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T.D. Jakes These Bumps in the Road Mean That You're Close to Your BREAKTHROUGH! TBN - TBN. · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people that are doing better
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  Speaker 1: than me, but none of them got there without a
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  Speaker 1: bumpy road.
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  Speaker 2: The road to better is bumpy.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're on a bumpy road, I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: you're headed to better. There are some things that God
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  Speaker 1: created you for that you had some delays and some setbacks,
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  Speaker 1: and some mistakes and some mishaps, and God wants you
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  Speaker 1: to come back to the.
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  Speaker 2: Place that there's gonna be a night shift.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob has told his sons, you will not defeat the
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  Speaker 1: famine looking at each other.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Watch how Jacob handles the famine, because my first point
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  Speaker 1: is the famine. And until you can deal with the famine,
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  Speaker 1: you will never get to better. Because famine is a
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  Speaker 1: part of your journey. How you react to the famine
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  Speaker 1: determines whether you make it to the food. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to be aggressive. You can't just pray against the famine.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to do something, Jacob says. You can't just
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  Speaker 1: pray against it. You can't just look at each other.
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  Speaker 1: You can't stay in the same spot and do the
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  Speaker 1: same things that you've always done and expect to get
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  Speaker 1: a different result. Because we're in a famine, and you've
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  Speaker 1: got to take action, And we don't understand that today,
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  Speaker 1: we don't understand the human requirement in the miracles of God.
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  Speaker 3: As much as we.
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  Speaker 1: Have read about the miracles of God, we walk away
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  Speaker 1: with praise to God, but absolve ourselves of human responsibility,
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  Speaker 1: as if God were going to act outside of human effort.
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  Speaker 1: When God has created us to be collaborative in the miraculous. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking all ready. He wants us to be collaborative
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  Speaker 1: in the miraculous, that we have a responsibility to take
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  Speaker 1: action and to be aggressive about resolving issues. Just because
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  Speaker 1: you're spiritual doesn't mean you get to pray for a
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  Speaker 1: job and stay at home. I'm just gonna pray. If
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  Speaker 1: the Lord wants me to have the job, he'll give
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  Speaker 1: me a job. I'm just gonna watch TV and hit
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  Speaker 1: the remote control and believe God for better. You'll you'll
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  Speaker 1: never get to better if you don't get on the road.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta gotta you gotta get on the road in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of famine. They're traveling in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a famine. Now, traveling is not fun anytime, but traveling
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a famine is a very difficult
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  Speaker 1: time because the famine is so severe that Jacob says,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't move, you're going to die. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking to tonight, but there are
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  Speaker 1: some pressures that come so strong that if you don't move,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to die. How could you let me die?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm child of God. You didn't move. I told
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  Speaker 1: you to move. And when God tells you to move,
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  Speaker 1: you got to move. And don't act like God has
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  Speaker 1: failed you when you have failed to move. When God
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  Speaker 1: says move, you have to take action. Whether you're the
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  Speaker 1: prodigal son who came to himself but he still had
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  Speaker 1: to go home, or whether you're the woman with the
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  Speaker 1: issue of blood who believed that Jesus could heal her
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  Speaker 1: but she still had to crawl, or whether you're blind
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  Speaker 1: bottle man standing by the highwayside begging. He still had
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  Speaker 1: to come out of his coat and go toward Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: There is a human responsibility in spite of the famine.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to move in the middle of a famine,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a need, in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a storm, in the middle of a crisis. And he
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  Speaker 1: sends his voice to go from Canaan to Egypt because
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  Speaker 1: Jacob heard where there was food. Don't hate on people
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  Speaker 1: who have even when you don't have. Because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: hate on Egypt. He said, I'm going to Egypt. See,
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  Speaker 1: we sit back and hate on people as if them
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  Speaker 1: having is our demise, when it's not them having that
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  Speaker 1: is our enemy. It's us not moving that is our enemy.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says that though they didn't have any coin,
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  Speaker 1: they had money. Yeah, and people don't quote it too much,
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  Speaker 1: but the Bible all say. It says that money is
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  Speaker 1: the answer to all things. It's the answer to all things.
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  Speaker 1: If it's a thing, money can buy it. There are
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  Speaker 1: some issues that cannot be resolved by things, but money
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  Speaker 1: answers all things. So Jacob told the boys he gave
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  Speaker 1: them some money and said go down to Egypt, and
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  Speaker 1: don't go down there begging.
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  Speaker 2: We came down here to do business. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're spiritual people, but we know how to do business.
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  Speaker 1: We praised Jehovah, but we still how to do business. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all not saying nothing to me tonight. See, the church
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  Speaker 1: has failed its parishioners because we have been real heavy
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  Speaker 1: on the praise and real light on the business. So
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  Speaker 1: we told him to praise your way out and dance
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  Speaker 1: your way out, and spend a around three times that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to come out and so a sde and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get out. But we don't tell them
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  Speaker 1: that you've got that the blessings are transactional, that there's
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  Speaker 1: a business element.
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  Speaker 2: Required in it.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to go back and lay some foundation
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  Speaker 1: to understand that Jacob does not go down to Egypt
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  Speaker 1: to beg He goes down there to do business, and
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  Speaker 1: he sends his sons down there to do business. But
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, you have to realize as we begin
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the famine, we have to understand that
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  Speaker 1: the famine is so severe that it pushes them to Egypt. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the second thing I want you to see about the
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  Speaker 1: famine is that God will use a famine to move you.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a famine for food. It
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  Speaker 1: can be a famine for love, it can be a
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  Speaker 1: famine for peace. But in everybody's life listening at me,
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  Speaker 1: whether online or in the room, you have experienced some
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  Speaker 1: kind of famine. The famine of fatherhood, the famine of family,
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  Speaker 1: the famine of a mother's affection, the famine of a
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  Speaker 1: good job, the famine of a nice house. All of
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  Speaker 1: us have our famines. You might not be able to
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  Speaker 1: see it because we might dress nice and sprink alone
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  Speaker 1: over top of it, but all of us live with
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  Speaker 1: some level of famine in our lives. Famine makes you pray,
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  Speaker 1: and famine makes you seek God, and famine makes you
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  Speaker 1: cry out, and famine will make you move, And oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: God will use famine as an instrument to force you
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  Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone. It is more comfortable to
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  Speaker 1: stay in canaan, but the famine will drive you out.
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  Speaker 1: It'll make you move, It'll make you get outside of
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  Speaker 1: your confiden zone. It'll make you travel, It'll put you
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  Speaker 1: on the road. Somebody say I'm on the road. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not on the road for a field trip. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: on the road joy riding. I'm on the road to better.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the road to better. There's some time after
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  Speaker 1: there's something I want to see done in my lifetime,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm tired.
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  Speaker 2: Of sitting around.
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  Speaker 1: Assessing the same old troubles and crying about the same
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  Speaker 1: old problems, and going through the same old things. I'm
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  Speaker 1: tired of complaining one to another, back and forth oh,
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  Speaker 1: any bad. Yet, chiad is real bad. It's so bad. Jay,
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  Speaker 1: I got to move from here, deliver me from people
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  Speaker 1: who will not take action in the famine. And God
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  Speaker 1: says action is required on you. You got to get
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  Speaker 1: on the road. And that's anytime you can't rebuke it
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  Speaker 1: with a prayer, anytime you plead the blood and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go away, anytime you call on God and it
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  Speaker 1: still stays there. Then God is using the famine as
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  Speaker 1: an instrument to move you from one place to the other.
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  Speaker 1: If it was the devil, I could rebuke it. If
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  Speaker 1: it were demonic warfare, I could overcome it. But when
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  Speaker 1: God sends a famine to make you move, it is
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  Speaker 1: something in his providence that cannot be performed where you are,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to move in order to get it.
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  Speaker 1: And God knows that some of us won't move if
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  Speaker 1: we're too comfortable, y'all. I'm gonna talk to me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And so God uses as a famine to force them
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  Speaker 1: to move and they go down to Egypt to do business. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it is interesting to note that though there is a
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  Speaker 1: famine in Canaan, there is also a famine in this family.
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  Speaker 1: So my second point deals with the family. You have
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  Speaker 1: to understand that this text brings out subtly, ever so
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  Speaker 1: subtly in the text that I want to point it
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  Speaker 1: out to you. First thing that tells us about Jacob
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  Speaker 1: is that Jacob sends his sons down to Egypt to
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  Speaker 1: buy But then it mentions that he did not send
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin unless he fall into mischief. And this is just
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  Speaker 1: a hidden, subtle reminder that Jacob doesn't totally trust his
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  Speaker 1: own sons. Now, where did this distrust come up in
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  Speaker 1: the culture of this family? This distrust comes up into
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  Speaker 1: the culture of the family. And you can act like
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what I'm talking about, But all of
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  Speaker 1: us have different little things that we know about our
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  Speaker 1: family that when cousin so and so comes over, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of look at them out of the corner of
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  Speaker 1: your eye because because you've been through some things where
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  Speaker 1: you've learned some things, and this culture has risen up
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  Speaker 1: in the family that the family is not fruitful, and
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  Speaker 1: Canaan is not fruitful, and there is not the comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: loving environment of trust that would cause the family to
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  Speaker 1: be a nurturing place. Because Jacob remembers what happened to
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  Speaker 1: Joseph the last time Jacob sent one of his sons
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  Speaker 1: out with the rest of the sons, he turned up missing,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a has ado of.
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  Speaker 2: Distrust in the old man.
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  Speaker 1: With his sons that he says, I'm going to keep
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin now. The reason he's holding on to Benjamin and
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  Speaker 1: he let the rest of them go is that Joseph
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  Speaker 1: and Benjamin were born to him by Rachel, and Rachel
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  Speaker 1: was the love of his life. And the reason he's
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  Speaker 1: holding on to Benjamin is because that's all he's got
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  Speaker 1: left of Rachel. And he says, if I lose Benjamin,
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  Speaker 1: I lose all I have left of the best days
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  Speaker 1: in my life. And sometimes we hold on to things
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  Speaker 1: because we've been through so much pain that we become possessive.
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  Speaker 1: Oh y'all, don't hear what I'm saying. There's a reason
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  Speaker 1: you hold on to what you hold on, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: money or people or things, there's a reason you hold
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  Speaker 1: on to There's a reason that certain things make you mad.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason that you overreact in certain ways. There's
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  Speaker 1: a reason that if we hit certain postpoints, you respond
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  Speaker 1: differently than other people, because until you understand what I've
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  Speaker 1: been through back here, you won't understand why I'm holding
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  Speaker 1: on to this right here? What do you hold on
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  Speaker 1: to because of what you've been through? What do you
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  Speaker 1: hold on to because of what you've been through? For
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  Speaker 1: Jacob the old man is holding on to the last
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  Speaker 1: smell of Rachel. When he holds Benjamin. It's the last
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  Speaker 1: reminder of a happier moment in his life. And he
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  Speaker 1: is so afraid of losing Benjamin because Rachel the Baron
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  Speaker 1: Woman has birth two sons unto him, and one of
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  Speaker 1: them Jacob thinks is dead and Benjamin is all he
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  Speaker 1: got left. Anytime you think this is all you got left,
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  Speaker 1: you will hold on real tight, whether it is true
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  Speaker 1: or not. You will hold on real tight if you
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  Speaker 1: think that this is the last person that will ever
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  Speaker 1: love you. You will take stuff that you wouldn't normally take.
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  Speaker 1: You will go through things you wouldn't normally go through.
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  Speaker 1: And your girlfriends will tell you if I was you,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't take that, And your mama told you you
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  Speaker 1: need to get away from there, But you keep holding
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  Speaker 1: on to it because you've been hurt before, and anytime
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  Speaker 1: you've been hurt before, you hold on to something when
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  Speaker 1: you think you won't get anymore. I wonder tonight how
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  Speaker 1: many people are holding on to some sort of Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: in your life, holding on to it out of fear,
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  Speaker 1: not out of love. He's not clutching him out of love.
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  Speaker 1: He's clutching him out of fear. Be careful what fear
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  Speaker 1: will make you do. And I'm looking at it. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: is an old man, and the older you get, the
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  Speaker 1: more precious everything becomes. And Jacob is holding on to Benjamin,
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  Speaker 1: and he's saying, Joseph is not, and now Simeon is not.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't taking my Benjamin. I'm wondering what you're squeezing
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  Speaker 1: too tight? What are you squeezing out of fear? See,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob isn't squeezing Benjamin out of faith. He's squeezing him
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  Speaker 1: out of fear. He's squeezing him like it's the last
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  Speaker 1: thing he's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna ever get.
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  Speaker 1: You can't grow when you squeeze something like it's the
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  Speaker 1: last thing you're gonna ever get, even if it's squeezing
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  Speaker 1: money like it's the last you'll ever get. Then you
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  Speaker 1: have prophesied against yourself. You have you faith in reverse.
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  Speaker 1: There fear is faith in reverse. To have confidence that
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  Speaker 1: that thing, that you don't want is going to happen
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  Speaker 1: to you. He's holding the boy out of fear, and
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  Speaker 1: God is manipulating all of these circumstances to bring this
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  Speaker 1: family back together. He is wooing them back to a
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  Speaker 1: place so he can heal them. And wouldn't it be
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  Speaker 1: better to be healed than to be mad? And Jacob
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  Speaker 1: says to them, if I lose Benjamin, let me quote
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  Speaker 1: it just like you said. And he said, my son
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  Speaker 1: shall not go down with you, for his brother is
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  Speaker 1: dead and he is left alone. And if mishiefs befall
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  Speaker 1: him by the way, See how Jacob is still in
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  Speaker 1: a place where.
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  Speaker 2: He don't trust them.
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  Speaker 1: Children, and he don't trust him, and he has good
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  Speaker 1: reason not to trust him.
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  Speaker 2: He said, you're not gonna get him.
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  Speaker 1: Let's mischief befall him by the way into witch she go.
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  Speaker 1: He says, if I go through with Benjamin what I
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  Speaker 1: went through with Joseph, my gray hairs are gonna turn
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  Speaker 1: him to sorrow and bring me to the grave. See,
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  Speaker 1: you get to a point in life that you've reached
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  Speaker 1: an age that you can't take no more pain.
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  Speaker 2: And he says, I can't afford to live through this again.
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  Speaker 1: And God is really behind it all, trying to pry
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin out of Jacob's hands, because what Jacob doesn't understand. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: sir Rod's been bumpy, and yes, sir D's been tough,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, sir, Road's been difficult, and yes you've shed
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  Speaker 1: some tears, and yes you've endured some pain.
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  Speaker 2: But it is the bumpy road to better. It is
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  Speaker 2: the bumpy road to better.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people that are doing better
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  Speaker 1: than me and have more stuff and more money and
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  Speaker 1: more recognition and more fame and more whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to count it by than me. But none of them
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  Speaker 1: that I know, have got there without a bumpy road.
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  Speaker 2: The road to better it is bumpy.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're on a bumpy road, I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 2: You're headed to better.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear the words that are coming out of
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. You can't get to better without bumpy. You
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  Speaker 1: can't get to better without pain. You can't get to
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  Speaker 1: better without tears. You can't be all buff if you
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  Speaker 1: don't work out, you can't lose weight, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: push the food away. You can't get to better without bumpy.
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  Speaker 1: There is no pill you can take. There is no
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  Speaker 1: simple solution. It is the bumpiness of the road that
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  Speaker 1: leads you to better. Ultimately, Jacob will end up having
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  Speaker 1: to go to Egypt. And when Joseph sees his father,
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  Speaker 1: When Joseph sees his father, all of these years he's
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  Speaker 1: been living without the touch of his father, and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden he reveals himself, and he shows him
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  Speaker 1: who he is. The Bible says that one day those
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  Speaker 1: who rejected Jesus are gonna look on him whom they
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  Speaker 1: had pierced, and a nation shall be saved in a day.
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  Speaker 1: This day in the life of Joseph is a prophetic
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  Speaker 1: prediction of what will happen between Jesus and Israel, when
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden they will look on him whom
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  Speaker 1: they appears, and finally recognize he was the Messiah. He
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  Speaker 1: is the lad of God, he is the i Am,
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  Speaker 1: He is the true Vibe, he is the living Bread,
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  Speaker 1: he is the manner that came down out of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: He is. It wasn't a lie, it wasn't a job,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a philacy. And the family will be reunited again.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, and they.
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  Speaker 1: Beheld him whom they had thrown away, and they fell
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  Speaker 1: down and said, oh, Joseph, And they now realize that Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: everything he went through was to position him to bless them.
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  Speaker 2: Are y'all hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: The reason God doesn't bless some people because you're selfish.
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  Speaker 1: The reason God didn't bless some people is because you're
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  Speaker 1: only interested in you, because you hate too long, and
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  Speaker 1: you're too angry, and you're too bitter to be trusted
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  Speaker 1: with that much power. God blesses people whose hearts are tender.
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  Speaker 1: And it was only when I saw Joseph's heart that
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  Speaker 1: I understood Joseph's blessing. Because Joejoseph was the son that
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  Speaker 1: could be trusted with favor, because he would not use
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  Speaker 1: his favor to get even, He would not use his
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  Speaker 1: favor for revenge. He would use his favor to bring
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  Speaker 1: them into better. And so Joseph brings the family to better.
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  Speaker 1: The whole family dwells together in better. And not only
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  Speaker 1: does he bring them to better, he releases the guilt
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  Speaker 1: from the guilty. It's one thing to absolve the innocent,
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  Speaker 1: but it's another thing to equit the guilty. He absolved
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  Speaker 1: the guilty because he was big enough to be blessed
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  Speaker 1: like that. He was big enough to be blessed like that,
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  Speaker 1: He was strong enough to be blessed like that. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why he was chosen from the very beginning that
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  Speaker 1: God trusted him with trouble. God trusted him with rejection,
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  Speaker 1: God trusting him with pain. God trusted him with agony
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  Speaker 1: because God knew his heart that when push came to shove,
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  Speaker 1: that love would always went out over revenge. God knew
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  Speaker 1: his heart that there was something down inside of him
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  Speaker 1: that was better than that. And if you want the
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  Speaker 1: favor of God in your life, you have to be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to ask yourself, can God trust you with favor?
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  Speaker 1: Can God trust you with power? Can God trust you
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  Speaker 1: with honor? Because until that answer is a resounding yes,
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  Speaker 1: the doors of your blessing will be close. They're clds
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  Speaker 1: because you are too angry and too bitter and too vindictive.
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  Speaker 1: And God can't give you favor because you'll use it
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  Speaker 1: like witchcraft to bring curcious on those who hurt you.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll know you're getting bigger when you start getting better.
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  Speaker 1: You've been praying to be bigger. You should have been
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  Speaker 1: praying to be better. There's somebody watching me right now,
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  Speaker 1: there's no reason in the world that somebody as talented
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  Speaker 1: to you as you are shouldn't be further than you are.
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  Speaker 1: You have the talent to go all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the top, but every time you try to go to
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  Speaker 1: the top, something blocks you.
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  Speaker 2: And God send me to tell you it's not what's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: on the outside that's blocked you.
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  Speaker 1: It's the stuff you carry on the ins that always
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  Speaker 1: blocks you because you're so slick, and God has to
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  Speaker 1: keep showing you that you ain't as slick as you
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  Speaker 1: think you are, and your blessing has been delayed, and
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  Speaker 1: you wandered in the wilderness of almost getting there and
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  Speaker 1: never being able to get there because you've never been
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  Speaker 1: able to get your heart to the place that you
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  Speaker 1: could be trusted. God gives favor to people he can trust,
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  Speaker 1: but you are so transactional.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is a way.
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  Speaker 1: For you to manipulate, and so you never get better.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says none but the pure in heart shall
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: seek God. The word pure in the Greek is why
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: we get the word catheter. And there is no way
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  Speaker 1: for you to see God until you put a catheter
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  Speaker 1: into your heart and get rid of the bitterness that
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  Speaker 1: is blocking you from your blessing. I'm still talking about
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  Speaker 1: the bumpy road to better as I closed tonight, I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: challenge you a look at Genesis forty two, and even
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: going into Genesis forty three, and watch.
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  Speaker 2: God bring Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: And his voice into a state of blessings that does
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  Speaker 1: not fade away. Samuel servert under Eli, and that there
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  Speaker 1: was the word of the Lord was scarce and or rare,
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  Speaker 1: and there was no open vision. It's a hint, It's
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  Speaker 1: a preview. See, Samuel is not so much Eli's successor.
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  Speaker 1: You don't use Samuel as Eli's successor like Elijah and Elijah,
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  Speaker 1: like Paul and Timothy. Not only are they not in
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  Speaker 1: the same chain, they're not of the same order. Eli
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  Speaker 1: is a priest. Samuel is a prophet. Perhaps one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest prophets of the Old Testament is Samuel. And
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  Speaker 1: what God has done, He has forced a prophet.
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  Speaker 2: Into the house of a priest.
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  Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the formation of the Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: who is prophet. You see see, so we all we
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  Speaker 1: have up until now is priest. But out of the
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  Speaker 1: barrenness of Hannah's womb doesn't come Eli's successor. It becomes
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  Speaker 1: Eli's prophets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason the prophet had to come next is
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  Speaker 1: that the prophet is the one who annoys the king.
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  Speaker 1: God got an order he don't even explain to you.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: He does stup for his own reason. He's got his
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: own methodology. He works all things according to the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of his own wheels, say man.
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  Speaker 3: So we are watching the shift.
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  Speaker 1: Between the priest to the prophet. The prophet is under
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  Speaker 1: the priest. Before it's over, the priest is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: under the prophets a double chef.
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  Speaker 2: Ta see, you can kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of Oh God, I want to go see when when
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  Speaker 1: we worship, when we praise, when we give offerings, we're
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: working like priests. When I get up to preach, I'm
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: working like a prophet. Hallelujah. So Ah, while you're worshiping,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I'm up under you. But when I get up to preach,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you're up under this annoying. We just we just acted
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: out what the texta is all about. If the priest
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: comes first, here comes a prophet. You provoke the word
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  Speaker 1: of God by how you worship. You provoke the Word
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: of God by how you lift him up. You provoke
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  Speaker 1: the word of God by how you lift your hands
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  Speaker 1: and raise your hand the priest comes before the prophet
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  Speaker 1: is released. This is not just a succession. This is
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  Speaker 1: a transformation, This is a revolution, this is a move.
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  Speaker 1: And the irony of it is they said, the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord was scarce in those days, and there
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: was no open vision, and yet the prophet was growing
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: in the scarcity. Y'all can't handle this. Prosperity grows in poverty.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Bible said, let the poor say that
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  Speaker 1: I'm let the weak say that I'm see You can
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  Speaker 1: you can. You can be weak on top and be
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  Speaker 1: strong underneath. You're gonna hear what I'm saying. You can
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  Speaker 1: be poor on topa and have prosperity growing up under you.
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  Speaker 1: It does not yet appear what you shall be, but
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  Speaker 1: it's still growing up. That's why you see an IV
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  Speaker 1: because a prophet is still a boy, but he's coming.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming. He's coming, he's coming, he's coming. Your prophecy
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: is still a boy, but it's coming, is coming, is coming.
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  Speaker 2: It's up under your priesthood.
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  Speaker 1: That that's why I'm trying to get you to worship,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: because when you worship, you're getting closer to releasing that
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: prophetic utterance that exists in your life. And that's why
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the devil doesn't want you to worship, because worship makes
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the water break, it makes the baby give birth, it
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: releases a prophetic, utterant side. Somebody shall yes. And then
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I want to point out the extreme generational change. It
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  Speaker 1: is not that Samuel and Eli just represent two generations.
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  Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is Eli is a boy.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I mean Samuel is a boy. When Eli is an
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: old man, Samuel is young enough to be huff nay son.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: So you got this grandfather character who is old and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the other extreme is a boy is in the house.
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  Speaker 1: And it is an extreme shift. It's gonna skip a generation.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see it where you thought you would see it,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: But here it comes from the place you didn't expect
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  Speaker 1: to see it, from a person you didn't expect to
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: see it, from a woman that you thought was drunk.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Here comes the change that God's gonna bring in your life.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: That's why you got to stop looking down your nose
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: at people are and calling people out their name, because
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: sometimes God or you somebody you thought was drunk to
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: be the next level of blessing in your life. Somebody
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: holler for me. I feel like hollering this morning. I
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: feel like screaming this morning. And then when I was
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: praying about it, the Lord said, I want you to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: tell them in the night shift, the light shimmers. In
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the night shift, the light shimmers. Night doesn't mean total blackout,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: It says, and ere the lamp of God went out.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you all were.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Raised with electric lights, and I was too, But when
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I went to my grandmother's house, they would have candle
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: lights and oil lamps. And when the lamps were going out,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: as they start to go out, they flicker, flickering.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: The night.
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  Speaker 1: Has shimmering light, moments of illumine, glimpses, shadows, moments of revelation,
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  Speaker 1: moments of insight. You can't see it clearly because it's shimmering,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: but you've cut glimpses. You would have fainted, but you
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: caught shimmers of light every time the devil buddy had you,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: God let the light shimmer. You're steal in the night season.
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  Speaker 1: But you got a flicker of light. You got a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: flicker of light, And sometimes a flicker is all you need.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: If you get a flicker of light, you can hold
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: on a little while longer. Some of y'all came out
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: with a flicker of light. You're like the woman who
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: said I don't need the loaf. If I get a crumb,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I'll come out on a crumb. I wish I had
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: some crumby people come out on a crumb.
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  Speaker 3: If you give me.
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  Speaker 1: A half a chance, I'll scratch myself out the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the way. I may not half daylight, but if
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  Speaker 1: I got shimmering light, if I know two scriptures, if
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I know one and a half scriptures, if I can
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  Speaker 1: sing a little bit, I may not be on the
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: praise team. But if I can sing while I'm doing
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: my dishes, I can break her yo over my house.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people that are standing
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: in shimmering light. Make some noise. The old man couldn't
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: hear him. Now the Bible said he couldn't see, but
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: he didn't sing nothing about his ears. But he cannot
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: hear what the young man can hear. The young man
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: can hear God, and he can hear God to the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: point that he's disruptive, anxious, irritated, disturbs his sleeping cheaps
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: getting up again. Some of you can hear God so clear,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and then when you try to act on what God
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: told you to do, they send you back, and when
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: they send you back, it plays into your rejection issues.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: It plays until your abandonment issues, and you think they
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in you because they send you back. But
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: they're sending you back because they don't hear what you hear.
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  Speaker 1: All they can do is send you back because they
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: haven't heard what you're heard. Somebody holler, I hear it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: My money is not right, but I hear it. My
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: friends are not right, but I hear it. I don't
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: have no building for it, but I hear it. Somebody holler,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I hear it. I'm preaching that. Somebody on line. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: hear it. It won't let me rest. It won't let
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: me rest. It won't let me lay down. He won't
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: let me speak because I keep hearing it. I don't
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: know how to do it, but I hear it. Now
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: was just this is why we can't throw eager extremes away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about you and your parents. I'm talking
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: about from grandparent.
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  Speaker 2: On down.
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  Speaker 1: Eli can't hear it, but he can interpret it. Samuel
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: can hear it, but he don't know what to do
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: with it. So when Eli perceives that the Lord had
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: called him not only did he perceive that God had
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: called him.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: He told him what to say.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: See some of us. God has kept us in the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: earth just to tell you what to do what you got.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: We're not trying to control you. We're trying to stop
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the vicious cycle of going back and forth and back
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: and forth, and back and forth and back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: So which we're gonna script you. It's gonna be your job.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: You're anointing. I'm just giving you the script, so Eli
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: told him. Then Eli said, go back and lay down
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: in your place. In other words, go back and be
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: where God expects you to be. Adam, where art thou.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: You're not in the meeting place. Moses built a tabernacle
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: in the wild. And if what is tabernacle, it's a
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: When God sent Jesus, he sent divinity to humanity. Because
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Jesus is a I am the way, the truth, and
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the life. No man coming them to the Father say me,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: come by me. Go back to the meeting place and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: lay down, and if he calls you again. This is
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the humility of the text. I cannot assume that I
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: have endless opportunities to go back and forth. I don't
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: know if you're gonna call me again. But if you
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: call me again, I know what to say now because
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I have served under Eli. So there's this big argument
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: going on in the world in some parts of the
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: world today, a generational argument between the former and the latter,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: and they're arguing over who's relevant, who they both are,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the reason they both are. He called the young because
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: they're strong.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: He called the old.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Because they they know the way. They know the way.
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  Speaker 1: Eli was old, but he knew the way. He couldn't
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: run the place, but he knew the way. You understand
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. So one doesn't operate independent of
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the other. So the day shift can't go home before
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the night shift comes on. The knight shift can't go
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: home until the day shift comes back. And God said,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: until you learn how to work interdependently, you will never
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: be effective. Because I can't run the plays anymore, but
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I know how to play the game. The challenge of
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the older generation is to not be jealous of the
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: younger generation to the point that you won't give them
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the benefit of what you learn. The challenge of the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: younger generation is to understand that some old systems still work,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and in your desire to be innovative, there are still
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: some laws you can't break, and one of them is
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: to lay down in the right place.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: And wait on the Lord.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: And if I can't make it call you, that's how time.
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  Speaker 1: I can't make it call you. I can't make it seek.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even make you go to the place. But
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: if you go back to the place, see.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I gotta stop. The powerful thing to me.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: About watching you run around the stage and preach is
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I remember you as a little girl sitting right over
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: there in the corner with your head down, to come
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: back full circle to the place. God said, I'm a
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: blame you, right right in the place where you felt rejection,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: right in the place where you felt disgraced, right in
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the place where you felt shame, right in the place
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: where you thought nobody would ever accept you, Right in
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: the place where you thought you'd never be anybody. God said,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: that's still a place, And I'm gonna bring you back
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: to the place. I'm gonna bring you right back to
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: the spot, to the spot, to the very spot. Show
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: me where you laid him down, show me where you
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: came up, show me where you wanted to quit, show
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: me where you wanted to run from, show me where
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: you're trying to hide from.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring you right back to the blade. Sign
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: you up.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: See they shall because they see the woman preaching. I'm
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: over here showing because I see the little girl preaching.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I see the little girl preacher who thought her life
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: was over. That's what I'm shouting about, because you always
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: mean my baby. So I see you like you're steal
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: a child sitting over the corner with big bility, holding
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Malachi in your arms. Now what you're holding, and it
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: ain't just for her, It's for you too, some of
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: you gods getting ready to do something in your life.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: He's gonna break every curse, every bondas, every shame, every
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: struggle on your life. If I'm preaching to you jiming
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: him sixty seconds, I'm crazy. I mean no, no, no,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: no crazy. Pray don't break and play joke, break and pay,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: don's plain and pray.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Pray that like you lost your bye.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Pray that like it just hard come God. Pray that
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: like you got another said play that like he opened
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: up a door.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: The Lord said to me.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: The Lord said to me, there's some people in this
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: room that he's trying to call you back to the
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: place of your confusion, of your chaos, that there's gonna
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: be a night shift. Wait wait, wait, let me give
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: you this prophecy. The Lord said to Samuel, I'm going
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: to do things.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Through you.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: That causes both ears of them that hear it to tingle.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to use you like no other prophet
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: has ever been used in the scriptures. I'm gonna use
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: you in life. I'm gonna use you after your life.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna use you to annoying kings. I'm gonna bring
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: you before princess. I'm gonna bring you into positions of power.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: And if I don't know, if you've got faith enough
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: to believe it. And God said all of that when
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Samuel had not yet known the Lord. Now this is
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: not just about churches. This is about your life, your business,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: your career, your degree, your entrepreneurship. Whatever you're calling in
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: the earth is whatever you're calling. Everybody ain't called to
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: the pulpit. Everybody's not supposed to do this, everybody's not
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: created to do this. Don't be one dimensional. There are
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: some things that God created you for that you had
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: some delays and some setbacks, and some mistakes and some
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: mishaps and God wants you to come back to the place. Yes,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: shad dak kobusha da, God said, go back to the
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: place where you heard my voice speak Lord, for the servant.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Here is