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How To Get Your Fight Back - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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Speaker 1: We're excited to have this opportunity to share the word
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Speaker 1: of the Lord with you. I want you to get
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Speaker 1: your hearts open, your mind ready, maybe even your pen
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Speaker 1: and pencil out. I'm going to be teaching how to
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Speaker 1: get your fight back. How to get your fight back. Now,
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Speaker 1: I know some of you have never lost your fight,
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Speaker 1: but that's because you were what did no real battles.
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Speaker 1: When you get in a real battle and it lasts
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Speaker 1: long enough and it gets hard enough and it gets
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Speaker 1: deep enough, you can have exhaustion. You can have fatigue.
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Speaker 1: You can lose your fight. You fight for your kids.
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Speaker 1: You can give up your fight for your marriage. You
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Speaker 1: can give up your fight for your church. You can
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Speaker 1: give up your fight for your business. You can give
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Speaker 1: up your fight for yourself. But I want to talk
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Speaker 1: to you this morning about how to get your fight back.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to teach a little bit because I want
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Speaker 1: to put the text in context. And then I'm going
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Speaker 1: to bring it home and apply it to you. I
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Speaker 1: want you to get your hearts ready. Go to the
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Speaker 1: book of Ezekiel, chapter number 37, verse 1 through 12.
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Speaker 1: I've got a word from the Lord for you. And
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Speaker 1: I'm reading quite a few verses, but they're all important.
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Speaker 1: The hand of the Lord was on me, and he
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Speaker 1: brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and
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Speaker 1: set me in the middle of a valley. and it
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Speaker 1: was full of bones. He led me back and forth
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Speaker 1: among them, and I saw a great many bones on
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Speaker 1: the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.
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Speaker 1: He asked me, son of man, can these bones live?
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Speaker 1: I said, sovereign Lord, you alone know. Then he said
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Speaker 1: to me, prophesy to these bones and say to them,
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Speaker 1: dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. This is
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Speaker 1: what the sovereign Lord says to these bones. I will
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Speaker 1: make breath enter into you and you will come and
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Speaker 1: you will come and you will come to life. I
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Speaker 1: will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon
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Speaker 1: you and cover you with skin. I will breathe in
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Speaker 1: you and you will come to life. Then you will
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Speaker 1: know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as
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Speaker 1: I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was
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Speaker 1: a noise, a rattling sound. The bones came together, bone
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Speaker 1: to his bone. I looked and tendons and flesh appeared
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Speaker 1: on them and skin covered them, but there was no
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Speaker 1: breath in them. Then he said to me, prophesy to
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Speaker 1: the breath, prophesy, said a man, and say to him,
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Speaker 1: this is what the sovereign Lord God says, come breathe.
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Speaker 1: from the four winds and breathe into these slain that
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Speaker 1: they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me.
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Speaker 1: And breath entered them. They came to life and stood
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Speaker 1: up on their feet a vast army. Somebody say, get
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Speaker 1: your pipe back. Then he said to me, son of man,
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Speaker 1: These bones are the people of Israel. These bones are
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Speaker 1: the people of Israel. You need to hear that. These
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Speaker 1: bones are the people of Israel. They say our bones
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Speaker 1: are dried up and our hope is gone. We are
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Speaker 1: cut off. Therefore prophesy and say to them, this is
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Speaker 1: what the sovereign Lord says. My people, I am going
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Speaker 1: to open your graves. and bring you up from them,
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Speaker 1: I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
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Speaker 1: So says the word of God. I want to talk
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Speaker 1: to you about how to get your fight back. Somebody shout,
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Speaker 1: get your fight back. In order for us to appreciate
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Speaker 1: the magnitude and the complexities of this scripture, there are
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Speaker 1: some things we must understand. Let us be clear that Ezekiel,
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Speaker 1: though he writes in a very poetic tone, is not
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Speaker 1: a poet. We are not to evaluate him on the
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Speaker 1: basis of his prose or poetic content. He is at
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Speaker 1: his core and in his essence a prophet. He is
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Speaker 1: a major prophet due to the magnitude of the work
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Speaker 1: and contribution in Scripture. He is considered one of the
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Speaker 1: five major prophets of the Old Testament. He prophesies in
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Speaker 1: this beautiful picturesque language a situation that is anything but beautiful.
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Speaker 1: He tells us that the Lord picked him up and
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Speaker 1: carried him in the spirit and brought him into a
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Speaker 1: place of dryness. If you don't hear this correctly, you
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Speaker 1: will hear this through the ears of your traditions. I
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Speaker 1: grew up going to a camp called Camp Running Water
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Speaker 1: and
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Speaker 1: Hear ye the word of the Lord. Foot bone
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Speaker 1: connected to the ankle bone. The ankle bone connected to
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Speaker 1: the leg bone. And the leg bone connected to the
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Speaker 1: thigh bone. Hear ye the words of the Lord. And
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Speaker 1: it was a cute song. It's a cute song. Cute. Cute.
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Speaker 1: Good for kids. Good. Real nice. Heard about it at
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Speaker 1: Sunday school. Sung it at Vacation Bible School. Had a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun with it. But what this text is
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Speaker 1: about is anything but fun. So take your religious glasses
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Speaker 1: off and your Sunday school memories away and your favorite
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Speaker 1: preacher's sermon away about the bones and understand the power
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Speaker 1: of the prophecy. God has taken Ezekiel up in the
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Speaker 1: spirit and then down into a valley that looks like
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Speaker 1: it's been excavated. The valley is full of dry bones.
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Speaker 1: And the Bible says that the bones were very dry.
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Speaker 1: And when we read about the progression of the story
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Speaker 1: of the dry bones, I'm not sure that Ezekiel himself
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Speaker 1: fully understood what he saw, except there were two things
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Speaker 1: that stand out, putting the text in context. The bones
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Speaker 1: represented an army that had been defeated. And when they
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Speaker 1: were revived, they stood up on their feet, a great army.
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Speaker 1: That was the vision. But the last two verses explains
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Speaker 1: this is bigger than an army. This is the house
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Speaker 1: of Israel. The scattering of the bones is how they
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Speaker 1: will be scattered around the earth. And at the end
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Speaker 1: of the scattering that God has promised him, I will
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Speaker 1: bring you back into your land in verse 12. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to bring you back into your land. So this
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Speaker 1: is not just picturesque. This is not just storytelling. This
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Speaker 1: is prophetic as to the destiny of God's people, Israel,
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Speaker 1: and what they would endure. The text at its core
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Speaker 1: is a prophetic utterance over the nation of Israel, the
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Speaker 1: dry parts, barren destitution that they would face scattered all
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Speaker 1: over the world from 1933 to 1945. Roughly six million
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Speaker 1: Jews died making up those bones, those bones, those dry bones.
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Speaker 1: Six million Jews made up those dry, very dry bones.
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Speaker 1: What Ezekiel described as the valley of dry bones and
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Speaker 1: then said the bones were dry and then comes back
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Speaker 1: and says they were very dry. He was looking to
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Speaker 1: one of the most horrific genocides that we have seen
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Speaker 1: in the history of the world. Six million Jews in
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Speaker 1: a few short years, a short period of time, most
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Speaker 1: of it in a few months, were slaughtered, yanked from
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Speaker 1: their families, some of them never to see their loved
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Speaker 1: ones again, some of them fleeing away, scattering in the night,
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Speaker 1: escaping naked, running any way they could, deprived of food
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Speaker 1: and dignity. It didn't start out that bad. It started
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Speaker 1: out with jokes and stories being told and people poking
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Speaker 1: fun at them and flyers being placed up on the wall,
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Speaker 1: degrading them. And later it got deeper and they started
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Speaker 1: putting yellow stars on their back to differentiate them from
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Speaker 1: others because whenever people need to destroy somebody, they must
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Speaker 1: dehumanize them first so that they don't have to feel
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Speaker 1: like they're they're killing an equal they they start gradually
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Speaker 1: dehumanizing little tiny things pulling away at your worth and
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Speaker 1: your dignity and little by little it got worse and
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Speaker 1: worse and worse until their bodies were tossed into mass graves.
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Speaker 1: No names, no memories, numbers burned into their skin. Them bones,
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Speaker 1: them bones, them dry bones. Can these bones live again? Lord,
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Speaker 1: thou knowest. The people of Israel are scattered all over
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Speaker 1: the world. They went throughout the whole diaspora, all over
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Speaker 1: the world, hiding wherever they could, living wherever they could,
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Speaker 1: and still to this day are scattered in many parts
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Speaker 1: of the world, from Australia to New Zealand to Europe
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Speaker 1: to any place they could find a place, America, in
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Speaker 1: South America. They scattered everywhere to avoid the tyranny and
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Speaker 1: the lunacy of Hitler. And some of them did not
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Speaker 1: get away. We are sure six million or more did
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Speaker 1: not get away. Baked in ovens, burned alive. No wonder
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Speaker 1: Ezekiel said the bones were dry and very dry. From
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Speaker 1: 1933 to 1945, we have six million Jews destroyed. They
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Speaker 1: faced genocide. But they would reassemble and regain national status
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Speaker 1: in 1948. The Ezekiel 37 is fulfilled in 1948 when
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Speaker 1: God brings back those bones out of the dysphora and
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Speaker 1: there's a great noise and there's a great shaking and
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Speaker 1: the bones start coming together again. And in 1948, Israel
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Speaker 1: regained its national status and became a nation again against
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Speaker 1: all odds. So let's put the text in context. Let's
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Speaker 1: understand that it deals with real pain and real trauma
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Speaker 1: and real atrocities and some things that are not lawful
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Speaker 1: to even be uttered, that cannot be fathomed, that I
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Speaker 1: cannot do justice to, that I cannot fully articulate the
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Speaker 1: magnitude of the atrocities that occurred amongst the Jewish family.
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Speaker 1: And my heart goes out to you. and to your
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Speaker 1: children's children's children. The atrocities were so great that some
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Speaker 1: scientific research has proven that the descendants of the Holocaust,
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Speaker 1: many of them have had their DNA completely rearranged. Even
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Speaker 1: though they weren't there, they inherited the stress and the
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Speaker 1: trauma that rearranged their DNA structure. Their physiological DNA structure
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Speaker 1: was affected by the atrocity that they went through. And
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Speaker 1: it's important that we understand that, especially right now at
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Speaker 1: this juncture. While America's talking about pain and we're talking
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Speaker 1: about injustice and we're talking about prejudice, this isn't a
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Speaker 1: little thing. This kind of thing can get out of hand.
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Speaker 1: It can turn into genocide beyond anything you can imagine.
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Speaker 1: And in a few months' time, six million people can
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Speaker 1: be destroyed. Because we listen at the wrong voice and
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Speaker 1: the wrong voice talks too loud and too long and
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Speaker 1: we feel justified. We feel enraged and enraged people are
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Speaker 1: dangerous people. We have to hear this word. We have
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Speaker 1: to understand this word. It's good for African Americans to
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Speaker 1: hear this word because we must recognize that we are
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Speaker 1: not the only people that suffer it. Sometimes we are
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Speaker 1: so preoccupied with our own suffering that we delegitimize the
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Speaker 1: suffering of other people. But you must recognize that the
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Speaker 1: reason that Native Americans are still on reservations after hundreds
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Speaker 1: and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years, you must
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Speaker 1: realize that the Jewish people have gone through atrocities almost
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Speaker 1: in our lifetime and resurrected and come back And we
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Speaker 1: must be heartened by the fact that if they survive,
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Speaker 1: we can too. But we must be warned by the
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Speaker 1: realization that dangerous voices at the helm of any country
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Speaker 1: can lead to massive destruction. And all of us have
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Speaker 1: to hear that. And we have to condemn all racist
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Speaker 1: rhetoric because it leads to them bones, them bones. Them
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Speaker 1: dry bones. And don't think that America is exempt from
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Speaker 1: her own dirty linen snatching babies out of the hands
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Speaker 1: of our mothers and grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers and pulling them
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Speaker 1: away never to be seen again. And don't think that
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Speaker 1: we don't have mass graves in New York and mass
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Speaker 1: graves in Washington and mass graves. Don't think that because
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Speaker 1: we kind of regulate that kind of hatred and it's
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Speaker 1: convenient to hate somebody far away from you and never...
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Speaker 1: recognize the malice that exists in your own heart. The
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Speaker 1: truth of the matter is the heart of man is
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Speaker 1: continually wicked. Black men, white men, brown men, any man
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Speaker 1: given too much power too long can do hideous things
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Speaker 1: to other people and justify it by calling them names
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Speaker 1: because you don't think that they're real people. If you
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Speaker 1: don't think that they're real people, you feel justified in
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Speaker 1: killing them and destroying them and calling them names so
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Speaker 1: that you don't have to lay down at night and
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Speaker 1: wrestle with the guilt of the atrocities of life. Them bones.
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Speaker 1: Them bones. God has warned Ezekiel what is going to
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Speaker 1: happen thousands of years before it occurred and we're reading it.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't so that we would have campfire songs
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Speaker 1: or so that we would hoop down the clothes at
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Speaker 1: the end. but more importantly, that we might understand the
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Speaker 1: word of the Lord to us. That we might understand
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Speaker 1: that there is a fight that happens, not only in
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Speaker 1: a nation, not only in history, not only in terms
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Speaker 1: of understanding prophetic relevance, but there is a fight that
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Speaker 1: can take you out. The Bible said that when Ezekiel
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Speaker 1: got down to the Valley of the Dry Bones, they
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Speaker 1: were so bad that when God asked him, can they
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Speaker 1: live again? He said, Lord, thou knowest. I'm your prophet
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Speaker 1: and I'm not even sure that they can make a comeback.
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Speaker 1: And I want to take it now from its context
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Speaker 1: and apply it to your situation. A few of you,
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Speaker 1: not all of you, have lived long enough or gone
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Speaker 1: through anything bad enough. But a few of you know
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Speaker 1: what it is to have something to so scald you,
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Speaker 1: so burn you, so beat you, so pulverize you, that
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Speaker 1: your fight goes out of you. And you are so
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Speaker 1: scattered and so broken and so fragmented that you don't
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Speaker 1: even know. Whether you can ever live again or whether
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Speaker 1: you will ever smile again or whether you will ever
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Speaker 1: live to fight another day or whether you'll be able
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Speaker 1: to pull yourself together. Your mind is over here and
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Speaker 1: your heart is over there and your body's over here
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Speaker 1: and your finances are over there. And you're all scattered
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Speaker 1: all about and trying to gather yourself together just to
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Speaker 1: fake a smile for a few minutes in front of
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Speaker 1: people to say I'm doing okay. Knowing you're lying on
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Speaker 1: the inside because them bones, them bones. Them dry bones.
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Speaker 1: Bones have been dry so long that you can't even
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Speaker 1: remember what happy felt like, what joy felt like, what
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Speaker 1: peace felt like, what contentment felt like. Your song is gone.
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Speaker 1: Your dance is gone. Your joy is gone. You've gone
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Speaker 1: through so much. I'm not talking about somebody stole your
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Speaker 1: parking space. I'm not talking about having to clip coupons
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Speaker 1: in order. I'm talking about going through so much that
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Speaker 1: something inside of you dies. And you wonder, can I
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Speaker 1: get back up again? I don't mind falling down if
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Speaker 1: I can get back up again. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: fall down at all. But if I fall down and
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Speaker 1: I know I can get up, I'll be all right.
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Speaker 1: I might have a skid knee. I might need a Band-Aid,
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Speaker 1: but I'll be okay. But I'm concerned about the fall
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Speaker 1: where I go down and I can't get up again.
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Speaker 1: I'm concerned about being like that old lady in the commercial. Help!
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Speaker 1: I've fallen down. And I can't get up. And you
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Speaker 1: don't have to be old to be like that. You
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Speaker 1: can be broke and be like that. You can go
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Speaker 1: to prison and be like that. You can go through
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Speaker 1: a divorce and be like that. You can be heartbroken
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Speaker 1: and be like that. Help, I've fallen. I've fallen. I've
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Speaker 1: fallen and I can't get myself back up. I can't
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Speaker 1: get myself together. I can't get back in the fight again.
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Speaker 1: I can't get the strength to open up my business again.
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Speaker 1: I can't. I can't open up my heart to the
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Speaker 1: possibility of being hurt this bad again. Help! I've fallen.
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Speaker 1: And I can't get back. They used to be an army.
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Speaker 1: They made a living fighting. These were not wimps. These
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Speaker 1: were not weak men. These were fighters. These were warriors.
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Speaker 1: They had swords and shields. And now all they had
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Speaker 1: was bones and smell. Have you ever seen anybody lose
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Speaker 1: their fight? Get where they didn't care what they put on.
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Speaker 1: Whether they brushed their teeth or not or combed their hair.
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Speaker 1: You can lose your fight so bad that you despair
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Speaker 1: of life itself. The apostle Paul talks about one time.
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Speaker 1: Now he's writing the Bible and said, I went through
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Speaker 1: a time that was so piercing and so deep. He
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Speaker 1: said that I despaired of life itself. I didn't even
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Speaker 1: want to be here anymore. He cries out one at
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Speaker 1: another time, oh, wretched man that I am, who shall
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Speaker 1: deliver me from the body of this death? I know
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Speaker 1: you're up right now and everything's going wonderful right now.
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Speaker 1: You don't think you need to hear this, but just
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Speaker 1: put this message back and save it because there are
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Speaker 1: some things that can attack you so severely and so
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Speaker 1: consistently and one thing after another after another after another
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Speaker 1: until after a while you get tired, you can't fight
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Speaker 1: everybody all the time. 24-7 and you finally give up
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Speaker 1: the bones, the bones, them dry bones. God took Ezekiel
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Speaker 1: on a field trip to see a future conflict that
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Speaker 1: was so bad and so overwhelming that even God's prophet
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Speaker 1: did not know whether these bones could live again. He said, Lord,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. What I love about the text is
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Speaker 1: that Ezekiel says, So I prophesied as I was commanded.
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Speaker 1: This is a great thing. Preachers, teachers, Bible students, scholars,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you don't have the faith for the text, but
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Speaker 1: you got to have the obedience for the text. He said,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know whether it was going to work or not,
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Speaker 1: but I just did what I was told. Obedience is
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Speaker 1: better than sacrifice. He stands over something that he is
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Speaker 1: not sure that it will ever be resurrected. Some of
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Speaker 1: you have been to cities that are so dry and
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Speaker 1: so very dry you're not sure that you could ever
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Speaker 1: build what you see in that city. Some of you
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Speaker 1: are in marriages that are so dry and so very
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Speaker 1: dry that you have given up all hope that the
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Speaker 1: marriage would ever get any better because it is so
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Speaker 1: hopelessly dry. But still he said, I prophesied. As I
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Speaker 1: was commanded. The word of God is the first step
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Speaker 1: to the rejuvenation of those who have lost their fight.
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Speaker 1: You cannot rejuvenate based on your feelings. Ezekiel did not
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Speaker 1: have the feeling everything. I got a feeling everything's going
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Speaker 1: to be. That's nice. But if you go down low enough,
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Speaker 1: you won't have a feeling. If you grieve deeply enough,
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Speaker 1: if you lose a loved one that's close enough to you,
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Speaker 1: you don't have a feeling that everything is going to
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Speaker 1: be all right. Nothing in you says it's going to
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Speaker 1: be all right. If you get heartbroken bad enough, you
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Speaker 1: lose your feeling that everything's going to be all right.
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Speaker 1: But you cannot get your fight back based on your feelings.
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Speaker 1: You have to get your fight back based on what
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Speaker 1: God said. Prophesy to the bones. that they may live.
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Speaker 1: If there's any hope for you to get your fight back,
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Speaker 1: it's going to come through the word of God. It's
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Speaker 1: not going to come through cussing and fussing and fighting
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Speaker 1: and shooting and slamming and banging and laying people out.
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Speaker 1: That will not get you a fight back. That will
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Speaker 1: get you killed. That will get you locked up in jail.
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Speaker 1: That will get you put into a mental institution. That
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Speaker 1: will not work. The word of God. coming into your
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Speaker 1: heart and coming into your spirit on a daily basis
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Speaker 1: starts to rejuvenate your spirit again. You have to fight back.
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Speaker 1: You have to fight fire with fire. The enemy's trying
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Speaker 1: to slay you with words and you have to be
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Speaker 1: revived with words by applying God's word in your spirit
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Speaker 1: every day. I prophesied as I was commanded. I did
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Speaker 1: what he told me to do. That's what I hope
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Speaker 1: to be said about me when everything is said and done.
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Speaker 1: I did what he told me to do. I preached
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Speaker 1: what he told me to preach. I said what he
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Speaker 1: told me to say. I gave what he told me
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Speaker 1: to give. I served what he told me to serve.
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Speaker 1: I was faithful to my calling. I did what he
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Speaker 1: told me to do. In season and out of season.
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Speaker 1: Packed stadiums and coliseums. Filled up auditoriums. Filled up parks.
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Speaker 1: Millions of people preaching the word of God. But I
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Speaker 1: preached no less. when the house was empty because I
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Speaker 1: prophesied as I was commanded. It wasn't my job to
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Speaker 1: fill the house. It was my job to preach the word.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't my job to take care of the crowd.
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Speaker 1: It was my job to preach the word. It's not
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Speaker 1: my job to heal the sick. It's my job to
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Speaker 1: pray for the sick. I prophesied as I was commanded.
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Speaker 1: did what you told me to do. You want me
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Speaker 1: to anoint it with oil? I anoint it with oil.
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Speaker 1: You want me to pray the prayer of faith? I
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Speaker 1: pray the prayer of faith. I already know I'm not
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Speaker 1: the healer. You're the healer. But I did what you
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Speaker 1: told me to do. This is not about your confidence
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Speaker 1: in yourself. Or thinking that you can heal somebody or
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Speaker 1: you can fix somebody or you can straighten out something.
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Speaker 1: The problem with us right now, we have tried to
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Speaker 1: straighten each other out until we have messed each other up.
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Speaker 1: Stop practicing on people. Just do what he told you
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Speaker 1: to do. I prophesied in a valley full of dry
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Speaker 1: human bones. Remains. Remains of what used to be. I
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Speaker 1: stood in the midst of what was and is no
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Speaker 1: more and I stood there and I prophesied. I prophesied
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Speaker 1: to something that I didn't even think could hear. The
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Speaker 1: reason I can preach to pews and chairs and rocks
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Speaker 1: and hills is that it's not about your hearing. It's
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Speaker 1: about me prophesying as I was commanded. It's not my
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Speaker 1: business whether you hear me or not. It's not my
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Speaker 1: business whether you like me or not. It's not my
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Speaker 1: business whether you agree with me or not. I'm not
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Speaker 1: here to convince you to like me. It doesn't make
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Speaker 1: any difference. I prophesied as I was commanded. I did
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Speaker 1: what he told me to do. So when I get
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Speaker 1: back home, he's not going to ask me, did they
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Speaker 1: like you? He's not going to ask me, did they
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Speaker 1: agree with you? Did they approve it? No. He's going,
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Speaker 1: did you do what I told you to do? Ezekiel said,
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Speaker 1: I prophesied as I was commanded. I speak to you,
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Speaker 1: we need a spirit of obedience. We've lost it. We've
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Speaker 1: lost it in our nation. We've lost it in our churches.
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Speaker 1: We've lost it in our family. We've even lost it
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Speaker 1: in our children. Everybody does whatever they want to do,
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Speaker 1: say whatever they want to say. But God gives merit
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Speaker 1: for obedience. Obedience is better than sacrifice. So Ezekiel said,
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Speaker 1: in order for them to get their fight back, I
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Speaker 1: prophesied as I was commanded. And suddenly there was a
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Speaker 1: noise and there was a shaking and it started coming together.
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Speaker 1: There is a move of God that brings things together
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Speaker 1: that have fallen apart. And I want to take a
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Speaker 1: moment and talk to some people today who are dealing
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Speaker 1: with things that have fallen apart and gone dry and
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Speaker 1: seem hopeless and in despair. There is a move of
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Speaker 1: God that will cause things to come together. And when
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Speaker 1: God starts bringing things together, he will bring things together
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Speaker 1: that fit together. When you get in it, you'll put
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Speaker 1: bones together that don't go together. But when God starts
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Speaker 1: doing it, he will put the right bone in the
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Speaker 1: right place to connect with the right bone. Stop manipulating
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Speaker 1: people because you're going to create a distorted body. God
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Speaker 1: brought together bone to his bone. Everything moved toward what
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Speaker 1: it was supposed to be connected to. You can't tell
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Speaker 1: other people who to work with, who to serve with,
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Speaker 1: who to grow with. Bones come together based on fitting,
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Speaker 1: based on function, based on service. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: who I'm talking to, but God is going to cause
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Speaker 1: a drawing to happen. And bones are going to come together,
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Speaker 1: bones to his bone. I feel a coming together. I
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Speaker 1: want to stop here and thank God for coming together.
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Speaker 1: A coming together, a coming together, a coming together. After
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Speaker 1: a long time of being in a valley of distraction
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Speaker 1: and disruption, a long time of being fragmented and disoriented,
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Speaker 1: God is bringing about a coming together. I need about
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Speaker 1: 30 seconds of praise for a coming together, a coming together,
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Speaker 1: a coming together, a coming. I know it's not back yet,
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Speaker 1: but it's coming. I know it's not fixed yet, but
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Speaker 1: it's coming. I know you're not all the way out
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Speaker 1: of the woods yet, but it's coming. It may be
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Speaker 1: your finances coming together. It may be your family coming together.
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Speaker 1: It may be your siblings coming together. It may be
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Speaker 1: your children coming together. But God has a way of
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Speaker 1: knowing how to shake things back together that you couldn't
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Speaker 1: get back together, that you couldn't fuss back together, that
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Speaker 1: you couldn't worry back together, that the counselor couldn't get
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Speaker 1: back together. But the Lord said it's coming together. And
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Speaker 1: you got to have enough faith to praise him for
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Speaker 1: the coming together. You've got to believe that God is
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Speaker 1: bringing it together and start thanking him. You can't wait
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Speaker 1: till it's over to give him the praise. You got
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Speaker 1: to praise him in the middle of the process that
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Speaker 1: things are coming together. I want you to make a
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Speaker 1: righteous declaration. My life is coming together. Say it out loud.
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Speaker 1: My life is coming together. Everything that's been scattered. is
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Speaker 1: coming together. Everything that's been lost is coming together. Everything
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Speaker 1: that's been broken is coming together. Everything that's been wounded
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Speaker 1: is coming together. Yes, I'm talking to you. I want
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Speaker 1: you to still declare it. I want you to stand
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Speaker 1: up and say it out loud. It is coming together.
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Speaker 1: You might look silly, but declare it. I decree and
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Speaker 1: declare that my life is coming back together. Now give
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Speaker 1: him praise. and you begin to bring it together and
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Speaker 1: God began to bring it together God began to bring
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Speaker 1: it together see the problem with us is we're not
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Speaker 1: grateful sometime until we see everything we don't thank God
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Speaker 1: for anything but at the sign of it coming together
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Speaker 1: you got to start thanking God as if it were
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Speaker 1: already done You got to praise him like it's already there.
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Speaker 1: You got to praise him like it's already fixed. It's
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Speaker 1: coming together. And no enemy and no alien and no
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Speaker 1: Hitler and no principality and no power can outrun God
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Speaker 1: for bringing your life back together. When God gets ready
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Speaker 1: to bring it back together, no devil in hell can
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Speaker 1: stop it from coming together. Yes, sir. Yes. The flames
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Speaker 1: and the gas of Auschwitz could not stop Israel from
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Speaker 1: becoming a nation again. And the fire that you're in
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Speaker 1: right now cannot stop you from coming together again. Hallelujah
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Speaker 1: to God. And I want you to see quite clearly
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Speaker 1: and understand that it's not too late for you to
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Speaker 1: get your fight back. I want you to tweet somebody.
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Speaker 1: I want you to tell somebody. I want you to
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Speaker 1: declare it. Right now I'm getting my fight back. I'm
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Speaker 1: getting my fight back. I'm getting my fight back. I'm
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Speaker 1: getting it in my closet. I'm getting it in my wardrobe.
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Speaker 1: I'm getting it in my plans. I'm getting it in
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Speaker 1: my attitude. I cannot fix my past. I cannot change yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I cannot refight the battles I lost. I lost that battle.
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Speaker 1: That battle is awful. That battle is over. That battle
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Speaker 1: was awful. That battle is ended. But I am not
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Speaker 1: here to fight the battles that I lost. I am
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Speaker 1: standing up to fight the battles that are in front
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Speaker 1: of me. So I'm forgetting those things which are behind
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Speaker 1: and reaching to those things before me. I'm getting set
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Speaker 1: up to fight again. Hallelujah. Look at your neighbor and say,
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Speaker 1: I will fight again. I will fight again. I know
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Speaker 1: you counted me out. I know you walked past me.
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Speaker 1: I know you thought I was finished. I know you
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Speaker 1: thought I was prehistoric. I know you thought I was
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Speaker 1: just history. I know you thought I wouldn't be back.
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Speaker 1: I know you thought I was yesterday's news. I know
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Speaker 1: you thought I fell so bad I couldn't get up.
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Speaker 1: I know you thought I was finished. I know you
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Speaker 1: thought I was over. I know you thought I'd never
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Speaker 1: get up on my feet. I know you thought I'd
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Speaker 1: never get my business back. I know you thought I'd
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Speaker 1: never open up a church. I know you thought I'd
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Speaker 1: never survive. But I'm here to tell you that I
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Speaker 1: feel a shaking down in my valley. And I've got
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Speaker 1: a feeling that something is starting to come together. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to wait until I see it. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to praise him right now. I'm going to thank
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Speaker 1: him right now. I'm going to glorify God. God, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to praise you. God, I'm going to praise you. God,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to praise you. God, I'm going to praise you. God,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to. God, I'm going to. God, I'm going to. God,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to. It's coming together. It's coming together. It's
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Speaker 1: coming together. It's coming together. That's what ought to be
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Speaker 1: in your mouth. It's coming together. It's coming together. It's
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Speaker 1: coming together. How you doing? It's coming together. How you feeling?
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Speaker 1: It's coming together. How things with you? It's coming together.
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Speaker 1: It's coming together. It's coming together. It's coming together. It's
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Speaker 1: coming together. It's coming together. It's coming together. And up
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Speaker 1: under the first advent of the anointing, God brought things
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Speaker 1: back together. Bone to his bone. He didn't bring the
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Speaker 1: hip bone and connect it to the neck bone. Stop
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Speaker 1: trying to connect with people you don't fit Y'all don't
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Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying to you if it don't fit
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Speaker 1: don't force it Stop trying to connect and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean that but the fact that it doesn't fit with
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Speaker 1: you Doesn't mean that they're not in the body. It
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Speaker 1: just means that you all aren't a good fit So
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Speaker 1: stop trying to take the hip bone and attach it
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Speaker 1: to the neck bone because that's not where it goes
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Speaker 1: and When you find the bone that fits, you don't
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Speaker 1: have to work so hard at it. If you got
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Speaker 1: to put in all kind of work, you are joining
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Speaker 1: something together that's not supposed to be together. You're going
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Speaker 1: to have a hard time attaching my knee to my
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Speaker 1: head because they're not designed to fit together. But if
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Speaker 1: you put my knee to my leg bone, it is
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Speaker 1: designed to fit right. Stop trying to force what doesn't fit.
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Speaker 1: It's coming together. It's coming together. Coming together means that
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Speaker 1: you have to be willing to see some bones shake
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Speaker 1: past you. There was a shaking in the valley and
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Speaker 1: the bones came together, bone to its bone. But that
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Speaker 1: meant that some bones had to shake past other bones
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Speaker 1: to get to the right bones that fit together so
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Speaker 1: that they could be connected. And you cannot count it
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Speaker 1: failure because you're seeing bones go past you. If it
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Speaker 1: went past me, it wasn't for me. If it went
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Speaker 1: past me, it wasn't my bone. If it went past me,
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Speaker 1: it didn't fit me. Good luck. I hope you find
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Speaker 1: the bone you fit with. Good luck to you. May
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Speaker 1: the Lord be with you. Ain't no hate over here.
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Find your bone. Because I don't want
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Speaker 1: anything clinging to me that don't fit me. I don't
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Speaker 1: want anything clinging to me that I have to maintain
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Speaker 1: and wrestle with and struggle with all the time. I
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Speaker 1: don't want anything clinging to me that I have to
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Speaker 1: beg to cling to me. I want to find what
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Speaker 1: fits me so that when I get my fight back,
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Speaker 1: I can stand up on you and you can hold
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Speaker 1: up to the weight Do you hear what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: I don't want anybody up under me that can't hold
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Speaker 1: up to the weight of what it takes to be
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Speaker 1: who I am. I'm who I am. It costs what
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Speaker 1: it costs and it takes what it takes. And if
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Speaker 1: you can't take it, let me know. Because somebody out
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Speaker 1: here in this field has the power to undergird what
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Speaker 1: God gave me. I got a mighty somebody out here.
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Speaker 1: Will stand up to the weight of me standing up
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Speaker 1: to my calling. Will stand up to the weight of
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Speaker 1: me standing up to my life. Will stand up to
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Speaker 1: the weight of me standing up to the challenge that
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Speaker 1: is before me. Because I know that this is not
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Speaker 1: my last battle. I got to have the right bones
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Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time. Because I
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Speaker 1: got devils to fight. I got devils to fight. I
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Speaker 1: say I got devils to fight. I say I got
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Speaker 1: devils to fight. I got devils to fight. I'm not
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Speaker 1: here for no beauty contest. I got devils to fight.
36:47
Speaker 1: I'm not here for no beauty pageant. I got devils
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Speaker 1: to fight. I'm not here for a fashion show. I
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Speaker 1: got devils to fight. I'm not here to impress people.
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Speaker 1: I got devils to fight. I'm not here for a
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Speaker 1: popularity contest. I got devils to fight. I got to
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Speaker 1: have the right stuff around me. The Bible said little
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Speaker 1: by little God brought the bones together. God is bringing
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Speaker 1: the bones. Yes, Lord. Thank you. God is bringing the
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Speaker 1: bones together. He's bringing the bones together. The skeletal formation
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Speaker 1: of your new business move is coming together. The right
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Speaker 1: people are coming in at the right time. God said
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Speaker 1: he's bringing the bones together. He said, I'm bringing the
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Speaker 1: bones together. I'm bringing the bones together. I'm bringing the
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Speaker 1: bones together. I know you don't see flesh yet. I
37:33
Speaker 1: know you don't see skin yet, but I'm bringing the
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Speaker 1: bones together. I'm bringing the skeletal part together. I'm bringing
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Speaker 1: the infrastructure together. I'm putting you in the right place
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Speaker 1: at the right time because I'm getting ready to do
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Speaker 1: some crazy things in your life. And God said he's
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Speaker 1: bringing the bones together. There is a skeleton coming together.
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Speaker 1: There's a skeleton come together, a framework whereby you're going
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Speaker 1: to face the future without living in the fear of
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Speaker 1: the past. I want you to get rid of your
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Speaker 1: valley mentality. I want you to get rid of the
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Speaker 1: defeat that happened in the valley. I want you to
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Speaker 1: shake off the shame of what you went through in
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Speaker 1: the valley because God is getting ready to take you
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Speaker 1: to the mountain. And you can't go to the mountain
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Speaker 1: looking back at the valley. The bones are coming together.
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Speaker 1: The bones, the bones, the bones. Them bones and bones
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Speaker 1: and bones. Them bones and bones and bones and bones.
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Speaker 1: Them bones are coming together. Them bones are coming together.
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Speaker 1: Them bones are coming together. Somebody call you who hadn't
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Speaker 1: called you in years. Them bones are coming together. The bones,
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Speaker 1: the bones, the bones, the bones, the bones are coming together.
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Speaker 1: The bones, the bones, the bones are coming together. The
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Speaker 1: bones are coming together. The bones are coming together. The
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Speaker 1: bones are coming together. The right connections, the right place,
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Speaker 1: the right time. Even in the middle of the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: the bones are coming together. God! He's getting ready to
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Speaker 1: lift you up. And he's working on something. He's working
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Speaker 1: on something in the noise. He's working on something in
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Speaker 1: the noise. I know it's a lot of noise going
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Speaker 1: on right now, but God is working on something in
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Speaker 1: the noise. He's working on something in the shaking. He's
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Speaker 1: working on something in the chaos. He's working on something
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Speaker 1: in the chaos. He's working on something in the wind.
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Speaker 1: He's working on something in the confusion. I know it's
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Speaker 1: kind of loud, but he's working on something. I know
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Speaker 1: it's disruptive, but he's working on something. I know it's restless,
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Speaker 1: but he's working on something. Bones are coming together, bone
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Speaker 1: to its bone. I don't know who I'm preaching to,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like I'm preaching to somebody. I don't
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Speaker 1: know who it is, but I feel like I'm prophesying
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Speaker 1: to somebody. I don't know who it is, but God
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Speaker 1: is getting you ready. You're going to get your way.
39:30
Speaker 1: fight back. You're going to get your fight back. You're
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Speaker 1: going to get your stamina back. You're going to get
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Speaker 1: your fire back. The bones. The bones are coming together.
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Speaker 1: God is a God of structure. So he gets the
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Speaker 1: structure ready before he brings life to the army. He
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Speaker 1: brings the structure together. God builds infrastructure before he blows life. Oh,
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Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. God builds infrastructure before
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Speaker 1: he blows life. Don't be worried that it's not moving
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Speaker 1: right now. It's not supposed to move right now. God
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Speaker 1: is building infrastructure. The reason we get defeated is often
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Speaker 1: we start moving without infrastructure. If you start trying to
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Speaker 1: move and you don't have structure, you won't be able
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Speaker 1: to stand. That's how you got defeated last time. So
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Speaker 1: the reason God is taking time and putting infrastructure up
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Speaker 1: under you is so that when you move this next time,
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Speaker 1: you'll have the skeletal fortitude to be able to stand
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Speaker 1: up under the pressure because you underestimated what it costs
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Speaker 1: last time. This time you got to get this right.
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Speaker 1: Do you hear what I'm talking to you? So the
40:47
Speaker 1: Bible says that after everything began to come together, he
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Speaker 1: talked to Ezekiel again. He talks to him twice. First
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Speaker 1: time for him to prophesy to the bones. The second
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Speaker 1: time is to prophesy to the breath or to the wind.
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Speaker 1: He says, now, at one time you are speaking to
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Speaker 1: the object. The second time you are speaking to that
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Speaker 1: which empowers the object. Okay. The first time you're speaking
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Speaker 1: to the conditioned. the next time you're speaking to the
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Speaker 1: wind that's going to empower the condition. So first time
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Speaker 1: I speak to the dry bones that are laying in
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Speaker 1: the valley, I speak to what's left of your life.
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Speaker 1: I speak to the remains of your finances. I speak
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Speaker 1: to the remains of your marriage. I speak to the
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Speaker 1: remains of your relationship. I speak to the remains of
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Speaker 1: your ministry. The dry bones, the fragments, the memories, the moments,
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Speaker 1: that that seems impossible. I speak to that and God says,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to shake it together. Press down and shake
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Speaker 1: it together. Have you ever noticed that when the Bible
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Speaker 1: says press down, it don't just say shaken, but shaken together.
41:53
Speaker 1: Whenever God shakes, he shakes it together. He doesn't shake
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Speaker 1: it apart. He shakes it together. He doesn't shake it apart.
41:58
Speaker 1: He shakes it together. He's shaking it together. He's shaking
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Speaker 1: it together. He's shaking it together. And then he says,
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Speaker 1: now I want you to prophesy to the wind. And
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Speaker 1: he says, I want the wind to blow on these
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Speaker 1: that were slain. So God is blowing on those that
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Speaker 1: were slain. Listen to this closely. I'm going in real
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Speaker 1: deep now. God wants to blow on your pains. He
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Speaker 1: doesn't say blow on these that are being formed. He
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Speaker 1: says blow on these that were slain. God wants to
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Speaker 1: blow on the area where you failed. The area of
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Speaker 1: your deepest pain. He says let my wind at it.
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Speaker 1: Let me blow on it. Let me breathe on it.
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Speaker 1: I know how you feel about it. You told me
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Speaker 1: how you feel about it. Enough of your feelings. Shut
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Speaker 1: up with your feelings. Let my wind hit it. And
43:02
Speaker 1: as the wind began to blow, all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: sinews and flesh came up on those bones and they
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Speaker 1: stood up on their feet, a great army. Do you
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Speaker 1: have any idea how the world was shocked in 1948
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Speaker 1: when Israel, after being Burned. Six million people dead and
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Speaker 1: the rest of them on the run. One third of
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Speaker 1: their population annihilated in the Holocaust. And the rest of
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Speaker 1: them on the run all over the world. Learning different language.
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Speaker 1: Blending it into different cultures. Learning how to do business
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Speaker 1: in different environments. Learning how to adapt to different cultures.
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Speaker 1: And after all of that time, here they come back
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Speaker 1: into Israel as a nation. Sidewalks and streetlights. Skyscrapers. Tel
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Speaker 1: Aviv looks much like New York City or more and
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Speaker 1: these people who were once being burned in the fire
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Speaker 1: are moving in a power that was unimaginable to their
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Speaker 1: ancestors who were in the gas chambers there is a
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Speaker 1: comeback if there's a comeback for a country there's a
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Speaker 1: comeback for a family if there's a comeback for a
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Speaker 1: family there's a comeback for a person You might be
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Speaker 1: in a rehab center right now. You might be watching
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Speaker 1: me in jail. You might be watching me in a
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Speaker 1: mental institution. There's a comeback for you. There's a comeback
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Speaker 1: for you. There's a comeback. Do you hear me? I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to you. There's a comeback for you. You might
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Speaker 1: be stuck in the valley of bitterness. You are so
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Speaker 1: angry and so hateful. Nobody could get to you if
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Speaker 1: God sent them. You would listen. But listen at me.
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Speaker 1: There's a comeback for you. There's a comeback for you.
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Speaker 1: There's a wind that's coming through this system to reach
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Speaker 1: you right now to blow on the area where you've
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Speaker 1: been slain. I want you to stop acting like you're
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Speaker 1: so tough and open up and let God blow on
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Speaker 1: the area where you've been slain. Expose it to God.
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Speaker 1: Expose your disappointment. Expose the area that you want the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to begin to blow on right now because
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Speaker 1: the breath of the Almighty has shined in you. The
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Speaker 1: breath of the Almighty has given us life. The breath
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Speaker 1: of the Almighty has given us life. From the book
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Speaker 1: of Genesis to the book of Revelations, the breath of
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Speaker 1: the Almighty has given us life. It is not money
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Speaker 1: that gives us life. It is not careers that gives
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Speaker 1: us life. It is not being famous that gives us life.
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Speaker 1: The breath of the Almighty has given us life. And
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Speaker 1: God wants to breathe on you right now so that
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Speaker 1: you can get your fight back. The Bible doesn't just
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Speaker 1: say that they stood up on their feet, but it
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Speaker 1: says that they stood up on their feet as a
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Speaker 1: great army. Oh my God. So if I stand on
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Speaker 1: my feet as a great army, you have to recognize
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Speaker 1: that I'm not just standing there as a man. It
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Speaker 1: would be enough to be resurrected and get my life back.
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Speaker 1: Not only did he give me my life back and
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Speaker 1: I'm standing there naked like Adam. No, he said, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to give you your shield back. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: give you your sword back. I'm going to gird up
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Speaker 1: your loins. I'm going to give you the helmet of salvation.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to let your feet be shot with the
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Speaker 1: preparation of the gospel. I'm going to give you every
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Speaker 1: equipment you need to win where you lost. So they
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Speaker 1: stood back on their feet. It was not just that
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Speaker 1: he put sinews and tissues and skin on their bodies.
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Speaker 1: He put swords back in their hands. He put shields
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Speaker 1: on their arms. He put sandals on their feet, shot
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Speaker 1: them ready to march again. He covered their loins. He
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Speaker 1: put a helmet on their head. He gave them their
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Speaker 1: horses back. I prophesied to you, you're going to get
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Speaker 1: your horse back. You've been knocked off your horse, but
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Speaker 1: you're going to get your horse back. You're going to
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Speaker 1: get your horse back. It's been a long time without it,
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Speaker 1: but you're going to get your horse back. You've lost
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, been knocked down real low, but
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Speaker 1: it's not just that you're going to come out of
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Speaker 1: it alive. You're going to get your horse back, your shield,
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Speaker 1: your sword, your helmet, your your breastplate. I mean a complete,
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Speaker 1: total restoration coming in your life. So there are two
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Speaker 1: things that happen. One, the word did. Knowledge is power.
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Speaker 1: So you need to let the word speak to you.
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Speaker 1: Not only the word of God, but the word on
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Speaker 1: whatever it is that you're losing. You got to start reading.
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Speaker 1: You got to start studying. You got to get word.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be constructed by word. Your structure is
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Speaker 1: going to come through the knowledge that's taught to you
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Speaker 1: by word. Okay. The word. the word of God, but
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Speaker 1: also the word about the thing that you're trying to
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Speaker 1: have resurrected. You're not just going to get it done
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Speaker 1: by praying alone. You're going to have to educate yourself
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Speaker 1: about it. Words bring structure. Wind brings life. The wind
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Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit then blows on that that you
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Speaker 1: have structure. Stop asking God to blow on what you
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Speaker 1: haven't organized. Stop asking God to blow on what you
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Speaker 1: haven't organized. Once you get everything laid out the way
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Speaker 1: God says it needs to be laid out, then the
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Speaker 1: wind is coming. And when the wind comes, comes, it's
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Speaker 1: going to restore everything that you can't restore. The skin,
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Speaker 1: the sinews, the muscles, the tissues, the corpuscles, the cells.
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Speaker 1: It's going to bring your color back. It's going to
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Speaker 1: bring fluid into your eyes. It's going to get you
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Speaker 1: back up on your feet, but it's not going to
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Speaker 1: stop there. As you get ready to stand up, your
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Speaker 1: weapons are coming back. Your weapons, your tools, your army,
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Speaker 1: your equipment, your sword, your shield, your helmet, your horse.
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Speaker 1: Why do I need my horse back? Because I'm going
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Speaker 1: to ride up out of this valley. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: ride up out of this valley. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: crawl up out of this valley. I'm going to ride
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Speaker 1: up out of this valley. Gus is going to give
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Speaker 1: you your dignity back and you're going to ride out
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Speaker 1: of your valley. I don't know who I'm talking to.
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Speaker 1: Glory to God. I don't know who I'm talking to,
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Speaker 1: but you're going to ride up out of your valley.
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Speaker 1: Some of you are going to mount up on eagle's
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Speaker 1: wings when you're coming out of your valley. God sent
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Speaker 1: this word to you to tell you how to get
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Speaker 1: your fight back. And it starts this Sunday morning. Yes,
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Speaker 1: exit on your calendar. Put it on your date book.
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Speaker 1: It starts this Sunday morning. Things are going to start
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Speaker 1: pulling together. And I'm going to be thankful and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to start murmuring and I'm going to start being
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Speaker 1: dry and I'm going to start being bitter and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to start being hateful because I am self-sabotaging my success.
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Speaker 1: My God, if my ancestors could survive slavery, Never saw
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Speaker 1: a washing machine. Never saw a telephone. Never saw an
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Speaker 1: electric oven. Never saw a microwave. And yet they took
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Speaker 1: care of other people's houses and theirs too. Worked in
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Speaker 1: the fields all day, beaten like dogs. Extremities cut off
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Speaker 1: their bodies and still they stood. Then whatever it is
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Speaker 1: you're trying to put on me, I'll be all right.
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Speaker 1: If they could withstand hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
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Speaker 1: years of being raped and abused and castrated, I'd be
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Speaker 1: all right. If they could have their baby snatched out
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Speaker 1: of their arms and soul in New Orleans, as bad
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Speaker 1: as this heartbreak I'm facing right now is, I'd be
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Speaker 1: all right. If the Jewish people could survive the Holocaust
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Speaker 1: and march back into Israel and set up a government
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Speaker 1: and build highways and open up businesses and start doing
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Speaker 1: international trade surrounded by nations that hate them and still
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Speaker 1: stand in autonomy and survive I'll be all right. If
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Speaker 1: Christ could be betrayed by his own disciples, sold out
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Speaker 1: by those that he had washed feet and fed, if
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Speaker 1: Christ could endure the shame of being stripped naked and
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Speaker 1: nailed to a rugged tree and hang in the hot
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Speaker 1: sun in the Palestinian air and die In front of
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Speaker 1: his disciples. If Christ could go through all of that
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Speaker 1: and then early Sunday morning get up out of the
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Speaker 1: grave and rise up with all power in his hand
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Speaker 1: and go show himself to his disciples and say, this
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Speaker 1: is how you get your fight back. When they knock
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Speaker 1: you down, this is how you get your fight back.
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Speaker 1: When they rule you out, this is how you get
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Speaker 1: your fight back. When they think they got rid of you,
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Speaker 1: this is how you get your fight back. When they
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Speaker 1: roll a stone in front of you and tell you
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Speaker 1: to stay where you belong, this is how you get
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Speaker 1: your fight back. Then what about you? I want to
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Speaker 1: pray for everybody that's listening at me right now that
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Speaker 1: has an area that you need to get your fight back.
53:45
Speaker 1: I want to pray for you right now that the
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Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit would touch you in a
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Speaker 1: supernatural way. And I want to challenge you. In just
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Speaker 1: a moment, I'm going to challenge you to sow a
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Speaker 1: seed into a resurrection that's about to occur in your life.
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Speaker 1: But right now, I want to pray for you. Not
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Speaker 1: just seed. I want to pray for you. Because until
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Speaker 1: you get it in your spirit, you can't receive it
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Speaker 1: into your life. You got to get it in your spirit.
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Speaker 1: You got to stop planning to die. You got to
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Speaker 1: stop picking out territory in dry valleys and saying, I'll
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Speaker 1: just lay here. No, I'm not going to stay. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to get my fight back. I'm going to find
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Speaker 1: my horse. I'm getting back up. I'm getting back into
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Speaker 1: the fight. I'm going to make my way back. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to build my country. I'm going to build my vision.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to build my dream. I want to pray
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Speaker 1: for those of you that have been hit so hard.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're a whip. I've had the wind
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Speaker 1: knocked out of me too. I want to pray for
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Speaker 1: those of you that have lost your fight. Can I
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Speaker 1: just pray for you? Lord, we lose our fight because
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Speaker 1: we lose our faith and we lose our faith because
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Speaker 1: we fail to believe that things will ever be better
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Speaker 1: than they are. And so getting our fight back is
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Speaker 1: really getting our faith back to believe that what we
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Speaker 1: see is not the end of our story. If those
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Speaker 1: bones would have accepted that valley, they would have never
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Speaker 1: gotten out of that valley. But God, there are some
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Speaker 1: valleys that we must reject right now. There are some
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Speaker 1: valleys that we must divorce right now. There are some
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Speaker 1: valleys that we must leave right now. There are some
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Speaker 1: valleys we must come up from. There are some gas
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Speaker 1: chambers we must escape from. there are some pains we
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Speaker 1: must move on from. There is a burning hope down
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Speaker 1: inside of us that there is something better in front
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Speaker 1: of us than what was behind us. And I pray, Lord,
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Speaker 1: that the power and the anointing that you gave Israel
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Speaker 1: would rest on us right now, that we would not
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Speaker 1: accept the gas chambers as the end of our destiny,
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Speaker 1: that we would rise hope against hope and dare to
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Speaker 1: believe again. If you did it for the Old Testament saints,
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Speaker 1: you can do it for the New Testament saints. If
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Speaker 1: you did it for Israel, you can do it for
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Speaker 1: the church. If you did it for the ancestors, you
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Speaker 1: can do it for me. I pray resurrection to fall
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Speaker 1: on us. I pray renewal. I pray the birthing of vision.
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Speaker 1: I pray the planning of concepts and creative ideas to
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Speaker 1: come upon us now, even in the middle of this pandemic.
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Speaker 1: While we're in the pandemic, let's take advantage of this
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Speaker 1: opportunity to plan our strategy for the future. What are
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Speaker 1: you going to be when you get out of here?
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Speaker 1: What are you going to do when you get to
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Speaker 1: the next level? What steps do you need to make
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Speaker 1: to get to where God is getting ready to take you? God,
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Speaker 1: I commit myself to a strategy of resurrection. I commit
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Speaker 1: myself to living and not dying. I commit myself to overcoming.
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Speaker 1: And all of those who hear this word, let that
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Speaker 1: same spirit fall on them now. In the name of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: we pray. I want you to take 60 seconds right
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Speaker 1: where you are. You might look like an idiot. You
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Speaker 1: might be at the gas station. You might be in
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Speaker 1: the parking lot. You might be on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road somewhere. But I want you to take 60
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Speaker 1: seconds and praise him with everything you got. I mean every, every,
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Speaker 1: everything you got. Praise him like you're a warrior. Praise
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Speaker 1: him like you're a fighter. Praise him like you're coming back.
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Speaker 1: Praise him like you're getting your tools back. Praise him
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Speaker 1: like you're getting your stuff back. Praise him like you
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Speaker 1: mean business. Praise him like you're after it. Praise him
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Speaker 1: like you're after it. Praise him like you're going to
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Speaker 1: kill it. Praise him like you're going to knock it down.
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Speaker 1: Praise him like you're going to go for it. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, like that, like that, like that, like that,
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Speaker 1: like that. Like that. Like that. yeah like that like
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Speaker 1: that open your mouth up i don't care about no
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Speaker 1: tears open your mouth up yeah let the spirit of
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Speaker 1: god breathe on you let it breathe on you Let
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Speaker 1: it breathe on you. Let it breathe on you. God
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Speaker 1: is breathing on you. He's breathing on your plans. He's
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Speaker 1: breathing on your ideas. He's breathing on your concept. Let
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Speaker 1: it blow. Let it blow. Let it blow. God, as
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Speaker 1: I come to this moment, I thank you. Because I know,
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Speaker 1: I know that somebody that heard this word got their
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Speaker 1: fight back. I know it. I know it in my spirit.
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Speaker 1: I know I'm going to hear from them. I know,
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Speaker 1: I know I'm going to hear from them that they
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Speaker 1: got their fight back. I know I'm going to hear
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Speaker 1: about how you resurrected them and they began to go
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Speaker 1: forward riding on a horse into another realm of victory.
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Speaker 1: I know it. I know this is going to be
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Speaker 1: the word that breaks the yoke. I know it. As
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Speaker 1: we come to the close of this service, I want
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Speaker 1: to pray over every person that feels the unction in
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Speaker 1: their spirit to sow into the power of this word.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get my fight back I'm going to
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Speaker 1: get back up on my horse and get my sword
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Speaker 1: and shield and I refuse to be connected to people
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Speaker 1: I'm not connected to I'm going to be connected to
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Speaker 1: people that make it easy for me to stand up
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to finish what I started Because God
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Speaker 1: ain't through with me yet. God is not through with
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Speaker 1: me yet. Don't let the valley fool you. God is
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Speaker 1: not through with me yet. And as you plan and
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Speaker 1: as you sow, I'm going to ask God to send
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Speaker 1: the wind to blow on every dream in your life.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask God to send the wind to
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Speaker 1: blow on your strategies. to make the adjustments that's necessary,
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Speaker 1: to move the bones that are out of place so
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Speaker 1: the bones that were meant to be there will find
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Speaker 1: a place. Every vacancy is not bad news. Sometimes the
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Speaker 1: vacancy is just an opportunity for the right bone to
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Speaker 1: find its place. Stop crying over who left and get
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Speaker 1: ready for who's coming. Oh my God, I'm talking to
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Speaker 1: somebody today. I'm praying over you. Father, blow on us
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Speaker 1: as we sow, as we plant, as we believe, as
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Speaker 1: we trust you, as we strategize, as we reorganize, restructure, re-galvanize,
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Speaker 1: re-fortify ourselves. Let your wind blow. Let your wind blow.
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Speaker 1: Let it blow in resources and grants, conveyances of properties
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Speaker 1: and deeds, opportunities, opening up pulpits, releasing buildings. Let your
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Speaker 1: wind blow. You are restructuring the world. Don't restructure the
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Speaker 1: world and not restructure me. And I bless every seed.
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Speaker 1: And I bless every child that's moving in faith right now.
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Speaker 1: And I believe you. I believe you. Not for the seed.
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Speaker 1: I believe you for the harvest. In Jesus' name. And
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Speaker 1: that's how you get your fight back.