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Living In the Moment · Rick Manis Ministries Podcast

0:04
SPEAKER_00: I look around and the smiles are on the faces.
0:08
SPEAKER_00: There's peace on the face.
0:12
SPEAKER_00: Everything's right.
0:14
SPEAKER_00: What happens when you enter in like that?
0:16
SPEAKER_00: What happens?
0:18
SPEAKER_00: I used to think what happened was that we got to singing so good that the Holy Spirit would come in through the doors because he was happy that we were singing so good.
0:28
SPEAKER_00: But I found out a long time ago that what happens is we're we're become we become so aware, so keenly aware of the one who had never left and who was always there and who loves you with an with an unconditional love.
0:43
SPEAKER_00: And what happens is when you're in tune with him, when you're aware of him, you can't help but feel love, comfort, security, everything's all right.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: There's joy, there's peace, there's all the things that automatically come from just from God being who he is.
1:02
SPEAKER_00: And maybe you're dealing with some problems in life.
1:04
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you got some things that need to be taken care of.
1:07
SPEAKER_00: But in that moment, all those things seem to fade away because all you're aware of is the goodness and the reality of God.
1:14
SPEAKER_00: God's with you and everything's all right.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: And because he lives, you can face tomorrow and you feel strong again, you feel secure, you feel safe, you feel comfort, you feel patience, you feel joy, because that's the automatic things of God.
1:26
SPEAKER_00: I was I was I was preaching in a church last Sunday and I saw this during the worship.
1:30
SPEAKER_00: They did just like this, just like this morning.
1:33
SPEAKER_00: They got into this high worship and they were just totally swept up in the reality and the awareness of God.
1:40
SPEAKER_00: And I stepped up to the pulpit and I began to tell them about that moment, that moment that you experience in that worship.
1:49
SPEAKER_00: That moment is the moment of life, and that moment is the moment of God.
1:54
SPEAKER_00: And that moment is when you're aware of how it always is all the time.
2:03
SPEAKER_00: Same temperature all the time in heaven.
2:13
SPEAKER_00: And that that's the moment when you're seeing when you're in that place, you're in that now, when you're in that awareness.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: And God is always in the now.
2:24
SPEAKER_00: His name is I am, not I used to be or I'm gonna be.
2:28
SPEAKER_00: That word Jehovah, Yehovah, it's the same, same, same basic word as I am.
2:33
SPEAKER_00: It means now.
2:35
SPEAKER_00: God doesn't wear a watch.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: He's never lived yesterday, he's never lived tomorrow.
2:39
SPEAKER_00: He's eternal, it's always now, it's always perpetual.
2:42
SPEAKER_00: You've all you also have never lived in yesterday, you've never gonna see tomorrow.
2:47
SPEAKER_00: Every day that you live, when you wake up when the sun comes up the next day, it's still gonna be today for you.
2:52
SPEAKER_00: That makes any sense.
2:54
SPEAKER_00: All you're ever gonna know is today, all you're ever gonna know is the now.
2:58
SPEAKER_00: But a lot of times what happens with people is their imaginations take them back there somewhere, take them in the path.
3:03
SPEAKER_00: Their imaginations take them into tomorrow.
3:05
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus would talk about those things, and he said, Don't be worrying about those things.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow will be tomorrow.
3:10
SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow will have its own things.
3:12
SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow will be its own now when you get there, but now is where you live, and God is with you now.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: He won't he won't do it tomorrow.
3:19
SPEAKER_00: He won't get with you tomorrow.
3:21
SPEAKER_00: God is in the now.
3:22
SPEAKER_00: He's with you right now.
3:23
SPEAKER_00: He'll never be closer than he is right now, he'll never love you more, he'll never be more powerful in your life than he is right here in this very moment if you're aware of God with you in the now.
3:36
SPEAKER_00: I remember when I was uh pastoring back in the 90s, and there was all kinds of, I mean, I had alligators up to my armpits, and there were just all kinds of problems going on from every kind of direction.
3:46
SPEAKER_00: I didn't see how I could even carry on.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: And I went to went to uh a big church over in Tampa to hear a uh a big a big preacher of the day, the big, one of the big TV preachers that I really enjoyed and I got a lot of inspiration from back then, and I went to go hear this man preach, and I got in that meeting, and and and and today I can't even tell you what the man preached.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know, I didn't care.
4:08
SPEAKER_00: I just when I got there, they they were worshiping.
4:11
SPEAKER_00: And somebody got up and sang a song because he lives.
4:15
SPEAKER_00: I can face tomorrow.
4:18
SPEAKER_00: And I started being aware of him being alive, and I knew that it was him, I knew it was all about him, that as long as I was in him, everything was alright, and I was good and I was strong.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: And I didn't know what tomorrow was gonna bring.
4:32
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know, you know, Jacob didn't care about what Esau was going to do the next day.
4:36
SPEAKER_00: All he knows is I'm with God, my life has been preserved.
4:42
SPEAKER_00: See, when you're in the moment, you know.
4:47
SPEAKER_00: And uh I want to read a couple of verses out of Colossians chapter 1 because we're hearing things.
4:52
SPEAKER_00: I I came with the word, and and pastor was speaking it, and the music was speaking it this morning, and there's a flow that's that's here already this morning for us.
5:00
SPEAKER_00: God is in the now right now to say a now thing and to open up your eyes to a now thing right now so that we walk out the door of here.
5:08
SPEAKER_00: You walk in a perpetual now, you'll never be worried again.
5:12
SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
5:13
SPEAKER_00: When I talk on earth as it is in heaven, I'm talking about I'm talking about a reality here.
5:17
SPEAKER_00: In the now, when you're in that now, in that worship, you can't even think of, you can't even remember how to be stressed.
5:24
SPEAKER_00: Now, if you walk away and forget and you start thinking about tomorrow or something else, then you start remembering.
5:29
SPEAKER_00: But as long as you're aware of God, you forget how to be stressed, you forget how to be mad about something, you forget how to be angry.
5:36
SPEAKER_00: You don't know that in God.
5:38
SPEAKER_00: It just doesn't exist.
5:40
SPEAKER_00: It's the place where no abomination can enter into no lie, or he that makes a lie, no curse, no death, no star.
5:46
SPEAKER_00: Nothing is there but life.
5:49
SPEAKER_00: And that's where you're at right now.
5:51
SPEAKER_00: You're not trying to get there.
5:53
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
5:54
SPEAKER_00: You're there now.
5:55
SPEAKER_00: Somebody say now.
5:57
SPEAKER_00: You live in the now.
5:58
SPEAKER_00: You're not trying to get there, you're not climbing the mountain, you're not trying to become something.
6:03
SPEAKER_00: God gave you the life.
6:04
SPEAKER_00: He freely gave it to you.
6:06
SPEAKER_00: You got it now.
6:10
SPEAKER_00: Y'all got a shouting pulpit here.
6:12
SPEAKER_00: I can tell.
6:22
SPEAKER_00: See, you're in your home, you're in that place.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: You're in that kingdom of heaven.
6:30
SPEAKER_00: Somebody say heaven.
6:32
SPEAKER_00: Now, one thing about us as people, we learned a long time ago back in the Garden of Eden, how to take heaven and turn it into hell.
6:45
SPEAKER_00: We, huh?
6:46
SPEAKER_00: And we still know how.
6:47
SPEAKER_00: I see it happen in church all the time.
6:50
SPEAKER_00: People will take this glory of the kingdom of heaven and make their experience somehow out of this kingdom of heaven, they'll make their experience a hellish experience.
7:01
SPEAKER_00: They'll be stressed, they'll be worried, they'll be fearful, they'll be hurting, they'll be angry, they'll be crying themselves to sleep, they won't know what to do.
7:08
SPEAKER_00: They'll walk around as if they're blind, and here they have been given this kingdom.
7:13
SPEAKER_00: But see, we learned way back in the Garden of Eden how to take this paradise and turn it into hell.
7:19
SPEAKER_00: What did we do?
7:20
SPEAKER_00: All we had to do was make it about us.
7:26
SPEAKER_00: And when we did that in that garden, the whole Adam and Eve thing, when we did that, we took paradise and we birthed hell.
7:37
SPEAKER_00: That day, self-consciousness was born.
7:41
SPEAKER_00: That day, self-centeredness was born.
7:43
SPEAKER_00: That day, selfishness was born.
7:45
SPEAKER_00: Now, watch this.
7:46
SPEAKER_00: The only thing that could turn heaven into hell was that self-centeredness, the self-consciousness.
7:52
SPEAKER_00: Right?
7:53
SPEAKER_00: Because what happened?
7:54
SPEAKER_00: I say it all the time, I preach it, teach it all the time.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: Before we made it about us, we were naked, but we were not ashamed because it was not about us.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: It didn't matter whether we we weren't self-conscious.
8:06
SPEAKER_00: We were God conscious.
8:08
SPEAKER_00: We were life conscious.
8:11
SPEAKER_00: We were now conscious.
8:13
SPEAKER_00: We never worried about anything because we're in the now.
8:17
SPEAKER_00: We were in the paradise.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: We wanted that knowledge of good and evil so we could do this.
8:23
SPEAKER_00: We want to make it about us.
8:25
SPEAKER_00: We want to know this, we want to experience this knowledge of good and evil.
8:29
SPEAKER_00: Give us the knowledge of good and evil, just like they did on Mount Sinai.
8:32
SPEAKER_00: Moses just give us the commandments, give us the law, give us the good, the bad, the blessing, the cursing.
8:39
SPEAKER_00: We'll cleave to the good and we'll hate the bad.
8:43
SPEAKER_00: Just make it about us.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: We don't want to draw near to God.
8:47
SPEAKER_00: Moses, you go.
8:48
SPEAKER_00: Tell us what to do.
8:49
SPEAKER_00: Let's make it about us.
8:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on.
8:55
SPEAKER_00: We went after that knowledge of good and evil so it could be about us.
8:59
SPEAKER_00: First thing that happened, what happened?
9:01
SPEAKER_00: Once we get out of that now, all we do we hell was born that day.
9:05
SPEAKER_00: Hell was born that day.
9:08
SPEAKER_00: The first thing that happened, shame, we're ashamed of who and how we are.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: We don't measure up, we're not good enough anymore.
9:16
SPEAKER_00: Because it's about us.
9:18
SPEAKER_00: We're afraid now.
9:19
SPEAKER_00: We're scared.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: Because it's all on us now.
9:23
SPEAKER_00: We hide ourselves because we're afraid.
9:27
SPEAKER_00: From that day forth, there's been fear, there's been anger, there's been terror, there's been stress, there's been frustration, there's been suicide, there's been people crying themselves to sleep, there's been murder.
9:36
SPEAKER_00: First baby they had was a murderer.
9:42
SPEAKER_00: And all those things happen because hell was birthed in the earth that day.
9:46
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all here?
9:48
SPEAKER_00: We took paradise, heaven, and turned it into hell by this one simple thing.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: We discovered the formula for turning a wonderful life into a hellish life.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: All we got to do is just make it about us and we'll have it.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: Am I making any sense?
10:09
SPEAKER_00: That's all that still works.
10:10
SPEAKER_00: That formula still works today.
10:13
SPEAKER_00: Just make it about us.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm talking about, right?
10:15
SPEAKER_00: You you I mean, I can tell you, I can I can go point every hard time in my life when I was when I got scared, when I got mad, when I got frustrated, when I got stressed, I can tell you exactly what happened.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: I made it about me.
10:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, when I when when I came to the Lord, I mean, I was just whew, I was just floating, I was in heaven.
10:36
SPEAKER_00: I mean, this was the best thing that ever happened to me.
10:38
SPEAKER_00: When I came to the Lord, I went to a little country church on a Sunday morning in April of 1979.
10:44
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know even remember what the pastor preached.
10:46
SPEAKER_00: All I knew was they were gonna make an altar call at the end.
10:48
SPEAKER_00: I knew that's what they did.
10:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm just waiting for the altar call.
10:51
SPEAKER_00: I just came to get saved, that's all.
10:54
SPEAKER_00: And I came and I I received the Lord and I and I and I stood up and everything was fine.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: Now, that morning I left a house that was this run-down, filthy shack.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: That's where I was living.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: I was living by myself.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: I was uh I'd had a pretty good job, but we were uh it was a union shop and we were on strike, so I didn't have any money.
11:16
SPEAKER_00: I lived in a filthy, rundown shack.
11:20
SPEAKER_00: I was all by myself, didn't have anything.
11:25
SPEAKER_00: And that day, boom, I felt like the richest man in the world.
11:31
SPEAKER_00: I felt like everything was alright.
11:33
SPEAKER_00: I felt like life could not be any better than this.
11:36
SPEAKER_00: This is this is the best.
11:37
SPEAKER_00: The sky was bluer, my heart was singing, my walk was light, everything was good, and I went back home to that filthy run-down shack and still didn't have a job, still didn't have any money, and I was the happiest man alive.
11:50
SPEAKER_00: It was just God, all about God.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: How about God?
11:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm right with God.
11:58
SPEAKER_00: Well, a few years later, now I'm married, got a little family, and got a good paying job.
12:05
SPEAKER_00: Don't have a little rundown shack, got a pretty nice little place there.
12:10
SPEAKER_00: Much better than what I had before.
12:12
SPEAKER_00: Got some money now, got had a nice car, 71 cutlass, blue with a white top.
12:16
SPEAKER_00: Man, I I'm I'm looking good.
12:18
SPEAKER_00: Driving a pretty car and uh really got a nice house for a young man my age, and got a good job and pretty wife and little cute little family, and but some other things were going wrong that I was wanting to make right.
12:33
SPEAKER_00: And I've been praying and I've been trying to do all I could to make it all straighten out, and and uh it wasn't happening.
12:41
SPEAKER_00: I couldn't get the prayers answered.
12:44
SPEAKER_00: And uh I got mad and I got frustrated.
12:46
SPEAKER_00: I remember I was at work one day and it was just like this thing's dragging on and on, nothing's happening, nothing, my prayers aren't working, and you don't act, you don't act like you hear my prayers.
12:54
SPEAKER_00: What's the use of even trusting you?
12:55
SPEAKER_00: Why should I even pray if it's gonna be like this?
12:57
SPEAKER_00: They told me if I ask anything in your name, that it'll be done.
13:00
SPEAKER_00: Well, I've been asking and asking and asking, and nothing's going on, and I'm not, I just feel I, you know, I think I'll just go back to Egypt.
13:05
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I would what what's the use of even following you and trusting and if I can't even trust you?
13:10
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's how I talk to.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, a few years before, I had nothing, had no money, had no job, had nobody, and I loved God, everything was fine.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: Now I got lots of stuff, and I'm in hell.
13:24
SPEAKER_00: You know why?
13:25
SPEAKER_00: Because your circumstances and your situations have nothing to do with your heaven or hell.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: It's whether it's about God or you.
13:33
SPEAKER_00: After a few hours of throwing a pity party, you ever notice when you throw a pity party and you invite God, He doesn't show up, you know?
13:40
SPEAKER_00: No thanks, you know.
13:41
SPEAKER_00: But after a few hours, you know, the dust settled, and I felt bad about it, and I apologized to God.
13:48
SPEAKER_00: And I said, you know what?
13:49
SPEAKER_00: That was stupid.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: I said, you know, and and it just reality set in.
13:52
SPEAKER_00: I said, God, I'm sorry.
13:53
SPEAKER_00: I don't understand this.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why this isn't working for me, but you're the best thing that ever happened to me.
13:59
SPEAKER_00: And all I know is I ain't going nowhere.
14:01
SPEAKER_00: I'm staying with you.
14:02
SPEAKER_00: I just want you, I just love you.
14:04
SPEAKER_00: And uh and I said, and I said, Father, but I'm gonna learn this.
14:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna stay in this word, and I'm gonna learn, and I'm gonna grow, and I'm gonna get better.
14:13
SPEAKER_00: But in the meantime, I'm just gonna love and enjoy you.
14:16
SPEAKER_00: And all and and all of a sudden, heaven started happening again.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: I started feeling like I was in heaven.
14:21
SPEAKER_00: I'm in the moment now.
14:22
SPEAKER_00: Everything seems like it's okay.
14:24
SPEAKER_00: Everything's fine.
14:24
SPEAKER_00: I feel like I don't have a problem in the world.
14:27
SPEAKER_00: And all that happened was I shifted off of making it about me and what I want, and shifted it back to the reality and the goodness of how God is.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
14:36
SPEAKER_00: I came back to the Garden of Eden.
14:37
SPEAKER_00: I came back to where even though I was still naked, I'm not ashamed anymore.
14:42
SPEAKER_00: Even though I still don't have some things that I was wanting, I'm not afraid anymore.
14:45
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
14:46
SPEAKER_00: It's a reality of the now.
14:48
SPEAKER_00: God is with you now.
14:49
SPEAKER_00: You're home now, you're there now.
14:50
SPEAKER_00: Are you hearing me?
14:52
SPEAKER_00: My goodness.
14:54
SPEAKER_00: I remember back in 1989, I moved to Titusville to start a church.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: Nobody knew me there, didn't have any money to start, you know.
15:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh went there and rented a 17-foot-wide storefront with no money.
15:13
SPEAKER_00: Promised the guy that I promised the guy that people would start coming, and after a couple of months I'd be able to start paying them something.
15:20
SPEAKER_00: And he agreed to it.
15:24
SPEAKER_00: Painted our name on the glass out there on the front, painted it with my own left hand.
15:28
SPEAKER_00: It looked like Herman Munster did something up there.
15:35
SPEAKER_00: Free Indeed Ministries is the name of it.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Put a little thing in the paper, announce to the world, we're here.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: Everything's gonna be alright now.
15:44
SPEAKER_00: Sunday morning, first service, put on my Sunday v.
15:48
SPEAKER_00: I've been working all week on a great message.
15:50
SPEAKER_00: I mean a prophetic message that this town needs to hear.
15:53
SPEAKER_00: I have come, I'm here to take a city.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: Service starts at 10 a.m.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: We're all ready.
16:03
SPEAKER_00: Nobody comes.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: 10 a.m., 10:30, 11.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: Nobody came.
16:11
SPEAKER_00: I preached to the back wall.
16:14
SPEAKER_00: I had this good sermon.
16:15
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna preach it.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: I preached it, I prophesied to the wind, I prayed, I sweated, I spit, I jumped, I pounded my feet.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I preached.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
16:25
SPEAKER_00: I didn't feel bad.
16:26
SPEAKER_00: I felt so good.
16:28
SPEAKER_00: I felt like I was right where God wanted me to be.
16:31
SPEAKER_00: I didn't feel ashamed.
16:32
SPEAKER_00: I wasn't self-conscious about it.
16:33
SPEAKER_00: I felt like that.
16:35
SPEAKER_00: I didn't feel bad.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: I didn't have one bad feeling.
16:37
SPEAKER_00: I just knew that I was with God and God was with me, and I was just gonna do it.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: It was fine.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: I didn't, you know, nobody came this time.
16:44
SPEAKER_00: That's all right.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: It can only go up from here, right?
16:49
SPEAKER_00: No, it can stay the same.
16:50
SPEAKER_00: Next service, nobody came again.
16:54
SPEAKER_00: Next service, still the same.
16:56
SPEAKER_00: Three services, nobody came, and here I came, make all these plans.
17:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm here, announce to the world, I'm here to start this wonderful ministry here, and nobody cares, nobody comes.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: They all stay away by the thousands.
17:08
SPEAKER_00: First service, second service, third service.
17:11
SPEAKER_00: The fourth service, two old ladies showed up.
17:13
SPEAKER_00: We had revival.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: But you know what, Pastor?
17:18
SPEAKER_00: I felt so good.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: I was so happy that that I knew that I was with God.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: It was all about God.
17:24
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't about me.
17:25
SPEAKER_00: I wasn't ashamed of nobody wanted to come and hear me preach.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, I'm just in God.
17:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna enjoy this, and it's all about God.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna bring the increase if he wants to bring the increase.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
17:34
SPEAKER_00: I was enjoying myself.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: A few years later, my church is going.
17:39
SPEAKER_00: Now we got us a church building, now we got people coming to church, we got all our department heads and everything going in, got a little salary coming in.
17:47
SPEAKER_00: And man, my church is established now.
17:50
SPEAKER_00: But we kind of hit a plateau to where we kind of we for a while we we we quit growing there for a while.
17:55
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm doing everything I can to make it grow.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: And God don't care, He ain't blessing it.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: He got me so far and then he left me.
18:08
SPEAKER_00: And I start getting frustrated and I start getting upset and I start getting mad, and I just like, well, why did I even come here?
18:16
SPEAKER_00: I might as well just quit, you know.
18:19
SPEAKER_00: And I thought about it seriously, more seriously than you think.
18:22
SPEAKER_00: Honestly, in those nine years I was there pastoring, I probably could have quit about 20 times, but most of the time nobody ever knew about it.
18:29
SPEAKER_00: Except me and God, and it didn't last very long.
18:35
SPEAKER_00: But I was so upset, and I just I was so depressed over it.
18:39
SPEAKER_00: I was I was in such a hell, and you know, and I and I really believe I heard the Lord say, Where's that boy that preached to the back wall when nobody was there?
18:48
SPEAKER_00: You know.
18:52
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, what happens is the dust settles, and you get back into the truth, you know, your mind gets back into sanity, and it's like, you know what?
19:01
SPEAKER_00: I love you, God, it's all about you.
19:03
SPEAKER_00: You know, and all I had to do, you know, there again, I realized all I had to do was was let it be about him again.
19:14
SPEAKER_00: Be in the now.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: And here I was.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: Now, look, when I had nothing, nobody wanted to come to my church.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: I was happy.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I was having heaven, man.
19:23
SPEAKER_00: I was I was I'm I'm in the I'm a pastor now, nobody coming, but I'm a pastor now.
19:28
SPEAKER_00: I was happy.
19:29
SPEAKER_00: Fulfilling, I was stepping into a new phase of ministry, and I was excited and I was happy, and I had nothing and nobody.
19:36
SPEAKER_00: A few years later, I got lots of stuff.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: Church is bigger, got a church building, got a salary, got an office.
19:45
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm having hell.
19:46
SPEAKER_00: My situation was better, but my experience was hell.
19:52
SPEAKER_00: See, a lot of times you think that if God will just take care of that, then you can have heaven again.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: If God will just fix this, if he'll just answer this prayer, then you and God can enjoy it and we can start dancing again.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: It has nothing to do with what's going on, it's got nothing to do with what somebody said, what somebody did to you, it's got nothing to do with anybody else.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: All it has to do with is that do we know how to live in the now with the heaven?
20:19
SPEAKER_00: Or are are we going to fantasize and turn it into hell?
20:23
SPEAKER_00: Am I making any sense?
20:25
SPEAKER_00: I remember, you know, I was reading recently about how, you know, Mary and Martha, Martha invited Jesus to come to dinner.
20:32
SPEAKER_00: You know the story, and and so Jesus comes in and he takes and accepts the invitation, he comes in and sits down, and and Martha's in there, you know, cleaning up and cooking and everything, and making it all really nice for Jesus, and her him and Mary just sitting there in the living room talking.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: And Martha's over there, and pretty soon she starts having hell.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: She's getting frustrated.
20:53
SPEAKER_00: She's looking over there and they ain't doing nothing.
20:55
SPEAKER_00: She starts, she's putting the pots on the put, you know, slamming the pots a little louder so they can hear.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, well, my lazy sister don't want to do nothing, but Jesus, if I can get Jesus' attention, he'll make her do something.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: And he won't do anything.
21:17
SPEAKER_00: They just keep talking.
21:18
SPEAKER_00: So finally she stops.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: She goes, Jesus, she don't even talk to Mary, but she goes straight to Jesus.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, don't you care?
21:24
SPEAKER_00: Don't you care that I'm doing this all by myself?
21:26
SPEAKER_00: And my sister Mary just sitting there talking to you?
21:29
SPEAKER_00: Won't lift one finger?
21:30
SPEAKER_00: And he says, Martha, it's really interesting what he's saying.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: He says, Martha, you're troubled by many things.
21:36
SPEAKER_00: And he says, but Mary's chosen the more important thing here.
21:39
SPEAKER_00: Now, now what he's saying, he's not saying that you're just supposed to spend all your time just gazing into the eyes of Jesus and worship and don't ever wash your dishes and don't ever cook any food and don't ever clean out.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: That's not what he's saying.
21:51
SPEAKER_00: Because Martha, basically he was telling Martha, he said, listen, if we can fix this, I can send Mary in here to help you, you'll be happy for about five minutes, then you're gonna be mad about something else.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Because it's all about you.
22:02
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: Mary's doing the more important thing.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: She's making it about me.
22:05
SPEAKER_00: She's learning about me.
22:06
SPEAKER_00: She's gaining the knowledge of me here.
22:08
SPEAKER_00: You get the knowledge of me.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: That won't bother you so much.
22:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on.
22:12
SPEAKER_00: You get the knowledge of me.
22:14
SPEAKER_00: You can cook a meal and you won't have hell.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: You'll have heaven while you're doing it.
22:17
SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: You get the knowledge of me.
22:19
SPEAKER_00: You can deal with all hard money situations.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: You can deal with debt and bankruptcy and you can have heaven the whole time.
22:25
SPEAKER_00: You know Jesus.
22:26
SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all here?
22:28
SPEAKER_00: It's your situation that ain't creating your hell.
22:31
SPEAKER_00: It's our focus on the self-consciousness, on making it about us.
22:35
SPEAKER_00: That's the formula.
22:36
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'll tell you what, this is good.
22:38
SPEAKER_00: That right there is enough.
22:39
SPEAKER_00: I can shut up right now and you done got your money's worth.
22:41
SPEAKER_00: Because if you remember that, this is the formula.
22:44
SPEAKER_00: Anytime you start experiencing hell, I can still feel it sometimes.
22:49
SPEAKER_00: Things start happening.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: I can feel myself start getting under that weather of hell.
22:53
SPEAKER_00: But because I know the formula, I'm like, whoa, I ain't making this about me.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: I'm home.
22:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm staying in the moment.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: I'm staying in life.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm staying in heaven.
23:00
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: You know what happens a lot of times, Pastor?
23:04
SPEAKER_00: It's just like they kept asking Jesus, don't you care?
23:10
SPEAKER_00: Martha said, Jesus, don't you care?
23:12
SPEAKER_00: He's sleeping in the boat in the Sea of Galilee and the storm there.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, don't you care?
23:17
SPEAKER_00: It's not they ducking.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: He says, he says, the Father cares for you.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: He cares.
23:23
SPEAKER_00: He does care.
23:26
SPEAKER_00: But he's enjoying himself so much it looks like he doesn't.
23:31
SPEAKER_00: I can't tell you how many times people that I've known have accused me of not caring.
23:37
SPEAKER_00: Don't you care?
23:41
SPEAKER_00: Don't you realize what's going on?
23:42
SPEAKER_00: Things are falling down all around you.
23:45
SPEAKER_00: How do you do it, Rick?
23:46
SPEAKER_00: How do you ignore all those?
23:48
SPEAKER_00: I don't ignore any of them.
23:49
SPEAKER_00: I'm totally aware of everything.
23:53
SPEAKER_00: I'm dealing with everything, but I'm dealing with it in the moment in God, so I'm not afraid and I'm not ashamed.
23:59
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
24:02
SPEAKER_00: And this is the formula.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: This is what He is getting.
24:05
SPEAKER_00: He gave us heaven.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: He gave us life.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: It was free.
24:08
SPEAKER_00: You've got it right now.
24:10
SPEAKER_00: And it's always there.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: And you have the access to God in the moment, right now, all the time for the rest of your life.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: You never have to be sad, scared, afraid, stressed, angry, anything stuff again.
24:20
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to get mad about nothing anymore.
24:22
SPEAKER_00: You're in heaven.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: Well, that Donald Trump, that Hillary, what are we gonna do?
24:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna live in heaven what I'm gonna do.
24:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm just aware of this other kingdom.
24:43
SPEAKER_00: I ain't scared of what they're gonna do.
24:45
SPEAKER_00: It ain't about me.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: But what am I gonna do?
24:48
SPEAKER_00: It ain't about you.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: Live in heaven and enjoy this thing.
24:52
SPEAKER_00: Gosh, why do the heathen rage and the king?
24:54
SPEAKER_00: All this stuff goes on.
24:55
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said, in the world, you got this stuff, but I've overcome all that stuff.
24:59
SPEAKER_00: Be happy, celebrate, be of good cheer.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: You're in heaven.
25:04
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
25:06
SPEAKER_00: Am I doing all right?
25:11
SPEAKER_00: You see, all we know when we don't make it about us, we just know we're loved.
25:19
SPEAKER_00: I don't understand a lot of this stuff, but I don't have to understand anymore.
25:22
SPEAKER_00: All I got, when I know I if I'm when I know I'm loved, everything's alright.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be fine.
25:27
SPEAKER_00: I am loved, loved, loved.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: See that unconditional love of God.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: That's that is the only perfect thing there is.
25:36
SPEAKER_00: You know, when Jesus came, why did they misunderstand?
25:39
SPEAKER_00: Why did they miss him?
25:40
SPEAKER_00: They were waiting for the Messiah, they were prepared for the Messiah to come, or they thought they were, and when he came, they walked, he walked right under their nose and they missed him because they they were looking for somebody that was going to come and fix all this stuff out here.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: Because if if somebody would just do something about the Romans, if somebody would just come and do something about Herod, if somebody would just come and do something about all this sin in the nation, somebody would come and fix all that stuff, then we can have a glorious kingdom again.
26:07
SPEAKER_00: So Jesus came and they're waiting for him to do something about Rome.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: And he says, My kingdom's not of this world.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: So when are you going to establish your kingdom?
26:17
SPEAKER_00: And he said, It don't come like that.
26:21
SPEAKER_00: It don't come with ocular evidence, it don't come with observation.
26:25
SPEAKER_00: The kingdom's within you.
26:32
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, if they say, Well, it's happening over there, go there.
26:35
SPEAKER_00: He said, You don't have to run to the desert.
26:37
SPEAKER_00: You'll never have to go anywhere.
26:39
SPEAKER_00: You'll always be in that place.
26:40
SPEAKER_00: You'll always be in that moment.
26:42
SPEAKER_00: You'll always be in that now.
26:44
SPEAKER_00: You won't need anything, you won't need another touch and outpouring of visitation if you know you're in the moment.
26:50
SPEAKER_00: That's what I was wanting to read here.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: All this talks about, I'll just tell you.
26:54
SPEAKER_00: All it talks about, he says, I pray that you would be filled with wisdom and spiritual understanding in the knowledge of God, just knowing God.
27:03
SPEAKER_00: You know, I was I share a story.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: Happy Father's Day, guys.
27:09
SPEAKER_00: You know, my Father's Day story is different than everybody else's that I hear on Father's Day.
27:17
SPEAKER_00: Because everybody else I know, I don't know how they all got those dads, but but they all got the greatest man in the world.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: My dad's story was different.
27:27
SPEAKER_00: You know, when growing up as a young man, I I said my dad was the greatest man in the world, too.
27:33
SPEAKER_00: And uh he was my hero, and I just wanted I just wanted attention from him.
27:37
SPEAKER_00: I I mean I just he was my dad.
27:39
SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to be with my dad all the time.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: He's my hero.
27:42
SPEAKER_00: And uh, but some things happened, you know, uh later on.
27:46
SPEAKER_00: We uh, you know, him and him and mama got divorced, and then pretty soon he gets married again, and uh so she's got a couple of kids, and so we're gonna blend our families, and we're gonna be like the Brady Bunch, but once we blend the families, it was more like World War II than the Brady Bunch.
28:00
SPEAKER_00: We didn't we didn't have it all nice, and I mean it was it was pretty pretty rough actually.
28:05
SPEAKER_00: And so Dad made the choice to in my mind it looked like this that dad made the choice to keep her kids and send us away.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: And I love Daddy.
28:18
SPEAKER_00: I cried.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: I I I just wanted to be with Daddy, but Daddy didn't want me to be with him.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: That sunk in after a while.
28:30
SPEAKER_00: I couldn't believe it.
28:31
SPEAKER_00: For a while, I wouldn't believe it.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: Even when people tried to tell me that I wouldn't believe it, but after a while I couldn't deny it.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: I would try to call Daddy after a while he wouldn't even take my calls anymore.
28:47
SPEAKER_00: My hero.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: You don't care about me.
28:52
SPEAKER_00: You don't want me.
28:55
SPEAKER_00: I think it affected me.
28:59
SPEAKER_00: I spiraled into a few years of just the fog and doing some petty crimes and doing these short stints in and out of jail because of the trouble I was getting in.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: After about five years, I made contact with him again and we had this little conversation, and he decided that now he wanted to help me and help me get my diploma and help me get into college and work with me on that.
29:27
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, all right, I'll start something.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: But the problem was I went went back to live with daddy when I was 18.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: We were living together, and and and he still wants to be daddy, and he still wants to, and you know, he's and there's rules, you know, he's it's his house.
29:40
SPEAKER_00: Again, there's rules, but I've been living without rules for five years.
29:44
SPEAKER_00: I've been playing by my own rules.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: And this man who did hasn't who didn't give a crap about me for all these years, he thinks he can tell me what to do now.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: And we get in such such fights, verbal fights, and then fight, and one time we both stepped outside and we just were toe to toe.
29:59
SPEAKER_00: We just about went to blows, almost.
30:01
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was this close, and it scared me.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: I thought I never would believe that my hero would become my enemy like this, and I would hate him so much, and we would hate each other.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: So I walked away, literally walked away and walked across the country and to get away from it.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: And in April of 1979, I met I met the Lord.
30:25
SPEAKER_00: And like I said before, I was so happy.
30:27
SPEAKER_00: I was so fulfilled with a love that I couldn't get from Daddy or anybody else that I tried.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: I had it.
30:37
SPEAKER_00: I was loved.
30:39
SPEAKER_00: I was home.
30:40
SPEAKER_00: I found I was fulfilled.
30:45
SPEAKER_00: I wasn't wanting anything else, I had it.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: I was good, I was loved, and I felt like I just loved everybody.
30:55
SPEAKER_00: I remember when I got up off that altar and I turned around, and it was a little country church, but there was a person there who was who had, I mean, we had hated each other when we were in the world, but this person had just got saved, you know, a couple of months earlier, and I turned around, we looked at each other with tears in our eyes, and all we could do was just hug because we just loved.
31:11
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I we were just I we were loved, and you know, when you're loved, you just love.
31:16
SPEAKER_00: You know?
31:18
SPEAKER_00: If you have a problem loving, just remember where you're at.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: You're loved.
31:24
SPEAKER_00: Unconditionally.
31:25
SPEAKER_00: And that unconditional love changed my life began to change my life.
31:28
SPEAKER_00: And after a few few years, you know, I got my little family and and uh come back to come down to Titusville to start a church.
31:38
SPEAKER_00: And daddy lived in Orlando and so started visiting every now and then and kind of getting reacquainted.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: And now I'm grown up.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm changed, I'm much better, we're not going to fight, you know.
31:50
SPEAKER_00: I love him and I love him unconditionally.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: And he was a little bit nervous at first around me because of all of our history, and but after a while he saw that I had no agendas and I just I just loved him.
32:03
SPEAKER_00: And I didn't come, I had no confrontations for him, he didn't owe me any explanation.
32:08
SPEAKER_00: The man owed me absolutely nothing because I just loved him unconditionally, no matter what.
32:15
SPEAKER_00: He didn't have to apologize, and he never did, and that's fine with me because it doesn't matter.
32:21
SPEAKER_00: I loved him.
32:22
SPEAKER_00: He didn't have to give me anything.
32:26
SPEAKER_00: And uh after a while, it started to win him over.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: Pretty soon we become like best friends.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: Pretty soon we're fishing together all the time, we're spending lots of time together.
32:36
SPEAKER_00: Pretty soon I'm the one that he confides in, and I'm finding out I'm getting to know Daddy in an intimate way that I I never even wished I could know before, never dreamed of.
32:45
SPEAKER_00: And me and Daddy get so close, and I've got the best version of Daddy now, even though all those years there was so much hell and so much pain and so much destruction, but the unconditional love of God, the reality of God, has had changed everything.
33:00
SPEAKER_00: And all of my hellish circumstances, and all the tears that I cried, and all the broken, dysfunctional things that that happened to me, and I and and I created in my life, those meant nothing anymore because it wasn't about me.
33:13
SPEAKER_00: I was in love with God and I just loved everybody and I loved this man.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: And Daddy was a his spiritual philosophy, it was a mixture of different things, new age and uh psychic stuff, and uh, and uh just a lot of studies that he'd done old old religions, ancient religions and things, and I thought Christianity churches were just scams and preachers were all crooks.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: And now here's his boy pastoring a church.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: Which I'm sure made him a little nervous for me at first, but after a while he realized that I just loved and I loved him.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: And pretty soon the love changed him.
34:07
SPEAKER_00: Pretty soon he started wanting this beautiful thing that I was walking in.
34:14
SPEAKER_00: And eventually he went to a church and walked down the aisle in front of everybody to make a public profession.
34:23
SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ as his Lord and his Savior.
34:28
SPEAKER_00: Daddy got saved.
34:31
SPEAKER_00: Daddy started coming to my church.
34:33
SPEAKER_00: He's helping me, just helping me with everything that he can.
34:37
SPEAKER_00: He was good with his hands, so there'd be lots of times we'd be there working on things.
34:41
SPEAKER_00: Imagine that, me and Daddy are in ministry together.
34:44
SPEAKER_00: He became my best evangelist, I believe.
34:48
SPEAKER_00: He had a retired job driving the transit for the airport, and he was always inviting people to come to his church and telling them how good his son's church was, and excited for him about our church, and daddy was changed by the same thing that changed me.
35:05
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
35:07
SPEAKER_00: You see, the people have problems with relationships.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: This story would have never been told if it wasn't for God's unconditional love.
35:17
SPEAKER_00: I could have made it about me, and I talk to people so often that have similar issues, and they just can't get over it, and they're just like, but it hurts, and there's so much and how do I try to forgive and I just can't why because you're you're you're you've you've turned it into hell.
35:28
SPEAKER_00: You've made it about you.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: And there's people that you have conflict with, and it's just like, and you and and you try to put it off and say, ah, it's just a personality conflict.
35:39
SPEAKER_00: Uh but it's causing you hell.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: Daddy died of cancer just a few years ago.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: I was the first one he called when he got the news.
35:52
SPEAKER_00: He would be gone.
35:57
SPEAKER_00: I wanted me to be praying for him.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: I planned on coming down as quick as I could, and I thought in a few days I was gonna go see him, but he was already dead.
36:04
SPEAKER_00: I sat there at his memorial service and I would just thank God.
36:09
SPEAKER_00: All I could do was to be thankful.
36:11
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't even such a hurtful time, it was a beautiful time.
36:14
SPEAKER_00: It was just I was just thanking God.
36:15
SPEAKER_00: I thought, God, thank you for your love.
36:17
SPEAKER_00: This would have never happened.
36:18
SPEAKER_00: I would have never known this man, I would have never enjoyed this man, I would have never known the peace in his heart.
36:24
SPEAKER_00: Because you know, sometimes we would talk about the past a little bit and he would, not not in a confrontational way, but just talking about some of the old times that would come up in conversation.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: And I noticed that daddy had rewritten that history, that it wasn't, it wasn't, that he really wasn't as as as bad as it was in my memory.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: I felt like he rewrote it.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: I never corrected it.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: I thought, I love this man.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: Let him have peace in the this this pa place in his life.
36:48
SPEAKER_00: He don't owe me anything.
36:49
SPEAKER_00: I just want him to have peace.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: I just love him.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: All I want is good for him.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
36:53
SPEAKER_00: When it's not about you, you're just in heaven.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: You got lots of heaven to give.
36:56
SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all hearing me?
36:59
SPEAKER_00: It's about it's not about the situation, not what somebody did to you.
37:03
SPEAKER_00: It's not what somebody's saying, it's not what they're doing at work.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: It's not Trump or Hillary that you're hell, that's your hell.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: It's just when we make it about us.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: Are you here?
37:12
SPEAKER_00: Welcome home.
37:12
SPEAKER_00: We're in the kingdom of heaven.
37:14
SPEAKER_00: This is where you're always going to be.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: If you might not know it, but that's where you're at.
37:18
SPEAKER_00: And if you can know it, if you can be aware of it, you'll have heaven from now and through the rest of eternity every day.
37:24
SPEAKER_00: In this body or in the next, you will have eternity throughout all, or excuse me, you will have heaven throughout all of eternity.
37:31
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine that?
37:32
SPEAKER_00: Can you dig for the rest of your life and and and and and on and on and on?
37:36
SPEAKER_00: You will never have another day of hell as long as you live.
37:42
SPEAKER_00: You might have situations you deal with, but you'll do it with heaven and love and enjoy.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all hearing me?
37:48
SPEAKER_00: Father, I give you praise today.
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SPEAKER_00: And I thank you, Father, for the gift of life.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad that Jesus didn't come to give us the instructions to get life.
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SPEAKER_00: He just came to give us life.
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SPEAKER_00: He didn't come to give us the formula for a great life or a great anointing or a great.
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SPEAKER_00: He just came to give it to us.
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SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, I thank you for the gift.
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SPEAKER_00: I thank you for the gift that everyone in this house has the gift.
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SPEAKER_00: The gift.
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SPEAKER_00: The gift today.
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SPEAKER_00: We celebrate you.
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SPEAKER_00: We are in you.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, father, father, father, father, my father.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your life.
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SPEAKER_00: Your love.
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SPEAKER_00: My goodness.
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SPEAKER_00: You know the Bible says in Ephesians, I pray that you would know the far-reaching aspects of the love of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: The height, the breadth, the length, and the width of the love of God so that you can be filled with all the fullness of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: All we got to do is know.
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SPEAKER_00: Hear the word.
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SPEAKER_00: You heard Pastor say it this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not about you don't need more anointing.
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SPEAKER_00: If you know where you're at, you are so anointed.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't even need something to be restored.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're in the moment today, everything has been made new.
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SPEAKER_00: It's time to have spiritual understanding.
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SPEAKER_00: It's time to have spiritual.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what creation's groaning for.
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SPEAKER_00: For those who have spiritual understanding, those who aren't needing that to change and need that to change and have to groan and cry that God will do something about that.
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SPEAKER_00: Live in the now and walk in the now and watch the kingdom of heaven affect the kingdoms of this world.
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SPEAKER_00: Because this thing ain't going away.
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SPEAKER_00: Of the increase of this thing, there will be no end.
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SPEAKER_00: Of the increase of peace, there will be no end.
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SPEAKER_00: I hate what ISIS is doing, but why do I have such peace?
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SPEAKER_00: I don't like the social fighting and stuff that goes on over this and that and all the finger pointing up.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't like any, but why do I have such peace and joy?
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SPEAKER_00: Because I love them all.
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SPEAKER_00: Because when I'm in the moment, I just know everything's alright.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm in heaven and this heaven ain't going away.
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SPEAKER_00: Everything's gonna be alright, not just because we got some positive thinking, but that's just how it is in this place.
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SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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SPEAKER_00: Woo! Would y'all stand up?
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, I give you praise.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't you love the Father today?
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SPEAKER_00: Happy Father's Day.
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SPEAKER_00: John said, I looked, I saw no, there was no more curse, no death, nor pain, nor sorrow, nor tears.
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SPEAKER_00: The former things had all passed away.
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SPEAKER_00: Come on, when you're in that moment like this, there ain't no.
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SPEAKER_00: There's stuff going on around you.
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SPEAKER_00: There's stuff going on out there, but you're in that place.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, you have no fear, you got no shame, you got no worry, you're home, you're home, you're home.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Can we have some music?
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SPEAKER_00: Let's stand here.
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SPEAKER_00: If we can have a I don't care who somebody, y'all come up and we can just have some music play.
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SPEAKER_00: And I want to make sure everybody's in the moment today.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to make sure that when we go out that door in a few in a few minutes, that everybody's in the moment of fullness in the kingdom of heaven.
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SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
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SPEAKER_00: My goodness, when you know it ain't about you, it ain't about you trying to get stronger, trying to get more spiritual, trying to get more gooder, trying to get more clean, trying to get more anointed, trying to get more of anything.
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SPEAKER_00: You're home.
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SPEAKER_00: This whole thing was given to me.
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SPEAKER_00: Only claim to fame will be him and his glory to your next.
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SPEAKER_00: Everyone can receive from this, but see a lot of times in our lives where we believe so strongly in him, we're expecting so much from him.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it seems like we're waiting, and it's like I think of the woman that in the Song of Solomon says, I see him, but he's through the lattice there.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like we wait for him to come and come into our world and take care of these things.
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SPEAKER_00: And he says, I got something better.
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SPEAKER_00: He says, Come away, my beloved.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the secret place.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is the breakthrough that I promised you.
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SPEAKER_00: It's come away with me now.
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SPEAKER_00: For the winner is over in the past.
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SPEAKER_00: Again.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a new ease that's coming.
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SPEAKER_00: A new nature of the struggle of life shall be no struggle at all, but it shall come with the walk of the moment.
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SPEAKER_00: And an awareness and the voice that speaks in the ear and says, This is the way.
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SPEAKER_00: Stand right here and walk in this.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome home, church.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome home.
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SPEAKER_03: How he loves us.
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SPEAKER_00: I sure love you guys.
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SPEAKER_03: I just can't help how he loves us.
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SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm aware of the climate in the world.
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SPEAKER_00: This place is so real, it's so much bigger than we are, it's so much more powerful than we are as people.
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SPEAKER_00: That it's I I I I find that I can't be angry anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't be upset with even people that are upset with me.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, I would fast and pray so I could drop some of this stuff that people were doing.
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SPEAKER_00: But you come home in this place, it's not when it's not about you.
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SPEAKER_00: There's nothing that sticks.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome home.
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SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and be naked and not ashamed.
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SPEAKER_00: Not literally, but you know what I'm saying.
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SPEAKER_00: Not because we're free, but because it is free.