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blessings of the Lord.
Failure is not final for the Child Of God
Some of you have been beat down so long, you’ ve been told you’ re worthless for so long; you’ ve been told everything is going to turn out wrong for so long, you’ re not even expecting anything anymore. You need to get your mind sanctified. I’ m not talking about evil thoughts. I’ m talking about negative thoughts. You’ re thinking negative thoughts about yourself. It’ s not going to get any better; it’ s just going to get worse. My family’ s not going to get saved. We’ re going to go broke. I’ m going to die with cancer. You have all these negative thoughts; you need to cast them out in the name of Jesus and get out into the deep water. You need to
launch out into the deep, launch out with God. And when they did, they pulled in all these fish, and you know what Peter had? He had a revelation right in the middle of all that. He said you’ re the Messiah; and he left everything and followed Jesus.
Jesus calls him out and he begins to follow the Lord. He was different from the other disciples. He had one disciple, John, and he was always talking about love. Let us love one another, for love is of God and he that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love. But not Peter, he didn’ t talk about that. Peter said, when the Lord said you’ re going to deny me here, he said well Mr. love may do it, Mr. half sissy over here. He may, but not me, cause I’ ve got a secret weapon. Peter
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