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He wants us to know that he is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek him out.

So if you want to see God's reward in your life, put chasing stuff and chase God.

I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

All right. We've been working hard on one scripture, Hebrews 116. Without faith, it is impossible

to please and be satisfactory to God. So what pleases God? We always want to please God. We want to

believe that he's pleased with us. And we go through

all of our different works of the flesh trying to please God with our things that we do and so on and so

forth. But really what he wants is he wants us to believe in him. Matter of fact, there's really four

things here that it tells us that he wants.

He wants our faith. He wants us to believe that he exists, that he is, that everywhere we go,

God is. We're never, ever, ever without God. I want you to remember that. In your loneliest hour of life,

God is right there. Why doesn't he always let us feel his presence? Because if he did that,

we would begin to rely on our feelings instead of our faith.

And so many times God won't let us feel that he's there.

He won't let us see anything that he's doing because he wants us to have faith.

Faith is very important.

Faith is the evidence of things hoped for.

The proof of things not seen.

What we have faith for, we don't see, but the faith replaces the seeing. And we, we see it, but we see it in the spirit. We don't see it in the natural, but in the spirit. See, there are things that I'm telling you, I have never seen Jesus, but he is just as real to me as if I had seen him.

And I didn't see the empty tomb, but I know that I know that I know that I know that I know that Jesus died on that cross and that death

couldn't hold him that he came out of that tune. I believe that with all my heart. Matter of fact,

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