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Turn it on a Dime - Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: Be careful who you let bless you. Because people love
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  Speaker 1: to say, if it wouldn't have been for me. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want anything at your hands. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give all of it back to you. Unless you walk
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  Speaker 1: away and say, it was you that made me rich.
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  Speaker 1: There are some blessings you ought to turn down. Faith
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  Speaker 1: doesn't just accept. Faith rejects.
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  Speaker 2: This is the potter's tongue.
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  Speaker 1: Greetings, brothers and sisters, in the name of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: the King. We're sharing a word from the Lord that
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  Speaker 1: I believe you really need to hear. It is a
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  Speaker 1: very powerful illustration of a very biblical concept. The concept
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  Speaker 1: is tithing. The message is turn it. You can turn
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  Speaker 1: it all on a dime. It's no incident that we're
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  Speaker 1: coming into harvest season. We're coming into that time of
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  Speaker 1: year where farmers are bringing in the sheaves and gathering
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  Speaker 1: in and filling up the barns. You need to be
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  Speaker 1: in harvest season, but you can't be in harvest season
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't been into seed time. There is a
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  Speaker 1: structure and a methodology. I say there is a revelation
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  Speaker 1: to tithing. Let me share this word with you. It
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  Speaker 1: will bless you, not just bless your church, not your preacher.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about you. God wants to bless you. He
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  Speaker 1: wants to open up the windows of heaven. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: said floodgates are waiting on you to obey God. Take
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  Speaker 1: a look at this. I love this scripture, acknowledge him
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  Speaker 1: in all thy ways and he shall direct thy path.
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  Speaker 1: When I bring my tithe, I have acknowledged that it
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  Speaker 1: is not my boss, it is not my job, it
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  Speaker 1: is not my company, it's not my business, it's not
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  Speaker 1: my customer that blessed me. It is saying, God, as
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  Speaker 1: a Christian, I am aware that they may have been
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  Speaker 1: the pipe, but you're the source that, oh, you do
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  Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I acknowledge you. And I cleave as a believer
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  Speaker 1: to that, acknowledge him in all that way that he
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  Speaker 1: should direct that path because frankly, many times, it is
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  Speaker 1: not an issue of needing more money. I need more direction.
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  Speaker 1: You need divine direction so that you can do the
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  Speaker 1: right things, hook up with the right people, not expend
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  Speaker 1: your energies in things that are not profitable. You don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily need more resources. You need better direction. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: through it we bring our finances up under God's protection.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't write that down, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: be sure that you get that out of the dime.
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  Speaker 1: You bring your finances up under God's protection. Before I
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  Speaker 1: finish today, I'm really going to wear that out. Number three,
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  Speaker 1: through it we cast down any struggle we have to
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  Speaker 1: worship the gift over the giver. Well, every time I
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  Speaker 1: bring my tithe, and particularly as my income goes up,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes more important and more difficult to bring the
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  Speaker 1: tithe because I am breaking a stronger spirit over the money.
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  Speaker 1: Money is not evil. Money is not evil.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see.
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  Speaker 1: Do I have some money on me? Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: Thank the Lord. I'd hate to teach this and not
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  Speaker 1: have no money on me. That'd look bad. It's just bad.
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  Speaker 1: This $ 20 bill is not evil. It could help somebody.
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  Speaker 1: It could feed the hungry. It could clothe the naked.
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  Speaker 1: It could help do a whole lot of things. It
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  Speaker 1: could bless a child. It could be some support to
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  Speaker 1: the widow. This money is not evil. It could also
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  Speaker 1: buy me some drugs. It could get me high. It
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  Speaker 1: could get me a friend at 2 o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: It could do it. Money is not evil. It's what
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  Speaker 1: you do with it that's evil. In fact, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said money answers all things. Simply put, money gives you options.
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  Speaker 1: It just simply gives you options. It gives you options.
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  Speaker 1: You have options. You can do more. You can move
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  Speaker 1: more easily. You have more options at your disposal when
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  Speaker 1: you have finances. Money is not evil. The Bible said
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  Speaker 1: the love of money is the root of all evil.
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  Speaker 1: It can become an idol in your life. God blessed
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel with the wealth of Egypt. It
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  Speaker 1: was them that turned it into an idol. God gave
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  Speaker 1: them the goal, they turned the goal into an idol.
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  Speaker 1: And you can easily turn your income into an idol.
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  Speaker 1: And as you go up, one of the ways you
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  Speaker 1: keep yourself from trusting in your resources is to bring
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  Speaker 1: the tithe. Because when I bring the tithe, I cast
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  Speaker 1: down every idol. I'm saying, God, you can trust me
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  Speaker 1: to bless me again because no matter how high I get,
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  Speaker 1: I will put you first. And it is a personal
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  Speaker 1: consecration of mine, particularly as you go up. Because I
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  Speaker 1: told you the real challenge really wasn't to pay tithes
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  Speaker 1: or welfare or an unemployment check. Because I was broke anyway.
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  Speaker 1: You make a $ 200 check a month, you're broke anyway.
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  Speaker 1: You might well believe God, you're coming, whoo, yes Lord.
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  Speaker 1: You throw your 20 on the altar because if he
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  Speaker 1: don't bring you out, you're dead in the water anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But when God starts blessing you, that's when the tempter
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  Speaker 1: comes against you. When God puts you in your garden
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  Speaker 1: of Eden, puts you, positions you in the place that
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  Speaker 1: he has created for you. Do you know that God
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  Speaker 1: has created a garden for you to live in? A
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  Speaker 1: utopia of sustained blessing. And the closer you get to
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  Speaker 1: getting in the place that God has designed for you,
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  Speaker 1: the more the slithering serpent snake is going to confront
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  Speaker 1: you and try to talk you out of the place. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: New levels bring new devils. Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get to some good stuff. Get your Bibles.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Genesis 14, 12 through 24. Genesis 14, 12
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  Speaker 1: through 24. We're studying this morning. We're not shouting. We're
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  Speaker 1: not hooping. We're not falling out. We're not screaming. We're studying.
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  Speaker 1: Pastor Twiggs is going to read for me.
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  Speaker 2: And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son. who dwelt in Sodom,
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  Speaker 2: and his goods, and departed. And there came one that
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  Speaker 2: had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt
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  Speaker 2: in the plain of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eschol,
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  Speaker 2: and brother of Aner. And these were confederate with Abram.
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  Speaker 2: And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive,
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  Speaker 2: he armed his trained servants, born in his own house,
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and eighteen, And pursued them unto Dan. And
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  Speaker 2: he divided himself against them. He and his servants by night.
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  Speaker 2: And smote them. And pursued them unto Hobah. Which is
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  Speaker 2: on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back
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  Speaker 2: all the goods. And also brought again his brother Lot.
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  Speaker 2: And his goods. And the women also. And the people.
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  Speaker 2: And the king of Sodom. Went out to meet him
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  Speaker 2: after his return. from the slaughter of Cherolorama and of
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  Speaker 2: the kings that were with him at the valley of Sheba,
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  Speaker 2: which is the Kingsdale. And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought
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  Speaker 2: forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of
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  Speaker 2: the Most High God. And he blessed him and said,
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of
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  Speaker 2: heaven and earth, and blessed be the Most High God,
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  Speaker 2: Stop right there.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham has won this battle with a bunch of servants.
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  Speaker 1: He took a bunch of servants and went out and
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  Speaker 1: fought a battle and won. You know you're anointed when
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  Speaker 1: you can take less and do more with it. He
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  Speaker 1: went out and got the victory, but on his way
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  Speaker 1: back home, the Bible said that he stopped and encountered
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  Speaker 1: this Old Testament biblical character, Melchizedek, which is a total
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  Speaker 1: picture of Christ himself. Without mother or father, you read
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  Speaker 1: over in Hebrews, without beginning or end of days, you
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  Speaker 1: begin to trace back Melchizedek. You begin to understand that
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  Speaker 1: he was both priest. and king and as he worships
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  Speaker 1: him he brings the tithes and the bible said he
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  Speaker 1: blessed and he and blessed be the most high god
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  Speaker 1: which has delivered thine enemies into thy hand and he
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  Speaker 1: gave him tithes on the net oh i'm sorry he
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  Speaker 1: gave him tithes of all he gave him tithes of
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  Speaker 1: everything he had taken in keep on.
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  Speaker 2: And the king of sodom said unto abram give me
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  Speaker 2: the persons and take the goods to thyself And Abram
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  Speaker 2: said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up
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  Speaker 2: mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the
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  Speaker 2: possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take
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  Speaker 2: from a thread even to a shoe latchet, and that
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  Speaker 2: I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou
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  Speaker 2: shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.
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  Speaker 1: This right here is great wisdom for people who are
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  Speaker 1: on their way up. Be careful who you let bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Because people love to say if it wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 1: for me. He said I don't want anything at your hands.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give all of it back to you.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you walk away and say it was you that
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  Speaker 1: made me rich. There are some blessings you ought to
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  Speaker 1: turn down. Faith doesn't just accept. Faith rejects. Faith doesn't
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  Speaker 1: just accept. Give me, give me, give me. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Jimmy. That doesn't necessarily mean you have great faith.
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  Speaker 1: It takes faith to say no. To some blessings that
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  Speaker 1: look like they're easy and they're quick, but they're not divine.
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  Speaker 1: To be discriminative in who you allow to be your resource.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not from God, you don't want it.
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  Speaker 3: Still to come on the potter's.
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  Speaker 1: Touch consequently because nobody gave to you you don't think
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  Speaker 1: generationally so you're talking to a god about blessings that
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  Speaker 1: if god ever takes you serious he knows you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to live long enough to hold all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: he's going to give you so if you don't start
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  Speaker 1: thinking generationally the conversation is over Until you get a
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  Speaker 1: passion for your children and to see the blessing of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord fall on your child, you're not ready to
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  Speaker 1: talk to God because God said he got too much
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 3: God longs not just to provide all you need, but
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  Speaker 3: for your whole family and for 1,000 generations to come.
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  Speaker 1: You will live and die and not spend up all
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  Speaker 1: the blessing that God's going to release upon you and
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  Speaker 1: upon your children and upon your children's children.
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  Speaker 3: He supplied more than enough in the Garden of Eden,
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  Speaker 3: and that is still God's desire for you today. For
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  Speaker 1: Adam had to think himself special. He had to feel like,
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  Speaker 1: this is where I live. I dwell in the place
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  Speaker 1: of abundance.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get into generational blessings. Look at Genesis 15,
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  Speaker 1: 1 through 4.
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  Speaker 2: The word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying,
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  Speaker 2: Fear not, Abram.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. After these things, after what things? After
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  Speaker 1: he paid tithe to Melchizedek. After he had told the
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  Speaker 1: king of Sodom, No, you take your money back, lest
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  Speaker 1: you say you made me rich. After these things, after
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  Speaker 1: this sacrifice in his life. See, I don't want you
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  Speaker 1: to bypass these things because you got to know what
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  Speaker 1: things because you want this to work for you. After
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  Speaker 1: these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram
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  Speaker 1: in a vision, saying, Stop right there. Fear not. Fear not.
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  Speaker 1: Fear not. Stop right there. Fear not. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: the courage to be blessed? I told you last week
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  Speaker 1: that many people self-sabotage their own success. They don't even
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  Speaker 1: know that they're sabotaging their success because you've been surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by people who are enabling your poverty by their mentality.
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  Speaker 1: And their mentality has defined you and contaminated you. And
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  Speaker 1: even though you say you want to be blessed... You
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  Speaker 1: keep doing things to stop you from being blessed like
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  Speaker 1: getting in debt, maxing out your credit cards, buying stuff
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  Speaker 1: that has no profit in it because that curse mentality
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  Speaker 1: has permeated your attitude to the degree that you are
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  Speaker 1: subconsciously taking your blessing and putting it in things that
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  Speaker 1: are going down rather than to invest it in things
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  Speaker 1: that are going up because you don't have the courage
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  Speaker 1: to be controversial. You want everybody at the old barbershop
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  Speaker 1: to still be glad to see you when you come in.
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  Speaker 1: And so you keep... falling back down to their level
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  Speaker 1: so that they will lack you. And the first thing
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  Speaker 1: God told to somebody he was going to bless was
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  Speaker 1: fear not. Why did he say that? Because it takes
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  Speaker 1: courage to be blessed. Oh, you don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I said it takes courage to be blessed. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about this false prosperity that I see around here
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas, people wearing mink coats and living in trailers.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about... I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about the look of being blessed. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the reality of being blessed and to have your
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  Speaker 1: priorities in the right place and to be a balanced
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  Speaker 1: and a stable-minded person. It takes courage to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Fear not. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I am thy shield.
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  Speaker 1: I am your protection. Why do they say that? Because
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get darts shot at you. When you
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  Speaker 1: start being successful, people are going to hate you because...
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  Speaker 1: You got to be tough to be blessed. Can you
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  Speaker 1: stand to be blessed? Can you stand the level of
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  Speaker 1: attack you're going to come up under? Do you have
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  Speaker 1: the faith to trust God to cover your back? God
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  Speaker 1: told Abram, fear not, I got you covered. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: And thy exceeding great reward.
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  Speaker 1: And I am your exceeding great reward. You got to
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  Speaker 1: underline that. Exceeding is infinite. God says there's no limit.
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  Speaker 1: To how much I reward you. Now if I shut
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  Speaker 1: up right there. And you got that right there. It
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  Speaker 1: would be worth coming through the traffic. Parking on the ramp.
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  Speaker 1: Having to take your shoes off and walk. Or whatever
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  Speaker 1: you had to do to get in here. God said I.
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  Speaker 1: There is no limit. Exceeding is an infinite word without ending.
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  Speaker 1: God said I am thy exceeding. Great reward. There is
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  Speaker 1: no limit to what I'm going to give you. There
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  Speaker 1: is no stopping me from blessing you. You gave up
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  Speaker 1: something for me. Let me tell you, since you gave
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  Speaker 1: what was in your hand, let me show you what
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  Speaker 1: was in my hand. I am thy exceeding great reward. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: If you ever believe what I just said, it would
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  Speaker 1: forever change your life. If you stop putting limits and
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  Speaker 1: boundaries on what God could do. God said, I am
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  Speaker 1: your exceeding great reward. God blessed Abraham so much that
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  Speaker 1: Abraham died and couldn't use all of his blessings. His
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  Speaker 1: descendants are still spending out of that word exceeding. I
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  Speaker 1: can take you up to New York. I can take
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  Speaker 1: you around Hollywood. I can take you around CEOs in
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  Speaker 1: major facilities and show you Jewish descendants that are still
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  Speaker 1: spending out of that exchange. I'm telling you, if you
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  Speaker 1: get the word I'm teaching down in your spirit, you
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  Speaker 1: will live and die and not spend up all the
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  Speaker 1: blessing that God's going to release upon you and upon
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  Speaker 1: your children and upon your children's children, saith the Lord. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't have come this morning because I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready for you today. Read on, my sister.
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  Speaker 2: And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me
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  Speaker 2: seeing I go childless?
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  Speaker 1: He says, what can you see? Abram, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: when he was saying this, Abram wasn't broke. Abram had
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  Speaker 1: a little something to begin with. He said, but my
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  Speaker 1: problem is, it's not with money or resources. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm also childless. Read on.
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  Speaker 2: And the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.
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  Speaker 2: And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed.
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  Speaker 2: And lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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  Speaker 2: And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
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  Speaker 2: This shall not be thine heir, but he that shall
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  Speaker 2: come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't talk about it. If I talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be here all day. First of all, you can't
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  Speaker 1: have true success without a successor. You've got to start
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  Speaker 1: thinking generationally or you're going to miss the point. God
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  Speaker 1: starts talking to Abraham about being his exceeding great reward.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham immediately starts talking about his son. See, one of
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  Speaker 1: the great things that Abraham had with God is that
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  Speaker 1: Abraham thought like God. He had a God mentality. He
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  Speaker 1: was thinking generationally. If you're going to be my exceeding
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  Speaker 1: great reward, let me bring up to you this issue
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  Speaker 1: I had with my child. Because I've already lived half
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  Speaker 1: of my life and I'll never be able to spin
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom of the check you just wrote. I
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  Speaker 1: need an air to catch. Oh, young people sit tight
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  Speaker 1: because I think you have no idea who you are.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you have a clue who you are.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you understand that your mom and daddy
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  Speaker 1: are the cup, but baby, you're the saucer. And when
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  Speaker 1: we overflow, you're supposed to be there at home plate
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  Speaker 1: to catch the exceedingly abundantly above all that she met.
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  Speaker 1: The blessing that I don't have room to receive is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to fall on you. But, but young people, you
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  Speaker 1: have to position yourself. Nobody's leaving you nothing if you
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  Speaker 1: act a fool. One of the curses that is killing
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  Speaker 1: our generation is that because most of us start from
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  Speaker 1: ground level zero. We start out with nothing. All over again.
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  Speaker 1: Your parents started with nothing. They died and left you nothing.
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  Speaker 1: You go back to zero. I have to start over again.
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  Speaker 1: That is a curse. The curse of not having anything left. Consequently,
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  Speaker 1: because nobody gave to you, you don't think generationally. So
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  Speaker 1: you're talking to a God about blessings that if God
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  Speaker 1: ever takes you serious, he knows you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: live long enough to hold all the stuff he's going
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  Speaker 1: to give you. So if you don't start thinking generationally,
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  Speaker 1: the conversation is over. Until you get a passion for
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  Speaker 1: your children and to see the blessing of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: fall on your child, you're not ready to talk to
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  Speaker 1: God because God said he got too much for you.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. forward thinking people. are positioning themselves to
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  Speaker 1: be blessed because you're thinking in terms of what are
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  Speaker 1: the next few moves. Anywhere you use that principle, you
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  Speaker 1: will be blessed. I don't care how good you are
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  Speaker 1: in the moment. If you fail to have preparation for
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  Speaker 1: the next moment, you forfeit the blessing. Write the vision.
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  Speaker 1: Make it plain. Let him that read it run thereby.
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  Speaker 1: What is next? What is next and who is worthy
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  Speaker 1: of it? Are you getting this? Glory to God. God says,
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  Speaker 1: I will open up the channel between you and I.
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  Speaker 1: I will open up the channel between you and I.
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  Speaker 1: This is what God does on a dime. On a
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  Speaker 1: dime or for every dollar. God says, I will open
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  Speaker 1: up the channel between you and I. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: I will open the windows of heaven. Simply put, obedience
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  Speaker 1: opens up the heavens. Obedience opens up the heavens. Obedience
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  Speaker 1: opens up the heavens. obedience opens up the heavens. You
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  Speaker 1: could be shouting in front of closed heavens. Because it
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  Speaker 1: is not what you say that opens up the windows
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. It is what you do that opens up
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  Speaker 1: the windows of heaven. Obedience opens up the windows of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: So God says, number one, this is what I'll do
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  Speaker 1: for a dime. God says, I will open up the
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  Speaker 1: channel between me and you. When I start talking about
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  Speaker 1: obedience opens up the windows of heaven, Consider Matthew 3, 16,
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  Speaker 1: where Jesus was baptized. And the Bible says straightway, when
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  Speaker 1: he came up out of the water, God opened up
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  Speaker 1: the heaven. And Stephen, who would not denounce the name
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  Speaker 1: of Christ in Acts 7, 54 through 56, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said that as Stephen was being stoned and he kept
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  Speaker 1: his word before God, that the heavens opened up. Obedience
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  Speaker 1: opens up the windows of heaven. That's all you got
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  Speaker 1: to do to open up the windows of heaven is
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  Speaker 1: just obey him. Obedience opens up the windows of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: If you ever get tired of shouting in front of
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  Speaker 1: closed windows, obedience will open it up. Number two, God says,
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  Speaker 1: I will dispense what I have withheld. I will dispense
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  Speaker 1: what I have withheld. In other words, I will pour
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  Speaker 1: you out a blessing. It is not where you bring
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  Speaker 1: the tithe and I say, let me see what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do to bless him. Look at that roller.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see what I can do to bless him.
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  Speaker 1: God said, no, I already got it. But when I
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  Speaker 1: see you do what I told you to do, I
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  Speaker 1: will dispense what I withheld. Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: Anybody want what God is withholding? God says, I will
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  Speaker 1: dispense what I was held. If you want to know
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  Speaker 1: what he's withholding, Jeremiah 29, 11, says God has something
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  Speaker 1: in mind for you. That you might have an expected end.
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  Speaker 1: That God has already planned for you to win in
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  Speaker 1: the end. And God says, I can't dispense it until
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  Speaker 1: you obey me. 1 Corinthians 2, 1 Corinthians chapter 2,
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  Speaker 1: verse 6 through 12. Oh, I wish I had time
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  Speaker 1: to really do this. First Corinthians chapter two, verse six
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  Speaker 1: through 12 says, eyes have not seen, ears have not heard,
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  Speaker 1: neither have entered into the heart of man the things
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  Speaker 1: that God has in store for them to love it.
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  Speaker 1: But when you read the whole six through 12, it
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  Speaker 1: even deals with and references the cross. Had the princes
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  Speaker 1: of this world known what they were doing, they would
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  Speaker 1: have never crucified the Lord. And it begins to talk
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  Speaker 1: about what God does when you obey his word. Even
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  Speaker 1: when people try to sabotage you, God will break the
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  Speaker 1: curse and turn it all around and release what is
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  Speaker 1: withheld in your life. Are you hearing what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to you? No, this is good. Yes, sir. See, when
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  Speaker 1: it brings the cross into the conversation, it starts on
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  Speaker 1: about the things that God has in store for them
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  Speaker 1: that love him, but it has been revealed unto us
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  Speaker 1: by his spirit. The reason that it brings the cross
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  Speaker 1: into it. Do you understand the cross was an offering? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they're just making everything offering today. Read Hebrews 9, 14.
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  Speaker 1: Read Hebrews 9, 28. Read Hebrews 10, 12. Read Hebrews 11, 17. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter 9, verse 14 and verse 28. Hebrews chapter 10,
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  Speaker 1: verse 12, as well as Hebrews chapter 11, verse 17,
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  Speaker 1: all tell you that the cross was an offering. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the grave couldn't hold it. Ha, ha, ha. I
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  Speaker 1: said the cross was an offering. That's why the grave
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  Speaker 1: couldn't hold it. Now to everybody who ever gave an offering,
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  Speaker 1: gave a tithe, you understand what I'm saying? The grave
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  Speaker 1: cannot hold it. It may hold you three days, but
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  Speaker 1: it can't hold you any longer than that. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to have to give it back. There's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a resurrection breaking forth in your life. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: have had everything resurrected but your money. You got your peace.
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  Speaker 1: You got your joy. You got your salvation. You got
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  Speaker 1: your praise. And for you, the last step is your finances.
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  Speaker 1: But if you get this word, the same God that
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  Speaker 1: resurrected your life and brought you and turned you around
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  Speaker 1: and resurrected your mind will resurrect your money. I believe
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  Speaker 1: God for resurrection in your financial life in the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Not so you can ride around in
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  Speaker 1: a golden Porsche and drink Kool-Aid out of a Goblet.
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  Speaker 1: But so that you can send your kids to college.
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  Speaker 1: So that you can loan and not borrow. So that
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  Speaker 1: you can be the head and not the tail. So
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  Speaker 1: that we can finally get our act together. Until the
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  Speaker 1: kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our
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  Speaker 1: God and of his Christ. Away with this foolishness that
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  Speaker 1: the only people who are blessed in our community is
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  Speaker 1: the pimps and the drug dealers. The devil is alive.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to tell me that Satan is better
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  Speaker 1: to his followers than God is to his. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I swear I'll bless you. I'll bless you on a dime.
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  Speaker 1: Lay your hands on your neighbor and say, God is
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  Speaker 1: holding something that he wants to release in your life
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  Speaker 1: this year. Let me go deeper. I got to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: I could shout. I could shout. I could shout. My
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  Speaker 1: toes are tingling. My gums are jerking. I could shout.
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  Speaker 1: Something is about to happen. I feel it in my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I feel it in my soul. Something is about to
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  Speaker 1: happen in here. Shout hallelujah. Hey, I've got more for
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  Speaker 1: you in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: God longs not just to provide all you need, but
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  Speaker 3: for your whole family and for 1,000 generations to come.
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  Speaker 1: You will live and die and not spend up all
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  Speaker 1: the blessing that God's going to release upon you and
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  Speaker 1: upon your children and upon your children's children.
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  Speaker 3: He supplied more than enough in the Garden of Eden,
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  Speaker 3: and that is still God's desire for you today. For
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  Speaker 1: Adam had to think himself special. He had to feel
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  Speaker 1: like this is where I live. I dwell in the
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  Speaker 1: place of abundance.
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  Speaker 3: When your gift is $ 75 or more, we will include
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of time. I've got to stop there. I
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  Speaker 1: know this is a big subject. I know it has
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  Speaker 1: been an abused subject. I know it has been a
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  Speaker 1: subject that people are confused about. But I also know
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  Speaker 1: that there is revelation in it and there is a
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  Speaker 1: reason that God has allowed you to hear this word.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that you will obey because the word only
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  Speaker 1: works if you obey it. Medicine only works if you
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  Speaker 1: take it. Food only feeds if you eat it. It's
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  Speaker 1: not enough to know the word. It's when you obey
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  Speaker 1: the word. I'm praying for you. Be blessed.