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The Crises of Next - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Get your Bibles, go to 1 Samuel 22, verse 1
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  Speaker 1: and 2. 1 Samuel 22, just two verses for our consideration.
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  Speaker 1: Come to us from the throne of heaven. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what he does. He can do whatever
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  Speaker 1: he wanna do. The scripture that we are about to
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  Speaker 1: consider this morning comes to us midstream, a moment in
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  Speaker 1: the life of David. that is a difficult time as
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  Speaker 1: it were for him to manage it does not coincide
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  Speaker 1: or even collaborate with what he has been anointed to
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  Speaker 1: become and yet he is there it is seldom discussed
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  Speaker 1: not like David and Goliath Not like Samuel anointing David
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  Speaker 1: to be king. Not like David killing the lion and
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  Speaker 1: the bear. Not like David being anointed the third time
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  Speaker 1: or second. In fact, he doesn't feel anointed at all.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible to be anointed and not feel anointed.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible to have something in front of you amazing,
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  Speaker 1: but not know how to get to it. Amen. It
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  Speaker 1: is that kind of moment that is before us in
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  Speaker 1: the text. And I'm going to read two verses to
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  Speaker 1: initiate the discussion that we're going to have today. But
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  Speaker 1: it is a discussion that the Lord and I have
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  Speaker 1: been talking about for you. David left Gath. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: just leave. He escaped Gath. he escaped to the cave
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  Speaker 1: of Adullam. When his brothers and his father's household heard
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  Speaker 1: about it, they went down to him there. All those
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  Speaker 1: who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered
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  Speaker 1: around him and he became their commander. About 400 men
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  Speaker 1: were with him. I want to talk just briefly from
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  Speaker 1: the subject, the crisis of next. The of next somebody
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  Speaker 1: say that with me the crisis of next spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the living God I thank you for what you're about
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  Speaker 1: to do in this place fall fresh on us like
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  Speaker 1: dew in the morning we wake up and we didn't
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  Speaker 1: see it fall but there it sits on every leaf
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  Speaker 1: and branch we cannot see you fall but Moisten us
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  Speaker 1: with your glory. Saturate us with your presence. Endow us
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  Speaker 1: with your glory. Until we look up and everything concerning
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  Speaker 1: us has the dew drops of a morning experience. For
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  Speaker 1: some people it was too early to come, but not
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  Speaker 1: for you. Hehehehe. Because the dew falls early in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: David said early in the morning will I see thy face.
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  Speaker 1: And so we come early. And we come hungry. And
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  Speaker 1: we come ready. And we come grateful. Bless us as
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  Speaker 1: we go into your word today. Saturate us with your presence.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus name. Amen. you may be seated in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of God. You know, this text brings so much
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  Speaker 1: up in my spirit that I scarcely know where to begin.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I should start with the controversy it evokes in
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  Speaker 1: the subject regarding next. Because sometimes now obscures next. And
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  Speaker 1: we don't know what tomorrow will bring. We can sense
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  Speaker 1: in our spirit that where we are is not all
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  Speaker 1: that God has for us. we can sense in our
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  Speaker 1: spirit that there is something looming in our future that
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  Speaker 1: is brighter than this present danger. But how do we
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  Speaker 1: get it? When the evidence all around us now often
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  Speaker 1: suggests that this is a moment of chaos and crisis
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  Speaker 1: and agony, And yet there is something in our spirit
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  Speaker 1: that has us dancing this morning. To those casual observers
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  Speaker 1: that may have wandered into the service, do not think
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  Speaker 1: that we are dancing without trouble. Don't think that we
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  Speaker 1: are dancing without pain. or challenges or adversities or family
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  Speaker 1: crisis or financial crisis or emotional crisis, we are dancing
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  Speaker 1: in spite. In fact, the truth of the matter is
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  Speaker 1: when trouble gets worse, we become better. better at praising God,
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  Speaker 1: better at seeking God, better at honoring God. He becomes
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  Speaker 1: the place we go to. He becomes the nourishment that
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  Speaker 1: we receive. He becomes the bread on our table. He
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  Speaker 1: becomes the water that quenches our thirst. We come down
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  Speaker 1: to the well for one water and leave field with
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  Speaker 1: another because we are in trouble. We are more focused.
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  Speaker 1: Most of what I have learned about God that's worth repeating,
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  Speaker 1: I have not learned on the mountaintops. But I have
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  Speaker 1: learned them in the valleys of despair. In the valleys
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  Speaker 1: of agony. And yet there is something that keeps us alive.
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  Speaker 1: I love what David said. He said, the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: my light and my salvation forever. Of whom shall I fear?
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  Speaker 1: He is the strength of my life. Whom shall I
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  Speaker 1: be afraid of? When the wicked, he acknowledges them. When
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  Speaker 1: the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon
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  Speaker 1: me to eat up my flesh. They stumbled and fell. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: admits that he's a besieged though hosts should encamp against
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  Speaker 1: me my heart shall not fear though war should rise
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  Speaker 1: against me in this will I be confident one thing
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  Speaker 1: Have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after,
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  Speaker 1: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: all the days of my life to behold the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. Now
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  Speaker 1: I've been talking to FIPA this week and I've been
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  Speaker 1: preparing for our pastors and leadership conference and I've been
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  Speaker 1: thinking about leadership and what does it really mean to
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  Speaker 1: be a leader. And I am determined that real leaders
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  Speaker 1: have to be, as I preached a few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: steady in the storms. Steady in unsteadiness, stable in instability,
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  Speaker 1: consistent in crisis. I prophesied as I was commanded. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know whether it was going to work or not,
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  Speaker 1: but I prophesied as I was commanded. Can these bones
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  Speaker 1: live again? I don't know, but I did what you
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  Speaker 1: told me to do. Success for me is not to
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  Speaker 1: raise the bones. Success for me is to obey the
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  Speaker 1: God that said preach to the bones. It's my job
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  Speaker 1: to preach to them. It's your job to raise them.
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  Speaker 1: These are trying times and these are difficult times. And
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  Speaker 1: I will admit that I am even theologically perplexed because
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  Speaker 1: on one hand, I hear Jesus say, take no thought
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  Speaker 1: of what you should wear and what you should eat
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  Speaker 1: and where you should live. It almost suggests that I
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  Speaker 1: should be complacent, detached. Relax, just don't worry about anything.
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  Speaker 1: And then he goes on, the apostle Paul says to us,
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  Speaker 1: be anxious for nothing. But in everything with prayer and supplication,
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  Speaker 1: make your requests made known unto God. Yeah, that thing
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  Speaker 1: right there, the peace of God, which passes all understanding,
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  Speaker 1: shall guard your heart, your mind, your emotions. I need security,
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  Speaker 1: not around my body, but around my emotions to keep
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  Speaker 1: away the anxiety and the depression and the fear. And
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  Speaker 1: he's telling me to be anxious for nothing. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, the wise man Solomon in Ecclesiastes
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  Speaker 1: tells me to look on the ant, you sluggard. And
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  Speaker 1: prepare for winter while it's summer. Not to waste my
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  Speaker 1: days in vanity, but to have a strategy that incorporates
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  Speaker 1: sustenance for survival. these things seem contradictory one to the other.
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  Speaker 1: And then I look at Joseph, whose strategy was so
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  Speaker 1: complete that he used the seven years of plenty against
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  Speaker 1: the seven years of famine. And he controlled what was
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  Speaker 1: next by the way he thought. And when I look
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  Speaker 1: at the two things together, I get confused because I'm
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  Speaker 1: a strategist by nature. And when Jesus says, take no thought,
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  Speaker 1: it goes against everything in me not to take thought.
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  Speaker 1: My sister texted us last night and said, be sure
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  Speaker 1: you leave your water running. It's going to freeze. I
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  Speaker 1: immediately turned the shower on just real low, just a
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  Speaker 1: drip because we old school. That's why you have to
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  Speaker 1: be over 50 to get texts like that. When you're 20,
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  Speaker 1: you don't get texts like that. But when you're over 50,
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  Speaker 1: you get texts to leave your water running. And while
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  Speaker 1: I believe God for my pipes, and I believe God
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  Speaker 1: to take care of my house, I still kept my
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  Speaker 1: water running. We just came out of a season where
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  Speaker 1: there was a national debate about wearing masks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and they said if you had faith, you wouldn't wear them.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe God. But, you know, I noticed that
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  Speaker 1: the people who said faith would make them not wear
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  Speaker 1: them wore seatbelts. So, I thought if you really had faith,
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  Speaker 1: unbuckle your seatbelt. So what does it mean to lead
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  Speaker 1: in turbulent times and how does faith express itself in
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  Speaker 1: times that are perplexing? It creates stress, not only because
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  Speaker 1: of what we are enduring, but how does our faith
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  Speaker 1: show up in the crisis? What does that look like?
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  Speaker 1: And for different people, you will get different answers. Some
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  Speaker 1: people say they have so much faith they don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything. So they don't have life insurance or health
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  Speaker 1: insurance or anything like that. I'm serious. They don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything. They don't go to doctors. They don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything. They could drive on the wrong side of
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  Speaker 1: the road. They don't worry about any. How does faith
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  Speaker 1: show up? In a crisis. How does faith manifest itself
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  Speaker 1: when God himself tells us to be strategic and rewards
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  Speaker 1: Joseph for the strategy? And Joseph becomes the prince of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt because he's thinking ahead and yet Jesus says take
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  Speaker 1: no thought. But if I only take that phrase without
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  Speaker 1: reading the rest of the text, Jesus isn't telling us
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  Speaker 1: to be mindless. He is not telling us to be mindless.
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  Speaker 1: He's telling us not to worry. He's not saying we
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  Speaker 1: can't have a strategy. He's telling us not to worry.
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  Speaker 1: He's managing our emotions against anxiety when the apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: says be anxious for nothing. It didn't tell you not
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  Speaker 1: to want something. It just says not to be anxious
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  Speaker 1: about it. Don't allow your emotions to make you frantic
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  Speaker 1: just because you have a plan. Are you hearing what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? One of my favorite quotes out of then
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  Speaker 1: Senator Obama, later President Obama, wrote a book called The
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  Speaker 1: Audacity of Hope. And he says, and I quote, I
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  Speaker 1: now realize that the presence of doubt doesn't diminish the
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  Speaker 1: presence of faith. That it is possible to have doubt.
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  Speaker 1: I lost him, Jesus. Jesus. faith simultaneously and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why I lost you because I'm talking about you
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  Speaker 1: there is no question that you believe God but there
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  Speaker 1: are still moments that you stay up at night how
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  Speaker 1: does faith show up in our life in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of a crisis when the prophecy was positive but the
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  Speaker 1: circumstance is has now entered into a season of chaos.
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  Speaker 1: David is a leader. He is a leader, not because
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  Speaker 1: Samuel anointed him. He is a leader. People cannot make
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  Speaker 1: you what you are not. Let me give you further reference.
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  Speaker 1: God says to Moses, anoint men to be elders that
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  Speaker 1: you know to be elders. I cannot make you something
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  Speaker 1: by giving you a title or a desk or an
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  Speaker 1: office or a position. If you are not that, you
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  Speaker 1: are not that. Let me go deeper. A degree doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make you a teacher. You can have a degree in
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  Speaker 1: education and still not be a teacher. A teacher is
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  Speaker 1: something that's in you. Oh, I'm going to go deeper.
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  Speaker 1: A ring doesn't make you a wife. You can put
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  Speaker 1: a ring on a man's hand, it doesn't make him
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  Speaker 1: a husband. You can put a ring on a woman's hand,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't make her a wife. The Bible said, whosoever
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  Speaker 1: findeth a wife findeth a good thing. So she has
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  Speaker 1: to be a wife. wife when I find her. If
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  Speaker 1: I don't find her a wife, I can't make her.
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  Speaker 1: David is a king. He is a king. He is
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  Speaker 1: a leader. But his situations in the text do not
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  Speaker 1: reflect the magnitude of his capacity to lead. What do
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  Speaker 1: you do when your life don't look like who you are?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do when you go through a season
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  Speaker 1: in your life that stands in the face of your
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  Speaker 1: prophecy and mocks it like Ishmael mocking Isaac? And you
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  Speaker 1: look out the window and you can see the promise
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  Speaker 1: and the problem playing in the same backyard. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever had your promise and your problem playing in the
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  Speaker 1: same backyard? There are times, my brothers and sisters, that
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  Speaker 1: you preach power and you drive home crying. There are times,
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  Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters, that you say to those with
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  Speaker 1: whom you have the responsibility of leading, if it's not
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of children, don't worry, baby, everything's going to
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  Speaker 1: be okay. And you go to bed and you think, oh, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: can I get a witness in here? Amen. Are there
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  Speaker 1: any mamas in here or daddies in here that told
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  Speaker 1: the kids don't worry about it. That's not yours to
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  Speaker 1: worry about. It's going to be fine. And you went
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  Speaker 1: back and you got in the car and you drove
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  Speaker 1: around and around and around in circles saying. Such is
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  Speaker 1: the moment before us now. For David has come to
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  Speaker 1: the cave of Adullam, he has escaped Gath. Gath is
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  Speaker 1: a city amongst the Philistines at the time. The Philistines
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  Speaker 1: is where David went to hide because the people that
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  Speaker 1: he was leading and the army that he was once
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  Speaker 1: assigned captain of is now hunting him. Y'all didn't get that.
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  Speaker 1: His own folks are hunting him to the degree that
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  Speaker 1: he is safer with the enemy than he is with
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  Speaker 1: the family. And I know you can't say anything because
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  Speaker 1: your family might be watching on TV, but the holidays
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  Speaker 1: are coming and you got mixed emotions about them coming
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  Speaker 1: because all of us don't have the kind of families
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  Speaker 1: we see on TV. And you know, they're all coming over,
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  Speaker 1: inspecting everything. Tasting everything, complaining about anything, asking you where,
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  Speaker 1: how come you ain't had children? How come you're not
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  Speaker 1: married yet? What did you put in this dressing? Where
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  Speaker 1: did you get this from? What is this supposed to be?
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  Speaker 1: This turkey is dry and you got a deal to
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  Speaker 1: the point that you are safer with the enemy than
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  Speaker 1: you are with your own people. Oh, come on. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: got some folks in their family that you are related to,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not kin to. And their rejection of him
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  Speaker 1: after his loyalty to them and his service to them
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  Speaker 1: and his kindness to them and his endurance and patience
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  Speaker 1: for them has driven him to run to Gath. Gath
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  Speaker 1: is the place where the giants dwell. Gath is the
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  Speaker 1: place where the Philistines live. And he thought they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: recognize him. But he could only stay amongst them so long.
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  Speaker 1: Because you can only run so long. And eventually they
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  Speaker 1: discovered him. But David is so gifted and so creative
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  Speaker 1: that David feigns himself. To be insane. Or he would
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  Speaker 1: have been murdered. Sometime you got to go crazy to
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  Speaker 1: get out of it. Y'all don't understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to go crazy, not crazy, crazy to
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  Speaker 1: get out of it because people are trying to take
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  Speaker 1: you out and you just got to flip all the
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  Speaker 1: way around. I know it's only maybe, maybe, maybe about
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  Speaker 1: 10 people in here have ever had somebody push you
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  Speaker 1: till you went. I mean, pull your wig off crazy. Uh-huh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yank your earrings off crazy. I mean, kick
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  Speaker 1: your stilettos off crazy. I said, okay, you want crazy?
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  Speaker 1: It's not good to push us too far. Don't think
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  Speaker 1: because we're anointed we won't flip on you. Yeah, don't
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  Speaker 1: let the hallelujah fool you. I was talking to God.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't talking to you. And if you push me
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  Speaker 1: in a corner, don't make me have to show you
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  Speaker 1: why he had to anoint me in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Because I need this anointing. If I don't get this anointing,
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  Speaker 1: I told somebody I was messing with one of my children.
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  Speaker 1: I said, now, I know who you think she is.
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  Speaker 1: But she's not who you think she is. If you
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  Speaker 1: push her far enough, she's going to go to foaming
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  Speaker 1: on you. If she goes to foaming on you, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to find out all the muscles in the world
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to help you because she's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that ever had to go
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  Speaker 1: crazy because somebody was trying to dominate, control, intimidate, isolate, destroy,
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  Speaker 1: curse you, humiliate you, degrade you, and you've been as
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  Speaker 1: nice as you knew how to be nice, and finally
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  Speaker 1: it gets to a point where you say,' That ain't working.'
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to turn into something that I
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  Speaker 1: don't even like to be to make you understand. You
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  Speaker 1: talking to me? And the king of the Philistines came
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  Speaker 1: down and said, why have you summoned me? when you
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  Speaker 1: can clearly see this man is crazy. I'm just talking
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  Speaker 1: about what the text says. And I know that's not
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  Speaker 1: politically correct, but that's what the text says. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about what the text says. And so David escaped.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever escaped? Didn't have time to pack. Got
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  Speaker 1: to escape. Didn't have time to do your hair, to
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  Speaker 1: get your nails done, get a pedicure, none of that
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  Speaker 1: kind of cute stuff like that. No shave, no trim,
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  Speaker 1: no line, because I got to escape. The word escape, see,
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  Speaker 1: the first word was left, and then it says escape.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing to leave. It's another thing to escape.
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  Speaker 1: Some of us are here today because we escaped. If
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  Speaker 1: we'd have kept on the path we were on, we
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  Speaker 1: would have been destroyed, but we escaped. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: we were dancing, he's my everything, because we were thinking back,
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  Speaker 1: remembering how we escaped. when I start thinking about all
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  Speaker 1: the things I escaped and all the near calamities and disasters.
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  Speaker 1: When you got to escape, you got to escape. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you got to scale down, even if you have
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  Speaker 1: to downsize, even if you have to give up the
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  Speaker 1: palace and live in a cave, when enough is enough,
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  Speaker 1: I'll live in a trailer. You're not going to intimidate
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  Speaker 1: me with what you got because I can break it
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  Speaker 1: down up in here. And he escaped to the cave
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  Speaker 1: of Adullam. Now, scholars tell us that the cave of
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  Speaker 1: Adullam isn't far from the valley he killed Goliath in.
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  Speaker 1: It is not far away. So we find David in
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  Speaker 1: a place where he thinks, by now I thought I
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  Speaker 1: would be further. I really, for all the things I
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  Speaker 1: had to fight, I'm not that far from where I
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  Speaker 1: started from. It isn't far from where he was anointed
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  Speaker 1: to be king. And the people he's anointed to be
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  Speaker 1: king over are trying to kill him. Because sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: people you want to help the most seek to destroy you.
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  Speaker 1: And take his life. He's not far from where he
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  Speaker 1: was anointed to be king, but his circumstances seem millions
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  Speaker 1: of miles away from his success. And frankly, he is
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  Speaker 1: a king in a crisis. And I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: this is for, but the Lord told me to tell
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  Speaker 1: you you're king. Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. You
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  Speaker 1: may be in a cave, but you are a king.
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  Speaker 1: So then, I then begin to question in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: how can David be a king, Lord, without a kingdom?
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  Speaker 1: A leader without a following. A wife without a husband.
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  Speaker 1: A husband without a wife. And suddenly I begin to
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  Speaker 1: understand by God's standard that God doesn't define success by
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  Speaker 1: public approval. My circumstances may be in direct contradiction with
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  Speaker 1: who I am, but it cannot rob me of who
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  Speaker 1: I am. I am a doctor if I don't have
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  Speaker 1: an office. I am an architect if I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a client. I am a good person even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't like me. I do have worth even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't recognize it. Your reaction does not determine my identity.
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  Speaker 1: He is a king in a cave. I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: some people today. I'm talking to some people today. You see...
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  Speaker 1: How do we end up in a dulem? A dulem,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, means refuge. And you find yourself in
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  Speaker 1: a place living like a refugee, running from a kingdom
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't want you, and an enemy that's trying to
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  Speaker 1: kill you. He is in a cave alone. A ruler
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  Speaker 1: without a domain. I am. It may not look like it,
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  Speaker 1: but I am. You may not follow me, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: a leader. You may not acknowledge me, but I'm a leader.
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  Speaker 1: You can call me by my name, Jakes. Hey, Jakes,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Say whatever you want to say, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm a leader. If it's in you, it's in you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking to what's around you. I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: what is in you. I don't care what you hide in.
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  Speaker 1: If you are, you are what you are. In the
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  Speaker 1: middle of it all, David is anointed. The question comes,
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  Speaker 1: can I go deeper? Is anointing enough? He's anointed, but
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  Speaker 1: he has no experience. All education doesn't come in institutions.
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  Speaker 1: Some education comes through experience. And you can be anointed
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  Speaker 1: to be something, but haven't earned the experience to be
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  Speaker 1: established on the level that you're in. And the distance
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  Speaker 1: between his anointing and him actually acquiring that which he
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  Speaker 1: is anointed to run requires that he has a body
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  Speaker 1: of experiences established. that temper him in such a way
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  Speaker 1: that he learns, like Paul, how to abase and abound,
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  Speaker 1: how to have lack and how to have plenty. He
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  Speaker 1: has learned that the state he's in does not define
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  Speaker 1: who he is. So we meet him in the cave,
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  Speaker 1: his head freshly doused with oil. but his mind is
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  Speaker 1: void of experience. Experience is no small thing. When your
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  Speaker 1: anointing is powerful, your apprenticeship will be painful. Y'all didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying. When your anointing is powerful, your
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  Speaker 1: apprenticeship will be painful. Because God won't give that kind
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  Speaker 1: of power and not balance it with that kind of pain.
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  Speaker 1: The greater the pain, the greater the power. If you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have the power, you got to be prepared
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the pain. The pain is a part
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  Speaker 1: of the power. And in fact, you will understand who
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  Speaker 1: you are by who hates you. David is hated by
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  Speaker 1: a king because he is a king. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: have pain that's commensurate not to your situation but to
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  Speaker 1: your identity. When you are a king, your name will
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  Speaker 1: be brought up amongst kings. And don't be surprised if
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  Speaker 1: your enemies don't graduate with your anointing to another level
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  Speaker 1: and your frustration increases. is commensurate to your anointing. Let
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  Speaker 1: me break it down plain. New levels bring new devils.
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  Speaker 1: When you get to another level, you've got another level
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  Speaker 1: of devil to fight. David killed Philistines and now he's
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  Speaker 1: had to flee them. He killed their giant and now
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  Speaker 1: he has to flee been. He is in a dulem.
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  Speaker 1: I almost named this church a dulem ministries. And before
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  Speaker 1: I finish, you're going to see why he is in
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  Speaker 1: a dulem. No one seeks refuge without some element of fear.
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  Speaker 1: Yet David has undeniable faith. There is no one in
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  Speaker 1: here that can honestly say that David has no faith
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  Speaker 1: because David has thrown rocks at giants. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some people in this room that didn't have
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  Speaker 1: much to work with. but you worked with what you
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  Speaker 1: had and you threw rocks at giants and you ran
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  Speaker 1: after stuff that other people were running from and you
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  Speaker 1: had the nerve to be indignant. Didn't have an AK-47,
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a cannon, didn't have a gun, didn't own
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  Speaker 1: a chariot. All you had was a bag full of rocks.
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  Speaker 1: But you had the nerve to be bold with your
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  Speaker 1: bag of rocks. And you threw your rocks at the
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  Speaker 1: problem till the thing fell down. If I'm talking about you,
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  Speaker 1: holler at your boy. So there is no question that
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  Speaker 1: you have faith. But you wouldn't run for refuge if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have fear. So there has to be some
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  Speaker 1: element of truth to the fact that the presence of
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  Speaker 1: fear or doubt does not mean that you don't have faith.
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  Speaker 1: Let me prove it by the Bible. Lord, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: but help my unbelief. I'm in a dulem because I believe,
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  Speaker 1: but I have elements of unbelief. I stretched out on
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  Speaker 1: your word and I walked on water, but when I
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  Speaker 1: saw the winds and waves, I said, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking on water and I begin to sink. So
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  Speaker 1: I have both things living in me at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know whether to fight the Philistines or
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  Speaker 1: fight the other voices that are coming up in my
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  Speaker 1: head because I got a fight on the inside and
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  Speaker 1: a fight on the outside at the same time and
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  Speaker 1: every now and then I need a break let me
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  Speaker 1: get away let me regroup let me run into a
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  Speaker 1: cave let me get my head together cause I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do next I don't know what to
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  Speaker 1: do I don't know what to do. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to do. The crisis is not the current because
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  Speaker 1: I have survived this present danger. I'm not so worried
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  Speaker 1: about this present danger. I got out of it. It
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  Speaker 1: was close, jockey, but I made it. They tried to
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  Speaker 1: kill me, but I made it. It broke my heart,
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  Speaker 1: but I made it. I hid amongst my enemies, but
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  Speaker 1: I made it. I had to go crazy, but I
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  Speaker 1: made it. I've been through hell, but I made it.
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  Speaker 1: But now that I have survived, My problem is not
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  Speaker 1: what I survived. Because I made it to safe. A
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  Speaker 1: dulem is safe. You can't have refuge in a place
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  Speaker 1: that's not safe. How many folks know you're safe? You
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  Speaker 1: may not be satisfied, but you're safe. You may not
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  Speaker 1: have attained what you hope to attain, but you're safe.
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  Speaker 1: You count not yourself to have apprehended, but you're safe.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to rub that in the devil's face
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't want you to be safe. If you
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  Speaker 1: made it to safe, I want you to take the
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  Speaker 1: roof off of this building right now. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You got a right to praise him. You could have
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  Speaker 1: been dead. You could have lost your mind. You could
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  Speaker 1: have been destroyed. You got a right to praise him.
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  Speaker 1: I said you got a right to praise him. I
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  Speaker 1: said you got a right to praise him. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care whether they understand it or don't. You got a
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  Speaker 1: right to praise him. I don't care whether they like
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  Speaker 1: you or don't. You got a right to praise him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if they roll their eyes at you
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  Speaker 1: or don't. You got a right to praise him. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: that was on the hit list to hell and you're
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  Speaker 1: still here, you need to take a minute and give
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  Speaker 1: your God some... I may not have the car I want.
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  Speaker 1: I'm safe I may not wear name brand clothes but
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  Speaker 1: I'm safe I may not have the house of my
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  Speaker 1: dreams or the family I wanted but I made it
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  Speaker 1: to safe I can't hear you make some noise in
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  Speaker 1: this place Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Touch three people and tell them, I made it past danger. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I made it. I made it. I made it. I
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  Speaker 1: made it. I made it. I made it past danger.
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  Speaker 1: I made it past danger. Ain't nobody beating me. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: nobody knocking me upside the head. Ain't nobody going to
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  Speaker 1: put me out of my apartment. I made it past danger.
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  Speaker 1: I made it past my scary place. I made it
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  Speaker 1: moving into another city. I made it. I made it.
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  Speaker 1: I figured it out. I got there. I come this
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  Speaker 1: far by faith, leaning on the Lord. I made it
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  Speaker 1: out of my scary place. I'm still here. You praising
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  Speaker 1: him about your car. I'm praising him about my safe.
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  Speaker 1: You praising him about your palace. I'm praising him because
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  Speaker 1: I'm safe. I'm not crazy. I didn't lose my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't blow my brains out. I should have been
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  Speaker 1: locked up in jail, but I made it to save.
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  Speaker 1: To God be the glory of It is not this
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  Speaker 1: present danger that has me on my knees. It is
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  Speaker 1: not my now. It's my next. It is the uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: the instability, the fragility, the vulnerability of not knowing God.
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  Speaker 1: What's next? Is there anybody in here that ever wonders
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  Speaker 1: what's next? The kingdom that God promised me is trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill me. The men that I trained under Saul
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  Speaker 1: have attacked me and I am running from a king
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  Speaker 1: to a cave. And I'm here. And I'm safe. But
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: what keeps me up at night is what's next. I
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  Speaker 1: can pay my bills. I'm okay. I'm safe. I got
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  Speaker 1: some food in the icebox. I'm safe. When the weather changes,
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  Speaker 1: I can turn the heat on. I'm safe. But what
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  Speaker 1: worries me is the crisis of next. A dulem is
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  Speaker 1: a good place for a hangover, a layover, but I
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: can't live in a layover. And the Lord told me,
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  Speaker 1: to tell you why he put you in a dulem.
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  Speaker 1: I only read two verses because that's all I need.
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  Speaker 1: A dulem is when you find out who you are
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  Speaker 1: without them. Oh, y'all don't hear how good I'm preaching
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  Speaker 1: this morning. A dulem is a place that God puts
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  Speaker 1: you in of self-discovery where you learn to appreciate who
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  Speaker 1: you are apart from all the people you thought were
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  Speaker 1: going to go with you. A dulem is a place
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  Speaker 1: that God puts you in that makes you know I'm
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  Speaker 1: a king if I don't have a kingdom. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: grown woman. I'm a grown man. I bring something to
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  Speaker 1: the table. I'm the CEO of me. I'm the chief
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  Speaker 1: executive officer of myself. A dulem is where you learn
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  Speaker 1: to have confidence and boldness and self-esteem. A dulem is
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  Speaker 1: where you get your courage back. A dulem is where
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  Speaker 1: you come out of your coma and you come to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: and God has proven to you that if nobody is
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  Speaker 1: for you, I'm still for you. I'm on your side.
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  Speaker 1: I got your back. I'm fighting. so a dulem is
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  Speaker 1: where you get three things first you get you back
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  Speaker 1: a dulem is where you find out you are enough
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  Speaker 1: a dulem is where God puts you in a place
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  Speaker 1: that you never thought you could get to in all
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  Speaker 1: the world and a new normal emerges in your life
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  Speaker 1: And God didn't let you get the kingdom the way
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  Speaker 1: you thought you were going to get the kingdom because
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  Speaker 1: you weren't ready yet. If God would have given you
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom the way you thought you were going to
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  Speaker 1: get the kingdom, you would have praised the kingdom. But
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  Speaker 1: God puts you in a dulem so that when you
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  Speaker 1: do get the kingdom, you will praise the God of
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom. Because you will understand that if it had
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  Speaker 1: not been for the Lord that was on your side.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, I feel like preaching. I would have been
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  Speaker 1: swallowed up, but thanks be unto God. Thanks be unto God.
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  Speaker 1: But thanks be unto God who gives us a victory.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody shout, God gave me the victory. gave me the
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  Speaker 1: victory Jonathan didn't do it Saul didn't do it Riches
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it God gave me the victory if there's
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  Speaker 1: anybody in the house that God gave the victory I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to give you a chance to identify yourself So
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  Speaker 1: the scripture only says three important things. One, David fled
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  Speaker 1: and escaped to Adullam. Two, his brothers and sisters fled
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  Speaker 1: And family came to where he was. Don't read over that.
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  Speaker 1: Because they was the folks who never let him into
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  Speaker 1: their circle. But God has so turned it around. That
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  Speaker 1: while David couldn't get in, they had to turn around
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  Speaker 1: and come to where he was. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to, but whatever you're worried about, God said,
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  Speaker 1: in your family, I'm going. Turn it around. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to turn it around. You just stay right where I
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  Speaker 1: put you. I'm going to bring them to you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to legitimize you. I'm going to validate you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to restore unto you the years that the canker
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  Speaker 1: worm and the palmer worm and the locust ate up.
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  Speaker 1: And if you just be still... They're going to come
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  Speaker 1: to you when you have grown enough that he can
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  Speaker 1: trust you to bring them. When you aren't so bitter
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  Speaker 1: that he cannot bring better. So he put you in
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  Speaker 1: the cave so that when they come, you wouldn't act
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  Speaker 1: out on them over what they took you through. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Who am I preaching to? He said, I
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  Speaker 1: got to give you a layover. Because you're not ready
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  Speaker 1: to land yet. I got to give you a layover
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  Speaker 1: so you can get your head together. So that when
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  Speaker 1: I start pulling your life together, you will be healed
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  Speaker 1: enough to receive the people who rejected you. Right now
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  Speaker 1: you're in a state of rejection. And you have anger
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  Speaker 1: and hostility about how they treated you. But I had
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  Speaker 1: to take you through a worse enemy. to bring you
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  Speaker 1: to a place that you could deal with a lesser enemy.
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  Speaker 1: So I let the other folk try to kill you
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  Speaker 1: so that you could measure what they did against what
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  Speaker 1: your family did and you'd open up your cave. Slap
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say, open up your cave. They're coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Open up your cave. Open up your safe place. Open
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  Speaker 1: it up. They're coming back. Open it up. They're coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Open it up. They're coming back. Open it up. Open
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  Speaker 1: it up. Open it up. Open it up. Open it up.
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  Speaker 1: Open it up. So number one, he found, you found you.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, you're, you found your family. Number three is
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  Speaker 1: the one I love the best. There were men in
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  Speaker 1: Saul's army that weren't really with Saul. Sometimes the host
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  Speaker 1: that encamps around you is not really in agreement with
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  Speaker 1: With the attack against you. And God has to let
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  Speaker 1: you survive long enough. For them to recognize. That I've
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  Speaker 1: been on the wrong side of this story. And the
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  Speaker 1: Bible said. That David gathered. That no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't gather them. They came to him. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the text says. 400. Men came to him. And the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says they were in three categories. They were distressed.
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  Speaker 1: They were in debt. And they were discontented. And they
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  Speaker 1: came to him. What comes to you will always be
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of where you are. You will always attract
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  Speaker 1: what you are. Because David was in distress. And David
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  Speaker 1: was in debt. And David was discontented. He drew what
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  Speaker 1: he was. Y'all don't get that. Y'all don't get how
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  Speaker 1: good that is. 400 times God multiplied. 400 times of
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  Speaker 1: what David was. Distress, debt, and discontentment all recognized him.
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  Speaker 1: Because they could relate. him and they came you don't
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  Speaker 1: see this is what you got to see let me
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  Speaker 1: make sure you get it you don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: after what's next the Lord said what's next is coming
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  Speaker 1: to you You just stand right there in a dueling.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you've come to yourself, stop trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. Stop trying to work it out. Stop trying
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  Speaker 1: to make it happen. Just stand right there in the cave.
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  Speaker 1: God said, whatever's yours, I'm going to send it to you.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever I got for you, it's going to come right
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  Speaker 1: to you. You ain't going to have to fight for it.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't going to have to prove nothing for it.
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  Speaker 1: All you got to do is stand there. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to find you in your cave. So his self found him.
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  Speaker 1: His family found him. His people found him. 400 times
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  Speaker 1: where you are. 400 times more. of where you are
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible said when they found him they made
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  Speaker 1: him their leader watch this I'm almost done his majesty
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  Speaker 1: of the moment David was alone. And now in a cave,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: which really wasn't a cave, but that's another lesson. In
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  Speaker 1: a cave, he now has his whole family has come
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  Speaker 1: back together through the worst circumstances. God uses the worst
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  Speaker 1: stuff to bring about the best results ever. They have
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: come into realignment in a way they've never been in
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: alignment before. Wait a minute. And 400 times where he was,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: these men left Saul, heard where David was, and came
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: to him. At this point, Saul is the greater and
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: David is the lesser. God says, I'm going to draw
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: people whose decisions don't make sense. They're going to leave
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: greater opportunities for connectivity. It's not going to be about cash.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: It's going to be about connectivity. Because of all the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: things you've been through, they know you can relate to them.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: They are going to come to you and make them
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: your leader, not because of the oil on your head,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: but because of the experiences you endured. You have earned
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: the right to lead by the things you suffered. Who
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: am I talking to? See, I got an anointing on
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: me for leaders. I got an anointing on me for
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: people who don't even recognize that you're a leader because
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: all you can see is your cave and your situation
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: and your circumstance. But that's where you're getting your credentials.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you one more thing and I'm
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: going to be finished. Shanto. God said before I show
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  Speaker 1: you this he said I want you to emphasize this
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  Speaker 1: point because they don't get it yet make sure they
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  Speaker 1: get that I am drawing them now they're coming up
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  Speaker 1: the path They're coming over the rocks. They're coming over
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  Speaker 1: the hills. They're coming. They're coming. They're coming. They're coming.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming. They're coming. Some people are following you who
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  Speaker 1: never followed you before. Some people are listening at you
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  Speaker 1: who never listened at you before. Some people are hooking
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  Speaker 1: up with you who were on the other side attacking you.
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  Speaker 1: They're switching sides right now. God said, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be your vindicator. He's going to be your defense attorney.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to stand up for you. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to fight the battle. The battle is not yours. The
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  Speaker 1: battle belongs to God. Distressed. I said, Lord, that's everything
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: I built my ministry on. That's why I almost called
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: it a Doolam. Because I'm anointed to minister to people
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  Speaker 1: in distress. I'm anointed to minister to people whose hearts
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: are overwhelmed. I'm anointed to minister to people not only
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  Speaker 1: that are in distress, but are in debt. I will
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  Speaker 1: turn somebody in debt into a business owner, into an entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: into a leader in their community. I will take you
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  Speaker 1: from welfare to somewhere. I will preach to you until
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  Speaker 1: your lights come back on. I will preach to you
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  Speaker 1: until you leave the garage apartment and end up owning
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  Speaker 1: the whole building. I got an anointing. to cause you
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  Speaker 1: to prosper. That when I start ministering the gospel, money comes,
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  Speaker 1: influence comes, favor comes, glory comes. There are some people
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  Speaker 1: in this room that can testify that ever since you've
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  Speaker 1: been eating this word, things have been turning around in
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  Speaker 1: your favor. There's an anointing on me, but I had
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  Speaker 1: to suffer first. I had to do without work first.
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  Speaker 1: I had to dig ditches first. I had to get
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  Speaker 1: wicked first. But the Bible said, after you suffer a while,
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  Speaker 1: I'll establish you and make you perfect. And there's something
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  Speaker 1: down in me that I will draw people who are
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  Speaker 1: in distress, in debt. And the third one is the
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  Speaker 1: most important, discontentment. I draw people discontented because these are
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  Speaker 1: the people who suspect that there's something greater in them.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you every person in this church is either
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  Speaker 1: walking into your destiny or suspicious that you got a destiny.
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  Speaker 1: Your discontentment is a sign from the Spirit that where
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  Speaker 1: you are is not where you're going to be. And
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to put the work in to go to
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  Speaker 1: the next level. If I got that part right, if
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  Speaker 1: I understand my anointing, if I understand my gifting, if
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  Speaker 1: I understand my glory, holler at me right now. What
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  Speaker 1: I got ain't for everybody. I don't worry about my haters.
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  Speaker 1: I don't worry about the people who don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't understand my numbers. They don't understand it's not
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  Speaker 1: for you. Everything God got for me, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: bring it to me. He'll make you move. He'll make
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  Speaker 1: you change cities. He'll make you come to conferences you've
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  Speaker 1: never been to before. You'll change armies. You'll switch sides.
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  Speaker 1: And the same anointing that's on me is on you.
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  Speaker 1: You are a magnet. You are a drawing force. You
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  Speaker 1: got power to move stuff. You just stand still. It's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Slap seven people and tell them it's coming. Everything you've
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  Speaker 1: been praying for. Everything you've been waiting on. Everything you've
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: been worried about. Everything you've been doing without. Your money
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Your family is coming. Your people are coming.
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  Speaker 1: Your kingdom is coming. Your influence is coming. Your credibility
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Your strength is coming. Your power is coming.
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  Speaker 1: Your favor is coming. Your will is coming. Your fight
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. It's coming. It's coming.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. Slap somebody. Say next.
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  Speaker 1: You're next. It's coming. You're next. It's coming. You're next.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what the devil does. He can't stop
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  Speaker 1: it from coming. Inflation can't stop it. Recession can't stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Racism can't stop it. Genderism can't stop it. Pride can't
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  Speaker 1: stop it. Your past can't stop it. What God has
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  Speaker 1: for you is for you. God said your next is
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  Speaker 1: in the bag. Servant of the Lord said, the next
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  Speaker 1: time you go in that building, where Woman Evolved is
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  Speaker 1: going to be, take as many women as you can
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  Speaker 1: with you. And he said, anoint every seat in that building. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And pray in the Holy Ghost. And stand in the
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  Speaker 1: center of it. And shout. And God's going to draw
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  Speaker 1: them from the north, the south, the east, and the west.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't got to worry about them coming. God said
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  Speaker 1: he's going to do the drawing. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to. In this place, there are people that
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  Speaker 1: need a financial breakthrough to build what you're trying to build.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: But the finances are on their way. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to shout like it's already here. Shout like it's already done.
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  Speaker 1: Shout like he's already got it. Oh, you playing around. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you playing around. Oh, you can't believe it. You better
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  Speaker 1: open your mouth. You are drawn to this ministry. Because
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  Speaker 1: you are kin to this minister. And what God did
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: in my life is just a reflection. It's just a commercial.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to say it. It's just an offering
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  Speaker 1: of what he's about to do in your life. God
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  Speaker 1: is about to flip it all the way around. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a sermon. It's a prophecy. This is not
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  Speaker 1: a sermon. It's a prophetic utterance. This is not a sermon.
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  Speaker 1: It's a word sent from God. The crisis of next
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: is God is bringing your next into your now. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you don't have a money problem, you have
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  Speaker 1: a people problem. You can't find the right people that
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  Speaker 1: you need to be around you, to incubate what God
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  Speaker 1: has put inside of you. But God said he's got
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  Speaker 1: 400 people. He's going to wrap around your vision. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to wrap around what you're trying to build. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to wrap it around that school. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: wrap it around that business. He's going to wrap it
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  Speaker 1: around that nursery. He's going to wrap it around that
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  Speaker 1: vision and they're going to cross over from bigger and
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  Speaker 1: better jobs to come to be with you. Because as
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  Speaker 1: you discover who you are, your magnetism is going to
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  Speaker 1: pull them from where they are. slap somebody and say
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  Speaker 1: get ready they're coming you haven't met them but they're
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: coming you don't know them but they're coming you haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen them but they're coming they're wearing the wrong uniform
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  Speaker 1: but they're coming you're a little bit scared of them
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  Speaker 1: but they're coming God is about to raise them up
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  Speaker 1: now hush and hear me good hush hush hear me
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  Speaker 1: good Your discontentment that you hide from everybody is not demonic.
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  Speaker 1: It is prophetic. Your discontentment has been placed inside of
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  Speaker 1: you to keep you from settling to be less Than
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  Speaker 1: what you were created. To be. Your discontentment. Is what
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  Speaker 1: he uses. To give you the courage. To cause disruption.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you were contented. You would be passive. And
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  Speaker 1: you would stay where you are. But God scared you up.
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  Speaker 1: And I stirred you up. In the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't know how to talk to people about it.
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  Speaker 1: Because people say. You ought to stay where you are.
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  Speaker 1: You got it good. You got it together. You're already established.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't settle for that. Because your spirit knows.
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  Speaker 1: That your next is not in your now. And you're
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  Speaker 1: getting right down. You're getting ready to make a shift.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody better get this mic for me. Because I swear
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  Speaker 1: it's burning. In my hands. There is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a release. Every discontented person raise your hand. Every person
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  Speaker 1: who's suspicious that there's something else in you, raise your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Every person in you that is taunted by the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you have not lived your fullest dream. You have
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  Speaker 1: not climbed your highest mountain. You have not done everything
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  Speaker 1: that's down inside of you, raise your hand. And stop
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  Speaker 1: being troubled by the discontentment because God is going to
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  Speaker 1: use it to draw you out. He's going to use
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  Speaker 1: it to pull you into exceptionalism. If you weren't discontented,
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  Speaker 1: you would be lazy. Your discontentment is sent into your
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  Speaker 1: life to drive you into your destiny. So stop wrestling
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  Speaker 1: with it and use it to climb this hill. Your
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  Speaker 1: David is waiting on you. Your destiny is waiting on you.
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  Speaker 1: And the crisis of next is broken by the message
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  Speaker 1: of now. This word that I have delivered to you
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  Speaker 1: now is God's answer to the prayer you've been praying
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  Speaker 1: about what's next. God said, you aren't going to have
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  Speaker 1: to make it happen. You're going to get to watch
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  Speaker 1: it happen. It's coming in your direction and it's coming soon.
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  Speaker 1: 400 times above everything you went through. And when I
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  Speaker 1: was studying the text, Dr. James, there was a point
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  Speaker 1: that I discovered that These men that came to him,
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  Speaker 1: and when they came to him, they were in distress,
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  Speaker 1: they were in debt, and they were in discontentment. But
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  Speaker 1: when he finished with them, by the time we get
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  Speaker 1: to 2 Chronicles, the Bible does not describe them. as
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  Speaker 1: being in distress or debt or discontentment. 2 Chronicles says
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  Speaker 1: that they have become mighty men of valor with swords
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  Speaker 1: and force and might. And God said what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to come to you, watch this, in seed form of
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  Speaker 1: what they're going to be. And it is your job
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  Speaker 1: to bring about the transformation into what they are capable
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  Speaker 1: of being. They're going to come distressed, in debt, and
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: they're going to come discontented. But God said you are
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  Speaker 1: not to lead them like he sends them, nor be
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  Speaker 1: discouraged because he didn't send you a finished product. He's
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  Speaker 1: sending it to you in seed form. And you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to turn them into what God wants you
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  Speaker 1: to have to rule with. So instead of turning them
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  Speaker 1: into a gang or a mob, he strengthened their skills.
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  Speaker 1: He mentored their potential. And they became mighty men of valor.
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  Speaker 1: they were never described again the way he found them.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: Because the impact of his influence was so great that
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  Speaker 1: the more men he gathered, the more he transformed them
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  Speaker 1: into what they were going to be. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the kingdom. Thy kingdom come. You are
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  Speaker 1: on the verge of of ushering in the kingdom. This
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  Speaker 1: is bigger than church. This is bigger than church. This
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  Speaker 1: is kingdom. This is dominion. This is power. This is authority.
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  Speaker 1: This is a revolution. This is an uprising. This is
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  Speaker 1: a movement. Don't be depressed when church folk don't like it.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: Because this is bigger than a church. This is a revolution.
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  Speaker 1: Shout at me. They're going to come to you for transformation,
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  Speaker 1: but they're going to connect to you from the place
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  Speaker 1: of your frustration. You're frustrated about the same things. You're
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: angry about the same things. You're sick of the same things,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to connect with you Because they're tired
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: of being with people who don't get it. Who gets
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: it in here? That's why I tell people everywhere there
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  Speaker 1: is no place I would rather preach than right here
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  Speaker 1: at the potter's house. It is not the size of
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  Speaker 1: the room. But I like to preach to people who
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  Speaker 1: get it. Holler at me, I get it. Type it
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  Speaker 1: on the line, I get it. You wouldn't be watching
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't get it. You wouldn't be driving if
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: you didn't get it. You wouldn't be singing if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't get it. Some of you moved here because of
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: everybody who moved here. Holler at me now. There's my evidence.
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  Speaker 1: You are my evidence. You are my adulam. You are
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: my sign that God will make folk move, get up
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  Speaker 1: and relocate because they are drawn to what they are
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: akin to. And no weapon... No weapon. Somebody better get me.
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  Speaker 1: No weapon. Formed against you. Shall be able. No weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody touch somebody, their shoulder, their arm, their elbow, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what it is. Touch them. If there's nobody
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  Speaker 1: to touch where you're watching, just right touch on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: Just right touch on the screen. Touch, touch, touch. We're
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  Speaker 1: coming into agreement. We're coming into agreement around emotional disorders,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: financial disorders, and disruptive thinking. Where we are discontented enough
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: to be disruptive enough. Those are the things that brought
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  Speaker 1: us into alignment. And your sister don't get it. And
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: your family don't understand it. But you cannot stay where
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  Speaker 1: you've been any longer. The reason Elisha left his mom
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  Speaker 1: in them is because he knew Elijah had his next.
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  Speaker 1: Your next is in my mouth. That's what the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said when it said, believe the words of the prophet
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  Speaker 1: and you shall prosper. You only follow somebody when your
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: next is in their mouth. I don't care whether you
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  Speaker 1: black or white or brown or speak English or Spanish
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: or Portuguese. I don't care if you speak Mandarin. I'm
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: still speaking to your necks. There is greatness down inside
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  Speaker 1: of you. I'm not talking about popularity. I'm not talking
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: about fame. I'm talking about greatness. Greatness has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with crowds. David's crowds will come much later, but
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  Speaker 1: his greatness met him in a cave. God said your
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  Speaker 1: greatness will meet you in the cave, on the run,
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  Speaker 1: at a time when you felt like you ain't got nobody.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: That's when God is going to show you. You have
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  Speaker 1: not met your people yet. But I'll both show you.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: You have not met your people yet. Stop being frustrated
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: with the people you got around you. They're not your people.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: They're placeholders. Your people are coming. They're moving. They're migrating.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you have people in this church that are
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: sitting on the opposite side of the church. You're going
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: to bump into them in the hallway. Your next is
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: being galvanized. Your next is online. Your next is online.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: Your next is going to inbox you. Your next is
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: going to come walking right into your situation out of nowhere.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: 400 times because they get it. The person that you're
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: touching is here because they get it. I have members
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: that are Jewish. I have members that came from the
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: Catholic Church. I have members that were Muslims. I have
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: members that came from nobody's church. I have members that
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: are Baptist and Methodist and Presbyterian and Episcopalian. Those were
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: all the uniforms they had on when they walked in.
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  Speaker 1: But God is about to do a new thing. Some
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: of them came out of the strip club. Some of
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: them came out of the crack house. Some of them
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: came out of the prison house. Some of them came
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: out of embezzlement. Some of them came out of adultery.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: Some of them came out of fornication and perversion. But
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: God is about to do a new thing. Squeeze that person.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: You're connected. You're connected. You're connected. You're connected. My next
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  Speaker 1: begins today. Now. Father, I decree and declare that every
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: person that's touching someone has laid hold on their necks.
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  Speaker 1: It may not be the individual that they're touching, but
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: the individual that they're touching is symbolic that God is
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: about to bring within arm's reach. What is next is
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: in your life. And he's going to draw them by
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: the spirit and they're coming. The resources are coming. That
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't just mean that you owe people. It means you
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: don't have enough to facilitate what you see. The resources
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: are coming. There are people that are going to come
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: to this year's leadership conference that you're the leader of one.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: But the people are coming. You got a business and
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: you ain't got nobody employed but you and your wife.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: But the help is coming. God is getting ready to
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: transition and revolutionize your life. I may not finish it,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: but I'm the one to set it off. I may
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: only plant it and somebody else water it and God
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: gives the increase. But I have an anointing on my
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: life to set it off. Your next begins right now.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: Squeeze that person right now. I don't care what your
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: emotions say. I don't care what your feelings say. I
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: don't care about your isolation. I don't care about your frustration.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: I don't care who tried to kill you yesterday. You
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: survived all of that for what is about to happen now.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: I decree and declare it will happen not many days hence.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: The beginning of the revolution shall start before January 1.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: God said, I will not wait on your calendar. I'm
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: going to start your new year in the old year.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start pulling them around you right now.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to set it off now. Be still and
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: know that I am gone. In the name of Jesus.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: Heads bowed, eyes closed, every person go for themselves. 30
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: seconds of inner reflection. Who am I? What's in me?
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: I'm a wife with no ring. I'm a husband with
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: no wife. I'm a mother though I have no children.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: I'm a leader, though I have no people following. I
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: am what God says I am. I'm the head and
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: not the tail. I'm above and not beneath. I am.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: I don't need other people following me to validate me.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: I am. I have come to myself. I recognize myself.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: God let me escape death. And though it looks like
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: that I haven't gone very far, I may not be
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: far geographically, but I'm very far experientially. I'm not nearly
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: who I was. A new awareness now lives in me.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: And because I have found myself, I will find my
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: family and my crowd will find me.