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T.D. Jakes Sermons Favor Ain't Fair Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas (64k) · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in the room who knows what it
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  Speaker 1: is to just stumble up on some blessings that almost
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  Speaker 1: look like they were waiting on you? See, you're living
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  Speaker 1: in the second chapter of Ruth. You know you're in
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  Speaker 1: the second chapter of Ruth when all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: you're just walking along minding your own business and boom,
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  Speaker 1: here comes a blessing. And you're walking over, boom, here
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  Speaker 1: comes another blessing. Boom, here comes another blessing. You see,
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  Speaker 1: they had already pulled the wheat. She didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: to pull it. It was just laying on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: All she had to do was pick up what was
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  Speaker 1: being laid on the ground. There are some things... That
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  Speaker 1: God can bring into your life. That you didn't even
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  Speaker 1: work for it. He said, I'll give you houses you
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  Speaker 1: didn't build. I'll give you vineyards you didn't grow. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just let you stumble into things. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: all you got to do is have enough faith to
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  Speaker 1: receive what I've released in your life. I could tailor
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  Speaker 1: the continuity of my thought process into a linguistical form
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  Speaker 1: that would cause me to be heralded for my massive
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  Speaker 1: ability to articulate the concepts of God. But I choose
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  Speaker 1: to go beyond all of that and just tell you
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  Speaker 1: like my grandmama would tell you. The reason that people
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  Speaker 1: have an attitude when that begins to happen in your
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  Speaker 1: life is that God has given you favor. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Favor now is preferential treatment. It is preferential treatment. Favor
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  Speaker 1: is distinctive treatment whereby you have reached an elite status
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  Speaker 1: that you don't even deserve. And the reason they're upset
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  Speaker 1: is that favor ain't fair. Favor isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: If you're taking notes, be sure you get that. Favor
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  Speaker 1: ain't fair. God may be just, but he's not fair.
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  Speaker 1: When God gets ready to bless you, he doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: bless you because you deserve to be blessed, but God
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  Speaker 1: has a way of just choosing to bless you and saying,
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  Speaker 1: that lady right there, I'm going to leave that house
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  Speaker 1: for her. Can't nobody buy the house but her. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: else that tries to buy it, everything's going to be
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  Speaker 1: tied up. That's her house. Nobody's going to get it
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  Speaker 1: but her. Favor Greetings in the name of Christ, our King,
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  Speaker 1: our risen Lord. Yes, I am excited. I'm fired up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm motivated. I'm in the process of getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: what is going to be the most explosive meeting that
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  Speaker 1: we have ever done. Megafest is a meeting everybody's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming to Dallas on trains to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of this great meeting. And I'm excited about all the
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  Speaker 1: response I'm hearing from you. And today, today, today, we
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  Speaker 1: get to share a message that has become, for me
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  Speaker 1: in many ways, the alma mater through which we walk
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  Speaker 1: and live and move. The message is called Favor Ain't Fair.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we've entitled the whole series like that. If
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  Speaker 1: you know anything about walking in the favor of God...
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  Speaker 1: you understand that God's favor and God's grace over your
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  Speaker 1: life has nothing to do with your background, your past,
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  Speaker 1: where you came from, or what your haters have to
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  Speaker 1: say about it. If God be for you, he's more
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  Speaker 1: than the world against you. Sit back, get you a
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee, check this out. Favor, maybe it ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: We believe that nothing just happens, that God, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: orchestrates our lives, puts us at the right place at
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  Speaker 1: the right time around the right people to receive what
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  Speaker 1: we need to go to the next level of life.
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  Speaker 1: That is important because sometimes life seems chaotic and painful
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  Speaker 1: and uncertain. And it helps me to know that God
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  Speaker 1: has some master plan, that there is some method to
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  Speaker 1: the madness, that ultimately there's going to be some purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Even out of painful situations, there will be purpose. And
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  Speaker 1: so we've been taking a good look at Ruth and
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  Speaker 1: how God ordered her steps and how she is a
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  Speaker 1: Moabite woman, in case you're not familiar with her. She is,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, a Moabitess, a Moabite woman coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the land of Moab, an idolatrous and perverse nationality of
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  Speaker 1: people who did not recognize God as God. But because
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  Speaker 1: Bethlehem and Israel in particular were going through a famine,
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  Speaker 1: Naomi took her two sons and her husband and they
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  Speaker 1: went down into Moab and met these two girls. And
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  Speaker 1: we talked about Ruth and Orpah. who married Naomi's two sons.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got to understand these characters because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't understand these characters, you won't understand the metaphor of
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  Speaker 1: what it means to you. The two sons that these
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  Speaker 1: two girls married died and Naomi's husband died. And we
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  Speaker 1: talked about how these three women who were engulfed in
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  Speaker 1: the grief and the sadistic pain of losing their companions
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  Speaker 1: engulfed each other in tears and wept. Orpah goes back
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  Speaker 1: to Moab. because she can, and she's released to go.
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  Speaker 1: Naomi says she's going to Bethlehem, where she came from.
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  Speaker 1: She's wilted and withered. Ruth, standing in between Naomi, who
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  Speaker 1: represents where she wants to go, and Opa, who represents
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  Speaker 1: where she came from, turns toward Naomi and says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going with you. Thy God shall be my God. Thy
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  Speaker 1: people shall be my people. Where thou lodgest, I shall lodge.
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  Speaker 1: Where thou diest, I shall die. But the cost of
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  Speaker 1: her decision is quite painful because now she is in Bethlehem,
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  Speaker 1: a Moabite woman, a minority woman, a woman who is
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  Speaker 1: considered a second-class citizen, not a legitimate citizen of Bethlehem.
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  Speaker 1: She is impoverished and she's widowed. She has an economic
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  Speaker 1: issue as well as a spiritual issue, but she is
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  Speaker 1: willing to go through the adversity because she has been
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  Speaker 1: so impressed with Naomi and her God that she wants
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  Speaker 1: to be where Naomi is, experiencing Naomi's God, walking into
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  Speaker 1: the abundance that Naomi has decreed possible. And so she
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  Speaker 1: is in Bethlehem. Bethlehem is translated to mean the house
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  Speaker 1: of bread. and yet she's starving for bread. Isn't it
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  Speaker 1: funny how you can be in the right place and
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  Speaker 1: still have a great need? Isn't it funny how you
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  Speaker 1: can be in the place where blessings are flowing, and
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  Speaker 1: because of your situation, you are unable to enter into
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  Speaker 1: the blessing that other people have? But she knew she
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  Speaker 1: was in the right place, and that is imperative for
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  Speaker 1: you to be able to do what God has called
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  Speaker 1: you to do. Theologically, Naomi represents the nation of Israel
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  Speaker 1: who through the death of her husband typifies the separation
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  Speaker 1: that Israel experienced from the wholesome worship of Jehovah their God.
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  Speaker 1: Her two sons and the death of her two sons,
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  Speaker 1: the birthing of her two sons represent Israel dividing into
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  Speaker 1: two kingdoms. The death of her two sons represents the
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  Speaker 1: end of the era where Israel has divided into two kingdoms.
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  Speaker 1: And the ending of that era is signified by Ruth
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  Speaker 1: making up her mind to follow Naomi back home. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Ruth following Naomi back home is the type of the
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  Speaker 1: church whose umbilical cord to God comes through the rich
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  Speaker 1: soil of Judaism. We have a Judeo-Christian society. There is
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  Speaker 1: a cord between Judaism and Christianity. What we call the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament teaches us the identity and the personality of
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  Speaker 1: our God. And so Ruth goes back with Naomi representing
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  Speaker 1: the church now coming into a covenant relationship with God
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  Speaker 1: through her association with this older woman named Naomi who
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  Speaker 1: incidentally happens to be her mother-in-law. Now when we look
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  Speaker 1: at Ruth then we see that she is a metaphor
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  Speaker 1: for the church, her life Her struggles, her acquisition of
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  Speaker 1: land become the picture or a template, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: for the church. Now I've got you totally confused. Good.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be all right. Ruth now is coming into Bethlehem.
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  Speaker 1: She's gleaning over in the corners of the field. There's
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  Speaker 1: a famine there. The woman is hungry. She's gleaning. Gleaning
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  Speaker 1: is to gather wheat. She's gathering whatever wheat she can,
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  Speaker 1: wherever she can, over in the corners of the field.
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  Speaker 1: She hopped up on Boaz's field. Boaz is rich. He's loaded.
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  Speaker 1: He has influence and affluence. And he sees her gleaning
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of the field. Now you ought to
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  Speaker 1: be ready to catch hold to me and go forward.
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  Speaker 1: Boaz is talking to some women who are gleaning. And
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  Speaker 1: he looks over there and says, who is that over
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  Speaker 1: in the field? And they said, that's Ruth, the Moabitess.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, this is what I want you to do.
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  Speaker 1: I want you, she's going to be coming this way.
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  Speaker 1: And when she follows this direction, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: leave some handfuls of what you have harvested. Just drop
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  Speaker 1: them on the ground for her to find. Now watch this.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes Ruth from the background to the forefront, from
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  Speaker 1: obscurity to the notoriety. Isn't it nice to be in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction? You haven't gotten there yet, but you
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  Speaker 1: know that you're moving in the right direction. If you
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  Speaker 1: as a church, as a Christian, begin to move in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction, there's a certain little signs that are
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  Speaker 1: indicative of the fact that you are in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Little signs such as this. When I look back over
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  Speaker 1: my shoulder and see where I came from, I might
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  Speaker 1: not look successful to you, but when I realize that
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  Speaker 1: I came out of a famine and I'm glad that
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  Speaker 1: I'm just here, it's And so she survived it. And
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  Speaker 1: then she went from being survival into a place of
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  Speaker 1: being sustained. And now she's coming into a place that
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  Speaker 1: she notices increase. Somebody say increase. All of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: she's gathering up and she said, look at this extra wheat.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this extra. We're just laying on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: What Ruth doesn't know is that Boaz has had a
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  Speaker 1: conversation about her that she didn't even hear. He has
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  Speaker 1: commanded the release of blessings. Somebody say release. He has
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  Speaker 1: commanded the release of blessings. She didn't even hear the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But she is a recipient of something that he has
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  Speaker 1: said about her that caused her to start receiving things
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  Speaker 1: that had been released for her that she doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: know how it happened. There are a few people in
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  Speaker 1: this room who have just in an attempt to follow
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  Speaker 1: God have noticed increase. We didn't hear the conversation. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know what was said in heaven. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: how the blessing started, but we just noticed that as
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  Speaker 1: we attempted to walk with God, that there were some
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  Speaker 1: things that just worked out that had never worked out
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  Speaker 1: before as if somebody had just left some things around
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  Speaker 1: for us and we started coming into things that didn't
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  Speaker 1: make it. Is there anybody in the room who knows
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  Speaker 1: what it is to just stumble up on some blessings
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  Speaker 1: that almost look like they were waiting on you. See,
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  Speaker 1: you're living in the second chapter of Ruth. You know
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  Speaker 1: you're in the second chapter of Ruth when all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you're just walking along, minding your own business,
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  Speaker 1: and boom, here comes a blessing. And you're walking over, boom,
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  Speaker 1: here comes another blessing. Boom, here comes another blessing. You see,
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  Speaker 1: they had already pulled the wheat. She didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: to pull it. It was just laying on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: All she had to do was pick up what was
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  Speaker 1: being laid on the ground. There are some things... That
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  Speaker 1: God can bring into your life. That you didn't even
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  Speaker 1: work for it. He said, I'll give you houses you
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  Speaker 1: didn't build. I'll give you vineyards you didn't grow. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just let you stumble into things. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: all you got to do is have enough faith to
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  Speaker 1: receive what I've released in your life. Still to come
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  Speaker 1: on The Potter's Touch. And of course, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be upset. Of course they're going to roll their eyes
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  Speaker 1: when you walk in the room. Of course they're going
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  Speaker 1: to have an attitude. Of course they don't like you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they resent you. They're frustrated because God preferred you.
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  Speaker 1: Gave you preferential treatment. And the next time you run
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  Speaker 1: up on somebody who's looking at you all funny. And
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  Speaker 1: God is blessing you. Yeah, I know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. It's okay. I understand. Go ahead and have
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  Speaker 1: all the attitude you need to. Because this is favor.
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  Speaker 1: And favor ain't fair. It's not fair, is it? Put
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  Speaker 1: it on the back of your car and say, it
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  Speaker 1: ain't fair, is it? Put it on your house, right
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  Speaker 1: on the mailbox. It ain't fair. When you get that
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  Speaker 1: new job, put it right there on your computer. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't fair. It ain't fair. It ain't favor. It ain't fair.
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  Speaker 3: When God blesses you, What arose in America as the
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  Speaker 3: biggest event of its kind is back. And now the
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  Speaker 3: stage is set.
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  Speaker 1: You have never seen a meeting like this.
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  Speaker 1: We're out of here. you're gonna catch abundance you're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna catch god's blessing encouraging women.
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  Speaker 1: Peacemaker is somebody who declares war on anything that disturbs
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  Speaker 1: their peace there is a principle that will cause a
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  Speaker 1: shift in your situation if.
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  Speaker 2: He can deliver me he can deliver you equipping men we.
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  Speaker 1: Have more fear in running out than we do faith
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  Speaker 1: in running over this is going to be big elevated
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  Speaker 1: to walk in that destination.
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  Speaker 1: We do it big in texas He said, I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you houses you didn't build. I'll give you vineyards you
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  Speaker 1: didn't grow. I'll just let you stumble into things. And
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, all you got to do is
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  Speaker 1: have enough faith to receive what I've released in your life. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the people who are responsive to that are people who
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  Speaker 1: have experienced that. There are people who are living in
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  Speaker 1: the book of Ruth right now. They're just seeing some things.
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  Speaker 1: All the work was taken out of it. It was
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  Speaker 1: just there. It was just available to you. And you
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  Speaker 1: started receiving the blessings of the Lord. When it happens
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  Speaker 1: like that, you have to understand, because some of you
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  Speaker 1: are not used to the way that we worship. And
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  Speaker 1: you have to understand, when you see people who explode
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  Speaker 1: into clamorous, bodacious praise, and you sit back and you conclude, oh,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that interesting? Oh, look at those people. Oh, they're
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  Speaker 1: so animated and so emotional, you know. That's nice. It
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  Speaker 1: is not that we're emotional. It's just that it's very
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  Speaker 1: difficult to be in a burning building and find a
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  Speaker 1: fire escape and remain aloof. It's very difficult to be
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  Speaker 1: at the end of your rope and something just drops
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  Speaker 1: on your plate out of nowhere just in the nick
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  Speaker 1: of time. And if God hadn't have done what he
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  Speaker 1: did when he did it, you would have never been
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  Speaker 1: able to survive what you went through. Just when your
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  Speaker 1: enemy thought he had you, boom, God just trots a
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  Speaker 1: blessing up. It will make you have to praise him.
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  Speaker 1: It will make you have to thank him. It will
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  Speaker 1: make you have to rejoice. It will make you, even
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  Speaker 1: if you have to do it in your house and
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  Speaker 1: lock the door and pull the blind and throw your
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  Speaker 1: hand up and say, Lord, I thank you for what
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  Speaker 1: you did for me. God has a way of making
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  Speaker 1: you excited. And I want to say something to you
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  Speaker 1: because you have to understand this. All these women are
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  Speaker 1: out here working in the hot sun, harvesting wheat. And Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: because she responds to the beckoning of Boaz, comes along
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  Speaker 1: without half the work. receives just as much harvest as
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  Speaker 1: if she had pulled it, plucked it, cleaned it, and
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  Speaker 1: prepared it. It was just laying there waiting on her. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people. Is there anybody
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  Speaker 1: in here who's had some blessings just fall on you?
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  Speaker 1: You came on the right Sunday. This sermon is for you.
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  Speaker 1: You need to understand because when this starts to happen,
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  Speaker 1: people react strangely to you. They react strangely to you because,
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  Speaker 1: I could say it eloquently and articulately, I could say
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  Speaker 1: it prolifically and profoundly, but I choose to avoid that
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  Speaker 1: and just to break right down into Ebonics and I
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  Speaker 1: could tailor the continuity of my thought process into a
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  Speaker 1: linguistical form that would cause me to be heralded for
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: my massive ability to articulate the concepts of God. But
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I choose to go beyond all of that and just
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  Speaker 1: tell you like my grandmama would tell you. The reason
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  Speaker 1: that people have an attitude when that begins to happen
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  Speaker 1: in your life is that God has given you favor.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Favor now is preferential treatment. It is preferential treatment.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Favor is distinctive treatment whereby you have reached an elite
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  Speaker 1: status that you don't even deserve. And the reason they're
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  Speaker 1: upset is that favor ain't fair. Favor isn't. ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: If you're taking notes, be sure you get that. Favor
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  Speaker 1: ain't fair. God may be just, but he's not fair.
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  Speaker 1: When God gets ready to bless you, he doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: bless you because you deserve to be blessed, but God
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  Speaker 1: has a way of just choosing to bless you and saying,
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  Speaker 1: that lady right there, I'm going to leave that house
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  Speaker 1: for her. Can't nobody buy the house but her. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: else that tries to buy it, everything's going to be
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  Speaker 1: tied up. That's her house. Nobody's going to get it
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  Speaker 1: but her. Favor And of course, they're going to be upset.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, they're going to roll their eyes when you
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  Speaker 1: walk in the room. Of course, they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: an attitude. Of course, they don't like you. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: they resent you. They're frustrated because God preferred you, gave
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  Speaker 1: you preferential treatment. And the next time you run up
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  Speaker 1: on somebody who's looking at you all funny and God
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  Speaker 1: is blessing you, you just want to say, uh-huh, yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know what it is. It's okay. It's okay. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and have all the attitude you need to.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is favor. And favor ain't fair. It's not fair,
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  Speaker 1: is it? Put it on the back of your car
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  Speaker 1: and say, it ain't fair, is it? Put it on
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  Speaker 1: your house, right on the mailbox. It ain't fair. When
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  Speaker 1: you get that new job, put it right there on
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  Speaker 1: your computer.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't fair. It ain't, favor ain't fair. When God
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  Speaker 1: blesses you, You do understand that many of the things
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  Speaker 1: you got aren't even fair. You're not even qualified to
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  Speaker 1: have the position, but you got it. You're living in
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  Speaker 1: a house and it don't even work out on paper
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  Speaker 1: how you got the house. Favor Ain't fair. Ruth just
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  Speaker 1: started being blessed. It wasn't even fair. Just, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said that, please sit down. The Bible said that Boaz
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  Speaker 1: had spoken to the reapers and said, just leave our
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  Speaker 1: handfuls on purpose. Handfuls provision on purpose. There is an
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  Speaker 1: umbilical cord between provisions and purpose. God doesn't give you
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  Speaker 1: provisions just for your own personal gain. God gives you
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  Speaker 1: provisions for purpose. Everything you've got, your talent, your singing,
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  Speaker 1: your speaking, your ability, your charisma, your articulation, your IQ,
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  Speaker 1: your financial dexterity, it makes no difference what it is.
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  Speaker 1: God gave you those favors. For his divine purpose. So
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  Speaker 1: the statement reads in the Bible, drop some handfuls on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: If you know your purpose, God said I'll leave stuff
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  Speaker 1: just laying around for you. If you know it's not
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  Speaker 1: for you, I'll just leave some handfuls. On your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: If you know your purpose. If you don't allow people
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate you and control you and have them move
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  Speaker 1: you into their agenda. If you know who you are
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  Speaker 1: and stand your ground and stay on your purpose, your
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  Speaker 1: provision is in your purpose. When you find your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: you'll find your provision. Oh, do you hear? Your provision
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  Speaker 1: is in your purpose. When you find your purpose, you'll
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  Speaker 1: find your provision. And he dropped it. And so what
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  Speaker 1: happens to you is you get to this stage where
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  Speaker 1: God just starts leaving you blessings. And the first reaction
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  Speaker 1: you have, you want to tell people. Child, you will
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  Speaker 1: not believe. Have you ever called somebody and you said,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing? What you doing? What's going on? You
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  Speaker 1: didn't really want them to answer. You want them to
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  Speaker 1: hurry up so you could tell them You would not
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  Speaker 1: believe what just happened to me. I was just, I was,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I just stopped by the grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't even know I was over there by the chicken wings.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting ready to pick me up some chicken
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  Speaker 1: wings because I had to rush back home. Ran into
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  Speaker 1: the president of Texaco. They're getting some chicken wings. If
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't have gone to get the chicken wings, I
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  Speaker 1: never would have met him. Found out there's a position
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  Speaker 1: right over there. Now that they're phasing out my job,
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  Speaker 1: had they not phased out my job, had I not
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  Speaker 1: gone to get the chicken wings, had not he gone
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  Speaker 1: to get the chicken wings, we never would have had
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  Speaker 1: this conversation. And without having to go through all the
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  Speaker 1: red tape and all the technology, you would never believe
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  Speaker 1: how God just... God just... Give me a second. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be back after this. There is an umbilical cord between
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  Speaker 1: provisions and purpose. God doesn't give you provisions just for
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  Speaker 1: your own personal gain.
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  Speaker 2: God has taken special care of you every step along
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  Speaker 2: the way. Ever wonder why? Because favor ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you've got, your talent, your charisma, God gave you
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  Speaker 1: those favors. For his divine purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be blessed and everybody just sit back and
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  Speaker 1: fold their arms. It ain't going to happen. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a whole lot. I don't believe it. But
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the chatter, if God has blessed you.
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  Speaker 2: And when your gift is $ 89 or more, you will
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. Isn't it time you walked in it?
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  Speaker 2: It's coming. The biggest family-friendly festival is back. Megafest 2013.
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  Speaker 1: People are asking me, what is Megafest all about? Is
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  Speaker 1: it a conference? Yes, it's a conference, but my God,
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  Speaker 1: it's so much more. It's festivity. It's fun. It's restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: It's shopping. It's People of God relaxing. We've been through
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  Speaker 1: the fire. We've been through the flood. We made it.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: Bigger, better, grander than before. Three event-packed days for the
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  Speaker 2: whole family.
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  Speaker 1: All types of entertainment for your family, for your kids.
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  Speaker 1: We've got material that men are going to need to
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  Speaker 1: cause you to stand up and be powerful, to be
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  Speaker 1: the man that God has called you to be at manpower.
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  Speaker 1: The woman, our Lucy, you already know. It's incredible. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to put your family first. in a spiritual
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  Speaker 1: environment and show them that it's fun to be a Christian.
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  Speaker 2: Megafest 2013. Get your tickets now. Visit mega-fest.com or call 1-800-BISHOP-2.
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  Speaker 1: We're at a party in Texas. You know what? We
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  Speaker 1: do it big in Texas. Every time I reached after
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  Speaker 1: something that didn't work out, I couldn't figure out why.
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  Speaker 1: But I waited patiently on the Lord, and in due time,
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  Speaker 1: He began to make me see that He wasn't hurting me.
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  Speaker 1: He was blessing me. He was blessing me by saying no.
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  Speaker 1: And my direction came through my rejection. If I had
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  Speaker 1: not had rejection, I would have never gotten clear direction.
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  Speaker 1: It was the doors he shut that showed me the
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  Speaker 1: doors he opened. So the trick to it is, It's
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  Speaker 1: not to wait on the Lord. The trick is not
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  Speaker 1: to wait because you really have no choice. You have
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  Speaker 1: to wait. You have to wait. You can't get there
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  Speaker 1: until you get there. You got to wait. But the
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  Speaker 1: trick to it is while you're waiting to renew your strength.
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  Speaker 1: To mount up on wings. To run and not be weary.
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  Speaker 1: If you can deal with the no's in life and
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  Speaker 1: the rejection and still remain positive and centered and focused
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  Speaker 1: You're a person of faith. If you can go through
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  Speaker 1: adversity and know that God has a master plan, you're
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  Speaker 1: a person of discipline. I've got to stop there, but
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  Speaker 1: it's been a real joy and a real blessing to
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  Speaker 1: share the word of the Lord with you. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to encourage you to just embrace the idea of
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  Speaker 1: walking in God's favor. Breathe it in. Pray in it.
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  Speaker 1: Walk in it. Think in it. Expect in it. Favor
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  Speaker 1: is yours for the taking. And God is distributing out
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  Speaker 1: to his children favor. That just puzzles the mind. I
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  Speaker 1: thank God for you. I'm praying for you. I hope
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  Speaker 1: to see you at Megafest. And know that our hearts
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  Speaker 1: are toward God. And toward you.