| 0001 | Let the word of God speak to your spirit. Of the
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| 0002 | increase of his kingdom and increase there will be no
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| 0003 | end. My God is big enough for his kingdom to increase
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| 0004 | every single day on this planet with no end to the
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| 0005 | increase of that kingdom. Is your god big enough to do
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| 0006 | that? Mine is.
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| 0007 |
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| 0008 | You know what I love? The next part of the verse. A
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| 0009 | great scripture. It doesn't depend on the zeal of the
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| 0010 | church or your zeal, your zeal goes up and down like mine
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| 0011 | does, but the Bible says the zeal of the Lord of hosts
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| 0012 | will accomplish this. It's God's zeal that will extend
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| 0013 | his kingdom to the ends of the earth.
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| 0014 |
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| 0015 | In his people - we're living in one of the most momentous
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| 0016 | days of all of spiritual history. I envy your
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| 0017 | generation, because the church in many ways has had an
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| 0018 | incomplete vision. We've been stuck in Isaiah 53 that
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| 0019 | says this: it says by the blood of Jesus, by his blood
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| 0020 | are washed free our sins, washed of our iniquities. He's
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| 0021 | crushed for us.
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| 0022 |
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| 0023 | We've been stuck in Isaiah 53. There's no separation in
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| 0024 | the Hebrew chapters of the Bible. Isaiah 54 is the
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| 0025 | completion of Isaiah 53 and it says this: it says, do not
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| 0026 | hold back, I want you to spread out to the right and to
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| 0027 | the left, your descendants will posess nations and
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| 0028 | inhabit desolate cities. The full vision of God is to
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| 0029 | wash us in the blood of Jesus so that we can posess
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| 0030 | nations that inhabit desolate cities.
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| 0031 |
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| 0032 | If this revolution stays right here in America it's
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| 0033 | incomplete. If your vision is only for your high school,
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| 0034 | your city or your own country it's incomplete. Our God
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| 0035 | is a god who thinks globally.
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| 0036 |
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| 0037 | When people ask me what's my vision, I say "total
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| 0038 | galactic domination." That's the vision of God. Total
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| 0039 | galactic domination for his kingdom. We're saved and
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| 0040 | washed in the blood of Jesus to posess nations and
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| 0041 | inhabit desolate cities.
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| 0042 |
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| 0043 | How big is your vision? Hear the word of the Lord your
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| 0044 | God. In Psalm 2:8: "Ask and I will give you the nations
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| 0045 | as your inheritance to the end of the earth as your
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| 0046 | posession." How big is your vision? What are you asking
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| 0047 | God for? New car or better girlfriend, better parents or
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| 0048 | brothers or sisters? God wants to give you the nations
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| 0049 | of the earth. He's looking for people who will stand up
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| 0050 | and say "Give me India or I will die." "Give me China or
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| 0051 | I will die."
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| 0052 |
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| 0053 | And God is trying to stir his people to this vision in
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| 0054 | the end times. In Zephaniah 2:11, you cannot fail at this
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| 0055 | task. We will not fail at getting the gospel of the Lord
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| 0056 | Jesus Christ planted in every country. In Zephaniah
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| 0057 | 2:11, you think you're a radical, listen to God. It
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| 0058 | says, "The Lord will be awesome, when he destroys all of
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| 0059 | the gods of the land." The nations on every shore will
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| 0060 | worship him every one in its own land." My Bible says
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| 0061 | the kingdom of God will be planted everywhere, this
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| 0062 | revolution will go everywhere, in every single land the
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| 0063 | revolution will happen. If it stops here it's not
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| 0064 | enough.
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| 0065 |
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| 0066 | I was in Tibet two summers ago. In a monastery with a
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| 0067 | hundred foot tall gold statue, Buddhists bowing down.
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| 0068 | You know what, I was not impressed. And I prophesized in
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| 0069 | that place. I said the Lord will be awesome when, not
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| 0070 | if, he destroys all, not some, of the gods of the land.
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| 0071 | The nations, the Tibetans on this shore, will worship him
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| 0072 | every one in its own land.
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| 0073 |
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| 0074 | Brothers and sisters, the scripture prophesized
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| 0075 | everywhere a never ending increase. In Revelation 7:9
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| 0076 | Paul looks, John looks and he says, "Before the throne of
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| 0077 | God I saw people from every nation, every people every
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| 0078 | tribe every tongue." I had a pastor once tell me, "Fred,
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| 0079 | you're too optimistic." I said, "Bro, can't you read?
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| 0080 | Revelation 7:9 says, 'And before me there was a great
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| 0081 | multitude that no one could count from every nation, a
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| 0082 | great multitude that no one could count from every tribe,
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| 0083 | a great multitude that no one could count from every
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| 0084 | people and language.'" How big is your God? My God is
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| 0085 | able to do that.
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| 0086 |
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| 0087 | I was in Bhutan, one of the most restricted access
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| 0088 | countries in the world. I was up at their highest
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| 0089 | monastery. No non-Buddhist has ever gotten into Taktsang
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| 0090 | Monastery. By a miracle of God I became the first
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| 0091 | non-Buddhist in all of history to set foot in Taktsang
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| 0092 | Monastery, the holiest place in Bhutan. While I was in
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| 0093 | there I was saying, "God I'm a weak frail human being but
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| 0094 | I can use David to bring down the giants. God tell me
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| 0095 | what should I say." God kept saying to me the book, the
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| 0096 | scripture in Hebrews, says "For our God is a consuming
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| 0097 | fire." For a half hour I walked around Taktsang saying
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| 0098 | "our God is a consuming fire, our God is a consuming
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| 0099 | fire, our God is a consuming fire." God destroy this
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| 0100 | place so your kingdom can be raised up.
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| 0101 |
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| 0102 | Brothers and sisters, a few months later, in the
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| 0103 | headlines of the newspapers around the world, Associated
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| 0104 | Press, "Buddhist monastery burns to the ground."
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| 0105 |
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| 0106 | Brothers and sisters, God wants to empower you as Davids
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| 0107 | and Deborahs, Joshuas and Calebs, to destroy the works of
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| 0108 | unrighteousness and plant the kingdom of God everywhere.
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| 0109 | But there are three billion people who still do not know
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| 0110 | Jesus. Three billion people in the ten forty window who
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| 0111 | do not know Jesus, two billion have never heard his name
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| 0112 | even one time. If the revolution stops here it's
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| 0113 | incomplete.
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| 0114 |
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| 0115 | God wants to win the whole world. It says in the book of
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| 0116 | Psalms, it says "his kingdoms shall rule from sea to sea
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| 0117 | and from the river to the ends of the earth." God wants
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| 0118 | you to go to the ends of the earth.
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| 0119 |
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| 0120 | Brothers and sisters, our Brother Lou said in the 1800s
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| 0121 | there was a movement called the student volunteer
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| 0122 | movement where college students raised themselves up to
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| 0123 | go to the mission field cause no one was sending them.
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| 0124 | In less than a hundred years over twenty thousand
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| 0125 | students went to what today is called the ten forty
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| 0126 | window and revolutionized the world. Brothers and
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| 0127 | sisters there are fifty million Christians now. I want
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| 0128 | to tell you today there are six hundred and fifty million
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| 0129 | radical Christians, thirteen times as many, we need to do
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| 0130 | better than the student volunteer movement, a ten percent
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| 0131 | growth would mean two hundred thousand new missionaries
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| 0132 | for the ten forty window to bring God's kingdom to the
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| 0133 | ends of the earth.
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| 0134 |
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| 0135 | Today God is giving the call, ask of me and I will give
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| 0136 | you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the
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| 0137 | earth as your posession. How big is your vision? Do you
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| 0138 | want a piece of this? Do you want to be used of God like
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| 0139 | David, like Joshua, and Caleb to posess the land?
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| 0140 |
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| 0141 | We're calling, the Lord is calling for two hundred
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| 0142 | thousand new missionaries from your generation to bring
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| 0143 | his gospel to the ends of the earth. And I want you to
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| 0144 | respond right now. If you by your Holy Spirit you feel
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| 0145 | the call of God that you want to be like David to take on
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| 0146 | the giants, to plant the kingdom of God where it isn't, I
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| 0147 | want you to raise your hand right now as high as you can
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| 0148 | and I want you to, I want you to commit yourself in this
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| 0149 | moment, you want to take the gospel short term or long
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| 0150 | term into the ten forty window, would you raise your
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| 0151 | hand?
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| 0152 |
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| 0153 | And I want to pray for you. Lord Jesus, I just pray the
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| 0154 | anointing of your Holy Spirit upon my friends. Lord you
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| 0155 | said they are temples of the Holy Spirit, God. Use them,
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| 0156 | let your rivers of water flow through them short term or
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| 0157 | long term. God show them where you want them to go.
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| 0158 | Tear down the giants, plant your church. Bring your
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| 0159 | kingdom.
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| 0160 |
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| 0161 | Now those of you who just want to go short term put your
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| 0162 | hands down, only long term missionaries raise your hand.
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| 0163 | If you want to be a long term missionary I want to pray
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| 0164 | for you. Dear Jesus, the thing we need more than
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| 0165 | anything else is little Christs living in the ten forty
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| 0166 | window.
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| 0167 |
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| 0168 | I pray every one of my brothers and sisters right here
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| 0169 | today would make it to the mission field. Lord, three
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| 0170 | billion people without your gospel, only two percent of
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| 0171 | our missionaries there. Raise up two hundred thousand,
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| 0172 | God. By your holy spirit you will see your vision
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| 0173 | accomplished, God, that your church will be established,
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| 0174 | that your word will be true, that this gospel of the
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| 0175 | kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a
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| 0176 | testimony to all the nations, and then the end will
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| 0177 | come.
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