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Don't Forget Who You Are - Bishop TD Jakes ( Full Sermon · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm used to Dr. Tutman thanking me for the
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  Speaker 1: privilege of inviting him to speak, but now I've got
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  Speaker 1: to learn how to switch it around and do it
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  Speaker 1: the other way. Thank you for inviting me to preach
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  Speaker 1: and to speak this morning at your illustrious congregation. It
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  Speaker 1: is just a blessing and an honor to have the
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  Speaker 1: privilege of being here. Come on, give it up for
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  Speaker 1: this great house of worship. Thank you. Come on, this
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  Speaker 1: great house of worship. This is a great house of worship.
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  Speaker 1: This is a great house of worship. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: whether you've been here 10 years or you've just been
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  Speaker 1: here 10 minutes. This is a great house of worship.
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  Speaker 1: You can clap in here. You can run in here.
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  Speaker 1: You can cry in here. You can weep in here.
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  Speaker 1: You can have an encounter with God in this place.
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  Speaker 1: Shout yes! Somebody Oh my God, I feel something in
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  Speaker 1: the room already. Stand on your feet, let me read
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  Speaker 1: this Bible right quick because I get excited when I
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  Speaker 1: read the Word. We're going to be in the book
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  Speaker 1: of Ruth, almost in the gospel of Ruth. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be in the book of Ruth, chapter 1, verse
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  Speaker 1: 18 through 22. Just a fragment, a morsel A moment,
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  Speaker 1: a beat, a whole note in the melody of God.
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  Speaker 1: It is in Ruth chapter 1 verse 18 through 22
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  Speaker 1: that we extrapolate the fragment of a text that we
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  Speaker 1: might better understand what the Holy Spirit is saying to
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  Speaker 1: the church. We will not be teaching just for your
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  Speaker 1: intellectual stimulation or your emotional response. but that you might
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  Speaker 1: have an answer from God to the things you are
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  Speaker 1: confronting in this season and in this moment. That you
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  Speaker 1: might hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying
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  Speaker 1: to the church and thereby be transformed from faith to
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  Speaker 1: faith and from glory to glory. In the middle of
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  Speaker 1: Naomi's trip back home, she is trying to discard herself.
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  Speaker 1: from where she was so that she can go back
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  Speaker 1: to where she started. When she saw that she was
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  Speaker 1: steadfastly minded to go with her, talking about Ruth, then
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  Speaker 1: she left speaking unto her. Ain't no need to keep
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  Speaker 1: trying to tell somebody something that they not going to do.
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  Speaker 1: She just shut up and went on. Come on, some
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  Speaker 1: of y'all got that in your own house right now.
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  Speaker 1: You just shut up. How you doing? Fine. So she
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  Speaker 1: stopped speaking to her. So they too went until they
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  Speaker 1: came to Bethlehem. I wish I had time to play
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  Speaker 1: with that. So they too is a phrase that you
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  Speaker 1: see over it. And over and over together, whether you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Abraham or Isaac or Paul or Timothy. So
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  Speaker 1: they too, so they too, there's a power of two.
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  Speaker 1: So they too went on together. God will not leave
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  Speaker 1: you without someone to connect with who gets what you feel.
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  Speaker 1: So they too, so they too went until they came
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  Speaker 1: to Bethlehem. And it came to pass when they were
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  Speaker 1: come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, is this Naomi? And she said unto them,
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  Speaker 1: call me not Naomi, call me Mara. Now Naomi means
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  Speaker 1: my joy. So somebody had bounced her in the crib
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  Speaker 1: and called her my joy. But she says, don't call
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  Speaker 1: me that anymore. Call me Mara, which means sorrow. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't end up like I started. I started out with
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  Speaker 1: great joy, and I am now in great pain. And
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  Speaker 1: she says, don't call me Naomi anymore. Call me Mara,
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  Speaker 1: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. I
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  Speaker 1: went out full, and the Lord has brought me home
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  Speaker 1: again empty. When they call ye me Naomi, seeing the
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  Speaker 1: Lord has testified against me, And the Almighty has afflicted me.
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  Speaker 1: She met at God. She met at everybody. So Naomi
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  Speaker 1: returned and Ruth the Moabitess. They always tell you who
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  Speaker 1: Ruth is. They never just mention her name without you
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  Speaker 1: understanding that she has crossed the line. That she is
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  Speaker 1: a Moabitess means that she is an idolatress. That she
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  Speaker 1: is a Gentile. And she has had to cross the
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  Speaker 1: line to make the journey. She has to be transformed
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  Speaker 1: in route. She has to denounce her gods and embrace
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  Speaker 1: Naomi's God. And she is converted by a woman who
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  Speaker 1: is going through chaos. Isn't it funny how God will
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  Speaker 1: use you the best at the worst moments of your life?
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  Speaker 1: Naomi is sitting up here fussing about God. He had
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  Speaker 1: dealt bitterly with me. And all the while, here's Ruth
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  Speaker 1: right behind her saying, thy God should be my God,
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  Speaker 1: thy people my people, and where thou dwellest, I will dwell.
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  Speaker 1: She's being converted on the journey, renouncing her idolatry. But
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  Speaker 1: she could not renounce the stigma. There's a difference between
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  Speaker 1: a stigma and a stain. The stain can be washed away,
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  Speaker 1: but people will still have a stigma. Y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. And so they are going through
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  Speaker 1: this together, and they come down to this point. And
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  Speaker 1: so Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite is her daughter-in-law
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  Speaker 1: with her, which returned out of the country of Moab.
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  Speaker 1: And they came to Bethlehem, watch this closely, in the beginnings.
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  Speaker 1: of barley harvest. Can you say amen? I want to
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  Speaker 1: spend a few moments in the word. My subject is
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  Speaker 1: simple and I want you to say it to everybody
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  Speaker 1: around you, everybody around you, the people you like, the
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  Speaker 1: people you don't know, the people who are having a
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  Speaker 1: bad hair day. The people who don't have their weave
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  Speaker 1: glued in right. I want you to get the bald-headed
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  Speaker 1: people and the bushy people with the ponytails on top.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to tell everybody you can reach, don't
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  Speaker 1: forget who you are. Don't forget. Don't forget who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget who you are. Don't let nobody say anything
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  Speaker 1: that makes you forget who you are. Don't let nobody
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  Speaker 1: do anything that makes you forget who you are. Don't
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  Speaker 1: let nobody roll their eyes and make you forget who
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  Speaker 1: you are. Don't let nobody try to stare you down
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  Speaker 1: and make you forget who you are. This has to
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  Speaker 1: come from within you. Don't forget who you are. One
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  Speaker 1: more time. You may be seated. Spirit of the living God,
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  Speaker 1: fall fresh on the word while it's being preached. I
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  Speaker 1: believe you for miracles and healings and deliverances and breakthroughs
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  Speaker 1: and touches and hopes and help and grace. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 1: name we pray. Amen. Well, let's go to work. I was, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Taking my son, my youngest son, I have five children.
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  Speaker 1: I was taking my son to drop him off at college,
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  Speaker 1: my baby boy. And he was getting ready to get
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  Speaker 1: out of the car at that time in Chicago. He
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  Speaker 1: was studying classical piano in Chicago before he ended up
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles finishing up his degree. And he'd never
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  Speaker 1: been away from home, and he's the baby of the family.
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  Speaker 1: And since he's not here, I'll go ahead and tell
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  Speaker 1: you he's a little spoiled. Edit that out the tape.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to have to answer for that when
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  Speaker 1: I get home. And just as he was getting out
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  Speaker 1: of the car, I said, Dexter. He said, what, Daddy?
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  Speaker 1: I said, don't you forget who you are. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: send you up here to find out who you are.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't send you to take a course or devise
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  Speaker 1: a curriculum or go online and do a seminar or
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  Speaker 1: a webinar to find out who you are. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to know who you are and don't forget it
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  Speaker 1: because life has a way of making you forget who
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  Speaker 1: you are. I was coming down the road this morning
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  Speaker 1: And I was coming down with one of my other
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  Speaker 1: sons that Florida has told. Akin, would you stand for
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  Speaker 1: a minute? Amen. Amen. So give a look out in praise.
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  Speaker 1: Came over to my house, told me he had got
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  Speaker 1: a good job. I said, you got a good job
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  Speaker 1: up here. Y'all still won. We don't have no ocean.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's why we lost. And one of my
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  Speaker 1: other sons, sons y'all stole Calvin Hughes would you stand
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  Speaker 1: give God a praise for him he came to interview
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  Speaker 1: me when I first started pastoring did the interview and
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  Speaker 1: ended up joining my church You know how you do
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  Speaker 1: when you do an interview with an interviewer, you never
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  Speaker 1: know what the press is going to say. So I
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  Speaker 1: had my guard up, my shield, a rubber band, a
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  Speaker 1: pocket knife, a switchblade, and some bubble gum and some
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  Speaker 1: elephant glue in case it went bad. And he ended
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  Speaker 1: up joining my church and stayed in my church until
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  Speaker 1: he came down here and texted me and said, I
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  Speaker 1: heard you're going to be in my area. Glad to
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  Speaker 1: have all of you, all the pastors, all the elders present.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say that. Don't forget who you are.
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  Speaker 1: What's a loaded statement? I am sending you here to
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  Speaker 1: get information, not indoctrination. I want you to understand the
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  Speaker 1: difference between the two. And just because they said it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make it so, you have to have a clear
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  Speaker 1: perspective of who you are. We got to stop sending
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  Speaker 1: our children away to be told who they are by strangers.
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  Speaker 1: Our tradition, our heritage is to verbalize, to tell, to talk,
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  Speaker 1: to teach, to tell our stories over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: all down through time and antiquities of history. We have
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  Speaker 1: always conveyed our history by oral tradition, very seldom by
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  Speaker 1: written tradition. Our stories passed down for generations. That means
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  Speaker 1: that it is incumbent upon the older generation to impart
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  Speaker 1: to the next generation a clear understanding of who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Not that you're going to be a cheap copy of
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  Speaker 1: a great original. I don't want you to be a
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  Speaker 1: duplication of me. I want you to be who you are.
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  Speaker 1: And as a potter is shaping clay, two different elements
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  Speaker 1: working together on a spinning wheel. On a spinning wheel
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  Speaker 1: he works his magic. On a spinning wheel until he
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  Speaker 1: shapes the vessel from a lump of clay into a
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  Speaker 1: vessel of art. And it all happens in the spin.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody say it all happens in the spin. You must
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  Speaker 1: understand that your God is a moving God. From the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning when the Spirit of the Lord moved across
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  Speaker 1: the face of the deep to the last chapter in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, even so come Lord Jesus. God is always moving.
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  Speaker 1: He's not stagnant. He's not a statue. He is always
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  Speaker 1: on the move. He is moving. He is moving. When
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  Speaker 1: I was in Jerusalem around the Wailing Wall, I noticed
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  Speaker 1: that all of the Jews that were gathered around the
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  Speaker 1: Wailing Wall, they would stand at the Wailing Wall and
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  Speaker 1: carve and they would rock back and forth. So I
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  Speaker 1: asked the rabbis, I said, why do you rock when
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  Speaker 1: you stand by the wall? He said, because we believe
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  Speaker 1: that our God is a moving God. And in order
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  Speaker 1: to be able to connect with him, we have to
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  Speaker 1: catch his rhythm. So think with me then for a
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  Speaker 1: moment that God has a rhythm. God has a rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: And every rhythm is not the same. There are syncopated beats.
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  Speaker 1: There are traditional beats. There are on beat, off beat,
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  Speaker 1: one and three, two and four different levels of beat.
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  Speaker 1: Our God has a rhythm. Everything he created has a rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: And anytime the rhythm is broken, the health is compromised.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing they do when they begin to take
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  Speaker 1: your vital signs in the emergency room is to check
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  Speaker 1: your blood pressure because they're trying to get your rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: Because your circulatory system has a rhythm, it has a flow.
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  Speaker 1: They'll feel your pulse or even your ankle because the
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  Speaker 1: same beat in your pulse should be in your ankle.
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  Speaker 1: The correlation of that beat determines the health of the
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  Speaker 1: body because God has a rhythm. God is a rhythmatic God.
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  Speaker 1: He has a rhythm whereby he does all things. He
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  Speaker 1: creates everything in rhythm, in systems, in cycles, in circles.
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  Speaker 1: He creates the flow. That's why he created the woman
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  Speaker 1: last because he wanted to collaborate with her through a
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  Speaker 1: cycle in creation that causes a rhythm. And in old days,
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  Speaker 1: People would count the rhythm more than they would count
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  Speaker 1: anything else because the rhythm would let you know where
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  Speaker 1: you were or whether the seed had been caught. Because
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that changes the rhythm is the seed
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  Speaker 1: being caught. I'm already preaching better than you shout. You
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  Speaker 1: have to understand that life has a rhythm. That life
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  Speaker 1: has a rhythm, this is important. And you can almost
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  Speaker 1: feel the rhythm in this text. There's a rhythm in
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  Speaker 1: this text. There's a rhythm in your life. Don't make
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  Speaker 1: all your decisions in the morning. Because what you think
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  Speaker 1: about something at 20 is not going to be what
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  Speaker 1: you think about it at 40. And what you think
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  Speaker 1: about at 40 is not going to be how you
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  Speaker 1: see it at 60. So you can make a decision
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  Speaker 1: at 20 that messes up your 60 because you're caught
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  Speaker 1: in a cycle and you're caught in a rhythm and
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  Speaker 1: you made it with a blind spot and it was
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  Speaker 1: true when you thought it, but it wasn't true when
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  Speaker 1: it happened. I can't help but see I'm almost distracted
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  Speaker 1: from the text by the rhythm of the text itself.
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  Speaker 1: You see, 10 years ago, Naomi had gone from Bethlehem,
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  Speaker 1: which means house of bread, but it was in a
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  Speaker 1: famine and it was in a famine and she had
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  Speaker 1: gone to Moab and 10 years later, she's coming back.
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  Speaker 1: She has gone full circle. She has gone full circle.
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  Speaker 1: She has gotten in a rhythm of life and what
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  Speaker 1: was true when she started isn't true right now. And
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  Speaker 1: if you look at your own life, what was true
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  Speaker 1: when you started might not be true right now. Don't
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  Speaker 1: look at your spouse. Just keep looking straight ahead. Life
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  Speaker 1: has a rhythm. You think certain things. I want to
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  Speaker 1: live over here. I want this kind of degree. I
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  Speaker 1: want to work in this field. Then you end up
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  Speaker 1: working in an area that doesn't have anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with what you went to school about. Can I get
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  Speaker 1: a witness in here? Because, come on, talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: Because what you thought at 18 might not be what
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  Speaker 1: you think at 25. And you got to give yourself
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  Speaker 1: room to move, to vacillate, to vibrate, to change direction,
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  Speaker 1: to get a new pulse, to get a new beat.
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  Speaker 1: And stop hanging around people who can't deal with your pulse.
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  Speaker 1: You need like-minded people. You need people who catch your vision.
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  Speaker 1: You need people who understand your flow. And even if
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  Speaker 1: they don't understand you, you got to know your rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: You got to know that it's time for you to move.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for you to make a change. It's time
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  Speaker 1: for you to do something different. I, for one, am tired.
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  Speaker 1: trying to just stand up and be what other people
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  Speaker 1: expect me to be at the expense of being myself.
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  Speaker 1: I would rather have you ticked off with me because
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  Speaker 1: I refuse to live like you think I ought to live,
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  Speaker 1: wear what you think I ought to wear. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be my... I'm going to be my own person.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're going to rock with me, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to catch my rhythm. If you're going to
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  Speaker 1: rock with me, if you're going to rock with me,
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  Speaker 1: you got to catch my rhythm. As soon as I
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  Speaker 1: figure out that you can't keep the beat, we got
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  Speaker 1: to go separate ways because I'm too old to change
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  Speaker 1: my rhythm. I got a flow going now. I got
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  Speaker 1: a flow going. And everything happens through a rhythm. We
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  Speaker 1: give birth through a rhythm. We give life through a rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: We give pulse through a rhythm. We get heart rates
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  Speaker 1: through a rhythm. We walk in a rhythm. We move
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  Speaker 1: in a flow. We were created to be like our
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  Speaker 1: God who has a rhythm. He's a rhythmatic God. If
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  Speaker 1: he's a God, he's a wheel in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a wheel. Before there was an automobile... Before there was
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  Speaker 1: a Tesla, before there was a Ford, before there was
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  Speaker 1: General Motors, before there was anything like that, God created
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  Speaker 1: the rolling of a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
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  Speaker 1: A wheel in the middle of a wheel is God
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  Speaker 1: showing you his rhythm. Understand this. If you open up
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  Speaker 1: the old timing watch, not the new digital ones, you
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  Speaker 1: open it up, you will see a bunch of wheels
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  Speaker 1: inside the watch because the turning of the wheels determines time.
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  Speaker 1: Every second is a turn. Every minute is a turn.
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  Speaker 1: Every beat is a turn. Every day is a turn.
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  Speaker 1: All they did was imitate what God put into the
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  Speaker 1: universe when he said, let there be light and there
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  Speaker 1: was light. And all of a sudden he caused the
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  Speaker 1: sun to shine. He caused the moon to burn. He
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  Speaker 1: caused the stars to ignite because God is a God
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  Speaker 1: of rhythm. And what they saw in the heavens, they
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  Speaker 1: put on your wrist and made it a watch so
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  Speaker 1: that you could keep time, so that you could know God.
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  Speaker 1: rhythm so that you could move when God says move
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  Speaker 1: so that you could be still when God says be
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  Speaker 1: still so that you can hold your peace sometime so
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  Speaker 1: that you can speak your mind sometime and if you
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  Speaker 1: don't pray nothing else today it ought to be God
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  Speaker 1: give me your rhythm Let me know when to go
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  Speaker 1: to Moab and let me know when to come out.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know when to weep and let me know
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  Speaker 1: when to laugh. Let me know when to walk away.
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  Speaker 1: And we are catching this text and it's come full
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  Speaker 1: circle and it's got a rhythm. It's got a rotation.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a stratosphere, a function, a flow that causes
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  Speaker 1: it to move in a syncopated way. Between this old
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  Speaker 1: woman and this young girl, there is a rhythm. There
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  Speaker 1: is a rhythm. There's always a rhythm. A rhythm. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have nobody walking with you that can't get your rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be with me if you don't have my rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about marriage and weddings. That too.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm also talking about working and creation and leading
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  Speaker 1: and developing. You got to find people. I'm worried less
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  Speaker 1: about your degree and more about your rhythm. Because I've
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  Speaker 1: seen smart people that were monuments and not movements, and
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  Speaker 1: they lost their rhythm. Is there anybody here that understands
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about? A degree doesn't mean you got
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  Speaker 1: a rhythm. You got to find a friend that got
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  Speaker 1: your rhythm. You got to find somebody who got your flow,
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  Speaker 1: who feels what you feel, who knows what you mean
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  Speaker 1: when you say, Harry, this has got to be done quick.
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  Speaker 1: Your idea, Harry, and my idea, Harry, might be two
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  Speaker 1: different things. I got to find somebody that's got my
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  Speaker 1: rhythm or you cannot go with me. Naomi says, stay
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  Speaker 1: on back with Oprah and going back to Moab and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Don't worry about anything. You stay
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  Speaker 1: where you are. The roof said as the Lord liveth,
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  Speaker 1: I will not leave thee because I've got your rhythms.
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  Speaker 1: I got your rhythm. That God should be my God.
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  Speaker 1: That people should be my people. Where thou dwellest, I
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  Speaker 1: will dwell. And where thou diest, I will die. But
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  Speaker 1: she was talking to Naomi who had left Bethlehem with
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  Speaker 1: Elimelech and two sons. And over the seasons, she had
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  Speaker 1: lost all three of them. It's one thing to lose
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  Speaker 1: your spouse. It's another thing to lose your child. Life
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  Speaker 1: brings loss. We don't talk to you about it in
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: church because it gets the kind of reaction you just
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: gave me. Life brings loss because if you don't have loss,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you can't have increase. Lost is how you make space
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  Speaker 1: for what God is about to do next in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Paul said they came out from us that it might
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  Speaker 1: be made manifest that they were not of us. For
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  Speaker 1: had they been of us, no doubt they would have
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  Speaker 1: continued with us. And everybody leaving ain't a bad thing.
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  Speaker 1: Stop grabbing people by the back of their skirt trying
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  Speaker 1: to hold on to them. trying to make them stay,
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  Speaker 1: and trying to get them to do it, trying to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: get them to love. Sometimes you gotta let them go,
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  Speaker 1: go through the pain, get over it and go on
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: about your business. Everybody leaving isn't a bad thing. Orpah
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: went back, it was good for Orpah to go back,
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  Speaker 1: because she didn't have the rhythm, she didn't have the flow.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth couldn't go back because she was so full of
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Naomi's rhythm that she had to go forward. Everybody who
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: can leave you will leave you. Let them go so
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: that the people that can get your rhythm can find
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: their place and move into their capacity and begin to
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: flow and stop crying on the side of the bed.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: God told me this is the last night I want
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  Speaker 1: to see you. sitting on the side of the bed,
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  Speaker 1: crying about who left you. He said, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to get over it because all I'm doing is making
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: space to open up the windows of heaven and pour
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  Speaker 1: you out a blessing. You won't have room enough to receive. Oh,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I felt that. That just hit somebody. That just hit somebody.
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  Speaker 1: God is making space for what he's about to do
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  Speaker 1: in your life. Glory to God. So Orpah's got to go.
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  Speaker 1: She's got to go. She's got to go. We've been close,
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  Speaker 1: but you gotta go. You married one of my sons,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: but you gotta go. We grieved around the tomb, but
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you gotta go. Go back to your people. Your people,
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  Speaker 1: your rhythm. Have you ever noticed people that were really educated,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: but they were still ghetto? Oh, you're not gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: to me. Where are my real people at? Amen. Where
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: my real people at? Got more degrees than a thermometer.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: But when they get to talking, they go hood on
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: you so fast, it will blow your mind. Pop in
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: their neck and... They got the degree enough to have
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the position, but they don't have the rhythm. They don't
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: have the rhythm. They don't have the flow. They don't
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: have the technique. They don't have the beat. It's got
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to have a beat. It's got to have a beat
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to it. Success has a beat to it. Success has
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a rhythm to it. Miracles have a rhythm to it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: The anointing has a rhythm to it. When you see
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: God moving in the tops of the trees, go for
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it because God has a rhythm. Our God is a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: God of rhythm. Everything in its own time. in its
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: own season, in its own rhythm. God has a rhythm.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: You prayed for it, thought it ought to be there
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Here it is Thursday, and it hasn't come yet.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: But God is never late. If it don't get there
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: until Saturday morning, God's got a rhythm. I wish somebody
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: was in here. who understood the rhythm of God. Have
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you ever seen God wait years in your life to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: put you in the right place at the right time
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  Speaker 1: with the right people, with the right mentality? Hallelujah. You've
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: been trying to do everything by yourself. You better learn
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: how to get with other people and get the rhythm.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: There's a rhythm. There's a rhythm. There's a rhythm. And
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the boat went up together. You've been trying to go
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: up by yourself, but you need somebody with you to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: go up with you so that you can catch the rhythm.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Touch your neighbors and catch the rhythm. You gotta catch
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the rhythm. You gotta catch the rhythm. You gotta catch
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the rhythm. You can't just hang around employees and think
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: like entrepreneurs. You can't, come on, talk to me. You
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: can't run with janitors and think like CEOs. To be
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: in the room with somebody that's got your rhythm stops
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you from doubting yourself, thinking you're crazy, thinking you lost
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: your mind. People laughing at your dream because they don't
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: have your rhythm. Joseph had a rhythm. None of the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: other brothers had the rhythm, but Joseph had the rhythm.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: When you have a rhythm and other people don't, they'll
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: try to kill you out of embarrassment because they don't
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: like the rhythm. But somebody's in here who's got a rhythm.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know who it is. I don't know why
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: God's got me here on a Sunday morning. I'm not
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: thrown away. I'm not somebody who don't have a place.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: That I can preach what I'm on assignment this morning.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: To explain to you. They left you because they couldn't
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: keep up. They didn't have your rhythm. They didn't have
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: your flow. Stop being mad. Stop being angry. Stop being bitter.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Forgive them. They couldn't keep up with your flow. You
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: got a rhythm. You're headed somewhere. You got an appointment
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: with destiny. You got a destiny to fulfill. And you're
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: running out of time. and the wheels are turning and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: if you're going to get there you're going to have
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to hurry up and don't you forget who you are
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you got to get where you got to get when
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you got to get there because God's getting ready to
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: do something and where are my destiny people I want
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to preach to some destiny people I want to preach
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to some destiny people tell your neighbor I got to
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: go You stay here if you want to, but I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: got to go. You laugh at me, but I got
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to go. I got a rhythm to keep up. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: can feel the rhythm of the Holy Ghost. I can
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: feel the moving of the Spirit. I can feel the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: unction of the Holy Spirit. And you got my rhythm,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: you can go with me. I don't care how you
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: wear your hair. I don't care what kind of shoes
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you got on. I don't care what you look like
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: or how many teeth you got. If you got my rhythm,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you can ride with me. You can rock with me.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: You can move with me. You can flow with me.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, I feel something about to happen in
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: this place. I don't even know who I'm talking to.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: But your problem is you're so busy trying to help
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: other people that you hire people who weight you down
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and you can't get the business off the ground because
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you're making business decisions from a church place. I appreciate
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the fact that you paid my rent 30 years ago,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that you gonna get a job.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the fact that you was nice to your grandmama,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: knew my grandmama. That don't mean we're going to get
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: a job I appreciate the fact that we went to
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the same school that don't mean we're going to get
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: a job you got to have a rhythm you got
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to have a rhythm because what God is about to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: do it's so amazing that we got to be there
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: by a certain time we got to get there by
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a certain time look at your neighbors how I'm in
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a hurry I got to get there by a certain time.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I have an appointment with destiny. I have an appointment
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: with healing. I have an appointment with glory. I have
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: an appointment. And if you're not going to help me,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: please don't hinder me. I got to get there. I
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: got to get there. My hair is getting gray. I
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: got to get there. My back is getting stiff. If
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it's going to happen, it's got to go ahead and happen.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Because I got to get there. I can't let you
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: stop me. I've got a rhythm. Naomi had lost her
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: husband Elimelech. It's unthinkable to me. I've been married 43 years.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: It's unthinkable to me what kind of pain that must
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: be like to live with somebody for almost 50 years
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and lose them. She had lost Elimelech. And she had
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: lost It's disheartening. It's heartbreaking. It's terrible. And it's especially
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: terrible for a woman because you knew that boy before
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: he knew himself. You talked to him in your womb.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: You shared your lunch with him. You shared your flesh
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: with him. You shared your trauma with him. She had
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: lost her silence. But she had not lost her rhythm.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: So it is possible to have rhythm and lose relationship
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: with yourself. Y'all didn't get that. That went right over
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  Speaker 1: your head. I saw it. It got caught in your
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: hat back there. It's back in your hat right there.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Right there. It is possible. To not lose your rhythm,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: but to lose your relationship with yourself. It doesn't matter
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: what they say about her. This is not a message
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: about haters. This is not about people who threw you
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: in the pit and left you for dead. This is
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: about how you see yourself. I don't care how you
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: see me. I want you to like me, but I'll
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: be okay if you don't. I'll be okay. Because ultimately
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: it is not what you say about me that does
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the most damage. It's what I say about me that
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: does the most damage. to hang up on you I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: can block you I can disconnect you I can ignore
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: you I can give you and the conversation is over
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: but it is hard to say to yourself talk to
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the hand when it's your hand and Naomi has talked
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to herself Till she has talked herself out of her identity.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: And your strength is always in your truth. Oh, this
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: is so good. Your strength is always in your truth.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: It's in your identity. It's what God called you. And
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: agreeing with what God called you. Irrespective of the seasons.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: What I am trying to walk upon, creep on, crawl
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: on is the fact you can't change your name because
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: you changed your season. Watch me, watch me, watch me.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going somewhere. You don't want to miss this. You'll
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: get in a season and want to rename yourself because
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the season cost you so much. Now, everybody's not going
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: to get this because you haven't been through enough to
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: understand what this left. But somebody you can lose so
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: much in a season that if you're not careful, you
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: will lose your identity. It will be identity theft. They'll
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: come in and take your identity away from you. They
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: say they can take your identity and you don't even
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: know they took it. And sell your house while you
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: sleep in your bed. And you wake up in the
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: morning and you got to get it because somebody stole
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: your identity. But don't let it be you. Don't rename yourself.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Don't you forget who you are. Don't fool around and
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: give up on being Naomi because you are bitter over
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: what is just a season. And it might be five
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: ladies and a goat, but for them six people that
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: are in, six beings that are in the room, I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: have come to tell you something. It's just a season. No, no, no, no, no.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: It's a hard season. It's a morbid season. It's a
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: painful season. It's a discouraging season. It's hard to take
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: it in this season. You will cry in this season.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: You will curl up in a knot and scream in
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: this season. But it is just... It's a season. It's
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: a season. It's to see who am I preaching to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: this morning? I don't know who it is, but I'm
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: talking to somebody who's been through a real rough season.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: You don't even recognize the season you're in. You have
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: never seen a season like this in your life. You
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: don't even know how to fight the season that you're in.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Everything is topsy-turvy. Everything you thought was this way is
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that way. You questioning your friends, your relatives, your cousin,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and your Aunt Lulu because you're in a season, a season,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: a painful season, and it's a victory for you to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: be here this morning. Just to be in the building
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: is a victory because if the devil had his way,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't even be in the building. But because God
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: had a plan for your life, some kind of way
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: you survived. Some of you walked out. Some of you
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: ran out. Some of you crawled out. Some of you
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: came out on your knees. Some of you had to
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: come out on your belly, but you came out. Your
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: hair is messed up, but you came out. You're not
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: even worried about what you got on, but you came out.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You don't care how your hair is fixed, but you
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: came out. Because this is an emergency, and all you
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: want to do is get out of it. The girl
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: beside you want to be cute, but you want to
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: get out of it. If I have to come out
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and not be cute, I still want to come out.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: If I have to come out with no hair on
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: my head, I still want to come out. Because I've
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: got a feeling that God is not through with me yet.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: And that something is going to happen in my life
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that's going to turn it around. And right now it
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: don't make no sense. And I don't understand why it's happening.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: And it broke my heart into tiny little pieces. But
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I believe I'll run home and see what the end
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: is going to be. Because sooner or later, God's going
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: to make sense out of this madness in my life.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Sooner or later, God's going to give me beauty for ashes.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Sooner or later. God's going to give me the garland
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: of praise for the spirit of heaviness sooner or later.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: God's going to turn my mourning into dancing. And if
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you think I danced my last dance, you are out
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: of your mind. Because God's going to give me my
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: dance back. And God's going to give me my joy back.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: And God's going to give me my happiness back. The
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: devil is a lie. I say no to every devil
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: who told me it would never get better. I say
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: no to every devil that told me that my best
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: days are behind me. I say no to every devil
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: that says I'll never get out of this again. I
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: say no to every devil that told me my past
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: has destroyed my future. I say no to every devil
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: that spoke to me and said I won't get up again.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know when. I don't know how. I don't
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: know who God's going to use. He may use a Moabite.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: He may use an enemy. He may use somebody I
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: have nothing else in common with. But God is going
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to get me a blessing because The Bible said that
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I must have an expected end. But what do you
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: expect if you stay bitter, if you stay angry? Why
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: did you get divorced if you're going to still be mad?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: We got some stuff to leave behind. This Sunday morning,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: we're going to leave it behind. Everything that was weighing
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: us down, we're going to leave it behind. Everything that
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: was half-hearted, half-minded, half-loving, half-supporting, we're going to leave it behind.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I want you to turn around and wave bye-bye. and
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: telling you gotta go. You're behind me because there's something
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: in front of me that's better than what was behind me.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I want 30 seconds of crazy praise to break out
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: in this house. I feel the anointing of the Holy
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Ghost in this place. the spirit of the living God
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: is in this place somebody's miracle is in this place
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you've been bitter you've been hurt you've been angry you've
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: been mad but you still got an appointment to keep
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: don't you forget who you are just because they turn
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: their back on you don't you forget who you are
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And start telling yourself a lie about yourself. The devil
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: is a lie. You still gonna bring joy. You still
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: gonna bring life. You still gonna bring power. You still
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: gonna get the victory. In fact, the Bible said... I'm
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: going to prepare a table before you in the presence
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: of your enemies. And the reason I didn't kill your
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: enemy is so they could watch you eat. I want
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: them to watch you eat. I want them to watch
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: you sit up and die. I'm about to serve you
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: a seven course meal and let them watch you eat.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: And you're mad at me because I didn't kill your enemy.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I want them to be a witness to the blessing
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: that I had for you. That your latter day shall
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: be greater. in your former day. And I don't know
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: who I'm preaching to, but God is about to turn
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: things around in your life. And if I'm talking right
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: to you, I know it looks silly, but just turn
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: right around and say, my life is about to turn around.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I've cried. I've suffered. I've labored. I've done without. I've
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: denied myself. I've put everybody in front of me. But
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: God is about to turn my life around. I gave
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: more than I got back. I was better to people
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: than they were to me. But God is about to
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: turn my life around. I'm headed to a place of blessings.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I'm headed to a place of bounty. I'm headed to
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: a place of bread. I'm headed to a place where
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: God is going to open up the windows of heaven
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: and pull me out of blessing. I won't have room
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: enough to receive. And take your last look at me
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: because you will never see this me again. We're going
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: to do garbage. I'm changing my attitude. I'm changing my disposition.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, last look. Before I
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: change back into who I really am. Last look. Before
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I get healing in my body. Last look. Before you
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  Speaker 1: find out what I already knew about myself. Last look.
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  Speaker 1: Before I go from blaming God to blessing God. I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to bless God for something that hadn't even
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  Speaker 1: happened yet. I've been ready to bless God because I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the verge of something better. I've been ready to
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  Speaker 1: bless God because I've been so busy looking back that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't look ahead. And I tell you, what God
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  Speaker 1: has in front of you is better than what you
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  Speaker 1: left behind. If this is your word, this Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to take some kind of way, any
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  Speaker 1: kind of way you feel it, And give God a praise.
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  Speaker 1: And let him know in the balcony. I know you're
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  Speaker 1: talking to me. I know you're talking to me. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're talking to me. I prayed yesterday. You answered
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  Speaker 1: me today. You're about to do a new thing in
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  Speaker 1: my life. When I think of the goodness of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and all that he's done for me, I'm not waiting
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  Speaker 1: on you to praise him. My soul cries out, Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord, for saving me. Anybody else would have
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  Speaker 1: lost their mind. Anybody else would have blew their brains out.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody else would have had a nervous breakdown. But the
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  Speaker 1: devil is a liar.
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  Speaker 2: Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above,
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  Speaker 2: exceedingly abundantly above. above exceedingly abundantly above what I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to tell you is what God has for you is
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  Speaker 2: so much bigger than everything you went through you gonna
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  Speaker 2: say it was good for me that.
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  Speaker 1: I was afflicted if I hadn't been afflicted I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have the blessing I got right now somebody somebody's grandmama
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  Speaker 1: somebody's grandchild Somebody help me. Praise the Lord. Somebody, somebody
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  Speaker 1: help me. I feel a praise breakthrough. I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: come into this place. Hallelujah. I'm going with a new attitude.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with a changed mind. I'm going with a
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  Speaker 1: changed spirit. I'm going with a changed attitude. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're nervous, don't speak. by me because I feel a
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  Speaker 1: loud praise. I feel a crazy praise. I feel a
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  Speaker 1: taunting praise. I feel praise about to come out of
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  Speaker 1: my belly that's going to bind every devil and every
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  Speaker 1: spirit and every evil thing that came against me. You
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  Speaker 1: ain't got to rebuke my devil. I'm going to rebuke
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: my devil. I'm through being depressed. I'm through being discouraged.
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  Speaker 1: I declare myself free. I lose my shot. I break
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  Speaker 1: my chain. You can't hold me. You can't have me.
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  Speaker 1: You can't block me. You can't stop me. I'll run
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  Speaker 1: if I want to run. I'll leave if I want
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  Speaker 1: to leave. I'll shout if I want to shout. Shout yeah!
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  Speaker 1: I can't prove it to nobody. I can't prove it
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  Speaker 1: to nobody. I can't prove it to nobody. But I
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  Speaker 1: feel like something is going to happen in here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a chain is going to fall off
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I feel like handcuffs are coming down this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who they're coming off of, but something
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  Speaker 1: that medication could do and therapy could do. The Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost is going to touch you and do it right
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  Speaker 1: now in the name of Jesus. It's going to change
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  Speaker 1: the way you talk to yourself. It's going to change
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  Speaker 1: the way you call yourself. You have named yourself by
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  Speaker 1: your seasons Don't you forget who you are. Seasons change.
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  Speaker 1: But your identity does not change by your season. I
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  Speaker 1: own my property. I own it in the spring. I
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  Speaker 1: own it when it gets hot in Dallas in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: I own it in the fall when all the leaves
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  Speaker 1: have come off the tree and it looks like everything
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  Speaker 1: is dead. But I still own it. I own it
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  Speaker 1: in the ice storm when the ice has covered the branches.
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  Speaker 1: And every living thing has buried itself in the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The season does not change the deed. I still own it.
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  Speaker 1: I still pay taxes on it. My name is on
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  Speaker 1: the deed. Whether it's raining or not raining, I'm still
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  Speaker 1: on the deed. Somebody bulge up and holler, I own it.
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  Speaker 1: It's still mine. Everything God promised me, everything God said
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  Speaker 1: in his word, I own it. I believe it. It's mine.
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  Speaker 1: I receive it. I'm going to talk like I own it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to walk like I own it. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to live like I own it. I'm going to handle
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  Speaker 1: it like I own it. I know who I am.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't going to make me forget who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am. I know I am You don't like that
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  Speaker 1: I am But I know I am Shout out at
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  Speaker 1: me somebody So, the two of them, they move together
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  Speaker 1: in sequence. not where I'm going to be but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not where I used to be every step I take
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  Speaker 1: is getting me closer to what God has for me
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  Speaker 1: and nothing I lost is going to stop me from
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  Speaker 1: getting there may have to get down on my knees
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  Speaker 1: but I'm still going to get there I may have
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  Speaker 1: to crawl on the floor but I'm still going to
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  Speaker 1: get there and so the Bible says by the time
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  Speaker 1: they got from Moab to Bethlehem in the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: it was called Ephrata in the old writings it was
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  Speaker 1: called Ephrata more recently called Bethlehem which means house of
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  Speaker 1: bread Now she left the house of bread because it
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  Speaker 1: was in a season of famine. That's why she left
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  Speaker 1: 10 years ago. Because the house of bread had lost
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  Speaker 1: its bread. And in that season, she made a decision
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  Speaker 1: over something that was just a season. Amen. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: leave him over no season. Don't walk away from her
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  Speaker 1: over no season. I know her mouth is smart and
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  Speaker 1: she's talking back to you, but wait a minute. You
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  Speaker 1: may be walking away from the child that's going to
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  Speaker 1: pass you water when you die. Don't walk away. I'm
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  Speaker 1: almost there. I would have fainted had not I believed
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  Speaker 1: to see the goodness of the Lord in the land
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  Speaker 1: of the living. In other words, I kept moving Because
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  Speaker 1: I kept telling myself, if I can't touch the heel
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  Speaker 1: of his garment, I will be healed. I just believe
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  Speaker 1: that it's going to happen for me. By the time
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  Speaker 1: they got to Bethlehem, the seasons had changed. What was
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  Speaker 1: a famine is now filled with bread. So the writer says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost done, but the writer says that they got
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  Speaker 1: there in the time and the season of the harvest
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  Speaker 1: of the barley seed. Y'all didn't hear what I said.
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  Speaker 1: The place that they left because it was in a
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  Speaker 1: season of famine is now in a season of harvest.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to. But she could have stayed. She
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  Speaker 1: could have stayed in Bethlehem. She left over a season.
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  Speaker 1: She left over a season. Now she's bitter over a season.
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  Speaker 1: And she had to go full circle To come back
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  Speaker 1: into the blessing that God had prepared for her. Let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you something, I'm almost done. The enemy is
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  Speaker 1: trying to move you from your blessing. He's trying to
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  Speaker 1: move you from your blessing because you're in a season.
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  Speaker 1: And in a season you'll get bitter. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: In a season, in a season, it'll mess with who
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  Speaker 1: you are. It'll get you out of character. It'll make
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  Speaker 1: you say stuff to people that people don't know that
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  Speaker 1: you say. Because you caught me in the wrong season.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'd have stayed in Bethlehem through the famine,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't going to be but a season Now she
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  Speaker 1: has to come full circle to come back to what
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  Speaker 1: she didn't appreciate before. Because she did not realize that
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  Speaker 1: Bethlehem was just going through a season. So she got
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  Speaker 1: away from their season for famine and lost her season
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  Speaker 1: of relationship. And by the time she got back, It
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  Speaker 1: was just a dime. Not for the planting of the barley.
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  Speaker 1: That wouldn't be good enough. But for the harvest. If
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  Speaker 1: Ruth would have slowed her down, she'd have missed the harvest.
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  Speaker 1: She had to get there in time. And the secret
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  Speaker 1: to life is to get to the right place at
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  Speaker 1: the right time. And the only way you can do
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  Speaker 1: that is don't you forget who you are. Hurt, but
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: I'm still walking. Tears in my eyes. But I'm still walking.
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  Speaker 1: Lost some friends along the way. But I'm still walking.
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  Speaker 1: Heart got broken. But I'm still walking. Property was stolen.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm still walking. Kids mad at me. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: still walking. Parents mad at me. But I'm still walking.
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  Speaker 1: because I believe if I keep on walking, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to walk into my heartless. Is there anybody else in
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  Speaker 1: this room that's determined to walk into your heartless? Why
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: are you working with entrepreneurs? Why are you working? Because
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of us, can I say this, still got
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  Speaker 1: plantation mentality. We pray for stuff that we secretly hate.
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  Speaker 1: Because when we see other people get it, we hate
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  Speaker 1: on them. And God said, you're speaking against something you
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: go on. He just said, you're speaking about it in
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  Speaker 1: a season of bitterness. When in fact, your name is
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: not Marwa. Your name is Naomi. Naomi. Don't you forget
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  Speaker 1: who you are. Because the enemy is trying all he
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  Speaker 1: knows how to convince you that you're too old. It's
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  Speaker 1: too late. You made too many mistakes. God ain't gonna
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: do it for you. The devil is a liar. You're
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: not too old. You're not too young. God is going
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  Speaker 1: to do that thing for you. And I'm only preaching
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: to people who are ready to give 100%. I thought
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  Speaker 1: when God had something for me, I could stay in
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  Speaker 1: the house with my house slippers on and my robe
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: and it would come and ring the doorbell. But that's
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: not how it works. You got to put some effort
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: into this. And some of us have been asking for
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: a hundredfold return with 99% energy. Whatever you give your
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: energy to is what grows in your life. If you
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: want to kill it, just starve it. You don't have
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: to have fingerprints on the neck. Just starve it to death.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: What you give your attention to gives its attention back
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: to you. Are you going to give your attention to
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  Speaker 1: what you lost or what you got left? Naomi didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize that she was the great great grandmother of King David.
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  Speaker 1: that if she didn't get Ruth to Bethlehem, then the
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  Speaker 1: bloodline of Jesus Christ would not have included the Gentiles.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't realize that Ruth was to birth Boaz's child.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Not so she could tell anybody she got married, look
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  Speaker 1: at my ring. But because Boaz was going to begat Obed,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: and Obed was going to begat Jesse, And Jesse was
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: going to begat David. And Jesus was going to be
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: the son of David. And it only happened because they
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: got there in time for the harvest. Stand to your feet.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Wonder what's in you that the enemy would fight you
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: like he does. Wonder what bitterness has blocked up the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: womb of your blessing. Wonder what this little storm, I
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: wasn't going to say our nation, but the world is
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: in right now. Unrest everywhere. If God didn't have something
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: on the other side, that was better. Wonder how many
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: people in this room It ain't even about you. Your
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren are going to
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: be blessed because of you. I believe God for a
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: thousand people and so a hundred dollars, not just dollars,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: it means I'm going to be a hundred percent committed
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: to what's in front of me, not what's behind me.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be 100% committed. I'm watching online. I'm
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: going to be 100% committed to what's in front of me.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Naomi had no idea in the middle of the road,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: going through a bad season, that she would bring forth kings.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Nudge your neighbor and say there's kings in you. You
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: got a kingly fight you don't even deserve, but the
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: devil knows there's kings in you. The devil knows that
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: business is going to explode. No, no, no, no. I
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: mean explode. It's going to explode. You just never had
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: the right mentor, the right coach, the right model. It's
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: going to explode in your life. It's going to give
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: birth in your life and you think it's too late
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: because it didn't come through your sons and it didn't
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: come through your husband. When God says, I'm going to
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: do it through you. Raise your hand if I'm talking
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: to you. Okay. Now listen. Our effort is going to
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: have to go up. As Christians, our effort is going
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: to have to go up Not just being busy to
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: be busy and not getting rest and not taking care
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: of that's not what I'm talking about. But our steps
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: that are ordered by the Lord we got to walk
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: in those steps. And not despise the fact that I'm
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: not there yet but I'm getting closer. That's the Don't
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: you forget who you are. I didn't send you here
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: to find out who you are. I sent you here
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: because I knew who you were. And God is going
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: to bring you before great men and women because they
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: don't know you yet, but he knows who you are.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: $ 100 seed in your hand. Everybody that can, quickly, quickly, quickly,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: get it in your hand. Online, get it in your hand.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: It just means there are areas in my life where
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: I could be more focused, if I could be more forgetful,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: if I could forget the things which are behind me
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: and reach to the things before me, I could press.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: I got some more press in me. The other day
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: I had a health calamity. Almost died. Really saw the
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: other side. I haven't told anybody about it yet. I'm
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: going to do a podcast, I think. I heard it now.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do several podcasts on what happened. It
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: was amazing. As bad as it was, I thank God
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: that I got to have the experience. I got to
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: see on both sides. I didn't come back to give 99%.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: I came to give 100%. Everything I ever got in
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: my life took everything I ever had in my life
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: to produce everything that happened in my life. I have
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: never been able to just slap at a blessing And
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: it happened. I had to give it everything I had.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: And watch God open doors. If the truth be told,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: some of you know, you've been slapping at it. You've
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: been hitting at it. You got a little hustle going,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: but you haven't seen no harvest. Harvest is coming. Harvest
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: is coming. Lift it up high. I want to pray.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: I want to pray over a dream business owners. 94%
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: of all black businesses have less than two employees. You
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: can't always do the business and run the business. You
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: need some help. Hold your hand up. In order to
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: have some help, you need some capital. God's going to
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: send you some resources. Hold your hand up. If you're eligible,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: if you're planning, if you're thinking, if you can't find
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: support where you're at, you need to go where you
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: can get some support. I'm not talking about churches. I'm
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: talking about mentors for business. The same person who coaches
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: your body is not the person who handles your finances.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: Put it up. Put it up. I need a thousand people.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: I need a thousand people. You can be online. God
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: don't care nothing about your zip code. He'll come right
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: where you are. And bless you in this moment. God
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: is telling you, I'm going to get you there in
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: time for the harvest of the barley loaves. Hold it
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: up high. Jehovah Nissi, this is my banner. I wave
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: it before the Lord. The phone, the device, whatever I
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: gave on, I wave it before the Lord. It is
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: a symbol of my commitment to what you had in
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: mind for my life. I'm going to stop being flaky
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: and running out on Bethlehem because it was in a
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: dry season. Only to have to go back to what
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: I left because I didn't appreciate a season and a
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: cycle that I'm going to break it with the seed.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: Put it up high. Father, we plant these seeds in
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: the ground and we anticipate increase. We don't have to
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: be here in Florida. We can be watching in Canada.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: I don't care where we are in the world. I
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: anticipate increase in my life. And as I wave the
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: seed before you put it up, cleanse me of all bitterness.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Cleanse me of the residue of pain that has engulfed
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: and damaged and lacerated my soul. And prepare me now
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: to come into my harvest while I am strong enough
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: to bring it in. In Jesus' name, give him the
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: best praise you got. Pass the buckets. Pastor Buckets, I
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: want to ask one simple question. Pastor Buckets, I want
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: to ask one simple question. Remain standing, nobody walking, please.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Just one simple question. Thank you for coming. I would
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: have been so embarrassed if I came and I was
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: here by myself. I'm happy to see you. I'm doing fine.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: I'm doing fine. I feel good. I got my direction.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. She liked my outfit. I love
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  Speaker 1: you too. Now listen to me real good. If I
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: would have died, it would have been okay. I have
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: been around the world. I've sat with kings and princes.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: I've counseled presidents. I produced Whitney Houston's last movie. I've
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: done all kinds of stuff that would blow my parents' mind.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: If I had gone home and I'd gone home to
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: be with Jesus, it would have been fine. But the
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: reason he left me here is that I have a
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: purpose to fulfill I'm gray-haired and getting older, but I
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: know the way to the harvest. And it starts when
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Christ comes into your heart. Everybody that can stand, I
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: know some people can, everybody that can stand, stand up.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: Because I don't want The enemy to use your knees
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: as an excuse for somebody not to come to Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I want to take just a moment. If you can wait,
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  Speaker 1: if you can wait five minutes, you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: stuck in the parking lot anyway. People are so funny.
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  Speaker 1: They go from sitting in church to go sit in
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  Speaker 1: the car so they can drive home and sit at
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  Speaker 1: the house. And they race to be the first one
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  Speaker 1: to go sit down again. And it's just three minutes
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  Speaker 1: against eternity, against possibility. There's somebody in this room, you
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  Speaker 1: have great leadership ability, great entrepreneurial ability, but you used
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  Speaker 1: it in the wrong way. Now God's going to shift
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  Speaker 1: it around. There's somebody else in this room, you have
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  Speaker 1: spent your life making other people look good because you
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  Speaker 1: never named yourself who you really are. You're the head
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  Speaker 1: and not the tail and not beneath anybody. I came
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus because amidst all of my filth, I knew
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  Speaker 1: there was something else in me. And I could never
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  Speaker 1: find it on my own. I miss all my insecurities,
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  Speaker 1: imposter syndrome. You're not enough. You're not good enough. You're
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  Speaker 1: not tall enough. You're not short enough. You ain't got
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  Speaker 1: no hair. What's wrong with you? Only Jesus could help
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  Speaker 1: me find who I was. Dexter, before I formed thee
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  Speaker 1: in the belly, I knew thee. I ordained thee to
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  Speaker 1: be a prophet unto the nations. I know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in this room and you've been mislabeled and
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  Speaker 1: even the enemies tried to terminate you before you found
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  Speaker 1: out who you really were, tried to make you so
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  Speaker 1: bitter that you couldn't see who you really were. If
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  Speaker 1: you're in this room and you've made some mistakes along
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  Speaker 1: the way that got you off track from who you are,
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  Speaker 1: I want you right now, don't care nothing about these
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  Speaker 1: people in this room, Because everybody in this room got
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  Speaker 1: a story. Believe me, everybody in this room a little
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  Speaker 1: bit crazy. If they try to act like it's not them,
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  Speaker 1: look at their spouse. Don't let people stop you from
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  Speaker 1: your destiny. They said, don't forget who you are. Come
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  Speaker 1: to this altar right now. Come to this altar. Come
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  Speaker 1: to this altar. Come to this altar. Coming to this
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  Speaker 1: altar is coming to the place of harvest. It's coming
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  Speaker 1: to the place of renewal. It's coming to the place
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  Speaker 1: of increase. I will not leave this service today and
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  Speaker 1: be who I was. I feel a change coming in
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  Speaker 1: my life. It's going to hit my soul first. Then
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: it's going to hit my business. It's going to hit
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: my future. It's going to hit my attitude. Brethren, I
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  Speaker 1: wish above all things that you prosper and be in
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  Speaker 1: good health as your soul does prosper. Come on right now.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on. Hold it.
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  Speaker 1: Just one second. Just one second. And then we're going
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  Speaker 1: to pick it right back up. I have a witness
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  Speaker 1: in my soul that today is your day. I have
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  Speaker 1: a witness in my soul that I was sent here
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  Speaker 1: for you. I have a witness in my soul That
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  Speaker 1: you are not satisfied wandering in the wilderness rather than
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: crossing the Jordan and coming into your promised land. And
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  Speaker 1: I've got a witness in my soul. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what you did or who you did it with. There's
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: been a nagging, gnawing feeling inside of you that there's
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  Speaker 1: more in you than what you've done. Traveled around the world.
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  Speaker 1: From Ghana to Australia. from Australia to arrive. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little poor boy born in the hills of West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: in a little raggedy house with half the house hanging
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  Speaker 1: off the side. And we had a floor furnace and
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  Speaker 1: everybody would be standing over top of it like this,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get the heat. That was all it was.
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  Speaker 1: But when I found my God, I found my life.
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  Speaker 1: I found my purpose. I found my place. I found
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  Speaker 1: what I was put here to do. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: I want for you. Come on today. There's ten more
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  Speaker 1: people I'm waiting hard. just one minute. There are ten
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  Speaker 1: more people in this room that you are really a
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  Speaker 1: destiny person. You're all tied up right now, bitter right now,
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  Speaker 1: been angry at God and everything else. But you are
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: a destiny person. If you can get the strength to
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: drop that anger, God is going to blow your mind.
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  Speaker 1: If you stop accusing God for who left you, who
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: hurt you, who forsook you, God is going to blow
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: your mind. You think you had something at two services,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: you're going to mess around, you're going to have to
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: go to three. God is going to do something. I
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: know all the staff almost died. Almost died. We're going
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: to have to call the paramedics. Who else is there?
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  Speaker 1: I see you coming. I'm waiting on you. I see
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: you coming. I see you coming. You're a special person.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean a perfect person. You're a special person.
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  Speaker 1: You're a special person. You're created to do special things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's going to happen without your attention.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to buckle down. It's going to
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: take everything you've got to do it. But it's going
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: to happen in your life. I'm not going to be
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: airing shit, but I'm still going to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to happen in your life. If you get serious.
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  Speaker 1: With God, he's going to get serious with you. Come
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  Speaker 1: on down. Come on down. I'm waiting on you. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you? Come on down. I cannot figure out
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  Speaker 1: how Jesus could be beaten and lacerated until the entrails
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: were hanging out of his body. And he could so
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: easily say, Father, forgive me. for they know not what
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  Speaker 1: they do. But then when I realized that he understands
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  Speaker 1: every lash was for the healing of our bodies, and
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  Speaker 1: everything he went through helped to prove who he was,
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  Speaker 1: then I can say it was good I've been afflicted.
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  Speaker 1: It was good. You taught me how to stand by myself.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were my strength. You taught me how
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: to stand by myself. You're talking about I had more
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: gifts than I realized I had. Wonder what else is
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: in me. God exposed who I am. If your hands
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: close your eyes, open your heart. God exposed what my
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: destiny is. In this season, in this young season of
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: my life, in this senior season of my life, that
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: I can still be Naomi and still be useful. That
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: my old job is not my last job. That I
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: don't have to perform like I used to perform to
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: be who I am. God, help me to understand what
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  Speaker 1: you have prepared for me to eat in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of my enemies. I give my life to you. Put
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: them up high. I give my sins to you. I
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: give my failures and flaws, my talent, energy, attention and time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be a better steward over the days
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: I got left. I'm going to say yes to you, God. Father,
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  Speaker 1: I pray that the lives up and down these aisles
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  Speaker 1: and all across the front of this church would never
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: be the same again. That they would find in this
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  Speaker 1: place a feeding station for dreaming people. And that they
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: would come and get fed and get restored and get renewed.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: I pray for every business, every business owner, hold your
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: hand up. I pray for every business. That no matter
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: what goes on in the economy, no matter what goes
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: on in the stock market, I pray that God would
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: bless your business to prosper. I pray that there will
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: be streams in your desert. I pray that God would
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: open doors and ways for you. I pray that God
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: would let you make the hookup with the right people
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: at the right time to step into your destiny and
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  Speaker 1: into your dream. I pray a global blessing on you.
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  Speaker 1: This is not going to be a community blessing. This
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: is going to be a global blessing. Lift your hands up.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a global blessing. Oh, God! You
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: don't have enough room for what God is about to
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: pour out in your life. An overflow is coming in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Hallelujah. Receive it in your spirit now. It's
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: got to be in your spirit. You can't get this
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: being Mara. You got to be Naomi. You can't get
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: this being bitter. You got to be Naomi. You can't
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  Speaker 1: get this feeling sorry for yourself. You got to be Naomi.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get this being scared. Come on, lift your
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: hands up. You got to get courageous. In this season,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: we're going to have to be courageous and take advantage
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: of every talk God is opening up for us. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I say yes to it. I say yes to it.
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  Speaker 1: I can do it. I can handle it. I can
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  Speaker 1: make a comeback. I can make a turnaround. I can
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  Speaker 1: do it again. I can do it again. I can
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  Speaker 1: do it now. I can do it even now. It's
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: not too late. I can do it with them two kids.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: I can do it with that baby by myself. I
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  Speaker 1: can do it. I can do it. I can do it.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: I can do it. I can do it. I know
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  Speaker 1: I can do it. I know I can do it.
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  Speaker 1: I know I can do it. I know I can
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  Speaker 1: do it. My name is Naomi. It's not bitter. I'm
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: not going to be bitter the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I will not spend another day being bitter about what
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: I can't change. I just accepted Christ anew in my heart.
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  Speaker 1: I accept the assignment. I say yes to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I want the whole church to praise him. I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of here. God bless you. I love you. I thank
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  Speaker 1: God for you. May heaven smile upon you till we
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: meet again. Clap your hands for Bishop. Can we do that?