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Blind Faith by Pastor Claude Whittaker (LIVE SERMON) · Deeper Life Ministries

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SPEAKER_01: Amen and amen.
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SPEAKER_01: Give the Lord a hand clap before you take your seat in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: Blind faith.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible says now faith is the substance of things hoped for.
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SPEAKER_01: And it is the very evidence of things not seen.
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SPEAKER_01: For by it the elders obtain a good report.
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SPEAKER_01: Faith.
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SPEAKER_01: Faith is essential.
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SPEAKER_01: Faith is essential on receiving something from the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Without faith, it's impossible to please God.
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SPEAKER_01: For they that come to God must first believe that He is God.
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SPEAKER_01: And He is a rewarder to them that diligently seek Him.
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SPEAKER_01: The key word there is diligence.
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SPEAKER_01: We must be God-seeking people.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're going to get something from the Lord, you've got to first believe that He's able to give it to you.
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SPEAKER_01: You've got to believe that He's God Almighty.
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SPEAKER_01: And besides Him, there's not another.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: You must believe that He's the great I am that I am.
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SPEAKER_01: You must know and believe that God can help my situation.
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SPEAKER_01: Do me a favor, just say to somebody, nobody around you, say it to yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: God can help my situation.
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SPEAKER_01: I know He can.
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SPEAKER_01: And I know that He will.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you really believe that He's that He will take about seven seconds, just tell God thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: He's helping you right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Faith.
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SPEAKER_01: The very thing God, the scriptures teach us that the just shall live by faith.
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SPEAKER_01: For we walk by and not by silence.
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SPEAKER_01: We don't walk by what we see.
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SPEAKER_01: We walk and believe by what we can.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're walking by what you can see, your situation is going to hinder you.
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SPEAKER_01: But when you walk by faith, you know that God is greater than your situation.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I know that God is greater than your situation.
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SPEAKER_01: God is greater.
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SPEAKER_01: He's able to bless me in the midst of my situation.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to see, amen, that uh the Bible says in verse 46 of Mark chapter 10, we got to have faith.
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody got faith in here today?
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SPEAKER_01: I believe.
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SPEAKER_01: Therefore have I spoken that all power belongs to God.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe He has all power.
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SPEAKER_01: And so the Bible says, uh, and they came to Jericho in Mark chapter 10 and verse 46.
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SPEAKER_01: And they came to Jericho.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, when you see Jericho in the scriptures, you know Jericho is where God sent the men to uh surround the city seven times and blow the trumpet seven times, and on the seventh time they blew seven times, and then they shouted and the walls came down.
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SPEAKER_01: When you see Jericho in the scriptures, you know that it represents strongholds, but yet strongholds being broken.
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SPEAKER_01: Whoever is struggling with a stronghold.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to know that you're in the right place at the right day to get strongholds broken.
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SPEAKER_01: He's a God that breaks strongholds.
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SPEAKER_01: God ever broke something off your life that you were dealing with, God is able to do it.
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SPEAKER_01: Strongholds.
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SPEAKER_01: And following the Lord was not only his disciples, but uh a great number of people.
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SPEAKER_01: They followed the Lord because they needed something from God.
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SPEAKER_01: I come to church because I need something from God.
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody need something from God?
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SPEAKER_01: If you need something for God, amen, just slip your hand up and tell God thank you in advance because God is gonna give you what you need.
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SPEAKER_01: I need something for God.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: I didn't come, amen, so you could see me in my suit and my tie.
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SPEAKER_01: I didn't come to see you in your cranberry and white.
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SPEAKER_01: I came to get something from God.
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SPEAKER_01: I need something from God, I need something broken over my life.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that there were a great number of people following the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: And blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highwayside begging.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, oftentimes when you hear this story and we cry out and say that name, we say, blind Bartimaeus, like if it was his name.
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SPEAKER_01: Blind Bartimaeus was not his name.
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SPEAKER_01: Blind Bartimaeus was the name that they gave him.
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SPEAKER_01: Bar means son.
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SPEAKER_01: Timaeus is his daddy.
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SPEAKER_01: He's a blind son of Timaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: But he has a name.
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SPEAKER_01: And because of his condition, people skipped over his name and associated his name with his condition.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, glory to God.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Just like some of us, people associated us with the name of our family members, our father, or those that are around us.
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SPEAKER_01: It never says what his name is.
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SPEAKER_01: His name is not blonde Barnamaeus, he has a name.
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SPEAKER_01: He has a name.
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SPEAKER_01: And you have a name.
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SPEAKER_01: And people try to associate you with your condition.
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SPEAKER_01: And so, yes, he was blinded.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible never says whether he was blinded at birth or blinded by somebody's condition or something happened to him.
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SPEAKER_01: It just called him blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to know this morning that you're so much more than your condition.
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SPEAKER_01: Tell somebody I'm so much greater than my condition.
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SPEAKER_01: My condition doesn't define who I am.
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SPEAKER_01: Just because you see me in this current condition, God, I know a God that is able not only to change the times and the seasons, but He's able to change my condition.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, I wish I had about three of you that really believe that God is able to change your condition.
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SPEAKER_01: Turn your life around, and God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't judge me by the way you see me now.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm just going through a season.
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SPEAKER_01: But after this, tell somebody, but after this, you're gonna see the glory of God in my life.
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SPEAKER_01: I wish I could preach to some people.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel like running out of here right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel like running, I feel like shouting, I feel like lifting them up, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: You're just see me, but not my condition, because my God is greater than my current condition.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, so you might as well lift up your head, oh ye gate, and be lifted up your everlasting door, and let the king of glory come on in.
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SPEAKER_01: Who is the king of glory?
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SPEAKER_01: Who is the king of glory?
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SPEAKER_01: I feel the Holy Ghost.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel the Holy Ghost.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: God wants to deal with your current condition, and God wants you to know that He's able to bring you out of that thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, I wish I had somebody to lift up the hands.
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SPEAKER_01: Lord, just bring me out.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm waiting on you to bring me out.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, He's waiting on your faith.
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SPEAKER_01: Y'all can be seated.
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SPEAKER_01: Y'all, y'all trying to push me.
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SPEAKER_01: Y'all can be seated a little while.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: Glory.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel the Holy Ghost.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Your current condition.
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SPEAKER_01: Your current condition can't stop God from blessing me.
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_01: They gave him that name.
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SPEAKER_01: Blind man.
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SPEAKER_01: Bartimaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: Here's the blind son of Timaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: Timaeus is blind son in his current condition.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, what blows my mind is what the scriptures does not say.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible says he sat by the highway side begging.
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SPEAKER_01: It never said that his father was around, never said that his mother was there to help him.
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SPEAKER_01: Never said that anybody was helping him, but somebody let him by the roadside so he could continue to beg.
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SPEAKER_01: And you got to be careful who you associate yourself with.
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SPEAKER_01: Because certain people keep you in your current situation.
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SPEAKER_01: You got to get on the right side around the right folk that can help you get out of your current condition instead of allowing you to stay in your current condition.
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SPEAKER_01: There are some folk, amen, they want to see you stay there.
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SPEAKER_01: There's some folk that don't want you to come out of your condition.
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SPEAKER_01: There's certain folk that will keep you there.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody he was blind.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody kept leading him to the roadside so he could beg.
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SPEAKER_01: But the Lord had something greater for him.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh God, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, I know who I am in God, and I know that this condition that I'm currently dealing with, that God is trying to move on me and to see my faith, trusting in the living God.
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SPEAKER_01: Bible says He was by the wayside begging.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: Never mentioned his name.
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SPEAKER_01: I want three of you in here to know right now that your current situation is getting ready to change.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, now, some of y'all didn't really believe that because you've been in your situation a little bit longer.
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SPEAKER_01: But I want you to know that you have the power through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to take ownership of your current condition.
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SPEAKER_01: Tell somebody things are getting ready to change for me.
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SPEAKER_01: They're getting ready to change for me.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know who the preacher is preaching to, but I think he's talking to me.
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SPEAKER_01: And things are getting ready to change for me.
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SPEAKER_01: And so because things are getting ready to change for me, you don't mind if I just get up right now and you begin to tell God, thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord God, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for the change.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel the change in the atmosphere.
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SPEAKER_01: Tell the person sitting next to you, you better watch it.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'ma tie this place up because I'm getting a word from the Lord that my condition is getting ready to change.
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SPEAKER_01: I wish I had somebody that really believed the word of God.
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SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to come by and go back there and slap Kerba high five.
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SPEAKER_01: Slap her high five.
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SPEAKER_01: And stop by Amen Jefferson and slap her high five when you're going by.
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SPEAKER_01: Now the rest of you slap the person high five sitting next to you.
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SPEAKER_01: And say, I don't know about you.
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SPEAKER_01: I hope so.
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SPEAKER_01: But I got just got a word.
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SPEAKER_01: In my current situation, it's getting ready to change.
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SPEAKER_01: So don't mind me.
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SPEAKER_01: I just want to lift him up a little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: Y'all can be seated.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, God.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: As a man, think of in his heart, so is he.
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SPEAKER_01: If you think and believe your situation is gonna change, by trusting in the living God, it's gonna change.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't care how long you've been in it.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ came to break the norms.
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SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
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SPEAKER_01: To break religion, to have mercy upon his people that didn't deserve mercy.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that uh he sat there begging.
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SPEAKER_01: And when he heard, good God almighty, when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, the man was blind, everybody wasn't dead.
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SPEAKER_01: There are certain times when you're in different difficult situations, and the devil has areas of your life captivated.
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SPEAKER_01: You got to use the part that is not captivated.
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SPEAKER_01: I just said something right there.
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SPEAKER_01: The devil had his eyes blinded, but nothing was wrong with his ears or with his mouth.
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SPEAKER_01: You got to use what you got to use.
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SPEAKER_01: You got to use something.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says that he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth.
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SPEAKER_01: And he, when he heard, he didn't see it, he heard it.
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SPEAKER_01: Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God.
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SPEAKER_01: How can you hear without a preacher?
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SPEAKER_01: How can he preach except he be sent by God?
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SPEAKER_01: He come by hearing, hearing by the word of God.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: He heard that it was Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to know that Jesus is in here, the spirit of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: The spirit of Christ is in here right now.
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SPEAKER_01: How do you know?
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SPEAKER_01: Because I feel it.
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody feel it?
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SPEAKER_01: I feel it.
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SPEAKER_01: And I heard the preacher say that my current situation is gonna change.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: God is turning this thing for me.
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SPEAKER_01: And he heard it.
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SPEAKER_01: And when he heard it was Jesus, all the noise.
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SPEAKER_01: He heard something above the noise.
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SPEAKER_01: It was a great multitude.
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SPEAKER_01: You got to be able to hear something above the noise.
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SPEAKER_01: You got to be able to hear God.
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SPEAKER_01: In the midst of your current condition, you got to be able to hear the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: You got to hear.
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SPEAKER_01: So his faith heard it was Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Then his mouth began to declare.
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SPEAKER_01: Y'all listen to me.
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SPEAKER_01: Your faith must be declared.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
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SPEAKER_01: Now he was blind, he wasn't deaf, he could talk, and surely he wasn't stupid.
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SPEAKER_01: Because he understood who Jesus was, the son of David.
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SPEAKER_01: He deals with his humanity part.
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SPEAKER_01: He deals with the promise that that God made David.
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SPEAKER_01: That there shall not be a person that shall not sit out of your lineage upon the throne of your throne.
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SPEAKER_01: So he knew that Jesus was the promised Messiah out of the tribe of Judah, out of the family and lineage of David.
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SPEAKER_01: Have mercy on me.
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SPEAKER_01: I have a current condition that I'm dealing with, and I need your mercy.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: I need your mercy, and I need it right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody needs something from God and they don't need it tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_01: They don't need it next month.
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SPEAKER_01: They need it right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody needs something right now.
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SPEAKER_01: I need it right now.
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SPEAKER_01: I need God for you to do this thing.
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SPEAKER_01: I need God for you to break this thing.
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SPEAKER_01: I need God for you to do a miracle for me right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody say right now.
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SPEAKER_01: I need it right now.
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SPEAKER_01: I need liberty right now.
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SPEAKER_01: I need freedom right now.
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SPEAKER_01: I need a touch from God right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: I need it right now, and I need your mercy.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: God will have mercy on whom he shall have mercy.
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SPEAKER_01: You got compassion on whom he will.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh the Lord told me to tell you that I know you're tired of seeing everybody else get theirs and you're not gotten yours.
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SPEAKER_01: But today is your turn.
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SPEAKER_01: God, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, you think uh look at them and they're prospering and they're being blessed.
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SPEAKER_01: When it's gonna be my turn, your faith decides your season.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me say that again.
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SPEAKER_01: Your faith determines your season.
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody believe God?
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible says as he's crying out to Jesus, many charge him to hold his peace.
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SPEAKER_01: And these people that were telling him to be quiet, they are the demonic activity in our lives that don't want us calling on Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop calling on Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Many charge them to hold your peace.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't say, Jesus, our son of David, have mercy on me.
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SPEAKER_01: Because the enemy don't want you getting free.
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SPEAKER_01: See, there's power in the name of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: There's some times that you've got to lose your cool.
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SPEAKER_01: There's sometimes that you got to get your makeup messed up.
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SPEAKER_01: There's sometimes you got to let your hair down.
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SPEAKER_01: There's sometimes you got to get rid of your pride.
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SPEAKER_01: And you got to call out, Jesus! I need something from the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't come all cute.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't come.
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SPEAKER_01: I know y'all look good in here today.
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SPEAKER_01: Y'all dressed up all night.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh good.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh, but you can't be too cute.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all are too cute.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh you come to the altar.
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SPEAKER_01: No, you you got to open your mouth when you really need something from God.
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SPEAKER_01: You're not worried about who's watching, who's looking, what nobody is thinking, you're not caring about what they think about you.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, you know that you need something from the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: I need three of them that really need something from the Lord right now.
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unknown: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: He said, open your mouth wide and I'll feel it.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh God, open it wide and I'll feel it.
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SPEAKER_01: When you're really hungry and thirsting after God, you ain't got no time to be cute.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh God, just Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: I dare somebody say Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus, my burden bearer, Jesus, my way maker.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus, my healer.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody say Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, some of y'all, the devil, don't want to loose your mouth for you to say Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: But when you really need something from God, you'll define the enemy and you'll say, Jesus! The name that's above every name.
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SPEAKER_01: The name that demons must bow to.
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SPEAKER_01: That name, amen, that powers of darkness must back off of.
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SPEAKER_01: That name, amen, that's able to give you the victory.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh God.
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SPEAKER_01: I dare you to slap somebody high-five and say the name of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: His name is Jesus in the morning.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus at noonday.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus in the evening.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you something.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you something.
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SPEAKER_01: Desperate measures call desperate times calls for desperate measures.
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SPEAKER_01: And when you really need something from God, when I wanted God to fill me with the Holy Ghost, I didn't care who was watching me.
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SPEAKER_01: I could care less.
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SPEAKER_01: Only thing I wanted was my life to change.
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SPEAKER_01: So I cried out, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: So the Lord filled me with the Spirit.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: They said, Hold your peace.
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SPEAKER_01: Now I've had people, I've had people come and want the Holy Spirit and call on the name of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Song let them say Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: And I said, Don't say something, say a demon.
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SPEAKER_01: Because he don't want you to be set free.
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SPEAKER_01: He wants you to stay in your condition.
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SPEAKER_01: But the Lord wants you to be delivered from your condition.
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SPEAKER_01: Why will you call on somebody you don't believe in?
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SPEAKER_01: Why will you call on somebody you don't believe in?
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SPEAKER_01: But when you believe on him and know that he's able to help your situation, one call from the sincerity of your heart will move God to come on your situation.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: What's his name?
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SPEAKER_01: And so the people said, uh-uh, be quiet.
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SPEAKER_01: Be quiet.
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SPEAKER_01: Now the enemy doesn't move, we're not gonna run with uh a red suit on, with horns, and uh a tail, a pitchfork tail and a red suit.
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SPEAKER_01: He deals with the mind.
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SPEAKER_01: He deals with the mind.
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SPEAKER_01: And so when you need something from God, he'll sit there and tell you, Don't say that.
25:27
SPEAKER_01: Don't get up and go to the altar.
25:29
SPEAKER_01: Don't, don't, don't do that.
25:30
SPEAKER_01: Don't don't don't do that.
25:31
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna look at you, they're gonna think something's wrong with you, they're gonna know your business.
25:37
SPEAKER_01: Tell the devil deal with people's mind.
25:40
SPEAKER_01: Then you gotta talk back to that devil.
25:42
SPEAKER_01: I don't care what they're looking at, what they think, I don't care nothing about their business, and my business is none of their business, and I'm gonna keep calling on the name of the Lord till I get the victory that I need.
25:54
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
25:55
SPEAKER_01: I came in here one way, but when I go out here, I'm going out another way.
26:00
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
26:01
SPEAKER_01: Tell somebody I won't be the same when I leave.
26:09
SPEAKER_01: Now, now, some of you told us you don't believe it.
26:13
SPEAKER_01: But it ain't what they believe, it's what you believe.
26:19
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna walk out here different.
26:22
SPEAKER_01: Oh God, y'all y'all begin to look different now.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna walk out here liberated.
26:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna walk out here with a different pimp to my step.
26:33
SPEAKER_01: Oh God, I'm gonna walk out with my head up high because I know in whom I have believed.
26:39
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says they tried to shut him up.
26:43
SPEAKER_01: He's got his condition out there begging with his life to change.
26:46
SPEAKER_01: He's not about to let somebody else shut him up from getting what he needs.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: You know, when you need something from God, the devil will bring up all kind of foolishness about your past.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: Look at you calling on Jesus and look at all that you've done, and look what you've been through, and and and look what you've done, and you're talking about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
27:08
SPEAKER_01: The devil is a liar.
27:10
SPEAKER_01: I came in here, amen, to get my condition changed.
27:15
SPEAKER_01: And the only way I'm gonna get it changed, I got to be honest with the Lord.
27:19
SPEAKER_01: And I need God's mercy right now.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: Anybody need God's mercy right now?
27:30
SPEAKER_01: Here's what I like about uh uh uh the son of Bartimaeus, uh son of Timothy.
27:36
SPEAKER_01: When they told him to hold his peace, he got even louder.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: He didn't pay the voices no mind because his condition and his need to help his condition was greater than the voice of the enemy.
27:53
SPEAKER_01: Anybody really need something from God?
27:59
SPEAKER_01: He said, I need your mercy, I need your mercy.
28:05
SPEAKER_01: He said, Shut up, and he said, No, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
28:14
SPEAKER_01: He understood who the Messiah was, he understood, brother Mike, in Isaiah 35, the book of Isaiah, chapter 35, verse 4, 5, and 6.
28:28
SPEAKER_01: I think it is.
28:29
SPEAKER_01: He understood he understood who Jesus was and the power that he possessed.
28:38
SPEAKER_01: And uh he says to him, he realized the prophecies that went forward before time of the coming of the Messiah.
28:49
SPEAKER_01: In Isaiah 35 and verse 4, he said to them that are of fearful heart, the enemy trying to put fear on you.
28:59
SPEAKER_01: You gotta keep on calling on God.
29:01
SPEAKER_01: He told them that were fearful, be strong.
29:05
SPEAKER_01: I want you to be strong.
29:08
SPEAKER_01: Tell somebody you gotta be strong, you have more strength than you think you have.
29:15
SPEAKER_01: I see your strength.
29:17
SPEAKER_01: Because when the devil tried to stop you from coming to the house of God, you made it into the house of God, hallelujah.
29:26
SPEAKER_01: Tell somebody you're stronger than you think.
29:29
SPEAKER_01: Oh God, hallelujah! You're stronger than you think.
29:33
SPEAKER_01: Oh God, you know the devil didn't want you coming in here today, but you're stronger than you think.
29:40
SPEAKER_01: He says, Be strong, fear not.
29:46
SPEAKER_01: Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with recompense.
29:55
SPEAKER_01: In other words, God's gonna pay them back that got you in your current condition.
30:01
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
30:03
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to worry about doing the get back, you don't have to worry about getting your lick back.
30:08
SPEAKER_01: God's gonna do the payback, and yes, God is able to pay back greater than you can pay back.
30:14
SPEAKER_01: You don't need to get your lick back.
30:16
SPEAKER_01: All you need to do is trust in the living God, and God will get your lick back for you.
30:21
SPEAKER_01: He can do far more greater than you can.
30:24
SPEAKER_01: Oh, you need just to amen.
30:26
SPEAKER_01: Get your mind focused on the Lord.
30:30
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna do them like they did me, no, you're not.
30:34
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna treat them like they treated me, no, you're not.
30:38
SPEAKER_01: If you want something from God, let God get your lick back.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: God gonna get it back.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: Tell somebody, God gonna get it back for me.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: All I'm gonna do is forgive and keep on moving on.
30:58
SPEAKER_01: He'll get the lick back.
31:01
SPEAKER_01: Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: I will recompense.
31:07
SPEAKER_01: Be strong, fear not.
31:12
SPEAKER_01: Your God will come with vengeance, and God will recompense, and He will come.
31:19
SPEAKER_01: He will come and save you.
31:23
SPEAKER_01: Then, watch this.
31:26
SPEAKER_01: The eyes of the blind, verse number five, then the eyes of the blind shall be open.
31:34
SPEAKER_01: The ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
31:38
SPEAKER_01: Then shall the lame man leap like a heart, and the tongue of the dumb will sing.
31:46
SPEAKER_01: For in the wilderness shall water break out.
31:48
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah! And streams in the desert, in your wilderness situation, in your current condition.
31:56
SPEAKER_01: The Lord told me to tell you, here come water, here come the Savior to help you in your condition.
32:05
SPEAKER_01: So the blind man, the son of Timaeus, knew this prophecy about the Messiah.
32:14
SPEAKER_01: That's why he said, Jesus, the Son of David, he knew that the blind were gonna be able to see.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: That the deaf was gonna be able to hear, that the lame was gonna run again.
32:29
SPEAKER_01: He'll tell somebody, you getting up from that situation.
32:35
SPEAKER_01: Glory.
32:37
SPEAKER_01: Glory.
32:39
SPEAKER_01: So he says he understood in Mark chapter 10, brother Mike.
32:44
SPEAKER_01: He understood who he was calling on.
32:48
SPEAKER_01: I want you to understand who you're calling on.
32:52
SPEAKER_01: You're calling on the God of heaven.
32:56
SPEAKER_01: You're calling on calling on him that has no beginning and no end.
33:01
SPEAKER_01: You're calling on him that is able to give you the victory.
33:05
SPEAKER_01: And his name is Jesus.
33:09
SPEAKER_01: What's his name?
33:11
SPEAKER_01: Y'all saying it like y'all shy.
33:13
SPEAKER_01: What's his name?
33:18
SPEAKER_01: Y'all saying like y'all don't really need nothing.
33:21
SPEAKER_01: Y'all must got everything.
33:24
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: I need the Lord.
33:28
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says.
33:30
SPEAKER_01: Then he kept on calling.
33:33
SPEAKER_01: Verse number 49.
33:36
SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
33:37
SPEAKER_01: Thou son of David.
33:39
SPEAKER_01: Have mercy.
33:40
SPEAKER_01: Now Jesus is walking.
33:43
SPEAKER_01: But the man's the man's ability not to stop, but to cry to the Lord.
33:51
SPEAKER_01: Move Jesus.
33:53
SPEAKER_01: And the Bible said he stood still.
33:56
SPEAKER_01: I want to call him till I get his attention.
34:00
SPEAKER_01: He stood still.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: And he commanded him to be called.
34:05
SPEAKER_01: And they called the blind man.
34:08
SPEAKER_01: And they said unto him, be of good comfort.
34:13
SPEAKER_01: Get up from your condition.
34:17
SPEAKER_01: He's calling for you now.
34:20
SPEAKER_01: So him calling on Jesus.
34:23
SPEAKER_01: Stop the Lord in his tracks.
34:26
SPEAKER_01: That's what faith does.
34:29
SPEAKER_01: Blind faith.
34:31
SPEAKER_01: Don't have to see it.
34:33
SPEAKER_01: I just believe it.
34:36
SPEAKER_01: It stops the Lord in his tracks.
34:39
SPEAKER_01: Faith does.
34:41
SPEAKER_01: And he said, He's now calling for you.
34:47
SPEAKER_01: There's something going on here.
34:49
SPEAKER_01: The blind man is saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
34:55
SPEAKER_01: The demons are saying, Stop calling, stop calling.
34:58
SPEAKER_01: The man is saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
35:02
SPEAKER_01: Then all of a sudden, Jesus stopped and says, Bring me that man.
35:09
SPEAKER_01: Bring me that man.
35:12
SPEAKER_01: Because something about his faith done stop me in my track.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: You want to get the Lord's attention.
35:19
SPEAKER_01: Call upon his name by faith.
35:24
SPEAKER_01: Stop them in his tracks.
35:26
unknown: Oh, hallelujah.
35:28
SPEAKER_01: He said he's calling for you.
35:30
SPEAKER_01: Then the man.
35:33
SPEAKER_01: The man does something.
35:35
SPEAKER_01: Kaya, hand me one of those scarves or towels or whatever those things in there, those little throw things that you throw on the people when they go down on the floor.
35:44
SPEAKER_01: So the man the man does something.
35:48
unknown: Oh, pink too.
35:51
SPEAKER_01: The man does something.
35:54
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that the man, that the man cast away his garment.
36:00
SPEAKER_01: Now, the man had on a beggar's garment.
36:05
SPEAKER_01: And the beggar's garment served two purposes.
36:09
SPEAKER_01: Come on, one was to keep him warm so people could register that he was a beggar.
36:17
SPEAKER_01: They knew who he was.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
36:19
SPEAKER_01: He had on his garment.
36:21
SPEAKER_01: Talking his beggar's garment.
36:22
SPEAKER_01: The other was it doubled as a cloak.
36:25
SPEAKER_01: And at night, in the cool nights, he would use it as a blanket.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: But it was signifying of his condition.
36:32
SPEAKER_01: He didn't have on nice clothes like y'all got on.
36:34
SPEAKER_01: He had on beggar's garment.
36:36
SPEAKER_01: But he needed it at night to keep him warm.
36:39
SPEAKER_01: But when Jesus called him, the man did something.
36:43
SPEAKER_01: The man cast off his garments.
36:47
SPEAKER_01: Because the man realized I won't be needing that any longer.
36:53
SPEAKER_01: God, hallelujah.
36:55
SPEAKER_01: Yes, God is getting ready to change my condition.
36:58
SPEAKER_01: And I don't need those bagger garments any longer.
37:02
SPEAKER_01: I can't associate me with a bagger.
37:04
SPEAKER_01: You can't associate me with being blind.
37:06
SPEAKER_01: So I'm passing that thing off of me.
37:09
SPEAKER_01: I don't need that anymore.
37:11
SPEAKER_01: I don't need you.
37:12
SPEAKER_01: I don't need you.
37:14
SPEAKER_01: I don't need that.
37:15
SPEAKER_01: I don't need this.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: All I need is the Lord.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
37:19
SPEAKER_01: You got to throw that thing off of you.
37:22
SPEAKER_01: You got to come out from underneath that thing that's keeping you captive.
37:26
SPEAKER_01: He throw that away.
37:28
SPEAKER_01: Which means he's looking for a new identity.
37:31
SPEAKER_01: And my identity is in Christ.
37:34
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I wish I had about three of you that really threw the old you away.
37:38
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
37:41
SPEAKER_01: And he's looking for a new garment now.
37:44
SPEAKER_01: The garment of salvation.
37:46
SPEAKER_01: The garment of praise.
37:48
SPEAKER_01: You got to throw that thing away.
37:51
SPEAKER_01: That ain't me.
37:52
SPEAKER_01: That happened to me, but that ain't me.
37:54
SPEAKER_01: I went through that, but that ain't me.
37:56
SPEAKER_01: You got to cast that off of you and get up and go and see what Jesus is gonna do.
38:03
SPEAKER_01: Glory.
38:05
SPEAKER_01: What happens with a lot of people?
38:08
SPEAKER_01: They come to the Lord.
38:10
SPEAKER_01: And when they come to the Lord, they're still holding on to the things of their past and the issues of their past.
38:19
SPEAKER_01: And they're still holding on.
38:21
SPEAKER_01: And they come to church and go back home and put the same garment back on.
38:25
SPEAKER_01: But when you nearly really need a life change, you're gonna take that thing off and cast it away.
38:33
SPEAKER_01: That's the old me.
38:35
SPEAKER_01: You get ready to look at a new me.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: I took those garments off a long time ago.
38:40
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm expecting God to do something for me.
38:45
SPEAKER_01: Anybody got expectations?
38:46
SPEAKER_01: I'm expecting God to do something for me.
38:51
SPEAKER_01: Take off your old garment.
38:55
SPEAKER_01: The Lord give you something new.
38:57
SPEAKER_01: Watch this.
38:58
SPEAKER_01: He cast it away.
39:01
SPEAKER_01: And he rose and came to Jesus.
39:05
SPEAKER_01: You can't come to the Lord with your old lifestyle and your old garments.
39:11
SPEAKER_01: You've got to allow God to make a change in your life.
39:15
SPEAKER_01: He cast that thing off him.
39:18
SPEAKER_01: He was saying this.
39:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm done with begging.
39:24
SPEAKER_01: I'm done with being blind.
39:27
SPEAKER_01: And I'm done with these people telling me to be quiet.
39:31
SPEAKER_01: I'm coming to the Lord because I'm looking for a change.
39:35
SPEAKER_01: Anybody looking for a change this morning?
39:41
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says.
40:12
SPEAKER_01: The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.
40:20
SPEAKER_01: The man needed a miracle.
40:24
SPEAKER_01: Now, here's the part that most preachers can't dissect.
40:32
SPEAKER_01: Because two things are happening here at the same time.
40:36
SPEAKER_01: The man has a physical need, but God is gonna not only meet his physical need, he's gonna meet his spiritual need.
40:46
SPEAKER_01: He needs eyesight physically, but he needs eyesight spiritually.
40:54
SPEAKER_01: He needs to not only be have vision, he needs to see the vision.
41:00
SPEAKER_01: Oh God, I just said something right there.
41:04
SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says that the blind man said, I might receive my sight.
41:15
SPEAKER_01: Go your way now.
41:18
SPEAKER_01: Your faith had made you whole.
41:23
SPEAKER_01: Your faith had made you whole.
41:27
SPEAKER_01: Now wholeness is not just based upon the physical, wholeness is based upon the physical and the spiritual.
41:38
SPEAKER_01: Man is made of a body, a soul, and a spirit.
41:41
SPEAKER_01: And wholeness engulfs all three.
41:44
SPEAKER_01: You got to allow God to deal with your body, your soul, and your spirit.
41:48
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
41:49
SPEAKER_01: That's wholeness.
41:50
SPEAKER_01: I'm complete.
41:52
SPEAKER_01: God gave me a wholeness.
41:54
SPEAKER_01: I came looking for sight.
41:57
SPEAKER_01: But God gave me wholeness.
42:00
SPEAKER_01: He dealt with my past.
42:03
SPEAKER_01: He dealt with my present.
42:05
SPEAKER_01: And he's gonna deal with my future in the name of the Lord.
42:09
SPEAKER_01: Somebody say hallelujah.
42:15
SPEAKER_01: Wholeness is different than just a touch.
42:20
SPEAKER_01: Because a touch will allow you to feel God, but it causes you to go back and pick up your old garments.
42:28
SPEAKER_01: But when he makes you whole, anybody God ever made anybody whole?
42:33
SPEAKER_01: When he made you whole, you can leave the past behind.
42:37
SPEAKER_01: You can get your joy back, you can get your peace back, you can get your happiness back.
42:43
SPEAKER_01: Oh God, make me whole.
42:51
SPEAKER_01: Whole people talk different.
42:55
SPEAKER_01: Whole people act different.
42:58
SPEAKER_01: Whole people believe different.
43:01
SPEAKER_01: Whole people are healed people.
43:04
SPEAKER_01: Whole people worship different.
43:06
SPEAKER_01: Whole people praise different.
43:08
SPEAKER_01: Where my whole people at in here?
43:17
SPEAKER_01: Blind faith.
43:19
SPEAKER_01: Blind faith will make you whole.
43:22
SPEAKER_01: I don't see him, but I hear him.
43:28
SPEAKER_01: I'm getting prepared to get something from him.
43:33
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says, He said, Go thy way, for thy faith made thee whole.
43:39
SPEAKER_01: And immediately he received his sight.
43:45
SPEAKER_01: Watch this.
43:46
SPEAKER_01: He received his sight.
43:48
SPEAKER_01: That's natural.
43:51
SPEAKER_01: And he followed Jesus in the way.
43:58
SPEAKER_01: That's a spiritual sight.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: There's no way in the world that the Lord can really make you whole and you not follow Jesus.
44:10
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I just said something right there.
44:14
SPEAKER_01: When he gives you spiritual sight, the man followed Jesus in the way.
44:24
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life.
44:28
SPEAKER_01: No man comes to the Father said by me.
44:31
SPEAKER_01: When God does a miracle in your life and God does something for you, don't go the other way.
44:39
SPEAKER_01: Follow Jesus in the way.
44:43
SPEAKER_01: Because there is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
44:49
SPEAKER_01: He followed Jesus in the way.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: Here's how you know when people have been healed, people have been made whole, and people have spiritual sight because they're following Jesus in the way.
45:02
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes, he is the light of the world.
45:04
SPEAKER_01: How many of y'all want to follow Jesus in the way?
45:11
SPEAKER_01: It's not enough to get a touch.
45:14
SPEAKER_01: Then go the opposite way.
45:17
SPEAKER_01: When you know that God has made you heal, you'll say become hell or high water.
45:25
SPEAKER_01: I don't care what the devil's trying to do.
45:29
SPEAKER_01: I really need something from the Lord.
45:33
SPEAKER_01: And I've got to find my way to the house of God where the word of the Lord is going forth.
45:41
SPEAKER_01: And the anointing and power of God is in the house of God.
45:45
SPEAKER_01: Your answer is in the house of God.
45:48
SPEAKER_01: Your deliverance is in the house of God.
45:50
SPEAKER_01: Your breakthrough is in the house of God.
45:52
SPEAKER_01: Your liberty is in the house of God.
45:55
SPEAKER_01: We have to come together to worship God.
45:57
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
45:58
SPEAKER_01: What about whole people out in here this morning?
46:03
SPEAKER_01: Is he making anybody whole?
46:06
unknown: Look at that.
46:08
SPEAKER_01: Is he making anybody whole?
46:12
SPEAKER_01: Whole people are in the house.
46:15
SPEAKER_01: People who want to be made whole are in the house.
46:20
SPEAKER_01: And we call that's above your name.
46:24
SPEAKER_01: And that name is Jesus.
46:26
SPEAKER_01: Blind faith will give you the victory.
46:31
SPEAKER_01: Oftentimes, I'm almost done.
46:33
SPEAKER_01: Oftentimes, people gotta see it in order to believe it.
46:41
SPEAKER_01: They want to see it first, then we'll believe it.
46:44
SPEAKER_01: Faith don't work that way.
46:47
SPEAKER_01: Faith works like believing it first.
46:49
SPEAKER_01: Then you'll see it.
46:51
SPEAKER_01: People say, oh no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna unbelieve God, and but I got to see the evidence.
46:56
SPEAKER_01: No, you got to believe God and God will show you.
47:00
SPEAKER_01: Faith without works is dead.
47:03
SPEAKER_01: If you say I've got faith and have no works, you don't have faith.
47:08
SPEAKER_01: But I'll show you my faith by my works.
47:12
SPEAKER_01: I didn't just come in here to see Sidab in that nice dress.
47:19
SPEAKER_01: I came in here to get something from God.
47:26
SPEAKER_01: I heard that Jesus is passing by in this place.
47:30
SPEAKER_01: I know that the Lord is in this place, and I know that God is able to help your situation.
47:35
SPEAKER_01: God is able to give you what you need, but you got to come calling on the name of the Lord.
47:42
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
47:42
SPEAKER_01: You can't let the devil stop you from calling on the name of the Lord.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: He followed him in the way.
47:52
SPEAKER_01: So often people get what they need from God, but they go the other way.
47:56
SPEAKER_01: You gotta stay with the Lord.
47:58
SPEAKER_01: I've been following him in the way now for 26 years.
48:01
SPEAKER_01: Some of you 40 years and 50 years, some of you 30 years, and some of you 10 years.
48:06
SPEAKER_01: And you've been following them in the faith.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: And the Lord has made you whole.
48:20
SPEAKER_01: People have been trying to associate you with your past.
48:23
SPEAKER_01: Your past failures, your past mistakes.
48:27
SPEAKER_01: People only see you based upon your condition.
48:33
SPEAKER_01: We don't need a pity party.
48:37
SPEAKER_01: We need the Lord to lift us up and to make us whole.
48:54
SPEAKER_01: My current condition can't name me.
49:01
SPEAKER_01: What I'm going through right now is just a season.
49:06
SPEAKER_01: That's why I came into the house of God to call upon the name of the Lord.
49:12
SPEAKER_01: Those of you who want God to touch your situation.
49:19
SPEAKER_01: When I call the altar call, I don't want you to look around.
49:23
SPEAKER_01: I don't want you to see who's watching you.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to come calling upon the name of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: His name is Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Strongholds are broken at that name.
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SPEAKER_01: Those of you who are seeking God for more, those of you who want to come out of your current situation, I want you to know that the Lord can fill you with the baptism of the Holy Ghost if you come calling on his name.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't come up here all cute.
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SPEAKER_01: Come up here like you really got something that you need the master to do for you.
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SPEAKER_01: He won't disappoint.
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SPEAKER_01: He will not disappoint.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't you know?
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SPEAKER_01: The word immediately means right now.
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SPEAKER_01: God can give you what you need right now.
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SPEAKER_01: If you come by faith, call on him, he can help you right now.
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SPEAKER_01: You ever you ever had an appointment somewhere and you needed some help and needed somebody to do something for you?
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SPEAKER_01: And when you got there, they'll treat you all nasty.
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SPEAKER_01: Because your current condition, they looked at you like your current condition, and they could treat you any kind of way.
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SPEAKER_01: And then sometimes they canceled the appointment.
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SPEAKER_01: And you waited in line all day long.
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SPEAKER_01: And when your turn was next, they looked at you and they said, No, well, we're shutting down.
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SPEAKER_01: We've got to come back tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus can immediately give you what you need right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody say right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Somebody say right now.
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SPEAKER_01: He can do it right now, not tomorrow, not next week, but right now.
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SPEAKER_01: You can get the Holy Ghost right now.
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SPEAKER_01: You can get delivered right now.
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SPEAKER_01: You can get spiritual sight right now.
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SPEAKER_01: You can get healing right now.
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SPEAKER_01: This right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Tell him right now, right now.
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SPEAKER_01: You gotta come right now.
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SPEAKER_01: You gotta come right now.