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Recognizing God's Answer - Bishop T.D. Jakes - The Potter’s House of Dallas. · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: Y'all like y'all ready tonight, you are like you came
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  Speaker 1: to throw down from Jesus tonight, I believe it. Get
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  Speaker 1: your bibles, and while you're standing and go to the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Exodus, chapter number sixteen. We're gonna read the
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  Speaker 1: first five verses, and then we're gonna drop down to
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  Speaker 1: thirty one and thirty two. It's a very familiar passage
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  Speaker 1: of scripture, but a very important one. Indeed, Exodus Ecclesia
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  Speaker 1: the called out Ones. The Book of Exodus is about
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  Speaker 1: the calling of God's people out of slavery and away
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  Speaker 1: from captivity, from servitude to sonship. They went into the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea as slaves, with their master chasing them. But
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  Speaker 1: when they came up out of the water, they came
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  Speaker 1: up at suns from servitude to sonship. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: that their servitude was canceled out is because their master
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  Speaker 1: drowned in the Red Sea. God will drown what's chasing you, baby,
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  Speaker 1: He will drown what's chasing you? If you just keep
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  Speaker 1: on following him. Don't worry about the enemy behind you.
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  Speaker 1: Greater is he this in you than he this after you?
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  Speaker 1: Who that's good? And so Moses writes to us, and
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  Speaker 1: he chronicles the story of his journey and the autobiography
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  Speaker 1: almost of the pilgrimage of the children of Israel, as
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  Speaker 1: they had stepped away from all that had identified than
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  Speaker 1: before into this new beginning. And anytime something is new,
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  Speaker 1: there's always a transition period. There's always a discomfort. Even
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  Speaker 1: when the newest better, there is still a discomfort.
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  Speaker 2: And it reads at verse one.
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  Speaker 1: The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came
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  Speaker 1: to the desert of sin which is between Elim and Sinai,
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  Speaker 1: on the fifteenth day of the second month after they
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  Speaker 1: had come out of Egypt, so they've been out two
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  Speaker 1: and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Months in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: The whole community grumbled against Moses and Erin.
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  Speaker 2: This is a tough job.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, the Israelite said to them, if only we had
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  Speaker 1: died by the Lord's hand in Egypt. These are the
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  Speaker 1: same people who prayed for Moses to come. Now they're
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  Speaker 1: praying to die there. We sat around pots of meat
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  Speaker 1: and ate all the food we wanted, But you have
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  Speaker 1: brought us out into this desert to starve this entire
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  Speaker 1: assembly to death.
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  Speaker 2: You see how Moses was falsely accused.
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  Speaker 1: You know Moses didn't bring them out there to starve
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  Speaker 1: to death and die. He brought them out there to
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  Speaker 1: be an emancipator and to set them free. I just
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  Speaker 1: point that out to the people who are misunderstood, and
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  Speaker 1: you've had things about you where people have judged your
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  Speaker 1: intentions wrongly. It's one thing for you to have an
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  Speaker 1: opinion about my actions, but it's another thing for you
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  Speaker 1: to subscribe to the idea that you know what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, y'all are hearing.
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  Speaker 1: Then, the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down
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  Speaker 1: bread from heaven for you. The people are to go
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  Speaker 1: out each day and gather enough for that day, And
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  Speaker 1: in this way I will test them and see whether
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  Speaker 1: they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day, they
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  Speaker 1: are to prepare what they bring in, and that is
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  Speaker 1: to be twice as much as they gather.
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  Speaker 2: On the other days.
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  Speaker 1: Now Verse thirty one, the people of Israel called the
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  Speaker 1: bread manna. It was white like coriander seed, and tasted
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  Speaker 1: like wafers made with honey, and sound pretty good. I
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  Speaker 1: cook a little bit, you know, wafers and honey. Don't
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  Speaker 1: sound like you're suffering that bad. Moses said, this is
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord has commanded take an owner of manna
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  Speaker 1: and keep it for the generations to come. See, don't
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  Speaker 1: just be concerned about you, but leave a legacy behind
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  Speaker 1: you so they can see the bread I gave you
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  Speaker 1: to eat it the wilderness when I brought you out
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt. God's gonna always use what you got left.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bother them remnants. I talked about that Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I will leave them remnants alone. But God will always
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  Speaker 1: save a remnant, he said. Put a pot aside and
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  Speaker 1: omer and put it in the ark of the Covenant,
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  Speaker 1: so that the generations to come can understand what I
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  Speaker 1: gave you through the wilderness. Has God fed you through
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness, won't he do it? It's not that He
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  Speaker 1: always stops the wilderness, but he feeds you in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk from the subject tonight, recognizing God's answers.
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  Speaker 1: Recognizing God's answers.
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  Speaker 2: Speak it up.
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  Speaker 1: The living God fallow fresh on us tonight, a fresh positive.
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  Speaker 1: If you will, we are open to receive our hearts,
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  Speaker 1: our minds, our spirits, our souls, our bodies are prepared
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  Speaker 1: to ingest and appropriate the word as you see fit
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  Speaker 1: to unveil it and reveal it to us. We are
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  Speaker 1: hungry to receive your word. We are grateful for your presence.
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  Speaker 1: Open up even the hardest mind, the most resistant spirit,
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  Speaker 1: that the glory of the Lord can penetrate until they
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  Speaker 1: are pricked in their hearts by the very presence of God.
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  Speaker 2: Now, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I know you haven't done it yet, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: thank you in advance. Your credit is good with me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll praise you now. You can do it later, have
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  Speaker 1: your way and great come that you are. I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for all kinds of stuff that ain't happened yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and thank you like it's
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  Speaker 1: already done. I know I'm gonna look foolish, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: a praiser, like it's already done. Hallelujah. I'm gonna pronounce
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  Speaker 1: a benediction over it, like it's already done. For thiness
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  Speaker 1: and kingdom and the power at the glory forever and ever.
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  Speaker 1: All the people shouted Amen, you may be seated in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God. So Pharaoh traveled by chariot, and
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  Speaker 1: the slaves traveled by foot. So if they have been
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  Speaker 1: walking through the desert for two months and fifteen days.
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  Speaker 1: For two and a half months, they have been walking.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long walk.
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  Speaker 1: Two and a half months of waking up every day
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  Speaker 1: and carrying everything you own on your back. They have
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  Speaker 1: been walking for months, loaded down with their own possessions
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  Speaker 1: and no place to rest them. They had continued on
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  Speaker 1: their journey. A careful study of the Word says that
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just the fathers that carried the weight, or
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  Speaker 1: just the mothers, but even the children were loaded down
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  Speaker 1: with the weight, not just of their possessions, but the
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  Speaker 1: weight of the possessions of the Egyptians. For in the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea there was a transfer of wealth. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: says that they borrowed the gold and the silver from
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians, but then they had no way of paying
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  Speaker 1: it back because Faedro and the army were drowned in
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea. So God has done supernatural debt cancelation.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't want to talk to me. God has done
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  Speaker 1: supernatural debt cancelation. And the wealth of the unjusts has
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  Speaker 1: been laid up for the justs. The wealth of the
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  Speaker 1: wicked has been laid up for the righteous. The wealth
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  Speaker 1: of the ungodly has been laid up for the godly,
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  Speaker 1: and they have come into an inheritance that is not
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  Speaker 1: their own. And yet in a way it was because
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  Speaker 1: to receive this kind of wealth was reparations, reparations because
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  Speaker 1: they had worked for free for four hundred years, and
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  Speaker 1: everything that had been with hell from them for four
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  Speaker 1: hundred years got paid it out suddenly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm preaching already.
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  Speaker 1: That means that they had endured hardness as good soldiers
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  Speaker 1: and been faithful even in the middle of injustice. But
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  Speaker 1: eventually God supernaturally settled the accounts and set the record straight,
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  Speaker 1: because God is an accountant, and he keeps record of
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  Speaker 1: every issue and every and in due season, God is
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  Speaker 1: going to settle.
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  Speaker 2: All accounts.
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  Speaker 1: So they are weighted, and it is heavy, but they
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  Speaker 1: are heavily weighted with the blessings of God.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody teaches you that blessings.
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  Speaker 1: Carry weight, that glory carries weight. They have carried their
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  Speaker 1: teenagers on the threat. They're almost like teenagers on the
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  Speaker 1: threshold of adulthood. They enjoy the freedom, but lack the
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  Speaker 1: stability that was afforded them while parented directly. You know
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  Speaker 1: how that is when kids can't wait to get out
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  Speaker 1: of the house and then they discover bills, and while
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  Speaker 1: they have freedom, they run into responsibilities, and all of
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  Speaker 1: their judgment about how things are to be done begins
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  Speaker 1: to change as they begin to wreckones that it is
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  Speaker 1: not as easy as it looks. Freedom is expensive. It
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  Speaker 1: costs you something to be free. The slaves were free
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  Speaker 1: to go, but where and to whom. To a large degree,
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  Speaker 1: they were homeless people nomadically living in tents, pitching their
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  Speaker 1: tents wherever they could, making the best of a bad situation.
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  Speaker 1: And yet in the midst of this tempestuous uncertainty, God
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  Speaker 1: had been faithful. He had been a cloud above them
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  Speaker 1: by day, so it wasn't as hot as it would
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  Speaker 1: have been. I'm wondering if there are any people in
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  Speaker 1: here today that recognize that it wasn't as hot as
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  Speaker 1: it should have been, that God shaded you in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of uncertainty. Sometimes you don't really know how bad
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  Speaker 1: things are until you get out, and then you look
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  Speaker 1: back at it and say that, if it had not
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  Speaker 1: been for the Lord, I would have been swallowed up.
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  Speaker 1: I would have died of heat stroke. I should have asphyxiated,
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  Speaker 1: I should have collapsed. But his shade became my norm
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  Speaker 1: and at night when the temperatures dropped below freezing, he
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  Speaker 1: turned into a pillar of fire. And in other words,
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  Speaker 1: God conditioned the desert with air in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: heat at night because God cared about the comfort of
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  Speaker 1: those who walk with him. Look at God, Jehovah jihrah,
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  Speaker 1: investing not only into your needs but also into your comfort.
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  Speaker 1: There are some things that God does for you just
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  Speaker 1: so that you can be comfortable glowy to God. And
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  Speaker 1: yet in the midst of all that God has done,
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  Speaker 1: they seem not to notice that God had made them
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  Speaker 1: comfortable because they were functioning in an atmosphere of uncertainty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: See, that's how we are a lot of times we
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  Speaker 1: don't notice that God is being good to us because
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  Speaker 1: He won't give us the details of our destination, and
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  Speaker 1: we are functioning in the trauma of uncertainty. Uncertainty is
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  Speaker 1: traumatic all by itself because we are intellectual beings and
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  Speaker 1: we are created with intellect. We have cognitive skills whereby
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  Speaker 1: we want to know. And the problem in this situation
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  Speaker 1: here is they don't know how far they are away
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  Speaker 1: from there. They have heard of a land that flows
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  Speaker 1: with milk and honey, but they don't know how many
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  Speaker 1: more days would we have to walk? That uncertainty can
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  Speaker 1: plague a person. It can frustrate them. In a marriage,
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  Speaker 1: either one or the other of you wants to know details.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to Vegas, where we're gonna stay, how we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get there, what time is it, which hotel is it,
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  Speaker 1: Have you made reservations, what we're gonna do when we
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  Speaker 1: get there? Is there any layovers? Is that people want
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  Speaker 1: to know details. We want to know details. The other
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  Speaker 1: person is the person who just kind of just goes,
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  Speaker 1: oh way, it'll be all right, it'll be all right.
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  Speaker 1: And you're trying to get one person to calm down,
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to get you to give them details.
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  Speaker 1: God has not given them details.
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  Speaker 2: Because they must walk.
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  Speaker 1: By and not by. So God has designed the atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: to teach them faith because they are not sure how
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  Speaker 1: they'll have to go to get there. And they are
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  Speaker 1: not sure of Moses because Moses has been away with
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  Speaker 1: Jethro for forty years. So while he is kin to
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  Speaker 1: them genetically, he cannot relate to them experientially. For while
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  Speaker 1: they were making bricks, Moses was raised in the palace
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  Speaker 1: and as the Pharaohs died and the situations change. Moses
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  Speaker 1: was out there with Jethro taking care of sheep. God
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  Speaker 1: sent Moses into the desert under duress because Moses had
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  Speaker 1: murdered a man, but it was also an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: train him in desert tactics. Beware of leaders who lead
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  Speaker 1: you where they have not been. One of my spiritual
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  Speaker 1: sons said to me knows I'm working on a business deal,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, I want you to teach it to me.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I can't teach it while I'm learning it.
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  Speaker 1: You have to learn before you teach. You have to
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  Speaker 1: respect the craft well enough not to allow the pressure
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  Speaker 1: of somebody's hunger to know to drive you to faking
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  Speaker 1: your ability to teach. There are some things that only
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  Speaker 1: experience can teach. You can google it, you can read it,
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  Speaker 1: you can take it in school, you can get a
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  Speaker 1: degree in it, you can get a master's, you can
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  Speaker 1: get a doctorate. But when you start doing it, you'll
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  Speaker 1: find out that experience ends up being the ultimate teacher,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of the principles that worked out on
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  Speaker 1: paper that got you an a don't work out on people.
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  Speaker 1: It's a difference between working it out on paper and
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  Speaker 1: working it out on people. And now Moses not only
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  Speaker 1: has to sustain himself, which he has had forty years
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  Speaker 1: of experience at being nomadic in the desert, but now
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  Speaker 1: he's got people with him. And when you are responsible
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  Speaker 1: for people, it creates stress and trauma because the moment
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  Speaker 1: they become disruptive, they attack. You jump in the pool
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  Speaker 1: when somebody's drowning and watch them punch you. And here
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  Speaker 1: you jumped in to save them. And now you have
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  Speaker 1: to fight the one you're trying to say. If you
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  Speaker 1: think about it hard enough, in your own life, you've
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  Speaker 1: had experiences where you had to fight the one you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to say. I'm trying to warn you. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that this is going to blow up
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  Speaker 1: in your face. I told you not to put the
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  Speaker 1: aluminum foil in the microwave. I'm trying to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to warn you. And now the whole a kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: it's in smoke, and the fire alarms are going off
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  Speaker 1: and you're saying oops. But if you would have listened
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  Speaker 1: at what I told you, I could have saved you
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  Speaker 1: this experience. Now the fire department is on its way
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  Speaker 1: to the house and I have to explain what we
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  Speaker 1: could have avoided. This is the tension of the text.
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  Speaker 1: It is not just the heat of the sun or
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  Speaker 1: the cold of the night, or the extinguishing of phaar Oh.
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  Speaker 1: It is the uncertainty of people and how they reacted
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  Speaker 1: to that uncertainty. These are the people who danced at
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea, and they have gone from dancing at
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea to dragging their way through the desert
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  Speaker 1: of sin. Isn't it amazing how people will go from
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  Speaker 1: dancing to dragging. Don't be overly impressed at who runs
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  Speaker 1: samos or shouts samos, or leads the highest or makes
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  Speaker 1: the most noise. That is not a fool proof test
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  Speaker 1: of the authenticity of faith, because sometimes the person who
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  Speaker 1: says the least up under attack exemplifies the most faith.
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  Speaker 1: But we have a tendency to be overly impressed with
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  Speaker 1: outward demonstrations as if it were a declaration of true faith.
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  Speaker 1: But before you get the walking, your faith will be
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  Speaker 1: tested beyond your dance, y'all, don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: They danced at the Red Sea because favor was drowned,
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  Speaker 1: but now they are dragging. For Moses an erin and
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  Speaker 1: fighting the lifeguard who is trying to deliver them because
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  Speaker 1: they have misplaced rage. Misplaced rage? Can I talk about
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  Speaker 1: misplaced rage?
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  Speaker 2: For me?
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  Speaker 1: This place rage is a rage that is actually fear
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  Speaker 1: manifest as rage executed on the innocent because the guilty
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  Speaker 1: are not available. You have to have been a victim
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  Speaker 1: of misplaced rage to understand the magnitude of what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm arguing with my wife, but I'm really angry at
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  Speaker 1: my mother, and all of a sudden, she hits a
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  Speaker 1: trigger that ignites a rage that's been suppressed in me,
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  Speaker 1: and I acted out on her, and she wants to
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  Speaker 1: know where is this coming from. Well, it don't really
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  Speaker 1: have anything to do with you. It's all the things
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't say to Mama, Now I release them on
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  Speaker 1: you because I was hurt. And when people get hurt,
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  Speaker 1: they hurt people. So they have entered into a rage
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  Speaker 1: against Moses and Aaron. And two and a half months
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  Speaker 1: into the journey, Moses recognizes that it is easier to
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  Speaker 1: travel the wilderness by yourself than it is to lead people.
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  Speaker 1: Yet we live in a society where everybody can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to lead, They can't wait to have a title. They
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to have a position. All you do is
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  Speaker 1: all you get is that glass of water. The only
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  Speaker 1: difference between the pulpit and the pews is that we
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  Speaker 1: get a glass of water, a glass that I hardly
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  Speaker 1: ever get to drink. And exchange for that glass of water,
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  Speaker 1: I get every criticism, every fight, every disruption, every evil thing,
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  Speaker 1: every accusation, every attack, every stress. Listen, the water ain't
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  Speaker 1: worth it from data rade, when you get back home
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  Speaker 1: and save yourselves. Some trouble is not worth it because
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  Speaker 1: they are raising against Moses and Aaron, who have done
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing but been good to them. But people have
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  Speaker 1: memory relapse when they are in an uncertain atmosphere. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't create this atmosphere. I didn't plan this. This is
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  Speaker 1: what God has allowed to happen. So if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to take it out on somebody, take it out on God.
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  Speaker 2: But no.
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  Speaker 1: Misplaced rage makes you a victim of something that you
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with.
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  Speaker 2: Oh go.
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  Speaker 1: Now tonight. I'm talking about recognizing God's answers because to
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  Speaker 1: a large dear greed, God's answers don't often look like
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  Speaker 1: our prayers. Okay, Recognition could be defined as the brain's
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  Speaker 1: ability to identify stimuli or lack situations. Places, people, objects, etc.
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  Speaker 1: Are all recognition that you have seen before, and so
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  Speaker 1: recognition in the word recognition is cognitive, your brain's ability
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  Speaker 1: to relate what you see to something you have seen.
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  Speaker 1: Recognition is a cognitive ability that makes it possible to
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  Speaker 1: recover stored information and compare it to the information being
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  Speaker 1: presented in front of you. Like you look at somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you say, oh, that's Fred. I didn't recognize you.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Recognitive re call cognitive because I saw you before, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't recognize you. So I can't say I cognize you.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say I recognize you because I have
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  Speaker 1: a previous experience as a reference to have recognition. I
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  Speaker 1: have a terrible problem with names, and when I have
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  Speaker 1: to remember somebody's name, it is easier when I tie
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  Speaker 1: it to something that I remember. So if somebody says,
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  Speaker 1: how my name is David, I think somelmons David. So
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: if I can remember the Salmons David, I say, hi, David,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing? Because I need to tie what's in
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: front of me to something that's behind me. Recognition, So
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  Speaker 1: when we come to recognizing God's answers, often the only
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  Speaker 1: image we have in mind is what was in our head.
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  Speaker 1: So when God answers and he delivers something that is
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  Speaker 1: different than what we saw in our head, sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to handle it because the answer doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like the prayer. Can we go deeper with this?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Isaiah fifty five six through nine for
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a minute. Let's take a look at that Isaiah fifty
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  Speaker 1: five six through nine. Seek the Lord while he may
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  Speaker 1: be found, call on him while he is near. Let
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  Speaker 1: the wicked forsake their ways watch this, and the unrighteous their.
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  Speaker 2: Thoughts. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I understand the wicked forsake their way, But when he
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  Speaker 1: gets to the unrighteous, he says, forsake your thoughts. That
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  Speaker 1: means that the unrighteous have to be careful because your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts may betray you. I thought I would be here
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  Speaker 1: by now. I thought I would be married by thirty.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I would be out of debt by fifty.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, And the Bible says, forsake, for you to
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  Speaker 1: forsake your thoughts. Who y'all got quiet? For sake? What
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  Speaker 1: you thought marriage is? Forsake? What you thought church was
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: supposed to be? For sake? What you thought you deserve
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in a companion for sake, what you thought you should
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  Speaker 1: be paid on a job. Because God did not promise
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  Speaker 1: to pay you according to your thoughts, but according to his.
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  Speaker 1: And how are you gonna let this mind be in you,
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  Speaker 1: which was also in Christ Jesus while you hold on
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  Speaker 1: to your own? So there has to be a moment
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  Speaker 1: in your life that you go blank and say, not
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  Speaker 1: my will, but done be done. You know what's best.
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  Speaker 1: Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have
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  Speaker 1: mercy on them, and to our God, for he will
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  Speaker 1: freely pardon them for thoughts. Yes, for he will pardon,
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  Speaker 1: he will forgive you. My mother was said this lady
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  Speaker 1: for thinking like a food. Wasn't she good for telling
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  Speaker 1: you that you're thinking like a food? Yeah, she didn't
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: call us a fool, but she said you're thinking like
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a food. That doesn't make no sense. You're thinking like
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  Speaker 1: a fool, because she understood parenting is about teaching how
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  Speaker 1: to think. You can't teach a child how to think
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  Speaker 1: when your answer is because I said so. So I
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  Speaker 1: have a tendency when I'm frustrated with any individual, to say.
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  Speaker 2: What were you? Yeah?
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I can't understand how you did what you did.
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  Speaker 1: I have a problem with your ways, but the root
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  Speaker 1: of your ways is in your thoughts. Anytime you see
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: somebody acting a certain way, the action is the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of their thinking.
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  Speaker 2: What were you thinking? Then?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: God goes on and says, for my thoughts are not
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts. That's why I want you to forsake your thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: because my thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are your
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  Speaker 1: ways my ways. Now we keep seeing this ribbon tide
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  Speaker 1: between thoughts and ways, thoughts and ways. His thoughts justified
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  Speaker 1: by his ways, your thoughts justified by your ways. God
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  Speaker 1: declares under you, I'm not thinking what you're thinking, and
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  Speaker 1: my ways of getting you there are not your way.
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  Speaker 1: I swore I was gonna bless you, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell you how. I swore I would bring you out,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't tell you through whom. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was going to come through the Bishop. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was going to come through the music. I thought your thoughts,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Get them out of the way, Get them out of
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  Speaker 1: the way. If you can surrender your thoughts to God,
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  Speaker 1: what you think about it, rather than building a shrine
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  Speaker 1: around your opinion and worshiping at the altar of that
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  Speaker 1: that is fragile and open yourself up. That's what I
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: surrender really means. I surrender all means. I surrender what
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  Speaker 1: I had in mind. I surrender what I had planned.
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  Speaker 1: I surrender how I thought it would turn out. I
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: surrender my definition of success at this stage in my life.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: For instance, somebody says, oh, you're such a successful pastor,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and I always think to myself, are you talking about
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: quantity or quality? Who says that the most successful pastor
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: is the one with the most members. Perhaps God goes
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: by quality and not by quantity. Y'all ain't gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: to me tonight. So all of a sudden, you are
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: judging on the outer appearance and God is looking at
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  Speaker 1: the heart. And it could be that the guy in
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  Speaker 1: the storefront with twelve members is a more successful pastor
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  Speaker 1: because he is qualitative and not quantitative. We lack it big,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: we do it big in Texas. I want to see big.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I want to see big. God wants to see quality.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: So I'm a big man, But are you a good man?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I found out that you can be strong in your
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: body and weak in your will. You can be physically
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  Speaker 1: strong and emotionally weak, and some little old girl that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: weighed ninety pounds soaking wet can be tougher than nails
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and can't lift up a barbell. So when you start
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: talking about strength, are you talking about outer strength or
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: inner strength? Outer strength is deceptive because you can be
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  Speaker 1: strong outwardly and be fragile inwardly, or you can be
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: fragile outwardly and be tough inwardly. Are you hearing what
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's some tough people in here tonight. They
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: might not look tough, they might not dress tough, they
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: may not have tricepts or biceps or anything like that,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: but mess with them. The bad thing about messing with
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: people You don't know how tough they are till you
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: hit them, And all of a sudden, that little woman
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  Speaker 1: that you thought wasn't tough starts pulling down the mantelpiece
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  Speaker 1: and grabbing up the candlesticks and coming at you and say,
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  Speaker 1: you touch my child.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Toughness can't always be quantified by what you thought. So
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  Speaker 1: as heavens are higher than their, so are my ways
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  Speaker 1: higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, God is trying to teach them to forsake
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  Speaker 1: what they had in mind so that they can recognize.
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  Speaker 2: His answers.
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  Speaker 1: Seldom in my life has his answers look like my prayer.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Seldom in my life has his answers look like my prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Answer came in such a way that it confused him.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you what I mean. God's answers can't
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  Speaker 1: be cognitive. They cannot be cognitive, So God says, over
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  Speaker 1: and over again, I will show you. Okay, because where
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to take you. You don't have a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: predetermined picture in your mind for what I'm getting ready
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to do in your life. You have no point of
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: reference for what I'm about to do in your life.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to, but I'm talking
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to somebody in this room right now or on the
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  Speaker 1: stream right now. You have no point of reference. God
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: is going to do a new thing in your life.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: The former things have passed away. So I'm going to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: forget those things which are behind, and I'm going to
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: reach to those things which are before. Because God is
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: going to do something in you that you never saw
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: in your mother, that you never saw in your father,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that you didn't see in your grandparents, that you didn't
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: see reflected in your neighbors, that you didn't see coming
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  Speaker 1: in your life. And it cannot be cognitive and still
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  Speaker 1: be divine. God is going to do something like you
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  Speaker 1: have never seen him ever do before, and so he says,
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  Speaker 1: I will show you. Type it on the line, I
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: will show you put it in yours. I will show you.
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  Speaker 1: I can show you better that I can tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I will show you. I will show you that I
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  Speaker 1: will provide for you. I will show you that I
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  Speaker 1: can heal you. I will show you that I can
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  Speaker 1: bring you out. I will show you that I can
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: supply all your needs. I will show you that there's
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a method to what looks like madness in your life.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I will show you while your family rejected you, I
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: will show you while you're someioku. I will show you
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: why your mother didn't raise you. Stop murmuring and complaining
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: just because you're hungry for something that you didn't get.
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  Speaker 1: I will show you I already considered what they weren't
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: gonna be in your life. I will show you not
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  Speaker 1: your mother, not your father, not your sister, not your brother.
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  Speaker 1: I will show you keep on walking with me. And
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I will show you because you will not recognize what
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to do in your life because you
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: have never passed this way before. You have never passed
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: this way before. And if you can put up with
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the trauma of uncertainty, eventually I will show you I
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: got a plan to work this out that you haven't seen.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: It's not on your blueprints, it's not on your drawings,
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  Speaker 1: it's not on your schedule. It's never been done before.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I am going to do something new in you. It's
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: not gonna be like your first pastor, is not gonna
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: be like your childhood. I will show you. Look at
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: somebody and tell them. God's gonna show you. Don't worry
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: about it. God's gonna show you. You don't understand it
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: right now, that's okay. God is gonna show you. You
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: don't recognize God's hand and where you're at right now.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: But God's gonna show you. It doesn't look like God
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: is with you, but God is gonna show you. You
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: feel like God has forsaken you. But God is going
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to show you. You don't recognize anything around you, not
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: a street side, not a road marker. You don't know
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: where you are. You at a stage in your life
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: of uncertainty. You have never been this age before. You
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: have never been at this stage before. It's foreign to you.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what to do in this season of
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: your life. You try to do what you used to do.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: You can't do what you used to do. You try
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: to do what you're gonna do, and you can't do
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: what you're gonna do. But stand still and see the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: salvation of the Lord. I will show you. Type it
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  Speaker 1: on the line, I will show you put it on
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  Speaker 1: the pad. I will show you. Tell your neighbors. I
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  Speaker 1: will show you. When it's time for you to know,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna know when it's time for you to see,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: You're gonna see it. When it's time for you to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: understand it, you're gonna understand it. Until then, walk by
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: faith and not by sight. When it's time for your
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: eyes to open, they're gonna open. When it's time for
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: you to see, you're gonna see it. But I told
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: you to go to the pool, and I knew you
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: were blind, and I want you to grow after it
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and feel after it. And when you get to the water,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I will everybody who God give him a praise. Right now,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I got this building. I didn't know how we were
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: gonna pay for it. I had no clue. There was
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: nothing in my background that prepared me to need I
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: can't remember now something around eighty six million dollars just
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: to build a sanctuary. I had no point of reference.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I could not recognize a strategy because there was nothing
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: in my past of that magnitude. I told my mother
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: about it. She said, Baby, I can't think that high.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I thought, Lord, Mama, I can't either. But God said,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I will show you. They told me not to build
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: this kind of church in this kind of neighborhood. They
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: told me I want to move up to North Dallas
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: and build the church where the money was. But God
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: told me to stay right here. I will show you now.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't give me bad advice. They gave me good
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: advice that makes really good sense. But this is not cognitive,
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  Speaker 1: This is supernatural. This is not natural wisdom. This is
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: not the wisdom of men. This is the foolishness of God.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: God has a way of doing things that bubbles the
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: mind of the wise. God says, I will show you
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: some of you. God told you to move here, and
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: you said, Lord, I don't even know what to do here.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: He said, that's all right, just go ahead and move here.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I will show you glory to God. And so you
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: packed up your stuff and you moved by faith, and
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: you told your family you were moving, and they thought
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: you were crazy, but you left your kindred and you
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: went to a place that God said, when you get there,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I will show you. Now you're learning about faith. Now
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: you're learning about trust. Now you're learning about prayer. Now
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: you're learning about power and every now and in your
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: mind says.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: But don't let your mind talk you back to where
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: you've already been. This is not cognitive, this is supernatural.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: God said, I will show you if I'm preaching the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: right thing in the right place to the right people.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Make some noise in here right now, he's going to
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: show you. He's going to show you. That's why he's
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: got your own line tonight, because he wants to reaffirm
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: in you. He's got a plan. He hadn't revealed it
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: to your lad, but he says, I will show you
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: when the time is right.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: God is going to.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Reveal every thing to you as a believer. But until
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: then he has to test you to see if you
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: will walk in obedience without understanding.
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  Speaker 2: Onus.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: It's getting Genesis twelve and one. Let's go deeproof. Oh,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody, anybody on a faith journey right now.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: And you're in the wilderness and you don't understand it,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: and there's a feeling of uncertainty, and you got great faith,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: but sometimes your murmur and complain because God got you
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: out your element and got you out of your comfort zone,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: and you got a bunch of critics criticizing you. But
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: God keeps saying, I will show you. That's why you
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: had to be in this Bible class tonight. Because God
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: has given somebody confirmation. I don't know who it is,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: but I feel a spirit of confirmation coming in this
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  Speaker 1: place right now. God will show you why you had
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: to be here, why you had to do it then,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: why you had to move now, why you don't have
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: no friends yet while you're still uncertain. God shook you
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: away from that which was familiar because it wasn't fruitful,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: and he brought you into a place where you could
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: be fruitful. And he says, I will show you. Give
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: him thirty seconds of crazy praise. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but lord, I'm making less money. Don't worry about the money.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I will show you. But Lord, they don't even recognize
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: who I am. Don't worry about being recognized. I will
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: show you. But Lord, I I had a big title
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: where I was. Don't worry about titles. I will show you.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: This is not about titles. This is not about recognition.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: This is not about fame, this is not about fortune.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I'm fixing something down in you. And until I get
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: it fixed, oh come, mabo shot out baha. Until I
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: get it fixed, You're not gonna understand it. But you
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: gotta trust me. I will show you glory. I feel
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the annoying all over me. I feel the spirit of
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: a prophetic utterance all over me. I feel a word
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: from God flowing in this place. I feel the power
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: of God speaking in this place. God is going to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: show you. If that's your word for the night, give
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: him a praise and thank him. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Clap your hands in praising. Go home and tell your children.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: God's gonna show us. Tell your spouse, God's gonna show us.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Tell all them critics who are talking about you like
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: a dog. God's gonna show you. He's gonna prepare a
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: table before me in the presence of my enemies. He's
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: gonna annoint my head with all My cup's gonna run over,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: and God's gonna show you where I came from. They
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: called me Jim Jones and called me a colt because
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: fifty folks who went with me, and that sounded like
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: a cult to me. I don't care what it sounds
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: like to you. God told me to do it. He
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: told them to come. Twenty five years later, they standing
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: there with the teeth hanging out of the mouth. Because
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: God will show you in due season. Let us not
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: be weary in well doing, for you shall reap in
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: due season if you faint not it's coming. It's coming.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: It's coming, it's coming, it's coming. Type it on the line.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming. Say it to your neighbor. It's coming.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. You don't see it
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: right now, but ah, we'll.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Let's go depert, come on, say let's go deeper. Let's
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: go deeper. Oh, something's gonna happen in here tonight. I
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: feel the spirit of the Holy Spirit speaking in this place,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: their word of knowledge flowing in this place. Right now.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: There's word of wisdom flowing this place right now. God
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: just comforted somebody's anxiety. He said, I will show you.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I will show you. I will show you. Just rest
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: in me and trust me. I will show you. I
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: will give streams in the middle of your desert. I
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: will bring water out of a rock. I will supply
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: all of your knees according to his riches and glory.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: I will watch this.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Go to Genesis twelve and one, and the Lord has
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: said to Abram, go from your country, your people, and
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: your father's household, three yours, your country, your people, your
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: father's household, to the land I will, my God. So
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: if you go from your you come to mind, your country,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: your kindred, your father's household. You gave up three yours
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to get one eye. Everything you thought was yours got
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: dislodged you from it, everything that was familiar to you.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: God dislodged you from it and brought you from three
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  Speaker 1: yours to one eye. I will show you, said, I
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  Speaker 1: will show you, said again. I will set again, set again.
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  Speaker 2: One more time. Now praising him for.
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  Speaker 3: His word, just his wordy, just his wordy, just his word.
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  Speaker 3: This is word, this his word, this his word, because
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  Speaker 3: in him dislodging me from the youre, I am discovering
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  Speaker 3: the eye. I can't hold on to the youre and
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  Speaker 3: possess the eye. So I have to be willing to
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  Speaker 3: let go of your thoughts so I can have his thoughts,
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  Speaker 3: your way, so I can have his way. I got
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of mine. And that's the hard part.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: That's the hard part, because that's my kindred, that's my country,
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: that's my father's house.
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  Speaker 1: I know it, I understand it. I'm acclimated to it.
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  Speaker 1: I evolve from it. I'm familiar to it, I'm kin
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  Speaker 1: to it, I'm skinned to it, I'm related to it.
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  Speaker 1: And you want me to leave everything that I am
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  Speaker 1: related to, or everything I relate to, to bring me
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  Speaker 1: out into this desert of uncertainty. And all I have
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  Speaker 1: is your word on it. And God said, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to strip you from every post you've been
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  Speaker 1: leaning on until you don't have nobody else to trust
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  Speaker 1: but me, and I will show you. Not I have
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  Speaker 1: shown you, I will show you. So while I'm waiting
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: on the wheel, I got a walk. I got a
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  Speaker 1: walk while I'm waiting on the wheel, because the will
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: is futuristic and the walk is now. So I'm walking
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  Speaker 1: in uncertainty toward his will. Oh, y'all, will hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? Said again, I will show you. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is good. Go to Genesis twenty two. I got
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  Speaker 1: one more. I stay and got to my text. Here, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I got it. I got to hurry up, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. Some time later, God tested Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: He said to Abraham, here i am. Abraham replied. He
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  Speaker 1: said to him, to excuse me, Abraham, here am i?
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: He replied. Then God said, take your son. Wait mint. Now, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: it's all right for me to be out here. Take
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  Speaker 1: your son, your only son, whom you love, Isai, and
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  Speaker 1: go to the region of Mariah. Underlying region of Mariah.
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  Speaker 1: I think you got bibles highlighted. Do whatever you do
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  Speaker 1: with whatever device you got. Region of Mariah. God will
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  Speaker 1: put you in the region. He'll put you in the
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  Speaker 1: region without telling you exactly where. Let's test this by
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  Speaker 1: the word. God brought Ruth the Moabitis into the region
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  Speaker 1: of Boaz his field. She was in the region of
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  Speaker 1: what she would later own. But God just put you
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  Speaker 1: in the region. That's why your soul keeps getting happy,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: because even though you haven't hid it yet, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're close. Find somebody, ll I'm close. I'm in the region.
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  Speaker 1: You should have killed me before I got to the region.
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  Speaker 1: You should have took me out before I got to
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  Speaker 1: the region. I'm in the region of my promised land.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the region of my destiny. I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: region of my purpose. I'm in the region. No, I
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  Speaker 1: count not myself to have apprehended, but I'm in the region.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not there yet, but I'm in the region. I'm
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  Speaker 1: closer than I've ever been in my life. How do
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  Speaker 1: you know? My spirit knows it. I can't see it,
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  Speaker 1: but I sense it. I can't touch it, but I
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: sense it. It's not in my bankheat, but I sense it.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't gotten married yet, but I sense it. It
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: hadn't materialized, but I sense it. Look at you never
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  Speaker 1: to say yeah, because you're in the region. You're in
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: the region. That's why the devil is fighting you. Because
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: you're in the region. You will know you're in the
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  Speaker 1: region by the level of attack that comes.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: You remember when Jesus cast the devils out a legion,
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  Speaker 1: and the devil said, suffer us not to leave the region.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to leave this territory, because anytime somebody
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  Speaker 1: comes into this territory, it's our job to drive them
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  Speaker 1: away from the region. I've always known that God was
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  Speaker 1: gonna bless me by how the devil attacked me. The
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  Speaker 1: greater the attack, the greater the blessing. You never said
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  Speaker 1: legions of demons if I weren't in the Oh, somebody
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: watching online, that was your word. You're in the region,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: all hell is breaking loose. Before you finish one thing,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: here comes something else. Before you straighten out that you
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: get attacked by this. It's a crazy attack. It's a
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: ridiculous attack. It don't make no sense, does it No,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Because it's demonic. You're in spiritual warfare. And the reason
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: you're in spiritual warfare is because you're in the Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, Oh my god, Oh my god. I messed
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  Speaker 1: up and stepped in the region. I crossed the line
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  Speaker 1: and I got in the territory. I stepped into a
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  Speaker 1: place of my destiny. And the money's not flowing yet,
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  Speaker 1: and the title's not there, and the job's not there,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: but I can tell I'm in the region. Make some noise.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm creating to you, make some noise. If I'm
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: talking to you, make some noise. If you hear God
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: speaking to you. I'm in the region. I'm in the region.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the region. I'm in the territory, and the
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: enemy's trying to get you off the territory. When the
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Bible says neither give place to the devil, it means
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: don't give territory to the devil. Once you take a territory,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: don't let the devil have that territory. Because you're closer
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  Speaker 1: now than you've ever been in your life. You are
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord. I feel like I'm talking right to somebody,
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  Speaker 1: like i'm talking right to an individual I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what name to call, but I'm talking specifically to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I have totally described your situation. You're in the region.
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  Speaker 2: Shout.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in the region. The devil didn't attack you
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: till you got in the region. As soon as you
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: got in the region, here comes legions of demons coming
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: out to attack you because you're in the region. So
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: God says to God says Abraham, go to the region
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  Speaker 1: of Mariah sacrifice. There as a burnt offering on a mountain.
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  Speaker 1: I will show you you're in the region, and I'm
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: still not gonna tell you. I'm not gonna tell you
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  Speaker 1: which mountain, but you're in the right mountain range. This
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  Speaker 1: is not cognitive. You have never been here before. You
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: can't recognize this because you have never done this before.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: You have to sense you're in the region.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: This sensing thing is a spiritual thing. This is why
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: worship is important, because worship opens up your spiritual senses.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Some of you don't understand worship, and so you endear
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: the worship waiting on the word because you understand the word,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: but you really don't get the worship. And you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not emotional, I'm not in the worship. We're not
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: worshiping God because we're emotional. We're worshiping God in spite
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  Speaker 1: of our emotions. We're not worshiping God because we feel
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  Speaker 1: like worshiping God. We're trying to wake up our supernatural senses.
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  Speaker 1: Worship opens up your spiritual senses. I never could understand
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  Speaker 1: it because I grew up in a traditional mainline church
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: where the only time people shouted was when somebody starts
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: singing something. And then I got around charismatic Pentecostal people
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: and they start shouting and what nothing going on in
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: the service. And I was looking around trying to see
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: what they were shouting about. But see there was something
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: in their senses. The Book of Hebrews says that you
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: have your senses exercise by reason of use. So your
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: spiritual i gate, eargate, mouthcame touchgate gets stimulated or exercise
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  Speaker 1: by using it. One of the ways you use it
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: is in worship, because you're worshiping a god you can't
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  Speaker 1: see around people you can see, and you're not talking
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: to the people that you can see, but talking to
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: the God that you can't see. And the more you
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: talk to the gods you can't see, your senses are
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  Speaker 1: being exercised by reason of use. The word translated exercise.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: There is gymnatia where we get gymnasium. So when God
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: gets ready to give you a good workout, he shuts
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: out all of your natural senses so that you can
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: sense in your spirit what the Lord is saying to
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: the church. Otherwise this scripture don't make any sense. He
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: that had an ear let him hear what the spirit
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: is saying to church. Wait a minute, Lord, everybody got
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: a ear, he said, I'm not talking about your natural ear.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about your spiritual ear. He that had an ear,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: let him hear. What the spirit is saying to the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: church means that I'm not gonna talk to you in
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: an audible way. I'm gonna speak to you in a
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: spiritual way, and you're gonna sense it in your belly
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: though you heard nothing in your ear. Am I making
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: sense to you? And I put you in the worship
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: service so your senses could be exercised by reason of use?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? Cognitive require cognitive recall requires past experiences.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: So do you remember your second cousin, Willie James from Chicago? See, well,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: let me think a minute. I'm being cognitive. Let me
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: think about it. I had a past with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, girl,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: I remember him. I rea remember him because he's my
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: point of reference. I had to search through my cognitive
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: reasoning in order to catch a glimpse of vision. One
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: of the things that is associated with memory is eyesight.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: There is a correlation between eyesight and memory, and so
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: what I see with my eyes I record with my mind.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: But what about when God gives me something that my
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: eyes haven't seen and my ears having heard, and neither
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: hath entered into my heart. I can't be cognitive because
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: I can't see it. That's how I remember you, because
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: I saw you, and I say, that's Serena. She changed
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: her hair, but that's you. It took me a minute
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: to recognize you. You did your hair different, but I
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: remembered your face. That means I had to encounter you
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: before to re to recognitive you. What God is getting
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: ready to do in your life is not cognitive. We
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: remember through associative cognition. Foreign names can be challenging to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: remember because we don't have cognitive association. So when somebody
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: says my name is Ala, Baba, Shahanda Boshi, you say
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you a. It wouldn't be a problem
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: to remember it if you grew up around names like that,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: because you would have the association to help you to
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: be cognitive. But what about when God does something for
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: which you have no association and your eyes having seen it.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I remember because I saw. It's hard to remember if
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: I'm blind, because my eye gain.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Helps my mind to record data.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: We get back in the car, my wifeend say, I say,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: which one are you talking about? She said, the girl
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: in the red dress. Okay, she recorded it because she
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: saw the dress. That's her cognitive ability through association. She
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: remembers the woman because she remembers the dress. I don't
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: know who she talking about because I didn't pay no
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: attention to the woman or the dress by tell her
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: gone with the story going, with the story going to
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: you know, release yourself, let yourself go, tell me about it.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Gone.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: And the next time we're in church, I say, which
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: one was it? Am I telling the truth? I do
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: it all the time. Which one? Show me which one
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: you're talking about? Because I need to see her, pay
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: attention and record it in my head because my eyes
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: are helping my mind to remember. If we don't have
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: cognitive association, we can't remember. Go to John six thirteen fifteen.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: I'm almost there. So they gathered them and filled twelve
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: baskets and the pieces of the five barley lows left
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: over by those who had eaten. After the people saw
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: the signs Jesus performed, they begin to say, watch this,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: surely this is the prophet who is come into the world.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Come on, Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: by himself. Wait a minute, Jesus didn't just go to
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: the mountain to pray. He went to the mountain to
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: hide because they had recognized him to be the Messiah.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Now I understand why the disciples didn't recognize him when
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: he walked on the water, because he had hidden what
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: they recognized and showed himself in another form that made
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: the disciples think he was a ghost. Because what drove
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: him in the mountain to pray in the first place
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: is that he didn't want to be coordinated before being crucified.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: Give me that other time. Put that other text up
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: here again, because I want them to recognize some former texts,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: the one you had.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: Up there before. Yeah.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets and the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: pieces of the five barley lows left over by those
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: who had eaten. Come on, after the people saw the
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: sign Jesus performed when he took the two fish and
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: five loaves of bread and fed the five thousand, they
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: begin to say, surely this is the prophet who is
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: coming to the world. Jesus knowing that they intended to
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: come and make him king by force, not by cross
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. You
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: can't let people crown you before your time. Don't let
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: their compliments and their flattery push you into a position
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: that you are not ready for. Right now, let patients
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: have its perfect work. God will show you when it's
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: time for you to move. Until then, it's better to hide,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: even from your friends who are trying to force you. Child,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: If that was me, I would take over that church.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: If that was me, I would get that man. If
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: that was me, I would take that job. If that
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: was me, Shut up, it's not you. You're not going
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: to force me into being king because my next scheduled
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: appointment isn't with the crown, but across and the steps
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: he delighted in his way. Let me go on, okay,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: So let's go to Matthew fourteen, twenty five twenty nine,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: so you can see how when Jesus came in the
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them walking
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: on the sea. Come on, and when the disciples saw
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: him walking on the sea, they were troubled saying it's
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: a spirit. And they cried out for fear. Why didn't
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: they recognize Jesus They had just seen him before. But
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: the problem that disciples kept having with Jesus, it said
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: they could not recognize Jesus whenever he showed up in
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: another form. But straightway Jesus spake under them, saying, be
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: of good cheer it is I be not afraid. They
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: didn't recognize his form, but they recognize his voice, for
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: the Bible said my sheep, no, my voice and a stranger.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: They will not follow.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: The form and the voice didn't line up with each other.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: But when they heard the voice, they said that sounds
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: like him. And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: it be thou bid me to come unto thee.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: On the water.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I still don't trust the form because the form don't
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: look like the guy I left going up on the mountain,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: and the guy I left walking on the sand is
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: not the form I see walking on the water. That's
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: why God told Moses, you can't define me. I am
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: that I am.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: See.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: I can turn into whatever I need to be whenever
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I need to be, to do whatever I gotta do.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Because I'm God, I can be water flowing out of rock.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: I can be honey in the lion. I can be
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: the bread of Heaven. I can be whatever I want
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: to be. And now he's in another form. But he
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: had the same voice, and he said come. And when
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: on the water to go to Jesus. I said all
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: of that to get to the text. In our texts,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: we learn that God's answers often defy our recognition. He said,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going to send you bread. Remember I'm back in Exodus.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: I'm in Exodus sixteen one through five thirty one through
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: thirty two. He said, I'm gonna send bread. But the
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: people called it manna. They were looking for bread. Wait
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: a minute, what is their cognition of bread? Egypt? The
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: only bread they recognized was Egyptian bread. So when God
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: sent bread down from heaven, they didn't recognize it. They
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: called it man now, which means what is it.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: God called it bread, They called it manna.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: What is the.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: Difference between bread and manna? Is what your cognitive thoughts
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: tell you it should have looked like. And now it's
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: in front of you, and the answer doesn't look like
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: what you thought. Oh, I'm working on someone. The reason
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: I'm in this text tonight, Well, there's a lot of
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: reasons I'm in this text tonight. But one of the
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: reasons that I'm in this text tonight is because sometimes
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: God's answer looks so different from what you thought that
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: you will reject his answer because you don't recognize it.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: This is the substratum of the gospel. He came into
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: his own and his own received him, not because they
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: did not.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: They did not recognize them.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: If the princes of this world would have known what
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: they were doing, they would have never crucified the Lord.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: But they did not recognize them. Who do men say
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  Speaker 1: that I am? Some say that Thou art Elias, and
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  Speaker 1: some say that Jeremiah. Who do you say that I am?
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  Speaker 1: Only one of the twelve recognize him. It's the same
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  Speaker 1: guy who recognized him on the water. Thou art the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Oh y'all don't hear y'all ain't shot and good as
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching. Thou art the Christ, the son of the
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  Speaker 1: True and Living God. And Jesus says, flesh and blood
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  Speaker 1: have not revealed this unto you. You didn't get this
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  Speaker 1: through your natural eyes. But my Father, which is in heaven,
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  Speaker 1: And upon this rock I will build my church, and
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  Speaker 1: the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. I
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  Speaker 1: will build my church on the backs of men and
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  Speaker 1: women who can sense what they don't see, who can
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  Speaker 1: recognize me in another form, who have supernatural revelation of
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  Speaker 1: who I am. I'm gonna build my church every so often,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna raise up a man or a woman who
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  Speaker 1: can see what other people cannot see. And if you
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  Speaker 1: can see what they cannot see, you can get what
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  Speaker 1: they cannot get. Oh, y'all, don't hear what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to you. Look at you, and they're gonna say you
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  Speaker 1: better recognize you better recognize that is your wife. You
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  Speaker 1: better recognize that is your husband. Ah, now, that can't
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  Speaker 1: be my husband. He too short. I ain't gonna go
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  Speaker 1: on down that road. I could go. I can really
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  Speaker 1: play with that, but I ain't gonna buy you got
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  Speaker 1: all these things in your mind or what it ought
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  Speaker 1: to look like. But relationships that last aren't built on
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  Speaker 1: what you look like. They're built on something you sense
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  Speaker 1: about that person. And that sensitivity transcends outer appearance, because
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  Speaker 1: outer appearance may change, but what you sense remains. I've
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  Speaker 1: told it a dozen times, but I'll tell it again.
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  Speaker 1: If you took me to my mother in law's house
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  Speaker 1: and put me in the living room with the red
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  Speaker 1: and black furniture in it, and I could put an
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  Speaker 1: X on the spot where I knew she was my wife,
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  Speaker 1: I could, I declare. I promised you I could put
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  Speaker 1: an X right on the spot where I knew she
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  Speaker 1: was my wife. I didn't tell her I knew it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't tell her at all. I got back in
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  Speaker 1: the car with my friend Jerry, and I told him,
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  Speaker 1: come on, fellas, you know, we don't tell them. You
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  Speaker 1: tell your boy. I told my boy. I said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna marry that woman. He said, yeah, man, I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna marry that woman. I just know I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: marry that woman. I'm supposed to marry that woman. She's
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  Speaker 1: the one. How do you know it? I sensed it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I sensed it. So I didn't
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  Speaker 1: exactly ask her.
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  Speaker 2: To marry me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I did, finally, she said, I didn't ever ask her.
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  Speaker 1: I did, you know? Finally when you know? Eventually, But
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  Speaker 1: what I said to her was we were driving down
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  Speaker 1: the road going to Kanah City and we were on
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  Speaker 1: the boulevard and I said, we were talking about something,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, I guess if I was to marry you,
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  Speaker 1: you would say yes for you. That's a bad line.
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  Speaker 1: Don't try to use that line. That was the best
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  Speaker 1: I could come up with. And she said, well yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I said, that's close enough. We're gonna go on for that.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go on for that. We're gonna go on
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  Speaker 1: for that. That was the proposal. I did better later
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  Speaker 1: when I gave her a second wedding ring. I got
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  Speaker 1: on my knees and did all the fancy stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: the first time I was driving and I said, if
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  Speaker 1: I was to marry you, I just assume you would
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  Speaker 1: say yes.
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  Speaker 2: What am I after tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I am after this To recognize God's answer, you have
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  Speaker 1: to let go of your image because God didn't promise
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  Speaker 1: you something that you listed. God said, when you get
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  Speaker 1: to the right region, I will show you. Okay, Now
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go to this text right quick, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna rep this up. Exit it sixteen one through five.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it again thirty one through thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're reading it fully understanding what's happening. So the
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  Speaker 1: whole issue community set out from Elim and came to
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  Speaker 1: the desert of sin which is Betweenlip and Elam and Sinai,
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  Speaker 1: on the fifteenth day of the second month, after they
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  Speaker 1: had come out of Egypt. They've been walking for two
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  Speaker 1: and a half months in the desert. The whole community
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  Speaker 1: grumbled dead. It got a bad attitude. It's hot. They've
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  Speaker 1: been walking for two and a half months. They mad
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  Speaker 1: at Moses and Aaron. Come on, the Israelite said to them,
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  Speaker 1: if only we had now they bitter we had died.
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  Speaker 1: They want to die by the Lord's hand. Any what
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  Speaker 1: difference does it make where you die. If you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: die in the wilderness or die in the Egypt, you're
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  Speaker 1: still dead. When people say stupid stuff, don't argue. Don't
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  Speaker 1: argue with them because they traumatize. What difference does it
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  Speaker 1: make whether you die in Egypt or die in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: You dead either way. Now you sit out here mad
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  Speaker 1: at me because you're gonna die in the wrong spot. There,
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  Speaker 1: we say now, and by the way, you got to amnesia.
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  Speaker 1: There we sat around pots of meat and ate all
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  Speaker 1: the food we wanted. But you're gonna die there. What
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  Speaker 1: difference does it make what you eat? This is last meal.
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  Speaker 1: But you have brought us out into this desert to
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  Speaker 1: starve this entire assembly to death. So you want to
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  Speaker 1: go back to Egypt so you can die. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, you remember the food of Egypt and forgotten
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  Speaker 1: the slavery. You forgot how you had to make bricks
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  Speaker 1: without straw. You forgot how mean Freroh was to you,
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  Speaker 1: and how he abused you. And you want to go
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  Speaker 1: back to abuse for dinner. Have you ever traded better
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  Speaker 1: for lesser because it tastes good?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: They they got quiet again. Jesus, you went back to
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  Speaker 1: an abuser.
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  Speaker 2: For what?
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  Speaker 1: Why would you go back to somebody who was abusing
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  Speaker 1: you because they can cook? So now the Lord is ticked.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'm a rain down bread from heaven for you.
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  Speaker 1: The people are to go out each day and gather
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  Speaker 1: enough for that day. And in this way I will
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  Speaker 1: test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
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  Speaker 1: On the sixth day, they are to prepare Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait, wait wait wait wait hold it
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  Speaker 1: don't move nowhere. Prepare. All my life I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was low of bread. All my life, I thought God
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  Speaker 1: sent hot dog bunnons and English muffins all my life.
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  Speaker 1: I pictured sandwiches falling from heaven. I didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: I had to cook. Wait a minute, there is a
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  Speaker 1: message here. What God let rain down from heaven wasn't done.
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  Speaker 1: It had to be prepared. What God lets rain down
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  Speaker 1: from heaven is potential. No wonder they didn't recognize it
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  Speaker 1: because they hadn't prepared it. Could you have a blessing
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  Speaker 1: and raw form that you don't recognized because you haven't
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  Speaker 1: given it enough attention to prepare it to reach its
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  Speaker 1: fullest potential? And so you are longing after, lusting after
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  Speaker 1: something that's more prepared, because you don't want to put
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  Speaker 1: the work in to take it from manna.
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  Speaker 2: To bread.
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  Speaker 1: Oh y'all, don't hear what I'm saying. Write down collaboration.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Moses experience. I don't have time to
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  Speaker 1: work with them, out of time, but this is Moses experience.
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  Speaker 1: Alsoughout Moses' life. God is teaching Moses collaboration that it
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  Speaker 1: will not be all God, but it will be God
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  Speaker 1: in man. So when the ten commandments, first ten commandments
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  Speaker 1: came down, Lord, let me stop, let me quit. When
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  Speaker 1: they got the first ten commandments number one. The first
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  Speaker 1: time they got at orally, and then they said this
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  Speaker 1: we will do. The second time they got it. God
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  Speaker 1: hewed out the stone and wrote the commandments. But when
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  Speaker 1: Moses came down off the mountaintop with that, that was
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  Speaker 1: all God. They had built the idol. He dropped it
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  Speaker 1: and it broke. The next time, God said, you hew
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  Speaker 1: out the stone and I will write on it. That's collaboration.
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  Speaker 1: Over and over again, God keeps teaching us collaboration. I
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  Speaker 1: am not going to rain down potential that you won't prepare.
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  Speaker 1: So you asked God for a job. God gave you
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  Speaker 1: an interview. You asked God for a wife. God gave
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  Speaker 1: you a date. You asked God for a second chance.
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  Speaker 1: God just gives you opportunity, opportunity to be saved, opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to save yourself, opportunity to change your life, opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: fix your situation. It is within your reach. It is
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  Speaker 1: within your reach. God didn't let the man fall in
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  Speaker 1: the tent. They had to go out and reach for it.
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  Speaker 1: Stretch forth your hand. You are coming into a reaching
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  Speaker 1: season that God is going to put the opportunity within
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  Speaker 1: your reachs and the more you stretch yourself to recognize
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  Speaker 1: that this is my opportunity. The more God is going
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  Speaker 1: to bring it in. It's not going to be by
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  Speaker 1: his hand alone. It's going to be when you snatch
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity. Now, snatch it back to you. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the rest of this year is going to be like
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  Speaker 1: for you. You've got to snatch that thing back to you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to, but I feel
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  Speaker 1: chill bumps all over me. The glory of God is
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  Speaker 1: in this place. The spirit of God is in this place.
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  Speaker 1: You have got to prepare it. God is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: get an oven and bake the manna and turn it
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  Speaker 1: in the bread for you. He's just gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: the potential, and you've got to turn around and bake
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  Speaker 1: the potential until it looks like bread. Am I helping anybody?
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not helping anybody. If you're wanting me online right now,
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  Speaker 1: there's some things falling in your life that are in
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  Speaker 1: your reach that are not finished, and if you're not careful,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna step over it and call it manna and
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  Speaker 1: not recognize that it is bread. God's answers don't look
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  Speaker 1: like your prayer it's gonna look like manna. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who this is for, but God sent you
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  Speaker 1: something and it ain't finished, and it doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: what you had in mind, and you're about to walk
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  Speaker 1: away from it, and you said, manna, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: This story in Ezekiel sixteen is the shadow of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: because he said, your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: and they perished. But I am the true bread that
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  Speaker 1: comes down out of heaven. But when the true bread
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  Speaker 1: came down, they did the same thing with the true
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  Speaker 1: bread they did with the manna. When he came to
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  Speaker 1: his own they said manna. They did not recognize him
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  Speaker 1: as the Messiah because he wasn't finishing. Watch this. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna show you one more thing. I'm gonna talk. The
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel have been in Egypt four hundred years.
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  Speaker 1: When they came out, they had been out of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: actually four hundred and thirty years, but slaves four hundred years.
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  Speaker 1: They had been enslaved for four hundred years. They are
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  Speaker 1: now sons. They've been out two and a half months.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Manna comes down from heaven. Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: that's the shadow, how does that compare it to the reality.
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  Speaker 1: From Malachi to Matthew. It's four hundred years. And in
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Saint Matthew, an angel comes along to
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  Speaker 1: Mary and says, in a matter of months, you shall
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  Speaker 1: bring forth a son, and his name shall be called Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and he shall save his people from their sins. But
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  Speaker 1: the people said manna. I want to get manna out
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  Speaker 1: of your mouth until you actually believe that what God
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  Speaker 1: sent is what God said, and you stop sucking guessing
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord has done. Stand to your feet. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: are you getting anything out of this? There's somebody watching
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  Speaker 1: me right now. I don't know whether you're in the
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  Speaker 1: room or whether you're online. God is sending you potential.
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  Speaker 1: It's potential. It's within your reach. But it don't look
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  Speaker 1: like what you thought it would look like because God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't give you the finished product. He gives you the
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  Speaker 1: potential and you have to reach out and pull it in.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible said they boiled it or baked it.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't processed the potential. It's not that God has
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  Speaker 1: an answer. You got to reach out there in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and pull it to you, and then you got
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  Speaker 1: to put it together.
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  Speaker 2: And form it and bake it and then eat it. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're closer than you've ever been before.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I'm teaching this tonight is that I
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to make the mistake that Israel Maid,
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  Speaker 1: that you prayed and God answered, but you walked over
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  Speaker 1: the manner looking for bread, as if you had no
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  Speaker 1: response ability to take potential and turn it into bread. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters, everything you ask God for is
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  Speaker 1: within your reach.
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  Speaker 2: Stretch out your hands again. It's in the stretch. It
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: won't be comfortable, your arms will be tired. It won't
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: be easy because it's not finished.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever that is you've been praying about, get it
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  Speaker 1: in your mind, get it in your spirit, get it
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  Speaker 1: in your senses, and this time, when you pull it in,
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  Speaker 1: claim it for yours now.