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T.D. Jakes Don't Lose Focus on the Promise God Placed on Your Life! TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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Speaker 1: They always give you trophies and put you in the
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Speaker 1: hall of fame and recognize you for what you ran to.
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Speaker 1: But it's not what you ran to. Your strength is
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Speaker 1: always in what you were running from. God is talking.
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Speaker 1: But the noise is a distraction for you to hear.
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Speaker 1: That's the Bible said, let him that has an ear
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Speaker 1: hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. But
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Speaker 1: that will not happen if you do not stop the noise.
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Speaker 1: He allows distractions that he does not tolerate at the end.
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Speaker 1: He goes to the marriage at Cana. And he goes
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Speaker 1: there to attend a function and his mother comes up
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Speaker 1: to him and says, Lord, we're running out of wine.
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Speaker 1: And he says, woman, what am I to do with thee?
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Speaker 1: My hour has not yet come. I'm not supposed to
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Speaker 1: be doing this. This is not on my schedule. This
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Speaker 1: is not on my itinerary. But bring the water. Bring
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Speaker 1: the water. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll just
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Speaker 1: do it. I'll do it. And so the marriage at Cana,
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Speaker 1: though I think it has biblical significance, and we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about that on another day, was really a distraction because
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Speaker 1: his hour had not yet come. This text starts out
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Speaker 1: by saying that Jesus' hour has now come. Do you
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Speaker 1: know when it's your hour? The point and stage where
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Speaker 1: things become valuable to you and become important enough to
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Speaker 1: you that you cannot afford distractions. He says, my hour
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Speaker 1: has come. In fact, I want to say just that.
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Speaker 1: And it came to pass when the time was come
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Speaker 1: that he should be received up. He steadfastly set his
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Speaker 1: face up. The time made him set his face to
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Speaker 1: go to Jerusalem. Don't look over there. The time made
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Speaker 1: him set his face to go to Jerusalem. Because of
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Speaker 1: what time it was, he had to focus. There are
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Speaker 1: some things that you can receive in life without focusing.
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Speaker 1: But the greater blessing that God wants to release in
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Speaker 1: your life cannot be done casually, superficially, part-time, with a
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Speaker 1: spirit of indifference. In order to really step into the
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Speaker 1: fullness of your purpose, you have to set your face.
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Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by people all the time who have never
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Speaker 1: set their face a day in their life. They have
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Speaker 1: glanced at it. They have looked at it. They've taken
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Speaker 1: pictures of it. They've done selfies with it, but they've
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Speaker 1: never really stepped into their purpose. They got little glimpses
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Speaker 1: of it. They've hit at it like that. They've slapped
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Speaker 1: it a couple of times, but they have never experienced
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Speaker 1: how powerful you are when you set your face. Wonder
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Speaker 1: what would happen if you would focus. The Bible says
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Speaker 1: Jesus has set his face to go to Jerusalem. There's
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Speaker 1: no ambiguity. There's no confusion about it. There's no more saying,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go hang out at the well and
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Speaker 1: wait on this woman to come down so we can
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Speaker 1: talk to her. No more, no more, no more, no
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Speaker 1: more of that. No more of that. No more of
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Speaker 1: him disappearing in the crowd and having to catch up
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Speaker 1: with them by walking on the water to meet them
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Speaker 1: on the boat. No more of that. No more disappearing.
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Speaker 1: No more going behind the rocks to pray. No, he
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Speaker 1: has set his face to go to Jerusalem. Until you
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Speaker 1: set your face to go to your purpose or destiny,
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Speaker 1: Going to church on Sunday morning will be hard. It's inconvenient.
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Speaker 1: You don't feel like it. I'm tired. Until you set
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Speaker 1: your face, if somebody takes your parking space or I'm
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Speaker 1: not preaching that Sunday, you'll drive back home. Until you
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Speaker 1: set your face to go to Jerusalem, you will leave
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Speaker 1: this church because your ex-boyfriend came here and it just
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Speaker 1: made you uncomfortable and you don't want to be around
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Speaker 1: him and he's standing over there with somebody else and
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Speaker 1: you can't take it anymore. But when you set your
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Speaker 1: face to go to Jerusalem, He sent a team ahead
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Speaker 1: of him to go scout out an area as he's
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Speaker 1: moving toward Jerusalem. And they went down to Samaria. And
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Speaker 1: when they got down to Samaria, the Samaritans would not
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Speaker 1: make room for Jesus. And it's a mess because Jesus
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Speaker 1: has spent time at the well. Made an investment in Samaria.
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Speaker 1: caused him to be converted in Samaria. Supposed to be
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Speaker 1: a growing, thriving group of believers in Samaria. But at
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Speaker 1: the moment he needed Samaria, they had no room. Isn't
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Speaker 1: it funny how people have room when they need you? Oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to mess with somebody today. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be a rough one in here today. Fasten your seatbelt.
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Speaker 1: They got all kind of room when they're on the
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Speaker 1: receiving end. But when it's your time to receive something,
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Speaker 1: they say, oh, no, we don't. So they said, send
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Speaker 1: him somewhere else. And James and John, of all people,
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Speaker 1: I was shocked at James and John because this really
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Speaker 1: sounds more like something Peter would do. Because they said, Lord,
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Speaker 1: do you want us to call fire down from heaven
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Speaker 1: and burn them up like Elijah did? Let's kill all
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Speaker 1: of them. Wait, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait
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Speaker 1: a minute. They just didn't let us spend the night.
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Speaker 1: We don't have to kill everybody just because they didn't
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Speaker 1: give you the response. Why is it that people want
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Speaker 1: to kill you just because you don't respond the way
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Speaker 1: they want you to respond? And now, see... Y'all don't
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Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying to you. It don't seem like
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Speaker 1: to me that this required that kind of reaction. You
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Speaker 1: can't stay with me tonight. It's different from dropping a
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Speaker 1: bomb and killing my kids. Let's call fire down from
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Speaker 1: heaven and kill everybody. And that's when my heart got heavy.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't so heavy because the Samaritans didn't receive him.
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Speaker 1: My heart was heavy that the men who were with him,
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Speaker 1: James and John who were close to him, they were
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Speaker 1: in the right place, but they had the wrong spirit.
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Speaker 1: Samaria had no room. They had no room for Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Don't they understand that Jesus is used to people not
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Speaker 1: having no room. He was born in a manger. He
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Speaker 1: was wrapped in swaddling clothes. He started his life in
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Speaker 1: a barn because people had Isn't it funny how life
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Speaker 1: comes around full circle and everything old is new again?
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Speaker 1: If you live long enough, you'll notice that Satan cannot create.
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Speaker 1: He can only imitate. So he's got to bring the
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Speaker 1: same stuff back over and over again. And Jesus is saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: this didn't stop my mama, and it's not going to
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Speaker 1: stop me. I'm not going to be bothered just because
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Speaker 1: you don't have room. Whenever somebody shuts the door, it's
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Speaker 1: always a sign that God's about to open the door.
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Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. I'm about to start
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Speaker 1: preaching in here this morning. The Lord told me to
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Speaker 1: tell you there is another village. I don't know who
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Speaker 1: that's for, but there is another village. Just because they
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Speaker 1: don't open up for you in Samaria, there is another village.
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Speaker 1: God has a place that is prepared for you. And
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Speaker 1: if they said no, they're not in. There is another village. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I got to find another village. I got to find
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Speaker 1: another village. I got to find another village. Notice they
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Speaker 1: don't give the name of the village. They don't give
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Speaker 1: the name of the other village. You gotta seek it.
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Speaker 1: Because what's a village for me might not be a
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Speaker 1: village for you. So I can't tell you exactly where
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Speaker 1: it is but there is another village. Somewhere beyond Samaria.
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Speaker 1: Somewhere beyond your anger about Samaria. is another village. If
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Speaker 1: you call fire down from heaven on Samaria, it's a
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Speaker 1: sign you don't believe that there is another village. Your
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Speaker 1: anger is a manifestation of unbelief that you don't believe
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Speaker 1: anything better is coming. So here comes the guy says,
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Speaker 1: I want to follow you whether so ever thou goest.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm down for you. I'm going all
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Speaker 1: the way with you. And Jesus turns and looks at
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Speaker 1: him and says, foxes have holes. The birds of the
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Speaker 1: air have nests. But the son of man has no
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Speaker 1: place to lay his head In other words, following me
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Speaker 1: ain't easy. If you follow me, you got to pick
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Speaker 1: up a cross. Can you drink from the cup that
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Speaker 1: I drink from? I have a baptism to be baptized with.
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Speaker 1: Can you be baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with?
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Speaker 1: Foxes have holes. In other words, watch this. Foxes have holes.
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Speaker 1: Birds of the air have nests. The son of man
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Speaker 1: has no place to lay his head. Jesus is now
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Speaker 1: teaching us that we were never meant to fit in
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Speaker 1: this world. And the phrase that the Lord gave me
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Speaker 1: when I was studying this to share with you was
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Speaker 1: casual Christians. Casual Christians want a little bit of Jesus
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Speaker 1: in their life. Don't change my life. Just ride with
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Speaker 1: me in case we run into trouble. No, you can't
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Speaker 1: have my life. I just come visit you on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I'm not willing to really commit to this thing. But
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Speaker 1: I'll date you. I'll hang out with you, Jesus. I'll
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Speaker 1: give you a little praise sometime. But really, really becoming
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Speaker 1: the substratum of my existence. The opiate of my affection. Yes.
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Speaker 1: the center of my joy. I really hadn't considered that.
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Speaker 1: I had just decided that I would come to church.
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Speaker 1: And so you keep trying to find where you fit
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Speaker 1: in the world. And Jesus says, I made holes for foxes.
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Speaker 1: I made nests for birds. Yes. but your home is
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Speaker 1: not of this world. But the Jesus who ran away
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Speaker 1: the man who asked to follow him then turns around
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Speaker 1: and ask another guy to follow him. He asked him
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Speaker 1: to follow him. You just ran that other guy off.
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Speaker 1: I knew it wasn't about nothing. I ran him off.
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Speaker 1: He saw me as a position, not a person. You
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Speaker 1: know what the biggest thing I lost as I grew
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Speaker 1: in ministry? It's personhood. Most people see me as an opportunity.
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Speaker 1: When people see you as an opportunity, they cease to
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Speaker 1: talk to you like you're a person. Do you understand?
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Speaker 1: You understand. Yeah. Everybody got an angle. And what the
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Speaker 1: guy was looking for was a position. Jesus said, foxes
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Speaker 1: have holes and the birds of the air have nests.
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Speaker 1: And the son of man has no place to lay
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Speaker 1: his head. In other words, so don't come to me
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Speaker 1: for a position. You understand it, don't you? Now Jesus
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Speaker 1: turns to another man and says, follow me. And this
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Speaker 1: man says, uh, or I got to go bury my father.
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Speaker 1: And that seems to me to be a good excuse,
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Speaker 1: a really good excuse, you know. But Jesus didn't have
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Speaker 1: time for excuses. His hour had come. He needed somebody
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Speaker 1: that would respond without excuse. Listen, now we know Jesus
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Speaker 1: is not cold because he cried at the tomb of Lazarus.
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Speaker 1: He stopped the widow of Nain and laid hands on
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Speaker 1: her casket and raised her son from the dead. This
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Speaker 1: is the same Jesus. The same Jesus that went into
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Speaker 1: Jairus' daughter and raised her up from the dead. This
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Speaker 1: is the same Jesus that looks at him because it's
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Speaker 1: late now. Let the dead bury the dead. See how
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Speaker 1: his attitude has changed? He used to would have gone
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Speaker 1: and woke his father up. But it's late now. Touch
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Speaker 1: your neighbor's head. It's late now. Don't expect me to
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Speaker 1: do what I used to do because it's late now.
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Speaker 1: Don't expect me to go through what I used to
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Speaker 1: go through because it's late now. Let the dead bury
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Speaker 1: the dead. If you're going to follow me, you're going
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Speaker 1: to have to make me a priority. You can't be
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Speaker 1: a casual Christian. Everybody I ever know who ever excelled
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Speaker 1: at anything, whoever broke loose and excelled and became excellent
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Speaker 1: at anything, they always give you trophies and put you
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Speaker 1: in the hall of fame and recognize you for what
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Speaker 1: you ran to. But it's not what you ran to.
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Speaker 1: Your strength is always in what you were running from.
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Speaker 1: When you have been through certain things in your yesterday,
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Speaker 1: you can't afford to slack up like other people slack up.
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Speaker 1: Because when you get a shot, you take full advantage
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Speaker 1: of it. It is not just your ambition and your
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Speaker 1: drive and your goals. It's knowing you can't afford to
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Speaker 1: look back. Because if you look back, you're going to
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Speaker 1: go back. And you don't have nothing to go back to.
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Speaker 1: Who am I talking to today? I came to tell
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Speaker 1: you who came from the most hellish situations. It was
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Speaker 1: a set up. If your life would have been better,
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Speaker 1: you'd have been lazy. Paul, who was the chief sinner,
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Speaker 1: became the head apostle. Whenever you're going to build a
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Speaker 1: building real high, you dig a foundation real deep. It
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Speaker 1: was good for me that I had been afflicted. Now
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Speaker 1: here's the point. This is why Jesus says no man
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Speaker 1: having put his hand to the plow and looking back
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Speaker 1: is fit. Fit is in good shape for the kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God. When you put your hand to the plow
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Speaker 1: the reason you gotta keep forward keep moving forward keep
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Speaker 1: going forward keep running forward is because you have nothing
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Speaker 1: behind you but trauma The hardest people to make successful
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Speaker 1: is not poor folks' kids. It's rich folks' kids. Because
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Speaker 1: rich folk make the mistake of giving their kids everything
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Speaker 1: except what made you great. And that's a hard time.
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Speaker 1: so they have nothing to run from. That's why they
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Speaker 1: back on your couch. Here's about eyes closed and listen
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Speaker 1: to this. Little Johnny, every night he lay in the bed,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, He would fall out
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Speaker 1: in the floor, start crying, and Mama would have to
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Speaker 1: get up and put him back in the bed. Next night,
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Speaker 1: it would happen again. By the third night, little Johnny said, Mama,
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Speaker 1: I'm so frustrated. I don't understand why this keeps happening
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Speaker 1: to me. Why do I keep falling out of the bed?
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Speaker 1: Mama said, Johnny, the reason you keep falling out of
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Speaker 1: the bed is because you never got all the way in.
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Speaker 1: Squeeze that in. Maybe the reason that you keep falling
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Speaker 1: out is because you never got all the way in.
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Speaker 1: If you get all the way in, God will perform
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Speaker 1: miracles in your life. If you get all the way in,
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Speaker 1: God will complete his assignment in your life. If you
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Speaker 1: get all the way in and stop visiting Jesus and
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Speaker 1: flirting with Jesus and weakening Jesus and playing games with Jesus.
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Speaker 1: For where you are in life now, there is no
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Speaker 1: room for distractions. Stress affects your body and your organs.
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Speaker 1: Stress affects your blood pressure and your blood sugar. Stress
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Speaker 1: affects everything about you. Stress is a silent killer. It
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Speaker 1: creates things like anxiety. It creates all kinds of anxiety.
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Speaker 1: Anxiety is to be anxious about something that hasn't even happened.
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Speaker 1: To worry about the possibility. To have faith in negativity.
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Speaker 1: To believe, to rehearse in your mind, what if this
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Speaker 1: happens and what if that happens? And it's coming from
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Speaker 1: the noise. It's coming from the noise. It's coming from
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Speaker 1: the noise because the enemy knows that if you ever focus,
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Speaker 1: you're going to be unstoppable. So he sends all these
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Speaker 1: distractions in your life. And the greater the mission in
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Speaker 1: your life, the greater the distraction comes in your life. Now,
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Speaker 1: Elijah has already called fire down from heaven. He has
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Speaker 1: taken the prophets of Baal down to the sea and
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Speaker 1: drowned them and buried them in the sea. It was bloody.
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Speaker 1: It was noisy. It was loud. It was messy. And
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Speaker 1: now we're finding him not on the first trip, which
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Speaker 1: is often preached about, but now he's on his second trip.
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Speaker 1: He goes back to the place where he last experienced God.
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Speaker 1: Whenever you're under attack, go back to the place where
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Speaker 1: you last experienced God. We see Elijah going back on
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Speaker 1: the mountain, bloody and messy, tired from fighting, in conflict,
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Speaker 1: in anxiety, in stress and pressure. And he goes to
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Speaker 1: the top of the mountain with nothing but his servant.
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Speaker 1: And this time he goes to stop the noise. See,
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Speaker 1: there is noise that is in your life and in
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Speaker 1: my life and in our lives and in your life
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Speaker 1: that are watching right now. There's noise. There are certain
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Speaker 1: noises that have been sent just to distract you from
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Speaker 1: the commandment that God gave you. Because when there is
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Speaker 1: noise in your life, when there is noise in your life,
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Speaker 1: it becomes more and more difficult to to discern exactly
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Speaker 1: what God is saying because you've got so much noise
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Speaker 1: going around you that you can't tell what is God
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Speaker 1: and what is not God. You can't tell whether you
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Speaker 1: should go right or whether you should go left. You
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Speaker 1: can't tell whether this is a friend or a foe.
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Speaker 1: You can't tell whether this is an enemy or a friend.
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Speaker 1: You can't tell whether you should fight or be still.
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Speaker 1: You can't tell whether to be quiet or not. And
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you got to stop. Shake
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Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, take control of the noise. Stop it.
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Speaker 1: Shut it down. Bring it to an end. Bring it
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Speaker 1: to an end. You have the power within yourself to
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Speaker 1: stop the noise. You have the power within yourself by
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Speaker 1: God's grace to stop the noise. God didn't stop the noise.
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Speaker 1: Elijah stopped the noise. Elijah stopped the noise by putting
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Speaker 1: his head in between his knees. He must realize that
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Speaker 1: in order to perform this next miracle, he must be
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Speaker 1: able to focus. Steve Jobs said you have to work
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Speaker 1: to get your thinking clear. Most people will not put
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Speaker 1: in the work to get their thinking clear. Now, when
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Speaker 1: I heard that Elijah put his head between his knees,
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Speaker 1: I did a little exercise. And I found out that
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Speaker 1: it is quite difficult. Maybe not for you, but it's
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Speaker 1: quite difficult to get your head in between your knees.
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Speaker 1: It might be a little easier to bring your knees
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Speaker 1: up to your head, but that was kind of tough too.
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Speaker 1: What is the Bible saying to us? To get to
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Speaker 1: a place of peace and tranquility, you have to work
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Speaker 1: at it. It won't just happen because you need it.
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Speaker 1: You have to work at getting your thinking clear. Otherwise,
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Speaker 1: you make decision in noise that is not discernible. If
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Speaker 1: you notice while I was talking, it became increasingly difficult
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Speaker 1: to hear what I was saying. Though I was speaking,
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Speaker 1: you couldn't hear it because of the noise. You think
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Speaker 1: God is not talking. God is talking. But the noise
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Speaker 1: is a distraction for you to hear. That's the Bible said,
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Speaker 1: let him that hath an ear hear what the Spirit
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Speaker 1: is saying to the church. But that will not happen
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Speaker 1: if you do not stop the noise. Elijah goes up
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Speaker 1: on the mountain. And he has to do this. His
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Speaker 1: servant cannot do it. His entourage cannot do it. His
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Speaker 1: retinue cannot do it. His associates cannot do it. His
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Speaker 1: church cannot do it. You have to make a decision
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Speaker 1: who you let invade your space, get in your head,
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Speaker 1: cloud your judgment, and influence your thinking. Somebody say, stop it.
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Speaker 1: Stop praying that the noise will stop, but you've got
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Speaker 1: to take authority and kill it. Cut it off. Shut
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Speaker 1: it down. Don't answer it. Cut the TV off. Get
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Speaker 1: some peace. Stop inviting people around who are cluttering your
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Speaker 1: head with all of their problems, who think you are
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Speaker 1: an answer machine, and all they do is call you
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Speaker 1: up for the answer all the time. Let me put
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Speaker 1: it in biblical language. Be still. and know that I
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Speaker 1: am God. Be still and know that I am God.
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Speaker 1: But you're a prophet, be still and know— you' re a musician,
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Speaker 1: be still and know that I— you' re a realtor, be still
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Speaker 1: and know that you're an accountant, be still and know
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Speaker 1: that you're a business owner, be still. And know you're
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Speaker 1: a janitor, be still. And know you can't know if
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Speaker 1: you won't be. Be still. Now, he called fire down
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Speaker 1: from heaven. But he did it with his voice. What
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Speaker 1: brings fire won't bring water. The real problem is not
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Speaker 1: just the prophets of Baal. They had to be stopped.
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Speaker 1: But the real problem that is causing the suffering is
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Speaker 1: the drought that's in the land. He cannot fight and
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Speaker 1: break the drought the same way he called down the fire.
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Speaker 1: Tradition is a wonderful thing until it stops progress. The
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Speaker 1: tool that you use to bring you here will not
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Speaker 1: be the tool that you use to take you there.
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Speaker 1: That's why you got to have the flexibility to change
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Speaker 1: understanding that this is a different kind of fight. Type
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Speaker 1: that on the line. This is a different kind of fight.
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Speaker 1: This is a different kind of fight. You're not going
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Speaker 1: to be able to casually do this. This is a
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Speaker 1: different kind of fight. You're going to have to focus
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Speaker 1: to win this fight. You can't expend energy trying to
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Speaker 1: drag people who don't want to go, trying to convince
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Speaker 1: people who refuse to be convinced, trying to heal people
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Speaker 1: who are hypochondriacs and they enjoy being sick, and they
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Speaker 1: call you up and dump their sickness all over you
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Speaker 1: because they have an attention deficit. They want your attention,
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Speaker 1: which breaks your focus. And because you are an empath,
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Speaker 1: you are always taking care of them and not taking
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Speaker 1: care of you. But I want you to make a
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Speaker 1: commitment with me this morning. I'm going to stop it.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to stop it. I'm going to stop it.
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Speaker 1: Because I am in a season in my life that
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Speaker 1: requires that I focus. That means I have to stop.
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Speaker 1: I have to listen. And I have to look. I
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Speaker 1: have to stop. I have to listen. Now when I
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Speaker 1: say listen, he is not listening for what is going
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Speaker 1: on around him. He is listening for what is going
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Speaker 1: on inside of him. Because if there are not Olives
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Speaker 1: inside of him, there will not be olives around him.
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Speaker 1: If there is not peace on the inside, there won't
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Speaker 1: be peace on the outside. It is no mistake that
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Speaker 1: Jesus was asleep in the boat in the storm and said,
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Speaker 1: peace be still. The reason Jesus could speak peace is
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Speaker 1: because he... You can't speak peace... From a place of noise,
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Speaker 1: Jesus was the only one who was sleep enough to
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Speaker 1: wake up and speak peace in the middle of the storm.
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Speaker 1: Yet everybody around you is trying to drag you into
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Speaker 1: their noise. Not just your noise, they're trying to drag
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Speaker 1: you into noise. Their noise. And if you're not careful,
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Speaker 1: you will give up and in the name of ministry,
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Speaker 1: find yourself drug into a noise that is actually a
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Speaker 1: distraction that doesn't have anything to do with you. I
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Speaker 1: want the people to holler at me who have people
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Speaker 1: in your life that keep trying to drag you into
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Speaker 1: their noise. Holler stopped. I'm going to stop allowing you
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Speaker 1: to drag me into your noise, into your miserableness, into
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Speaker 1: your hostility, into your anger. I'm going to stop allowing
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Speaker 1: you to drag me into your foolishness. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: stop allowing you to drag me. I will give you
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Speaker 1: some advice. I will speak to it. I will tell
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Speaker 1: you how to handle it. But as far as getting
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Speaker 1: me over into the middle of it, I refuse to
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Speaker 1: forfeit my peace because So that you can have companionship
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Speaker 1: in your pain. We often talk about the notion of
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Speaker 1: five senses. Can I take my time? And when we
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Speaker 1: talk about five senses, it's really our sensory perception that
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Speaker 1: is coming through the various organs and attributes of which
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Speaker 1: God has allowed us to have. The accruements that accessorize
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Speaker 1: our human experience like ears and mouth and nose and
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Speaker 1: eyes are gates through which our senses are able to
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Speaker 1: make contact with the world. You walk in a room,
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Speaker 1: you can smell something. you're sitting at a table, you
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Speaker 1: can hear something. And you nudge your husband in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night and say, honey, I heard something.
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Speaker 1: It is through your ear gate that you are able
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Speaker 1: to contact the world. It is through the, I smell gas.
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Speaker 1: Did you cut off the stove? It keeps you in
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Speaker 1: contact with the world. It comes through your senses. I
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Speaker 1: saw something. What's that in the shadows? I saw something move.
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Speaker 1: Your eyes, your ears, your nose, your taste, all of
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Speaker 1: the five senses. The notion of five senses is a
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Speaker 1: medieval term that has been passed on to us down
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Speaker 1: through the years. Through Aristotle, actually, who devised that the
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Speaker 1: only way to get information to the brain was through
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Speaker 1: the five senses. Aristotle's ideology about the five senses continued
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Speaker 1: to live till about the 20th century when scientists began
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Speaker 1: to challenge that there are actually more than five senses.
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Speaker 1: There's more than what I see. There's more than what
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Speaker 1: I hear. There's more than what I taste, smell. There's
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Speaker 1: more than that to the five senses. Things like pain.
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Speaker 1: So you go to the doctor's office and they say
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Speaker 1: from one to 10, what is the level of your pain?
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Speaker 1: The reason they have to ask you is because they
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Speaker 1: can't see it, they can't smell it, they can't touch it,
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Speaker 1: they can't taste it. They have to ask you, even
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Speaker 1: though your brain is getting the senses, it's going to
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Speaker 1: your brain, it's not coming through your five senses, and
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Speaker 1: yet pain is real. How many people know pain is real?
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Speaker 1: You can be in pain sitting right beside me and
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Speaker 1: me not know it because I can't see it. I
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Speaker 1: can't smell it. I can't taste it. I can't touch it.
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Speaker 1: But your brain records it because pain is real. There
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Speaker 1: are some things that bypass the five senses in order
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Speaker 1: to inform the intellect that evade the five senses. Incidentally,
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Speaker 1: can I go further? The word sensual is not necessarily sexual.
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Speaker 1: To be sensual is to be conscious of your senses,
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Speaker 1: to make decisions through your senses, to make decisions through
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Speaker 1: your senses, to move through your senses. And God has
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Speaker 1: designed that you have another set of senses that are
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Speaker 1: probably weak because they're seldom used. They are weak because
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Speaker 1: they're seldom used because you are so busy responding to
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Speaker 1: what you hear around you that you don't get to
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Speaker 1: hear what you hear within you. For where you are
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Speaker 1: right now, you must hear within you. David, before he
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Speaker 1: went to battle, would always ask God, shall I go up?
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Speaker 1: Is this my fight? Should I use my weapons on
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Speaker 1: this fight? He is trying to hear what the Spirit
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Speaker 1: of the Lord is saying. The high priest carried, I
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Speaker 1: listened to Pastor Tudman was talking in the pre-show about
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Speaker 1: the breastplate. Judah, in your Judah interview, was talking about
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Speaker 1: the breastplate on the high priest's chest where he had
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Speaker 1: all the jewels for the 12 tribes of Israel. Inside
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Speaker 1: the breastplate were Thummim and Urim. Thummim and Urim were
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Speaker 1: two stones that the priests used to hear what the
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Speaker 1: will of God was. So every priest had to be prophetic.
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Speaker 1: You have to have a prophetic utterance to know not
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Speaker 1: just how to worship and how to praise God, but
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Speaker 1: how to hear and discern what is God saying in
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Speaker 1: my life. Not what has God said, what is God
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Speaker 1: saying in my life. If Abraham had done what God
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Speaker 1: had said, he would have killed Isaac. Yes. Because God said,
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Speaker 1: take now thy son, thine only son, and offer him
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Speaker 1: up for a burnt offering. That's what God had said.
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Speaker 1: But when Abraham got him up on the altar and
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Speaker 1: tied him down and raised his hand, Abraham went from
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Speaker 1: what God had said to what God is saying. Some
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Speaker 1: of us are walking in an old word. We're not
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Speaker 1: getting a right now word for the situation that we're in.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't get a right now word, you'll
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Speaker 1: kill what you ought to keep. and keep what you
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Speaker 1: are to kill. Abraham raised his hand to slay his
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Speaker 1: son because God had said it. But the same God
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Speaker 1: who had said had a proceeding word. Man shall not
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Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but every word that proceedeth out
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Speaker 1: of the mouth of God. And the proceeding word of
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Speaker 1: God was, Abraham, Abraham, stay your hand. Amen. So he
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Speaker 1: had to stop and get a rhema word from God.
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Speaker 1: For where you are right now, it's going to take
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Speaker 1: a rhema word from God. I need a right now word.
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Speaker 1: I need a word for where I'm at right now.
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Speaker 1: If you need a right now word from God, take
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Speaker 1: 30 seconds and give him a praise right now. I
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Speaker 1: need a right now. I need a right now. I
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Speaker 1: need a right now word from God. I can't work
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Speaker 1: off an old word. I need a right now word
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Speaker 1: from God. I can't work off of your word. I
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Speaker 1: can't ask you what you think about it. I need
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Speaker 1: a right now word from God. I need a right
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Speaker 1: now word from God. Because I'm in another season. Because
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Speaker 1: I'm in another zone. Because I'm in another time. What
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Speaker 1: worked yesterday will not work today. So I got to
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Speaker 1: get my thinking clear so I can hear. Stop calling me.
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Speaker 1: Stop fussing at me. Stop yelling me. Sometimes stop seeing
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Speaker 1: about me. I'm trying to focus because I need to hear.
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Speaker 1: what God is saying right now. I don't have time
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Speaker 1: to hear foolishness. I don't have time to hear gossip.
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Speaker 1: I don't have time to hear he say, she say.
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Speaker 1: I must hear what the Spirit of the Lord is
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Speaker 1: saying to the church because I can't move off a lie.
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Speaker 1: I can't move off a rumor. I can't move off
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Speaker 1: a doubt. I can't move off of anxiety. I can't
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Speaker 1: move off of fear. And I can't even move off
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Speaker 1: of feelings. I must hear what God is saying right now.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people who are at
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Speaker 1: a crucial point in your life. And you're not here
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Speaker 1: just because you want to be at church. You're here
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Speaker 1: because it's a crucial time in your life. And you
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Speaker 1: respect the Word of God. And you need the Word
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Speaker 1: of God. And you long for the Word of God.
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Speaker 1: And you want the Word of God to come into
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Speaker 1: your life. If you're in the place, make some noise.
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Speaker 1: I didn't come to show off my hat. I didn't
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Speaker 1: come to show off my shoes. I didn't come because
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Speaker 1: I had a new dress. I came because I need
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Speaker 1: to hear what are you saying for me at this
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Speaker 1: time in this life? How do I handle this situation?
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Speaker 1: Nudge me when I need to be still. Push me
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Speaker 1: when I need to go forward. Pull me when I'm
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Speaker 1: going too far. I need to hear you right now
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Speaker 1: in this moment. At this time, I need a word
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Speaker 1: from God. I don't need a cute sermon. I don't
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Speaker 1: need a fine resume. I need a word from God.
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Speaker 1: I don't need fancy robes. I need a word from God.
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Speaker 1: I don't need people to tickle my ears. I need
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Speaker 1: a word from God. If I don't hear from you,
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Speaker 1: I won't know what to do. I want to talk
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Speaker 1: to somebody that's been in a drought for a long time.
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Speaker 1: You function in a drought. You call fire down in
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Speaker 1: a drought. You preach in a drought. You taught in
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Speaker 1: a drought. But the devil is alive. God is about
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Speaker 1: to break this drought in your life. I serve notice
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Speaker 1: on you that if you can get your head on straight,
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Speaker 1: the enemies that you see today, you shall see them
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Speaker 1: no more. Excuse me, but I feel like preaching a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Excuse me, but I feel my preacher this morning.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me, but I got a world to change. Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: because I've got a work to do. Excuse me, because
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Speaker 1: I got a call to fulfill. Excuse me, because I'm
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Speaker 1: on a mission. You don't have to like me. I
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Speaker 1: want you to like me. But if you don't like me,
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Speaker 1: I still got something to do. Is there anybody in
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Speaker 1: the house... That is determined to hear from the Lord.
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Speaker 1: We don't teach enough about hearing from God. It's always
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Speaker 1: God hearing from us. But in the old church, every
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Speaker 1: now and then you would get still at the altar.
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Speaker 1: Tarry means to wait at the altar. You would lay
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Speaker 1: down on the altar and wait to hear from God.
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Speaker 1: God is tired of hearing from us. Now we need
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Speaker 1: to hear from God. What did you say, Isaiah? They
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Speaker 1: that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They
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Speaker 1: shall mount up on wings like eagles. They shall run
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Speaker 1: and not get weary. They shall walk and not faint.
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting on the Lord. Kelly, I'm not going to move.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to wait on the Lord. Hallelujah. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to wait until his word is clear. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: wait until his direction is clear. I'm going to wait
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Speaker 1: until a yoke breaks. I'm going to wait until I
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Speaker 1: see a change. And the Bible said that while Elijah
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Speaker 1: was waiting on the Lord, all of a sudden he
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Speaker 1: could hear God. And it wasn't happening in his life.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't happening in his neighborhood. It wasn't happening in
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Speaker 1: his country. But he said, in my spirit. I hear
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Speaker 1: the sound of an abundance of rain. I don't see
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Speaker 1: it in my life but I hear it in my spirit.
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Speaker 1: I don't see it in my circumstance but I hear
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Speaker 1: it in my spirit. What do you do when you
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Speaker 1: hear something on the inside that you don't see on
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Speaker 1: the outside? That's why I'm preaching this morning. The Bible
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Speaker 1: said that he spoke to his servant and he told
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Speaker 1: his servant, go look for it. Touch seven people and
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Speaker 1: tell them, go look for it. Look for it. Look
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Speaker 1: for it. Look for it. Look for it. Look for it.
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Speaker 1: Look for it. Seven people, look for it. Look for it.
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Speaker 1: Look for it. I hear it in my spirit. Look
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Speaker 1: for it. Look for it. Look for it. I hear
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Speaker 1: it in my belly. Look for it. Look for it.
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Speaker 1: Look for it. I want to tell somebody, you've been
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Speaker 1: hearing something in your spirit, and God's about to make
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Speaker 1: it manifest in your life. And whoever you are, you
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Speaker 1: had to be here this morning. The rain couldn't stop you.
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Speaker 1: The game couldn't stop you. Your friends couldn't stop you
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Speaker 1: because you got something to look for. Hallelujah. Can I
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Speaker 1: get 30 seconds of expectation? 30 seconds of expected praise.