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Stay In God's Will by Pastor Claude Whittaker (LIVE SERMON) · Deeper Life Ministries

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I feel the spark from the coal in here.
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Yes.
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Hallelujah.
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Glory to God.
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Hallelujah.
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Thank you.
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Paul writes to the church of Thessalonica.
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And he's admonishing them about the coming of the Lord.
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He tells them the time and the season.
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No need for me to write to you.
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But you know that the Lord's going to come back as a thief in the night.
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Verse 3, he says, For when they shall say peace and safety, and then sudden destruction.
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Come upon them as travail upon a woman, her child, and they shall not escape.
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Right now, with the Abrahamic peace accord.
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They're trying to bring peace to the Middle East.
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Well, it's not going to happen.
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It's a false sense of peace.
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Not going to happen until the millennial reign when Jesus comes back.
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That's the only peace that they're going to get.
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It's a false sense of peace.
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It's going to usher in the Antichrist.
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And that's where we're at right now.
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We're seeing, amen, golden idols being built.
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Pastors and preachers bowing down to them.
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We're seeing the church becoming more worldly and more weak.
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But there's a remnant that love the word of God.
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Yes.
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There's a remnant that want to live for God.
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Yes, there's a remnant.
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Ask somebody, I hope you're the remnant.
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That want to serve the Lord.
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We're not caught up in titles.
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We're not caught up in headlines.
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We're not caught up in us wanting to be great.
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But we realize that who we serve is already great.
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Glory to God.
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He tells them that they're not in darkness.
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He tells them that the day should not overtake them as a thief.
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He says he comes as a thief.
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As a thief.
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Meaning unaware.
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Not to take something that doesn't belong to him.
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Because the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
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All souls belong to God.
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And so he comes as a thief to catch somebody unaware.
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Amen.
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Nowadays, amen, people invest in uh the little door camera bell and cameras all over the house.
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Well, you you you you can have cameras up all you want.
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You're gonna miss it.
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He's coming back.
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He's coming back for a church and for a people that are called by his name.
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Those who are waiting on his return.
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He says, Look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.
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We're not waiting on the world to get any better.
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We're waiting on God to come get us out of the world.
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Now I know I'm not the only one waiting on God to come get me out of this world.
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I know there's a few of this waiting on God to return and come back to get us.
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Amen.
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He says, verse number five, Brother Mike, he says, You are the children of the light.
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And the children of the day.
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We're children of the light and children of the day.
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Peter writes and says, I remember the former years in which I was illuminated.
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The Holy Ghost illuminates us, puts us in the light.
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I wish I had time to talk and ask you some questions.
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Amen.
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Because I can only give you my story.
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When God filled me with the Holy Ghost, I was illuminated.
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When I got out of the car, the trees seemed greener.
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The sky seemed bluer.
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Everything seemed new.
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Anybody got their testimony?
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Yes.
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When I close my eyes, I don't see darkness.
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I see light.
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He said, walk in the light while you have the light.
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Yes.
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We're not in darkness.
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We're not in the night.
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Amen.
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In the night, there's a whole lot of things go on in the night.
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Things that aren't good go on in the night.
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Yes, in darkness, things happen in darkness.
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Yes, but we're not children of the of the night nor the darkness.
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We're of the light in the day.
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Yes, walk you in the light while you have the light.
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But Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
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Yes, you gotta walk there in him.
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Yes.
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He says, therefore, let us not sleep as others are sleeping.
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But let us watch and let us be sober.
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Sober-minded.
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Let us watch.
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What are we watching for?
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We're watching as well as praying.
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We're waiting for his return.
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We're believing God is coming back and he's coming back soon.
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Not taking no time off.
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We know that God has a date.
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We know that he's coming back.
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Let us not sleep as do others.
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The problem is a lot of folk are sleeping.
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Glory to God.
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Thank you, Holy Ghost.
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They're sleeping in the church and sleeping.
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Sleeping.
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Yes.
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Time to awake.
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Awake, O thou that sleepeth.
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And arise from the dead.
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And Christ will give your life.
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A lot of people are sleeping.
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They should be awake.
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It wasn't meant for us to walk in darkness or to sleep.
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But for us to be awake.
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Anybody awake in here?
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I seen folk fall asleep in church.
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How in the world can you fall asleep in church?
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How in the world, when God is speaking to you, sleeping?
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I've seen it.
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Come on, Pastor.
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Yes, you have.
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With their eyes open.
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Can't hear what the man of God is saying.
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That's right.
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Because they sleep.
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Now they're awake.
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They look attentive, but their mind is somewhere else.
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Yes, here I come.
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Their mind is so you might well be asleep.
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Because their mind is somewhere else.
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In a service.
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The Lord speaking.
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All of a sudden you hear a sleep.
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How in the world can you sleep on God?
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Glory to God.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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You need to set the alarm clock.
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That's right.
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So that you can wake up in the house of God.
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Now, for you watching my Facebook live, ain't nobody in here physically sleeping.
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But there's a few folks spiritually sleeping.
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And God wants to awake you up out of your sleep that you can get what you need from God, that you can make it back when God comes back.
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Sleeping on God.
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You know, when you have a job and in the service, everybody been in the military.
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They catch you sleep.
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They catch you sleep, they can put you in the brig.
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On watch.
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Supposed to be watching.
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Let me give you a story that I gotta get ready to go.
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I can't be up here all day.
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When I was in the Marine Corps, I was with a guy from DC, Jones was his name.
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And we were out in the field, and we had dug a trench.
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And it was cold too.
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And I said, Well, I'll take the first watch.
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And you go to sleep, wrap up in your sleeping bag.
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And he was over there sawing his ease.
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And uh I woke him up around midnight.
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My turn to sleep now.
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Said, Jones, get up, man.
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Okay, I'm up.
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I said, get up, come in that sleeping bag, dude.
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You gotta get your rifle, man, and you gotta be on watch.
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And he got up, okay.
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I'm up, I'm up, I'm up, okay, I'm up, I'm up.
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And I got in my sleeping bag.
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Zip.
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Time me go sleep.
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Somewhere around six o'clock and six thirty in the morning.
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I peeped out of my sleeping bag.
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And there was Colonel and the first sergeant looking over us in the hole.
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Jones had gone back to sleep.
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And both of them sleep.
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In one time, he would have got us both killed.
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You got to be awake not only for yourself, but for your family.
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Awake up.
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You got to get up.
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You got to get back to pride.
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You got to get back to Bible study.
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You got to get connected back with God's spirit.
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Or anybody gonna die.
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That you connected to.
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Yes.
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Glory.
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Yes.
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I was hot with him.
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I was hot with him.
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Well, thank God.
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The colonel said to the first sergeant, the first sergeant man will make an example out of us.
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And the colonel said, Oh, leave him alone.
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They're tired.
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They've been working all weekend.
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Let them rest.
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I said, Thank you.
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But I was hot with him.
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I went to fight him.
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Because you done put me at jeopardy here.
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You done put my life at jeopardy.
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You done put my career in jeopardy.
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See, that's what happens in the church.
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We're all connected together.
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And when you sleep and not doing your job, you putting somebody else under pressure.
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Putting everybody else's job in jeopardy.
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Oh, yes, you got to wake up and know and do what God wants you to do.
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Yes, you said God called you.
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You said God got something for you, but you got to awake.
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Uh slap somebody to awake.
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You know.
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Yes.
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Glory.
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I feel God.
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Everybody feel God.
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Just lift your hands for a moment and tell God, thank you.
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This is an anointed church.
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This is an anointed ministry.
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Yes, the word of God is anointed in here.
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Hallelujah.
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Yes.
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Glory to God.
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That's settled in your spirit.
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Hey, wake up.
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You get caught with your work undone.
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Friend of mine from high school.
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But he was strong as all outdoors.
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Didn't have too much sense.
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But he was strong as an art.
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And uh you dumb, real dumb.
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No, you know he's so strong, he's dumb.
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But this is dumb as I don't know what.
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And uh I was away in the ring corps and they said that he was uh seeing this man's wife that worked at the prison.
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He happened to go over there one night and took care of his business and fell asleep.
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I'm gonna tell you the dangers of falling asleep.
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And the husband doubled back and took a baseball bat and killed him.
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See, the devil get advantage over some of y'all because you're asleep and you won't wake up.
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And he gets a great advantage over you because all you want to do is fall asleep on God.
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And when you shouldn't be praying, you're asleep.
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And when you shouldn't be, amen, giving God glory, you're on the telephone.
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You're up in the midnight hours rambling.
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But what you should be is on your face, giving God glory, praying for the ministry, praying that God save the family, praying that God give you.
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You gotta wake up, you got to wake up, church.
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You got to wake up.
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He fell asleep and got killed.
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I never saw him again.
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I came home, they'd already buried him.
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Fell asleep.
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Pastor, I ain't sleeping.
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Yeah, you are.
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You're putting everything before God.
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You're asleep.
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And you don't know what time it is.
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The Lord's come, you're asleep.
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And the devil has convinced you that you're okay.
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But you're sleeping.
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And the worst thing you can do is sleep with the enemy.
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Who's sleeping with the enemy in here?
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Glory.
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Yes.
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Glory to God.
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Yes.
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He got killed falling asleep.
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He wasn't on guard.
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He didn't see the bat coming.
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He didn't hear the man sneaking back in the house.
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He didn't hear the front door within the lock.
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Don't take too many times hit your baseball bat to kill you.
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Put the people to sleep.
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Don't listen to me now.
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Because in a minute, Paul is gonna shift this thing.
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Don't you wing.
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Because God just pulled your whole car.
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You hang in there.
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Because God get ready to shift this thing.
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I don't want you to miss the shift and fall asleep.
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Because God is dealing with you now.
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Yes?
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Look what he says.
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But let us who are of the day, that's us, let us be sober.
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Putting on the breastplate of faith.
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You gotta put faith on.
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You just can't put faith alone.
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You gotta put love on.
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See, when you walk outside of faith and love, you asleep.
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And for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
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Don't lose your hope.
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Don't lose your faith.
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And hold on to the love that He's placed in you.
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Hallelujah.
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Yes?
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We're just gonna take a turn.
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You know how it is when you're on a roller coaster?
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How many of y'all been on Nanny?
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You been on a roller coaster?
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Uh-huh.
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You know how it is when you're on a roller coaster and the roller coaster goes down and y'all hollering when it goes down.
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I never get on them because I can't breathe when I'm going down.
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Because I don't like that look.
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I don't like that look, and that can't get my breath.
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That scares me.
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So I don't get on them.
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But the worst part about it is when you come out of that, then it takes a turn like that.
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That's where y'all lose it in the turn.
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Right?
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That's why you gotta be careful you get on a roller coaster with.
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Because they'll throw up everything on you in the turn.
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So God's getting Paul's getting the Lord's gonna use Paul down to shift this thing.
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And I want y'all to be awake so you can get it.
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Because God got something for everybody in the room.
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Watch this.
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So he says, For God, talk about the church, those who are in the light, those who are in the day, has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The wrath of God, the pouring out of the vows of the wrath of God is not coming down on the church.
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No, not going to church is not going through the tribulation.
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Why?
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Because God has not appointed us under wrath.
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The wrath of God is for those who are in darkness and walking during the night.
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One is the church.
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You're supposed to be walking in the day because the wrath is coming on those who are walking in the night.
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The wrath of God, the judgment of God shouldn't come on the church.
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Because we should be walking in the light.
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Uh-oh.
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Uh-oh.
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Uh-oh.
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Uh-oh.
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I felt that there.
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I felt that there.
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Here it comes.
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Here it comes.
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You should be doing that which is right.
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We should be doing what we do in the light, not what they do in the night or in the darkness.
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Amen.
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Hear what he said.
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For who died for us, talking about Jesus, that whether we awake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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Whether you're awake, you should be with him.
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Or whether you asleep, you should be with him.
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Yes.
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Some folks say, well, I can't control my dreams and what I dream about.
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Yes, you can.
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It depends on what you read and what you listen to and what you do all day.
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Yes.
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It's what you take in, what you look at, what you read, what you meditate on.
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Yes.
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All right.
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Listen to this.
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Wherefore, comfort yourselves together and edify one another, even also as you do.
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And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you.
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You got to know who's preaching over you.
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You got to know who you're listening to.
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See, here's the problem.
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Because a lot of y'all, I didn't hear.
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I'm talking to Facebook Live now.
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A lot of y'all, a lot of y'all have made, have made social media preachers your pastors.
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And you don't even know them.
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And you listen to them more than you listen to me.
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Yes.
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You listen to them and say you got a word from God, and that ain't from God.
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You listen and you watch them more than you watch your own service.
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You listen to them and go what they say more than you listen to the man of God.
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And the man of God is called by God to feed you.
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And you're allowing somebody else to feed you, and that's why you're not growing.
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Oh boy.
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Oh boy.
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Oh boy.
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Oh boy.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Good God Almighty.
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Y'all was shouting a while ago.
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They were shouting a while ago.
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Sister Angel, they were shouting a while ago.
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They was howling, hooping, howling.
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They ain't saying nothing now.
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You know why they ain't saying nothing?
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Because the word done found them.
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They spent more time on social media watching the social media preachers.
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Instead of listening to the man of God.
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I told you, God got something for all of us in here.
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There's some of you, amen, who are working at night, you'll sneak away to turn your phone on to watch the Bible study.
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Because you want a word from the Lord.
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There's some of you, amen, who aren't working and sit home won't even turn the Bible study on.
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You're sleeping.
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Watching TD fakes.
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Treflo, you gave him your dollar.
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Benny, the chicken hen.
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Yes.
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George Freddie Krueger Myers.
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That's what y'all are doing.
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And the word, anointed word, is going on right through the airways.
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Amen.
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Watch this.
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Watch this.
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And we beseech you, brother, to know them that labor among you and over you.
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And admonish you.
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And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
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The church asleep.
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Asleep.
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Yes.
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Tell the man of God, go for it, Pastor.
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We behind you.
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How can we help?
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We know you in the word.
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We want to make sure that the ministry is successful.
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Want to make sure we're doing what we're supposed to do.
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We want to make sure, amen, that God's getting the glory.
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We want to make sure that, amen, that the church is being successful.
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Amen.
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Getting behind the man of God.
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Amen.
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Yes, getting behind the man of God.
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Instead of breaking off in clicks and getting along talking about the man of God, talking about the church and talking about things.
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That means you're sleeping.
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But the man of God ain't sleeping.
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And we know God ain't sleeping.
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That's something for a few of you in here.
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Yes.
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No more than the man of God.
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You don't know nothing.
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As you ought to know.
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You might need to repent.
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Amen.
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Let me tell you something.
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Let me tell you something.
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They talked about Moses.
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God brought an earthquake.
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And the ground opened up and swallowed them all up.
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Moses' own brother and sister talked about Moses, and they struck his sister down with leprosy.
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And the same one that they talked about had to intercede and pray to God that she get rid of that leprosy.
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Oh, good God Almighty.
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Yes.
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I'm just talking here with the Lord.
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The Lord's saying.
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Just talking here.
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This is good.
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Ain't this good?
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Do me a favor, somebody just clap to the Lord.
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See, in some of these churches, the pastor is weak.
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And uh some churches, the woman, the first lady, tell the pastor what to do.
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Tell the pastor how long to preach.
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He over there preaching, first lady over there waving her hand.
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Pick your head up, baby.
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Over there waving her hand, telling him, no, no, it's enough.
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That's enough.
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Set it down, set it down.
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This ain't one of them type churches.
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No, no, no.
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My wife don't tell me how long to preach, what to preach, or how to preach.
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That's right, that ain't happening in my home.
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I'm the man in my home.
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I'm the priest.
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I'm her pastor.
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She's my wife.
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Amen.
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But I'm her pastor.
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Amen.
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She don't tell me what pastor you ought not to preach that.
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I don't go to her and ask for approval of what to preach.
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God deals with me.
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I love my wife.
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Amen.
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I'll tell you something else about her.
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She's anointed and she can discern things.
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And when your spirit is off with her spirit, your spirit's off with my spirit.
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Because I believe her spirit.
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And when she says something about your spirit ain't right, I'm on her side.
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Because I know God with her.
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Alright, let's go on.
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Where we at, Brother Mike.
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Okay, verse number 14.
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No, wait a minute.
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He says, see me very highly for your work's sake and be at peace among yourself.
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Be at peace among yourself.
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There is a faction in the church, not in this church, that will love to keep something going, to cause contention, that no one's at peace.
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But you got to find peace among yourselves.
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And be at peace.
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That's why I love everybody.
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I love everybody.
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Because I'm at peace with what I do.
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I'm at peace.
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I don't have respect a person.
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If I can help one, I help all.
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But there's a faction.
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What the enemy tries to do in the church.
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He tries to sow dissension.
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He tries to call, I'm on with this one, and I'm with that one.
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I'm down with this one.
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And oh, I'm down with that one.
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No, you better be down with Jesus.
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I want you to be down with Jesus.
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Who's on the Lord's side?
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I'm on the Lord's side.
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Amen.
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Well, you're ready to shift in a minute.
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You're ready to turn.
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Now, we exhort you, brethren.
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Warn them that are unruly.
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Now you're talking to the church.
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There are some unruly folk in the church.
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You gotta warn them.
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Here's why you gotta warn them.
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Because unruly folk don't think they're unruly.
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Unruly folk think that they're ruling.
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But you've got to re warn, warn the unruly.
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You got to warn them and let them know you're off path.
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What you're doing ain't of the Lord.
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What you're saying ain't right.
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And what you're doing when you leave here ain't right.
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It ain't ruly, it's unruly.
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Then you got to warn, the man of God got to warn.
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He got to comfort the feeble-minded.
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Those, amen, whose mind is weak, feeble.
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You got to comfort them.
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Those who might not be strong in the mind as others, you got to comfort them.
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Oh, you got to warn.
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You got to comfort.
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And you got to support the weak.
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You gotta support people.
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You've got to tell people you can make it.
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You got to encourage people.
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Right?
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Then you have to be patient towards all men.
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I'm just patient enough to wait for God to do what He's gonna do in here.
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Yes, with patience, possess you your souls.
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You didn't get like you were overnight, and you're not gonna come out of what you was in overnight.
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You gotta have some patience.
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You've got to wait on the Lord.
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Allow God to step in your life.
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Stop wanting things like microwave, quick, fast, in a hurry, fix.
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The generation we're living in.
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People want things done right now and right here.
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When things don't happen, do you lose everything?
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Gotta have some patience.
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Be patient and wait for the coming of the Lord.
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Then after you've done the will of God, you might receive the blessing.
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After you've done what God wants you to do, then you might receive the blessing.
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Stop thinking.
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Because it ain't done in your time.
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It ain't done when you want it done.
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You ain't God.
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God does what He wants to do.
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His timing is perfect.
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Okay?
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Listen to me.
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See that none render evil for evil unto any man.
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I know some of y'all that has some things happen to you and you want to get them back.
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I can look at you.
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Some of y'all got a get back spirit.
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They got me, I'm gonna do it.
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Wait.
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I came to church Sunday and sisters Reese didn't speak to me.
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Wait till next Sunday.
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I ain't gonna speak to her either.
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You don't have to do evil for evil.
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Whatever, follow that which is good.
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Continue to do good.
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How'd a lady leave the church?
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Because I preached in Chester and told her, continue to do good.
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She won't do good.
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Yeah, I don't believe that we got to continue to do good.
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Got to let people know the Bible said continue to do good.
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She left.
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She had conflict within her.
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And she wanted to pay people back, wanted to get them back.
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She wanted to fight.
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She wanted to argue.
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She argumented.
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How that working out for her right now, not too good.
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Follow that which is good, both among yourselves and to all men.
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Have peace among yourselves.
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Follow after that which is good.
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Among yourselves.
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And to all men.
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Watch this, we're gonna take a turn.
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Rejoice evermore.
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Now, rejoice.
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Excuse me, ready to go now.
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Rejoice comes from the word joy.
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To rejoice means that first you must have the joy.
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And the joy of the Lord is your strength.
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So in order for you to rejoice, you've got to dig back into your joy and pull it back out again.
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Now you can't reach back into something that's nothing is there.
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But when you reach back and you got the joy, the man didn't give to you, and the man didn't take it away.
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Even in the bad times, you can find a reason to rejoice.
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Rejoice, I say, and again I say rejoice.
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Yes, you got to be able to reach back in your joy.
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You know how it was when God first filled you with the Holy Ghost, and that joy then flooded through your soul, and uh you couldn't even think Jesus without the joy moving on you when the devil is on your case, and it appeared to be that there is no help, and the devil is trying to make you sad, and the devil is trying to make you to be uh uh uh uh uh stuck in your quadmire, you've got to reach back inside of you and pull that joy back out of you.
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You've got to find something in you that you're able to rejoice about.
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Anybody got any joy over here?
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Anybody got joy over here?
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Y'all got joy over here, JL.
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You got some joy over there?
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You look joyful.
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Yes, anybody got any joy over here?
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Y'all got any joy over here?
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Come on, head and come and hold them down over here.
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Y'all got any joy over here?
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You got to reach back into yourself and pull out what God has already deposited in you.
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Yes, but he put it in you.
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He said, Rejoice evermore.
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Keep your joy.
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Watch this.
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We gotta go.
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Watch this.
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We gotta turn the corner now.
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So he done talked about day, he done talked about night, he done talked about the saints that are in the light, he done talked about for those to get their lives right, to live among yourself in peace.
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He began to deal with all factions of the church.
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Then he hits those who think that God has not hit them yet.
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Paul does.
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Here's what he does.
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Here's what the Lord told me.
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This is powerful, what the Lord told me.
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This is powerful.
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This is powerful.
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Baby said, come on with you.
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This is powerful.
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God, this is powerful.
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This is powerful.
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Watch this.
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Then he says, pray without ceasing.
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This is what gets a lot of y'all.
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You pray, but you cut off the without ceasing.
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You pray a little bit, but you gotta keep praying.
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You pray when things are going good.
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Higher.
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You pray when you're on the mountaintop, but only a little bit.
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But you got to pray whether you're in the valley, whether you're on the mountaintop, whether things are good, whether things are bad, you got to have a prayer life.
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Where are my prayer words at in here?
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Come here and know my prayer.
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For the effectual firming prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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See, you're gonna have to learn how to pray and have that prayer language.
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So when something happens, you're not fumbling and fumbling over your words, but you're trusting in the living God, and he knows your voice.
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Thank you, Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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I told you you got something for everybody in here.
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For those who think you can make it without prayer, you're asleep.
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You're asleep.
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The devil done rocked you to sleep, calling you to think that you could have a relationship and live for God without a prayer life.
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He said, pray without ceasing.
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Tell somebody don't stop praying.
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Tell them, don't stop praying.
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I know you don't see it yet.
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You gotta you gotta speak to them.
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Say, I know you don't see it yet.
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But don't stop praying.
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I know it seems far away, but don't stop praying.
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Don't stop believing, and don't stop rejoicing.
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Help, it's on the way.
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Don't you dare stop praying.
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Yes.
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This thing ain't based upon need.
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This is based upon relationship.
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I know how the devil can beat you down and beat you back so much and give you that whatever.
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I don't care, whatever.
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Why pray?
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He's putting you to sleep.
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You've got to pray.
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Even when you don't feel like it.
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Even when you feel like giving up, even when the devil's telling you there is no use, you don't see a difference.
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You keep right on praying, keep right on believing, keep right on seeking after them.
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Even when you don't feel any different, even when it seems like you can't feel God, keep right on praying.
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The breakthrough is coming.
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Everything is based upon prayer, you can't preach without a prayer life, you can't prophesy without a prayer life, you can't interpret tongues without a prayer life, you can't worship without a prayer life.
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Everything is based upon prayer.
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You can't usher without a prayer life.
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You can't work the sound system without a prayer life.
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You can't greet at the door without a prayer life.
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You can't outreach without a prayer life.
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Everything you do must start with prayer.
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I need about freedom to really believe that.
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That everything you do must start with prayer.
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Okay, we're going in a turn.
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Yes.
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We're going in a turn now.
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We're going in the turn now.
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We're going in a turn.
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Because some of y'all are saying, Well, the devil didn't hit me with nothing, Pastor said.
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I'm doing good.
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I got something for you.
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He said, in everything.
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In everything.
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Give thanks.
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In everything.
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Give thanks.
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For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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Now here's what the Lord told me.
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The Lord says, some of the people, they're living for me.
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They are praying.
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And when the devil can't get them the sin through temptation, what he will do, he would bring something in their lives to cause them not to be thankful.
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Now listen to me.
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And those of you who found themselves in sin know that you've gotten out of the will of God.
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But those of you that the devil speaks to your mind, for you not to be satisfied and not be able to find something to give God thanks.
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You have gotten out of the will of God, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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So you might not be sinning, you might not be fornicating, you might not be lying, but you got out of the will of God by not being thankful to God.
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Yes, yes, you're not thankful.
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Have an unthankful spirit and the devil coming after you, and then you think about what you don't have, think about what you don't.
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What you do have.
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And you think about what you want and don't have, and you become thankless.
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And the devil knows that he don't got to get you to lay up with no man or no woman to cause you to get out of the will of God.
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He can just get in your mind so hard that you'll forget to be thankful.
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He'll have you worried about what you don't have instead of being thankful what you do have.
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Yes, he said in everything.
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The devil will show you things in your life that you don't have.
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He'll show you that God ain't answered your prayers yet.
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And he'll cause you to be unthankful.
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So we sit with an ungrateful attitude.
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And we forget to be so thankful for what the Lord has done.
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You're not moving fast enough, the devil will show you.
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You're still in the same place you were last year.
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Well, thank God I'm not in the same place I was the year before.
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I'm thankful.
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Anybody thankful?
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Yes?
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He said, in everything.
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You don't have to find something to be thankful for.
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You can look back and find something to be thankful for.
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In everything.
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Let's start with this.
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Thank God.
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I woke up this morning.
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Anybody thankful?
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Come on, let's get back into the will of God.
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Let's push our way back into the will of God.
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Anybody thankful?
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I know that I don't have the house yet, but I'm thankful for the two rules that I've got right now.
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Anybody thankful?
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Come on, church.
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We gotta get back into the will of God.
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Thankful.
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He's called us not to be thankful.
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He brings so much at your mind that you forgot the small things to be thankful for.
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I don't have ribeye.
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I don't have porter house steak every night.
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But thank God for the ground beef.
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Hallelujah.
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Anyone thankful in here?
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You've got not the will of God.
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Murmuring and complaining what you don't have.
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Godliness with contentment is great gain.
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Be thankful for the things that you do have.
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Thankful.
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Here's one for you.
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You remember the hell God pulled you out of.
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Some of y'all were two timing, three diamond, smoking dope, doing drugs.
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Some of y'all were going to the clubs, looking like pole dancers.
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Some of y'all were going out on the corner looking like fools.
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Standing there talking about you're a drug dealer, and you were just raising money so you could get high.
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And you're not thankful that God saved your soul and God brought you out of it.
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You have to be thankful to the Lord.
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God, I thank you.
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God, I thank you.
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God, I thank you.
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I thank you for saving my soul.
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I was in a bad place.
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Living on the street, looking for something, and no one received me in.
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But when I called on the name of Jesus, the Lord stepped in.
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He changed my name.
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And he saved me from myself.
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I'm thankful.
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I'm thankful.
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Anybody really thankful?
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For the hell God brought you out of.
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That's a good place for you to be thankful right there.
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And give God glory.
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I'm thankful.
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I'm thankful.
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I'm thankful.
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I'm thankful.
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What God has done for me.
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I know that this old body sometimes aches and it pains.
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I know sometimes my feet hurt.
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My back hurt.
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Sometimes I have two hernated discs in my neck.
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Two pinched nerves.
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My finger is numb because it's cutting off the circulation to my finger.
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But God, I thank you that I'm able to get up.
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I can get in the shower.
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I can walk to my car.
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God, I thank you that I can make it into the house of God.
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And when I'm under the anointing, God, I am healed by your strife.
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Thank God.
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He gives me enough relief that I can preach the word of God.
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Anybody thankful?
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Thankful.
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Thankful.
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In everything.
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I'm thankful.
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Ramica in Hebrews 13.
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Hebrews chapter 13, verse 15 and 16, and we're done.
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Amen.
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I'm thankful.
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In everything.
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This is the will of God.
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Watch this.
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The moment the devil brings something on you.
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And you don't give God thanks.
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You just got out of the will of God.
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What?
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I had somebody passed away, and I gotta give God thanks.
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Yes.
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God, I thank you for the 40 years you let me know.
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God, I thank you for you allowing them to be in my life.
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God, I thank you that I knew them.
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I thank you for putting them in my life.
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I give glory to your name.
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See, it's more than doing uh uh pleasures of sin to get out of the will of God.
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An unthankful attitude.
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Someone's got it.
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Got money in our pockets, don't have to worry about nothing.
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But we're unthankful for what the Lord has done for us, and it puts you out of the will of God, you should have been further ahead than you are.
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We take it for granted, like we do in so much.
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This is what I work for, this is what I do, this is how I do it.
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No, God is blessing you with enough strength to get up and go to work.
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And the moment God takes your strength and you can't go to work, it might be too late to be thankful.
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But while God is giving me strength in my body, I'm gonna give God thanks right now in the name of the Lord.
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Yes, yes, I'm gonna stay in his will.
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Listen to this, listen to this.
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In verse number 15, by him, talk about Jesus.
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Therefore, let us offer the sacrifices of praise to God sometimes when things are going your way, when you understand, when you're in the valley, when you're on the mountain, that is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
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Jesus, I thank you.
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That's how you're gonna stay in the will of God.
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Jesus, I thank you.
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Yes, went through a bad relationship.
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But Jesus, I thank you.
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Got rid of that joker.
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Jesus, I thank you.
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Or that joke joker at politically correct.
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Got rid of that joker, that joker at.
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That is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
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But that word to do good, to communicate, forget not.
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But with such sacrifices, God is well pleased.
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Now, some of us has gotten out of his will.
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Because we forgot to thank God for the things that he's done in our lives.
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When I thank them, I put it in the offering.
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He says, out of the fruits of your lips, open your mouth and thank God through Jesus Christ.
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Going through the storm, but Jesus, I thank you.
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Don't have enough, but Jesus, I thank you.
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But Jesus, I thank you.
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Not where I want to be, but thank God I ain't where I used to be.
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Jesus, I thank you.
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Now the Lord wants us to get back in his will by giving thanks unto God.
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See, we can manufacture all these things and they can be real.
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And it'll take away you and your thanks from going to God.
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Because then it leads to depression.
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Then you're down.
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You won't take what God is doing in your life to surrender to Him and give thanks.
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That's the will of God.
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Concerning you.
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Tell somebody concerning you.
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And then when you say that to them, you tell them back, no, he's talking about you.
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No, he's talking about you.
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He's talking about you.
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My dog can talk about you.
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So Diane, talking about you.
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Giving thanks unto God.
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I know.
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I don't have everything that I want.
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But thank God.
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I got everything that I need.
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That's how the devil tricking the people of God.
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That's how he's getting us out of the will.
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By being ungrateful and unthankful.
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See, when you're thankful, you look at everything that you have and you give it to him.
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When I woke up this morning, Lord, I thank you.
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But I didn't happen to be here.
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We're so determined in our mind to have everything that we think we should have.
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And we're not even thankful for what God has already given us.
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Where my married couples at?
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Come here, baby.
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Where my married couples at?
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I know it gets tough, good Pedro.
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I know it gets tough.
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But God, I thank you.
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I thank you.
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Sometimes she gets on my nerves.
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But God, I thank you.
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And she said, Lord, he makes me so mad at him sometimes.
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But God, I thank you.
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God, I thank you.
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We know where our help comes from.
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Our help comes from the Lord.
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Lord, I thank you.
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Wouldn't marry no one else but her.
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I thank you.
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In the name of the Lord.
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Now, where are my single people at?
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Let me hit you with this.
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Let me hit you with this real hard.
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If you not learn to embrace and be thankful for your singleness.
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God ain't gonna bless you with nothing else.
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Are you thankful?
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For your singleness.
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Mother Helen said, Tiffany, Mother Helen said, thank you.
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Thank ya.
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Mother Helen had enough of.
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Thank ya.
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Mother Helen ain't moved all day.
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Thank ya.
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When you learn to celebrate God for your singleness and be thankful under God.
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God will bless you with somebody.
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Here's what gets me.
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Let me go back to the married couples now.
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Here will give me with a married couple.
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Here they go on a wedding day.
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God bless me with this.
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I waited on God and God blessed me with this.
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Yes.
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The Lord did this.
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This right here.
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I waited on the Lord.
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And the Lord blessed me with this.
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Glory.
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Shakamaha.
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Hallelujah.
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Yes.
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One year in the marriage.
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Things fall apart.
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Hoging about money.
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Fussing about this.
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Fussing about that.
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God didn't give me that.
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You got to be thankful.
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And allow God to work through you.
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Work with you.
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And work in you.
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Glory.
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Anybody thankful?
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Thank you, babe.
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Thank you, babe.
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You're awesome.
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You're awesome.
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You're awesome.
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Amen.
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Huh.
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Watch this.
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Don't have a car.
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But God has blessed me to get around.
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And you complain about not having a car when you not even took time to tell God, God, I thank you.
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Made a way for me to get around.
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Then you got these cars.
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You put it in drive or go in neutral.
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Drinking gas like a drunk.
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And all you do is complain, man, I gotta get rid of this thing.
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I need me something new.
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I gotta get something new.
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Have you ever thought?
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Just to take time and say, God, I thank you for this mess I got in the driveway.
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God, I thank you.
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That it take me to work.
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God, I thank you.
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That it won't go past 49 on the highway.
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But God, I thank you.
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The Lord wants us to stay in his will.
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And the way that we stay in the will is give God thanks in all faith.
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In all faith.
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Right where you're at right now.
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Somebody give God thanks.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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Give God thanks.
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Right where you're at.