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GOD IS MOVING BEFORE YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGE _ Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Way of giving it back to you, but I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand he doesn't always give it back to
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  Speaker 1: you through the same person you gave it to. I
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  Speaker 1: know this from experience. I've gone places to preach and
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  Speaker 1: the check bounced or the offering wasn't any good or
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  Speaker 1: it was a bad check or the account was closed.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, 50 years I've had everything happen. But
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  Speaker 1: somewhere along the way in a grocery store, in a
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  Speaker 1: department store, somebody will walk up to me and say,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord laid on my heart to sow this into
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  Speaker 1: your hand. Because you can't beat God's giving. God will
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  Speaker 1: find a way to get a blessing to you, even
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  Speaker 1: if he has to use your enemy. God will use
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  Speaker 1: your enemy to bless you. Are you with me? And
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  Speaker 1: she said unto her husband, behold now I perceive that
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  Speaker 1: this is a holy man of God which passes by
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  Speaker 1: us continually. That means he was always eating over her house.
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  Speaker 1: Like the good reverend on soul food. He was always
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  Speaker 1: coming over. She was always feeding him. He never asked her.
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  Speaker 1: She just did it. She was a great woman. Great
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  Speaker 1: people do great things. Because they have a great capacity.
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  Speaker 1: Because they are thoughtful. God gives them capacity to live
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  Speaker 1: up to their thoughtfulness. Y'all didn't get that. That went
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  Speaker 1: over your head. They're thoughtful. Some people are not thoughtful.
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  Speaker 1: You have to ask them. And some people you got
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  Speaker 1: to beg them. And some of them after you beg
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  Speaker 1: them they still ain't going to give you nothing. But
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  Speaker 1: there are people that are just thoughtful. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: always about money. It can be about running bath water.
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  Speaker 1: It can be taking your car to wash it. Just
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  Speaker 1: some people, they're just going to give you something whether
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  Speaker 1: you ask for it or not. Anybody like that, wave
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  Speaker 1: your hand. Yeah, yeah. And if you're like that, you
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  Speaker 1: have somebody in your family that's always telling you you're crazy.
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  Speaker 1: They're using you. They're making a fool out of you.
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  Speaker 1: It don't take all that. And what they're doing is
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  Speaker 1: talking you out of your blessing. Because as you bless
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  Speaker 1: other people, God will bless you. Fat is, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you what fat is. Let me explain what fat
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  Speaker 1: was to me this way. When you fill your car
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  Speaker 1: tank up full of gas and the tank is full
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  Speaker 1: of gas and now it's spilling out, that's what fat is.
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  Speaker 1: All that your body didn't use, it spills out. See,
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  Speaker 1: this is overflow. So when God says a liberal soul
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  Speaker 1: should be made fat, God says, I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: you more than enough. You're going to have overflow. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have gas running out into the street, all
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  Speaker 1: in your tires, all everywhere. The liberal soul should be
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  Speaker 1: made fat. Why is he going to make you fat?
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  Speaker 1: Because he knows that you're going to keep giving. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to keep sowing. You're going to keep planting. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to keep giving of yourself, of your time, of
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  Speaker 1: your personality. Some of you can't even give a smile.
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  Speaker 1: You're sitting up in church looking just as mean as
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  Speaker 1: a jump yard dog. But when you're a giver, you
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  Speaker 1: light up the room when you walk in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Now she says, let us make a little chamber, I
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  Speaker 1: pray thee, on the wall and let us set for
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  Speaker 1: him there a bed and a table and a stool
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  Speaker 1: and a candlestick. Look at her designing a room, building
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  Speaker 1: a room. He ain't ask her for no room. And
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  Speaker 1: it shall be when he cometh to us that he
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  Speaker 1: shall turn in thither. Instead of being tired of him
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  Speaker 1: coming over, she wants to make it comfortable for him
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  Speaker 1: to come more. Wonder if you've made it comfortable for
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to come over. Wonder if you've made a room
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  Speaker 1: for him. Wonder if there's space in your life to
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  Speaker 1: have a devotional and have a relationship with Christ. Wonder
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  Speaker 1: if you have a bed. and a table, and candlesticks,
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  Speaker 1: and a chair, and you've decorated it in such a
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  Speaker 1: way that he doesn't have to break in because the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is a gentleman. He won't break in. He'll
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  Speaker 1: come in, but he won't break in. You have to
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  Speaker 1: invite him in. You have to be intentional about it.
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  Speaker 1: You can be evil if you want to, but if
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  Speaker 1: you decide not to be evil, you can be intentional
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  Speaker 1: about it and start worshiping. And if you really start worshiping,
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  Speaker 1: you will find out you cannot be evil and worship
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  Speaker 1: at the same time to save your life. You can't
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  Speaker 1: do it. You can be mad when you start. You
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  Speaker 1: can be mad because somebody came in, your ex-husband came in,
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  Speaker 1: and he's sitting on the back row with his new wife.
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  Speaker 1: and you got an attitude, and then the service gets good,
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  Speaker 1: and the Holy Spirit just washes all away, all that
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  Speaker 1: just comes away from you. Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: And it fell on a day that he came dither,
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  Speaker 1: and he turned into the chamber, and he lay there.
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  Speaker 1: And he said to Gehazi, his servant, call this Shunammite.
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  Speaker 1: And when he had called her, she stood before him.
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  Speaker 1: And he said unto him, Say now unto her, behold,
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  Speaker 1: thou has been careful for us. You have given care
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  Speaker 1: to me. With all this care, what is to be
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  Speaker 1: done for thee? This is, I love this word. I love, love,
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  Speaker 1: love this word. I think this explains so much of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible is reciprocity. In every relationship, there ought to
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  Speaker 1: be reciprocity. Paul said, if I give you my spiritual things,
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  Speaker 1: should you not give me your carnal things? There ought
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  Speaker 1: to be reciprocity. If I'm kind to you, you ought
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  Speaker 1: to be kind to me. If I'm loving to you,
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  Speaker 1: you ought to be loving to me. It might not
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  Speaker 1: be the same way. It might not be the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: It might not be the same amount. I had a
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine gave me something for my birthday that
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  Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe it. I just couldn't even believe it.
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  Speaker 1: It was several years ago, but I just could not
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  Speaker 1: believe that I would receive a gift like that. When
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  Speaker 1: his birthday came around, I couldn't give him what he
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  Speaker 1: gave me because I don't have that kind of money.
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  Speaker 1: But to the limit that I could go, I went
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  Speaker 1: to the very limit. and found him a watch. It
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  Speaker 1: was the last one in the world, and I had
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  Speaker 1: his name engraved into it and brought it up there
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  Speaker 1: and gave it to him because I believe in reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just going to suck up the blessing and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're just nice. You're just so nice. Oh, you're so nice.
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  Speaker 1: You're so nice. You don't ever do nothing. Cook dinner,
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  Speaker 1: make squash, make some cornbread, bake a cake, get some
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  Speaker 1: cookies out, do something so that you have reciprocity. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible said. As long as the earth will remain,
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  Speaker 1: it's in the book of Genesis chapter 8, there will
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  Speaker 1: be a seed. Time and harvest. Harvest is reciprocity to
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  Speaker 1: seed time. There will be day and night. There will
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  Speaker 1: be winter and summer. These things are consistent. Whether you're
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  Speaker 1: saved or unsaved or holy or unholy, they're consistent. Reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to be convicted if somebody keeps being nice
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  Speaker 1: to you and you don't do nothing. It ought to
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  Speaker 1: bother you. It ought to bother you. It ought to
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  Speaker 1: disturb you. That you don't do nothing back? You ought
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  Speaker 1: to wash dishes sometime. You ought to cook sometime. Every
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  Speaker 1: now and then when my wife is cooking a lot,
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  Speaker 1: I'll come in and beat her and lay out something
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  Speaker 1: and cook for her and just have something done. Just
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  Speaker 1: to say you ain't got to always cook. Be standing
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  Speaker 1: over no stove cooking. Yes, reciprocity. You ought to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? So this woman had reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: Say now unto her, behold, the prophet says, behold, thou
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  Speaker 1: has been careful for us with all this care. What
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  Speaker 1: is to be done for thee? Wouldst thou be spoken
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  Speaker 1: for to the king or to the captain of the host?
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  Speaker 1: And she answered, I dwell amongst my own people. She bad,
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  Speaker 1: she bad. She said, I don't need nothing. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need to introduce me to the king or none of
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. She said, I'm satisfied to dwell
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  Speaker 1: amongst my own people. So she definitely wasn't using him.
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  Speaker 1: When he offered her an opportunity to enter into his
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  Speaker 1: favor with the king, she said, I'm cool. I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: to be amongst my own people. And he said, what
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  Speaker 1: then is to be done for her? Look, he won't
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  Speaker 1: let her say no. He won't let her say no.
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  Speaker 1: What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, verily,
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  Speaker 1: she have no child. She didn't say nothing about the child. Gehazi,
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  Speaker 1: who was Elijah's servant, says she has no child and
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  Speaker 1: her husband is old. So this is something she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do for herself. I'm not going to explain that, but anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, call her. And when he had called her,
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  Speaker 1: she stood in the door. And he said, about this season,
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  Speaker 1: according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard in the Western culture in the modern time
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  Speaker 1: to explain how important it was to women in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible days to birth a son. But let me take
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  Speaker 1: a stab at it. When you go back to the
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  Speaker 1: third chapter of the book of Genesis, the prophecy goes
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  Speaker 1: out to Eve that the seed of the woman died.
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  Speaker 1: she'll bruise the head of the seed of the serpent,
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  Speaker 1: and the serpent shall bruise his heel. It is the
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  Speaker 1: first messianic prophecy. And it is given to say that
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  Speaker 1: some woman is going to come along. Eve thought it
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  Speaker 1: was her when she had Cain and Abel, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a whole other story. And then finally Seth, she was
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  Speaker 1: hoping she would be the woman that birthed the one
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  Speaker 1: that got back at the serpent for how he tricked her.
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  Speaker 1: But the prophecy was for Mary. Are you hearing what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? But all through the Old Testament, you see
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  Speaker 1: women saying something they ain't saying no more. Give me
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  Speaker 1: a child lest I die. Hannah was crying out for
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  Speaker 1: a child. going in the temple moaning for a child.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know when I've seen somebody on the altar
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  Speaker 1: crying for a baby. I've seen some crying because they
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  Speaker 1: had a baby. But you have to understand this is
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  Speaker 1: a cultural dynamic for Hebrew women, okay? And she said, Nay,
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  Speaker 1: my Lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto
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  Speaker 1: thy handmaid. Now she has already called him a holy man.
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  Speaker 1: But when he said that she was going to have
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  Speaker 1: a child, she said, don't lie to me. And this,
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  Speaker 1: the word has struck a nerve. It struck a nerve
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  Speaker 1: because this woman has come to a place that she's
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  Speaker 1: at peace now. She dwells amongst her own people. She's
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  Speaker 1: a Proverbs 31 woman. She has a husband. She's doing good.
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  Speaker 1: She's doing business. She can afford to build a room
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  Speaker 1: onto her house for somebody who comes by occasionally. And
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  Speaker 1: she says, don't wake up my desires. And in spite
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  Speaker 1: of that, the Bible says that a woman conceived and
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  Speaker 1: bear a son at that season that Elijah had said
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  Speaker 1: unto her at that season. Look at your neighbor and say,
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  Speaker 1: you got a season. You got a season to reap.
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  Speaker 1: After having seasons to sow, you're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: season to reap. It started out a season she was
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  Speaker 1: just cooking dinner. And then she had a season where
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  Speaker 1: she was building a house. She had a season she
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  Speaker 1: was decorating for somebody else to live in a part
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  Speaker 1: of the house that she didn't even live in. But
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  Speaker 1: as sure as she had a season to sow, she
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  Speaker 1: had a season to reap. And the Bible said now
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  Speaker 1: she has come into her season. How many of you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're coming into your seasons? Type on the
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  Speaker 1: line if you're watching on the stream, I'm coming into
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  Speaker 1: my season. Even if you don't feel like it. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you don't see it. Even if the rent-to-own man
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  Speaker 1: came and took your TV out. Just go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: just say it by faith. I'm coming into my season.
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  Speaker 1: Your spirit needs to hear your mouth confess, I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: into my season. It would do so much for your
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  Speaker 1: mood and for your attitude. I'm getting ahead of myself.
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  Speaker 1: but the way you talk to yourself has a lot
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  Speaker 1: to do with how much peace you have and how
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  Speaker 1: much contentment you have. Most of y'all that think that
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  Speaker 1: the devil is after you and the demons are tormenting you,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't the demons. You're doing that to yourself. You're
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  Speaker 1: feeding yourself poison. Oh, what if this happens? Oh, God,
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  Speaker 1: what if this happens? What if the other happens? Then
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  Speaker 1: you tell, I'm scared to death. I'm afraid. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I'm going to live long. Mama died when
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  Speaker 1: she was 27. I don't know if I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: make it. And you just feed yourself all that poison
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  Speaker 1: and wonder why you're not happy. But in her own season,
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  Speaker 1: she brought forth. You got a season coming. You got
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  Speaker 1: a season coming. Don't let the devil talk to you
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  Speaker 1: into killing yourself and miss your season. Just because you
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  Speaker 1: had to sow a while before you got to it
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean you wasn't going to get it. You got
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  Speaker 1: a season coming. And when the child was grown, now
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  Speaker 1: look at this, and when the child was grown, it
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  Speaker 1: fell on a day that he went out to his father,
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  Speaker 1: to the reapers, okay? So it's so much difference between
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  Speaker 1: having a grown child and having a little child. It's
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  Speaker 1: altogether different. It's just a whole different experience. You can
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  Speaker 1: say things to your grown children that you couldn't say
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  Speaker 1: when you were a child. And you got to learn.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to just say this real quick and move on.
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  Speaker 1: You got to learn when to let them go and
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  Speaker 1: be grown. You got to give up your role, your
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  Speaker 1: controlling role as a mother or a father and let
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  Speaker 1: them live their own life whether you like that dress
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  Speaker 1: or not, whether you like that coat or not, whether
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  Speaker 1: you like that job or not. You lived your life,
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  Speaker 1: you made your choices. Even if it's a mistake, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you got to let them make the mistake. But because
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  Speaker 1: of your need to be who you were, you can't
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  Speaker 1: transform into who you are. Oh, it got quiet, Jesus. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he's out there with his father. She sent him out
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  Speaker 1: to the father. It's interesting to note when he was little,
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  Speaker 1: he was with his mama. But when he got older,
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  Speaker 1: he went to be with his father. It's already told
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  Speaker 1: you his father was old, but he's still getting something
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  Speaker 1: from an old man that he can't get from his mother. See,
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  Speaker 1: there's something that you get from an old man that
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  Speaker 1: you can't get from a young one. It's a different
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  Speaker 1: level of reasoning. It's a different level of understanding. It's
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  Speaker 1: a different perspective because they have been where you have
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  Speaker 1: yet to go. You see, but I'm going to say
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  Speaker 1: this and I'm getting myself in all kinds of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope they don't put this on the internet.
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  Speaker 1: But we got so many young men trying to give
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  Speaker 1: advice to other young men who haven't lived any further
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  Speaker 1: than the young men they're giving advice to. And they're
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  Speaker 1: chief apostle at 19. They got bodyguards and security guards
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  Speaker 1: and briefcases and they're coming in and this is my covering.
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  Speaker 1: This is my spiritual father. Really? Really? You older than
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  Speaker 1: your daddy. And it's nothing wrong because I started out
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  Speaker 1: preaching when I was 19. I love young people. But
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  Speaker 1: for me to teach on marriage. at 19 or 21
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  Speaker 1: would be totally different from me teaching on marriage and
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  Speaker 1: having raised my children. I've learned a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that were theoretical that in reality didn't work out
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  Speaker 1: the way I thought it would work out. Can I
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  Speaker 1: get a witness? Is there a witness in here? I
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  Speaker 1: thought I knew something, but when them kids got through
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  Speaker 1: with me, they took me to school. I now have
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  Speaker 1: a doctorate I have a doctorate degree in what works
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  Speaker 1: and what don't work. But we're losing our fathers. Paul
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  Speaker 1: said we have many teachers, but we only have one father.
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  Speaker 1: And don't fool around and lose your father. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: the enemy cause you to become disconnected with your father.
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  Speaker 1: He don't have to be perfect to be your father.
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  Speaker 1: He still gave birth to you. And he's old. He's old.
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  Speaker 1: And the boy has now a grown man, grown enough
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  Speaker 1: to leave. But he's still with his father. And he
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  Speaker 1: said to his father, maybe something he couldn't have said
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  Speaker 1: to his brother, my head, my head. To be able
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  Speaker 1: to say where it hurts. Did you get that? To
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  Speaker 1: be able to say where it hurts, to be able
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  Speaker 1: to say what's wrong with you, to be able to
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  Speaker 1: confide in somebody who's not going to tell you business. Now,
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  Speaker 1: every old man is not a father. Gray hair don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily make you wise. It just makes you great. But
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  Speaker 1: if you find a real father, you ought to be
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  Speaker 1: able to say, my head, my head. But today, we
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  Speaker 1: spend so much time trying to prove to our fathers
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  Speaker 1: that we don't need them. That we're not honest with
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  Speaker 1: them to say, my head, my head. Sounds like to
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  Speaker 1: me the boy was having an aneurysm. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just throwing in conjecture there. Whatever it was, it
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  Speaker 1: killed him. So it wasn't a headache. It wasn't a nosebleed.
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  Speaker 1: My head, my head. And he said to a lad,
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  Speaker 1: carry him to his mother. And I talked about that Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: About there's certain things that your mother can do that
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  Speaker 1: your father can't do. A woman's instinct over a child.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I was reading... a periodical that was written
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  Speaker 1: by a physician says that the cells of a baby
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  Speaker 1: never completely leave the mother. The baby leaves, but the
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  Speaker 1: cells of a baby stay inside of the mother so
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  Speaker 1: that when the mother gets sick, part of the defense
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  Speaker 1: that's fighting for her to get well is coming from
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  Speaker 1: the leftover cells of the child. Woo wee. I'm preaching
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  Speaker 1: way better than you shout. And when he had taken
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  Speaker 1: him and brought him to his mother, he set her
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  Speaker 1: on her knees till noon and by noon he died.
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  Speaker 1: And she went up and laid him on the bed
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  Speaker 1: of the man of God and shut the door upon
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  Speaker 1: him and went out. Don't know if I do that
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  Speaker 1: with dead people. She took the dead child. She carried
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  Speaker 1: her dead grown son. Women get strong when it's their kids.
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  Speaker 1: You mess with their kids, they turn into Mighty Mouse.
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  Speaker 1: And she carried him and laid him on the bed.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to sit down so you don't
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  Speaker 1: get tired. Now, but while you're sitting, remember I'm still standing.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm older than two-thirds of you, so... If you
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: tired from standing in a few minutes, you ought to
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  Speaker 1: be praying for me and speaking in tongues. Because I'm
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: going to be standing for a while tonight, okay? And
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: what I want you to see, this is what I
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: want you to see that I didn't get to dwell
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. I want you to see that this woman
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  Speaker 1: was high. favored. That the prophet gave her some, he
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: did her a favor. He did her a favor she
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: didn't even ask for. And I want to expose the
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  Speaker 1: misunderstanding we have about favor. Favor. Because we think that
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  Speaker 1: if we are favored or you know how we like
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  Speaker 1: to say, how you doing? I'm blessed and highly favored.
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  Speaker 1: We love to say that. The favor of God is
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  Speaker 1: resting on me. That's how I got that job. That
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: was the favor of God. But the problem is we
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: only associate favor with success. Oh, I'm doing so good.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: We only associate favor with success. And if you define
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: favor only through success, then you can't explain what happened
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: to this woman. Her child grew up and died on
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: her lap. Her favor died on her lap. But she
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: was still favored. Life is still going to be life
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: whether you have favor or not. People are going to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: die whether you have favor or not. People are going
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to get sick whether you have favor or not. People
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: are going to leave you whether you got favor or not.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: People are going to break your heart whether you got
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: favor or not. Don't let the devil tell you that
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you lost your favor because you lost your friend. Oh,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I'm talking so good tonight. I think I'll dance while
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I'm standing up here. Favor is not equated to substance
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: or wealth or good times or feeling good. You can
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  Speaker 1: go through a bad time and still have favor. Jesus
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: increased in wisdom and stature and favor with God and
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: favor with man, but he still got crucified. He was
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: in the will of God, but he still bled out
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  Speaker 1: on the cross. He bled out because if the blood
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: would have stayed in, it wouldn't have done us no good.
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  Speaker 1: He bled out for our redemption. He bled out for
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  Speaker 1: our deliverance. He bled out for our salvation. He bled out.
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  Speaker 1: Blind by the mask got healed just in time to
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: see the blood come out. And the blood came streaming down.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: He bled out. Glory to God. He'd been walking around
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: with all that blood in him, but it didn't redeem
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  Speaker 1: anybody until he bled out. And sometimes you have so
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  Speaker 1: much favor that God will put you in a situation
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  Speaker 1: where you have to bleed out. And it's painful. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't like it. And you're in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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  Speaker 1: And you say, Father, if it be thy will, pass
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  Speaker 1: this bitter cup. That means he didn't want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want to do it. He didn't like it.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said he despised it. It despised the shame
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  Speaker 1: of the cross, but for the joy that was set
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  Speaker 1: before him. He looked beyond the present circumstance to see
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  Speaker 1: what was going to come out of it on the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: other side. I'm helping somebody right now. I can feel it.
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  Speaker 1: You're all sitting up soaking in. the temporary circumstance. You're
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: only going to be on the cross for a little while.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: After a while, you're going to rise again and the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: cross is going to be empty. Do you hear what
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? I'm talking to somebody. The only
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: way you can endure a season of pain is to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: look beyond it. Don't look at it. Look beyond it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Look beyond it. Having an expectation. Having a hope inside
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. Keep your hope. If you want to not
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  Speaker 1: bury your dream, you got to keep your vision. For
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  Speaker 1: without a vision, the people perish. I don't care if
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: you got to get binoculars. I don't care if you
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: have to get away from negative people and find somebody
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  Speaker 1: that believes in your dream. You need to be around
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: somebody that is helping you to see beyond. It's still possible.
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  Speaker 1: It can still happen. You might be an old woman, Sarah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: but you can still have a baby. Oh, you don't
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying to you. Rahab, you might be
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: a hooker, but you might end up in the lineage
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. They all don't hear what I'm saying
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to you. Ruth, I don't care that you weren't idolatrous.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You can change on the road. She wasn't in church.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: She wasn't in a service. She wasn't in a ceremony.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: But right in the middle of the road, she said,
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  Speaker 1: thy God shall be my God. Thy people shall be
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: my people. Where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Where thou diest,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I will die. She had a conversion on the move.
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  Speaker 1: She had a conversion while she was walking and she
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: was converted by a woman that was depressed and discouraged
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and didn't even want to go on any further. Y'all
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: don't hear me. Naomi don't have to be spiritual and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: happy to affect Ruth. Your mentor doesn't have to be
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: perfect to affect you. She was going through a bad time.
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  Speaker 1: Worst time in her life. She want to rename herself.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And all the while, while she's depressed, she's still winning souls. Oh,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. She wasn't
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: preaching and singing and laying hands and slinging oil on nobody.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: She was there, call me Mara, which means bitterness. I
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: went out full and I came home empty. And while
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: she was talking all out of her head, she was
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: still affecting Ruth. Because sometimes your greatest witness is in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: your frustration and your test. And your trial. And when
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  Speaker 1: I see you survive hell and high water. And I
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: see you still going forward. Even though you don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like going forward. Your greatest witness might not come while
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you're on the mountain. It might come while you're in
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the valley. At your lowest moment. See you're not as
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: powerful when things are going good. As you are when
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: all hell is breaking loose. There's something about all hell
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: breaking loose. That it brings something out of you. Where
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: people can see you suffer more. And still be consistent.
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  Speaker 1: She was depressed. But she kept on walking. She was angry.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: But she kept on walking. She was hurt. But she
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: kept on walking. I found out a long time ago.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: If you keep on walking. You can walk your way
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: out of anything. If you just keep on walking. You
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: ain't got to feel like walking. You ain't got to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: be excited about walking. You ain't got to be happy
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: about walking. But if you just keep on the steps
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: of a good man. Are ordered by the Lord. And
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: if you just keep on walking in what God ordered,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: he didn't ask you to like it. He just told
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you to walk it out. I think this is walking
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  Speaker 1: out Wednesday. So we need to walk out some stuff
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: until people get healed and people get delivered. That's why
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the devil hates you now. I learned way more from
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: my spiritual father in his times of grief. In his
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: times of loss, in his times of testing and trial,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I learned way more than I did in his times
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: of success. I watched him suffer. I watched him go
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: through turmoil. I watched him go through all kinds of stuff.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And I thought, Lord, have mercy at the things I
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: got to see. Because when you get close enough to
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: somebody that you can see their wounds, that's what makes
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Thomas believe. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. When
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you see their wounds, see, you're trying to see their face,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: but you need to see their wounds. Blessed are they
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: who have not seen, but yet they believe. But Thomas
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: believed because he saw Jesus' wounds. Jesus didn't hide his
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: wounds from Thomas. He showed him his wounds because his
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: wounds was his deed of trust. It was his signature.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: It was his authenticity. It was his absolute proof that
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  Speaker 1: he was the same Jesus that was on the cross.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And he said, let me show you my scars, not
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: my stars. Let me show you my scars. The fact
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that I'm still here. I've been wounded. I've been depressed.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I cried myself to sleep, but I'm still here. And
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I got favor. Even when it doesn't look like I
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: got favor, I got favor to be here. I got
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: favor to still be standing. I got favor to be
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: in my right mind. Somebody get an ass and settle
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the ass because I got somewhere to go. I got
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: somewhere to go because I'm not going to let the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: devil talk me into thinking that I'm cursed. Some of
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you have allowed the devil to make you think there's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a curse on your life because you judge favor by
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: your condition. But you need to judge favor by your position.
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  Speaker 1: Your condition is going to change all the time, but
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: your position is going to stay the same. I'm still
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: his child. If I'm broke, I'm his child. If I'm prodigal,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I'm his child. If I'm in the hog pen, I'm
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: his child. If I'm lonely, I'm his child. If I'm
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: backed up against the wall, I'm his child. That's why
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you got to be careful about doing something to me
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: because I'm his child. Saul was wrong as rain. But
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: David said, I'm not going to touch God's anointing. He's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: still anointed, even though he's wrong and stubborn. And even
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: though he tried to kill me, I still respect the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: anointing that is on his life. I'm talking about being
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: favored in a bad situation. Oh God, I hope somebody's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: watching on the stream. I hope somebody's hearing what I'm
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: saying to you. The devil's trying to talk you out
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: of your favor and make you think that God don't
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: love you. And you're claiming that you're living up under
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a generational curse. You're all under the curse because you
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: said you were. If you talk the curse, you're going
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to live in the curse. But if you talk the blessing,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: you're going to live in the blessing. Oh, you're on
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: a type of a lie. I'm still favored. I might
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: be in a bad season, but I'm still favored. My
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: roof might be leaking, but I'm still favored. They may
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: have repossessed my car, but I'm still favored. Watch me.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I'll get me another car. I'll come back around again.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I'll buy me another house. I'll get myself together. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Because the righteous man will fall seven times. But he
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: keeps on getting up. Glory to God. And just because
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you caught me while I was on the ground don't
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: mean I'm not going to get back up again. Glory
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to God. The favor of God is not based on
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: my condition. It is based on my position. My position
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: is secure. In him I live. In him I move. Oh,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: let me stop. I'm going too far. Let me stop.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Let me pull myself off that text. My God, I'll
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: start a fight in here right now. You can't tell
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: me I'm not favored. I've been through too much not
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to know that I'm favored. I've suffered too many things
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: not to know that I'm favored. I've survived too many
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: things not to know that I'm favored. I'm not perfect,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: but I'm favored. I'm not always prayerful, but I'm favored.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not always in God's will, but I'm favored. There's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: a favor that rests on me that's different from anybody
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: else in the world. I ain't jealous of nobody. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: ain't got to go see anybody's king I dwell amongst
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: my own people. I know who I am. I'm favored.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: The woman said I ain't got no child, but I'm
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: still favored. I don't need nothing. I don't need a thing.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Look at how she saw herself. Look at her self-talk.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Look at how she talked to herself. Well, why are
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you talking to yourself some other kind of way? She
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: could have been complaining. I don't have no child. I
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: got all of this house and I don't have no child.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: She said, I don't need nothing. I don't need to
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: go to the king. I don't need to borrow your favor.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I don't need your influence. I got my own stuff.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I dwell amongst my own people. I know who I am.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I don't need you to tell me who I am.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I don't need a title. I don't need a license.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I don't need a decree. I don't need you to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: believe I'm a preacher. You can say I'm not a
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: preacher all you want. There are preachers that don't do
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: nothing but talk about other preachers. You have never heard
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: me get up in the pulpit and give God's pulpit
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: over to talking about another preacher Because God didn't call
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: me to talk about preachers. He called me to talk
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: about him. And I'm not going to get in God's
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: holy pulpit and start talking about people. Because the one
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: you're talking about today, you're going to mess around and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: need tomorrow. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Lord have mercy. Don't you feel that favor? The favor
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: is coming off this stage. It's sliding down into the pews.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: It's getting in the aisle. It's coming out of my mouth.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: It's coming out of my spirit. It's coming out of
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: my body. I don't have to have no help. I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have to have no organ. The favor isn't
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: coming out of the drums. It's coming out of me.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I had favor in the storefront. I had favor when
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't have money. I had favor when I had
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to hitch a ride to teach Bible class. But when
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I got to the class, I still had favor. Didn't
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I have favor? Didn't I have favor? Long time ago,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: long time ago, on food stamps I had favor. Back
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: against the wall I had favor. Favor don't have nothing
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to do with your bank account. Favor has something to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: do with your soul account. I got favor. Favor, you
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: can't see it. and this is how you this is
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: how you're going to walk it out you're going to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: walk in your favor you're going to walk in your
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: favor but you're going to understand that your favor does
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: not exempt you from life people are going to hurt
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: you the fact that the boy died doesn't take away
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: from the fact that God gave her the boy It
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: wasn't a mistake. He died. Excuse me. He was grown,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: but he died. He lived a long life. Devil, you
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: ain't going to get this. I'm going to keep on going.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: If I have to sneeze every sentence, I'm going to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: keep on going. He still had faith up. She got
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to see him grow up. She got to see him
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: turn into a grown man. He didn't die till he
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: was grown. Still it's favor from God. There is always
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: something to be thankful for. There's always something to be
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: grateful for. You have to choose what you're going to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: look at. It's the way you tell your story to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: yourself that's making you sick, that's making you mad, that's
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: making you frustrated. I can take the same story and
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: spin it around and show you God. We could be
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: at hell's kitchen and I'll still show you God. You
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: can make your bed in hell and I'll still show
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: you God. You can be sick with leukemia and I'll
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: still show you God. You can be blind and can't
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: see and I'll still show you God. Blind Bartimaeus couldn't
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: see a thing, but he heard Jesus was passing by.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I thank God for good ears. My eyes might be bad,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: but my ears are still good. And faith comes by hearing,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and hearing by the word of God. I'm not supposed
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: to walk by sight. It depends on what you say
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to yourself, what you get. Tell your neighbor, I got favor.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I still got favor. I might be in a bad season,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: but I got favor. I may be knocked down to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: my knees, but I got favor. I may have to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: crawl across the floor, but I got favor. I may
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: be lied on, but I still got favor. I may
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: be in the hog pen, but I still got favor.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: The prodigal son had enough favor to know he could
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: still go back home. He'd been with the harlots. He
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: had spent all his money. He was broke. He had
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: disgraced his father. But he said, I will arise and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: go to my father's house. He never for a moment
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: thought his father wouldn't take him back because he knew
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: even in his mess, he was still his son. He said,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I'm no more worthy. To be called our son. But
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I'm still your son. Make me a hired servant. I'm
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: coming home. It was favor that brought him back home.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: It was favor that brought him to his senses. It
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: was favor that stopped him from eating with the swine.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: It was favor that caused him to survive. Enough to
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: get back to his father's house. It was favor that
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: made them kill the fatty calf. And you know why
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: they killed the fatty calf? Because without the shedding of blood.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: There is no remission of sins. It wasn't that they
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: killed a calf just so they could throw a party.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Something had to die so something could live. I heard
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the father say, this my son that was dead is
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: alive again. And the sacrifice came when they killed the
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: fatted calf. That calf died that the son might live.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: And he kept on walking. And that's what you got
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to do. You got to keep on walking. When you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: feel good, when you don't feel good, you got to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: keep on walking. Hallelujah. This is walking out Wednesday. Somebody
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: ought to take a little walk and let the devil
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: know I'm going to keep on walking. If the kids
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: don't call, if the car don't start, If I have
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: to move in the garage, I'm going to keep on walking.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: If I have to get a part-time job, if I
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: have to flip hamburgers, I'm going to keep on walking.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I got favor, favor in my hands, favor in my feet.
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  Speaker 1: I got favor all over me. I said I got
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  Speaker 1: favor all over me. Somebody give me 30 seconds of
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  Speaker 1: crazy praise. Crazy. No, no, crazy praise. This is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm wanting you to see. This is what I'm wanting
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you to get out of the text. That just because
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  Speaker 1: you have favor doesn't mean that your life always goes right.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that you win every battle. Doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: everybody believes in you and everybody receives you. They hated Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They conspired against him. They tried to make his life
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  Speaker 1: a living hell, but he kept on walking. They despised him.
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  Speaker 1: They called him Beelzebub. They said he was a wine giver,
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  Speaker 1: but he kept on healing the sick and raising the dead.
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  Speaker 1: You think the victory is to change somebody's mind about you.
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  Speaker 1: Let them think whatever they want to think. Let them
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  Speaker 1: say whatever they want to say. If you got the
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  Speaker 1: favor of God, that's something you can't take from me.
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  Speaker 1: God has anointed me to do this and come hell
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  Speaker 1: or high water. If I get ready to do this,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: can't nobody stop me. If I get ready, I Get ready.
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  Speaker 1: If I decide to open my mouth, the power of God,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the power, the power. Now, I want you to sit down,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: sit down, sit down. I'm just talking to you. I'm
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: supposed to be teaching. But I got this little preach
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  Speaker 1: on me right now. I'm trying to calm it down,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: but I got you. Bye-bye. but I feel some stirring
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: up in my belly. God Almighty. Hallelujah. Are there any
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Mormons in the house? What would you do if your
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  Speaker 1: child died on your lap? Died right on your lap.
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  Speaker 1: And even then, she took him up and laid him
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  Speaker 1: in the bed. She didn't bury him. She didn't plan
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  Speaker 1: no funeral. She laid him in the bed and got
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  Speaker 1: on an ass that said, slack not thy biddy. And
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I told you donkeys don't even move fast. She must
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  Speaker 1: have been kicking the donkey. Because when I'm after something,
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  Speaker 1: don't get in my way. I said, when I'm after something,
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  Speaker 1: don't get in my way. If I decide I'm going
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  Speaker 1: after something, you better move. You better do stuff you
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  Speaker 1: don't normally do. If you're going to stick with me,
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  Speaker 1: you got to move. I don't care what your nature is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what your mood is. If you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be with me, you got to go. Because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going somewhere. The favor of God is on me. Come
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: hell or high water. If I tell you... Now look
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  Speaker 1: at this. She went to the man of God. The
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  Speaker 1: prophet said God had hid it from me. So you
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  Speaker 1: can be a true prophet and still not see everything.
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  Speaker 1: You can be a prophet of God and God hide
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  Speaker 1: certain things from you. God is not going to explain
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  Speaker 1: himself to you. He is not going to show you everything.
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  Speaker 1: Some things are going to catch you off guard. even
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  Speaker 1: though you're a prophet. Prophet enough to speak the child
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  Speaker 1: into existence, but not prophet enough to see that he
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  Speaker 1: was dead. Are you hearing the oxymoron between the two things?
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Because when I'm on, I'm on. But when I'm off,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just a person. And the Lord has hid it
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  Speaker 1: from me. And then he says, Gehazi, take my rod.
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  Speaker 1: And go, you mean I have walked, I have rode
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  Speaker 1: all the way up here on the back of a
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  Speaker 1: donkey to see you and you sent your servant? You
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  Speaker 1: didn't come yourself? I came to see you. When I
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  Speaker 1: saw your servant, I said, it is well. Which as
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  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't come here to talk to none
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  Speaker 1: of your minions. I went back to the source. Sometimes
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: you got to go back to the source. You can't
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  Speaker 1: go to the armor bearer. You got to go to
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  Speaker 1: the source, the one who said it in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: And when she made it to the one who said
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  Speaker 1: it in the first place, he sent the servant with
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  Speaker 1: his rod and he failed. Can you imagine what the
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: devil said to her? Where are you failing now? The
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  Speaker 1: rod must not have no power in it. It didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Gehazi came back and told Elisha, I tried it, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't work. Boy still dead. Time is passing. He then
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  Speaker 1: got hard and cold. He's stiff. Rigor mortis has set in.
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  Speaker 1: But his mama still believe it. You went through a bankruptcy,
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  Speaker 1: but you still believe it. Somebody living in the house
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: got repossessed, but you still believe it. You hear what
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about? You still believe and that's what I'm
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: talking about. That's how you walk it out. You walk
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  Speaker 1: it out by faith. You walk it out by believing God. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there are going to be voices that come up in
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: your head and say you are a fool. Yes, there
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: are going to be voices that come up in your
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: head and challenge your faith and say it didn't work.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: You've been feeding this prophet. You built a room for
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: this prophet and it didn't work. That word will leap
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  Speaker 1: over top of the fact that the prophet spoke the
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  Speaker 1: boy into existence. It will leap over top of the
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: fact that the boy lived to be a grown man.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: And it will, see, you got to understand something. You
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  Speaker 1: can do 10 things right and do one thing wrong
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  Speaker 1: and people will forget everything you did right and throw
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  Speaker 1: it away over one thing they heard. Don't you count
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  Speaker 1: on flesh. Because they'll say Hosanna today and crucify him
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: in the morning. They will change on you in a minute.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Leave you standing by yourself. Of course she had voices saying,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: look at this. But Elijah said, I'm going myself. And
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Elijah didn't even use his rod. He got on top
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: of the corpse. The corpse, a deteriorating corpse. has so
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: much fungus and bacteria on it that they used to
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: tie people to corpses as punishment for murder until the
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  Speaker 1: infection from the corpse died into the murderer and killed him.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: And Elijah laid on top of something that should have
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  Speaker 1: killed him. But because he was stronger than the bacteria.
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  Speaker 1: He was stronger than the fungus. He was stronger than
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  Speaker 1: the molecules. He was stronger than the infection. He was
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: stronger than the disease. Either he was going to get
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: cold like the corpse or the corpse was going to
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: get warm like him. And that's why I can walk
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  Speaker 1: with the ungodly. Because I know who I am. And
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have more influence over you than you
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  Speaker 1: have on me. I'm not going to get cold because
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you cold. I don't have to hide from you. I
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: don't have to practice witchcraft because you a witch. I
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: can walk right through the witches. You can get your
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: roots out and I'll get mine out because I got
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the root of Jesse and I got the seed of
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Abraham and I got the power of the living God.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I ain't scared of you. And so the Bible takes
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the time to tell you that the flesh of the
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  Speaker 1: boy waxed warm because it is implying that it was cold.
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  Speaker 1: That means when Elijah laid on him, he was cold.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: And if you ever touch a dead body, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. He's cold. If the body is cold,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: he's also stiff. There's no movement. There's no action. There's
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: no noise. There's no leaping of the hands. There's no
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: jumping of the feet. There's certainly no sneezing. But he
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: progressively got better. Nobody knew he was warming up but Elijah.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Because you can't see temperature. And the Bible said, I
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: don't need to be up here tonight, y'all. I'm sorry.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: I'm messing up to walk it out on Wednesday. The
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Bible said that he started sneezing. That was an outer
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  Speaker 1: sign of an interchange. The Watson warm was just a
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  Speaker 1: secret between the prophet and the body. And nobody knew
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: that the temperature was changing. There are some of you,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: your circumstance still looks the same. But you can feel
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  Speaker 1: a change in the temperature. You can feel a change
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: in the temperature. And I came to serve notice on
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: you that you're not wrong about it. It may not
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: move yet. It may not make any noise yet. But
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: if you feel it getting warm, believe what you feel.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: The power Bible said the flesh of the boy waxed
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: warmer and the prophet just kept on laying there after
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: a while he sneezed and he sneezed seven times and
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: on the seventh time which is the number of completion
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: it was over but what I want you to see
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: It's not the promise. It's the process. How hard the
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: process was. The process had disappointment in it. The process
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: had failure in it. The process had disillusionment in it.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: The process had disappointment in it. But she kept on walking.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you didn't get what you want the way
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: you envisioned it when you thought it was going to
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  Speaker 1: come out a certain way doesn't mean it's not going
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: to happen. God is teaching you to be tough. God
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: is teaching you to be relentless. God is teaching you. See,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: having the baby was easy. She didn't have to work
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: to have the baby. It was fun having the baby.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: She didn't have to believe God to have the baby.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: The prophet just spoke it and said about this time
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: next year the baby's going to come. Nothing was required
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: of her to birth the baby except to push. But
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: when he died, the work moved from the prophet to
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  Speaker 1: the woman. And the woman had to believe God in
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the face of failure. I wish I was preaching to
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  Speaker 1: somebody that's standing in the face of failure. I hope
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: somebody's online that's standing in the face of failure. God's
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: got you online. Tonight is your night. He's got you
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: listening at this word to let you know that you're
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: in the process. You're not in the promise yet, but
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: you're in the process. You learn more about God in
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: the process than you do in the promise. God will
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: take care of the promise all by himself, but the
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: process is for your edification. The process is for your anointing.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: The process is for your strength. The process is to
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: make you tenacious. The process is raising you. He's maturing you.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: He's fathering you. He's mothering you. He's adopting you. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said that the whole earth will groan and
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: prevail in pain waiting for the adoption to wit. The
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  Speaker 1: whole process was in turmoil and we're living in a
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  Speaker 1: world that's bubbling right now. It's in turmoil right now.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: It's rocking and reeling right now. Everything is shaking right now. See,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: I was at Katrina. It wasn't the rain or the
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: wind that killed the people in Katrina. It was when
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: the levees broke. When the foundations start cracking, that's when
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: the water got bad and people started drowning in the
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: water and the alligators and the snakes started moving through
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: the water. And I'm watching our foundations crack. Our foundations
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: are cracking. Our foundations are cracking. And a thousand may
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: fall at my right side and ten thousand may fall
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: on my left side. But I refuse to lay down
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: and tell myself that I got to be one of them.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: There might be somebody that go, but it ain't got
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: to be me. Because greater is he that is in
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: me than he that's in the world. Clap your hands
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: and praise him. Give me one of them questions. Before
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I have a fit up here and roll down this aisle.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: and start dancing in the middle of the aisle. Because
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: I feel an unction in here. I feel a power
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: in here. I feel a flow in here. I feel
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: a divine move of God in here. Come on, shout yes, somebody.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Shout yes! Shout yes! Shout yes! Here's the question. I
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: love this question. Because of the trauma that happened in
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: my past, how can I ever see myself as worthy
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: of God's oil? Sweetheart, let me tell you something. If
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: you didn't have no trauma in your past, you still
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be worthy of God's oil. God does not give
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  Speaker 1: us his oil because we are worthy. The woman had
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: the alabaster box and and it was filled with spignard,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: which is a fine Indian perfume. The alabaster box was
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: designed for the richest of ointments because it held the
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: smell on the inside. The oil is in the container,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: and the container is wrapped around the oil. And in
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: spite of how strong the oil was, it never changed
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: the container. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. That's going
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: to hit you tomorrow morning. We have this treasure in
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: earthen vessels that the excellency may be of God and
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: not of us. I don't care how anointed you get,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: your flesh is still flesh. You don't believe it, just
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: stop bathing. You don't believe it, just don't put on deodorant.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Don't brush your teeth in the morning. Your flesh is
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: still flesh. Anointed, bad breath-spelling, musty-armed flesh. But it's still
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: got oil in there. And I can still cast out
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: a devil with bad breath. Because one thing don't have
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the other. That that is alabaster
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: is alabaster. And that that is sphignard is sphignard. And
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: don't get confused. The problem with the church is we
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: think that if we have the sphignard long enough, it
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: will change the alabaster. But it won't. The woman broke
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: the alabaster. And it shattered on the floor. And the
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: sphignard changed the whole room. But it didn't change the alabaster.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: We have this treasure in earthen vessels, but having the
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: treasure in earthen vessels does not change the vessel. But
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: when he shall appear, mortality shall put on immortality. All
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: this Holy Ghost I got on the inside is not
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: going to change my mortal body. Oh, but when he appears,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: it's going to change everything. And when it does change it,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be because I'm worthy. So the
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: devil is trying to convince you that the trauma is
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: stronger than grace. So what I want you to understand
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: is God said, my strength is made perfect in your weakness.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: When you are weak, then am I strong. So I
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: want you to let go of the idol of your
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: trauma because you have made your trauma a God in
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: your life. And you are saying, how can I receive
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: the oil when I had the trauma of my past
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: as if the trauma was stronger than the triumphant? And
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: by the way, everybody in here had trauma in their past.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Everybody in here, me first, I'm first one in line.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Paul said, I'm chiefest amongst sinners. And we're not here
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: because we are worthy of of God's soul. I'm not
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: preaching because I'm worthy to preach the gospel. In fact,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: I told God when he called me, I said, you
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: sure ain't getting nothing. I said, you sure? You sure
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: about this? Let's talk about this because this don't make sense.
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: You must have been talking to one of my neighbors
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: because I know you ain't talking to me because I
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: had no plans of doing this I'd have opened up
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  Speaker 1: a club before I'd have done this. Look, look, this
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: is not a good idea. But God, who is rich
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: in mercy, wherein he hath loved us, hath chosen us.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Are there any chosen people in here? You're chosen people.
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  Speaker 1: You're chosen, and it has nothing to do with your worthiness. Now,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: you may have to hear this over and over again
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: to treat your trauma. To treat your trauma, you have
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: to say this until it gets in your mouth. My
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: mouth is not strong enough to heal your trauma. Because
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: your trauma will not lose its grip until your mouth
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: starts confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus. When you
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: start confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus more than
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: you confess the past trauma, the trauma will have to
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: let you go. And it's going to be gradual. It's
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: going to wax warm. It ain't going to be red hot.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: It's going to wax warm. Every birthday it's going to
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: get a little warmer. Where are my real people at?
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: All the real people know how long it takes you
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: to get past your past. And you still working on it.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Because every now and then something triggers you and you
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: snap back to where you were. Can we be real?
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Can we be real in here? Can we be real
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: in here? This is what gets me in trouble. Because
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: some of these churches try to pass themselves off as
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: something they are not. There are no perfect churches. And
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: if you find one and go in there, then it's
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: not going to be perfect. And you let people stand
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: up and tell you stuff that's completely contrary to the scriptures.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: When the scriptures say there is none good but the Father,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: none righteous, no not one. Amen. And you let them
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: get up and parade around in suits and tell you
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: how righteous they are and how righteous their church is
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: and everybody dancing and shouting and you feeling all bad.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Don't let the dance fool you. It's still feet of clay.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: We see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Next question, why is it that oftentimes God doesn't give
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: us the details of the promise that he has for us?
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: The death of her son in the story. Well, Lord. Now,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: let's play this back. Let's play this back and let's
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: rewrite the text because we rewrite history anyway. So let's
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: rewrite the text to go along with your thesis story.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: okay great woman of God who has been a blessing
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: to my prophet over and over again and built him
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: a room I am going to give you a child
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: and he is going to grow up and die in
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: your lap She couldn't handle the truth. Every time the
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: boy took a nap, she'd be in the room saying,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: you breathing? God gives you what you can handle. God,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: it's not God's job to let you in on details
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: because if you're going to walk by faith, faith don't
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: give you details. Abraham said, me and the lad are
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: going yonder to worship, and we will come back again.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: But he didn't know how. He was going to stab
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: that boy. He raised his knife to stab his son,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: expecting God to raise him up. God was going to
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: raise up a son, but it wasn't Abraham's son. God
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: never told Abram that he had a ram in the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: thicket until Abram had raised his hand to kill his son.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: And then when he raised his hand, God said, now
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I know. See, I couldn't find out if I'd have
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: given you all the details because you would have known
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  Speaker 1: this was just a dress rehearsal. But I wanted you
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  Speaker 1: to walk all the way up on the hill fully
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  Speaker 1: persuaded that you were going to offer him up as
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  Speaker 1: a burnt offering. A burnt offering, not just a slain offering.
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  Speaker 1: But a burnt offering was where all the blood drained
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  Speaker 1: down into a pan and the flesh was set on fire.
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  Speaker 1: And it was his son. Can you imagine? I would
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  Speaker 1: act like I was deaf. I'd say, what you say?
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  Speaker 1: What you say? I can't hear like I used to hear.
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  Speaker 1: What you say? You want me to raise a knife
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  Speaker 1: and slay my son and let the pan catch his
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  Speaker 1: blood and then take the wood? Daddy, I see the knife. Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: I see the wood. The knife represents his judgment. The
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  Speaker 1: wood represents the cross. That's why Isaac had to carry
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  Speaker 1: the wood. because he's acting out how Jesus is going
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  Speaker 1: to carry the cross. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to you? Do you hear what I'm saying to you?
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  Speaker 1: And he's carrying the wood, and he said, Daddy, I
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  Speaker 1: see the knife, and I see the wood, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't see the sacrifice. But what he didn't know is
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  Speaker 1: that right over his shoulder, God had a ram tied.
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  Speaker 1: What God got for you is tied. Amen. What God
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  Speaker 1: got for you is tied in the thicket. And you're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to see it right now. Or you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: need faith. For faith is the substance of things hoped
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  Speaker 1: for and the evidence of things not seen. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do one more. How do you maintain faith when
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  Speaker 1: evidence contradicts the promise? It's supposed to. That's why you
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: got faith. If the evidence agreed with the promise... If
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  Speaker 1: a man, let me put it to you the way
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  Speaker 1: scripture says, if a man sees that which he hopes for,
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  Speaker 1: why does he yet hope for it? It wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: silly for me to be standing up here saying, I
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  Speaker 1: believe God to let me walk. Because I can walk. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if I was paralyzed from the waist down, now the
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  Speaker 1: evidence is defying the faith and the faith becomes the
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  Speaker 1: substance of of the thing that I hope for. But
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  Speaker 1: if I see that which I hope for, why would
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  Speaker 1: I yet hope for it? So God doesn't always show
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  Speaker 1: you everything to perfect your faith. So you don't ruin things.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: So you don't meddle with things. I was praying for
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  Speaker 1: one of my children one time. I was praying because
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: they were going through something and I didn't want them
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  Speaker 1: to go through nothing. And I was praying And I
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: was praying. It was hard. It wasn't no little something.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: It was a big old something. And God said to me,
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  Speaker 1: when are you going to learn that I know how
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  Speaker 1: to raise your children better than you? When are you
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  Speaker 1: going to learn that I'm better at being a father
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  Speaker 1: than you? No, I'm not going to tell you how
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do it. I'm not going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you when I'm going to do it. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to tell you how long you got to wait. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to tell you what you got to go through.
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  Speaker 1: I mean for you to suffer with it. I mean
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  Speaker 1: for you to sweat till drops of blood come out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean for you to rock them in your arms
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  Speaker 1: and hold them. Because I'm bonding you through the trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I'm shaping you through the trouble. I'm perfecting you through
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  Speaker 1: the trouble. I'm using the trouble to bless you. And
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: if I did it like you want me to do it,
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  Speaker 1: you want me to do it like instant grits. Now,
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  Speaker 1: most of you young people, that's all y'all know is
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: instant grits. But these old folks know how long you
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: had to cook them old grits. You had to put
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  Speaker 1: them grits on low, and you had to wait a
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: long time before they bubbled. And you had to get
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: them ripe and put a little cream in them, a
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  Speaker 1: little carnation milk in it. And let it bubble up.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, talk to me, somebody. And drop a little
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  Speaker 1: butter over it and a little salt water. And let
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  Speaker 1: it stir up. And you have to stand there like
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  Speaker 1: your grandmama and stir it. And you remember how her
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  Speaker 1: arm was all fat and it'd be stirring up them grits?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, somebody. Come on. See, you used to instant grits.
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  Speaker 1: There is no instant Jesus. Because it is the journey
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  Speaker 1: that defines it. When I walked up Del Rosa up
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  Speaker 1: the cobblestone streets of Jerusalem and imagined in my mind
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  Speaker 1: that I'm walking on the same bricks that Jesus walked up.
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  Speaker 1: And I noticed that God didn't just put him on
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  Speaker 1: the cross. He let him walk it out. With the
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  Speaker 1: wood on his back so heavy that it bent him over.
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  Speaker 1: And then touched Simon of Cyrene to help him lift
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  Speaker 1: up the cross. Because Simon was there for that one moment.
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  Speaker 1: For that one moment. And God will raise you up
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  Speaker 1: for one moment. One moment. He will put you up
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  Speaker 1: for one moment. He will put you in a position
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  Speaker 1: to change somebody's life. He raised you up and put
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  Speaker 1: you in that position to do one thing. Other people
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  Speaker 1: he's going to use for many years. Some people he's
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: going to use for a moment. One man's on the
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  Speaker 1: cross and God used him for one moment to say,
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  Speaker 1: remember me when you get to the kingdom. Remember me
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean I think you got Alzheimer's. Remember me. As
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  Speaker 1: often as you do this, do this in remembrance of me.
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  Speaker 1: So he had one loaf of bread. And last supper,
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  Speaker 1: I got to quit. He had one loaf of bread.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to quit. So he had one loaf
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  Speaker 1: of bread. Say I had one loaf of bread. And
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  Speaker 1: I give you a piece. I give you a piece.
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  Speaker 1: Give you a piece. Give you a piece. Give you
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: a piece. Give you a piece. Give you a piece.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: You a piece. And you a piece. And I say,
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  Speaker 1: remember me. Then all y'all got to come together. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you remember him. You remember him because there
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: are many members in the body. Come on, somebody. Many
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: members in one body. How can the foot say to
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  Speaker 1: the head, I have no need of him? That lets
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: you know what God means when God says, remember. Are
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: you hearing what I'm saying? Bow your heads, let me
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: pray for you. You're watching online, bow your heads. I
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: want to pray for you. I want to pray for
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: you because God has said some serious things to you.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you took some notes. Not just of what
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  Speaker 1: I said, but of things that God said to you
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  Speaker 1: about what I said. He spoke to specific situations that
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  Speaker 1: are going on in your life right now. And he's
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: telling you not to bury your dreams. And now, tonight,
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  Speaker 1: he's telling you how. He's telling you how to put
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: the bread back together. He's showing you how not to
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  Speaker 1: let discouragement deter your destination. He's giving you the courage
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: to fight on. Though the vision tarry, wait for it. Father,
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  Speaker 1: as we bow our heads tonight, oh God, we bow
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  Speaker 1: our heads in an uncertain world, at a crazy time,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: when the world is in turmoil, chaos is everywhere. We
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: bow our heads at a time that our government has
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: shut down. We bow our heads at a time that
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: thousands of people don't have a job. We bow our
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: heads at a time that hatred is rising up like
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: the rain and peaking in our neighborhoods. We bow our
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: heads at a time that the riverbed is dry and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: there is no water there. We bow our heads at
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: a time that we can't sleep all the way through
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: the night without trouble waking us up and troubling our spirits,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: for we know not whether the levish will hold. We
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: don't know if the dam will break. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: if we will be swimming with alligators or waiting on rooftops.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know. We bow our heads. We bow our
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  Speaker 1: heads to say you're bigger than us. You're greater than us.
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  Speaker 1: You're stronger than us. You got more power than us.
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  Speaker 1: You see stuff we don't see. We bow our heads
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  Speaker 1: because we brought our little staff down there and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't work. This is a job for you. In my marriage,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: in my home, in my body, in my own mind,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: this is a job for you. We bow our heads
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  Speaker 1: like children and ask you simple stuff like, show me
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  Speaker 1: how to think right. Help my thinking to get right.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Some of us have inherited the thinking of our parents
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: and our ancestors. We've adopted worry and we don't know
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  Speaker 1: where it came from. But we're going to divorce it tonight.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: We're going to dismember it tonight. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: practice thinking on whatsoever things are lovely and are of
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  Speaker 1: good report. If there be any virtue, if there be
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  Speaker 1: any praise, help us to think on this thing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking you to be my therapist. Would you please be
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: our counselor? Be our master physician. We all dressed up.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: We don't want nobody to know we're sick. We don't
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: want them to know that we're cold and stiff. That
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: the love of many has waxed cold. That we've become indifferent.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: That we are not passionate about you like we used
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: to be. And we miss the fire we used to have.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: That made us come to church. That made us rush
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: out of the car to get in the house of
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  Speaker 1: God to preach your name. We want to walk through
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: the house talking to you like you live with us.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: We open ourselves up to be reshaped because we have
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: been marred in the hand of the potter. We're in
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: your hands, but we're cracked in your hands. Make us
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: again another vessel that seems good to the potter to
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: make it. We thank you tonight because all around this room,
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  Speaker 1: like seeds planted in Mama's garden, there are dreams. all
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  Speaker 1: around this room. Dreams that have died in our life.
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  Speaker 1: Dreams that have embarrassed us in front of our friends.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Dreams that have brought shame and guilt and turmoil. Dreams
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  Speaker 1: that we have not planted, that we have not trusted
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  Speaker 1: you with. But you spoke to us And told us
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: don't bury our dream. You never said don't plant it.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: You just said don't bury it. Tonight. Let the seeds
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: push their way up through the sod. Until a green
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: leaf appears out of the dirt. The dirt will still
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: be the dirt. But you will use it to feed
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: the leaf. And neither one will change colors. But both
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  Speaker 1: of them are necessary in order for the fruit to come.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to bloom right where I'm planted. I'm
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: going to stand right where I am and bloom right
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  Speaker 1: in this spot. I thank you God for the sweeping
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: away of dark spirits, depressing spirits, antagonizing spirits. We spent
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: more time thinking about what might happen than we spent
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: thinking about you. We repent of making idols out of trauma.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: We spent more time looking up what could happen than
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: we have spent looking for you. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: come back to you. Because in thy presence there is
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: fullness of joy. And at thy right hand there are
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: pleasures forevermore. And the things that used to give me
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: pleasure don't give me pleasure like they used to. So
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: I'm running back to you. I'm running back to you
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: for the joy I could not find anywhere else. I
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: pray right now that a spirit of repentance would fall
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: on this room until you become the ultimate priority in
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: our lives and not the newspaper and not the news.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: not the times and not that problem child and not
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: that thing we have spent our time that we should
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: have been praising you talking about stuff that distracted us
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: and then we wondered why we had no peace let
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: peace emerge let it come in because when your peace
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: comes in my creativity is loose my innovation is loose
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: When your peace comes in, my power and my authority
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: is loosed. When your peace comes in, it blocks the witches.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: It shuts down the warlocks. It destroys the curse. Let
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  Speaker 1: curses be broken in this room tonight. Let curses be
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: broken online tonight. Let them be broken in people's living room,
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  Speaker 1: in people's house. on their couch, on their bed, in
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: the dining room table right there. Let the curse be broken. Tonight,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: tonight I make a commitment. I will not bury my dream.
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  Speaker 1: I shall not die, but live and declare the works
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Now, Lord, while we are praying, while
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: we are yet praying, most of the time, We just
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: reach in and grab something and give it to you.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: We just do it. But while we are praying, we
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: want to give an acceptable offering in your sight. The
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  Speaker 1: kind of offering that makes our baby sneeze. The kind
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: of offering that wakes up our peace and joy. The
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  Speaker 1: kind of offering that will give us a good night's
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: sleep tonight. The kind of offering that will cause you
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: to show us the ram in the bush. There's a
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: ram right behind us. But until we lift our hands
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  Speaker 1: to offer that that is most meaningful to us, we
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: will not receive that which is most meaningful to you.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: And so I think tonight I don't give carelessly or
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: indifference but with intentionality I sow tonight and Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: I promise you whatever you say give whatever you ask
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  Speaker 1: of me whatever you speak in my spirit whatever you
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  Speaker 1: stir in my soul I will plant that tonight like
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  Speaker 1: it ain't nothing because it is not worthy to be
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: compared to what you mean to me in Jesus name
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  Speaker 1: amen now priesthood that's who you are you're a royal
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: priest you're a holy nation you are kings and priests
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: under God What say ye? whatever the Holy Spirit spoke
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: to you whether you're online whether you're miles away whether
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  Speaker 1: you have a different currency whether you're in a different
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: time zone it matters not show hell you are a
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  Speaker 1: priest of God and give him an offering according to
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: his excellent greatness. I need not give you a figure
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: because if you prayed with me tonight from a sincere place,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit is going to challenge your faith. You
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: can't get this kind of word and not have your
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: faith challenged. There are some things that money cannot buy.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: But I pray as I give you what I have,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: that you'll give me what you have. And together, this
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: service will be successful. Not because the bishop taught, but
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: because the priesthood obeyed. Let the spirit of obedience rest
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: in this house. As I sow my seed unto the
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: king of kings. And the Lord of Lords. And do
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: it with a smile. For God blesses the cheerful giver.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: The PMTs are in the aisle. Preach to his stand
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  Speaker 1: and wave your sacrifice before the king. Wave it before him.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: Because God has been talking business to us tonight. God
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: has done some big stuff. He's healed some deep stuff.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: He's moved some stuff that we've been struggling with a
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: long time. And as we wave the seed before you,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: we call it done. We call it done. I refuse
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: to walk out of this door being the same person
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: I was when I came in. Not after hearing this word.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: Not tonight. I will not dismember your message with my
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: carnality Sow it now. Pass your seed. If you got
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: a seed all the way to the left, you online,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to walk to the top of
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: the mountain and give your offering to God. This is
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: not about YouTube and Facebook and Instagram. This is about
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: your walk with God and where you stand with God
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: This is your covenant with God. So do it as
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: doing it unto the Lord. You that are holding those
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: seats in your hands, stand with a praise that makes
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: hell nervous. PMTs, Serve the people of God. You've got
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: a few minutes left on air. Don't let this one
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: pass you by. Tonight was a special night. It had
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: your name on it. It had your name on it.
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  Speaker 1: It read your mail tonight.