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STOP LISTENING TO EVERYONE—GOD IS TRYING TO SHOW YOU WHAT’S NEXT Bishop T.D. Jakes (1) · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Been divided now into the northern kingdom and the southern
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  Speaker 1: kingdom this is the northern kingdom which was the larger
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  Speaker 1: kingdom that is up under the rule of ahab the
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  Speaker 1: problem with ahab is that he is filled with the
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  Speaker 1: lust for power i could stay there for a while First,
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  Speaker 1: he sold himself to do evil by marrying Jezebel. He
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  Speaker 1: had no business marrying Jezebel in the first place. Jezebel
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  Speaker 1: was a Phoenician. They worshipped Baal. They had another god.
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  Speaker 1: And in his aligning with her, it was politically expeditious,
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  Speaker 1: but it was religiously devastating. By him marrying her, it
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  Speaker 1: joined connections between two kingdoms because it led all the
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  Speaker 1: way out to the sea, where the ports were, and
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  Speaker 1: he would have more power by marrying her, but he
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  Speaker 1: also had more problems by marrying her. This is a
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  Speaker 1: warning to folks who are about to get married. You
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  Speaker 1: see the power, but you don't see the problems. And
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  Speaker 1: so we understand that Ahab did more evil than any
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  Speaker 1: other man before him in the position he was in.
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  Speaker 1: He was corrupt, and he married a woman who was
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  Speaker 1: even more corrupt. Now, Jezebel was also a problem. She
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  Speaker 1: was a problem. She was a problem in his life. Third,
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  Speaker 1: he behaved in the battleless manner. He led the whole
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  Speaker 1: nation into apostasy, away from God. The famine began to
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  Speaker 1: come as a result of the way he led the people.
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  Speaker 1: And the famine became so strong that the people began
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  Speaker 1: to suffer as God's judgment on Ahab. And this was
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  Speaker 1: because Elijah had prophesied that if you don't stop, God
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  Speaker 1: is going to judge you. And God judged Ahab and
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  Speaker 1: there is a famine in the land, okay? There is
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  Speaker 1: a famine. So we got a kingdom that's divided north
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  Speaker 1: to south. We've got a kingdom that is conjoined Jehovah,
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh with Baal. We have a kingdom that has the
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  Speaker 1: prophets of Israel and the prophets of Baal. And we
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  Speaker 1: have a queen who is killing the prophets of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that come along that are anointed to
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  Speaker 1: try to kill the prophets of Israel. They are really
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  Speaker 1: after Elijah at this time. They're on the hunt. Ahab
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  Speaker 1: is on the hunt for Elijah. And yet God has
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  Speaker 1: built a fence around Elijah. And Elijah is able to stand.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? Amen. You understand that
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  Speaker 1: Ahab was so powerful that he had extended his kingdom
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  Speaker 1: to Omri and to Moab. He was taking over territories.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout history, there have been various moments where nations have
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  Speaker 1: not been satisfied to be nations but extended themselves to
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  Speaker 1: take over as much territory as they could because territory
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  Speaker 1: represented influence, economy, and power. Such was Ahab. He could
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  Speaker 1: take the land, but he couldn't make it rain. God
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  Speaker 1: has a way of stopping the unstoppable. You might think
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  Speaker 1: that your boss is the boss, but your boss has
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  Speaker 1: a boss. You might think that your king is a king,
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  Speaker 1: but your king has a king. You might think you're
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  Speaker 1: at the mercy of a person, but if God be
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  Speaker 1: for you, he is more than the world against you.
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  Speaker 1: Say amen, somebody. Amen. Now, Jezebel needs no explanation. She's
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  Speaker 1: infamous in her own right. She has become synonymous with trickery, debauchery,
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  Speaker 1: and lust, and it is because she was the mother
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  Speaker 1: of it. She exemplified it. She exuded it. She was
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  Speaker 1: a scheming, devious woman. She was not satisfied until she
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  Speaker 1: had brought the prophets of Baal into Israel, and they
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  Speaker 1: were taking over, and Elijah was standing up against him.
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  Speaker 1: He's outnumbered. There are 450 prophets of Baal. There is
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  Speaker 1: one prophet standing against 450. Now, God has 7,000 in
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  Speaker 1: the cut. You need to understand that there are times
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  Speaker 1: and moments in your life that it feels like you're
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  Speaker 1: standing by yourself, but you're never really by yourself because
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  Speaker 1: God's got 7,000 prophets that have not bowed to Baal
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  Speaker 1: nor kissed the nasty image. But Elijah has been chosen.
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  Speaker 1: to fight this fight. With the odds against him and
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  Speaker 1: trouble everywhere, God has chosen him to fight this fight.
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  Speaker 1: In the Bible story, Jezebel was infamous for several things.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did she bring Baal into Israel, but she
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  Speaker 1: also went on to do all types of previous things
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  Speaker 1: that really made her name now synonymous with debauchery. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: it took to get her way, she was willing to
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  Speaker 1: do it. This text comes after the noisy pestilence of
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  Speaker 1: Mount Carmel where Elijah confronts the prophets of Baal and
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  Speaker 1: he stands one against 450. I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: somebody that feels outnumbered and the odds are against you.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem to make any sense that you
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  Speaker 1: could stand there in that office by yourself with everybody
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  Speaker 1: hating on you and God still bring you through and
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  Speaker 1: yet God brings you through. It doesn't make sense that
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  Speaker 1: you could move in that neighborhood and nobody be speaking
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  Speaker 1: to you and God yet sustain you. You're outnumbered. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: ever felt outnumbered in the place? And yet in spite
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  Speaker 1: of that, you know the story and I won't spend
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  Speaker 1: time on it, how God sent fire down from heaven
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  Speaker 1: in the face of 450 prophets of Baal who could
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  Speaker 1: not get Baal to perform in the nation of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: There are some places where hell cannot perform. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: didn't say that they wouldn't form weapons against you, but
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  Speaker 1: he said the weapons will not prosper. God will break
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  Speaker 1: it down in such a way that you have the
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  Speaker 1: victory anyway. And so Elijah calls down fire from heaven
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  Speaker 1: on Mount Carmel and the fire licked up the wood
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  Speaker 1: and the stones and the water and the trenches and
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  Speaker 1: it destroyed absolutely everything by the word of his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: And while they were screaming and yelling and making jokes,
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  Speaker 1: God was still operating in his behalf and he was
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  Speaker 1: operating in the midst of noise. Now you have to
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  Speaker 1: decide in your life how you're going to handle those
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  Speaker 1: moments in your life where you are outnumbered. There's all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of noise and there's pestilence and God still wants
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  Speaker 1: to do something amazing in your life. The late Steve
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  Speaker 1: Jobs said something that I wanted to pull a quote from.
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  Speaker 1: He says, there's been one of my mantras, focus and simplicity.
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  Speaker 1: Focus and simplicity. Somebody say focus and simplicity. Simple can
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  Speaker 1: be harder than complex, he goes on to say. You
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  Speaker 1: have to work hard to get your thinking, your thinking clean.
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  Speaker 1: to make it simple. You have to work hard to
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  Speaker 1: get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's
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  Speaker 1: worth it in the end because once you get there,
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  Speaker 1: you can move mountains. Oh my God. The reason I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to use this quote is that you have to
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  Speaker 1: work hard to make your thinking clear. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to work hard to get it done. You have to
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  Speaker 1: work hard to get your thinking clear. Because as a
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  Speaker 1: man thinks in his heart, so is he. So if
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  Speaker 1: I was the devil and I was going to try
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  Speaker 1: to do something, I would try to make it difficult
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  Speaker 1: for you to get your thinking clear. This morning, somebody's
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  Speaker 1: going to get their thinking clear. And when you get
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  Speaker 1: your thinking clear, God is going to do some amazing
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  Speaker 1: things in your life. But we are living in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of a lot of noise. We are living in
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  Speaker 1: the most noisy time in the history of the planet.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, there are more people, almost 8 billion people
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  Speaker 1: on the planet. Number two, there is more technology than
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  Speaker 1: we have ever seen before. Never in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the world have you had so many people's mouth in
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  Speaker 1: your life. through your phone, an opinion about everything. Opinions
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  Speaker 1: have replaced truth, and it is noise. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: just coming from your phone or your iPad or your computer.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming on the news. When I grew up, there
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  Speaker 1: were three stations. Three and you're out. If you could
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  Speaker 1: find something to watch within three stations, it was over.
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  Speaker 1: And you better find it before 11 o'clock, because when
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  Speaker 1: they start singing the Star-Spangled Banner, it was over. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't understand what I'm talking about. Y'all don't understand. Now
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  Speaker 1: you got over 300 stations to pick from, all kind
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  Speaker 1: of noise.
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  Speaker 1: And then
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  Speaker 1: there's the noise of the people in your life who
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  Speaker 1: have access to you through text, through email, through telephone,
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  Speaker 1: who are always invading your space. And then there's the
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  Speaker 1: robocallers who are calling you and you don't know who
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  Speaker 1: they are. And there you are, got your hands in
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  Speaker 1: biscuit dough, and they're ringing you up every time you
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  Speaker 1: turn around. We got noise, people. Murders and killings, destruction
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  Speaker 1: and strife. shootings in schools, drama everywhere. We are living
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of noise. It is almost inescapable to
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  Speaker 1: get your thinking clear in the noise that saturates us
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  Speaker 1: every day. I walk past the TV and it was
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  Speaker 1: talking about murders down the street from where I live.
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  Speaker 1: I go in the kitchen and do something. I come
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  Speaker 1: back and they're talking about 10-year-olds killing in elementary school.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's war all over the world. There's war.
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine. There's war going on in Israel. There's war
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  Speaker 1: going on in Palestine. And I know that don't have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with me directly, but it's just noise.
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  Speaker 1: It's noise. And I find myself worried about stuff that
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  Speaker 1: I can't do anything about. I find myself being filled
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  Speaker 1: with stress, and I ain't the president. I'm not the general.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a five-star general, but I'm sitting up here
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  Speaker 1: trying to think, oh, is this going to lead to that?
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  Speaker 1: And if that leads to that, it's going to turn
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  Speaker 1: to the other. Because if your thinking gets bogged down
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  Speaker 1: in the noise, it distracts you from your focus. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we are coming into a season where it is
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  Speaker 1: hard to focus. You must realize that without anything going wrong,
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  Speaker 1: and if you're breathing, something is going wrong somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: your life, in your personal life, without anything going wrong
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  Speaker 1: in your head, and if you're a thinking person, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the most noise is not on the outside, It's the
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  Speaker 1: noise on the inside. Have you ever laid down to
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  Speaker 1: sleep and you couldn't get the voices to shut up
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  Speaker 1: in your own head? What about this? And what about that?
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  Speaker 1: I wonder where Johnny is. I wonder where Mary is.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how Susie is doing. I wonder what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do about next week. I wonder how much
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  Speaker 1: longer I'm going to have hot water. The hot water
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  Speaker 1: tank is going out. Do I have enough money to
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  Speaker 1: pay for it? All these conversations, lips not moving, but
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  Speaker 1: the noise has got in your head. Now, Elijah is
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  Speaker 1: functioning in the midst of noise. He performs miracles in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of noise. He performs the power of God
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of noise. And the fire fell down.
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  Speaker 1: But it became very difficult for him to continue to
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  Speaker 1: function in noise. And I want to challenge you this
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  Speaker 1: morning to stop the noise. I am just now realizing
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  Speaker 1: that just because my phone rings... Now, my wife should
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  Speaker 1: really preach this because she has no problem with it.
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  Speaker 1: But just because my phone rings doesn't mean I have
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  Speaker 1: to stop everything and answer it. And I'm learning how
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  Speaker 1: to go through, look at the phone and see who
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  Speaker 1: it is and see if I feel like dealing with
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  Speaker 1: that kind of energy right now. Because some people bring
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  Speaker 1: an energy of disruption with them. It's not that you
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  Speaker 1: don't like them, but they just have so much drama
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  Speaker 1: that you got to be in the mood to say
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  Speaker 1: yes to that phone call. And sometimes it's not the
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  Speaker 1: right time to have that noise. Is it just me
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  Speaker 1: or is there somebody else that's dealing with a noisy environment?
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  Speaker 1: And it takes its toll on you. It creates stress.
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  Speaker 1: Stress is a silent killer. Stress affects your mind and
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  Speaker 1: your emotions. Stress affects your body and your organs. Stress
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  Speaker 1: affects your blood pressure and your blood sugar. Stress affects
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  Speaker 1: everything about you. Stress is a silent killer. It creates
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  Speaker 1: things like anxiety. It creates all kinds of anxiety. Anxiety
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  Speaker 1: is to be anxious about something that hasn't even happened.
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  Speaker 1: To worry about the possibility. To have faith in negativity.
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  Speaker 1: to believe, to rehearse in your mind, what if this
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  Speaker 1: happens and what if that happens? And it's coming from
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  Speaker 1: the noise, it's coming from the noise, it's coming from
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  Speaker 1: the noise because the enemy knows that if you ever
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  Speaker 1: focus you're going to be unstoppable. So he sends all
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  Speaker 1: these distractions in your life, and the greater the mission
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  Speaker 1: in your life, the greater the distraction comes in your life. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Elijah has already called fire down from heaven. He has
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  Speaker 1: taken the prophets of Baal down to the sea and
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  Speaker 1: drowned them and buried them in the sea. It was bloody,
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  Speaker 1: it was noisy, it was loud, it was messy, and
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  Speaker 1: now we're finding him not on the first trip, which
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  Speaker 1: is often preached about, But now he's on his second trip.
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  Speaker 1: He goes back to the place where he last experienced God.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you're under attack, go back to the place where
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  Speaker 1: you last experienced God. We see Elijah going back on
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  Speaker 1: the mountain, bloody and messy, tired from fighting, in conflict,
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  Speaker 1: in anxiety, in stress and pressure, and he goes to
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  Speaker 1: the top of the mountain with nothing but his servant,
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  Speaker 1: and this time he goes to stop the noise. See,
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  Speaker 1: there is noise that is in your life and in
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  Speaker 1: my life and in our lives and in your life
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  Speaker 1: that are watching right now. There's noise. There are certain
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  Speaker 1: noises that have been sent just to distract you from
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  Speaker 1: the commandment that God gave you. Because when there is
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  Speaker 1: noise in your life, when there is noise in your life,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes more and more difficult to discern exactly what
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  Speaker 1: God is saying. Because you've got so much noise going
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  Speaker 1: around you that you can't tell what is God and
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  Speaker 1: what is not God. You can't tell whether you should
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  Speaker 1: go right or whether you should go left. You can't
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  Speaker 1: tell whether this is a friend or a foe. You
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  Speaker 1: can't tell. whether this is an enemy or a friend.
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  Speaker 1: You can't tell whether you should fight or be still.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot tell whether to be quiet or not. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you got to stop. Shake
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, take control of the noise. Stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Shut it down. Bring it to an end. Bring it
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  Speaker 1: to an end. You have the power within yourself to
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  Speaker 1: stop the noise. You have the power within yourself by
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  Speaker 1: God's grace to stop the noise. God didn't stop the noise.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah stopped the noise. Elijah stopped the noise by putting
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  Speaker 1: his head in between his knees. He must realize that
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  Speaker 1: in order to perform this next miracle, he must be
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  Speaker 1: able to focus. Steve Jobs said you have to work
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  Speaker 1: to get your thinking clear. Most people will not put
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  Speaker 1: in the work to get their thinking clear. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: I heard that Elijah put his head between his knees,
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  Speaker 1: I did a little exercise. And I found out that
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  Speaker 1: it is quite difficult, maybe not for you, but it's
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  Speaker 1: quite difficult to get your head in between your knees.
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  Speaker 1: It might be a little easier to bring your knees
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  Speaker 1: up to your head, but that was kind of tough too.
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  Speaker 1: What is the Bible saying to us? To get to
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  Speaker 1: a place of peace and tranquility You have to work
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  Speaker 1: at it. It won't just happen because you need it.
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  Speaker 1: You have to work at getting your thinking clear. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: you make decision in noise that is not discernible. If
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  Speaker 1: you notice while I was talking, it became increasingly difficult
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  Speaker 1: to hear what I was saying, though I was speaking,
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't hear it because of the noise. You think
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  Speaker 1: God is not talking. God is talking. But the noise
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  Speaker 1: is a distraction for you to hear. That's the Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is saying to the church. But that will not happen
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  Speaker 1: if you do not stop the noise. Elijah goes up
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  Speaker 1: on the mountain. And he has to do this. His
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  Speaker 1: servant cannot do it. His entourage cannot do it. His
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  Speaker 1: retinue cannot do it. His associates cannot do it. His
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  Speaker 1: church cannot do it. You have to make a decision
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  Speaker 1: who you let invade your space, get in your head,
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  Speaker 1: cloud your judgment, and influence your thinking. Somebody say, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: I have lived all my life, just about all my life,
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  Speaker 1: around railroad tracks. When I was a little boy, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if they do it now, but when I
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  Speaker 1: was a little boy, when you got to a railroad crossing,
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  Speaker 1: there would be a sign that said, stop, look, and listen. Stop, look,
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  Speaker 1: and listen. This text is all about stop, look, and listen.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? In order
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  Speaker 1: to stop the noise, Elijah comes to the mountaintop and
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  Speaker 1: puts his head in between his knees. And there he
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  Speaker 1: begins to shift his thinking, saying, I must hear what
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  Speaker 1: is within me. I can't go by what's in you.
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  Speaker 1: Because if I'm going to get the victory, I have
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  Speaker 1: to have the ability to clear my thinking. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the most successful people I know, whether they're athletes or CEOs,
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  Speaker 1: start their morning with meditation or stillness or calmness, just
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes of tranquility, no radio, no music. No news,
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  Speaker 1: no headlines, no social media, just clearing your head, getting
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  Speaker 1: along with yourself so you can find yourself. What do
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  Speaker 1: you really think? What do you really believe? What do
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  Speaker 1: you really expect? What are you willing to fight for?
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  Speaker 1: Who are you really? What is God saying to you?
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  Speaker 1: What will God do for you? You got to stop
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  Speaker 1: it or you'll never find it. If you don't stop it,
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  Speaker 1: the noise will influence you. the decision. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: stop it, the noise will distract you from what is
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  Speaker 1: the victory. You'll start going after the noise rather than
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  Speaker 1: going after God. You have to not go after the noise.
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  Speaker 1: You have to go after God. If you go after
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  Speaker 1: the noise, you won't get anything done. And in order
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  Speaker 1: to do it, he has to do what the quote
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  Speaker 1: said from Steve Jobs. He has to work to get
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  Speaker 1: his thinking clear. Introspection. Introspection. One of the questions that
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  Speaker 1: always arrests me is, how are you doing? Or how
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  Speaker 1: are you feeling? I think, Lord, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: have to wait a minute. Give me a minute. Let
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  Speaker 1: me think about it. You know, because I'm so focused
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  Speaker 1: on what I'm doing that sometimes I forget how I
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  Speaker 1: am feeling. And I don't check with myself to get
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  Speaker 1: still enough to find out where am I. Not only
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  Speaker 1: where am I, what's in me. I cannot produce your fruit.
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  Speaker 1: So never be jealous. An apple tree cannot produce a pear.
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  Speaker 1: A grapevine cannot produce a strawberry. I can only produce
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  Speaker 1: what's in me. But I spend so much time around
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  Speaker 1: people that I don't get to examine the integrity of
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  Speaker 1: what God placed inside of me. And if you're not careful,
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  Speaker 1: you'll become addicted to the voices of men more than
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  Speaker 1: the voices of God. If you're not careful, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to somebody, I don't know who it is. Look at
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say, focus, focus, focus. You're coming into a
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  Speaker 1: season that you've got to focus, focus, focus. 2024 is
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  Speaker 1: going to require focus. You're not going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do it with all the noise. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to slay the prophets and shut them down so
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  Speaker 1: you can hear what the Spirit of the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: saying to the church. Look at somebody and say, kill it.
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  Speaker 1: But Elijah was a prophet, but he still had to
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  Speaker 1: kill it. But Elijah was a man of God, but
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  Speaker 1: he still had to kill it. That means that God
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  Speaker 1: didn't kill it for him. He had to kill it.
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  Speaker 1: Stop praying that the noise will stop, but you've got
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  Speaker 1: to take authority and kill it. Cut it off. Shut
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  Speaker 1: it down. Don't answer it. Cut the TV off. Get
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: some peace. Stop inviting people around who are cluttering your
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  Speaker 1: head with all of their problems, who think you are
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  Speaker 1: an answer machine. And all they do is call you
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  Speaker 1: up for the answer all the time. Let me put
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  Speaker 1: it in biblical language. Be still and know that I
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  Speaker 1: am God. Be still and know that I am God.
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  Speaker 1: But you're a prophet. Be still and know you're a musician.
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  Speaker 1: Be still and know that you're a realtor. Be still
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  Speaker 1: and know that you're an accountant. Be still and know
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  Speaker 1: that you're a businessman. Be still and know you're a janitor.
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  Speaker 1: Be still and know you can't know if you won't be. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he called fire down from heaven, but he did it
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  Speaker 1: with his voice. What brings fire won't bring water. The
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  Speaker 1: real problem is not just the prophets of Baal. They
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  Speaker 1: had to be stopped, but the real problem that is
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: causing the suffering is the drought that's in the land.
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  Speaker 1: He cannot fight and break the drought the same way
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  Speaker 1: he called down the fire. Tradition is a wonderful thing
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  Speaker 1: until it stops progress. The tool that you use to
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  Speaker 1: bring you here will not be the tool that you
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  Speaker 1: use to take you there. That's why you gotta have
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  Speaker 1: the flexibility to change understanding that this is a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of fight. Type that on the line. This is
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  Speaker 1: a different kind of fight. This is a different kind
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  Speaker 1: of fight. You're not going to be able to casually
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  Speaker 1: do this. This is a different kind of fight. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to focus to win this fight. You
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  Speaker 1: can't expend energy trying to drag people who don't want
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to go, trying to convince people who refuse to be convinced,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: trying to heal people who are hypochondriacs and they enjoy
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: being sick, and they call you up and dump their
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  Speaker 1: sickness all over you because they have an attention deficit.
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  Speaker 1: They want your attention, which breaks your focus. And because
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  Speaker 1: you are an empath, you are always taking care of
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  Speaker 1: them and not taking care of you. But I want
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  Speaker 1: you to make a commitment with me this morning. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to stop it. I'm going to stop it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to stop it because I am in a season
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  Speaker 1: in my life that requires that I focus. That means
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  Speaker 1: I have to stop. I have to listen. And I
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: have to look. I have to stop. I have to listen. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when I say listen, he is not listening for what
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  Speaker 1: is going on around him. He is listening for what
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  Speaker 1: is going on inside of him. Because if there are
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  Speaker 1: not olives inside of him, there will not be olives
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  Speaker 1: around him. If there is not peace on the inside,
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  Speaker 1: there won't be peace on the outside. It is no
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  Speaker 1: mistake that Jesus was asleep in the boat in the
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  Speaker 1: storm and said, peace be still. The reason Jesus could
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  Speaker 1: speak peace is because he... You can't speak peace from
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  Speaker 1: a place of noise. Jesus was the only one who
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  Speaker 1: was sleep enough to wake up and speak peace in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the storm. Yet, everybody around you is
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: trying to drag you into their noise. Not just your noise,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: they're trying to drag you into Their noise. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're not careful, you will give up and in the
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  Speaker 1: name of ministry, find yourself drug into a noise that
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  Speaker 1: is actually a distraction that doesn't have anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with you. I want the people to holler at me
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  Speaker 1: who have people in your life that keep trying to
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  Speaker 1: drag you into their noise. Holler, stop. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stop allowing you to drag me into your noise, into
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  Speaker 1: your miserableness, into your hostility, into your anger. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to stop allowing you to drag me into your foolishness.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop allowing you to drag me. I
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  Speaker 1: will give you some advice. I will speak to it.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you how to handle it. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as getting me over into the middle of it,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I refuse to forfeit my peace so that you can
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  Speaker 1: have companionship in your pain. Stop dragging me. I'm not coming.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler stop. I want you to holler like you're
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: yelling at your kids. Yeah. That's the way you got
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  Speaker 1: to say it. That's the way you got to say it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way you got to say it. Because the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: volume is up so loud on the noise. The volume
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: is up so loud on the noise, you got to holler.
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  Speaker 1: The volume is up so loud on the noise. The
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: volume is up so loud on the noise that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the noise doesn't respect your voice. Now holler stop. Stop.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's about to happen in your life. What just
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: happened in this room? That's what's about to happen in
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  Speaker 1: your life. That's what's about to happen in your life.
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  Speaker 1: The noise, the craziness, maybe I'm not good enough. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough. Maybe I missed my chance. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I waited too late. Maybe I'm cursed. Maybe God is
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  Speaker 1: judging me. All of that is noise. Holla, stop. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: my peace I give unto you, not the peace of
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the world, but the peace that passes all understanding. I'm
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: going to stop allowing you to drag me into your issues.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody I don't even know who it is.
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  Speaker 1: The noise is always a distraction from the greater assignments.
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  Speaker 1: It is designed to get you off track. It is
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: designed to stop you from focusing. It is designed to
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  Speaker 1: stop you from getting your mind clear, your head straight,
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts together, your inner voice so that God can
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  Speaker 1: speak to you on a different level. We often talk
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  Speaker 1: about the notion of five senses. Can I take my time?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And when we talk about five senses, it's really our
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: sensory perception that is coming through the various organs and
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  Speaker 1: attributes of which God has allowed us to have. The
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  Speaker 1: accoutrements that accessorize our human experience like ears and mouth
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and nose and eyes are gates through which our senses
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: are able to make contact with the world. You walk
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: in a room, you can smell something. You're sitting at
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a table, you can hear something. And you nudge your
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: husband in the middle of the night and say, honey,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I heard something. It is through your ear gate that
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you are able to contact the world. It is through the,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I smell gas. Did you cut off the stove? It
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: keeps you in contact with the world. It comes through
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: your senses. I saw something. What's that in the shadows?
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I saw something move. Your eyes, your ears, your nose,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: your taste, all of the five senses. The notion of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: five senses is, is a medieval term that has been
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  Speaker 1: passed on to us down through the years, through Aristotle actually,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: who devised that the only way to get information to
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  Speaker 1: the brain was through the five senses. Aristotle's ideology about
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the five senses continued to live till about the 20th
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  Speaker 1: century when scientists began to challenge that there are actually
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: more than five senses. senses. There's more than what I see.
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  Speaker 1: There's more than what I hear. There's more than what
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I taste, smell. There's more than that to the five senses.
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  Speaker 1: Things like pain. So you go to the doctor's office
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and they say from one to ten, what is the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: level of your pain? The reason they have to ask
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you is because they can't see it, they can't smell it,
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  Speaker 1: they can't touch it, they can't taste it. They have
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to ask you, even though your brain is getting the senses,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: it's going to your brain, it's not coming through your
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: five senses, and yet pain is real. How many people
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  Speaker 1: know pain is real? You can be in pain sitting
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  Speaker 1: right beside me and me not know it because I
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  Speaker 1: can't see it, I can't smell it, I can't taste it,
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  Speaker 1: I can't touch it, but your brain records it because
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: pain is real. There are some things that bypass the
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  Speaker 1: five senses in order to inform the intellect that evade
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  Speaker 1: the five senses. Incidentally, can I go further? The word
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  Speaker 1: sensual is not necessarily sexual. To be sensual is to
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  Speaker 1: be conscious of your senses, to make decisions through your senses,
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  Speaker 1: to make decisions through your senses, to move through your senses.
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  Speaker 1: And God has designed that you have another set of
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  Speaker 1: senses that are probably weak because they're seldom used. They
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  Speaker 1: are weak because they're seldom used because you are so
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  Speaker 1: busy responding to what you hear around you that you
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  Speaker 1: don't get to hear what you hear within you. For
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  Speaker 1: where you are right now, you must hear within you. David,
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  Speaker 1: before he went to battle, would always ask God, shall
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  Speaker 1: I go up? Is this my fight? Should I use
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  Speaker 1: my weapons on this fight? He is trying to hear God.
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  Speaker 1: what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. The high
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  Speaker 1: priest carried, I listened to Pastor Tuttman was talking in
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the pre-show about the breastplate, Judah, in your Judah interview,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: was talking about the breastplate on the high priest's chest
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  Speaker 1: where he had all the jewels for the 12 tribes
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. Inside the breastplate were Thummim and Urim. Thummim
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  Speaker 1: and Urim were two stones that the priest used to
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  Speaker 1: hear what the will of God was. So every priest
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: had to be prophetic about You have to have a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: prophetic utterance to know not just how to worship and
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  Speaker 1: how to praise God, but how to hear and discern
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  Speaker 1: what is God saying in my life. Not what has
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: God said, what is God saying in my life. If
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  Speaker 1: Abraham had done what God had said, he would have
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  Speaker 1: killed Isaac. Because God said, take now thy son, thine
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  Speaker 1: only son, and offer him up for a burnt offering.
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  Speaker 1: That's what God had said. But when Abraham got him
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  Speaker 1: up on the altar and tied him down and raised
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  Speaker 1: his hand, Abraham went from what God had said to
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  Speaker 1: what God is saying. Some of us are walking in
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  Speaker 1: an old word. We're not getting a right now word
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  Speaker 1: for the situation that we're in. And if you don't
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: get a right now word, you'll kill what you ought
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: to keep. And keep what you ought to kill. Abraham
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: raised his hand to slay his son because God had
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  Speaker 1: said it. But the same God who had said had
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  Speaker 1: a proceeding word. Man shall not live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: And the proceeding word of God was, Abraham, Abraham, stay
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  Speaker 1: your hand. So he had to stop and get a
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  Speaker 1: rhema word from God. For where you are right now
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  Speaker 1: is going to take a rhema word from God. I
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  Speaker 1: need a right now word. I need a word for
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: where I'm at right now. If you need a right
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: now word from God, take 30 seconds and give him
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  Speaker 1: a praise right now. I need a right now. I
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: need a right now. I need a right now word
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  Speaker 1: from God. I can't work off an old word. I
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: need a right now word from God. I can't work
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  Speaker 1: off of your word. I can't ask you what you
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: think about it. I need a right now word from God.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I need a right now word from God. Because I'm
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: in another season, because I'm in another zone, because I'm
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: in another time, What worked yesterday will not work today.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to get my thinking clear so I
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: can hear. Stop calling me. Stop fussing at me. Stop
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: yelling me. Sometimes stop seeing about me. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: focus because I need to hear what God is saying
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  Speaker 1: right now. I don't have time to hear foolishness. I
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: don't have time to hear gossip. I don't have time
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to hear he say, she say. I must hear what
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the church
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  Speaker 1: because I can't move off a lie. I can't move
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  Speaker 1: off of rumor. I can't move off of doubt. I
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: can't move off of anxiety. I can't move off of fear.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't even move off of feelings. I must
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  Speaker 1: hear what God is saying right now. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some people who are at a crucial point
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  Speaker 1: in your life. And you're not here just because you
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: want to be at church. You're here because it's a
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: crucial time in your life and you respect the word
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: of God. and you need the Word of God, and
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you long for the Word of God, and you want
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God to come into your life. If
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: you're in the place, make some noise. I didn't come
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  Speaker 1: to show off my hat. I didn't come to show
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: off my shoes. I didn't come because I had a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: new dress. I came because I need to hear what
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  Speaker 1: are you saying for me at this time in this life?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: How do I handle this situation? Nudge me when I
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: need to be still. Push me when I need to
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  Speaker 1: go forward. Pull me when I'm going too far. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: need to hear you right now in this moment. At
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: this time, I need a word from God. I don't
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: need a cute sermon. I don't need a fine resume.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I need a word from God. I don't need fancy ropes.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I need a word from God. I don't need people
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  Speaker 1: to tickle my ears. I need a word from God.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't hear from you, I won't know what
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  Speaker 1: to do. I need to hear from you right now.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I need to talk to somebody that's in a little trouble.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I need to hear from God. I need to talk
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: to some mother that's worried about your son. I need
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to hear from God. I want to talk to somebody
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: who's moving into a new position. I need to hear
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: from God. I've got to shut up the noise. I've
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: got to stop the ruckus. I've got to stop the confusion.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I need to hear from God. I can't afford to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: make another mistake. The last one almost killed me. The
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: last one almost drove me crazy. I've got to have
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  Speaker 1: a circumspect word from God, a cut word. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to cut my vision down and move away from my
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: peripherals so that I can focus on what God is
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  Speaker 1: saying for me in this season. The last time I
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: got it wrong, it cost me. The last time I
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: got it wrong, it hurt me. The last time I
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: got it wrong, it delayed me. But it also taught me.
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  Speaker 1: It taught me to wait on the Lord. For they
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They
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  Speaker 1: shall mount up on wings like eagles. They shall run
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  Speaker 1: and not be weary and walk and not faint. Touch
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  Speaker 1: three people and say, I'm going to wait on him.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to wait on him. If I have to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: sit on the top of the mountain all night, I'm
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: going to wait on the Lord. If I have to
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: be lonely, I'm going to wait on the Lord. If
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I have to walk by myself, I'm going to wait
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  Speaker 1: on the Lord. If you laugh at me, I'm still
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  Speaker 1: going to wait. If you make fun of me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: still going to wait. Because in this season, I got
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  Speaker 1: to get this thing right. I don't know who I'm
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: preaching to, but you understand the urgency of the times
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  Speaker 1: that we're living in right now. And for what God
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: is about to do in your life, you need to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: hear from the Lord. If I'm talking right, clap your
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: hands in this house. Give me a clap emoji. Give
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: me a sign. Write something down on a page. I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: need to hear from God. If I don't hear from you,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I won't know what to do. If I don't hear
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: from you, I won't know how to break this. I
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: got to break this drought. I've been in an economic drought.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I've been in an emotional drought. I have been in
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: a love drought. I have been in an intelligence drought.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: There are all kinds of droughts that can come in
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  Speaker 1: your life, but this message today is a drought-breaking message
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  Speaker 1: from the Lord. I want to talk to somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: been in a drought for a long time. You function
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  Speaker 1: in a drought. You call fire down in a drought.
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  Speaker 1: You preach in a drought. You taught in a drought.
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  Speaker 1: But the devil is alive. God is about to break
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  Speaker 1: this drought in your life. I serve notice on you
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  Speaker 1: that if you can get your head on straight the
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: enemies that you see today you shall see them no more.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Excuse me but I feel like preaching a little bit.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, but I feel my preacher this morning. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: but I got a world to change. Excuse me, because
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I've got a work to do. Excuse me, because I
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: got a call to fulfill. Excuse me, because I'm on
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: a mission. You don't have to like me. I want
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: you to like me. But if you don't like me,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I still got something to do. Is there anybody in
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the house that is determined to hear from the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We don't teach enough about hearing from God. It's always
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: God hearing from us. But in the old church, every
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: now and then you would get still at the altar.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: To tarry means to wait at the altar. You would
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: lay down on the altar and wait to hear from God.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: God is tired of hearing from us. Now we need
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  Speaker 1: to hear from God. What did you say Isaiah? They
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  Speaker 1: that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They
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  Speaker 1: shall mount up on wings like eagles. They shall run
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  Speaker 1: and not get weary. They shall walk and not faint.
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting on the Lord. Kelly, I'm not going to move.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to wait on the Lord. Hallelujah. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to wait until his word is clear. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: wait until his direction is clear. I'm going to wait
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  Speaker 1: until a yoke breaks. I'm going to wait until I
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  Speaker 1: see a change. And the Bible said that while Elijah
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  Speaker 1: was waiting on the Lord, all of a sudden he
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  Speaker 1: could hear God. And it wasn't happening in his life.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't happening in his neighborhood. It wasn't happening in
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  Speaker 1: his country. But he said, in my spirit. I hear
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  Speaker 1: the sound of an abundance of rain. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: it in my life, but I hear it in my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it in my circumstance, but I hear
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  Speaker 1: it in my spirit. What do you do when you
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  Speaker 1: hear something on the inside that you don't see on
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  Speaker 1: the outside? That's why I'm preaching this morning. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: said that he spoke to his servant and he told
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  Speaker 1: his servant, go look for it. Touch seven people and
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  Speaker 1: tell them, go look for it. Look for it. Look
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  Speaker 1: for it. Look for it. Look for it. Look for it.
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  Speaker 1: Look for it. Seven people, look for it. Look for it.
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  Speaker 1: Look for it. I hear it in my spirit. Look
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  Speaker 1: for it. Look for it. Look for it. I hear
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  Speaker 1: it in my belly. Look for it. Look for it.
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  Speaker 1: Look for it. I want to tell somebody, you've been
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  Speaker 1: hearing something in your spirit, and God's about to make
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  Speaker 1: it manifest in your life. And whoever you are, you
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  Speaker 1: had to be here this morning. The rain couldn't stop you.
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  Speaker 1: The game couldn't stop you. Your friends couldn't stop you
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  Speaker 1: because you got something to look for. Hallelujah. Can I
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  Speaker 1: get 30 seconds of expectation? 30 seconds of expected praise.
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  Speaker 1: Push somebody and say, excuse me, I'm looking for it.
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  Speaker 1: Step aside, I'm looking for it. Move out of my way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for it. Get out of the way, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for it. I'm not just here, I'm looking for it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for something I heard in my spirit. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for God to do something in my life. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for God to show up in my circumstances. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for God to move a mountain. I'm looking for
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  Speaker 1: God to change a situation. I'm looking for God to
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  Speaker 1: open up a door and divide. The Bible said that
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  Speaker 1: the servant went out toward the sea and he came
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  Speaker 1: back and said, I don't see anything. And the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said Elijah spoke to his servant and said, go look again.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you won't see it the first time. but go
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  Speaker 1: look again. Sometimes you won't see it the second time,
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  Speaker 1: but go look again. Sometimes you won't see it the
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  Speaker 1: third time, but go look again. You gotta be so
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  Speaker 1: focused in your mind that you make up your mind,
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  Speaker 1: even your own associates, when they tell you they don't
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  Speaker 1: see nothing. As long as God said in your spirit,
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a great rain? Then look for it.
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  Speaker 1: I said, God said it's going to be a great rain.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't a drop of rain. This isn't dew falling.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't scattered showers. The Holy Ghost said it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a great rain. Excuse me a minute. Because
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  Speaker 1: I've been in a great warfare, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: giving him a great praise. Elijah was in great warfare
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  Speaker 1: because he had a great blessing. Everybody that's been in
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  Speaker 1: a great fight, take a minute and give God a
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  Speaker 1: great praise. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Your spirit knows it. Your belly knows it. Your heart
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  Speaker 1: knows it. Every now and then something jumps on the
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  Speaker 1: inside saying it's still in your spirit. You've been through hell,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still in your spirit. You've been knocked down,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still in your spirit. You've been looked over,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still in your spirit. You've been cast aside,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still in your spirit. They that wait upon
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  Speaker 1: the Lord shall renew their strength. I speak strength to you.
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  Speaker 1: Strength to you right now. Strength to your mind. Strength
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  Speaker 1: to your spirit. Strength to your will. Strength to your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody open your mouth and holler like you lost your.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the contradiction. Elijah hears abundance
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  Speaker 1: of rain in his spirit, but even his own servant
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  Speaker 1: contradicts what he hears in his spirit. Sometimes the people
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  Speaker 1: closest to you will contradict what you hear in you,
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  Speaker 1: but you got to tell them, go look again. I'm determined.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about stubborn faith. Anybody, are there any stubborn
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  Speaker 1: folk in here? Stubborn folk make some noise in here.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get stubborn. You got to get radical.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get tenacious and tell them to go
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  Speaker 1: look again. Somebody holler, look for it. Type it on
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  Speaker 1: the line. Look for it. Speak it to yourself. Look
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  Speaker 1: for it. Tell your doubt. Look for it. Tell your fear.
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  Speaker 1: Look for it. Tell your anxiety. Look for it. Tell
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  Speaker 1: your self-doubt. Look for it. Tell your pain. Look for it.
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  Speaker 1: Tell your friends. Look for it. Tell your haters. Look
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  Speaker 1: for it. Here it comes. Look for it. And he's
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  Speaker 1: done all, he's done all this praying. He's done all
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  Speaker 1: this introspection. And all of a sudden, on the seventh time,
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  Speaker 1: the seventh, seven is God's number of completion. On the seventh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all didn't hear me. See, you quit after three times.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you ain't got no rain. You quit after
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  Speaker 1: four times. That's why you don't have no rain. You
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  Speaker 1: quit after five times. That's why you don't have no rain.
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  Speaker 1: God said, if you will look for it, seven times fulfillment, completion.
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  Speaker 1: When he got to the seventh time, the Bible said
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  Speaker 1: the servant came back and said, well, Elijah, I do
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  Speaker 1: see something. It ain't much. But I do see something.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that after a long fight,
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  Speaker 1: you ain't out yet, but you do see something. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: It's smaller than you imagine, but you do see something.
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  Speaker 1: I heard the word say, can I preach this morning?
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  Speaker 1: I see the hand, the cloud, the size of a
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  Speaker 1: man's hand coming up out of the sea. Well, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I heard great rain, but I see little cloud. I
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  Speaker 1: heard increase, but I just got a refund check. That's
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  Speaker 1: a little thing. God said, don't worry about how little
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  Speaker 1: it looks. Something big is coming out of something small.
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  Speaker 1: This is a word of prophecy to somebody in this place.
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  Speaker 1: Despise not the day of small beginnings. A great thing
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  Speaker 1: is going to come out of a little thing. If
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to see a little breakthrough, give God a
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  Speaker 1: great praise for a little breakthrough. Give God a great
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  Speaker 1: praise for a little breakthrough. Give God a great praise
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  Speaker 1: for a little breakthrough. I dare you to give him
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  Speaker 1: a great praise for a little breakthrough. A crack in
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  Speaker 1: the door. A wind from the north. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to praise God like it's already done. I see you.
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  Speaker 1: a little thing, and it's about to do a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody help me praise him. I can't hear you. Oh, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost finished. But look at how Elijah reacted to
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  Speaker 1: a little thing. He jumped up and told his servant,
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  Speaker 1: go tell Ahab to saddle up your chariot and run,
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  Speaker 1: because there's going to be a great thing coming out
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  Speaker 1: of your little thing. And the Bible said that all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden the skies went black, and the clouds
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  Speaker 1: filled the air, and all of a sudden Ahab is
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  Speaker 1: on his chariot, and he's trying to race toward Jezreel.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible I almost said that the Lord strengthened Elijah.
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  Speaker 1: Throw your hands up and say, strengthen me. This is
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  Speaker 1: my turn. This is my time. This is my opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: This is my moment. I can't be tired right now.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, strengthen me. Now Ahab is on his chariot.
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  Speaker 1: and the chariot is being driven by a horse. In
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  Speaker 1: your car, the fastness and speed of your motor is
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  Speaker 1: determined by horsepower. because horses have power. And so anybody
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  Speaker 1: on a chariot ought to outrun somebody on foot. But
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  Speaker 1: the Lord strengthened Elijah. Even the Bible said, if you
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  Speaker 1: can't contend with the footmen, how shall you contend with
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  Speaker 1: the horses? But the Lord strengthened Elijah. I declare there
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  Speaker 1: will be strength over this word today. I declare there
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  Speaker 1: will be strength Leave it on the floor. Leave it
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. Leave it on the floor. Leave it
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. I mean to get messy. I'm determined
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  Speaker 1: to get messy. Because this kind of breakthrough, you got
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to get messy. And the Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: this ain't no time for you to be neat. This
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  Speaker 1: ain't no time for you to be cute. This ain't
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  Speaker 1: no time. For you to worry about your hair. We're
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  Speaker 1: in a fight. God strengthened Elijah. Strength is coming down
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  Speaker 1: in this room. I want you to praise him for
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  Speaker 1: fresh strength. No, no, no, no. You got to see this.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said that Elijah gathered up his robe and
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  Speaker 1: tied it around his waist and took out and went
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  Speaker 1: to running because when you know you got the anointing,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you got to run. You can't wait on nobody. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: You can't wait on nobody. You got to be ready
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  Speaker 1: to run. And the Bible I must say that the
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  Speaker 1: old prophet got a young man's stride and he started
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  Speaker 1: running for the blessing. Slap your neighbor and say, I
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  Speaker 1: got to run. I got to run. I got to run.
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  Speaker 1: I feel a running spirit. I feel a suddenly spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I feel an immediate spirit. I feel a right now spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I feel somebody that's about to run into your blessing.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I use the Message Bible is that the
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  Speaker 1: Message Bible says it's going to be quick. You've been praying,
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  Speaker 1: how long? I'm tired of being in this situation. How long?
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired of being rejected. How long? I'm tired of
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  Speaker 1: being misunderstood. But don't worry about the time. God said
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be quick. All the quick people got
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  Speaker 1: to understand that this is going to happen so quick.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to go from little to huge. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to go from ducking to running. And they headed out
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  Speaker 1: for Jezreel and Elijah outran the chariot. Evil won't get
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  Speaker 1: there before you get there. Your enemy won't get there
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  Speaker 1: before you get there. What God has for you is
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  Speaker 1: for you. And I mean to be sloppy. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean to be messy. Because this is a sloppy run.
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  Speaker 1: You got to run for it. Take your cute dress off.
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  Speaker 1: Pull your hat off your head and run. Run right now. Run.
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  Speaker 1: Run right now. I'm a run. I'm a run.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a run.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a run for it. I'm a run for it.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of my way. Run for it. Run for it.
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  Speaker 1: Run for it.
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  Speaker 2: Run for it.
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  Speaker 1: Run for it. Look for it.
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  Speaker 2: Look for it.
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  Speaker 1: Look for it.
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  Speaker 2: Get ready to happen now.
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  Speaker 1: Get ready to happen. Run. Run. What is that I feel?
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  Speaker 1: Run in the rain. You got to run in the rain.
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  Speaker 1: Touch everybody you can reach and say, it's raining. It's raining.
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  Speaker 1: It's raining. It's raining. It's raining. It's raining. It's raining.
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  Speaker 2: It's raining.
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  Speaker 1: Over your life. Over your mind. It's raining. It's raining.
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  Speaker 1: It's raining. It's raining. It's raining. It's raining. It's raining.
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  Speaker 1: Running it. Running it. Run for it. Run after it.
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  Speaker 1: Go get it. It's raining. It's raining. It's raining. It's raining.
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  Speaker 1: When I woke up this morning, it was raining. Raining. Raining.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning. It was raining. In the morning. It
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  Speaker 1: was raining. Give him a praise. Give him a praise.
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  Speaker 1: Any kind of praise. Run. Run.
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  Speaker 2: It's already done It's already happening It's already done It's
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  Speaker 2: already happening It's already done And it's already happening It's.
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  Speaker 1: Already done It's already.
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  Speaker 2: Happening It's raining, it's raining.
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost finished. But tell your neighbor, you got to
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  Speaker 1: run in the rain. You got to run in the rain.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: You got to run in the rain. Take down your umbrella.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to get wet over this and
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  Speaker 1: run in the middle of the rain. You ain't got
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  Speaker 1: time to cry. You ain't got time to feel sorry
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  Speaker 1: for yourself. It's running time. Put your remarks on.
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  Speaker 2: And run in the rain.
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  Speaker 1: Shout it! Somebody shout it. Run in the rain. Run
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  Speaker 1: in the rain. What? Run in the rain. What? Run
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: in the rain. What? Leap in the rain. What?
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: Leap in the rain.
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  Speaker 1: What? Leap in the rain. What? Dance in the rain. What?
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  Speaker 1: Dance in the rain. What? Dance in the rain. Say
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  Speaker 1: it again. Dance in the rain. Say it again. Sat
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: in the rain. Say it again. Sat in the rain. What?
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Sat in the rain. Say it.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Sat in the rain. What?
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  Speaker 1: Leap in the rain. What? Leap in the rain. What?
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  Speaker 1: Leap in the rain. What? What?
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  Speaker 2: What?
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Leap in the rain. What? What? What? What? What?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Say it! Speak it! Declare it!
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  Speaker 2: Look for it!
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  Speaker 1: Look for it! Look for it! Extract it! Look for it!
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  Speaker 1: It's coming! Extract it! Get ready for it! Look for it!
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  Speaker 1: Look for it! God said, look for it, look for it,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: look for it, plan on it, prepare for it, prophesy,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: I prophesy, I prophesy, I prophesy. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: what that means to you. Because I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you heard when your head was in between your knees.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever God spoke to you in your spirit, He
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  Speaker 1: told me to tell you to look for it. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to start out small. You got to be willing
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  Speaker 1: to face rejection over and over and over and over.
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  Speaker 1: and over and over, but if you keep on pushing,
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  Speaker 1: if you keep on fighting, if you keep on running,
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  Speaker 1: on that seventh time, you're gonna see a breakthrough. And
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: when you see a breakthrough, it's gonna start out looking small.
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  Speaker 1: But don't laugh at it because it looks small. Because
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  Speaker 1: a great thing, a great thing is coming out of
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  Speaker 1: a little thing. And God said quickly, the skies went black.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: The lightning began to flash. The thunder began to roll.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: The wind began to blow. And in this moment, God
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  Speaker 1: strengthened the sitting prophet. It's now the strengthened prophet. The
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  Speaker 1: prophet who started out looking in started looking out. The
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  Speaker 1: scripture he put in my spirit that I didn't use
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: is in Hebrews. It says that we will have our
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: senses strengthened by reason of use. And the word strengthen
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: comes from the word we get gymnasium from. Gymnasium. In
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: the Greek, it's where we get gymnasium. That means... Whatever
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: you've been going through was a workout. A workout to
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: strengthen your inner senses. Now, Aristotle, we're not going to
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: argue with you because we need our senses to be spiritual.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: I need my senses as a starting point to be spiritual.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: So if I don't have the sensuality, I can't develop
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: the spirituality. Can you prove that? Yes, I'm glad you asked.
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  Speaker 1: Faith coming by? Oh. Now faith is a spiritual thing,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: you can't see it. It doesn't appeal to your senses,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: but it comes by Hearing, which is a sense. So
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Aristotle says your ear gate is where it starts. What
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: you allow in it is going to determine what you
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: get out of it. Faith comes by hearing. There are
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: people who listen at this message but didn't hear it.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: But if you heard it, wave at me. It's not
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: going to stay in your ear. Faith cometh by hearing.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: It don't stayeth by hearing. It comes through your ear
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: gate to get into your mind, your brain, your ethics,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: your discipline, your focus, your tenacity. You don't appreciate everybody
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: who's with you. I always appreciate everybody who's with you.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: But if all of them walk away, it still don't
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: matter because it's your head and it's your knees. The
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: weirdest thing about this text is that Elijah crouched in
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: this position, takes my mind to the birthing position. In
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: the Bible, They had birthing stools. And when you're getting
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: ready to push something out, you gotta get down in
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: the birthing position. This is a get down year. This
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: is a get down year. This is a focus year.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: This is a year that it's gotta come out of you,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: not just who you know, not just who you hang around.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: This is going to be authentically your reign. You don't
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: get it. This is not a natural reign. This is
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: a curse breaking reign. That's what I said. Type it
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: on the line. This is a curse breaking reign. This
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: is a curse breaking reign. This is going to end
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: the judgment, stop the bondage, change the circumstance. And people
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: who didn't help you birth it are going to benefit
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: from it. They weren't laboring with you on the mountaintop.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: So let me close, let me close, let me close,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: let me close. It all ends where it all started.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: Elijah went back to the place where he first experienced God,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: where he last experienced God. He went back to that
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: spot for what was next. So he climbs back up
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: the mountain that he had just come down from. And
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: he had to climb it one more time. Can you
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: climb it one more time? And he climbs up on
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: the mountain and he goes to the same place, but
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: not the same technique. Last time he spoke it and
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: it happened. This time in silence. In quietness and in
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  Speaker 1: confidence shall be your strength. Shall be your strength. Shall
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  Speaker 1: be your strength. If you had any idea how much
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  Speaker 1: rain I was talking about. One scholar says there were
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  Speaker 1: about 350,000 people in the Northern tribes. Enough rain to
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  Speaker 1: change 350,000 people came out of one man's get down. Now, brothers,
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  Speaker 1: you might get this, but I know the sisters are
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  Speaker 1: going to get this. Tell somebody, say, I'm getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to get down. That's what the old folk used to
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  Speaker 1: call it. I'm getting ready to get down. She's getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to get down. She's getting ready to get down.
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  Speaker 1: She's getting ready to get down. When my wife was
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  Speaker 1: having children, she looked beautiful today. She's clean today. She
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  Speaker 1: looked good today. She didn't look like that when she
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  Speaker 1: was having a baby. Her jaws were filled with hair.
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  Speaker 1: Her hair was all over her head. The vessels in
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  Speaker 1: her cheeks were exposed. Because when you got something in you,
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  Speaker 1: you ain't got time to be cute. As I close today,
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  Speaker 1: there is something in you that is authentic to you.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody going to outrun you. Ahab and all of
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  Speaker 1: his soldiers ain't going to outrun you because God is
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  Speaker 1: going to strengthen you. Now, when I read words, I
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  Speaker 1: see pictures. It's how I learn. You do that too?
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  Speaker 1: So when I saw Elijah pull up his robe and
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  Speaker 1: tie it around his waist, God said, this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a messy blessing. It ain't going to be
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  Speaker 1: nothing you can do in your normal posture. When I
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  Speaker 1: read that he outran the chariot, he told Ahab, get
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  Speaker 1: thee down and slack not thy going. Go as fast
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  Speaker 1: as you can. Do all you're going to do. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still going to outrun you. Because I'm that sure of
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  Speaker 1: what I heard in my spirit. This is a word
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  Speaker 1: for people who heard something in your spirit. You don't
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  Speaker 1: see it in your life yet, or it's just starting
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  Speaker 1: to crown. The message Bible said it was as small
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  Speaker 1: as a man's hand coming out of the sea. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a baby's head crowning coming out the womb it
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  Speaker 1: has already started what you do when you get the
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  Speaker 1: message that is coming out of the sea determines the
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  Speaker 1: abundance of rain if you prepare for a small thing
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  Speaker 1: all you gonna get is a small thing but if
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  Speaker 1: you tell them everybody got to run now your child
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  Speaker 1: And the cloud is the size of a man. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know how small a man's hand looks coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the sea? God said that little bitty thing he
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  Speaker 1: did for you was just a foretaste. Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: But what's about to happen in your life? Now, truth
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  Speaker 1: be told, if I called for prayer, everybody on us
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  Speaker 1: would come up here because everybody has something in them
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  Speaker 1: that God wants out or you'd be dead. If God
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  Speaker 1: hadn't kept you alive, he kept you alive because there's
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  Speaker 1: something yet in you to contribute. So what I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do is ask you to raise your hand and
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  Speaker 1: you're watching online. I want you to raise your hand.
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  Speaker 1: I know you look stupid. You're in the house by
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  Speaker 1: yourself and you're raising your hand and the kids running
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  Speaker 1: around and don't make any sense. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: foolish you look. We're going to get messy with this.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I repent from every distraction. I repent
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  Speaker 1: from worrying about things that don't matter. I repent from
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  Speaker 1: allowing people to drag me into stuff that was just
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  Speaker 1: noise in my life. And I commit to focusing myself
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  Speaker 1: to what you put in me. Because everything you put
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  Speaker 1: in me Because everything you put in me, because everything
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  Speaker 1: you put in me is about to show up in
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  Speaker 1: my life. And I'm going to praise you for it now.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.