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Messages by Desiring God

Feed the Flame of God’s Gift

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality, Preaching, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Sermons, Messages, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2009

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We are called to fan into flame God’s gift. Don’t be ashamed, be courageous in God’s unbeatable power.

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The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

0:04.0

Would you pray with me?

0:07.0

Father in heaven, I believe that in this conference you do mean

0:12.0

to set some young men, mainly men I think, perhaps some women too, free, you mean to

0:19.0

set them free from some long time bondages.

0:25.0

I'm thinking particularly now in this message about bondage to fear.

0:30.0

So deeply rooted, they don't know where it came from.

0:38.0

Mother, perhaps, maybe like Timothy or grandmother like Timothy maybe.

0:47.0

So deep they don't know why they act the way they act, why they turn away from opportunity,

0:57.0

why they won't take stands, why they don't make themselves clear. They don't know. They're enslaved. They don't

1:09.3

know their slave master. So God I believe that now and throughout this conference you mean to arrive, show up in

1:18.0

power through your word and set people free. Amazingly free. They will date from these days liberation to come

1:30.4

and do that. May there be a touching of our tongues, like that dumb man, you

1:38.8

spit, you touched his tongue and he spoke clearly. So God come touch tongues, touch hearts. I ask for your help now to be faithful to this paragraph in 2 Timothy in Jesus

1:58.1

name. Amen. Let's go to 2nd Timothy chapter 1. my assignment is verses 1 through 12. So I'm going to read it with you and

2:07.9

then we'll chew on it like a dog.

2:17.0

Where is second Timothy by the way?

2:19.0

I can't, there it is.

2:24.0

Here we go. go.

2:26.0

Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus to Timothy my beloved child

2:37.6

Grace mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God whom I serve as did my

2:46.9

ancestors. I would rather they translate that as or from my parents because I think there's a link with the mother and grandmother here.

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