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T.D. Jakes These Bumps in the Road Mean That You're Close to Your BREAKTHROUGH! TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people that are doing better
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  Speaker 1: than me, but none of them got there without a
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  Speaker 1: bumpy road. The road to better is bumpy. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're on a bumpy road, I'm telling you, you're headed
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  Speaker 1: to better. There's some things that God created you for
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  Speaker 1: that you had some delays and some setbacks and some
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  Speaker 1: mistakes and some mishaps. And God wants you to come
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  Speaker 1: back to the place that there's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: night shift. Jacob has told his sons, you will not
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  Speaker 1: defeat the famine looking at each other. Did you hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Watch how Jacob handles the famine. Because
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  Speaker 1: my first point is the famine. And until you can
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  Speaker 1: deal with the famine, you will never get to better.
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  Speaker 1: Because the famine is a part of your journey. How
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  Speaker 1: you react to the famine determines whether you make it
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  Speaker 1: to the food. You've got to be aggressive. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just pray against the famine. You've got to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob says, you can't just pray against it. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just look at each other. You can't stay in the
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  Speaker 1: same spot and do the same things that you've always
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  Speaker 1: done and expect to get a different result because we're
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  Speaker 1: in a famine and you've got to take action. And
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  Speaker 1: we don't understand that today. We don't understand the human
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  Speaker 1: requirement in the miracles of God. As much as we
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  Speaker 1: have read about the miracles of God, we walk away
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  Speaker 1: with praise to God but absolve ourselves of human responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: As if God were going to act outside of human
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  Speaker 1: effort when God has created us to be collaborative in
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  Speaker 1: the miraculous. Oh, I'm talking already. He wants us to
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  Speaker 1: be collaborative in the miraculous, that we have a responsibility
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  Speaker 1: to take action and to be aggressive about resolving issues.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you're spiritual doesn't mean you get to pray
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  Speaker 1: for a job and stay at home. I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to pray if the Lord wants me to have the job,
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  Speaker 1: he'll give me a job. I'm just going to watch
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  Speaker 1: TV and hit the remote control and believe God for better.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never get to better if you don't get on
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  Speaker 1: the road. You got to get on the road in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of famine. They're traveling in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a famine. Now traveling is not fun anytime but traveling
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a famine is a very difficult
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  Speaker 1: time because the famine is so severe that Jacob says
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  Speaker 1: if you don't move you're going to die. Now I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking to tonight but there are
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  Speaker 1: some pressures that come so strong that if you don't
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  Speaker 1: move you're going to die. How could you let me
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  Speaker 1: die and I'm a child of God? You didn't move.
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  Speaker 1: I told you to move. And when God tells you
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  Speaker 1: to move, you got to move. And don't act like
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  Speaker 1: God has failed you when you have failed to move.
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  Speaker 1: When God says move, you have to take action, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're the prodigal son who came to himself, but he
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  Speaker 1: still had to go home. Or whether you're the woman
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  Speaker 1: with the issue of blood who believed that Jesus could
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  Speaker 1: heal her but she still had to crawl. Or whether
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  Speaker 1: you're blind bottom man standing by the highway side begging.
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  Speaker 1: He still had to come out of his coat and
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  Speaker 1: go toward Jesus. There is a human responsibility in spite
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  Speaker 1: of the famine. So you got to move in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a famine, in the middle of a need,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a storm, in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a crisis. And he sends his boys to go from
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  Speaker 1: Canaan to Egypt because Jacob heard where there was food.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hate on people who have even when you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: Because he didn't hate on Egypt. He said, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to Egypt. See, we sit back and hate on people
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  Speaker 1: as if them having is our demise when it's not
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  Speaker 1: them having that is our enemy. It's us not moving
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  Speaker 1: that is our enemy. And the Bible says that though
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have any corn, they had money. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: people don't quote it too much, but the Bible also
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  Speaker 1: says that money is the answer to all things. It's
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  Speaker 1: the answer to all things. If it's a thing, money
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  Speaker 1: can buy it. There are some issues that cannot be
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  Speaker 1: resolved by things, but money answers all things. So Jacob
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  Speaker 1: told the boys, he gave them some money and said,
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  Speaker 1: go down to Egypt and don't go down there begging.
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  Speaker 1: We came down here to do business. Amen. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're spiritual people, but we know how to do business.
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  Speaker 1: We praise Jehovah, but we still know how to do business. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all not saying nothing to me tonight. See, the church
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  Speaker 1: has failed its parishioners because we have been real heavy
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  Speaker 1: on the praise and real light on the business. So
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  Speaker 1: we told them to praise your way out and dance
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  Speaker 1: your way out and spin around three times and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to come out and sow a seed and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get out. But we don't tell them that
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  Speaker 1: blessings are transactional, that there's a business element required in it.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to go back and lay some foundation
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  Speaker 1: to understand that Jacob does not go down to Egypt
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  Speaker 1: to beg. He goes down there to do business. And
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  Speaker 1: he sends his sons down there to do business. But
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, you have to realize as we begin
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the famine, we have to understand that
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  Speaker 1: the famine is so severe that it pushes them to Egypt. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the second thing I want you to see about the
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  Speaker 1: famine is that God will use a famine to move you.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a famine for food. It
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  Speaker 1: can be a famine for love. It can be a
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  Speaker 1: famine for peace. But in everybody's life listening at me,
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  Speaker 1: whether online or in the room, you have experienced some
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  Speaker 1: kind of famine. The famine of fatherhood. The famine of family.
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  Speaker 1: The famine of a mother's affection. The famine of a
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  Speaker 1: good job. The famine of a nice house. All of
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  Speaker 1: us have our famines. You might not be able to
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  Speaker 1: see it because we might dress nice and spray cologne
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  Speaker 1: over top of it. But all of us live with
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  Speaker 1: some level of famine in our lives. Famine makes you
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  Speaker 1: pray and famine makes you seek God and famine makes
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  Speaker 1: you cry out and famine will make you move. And
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes God will use famine as an instrument to force
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  Speaker 1: you out of your comfort zone. It is more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: to stay in Canaan, but the famine will drive you out.
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  Speaker 1: It'll make you move. It'll make you get outside of
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  Speaker 1: your comfort zone. It'll make you travel. It'll put you
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  Speaker 1: on the road. Somebody say, I'm on the road. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not on the road for a field trip. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: on the road joy riding. I'm on the road to better.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the road to better. There's something I'm after.
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  Speaker 1: There's something I want to see done in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm tired of sitting around assessing the same old
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  Speaker 1: troubles and crying about the same old problems and going
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  Speaker 1: through the same old things. I'm tired of complaining one
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  Speaker 1: to another back and forth. Oh, ain't it bad? Yeah, child.
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  Speaker 1: It's real bad. It's so bad. I got to move
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  Speaker 1: from here. Deliver me from people who will not take
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  Speaker 1: action in the famine. And God says action is required
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  Speaker 1: on you. You got to get on the road. And
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  Speaker 1: that's anytime you can't rebuke it with a prayer, anytime
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  Speaker 1: you plead the blood and it doesn't go away, anytime
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  Speaker 1: you call on God and it still stays there, then
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  Speaker 1: God is using the famine as an instrument to move
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  Speaker 1: you from one place to the other. Amen. If it
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  Speaker 1: was the devil, I could rebuke it. If it were
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  Speaker 1: demonic warfare, I could overcome it. But when God sends
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  Speaker 1: a famine to make you move, it is something in
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  Speaker 1: his providence that cannot be performed where you are. And
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  Speaker 1: you've got to move in order to get it. And
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  Speaker 1: God knows that some of us won't move if we're
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  Speaker 1: too comfortable. Y'all aren't going to talk to me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And so God uses the famine to force them to
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  Speaker 1: move and they go down to Egypt to do business.
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  Speaker 1: Now it is interesting to note that though there is
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  Speaker 1: a famine in Canaan, there is also a famine in
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  Speaker 1: this family. So my second point deals with the family.
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  Speaker 1: You have to understand that this text brings out subtly,
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  Speaker 1: ever so subtly in the text that I want to
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  Speaker 1: point it out to you. First thing that it tells
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  Speaker 1: us about Jacob is that Jacob sent his sons down
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  Speaker 1: to Egypt to buy. But then it mentions that he
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  Speaker 1: did not send Benjamin lest he fall into mischief. And
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  Speaker 1: this is just a hidden subtle reminder that Jacob doesn't
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  Speaker 1: totally trust his own sons. Now, where did this distrust
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  Speaker 1: come up in the culture of this family? This distrust
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  Speaker 1: comes up into the culture of the family. And you
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  Speaker 1: can act like you don't know what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: but all of us have different little things that we
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  Speaker 1: know about our family. That when cousin so-and-so comes over,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of look at him out the corner of
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  Speaker 1: your eye because you've been through some things where you've
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  Speaker 1: learned some things. And this culture has risen up in
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  Speaker 1: the family that the family is not fruitful. And Canaan
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  Speaker 1: is not fruitful. And there is not the comfortable loving
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  Speaker 1: environment Of trust that would cause the family to be
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  Speaker 1: a nurturing place because Jacob remembers what happened to Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: The last time Jacob sent one of his sons out
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  Speaker 1: with the rest of the sons, he turned up missing.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a revelation. of distrust in the old man
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  Speaker 1: with his sons that he says, I'm going to keep Benjamin. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the reason he's holding on to Benjamin and he let
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  Speaker 1: the rest of them go is that Joseph and Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: were born to him by Rachel. And Rachel was the
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  Speaker 1: love of his life. And the reason he's holding on
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  Speaker 1: to Benjamin is because that's all he's got left of Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, if I lose Benjamin, I'll lose all
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  Speaker 1: I have left of the best days in my life.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes we hold on to things because we've been
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  Speaker 1: through so much pain that we become possessive. Oh, y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying. There's a reason you hold
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  Speaker 1: on to what you hold on. Whether it's money or
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  Speaker 1: people or things, there's a reason you hold on to.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason that certain things make you mad. There's
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  Speaker 1: a reason that you overreact in certain ways. There's a reason.
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  Speaker 1: That if we hit certain pulse points, you respond differently
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  Speaker 1: than other people. Because until you understand what I've been
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  Speaker 1: through back here, you won't understand why I'm holding on
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  Speaker 1: to this right here. What do you hold on to
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  Speaker 1: because of what you've been through? What do you hold
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  Speaker 1: on to because of what you've been through? For Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: the old man is holding on to the last smell
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  Speaker 1: of Rachel. When he holds Benjamin... It's the last reminder
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  Speaker 1: of a happier moment in his life. And he is
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  Speaker 1: so afraid of losing Benjamin because Rachel, the barren woman,
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  Speaker 1: has birthed two sons unto him. And one of them, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: thinks is dead. And Benjamin is all he got left.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you think this is all you got left, you
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  Speaker 1: will hold on real tightly. Whether it is true or not,
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  Speaker 1: you will hold on real tight. If you think that
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  Speaker 1: this is the last person that will ever love you,
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  Speaker 1: you will take stuff that you wouldn't normally take. You
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  Speaker 1: will go through things you wouldn't normally go through. And
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  Speaker 1: your girlfriends will tell you, if I was you, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't take that. And your mama told you, you need
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  Speaker 1: to get away from there. But you keep holding on
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  Speaker 1: to it because you've been hurt before. And anytime you've
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  Speaker 1: been hurt before, you hold on to something when you
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  Speaker 1: think you won't get anymore. I wonder tonight how many
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  Speaker 1: people are holding on to some sort of Benjamin in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Holding on to it out of fear, not
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  Speaker 1: out of love. He's not clutching him out of love.
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  Speaker 1: He's clutching him out of fear. Be careful what fear
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  Speaker 1: will make you do. And I'm looking at it. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: is an old man. And the older you get, the
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  Speaker 1: more precious everything becomes. And Jacob is holding on to Benjamin.
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  Speaker 1: And he's saying, Joseph is not. And now Simeon is not.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't taking my Benjamin. I'm wondering what you're squeezing
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  Speaker 1: too tight. What are you squeezing out of fear? See,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob isn't squeezing Benjamin out of faith. He's squeezing him
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  Speaker 1: Out of fear. He's squeezing him like it's the last
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  Speaker 1: thing he's going to ever get. You can't grow when
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  Speaker 1: you squeeze something like it's the last thing you're going
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  Speaker 1: to ever get. Even if it's squeezing money. Like it's
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  Speaker 1: the last you'll ever get. Then you have prophesied against yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You have used faith in reverse. Fear is faith in
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  Speaker 1: reverse to have confidence that that thing that you don't
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  Speaker 1: want is going to happen to you. He's holding the
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  Speaker 1: boy out of fear. And God is manipulating all of
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  Speaker 1: these circumstances to bring this family back together. He is
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  Speaker 1: wooing them back to a place so he can heal them.
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  Speaker 1: And wouldn't it be better to be healed than to
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  Speaker 1: be mad? And Jacob says to him, if I lose Benjamin,
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  Speaker 1: let me quote it just like he said it. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, my son shall not go down with you
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  Speaker 1: for his brother is dead and he is left alone.
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  Speaker 1: And if mischief befall him by the way, see how
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  Speaker 1: Jacob is still in a place where he don't trust them.
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  Speaker 1: They're his children and he don't trust them. And he
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  Speaker 1: has good reason not to trust him. He said, you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to get him. Let's mischief befall him, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, in the which he go. He says, if
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  Speaker 1: I go through with Benjamin what I went through with Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: my gray hairs are going to turn into sorrow and
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  Speaker 1: bring me to the grave. See, you get to a
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  Speaker 1: point in life that you've reached an age that you
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  Speaker 1: can't take no more pain. And he says, I can't
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  Speaker 1: afford to live through this again. And God is really
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  Speaker 1: behind it all, trying to pry Benjamin out of Jacob's hands.
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  Speaker 1: Because what Jacob doesn't understand, yes, the road's been bumpy.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, the road's been tough. And yes, the road's
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  Speaker 1: been difficult. And yes, you've shed some tears. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: you've endured some pains. But it is the bumpy road
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  Speaker 1: to better. It is the bumpy road to better. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people that are doing better than
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  Speaker 1: me and have more stuff and more money and more
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  Speaker 1: recognition and more fame and more whatever you want to
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  Speaker 1: count it by than me. But none of them that
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  Speaker 1: I know have got there without a bumpy road. The
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  Speaker 1: road to better is bumpy. So if you're on a
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  Speaker 1: bumpy road, I'm telling you, you're headed to better. Do
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  Speaker 1: you hear the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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  Speaker 1: You can't get to better without bumping. You can't get
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  Speaker 1: to better without pain. You can't get to better without tears.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be all buff if you don't work out.
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  Speaker 1: You can't lose weight if you don't push the food away.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get to better without bumping. There is no
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  Speaker 1: pill you can take. There is no simple solution. It
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  Speaker 1: is the bumpiness of the road that leads you to better. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob will end up having to go to Egypt. And
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  Speaker 1: when Joseph sees his father, when Joseph sees his father,
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  Speaker 1: all of these years he's been living without the touch
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  Speaker 1: of his father. And all of a sudden he reveals himself.
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  Speaker 1: And he shows him who he is. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: that one day those who rejected Jesus are going to
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  Speaker 1: look on him whom they have pierced. And a nation
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  Speaker 1: shall be saved in a day. This day in the
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  Speaker 1: life of Joseph is a prophetic prediction of what will
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  Speaker 1: happen between Jesus and Israel. When all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: they will look on him whom they have pierced and
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  Speaker 1: finally recognize he was the Messiah. He is the Lamb
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  Speaker 1: of God. He is the I Am. He is the
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  Speaker 1: true vine. He is the living bread. He is the
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  Speaker 1: manna that came down out of heaven. He is. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a lie. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't a fallacy.
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  Speaker 1: And the family will be reunited again. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden they beheld him whom they had thrown away.
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  Speaker 1: And they fell down and said, oh, Joseph. And they
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  Speaker 1: now realize that Joseph, everything he went through was to
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  Speaker 1: position him to bless him. Are y'all hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: The reason God doesn't bless some people because you're selfish.
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  Speaker 1: The reason God doesn't bless some people is because you're
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  Speaker 1: only interested in you. Because you hate too long and
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  Speaker 1: you're too angry and you're too bitter to be trusted
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  Speaker 1: with that much power. God blesses people whose hearts are tender.
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  Speaker 1: and it was only when I saw Joseph's heart that
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  Speaker 1: I understood Joseph's blessing because Joseph was the son that
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  Speaker 1: could be trusted with favor because he would not use
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  Speaker 1: his favor to get even He would not use his
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  Speaker 1: favor for revenge. He would use his favor to bring
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  Speaker 1: them into better. And so Joseph brings the family to better.
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  Speaker 1: The whole family dwells together in better. And not only
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  Speaker 1: does he bring them to better, he releases the guilt
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  Speaker 1: from the guilty. It's one thing to absolve the innocent,
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  Speaker 1: but it's another thing to acquit the guilty. He absolved
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  Speaker 1: the guilty because he was big enough. To be blessed
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  Speaker 1: like that. He was big enough. To be blessed like that.
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  Speaker 1: He was strong enough. To be blessed like that. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why he was chosen. From the very beginning. That
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  Speaker 1: God trusted him with trouble. God trusted him with rejection.
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  Speaker 1: God trusted him with pain. God trusted him with agony.
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  Speaker 1: Because God knew his heart. That when push came to shove.
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  Speaker 1: That love would always. Went out over revenge. God knew
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  Speaker 1: his heart that there was something down inside of him
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  Speaker 1: that was better than that. And if you want the
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  Speaker 1: favor of God in your life, you have to be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to ask yourself, can God trust you with favor?
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  Speaker 1: Can God trust you with power? Can God trust you
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  Speaker 1: with honor? Because until that answer is a resounding yes,
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  Speaker 1: The doors of your blessing will be closed. They're closed
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  Speaker 1: because you are too angry and too bitter and too vindictive.
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  Speaker 1: And God can't give you favor because you'll use it
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  Speaker 1: like witchcraft to bring curses on those who hurt you.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll know you're getting bigger when you start getting better.
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  Speaker 1: You've been praying to be bigger. You should have been
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  Speaker 1: praying to be better. There's somebody watching me right now.
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  Speaker 1: There's no reason in the world that somebody as talented
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  Speaker 1: to you as you are shouldn't be further than you are.
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  Speaker 1: You have the talent to go all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the top. But every time you try to go to
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  Speaker 1: the top, something blocks you. And God sent me to
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  Speaker 1: tell you it's not what's on the outside that's blocking you.
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  Speaker 1: It's the stuff you carry on the inside that always
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  Speaker 1: blocks you because you're so slick. And God has to
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  Speaker 1: keep showing you that you ain't as slick as you
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  Speaker 1: think you are. And your blessing has been delayed and
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  Speaker 1: you wandered in the wilderness of almost getting there and
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  Speaker 1: never being able to get there because you've never been
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  Speaker 1: able to get your heart to the place that you
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  Speaker 1: could be trusted. God gives favor to people he can trust.
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  Speaker 1: But you are so transactional. Everything is a way for
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  Speaker 1: you to manipulate. And so you never get better. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says none but the pure in heart shall see God.
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  Speaker 1: The word pure in the Greek is where we get
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  Speaker 1: the word catheter. And there is no way for you
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  Speaker 1: to see God until you put a catheter into your
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  Speaker 1: heart and get rid of the bitterness that is blocking
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  Speaker 1: you from your blessing. I'm still talking about the bumpy
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  Speaker 1: road to better as I close tonight. I challenge you
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  Speaker 1: to look at Genesis 42. And even go on into
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 43 and watch God bring Jacob and his boys
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  Speaker 1: into a state of blessings that does not fade away.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel served under Eli and that there was, the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord was scarce or rare and there was
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  Speaker 1: no open space It's a hint. It's a preview. See,
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  Speaker 1: Samuel is not so much Eli's successor. You don't use
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  Speaker 1: Samuel as Eli's successor like Elijah and Elijah, like Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Timothy. Not only are they not in the same chain,
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  Speaker 1: they're not of the same order. Eli is a priest.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel is a prophet. Perhaps one of the greatest prophets
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  Speaker 1: of the Old Testament is Samuel. And what God has done,
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  Speaker 1: he has forced a prophet into the house of a priest.
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  Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the formation of the Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: who is prophet. You see, so all we have up
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  Speaker 1: until now is priests. But out of the barrenness of
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  Speaker 1: Hannah's womb doesn't come Eli's successor. It becomes Eli's prophet. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason the prophet had to come next is
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  Speaker 1: that the prophet is the one who anoints the king.
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  Speaker 1: God got an order he don't even explain to you.
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  Speaker 1: He does stuff for his own reason. He's got his
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  Speaker 1: own methodology. He works all things according to the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of his own will. Say amen. So we are watching
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  Speaker 1: the shift between the priest to the prophet. The prophet
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  Speaker 1: is under the priest. Before it's over, the priest is
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  Speaker 1: going to be under the prophets. That double shot. See,
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  Speaker 1: oh God, I want to go so deep. See, when
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  Speaker 1: we worship, when we praise, when we give offerings, we're
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  Speaker 1: working like priests. When I get up to preach, I'm
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  Speaker 1: working like a prophet. Hallelujah. So all while you're worshiping,
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  Speaker 1: I'm up under you. Hallelujah. but when I get up
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  Speaker 1: to preach you're up under this anointing we just acted
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  Speaker 1: out what the text is all about if the priest
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  Speaker 1: comes first here comes the prophet you provoke the word
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  Speaker 1: of God by how you worship you provoke the word
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  Speaker 1: of God by how you lift him up you provoke
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  Speaker 1: the word of God by how you lift your hands
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  Speaker 1: and raise your hand the priest comes before the prophet
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  Speaker 1: is released This is not just a succession. This is
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  Speaker 1: a transformation. This is a revolution. This is a move.
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  Speaker 1: And the irony of it is, they said the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord was scarce in those days and there
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  Speaker 1: was no open vision. And yet the prophet was growing
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  Speaker 1: in the scarcity Y'all can't handle this. Prosperity grows in poverty.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Bible said, let the poor say that I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Let the weak say that I'm. You can be weak
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  Speaker 1: on top and be strong underneath. Y'all don't hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. You can be poor on top and have
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  Speaker 1: prosperity growing up under you. It does not yet appear
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  Speaker 1: what you shall be. but it's still growing up. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I use the NIV because the prophet is still
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  Speaker 1: a boy, but he's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming,
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  Speaker 1: he's coming. Your prophecy is still a boy, but it's coming,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming, it's coming. It's up under your priesthood. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I'm trying to get you to worship because when
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  Speaker 1: you worship, you're getting closer to releasing that prophetic utterance
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  Speaker 1: that exists in your life. And that's why the devil
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want you to worship. Because worship makes the water break.
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  Speaker 1: It makes the baby give birth. It releases a prophetic utterance.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody shout yes! And then I want to point out
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  Speaker 1: the extreme generational change. It is not that Samuel and
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  Speaker 1: Eli changed. just represent two generations. The truth of the
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  Speaker 1: matter is Eli is a boy. I mean, Samuel is
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  Speaker 1: a boy when Eli is an old man. Samuel is
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  Speaker 1: young enough to be Hophni's son. So you got this
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  Speaker 1: grandfather character who is old and the other extreme is
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  Speaker 1: a boy is in the house. And it is an
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  Speaker 1: extreme shift. It's gonna skip a generation. You don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: where you thought you would see it. But here it
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  Speaker 1: comes from the place you didn't expect to see it,
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  Speaker 1: from a person you didn't expect to see it from,
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  Speaker 1: from a woman that you thought was drunk. Here comes
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  Speaker 1: the change that God's going to bring in your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you got to stop looking down your nose
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  Speaker 1: at people and calling people out their name. Because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: God will use somebody you thought was drunk to be
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  Speaker 1: the next level of blessing in your life. Somebody holler
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  Speaker 1: for me. I feel like hollering this morning. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like screaming this morning. And then when I was praying
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  Speaker 1: about it, the Lord said, I want you to tell
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  Speaker 1: them in the night shift, the light shimmers. In the
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  Speaker 1: night shift, the light shimmers. Night doesn't mean total blackout.
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  Speaker 1: It says, and ere the lamp of God went out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you all were raised with electric lights, and I was too.
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  Speaker 1: But when I went to my grandmother's house, they would
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  Speaker 1: have candle lights and oil lamps. And when the lamps
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  Speaker 1: were going out, as they start to go out, they flicker.
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  Speaker 1: flickering the night has shimmering light moments of illumination glimpses
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  Speaker 1: shadows moments of revelation moments of insight you can't see
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  Speaker 1: it clearly cause it's shimmering but you've caught glimpses. You
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  Speaker 1: would have fainted, but you caught shimmers of light. Every
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  Speaker 1: time the devil thought he had you, God let the
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  Speaker 1: light shimmer. You're still in a nice season, but you
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  Speaker 1: got a flicker of light. You got a flicker of light.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes a flicker is all you need. If you
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  Speaker 1: get a flicker of light, you can hold on a
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  Speaker 1: little while longer. Some of y'all came out with a
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  Speaker 1: flicker of light. You're like the woman who said, I
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  Speaker 1: don't need the loaf. If I get a crumb, I'll
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  Speaker 1: come out on a crumb. I wish I had some
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  Speaker 1: crummy people who'll come out on a crumb. If you
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  Speaker 1: give me a half a chance, I'll scratch myself out
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the way. I may not have daylight,
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  Speaker 1: but if I got shimmering light, if I know two scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: if I know one and a half scriptures, if I
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  Speaker 1: can sing a little bit, I may not be on
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  Speaker 1: the praise team, but if I can sing while I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing my dishes, I can break a yoke over my house.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people that are standing
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  Speaker 1: in shimmering light. Make some noise. The old man couldn't
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  Speaker 1: hear him. Now the Bible said he couldn't see, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't say nothing about his ears. But he cannot
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  Speaker 1: hear what the young man can hear. The young man
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  Speaker 1: can hear God. And he can hear God to the
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  Speaker 1: point that he's disruptive, anxious, irritating, disturbs his sleep. Keeps
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  Speaker 1: getting up again. Some of you can hear God so clear.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you try to act on what God
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  Speaker 1: told you to do, they send you back. And when
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  Speaker 1: they send you back, it plays into your rejection issues.
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  Speaker 1: It plays into your abandonment issues. And you think they
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in you because they send you back. But
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  Speaker 1: they're sending you back because they don't hear what you hear.
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  Speaker 1: All they can do is.
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  Speaker 2: Send you back because they haven't heard what you heard.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, I hear it. I hear it. My money's
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  Speaker 1: not right, but I hear it. My friends are not right,
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  Speaker 1: but I hear it. I don't have no building for it,
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  Speaker 1: but I hear it. Somebody holler, I hear it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: preaching to somebody online, I hear it. It won't let
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  Speaker 1: me rest. It won't let me rest. It won't let
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  Speaker 1: me lay down. It won't let me sleep because I
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  Speaker 1: keep hearing it. I don't know how to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but I hear it. Now watch this. This is why
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  Speaker 1: we can't throw either extremes away. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: you and your parents. I'm talking about from grandparent on down.
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  Speaker 1: Eli can't hear it, but he can interpret it. Samuel
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  Speaker 1: can hear it, but he don't know what to do
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  Speaker 1: with it. So when Eli perceived that the Lord had
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  Speaker 1: called him, not only did he perceive that God had
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  Speaker 1: called him, he told him what to say. See, some
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  Speaker 1: of us, God has kept us in the earth just
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  Speaker 1: to tell you what to do with what you got.
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  Speaker 1: We're not trying to control you. We're trying to stop
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  Speaker 1: the vicious cycle of going back and forth and back
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  Speaker 1: and forth and back and forth and back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to script you. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: your job, your anointing. I'm just giving you the script.
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  Speaker 1: So Eli told him, Eli said, go back and lay
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  Speaker 1: down in your place. In other words, go back and
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  Speaker 1: be where God expects you to be. Adam, where art thou?
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  Speaker 1: You're not in the meeting place. Moses built a tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness. What is tabernacle? It's a... When God
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  Speaker 1: sent Jesus, he sent divinity to humanity because Jesus is a...
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  Speaker 1: I am the way, the truth, and the life. No
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  Speaker 1: man cometh unto the Father, save he come by me.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the meeting place and lay down. And
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  Speaker 1: if he calls you again, this is the humility of
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  Speaker 1: the text. I cannot assume that I have endless opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to go back and forth I don't know if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to call me again. But if you call me again,
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  Speaker 1: I know what to say now. Because I have served
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  Speaker 1: under Eli. So there's this big argument going on in
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  Speaker 1: the world, in some parts of the world today, a
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  Speaker 1: generational argument between the former and the latter. And they're
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  Speaker 1: arguing over who's relevant and who isn't. They both are.
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  Speaker 1: The reason they both are, he called the young because
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  Speaker 1: they're strong. He called the old because they know the way.
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  Speaker 1: They know the way. Eli was old, but he knew
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  Speaker 1: the way. He couldn't run the plays, but he knew
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  Speaker 1: the way. You understand what I'm talking about? So one
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  Speaker 1: doesn't operate independent of the other. So So the day
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  Speaker 1: shift can't go home before the night shift comes on.
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  Speaker 1: The night shift can't go home until the day shift
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  Speaker 1: comes back. And God said, until you learn how to
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  Speaker 1: work interdependently, you will never be effective. Because I can't
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  Speaker 1: run the plays anymore, but I know how to play
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  Speaker 1: the game. The challenge of the older generations is to
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  Speaker 1: not be jealous of the younger generation to the point
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  Speaker 1: that you won't give them the benefit of what you learn.
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  Speaker 1: The challenge of the younger generation is to understand that
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  Speaker 1: some old systems still work. And in your desire to
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: be innovative, there are still some laws you can't break.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them is to lay down in the
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  Speaker 1: right place and wait on the Lord. And if.
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  Speaker 2: I can't make him call you, I can't make him
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  Speaker 2: call you. I can't make him speak. I can't even make.
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  Speaker 1: You go to the place, but if you go back
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  Speaker 1: to the place. See, see, see, see. I gotta stop.
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  Speaker 1: The powerful thing to me about watching you run around
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  Speaker 1: the stage and preach is I remember you as a
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  Speaker 1: little girl sitting right over there in the corner with
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  Speaker 1: your head down To come back full circle. To the place.
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  Speaker 1: God said I'm going to bless you right. Right in
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  Speaker 1: the place where you felt rejection. Right in the place
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  Speaker 1: where you felt disgrace. Right in the place where you
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  Speaker 1: felt shame. Right in the place where you thought nobody
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  Speaker 1: would ever accept you. Right in the place where you
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  Speaker 1: thought you'd never be anybody. God said, that's still a place.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to bring you back to the place.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring you right back to the spot.
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  Speaker 1: To the spot. To the very spot. Show me where
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  Speaker 1: you laid it down. Show me where you gave up.
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  Speaker 1: Show me where you wanted to quit. Show me where
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to run from. Show me where you tried
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  Speaker 1: to hide from. I'm going to bring you right back
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  Speaker 1: to the blaze. Samuel. See, they shout because they see
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  Speaker 1: the woman preaching. I'm over here shouting because I see
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  Speaker 1: the little girl preaching. I see the little girl preacher
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  Speaker 1: who thought her life was over. That's what I'm shouting about.
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  Speaker 1: Because you'll always be my baby. So I see you
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  Speaker 1: like you're still a child sitting over the corner with
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  Speaker 1: a big belly, holding Malachi in your arms. Now what
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: you holding? And it ain't just for her, it's for
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: you too. Some of you, God's getting ready to do
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: something in your life. He's going to break every curse,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: every bondage, every shame, every struggle on your life. If
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to you, give him 60 seconds of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no, no, no, no. Crazy praise. Curse breaking praise.
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  Speaker 2: Yoke breaking praise. Thirst preaching praise. Praising like you lost
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  Speaker 2: your mind. Praise him like you just heard from God.
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  Speaker 2: Praise him like you got another chance. Praise him like
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: he opened up a door.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord said to me, The Lord said to me,
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  Speaker 1: there are some people in this room that he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to call you back to the place of your confusion,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: of your chaos, that there's going to be a night shift. Wait, wait, wait.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Let me give you this prophecy. The Lord said to Samuel,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do things through you. that causes both
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  Speaker 1: ears of them that hear it to tingle. I am
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  Speaker 1: going to use you like no other prophet has ever
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  Speaker 1: been used in the scriptures. I'm gonna use you in life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna use you after your life. I'm gonna use
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  Speaker 1: you to anoint kings. I'm going to bring you before princes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring you into positions of power. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you got faith enough to believe it.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: And God said all of that when Samuel had not
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: yet known the Lord. Now, This is not just about churches.
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  Speaker 1: This is about your life, your business, your career, your degree.
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  Speaker 1: your entrepreneurship, whatever your calling in the earth is, whatever
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: your call, everybody ain't called to the pulpit. Everybody's not
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: supposed to do this. Everybody's not created to do this.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be one dimensional. There's some things that God created
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  Speaker 1: you for that you had some delays and some setbacks
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: and some mistakes and some mishaps. And God wants you
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: to come back to the place God said, go back
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  Speaker 1: to the place where you heard my voice. Speak, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: for thy servant hears.