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Bishop-T-D-Jakes-Let-It-Go · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I want you to get your Bibles. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: share this word with you tonight. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: get your Bibles and go to the book of Psalms.
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  Speaker 2: Psalms, the 23rd Psalms.
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  Speaker 1: I want to appreciate I've got some family members in
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  Speaker 1: the audience. All my family members wave at me. Thank
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  Speaker 1: God for you tonight. All of you elders and pastors
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  Speaker 1: and leaders and singers. This choir sang until I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to find my part. I put my finger in
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  Speaker 1: the ear so I could join in with your famous
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  Speaker 1: world-renowned West Angeles choir. We thank God for them. Can
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  Speaker 1: you say amen? Stand to your feet and I just
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  Speaker 1: want to share with you Just a little out of
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  Speaker 1: Psalms 23. I hope to stop by the table afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: the Let It Go table with you for a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be in Psalms 23. When you have it,
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  Speaker 1: say amen. If you can't find it, say wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: It's so much pressure on you to find the books
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible. You get in that real spiritual environment
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  Speaker 1: and everybody else find it real quick. you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to look like no sinner or nothing. And sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: get real desperate, you know, and they preach a preacher
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  Speaker 1: in Malachi, you can't find it, you have to settle
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  Speaker 1: for Micah. Say that's close enough, Lord. It starts with them.
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  Speaker 1: This scripture is so familiar, I don't even really need
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  Speaker 1: to have you read it. Most of you could probably
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  Speaker 1: quote it, but Psalms 23 is something you learned in
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  Speaker 1: Sunday school and vacation Bible school if you come from
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  Speaker 1: that background and that tradition. But I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be presumptuous enough to think that everybody knows it. And
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  Speaker 1: so for the benefit of somebody who may not have
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  Speaker 1: experienced it, the psalmist David now records his revelation today.
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  Speaker 1: of his relationship with God predicated on his own experience.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that makes God amazing, one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that makes God so amazing is that he can come
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  Speaker 1: to you on your level. You don't have to come
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  Speaker 1: from a religious tradition or a faith background for God
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  Speaker 1: to reveal himself to you. He can reveal himself to
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  Speaker 1: you through a rock. He can reveal himself to you
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  Speaker 1: through a piece of bread because he is the rock
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  Speaker 1: of ages and he is the bread of heaven. He
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  Speaker 1: can take something that you do understand and use it
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  Speaker 1: to reveal something that you don't understand so that nobody
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  Speaker 1: is left out. If God were to make himself available
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  Speaker 1: on the basis of intellect, it would not be just
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  Speaker 1: because we don't all have the same intellect. God is
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  Speaker 1: not explained, he is revealed.
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  Speaker 2: Revealed.
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  Speaker 1: He will reveal himself to a two-year-old as well as
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  Speaker 1: he will a PhD because he speaks in all languages,
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  Speaker 1: reaches all people, touches all people. What God wants to
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  Speaker 1: do in your life tonight is reveal himself to you
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  Speaker 1: more clearly at this stage in your life than any
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  Speaker 1: other stage in your life. Because many of you understand
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  Speaker 1: you need him more now than you have ever needed him.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a witness tonight? You need him in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Not just want him. You need him in
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  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody shout amen. Amen. All right. Let's read this together.
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  Speaker 2: I may drop out, but you continue. The Lord is
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  Speaker 2: my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie
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  Speaker 2: down in your passage.
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  Speaker 1: He gives me the sight to see your heart. He
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  Speaker 1: restores my soul.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Amen. Can you say amen?
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  Speaker 1: Amen. I like the way you said that surely. You
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  Speaker 1: got a little extra when you got to that surely.
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  Speaker 1: Almost like you thought the devil might be listening at
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  Speaker 1: you and let him know you don't have no doubt
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  Speaker 1: how your story is going to end. So when you
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  Speaker 1: got to that surely, you piped it up a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and said surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
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  Speaker 1: all the days of my life and I will dwell
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  Speaker 1: in the house of.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord forever. Somebody shout amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. I want to, there's so much here. There's so
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  Speaker 1: many wonderful things here. But I want to go back
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  Speaker 1: to the second birth for a moment. He maketh me
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  Speaker 1: to lie down in green pastures. He maketh me to
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  Speaker 1: lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the
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  Speaker 1: still waters. Somebody shout still waters.
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  Speaker 3: Still waters.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about still waters tonight. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to remain standing because God wants to put you
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  Speaker 1: in a place of still waters. He wants to put
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  Speaker 1: you in a place of still waters, not hurricanes, not tornadoes,
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  Speaker 1: not turbulence of any kind. He wants to put you
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  Speaker 1: in a place of still waters. There may be turbulence
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  Speaker 1: all around you, but he wants your center to be
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  Speaker 1: still waters.
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  Speaker 2: To be calm.
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  Speaker 1: You must have a calm place in order to deal
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  Speaker 1: with all the chaos in your periphery. You can deal
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  Speaker 1: with chaos around you until it gets in you. You
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  Speaker 1: can deal with chaos at work, but when the chaos
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  Speaker 1: at work gets in you, it becomes detrimental because it
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  Speaker 1: begins to deteriorate what God wants.
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  Speaker 2: To do through you.
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  Speaker 1: Ships don't sink because they pass through the water. They
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  Speaker 1: only go down when the water passes through them. It
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  Speaker 1: is not what is going on around you that's giving
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  Speaker 1: you the trouble. It's what's going on inside of you
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  Speaker 1: that's giving you the trouble. You have the power to
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  Speaker 1: deal with the conditions and.
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  Speaker 2: The circumstances around you.
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  Speaker 1: If you could get what is around you from affecting
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  Speaker 1: what is inside of you, you could operate from a
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  Speaker 1: still place. And the Lord sent me all the way
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  Speaker 1: from Dallas, Texas tonight because together you and I are
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  Speaker 1: going to go into that place of stillness and solidarity
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  Speaker 1: so that you can take back everything that the enemy
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  Speaker 1: stole from you. You don't hear what I'm saying to you.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm excited about it tonight. Shout amen. Father, we
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  Speaker 1: stand in this sacred place and we honor you tonight
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  Speaker 1: because you are God.
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  Speaker 3: And besides you, there.
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  Speaker 2: Is no other.
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  Speaker 1: And we pray you homage today because whatever we have
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  Speaker 1: done and whatever we have accomplished has not been through
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  Speaker 1: our own auspices or might, but by our own divine power,
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  Speaker 1: you have enabled us to do what we do. Many
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  Speaker 1: have come tonight because they want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to hear me. They want to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you. In fact, I want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: We are hungry tonight. Bread of heaven, feed us until
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  Speaker 1: we want no more. And I thank you in advance
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  Speaker 1: for what you're about to do. Have your way in
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  Speaker 1: this place. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: shout amen. You may be seated in the presence of God.
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  Speaker 1: I love to talk about David. I'm going to try
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  Speaker 1: not to get lost in talking about David because I
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  Speaker 1: could spend all night talking about David. He's probably one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite characters in the Bible. But I'm just
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  Speaker 1: using David's life as a metaphor to really talk to
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  Speaker 1: you because my assignment tonight is to bring you into
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  Speaker 1: a place. where you can have still waters and you
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  Speaker 1: cannot have still waters until you release or let go
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  Speaker 1: many of the things that are distracting you and invading
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  Speaker 1: your space. But let me preface my remarks by saying
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  Speaker 1: that David is not the preferred son of Jesse. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he is an ignored son of Jesse. He is the
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  Speaker 1: eighth child of Jesse, his father. He does not look
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  Speaker 1: like his life is going anywhere. He is a shepherd
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  Speaker 1: boy with a destiny locked inside of him. But at
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  Speaker 1: this moment in his life, at the early stages in
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  Speaker 1: his life, he is surrounded by mediocrity. Now, mediocrity is
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  Speaker 1: not a bad thing. Ordinariness is not a bad thing
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  Speaker 1: until you have greatness inside of you.
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  Speaker 2: When you have greatness inside of.
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  Speaker 1: You and you're surrounded by mediocrity, you can be tormented
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  Speaker 1: by what other people are satisfied with. Tormented and taunted
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  Speaker 1: by the fact that there is a sense, there is
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  Speaker 1: an inner knowing within all of us that we are
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  Speaker 1: people of purpose and that something is supposed to happen
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  Speaker 1: in our lives. The challenge is how do we get
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  Speaker 1: that thing that we sense in our spirit to manifest
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  Speaker 1: in our life when we are constantly bombarded with adversity?
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  Speaker 1: David is not the preferred son of Jesse. Seemingly, when
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  Speaker 1: the enemy knows that God is going to use you
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  Speaker 1: in a mighty way, he does everything he can to
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  Speaker 1: upset the very genesis of your life, to kind of
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  Speaker 1: set you on a path of destructive behavior, to limit
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  Speaker 1: any self-esteem that you might have.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't fight anybody that's not destined to go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But when he senses it, there's greatness inside of you,
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  Speaker 1: the attack comes early.
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  Speaker 2: It comes early. Somebody knows what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody who's had to fight all of your life, had
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  Speaker 1: to struggle all of your life. You feel like Oprah
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  Speaker 1: on The Color Purple. I had to fight all of
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  Speaker 1: my life. You've been through all kinds of stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: that is not a sign of weakness. It is a
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  Speaker 1: sign of greatness. And David has greatness down inside of himself,
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  Speaker 1: but he has to go through a process for that
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  Speaker 1: greatness to be revealed. And over a period of time,
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  Speaker 1: God begins to bring forth his purpose. I've been on
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  Speaker 1: a tangent in my church about living on purpose. I've
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  Speaker 1: been teaching for weeks and weeks and weeks about living
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  Speaker 1: on purpose because most people get up out of the
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  Speaker 1: bed in the morning to see what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And then there are a group of people who get
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  Speaker 1: up out of the bed to make something happen. You
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  Speaker 1: have to decide which category you're gonna be in. Either
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get up on the bed and sit on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the bed and say, well, Lord, what
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  Speaker 1: am I gonna do today? Or you're gonna wake up
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  Speaker 1: with an agenda and an urgency and a direction and
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  Speaker 1: a focus. See, when you got direction, you resist distraction.
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  Speaker 1: I said, when you got direction, you resist distraction. You
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  Speaker 1: know what is and is not on your agenda. David
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  Speaker 1: had to find that place where he began to understand
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  Speaker 1: that God was going to do something in his life
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  Speaker 1: for which his background did not predict. You would not
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  Speaker 1: think that God would make a king out of a
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  Speaker 1: shepherd boy. I want to take a moment and say,
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  Speaker 1: do not limit your vision to your situations. Your situation
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  Speaker 1: may not be an indicator of what God is going
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  Speaker 1: to do in your life. In fact, your situation and
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  Speaker 1: circumstance can be a direct contradiction to what.
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  Speaker 2: God is going to do in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I have learned that God has a tendency to use
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  Speaker 1: the least likely people to do the most amazing things.
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  Speaker 2: So that when they do them, there is no.
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  Speaker 1: Question as to how they got to do what they did.
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely a fact that if the Lord had
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  Speaker 1: not been on your side, you wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 1: do what you do. Anybody who'd been through what you've
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  Speaker 1: been through should have had a nervous breakdown, should have
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  Speaker 1: thrown in the towel, should have blown their brains out.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody who had to fight the way you had to
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  Speaker 1: fight all of your life ought not even be here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But when God is for you I said, when God
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  Speaker 1: is for you, who can be against you? It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter whether you're the preferred son or you were the
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  Speaker 1: preferred daughter or whether you came from the Ivy League
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  Speaker 1: school or not. When God is for you, he will
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  Speaker 1: push you ahead. He will set you in a position.
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  Speaker 1: He will raise you up. And he will do it
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that when it happens, this is
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  Speaker 1: why you have haters. Because when it happens, they can't
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  Speaker 1: understand how somebody like you could end up in a
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  Speaker 1: place like this. The problem with your haters is that
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  Speaker 1: they think that they're more qualified, and they may be.
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  Speaker 1: They think they've been groomed for it, and they may have.
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  Speaker 1: But when you walk in divine favor, God can execute
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  Speaker 1: a plan in your life that supernaturally imposes you into
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  Speaker 1: a position for which you've never been there before. And
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  Speaker 1: you're walking around like Gomer Powell, talking about, golly, you
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  Speaker 1: don't even know how you got there. and beam you up,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know who I'm preaching to, but somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting ready to be beamed into a position and
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  Speaker 1: a situation that is beyond human comprehension. This is why
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  Speaker 1: you cannot afford to allow the turbulence of the times,
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  Speaker 1: the wickedness of your surroundings, the narrowness of your friends
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  Speaker 1: To deter you from your destiny. You have to have
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  Speaker 1: a sense in your spirit. And in your heart. That
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  Speaker 1: you have a direction.
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  Speaker 2: And a purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And you're going to live on that purpose. In spite
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  Speaker 1: of your predicament. Now God reveals himself.
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  Speaker 2: And God. God is. Something. To reveal himself. He is
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  Speaker 2: beyond human. Comprehension. If you can.
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  Speaker 1: Explain it, it's not God.
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  Speaker 2: God is a mystery.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a mystery that whenever he gets ready to communicate
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  Speaker 1: with you, he has to reduce himself down into a
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  Speaker 1: form that you can understand. Because if he were to
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  Speaker 1: come to you in the fullness of who he is,
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  Speaker 1: it would cause.
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  Speaker 2: Your brain to pop.
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  Speaker 1: Your mind couldn't comprehend what Paul calls the manifold wisdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. There's so much to him. And so he
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  Speaker 1: has to break it down to you real slow. When
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  Speaker 1: you're hungry, he has to say, I'm bread. When you're thirsty,
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  Speaker 1: he has to say, I'm water. And when you're sick,
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  Speaker 1: he has to say, I'm a physician. And when you're lonely,
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  Speaker 1: he has to say, I'm a friend. Oh, y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying. But see, he's really all of
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  Speaker 1: that at the same time. But he has to bring
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  Speaker 1: it on you real slow. David has no background to
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  Speaker 1: be king. There's no background to be king. He's not
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  Speaker 1: come from the upper echelon of Israel. He come from
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  Speaker 1: common people. His father was a common man. He was
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  Speaker 1: a shepherd boy. Smelled of sheep dung, nets and flies
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  Speaker 1: around him.
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  Speaker 2: He stank. He was a little bit weird.
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  Speaker 1: When God found him, he was dancing on the mountainside,
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  Speaker 1: writing poems to God. Just a little off center. Yeah, peculiar, strange.
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  Speaker 1: One of our great problems today is that we resist
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  Speaker 1: being peculiar. We seek to fit in rather than to
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  Speaker 1: stand out. Not realizing that nobody ever follows ordinary, only extraordinary.
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  Speaker 1: And the more you try to fit in, the less
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  Speaker 1: eligible you are to be extraordinary. It takes courage to
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  Speaker 1: be extraordinary. You have to have the courage to be controversial,
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  Speaker 1: to stand out, to be different. David was different. He
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  Speaker 1: is sensitive enough that you might think he was soft,
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  Speaker 1: writing poetry.
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  Speaker 2: And stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Singing songs all creative out there in the woods by
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  Speaker 1: himself dancing.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of strange.
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  Speaker 1: But he has the duality of personalities to be lamb-like
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  Speaker 1: in his creativity, but to be a lion in his passion.
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  Speaker 1: Because before you regulate him off to being soft and
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  Speaker 1: and passive and genteel. Understand that he is also the
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  Speaker 1: same guy that killed a hundred Philistines, cut their foreskins
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  Speaker 1: off and threw them down in front of the king
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  Speaker 1: and said, what else do you want? David would go
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  Speaker 1: off on you. He would flip out. He would go mad.
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  Speaker 1: He would go crazy up on you. And in spite
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that this brother is lion-like in his
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  Speaker 1: passion and his temperament, and yet he is as creative
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  Speaker 1: and as genteel as a lamb, his unusualness, his peculiarity
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what made him eligible for an unusual anointing.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be an ordinary person and have an extraordinary anointing.
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  Speaker 1: People who walk in great anointings always stand out. There's
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  Speaker 1: always John the Baptist came eating wild locusts and honey.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be willing to be different. Jesus hung
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  Speaker 1: out with wine bibbers and prostitutes. He said, how are
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  Speaker 1: you going to be a priest running around with people
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  Speaker 1: like that? If you want to fit in, God can't
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  Speaker 1: use you. But if you're willing to stand out and
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  Speaker 1: celebrate your uniqueness, God can do so. See, this is
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  Speaker 1: going to liberate some of you that never did fit
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  Speaker 1: in with anybody you changed your hair they didn't like you,
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  Speaker 1: you change your clothes they don't like you, you move
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  Speaker 1: neighborhoods that they don't like you, you never could figure
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  Speaker 1: out why they didn't like you. They're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: like you. You're not called to fit in. You're called
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  Speaker 1: to stand out. Now, the God of the universe The
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  Speaker 1: God who transcends time. The God who existed before there
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  Speaker 1: was a where or when or this or that. The
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  Speaker 1: God who existed before there was anybody there to tell
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  Speaker 1: him he was God. The God who reigned before there
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  Speaker 1: was anybody to praise. him for reigning in the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The sovereign Yahweh God. The God who sits on the
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  Speaker 1: circle of the earth. And has all power in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: The God who is Alpha and Omega. Beginning and the end.
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  Speaker 1: The first and the last. He which is and was
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  Speaker 1: and is to come. All at the same time. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about God. Who has all power.
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  Speaker 2: In his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Who shakes out his garments. And the world began. Who
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  Speaker 1: said let there be. And things started populating. and atoms
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  Speaker 1: and molecules start hooking up and obeying the voice of
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  Speaker 1: him that spoke. The God who stepped out into blackness
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  Speaker 1: and said, let there be light. And there was light
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  Speaker 1: on the first day and didn't make the sun till
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  Speaker 1: the fourth day. Sometimes God will do something and explain
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  Speaker 1: it later. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you.
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  Speaker 1: Slap your neighbor and say, he's talking about my God.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who you worship. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: you praise, but he's talking about my God. He's talking
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  Speaker 1: about my God. Heaven is his throne and earth is
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  Speaker 1: his footstool. He's talking about my God who didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a committee, didn't have a board, didn't meet. with the Presbyterians.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody voted him in. Nobody could take him out. He's
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  Speaker 1: gone all by himself. He's never been counseled. He's never
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  Speaker 1: been advised. He never had to read a book. He
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  Speaker 1: never had to.
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  Speaker 2: Go to school.
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  Speaker 1: He's never asked a question that he couldn't answer or
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  Speaker 1: made a mountain that he couldn't move or found a
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  Speaker 1: problem that he couldn't fix or seen a disease that
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: he couldn't heal.
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  Speaker 2: He's gone all... If there are believers in the house, shout,
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  Speaker 2: he can do anything.
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  Speaker 1: This God who runs not just the earth, not just
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  Speaker 1: our galaxy, but all galaxies. This God who spoke a
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  Speaker 1: word and said, let there be, and everything started spinning.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: This God, who is a circle, Ezekiel says a wheel
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a wheel. He's a circle because
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  Speaker 1: a circle has no beginning or end. A line has
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  Speaker 1: a starting place and an ending place, but a circle
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  Speaker 1: just goes on and on and on. This wheel in
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the middle of a wheel said, let there be, and
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  Speaker 1: wheels started coming out of his mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Suns and earths and.
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  Speaker 1: Galaxies and everything he spoke in a circle started spinning
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: around and around in a circle. A circle is a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: cycle and a cycle is a season and God spoke
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: it and everything started spinning it and he stepped back
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and began to run the circles because he's a God
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: who sits on the circle of the earth. In other words,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: he's got everything up under control your life might look
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  Speaker 1: crazy it might seem crazy it might feel crazy everything
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  Speaker 1: might be spinning like you are a piece of clay
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  Speaker 1: on the potter's wheel and you are but what you
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: got to understand is that when the potter spins the
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  Speaker 1: wheel he controls the rhythm with his foot and your
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: life is in his hands and he's got control of
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: what's spinning and This God reveals himself to David through
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: something that the little psalmist could understand. He says, David,
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  Speaker 1: I am to you what you are to the sheep.
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  Speaker 1: And David says, the Lord is my shepherd. He's my shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody else would say he's a nail in a sure place.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody else would say he's my kinsman redeemer. And somebody
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  Speaker 1: else would say he's my bulwark. And somebody else would
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: say he's my fortress. And somebody else would say he's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: my peace. And somebody else would say he's my sword.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: And somebody else would say he's my buckler. And somebody
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: else would say he's my shield. Y'all don't understand what
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But God is so multifaceted that he can
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: show so many different sides of himself. David reached into
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the revelation of who God is based on his personal
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: experience and says the Lord is my shepherd. I shall
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: not want. I shall not want. I shall not. Not
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try not to want. I hope I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: don't want. He said, I shall not want.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worried. I'm cool. I'm good. I got this covered.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: That's what stops me from being desperate for your support.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: If you give it, it's nice. But I don't want it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: If you deny it, I won't suffer from it because
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I don't see you as my source.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: You might be a.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Resource my source uses, but you are not my source.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: If the resource shuts down over here, he'll open it
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: up over there because it might have come through you,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: but it was never you in the first place. The
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Interesting thing here.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: He confesses that sometimes we are self-saboteurs. Not resting in
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: green places. Sometimes because of what we went through early,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: we don't rest in green places. We might experience green places,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: but we don't always feel comfortable in them. Because when
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you've been spawned in turmoil, you have an aversion for peace.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: It's not natural to you. And when God brings good times,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: you have anxiety. You can't really enjoy them because, number one,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you're afraid they won't last. And number two, it doesn't
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: seem normal. When you have been spawned on the breast
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: milk of neglect, love seems strange. You'll run away, people
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: who love you. and invest all kinds of energy in
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: people who don't. Can I mess with you a little
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: bit tonight? We like to shout about the good times.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: We like to sing about them. We like to hear
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: people preach about them. But when we get them, we
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: don't lay down in them. We don't own them. We
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: don't possess them like we should. Because somehow we are
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: so full of guilt and anger and hostility that when
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: things go green for us, we get restless because we've
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: been fighting so long. We don't know how to lay
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: down in green pastures, in green opportunities. in green relationships,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: in green moments in our lives. We like noise and turbulence.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You can't be in the house and not turn on
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: some noise because you're hooked on drama. And when you
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: are hooked on drama, You like the idea of calmness.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: But when the reality comes, you don't even know how
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  Speaker 1: to lay down in it. So David is confessing here
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  Speaker 1: when he says, he maketh me.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Have you ever had God make you lay down?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Almost like a parent does a restless child that doesn't
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: want to go to bed. And after a while, you
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: have to make Jimmy. Jimmy, Jimmy, I told you, lay
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: down in this and go to bed. God said, I'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: going to force you to rest in the blessings. that
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I have created for you. I'm going to force you
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: to relax and lay down until you understand that this
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: is yours.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I'm going to make you lie down in green pressure.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going to force you.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: To open up your heart again and love again and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: live again and stop faking. I'm gonna force you to
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: be present in the moment rather than pretending in the moment.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring your full self into alignment and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: make you lay down in a calm place and stop
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: acting like you're happy when you're not. I'm going to
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: make you lie down. I'm talking to somebody. I don't
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: know who it is. I can feel your toe up
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: under my foot when I step on your toe. I'm
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: not even going to apologize for it because after all
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the hell you've been through, it's time to enter into
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a season where you can lie down in some green
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: pants Pastors and experience. What God has for you. He
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: me beside steel waters. Sheep are heavy laden with wool.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: If you bring them to waters that are moving rapidly...
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  Speaker 1: They will bend their nose to drink from the water,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: but the wetness of the water with the heaviness of
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the wool will drag them under the current. They cannot
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: drink in turbulent places. They cannot drink in turbulent places.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: They do not birth their young in turbulent atmospheres. They
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: must find a calm place to deliver what is inside
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: of them.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: And they cannot drink in a storm.
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  Speaker 1: So he leadeth me beside the still waters. He brings
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  Speaker 1: you to a calm place so that you can refortify yourself.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Because if you are in constant turbulence, you cannot drink.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: That's why you're so thirsty and do desperate things. Thirsty
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: people do desperate things because you went too long without
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: a drink. And God said, I have some still waters
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: for you. Now, because you need stillness to operate. you
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: must realize I didn't just mention that the sheep give
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: birth in calm places just to be saying it. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to understand that you were created by a
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  Speaker 1: creator in his likeness and in his image. And if
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  Speaker 1: you are like the creator that created you, that is
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  Speaker 1: why you are creative. You cannot be created in the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: likeness of a creator and not be creative. Because if
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you are not creative, then you are not created in
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the likeness of a creator. Adam was so much in
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the likeness of the creator, he needed something to be
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Lord over because he was so much like the Lord
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: that made him that God said, okay, Adam, Be fruitful, multiply, subdue,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to make you boss over something because
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you're so much like me, you need to run something.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you dominion over something. And when
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Adam was in a calm place, he could run the
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  Speaker 1: whole parameter of everything up under his auspices because of
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the calmness. He ran it all. His mind operated like
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a computer. God brought all the animals in the world
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  Speaker 1: to him.
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  Speaker 2: He named them.
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  Speaker 1: Categorize them and file them without a laptop, an iPad,
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  Speaker 1: without a pen, without a pencil, without a piece of paper.
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  Speaker 1: When your head is clear, you can think, you can remember,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you can evolve. But when the waters are not still,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: you can't do your best. Now, If I were the
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: enemy and I wanted to stop you from stepping into
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: your creativity, I would want to stop you because if
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you release the creativity that is locked inside of you
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: up under all of that drama, you could think your
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: way out of every circumstance that is confronting you. I
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: would attack you with busyness because you would become so
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  Speaker 1: busy that you wouldn't have a calm place to operate from.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I would put your phones going off and your brothers
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: buzzing and all kinds of stuff coming to you so
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: that you would be so busy that you would become
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a survivor and not a succeder, all you're trying to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: do is survive the latest storm.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: That has hit your life.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: And while you've been surviving, the days have turned to weeks,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the weeks have turned to months, the months have turned
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to years, your hair is turning white, your back is
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: getting stiff, your knee is going out, because you have
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: been in a defense mode fighting so long that you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: haven't had a still place to be able to think
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: from so that you could get out of your circumstance
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and your situation. Whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: if there be any virtue, think on these things. Can
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I go deeper with this? Now watch this. If I
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: were the enemy, I would let so many things happen
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to you along the way. Like it did to Adam.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: His marriage went crazy. She started tripping. His kids were crazy.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: They started tripping. One of them killed the other one.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: The first family experienced the first murder. by people who
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: were related to you. There is no pain like the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: pain you get from people you are related to. If
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I were the enemy, I would keep you so full
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of pain and stress and bitterness and anger and unforgiveness
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: to distract you from being creative, from birthing concepts, from
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: releasing the prosperity that's down inside of you. Your prosperity
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is a reflection of your inside. He says, listen to
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the word, I wish above all things that you prosper
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and be in good health as your soul does prosper.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: You cannot have a whirlwind in your soul and not
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: have hypertension in your body. You cannot live with stress
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and anger and hostility and be creative when you need
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: to be creative because what's ever inside of you, that's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: what's gonna come out. So when they asked Jesus, They said,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: if somebody does something to us, how many times are
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: we supposed to forgive them?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: And Jesus said, seven times 70. I didn't want to
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Because I associate that kind of forgiveness with weakness. I said,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: if you start forgiving people every time they do something
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: to you, they're going to run all over top of you.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I thought my unforgiveness was a defense. Sometimes I used
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: it as a punishment. I ain't going to forgive you
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: until you do right by me. I never knew that
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. I never realized
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  Speaker 1: that to not forgive you doesn't hurt you.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: It hurts me.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: And for me to use unforgiveness on you is like
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: me drinking poison waiting on you to die. Now, whenever
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I minister about this subject, church people act like they
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: have no unforgiveness. But let me help you locate this unforgiveness.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Whoever is in your life that when they come in
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the room, they can change your mood, that's unforgiveness. When
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: you see them, they can disrupt your attitude, that's unforgiveness.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Whoever can come in and disrupt your peace has become
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: your master.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh, I'm gonna mess with you a little bit tonight.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Because while I'm talking to you, I know them faces
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: that's coming up in front of your face right now.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those faces are appearing before you.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Right now as a sign that these are areas in
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: your life where Christ is not Lord.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: They're Lord.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Because when they walk in the room, they take control
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: over your insides. I think that's too much power to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: give to somebody else. I think that's too much power
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: to give to somebody else.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: And with it, the anger.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: We're not forbidden from being angry.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Anger is good. I spent a chapter in the book
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: talking about anger. Anger is good. Say anger is good.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: We're commanded to be angry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to turn everybody into these little Pollyannas. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Anger is good. In fact, you're commanded to be angry.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: The Bible said, be ye angry, but sin not. So
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: there's a difference between anger and sin. He said, be angry.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: God told you to be angry. Look at somebody and say,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: God told me to be angry. But then he says,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: don't let the sun go down on your wrath. He said,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I need you to be angry because anger stirs your glands,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: your adrenaline glands, your.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Fight and flight mechanism.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I give you the anger and the protection so that
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: you can have the sensitivity to deal with issue. You
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: need anger so you can define parameters and let people
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: know you're going too far.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Don't go no further. Okay. Parameters.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: You need anger. That's what animals do to control their turf.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: You control your parameters. He says, but when anger stays
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: in you, it becomes destructive. Because the Bible said, anger
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: resteth in the bosom of fools.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: So it's all right to have it. But when it stays...
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: It becomes a cancer.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: That is eating up your energy and your creativity and
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: your vibrance and your happiness and your peace. Anger resteth
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: in the bosom of fools. It affects your finances because
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: you can't be creative. Because if you're going to stay angry,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: you have to keep putting energy in it to maintain it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: That's why you keep bringing it up. Because anger has
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: to eat. And you have to feed it with your
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: thoughts and your mouth. What you don't understand is all
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the while you're feeding it, you're not feeding your dreams,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: you're not feeding your destiny, you're not feeding your creativity,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: you're not feeding your purpose, and the enemy is distracting
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: you with all of that drama, distorting your personality, changing
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: who you are, locking you out of the still waters
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: that God has for you, and stopping you from giving
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: birth to your next creative concept that would open up
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Open up the windows of heaven and pour down a
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: blessing in your life. He's robbing you. And you think
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: you're doing it because you're strong. And you're tough. And
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: you're smart. And all the while, he's robbing you. Of
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the days you got left. of the thoughts you've got left,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: of the energy you've got left, of the next thought
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: that you could think, you're one thought away from millions
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: of dollars. You are one thought away from the cure
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: of AIDS. You are one thought away of turning your
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: entire life around, but you don't have any energy to
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: put into that because you're putting your energy into unforgiveness, anger, frustration,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: defending yourself against somebody who doesn't even care. Now I
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: need you to help me preach a little bit. To
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: three people say, let it go, let it go, let
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: it go. Let it go, let it go, let it go,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: let it go. What you're gaining is not worth what
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: you're losing, let it go. What you are getting is
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: not worth what you are losing, let it go. What
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: you are doing with your energy, since you have a
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: limited resource of power anyway, you are fueling your history
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: at the expense of your destiny. Because whatever you're angry
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: about is something that has already happened. And whatever God
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: has promised you is something that is about to happen.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: But you don't have the energy to step into what
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: is about to happen because you're spending too much fuel
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: funding what used to happen. That's why you keep going
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: back to the same things over and over again because
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you can't drive forward looking in the rear view mirror.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: But I hear God saying to somebody in this room,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: tonight is your night for a supernatural release.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: You're about to.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Touch your neighbor and say, I'm going to break this
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: cycle tonight. I'm going to break this cycle. I'm going
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: to break it tonight. I'm going to break it tonight.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to break it tonight. I'm too old to
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: keep going through the same stuff. I'm tired of arguing
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: with you about the same thing. I'm tired of letting
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: you control me. I'm going to break that thing tonight.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Take 15 seconds and give God a liberated praise.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Sit down.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Can I give you a little bit more?
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a little bit more. Just
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: a little bit more.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: I've been working on this for a year, so I
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: got a whole lot. I'm just going to give you
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit. It makes you wonder, where did this
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: come from? They didn't teach it in school. You didn't
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: get it out of a book. How did you end
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: up in this cycle of grief, anger, bitterness, hostility, unforgiveness,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: even against yourself? You don't even forgive yourself. How did
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: you get like this? We don't see it in the
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: animal kingdom. Animals do fight, but they either fight over
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: turf or food. They don't fight because she thinks she's cute.
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  Speaker 1: You took my boyfriend 25 years ago and I'm still
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: mad at you 25 years later and I'm going to
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: hop across this fence and bite your neck. You don't
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: see animals having feuds. You don't see that in the
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  Speaker 1: animal kingdom. As long as you don't mess with what
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: I'm eating, we cool. We don't see it in children.
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  Speaker 1: You can punish a child. And 30 minutes later, they're
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  Speaker 1: hugging your leg, talking about mommy. I love you, mommy.
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  Speaker 1: They can get in a fight with the kid across
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  Speaker 1: the street and the grown folks are mad for six
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  Speaker 1: weeks and the kid just wants to go outside and play.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't come here being unforgiving. It is a learned behavior.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Where did I learn it? I didn't go to school
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  Speaker 1: for it. I didn't take a class on it. I
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: didn't get a tape series on it. You learned it
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  Speaker 1: in your house from your parents or family or people
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  Speaker 1: who nurtured you. You learned conflict resolution by the people
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  Speaker 1: around you. If your mama got mad and broke stuff,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: now you get mad and break stuff. If your daddy
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: would get mad and walk out and stay gone for
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: two days, now you have avoidance issues. And rather than
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: confront an issue, whenever you get mad, you leave.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Or sulk or bring up things over and over and
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  Speaker 2: over again.
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  Speaker 1: This is a vicious cycle that passes from generation to
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  Speaker 1: generation Because we learn our coping mechanisms from our early
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: childhood development. We all have the same feelings and experiences,
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  Speaker 1: but how we express them is taught to us. If
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  Speaker 1: you are an unforgiving person, you have come from an
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  Speaker 1: unforgiving atmosphere where they define unforgiveness as strength. So you said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a strong black woman. What does that mean? Or
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: a strong white woman. I mean, you know, pain is
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  Speaker 1: not prejudice. It is an equal opportunity experience. Where did
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: you learn how to sulk and shut down as a
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  Speaker 1: man and not communicate for months or years, avoiding confrontation,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: but holding on to unforgiveness. Ooh, I lost them, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They were shouting so good, Lord. So now, God says,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: I want to bring you to still waters. But in
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: order to give you what I have for you, you
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: have got to release what you are holding on to.
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  Speaker 2: Because you cannot.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on to who you were and snatch who I
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  Speaker 1: want you to be. You can't be those people at
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the same time. You have to decide this is personal,
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  Speaker 1: this is private, it has nothing to do with your church,
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  Speaker 1: your pastor, your denomination. You can go to a great church,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: be in a great denomination, experience great work. This is
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: a personal decision where you say, wait a minute, I'm
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: too old to go through this again and again and again.
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  Speaker 1: I must have peace. I don't care who's crazy around me.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I don't care who's unforgiving around me. I got to
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: have some peace. I got to have some still waters.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I got to have some tranquility. In quietness and confidence
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: shall be your strength.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Somebody shout yes. Jesus said forgive.
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  Speaker 1: Them seven times 70.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, whatever life throws on you, throw it
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: off as quick as you can. Whatever comes up in
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: your spirit, as soon as you can, release it. Because
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: when you release it, you say, that's not mine. I'm
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: not going to hold on to it. I'm called to
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: something better. I'm called to something higher. Only chickens eat
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: off the ground. Eagles fly through the air. I'm too
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: high to eat that low. Are there any eagles in
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: here tonight? I said, are there any eagles in here tonight?
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: This is your year to go to higher ground. This
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: is your year to go to another dimension. This is
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: your year to step over petty stuff and simply let
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: it go. God says, he says, you have been through
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: so much that in order to put you back on track,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: I need to restore your soul.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna restore you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring you back to who you were meant
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  Speaker 1: to be before you went through Everything you went through,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to restore you. I'm going to fix you
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: so you don't look like you've been through what you've
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: been through. I'm going to restore you. I'm going to
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: restore you until you pass through the fire, but you
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: don't smell like smoke. I'm going to restore you till
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: nobody would believe that you've been through what you've been through.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: I declare restoration in this house. God said I will
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: restore unto you even the years that the canker worm
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: and and the palm of the world and the locusts say, no,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna restore all the years you lost being frustrated
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: and upset and angry. God said your latter day shall
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: be greater than your former day. Who am I preaching
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: to tonight? Touch three people and say, I gotta get
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: it back. I got to get it back. Find somebody
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: else and say, I got to get it back. I
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: got to get me back. I got to get my
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: life back. I got to get my peace back. I
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: got to get my joy back. I got to get
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: my deliverance back. I got to get my creativity back.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: I got to get my happiness back. Somebody give him
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: 30 suckers of a Holy Ghost cream.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Test three people and say, I gotta get right, I
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: gotta get right. I got to get right. I got
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: to get right. I got to get right.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: I haven't been right for a long time. I haven't been.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: Myself for a long time. I've been in survival mode
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: for a long time. I've been angry for a long time.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: I've been upset for a long time, but I got
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: to get it right.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: I got to get right.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: Now, it sounds like he's an idealist and not a realist.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: So he says, yea, though I walk. He said, I
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: know the real deal. I walk through the valley. of
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: the shadow of death. I may walk through it, but
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to let it walk through me. I
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: shall fear no evil. I'm about to feel like preaching now.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: For thou art with me. Slap somebody and say, God's
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: got your back.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Thy rod and.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Thy staff, they comfort me. The rod is the stick
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: that the shepherd uses to beat back the wolf. I
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: don't have to fight you. God will fight you. The
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: battle is not mine. It belongs to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Shall ye?
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Shall ye? thy rod and thy staff. When I get
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: too far out, thank you, Lord, for that staff with
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: the hook in it that pulls me back in line.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, I got to go.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: God is pulling.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Me back in line, bringing me back to myself, bringing
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: me back to still waters, bringing me back to my peace.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: He said, anytime you've got an enemy, I will send
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: you a table to distract you from your enemy.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: You have to decide.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Are you going to eat at the table or fight
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: with the enemy? The fact that you've got an enemy
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: is a sign you've got a blessing. For God said,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I prepare a table before you in the presence of
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: your enemies. Somebody say, feed me, Lord. Look at somebody testify.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Tell them, I'm going to get ready to eat this year.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Press down, shaking together.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: And running over.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to release my gifts this year. I'm
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: getting ready to release my creativity this year. I'm getting
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: ready to take it to the next level this year.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: If I'm talking about you, give.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: God a praise.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: I didn't understand this next one. He said, thou anointest
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: my head with oil. And I thought that meant that
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: the sheep was shouting. I didn't understand until I talked
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: to a shepherd and he said that sheep are so
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: dumb that they have a tendency to stick their nose
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: down in the holes in the earth where the snakes hide.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: so the shepherd can't watch everything. So what he does
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: is anoint their head with oil so that if they
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: do stick their nose into something where the snake would
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: bite them, that the oil is a snake repellent. I
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: wish I had somebody in here that has stuck your
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: nose into something you didn't have no business in. in.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: But God anointed you so that when the devil tried
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: to bite you, he had to draw back. And it's
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: by God's mercy that you're here tonight. Identify yourself. Give
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: God some kind of praise. I touch seven people and
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: tell them I got all on me.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: I got all on me.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Every time the devil thought he had me, I slipped
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: out of it. Every time they tried to curse me,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I slipped out. Thou anointest my head with oil. Slap
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: everybody you can reach and say, my cup runnin' over. Yes!
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Yes! Yes!
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Yes!
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Yes! Yes!
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: The cup runnin' over.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: God says, I'm not just going to bless you. I'm
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: going to bless everything connected to you. Everything you touch.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to let your cup run over. I'm going
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: to make your kids a saucer. I'm going to bless
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: all your friends. Everywhere your feet trot, God said, I'm
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: going to give it to you. I'm going to set
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: an open door in front of you.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: And I hear you say it. I hear you saying this.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Stand to your feet. I hear you saying something.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Well, if he's going to do all of that, why
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: hasn't he done it? And God is saying, I can't
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: do it because you won't let it go. But as
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: soon as you let it go, I'm gonna give you
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: your rest back. I'm gonna give you your creativity back.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you your life back. I'm gonna release
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: favor in your life. I'm gonna feed you right in
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: the face of your enemies to let you know that
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: my power is greater than their power. You don't have
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: to defend yourself. You don't have to fight. And I
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: hear somebody saying, well, I'm willing to forgive them as
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: soon as they ask for forgiveness. As soon as they
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: pay me my money back. If that is the criteria,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: doesn't that mean that they still have control? Suppose they died.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Some people are angry at dead people. You didn't love me.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: You didn't raise me. You weren't there for me. You
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: didn't believe me. I told you my secret. You didn't
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: believe me. And they're never going to get to apologize
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: because they're dead. Jesus, when he was on the cross,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: he only had seven things to say before death came.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Took him out. He'd been hanging on the cross, bleeding.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: He'd been beaten at the whipping post until most historians
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: conclude that his entrails, his guts, his intestines were hanging out.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: They had plucked the beard from his face. They hadn't
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: just hurt his body, they hurt his feelings. They put
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: a crown of thorns on his head and mocked everything
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: he stood for. In your pictures, he has on a loincloth,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: but in reality, he was naked. They embarrassed him. They
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: nailed him to a tree and stuck around to watch
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: him die. He only had enough strength to say seven
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: important things. And one of them was, Father, forgive them
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: for they know not what they do. Now, the thing
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: that gets me about that is number one, he says
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: forgive them and they had never asked. For forgiveness. Why
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: would you release somebody who never asked to be released?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't about them. Maybe he knew that three
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: days later he had a big job to do. And
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: he couldn't afford to have to face the resurrection.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: If there was an issue still pending from the crucifixion.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: When you know what is in front of you is
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: more important than what is behind you, you let it go,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: not just for them, but for you, so that you
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: can operate at full power When you need to operate.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: I feel like, I don't know, but I feel like
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody tonight. Now that you're standing on
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: your feet, I want you to join hands with somebody.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Do you have any idea who you were created to be?
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Do you have any idea what you could do if
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: you would clear all of that stuff out of your heart,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: your mind, your spirit? Anger with God, anger with yourself,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: anger with people, angry about opportunities you didn't get, angry
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: with deals that went bad. And you can't get the
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: deal in front of you because you're still bitter about
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: the deal behind you. When Jesus told them to forgive,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: they said the weirdest thing. They said, increase our faith.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: And I thought, what does faith have to do with forgiveness?
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: You have to believe that what's in front of you
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: is bigger than what's behind you. Or you'll never let
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: it go. Squeeze that hand. The person you're touching has
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: a destiny. I don't care whether they're 17 or 75.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: If you woke up this morning and you weren't dead,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: God didn't finish with you yet. He's got something for
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: you to do, to say, to build, to be. He's
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: got a purpose for your life. Your challenge tonight is
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: to let go of everything that's standing in between you
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: and your destiny and get yourself back and your God
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: back and your creativity back and your purpose and your
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: power back. Squeeze that hand. The person you're touching has
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: a sure link hanging over top of their head. Surely,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: after all the hell you've been through, after all the
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: times you could have been destroyed, God is still saying, surely, goodness.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: And mercy.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: God said I've been chasing you around with a blessing
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: trying to get your attention. I feel the anointing walking
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: up and down this church. Somebody's getting a breakthrough. Squeeze
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: that hand and shout surely. I don't care what you've
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: been through. I don't care what they did to you.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: I don't care how tough it's been. I don't care
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: what the enemy said. I don't care what the finances
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: look like. Somebody shout surely.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: Goodness and mercy.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, that's devil chasing stuff right there. That's fear
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: chasing stuff right there. That's anger chasing stuff right there.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Squeeze a hand and shout.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: Soar high.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: I feel somebody's faith getting stirred up right now.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: Goodness and mercy shall follow you.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: All the days of your life.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: He said, I just want you to dwell in my presence,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: not dwell in fear, not dwell in frustration, not dwell
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: in unforgiveness. He said, I want you to dwell in
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: my presence all the days.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: Of your life.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: Father, tonight, I gave him just a snippet, just a
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: little taste I need you, Lord, to give them the
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: courage and the faith to let it go. To put
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: them back in the still waters where they can drink
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: again and live again and move again and flow again
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: and speak again and draw again and write again and
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: act again.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: And build again and lead again. Put them in still waters.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Yes! I believe you for it tonight. Let miracles, let
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: miracles happen. Write out of Psalms 23. Take your stick
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: and drive back the enemies. Take your hook and bring
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: your people back into who they were created to be.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: Give us the courage and the faith to let it go.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: There's some marriages you want to heal in here. There's
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: some relationships between mothers and daughters and sisters and brothers
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: and fathers and sons that you want to heal tonight.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: There's some church drama you want to heal tonight. There's
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: some office politics you want to heal tonight.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Tonight is the night, devil, that you've been afraid of
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: for years. tonight is the night we simply let it
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: go we don't have to get even we don't have
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: to get revenge we don't have to talk back if
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: they never get right if they continue to act however
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: they want to act we're going to let it go
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: it's not about them it's about us.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Father I believe you tonight.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: That we're going to walk in Psalms 23 I believe
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: you that you're going to anoint somebody's head with oil.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: We stuck our heads into some stuff we should have
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: never got into in the first place. But thank you
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: for the anointing, the snake repellent that stops the snake
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: from being able to do what he wants to do
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: in our lives. Squeeze that hand. Let our cups run
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: over tonight. Let it run over to the person I'm
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: touching gets blessed. Let it run over till the person
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: I'm touching comes into a fresh anointing. Let them be
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: delivered and set free tonight. If you know how to
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: praise God, if you know how to worship God, if
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: you know how to pray in your prayer language, I
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: want you to give God some kind of praise right now.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Come on.