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God Won't Release The Promise Until You're Prepared Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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Speaker 1: What is happening in this place is the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: is bearing witness that we are in the right place
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Speaker 1: at the right time on the precipice, on the precipice
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Speaker 1: of an absolute revolution. It's time out for doing events
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Speaker 1: just to do events. If they're not purpose driven, if
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Speaker 1: they're not revelational, if they're not empowering, if they're not relevant,
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Speaker 1: we don't have time to waste our energy in things
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Speaker 1: that are not congruent with our destiny. because the Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit has confirmed to us it's going to be big.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be big. Every farmer knows when he
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Speaker 1: plants a seed that he does not expect to reap
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Speaker 1: a seed from a seed. Whatever went in the ground
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Speaker 1: is gonna come out bigger when it comes out than
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Speaker 1: it was when it went in. If it's in good soil,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna flourish. Lay your hands on yourself and say,
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Speaker 1: I am good soil. Yeah, anybody who invests in me
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Speaker 1: is gonna be blessed. Anybody who loves me is going
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Speaker 1: to be blessed. Anybody who befriends me is going to
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Speaker 1: be blessed. I am good soil. If you plant an
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Speaker 1: idea in me, I'll create a product around it.
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Speaker 2: Come on.
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Speaker 1: If you plant a seed in me, I'll produce a
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Speaker 1: harvest behind it. Anybody who invests in me, lay your
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Speaker 1: hands on yourself. I am good soil. That's why God
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Speaker 1: made Adam from the dust of the earth. Because he
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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that he used.
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Speaker 1: Good soil. It's going to be big. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be big, y'all. It's going to be big. Let me
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Speaker 1: go to work. Joshua chapter 1 verse 9 through 17.
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Speaker 1: There you will find my assignment for this morning. I
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Speaker 1: asked God, what would you have me share with your people?
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Speaker 1: After 46 years of preaching, I am blind without your leadership,
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Speaker 1: incompetent without your direction, insufficient without your instructions, incapable without
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Speaker 1: your anointing.
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Speaker 2: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.
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Speaker 1: What would you have me say to this people at
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Speaker 1: this time in their lives? And he drove me to
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Speaker 1: Joshua chapter 1.
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Speaker 3: Verse 9. I said, Joshua? Yeah, go to Joshua chapter 1,
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Speaker 3: verse 9. I said, Lord, but Joshua is a tempestuous
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Speaker 3: book at a transitional time with transformative leadership, with the
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Speaker 3: fierce urgency of altercations, So that there might be infiltration.
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Speaker 1: Listen closely at me. Altercation so that there might be infiltration.
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Speaker 1: Should I use Joshua law? Joshua is not a book
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Speaker 1: for wimps. Joshua is not a book for those who
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Speaker 1: are faint of heart. Joshua is a book that is
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Speaker 1: designed for people who have survived the desert, made it
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Speaker 1: through the dry places, and still have enough strength to
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Speaker 1: embark on what is about to happen in their life.
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Speaker 1: Joshua is for the remnants of people that the desert
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Speaker 1: tried to take out and it didn't work. Joshua, it
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Speaker 1: is the beginning of a beginning again.
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Speaker 2: It is a fresh start.
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Speaker 1: It is the recycling of a covenant people who have
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Speaker 1: been recycled in the midst of transition. It is the
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Speaker 1: place of discomfort. It is the place of disruption. You
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Speaker 1: want me to take them to Joshua, Lord? Yes, take
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Speaker 1: them to Joshua. Joshua is the place where old things
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Speaker 1: are passed away. The book of Joshua is the repass
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Speaker 1: after the funeral of Moses. It is the closing of
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Speaker 1: one door and the opening of the next. The book
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Speaker 1: of Joshua is synergistic With a total transformation of the
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Speaker 1: way the people think who have been trained in 40
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Speaker 1: years of survival training but have not been taught in success.
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Speaker 1: For the last 40 years, they have developed the techniques
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Speaker 1: that were necessary to sustain.
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Speaker 2: Them in dry places. But the drought is over. The
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Speaker 2: drought is over.
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Speaker 1: And now they are stepping into a new transformative experience
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Speaker 1: with a new leader requiring new skills, which means that
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Speaker 1: they must be, shameless plug, disruptive in their thinking. Because
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Speaker 1: if they hold on to their old thinking... If you
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Speaker 1: go into new places with old thinking, the wineskins burst
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Speaker 1: because they don't have the flexibility to deal with expansion.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be big. And if it's going to
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Speaker 1: be big, I've got to be pliable. I'm in the
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Speaker 1: book of Joshua. Let me read it to you. I'm excited.
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Speaker 2: Here God speaks to Joshua.
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Speaker 1: Having just eulogized Moses, he opens his mouth and clears
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Speaker 1: his throat and says, Now, Moses, my servant, is dead.
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Speaker 1: As I was with Moses, so shall I be. Was
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Speaker 1: and shall. Was and shall. We are right in between
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Speaker 1: was and shall. and shall, as I was with Moses,
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Speaker 1: so shall I be with Joshua. Now we eavesdrop on
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Speaker 1: God commanding his general, teaching him how to lead. Not
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Speaker 1: so he has not led before. He has led in
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Speaker 1: a subordinate level up under a leader, but he has
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Speaker 1: never led where he is fully in charge and the
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Speaker 1: buck stops with them. And so even though he has
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Speaker 1: some experience and preparatory resolution that abides in him based
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Speaker 1: on that past experience, still he's not ready for this.
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Speaker 1: So God says to him, be strong. And I want
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Speaker 1: to say that to you.
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Speaker 2: Be strong.
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Speaker 1: Don't confuse strong with angry. I've seen a lot of
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Speaker 1: people who were angry but not strong. Who talked tough
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Speaker 1: but cracked easy. God says, for what I'm getting ready
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Speaker 1: to do, you must be strong. Have not I commanded thee?
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Speaker 1: I command you to be strong. I'm not asking you.
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Speaker 1: I command thee to be strong and of good courage.
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Speaker 1: Be not afraid. Neither be thou dismayed. For the Lord
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Speaker 1: thy God is with thee. Yeah, that settles it right there.
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Speaker 1: The Lord thy God is with thee. Whether so ever
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Speaker 1: thou goest. Now, when God commanded Joshua, then Joshua commanded
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Speaker 1: the officers. See, we have people commanding people who have
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Speaker 1: not been commanded. We have people leading people who have
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Speaker 1: not been led. Then Joshua commanded the officers. He didn't
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Speaker 1: bring it to the officers until God brought it to him.
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Speaker 1: The officers are the people saying... Pass.
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Speaker 2: Through the hosts.
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Speaker 1: Go through the crowd and command the people. You cannot
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Speaker 1: command people until you can be commanded you can't give
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Speaker 1: orders if you can't take them pass through the hosts
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Speaker 1: and command the people saying prepare your victuals prepare your
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Speaker 1: victuals prepare your food, your sustenance, your necessities, your needs,
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Speaker 1: the equipment that is necessary for sustainability, I charge you, no,
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Speaker 1: I command you to prepare your victuals. For within three days,
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Speaker 1: ye shall pass over this Jordan to go into a land,
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Speaker 1: to go in to possess the land which the Lord
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Speaker 1: your God giveth you to possess it. He gave it
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Speaker 1: to you, but you got to possess it. And plus,
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Speaker 1: in addition to, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the
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Speaker 1: half tribe of Manasseh spake Joshua saying, Here's the challenge
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Speaker 1: to you. Remember the word which Moses, the servant of
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Speaker 1: the Lord, commanded you, saying, the Lord your God have
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Speaker 1: given you rest and have given you this land, meaning
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Speaker 1: this land on this side of the Jordan. Your wives,
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Speaker 1: your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the
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Speaker 1: land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan.
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Speaker 2: You cannot sit comfortably.
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Speaker 1: In what has already been allocated to you while your
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Speaker 1: brothers remain in lack. Ye shall pass before your brethren armed,
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Speaker 1: all the mighty men of valor and help them. Question,
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Speaker 1: who are you helping? I know you've been blessed. I
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Speaker 1: know you got knowledge. I know you got degrees. I
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Speaker 1: know you got opportunities. I know you got influence. I
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Speaker 1: know you got a nice car. I know you got
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Speaker 1: a Gucci bag. I know you're wearing Louis Vuitton. Excuse me.
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Speaker 2: Who are you helping?
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Speaker 1: Until the Lord has given your brethren rest as he
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Speaker 1: hath given you, and they also have possessed the land
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Speaker 1: which the Lord your God hath given them, then ye
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Speaker 1: shall return unto the land of your possessions and enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: You might be partying at the wrong time. You can't
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Speaker 1: celebrate while your brothers suffer. which Moses the Lord's servant
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Speaker 1: gave you on this side of Jordan toward the sun rising.
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Speaker 1: And they answered Joshua saying, all that thou commandest us
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Speaker 1: we will do and whether so ever thou sendest us
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Speaker 1: we will go.
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Speaker 2: We will not sit out on the land.
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Speaker 1: That we've already possessed and build our houses and sit
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Speaker 1: up under shade trees and drink tall glasses of iced
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Speaker 1: tea with mint leaves on the top while our brother's
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Speaker 1: throat is parched and skin is burnt and they are wandering,
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to figure out how to
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Speaker 1: figure out how to get in. According as we hearken
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Speaker 1: unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee.
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Speaker 1: Only the Lord thy God be with thee as he
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Speaker 1: was with Moses. My subject this morning is prep before
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Speaker 1: the promise. Prep before the problem. Why did you use that?
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Speaker 1: Prepare your victuals. For in three days, we will cross
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Speaker 1: this Jordan.
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Speaker 2: You may be seated. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: Spirit of the Lord, God falls fresh on us as
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Speaker 1: we break into the word of God today. I thank
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Speaker 1: you for the word of God being made flesh. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for what you're about to do. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: all that you've invested in us. I believe you for
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Speaker 1: a blessing in Jesus' name.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: I just concluded on yesterday my annual strategy meeting where
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Speaker 1: various influencers, companies, corporations, and our entire staff surrounded the
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Speaker 1: room just to ruminate in the possibilities of what our
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Speaker 1: combined strength could achieve. I have come to learn that
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Speaker 1: we are better together then we are apart. I have
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Speaker 1: come to learn that if you can fulfill your dream
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Speaker 1: on your own, it is too small for you. So
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Speaker 1: we galvanize the best of the best from every walk
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Speaker 1: of life, from all types of business, from travel and
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Speaker 1: leisure to Wells Fargo to Bank of America. They were
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Speaker 1: all in the room to McDonald's. They were all in
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Speaker 1: the room to learn and glean and and to contemplate
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Speaker 1: how we could increase our force and our impact, not
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Speaker 1: on our church. Our church has received its promised land,
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Speaker 1: but our brethren in our community have not. And so
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Speaker 1: we deliberated on it with great contemplation, a strategic alliance
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Speaker 1: that was necessary in order to fulfill the closing of
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Speaker 1: the gap of equity, of home ownership, of job creation,
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Speaker 1: of the kinds of things that are necessary to reduce
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Speaker 1: crime and frustration and murder and mental health.
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Speaker 2: Because the truth of the matter, some of.
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Speaker 1: Us have worried ourselves to death Over survival. We have
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Speaker 1: not possessed the land. God commanded us to possess land.
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Speaker 1: The command of God is to possess land, not money,
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Speaker 1: possess land. They are printing money while I'm talking to you.
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Speaker 1: But they ain't making no more land. So when you
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Speaker 1: start talking about the risk of the market, you must
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Speaker 1: understand that the market has this risk, but if the
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Speaker 1: land is well bought, it is absolute, distinct, and completely irreplaceable.
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Speaker 1: Artificial intelligence will not create it. It will not replace it.
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Speaker 1: It is in a category all by itself. And so
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Speaker 1: as we prepared for our leadership conference and for our
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Speaker 1: good soul initiatives, for our foundation, for our future, we
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Speaker 1: spent hours and hours and hours with bright minds in preparation.
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Speaker 1: And the preparation didn't just start two days ago. The
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Speaker 1: preparation has been going on for years. So we prepped
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Speaker 1: for the prep to prep for what's next. Preparation is underrated.
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Speaker 1: In a world raised by the click of a button
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Speaker 1: and touching on an icon and a whole world opens up,
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Speaker 1: we expect life to work like Apple. Just touch it
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Speaker 1: and it opens. Face recognition, it's me. And it opens
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Speaker 1: for you. But there are certain doors that in order
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Speaker 1: to be ready for them, you have to be prepared
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Speaker 1: for them. I cook, and many of you know that
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Speaker 1: I like to cook, and I have been cooking since
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Speaker 1: I was about 13 years old, but I cook the
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Speaker 1: old-fashioned way, often where you prep and cook on the
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Speaker 1: same day. My son has a tendency to prep ahead.
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Speaker 1: He talks about brining and soaking and saturating. And so
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Speaker 1: I have adapted a new methodology to old school cooking.
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Speaker 1: Because I found out that when you prep it, when
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Speaker 1: you don't prep in advance, you flavor the food. Now
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Speaker 1: my goal is to flavor the bone. So when I
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Speaker 1: cook my ribs, I'm not interested in flavoring the meat.
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Speaker 1: I think ribs are best when the bone tastes as
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Speaker 1: good as the meat. And if you're going to get
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Speaker 1: the flavoring to escape. the exterior facade and the elusiveness
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Speaker 1: of sauce then you must permeate it with seasoning early
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Speaker 1: enough that the seasoning can saturate down past the exterior
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Speaker 1: skin through the meat down to the bones And you
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Speaker 1: won't really know that you've done it right until you're
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Speaker 1: eating it and the bone is as flavored.
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Speaker 2: As the meat.
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Speaker 1: This text that I want after all that I read
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Speaker 1: is really summed up in a few words, prepare your victuals.
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Speaker 1: And to a novice reader, this is a footnote. and incidental, irrelevant,
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Speaker 1: not specific, not important. After all, they have survived the
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Speaker 1: desert and the walls of Jericho are in front of them.
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Speaker 1: Walls so high that they could not scale them and
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Speaker 1: so wide that chariots rode across the top of them.
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Speaker 1: And why would we not talk about the magnitude of
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Speaker 1: the walls? the fierceness of the obstacle in front of them.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe perhaps talk about the grief of the dying
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Speaker 1: Moses who went up in the mountain like he had
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Speaker 1: off gone before, only this time he did not return.
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Speaker 1: And there was no closure. They had to reckon him
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Speaker 1: to be dead. No wonder the Apostle Paul in the
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Speaker 1: New Testament says reckon your flesh to be dead. It
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Speaker 1: will not confirm it for you. You just have to
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Speaker 1: reckon it to be dead. They had to reckon Moses
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Speaker 1: to be dead. Having only God's word as an absolution, Moses,
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Speaker 1: my servant, is dead. All they knew is that he
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Speaker 1: didn't come down. He had often gone up on the mountain,
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Speaker 1: but this time He did not come down. Now, to
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Speaker 1: lose people, they had been losing millions of people as
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Speaker 1: they traveled and sojourned through the wilderness. They were used
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Speaker 1: to the wilderness being littered with bodies along the way.
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Speaker 1: But this time was different because you can lose people,
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Speaker 1: but when you lose Moses, You don't meet a Moses
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Speaker 1: every day. Moses was God sent and God breathed and
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Speaker 1: God equipped and every single solitary miracle they had witnessed
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Speaker 1: since slavery had been achieved through his hands.
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Speaker 2: And his hands....
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Speaker 1: They would see no more. And the wailing sounded like
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Speaker 1: thunder at the bottom of the mountain. Because to lose
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Speaker 1: Moses is to lose direction. Moses was the guide who
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Speaker 1: guided them through the wilderness. And it wasn't just that
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Speaker 1: they lost leaders, they lost their compass. One that had
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Speaker 1: been tried and true and absolute that had proven himself
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Speaker 1: to be effective at leading them forward is now dead.
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Speaker 2: Just when they were almost there. Just when they were
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Speaker 2: on the precipice of a new beginning.
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Speaker 1: Just when they were about to step into the promised land.
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Speaker 2: Then lost Moses.
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Speaker 1: And it seems appropriate that if we were going to
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Speaker 1: talk about something, we would talk about the loss of Moses.
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Speaker 2: Or maybe the gaining of Jericho.
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Speaker 1: That a 400 plus promise was about to come to pass.
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Speaker 1: That God had promised to a dead man named Abram.
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Speaker 1: And many times along the way, God had made up
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Speaker 1: his mind, I will destroy them. But then he remembered
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Speaker 1: his promise to a corpse and stopped justice from executing judgment,
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Speaker 1: though they were deserving of judgment because God kept his word.
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Speaker 1: To a corpse. Hence Canaan is called. The promised land.
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Speaker 1: Now God is saying to them. As they are wrestling
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Speaker 1: with the intermediate place. Of not quite being in the desert.
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Speaker 1: And not quite being in the promised land. He disrupts
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Speaker 1: their pattern as they had survived the desert off of
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Speaker 1: the food that fell from heaven called manna. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: about food. In Egypt, they had eaten from the hands
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Speaker 1: of Pharaoh. For 400 years, they had eaten out of
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Speaker 1: the hand of a slave master. Once liberated from the
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Speaker 1: slave master, they were freed from the whip, but they
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Speaker 1: were also void of the food. And they missed the
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Speaker 1: leeks and onions of Egypt. They didn't miss the whip,
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Speaker 1: but they missed the food. So God catered for them
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Speaker 1: in the wilderness. Manna that fell from heaven every morning
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Speaker 1: Not wheat they beat, but manna prepared for them that
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Speaker 1: all they had to do was reach out and get it.
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Speaker 1: And it was easy. Fell every day like clockwork. Early
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Speaker 1: in the morning with the dew, the manna appeared also.
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Speaker 1: Each man according to his house. God does not give equally.
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Speaker 1: But God responds to appetite. Where there is little appetite,
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Speaker 1: there were small loaves. Where there were huge appetite, there
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Speaker 1: were large loaves. Don't compare yourself with one another because
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Speaker 1: God only supplies according to If you don't want much,
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Speaker 1: he won't drop much. But if you've got a great
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Speaker 1: need and a great void, he will drop according.
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Speaker 2: To your need.
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Speaker 1: So don't look over at your neighbor's tent and worry
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Speaker 1: about what God has given them because they may have
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Speaker 1: the capacity to absorb more provision than you do. And
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Speaker 1: God doesn't want his provision to be wasted. God gives
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Speaker 1: seed to the sower and bread to the eater. God
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Speaker 1: does not give blessings to people that will not consume it.
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Speaker 2: Whereas you want.
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Speaker 1: Blessings just so you can brag about that you got them.
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Speaker 1: God gives blessings to people who will take action. And
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Speaker 1: if you're not going to use it, why would God
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Speaker 1: give it to you? And so he designed it that
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Speaker 1: if you didn't use it by a certain time, the
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Speaker 1: worms would eat it up because you were forbidden from
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Speaker 1: hoarding yesterday's bread for today's battle. And as they were
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Speaker 1: joining through the wilderness, the closer they got to the
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Speaker 1: promised land, there is a small, minute phrase in the
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Speaker 1: text that I started to pull up, but you can
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Speaker 1: look it up whenever you want to. It's a simple
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Speaker 1: little sentence, but it has great impact. It has the
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Speaker 1: force of a sledgehammer. It says, and then the manna ceased.
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Speaker 2: What do you do? When what used to work doesn't
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Speaker 2: work anymore.
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Speaker 1: What do you do when you have gotten used to
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Speaker 1: a system that God has abruptly halted?
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Speaker 2: There was no warning.
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Speaker 1: There was no prophecy. There was no preparation. Without any
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Speaker 1: warning at all, it jumped.
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Speaker 2: Stopped.
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Speaker 1: And some of us think that we have lost the
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Speaker 1: favor of God because what used to work.
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Speaker 2: Isn't working.
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Speaker 1: Anymore. And the manna ceased and Moses died and they
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Speaker 1: cried at the bottom of the mountain because everything that
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Speaker 1: they had become accustomed to had been disrupted. I want
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Speaker 1: to preach to somebody in this room that everything that
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Speaker 1: you were accustomed to.
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Speaker 2: Has been disrupted.
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Speaker 1: And now you have to move forward without any playbook,
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Speaker 1: without any rules, without any guarantees, without any certainties. If
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Speaker 1: you take another step, you got to take it by
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Speaker 1: faith because the manna has ceased and the Moses is dead,
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Speaker 1: but the movement continues. What do you do when you
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Speaker 1: got to keep movement? You gotta keep movement, but Moses
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Speaker 1: is dead. You gotta keep movement, but the manna has ceased.
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Speaker 1: And Joshua, almost as if it were a footnote at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of an elaborate literary work, says, prepare your victuals.
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Speaker 1: This is a revolutionary idea to people who only had
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Speaker 1: to gather their food now God says I won't make
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Speaker 1: it happen anymore without you I will require your investment
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Speaker 1: in your provision you have gone as far as you
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Speaker 1: can go off of my charity. Your next meal is
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Speaker 1: going to require your involvement. Oh, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you're ready for this. I don't know if you're ready
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Speaker 1: for this. I don't know if you're ready for this.
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Speaker 1: I am taking you from being dependent to being interdependent.
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Speaker 1: I'm weaning you.
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Speaker 2: From easy.
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Speaker 1: I know you wrote books on how it works. I
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Speaker 1: know you wrote 12 Steps to a Blessing in a
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Speaker 1: Dry Place. I know you wrote all kinds of books
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Speaker 1: about water coming out of rocks. I know you wrote
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Speaker 1: books about me lifting up serpents in the wilderness. I
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Speaker 1: know you wrote a lot of books about a lot
32:51
Speaker 1: of stuff. But I'm changing the playbook. And I don't
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Speaker 1: know who I'm preaching to today. But the Lord sent
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Speaker 1: me here to tell you he has changed the playbook.
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Speaker 1: What used to work will not work right now. He
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Speaker 1: told me to tell you what brought you here will
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Speaker 1: not take you there. The systems, the structures, there's going
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Speaker 1: to be a massive paradigm shift. And if you don't
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Speaker 1: have liquidity, and if you don't have dexterity, and if
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Speaker 1: you don't have pliability, and if you don't have intellectuality,
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Speaker 1: you will not be able to evolve into the next
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Speaker 1: dimension of Because the manna has ceased and the Moses
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Speaker 1: is dead and the movement continues. And right nestled, cradled
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Speaker 1: in this beautiful text is the command to prepare your victuals.
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Speaker 1: So Dexter, when he cooks, he cuts up all his
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Speaker 1: onions and grates all his cheeses and flashboils all his
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Speaker 1: food and brines all his meat and does all of
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Speaker 1: that a couple of days ahead of time. Because the
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Speaker 1: prep time is more important than the cook time. Now,
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Speaker 1: I know this is a hard message to preach because
34:33
Speaker 1: I'm preaching about prep time to a microwave. It's difficult
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Speaker 1: to talk to you about really good dining because what
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Speaker 1: you eat is not really food. It's just, it's a
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Speaker 1: biological experiment. It's something that if you looked at it
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Speaker 1: with a microscope, it would be crawling because you took
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Speaker 1: it out of the freezer, you popped it into the
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Speaker 1: microwave and you heated it up for five minutes and
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Speaker 1: you lifted the lid and it almost scalded your hand
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Speaker 1: and you eat it and you call it food, but
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Speaker 1: that's not food. That's not food. That's bacteria. Real food
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Speaker 1: requires prep time. Look at your neighbor and say, I'm
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Speaker 1: in prep time. I'm not acting funny, I'm in prep time.
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Speaker 1: I'm not ignoring your phone calls, I'm in prep time.
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Speaker 1: I'm not disregarding our relationship, I'm in prep time. I
35:42
Speaker 1: haven't got the big head, I'm in prep time. I'm
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Speaker 1: not arrogant, I'm in prep time. I know I seem
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Speaker 1: distracted and I don't seem like the person I used
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Speaker 1: to be, but I'm the same person, but I'm in
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Speaker 1: a different place. I'm in prep time. I'm getting ready
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Speaker 1: for something and more is required of me in this
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Speaker 1: season than what was required of me in my last season.
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Speaker 1: In my last season, we could play around, we could
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Speaker 1: fool around, we could mess around, we could date around,
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Speaker 1: but I got to break up with you in this season.
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Speaker 1: Because I'm in prep time. In my last season, we
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Speaker 1: could breathe on the phone for an hour and a half.
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Speaker 1: But in this season, in order to get where I
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Speaker 1: got to go, I'm in prep time. And yes, I
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Speaker 1: still appreciate everything that you used to be. But I
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Speaker 1: recognize your manner has ceased. In other words, you are
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Speaker 1: not the source of my sustenance. You are no longer
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Speaker 1: the place where I eat and I love you and
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, but I can't be on the phone
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Speaker 1: for hours and hours talking about people because I'm in
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Speaker 1: prep time. People who can spend hours on the phone
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Speaker 1: talking about people aren't going anywhere. And I can't afford
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Speaker 1: to spend another year talking about what other people are
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Speaker 1: doing while I'm not doing anything at all. I'm in
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Speaker 1: prep and I'm wondering if there's anybody. in this room,
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Speaker 1: in this place. I'm wondering if there's anybody streaming online
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Speaker 1: who's in prep time. You're chopping up stuff and dicing
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Speaker 1: stuff and preparing stuff and wrapping it. It ain't happened yet,
37:16
Speaker 1: but you're in prep time. The door hasn't opened yet,
37:20
Speaker 1: but you're in prep time. The way it hasn't been
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Speaker 1: made yet, but you're in prep time. If I am
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Speaker 1: preaching to the right people, set it off in here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I proved my faith because I'm prepping for something
37:47
Speaker 1: that hadn't even happened yet. I haven't mixed it together.
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Speaker 1: It hadn't come together. I haven't placed it.
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Speaker 2: In the oven.
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Speaker 1: I didn't put it in the crock pot. I haven't
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Speaker 1: put it on the smoker yet, but I'm in prep time.
37:59
Speaker 1: I'm laying it out. I'm getting it ready. I'm bringing
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Speaker 1: structure to what I believe. I'm not just believing it.
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Speaker 1: I'm bringing structure to it. Because without structure and strategy,
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Speaker 1: I won't be prepared to succeed in the area of
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Speaker 1: my destination. I'm in prep time. Nudge three people and say,
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Speaker 1: I'm in prep time. I'm in prep time. I'm in
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Speaker 1: prep time. I'm in prep time. I'm in prep time.
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Speaker 1: I'm in prep time. I'm in prep time. I'm in
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Speaker 1: prep time. I got to get it in prep time.
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Speaker 1: I got to get it in the right shape. I
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Speaker 1: got to get it in the right form. I got
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Speaker 1: to get it in the right size. I got to
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Speaker 1: get it at the right temperature. I got to get
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Speaker 1: it in the right order because I'm in prep time.
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Speaker 1: I can't put cold butter into a pound cake. Because
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Speaker 1: it won't cream. I got to get it room temperature.
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Speaker 1: Everything's got to be right because I'm in prep time.
38:51
Speaker 1: And when I'm in prep time, I have to do
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Speaker 1: stuff that don't make sense to you. Why you got
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Speaker 1: the buttermilk sitting on the stove? Why you got the
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Speaker 1: butter just laying out? Why don't you go ahead and
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Speaker 1: use it? No, it's not the right temperature yet. But
39:04
Speaker 1: I'm in prep time. I'm calling things that are not
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Speaker 1: as though they were. because I'm in prep time. I'm
39:09
Speaker 1: getting my outfit ready. I'm getting my wardrobe ready. I'm
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Speaker 1: getting my language ready. I'm getting my speech ready. I'm
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Speaker 1: learning the right terminologies, not for the room I'm in,
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Speaker 1: but for the room I'm about to walk in. I'm
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Speaker 1: learning the language of my future. I'm preparing myself for
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Speaker 1: what God is about to do in my life. I'm
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Speaker 1: in peptide! You don't understand it because you don't have
39:35
Speaker 1: enough faith. You say, when I get there, I'm going
39:38
Speaker 1: to prepare the vigil. It's going to be too late
39:41
Speaker 1: when you get there. You got to prepare for it
39:44
Speaker 1: before you get there. You got to prepare three days
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Speaker 1: in advance. Because in the next three days, things are
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Speaker 1: about to change in your life in a radical way.
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Speaker 1: This is prep time. This word is a prophetic word
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Speaker 1: going out to somebody. You're in prep time. There's about
40:01
Speaker 1: to be a release in your life. If God is
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Speaker 1: talking to you right here, right now, make some noise
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Speaker 1: in this place. Any kind of noise, any kind of noise,
40:10
Speaker 1: any kind of noise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Your friends
40:27
Speaker 1: are laughing at you, saying, what are you doing going
40:29
Speaker 1: to a leadership conference? You ain't even a leader.
40:32
Speaker 2: Shut your mouth. I'm in prep time. I'm calling those.
40:35
Speaker 1: Things that are not as though they were. I'm getting
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Speaker 1: ready for what's next. I want to learn the language
40:40
Speaker 1: of the role. I want to be in a place
40:42
Speaker 1: where people are thinking forward. I can't keep hanging out
40:45
Speaker 1: with desert babies. I got to get with somebody that's
40:48
Speaker 1: ready to go into the promised land. And I got
40:51
Speaker 1: to get into the room that I'm going to be
40:53
Speaker 1: in one day. No, they don't know me right now,
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Speaker 1: but I'm prepping for the future. You can't understand that
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Speaker 1: if you're not a product of faith. But faith will
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Speaker 1: make you get ready for something that hadn't happened yet.
41:04
Speaker 1: Faith will make you borrow vessels when you're broke. Faith
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Speaker 1: will make you take a lunch and tell everybody to
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Speaker 1: sit down some kind of way. God is going to
41:13
Speaker 1: turn it into a smorgasbord. Faith will make you get
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Speaker 1: ready for a child when the doctor says you can't
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Speaker 1: have no baby.
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Speaker 2: Faith.
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Speaker 1: Will make you call those things that are not as
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Speaker 1: though they were. Faith gets into your attitude and your disposition.
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Speaker 1: Faith will make you build a room on a house
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Speaker 1: for a prophet that hadn't come by yet. Faith will
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Speaker 1: make you get ready for something that hadn't even there yet.
41:35
Speaker 2: Faith will make.
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Speaker 1: You start laying out plans and diagrams and getting ready
41:39
Speaker 1: and setting up situations for something you can't even pay for.
41:42
Speaker 1: Faith will make you move out on something that makes
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Speaker 1: you look like a fool. will make you build an
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Speaker 1: ark and it hadn't been a drop of rain. Faith
41:50
Speaker 1: will get you ready for something that hadn't even started
41:53
Speaker 1: to break loose in your life. I want to talk
41:55
Speaker 1: to some radical people in this room that are willing
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Speaker 1: to build a boat in your backyard and it hadn't
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Speaker 1: even rained yet and all your neighbors are laughing at you,
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Speaker 1: but you are in prep time.
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Speaker 2: If you're in prep time, holler at your boy. Prepare.
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Speaker 2: Sit down, sit down. I'm just talking. Prepare.
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Speaker 1: Prepare your victuals. Prepare your victuals. Look at somebody and say,
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Speaker 1: prepare your victuals. This basically is not just a change
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Speaker 1: of how you cook. This is a change of how
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Speaker 1: you think. You were raised by people who didn't have
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Speaker 1: to prepare. So you cannot take your parents' mindset into
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Speaker 1: your moment. Because your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness.
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Speaker 1: But the manna has ceased. So that means you have
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Speaker 1: to have a different mindset. You might have the moral equivalency,
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Speaker 1: but you cannot have the same mindset. Because if you
43:37
Speaker 1: have the mindset of your fathers, you will be looking
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Speaker 1: up every morning waiting on something to fall down that
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Speaker 1: is never going to fall down again. And you will
43:48
Speaker 1: be waiting on something to happen so you can move
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Speaker 1: Nothing else is going to happen. Prep time means mindsets
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Speaker 1: determine assets. If I cannot get it in your mind,
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Speaker 1: I cannot get it in your life. If your mindset
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Speaker 1: is still looking up for manna, then your hands won't
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Speaker 1: prepare your victuals. And prep time is a dangerous, dubious
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Speaker 1: task of challenging how you think. It's not that the
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Speaker 1: preparation for the food is not available to you. But
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Speaker 1: if you don't have the mindset, you won't have the asset.
44:53
Speaker 1: If you have a mindset of waiting on something to
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Speaker 1: fall in the morning, you won't prepare your victuals in
45:01
Speaker 1: the day. Every time there's a major change in your
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Speaker 1: life or move in your life or you move into
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Speaker 1: a new region or a new occupation or a new
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Speaker 1: situation or you become a single parent or you get married,
45:22
Speaker 1: It's not enough to get a new ring if you
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Speaker 1: have an old mindset.
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Speaker 2: Come on with me. Come on with me. Come on
45:32
Speaker 2: with me. Don't jump off now. Don't jump off with me.
45:38
Speaker 1: You can't be a married woman with a single woman's mindset.
45:47
Speaker 1: Because all of your single girlfriends will mess up your
45:50
Speaker 1: marriage with their advice about what they would do if
45:53
Speaker 1: they was you. And they don't have nobody and you
45:56
Speaker 1: listening at them and carrying that spirit home and it's
45:59
Speaker 1: tearing up your house. Brother, you can't be a husband
46:05
Speaker 1: with a single man's mindset. Because you will be physically
46:11
Speaker 1: present but emotionally unavailable. Because you are physically and legally
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Speaker 1: married but not emotionally present or connected. And because you
46:20
Speaker 1: have not developed language for anything beyond anger, your wife
46:25
Speaker 1: becomes a sparring partner. Because you are better at expressing
46:39
Speaker 1: anger than you are anything else. And God is prepping
46:44
Speaker 1: you with a change of mindset. Can I go just
46:50
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper? I know I'm taking up some time,
46:53
Speaker 1: but I want to show you how powerful mindset is.
46:55
Speaker 1: The prodigal son is down in the hog pen. He
46:58
Speaker 1: has estranged himself from his father and his brother. He
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Speaker 1: has gradually lost the dissipation of friendship. The erosion of connectivity.
47:09
Speaker 1: He is in a place of total isolation, surrounded by swine.
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Speaker 1: He is out of money. He is out of friends.
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Speaker 1: He is out of family. He is out of identity.
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Speaker 1: He has no name in the text. He is a
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Speaker 1: nameless person in a deplorable situation. And the only thing
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Speaker 1: that changed, no angels came, no visitations from God came,
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Speaker 1: no Bible dropped down out of the sky. The only
47:36
Speaker 1: thing that changed, the hogs were still the hogs, the
47:39
Speaker 1: slop was still the slop, the Gentiles were still the Gentiles,
47:43
Speaker 1: his family was still estranged, his friends had all ran away.
47:47
Speaker 1: The only thing changed was his mind.
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Speaker 2: His mind changed.
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Speaker 1: The Bible said that with mud in between his toes
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Speaker 1: and gnats around his.
47:56
Speaker 2: Head, He came to himself.
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Speaker 1: The only thing you have to do to get out
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Speaker 1: of the situation you're in right now is change your mind.
48:07
Speaker 1: You don't need her to come back. You don't need
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Speaker 1: him to come back. You don't need them to pay
48:12
Speaker 1: your way. You don't need anything else but to change
48:15
Speaker 1: your mind. As a mind thinketh in his heart, so
48:19
Speaker 1: is he. And the moment you change your mind, can't
48:22
Speaker 1: nobody hold you down anymore.
48:24
Speaker 2: This is a change of mindset.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to keep standing out here in the
48:28
Speaker 1: morning waiting on something to fall. It ain't falling no more.
48:31
Speaker 1: What used to work is not working anymore. I'm changing
48:34
Speaker 1: my mindset. If I got to get my hands messy,
48:37
Speaker 1: if I got to get up early in the morning,
48:39
Speaker 1: if I got to beat the... I will beat whatever
48:45
Speaker 1: I've got to wheat until I make it turn into
48:48
Speaker 1: what it's got to turn to because my hands are
48:51
Speaker 1: a reflection of my mindset. If you want to know
48:55
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking, watch what I'm doing. If you see
48:59
Speaker 1: me out here doing it, it means I'm not waiting anymore.
49:02
Speaker 1: I came here to tell you tonight that God said
49:06
Speaker 1: stop waiting on somebody to come rescue you from your situation.
49:10
Speaker 2: They're not coming.
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Speaker 1: You need to change your mindset and start beating that
49:15
Speaker 1: wheat up until you see bread. There will be no
49:18
Speaker 1: more bread falling from heaven. you're in a prep season
49:22
Speaker 1: for a promise that's about to take your life if
49:24
Speaker 1: I'm preaching right at you if I'm preaching right to
49:27
Speaker 1: you
49:47
Speaker 1: If you're ready to
49:50
Speaker 1: be radical, reckless, and break loose and break out. If
49:53
Speaker 1: you're ready to break some rules and do something you've
49:55
Speaker 1: never done before. If you're ready to beat wheat till
49:58
Speaker 1: it comes out as loaves of bread. Make some noise
50:02
Speaker 1: in this place.
50:02
Speaker 2: Just some noise.
50:12
Speaker 1: Tell somebody, say, it's yours, but you got to take it.
50:15
Speaker 1: I'm going to move from preparation to possession. It's yours,
50:18
Speaker 1: but you got to take it. It's not going to
50:20
Speaker 1: come up on your front porch. It's not going to
50:22
Speaker 1: ring the doorbell. It's not going to respond to you
50:25
Speaker 1: the way you expected it to respond to you. Ain't
50:27
Speaker 1: no more manna coming down to your door. Ain't nobody
50:30
Speaker 1: coming to your house begging you for a position. You
50:33
Speaker 1: got to possess it. It's yours, but you got to
50:35
Speaker 1: take it. You got to take it. You got to
50:37
Speaker 1: take it because it's yours. It's yours, but you got
50:40
Speaker 1: to take it. You got to take it while somebody
50:42
Speaker 1: else is living in it. You got to take it
50:44
Speaker 1: while somebody else thinks it's there. There's going to be
50:46
Speaker 1: an altercation, but you got to take it by force.
50:48
Speaker 1: For the Bible said that the kingdom suffered violence and
50:52
Speaker 1: the violent take it by force. I want to raise
50:55
Speaker 1: up some radical people. I'm sick of church people. I
50:58
Speaker 1: need some radical people. The Bible said that the kingdom
51:02
Speaker 1: suffered violence and the violent take it by force. Is
51:06
Speaker 1: there anybody in here that's ready to take it by force?
51:10
Speaker 2: God told Joshua, I have.
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Speaker 1: Given you the land, but you still got to fight
51:16
Speaker 1: for it. Slap three people and say, fight for it.
51:20
Speaker 1: Don't just pray for it, but fight for it. Don't
51:23
Speaker 1: just ask for it, but fight for it. You gotta
51:26
Speaker 1: fight for it. I've given you the land to possess it.
51:29
Speaker 1: You gotta drive out the Canaanites, and the Ammonites, and
51:33
Speaker 1: the Jebusites, and the Gerashites, because that's yours. Somebody is
51:39
Speaker 1: living in your house. Somebody is driving your car. Somebody
51:43
Speaker 1: is sitting at your decks. I heard the Bible say,
51:46
Speaker 1: I'll give you houses. that you didn't build, and vineyards
51:50
Speaker 1: that you didn't grow, but you got to take it
51:53
Speaker 1: by force. You got to come out of your passive
51:55
Speaker 1: little quiet, sit back, wait, Johnny, come lately, spirit, and
51:59
Speaker 1: you got to take back what God gave you. Take
52:03
Speaker 1: back what the enemy stole from you. Take back what
52:05
Speaker 1: they said wasn't yours. Take back what they said wouldn't
52:08
Speaker 1: happen in your life. You got to possess it. Is
52:11
Speaker 1: there anybody in here that's getting ready to possess something?
52:16
Speaker 2: I'm ready to move people out. Call U-Haul.
52:19
Speaker 1: I want my staff to call U-Haul so I can
52:21
Speaker 1: move out all of these vagrant people that are living
52:25
Speaker 1: on my territory. Give me a U-Haul truck because I'm
52:28
Speaker 1: going to move you out of my job, out of
52:31
Speaker 1: my position, and out of my place because I'm going
52:34
Speaker 1: to possess what God promised me. Walk up to somebody
52:46
Speaker 1: and slap them and say, possess it! Stop praying for
52:50
Speaker 1: it and possess it. Stop crying about it and possess it.
52:54
Speaker 1: Stop worrying about it and possess it. Stop fretting about
52:57
Speaker 1: it and possess it. Stop asking for it and possess it.
53:01
Speaker 1: Stop waiting on it but possess it. If you don't
53:04
Speaker 1: hire me, I'll hire myself. If you don't give me
53:08
Speaker 1: a job, I'll make a job. If you won't give
53:10
Speaker 1: me a seat, I'll create a table. I'm ready to
53:13
Speaker 1: possess the promise of God. This ain't for everybody. This
53:18
Speaker 1: is for radical people. This is for people who've suffered enough.
53:23
Speaker 1: I've been through enough hell in the wilderness that if
53:26
Speaker 1: you don't make a way for me, I'll make a
53:28
Speaker 1: way for myself. God said, I've given you the land
53:33
Speaker 1: to possess it. Shake your name and say, take it back.
53:48
Speaker 1: Take it, take it, take it, take it. I don't
53:54
Speaker 1: care if you got to take night classes. I don't
53:57
Speaker 1: care if you got to fix your credit score. I
54:00
Speaker 1: don't care if you got to turn around and do
54:03
Speaker 1: double time to get where you're trying to go. Take
54:06
Speaker 1: it before you lose respect for yourself. Take it while
54:11
Speaker 1: you got enough strength to go after your dream. Take
54:14
Speaker 1: it while your talent is in place. You got to
54:18
Speaker 1: take it by force. How can I take it? Somebody
54:21
Speaker 1: else is in it. God said it's yours.
54:24
Speaker 2: Thank you.
54:52
Speaker 1: I want all you people that don't normally say nothing
54:54
Speaker 1: in church, run over and look at somebody and say,
54:56
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to take it. I know you don't
55:00
Speaker 1: expect me to be one of the kind of people
55:02
Speaker 1: that'll take it. I know I'm normally quiet and I
55:04
Speaker 1: haven't said nothing to y'all's service, but I'm getting ready
55:07
Speaker 1: to take it by force. I'm getting ready to bust
55:09
Speaker 1: a move. I'm getting ready to go into another dimension.
55:13
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to make 2023 count. Since COVID didn't
55:17
Speaker 1: kill me, since the flu didn't kill me, Since the
55:21
Speaker 1: cancer didn't take me out, since the car wreck didn't
55:24
Speaker 1: destroy me, since I made it out of the hospital,
55:28
Speaker 1: I'm going to redeem the time. I'm getting ready to
55:31
Speaker 1: take it back. If I had died, I couldn't take it.
55:35
Speaker 1: But I'm still here. I'm going to let hell know
55:39
Speaker 1: that I'm still here because