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Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative and author of over 100 books, booklets and Bible studies.
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0:01 I thought we'd look at a lady. In fact, if I have time, we'll look at 2 of them. We'll start with Tabitha, her Hebrew name, Dorcas, her Greek name. The first thing we're0:13 told about Dorcas in verse 36 is now in Joppa, there was a disciple named Tabitha. So the first description given to her is not that she was a woman, although we0:25 know she is, and not that there was a woman in Joppa named Dorcas. There was a disciple in Joppa named Dorcas. Now it was not typical to0:37 give a designation of discipleship to a female in the new testament. Females would be incorporated into the general0:49 description, but males would normatively be described when you were talking about a singular person. But in Tabitha's case, her name is given and her spiritual1:01 status is given too. In other words, Tabitha was in a class by herself. The author of Luke thought it was so critical to do what was not normally1:12 done that he wanted everybody to know in giving Tabitha's story that this woman walked with God. To be a disciple is to be a visible, verbal1:24 follower of Jesus Christ. It means that if you are accused of being a Christian, there would be enough evidence to convict you. She stood tall as a follower of Christ.1:37 To be a disciple meant you were on public display. You were not hidden. You were not behind the veil. See, you can become a Christian in private. You can go in1:49 your closet, your bathroom. You can go in your car when nobody else is in there, and you can receive the lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior, and that'd be a private event. But you2:01 can't be a disciple and be private. You can't be a disciple and be hidden. A disciple, as we've said so many times, is not a secret agent Christian.2:13 A disciple is an identifiable follower of Jesus Christ who recognizes and has submitted to his lordship. If you have2:25 not submitted to the lord's lordship over your life, you may be a Christian, I hope you are, but a disciple you are not. Because a disciple2:37 is 1 who based on their baptism has said, now I'm ready to go public. I'm ready for you to know who I am and where I have taken my stand. You2:49 do it appropriately. You do it lovingly, but you do not do it vaguely. You are crystal clear that you follow Jesus Christ. You're not like3:01 an undecided voter going back and forth between candidates. You have made your declaration clear, and he makes her clear. How3:13 do you know if you're a disciple, if you've chosen God first? How do you know that? Because everybody says that, God first. That's a convenient thing to say, but how do you know if3:24 he's first? You know he's first when he affects your decisions. When his thinking, his3:36 perspective affects your decisions, he's first. If he does not affect your decisions, that's because he's not first. Jesus put it this way. How do3:48 you say lord, lord? Why do you call me lord, lord and do not do what I say? He says that's a contradiction. You you can't call me lord and then do your own thing.4:00 Because if I'm lord, I'm master. Master has final say so. So you cannot declare you are a disciple if Jesus Christ is not your boss.4:12 If he does not overrule your thinking, overrule your feelings, overrule your emotions, overrule your perspective, If he does not overrule, then you are not yet a disciple.4:26 You trust Christ as savior. You follow Christ as lord. That means he has the final say so. Now that's a growth process. You don't get there overnight, but you're supposed to be growing there progressively4:39 where he begins to overrule in your life more and more. Spiritual growth is growing in him and his rulership4:51 over your life, which you don't have to guess about. The issue is, does his decisions overrule your decisions when the 2 aren't the same?5:02 So it was with Tabitha. She was a visible verbal follower of Christ, and everybody knew it. And so Luke5:14 wanted to point her out like nobody else has pointed out female. He wanted to say, this woman was in a class by herself. So if you happen to be a a lady here5:26 and you have made your declaration clear because you are 1 of a kind, don't feel bad about that. Tabitha was 1 of a kind. Luke said, I gotta highlight this sister.5:38 The author of acts said because she has made her position clear and everybody knew it. Please notice, she's not the 1 calling her a disciple. The author of acts5:50 is. The folks who knew her are. So she didn't have to go around, I'm a disciple. I'm a disciple. I'm a follower of Jesus. I'm a follower of Jesus. No. People saw her and said, she's a disciple. She's a disciple. She's a6:01 follower of Jesus. She's a follower of Jesus because it was clear. God was first. So putting God first is not just a convenient religious statement to make.6:14 It must be a decision you operate by. Now getting to that point is not easy, especially in a world that's gonna resist you making that decision.6:26 In fact, there gonna be Christians who resist you making that decision because they're going to want you to fold into the world that they have come to love.6:38 And many times, even when you are being encouraged to make the decision, you're going to run into inner conflict between the flesh and the spirit6:50 because the Bible says they war against each other. So there's a pull to decide what God says, and there's a pull to go where you wanna go. And the 2 are clashing.7:02 In fact, it's good news when you're in conflict. That's good news. Now it's bad news if you make the wrong choice in the conflict, but it's good news that you have the conflict because the mere fact7:14 you have the conflict means that God is talking to you, that that God is still he's still trying to pull you. He's still trying to woo you. He's still trying to call you. Tabitha was a disciple.7:27 She was an unapologetic visible follower of Jesus Christ. Number 2, God first, but remember 2 others7:39 second. Look at verse 36. It says, this woman, this discipleship woman who loved God was abounding with deeds of kindness and7:51 charity, which she continually did. You notice the second thing said about her? The first thing was her commitment to God. She's a disciple. The second thing that's talked about was her kindness to8:03 others. And I love the word abounding. And I was she was looking for opportunities. She was overflowing with good works. She was overflowing with8:15 helping. And they described in a few verses later the people she was helping, the widows. Why? Because in biblical days, widows couldn't do anything else for you. Widows couldn't help you out because the widows8:27 were the poor people. So these were people who couldn't do anything back for Tabitha or Dorcas. They couldn't help her back, but it says she abounded with good works. I mean, she was just continually8:38 looking for opportunities to do something good for somebody else. So this is second. The second thing God asked for is to love the neighbor. Remember? First is8:50 God. Secondly is loving the neighbor. Now we looked at the good Samaritan, and we gave you 3 things to know what it means to love the neighbor. It's a need you see,9:02 a need that you feel, and a need that you are, in some way, able to meet. So when you see a need and God stirs your heart to meet it and has given you9:14 some capacity to address it, that means that that's something he wants you to speak into. God saved you so that you could touch others.9:26 Ephesians 2 8 through 10 puts it this way. It says, by grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not according to works so9:38 that no 1 should boast. But then he goes on to say in verse 10, for you are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which he hath created9:50 beforehand that we should walk in them. So Jesus Christ saved you, Ephesians 2 8 9, so that he could use you. And he uses you what he calls good10:02 works, beneficial things you do that brings good to somebody outside of you. So the first thing is to love God, and the second thing is to touch others. The first thing10:14 is to love God. The second thing is to go out and look for opportunities to overflow into the life of someone God brings your way. Now, I understand you cannot meet10:26 the needs of everybody and God doesn't expect you to meet the needs of everybody, but he expects you to touch the life of somebody. He expects you to have a heart that says, God, today, what10:37 good work do you have for me to do so that he can bring somebody across your path who he wants you to touch for good? Dorcas loved God, and she10:49 touched others. Others who could not do anything for her in return. These were the widows. These are the good works that God has called every11:01 believer to be engaged in. So let me ask you a question. First of all, are you a disciple? That's number 1. Are you a clear follower of Christ?11:14 And then secondly, as you look back over the last weeks, how many good works did you perform where you did something good for somebody God brought across your path, who he stirred your heart for, that you were able11:25 to address because of the good work that he has saved you to do? Well, if you missed number 1 and you skip number 2, but you're11:37 looking for number 3, God bless me, help me, new car, new house, new relationship, new this, new that, I need 3. And God said, what happened 1 and11:49 2? You don't get to step on third base in baseball if you skip first base and second base. Dorcas loved God12:02 and she did good. Listen. If you get this principle every day, you should be getting up in the morning and saying, okay, God. I'm recommitting myself to you for this day, and you12:13 bring across my path the good that you want me to do and stir my heart that this is from you. So now we know 1 and 2, but let's go on to 3.12:26 It says, it happened, verse 37, at that time that she, Dorcas, fell sick and died. Interesting.12:39 So the next time somebody comes and tells you spiritual people don't get sick, you tell them this story. The next time somebody comes to you and tell you, well, if you were following Jesus, you wouldn't catch a12:51 cold. If you were following Jesus, you wouldn't get cancer. If you were following Jesus, you wouldn't have pneumonia. That's a lie from hell. We're told Dorcas was a disciple. She did good and13:03 girlfriend got sick. So sickness or lack of sickness has not necessarily anything to do with how spiritual you are. A godly13:15 woman got sick, and not only that she got sick, the sickness killed her. She died. Okay. So you can love God and still be sick because we live in13:26 bodies that are deteriorating. We live in a world sinful world that's been contaminated by bacteria and viruses, and that affects sometimes how we feel. Now our13:38 actions can affect that, but you can be perfectly healthy doing all the great things, love Jesus and still get a cold. Because there are some theologies out there that13:50 would lie to you and tell you, well, if you were following Jesus, you wouldn't be sick. Not God's will for you to be sick. Well, she got sick and she died.14:04 So now they take her to the upper room. That's interesting. They do not bury her, but she's dead. But they take her to the upper room.14:18 Why do they take Dorcas to the upper room? It says in verse 38, since Lydda was near Joppa,14:29 the disciples having heard that Peter was there, sent 2 of the men imploring them, do not delay coming to us. The14:41 disciples, the men disciples, 2 men who were in Joppa heard that Peter was in Lydda, and they14:53 sent for Peter. When you read a text, always look at the context so that you don't wind up with a con.15:06 The question on the floor is, what's the connection to Peter being in Lydda and Tabitha dying in Joppa and 2 men going to Lydda15:18 because Tabitha has died in Joppa. Well, back up to verse 32. Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he came down also to the15:30 saints who lived in Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas who had been bedridden 8 years for he was paralyzed. So we got now a paralyzed man named Aeneas in Lyta, a few miles from15:42 Joppa. Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed. Immediately, he got up and all who lived in Lydda and15:54 Sharon saw him and they turned to the Lord. Oh, interesting. Okay. Watch this. Word had gotten to Joppa16:06 about the miracle that happened in Lydda and that Peter rose up a man who was paralyzed 8 years out of his bed miraculously16:18 in the name of the Lord a few miles up the street. So they decide in Joppa, if that's good for Fort Worth, that's good for Dallas.16:30 They decided if that can happen a few miles down the street with somebody we know could never get up on his own, before we bury this girl,16:42 let's go get Peter and see if Peter and Peter's god can do for her what he did for him. So I wanna let you know, god is no respecter of16:53 genders. Because he's getting ready to move from a man to a woman, and he's gonna do a bigger miracle with the woman than he did with the man because at least the man was still alive and17:05 she was dead. So they sent 2 disciples. Notice who they said. They sent 2 disciples. They sent 2 committed Christians17:18 who loved and followed Jesus Christ to solve this problem. A lot of problems don't get solved because a lot of Christians don't know any disciples. No. They17:30 know their friends, their girlfriends, their guy friends. They know their homies, but they're not committed to the lord, so all they can do is talk to you on the phone and give you humanistic advice. But because17:42 these 2 men were equally committed to the Lord, they knew where to go. Now watch this. Tabitha is in no position to help herself, because guess what?17:54 Tabitha's dead. So Tabitha can't help Tabitha because things have gotten too bad in her life. They have killed her. There are people whose dreams have died.18:07 There are people whose visions have eroded. There are people who wanna throw up the towel and given up. They have died in 1 form or another, and they are in too bad18:19 a situation to get up on their own. You could have hollered at Tabitha all day long. Get up, girl. You better get up out that bed. You better get up and walk out this upper room. That would have been a waste of breath18:30 because she's dead. But there were some people who knew somebody just a few miles down the road who, because of what had happened there,18:42 might be able to do something here that she could not do for herself because she's dead. So they sent for Peter. Peter breaks from what he's doing in Leiter and he18:54 comes down. In verse 39, he went with them. When he arrived, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing all the tunics and garments that Dorcas used to19:06 make while she was with them. So you got the widows, all the people Dorcas had served. They're crying. They're crying at her wake. They're crying at her death. They're saying, oh, she did this for me when I didn't have19:17 clothes. You know, when I didn't have anything to put on, she she did this for me. We had a pastor at our pastor's conference. He hadn't ever been to the resale store. He went up to the resale store, saw a man in there19:28 who didn't have much money trying to get some clothes, and and he wasn't able to to buy very much even though it's very inexpensive. And then he never met the man, never been in a resale store. He walked in, felt19:38 compassion for what he saw, reached in his pocket, took out a hundred dollar bill, and said, here, get yourself some good stuff to wear. You know what? Because god spoke to him in that moment. And you see the need,19:50 you're feeling something inside that says, do something about this need. So he reached in and he did something. Tabitha didn't just say, I'm sorry for you. I know you're out of money. I know you20:02 don't have many clothes. Let me make you something. Let me buy you something. And the people were weeping because they lost somebody who cared about them. What does Peter do? Because Peter's shown20:14 up. And when Peter gets there, Peter, verse to 40, sends them all out of the room. He kneels down and he prays. Oh, let me let me pause here for a20:25 moment, because this is where I get ready to get gooder. Peter sends everybody out the room, because the widows are in the room crying.20:38 Why does Peter send everybody out the room? Because Peter wants to make sure only 1 person gets the glory. See,20:50 if everybody's in the room watching Peter do his thing, there may be the temptation to worship Peter. Peter wants to make sure that only God gets the glory.21:03 Watch out for folk who insist that you stay in the room, that you watch them perform, that you watch them do their thing, that you in other they're calling attention to21:14 them trumping the god that they serve. He clears the room, and he prays because Peter recognized that he don't have the power to do this.21:26 This is bigger than him. He prays. Okay. Now at this point, please pay attention to this. I want to simply try to21:38 explain prayer. First, negatively. Prayer is not forcing God to do what he does not plan to21:50 do. K. So let me get this straight. Prayer does not make God do anything. God has a will, and he determines what he's gonna do and not gonna do because he's sovereign.22:02 So praying is not forcing anything. But let me tell you what prayer is. Prayer is releasing what he has decided to do.22:14 K? It's not forcing him to do what he's decided not to do, but it is releasing what he has decided to do. So here it is.22:26 Once you got saved, God decided he was gonna do this much in your life. He that's that was pre decided before the foundation of the world. His will22:38 for you, his plan for you has been pre programmed. It's pre programmed. So if it's not in the program, you can pray, but22:49 nothing's gonna happen because prayer does not force him to do what he's unwilling to do. But what he demands is prayer for what he is willing to23:01 do. Now many of those things that God is willing to do is in scripture. The holy spirit reveals other things to us applied to our own lives that he wants to do. But those things23:13 he decided to do only when contact is made. If contact is not made okay. Here it is. When many of us get to heaven23:25 and god shows us our off-site storage. How many of you have storages where you put stuff? He gonna show you your off-site storage. And in23:37 that off-site storage is everything he planned to do where no contact was ever made, so it never left the storage. It's there, but because23:48 contact was not made, it's still there. And you and I will discover things that God had planned that were never instituted in our experience24:00 either because no contact was made or we didn't do it in the order. Him first, other second, you third. There is in prayer the24:12 contact. That's why James says, you have not because you ask not. Or he says, you ask with the wrong motives. It's not God first, other second. It's you first, you second, you24:24 third. Okay. So you ask amiss. Wrong motives. Okay. Let me try to illustrate it this way. Everybody here has power in your24:36 home based on your electricity provider. So you have an electricity provider, and that provider gives you power.24:48 That power means you can turn on lights, you can plug in appliances. That power makes life much more livable for us because it's connected to a power25:00 source or an electricity provider. But let me tell you what the electric company is not gonna do. They're not gonna come to your house and flip on your light switch.25:12 They're not gonna come into your house and plug in your appliances. What they have provided is a point of contact. You must flip on your light switch.25:24 You must plug in your appliances. You don't plug it in to get power. You plug it in to access power. You already have power, assuming you paid25:36 your bills. You've already have power. Your job is to access that power. And when it comes to your Christian experience with God, you don't have to25:48 worry about paying the bill because the bill has already been paid. Jesus Christ has already created the link to access God's predetermined26:01 program will, but that's accessed through prayer in this order. That is why a lot of people don't pray, they do not receive, or they do pray, but it's26:13 so out of whack to God's order that God can't respond and be true to himself. Peter prays. And then Peter says,26:25 arise, Tabitha. And she opened her eyes and saw Peter and sat up. He gave her his hand, raised her up,26:36 calling the saints and widows. He presented her alive. He said, here she is. Let me ask you a question.26:49 Do you even have a Peter? Is there somebody in your life who when you are so low, you can't cry out for yourself because you have died, because things27:01 are so low? Is there a Peter who you know can make contact with God when you can? Who can flip a light switch on because you can't reach him? Who can plug in an27:13 appliance because you can't get through? Or you're just hanging out with friends who are as dead as you? You need a Peter. You need somebody in your life who27:25 can cry out to God when you can't even do it for yourself. And a miracle happened. But27:37 let me tell you why the miracle happened. Let me show you 1 other lady briefly. It says, and it became known all over Joppa verse 42, and many believed in the Lord.27:51 You know why it happened? God let the lady die because he was getting ready to do a miracle so that he would get even more glory. Okay. Here's the28:02 deal. God lets things happen negatively so that when he shows up in the context of his28:14 will, he will get even greater glory. That's why he did it. He did it so that his name would be put on a billboard,28:27 and it would be clear. The God of the Bible did this because God does all things for his glory.28:40 Remember, she loved God first. She touched the other second. And then what did she get third? A miracle. And there's some folk here who need some miracles. You need God to do some things you can28:51 do. You need God to do some things other folk can't do. Doctors couldn't help her. She was dead. Humans couldn't help her, and God puts us in situations that we can't29:03 fix so that when they are fixed, it's clear who fixed them. Let me show you what I mean. Turn to first Samuel chapter 1.29:15 You know her. Her name is Hannah. I'm just gonna highlight a few things in chapter 1. We got a problem. We have a problem. We have a problem. The problem is Hannah29:27 can't get pregnant. That's the problem. Hannah can't get pregnant. But let me show you why. The end of verse 5, but the Lord had closed her womb. End of verse 6, because the29:39 Lord had closed her womb. Now let me explain something. If God closes your womb, I don't care who your obstetrician29:51 is. I don't care who your doctor is. If God closes your womb, that baby ain't not opening up. All she knew is she couldn't get30:03 pregnant. That's all she knew, but she couldn't get pregnant because the Lord closed her womb. The30:15 lord is blocking you from getting that new job. The lord is blocking you from getting that raise. The lord is blocking you from having that relationship. The lord is blocking you. The lord see, you got to know when it's30:27 the lord doing it. It appeared to be biological when actually it was theological. It was God shutting30:39 this thing down, And she was perturbed, saddened, and it went on, watch this, for years.30:51 Look at verse 7. It happened year after year. Now she kept going to church because it says often as she went up to the house of the31:03 Lord, she was being provoked and she wept and she couldn't even eat. This this thing was emotionally traumatic for her that she couldn't get pregnant. And then Panetta was making31:15 fun of her because she couldn't get pregnant. And and so she's got she's being ostracized. And she's the the longing for a child was not happening, and we're talking years.31:28 And she lost her appetite. I mean, this is negative stuff for a woman who's longing to have a child.31:40 In verse 10, she is greatly distressed. She prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. You ever prayed and cried? Okay. That means you're praying serious.31:52 This is not now I lay me down to sleep. Pray the Lord my soul will keep. This is this is wailing before God. And what's making her wail before God? How low things have gotten.32:04 Things are in other words, instead of getting better and better, it's getting worse and worse, and she's still going to church. So she's going to the house of the Lord, and things are getting worse and worse. And guess32:16 what? It's all God's fault. God closed the womb. Verse 11. Stay with me here. She made a32:27 vow and said, oh lord of host, because she's still committed to god even though she's struggling. If you will indeed look on the affliction of your maid servant32:39 and remember me and not forget your maid servant, but will give your maid servant a son, then I will give him to the32:51 Lord all the days of his life, and a razor shall never come to his head. She is so depressed.33:03 She's crying so loudly that now she makes a vow. Heretofore, there's no vow. Now she makes a vow, and33:15 notice how specific she is. Up until this point, all we're told is she couldn't get pregnant. Now she says, not only do I wanna get pregnant, I want a boy. She33:27 didn't go on overboard. We didn't go on from having a child to naming and claiming it. I want a boy. Not only do I want a boy, but if you give me a boy,33:39 I'm going to give the boy back to you for service in the Lord. So so that's her prayer because she's33:51 desperate. You know, when you get serious about prayer, when you get desperate enough. Reason why we don't pray desperate is because we're not desperate. We think we're desperate,34:03 but she is desperate because things have just gone south. While she's speaking, verse 13, in her heart, her lips are only moving. She's not34:15 saying anything. Her voice is not heard. Eli thinks she's drunk because she's sitting there moving her lips, but not saying34:27 anything. He said, woman, you're supposed to be talking to Jesus. You've been talking to Jack. Daniels, that is. Eli said to34:39 her, how long will you make yourself drunk? Put away the wine from you. Hannah replied, no, my lord. I'm a woman oppressed in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul34:51 before the lord. Do not consider your maid servant as a worthless woman, for I have spoken until now out of the great concern and provocation. Concerned I can't get pregnant, being provoked because I can't get pregnant.35:01 Eli said, go in peace and may the God of Israel grant the petition that you have asked of him. She said, let your maidservant find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way and ate, and her35:13 face was no longer sad. Let me say this before we drive to the conclusion. She went her face is no longer sad, but she's still not pregnant. But guess what? Her emotions have changed.35:26 She's no longer sad. Okay? Her prayers have not been answered, but she's now no longer in distress. Why? Because somebody was in her life speaking favor to35:37 her. It says Eli spoke favor to her and prayed that God would answer her prayer and she was no longer sad even though her prayer has35:49 not yet been answered. So make sure that you have somebody in your life who's speaking favor to your life while you're waiting on God to come through for your life.36:02 Okay? But now watch what happens. It says in verse 19, they arose early in the morning and worshiped. Uh-uh. God first. And returned again to the house in36:13 Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife and the Lord remembered her. Now that's interesting. It came about in due time after Hannah36:25 had conceived that she gave birth to a son, she named him Samuel because I have asked him of the Lord. Now watch this.36:38 It says she worshiped. She had relationships with her husband, and then it makes a very interesting statement. The lord remembered her. Now god can't36:50 forget anything. He's omniscient. He knows everything past, present, and future, what is and what if. He knows all things and all possibility. So he can't forget. So how37:02 can he remember something he can never forget theologically? What he remembered was her use of the word remember. See, this is not the first37:14 time remember shows up. Remembers in verse 11. So let's go back to verse 11. It says, you will indeed look on the inflictions of your maid servant and remember me. We find37:26 out in verse 19, the lord remembered her. So now we got the 2 words remember. Let's put them side by side. She says remember me, the Lord says he remembered37:38 her. When did he remember her? When she said remember me. But when did she say remember me? When she made a vow. Watch this now. But when did she make a vow? She made a37:50 vow when she was so desperate that if the Lord would answer the prayer, she was gonna turn her son over to the Lord. The Lord knew if he38:01 would have answered her prayer earlier when she was not at the point of a vow, she would not have gotten from the child what he wanted and needed from38:13 the child, which was for that child to be in his service. So he let that desperation go so low that she was willing to give up what she was asking for.38:26 I am so desperate to get pregnant and I'm gonna even ask for a boy that if you give me the boy, I'll give up the boy that I asked you to give me. God said, gotcha.38:39 I gotcha just where I want you. I brought you down to the place where I can get from you what I want. If I would have answered your prayer earlier without the vow, I wouldn't38:51 have had the boy. I want the boy because I need a prophet. Because I need a prophet, you gotta be willing to give up the boy I give to you, but that will only happen if I make39:03 you desperate enough. And she knew it. She says, I'm gonna call his name Samuel because I have gotten a boy from the Lord. It39:15 was clear. So verse 28, I have dedicated him to the Lord as long as he lives.39:27 You see, Israel needed a spiritual revival, so they needed a spiritual prophet. And he wanted Hannah to deliver this prophet, but he could only get this prophet when she was desperate enough39:39 to be willing to give him up. Now there may be somebody here who's in a state of depression and bitterness. She was bitter. She was depressed because nothing is happening. God is39:50 not answering the prayer. It's taking too long. If God has not taken that desire from you and if God hadn't said no, you keep going and you go deeper andShow more
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