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“But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it, I will make a pathway through the wilderness.I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19 (NLT) 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” – John 4:22-24 (NKJV) 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. – LUKE 7:37-38 (NKJV) Those who worship the host of heaven [stars] on the housetops; - Zeph. 1:5a (NKJV) ***STARS GET IN TROUBLE WHEN THEY TAKE ALL THE GLORY……GOD CREATES THEM AND GIVES THEM THEIR LIGHT. Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. Daniel 12:3 (NKJV) For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other. – Isaiah 45:18 (NKJV) 1. WHEN WE TRY TO GET, THROUGH OUR EFFORTS, WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE BY GRACE, WE VOLUNTARILY GIVE UP OUR AUTHORITY. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” – Genesis 1:26 (NKJV) hen the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” – Genesis 3:4-5 (NKJV) And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.” – Luke 4:6-8 (NKJV) Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? – Romans 6:16 (NKJV) 2. THERE IS ALWAYS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT’S IN YOUR ACCOUNT AND WHAT’S IN YOUR POSSESSION. And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4:19 (NKJV) I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. – EXODUS 23:29 (NKJV) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him – 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 (NKJV) And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” – MATTHEW 16:19 (NKJV)