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Grace for Living Simply, Part 3. Part 3 in this series, the grace for living simply.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that you would come into this place with the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ.

Let the eyes of our understanding be enlightened.

I pray that you would come and do what only you can do, say what only you can say.

I pray, God, not that you would just come and stimulate our minds tonight, but I pray you would change us at the heart level.

I pray that something that you've been building, laylines that you would change us at the heart level. I pray that something that you've

been building, lay lines that you've been putting down would implode tonight. And things would

begin to fall into their proper perspective as a consequence of a great, great burst of anointing

in this place tonight. We've not come, God, for any other reason than to be in your presence and to sit under the tutelage of your word in Jesus' name.

Everybody said yes.

Amen.

The grace for living simply initially manifest itself with a right image of God.

We've learned, and we've quoted this many times around here from Tozer, that we are where we are as a church based upon our image of God.

To attempt to reform the production and the formation of the church

without reforming the church's abandoned image of God is an absolute waste of time.

When you see God right, you live right. When you see God right, you have church right. When you see God right, you live right. When you see God right,

you have church right. When you see God right, you have marriage right. When you see God right,

you do parenting right. Everything has to flow as a consequence of a proper image of God.

The image marks one in such a way as to nurture a supreme compulsion to please the bearer of the image let me read

that again the image marks one this is the image of god in such a way as to nurture a supreme compulsion

to please the bearer of the image who is yahweh when you begin to get a real understanding of who god really is the natural concept of the nature of the image who is Yahweh. When you begin to get a real understanding of who God really is,

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