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T.D. Jakes DON'T Be Afraid of Change; God Is at Work in Your Life Men of Faith on TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to make changes. Don't think that if
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  Speaker 1: you make changes, Ishmael and Hagar are going to die.
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  Speaker 1: I got a well they haven't even seen yet. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to live in this chaos. Your mistakes and
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  Speaker 1: your miracles are cohabitating in the same space. You still
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  Speaker 1: need the courage to change. God is getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: blow your mind. He's getting ready to do something that
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  Speaker 1: you thought it was too late for, that you gave
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  Speaker 1: up on, that you thought was impossible, that you are
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  Speaker 1: so aware of your vulnerabilities that you think it can't
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  Speaker 1: happen to you. God is getting ready to blow your
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  Speaker 1: mind and all of those counterfeit substitute Johnny-come-lately solutions that
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  Speaker 1: you put into place, you ain't gonna need none of
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  Speaker 1: them because through your own body, Through your own gift.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to come through the evangelist you bring
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  Speaker 1: in to preach. It's not going to come in through
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  Speaker 1: the revival. It's not going to come through all the
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  Speaker 1: conferences y'all have and can't get nobody to come to.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to do it. It's going to come
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  Speaker 1: through your own mouth. Stop giving Hagar the job of
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  Speaker 1: having your baby. Nobody can have your baby but you.
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  Speaker 1: God said, out of your body. Oh, somebody come get me, Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel the Holy Ghost. God said, out of your
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  Speaker 1: own body. You're going to push this baby out. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to push it for yourself. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to, but slap anybody you can reach and say, push!
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  Speaker 1: It's coming out of you. It's coming out of your belly.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming out of your spirit. It's coming out of
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  Speaker 1: your bowels. It's coming out of your guts. It's coming
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  Speaker 1: out of your anointing. It's coming out of your power.
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  Speaker 1: If you stop being trifling and push, you ain't going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to have this baby while you're drinking
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  Speaker 1: a milkshake. You're going to have to push. Slap your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor and say push. Wait a minute! We got four
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  Speaker 1: people in this tent. And this is the challenge of growth.
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  Speaker 1: The challenge of growth is when you designed it at
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  Speaker 1: one stage and now you're in another stage And now
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  Speaker 1: you're in a stage that you don't need when you
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  Speaker 1: started in your first stage. But you can't let go
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  Speaker 1: of what you started in your first stage because you're
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  Speaker 1: committed to it. And the challenge is Sarah never thought
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  Speaker 1: that Abraham would become bond to the bond woman. She
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  Speaker 1: never thought they'd be giggling over dinner. She never thought
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  Speaker 1: that they'd be winking at each other. She never understood
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  Speaker 1: soul ties. She never understood that there's no way that
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  Speaker 1: you can keep laying with somebody and not become bond
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  Speaker 1: to them. That you can't hear their dreams and their
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  Speaker 1: hopes and what would you have been had you not
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  Speaker 1: been in Egypt and what would you have been if
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  Speaker 1: you had not been a maid and he listened at
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  Speaker 1: her dreams and he listened at her tears and he
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  Speaker 1: listened at her fears and he was bond. He was
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  Speaker 1: bond to the bond woman. And she didn't see that
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  Speaker 1: in the plan. She only saw that she could have
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  Speaker 1: a baby, but she could not see that she could
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  Speaker 1: have her husband. And now Abraham is bond to the
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  Speaker 1: bond woman. And by the time Sarah realizes that this
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  Speaker 1: tent is a mess, And let me talk to you
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  Speaker 1: a minute. I ain't worried about your church being great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too worried about your business being great. I'm
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  Speaker 1: worried about your tent being great. But it's a tent.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta sleep in it. I gotta eat in it.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta carry it around in the hot desert. I
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  Speaker 1: got to put it up and take it down and
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  Speaker 1: put it up and take it down and put it
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  Speaker 1: up and take it down. And Abraham's problem is that
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  Speaker 1: the tent is getting crowded.
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  Speaker 2: And I just wanted to ask you, how crowded? How
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  Speaker 2: crowded is your tent?
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  Speaker 1: Have you got too many people with conflicting agendas living
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  Speaker 1: in your tent? And God says to him, hearken unto
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  Speaker 1: the voice of thy wife. And he takes one bottle
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  Speaker 1: of water. Now Abraham is rich. And Ishmael is his son.
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  Speaker 1: And Hagar is his concubine. And he gives her one
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  Speaker 1: bottle of water and a few loaves of bread and
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  Speaker 1: turns her over to God. And the problem with you,
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  Speaker 1: God player, is that you are responsible for everybody. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: who was in your life, everybody who is in your life,
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  Speaker 1: everybody who's ever gonna be in your life and you
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  Speaker 1: wonder why you're exhausted, you have got 50 people in
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  Speaker 1: your tent right now that are sufficient, that could take
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  Speaker 1: care of themselves, that you think you're helping but you're
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  Speaker 1: really hurting. Because the more you take care of them,
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  Speaker 1: the more crippled they become. And they'll never stand up
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  Speaker 1: and be who they were created to be as long
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  Speaker 1: as you solve every problem and fix every door. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: ain't shouting as good as I'm preaching, but I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to preach anyway. Who am I helping in this place today?
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  Speaker 1: He gave her one bottle of water and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of biscuits and said, see ya. Not because he wasn't compassionate,
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  Speaker 1: but because he knows that you cannot raise God's child.
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  Speaker 1: God has to raise his own children. God has to
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  Speaker 1: make a way for his own children. God has to
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  Speaker 1: show himself strong in his own children. Suppose he'd have
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  Speaker 1: given her too much bread and too much water, God
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  Speaker 1: would have never spoke to her. But where Abraham led up,
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  Speaker 1: that's where God stepped in. And you are standing in
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  Speaker 1: the way of your people having an encounter with God.
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  Speaker 1: You're such a big mama. You're so busy taking care
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  Speaker 1: of everything. No wonder your child don't pray. She don't
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  Speaker 1: have to pray. All she got to do is text
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  Speaker 1: you and you fix everything. God said, get out of
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  Speaker 1: the way. Step aside. Move over to the corner. God
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  Speaker 1: wants to show himself strong, but they got to be
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  Speaker 1: in the desert to find God. They can't find God
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  Speaker 1: if all they can find is you. If you know
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  Speaker 1: God's talking to you, give him 30 seconds of crazy praise.
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  Speaker 1: So this is what caught my attention about the text.
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  Speaker 1: God said to Abram, don't let it be grievous to you.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the word grievous. And when I focus
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  Speaker 1: on the word grievous, when I think of grief, I
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  Speaker 1: think somebody has to die. But there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us grieving without caskets. We're grieving over the death
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  Speaker 1: of what we had in mind. We're grieving because our
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  Speaker 1: life did not turn out the way we expected it
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  Speaker 1: to turn out. We're grieving because who we expected to
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  Speaker 1: share it with is no longer by our side. We're
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  Speaker 1: grieving because how we imagine things has been terminated and
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  Speaker 1: we have been stuck in a state of grief. And
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  Speaker 1: as long as you are grieving, you can't be creative.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you are grieving, you cannot be creative.
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  Speaker 1: Let me hurry up and finish. As long as you
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  Speaker 1: are grieving, you cannot hear God. As long as you
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  Speaker 1: are grieving, you cannot discover yourself. As long as you
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  Speaker 1: are grieving, you don't have the courage to stand in
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  Speaker 1: the power of His might. And the Lord told me
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  Speaker 1: to break the spirit of grief. off of this room today.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who you are, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you got the courage to have the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: grief broken off of you, but I curse the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of grief. Everybody who needs it broken, jump up on
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  Speaker 1: your feet. I curse the spirit of grief. I curse
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of depression. I curse the spirit of heaviness.
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  Speaker 1: I curse the spirit of loneliness. I curse the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of despair. I curse the spirit of anguish. I curse
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of trouble that's standing in your way and
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  Speaker 1: shutting you down. I curse it right now. I release
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of creativity. I release the creativity of opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I release the spirit of passion. that's about to burst
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  Speaker 1: forth in your belly. I release the power of enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 1: I release fresh ideas, fresh concepts, fresh relationships, fresh doors open.
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  Speaker 1: I release prosperity. I release peace. I release power. I
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  Speaker 1: release fortitude. I release staying power. If you receive it,
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  Speaker 1: holler at your boy. Now you got to understand this.
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  Speaker 1: The tent is crowded because Abram's mistake and Abram's miracle
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  Speaker 1: are living in the same place. And the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the matter with you is your mistakes and your miracles
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  Speaker 1: are roommates. And how.
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  Speaker 2: Can I have peace?
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  Speaker 1: Whenever time I expect the miracle to turn the corner,
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  Speaker 1: here come the mistake looking me in the face. And this,
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  Speaker 1: as I close, is my favorite part of the text.
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  Speaker 1: That God is so much love that he says, I
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  Speaker 1: will not suffer that which is born of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: in Galatians it says, that which is born of the
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  Speaker 1: flesh to inherit with the seed of the promise. But
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  Speaker 1: I will even take your mistake and make a great nation.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't hear me, let me try y'all. I will
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  Speaker 1: take your worst mistake and I'll make all things work
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  Speaker 1: together for the good of them that love the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and I will bless you and the only thing I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking of you is don't be afraid to make changes
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  Speaker 1: amen Don't think that if you make changes, Ishmael and
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  Speaker 1: Hagar are going to die. I got a well they
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  Speaker 1: haven't even seen yet. But I can't show them the
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  Speaker 1: well if you can't make the changes. The problem is,
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  Speaker 1: People never give people room to change, to grow, to evolve.
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  Speaker 1: And even though we are Christians, we are the world's
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  Speaker 1: best at alienating people over what they did before. And
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  Speaker 1: it takes courage to correct or to change course. Because
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  Speaker 1: if he changes course, What will become of Hagar? Where
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  Speaker 1: will Hagar go? Where has the ring of Isaac's flesh gone?
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  Speaker 1: Hagar is cast into the wilderness. And when God comes down,
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  Speaker 1: God does not talk like Sarah. See, sometimes, sisters, You
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  Speaker 1: can be right about what you said, but wrong about
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  Speaker 1: how you said it. You said cast out the woman,
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  Speaker 1: the bum woman and her son. God comes down and says,
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  Speaker 1: I know Ishmael is your seed. Understanding is important to
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  Speaker 1: bring about change. You can't just look at it from
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  Speaker 1: your perspective just because you don't have no skin in
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  Speaker 1: the game. Abraham has skin in the game. Ishmael is
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  Speaker 1: his son too. See, until we take responsibility. For the
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  Speaker 1: mistakes we made, we cannot change course. As long as
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  Speaker 1: you push it off and act like it was just
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  Speaker 1: them and you tell the story where you are always
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  Speaker 1: the hero, this woman would have never been in Abraham's life.
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  Speaker 1: You brought the woman into his life. You came up
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  Speaker 1: with the strategy of them sleeping together. You told him
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  Speaker 1: to have a baby. You made this woman your slave
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  Speaker 1: and made her sleep with a man that she never
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  Speaker 1: picked to sleep with. And now it's all blown up
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  Speaker 1: in your face and you want to act like it's
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  Speaker 1: his fault. But what is amazing about the text is
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  Speaker 1: God comes down and says to Abraham, hearken unto the
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  Speaker 1: voice of your wife Sarai. Because a woman is right
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  Speaker 1: even though she said it wrong. She is right. And
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  Speaker 1: what is happening here is correction. Now I'm almost finished.
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  Speaker 1: In order to have correction, you have to have the
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  Speaker 1: challenging responsibility of trusting God to handle our mistakes. God
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  Speaker 1: says to Abraham, leave Hagar to me. I know Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: is your son. I will make of him a great nation.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't take your mistake and your miracle and
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  Speaker 1: put them all in the same house and make it work.
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  Speaker 1: There has to come a cutting away. A cutting away.
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  Speaker 1: You can't change course if you can't cut. You can't
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  Speaker 1: change course if you can't cast out. And the challenge
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  Speaker 1: is to trust me with the collateral damage. Who am
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  Speaker 1: I preaching to? Trust me that I don't need you
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  Speaker 1: to take care of Ishmael. God says, my grace is
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  Speaker 1: sufficient for your mistakes. My grace, my grace, my grace,
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  Speaker 1: my grace is sufficient. You don't have to live in
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  Speaker 1: this chaos. Your spirit has been in a state of
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  Speaker 1: constant disruptions. Because you won't change course. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to live in this constant, chaotic, stressful environment
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  Speaker 1: of forlornment because your mistakes and your miracles are cohabiting.
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  Speaker 1: in the same space. All I need from you is
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  Speaker 1: some courage to change course. If you don't change course,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna mess up your destiny. If you don't change course,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna mess up your future. If you don't change course,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna be in the place you need to
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  Speaker 1: be to become who I created you to be. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't change course, you're gonna spend the latter years
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  Speaker 1: miserable because you won't own up to your mistakes and
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that you were wrong and you won't fix it.
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  Speaker 1: And all the dancing and all the shouting and all
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  Speaker 1: the giving you do over top of it will not
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  Speaker 1: take away from the fact that you still need the
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  Speaker 1: courage to change course. Who in here needs the courage
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  Speaker 1: to change course? You know what they say? The definition
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  Speaker 1: of lunacy is to continue to do the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: expecting a different result. You can't be the woman you
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  Speaker 1: want to be and the woman you used to be
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. You cannot be the man you
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  Speaker 1: were created to be and the man you used to
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  Speaker 1: be at the same time. And you know that now.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is you just can't bring yourself to
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  Speaker 1: change course. because of all the people that it would
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  Speaker 1: hurt for you to change. And how long will you
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  Speaker 1: make those people more important than your destiny? God said,
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  Speaker 1: turn them over to me Oh God, I'm talking to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody. I don't know who it is. See,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord sent me here to lose somebody this morning,
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  Speaker 1: to liberate somebody this morning. You've been in bondage. You
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  Speaker 1: can't even be your best self. You can't do your
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  Speaker 1: best work. You can't be who you were created to
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  Speaker 1: be because you're stuck in a situation that you helped
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  Speaker 1: to create and you're guilty. and you feel guilty, and
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  Speaker 1: you overcompensate because you're guilty, and you're in this situation
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  Speaker 1: because you're guilty, and you're stuck because either way you move,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's going to get hurt, and if you don't move,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be you. Lift your hands up and say, God,
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  Speaker 1: give me the courage. To change course. That means I
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  Speaker 1: might not get to say everything I wanna say. That
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  Speaker 1: means I gotta hold my peace sometimes. That means sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I gotta bite my lip. That means sometimes I've gotta
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  Speaker 1: learn another discipline. That means sometimes I gotta bleed. But
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  Speaker 1: if I have to bleed to be better, I'm willing
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  Speaker 1: to bleed. I'm willing to bleed a little while to
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  Speaker 1: be better for a long time. See, I realized that
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't have the surgery, the pain would never
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  Speaker 1: go away. And if I had the surgery, I would
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  Speaker 1: have pain for a little while, but eventually the pain
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  Speaker 1: of recovery will go away. See, circumcision hurts real bad,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't hurt real long. Putting out the bomb
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  Speaker 1: woman hurt real bad, but it didn't hurt real long.
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  Speaker 1: And you got to decide, are you willing to have
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  Speaker 1: a little momentary discomfort to be where you are called
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  Speaker 1: to be? Or are you so concerned about the disruption
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  Speaker 1: that your change creates that you're willing to be a
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  Speaker 1: prisoner in your own life the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this text says to be. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: get out of this text. That's why this text is
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  Speaker 1: important to me. Because every time I ever made a change,
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  Speaker 1: somebody got hurt. When God called me to come to Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: somebody got hurt in West Virginia. There are people who
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  Speaker 1: don't like me now. I've been here 25 years and
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  Speaker 1: they still mad. There are other people that accept it
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  Speaker 1: and they're glad about it. They see it, they get it.
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  Speaker 1: But there are some people that just simply refuse to
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  Speaker 1: get over. And I had to decide, am I going
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  Speaker 1: to spend the rest of my life honoring your expectations
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  Speaker 1: of me? Or do I get to live my life
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  Speaker 1: the way God called me to live my life? You
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  Speaker 1: leave when you want to leave. You come when you
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  Speaker 1: want to come. You miss church when you feel like missing.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'm not here, you say... I came to
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  Speaker 1: church and you wasn't there. Don't I get to be
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  Speaker 1: a person too? I'm going to break your chain today.
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  Speaker 1: The chain that ties you to living up to other
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  Speaker 1: people's expectations all of your life. The chain that circumvents
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  Speaker 1: you from reaching your destiny and your purpose so you
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  Speaker 1: can go ahead and fulfill what God created you to fulfill.