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I Have Permission! - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: But the Lord has given me a word for the
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  Speaker 1: people of God. And I'm anxious to get into the
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  Speaker 1: word that I can do my best to cover as
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  Speaker 1: much territory as I can. I'm going to be in
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  Speaker 1: 1 Samuel chapter 30, verse 3 through 15. That means
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to read 12 verses of scriptures. Some of
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  Speaker 1: y'all ain't read 12 verses of scriptures in 12 months.
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  Speaker 1: So this will be the most Bible reading you got
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  Speaker 1: in for a long time, but it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: good for you. Get it online, 1 Samuel chapter 30,
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  Speaker 1: verse 3 through 15.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm going to share what the Lord told
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  Speaker 2: me to tell you. I'm so excited about it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: so excited. I almost jumped out of the car and
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  Speaker 2: started running.
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  Speaker 1: Run the church to tell you what the Lord said.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is a message of release. This is a
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  Speaker 1: message of release. This is a message of restoration. It
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  Speaker 1: is a message of renewal. And I'm excited to share
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  Speaker 1: it with you. Now we pick it up in midstream,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll talk about that more later. So David and
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  Speaker 1: his men came to the city and behold, it was
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  Speaker 1: burned with fire. And their wives and their sons and
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  Speaker 1: their daughters were taken captives. Then David and the people
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  Speaker 1: that were with him lifted up their voices and wept
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  Speaker 1: until they had no more power to weep. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever cried out until you ran out of tears?
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  Speaker 2: And David's two wives.
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  Speaker 1: Lord have mercy. I can just handle one barely. I
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  Speaker 1: can't do that. He got two wives. Anyway, and David's
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  Speaker 1: two wives were taking captives, Ahinoam, the Jezreelite, and Abigail,
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  Speaker 1: the wife of Nabal, the Carmelite. And David was greatly
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  Speaker 1: distressed for the people spake of stoning him. Now he
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  Speaker 1: lost as much as they did, but they spoke of.
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  Speaker 2: Stoning him.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny when you're in leadership, people don't think you're
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  Speaker 1: a person. And even though he had nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with it, the people spoke of stoning him. Because the
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  Speaker 1: soul of all the people was grieved. They wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: done it if they weren't grief stricken. But when people
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  Speaker 1: are hurting, they lash out at other people. Every man
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  Speaker 1: for his sons and for his daughters. But David, but David,
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  Speaker 1: but David, David, David, David, you got to be tough
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  Speaker 1: to leave. David encouraged himself in.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord, his God. Good God.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had to encourage yourself? Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know how to encourage yourself, maybe you're
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  Speaker 1: going to learn today. Just in case the people you
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  Speaker 1: thought that were going to encourage you let you down,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you got to encourage yourself. Young people, hear me,
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  Speaker 1: you got to encourage yourself. If you don't get it
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  Speaker 1: from mommy, if you don't get it from daddy, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't get it from cousin Willie, if Uncle Allen
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  Speaker 1: is a drunk, if you can't get it out of
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  Speaker 1: your neighborhood, if you can't get it from your teacher,
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  Speaker 1: if you can't get it at your school, you got
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  Speaker 1: to go and look in the mirror and say, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I'm still going to make it. Somehow or other,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get through this. God is going to
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  Speaker 1: bring me through. And David said to Abiathar the priest,
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  Speaker 1: Ahimelech son, I pray thee bring me hither the ephod.
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  Speaker 1: And Abiathar brought hither the ephod to David. And David
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  Speaker 1: inquired at the Lord saying, shall I pursue after this troop?
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  Speaker 1: Shall I overtake them? Check this out. This is very important.
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  Speaker 1: And God answered him, pursue.
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  Speaker 2: God. Oh, I got chills. Pursue.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody shout pursue. For thou shalt surely overtake them and
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  Speaker 1: without fail recover all. So David went. He and the
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  Speaker 1: 600 men that were with him and came to the
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  Speaker 1: brook Besor where those that were left behind stayed. But
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  Speaker 1: David pursued. He and 400 men for 200 abode behind,
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  Speaker 1: which were so faint that they could not go over
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  Speaker 1: the brook Besor. And they found an Egyptian in the
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  Speaker 1: field and brought him to David and gave him bread.
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  Speaker 1: And he didn't eat it. They made him drink water.
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  Speaker 1: And they gave him a piece of a cake of
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  Speaker 1: figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten,
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  Speaker 1: his spirit came again to him. He was almost dead.
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  Speaker 1: For he had eaten no bread nor drunk any water
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  Speaker 1: three days and three nights. And David said unto him,
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  Speaker 1: to whom belongest thou and whence art thou? And he said,
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  Speaker 1: I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite.
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  Speaker 1: And my master left me because three days ago I
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  Speaker 1: fell sick. Isn't that funny? People love you until something's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you. Ooh, there's so many messages in here,
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  Speaker 1: I could preach a month off of it. If you've
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  Speaker 1: ever stayed sick over a week, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about. That first week, you got chicken noodle soup
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  Speaker 1: and cards and flowers and everything. You get about on
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  Speaker 1: that third week, all of that dries up and people
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  Speaker 1: start working around you. Talk to me, somebody. We made
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  Speaker 1: an invasion. This is what the Egyptian slaves said. We
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  Speaker 1: made an invasion upon the south coast. of the Sharethites
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  Speaker 1: and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah and upon
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  Speaker 1: the south of Caleb and we burn Ziglag with fire.
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  Speaker 1: Ziglag was where David was staying. That's where his wife
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  Speaker 1: was and the kids were and all of his men
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  Speaker 1: were at Ziglag and the Egyptian slave is telling him
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  Speaker 1: that he was with the Amalekites as a slave and
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  Speaker 1: he's telling them about them burning.
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  Speaker 2: Up their property.
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  Speaker 1: And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down
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  Speaker 1: to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by
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  Speaker 1: God that thou will neither kill me nor deliver me
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  Speaker 1: into the hands of my master, and I will bring
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  Speaker 1: thee down to this company. Can you say amen? Go
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  Speaker 1: back to that verse, that verse where God spoke. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: verse 8. And David inquired at the Lord, saying, Shall
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  Speaker 1: I pursue after this? This is so profound. Because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we go after stuff and then ask God for help.
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  Speaker 2: But before David went after.
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  Speaker 1: Anything, he asked God, shall I pursue after this truth?
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  Speaker 2: Shall I overtake them? And he answered, pursue.
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  Speaker 1: For thou shall surely overtake them. And without fail, recover all.
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  Speaker 1: So God said, pursue, and thou shalt surely prevail. And
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  Speaker 1: without any doubt, you will recover it all. Now, that alone,
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  Speaker 1: if I sat down, is enough word from God for
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  Speaker 1: somebody in here who.
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  Speaker 2: Is on the precipice of a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: For somebody in here who has gone through setbacks and
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  Speaker 1: turmoil and the enemy's tried to make you think that
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  Speaker 1: where you are is all there's going to be. That
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  Speaker 1: ought to be enough. But then the Lord gave me
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  Speaker 1: this subject and I'm going to pass it on to you.
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  Speaker 1: The subject is I have permission. Type it on the line.
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  Speaker 1: Write it in your notes.
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  Speaker 2: Put it everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Say it out loud. Put it on your lips. Tell
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor to the right or the left, I have permission.
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  Speaker 1: I have permission. I have permission. I just want you
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  Speaker 1: to know I have permission. I have permission for what's
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  Speaker 1: about to break loose in my life. I have divine, supernatural,
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost permission. I'm not doing this on my own.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not ego-driven. I'm not ambitious. I have permission. Let's
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  Speaker 1: pray together. Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on
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  Speaker 1: us today. I'm hungry to hear from you. Oh God,
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  Speaker 1: allow me to deliver to them as you delivered to
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  Speaker 1: me your word in such a profound and didactic way
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  Speaker 1: that we are changed and altered forever by the power
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  Speaker 1: and the intensity and the relevance of your word. And
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  Speaker 1: I pray that somebody's online who needs this word. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: on this line, Lord, somebody that's streaming in, somebody that
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  Speaker 1: came physically, needs his word in such a way that
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  Speaker 1: it releases him to go after their destiny.
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  Speaker 2: And I thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You may be seated. Get comfortable. Take your girdle off.
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  Speaker 1: People ain't wore girdles for 25 years, have they? Lower
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  Speaker 1: them spanks so you can breathe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, glory to God. I think God made spanks. Spanks
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  Speaker 1: are of God. Can you say amen? The frivolity of
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  Speaker 1: life is common to us all. Life is strange. One
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  Speaker 1: writer said life is a tale told by a fool.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like it has no rhyme or reason. We
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  Speaker 1: cannot depend on life to stay in either a good
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  Speaker 1: place or a bad one. The moment you settle into bad,
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  Speaker 1: good comes. The moment you settle into good, bad comes.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know from one day to the next what
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen. It shifts, it changes, it turns,
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  Speaker 1: it twists. Always teaching. Always teaching. Not just the good,
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  Speaker 1: but even in the bad. Life is always teaching. Always
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  Speaker 1: look for a lesson in everything you go through. That's
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  Speaker 1: how it becomes profitable what you went through. It's always
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  Speaker 1: teaching you something. With few breaks, few intermissions, few quiet places,
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  Speaker 1: and seldom a time.
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  Speaker 2: Of recess, life is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me of going to Six Flags or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Many people enjoy the entertainment of the rides
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  Speaker 1: and the carnival.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not speaking against Six Flags. Don't sue me.
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  Speaker 1: They love the thrill of being turned upside down and
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  Speaker 1: flipped over backwards. They love it. They scream their head off.
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  Speaker 1: They love being scared out of their wits and their
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  Speaker 1: jaws being pulled back to their ears and their eyes
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  Speaker 1: being bucked at 10,000 feet in the air. They absolutely
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  Speaker 1: love it. The more volatile the ride, the longer the
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  Speaker 1: waiting line. They just line up for miles. They travel
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  Speaker 1: for miles just to be shook up. But the moat
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  Speaker 1: between nauseating and exhilarating is as short as the plank
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  Speaker 1: of a pirate ship. Because what is exhilarating can also
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  Speaker 1: be nauseating. I lean to the nauseating side. Life is
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  Speaker 1: like that. It's crazy. It's tempestuous. I got on one
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  Speaker 1: of them rides, and we were going up. It was
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: this is cool. We got all the way to the top.
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  Speaker 1: We got on top. I was looking around at how
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  Speaker 1: far I could see all over the place. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the sights. And by the time I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: the sights, something snapped and it started going down. I said,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, wait a minute. Give a brother a warning
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. It went absolutely crazy. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way life is.
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  Speaker 2: You're only one.
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  Speaker 1: Phone call, one email, one text from either feeling exhilaration
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  Speaker 1: or nauseation can be.
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  Speaker 2: Changed by a text.
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  Speaker 1: You can be laughing and dancing and then everything change
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  Speaker 1: on you in one text that makes you get up
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  Speaker 1: and run out of here and have to go and
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  Speaker 1: your life is changed forever by one text or one
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  Speaker 1: phone call. You don't know from moment to moment. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you ought not ever look down your nose at
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  Speaker 1: anybody because until you've been through what they've been through,
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  Speaker 1: you don't understand. And it can leave you feeling some
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  Speaker 1: kind of way and you have all kind of feelings.
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  Speaker 1: I have all kind of feelings, but feelings aren't facts.
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  Speaker 1: Feelings aren't facts. Feelings aren't facts. Feelings aren't facts. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the great problems we have today is we
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  Speaker 1: have a world full of leaders who are leading by feeling.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't wake up in the morning asking myself,
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  Speaker 1: how do I feel? Because my feelings will fluctuate. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I feel the way I feel because I ain't had
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  Speaker 1: no coffee yet.
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  Speaker 2: You understand?
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  Speaker 1: And I might snap your head off over a cup
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  Speaker 1: of coffee. Feelings are not facts. We have them. They're
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful thing to have. But facts tend to be
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  Speaker 1: stable while feelings fluctuate. I love facts. Give me the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the facts. Give me the car facts. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you don't bring me the facts, bring me the facts.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what's going on because the facts
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  Speaker 1: are going to stand Two plus two is four. Don't
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  Speaker 1: matter whether you're white, black, green, blue, yellow, educated, intellectual, illiterate,
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  Speaker 1: two plus two is still four. In Africa, in Australia,
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  Speaker 1: in Japan, it doesn't matter whether you're on the mountaintop
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  Speaker 1: or in the valley, facts are stable.
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely have feelings, but I try not to allow
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  Speaker 1: feelings to have me. I am honored that I am
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  Speaker 1: arrayed with a wonderful consortium of emotions. It makes me me.
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  Speaker 1: It gives me personality. It makes me human. It's a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful thing that I can laugh and cry and have
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  Speaker 1: an array of emotions that God decorated my soul with feelings.
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  Speaker 1: And there are wonderful things to have until the feelings
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  Speaker 1: have you. There is nothing worse than being led by
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is being controlled by moods. I have to
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  Speaker 1: get a grip on my feelings as a leader. I
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  Speaker 1: can manage the facts, but I cannot allow my feelings
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  Speaker 1: to abort my mission or alter my plan or change
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  Speaker 1: the way I conduct myself lest I become practically schizo
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  Speaker 1: to deal with. And you see, when you're in a
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  Speaker 1: position of power, if you're schizo, everybody who gets in
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  Speaker 1: your atmosphere has to suffer the consequences of your indecisiveness,
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  Speaker 1: your aggravations, your mood swings, your attitudes, and eventually people
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  Speaker 1: just wear you out because they're wearing themselves out and
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  Speaker 1: you get caught in their orbit. Note to self, watch
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  Speaker 1: out for Marian people who are dramatic. Because when you
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  Speaker 1: marry somebody who has a lot of drama going on,
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  Speaker 1: you get caught up in the orbit of their drama.
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  Speaker 1: And whether you want to or not, you become a victim,
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  Speaker 1: a captive, chained to their drama. You're scared to go
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  Speaker 1: in your own house. I know y'all can't nod because
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  Speaker 1: you sit beside somebody. Just keep looking right ahead and
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  Speaker 1: wiggle your toe. People who lead from their emotions are
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  Speaker 1: volatile and hard to follow. They're hard to follow because
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  Speaker 1: you don't know from day to day how they gonna
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  Speaker 1: feel today. I really try not to make emotional decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I have emotions, but I avoid emotional decisions. I've learned
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  Speaker 1: to wait. Beverly knows to wait. Sometimes I get mad
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  Speaker 1: and I'll fire off a letter and she'll type it
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  Speaker 1: up and then I'll call her like five hours later
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  Speaker 1: and say, have you sent that yet? She said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I'd give you a day. Because right off
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  Speaker 1: the cuff, you know, you can flip out. So we
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  Speaker 1: got a 24-hour moratorium. This is true on my letters.
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  Speaker 1: Because if I'm hot, I will let you have it.
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  Speaker 1: And so Beverly just holds it 24 hours till I
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  Speaker 1: come to myself. Because in the heat of my emotions,
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  Speaker 1: I can, as my mother would say, cut off my
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  Speaker 1: nose to spite my face. Did y'all's mama say that too?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's mama would say that, wave your hand. I thought
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  Speaker 1: my mama created that. You mean my mama didn't create that?
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  Speaker 1: My mama act like she authored that statement. Don't cut
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  Speaker 1: off your nose to spite your face.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever cut.
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  Speaker 1: Off your nose to spite your face? Emotions pass, but
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  Speaker 1: decisions linger. And a lot of times in emotions, you
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  Speaker 1: do things that you have to live with later. If
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  Speaker 1: I allow my ever fluctuating feelings to lead my decisions,
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  Speaker 1: they will drive me over a cliff. I would have
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  Speaker 1: made it 25 years at this church. I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: made it 45 years in ministry. I wouldn't have made
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  Speaker 1: it almost 40 years in marriage. If I allowed my
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  Speaker 1: feelings to control my decisions, I would have wrecked everything,
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  Speaker 1: lost everything. Because in the heat of a feeling, and
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  Speaker 1: the feeling can be brought about by something that don't
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  Speaker 1: even have nothing to do with you. It ain't your
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  Speaker 1: fault that the toast burned in the toaster. But if
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  Speaker 1: you happen to call while it's burning, I might not
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  Speaker 1: be ready for you.
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  Speaker 2: That cliff I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about going over the edge isn't literally driving your
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  Speaker 1: car for cliff. It's that self-sabotaging behavior. It's the kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing that Hagar did when she got mad and
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  Speaker 1: ran out of Sarah's house. And she ran out of
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  Speaker 1: Sarah's house and got out in the wilderness and almost died.
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  Speaker 1: And God said, I provided for you. in that house
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  Speaker 1: go back to Sarai's house and Sarai Hagar didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any reason to be mad she was the one who
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  Speaker 1: picked the fight read the story she picked the fight
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  Speaker 1: and then got mad and left but it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: see ourselves am I right about it Right now we're
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  Speaker 1: shooting a film in Canada, Seven Deadly Sins. We're doing
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  Speaker 1: the last five anthology, the last five deposits on the
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  Speaker 1: anthology of Seven Deadly Sins in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Shameless plug.
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  Speaker 1: But it's easy to make the kinds of decisions and
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  Speaker 1: the kinds of moves that debilitate people. The reason I
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  Speaker 1: love to do films is because when you see it
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  Speaker 1: on TV, it's easy to see what's wrong with other people.
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  Speaker 1: Because you can't see yourself. If I don't feel worthy,
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  Speaker 1: neither moral support nor mighty sermons will enable me to
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  Speaker 1: get up until I permit myself to go forward.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't feel worthy, if I don't feel worthy
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, it doesn't matter what somebody preaches. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter who supports you. Have you ever tried to
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  Speaker 1: support somebody who had made up their mind not to
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  Speaker 1: get up It's frustrating, isn't it? It drives you crazy
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  Speaker 1: because you say all the right things. I know you
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  Speaker 1: can do this. You have the power to do this.
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  Speaker 1: You're created to do this. You're so gifted. You're so smart.
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  Speaker 1: You're so bright. And all the while you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: fill them up, it's leaking out the bottom of them.
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  Speaker 1: And it's impossible to support somebody who's made up their mind,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worthy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worthy. And there's no sign on their head
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: that says I'm not worthy. It's no warning. It's just there.
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  Speaker 1: They may not even know that they are self-sabotaging themselves.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: They'll shout over things that they'll never possess because they
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: have never given themselves permission to feel worthy to be
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: where they are.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I know I am. I know I am. I know
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: Because so many people have lost love and lovers and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: people who really cared about them only because they didn't
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: agree with being loved. And when you don't agree with
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: being loved, you won't rest until you find somebody who's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: hitting you upside the head with a skillet. I'm gonna
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: mess with you now. I might make you mad a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: little bit, but your feelings gonna be okay. But because
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: they reflect how you feel about you, you are only
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: comfortable with negativity because you have not felt worthy of
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: somebody being enamored with you.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: And you say, he's all right. She kind of nice,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: but she kind of like a sister.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Anytime they relegate you over to the sister brotherhood lane,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you are disqualified from anything else. Come on, that's the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: kind of language y'all give when y'all don't want to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: be bothered with the.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, he's a good man, but he kind of like
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: a brother.
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  Speaker 1: Translation, he loves me in a way that feels strange.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And I don't know how to receive that kind of love.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And rather than wrestle with my insecurity, I relegate him
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to a column that requires nothing of me. I'm gonna
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: talk to you about five things today. I want you
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to jot these down. These are very important. I'm gonna
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: go through these five things and I'm gonna paint them
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: on the canvas of the story. I wanna talk to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you about the ability to pivot. That's good right there.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Because if life is going to keep changing, you got
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to be able to pivot. You got to be able
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to pivot without warning. You got to be able to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: pivot on a dime. We were planning a couple of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: years ago to have a leadership conference.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Everything was a go.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: We had 12,000 people registered for the leadership conference. Everything
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: was set up. The place was allocated. We paid the deposits.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: We had the hotels. Everything was in place. And then
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden COVID came along. You got to pivot.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how much you're invested in it. You
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: got to pivot. You can't just get mad and blow
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: up and explode and set the building on fire. You
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: got to pivot. When life changes, you got to pivot.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to talk to you about the ability
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to pivot. Number two, I'm going to talk to you
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: about the paralysis of pain. The paralysis of pain. How
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: hard it is to function when you hurt. How it
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: will shut you down. How it's hard to think when
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you're in pain. How it's hard to move forward when
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: you're in pain. How it's hard to accept opportunities when
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you're in pain. The paralysis of pain. Number three, the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: permission to prevail. The permission to prevail. The permission to prevail.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: If you don't have permission to prevail, you can do
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: nothing without permission. Even Jesus, before he started his ministry,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: got permission. John identified him, behold the Lamb of God
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: who taketh away the sins of the world. The heavens
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: opened up and the Father spoke, this is my beloved
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Son in whom I am well pleased. That kind of
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: permission enables you to be able to go do what
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you've got to do. Jesus went to the Garden of
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Gethsemane and prayed, Father, if it be thy will, pass
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: this bitter cup from me. Then he comes back and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: tells the disciples, sleep on, I'm okay now. I'm not
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: worried about anything.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Why? I got permission.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not scared of the cross because I got permission.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not scared of the nails because I got permission.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not scared of being laid in a tomb because
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I got permission. I got permission that says if I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: pursue I will prevail. So nails I don't believe you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and cross I don't believe you and pain I don't
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: believe you because God has given me permission that even
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: if I have to hurt to get there when all
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: of this is over I will rise again and still
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I rise. Be careful of people who keep getting up again.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Be careful of people who arise every time you put
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: your foot on them. Be careful of people that you
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: try to destroy and they bounce back up again. Those
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: people are anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: God dwells with those people. Some of them are in
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: this room right now. There are some people in this
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: room that have been through hell and back. And every
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: time the devil counted them out, they jumped back up
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: like Jason. They came through fire. They came through flood.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: They came through burning buildings. They have the permission to prevail.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: The fourth thing I'm going to talk to you about
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: is the danger of pettiness. Oh, I'm loaded this morning.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I'm loaded this morning. The danger of pettiness. It's all
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: in this text. And number five is trashing the party. Yeah, man. Yeah, man.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I got something for you this morning. Let's get down.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: When you start the story at the chapter that I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: started in, you don't really get the power of And
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the context of where David is in his life. David
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: is in this strange midlife crisis. I call it midlife
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: crisis because he's in the middle of his life. He
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: has been a part. He is an Israelite. He is
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew. He is a child of God. He is
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a part of Saul's leadership and his army but him
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  Speaker 1: and Saul have fallen out and because him and Saul
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: have fallen out he has had to feign himself to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: be mad and start hanging out with the Philistines and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: now David who is a Philistine killer incidentally is now
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: living with the Philistines Because sometimes your enemies become safer
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: than your friends. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Sometimes your enemies become safer than your friends because you
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: don't defend yourself against your friends. And you look around
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and you never would have thought that somebody who had
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: adopted you as a son would be throwing a javelin
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: at you. I know to be careful when I'm with
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the enemy, when I'm with the Philistine, but I thought
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I could relax around you. So David is now hiding
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: amongst the Philistines. He has 600 men that he has
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: gotten out of nowhere. Raggedy, ruffian, wild, distorted, disoriented men.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: No longer having access to Saul's army, he's had to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: make an army out of misfit men. These are his soldiers.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: These are his warriors. and they dwell in Ziglag, which
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: is a camp in the Philistinian.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Area of control, hiding from Saul.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And the Philistines have come against Saul and they're going
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: down to kill him. And as they make their way
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: down to kill him, David wants to go with them.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And he speaks to a Clish who is the head
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: of the sons of Gath and says to him, he's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: been living amongst them for years.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And he says to him, I will go down and
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: fight with you.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And we don't know for sure whether David was going
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: with them to fight with them or whether he was
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: going to turn and kill them. Because there's such a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: thin line between the friends and the enemies that we
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: don't really know what he had in mind. We don't
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: know whether he's being shrewd and he's going to come
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: in from the rear and attack them or whether he's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: going to go through with killing them. If he went
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: through with attacking Saul, then David would have lost the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: chance to be king of Israel.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: So God allowed.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Him to be rejected because even though Achlish wanted him
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to go with him and Achlish was the king in charge,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: his princess said.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Are you crazy?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: You don't know him like that. They sound like my wife.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Ain't nothing like a woman to tell you, you don't
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: know them like that. You're so naive. You just take
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: people in so easily. You need to watch them a while.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: You must be crazy. You must be out of your mind.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I love you, honey. But the princess says, you don't
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: know him like that. And they were right.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: You don't know him like that to let him come
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: in from the rear. Suppose he attacks us and kills us.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, David's plans are aborted. He
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: doesn't get to fight with the Philistines against Israel. No
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: matter what his intention was, he has to pivot. He
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: had to pivot to go be with them. And then
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: he had to pivot again to be rejected by the
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: people that he had to pivot to go into.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Life is crazy.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Look at your life. Look at how many times you've
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: had to pivot. Look at how many times you've had
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to turn. Look at how many times you unpacked your
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: bags and had to pack them back up again. Look
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: at how many times you call somebody a friend and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: they slit your throat. Look at how many times you
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: thought somebody was an enemy and they came to see
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: about you when your friends didn't come to see about you.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Look at how many times you've had to turn around
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and change the game. You cannot survive in this world
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: if you don't develop the ability to pivot. I don't
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: want to be married to anybody who can't pivot. I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: don't want to hire anybody who can't pivot. I don't
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: want to work with anybody who can't pivot. People who
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: are rigid are dangerous. Because the world keeps changing. It's
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: up today, it's down tomorrow. It's east and then it's west.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And you got to be able to pivot on a dime.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: You got to be able to lead and follow. You
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: got to be able to be king and serve. You
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: got to be able to be a base and a bound.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: You got to be able to pivot. And if you
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: don't learn how to pivot, you're going to miss what
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: God has for you because you lack the flexibility to.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: To pivot.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: So he goes back to his 600 soldiers who are
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: all dressed up to fight.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: They're ready. They got their swords. They got their shields.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: They're trained.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: They've been exercising. They've been stretching. They've been doing Pilates.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: They've been doing everything. They're ready to go fight. And
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: he says, we got to pivot. We got to pivot.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We got to go back home. And so they head
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: back to Ziglag. And when they head Back to Ziglag.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: It's always a good feeling to go home when you're
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: a soldier. Have you watched those little commercials and stuff
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: on TV where the dad show up at school and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the son starts crying and they set him up? And
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: there I am sitting up here with my old self
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: trying to cry. Take that off the tape because I
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: don't want people to say that. The older I get,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the mushier I get. I'm a person if like I'm
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the little boy or something. I don't know who I am.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know whether I'm the father.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Or the son, but it's so touching to see. And
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: he runs out and he hugs him and he cries.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And the reception is amazing. And I feel like, you know, yes.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And I think you ain't the soldier or the kid,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: but perception is important.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Reception is important.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Reception determines everything. Footnote, if you give men great reaction,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: they will give you anything. If a man stops giving you,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: it is because you stopped giving him reaction. We are
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: suckers for reaction. We are suckers for reaction. If I
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: got two bags of groceries and my wife starts bragging me,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you so strong, I say, oh, give me that other bag.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: About to break my back carrying the bag.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Give me the bag, girl. That ain't nothing. That ain't nothing.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I bring in all the groceries at one hand. I
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: shovel a bag on my foot.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Come on, fellas.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Don't leave me hanging out there. And I don't think
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: it's just about men. I think it's about women too.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: If she cooks a good dinner or she goes to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: work and she comes home and she's available to you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: or whatever she does that's amazing to you and you sit.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: There and grunt.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: You got to learn how to be grateful. You got
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to learn how to be appreciative. You got to learn
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: how to give great reaction. Great reaction is great encouragement.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: The greater your ability to respond, the more you're going
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to get of what you respond. Whatever you respond to,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do it again.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do it again.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: If I buy you a coat and you make a
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: big fuss about the coat, you see what I'm talking about?
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You see what, you see? I got something for you too.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I got something for you too. I got something for you. See,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about right there. That's what, that
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: right there. That right, what you see right there? That
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: right there, that right there. I bought that coat. That's
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: what she's spinning around in that coat. I got something
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: else too. Because anything make you spin around, I'm going
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: to buy another one. Yeah, baby.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Do the spin. Do the spin. Rock and reel. Show
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: it off.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Because reaction... Take notes, ladies, take notes, take notes. Take notes,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: take notes. Reaction creates response. So the men are coming
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: home from battle unexpectedly, and they're expecting the little boy
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to run out to meet them. And maybe the women
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: will dance and sing. And maybe they'll smell the smell
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of fresh bread or venison being cooked.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: In the backyard in a pot.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: But the closer they got, They heard no sounds of music.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: They saw no children running.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: In the past, the women had sung.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: David has killed, Saul has killed his thousands, but David
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: has killed his tens of thousands.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Where's the music? Strike up the band, we're back. But
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: there was.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: No sound of music when they came to Ziglai.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: And they smelled smoke. They smelled smoke in the air.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: But it was not the smoke that smells like food.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: It was the smoke of devastation. It didn't even look
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: like home. What happened to the village? That's what I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: think sometimes about America.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: What happened to my country? Some fire.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: The smoke is burning. The ashes are where the houses
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: used to be. And it is in this atmosphere. that
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: David returns. Now, you have to feel this. This is
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: not just an ugly picture.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Where is my wife? Where is the Hannah Ham? Has
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: anybody seen Abigail? Abigail! Abigail! Abigail!
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: There was no sign of a Hinnoham or Abigail. And
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: all the men are running through the debris, looking for
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: their children. Lifting up burning embers trying to find their
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: sons and daughters. And they had stepped into pain. The
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: kind of pain that paralyzes you. The kind of pain
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: that shuts you down. The women and the children were
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: taken captive. Their homes were destroyed Now the men he
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: trained the men that he had trained himself and invested
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: in and poured into and brought from nothing to something
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: were so filled with pain and anger that they thought
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: let's stone him. Now look at the set up David
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: as a leader cannot go to Saul because Saul wants
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: to kill him. He can't go to the Philistines because
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the Philistines just rejected him. He can't turn to Abigail
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: because she's gone and I can't find her here to help.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: And he turns to the men that he has put
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: so much into. And they're looking at him and their
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: eyes are red and tears are running down their face.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: And then he sees hatred in their face. And there's
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: nothing like seeing hatred in the face of the people
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: you raised. I know you can't act like you know
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. But somebody in here knows what
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. To pour a lot into a person
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: who goes into attack mode.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: You gonna stone me? You gonna stone me?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: At my weakest, most vulnerable moment? This is the paralysis
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: of pain. I wanna speak to somebody right now who
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: has been through the kind of pain that has created paralysis.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: It has shut down your senses. It has limited your
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: ability to respond or retaliate. It has brought you down
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: to your knees. It has so upset you on the
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: inside that you don't even have words to articulate the
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: magnitude of the trauma you're experiencing. And all you do
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: is sigh or cry or groan within yourself because it
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: looks like everywhere you turn there is pain and rejection.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: And suffering. And you might be a leader. But you
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: are alone.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about being lonely. That's a feeling. I'm
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: talking about alone. That's a fact. Lonely you can get
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: over in a day or two. Alone is alone. And
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: you can't turn back. in either direction and find nobody, nothing,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: no one, not an encouraging word. Everybody in your life
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: needs you, but nobody in your life feeds you.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: What do you do.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: When people only want you when you have the answer?
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: They only want you when you fix stuff. And then
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: when you're backed up against a wall and you can't
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: fix it, they forsake you.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: And you are there alone.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: It was against the backdrop of this kind of atrocity
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: that David has to grapple with. Maybe it's over. I
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: can't go to Israel. Saul has shut the door. His
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: godless behavior and his loss of anointing has made him mad.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: And I can't go to Achlish because Achlish has listened
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: at his princes and rejected me from being amongst the Philistines.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: And the worst part about it is.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I can't go home. What do you do when you
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: can't go home? You ought to always be able to
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: go home. David can't go home. My God, I need Marcus.
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  Speaker 1: David can't go home. My mama told me you can
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  Speaker 1: go home when you can't go nowhere else.
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  Speaker 2: And he is paralyzed by pain.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: And it was at this point that he made the
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  Speaker 1: most profound decision. If Abigail doesn't encourage me, if Ahiniam
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  Speaker 1: doesn't encourage me, if the Philistines don't encourage me, if
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: the Israelites don't encourage me, and I don't have nobody
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  Speaker 1: to count on but me, Then before I lay down
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  Speaker 1: and die in this spot, then I will encourage.
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  Speaker 2: Myself. I will encourage myself.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if there's anybody on the line or in
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: the room or in the church or in a family
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  Speaker 1: or in a marriage or in a business or in
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: a situation where you couldn't get what you needed, where
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: you thought you'd be able to find it and you
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: had to encourage yourself. Because if you didn't encourage yourself,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: you were going to die. If you didn't encourage yourself,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: you were going to backslide. If you didn't encourage yourself,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: you were going to quit. If you didn't encourage yourself,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: you were going to faint. I'm wondering, am I talking
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: to anybody that's had to go look yourself in the
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: mirror with tears in your eyes and say, you're still
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: going to make it. You're still going to make it.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know when. I don't know where. I don't
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: know how. I know you're gonna make it. I know
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: you're gonna make it. I know you're gonna make it.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I know you're gonna make it. You're hurting, but you're
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: gonna make it. You're lonely, but you're gonna make it.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: You're broke, but you're gonna make it. You're disturbed, but
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: you're gonna make it. If you know what I'm talking about,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: take 30 seconds and praise God like you lost your mind. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. The courage you need to survive must come
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: from within you. When it doesn't come from around you,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: it must come from within you. Out of your belly
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: shall flow rivers of living water. Out of your soul,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: out of your spirit, there has to come something that says,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: though he slay me, yet shall I trust him. There
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: has to come a fight back that says it was
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: good for me that I have been afflicted. If I
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: weren't afflicted, I'd never see the glory of God. There
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: has to be something that rises up and say, cancer,
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  Speaker 1: you ain't going to whip me.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: COVID, you ain't going to whip me.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: There has to be something in you that makes you
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: fight back. And David encouraged himself. This is not something
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: that God does for you. This is something that you
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: must do for yourself. Stop sitting back waiting on an
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: angel to fly in the window and get you out
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: of your paralysis. The devil is a lie. You have
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: to furnish the fight to say, I will not die today.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna encourage myself. I'm taking myself out to dinner.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be my valentine. Y'all not gonna help me.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be my valentine. I'm going to get myself
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: used to being treated good. So when Boaz comes, I've
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: already set the standard in my life. I don't go
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: below this, baby. I don't go below this. It starts
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: right here because I was doing this good when you
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: met me because I learned how to encourage myself. I'm
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: not going to date you because I need you. I'm
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: going to date you because I want you because I.
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  Speaker 2: Learned how to encourage myself.
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  Speaker 1: I learned you ain't a man until you learn how
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: to encourage yourself. You're not a grown woman until you
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: learn how to encourage yourself. I don't care how old
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: you are. But until you've gone through something that stripped
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  Speaker 1: you of all other resources and backed you in a
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  Speaker 1: corner where you had to come fighting out of there
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: and say, I will not die today. Tell hell you're
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: a liar. I'm getting back up. If I got to
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: crawl on my knees, if I got to take one
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: step at a time, if I have to push myself,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: if I have to roll in a wheelchair, if I
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: have to walk on a walker, if I have to
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: get on crutches and hop in, I will not die
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  Speaker 1: right here.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I'm coming out Somebody, anybody make some noise in this house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: You might not even feel it yet. It may not
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: be in your feelings because we're not living by our feelings.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: We're leading by the facts. But I want you to
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: say it by faith.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I'm encouraged. Fist bump somebody and tell them I'm encouraged.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: The devil thought he was going to kill me with
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: all this smoke. He thought he was going to destroy
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: me with all of this fire. He thought he was
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: going to take me out. I lost my job, but
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't lose my courage. I lost my house, but
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't lose my courage. I lost my friend, but
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I didn't lose my courage. God I wish I had
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: somebody who understood the words that are coming out of
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: my mouth you see what you need what you need
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: to stop the paralysis of pain it's the tenacity to
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: believe it will not stop right here You're watching online,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: there's a reason God's got you online right now so
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: that you could get this word. You desperately need this word.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: You've been in a state of disappointment. Some of you
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: have been in a disappointment for years. You have gone
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: over and over how much right you have to get
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: support from people that are no longer there and no
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: longer with you. You cannot spend another day complaining about
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: the past. You have to come into the present. If
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: you're going to change the future, forgetting those things which
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: are behind and reaching to those things which are before,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: you have to make up in your mind, if you
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: don't encourage me, I'll encourage myself. I'll hug myself in
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: the bed. I'll lay in the bed and wrap my
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: arms around myself and tell myself I love you. I
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: will encourage myself. I'll take myself out to dinner. I'll
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: buy myself a Valentine's gift. I'll lift up my own head.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I'll put on songs that make me feel happy. I
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: will encourage myself. And if anybody ever does come, welcome
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: to the party. But the party's already started. Set it
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: off in here. Set it off in here. Set it
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: off in here. Set it off in here until demons
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: turn you loose, until hell breaks loose, until trouble breaks loose.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Set it off in here.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: The Lord said, this is to be your turning point.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: This is to be your resurrection moment. This is to
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: be the moment that you come to yourself. This is
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: to the moment that you say, I'm better than this.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Some of you heard me tell you about the time
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I walked in my house and my lights was off
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: and my water was off and they repossessed my car
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: and I walked in the house and nobody was in
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: the house with me and I started talking to the house, Anita.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: I told the house, I told the house, and now
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: you want to treat me, don't you? But I told
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: the house, I talked to the house like it was
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: a person and I said, you a liar. The paint
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: was coming off the walls. The gas didn't.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Work, the water was off, the phone was off.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: I said, you're lying on me. I do not accept this.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I'm better than this. I told my sister I'm getting up.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: When you make up your mind to get up, no
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: devil in the hell can hold you down. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if it's racism, sexism, governmentism. I don't care what's
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: going on. When you make up in your mind, I'm
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: going to get up.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking to somebody in this room.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Encourage yourself. Encourage yourself. Encourage Encourage yourself. Stop blaming everybody
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  Speaker 1: who didn't.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: And encourage yourself. You ain't got time to be bitter.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: You got to make it to better. You got to
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: get to better. If you got to crawl on your belly,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: I got to encourage.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Myself.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Notice that it was only when he encouraged himself that
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: he got high enough to hear from God. You can
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: get so low that you cannot hear from God. He
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: does not seek Thummim and Urim before he encourages himself
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  Speaker 1: because he has to encourage himself to get high enough
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  Speaker 1: to receive.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: A good word.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: And once he got through encouraging himself, you got to
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: do this. I found out it's too much weight to
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: put on your mate. To expect the person you married
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: to lift you.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: You're too heavy.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: You know them pictures where the husband bring in the
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: bride and carry her over the threshold? You can only
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: do that if she's a size 5. When she a
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: size 50, baby, you got to walk across this door yourself.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: I'll hold your hand or something like that.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: But a brother can't be busting his back trying to
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: be romantic. You are 50.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: The girl on TV was a five. Come on in, baby.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Come on in. You got to encourage yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You are too heavy for anybody else to carry. You've
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: been through too much drama. You've been through too much
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: hell to put the full weight of your recovery on
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: another person. I don't care whether it's a man or
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: a woman or a dog or a cat. You've got
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: to encourage yourself.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm talking to somebody. God wouldn't have.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Me preaching like this if something wasn't about to happen
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: in your life. Something that you lost is about to
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: come back. Something that got out from under your foot,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: you're about to get it back again. And this is
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: your boot camp that's giving you step by step by
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: step by step by step how to get back what
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: the devil stole from you. If I'm talking to you,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: give God 30 seconds of crazy Holy Ghost praise.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: You got ten seconds.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: You got five seconds. You got three seconds. You got
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: one second. If the kids don't bring you no roses,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: get yourself some roses. If they don't send you no card,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: get your card.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: A card. Encourage yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You can't spend another year talking about what did I
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: do wrong? Why don't they love me? Why don't they
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: respect me? You are losing life. You can't spend another
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: year trying to, you can't make nobody love you. You
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: can't make nobody respect you. You got to encourage yourself.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: I release you! You can only apologize so long if
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: I said anything, if I did anything, whatever I did.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I want back.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: I want you to understand. I was going through something.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: You can only explain so long. Sooner or later, you
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: got the makeup in your mind. Maybe their no is
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: no to them, but it's still yes to me. And
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: if you don't want me, I still want me. Said,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: I still want me. House on fire, smoke everywhere, everything burning.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: Up, but I still.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Want me. Woo. Made me want to do my happy dance.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Don't you know demons tremble when you start talking like that?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Hell gets nervous when you start talking like that. The
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: devil thought he had you in a full Nelson. Thought
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: he had you locked down and you weren't going to
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: get up. And you just jumped up and hollered, I
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: still want me. Demons tremble. Hell gets frustrated. Witches lose
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: their power. Somebody's shouting out, I still want me. I'm
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: still on my side. If you ain't on my side,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: I'm still on my side. If you ain't got my back,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: I got my own back. If you don't stand up
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: for me, I stand up for myself. When he got
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: through encouraging himself, Pastor Michael, then he asked God, what
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: say ye? Go get Thumbel and Urim. And let's see
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: what the Lord is saying. Should I go up? Should
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I overtake them? I'm not going up if I'm not
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: going to win. Hey!
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't come this far to lose. I'm too old
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: to lose. I can't take another loss. Should I overtake them?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: And the Lord said... The Lord said, pursue. Somebody shout, pursue.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Type it on the line, pursue. In the middle of COVID, pursue.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: In the middle of crisis, pursue. Up under attack, pursue.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Going through a divorce, pursue.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: Pursue.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: For thou shalt surely overtake them. God said, thou shalt surely,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: not maybe, surely overtake them. And without fail, recover all.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you ain't dancing. I don't know
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: why you ain't praising. I don't know why you're not rejoicing.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know why your belly ain't leaping up and down.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Because when God said it, now I got permission. Hey!
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Up until then, all I had was encouragement. You can
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: get encouragement from a motivational speaker, but you can only
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: get permission from God. And the Lord said, oh God,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I feel like preaching. The Lord said, I've given you permission.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to? You better help me pray
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: to them! I got permission! I was in Florida, April.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: And a news reporter was interviewing me. And he said,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: you're a pastor. He said, what are you doing? Doing
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: blockbuster films. He said, you got all these books, 12
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: books on the New York Times best sellers list. One
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: of them has been on for 16 weeks. But you're
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: a pastor. You're dabbling in real estate. But you're a pastor.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: He said, why are you doing it? I said, because
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: I can. If I couldn't do it.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: But if God gives you the grace to pursue, then
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: you ought to go for it. I release you to
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: go after your dream.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: God said you have permission.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: You don't have to fit in the box that anybody
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: made for you and describe you and incarcerate you to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: their opinion of what you ought to do. God has
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: given you permission.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: Shout it.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: I have permission. I have permission.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: I have permission. I have permission.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: Give him 30 seconds of praise. The permission to prevail.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: The permission to prevail. The permission to prevail. Trauma can
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: dismantle one's courage to fight. It can make you give up.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: It can make you angry. And depression is nothing but
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: anger turned inside. It can strip you of your fight.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: Take away your fortitude and your resilience. Your creativity and
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: your thinking and your innovation is disrupted by trauma.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: You can't be innovative and traumatized.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Help!
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: I've fallen and I can't get up.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Many people who love the idea of victory cannot accept
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: it because they get stuck in the pain. All of
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: those are the reasons that David had to encourage himself.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: I want you to do something right now. I want
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: you to throw your arms around yourself and hug yourself.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: And I want you to walk from side to side
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: and say, I got you. I got you. In this season,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: you're in in your life, hug yourself, say, I got you.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: I got you. You're going to get through this. I
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: got you. Your heart is broken, but I got you.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Your feelings are crushed, but I got you. Your home
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: is in shambles, but I got you. Your house is
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: on fire, but I got you. Squeeze yourself and say,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: I got you. And then say, not only that, God's
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: got me too. I got divine permission. I got permission
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: to pursue. I got permission to get up. I got
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: permission to fight back. Why is permission important? Because without permission,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: you won't accept help even when you get it. Because
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: you don't feel, you have not given yourself permission to
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: be better. And I don't care how much I preach.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: You can call some of them and you're them all
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: you want. But until you encourage yourself to get high
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: enough to receive this word, you cannot pursue what you
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: do not believe. Can I go a little bit deeper?
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Let me go a little bit deeper. The enemy is
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: after your belief system. He wants you to believe the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: smoke and the fire more than you believe the word
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: of God. He wants you to believe the word of
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: men and the word of Saul more than you believe
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: the word of God. He wants you to believe your
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: situation more than you believe the word of God. But
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: the devil is a liar. The devil is a liar.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: The devil is a liar. Somebody is coming up. I
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: can feel you coming up in this room. While I'm
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: preaching to you, look like.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: To me you're getting taller.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but something is leaping
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: up inside of you, reminding you that you have permission.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: If I give you the position and you don't have
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: the permission, You will lose the position because you'll never
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: take ownership of what you don't believe you have a
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: right to have. Can I go a little bit deeper?
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: Self-permission led to God's permission. I don't care if you
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: got to get counseling. I don't care if you got
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: to get therapy. I don't care if you got to
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: counsel yourself. I don't care if you got to walk
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: around the house and say something over and over again
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: till you cancel out negative thinking. I don't care if
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: you have to change the way you talk to yourself.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: I don't care if you have to rehearse it and
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  Speaker 1: at first you start saying it and you don't even
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  Speaker 1: believe it, but you keep saying it. You keep saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm better than this. I'm better than this. I was
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  Speaker 1: in that raggedy house saying I'm better than this. I
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  Speaker 1: was broke. I said I'm better than this. My gas
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  Speaker 1: was off. I said I'm better than this. My phone
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  Speaker 1: didn't work. I said, I'm better than this. They repossessed
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  Speaker 1: my car. I said, I'm better than this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out. I got out. As a man thinketh it
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  Speaker 2: is hard, so is.
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  Speaker 1: David doesn't lack the power or skill to turn around
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  Speaker 1: the situations He has the power.
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  Speaker 2: He's a fighter. David bad, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: David killed the Philistines and cut off their foreskins and
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  Speaker 1: threw them at Saul's feet.
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  Speaker 2: David bad.
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  Speaker 1: David's been killing giants since he was a boy. David
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  Speaker 1: is bad. It is not that he didn't have the skill.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have the permission. Today, Jermaine, I give you
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  Speaker 1: permission to pursue I give you permission to prevail. I
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  Speaker 1: give you permission to be. To be, not just to do.
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  Speaker 1: You're good at doing. I give you permission to be. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I give you permission to live.
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  Speaker 2: And not die.
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  Speaker 1: Today, I give you permission that your latter day shall
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  Speaker 1: be greater than your former day. Today, I give you permission.
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  Speaker 1: If you're watching online, God had me preach this word
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  Speaker 1: so that you could get confirmation of his permission. God
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  Speaker 1: has given you permission to go after that thing that
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  Speaker 1: looks impossible to you. Roll it, I'm almost done. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the challenge. Here's the challenge. Don't miss this. All he
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  Speaker 1: had to fight with was men who had hurt him.
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  Speaker 1: This is the danger of pettiness. The men he had
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  Speaker 1: to fight with were the same men who said they
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  Speaker 1: were gonna stone him. And a lot of us cannot
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  Speaker 1: prevail because we are petty. Pettiness will destroy purpose. The
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  Speaker 1: most successful people I have ever met have always regarded
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  Speaker 1: purpose over pettiness.
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  Speaker 2: Watch this, watch this, watch this. Y'all don't get this,
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  Speaker 2: y'all don't get this.
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  Speaker 1: In the same chapter, in the same scene, these men
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  Speaker 1: were getting ready to stone him. But when he got permission,
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  Speaker 1: he said, come on, let's fight. Do you have the
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  Speaker 1: capacity to let people in that you have locked out?
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  Speaker 1: If you don't develop the capacity to let people in
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  Speaker 1: that you have locked out, your pettiness will destroy your purpose.
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  Speaker 2: How do you.
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  Speaker 1: Fight with folks who was getting ready to stone you?
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  Speaker 1: You cannot do this if you are petty. That's why
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  Speaker 1: petty people never make great kings. Because they are too
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  Speaker 1: vindictive and spiteful to be aligned with purpose. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to see this if you miss everything else. David's
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  Speaker 1: army was made of his detractors. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times God wants to use people that you are still
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  Speaker 1: mad at.
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  Speaker 2: And if you are still angry.
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  Speaker 1: With him, your pettiness, your pettiness is going to destroy
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  Speaker 1: your purpose. The whole victory depended on David not to
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  Speaker 1: be petty. Y'all was shouting good, I lost y'all. The
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  Speaker 1: only reason Hagar didn't die in the desert is because
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  Speaker 1: God healed her from pettiness, said swallow your pride and
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  Speaker 1: go back to Sarai. Pettiness would have caused the prodigal
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  Speaker 1: son to die.
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  Speaker 2: In the hog pen.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you can't make up, you can't move on. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the danger of pettiness.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, I'm almost through.
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  Speaker 1: I'm down to almost my last point. I hate to
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  Speaker 1: be the one to tell you this. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: devil that's holding you back. It's not demonic warfare that's
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: holding you back. It's not a satanic attack that's.
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  Speaker 2: Holding you back.
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  Speaker 1: It's because you are petty. You are stuck in victim mode.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't feel strong enough to rethink your position.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a victim over here. I'm a victim over there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a victim with Saul. He didn't treat me right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a victim with the Philistines. They didn't treat me right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a victim at home. I got home and they
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  Speaker 1: weren't there for me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a victim. I'm a victim. I'm a victim.
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  Speaker 1: And yet God calls me to pursue and then asks
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  Speaker 1: me to use the men who were going to stone me.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the test of your character. Can you get
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  Speaker 1: over your pettiness to see the real battle is within yourself?
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  Speaker 1: to see beyond the pain of betrayal. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that you can continue to walk with people you can't trust.
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  Speaker 1: There are some people you have to dismiss. But it
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  Speaker 1: does mean if you dismiss everybody who let you down,
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  Speaker 1: you will have nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody. Nobody.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you got nobody now. You got nobody because
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: you write people off. And you have written off so
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  Speaker 1: many people, you ain't got nobody. Because you write off
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: everybody who ain't perfect. And ain't nobody perfect, so you
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: got nobody. And then you end up writing off yourself
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: because you ain't perfect either. There you go. Petty people
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  Speaker 1: demand more of other people than they can supply themselves.
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  Speaker 1: You forgive yourself for stuff you hold me hostage for. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: don't stop dancing now. Don't stop dancing now. Why did
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  Speaker 1: David take the men? They were tried and true. They
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  Speaker 1: were trained by him. They knew how to fight. He
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: also is placed in a position. There are two things
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  Speaker 1: he had to do. I want you to get these.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: These are important for every leader, every influencer in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Two things he had to do. He had to be
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  Speaker 1: over his pettiness to the point that he could let
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  Speaker 1: people back in that he had locked out. And the
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  Speaker 1: second thing the text reveals is that he had to
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: trust new people God sends into your life. Those are
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: two different kinds of tests. You remember the Egyptian slave
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: that they found that was about to die in the text?
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: They didn't know him. They said, who are you and
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  Speaker 1: to whom do you belong? They had to trust somebody new.
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  Speaker 1: And because you are so hands-on, so skeptical, or so cynical,
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  Speaker 1: when new people come into your life, you can't let
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  Speaker 1: them in because they're new. And if David had not
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  Speaker 1: let the Egyptian slave in, he would have never gotten
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  Speaker 1: the victory because the slave didn't have a sword, he
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: didn't have a knife, he hadn't eaten for days, he
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  Speaker 1: was about to pass out, he had been left for dead.
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  Speaker 1: The slave had one thing going for him. He knew
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  Speaker 1: where the treasure was. God said, I'm going to bring
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  Speaker 1: somebody into your life who knows where the treasure is.
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  Speaker 1: You won't have a background with them. You won't have
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: a comfort with them. They won't be somebody that grew
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  Speaker 1: up with you. They won't be somebody you're familiar with.
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  Speaker 1: But God said, I'm going to bring a stranger into
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  Speaker 1: your life. And look, they had to trust each other.
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  Speaker 1: The slave said, I'll tell you, but promise me you
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: won't kill me. Promise me you won't kill me. And
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: promise me you won't turn me over to my master.
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  Speaker 1: And I will tell you. So David had reason not
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: to trust the slave, but the slave also had reason
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: not to trust him. What helped them to come together
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: is David fed him. Do you feed new people or
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: stare at them? Lord, I'm losing them, Jesus. I had
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: them good. I'm losing them now. I'm losing them. That's
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: all right. I'm just teasing. I don't need your response.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: I brought mine with me. I also know my church
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  Speaker 1: well enough to know that when you get quiet, you
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: are thinking. And I know you are cerebral enough to
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: challenge your own behavior and to take this as the
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  Speaker 1: word of God and to ask yourself, who am I
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  Speaker 1: holding at bay because they're new and who have I
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: locked out because they hurt me? Those two groups of
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: people are going to carry you into your destiny. Watch this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost finished. Give me five minutes, I'll wrap it up.
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  Speaker 1: He fed the slave that the Amalekites discarded. The slave
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  Speaker 1: was there when they burned Ziklag down and David is
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  Speaker 1: feeding somebody who was complicit in the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Look at David's capacity to be pivotal.
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  Speaker 1: He's feeding the slave even though he's hungry and he's sick.
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  Speaker 2: He was there when they was.
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  Speaker 1: Burning down the city and taking away the children. But
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he's not useful now. Because he has
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  Speaker 1: something I need to win. He knew where they were.
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  Speaker 1: So David says to him, show me where they are.
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  Speaker 1: And when they got down to where they were. The
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  Speaker 1: slave led them down. The Bible said that the Amalekites
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  Speaker 1: were throwing a party. They were living it up. They
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: were laying around. The women were dancing. They were drinking.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: They were having a good time. My last point is
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: David trashed the party. God said, Your enemies are celebrating
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: what they took from you. But God said the devil
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: is alive. You're getting ready to trash the party. I
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm preaching to. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if.
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  Speaker 1: You're healed enough to hear what I'm saying to you.
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  Speaker 1: But God said he's given you permission to trash the party.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: You're going to go in the party. And number one,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: you're going to crash the party. Number two, you're going
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: to defeat your enemies. Number three, you're going to recover
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  Speaker 1: everything that the enemy.
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  Speaker 2: Stole from you.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever I'm talking to, Hear me real good.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: Your stories look.
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  Speaker 1: Bad for a long time, but everything is about to change.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: This is not just a Sunday morning message. This is
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: a prophetic utterance. God said you have permission. Go in
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: the party. Kick open the door and tell them I'm here.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: to take back what the devil stole from me. I'm
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: here to take it back. I'm here to grip my destiny.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: I'm here to lay hold on my future. Give me
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: my wife back. Give me my sons back. Give me
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: my daughter back. Give me my gold and give me
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: my silver. Somebody turn around in a circle. God said
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: he's going to turn the whole thing around. What the
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: devil meant for evil, God is going to make it good.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: I better quit because I feel like preaching now. And
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: when I feel like preaching now, the Holy Ghost stands
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: up in me. The Lord said you're going to get
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: it back. The Lord said you're going to get it back.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know what your it is, but whatever the
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: enemy stole from you, God said you're going to get
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: it back. Kick your foot. Kick the door open. Tell
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: hell I'm coming. I'm coming after my job. I'm coming
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: after my future. I'm coming after my finances. I'm coming
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: after my destiny. I'm coming after my ministry. I'm coming
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: after my purpose. Glory to God. I won't stop till
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: I recover everything that the devil stole from me. Whoever
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to, I want.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: You to praise God like you already.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: Got it back.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: Praise it like you got it back. Praise it. Wait
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: a minute.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: You don't hear what I'm saying. This is an act
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: of faith. Praise Him like you already got it back.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: I got it back. I got it back. I got
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: it back. I got it back. I got it back.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: I have permission to get it back. I'm going to
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: get my walk, my talk, my finances, my power, my anointing,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: my consecration, my ministry, my gifting. I'm going to get
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: it back. You thought you had me. But the party
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: is over. I declare war on hell's party. Somebody lift
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: your voice and shout out to God.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: I have permission. Shout it out again!
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: I have permission!
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: Shout it out again! I have permission! Shout it out again!
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: I have permission! Lift your hands and open your mouth.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: And begin to praise God. In whatever way you're comfortable.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: Let the Holy Spirit speak to you right now. That
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: you have. Been given this morning. You're watching online. You
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: picked the right week. This morning you have permission. You
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: have permission. You have permission. You have permission. If you
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: sit there it's your fault. If you stay there, it's
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: your fault. If you wallow in your pain, it's your fault.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: If you stay in the paralysis of your past, it's
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: your fault. Lift your hands and start talking to God.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: Tell Him what you're going after. Tell Him what you're
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: going after. Say it out loud. Give it a name.
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  Speaker 1: Speak it. Declare it. Lift your hands and open your
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: mouth and tell your God, I'm going after it. I'm
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: going after it. I'm going after it. I'm going after it.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: It might be a degree. It might be a course.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: It might be a master's. It might be a doctorate.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going after it. It might be a business. It
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: might be a church. It might be a ministry. I'm
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: going after it. Lift your hands and name it. I'm
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: going after it. I have permission. I have... I am enough.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: I have enough. I've got enough. I have permission. I'm
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: not accepting any more excuses. Devil, you might as well
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: stop talking to me about what I can't do and
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: what's too late and what's over because this Sunday morning
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: I received permission Permission. Now praise him like you got it.