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Mike Connell
Sun 19 May 2013 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 12 May 2013 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 5 May 2013 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 28 Apr 2013 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 21 Apr 2013 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 31 Mar 2013 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 24 Mar 2013 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 10 Mar 2013 AM
Life's circumstances can make you bitter or better. This message gives 5 key decisions you can make everyday to ensure your steps are ordered by God.
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Mike Connell
Sun 24 Feb 2013
If you loved someone passionately, had great power, and saw injustice - would you not step in and make it right? Get to understand what Justice and Judgement really mean.
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Mike Connell
Sun 17 Feb 2013 AM
Rev 19:11-16 Symbolism brought to life. How should we respond to a mighty conquering king?
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Mike Connell
Sun 10 Feb 2013 AM
The gospel story revealed in the context of a Jewish wedding.
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Mike Connell
Sun 3rd Feb 2013 AM
The focus of Revelations is a revelation of Jesus Christ - His person, His Characteristics, His purpose and plan for us. Overview - Jesus as Bridegroom; King of Kings; and Judge
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Mike Connell
Sun 6 Jan 2013 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 30 Dec 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 16 Dec 2012 AM
By this shall all men know you're My disciples: your love for one another. If you won't let me wash your feet, you won't have a part with Me. I am a foot washer. Those who follow Me are foot washers. Sometimes Jesus doesn't do the foot washing directly, He does it through a member of the body, so we need relationships, connections.
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Mike Connell, Dave Connell
Sun 9 Dec 2012
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Mike Connell
Sun 2nd Dec 2012 AM
Most of us would have had an experience where you really need God to give something to direct you but nothing happened. You sought the Lord, you prayed, read your Bible and nothing seemed to happen. It can be very troubling. You ask God to help you, He doesn't seem to help you; ask God to guide you, He doesn't seem to be guiding you, you don't seem to hear anything and it seems quite disturbing. It seems like at times heaven seems to be silent...
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Mike Connell
Sun 25 Nov 2012 PM
Adam heard God speaking to him when he was in the Garden, even though he'd sinned and walked away from God. People can hear the voice of God. We need to learn what it's like and how to recognise it. Once you become a believer Jesus expects not only would you hear His voice clearly, but you would actually respond and follow Him. So for a believer the number one thing that I would say if you have to learn anything in your life, this is the thing...
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Mike Connell
Sun 25 Nov 2012 AM
People are the measuring stick of how you're doing with God. It's very easy to be drawn into all range of spiritual experiences and these are wonderful, but if it doesn't convert to being connected to people and working with people and helping people, there is something majorly lacking. If you engage with Jesus, with Him and His work, you will discover the true identity and call of God on your life. If you focus on using God just to get your n...
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Mike Connell
Sun 18 Nov 2012 AM
Church isn't perfect, it has many problems, probably so many problems we could spend a day or two just describing them all, but nevertheless His church is His church. It's His bride, it's the one He came for and He will make His church perfect. We can't follow Jesus and not be engaged with His people, and the cause He has in changing a community. Life is not all about you, and the sooner you realise it, the happier you will become.
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Mike Connell
Sun 28 Oct 2012 AM
How many people can remember the last time Jesus spoke clearly to do something? Here's the real question. Have you done it? When nothing comes, go back to what the last thing Jesus said was. Following Christ introduces you to a whole new set of challenges in your life. Following Christ is a courageous thing to do because you will face things you'd never have had to face. You'll face some opposition, difficulties, challenges, setbacks. You've ...
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Mike Connell
Sun 21 Oct 2012 AM
Offences will come. They are part of life. There's no way of escaping it. It's impossible that you're going to miss out on your opportunity to face some very offensive behaviour or some offending things, or some things happening that upset you. The first thing is to focus on yourself and your personal response. Jesus said take heed to yourself. Carefully guard your condition of heart. It's a choice.
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Mike Connell
Sun 14 Oct 2012 PM
Jesus shows His dominion over nature, total authority over the law of gravity when He's walking on water. When He got into the boat immediately the wind just stopped. The third thing that happened was immediately the boat was on the other side, transported! Sometimes when we read the gospels we just read them almost with eyes blinded to the reality of the supernatural. Go preach the gospel, and signs will follow those who believe
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Mike Connell
Sun 14 Oct 2012 AM
You don't always see the connection between your actions and the current storm. Sometimes there's a bit of time takes place before finally you start to reap the consequences of your actions and your inner storm, whether it be in your marriage, in your family, in your finances, in your personal life, in your work life and actually it's the result of neglect or the result of poor choices. You're going to have to not just pray about it and blame ...
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Mike Connell
Sun 7 Oct 2012 AM
The Bible describes a withered condition where joy has withered away. Man, we need plenty of joy in our life, need to laugh more, have more fun and connect with people. Enjoy the life of God. It's not a hard life, it's a great life walking with God - but what has withered it up? Has fear withered it up? Fear will shrink the gifts of God in our life. Jesus said My joy I give to you, let no man take it from you. You never see the power of God in...
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Mike Connell
Sun 9 Sep 2012 AM
There's something about generosity that creates a very sweet fragrance. When people give and there's nothing in it for themselves, they've just given unexpectedly to you, then there's something sweet about it. Generosity usually exposes greed. God is love and you can't love without giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving, so the greatest way we express the love of God to people is when we can be generous and kind...
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Mike Connell
Sun 2nd Sep 2012 PM
People are a gift from God, so right now in this room there could be someone who's a gift from God for you and you wouldn't even know it, but there is a way you can unlock it. Whatever you disrespect will move away from you, whatever you respect will attract towards you. We can become offended when people don't meet our expectations, and start to dishonour and disrespect them. Prejudice can stop you receiving people, pride is a terrible thing,...
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Mike Connell
Sun 2nd Sep 2012 AM
To be valiant is to be bold, to be courageous, to hold fast to the commitments in the face of adversity, to face your fear and wrestle with it and still deal with it anyway. God always sees what you could be. He sees what he's designed you to be. Paul said that at the end of his life. I've finished my course. I've run my race and a crown is laid up for me.
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Mike Connell
Sun 26 Aug 2012 AM
We have seen many people that have had much money and yet they didn't have what money seemed to promise, health and prosperity and every good thing. It seems like it still eludes them, so we looked at that and saw that Jesus taught very specifically about us placing God first. To be generous is to be liberal. It's an attitude of heart that shows up in every area of your life including finances. Generosity exposes selfishness!
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Mike Connell
Sun 19 Aug 2012 PM
I've seen too many rich people who had miserable lives to believe that money can really make your life happy. It just can't. God can make you happy, money can't. Money is just a piece of paper. It's some numbers in the bank. It cannot make your life happy. What it does instead is it tends to create problems.
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Mike Connell
Sun 12 Aug 2012 PM
Life is a mixture of experiences - some sweet and some bitter. The Bible abounds in examples and stories of people, and it tells us that without faith we can never please God. We must learn how to trust Him, and trust is developed in private, but it's always shown up in difficult experiences we have in life. So difficulties are an opportunity for us to grow because they reveal our heart condition.
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Mike Connell
Sun 12 Aug 2012 AM
The number of times Jesus talked about wealth and possessions, stewardship and accountability, far exceeded any discussion on any topic. In fact there's about 10 times the number of references to finances and stewardship and resources, than there are to faith and salvation, and yet all of these go together. Often the moment we start to talk about money, people freeze - and we will see why...
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Mike Connell
Sun 15 Jul 2012 AM
The Bible says if I don't do the word of God, if I don't apply into my life what God's saying to me, actually I end up quite deceived because I think I'm doing real well because I measure doing real well by the information I know - and I've got three folders worth of Bible notes. I've been to Bible school - I've got a whole folder full of Ian's notes - and the CD! But you know what? None of this in the end, until it's applied, changes my life....
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Mike Connell
Sun 8 Jul 2012 AM
Sin is a living, spiritual entity. When sin is in your life it's not just something that sits there. It is something alive, operative, active, wanting to increase its hold over your life and produces death. The Holy Spirit works to energise us. What does He energise us to do, and more specifically, how do I get that happening in my life? How can I move from where I am to there?
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Mike Connell
Sun 1st Jul 2012
Jesus didn't just save you to get into heaven. He saved you to fulfil the original purpose which is to restore the earth, to restore people, to restore our community one soul at a time. God wants all of us to be at work, one person at a time, changing our community. Don't quit your job to do something great for God, your job is where your place of calling is. Get energised by the Holy Ghost!
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Mike Connell
Sun 24 Jun 2012 PM
God wants you to have a vibrant purpose. He wants you connected to Him, to understand your purpose, and fully engage with Him. If for some reason that you have been injured in life, hurt in life or disconnected from God, it's inevitable your life will not demonstrate all it could. Your life will be like this man with the withered hand, not just a physical thing but emotional, with tremendous shame
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Mike Connell
Sun 24 Jun 2012 AM
Keys from the story of Sampson, about the grace of god, how he loves us even in the midst of defeat and disgrace. This story is about the goodness of God to someone who's fallen over, fallen down. You are not beyond the reach of God no matter where you are today. The best days of our life are ahead of us if we're in the hands of God.
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Mike Connell
Sun 17 Jun 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Mon 11 Jun 2012 PM
Repeat of the next sermon (5 loaves, 2 fish), but includes Joy's Testimony from Asia, and Mike praying for some people.
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Mike Connell
Sun 10 Jun 2012 PM
God wants you to experience the supernatural. Look beyond yourself at the needs of others. Miracles require you to take initiative in faith. Miracles require you to do what you can. Miracles require you to speak and act. Application: Do you see the needs around you? Are you moved? Not my problem? What's your response? compassion? What do you have that God could use? What will you do?
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Mike Connell, Joy Connell
Sun 10 Jun 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 6 May 2012 PM
Proverbs 29 tells us that without a Vision, people are naked, or dwell naked, or dwell carelessly. One of the most important senses you've got in your life is vision, the ability to see. Imagine what it would be like to live in a world with darkness. This is the world that Jesus came into, a world with spiritual darkness, to help people. God wants you to have vision for your life, wants you to see
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Mike Connell
Sun 6 May 2012 AM
This is about people who are walking with God, moving in the supernatural, but there's something really missing in what they do and how they do it. It's not that they aren't seeing results - they're seeing people healed, delivered, touched by the presence or power of God, but there's something missing at the core of their being. Notice what He says: 1) I didn't know you; 2) you did your own thing
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Mike Connell
Sun 29 Apr 2012 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 29 Apr 2012 AM
Your life is short when you compare it to the times, seasons and ages that are ahead. The Bible tells us clearly there's a millennial age when Christ will come, our life here is our stewardship for that age. The work to get saved has been done by Jesus, but after that He calls us to do something with our life. All the hardship now is nothing compared to what God has prepared for those who love him
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Mike Connell
Sun 22 Apr 2012 AM
Most people live just in the pressures and problems of their immediate day to day life and can't rise up above it. You need to be gripped by a vision of where your life is going and what you're called to be and to do. If we have no concepts about what God has prepared for us we just fritter away our days and meaningless activities consume our life. Your life is precious.You've only got one to live
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Mike Connell
Sun 22 Apr 2012
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Mike Connell
Sun 15 Apr 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 8 Apr 2012
Great Power was released at Jesus Death & Resurrection. The veil in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, the rocks (hard places) were split in two. The graves were opened. There was another greater (megas) earthquake. The stone was rolled back. Jesus arose from the dead, and many saints arose from the dead also.
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Mike Connell
Sun 1st Apr 2012 PM
Jesus will come again, and there's things that He wants us to be busy doing. It's not come to Jesus, fill in my life, and then go to heaven. This is so far from the plan of God as to be quite a deception. God wants your life to be powerfully engaged in advancing His kingdom. He wants you to be filled with the Holy Ghost & moving! So we share with you 3 parables, each one has something to tell us.
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Mike Connell
Sun 1st Apr 2012
How will we know the end of the age? How will we know your second coming? One of the great things for us as believers is to know that not only Jesus came once, He will come again. There are massive issues related to His second coming that affect how you live your life. So Jesus spoke some parables and He had three parables and each parable brings out a different aspect of His coming.
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Mike Connell
Sun 1st Apr 2012
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Mike Connell
Mon 26 Mar 2012 AM
One of the most painful experiences in life is to go through experiences where you're unloved or where people react against you, where they speak against you or where there's physical or emotional violence, and you actually experience over a period of time a deep sense of lack of value, that I don't belong or I'm not valuable to anyone. You come to the conclusion in your heart that I'm unlovable.
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Mike Connell
Sun 25 Mar 2012 AM
Jesus has been asked some very important questions. The disciples asked Him tell us about the future of Jerusalem, what's going to happen, when are these things going to happen. They said tell us when you will come. We want to know about the end of the age. For a believer our hope is not the things that happen in our life now. Our hope is set in eternity, and life is an apprenticeship.
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Mike Connell
Sun 11 Mar 2012 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 11 Mar 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 11 Mar 2012
How many know that you're involved in struggle and conflict in life? Life isn't that easy. Everyone is fighting in the same battle. For you to get forward and to progress in your life, for you to get somewhere, you've got to learn how to stand up & fight. You've got to learn what you're fighting against and how to fight. The only fight that is any good is the one you win! So to fight a good fight.
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Mike Connell
Sun 4th Mar 2012 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 4th Mar 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 26 Feb 2012
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Mike Connell
Sun 19 Feb 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 12 Feb 2012 PM
All the Philistines went up to search for David to kill him. David enquired of the Lord, saying shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand? The Lord said to David go up, doubtless I will deliver them into your hands. What would you take on this year if you heard God saying to you go for it, you can't lose?
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Mike Connell
Sun 12 Feb 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 5 Feb 2012 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 29 Jan 2012 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 29 Jan 2012 AM
Honour your father and mother - the first of the ten commandments that comes with a promise. It's unusual because it carries a blessing that God has described and notice the blessing is in two parts. It says that it will be well with you and you'll live long on the earth. Now the implication in that is if you violate that commandment by dishonouring your mother and your father it will affect your physical health, it'll affect your life expecta...
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Mike Connell
Sat 28 Jan 2012 PM
Honour your father and mother - the first of the ten commandments that comes with a promise. It's unusual because it carries a blessing that God has described and notice the blessing is in two parts. It says that it will be well with you and you'll live long on the earth. Now the implication in that is if you violate that commandment by dishonouring your mother and your father it will affect your physical health, it'll affect your life expecta...
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Mike Connell, Joy Connell
Sat 28 Jan 2012 AM
Pastor Joy shares a personal trauma, and how that has negatively impacted her many years later, and then how she found freedom from that.
Pastor Mike then teaches on a list of areas that can give spirits access to our life, such as: Trauma, Abuse, Soul Ties, Controlling Relationships, having a Death Wish, making Inner Vows, curses and agreement with words spoke over our lives, burdens of responsibility, and secrecy pacts.
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Mike Connell
Fri 27 Jan 2012 PM
You've got an issue. Your issue's unforgiveness. It's YOUR issue. You've got to deal with it and people - but that's not fair! So unfair! And so we say we have to forgive - that's unfair, you know, because we're locked in self-pity and locked in the issue of injustice. We're not willing to bring injustice to the cross and move on, so we've got a key to all freedom.
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Mike Connell
Fri 27 Jan 2012 AM
Powerful demonstration of the Deliverance Ministry at a 4-day conference in San Diego, based around a detailed explanation the Biblical foundations. This is an important commission for all believers to understand and experience. Mike Connell has a wealth of experience and understanding in this area, and provides exciting teaching and demonstrations.
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Mike Connell
Sun 8 Jan 2012
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Mike Connell
Sun 8 Jan 2012
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Mike Connell
Sun 1st Jan 2012
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Mike Connell
Sun 18 Dec 2011 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 27 Nov 2011 AM
If you have a besetting problem, something that seems to stick in your life, it’s been in your family, it’s in your life and you’re concerned it’s starting to turn up in your children, I’ll help you understand what it is and what to do about it. The answer is the blood of Jesus Christ. Exodus, Chapter 12, and this is the first Passover that the Jews ever had. It’s a prophetic picture of the work of Jesus Christ at Calvary.
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Mike Connell
Sun 20 Nov 2011 AM
If I just tell you that Jesus died for your sins, and He's forgiven you, it's very shallow. But if we begin to look into some of the pictures and patterns shown in the Old Testament, oh, it becomes so vivid all that He did, because it's hard to explain to someone all that Jesus did on the cross. That's why the Old Testament has got these pictures so as you study them and keep thinking about Jesus and what He did for us you begin to see the ful...
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Mike Connell
Sun 6 Nov 2011 AM
Sin has consequences. God wants us to deal with the deliberate transgressions, with the sins of ignorance, and to deal with inequity, the thing that gets into our whole family line. The blood is the remedy for all three. God says that rather than kill people the moment that they commit sin, He'll let them carry inequity or carry the consequence of it through their generational line.
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Mike Connell
Sun 30 Oct 2011 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 30 Oct 2011
Many struggle consistently in their intimacy with God, and in believing that God will answer their prayers. In fact probably the most common problem that people face is a sense of not being good enough, that somehow I'm not good enough, that there's something wrong with me and when I pray it doesn't look like God's going to answer. If you're living with this it's because there's some foundations are not built and established in your life and u...
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Mike Connell
Sun 23 Oct 2011 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 9 Oct 2011 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 2nd Oct 2011 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 2nd Oct 2011 AM
You've got something that can change your life as a gift to you. He's called the Holy Ghost. Jesus said I'll not leave you alone. He said I'll give you another comforter. He's been with you, now He'll be in you. You've got some fire inside you and he said they were filled with the Holy Ghost, began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. It's fantastic.
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Mike Connell
Sun 11 Sep 2011 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 11 Sep 2011 AM
what is the will of God? How many people have wondered that? God, what is Your will? Oh God, what is Your will? There's so many decisions we face - God, what do you want? You don't know what He wants, because somehow it's very quiet. Paul in Colossians 1:19 says he was praying that we'd be filled with knowledge of the will of God, so clearly it's God's plan you know his will and two, that you actually be filled with understanding and have a se...
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Mike Connell
Sun 4th Sep 2011 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 4th Sep 2011 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 14 Aug 2011 PM
We read in the paper of accidents, car accidents, motor vehicle accidents, young people dying and there are questions, many questions people have in their hearts about the reality of what happens after death and what happens to a person when they die, what happens in the first five seconds after you die. These are questions people often don't speak out but they wonder about them. There's a tremendous amount of nonsense in the movies to try and...
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Mike Connell
Sun 14 Aug 2011
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Mike Connell
Sun 7 Aug 2011 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 7 Aug 2011 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 7 Aug 2011 AM
Hope deferred makes the heart sick. In other words when you have a dream, an expectation, something you're looking forward to and it's continually delayed, put off, doesn't happen, your heart grows sick. That means to be weak or be in grief. When our heart is in grief it affects all of our life. It affects your motivation, so whenever we have a dream and then it's delayed, we begin to wonder about what our life could be like.
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Mike Connell
Sun 7 Aug 2011 AM
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Mike Connell
Sat 6 Aug 2011 PM
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Mike Connell
Sat 6 Aug 2011 AM
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Mike Connell
Sun 31 Jul 2011 AM
Complaining is the sign of a loser. You are losing because you can't see what the purpose of the difficulty is, and how it's not meant to destroy you, it's meant to help you grow. When you start complaining, you're dying and perishing and losing. You see if you complain, you're saying this; God, I don't trust you to use this for my good. God, I don't believe you'll help me. I'm just ticked off. God does not choose that outcome, you do. if yo...
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Mike Connell
Sun 31 Jul 2011
At the age of 17 Joseph had a prophetic dream. That prophetic dream was a glimpse or an insight to what his future could be and there are ways you can position yourself to get prophetic dreams. Joseph learned how to operate in the gifts of the spirit in prison. Learn to hold onto God, remain faithful to Him in spite of what it feels like and what circumstance. Learn to love the people around you.
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Mike Connell
Sun 17 Jul 2011 AM
The common misunderstandings people have is that somehow there's some force that forces everything to work according to a certain pattern and you have no control over it. Sometimes people have this idea God is sovereign, God's in charge of everything, so whatever happens God's to blame for it and we can't really do much about that. Now these are very wrong concepts. In fact although God has planned a life and things for us to accomplish, He gi...
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Mike Connell
Sun 10 Jul 2011 PM
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Mike Connell
Sun 10 Jul 2011 AM
You don't need God to tell you everything. He wants you to use wisdom, common sense. God doesn't want you to be a slave, so you've got to connect with your heart, and you do your homework. You've got to identify your desires, and make plans, seek counsel.
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