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Before I pray and ask for the Lord's help, I need to tell you what I'm going to pray and why, in my devotions yesterday morning I was reading John among three other

passages and came to the end of chapter 8 and on the way to the end of chapter 8 and on the way to the end

verse 47 says if you are of God you hear the words of God.

The reason you do not receive my words is that you are not of God.

of God.

That's just devastating

through Jesus to talk like that.

The reason my words are finding no place in you, that's another phrase he uses,

is because you're not of God, meaning born of God, unless you're born of God, meaning born of God.

Unless you're born of God, you can't see what I'm talking about.

So, on the way over to church to attend the Bethlehem College and Seminary Chapel at 1245 yesterday, I asked the Lord to confirm or give me a word from Lewis Guest, who was the fourth year seminary student who was preaching

in chapel. I said just cause him to say something that I need for this. And his first point of application was that very point from John 847.

So I grabbed him afterwards and I said thank you for being sensitive to God's leading.

And so that's what I want to pray.

I know that unless God is at work here,

awakening you from the dead,

and giving you a spiritual taste

and eyes of the heart to see,

you won't hear or you will hear and resist. So that's one

prayer and then of course I could get it wrong and then you could get it wrong and then you should resist.

So we got two big needs, one here and one there,

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