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TRUST YOUR WINGS WHEN LIFE BREAKS God Will Help You Recover Everything Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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Speaker 1: When my wife and I moved to Fort Worth, we
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Speaker 1: moved to a place where I have access to a
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Speaker 1: really nice back porch where I go and chill out
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Speaker 1: and get my head together. And there was a family
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Speaker 1: of hawks when we came there. And now it's a
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Speaker 1: multitude of hawks. They've been being fruitful over the years.
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Speaker 1: They have not moved. They are everywhere. I was talking
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Speaker 1: to my sister on the phone. last night and I
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Speaker 1: said do you hear that noise and she said what
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Speaker 1: is that I said those are the hawks flying through
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Speaker 1: the trees launching in the branches and it occurs to
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Speaker 1: me there's a couple of things I want you to
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Speaker 1: understand about the way hawks operate very much like eagles
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Speaker 1: they can fly very high as high as 15,000 feet
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Speaker 1: in the air they can soar They can soar and
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Speaker 1: look down with keen eyes, so keen that they can
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Speaker 1: see a rodent in the field at 15,000 feet and
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Speaker 1: then dive down and attack that rodent. They also rest
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Speaker 1: on branches. They rest on branches. The only thing about
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Speaker 1: resting on branches is is that occasionally branches break. And
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Speaker 1: when you watch a branch break that any bird is
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Speaker 1: sitting on, the bird never screams, never shouts, never seems frustrated.
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Speaker 1: In spite of the fact what it was standing on
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Speaker 1: is broken. And occasionally in your life, things will break.
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Speaker 1: The reason that the Hulk doesn't get upset when he
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Speaker 1: finds himself in a critical situation is because he knows
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Speaker 1: he can trust his wings. Let's take a moment and pray. Father,
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Speaker 1: right now, in the name of Jesus, I know you're
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Speaker 1: able to do anything but fail. You're the God of
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Speaker 1: all flesh. There's nothing too hard for you. You're the
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Speaker 1: master physician. You're the healer of all diseases. I pray
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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, whatever is attacking right now,
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Speaker 1: this brother, that the healing power of the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: would step in and intervene. Thank you for our medical
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Speaker 1: professionals that are handling this and anoint them with insight
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Speaker 1: to give victory. In Jesus' name we pray. Somebody shout amen.
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Speaker 1: So what I'm saying, branches break and you need to
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Speaker 1: understand that before you get back home and you're all
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Speaker 1: lit up with the glory of God and you're all
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Speaker 1: surrendered and you've surrendered everything over to God. But that
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Speaker 1: does not mean that your family has surrendered, that your
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Speaker 1: environment has surrendered, that your husband has surrendered, that your
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Speaker 1: Co-workers have surrendered. That doesn't mean that you don't have
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Speaker 1: to pay taxes. That doesn't mean that your bills aren't due.
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Speaker 1: I don't want you to have the expectation just because
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Speaker 1: God has revitalized you and set you on a new
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Speaker 1: trajectory that life won't keep on lifing because branches break.
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Speaker 1: That's why we have to begin to understand this from
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Speaker 1: the perspective of things will change in your life at
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Speaker 1: such a rapid pace that you can't keep up with it.
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Speaker 1: You can't always tell your friends from your enemies. Just
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Speaker 1: because somebody says something that you don't like doesn't necessarily
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Speaker 1: make them an enemy. But in a moment of pain
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Speaker 1: and grief, somebody needs to attack you or attack somebody
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Speaker 1: or blame somebody. We can't be so sensitive that we're
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Speaker 1: not successful. Because if you're not careful, you become so sensitive.
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Speaker 1: that you won't be successful at what God called you
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Speaker 1: to do because you'll stop to argue with somebody and
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Speaker 1: straighten out somebody and fix somebody and think that is
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Speaker 1: the victory when the enemy is just distracting you from
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Speaker 1: your assignment. And the enemy wouldn't be distracting you if
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Speaker 1: you didn't have an assignment. And one of the great
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Speaker 1: things I've learned about life is to learn to distinguish
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Speaker 1: the distraction From the assignment. Because many are the times
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Speaker 1: that you will land on a branch and the branch breaks.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't remember your wings, you will fall.
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Speaker 1: The gravitational pull is never up, it's never down. upward
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Speaker 1: it's always downward so we are always fighting against a
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Speaker 1: gravitational pull that wants you to fall and you have
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Speaker 1: to remember your wings and that God covers you with
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Speaker 1: wings and that the angels of the Lord encamp about
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Speaker 1: them that fear him and that in the presence of
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Speaker 1: God there is fullness of joy and that in the
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Speaker 1: presence of God you've got power that sometimes when the
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Speaker 1: branch breaks you forget your wings You're so busy looking
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Speaker 1: at the breaking of the branch and the pain that
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Speaker 1: it caused and the fear that it brought that you
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Speaker 1: don't recognize that you've got wings. Look at your neighbor
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Speaker 1: and say, I got wings. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want
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Speaker 1: you to love me. I want you to support me.
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Speaker 1: I want you to be with me. But if you don't.
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Speaker 1: I want you to be my prayer partner. I want
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Speaker 1: you to be my secret keeper. I want you to
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Speaker 1: be my sister, my sister soldier, my brother soldier. But
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Speaker 1: if you don't, I want to keep my job. I
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Speaker 1: want to keep my house. I want to keep going forward.
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Speaker 1: I've got plans. I've got ideas. I've got things that
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Speaker 1: I hope to accomplish in my life. But if everything
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Speaker 1: doesn't come together exactly the way I want it to
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Speaker 1: come together, I've got to always remember this. I got wings.
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Speaker 1: Look at somebody say, I got wings. There is a
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Speaker 1: moment in David's life that David has seen a series
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Speaker 1: of breaking branches. In fact, David's whole life is full
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Speaker 1: of branches that break. He is born into a family
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Speaker 1: that really didn't, it wasn't a good fit. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: a good match. They weren't really excited about it. Some
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Speaker 1: theologians and scholars think that his father did not really
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Speaker 1: pick him out or point him out or appreciate him
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Speaker 1: because he suspected that David wasn't his I believe he
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Speaker 1: was but he suspected that David wasn't his that's why
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Speaker 1: David said I was born in sin and in iniquity
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Speaker 1: did God for me he was a reject whether that's
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Speaker 1: right or wrong he was a reject in the family
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Speaker 1: he was ostracized in the family he was more comfortable
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Speaker 1: with sheep than family Sometimes what you do is what
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Speaker 1: was pushed on you because of what you're trying to avoid.
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Speaker 1: Anybody understand what I just said? And so he goes
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Speaker 1: through that and he goes through this and he goes
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Speaker 1: through the other. And yet God has a plan for
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Speaker 1: his life. And it's far beyond what it looks like
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Speaker 1: right now because in this season, he's taking care of sheep.
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Speaker 1: But in the next season, he's going to be a
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Speaker 1: great leader. But you go on to become a leader.
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Speaker 1: This doesn't happen as quick as television. Life is not
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Speaker 1: a television show. Life is not Tik Tok. Life is
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Speaker 1: not Instagram. Life is not X. It doesn't happen that fast.
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Speaker 1: It takes time. It takes life. It takes suffering. It
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Speaker 1: takes enduring hardness. It takes branches breaking for you to
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Speaker 1: really understand not only that you've got wings, but to
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Speaker 1: trust your wings. It's one thing to have it, and
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Speaker 1: it's another thing to trust your wings. Now this is
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Speaker 1: not just a sermon, it's a prophetic word to somebody.
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Speaker 1: So I want you to be listening, not to the
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Speaker 1: continuity of the address, but to the specificity of the
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Speaker 1: rhema that God is saying to you because you're getting
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Speaker 1: ready to face some things that when you face them,
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Speaker 1: you got to be able to trust your wings. And
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Speaker 1: David is sent on a menial task down there to
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Speaker 1: bring some lunch to his brothers who are more mature
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Speaker 1: and who are in the army. And David is just
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Speaker 1: an errand boy until he sees Goliath. Goliath introduces David
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Speaker 1: to the world. Goliath is a great thing. He's not
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Speaker 1: a bad thing. I know he's ominous. I know he's foreboding.
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Speaker 1: I know he's intimidating. But the massiveness of the challenge
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Speaker 1: before him is how David got discovered. When God gets
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Speaker 1: ready to really introduce you to the world, he will
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Speaker 1: often use a giant problem in your life to bring
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Speaker 1: you to the stage that you need to be in. Amen. Amen.
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Speaker 1: on talk to me somebody and so God uses Goliath
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Speaker 1: to create a platform for David to stand on and
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Speaker 1: David is discovered in a fight So if you run
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Speaker 1: from every battle, if you hide from every breaking branch,
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Speaker 1: if you're scared to land on something because you're so intimidated,
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Speaker 1: you may miss the very usher that's going to usher
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Speaker 1: you into the next stage of your life, avoiding broken branches.
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Speaker 1: Goliath was used and now he's fighting Goliath who is
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Speaker 1: a Philistine for the king of Israel. And all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden the king discovers him in the fight. Hear
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Speaker 1: me right now. There is a fight that you have
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Speaker 1: been in that God ordered. And even though you prayed,
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Speaker 1: he didn't move it. Even though you spoke in tongues,
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Speaker 1: he didn't move it. Even though you anointed yourself with oil,
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Speaker 1: he didn't move it. There's a fight that's been going
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Speaker 1: on in your life. If God doesn't move the fight,
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Speaker 1: then that means God is going to use the fight
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Speaker 1: to become a platform for you to discover what you
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Speaker 1: can do, what you can endure, what you can stand,
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Speaker 1: and what's next in your life. I don't know who
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to. But I'm going to unravel some things
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Speaker 1: this morning. I'm going to share some things this morning
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Speaker 1: that are going to revolutionize your life. And all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden King Saul locks him and invites him into
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Speaker 1: the palace. And David has to make the transition from
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Speaker 1: being a shepherd boy where what you smelt like didn't matter.
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Speaker 1: And what you wore didn't matter. And what you look
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Speaker 1: like didn't matter. And all of a sudden he is
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Speaker 1: catapulted into the palace where there is protocol. Where there
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Speaker 1: is order. Where there is structure, where there is ambiance,
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Speaker 1: where there is rules. And David has nothing in his
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Speaker 1: background that has prepared him for the platform that he's
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Speaker 1: about to stand on. But David is fluid enough. That
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Speaker 1: he's able to adapt to different situations rapidly. And God
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Speaker 1: uses Jonathan. God will send somebody that loves you enough
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Speaker 1: to school you to get you ready for what he's
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Speaker 1: about to do in your life. After you've discovered your Goliath,
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Speaker 1: you've got to find your Jonathan. When you find your Jonathan...
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Speaker 1: They will dress you. They will change places with you.
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Speaker 1: I wish I had time to really get down into
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Speaker 1: David and Jonathan because in David and Jonathan, I see substitution.
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Speaker 1: I see Jesus trading places with us. I see him
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Speaker 1: giving us his righteousness and us giving him our sins
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Speaker 1: and the prince in the house. Dressed David as a prince,
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Speaker 1: gave him something he didn't work for, he didn't earn,
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Speaker 1: he didn't have a background for. But through relationship, there
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Speaker 1: was a conveyance, a conductor, a conductor belt that brought
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Speaker 1: him into a power that he never would have had
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Speaker 1: had he not been in that relationship. So protect your
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Speaker 1: relationships because God often will dress you through the relationships
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Speaker 1: that you have if you protect them. And it happened. Boom,
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Speaker 1: it happened. And David is there. And David is in
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Speaker 1: the palace. And David is in the palace. And he
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Speaker 1: kills 1,000, I think it was 1,000 or 300 Philistines
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Speaker 1: and brings their foreskins and throws them down at the
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Speaker 1: king's feet. But then David was so good at what
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Speaker 1: he did that it created jealousy. Saul was good with
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Speaker 1: David as long as they were singing about Saul. But
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Speaker 1: when they changed their song and started singing, Saul has
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Speaker 1: killed his thousands, but David has killed his tens of thousands.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the branch broke. See, some people
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Speaker 1: only like you in one dimension of your life. But
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Speaker 1: when God finally brings you into the next dimension of
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Speaker 1: your life, don't be surprised because everybody can't handle role reversal.
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Speaker 1: I said everybody can't handle role reversal. The first should
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Speaker 1: be last, the last should be first. We shout about it,
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Speaker 1: but when it happens, everybody can't handle that. And so
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Speaker 1: David ends up having to leave the palace. Yes. And
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Speaker 1: he ends up running from the very person he was
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Speaker 1: fighting for. And the reason David is running from Saul,
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Speaker 1: who is now trying to kill him and throwing javelins
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Speaker 1: at him. See, you're under attack because the enemy only
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Speaker 1: tries to take you out because of your destiny. And
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Speaker 1: he's trying to stop you before you get there. And
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Speaker 1: you don't understand why it's happening. Because sometimes he sees
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Speaker 1: things that you don't see. And you don't understand why
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Speaker 1: he's throwing javelins at you. Why would the king throw
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Speaker 1: a javelin at a boy? But God knew what David
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Speaker 1: was going to be. And Saul knew what David was
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Speaker 1: going to be. And it got on his nerves. Many
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Speaker 1: are the afflictions of the righteous. But the Lord, the
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Speaker 1: Lord delivers them out of them all. And all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden David finds himself in a situation of transition.
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Speaker 1: And when we come to settle on the text, David
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Speaker 1: is now, has gone through a period of hiding amongst
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Speaker 1: the people he was fighting. Look at how fluid he is.
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Speaker 1: He is now hiding amongst the Philistines from the people
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Speaker 1: he was fighting for. And sometimes when you shut doors,
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Speaker 1: you shut doors prematurely because you don't understand how the
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Speaker 1: branch will break and the situation will change and you'll
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Speaker 1: find yourself on the opposite side. And David has had
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Speaker 1: to hide amongst the Philistines, feigning himself to be mad,
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Speaker 1: finally ending up with 600 men and their families in Ziglag.
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Speaker 1: And he is in zig lag because he is too
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Speaker 1: much an Israelite to fit in with the Philistines. But
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Speaker 1: he's been with the Philistines so long that he can't
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Speaker 1: go back to the Israelites. And sometimes you have to
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Speaker 1: create your own camp. Come on, somebody, because you don't,
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to the misfit people. All you fit people
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Speaker 1: don't get it. But to the misfit people, I want
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Speaker 1: to talk to the people that you're not quite this
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Speaker 1: and you're not quite that and you're not quite here
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Speaker 1: and you're not quite there and you can't really explain
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Speaker 1: where you're at. Sometimes you got to create your own camp.
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Speaker 1: And David is in zigzag with 600 men fighting for
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Speaker 1: them and their families and their children. and their goats
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Speaker 1: and their cattle and their oxen, and they have just
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Speaker 1: come back from a mission. And when you come back
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Speaker 1: from a mission, sometimes you come back weary and tired.
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Speaker 1: Have you noticed that we have been in a series
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Speaker 1: of battles? Maybe it's just me, it's not you. How
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Speaker 1: many people, as soon as you get out of one thing,
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Speaker 1: here comes something else? And as soon as you survive this,
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Speaker 1: now you got that. You finally got the house paid off,
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Speaker 1: now your body's acting crazy. You finally got your head
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Speaker 1: on straight, got your therapy together, but your credit is
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Speaker 1: jacked up. How many people have gone from battle to
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Speaker 1: battle to battle to battle to battle? And I don't
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Speaker 1: care how strong you are, and I don't care how
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Speaker 1: anointed you are, and I don't care how gifted you are,
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Speaker 1: and I don't care how talented you are, when you
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Speaker 1: come back from a battle you are tired and it's
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Speaker 1: called battle fatigue Some of you have not been diagnosed yet.
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Speaker 1: You are numb because you have been in so many
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Speaker 1: battles that you have battle fatigue and you're trying to
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Speaker 1: find a place to just to perch on. Will you
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Speaker 1: watch with me for a few hours? Will you stand
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Speaker 1: with me? Will you be there with me? And there
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Speaker 1: he coming home from battle with 600 men and he's
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Speaker 1: coming to a place And there should be dancing. There
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Speaker 1: should be singing. There should be rejoicing. There should be somebody.
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Speaker 1: The women normally would run out to meet you and
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Speaker 1: they didn't. There is no sound of the laughter of
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Speaker 1: the children. There is no smell of the baking of bread.
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Speaker 1: He comes home. Instead of smelling bread, he smells smoke.
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Speaker 1: He smells smoke. Somebody in here smells smoke. And the
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Speaker 1: smoke is the first indication that something is wrong. And
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Speaker 1: when he gets back, gets back to the camp having
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Speaker 1: survived being in Israel having survived being with the Philistines
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Speaker 1: when he gets back to the camp he runs into
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Speaker 1: the fact that while they were gone the Amalekites have
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Speaker 1: come in and have abducted all the women and the
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Speaker 1: children and burned the camp and they're devastated And sometimes
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Speaker 1: you just got to admit, I'm devastated. I know you've
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Speaker 1: been taught positive confession and just name it and just
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Speaker 1: claim it and just... Just quote the word. But sometimes
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Speaker 1: you got to open up your mouth and say, I'm
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Speaker 1: sick of this. I'm sick of this. I'm sick of this.
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Speaker 1: Because until you get that pain out, you can't get
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Speaker 1: that direction in. You got to open your mouth and holler.
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Speaker 1: That's why I hope you all don't get rid of
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Speaker 1: all the old school stuff because there was something that
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Speaker 1: the old church mothers knew. They didn't speak Greek. They
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Speaker 1: didn't speak Hebrew. They didn't understand Swahili. But when the
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Speaker 1: old church was, oh, oh, there was something that they
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Speaker 1: released that broke out of their spirit that opened them
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Speaker 1: up to what God was about to do next in
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Speaker 1: their life. If you understand what I'm talking about, let
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Speaker 1: me hear you shout unto God. You cannot deny this hurt.
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Speaker 1: This hurt. This hurt. This is painful. The branch broke.
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Speaker 1: The branch broke and I don't know what to do.
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Speaker 1: And then he finds himself in a yet more perplexing situation.
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Speaker 1: I need to teach this for a minute. He finds
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Speaker 1: himself In the perplexing situation. That the people. That he
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Speaker 1: could count on. Have stopped weeping with him. And decided.
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Speaker 1: We're going to blame you. And they turn on him.
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Speaker 1: Abraham is gone. Abigail is gone. And now. His own soldiers.
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Speaker 1: Have turned on him. And the Bible says. That David.
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Speaker 1: encourage himself in the Lord. And we often preach this
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff, but we don't tell people how to
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Speaker 1: encourage yourself in the Lord because we're so used to
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Speaker 1: needing the whole 600 behind us in order to get
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Speaker 1: encouragement that when that branch breaks or that relationship changes
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Speaker 1: or that voice ceases to be in your ear, you
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Speaker 1: don't know that you've got the power inside of yourself
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Speaker 1: to encourage yourself. I know it looks stupid, but sometimes
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Speaker 1: you got to lay hands on your own head. You
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Speaker 1: got to speak to yourself. You got to encourage yourself.
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Speaker 1: You got to ignore all the ugly stuff and look
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Speaker 1: for something that's lovely and look for something that's true
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Speaker 1: and look for something that's real and decide what you're
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Speaker 1: going to worry about and what you're not going to
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Speaker 1: worry about and make it up in your mind. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to trust my wings even if the branch breaks.
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Speaker 1: Somebody said, trust your wings, baby. Trust your wings. Trust
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Speaker 1: your wings. You're in a season where you got to
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Speaker 1: trust your wings. You got to trust your wings. You
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Speaker 1: got to trust that what God gave you is enough
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Speaker 1: to handle whatever life throws at you. You got to
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Speaker 1: trust that he that has began a good work in
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Speaker 1: you shall perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: You got to trust that God is not just alpha,
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Speaker 1: but omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
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Speaker 1: the last. You got to trust that God is with
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Speaker 1: you always. If the branch breaks, he's with you. If
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Speaker 1: the credit breaks, he's with you. If the marriage fails,
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Speaker 1: he's with you. If your body gets sick, he's with you.
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Speaker 1: If you're backed in a corner, he's with you. If
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Speaker 1: the storm is raging, he's with you. If life is
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Speaker 1: going crazy, he's with you. If your body's wracked with pain,
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Speaker 1: he's still with you. If you're backed up, he's with you.
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Speaker 1: and had to start over, he's with you. If you
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Speaker 1: make your bed in hell, he's with you. If you
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Speaker 1: take the wings of the morning and ascend to the
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Speaker 1: uttermost parts of the earth, he's still with you. The
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Speaker 1: reason you got the kind of power you got is
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Speaker 1: not just because you read your Bible, but your Bible
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Speaker 1: read you. And what you read... What you read in
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Speaker 1: the Bible is going to be walked out in your
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Speaker 1: life and you don't get to choose how it's walked
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Speaker 1: out in your life. It just happens the way it
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Speaker 1: happens and branches break. And David was left to encourage himself.
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Speaker 1: And this is what fascinates me because sometimes I look
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Speaker 1: past what fascinates other people because other people are fascinated
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Speaker 1: by the fact that David encouraged himself. But I am
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Speaker 1: fascinated with how David handles conflict. See, all conflict is
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Speaker 1: not bad. It seems like we're extremists. If you go
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Speaker 1: on social media, you just see all kinds of conflict.
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Speaker 1: Things that people would never say to you, to your face,
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Speaker 1: they will whip out and lash out. And you get
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Speaker 1: wounded by somebody that's sleeping up under a bridge. And
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Speaker 1: you end up losing your house fighting with somebody else.
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Speaker 1: Because everybody looks important when you make your own page.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen anybody yet make a page and post
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Speaker 1: the worst part of themselves on the page. They all
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Speaker 1: look important. They all look like journalists. They all look like...
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Speaker 1: And they talk like they know you even though they
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Speaker 1: never met you. And if you're not careful, you'll mishandle conflict.
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Speaker 1: In the workplace, You do not want to be surrounded
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Speaker 1: by people who just say yes. You need some people
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Speaker 1: in your life that will challenge your ideas and reshape
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Speaker 1: your thinking. All conflict is not bad, but we're living
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Speaker 1: in a conflict drought. Either we're extremely full of conflict
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Speaker 1: to the degree that we don't have constructive conflict. We
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Speaker 1: just have a life avoiding destructive conflict. Or we have
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Speaker 1: people who just say yes to everything and we're not
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Speaker 1: growing because we have not created an atmosphere that allows
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Speaker 1: our ideas to be challenged because we are only comfortable
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Speaker 1: when we are in control. As long as you are
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Speaker 1: in total control, you are completely comfortable. But when you
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Speaker 1: find yourself in a situation that you have to be
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Speaker 1: inclusive of people who think differently than you and your
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Speaker 1: ideas are challenged, you have to be comfortable with that.
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Speaker 1: Here lies the challenge of great leadership is to become
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Speaker 1: comfortable with other smart people in the room. You... See,
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Speaker 1: when you build your own camp, you're the only smart
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Speaker 1: person in the room. But when you get ready to
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Speaker 1: take dominion over what God has for you, you have
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Speaker 1: to be able to deal with you're in the room
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Speaker 1: with other smart people in the room. And so it
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Speaker 1: doesn't have the ring that it used to have because
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Speaker 1: now you're outside the camp. Somebody say, now you got
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Speaker 1: to get out the camp. You got to get out
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Speaker 1: of your camp to get the victory. You can't stay
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Speaker 1: in your circle. You can't stay in your clique. You
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Speaker 1: can't stay around people who always salute you and celebrate you.
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Speaker 1: Now you got to deal with other people and how
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Speaker 1: you handle conflict determines whether you will become king or not.
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Speaker 1: This was a tremendous moment in David's life only because
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Speaker 1: of how he dealt with conflict. All conflict is not bad.
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Speaker 1: I want to deal with the fact that we are
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Speaker 1: in a drought of conflict. And the reason I say
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Speaker 1: we're in a drought of conflict, in spite of all
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Speaker 1: the stuff you see going on in the world, going
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Speaker 1: on on social media, you can choose the news you want.
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Speaker 1: And it gives you a false sense of what is
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Speaker 1: going on in the world, because you always stay in
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Speaker 1: your own camp. And you're not willing to have your
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Speaker 1: ideas challenged because when somebody challenges your ideas, you feel
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Speaker 1: like they're challenging you. Because you have not been separated
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Speaker 1: from your ideas. And that's why your ideas don't grow.
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Speaker 1: Because ideas grow in conflict. Ideas grow in conflict. That's
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Speaker 1: why you've been in the same place for 10 years.
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Speaker 1: Because you have a conflict avoidance that was probably pre-wired
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Speaker 1: in you either by your history or your DNA that
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Speaker 1: you think your job is to just keep the peace.
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Speaker 1: We like to talk about Jesus being the prince of peace.
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Speaker 1: But when Jesus talks about it, he said, I came
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Speaker 1: not to bring peace, but a sword. I came to
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Speaker 1: stir things up. I don't mind a little conflict. I
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Speaker 1: came to set it off in here. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: do some radical stuff. I'm going to get on everybody's nerves.
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Speaker 1: My church isn't going to like it. My synagogue isn't
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Speaker 1: going to like it. The priest aren't going to like it.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's going to be, but I'm willing to set it off.
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Speaker 1: To reach my destiny, I've got to be willing to
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Speaker 1: disrupt some things. But we have a conflict avoidance. So
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Speaker 1: we go along. I'm going to ask you for something.
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Speaker 1: Where am I going along to get along, people? You
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Speaker 1: just see all kinds of stuff, but you don't say
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Speaker 1: nothing because you don't want to be the one that
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Speaker 1: makes no waves because you're comfortable and without conflict, you're
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Speaker 1: not going to hold your hand up. I get it.
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Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. Yeah. You were the
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Speaker 1: kid in the family that brought everybody together, and you
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Speaker 1: spent your whole life explaining your mother to your father
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Speaker 1: and your father to your mother, and you spent all
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Speaker 1: your life explaining your big brother to your little brother,
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Speaker 1: and you're just running from fire to fire, trying to
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Speaker 1: put everything out and now your idea of heaven is quiet.
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Speaker 1: And anything that draws attention to you and puts you
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Speaker 1: at risk of conflict, you dodge. But David deals with
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Speaker 1: the conflict head on. He just confronts it. And in
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Speaker 1: the process of creating an environment where people feel safe
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Speaker 1: enough to challenge your ideas without losing your relationship, that's
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Speaker 1: how relationships last for years. Relationships don't last for years
32:44
Speaker 1: because you're always right. Relationships last for years because you
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Speaker 1: know how To accommodate somebody else's ideas. Oh, I knew
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Speaker 1: you wasn't going to shout about that. I knew you
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Speaker 1: wasn't going to shout about that. Businesses explode when you
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Speaker 1: surround yourself with bright people. But bright people don't always agree.
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Speaker 1: If you watch or listen to podcasts, they don't always agree.
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Speaker 1: So one of them is telling you not to eat meat.
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Speaker 1: The other one is telling you you got a protein deficiency.
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Speaker 1: One of them is telling you don't drink water. One
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Speaker 1: of them is telling you that coffee is good for you.
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Speaker 1: One of them is telling you a glass of wine
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Speaker 1: is good for your blood vessels. The other one says
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Speaker 1: any alcohol consumption is going to tear down your brain.
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Speaker 1: And you're just going from person to person. And so
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Speaker 1: rather than to be in conflict, you just step away
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Speaker 1: and say I'm not going to do anything. But how
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Speaker 1: long can you do that? David has conflict because his soldiers,
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Speaker 1: his troops, his boys, his camp is in flame and
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Speaker 1: his troops are wanting to stone him. He's now had
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Speaker 1: to encourage himself first in the Lord. And once he
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Speaker 1: encourages himself, he goes to Abiathar to ask him, get
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Speaker 1: Thummim and Urim, which were in the high priest's vests.
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Speaker 1: And whenever there was a decision to be made, these
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Speaker 1: prophetic stones were what was used. That's why he said,
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Speaker 1: bring me the ephod so that I can find out,
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Speaker 1: is God for me? Is God with me? Because I
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Speaker 1: don't mind the branch breaking as long as I still
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Speaker 1: got my wings. But if I lose my wings, I'll
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Speaker 1: lose my mind. If I lose my wings, I'll lose
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Speaker 1: my peace. If I lose my wings, I can't make
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Speaker 1: a great decision. Oh, God. That's why David said, take
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Speaker 1: whatever you want to take from me. But whatever you do,
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Speaker 1: don't take your spirit away from me because I need
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Speaker 1: your spirit. Without your spirit, I'm a fool. Without your spirit,
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Speaker 1: I'm a hothead. Without your spirit, I'll be antagonistic. Without
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Speaker 1: your spirit, I'll fail you in a minute. I need
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Speaker 1: your spirit. I'm not just raising my hands. to make
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Speaker 1: woman evolve look good. I'm chasing the Holy Ghost. I
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Speaker 1: need a fresh touch of God's spirit in my life.
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Speaker 1: Somebody take about 15 seconds and give God crazy praise.
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Speaker 1: I'm chasing him down. I need your spirit because I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be in a battle that I brought
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Speaker 1: on myself. I don't want to be in a battle
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Speaker 1: that you don't intend for me to be in. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to waste time arguing with Sanballat and Tobiah
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Speaker 1: while the walls of Jerusalem lay in ruin. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to mistake what victory looks like in my life.
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Speaker 1: Victory don't look like you. It don't look like you.
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Speaker 1: It don't look like you. It don't look like you.
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Speaker 1: It don't look like you. So I do imitate battle.
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Speaker 1: I'm through pretending to be somebody else. I need to
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Speaker 1: find out what victory looks like on me. It's got
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Speaker 1: to be tailored to fit me. It's got to be
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Speaker 1: tailored to fit my gifts. It's got to be tailored
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Speaker 1: to fit my anointing. And if I have to lay
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Speaker 1: on my face. the altar and call on God if
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Speaker 1: I have to kick my legs if I have to
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Speaker 1: shake my hand if I have to spin around in
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Speaker 1: a circle if I have to jump up in the
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Speaker 1: service and folks can't see the preacher I've got to
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Speaker 1: get what victory looks like for me I came too
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Speaker 1: far I went through too much I had too many
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Speaker 1: dark days to
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Speaker 1: I can trust
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Speaker 1: my wings. I can trust my wings. I can trust
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Speaker 1: my wings. I can trust my wings. I can trust
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Speaker 1: my wings. I can trust my wings. I can trust
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Speaker 1: my wings. See, God is getting ready to do something
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Speaker 1: so mighty in your life that you need this word.
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Speaker 1: And touch people and say, trust your wings. Trust your wings.
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Speaker 1: Trust your wings. Trust your wings. Trust your wings when
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Speaker 1: branches break. Trust your wings when trials come. Trust your
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Speaker 1: wings when you're in a storm. Trust your wings. Trust
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Speaker 1: your wings. Trust your wings. When you can't tell light
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Speaker 1: from pain, when you can't tell friend from foe, trust
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Speaker 1: your wings. When you can't tell whether it's spring or winter,
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Speaker 1: trust your wings. The whole city cares against you. Your
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Speaker 1: heart can't fear if you just trust your wings. I
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Speaker 1: don't know who I'm preaching to, but I feel like
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Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody. You might be screaming online. You
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Speaker 1: might be in the overflow. But God is going to
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Speaker 1: overflow in the overflow until the anointing falls where you are.
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Speaker 1: Because when God gets you out of this place, he's
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Speaker 1: getting ready to take you into a brand new dimension,
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Speaker 1: into a brand new stage, into a brand new place
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Speaker 1: in God. And if you can't trust your friends... Trust
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Speaker 1: your wings. If you can't trust your family, trust your wings.
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Speaker 1: If you can't trust your faculty, trust your wings. If
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Speaker 1: you can't trust your board, trust your wings. I need
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Speaker 1: 30 seconds.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
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Speaker 1: That's a child of destiny that's shouting. That's a child
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Speaker 1: of destiny that got their hands in the air. Because
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Speaker 1: God is talking to you. He's feeding something that he's
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Speaker 1: about to do in your life. There's a breakthrough that's
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Speaker 1: about to come in your life. Glory to God. Glory
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Speaker 1: to God. Bear witness to it. Bear witness to it.
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Speaker 1: Slap three people and tell them something's about to happen
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Speaker 1: in my life. Something's about to happen in my life.
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Speaker 1: I gotta get this word. I gotta get it in
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Speaker 1: my spirit. I gotta get it in my heart. I
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Speaker 1: gotta get it in my belly. I gotta get it
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Speaker 1: in my system. I gotta get it in my practice.
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Speaker 1: I got to get it in my habit. I can't
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Speaker 1: be distracted. I can't look to the left or the right.
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Speaker 1: I don't care what season I'm in. I've got to
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Speaker 1: trust my wings. I can't hear you make some noise
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Speaker 1: in this place. Paul says it this way. He said,
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Speaker 1: I've learned how to abase and to abound. I know
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Speaker 1: how to experience abundance and I know how to survive lack.
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Speaker 1: I know how to abase, I know how to abound.
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Speaker 1: Everywhere and in all things I'm instructed. I am instructed
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Speaker 1: both to be full and I am instructed to be hungry.
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Speaker 1: I am instructed both to abound and I am instructed
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Speaker 1: to suffer need. Because God doesn't want me to think
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Speaker 1: that the branch is my sustenance. My power is not
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Speaker 1: in my branch. It's in my wings. And so God
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Speaker 1: keeps bouncing me from situation to situation to situation to
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Speaker 1: situation so I can see, do they work in this situation?
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Speaker 1: Does it work in this situation? Does it work in
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Speaker 1: that situation? Glory to God. The only thing that remains
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Speaker 1: stable is God. And he goes on to say, give
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Speaker 1: me the next verse. He goes on to say, I
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Speaker 1: can do all things. through Christ, which strengthens me. I
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Speaker 1: know how to deal with anything and any situation because
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Speaker 1: as long as I got my wings, I can survive anything.
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Speaker 1: Trust your wings. I am instructed to abase and abound.
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Speaker 1: I am instructed to be full and I am instructed
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Speaker 1: to be hungry. I am instructed to fight the Philistines
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Speaker 1: or hide amongst the Philistines. I am instructed how to
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Speaker 1: win the battle and I am instructed how to lose
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Speaker 1: a battle. I have learned whatever state I'm in therewith
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Speaker 1: to be content how can I be content and hungry
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Speaker 1: I can tell you how I can do it I
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Speaker 1: have meat to eat that you know not of while
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Speaker 1: my outward man is perishing my inward man is being
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Speaker 1: renewed in other words don't count me out I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to tell you you got wings. I'm trying to tell
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Speaker 1: you you are enough. I'm trying to tell you if
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Speaker 1: you encourage yourself and if you start seeking God, that
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Speaker 1: God will get you ready for what he's about to
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Speaker 1: do in your life. But I haven't hit my point yet.
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Speaker 1: Here's my point. Once he found out that God said,
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Speaker 1: If you pursue the Amalekites, not only will you overtake them,
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Speaker 1: you will recover all. Y'all been here. Not most of it,
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Speaker 1: not half of it, not all of it. In the balcony,
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Speaker 1: did you hear what I said? All of it. Everything
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Speaker 1: you lost, everything you cried about, everything you wept about,
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Speaker 1: everything you've been in a season of depression about, God said,
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Speaker 1: if you listen to what I'm saying, you're going to
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Speaker 1: get it all back. I don't know who this word
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Speaker 1: is for, but you could not leave Dallas till you
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Speaker 1: get this word. You're going to get it all back.
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Speaker 1: For every night you cried, for every night you suffered,
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Speaker 1: for every moment you did without, you're going to get
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Speaker 1: it all back. So this is what drew me to
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Speaker 1: this text yet again, is that when he gets instructions
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Speaker 1: from the Lord, he then takes his 600 men to
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Speaker 1: go to pursue the Amalekites. You remember that God said
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Speaker 1: he hated Amalek. God hated Amalek because the Amalekites had
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Speaker 1: a system of warfare that they made prey out of
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Speaker 1: the weak. So they waited till all the men were
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Speaker 1: gone and abducted all the women and children. That was
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Speaker 1: their style. They were known for that. God said, I
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Speaker 1: hate Amalek. Now David is about to pursue the Amalekites.
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Speaker 1: But that's not what got me. What got me is
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Speaker 1: he took the 600 men with him who... were about
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Speaker 1: to stone him. In other words, he didn't get in
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Speaker 1: his feelings. at the expense of the word God gave him.
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Speaker 1: You may have to release somebody that hurt you in
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Speaker 1: one chapter. God may turn around and use them again
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Speaker 1: in another. The Bible said that God will make your
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Speaker 1: enemies your footstools. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. And
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Speaker 1: so sometimes you get rid of people prematurely because God
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Speaker 1: wants to use them to take you to the next level.
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Speaker 1: But you got to get over your grief and your
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Speaker 1: anger and your hostility because just because you're through with
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Speaker 1: them doesn't mean God is through with them. Somebody jump
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Speaker 1: up and holler, God is not through with me. He's
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Speaker 1: not through with me. He's not through with me. He's
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Speaker 1: not through with me. And then I thought, what is
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Speaker 1: it about this David using these 600 men? So I
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Speaker 1: began to investigate. He had trained them. He had prepared them.
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Speaker 1: He had influenced them. He had affected them. And when
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Speaker 1: push comes to shove, David always uses proven weapons. You
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Speaker 1: remember when he was about to fight Goliath and Saul
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Speaker 1: offered him his armor? And Saul's armor was bright and
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Speaker 1: it was shiny and it was sharp and it was
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Speaker 1: strong and it looked good. But when he got ready
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Speaker 1: to fight, he said, I know my slingshot is raggedy.
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Speaker 1: I know it doesn't look like much, but I have
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Speaker 1: proven it. I used it against the lion. I used
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Speaker 1: it against the bear. Don't go to battle with stuff
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Speaker 1: that's not proven. If you have to make up, if
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Speaker 1: you have to cry up, if you have to come up,
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Speaker 1: whatever you got to do, God says, I'm going to use.
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Speaker 1: And I admit, it would have been tough for me.
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Speaker 1: It would have been tough for me. to go into
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Speaker 1: battle with somebody who was going to stone me. It
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Speaker 1: would have been tough for me. But when you get
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Speaker 1: a word from God, the word becomes more important than
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Speaker 1: your feelings. And I'm almost where I need to be.
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Speaker 1: But you're about to pursue everything you lost. You're going
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Speaker 1: to reclaim everything the enemy tried to take away from you.
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Speaker 1: You're about to step into a dominion that requires that
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Speaker 1: you go outside of your camp, outside of your arena,
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Speaker 1: outside of your circle, and you can't worry about their disapproval.
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Speaker 1: You got to be willing to step into your destiny
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Speaker 1: and your purpose, and you got to be willing to
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Speaker 1: be comfortable with being uncomfortable. You got to be able
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Speaker 1: to deal with challenging ideas. We got to be able
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Speaker 1: to talk. who am I talking to everything you lost
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Speaker 1: is coming back everything that the enemy stole is coming
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Speaker 1: back everything that they meant for evil God is going
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Speaker 1: to make it good For every night you cried, God
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Speaker 1: is going to restore unto you the joy of your salvation.
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Speaker 1: You got your salvation, but it's coming back with joy.
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Speaker 1: Lift your hands and open your mouth and let the
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Speaker 1: sound of joy break out in this arena. Let it
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Speaker 1: break out in this church. Let it break out in
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Speaker 1: the overflow. Let it break out in your house. You
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Speaker 1: got the power in your mouth. Let it rip right now.
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Speaker 1: Let it rip right now. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And I want
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Speaker 1: you to go into covenant with God. I'ma trust my
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Speaker 1: wings when I can't trust my feelings. I'ma trust my
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Speaker 1: wings when I can't trust my friends. I'ma trust my
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Speaker 1: wings when I can't trust my finances. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: trust my wings. I'm getting ready to fly into another dimension.
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Speaker 1: And everything that was held up, everything that was locked down,
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Speaker 1: everything that was shut off, I'm about to get it back.
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Speaker 1: And I got to be prepared for what God is
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Speaker 1: about to do in my life. Tell your neighbor, say,
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Speaker 1: give me some room. Because I'm getting ready to flap
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Speaker 1: my wings. I'm going to flap my wings when all
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Speaker 1: the hell is breaking loose. I'm going to flap my
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Speaker 1: wings though a host is kept against me. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to flap my wings in the middle of the storm,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the trial, in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the test, in the middle of the tribulation. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to flap my wings. I feel the anointing of the
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Speaker 1: Holy Ghost getting you ready to get in flight. I'm
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Speaker 1: not talking about your plane ticket. I'm talking about your destiny.
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Speaker 1: You get ready to fly into another dimension. Somebody take
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Speaker 1: 30 seconds and just try your wings. You still got it.
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Speaker 1: You still got it. You still got it. You still
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Speaker 1: got it. You still got it. You still got it.
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Speaker 1: The devil is getting nervous. The devil is getting nervous.
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Speaker 1: Witches are upset. Curses are being broken. All for your life.
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Speaker 1: Flap your wings. God's got you covered. God's got your
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Speaker 1: finances covered. He's got your future covered. Everything. God said
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Speaker 1: you're going to recover it all. I need a recover praise.
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Speaker 1: A praise of recovery. A praise of breakthrough. A praise
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Speaker 1: of surrender. A praise of saying yes. Whatever I gotta
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Speaker 1: go through, no matter how much I have to cry,
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Speaker 1: I'll let nothing separate me from the love. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: You come this far on your own ideas, but God's
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Speaker 1: going to give you a place of innovation. And innovation
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Speaker 1: comes out of conflict. And you got to know that
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Speaker 1: we can have conflict and still trust God. that we'll
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Speaker 1: end up at the same spot. We might disagree, but
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Speaker 1: we're going to work till we come up with the
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Speaker 1: best idea, which may be a hybrid of your idea
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Speaker 1: and mine. But when I think of the goodness of
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Speaker 1: Jesus and all that he's done for me, I've got
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Speaker 1: a feeling that everything, every little thing, Every broken thing,
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Speaker 1: every fallen thing, every hurting thing, it's going to be
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Speaker 1: all right. Can I get a good old Holy Ghost
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Speaker 1: praise in this place? Some trust in the horses. Some
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Speaker 1: trust in chariots. But I will remember the name of
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Speaker 1: the Lord. I still got wings. I still got wings.
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Speaker 1: Flap your wings into the devil's face. Right in the
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Speaker 1: enemy's face. Right in the enemy's face. Right in the
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Speaker 1: enemy's face. Right in the enemy's face. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Speaker 1: A thousand may fall at your right side. Ten thousand
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Speaker 1: may fall at your left side. But keep on flappin'.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes they're with you. Sometimes they're against you. But keep
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Speaker 1: on slapping. God said trust your wings. for where you're
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Speaker 1: getting ready to go for what God's getting ready to
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Speaker 1: do see David was not yet king but he was
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Speaker 1: practicing and he was evolving and he was getting ready
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Speaker 1: and he had to be able to lead in conflict
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Speaker 1: Or you can't be king. You can't be king in
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Speaker 1: a quiet room. You can't be king and stay disconnected.
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Speaker 1: You can't be king and not deal with the messy stuff.
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Speaker 1: You can't be king and not be strong enough to
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Speaker 1: accommodate other people's gifts. You can't be king if you
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Speaker 1: gotta be boss. Not and lead a great nation. Because
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna lead a great nation, you gotta surround
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Speaker 1: yourself with great people. And be comfortable in the conflict.
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Speaker 1: How do you become comfortable in the conflict? By creating
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Speaker 1: an environment of trust that says we may disagree But
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Speaker 1: our relationship is stronger than our disagreement. And if it
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Speaker 1: comes down to a choice, I choose to pursue relationship
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Speaker 1: over disagreement. Perhaps you're not right and I'm not either.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps it is the combination of ideas that define us. innovation.
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Speaker 1: There can be no innovation without disruption. And your hiding
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Speaker 1: from the conflict is stopping the innovation. And so the
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Speaker 1: Lord told me to tell you that you got to
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Speaker 1: create atmospheres of trust. You got to create atmospheres where
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Speaker 1: people can approach you or disagree with you or challenge
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Speaker 1: you or say, have you thought about it this way
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Speaker 1: or that way? And you can't keep running away from
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Speaker 1: other people's brilliance. Just so you can be important in
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Speaker 1: your own little camp. And what was amazing to me
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Speaker 1: about the text is David's values were on what had
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Speaker 1: been proven to be true in his life. And he
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Speaker 1: always turned down what looked like the obvious answer To
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Speaker 1: use something that looks substandard because he valued longevity and
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Speaker 1: history over glitz and glitter and glam. Have you been proven?
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Speaker 1: I can forgive your mistakes. Have you been proven? Have
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Speaker 1: you been proven? I can accommodate your ideas if you've
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Speaker 1: been proven. If I'm going into this battle, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going without you. If I'm going into this next dimension,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going.