty and speak with us. Say it, the Lord.
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I want to give honor to Brother Robinette of course, and something I appreciate about Brother Robinette is he is a conduit of faith and the gift of faith operates mightily on and through him. He is preaching a youth conference at Rhode Island this weekend, 45 minutes from where I live. I told our leaders you all need to be there, I don't care if it's a youth conference, you have to be there.
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As I've heard Brother Stonking teach many times, many things are caught more than taught, and the word of the Lord says that there's grace that operates on our lives and we have grace according to the gift of God, and grace is the divine empowerment to do what God's called you to do. God does not have grace on my life for things he did not call me to do, but there's a supernatural enablement on my life for everything God has called me to do. And there's a supernatural enablement on your life for everything God's called you to do, but there's no supernatural enablement for what God has not called you to do. So when we operate in the grace that God has given us, we get to operate in a life of the supernatural. God will always work supernaturally where he's needed.
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One time I was driving into the city of Boston and I was asking the Lord for a vision for our church and I asked the Lord to give me something that would stretch the people but wouldn't be impossible.
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And the Lord stopped me in my tracks he said if you can accomplish the vision without me, it's not from me. Every God-given vision and calling is going to require God-given grace. I'm not even on here today to talk about grace I wish I had a little more time to talk more about it but you've got to understand the power of the grace of God on your life, and we also have to have the ability to reject what God has not given us grace to do. And so I thank God for grace that rests upon our lives and, of course, upon Brother Robinette. First Samuel, chapter 22, verses 1 and 2. First Samuel, chapter 22, verse number one. I'll begin at verse number one. Are you ready, sister Crumbly?
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Yes, I'm ready.
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David therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave of Adulam, and when his brethren in all of his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
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And David went away from there and came into the cave of Abdulam and as his brethren and the whole house of his father heard it, they went thither to him.
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And everyone that was in distress and everyone that was in debt and everyone that was discontented gathered themselves unto him and he became a captain over them, and there were with him about 400 men.
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So, just for a few minutes, I want to just share this concept that your destiny is in the cave and you know, god called David to come and tell us about his destiny.
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And he said I want to tell you that David was a very good man.
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And he was a very good man and he was a very good man. He David, was very good and told us that you will discover many thingsедин in here in this amond for you, as therefore for God.
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And know God called David to be king. But the people wanted a King before David was ready to be king they pressed the Prophet Samuel for a king, and David was not in a position where he could be the king of Israel yet. And God would not rush the development of David. For impatient people, and because of their impatience, he gave them Saul.
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Saul was hard on the people of Israel because his insecurity made him very sporadic.
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He showed mercy to an evil enemy that the Lord told him to be merciless to, and he was merciless to a group of priests he should have been merciful to. Because of Saul's insecurity, he made enemies out of allies. One such ally he turned into an enemy was David. David, the youngster that killed this great warrior in giant Goliath. He became Saul's armor bearer and his son-in-law, and yet Saul still hated David. Saul operated through control and insecurity. Saul was a counterfeit king. Saul looked apart, though.
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He was head and shoulders above everybody else.
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He was a handsome fellow. He knew he was handsome, but there were some men with a man crush too. As a matter of fact, saul set the bar, the standard for what kings should look like in the eyes of Samuel the prophet, because later, when Saul saw Samuel's older brother, he looked at him and outwardly thought this is a king. Saul looked apart, saw, sounded apart, saw acted apart, but David was the part. David is a complete contrast to Saul. David is being shaped to be a leader and a warrior. As a shepherd boy, he was the youngest son of Jesse and he took care of the sheep and he did what the errands no one else wanted to do. People saw a shepherd of sheep and God saw the shepherd of his people. Everything that David was involved in, he was constantly learning about God from it. David is taking care of the sheep in the wilderness. One day he realizes that what I am to the sheep, the Lord is to me, and he said the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
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David fought for Saul. David was a hero. He was young but mighty in battle, prolific in victories, and then he was secretly anointed to be the next king of Israel. And everything looked good for David until Saul, the insecure king, heard the people singing, and so he determined that he was going to kill his son-in-law and the greatest general in his army. And one day, david sitting across the table from the king and the king throws a javelin at him, trying to pin him to the wall, and from that moment David was on the run. David had risked his life for Saul, but now he is running from him. He brought trophies to Saul of his enemies, but now he is running from him. He married Saul's daughter, but now he is running from him, and sometimes we find ourselves in similar situations.
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And sometimes we find ourselves in similar situations.
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Maybe we're not running from Saul per se, but we find ourselves running in life. Maybe you'll watch this call and there's something that you're running from in your life right now Running from the stigma that marks your life, running from the rumor that was said about you. Running from a reputation you wish you could shake. Running from someone that took advantage of you or betrayed you. Maybe you tried to do something good, but somebody took it all wrong. People misunderstood your motives when you were trying to help. And David runs from the palace and he runs into a cave. He runs from a position in power. He runs from convenience and comfort and he runs into his destiny. I want to tell you something right now You'll rarely find your destiny in a place of convenience and comfort.
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You'll rarely find your destiny in a place of comfort or comfort.
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Moses couldn't find his destiny in the castle.
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God had to take him out.
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God's going to do the same thing with David. He brings him out of a palace in into a wilderness. The place that he finds is right outside the town of Adulam. He finds a place of shelter in the caves. The Bible just calls it the cave of Adulam, but it was an entire cave network.
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This period of David's life is going to be primarily called the wilderness of Adulam. Now I want you to understand something. David doesn't hang out in the cave for a week. David is going to be in this wilderness season in the cave for seven years, from the age of 23 to 30, david's going to make his home in the caves. In the caves, david is going to be tested by adversity to see if he really loves God. He's going to be tested to see if God's really going to be the primary goal of his life For around seven long years.
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King Saul is going to search the wilderness to try to kill David and just for a minute, I want you to try to put yourself in David's shoes. He's anointed to be the next king of Israel while Saul is still alive. His anointing was not some big grand spectacle for people to come out to. As a matter of fact, the prophet that anointed him was scared to anoint him, and so the Lord told him to anoint David. Under the guise of offering a sacrifice to the Lord, david's anointing was intentionally kept secret, while very few people heard or saw the anointing. That day, the prophet poured oil over David and pronounced him to be the next king.
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No one else may have seen it.
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But David heard it. David felt the oil dripping down the top of his head. He felt the oil running down the peach fuzz of his face. He heard the words that he was chosen to be the next king of Israel. He could still smell the fragrance of the oil poured out. There were times he would just get a scent of something while walking in the wilderness. He would remember that night he was anointed. He could remember the flickering flames of the sacrifice that the prophet made in order to conceal it.
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And David valiantly served the Lord and served the king. He never had another motive than to advance Saul's agenda and serve the Lord. And yet Saul turns on him, this man with a secret anointing that no one knows anything about. He is now living in this dank, dark, wet cave, uncomfortable, nasty, haphazardly profile he should be leading an army.
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He should be eating at the king's table and yet he is hiding in the cave. What's happening to David? David is getting the training to become a king that Saul never had, because God still was not going to rush the process of David his man.
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Proverbs chapter 30, verses 24 and 22. We'll read verse 21 first and, sis, you just tell me when you're ready. I'm going to read this in the new American standard translation Under three things the earthquakes. And under four it cannot bear up Under a slave when he becomes a king and a fool when he's satisfied with food.
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Open it up.
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It's a dangerous thing when a slave becomes a king because they have not been prepared to operate with authority and power.
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It's a dangerous thing when a slave becomes a king, because they haven't been trained yet to deal with power.
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And so God is going to develop his man David in a way that no one else would have expected.
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So God is going to develop his man in a way that no one else would have expected.
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David had a tremendous advantage in his kingly training that Saul did not have. David had a tremendous advantage in his kingly training that King Saul did not have.
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I'll say it again, David had a great advantage in kingly training that Saul did not have.
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Saul did not have Saul in his life. David had Saul. That was his advantage. David had an insecure man breathing down his neck. David had a man that only operated in the flesh, trying to kill him. It's a contrast between the carnal and the spiritual. Saul looked the part, david was the part and David's advantage was his obstacle. And God was using Saul to kill the Saul and David. When God raises up his David's, he trains them in the seminary of Saul and he'll sometimes use a demonized leader who mistreats them to grow them deep in their relationship with God. Now David is so uncomfortable in this cave. I mean, this guy doesn't want to be in the cave. He's anointed to be the king and every time it looks like there's daylight, the enemy comes in and ruins it.
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David gets his parents living up in a stronghold. And David starts thinking to himself I'm going to go live up in a stronghold, I'm going to have some comfort. I want you to see 1 Samuel, chapter 22, in verse number five, get it while you're turning there. David gets his father and mother to live up in the stronghold and he's liking the idea of living in a comfortable place where he's not worried about Saul. Look at verse number five.
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And the prophet God said unto David abide not in the hold, depart and get thee into the land of Judah. And David departed and came into the forest of Harris. I want you to see this right here. David finally gets to go into a safe place in a stronghold, and the Lord sends the man of God and said David, this is not the will of God for you. This is the will of God, the purpose of God being in a safe, comfortable place right now. David, you got to get back into the wilderness. The will of God is intact for David. But God had to train David in a way that David did not know. I want you to understand something today Nobody could hinder God's will for David's life, not a lunatic, demon-fossessed king.
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He could not stop the will of God for David's life. Three thousand soldiers scouring the wilderness looking to kill David could not stop the will of God for David's life. It didn't matter what enemy there was. They could not stop David's destiny. Only David could stop David's destiny by responding the wrong way. I'm going to skip through some of the process of the cave today, but suffice it to say that David had to stay in the wilderness to be in the wilderness.
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I'm going to skip through some of the process of the cave today.
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Sometimes we go through the same tests over and over again because we don't respond the right way. The Apostle Paul spoke about coming into a full measure of rule, which means when we start off in this thing, we are not walking in the full measure of rule. There should be an increasing sphere of dominion that comes to our lives, and every time that sphere is going to expand you've got to go through testing. Endurance with a long-term perspective is essential in walking out one's full prophetic destiny. A word that we often think of as a curse word in Pentecost is the word process. I remember someone telling me all the issues that he was going through and I just smiled and said, oh, this is good. He looked at me like I was crazy. I said this is just the process of God to promote you.
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There was a time a year ago that I had open heart surgery.
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I'm a young, 41 years old 40-year-old shouldn't be having open heart surgery. I thought it would be a small procedure to fix my mitral valve and they told me no, this is going to be full open heart surgery. We're going to have to cut you open. I should have been worried about recovery time. The first thing, though, I asked my wife. I said baby, do you think scars are hot? The rest of my life I'm going to be marked from this encounter. Right before my open heart surgery, my wife loses her job of 15 years, and I remember sitting there and talking to her about it.
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And I was pretty unemotional about it all and I remember at the time she was upset with me and I said I'm really sorry, I can't get too excited about this, because this is too perfect of a storm for it to just be coincidental. This is a cave that we're going to be developed in. This is a place that we're going to gain authority and power, and if you're going to get the will of God, if you're going to follow the will of God for your life, you have to go through those caves. And I want you to understand something that if you're going to go anywhere in the kingdom of God, you have to go through the process, because there are a lot of things happening in the caves and there are things happening around you that have to do with your destiny while you're in the caves, because while God is working on you, he's also positioning you for the next thing. Psalms 34 grew out of this narrow escape from Aikish in Simon 34.
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And it may express David's best, express David's trials and triumphs during his time in exile.
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Psalms 3419 says.
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
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You have to understand something.
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I'm being positioned for the next thing. You've got to stop cursing the cave and start thanking God for the cave, because God brings our rise and what looks like our progress to a halt. It's because he wants to work on you, to set you up for a long-term success. I know those seven years would seem like forever, but seven years in a cave, are preparing David to be a king for 40 years.
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I want you to hear me. Many people step out of the will of God and never fulfill the will of God because they reject the process. All because they won't go through the proper season in a cave, they ruin their chance to rule for 40 years. If you're in a cave right now, I want you to understand something that God's about to grow you up in there.
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It may not be how you were expecting to grow but according to the text I started with and I really didn't even get to touch it much. David goes into the cave with a few men but David's going to leave the cave with 400 men. I want you to look at the three types of people that come into the cave People in distress, everyone that was in debt, everyone that was discontented hashtag winning or gewinnen.
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This is David's crew right here. God's like come on, build an army with you, David. Let me gather some people up with you in here People in distress, everyone that's in debt, everyone that's discontented. I don't have time to go into it, but three of the men in that cave became David's mighty men. One of the men that came into the cave was Benaya.
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Not only is he going to be one of the greatest warriors in that army of 1.2 million people, he is going to lead the entire army in the next generation for Solomon. Because what goes into the cave isn't what comes out of the cave, I preach myself happy up in here today. What goes into the cave is not what comes out of the cave. Those jokers came in. They are frustrated.
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Discontented indebted, but they come out with power and authority in an army. I want to tell you all something that while you're in a cave, don't get frustrated with God in the cave.
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I want to tell you all something that while you're in a cave, don't get frustrated with God in the cave.
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God is going to bring the right people to you in the cave.
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God is going to make connections for you in the cave.
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God's going to open up doors no man can close while you're in the cave. And don't you dare let the past define what the future says, because God's word is true. He's going to fulfill His word. Maybe you're the one that walked in there in death. That doesn't mean it's how you're going to come out of it. Maybe you're watching this today and you've been really hurt and betrayed and you're in a bitter place. I want you to hear me and the Holy Ghost that your past is not going to determine your future. It doesn't matter what you're running from or how much stuff you're running from. If you're still alive, the purpose of God is intact for your life. Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it's a Lord's purpose that prevails.
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We're not cursing the cave.
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I want you to speak to your own self right now, as we get ready to pray, and you need to speak to your own self and say I'm done cursing the cave. I'm not going to question the process, god, I'm going to trust that, if I do, your will that you're going to bring everything to me that needs to come to me.
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I don't have to chase mighty men to come into my life. I just got to stay up in the will of God and he's going to draw it to me. We don't have to run around looking for everything else in our life and what the world tells us to have. And right now is not the time for us to falter at accepting carnal Pentecost. This meeting is called Apostolic Mentoring and my God, do we need something apostolic in our world right now?
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Not just good church, but we need something where people are advancing the kingdom of God and living for His agenda and not ours. And instead of cursing the cave, we've got to start thanking God for the cave, because our destiny is in that cave. God loves you so much that even when you get comfortable in a stronghold, he'll send a prophet to say get out of the hold, because the calling of God needs some people like David that have been tested and trained with authority.
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All right, I want everybody to pray with me right now.
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Father, I thank you for the caves that you bring into our lives. Your hand and your anointing rests upon us, and I know that our circumstances would try to get us to forget what you have done and what you have said. You have given us dreams and visions, stuff that we don't even utter. It's happened in a secret place, like it happened for David when he was anointed, but we're about to come out with authority and begin to speak it with faith.
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And I believe in your faith and your people today to believe the word of God and to not doubt.
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You're going to lead us with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and absolutely everything that you've spoken over us is going to come to pass. Father, give us the grace now to submit to your process, even if it's a cave, and to rejoice because we're going to continue to grow in that cave. I pray that every single one of us would walk with a steadfastness that we would be absolutely unmovable that we would do the will of God in our generation in Jesus' name. God to see you all.
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Oh, praise God. What a powerful word we've received today. While Pasor Abidus was praying the Lord put in my spirit two scriptures that I just want to share with you.
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Jeremiah chapter 29 and verse 11, for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, sayeth the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end. The other scripture that jumped in my spirit was that the steps of a good man, a righteous man, are ordered of the Lord, and I want you to know right now the cave is not a design of the devil. It's not even a design of your enemies. Stop giving the enemy and stop giving your enemies the credit for God's design. The fact is that the trials that you're going through are, the love of God, preparing you for longevity and kingdom ministry. It's the love of God that he does not leave you to your own devices.
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The easy road would destroy us but the tough road perfects us. It purifies us causes our motives to be refined and our hearts to be pure and his purpose to become priority. What a powerful revelatory word.
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Pastor Abidas, thank you so much. Oh my goodness, you need to share this session. There's so many people that are going through so many things and they have not acknowledged the fact that it is God ordering their steps. We've got to acknowledge the fact that the Lord has put us in this cave for a kingdom purpose. What a powerful, powerful word today. Don't forget apostolic mentoring next Tuesday. No, it's not, thank you. That's so confused. You were so confused, sister. I could hear it in your German. You were like no, brother, robinette, where are you going on Tuesday?
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I didn't want to say something wrong. That's why I was like did I miss something? Okay, so it's next Montag.
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Yeah, next in Montag we have apostolic mentoring. I'll cut that section out when it gets posted on YouTube. I've got a lot going on right now. People, I'm heading to South Africa next Monday. I got the El Salvador crusade team planning meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday night. I'm looking at my apostolic mentoring calendar for the rest of the year right now. I am so excited about next Monday. Thank you, sister Cromby. Next Monday At 1 pm Eastern time, as always, we have Pastor Kort Chevis who is going to be with us. It's going to be a dynamic apostolic mentoring session. I want to remind everybody of two things. You have got to listen to the WINS conference messages by Pastor Gentry Mangan and Pastor Joel Urshin. I will put these links in the Facebook of this session directly to the experts.
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In about an hour. It will be live on YouTube and the links will be in the information as well. Two of the most powerful revelatory kingdom critical messages for this hour. You will do yourself and the kingdom of God globally a favor by listening to those messages. And then, as a reminder, my family still needs 49 PIMs in order to finish our deputation. If you can help us with that, that will also be a link inside the chat. I love you all so much, thank you, thank you. Thank you for this great, great apostolic mentoring session today. Do what you always do take yourselves off mute and say goodbye.