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T_D_Jakes_DON_T_Be_Afraid_of_Change;_God_Is_at_Work_in_Your_Li · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to make changes. Don't think that if
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  Speaker 1: you make changes, Ismael and Hagar are going to die.
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  Speaker 1: I got a well they haven't even seen yet. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to live in this chaos. Your mistakes, in
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  Speaker 1: your miracles are cohabitating in the same space. You still
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  Speaker 1: need the courage to change. God is getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: blow your mind. He's getting ready to do something that
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  Speaker 1: you thought it was too late for, that you gave
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  Speaker 1: up on, that you thought was impossible. That you are
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  Speaker 1: so aware of your vulnerabilities that you think it can't
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  Speaker 1: happen to you. God is getting ready to blow your mind.
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  Speaker 1: And all of those counterfeit substitute Johnny Come Lately solutions
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  Speaker 1: that you put into place, you ain't gonna need none
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  Speaker 1: of them, because through your own body to your own
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  Speaker 1: gift is not gonna come through the evangelist you bring in.
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  Speaker 1: The preach is not going to come in through the revival.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna come through all in conferences, your habit,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't get nobody to come to that's not
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. It's going to come through your
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  Speaker 1: own mouth. Stop giving the hangar the job of having
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  Speaker 1: your baby. Nobody can have your baby. But you, God said,
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  Speaker 1: out of your body, horse shot to oh cold shop
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  Speaker 1: or somebody come get me, Sarah, I feel the holy ghost.
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  Speaker 1: God said, out of your own body, you gonna push
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  Speaker 1: this baby out. You won't push it for yourself. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking to, but slap anybody you
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  Speaker 1: can reach and say push. It's coming out of you.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming out of your belly. It's coming out of
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  Speaker 1: your spirit. It's coming out of your bowels. It's coming
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  Speaker 1: out of your guts, it's coming out of your annointy.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming out of your power. If you stop being
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  Speaker 1: trifling and puss, you ain't gonna be able to have
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  Speaker 1: this baby while you're drinking a milkshake. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to puss slop your neighbor and say, pus, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: We got four people in this tent. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the challenge of growth. The challenge of growth is when
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  Speaker 1: you designed it at one stage and now you're in
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  Speaker 1: another stage, and now you're in a stage that you
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  Speaker 1: don't need when you started in your first stage. But
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  Speaker 1: you can't let go of what you started at your
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  Speaker 1: first stage because you're committed to it, and the challenge
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  Speaker 1: is sever never thought that Abraham would become bond to
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  Speaker 1: the bond woman. She never thought they'd be giggling over dinner.
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  Speaker 1: She never thought that they'd be winking at each other.
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  Speaker 1: She never understood soul ties. She never understood that there's
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  Speaker 1: no way that you can keep laying with somebody and
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  Speaker 1: not become bond to them. That you can't hear their
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  Speaker 1: dreams and their hopes. And what would you have been
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  Speaker 1: had you not been in Egypt? And what would you
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  Speaker 1: have been if you had not been a maid? And
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  Speaker 1: he listened at her dreams, and he listened at her tears,
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  Speaker 1: and he listened at her fears. And he was bond.
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  Speaker 1: He was bond to the bond woman. And she didn't
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  Speaker 1: see that in the plan. She only saw that she
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  Speaker 1: could have a baby. But she could not see that
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  Speaker 1: she could have her husband. And now Abraham is bond
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  Speaker 1: to the bond woman. And by the time Hagar, by
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  Speaker 1: the time Sarah realizes that this tent is a mess,
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  Speaker 1: And let me talk to you a minute. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: worried about your church being great. I'm not too worried
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  Speaker 1: about your business being great. I'm worried about your tent
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  Speaker 1: being great. But it's a tent. I gotta sleep in it,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta eat in it. I gotta carry it around
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  Speaker 1: in the hot, doesn't it I gotta put it up
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  Speaker 1: and take it down, and put it up, and take
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  Speaker 1: it down, and put it up and take it down.
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  Speaker 1: And Abraham's problem is that the tennis getting crowded. And
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask you how crowded? How crowded?
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  Speaker 1: It's your tent? Have you, God? Too many people with
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  Speaker 1: conflicting agendas living in your tent? And God says to him,
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  Speaker 1: harken him too, the voice of our wife, and he
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  Speaker 1: tastes one bottle of water. My Abraham is rich, and
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  Speaker 1: Ismael is his son, and Hagar is his concubine, and
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  Speaker 1: he gives her one bottle of water and a few
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  Speaker 1: loaves of bread and turns her over to God. And
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  Speaker 1: the problem with you, God, player, is that you are
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  Speaker 1: responsible for everybody, everybody who was in your life, everybody
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  Speaker 1: who is in your life, everybody who's ever gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in your life. And you wonder why you're exhausted. You
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  Speaker 1: have got fifty people in your tent right now that
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  Speaker 1: are sufficient that could take care of themselves. That you
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  Speaker 1: think you're helping, but you're really hurting because the more
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  Speaker 1: you take care of them, the more crippled they become,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll never stand up and be who they were
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  Speaker 1: created to be. As long as you solve every problem
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  Speaker 1: and fix every door, y'all ain't shouting as good as
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching, but I'm gonna preach anyway. Who am I
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  Speaker 1: helping in this place today? He gave her one bottle
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  Speaker 1: of water and a couple of biscuits and said, see you.
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  Speaker 1: Not because he wasn't compassionate, but because he knows that
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  Speaker 1: you cannot raise God's child. God has to raise his
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  Speaker 1: own children. God has to make a way for his
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  Speaker 1: own children. God has to show himself strong in his
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  Speaker 1: own children. Suppose he'd have given her too much bread
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  Speaker 1: and too much water, God would have never spoke to her.
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  Speaker 1: But where Abraham let up, That's where God stepped in.
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  Speaker 1: And you are standing in the way of your people,
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  Speaker 1: heaving and encounter with God. You're such a big mama.
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  Speaker 1: You're so busy taking care of everything. Non't wonder your child.
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  Speaker 1: Don't pray. She don't have to pray. All she gotta
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  Speaker 1: do is text you how you fix everything? God said
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  Speaker 1: get up the way, step aside, move over over the corner.
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  Speaker 1: God wants to show himself strong. But they gotta be
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  Speaker 1: in the desert to find God. They can't find God
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  Speaker 1: if all they can find is you. If you know,
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  Speaker 1: God's talking to you, giving thirty seconds of crazy break.
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  Speaker 1: So this is what caught my attention about the text.
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  Speaker 1: God said to Abram, let it be grievous to you.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the word grievous. And when I focused
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  Speaker 1: on the word grievous, when I think of grief, I
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  Speaker 1: think somebody has to die. But there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us grieving with our caskets. We're grieving over the
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  Speaker 1: death of what we had in mind. We are grieving
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  Speaker 1: because our life did not turn out the way we
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  Speaker 1: expected it to turn out. We're grieving because who we
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  Speaker 1: expected to share it with is no longer by our side.
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  Speaker 1: We're grieving because how we imagine things has been terminated
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  Speaker 1: and we have been stuck in a state of grief.
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  Speaker 1: And as long as you are grieving, you can't be creative.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you are grieving, you cannot be creative.
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  Speaker 1: Let me hurry up and finish. As long as you
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  Speaker 1: are grieving, you cannot hear God. As long as you
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  Speaker 1: are grieving, You cannot discover yourself. As long as you
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  Speaker 1: are grieving, you don't have the courage to stand in
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  Speaker 1: the power of its might. And the Lord told me
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  Speaker 1: to break the spirit of grief off of this room. Today.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who you are, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you got the courage to have the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: grief broken off of you. But I curse the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of grief. Everybody who leaves it broken. Jump up on
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  Speaker 1: your feet. I curse the spirit of grief. I curse
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of depression. I curse the spirit of heaviness.
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  Speaker 1: I curse the spirit of holiness. I curse the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of despair. I curse the spirit of anguish. I curse
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of trouble that's standing in your way and
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  Speaker 1: shutting you down. I curse it right now. I release
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of creativity. I release the creativity of opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I release the spear of passion that's about the burst
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  Speaker 1: forth in your belly. I release our enthusiasm. I release
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  Speaker 1: fresh ideas, fresh concepts, fresh relationships, fresh stores open. I
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  Speaker 1: release prosperity. I relieve peace, I release power. I relieve fortitude.
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  Speaker 1: I release staying power if you receive it. How at
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  Speaker 1: a boy. Now you gotta understand this. The tent is
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  Speaker 1: crowded because Abram's mistake and Abram's miracle are living in
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  Speaker 1: the same place. And the truth of the matter with
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  Speaker 1: you is your mistakes and your miracles are roommates. How said,
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  Speaker 1: I have peace whatever time I expect the miracles to
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  Speaker 1: turn the corner. Here come the mistake, looking at me
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  Speaker 1: in the face. And this as I close, this's my
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  Speaker 1: favorite part of the taste. That God is so much
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  Speaker 1: love that he says I will not suffer that which
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  Speaker 1: is born of the flesh and galations. It says that
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  Speaker 1: which is born of the flesh to inherit with the
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  Speaker 1: seed of the promise. But I will even take your
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  Speaker 1: mistake and make a great nation. They didn't hear me.
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  Speaker 1: Let me try, y'all. I will take your worst mistake,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll make all things work together for the good
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  Speaker 1: of them that love the Lord, and I will bless you.
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  Speaker 1: And the only thing I'm asking of you is don't
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  Speaker 1: be afraid to make changes. Don't think that if you
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  Speaker 1: make changes, Ismael and hey are going to die. I
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  Speaker 1: got a well. They haven't even seen yet. But I
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  Speaker 1: can't show him the well if you can't make the changes.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is people never give people room to change,
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  Speaker 1: to grow, to evolve. And even though we are Christians,
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  Speaker 1: we are the world's best at alienating people over what
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  Speaker 1: they did before. And it takes courage to correct or
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  Speaker 1: to change course. Because if he changes course, what will
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  Speaker 1: become of Hagar? Where will Hagar go? Where has the
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  Speaker 1: ring of Isaac's flesh? God? Hagar is cast into the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: And when God comes down, God does not talk like Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: See sometimes, sisters, you can be right about what you said,
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  Speaker 1: but wrong about how you said it. You said, cast
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  Speaker 1: out the woman, the bomb woman and her son. God
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  Speaker 1: comes down and says, I know, Ismael is your seed.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding is important to bring about change. You can't just
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  Speaker 1: look at it from your perspective just because you don't
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  Speaker 1: have no skin in the game. Abraham has skin in
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  Speaker 1: the game. Ismaeil is his son too. See. Until we
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  Speaker 1: take responsibility for the mistakes we made, we cannot change courts.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you push it off and act like
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  Speaker 1: it was just them, and you tell the story where
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  Speaker 1: you are always the hero. This woman would have never
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  Speaker 1: been in Abraham's life. You brought the woman into his life,
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  Speaker 1: You came up with the strategy of them sleeping together.
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  Speaker 1: You told him to have a baby. You made this
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  Speaker 1: woman of your slave and made her sleep with a
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  Speaker 1: man that she never picked to sleep with. And now
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  Speaker 1: it's all blown up in your face, and you would
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  Speaker 1: like it's his fault. But what is amazing about the
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  Speaker 1: text is God comes down and says to Abraham, harken
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  Speaker 1: unto the voice of your wife's arrived, because a woman
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  Speaker 1: is right. Even though she said it wrong, she is right.
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  Speaker 1: And what is happening here is correction. Now I'm almost finished.
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  Speaker 1: In order to have correction, you have to have the
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  Speaker 1: challenging responsibility of trusting God to handle our mistakes. God
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  Speaker 1: says to Abraham. Leave Hagard to me, Ismael is your son.
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  Speaker 1: I will make of him a great nation. But you
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  Speaker 1: can't take your mistake and your miracle and put them
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  Speaker 1: all in the same house and make it work. There
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  Speaker 1: has to come a cutting away, a cutting away. You
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  Speaker 1: can't change course if you can't cut you can't change
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  Speaker 1: course if you can't cast out. And the challenge is
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  Speaker 1: to trust me with the collateral damage. Who am I
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  Speaker 1: preaching to trust me that I don't need you to
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  Speaker 1: take care of Ismael, God says, my grace is sufficient
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  Speaker 1: for your mistakes. My grace, My grace, My grace, My
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  Speaker 1: grace is sufficient. You don't have to live in this chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Your spirit has been in a state of constant disruption
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  Speaker 1: because you won't change course. And I don't want you
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  Speaker 1: to live in this constant, chaotic, stressful environment of forlornment,
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  Speaker 1: because your mistakes in your miracles are cohabitating in the
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  Speaker 1: same space. All I need from you is the courage
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  Speaker 1: to change course. If you don't change course, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: mess up your destiny. If you don't change course, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna mess up your future. If you don't change course,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna be in the place you need to
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  Speaker 1: be to become who I created you to be. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't change course, you're gonna spend the latter years
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  Speaker 1: miserable because you won't own up to your mistakes and
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that you were wrong, and you won't fix it.
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  Speaker 1: And all the dancing and all the shouting and all
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  Speaker 1: the giving you do over top of it will not
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  Speaker 1: take away from the fact that you still need the
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  Speaker 1: courage to change course. Who is here needs the courage
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  Speaker 1: to change course? You know what they say. The definition
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  Speaker 1: of lunacy is to continue to do the same thing
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  Speaker 1: expecting a different result. You can't be the woman you
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  Speaker 1: want to be and the woman you used to be
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. You cannot be the man you
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  Speaker 1: were created to be and the man you used to
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  Speaker 1: be at the same time. And you know that now.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is, you just can't bring yourself to
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  Speaker 1: change course because of all the people that it would
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  Speaker 1: hurt for you to change. And how long will you
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  Speaker 1: make those people more important than your destiny? God said,
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  Speaker 1: turn them over to me. Oh God, I'm talking to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody. I don't know who it is.
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  Speaker 1: I see the Lord sent me here to lose somebody
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  Speaker 1: this morning, to liberate somebody this morning. You've been in bondage.
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  Speaker 1: You can't even be your best self. You can't do
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  Speaker 1: your best work, you can't be who you were created
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  Speaker 1: to me because you're stuck in a situation that you
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  Speaker 1: help to create. And you're guilty, and you feel guilty,
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  Speaker 1: and you overcompensate because you're guilty, and you're in this
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  Speaker 1: situation because you're guilty and you're stuck because you're either
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  Speaker 1: way you move, somebody's gonna get hurt. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't move, it's gonna be you listen, hands up and say, God,
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  Speaker 1: give me the courage to change course. That means I
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  Speaker 1: might not get to say everything I want to say.
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  Speaker 1: That means I got to hold my peace sometimes. That
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  Speaker 1: means sometimes I got to bite my lip. That means
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I've got to learn another discipline. That means sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I gotta bleed. But if I have to bleed to
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  Speaker 1: be better, I'm willing to bleed. I'm willing to bleed
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  Speaker 1: a little while to be better for a long time. See,
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  Speaker 1: I realized that if I didn't have the surgery, the
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  Speaker 1: pain would never go away. And if I had the surgery,
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  Speaker 1: I would have pain for a little while, but eventually
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  Speaker 1: the pain of recovery will go away. See circum season
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  Speaker 1: hurts real bad, but it doesn't hurt real long. Putting
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  Speaker 1: out the Bond Woman hurt real bad, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: hurt real long. And you got to decide, are you
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  Speaker 1: willing to have a little momentary discomfort to be where
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  Speaker 1: you are called to be, or are you so concerned
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  Speaker 1: about the disruption that your change creates, that you're willing
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  Speaker 1: to be a prisoner in your own life the rest
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  Speaker 1: of your life. That's what this text says to be.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I get out of this text. That's why
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  Speaker 1: this text is important to me, because every time I
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  Speaker 1: ever made a change, somebody got hurt. When God called
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  Speaker 1: me to come to Dallas, somebody got hurt. In West Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: there are people who don't like me. Now I've been
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  Speaker 1: here five years, and they still mad. There are other
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  Speaker 1: people that accept it and they're glad about it. They
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  Speaker 1: see if they get in. But there are some people
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  Speaker 1: that just simply refuse to get over. And I had
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  Speaker 1: to decide, am I gonna spend the rest of my
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  Speaker 1: life honoring your expectations of me? Or do I get
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  Speaker 1: to live my life the way God called me to
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  Speaker 1: live my life. You leave when you want to leave,
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  Speaker 1: you come when you want to come, You miss church
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  Speaker 1: when you feel like missing. But if I'm not here,
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  Speaker 1: you say I came to church and you wasn't there,
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  Speaker 1: don't I get to be a person too. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: break your chain to day, the chain that ties you
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  Speaker 1: to living up to other people's expectations all of your life.
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  Speaker 1: The chain that convince you from reaching your destiny and
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  Speaker 1: your purpose, so you can go ahead and fulfill what
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  Speaker 1: God created you to fulfill.