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00:20 >> Welcome and thank you for joining us again on 00:23 "It Is Written Canada." It is another beautiful day 00:25 here in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, and we've been 00:28 discussing the three absolutely essential ingredients 00:33 for a Christian life, the building blocks. 00:36 Number one, we looked at God's word. We need God's word. 00:41 And reading God's word so that He can speak to us so we can hear His voice. 00:46 Secondly, we are looking at and we're going to focus on this one today and that is 00:51 prayer as a two-way communication. So we hear God's voice 00:55 and we're speaking to Him. And thirdly, sharing what we have received 01:00 from God early in the morning. So we thank you for being with us again this morning. 01:06 So when we talk about prayer, is there -- I'm thinking. 01:12 You know, you can you can talk to God and I love to share what God is. 01:15 Does He ever get kind of tired of hearing me talk over and over and over because I just talk 01:21 with Him throughout the day? >> You mean like repeating things and so on. 01:23 >> Yes. >> Yeah, I wonder that too sometimes. 01:26 And it makes me think. Being here in Nova Scotia 01:28 just across the way, in fact -- I think we're just a hop, skip, 01:31 and a jump from Prince Edward Island. 01:33 >> Yes, we are. >> I can't help but think about "Anne of Green Gables." 01:36 I think that's probably my wife's and my favorite film, and in that film 01:40 there's that scene where Anne is being picked up by Matthew, who's always so quiet and timid, 01:47 and he comes around the corner and sees her there and he says, "Well, we asked for a boy," 01:52 and she says, "Don't send me back to the orphanage," and he says, "Well, 01:55 I can't really do that right now because there's no train. You might as well get in my 01:59 carriage and let's drive back and figure out what we're going to do later." 02:02 And then, Anne -- One of her spiritual gifts is the gift of gab. 02:06 And she just runs at the mouth like a motor mouth, and she's just going and going, 02:10 and all of a sudden, in that scene -- I love the scene -- she stops, and she looks at him 02:17 and she says, "Am I talking too much? People say I talk too much. 02:21 I don't have to talk as much as I do. I really can talk less. 02:24 I can be quiet. I can. Really, I can." 02:27 And Matthew looks at her and he says, "You can talk all you like. 02:30 I don't mind." And she puts her arm through the crook of his elbow and she 02:34 scoots a little closer and she says, "I'm going to like you." 02:38 But I often think to myself, "I wonder if God is getting tired of me talking to Him about 02:43 the same sort of things that are always sort of concerning me." 02:47 And I bring them before Him over and over again, and I can almost picture 02:50 God like Matthew looking my way and saying, "You can talk all you like. 02:55 I don't mind. In fact, I love hearing from my kids." 02:59 >> Mm-hmm, yeah. >> I take courage in that. >> That is very encouraging. 03:04 I like that story. And so, for me, I'm thinking 03:09 that sounds like one-way communication. You know, you lay out 03:14 your list before God, and He's just listening and listening. Yes, he loves listening 03:17 to His children. How do we get two-way communication? 03:20 >> Yeah, that's probably equally important, really, because for far too many of us, 03:26 we've grown up "saying" our prayers That's even a phrase we use. 03:29 I can hear my mom saying, "Don't forget to say your prayers." 03:34 Let's say our prayers and then we'll get ready for bed. 03:36 And that just carries with it the idea that you do a monologue. 03:40 You say your little prayer and you got whatever you got to lay out there before the Lord 03:43 and you say, amen, and now you're done. >> And God's kind of just 03:46 sitting there, "I would like to say something." >> "Could I get a word in?" 03:53 And the truth is the Bible premise is that God actually wants 03:57 to communicate with us. He really does. >> So he talks to people all 04:04 the time through the scriptures. >> Oh, yeah. >> And speaks to prophets. 04:08 He speaks to people, just average people. So can you give us a 04:14 kind of a list of ways in which God does talk to us that we can know that He's talking? 04:19 >> Well, I could and I'd like to do that, but before I give that list, maybe I can put in a 04:23 little plug for something called keeping a prayer journal. Some people think that that's 04:29 sort of like, "Where are you going to find the time for that?" 04:31 You don't have to take a lot of time with a prayer journal. 04:34 Some people do prayer journals where they write lengthy entries. 04:38 Others do short abbreviations. I don't think it really matters that much, 04:42 but there's some real value in keeping a prayer journal. And one of the values 04:46 that I think is most useful is as you record in a prayer journal thoughts that 04:53 you've expressed to God and answers that seemed to have come to you in one way 04:58 or another over time that you make note of, well, you begin 05:02 to recognize His voice. You know, you begin to say, "Huh, I was thinking maybe God 05:07 tried to give me this idea the other day when I was reading and I wrote it down 05:10 like maybe this is from God." It turns out day or two later, it had to have been from God 05:14 because it fit perfectly with what my needs were as the day unfolded. 05:18 And as you keep those kinds of things in your journal, they begin to accrue. 05:21 >> Yes. >> And you begin to say, "Oh, this has got to be 05:23 God because I know before." You know what I'm saying? And then the other thing 05:28 is it keeps you slowing down. >> Yeah. >> It does, yeah. 05:30 And I know for myself what was so key for a prayer journal, and also just recording 05:36 answered prayers. >> Yes. >> When you write your prayers 05:40 down in really good notes that God looked back and God answered the prayers, and just the way He 05:46 answered them, and that's all -- then you know that God really loves you and He cares for you. 05:52 >> I'm so glad you mentioned that. Yeah, because 05:56 I think that if we -- well, George Mueller -- Have you ever read about George Mueller 06:01 of Bristol that took care of those thousands of orphans and was a man of prayer? 06:06 I think so much of him that I think if the Bible were written currently, 06:09 we'd have a Book of Mueller maybe a first and second Mueller in the Bible too. 06:13 Such a man of prayer. But when he died, he kept prayer journals. 06:17 When he died, they went through his prayer journals, and they discovered more than 06:20 50,000 specific answers to prayer that he had recorded over a period of 60 years. 06:25 And I was kind of blown away by that. And then I took a calculator 06:28 and I figured out that if you and I would just make note of one to one and a half 06:34 if you can of examples or evidences that we've had per day that God was active 06:39 or interactive in our life, if we just made record of one or one and a half of those 06:43 per day, over 60 years, we would have more than 50,000 entries as well. 06:47 >> Wow. >> Wow. >> And so it isn't so 06:49 overwhelming. >> It's not so overwhelming. >> It wasn't like George Mueller 06:52 really got more than everybody else. It's that he kept a record. 06:56 And like you just said, Rene, that record has a way of reaffirming you that God's 07:01 been active in your life, if you can look back at it. Because we all have down 07:05 periods. It's really good to be re-encouraged by seeing, "Hey, 07:08 Jesus hasn't left -- Look at all this." >> Absolutely. 07:12 We were packing the other day and I saw Rene packing all these books. 07:16 "What is that?" It was all her prayer journals. 07:18 So she's been keeping them over the years, and it has really accumulated. 07:23 Are there ways in which we can kind of go through and say, "This is the ways that we know 07:28 God is talking to us"? Are there different ways in which he uses? 07:32 >> Yeah, you know, in the in the Gospel of John, Jesus says that "my sheep know 07:37 my voice. They hear my voice. They follow me. 07:40 They know the shepherd's voice." And I have discovered from the Bible actually at least 07:46 seven different ways that maybe we can highlight that God uses 07:49 to communicate with us if we're learning to hear his voice. >> Sure. 07:52 >> There's way more than seven and I wouldn't want to limit people to thinking, "Oh, there's 07:55 just those seven ways." But seven may seem like more than many would think there 08:00 were, but there's way more than seven. But the first one that comes 08:04 to my mind is nature. In fact, you know, we sometimes refer to nature, 08:10 and here we are in beautiful Nova Scotia. We sometimes refer to nature 08:14 as God's second book. >> We do. >> And God's second book 08:19 was written first. This book is the second book. Nature was written first, 08:25 and in Psalms 8:3-4, the psalm says, "When I consider the heavens, the work of your 08:34 fingers, the moon and the stars that you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of 08:38 him?" And nature is just one of the ways He speaks. 08:43 >> That's right. >> My wife, Margie -- she was going back to school later in 08:48 life. And she was stressing out, and she was on her way to take 08:51 a test, a final examination, in a very difficult class, and she was weeping because 08:57 she struggles with test anxiety. So she's under pressure. She's driving to take this test, 09:02 and she's weeping with anxiety in advance. She's already kind of, like, 09:06 starting to freeze up. She starts to pray while she's driving and crying. 09:10 So I guess you call that multitasking. [ Laughter ] 09:13 She says, "Lord, I would sure love a sign that You're gonna be with me in this test. 09:18 I just feel so anxious and troubled," and no sooner did she say those words 09:22 and she crested the top of a hill, and there's the college 09:25 right below where she's going to go take the test, and arching over the building 09:29 she's going to take the test in is a gorgeous rainbow. >> Wow. 09:32 >> And she said it just felt like God said, "Did you want a sign that I'm gonna be with you? 09:36 How about a rainbow?" She felt peace flood into her heart, and just like that, 09:41 she went into the test and did great. >> All the anxiety went away. 09:44 >> Yeah, yeah. And I don't call that one-way conversation with God. 09:47 I call it a two-way conversation, and God used nature to speak to her heart. 09:52 >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. >> So, the first one is nature. 09:55 Second one? >> Second one that I would like to maybe make mention 09:58 of has to do with providential circumstances. The way God leads in your life 10:02 up till now can kind of give you a trajectory of where He's taking you next if 10:06 you look back. There's -- Proverbs 3:6 says, "In all your ways acknowledge 10:12 Him." So look at the way He's been leading. 10:14 And He will direct your path. You can get that trajectory by seeing 10:18 how He's been moving you so far. >> Right, right. >> And, you know, there's 10:22 all kinds of stories I think that we can probably tell about evidences 10:26 that we've had that God was leading in our life, you know. 10:29 This thing that we're doing -- Margie and I, for the last 11 years full time, 10:33 working as sort of as you might call it like a freelance revivalists 10:37 or something like that. I can still remember when we first started, 10:42 saying, "Lord I don't want to be involved in trying to book appointments. 10:48 It's just trying to generate business so to speak." 10:52 I can remember precisely it was October 22nd of 2008, I was on my knees praying. 10:59 And I was saying, "Lord --" this was very early in this ministry that we've been 11:02 doing now for 11 years -- and I was saying, "Lord, if this is a ministry you called us to, 11:08 if the providential meetings and circumstances that we thought funnel us 11:12 into doing this really were you, could I ask You to be the booking agent? 11:17 Because I just really don't have it in me to try and line up appointments." 11:21 And I said that in prayer. I got off my knees and went over and sat at my dining room table, 11:27 and my cellphone rang. And a guy said, "I'm calling to book an appointment with you 11:31 for that revival ministry seminar stuff you do. Do you have any openings?" 11:36 Got off my chair. And I said, "Do I? Actually I have a whole slew of 11:41 them." And he said, "Well, tell me about your calendar." 11:44 So I'm telling him about my calendar. And while I'm talking to him, 11:49 I get, beep-beep, call waiting on my cellphone. So I say, "Can I put you on hold 11:53 for just a minute? I'll get right back." I said, "This is Lee Venden." 11:55 And the guy says, "I'm calling to book a seminar revivalist seminar. 11:58 Do you have any openings?" Now I have chills going down my neck. 12:02 I said, "I'll call you back. I'm on the phone." Anyway, to make that story 12:06 short, this is not an exaggeration. That very same 12:09 experience happened to me five times in a row at the dining room table 12:12 without putting the phone down. >> Wow. >> Wow. 12:15 >> Every one of them came while I was on a call with the previous guy. 12:18 There's another one calling, call waiting five times in a row and every one of them wanted 12:22 to book and it all happened after I got off my knees saying, "Could You be 12:25 the booking agent?" And I call that providential circumstances. 12:30 So I don't think that God -- I thought that was two-way communication. 12:33 >> Yes, absolutely. So God is providing for your needs, and He provides for our 12:38 needs. We're going to take a quick break, and we're going to listen 12:42 to a song, and we'll be right back after that. ♪♪ 12:51 >> ♪ I want Jesus to walk with me ♪ ♪ I want Jesus 13:08 ♪ To walk with me ♪ All along this pilgrim journey ♪ 13:27 ♪ I want Jesus to walk with me ♪♪ ♪♪ 13:56 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 14:23 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 14:51 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 15:19 ♪ In my sorrows, Lord, walk with me ♪ ♪ In my sorrows, Lord, walk with 15:40 me ♪ ♪ When my heart ♪ Is aching 15:57 ♪ I want Jesus ♪ To walk with me ♪ I know Jesus 16:15 ♪ Will walk with me >> ♪ Walk with me >> ♪ Walk with me 16:34 >> All: ♪ Walk with me 16:43 >> And we're back with Lee Venden. We've been talking 16:46 about prayer and how prayer can be a two-way communication. And so far, Lee, we have been 16:52 looking at how God speaks to us through nature, how he speaks to us through 16:56 providential circumstances. What's the third one? >> The third one 17:00 that I wanted to highlight has to do with music. In Psalms 40:3, 17:04 it says, "He has put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. 17:08 Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord." I think that God uses music 17:13 many times to speak a word in due season to us. >> Yes, he does. 17:17 >> You know what I mean? >> Somebody puts that tune into my mind first. 17:22 The other day I was a bit stressed as I started the day, and the Lord put this tune 17:27 in my mind, and I didn't really think about the words. And then afterwards it hit me. 17:31 The words of that song were "this is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice 17:36 and be glad in it." So it was like a prayer. But God was talking to me 17:41 and saying to me, "This is what you need for today." So nature, providential 17:46 circumstances, music. What's the fourth one? >> Fourth one -- people. 17:50 >> People. >> People. 1 Peter 4:10 -- "Each one 17:53 should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's 17:58 grace in its various forms." Kind of like music. God uses people. 18:01 I like to call it Jesus with skin on. You get an e-mail 18:06 from somebody, a phone call from somebody, you bump into somebody 18:09 at the store and they say, "I've been thinking about you," and they say something to you 18:13 that you realize God knew you needed to hear and He used somebody to get the 18:17 message through to you. >> Absolutely, yeah. Have you got an experience 18:21 where that has happened to you? >> Well, the first one that kind of comes to my mind 18:23 that's sort of extra exciting to me is that we were preparing to go to a very large church near 18:30 one of our revival seminars. And just before going, we got a phone call 18:34 from one of the pastors there who said, "We tape our services with a six-camera 18:39 shoot for television," and if you had a donor that would pay the cost of taping, 18:44 we can give you raw footage that you can turn into DVDs later so that you can spread 18:49 these revival messages further than you can physically. I said, "How much would 18:53 that raw footage cost?" He said it's a pretty good deal. He says, "We can give it to you 18:57 for $5,000." And I said to Margie, "I think this is something -- I want 19:01 to make some phone calls and see if we can get some people 19:04 who are interested in this ministry that we're doing to help pay for that." 19:08 And she said, "Lee, George Mueller -- remember how he only told God about needs. 19:12 He didn't tell people and God provided. That's what we've said 19:16 we wanted to do. Now, why would you change that right now?" 19:19 And I said, "Margie, it's not a sin to call somebody who said I'd like to help." 19:24 She said, "But it's not the way we've been doing it." Well, I said, "I'm going 19:28 to do it tomorrow anyway." And the kind of woman I married -- Margie said, 19:34 not to me -- she prayed about this behind my back. And she said to the Lord, 19:39 "If you want this thing to get taped, would You provide the money before Lee messes 19:43 up the deal by asking for it instead of trusting You?" She prayed that, 19:48 and the next morning we get a phone call. A woman who's attending a 19:51 seminar where we're currently going there to Lodi, California. And she says, 19:55 "Could I come by and visit you for just a few minutes?" So she comes by. 20:00 She says, "Last night I was awakened four times with the impression that I need to write 20:04 you a check for a specific amount for a project that needs funding. 20:08 The first three times, I just went back to sleep. But the fourth time, I thought, 20:12 'If I don't do this, I'm not going to get any more sleep.' So I wrote the check, 20:15 put it in an envelope. I want to give it to you right now because I want 20:19 to sleep tonight." And she said, "If you want, you can open it." 20:22 And Margie opened it up and it was $5,000. >> Wow. 20:25 >> Wow. >> So God used that lady. Also used Marjorie. 20:29 >> Yeah. >> Margie, yeah. >> Margie, sorry. 20:34 So God uses people. >> That's right. Just another way, and I'm sure 20:37 everybody can tell stories. >> How people -- >> People, absolutely. 20:42 >> What's the next one? >> Okay, the next one -- I was inspired reading 20:47 Proverbs 25:11. "A word fitly spoken or written is like apples of gold in 20:52 pictures of silver." Have you ever had the experience where you're reading a good 20:56 book, and you just kind of opened to the last place you were to bookmark and start again 21:01 and that page of that chapter spoke to your heart almost as though 21:06 you could hear God saying, "Hey, this one's for you today." Have you ever had that? 21:09 >> Oh, I've had that experience. So, a little while ago, my mother gave me 21:13 a devotional book that her great-grandmother used. And it's called 21:18 "Streams in the Desert." It's an old book. It was written in the 1930s or 21:22 something. >> Oh, wow. >> Yeah, so it's really old. 21:25 The paper and everything is old and the writing is very much still -- 21:30 >> Faded. >> Not faded. >> Oh, it's that old script. 21:33 >> It's the old English. Right? Yeah. 21:36 And so, anyway, one day I was just feeling so discouraged and down, 21:42 and I opened up to the day of that devotional -- >> The day you were on for that 21:46 day? >> Yeah. So I opened it up, 21:48 and it was just like "Are you feeling discouraged? Are you feeling down and you 21:55 feel like you're being sucked into this dark, deep pit?" And I was just like, "This is 22:02 me." Right? And then just -- God -- I knew 22:05 God was speaking to me and saying, "You know what? I'm with you and I'm gonna lift 22:10 you out of this." And so it was just so -- it just made me cry 22:15 because it was just -- I knew He was speaking to me. That was just what I needed for 22:20 that day. >> That's what I'm talking about. 22:22 >> Exactly. >> So what's the next one on your list? 22:26 >> The next one is scripture. >> Scripture. >> Yeah. 22:30 If these were in order of importance, this would be first. >> Yes. 22:32 >> Because there's no better way to hear the voice of God than His word. 22:36 It's called the word of God. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. 22:39 >> So God speaks to us directly through His word. I can think of a time 22:43 this happened to me recently. I mean, we were, you know, Rene and I 22:48 are going through this move, and so we're going to Ontario, but we're leaving 22:51 British Columbia. We've been living there for 12 years. 22:54 And it really hit me one day, and it's a nice kind of a move and transition and everything. 23:01 But here I am -- there's no beautiful mountains in Ontario where we were. 23:07 And it was just discouraging for me. And so I was praying to God. 23:11 And I picked up my Bible in the morning and I was reading in Genesis 23:15 in the sequence I was following. And I was just saying, "Lord, why did you send us here?" 23:20 And the very words I read from the scripture -- >> Right after you said, "Why 23:23 did you send us here?" >> Right after I said "Why did you send us here?" 23:27 The words that I read from the page, and I kind of get emotional 23:31 when I think about it is, "The Lord said, 'I am sending you to the land of your 23:36 father,'" and, you know, my dad was from Ontario. And I was born in Ontario, 23:45 in Sudbury, Ontario. And so I was like, "Wow." You know, this is -- yeah, 23:49 this is -- >> So it's like he was saying, "I know your address and I know 23:52 where I'm sending you, and I have my reasons, and don't forget -- this is where you came 23:56 from." >> And he wrote that thousands of years ago. 24:00 But he had an appointment with me that day and he was speaking to me personally. 24:03 So scripture. What's another one? >> Well, you know I'm just 24:08 given seven here at the moment. And this takes us to our final one. 24:11 >> Oh, our final one. >> Yeah, number seven. It's thoughts and impressions. 24:16 And I kind of go back to the point where he says in John chapter 10 24:20 that "my sheep know my voice." >> Yes. >> "They hear my voice. 24:24 And they follow me." and sometimes his voice is in a whisper. 24:27 >> Yes. >> And that's what I'm describing as thoughts or 24:30 impressions. >> Okay. So there could be a bit of a 24:33 warning there because you could have thoughts and impressions and, "Am I sure that this 24:38 is really from God?" >> That's true. Yeah, I think it's important 24:42 that you're grounded in a daily walk with Jesus before you start assuming 24:47 thoughts and impressions could have been from Him. >> Absolutely. 24:49 So, when you're in that connection with him, then those thoughts and impressions, 24:56 you still want to test them to make sure that God is speaking to you. 24:59 >> Uh-huh. But I think if you've been learning to hear His voice 25:02 in all these other ways, which are far more common than the one I'm referring to now, 25:07 and you're, like you said, grounded, then it's safe. Then and only then is it safe 25:11 to consider that this was an impression from God. >> Yes. 25:14 So do you have an experience? >> Well, yeah, I can remember one time a woman 25:19 gave me a book to read. It was a book called "Him," H-I-M. 25:23 And it was written by a guy named Kenneth Fields. She said to me, "This is a 25:27 short -- these are short -- Each chapter is a short imaginative sort of 25:33 sanctified imagination on the life of Christ based on passages in the scriptures." 25:37 And she said, "I wanted to give you this book because I know you love stories 25:40 about Jesus, and these are well-written and they'll move you." 25:43 And she said, "The sad thing is Kenneth Fields had some some tragic things 25:47 happen in his life, and he kind of lost heart." He ended up leaving 25:51 his family, leaving his job, leaving his church, leaving God, and just going, you know, 25:55 who knows where? In fact, she said, "We don't even know -- 25:57 The people who know him and are friends of his" because she said, "I went to 26:00 school with him when I was in college. We've lost track of him, and 26:03 he sort of vanished off the face of the Earth, although someone said recently, 26:06 'I think he might be out in the Olympic Peninsula of the West Coast of the state 26:10 of Washington.'" Anyway, she said, "Give me the book back when you're done 26:13 because it's out of print and I can't afford to give it to you." 26:18 Well, I left the book sitting on a shelf in my office for 2 1/2 years. 26:23 I didn't do it on purpose. I just left it sitting there and forgot about it. 26:26 And then one day, 2 1/2 years later, I see this little book sitting there. 26:30 And I think, "Oh, my word. I haven't read it yet. And she said give it back 26:33 when you're done. She probably thinks I'm a very slow reader." 26:36 So I started to read. And the very first chap-- the second chapter I read 26:41 moved me so much. When I finished, I had tears in my eyes like you 26:45 were talking about, Rene. And just then an impression came into my head. 26:49 It said, "Call Kenneth Fields right now and tell him how much this book means to you." 26:52 And I thought, "What? I don't know Kenneth Fields. I don't know where he lives." 26:56 It was like, "Call Information." So I dialed the area code for the Olympic Peninsula. 27:03 And I said, "I'm looking for a guy named Kenneth Fields." They gave me two phone numbers. 27:06 I thought, "Well, I'll try this one first because it's closer to where I am. 27:10 Guy answers the phone. I said, "Are you Kenneth Fields? He says yes. 27:13 I said, "Don't hang up on me. I'm Lee Venden, and you don't know me. 27:16 And I'm not a telemarketer. But I want to ask you did you ever write a book called 'Him?'" 27:20 He said, "I did." >> Wow. >> And I said, "Well, God just 27:23 told me I should call you and tell you how much it meant to me 'cause I just read the first 27:27 two chapters, and it moved me to tears," and he started crying on the other end. 27:33 He said, "Have you ever heard the story of the prodigal son and how he went into the far 27:36 country?" He said, "I've out-prodigaled the prodigal times 10, 27:40 and it is very lonely in the far country, and I have wanted to go home but 27:44 I don't think you can go back when you're as far gone as me. And I said, 'Just this morning, 27:48 for the first time in probably 10 years, I knelt down and I said, "God, if you hear 27:53 prodigals as far gone as this one, I'd like to come home but I feel like such a zero. 27:58 If You could just give me some sense that I've ever done anything that was a value 28:01 to You, it would give me courage right now." No sooner did I say 28:05 that, I'm on my knees, the phone rings and you say, 'I have a message from God. 28:10 You wrote a book that touched me deeply.'" He said, "Lee Venden, 28:13 whoever you are, I'll be in church this coming week and this 28:16 prodigal is going home." >> Wow. >> Yeah. 28:19 Just an impression. >> So God speaks to us. God speaks to us. 28:24 Friend, if you have been encouraged to speak to God, I just want to encourage you 28:30 that He wants to speak to you. >> Amen. >> So I just want to remind you 28:35 of the words of Jesus when he said to us, "It is written: 'Man shall not live by 28:40 bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" 28:47 ♪♪ ♪♪ |
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