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As a Man Thinketh The Battle of Wits - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Every man feels it, the pressure to lead, to overcome
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  Speaker 1: and rise, even when the weight gets heavy. In an
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  Speaker 1: era that doesn't offer men easy answers, God's strategy is
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  Speaker 1: a weapon. As a man, think of men discovered what
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  Speaker 1: happens when faith meets focus and when brothers refuse to
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  Speaker 1: battle alone. Hear raw wisdom from voices like Bishop T.D. Jakes,
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  Speaker 1: your flow and your future.
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  Speaker 2: The war started in heaven. In Revelations 12, the war
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  Speaker 2: started in heaven amongst the angels. And from the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of time, Satan was cast down. Lucifer was cast down
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  Speaker 2: out of heaven because Michael kicked him out. If there
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  Speaker 2: was a war in eternity, there was a war in time.
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  Speaker 2: So Satan comes down in time and he cannot create anything. God,
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  Speaker 2: all he does is hear what God has promised him.
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  Speaker 2: And God said, be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth and subdue.
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  Speaker 2: So Satan took that fruit and said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: use the fruit to tempt you with. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tempt you with something that looks like it's almost God
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  Speaker 2: so that you can feel like there's another way to
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  Speaker 2: be fruitful without going through the process. And you've been
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  Speaker 2: looking for shortcuts for years. You got to go through
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  Speaker 2: what you got to go through to get to where
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to go. Do you hear what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Every step of a good man is ordered by the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Every step. Some of the steps are in potholes. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the steps are up the hill. But every step
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  Speaker 2: you take is getting you closer to your destiny. Slap
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  Speaker 2: somebody and say, it's time for you to step. Slap
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  Speaker 2: somebody else and say, get to stepping. Get to stepping.
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  Speaker 2: Get to stepping. Don't get to shouting. Get to stepping.
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  Speaker 2: Get to stepping on serpents. Get to stepping on cockatrice.
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  Speaker 2: Get to stepping on the powers of darkness that are
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  Speaker 2: standing in your way. Get to stepping. This is your
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  Speaker 2: season for you to get to stepping. This is your
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  Speaker 2: season to be weaned. Notice that Hannah could not bring
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  Speaker 2: Samuel into the temple until he was weaned. We are
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  Speaker 2: tired of you still being on milk and you got
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  Speaker 2: more title than you got food. You got to be
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  Speaker 2: weaned in order to be able to serve. So when
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  Speaker 2: she had weaned the baby, she brought him into the
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  Speaker 2: house of the Lord and his life began when he
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  Speaker 2: broke his hold on her nipple. So Samuel couldn't find
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  Speaker 2: out who he was nursing on the nipple of where
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  Speaker 2: he started. He had to break away from the source
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  Speaker 2: of his flesh to find the source of his life.
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  Speaker 2: And you're still hanging on to the nipple and trying
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  Speaker 2: to be a great prophet But you're still getting nourished
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  Speaker 2: from that which is carnal. That nourishment has to come
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  Speaker 2: from another place. It's got to come from another area.
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  Speaker 2: Because what God has for you, you can't be dependent
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  Speaker 2: on mama or daddy or sister or brother. You got
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  Speaker 2: to be able to stand on your own two feet
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  Speaker 2: and say, thus saith the Lord. And when God says it,
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  Speaker 2: it is so. It is finished. It is done. How
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  Speaker 2: many men are hearing what I'm saying right now? And
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  Speaker 2: so from the battle that began in the book, Revelation says,
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  Speaker 2: began before the foundations of the world and Satan got
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  Speaker 2: cast out of heaven. So he got cast out of
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  Speaker 2: the heavenly realms into the earth realm. So he had
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  Speaker 2: to fight Jesus in the earth realm. So Jesus, as
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  Speaker 2: soon as he got baptized, the spirit led him out
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  Speaker 2: into the wilderness so they could fight. Y'all didn't hear that.
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  Speaker 2: The spirit led him out into the wilderness so they
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  Speaker 2: could fight. Lucifer lost the fight in heaven. Now he
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  Speaker 2: has to fight him on another terrain. If you notice,
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  Speaker 2: you're fighting the same thing in different realms. The names change.
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  Speaker 2: The address changes. But it's the same devil that you
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  Speaker 2: had to fight over here is now meeting you over here.
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  Speaker 2: But the same God that delivered you over there will
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  Speaker 2: deliver you over here. And the Bible said that they waited.
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  Speaker 2: Until he had fasted 40 days and he was weak
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  Speaker 2: and he was tired. And then the enemy came because
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  Speaker 2: the enemy had learned in heaven that he was fooling
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  Speaker 2: with power and the wisdom of God. And he was
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  Speaker 2: afraid to take him on at full strength so that
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  Speaker 2: the devil won't fight you when you're at full strength.
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  Speaker 2: He'll wait till you get weak. Till you get tired.
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  Speaker 2: Till you get depleted. Because when you get tired, he
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  Speaker 2: thinks he can trick you into taking a shortcut. If
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  Speaker 2: thou be the son of God, turn this stone into bread.
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  Speaker 2: Why would I turn the stone into bread when I
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  Speaker 2: am the bread of life? I don't have to turn
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  Speaker 2: a rock into bread because I am bread. Your fathers
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  Speaker 2: ate manna in the wilderness, but I am the true
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  Speaker 2: bread that cometh down out of heaven. If you eat
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  Speaker 2: this bread, if you drink this water, if you receive
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  Speaker 2: who I am, I'm water that don't need a source.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need a stream. I don't need a creek.
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  Speaker 2: I can come out of rock. I'm self-contained. I'm self-sufficient.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a root springing up out of dry ground. I
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  Speaker 2: can't depend on people to supply my strength. I'm self-contained
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  Speaker 2: because I understand this is a fight. They fought out
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness. Jesus defeated him in the wilderness. And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible said that when Jesus got tired, the angels
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  Speaker 2: came down to minister to him. And when you read
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  Speaker 2: it and only one gospel brings out this notation, it
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  Speaker 2: says it was in the presence of beast that they
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  Speaker 2: restored him. God will restore you in the presence of beast.
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  Speaker 2: The beast were waiting on him to die so they
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  Speaker 2: could come in and kill him. But God said, hell no,
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  Speaker 2: it's never going to happen. I'll wake him up. I'll
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  Speaker 2: shake him up. I'll stir him up. And they were
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  Speaker 2: looking at him in the presence of beasts. Means I
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  Speaker 2: will prepare a table before you in the presence of
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  Speaker 2: your enemies. And I'll let the same people that talked
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  Speaker 2: about you. I have to realize that you are my
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  Speaker 2: beloved son in whom I'm well pleased and I will
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  Speaker 2: feed you and I will nurture you and I kept
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  Speaker 2: your enemies alive so they could watch you come back.
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  Speaker 2: Good God almighty, I feel like I'm preaching to somebody
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  Speaker 2: and I don't even know who it is. But God
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  Speaker 2: kept your enemies alive. You wanted him to destroy them,
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  Speaker 2: but he didn't want them to destroy them. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: you to have an audience so that when he raises
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  Speaker 2: you up, there'll be no doubt that God is inside
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  Speaker 2: of you. So pull up a chair and watch this.
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  Speaker 2: This is my season. This is my hour. This is
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  Speaker 2: my time. This is the time that I get double
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  Speaker 2: for my trouble. This is the time that I get
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  Speaker 2: my second wind. This is the time that I destroy
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  Speaker 2: the Philistines. This is the time that the temple comes down.
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  Speaker 2: This is the time that Dagon loses his grip. This
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  Speaker 2: is the time that I walk in full strength. This
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  Speaker 2: is the time that my Red Sea parts. This is
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  Speaker 2: the time that I roll back chilly Jordan. This is
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  Speaker 2: the time that I possess the land. This is the
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  Speaker 2: time that I remove the Gideonites, the Hittites, the Jebusites,
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  Speaker 2: and everything that plagued me. I'm out for blood. I'm
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  Speaker 2: out for revenge. I'm out for attack. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: show every devil that tried to take me out. You
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  Speaker 2: messed with the wrong one. You're fooling with the wrong one.
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  Speaker 2: I might have looked weak, but when I look weak,
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  Speaker 2: I'm strong. When I look tired, I got strength. When
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  Speaker 2: I look poor, I'm rich. Because I got hidden treasure.
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  Speaker 2: I got hidden mysteries. I got hidden wisdom. Can you
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  Speaker 2: hear what I'm saying? Let me show you one final
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  Speaker 2: difference between the wisdom of God and the wisdom of men.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know that the man is wise until you
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  Speaker 2: ask the question. And when you ask the question, the
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  Speaker 2: wisdom is revealed by the question. But God had wisdom
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  Speaker 2: when there was nobody to ask. Peace out. There was
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  Speaker 2: nobody to measure. He is wisdom. He is the ancient
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  Speaker 2: of days. He is God all by himself. He is
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  Speaker 2: all sufficient. Amen. He is El Shaddai. He is wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: He's my counselor. He's my resurrection. He's my life. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: He's my lily of the valley. He's my bright and
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  Speaker 2: morning star. He's everything I need. He's bread when I
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  Speaker 2: get hungry. He's water when I get thirsty. Whenever I
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  Speaker 2: get thirsty, he'll turn into whatever I need. Who should
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  Speaker 2: I say sent me? I am that I am. I'm
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  Speaker 2: whatever I need to be whenever I need to be it. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't turn into it when you ask for it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm already it. There's so much healing in Jesus that
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  Speaker 2: he didn't even know that the woman with the issue
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  Speaker 2: of blood had touched the hem of his garment. But
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  Speaker 2: he was so loaded that when she tapped in... All
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the healing began to flow. The reason
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  Speaker 2: yoke's broken here, it wasn't that God showed up. God
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  Speaker 2: was in here before you got here. It was that
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  Speaker 2: you tapped in. And as many as you that tapped in,
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  Speaker 2: you received the power of God. But the power of
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  Speaker 2: God was always there. He's omnipotent. He's omnipresent. He's omniscient.
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  Speaker 2: He's already there. But you're not tapping in because... You
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  Speaker 2: are not listening for his wisdom. For every problem in
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  Speaker 2: your life, there is wisdom for every problem. God will
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  Speaker 2: give you the gift of wisdom so that you can
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  Speaker 2: respond in wisdom. But God has a wisdom that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to respond. He is not reactive. He is proactive.
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