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SECRETS To Avoid Life Destroying Distractions : URGENT Wisdom for Preachers & Christians · Godly Hacks

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  Treat the people like...
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  Hey, we are live and I've got some things on my heart I want to share with you.
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  It's going to be a brief one today, but my friends love Cody and I don't always
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  watch him, but I flipped it on today. And I'm telling you, this is like ministry
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  gold. If you're a minister, it's amazing.
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  But even if you're a Christian, because there's principles he's teaching in
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  here that actually can just work for anybody's life. So I'm going to share some
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  of it with you today. Hold on. Did I just, yeah. Oh, hold on.
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  There we go. There we go. My mic's on now.
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  Anyway, I want to share some of this with you because I think it's going to
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  bless you and help you. Please take a second and share it.
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  And that's what we're going to do. And you can go ahead and take a look at this
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  now. And I'll be right with you while you're sharing. Preach.
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  I'm doing this year, I'm doing like 12 pillars. And I'm doing like 12 of the most basic pillars.
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  And I'm taking one month and teaching on that. So like, what have I taught on
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  this month or this year? Let me see if I can find it.
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  So in January, I preached on revival and having an encounter with God.
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  February, I preached on the Holy Ghost. March, I preached on the purpose of the church.
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  Number four, it was kind of spontaneous because we had camp meeting and stuff.
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  The next month I preached on authority and dominion. June and July,
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  I preached on faith. and then last month I preached on prosperity and I don't
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  know what I'm preaching on when I go home yet. I need to figure that out.
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  I think it's gonna be prayer maybe.
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  Maybe not, I don't know. But my point in all that is this, is that keep it with
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  basic doctrines. Don't preach weird stuff.
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  Like the closer you keep it, the more powerful it's gonna be and the more results you're gonna get.
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  And so I would say this too, when it comes to preaching, I feel like some people learn differently.
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  Like I if you looked at my notes oh caught it.
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  If you looked at my notes and I was like, hey, preach this message,
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  you'd be like, there's nothing on here.
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  Like my notes aren't like, sometimes when I do a note, I'll title a sermon.
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  Let's say I title a sermon tonight.
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  I'll have three scriptures on it and that's it.
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  How are you going to preach just on three scriptures? Because I've already formatted
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  it in my mind. I have like a foundational text and story.
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  And then I have testimonies tied with each scripture. and then on each scripture,
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  I have a thread that leads to another place.
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  But just because I don't write it down, I have it in me already and I already know where I'm going.
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  So really it's dependent on how you learn. If you're a person that needs it
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  all laid out, then lay it all out. But like for me, I don't function like that.
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  Like I know how to take a thread of a text and carry it through scripture.
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  So I've trained myself to do that so I can do it at any given time.
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  So really it's just dependent on how you feel like you could do that.
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  Next question I have a question about team building you got a loud voice no you're good.
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  So you mentioned like the whole servanthood and like how people,
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  you know, how information gets back to you when you're like preaching,
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  you said, you know, you give it to like your pastor or whatever,
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  the guy next to you and he'll take care of it.
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  When you're preaching, how do you not like let what you hear,
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  like come out? How do you not let that information like boil out of you?
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  How do you just like kind of let it go in one ear and out the other?
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  Okay. Say that again. If, if someone says what? So like, like if someone on
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  your staff does something and you said it gets back to you, how do you like, how do you handle that?
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  You have to have self-discipline.
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  That's what I mean about when you preach. If I'm preaching on prosperity,
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  I don't have time to preach about your offense.
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  I think Pastor John made a post on this recently. Like, I think it was Pastor
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  Jonathan, maybe. Who was it?
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  You don't want all of your sermons to turn into preaching against,
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  preaching on faithfulness and loyalty and offense all the time.
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  Because when you're preaching on that, basically what you're trying to do is
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  you're trying to sort out your congregation every service.
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  Sometimes I don't care how much you preach on offense, people are going to be
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  offended because they want to be offended.
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  So for me,
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  I didn't used to be good at that. Like the moment something happened,
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  I preach on it the next service.
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  You know what I mean? Like I'm going to let everyone know this is what just
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  happened. I'm going to preach on it hard.
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  You just have to have self-discipline to know like this isn't for the pulpit
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  because it doesn't fix anything.
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  You have to keep the main thing, the main thing, preach Jesus because.
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  So I just want to share these points with you because if you're a Christian
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  and you're watching, this is like gold for your life too.
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  He said that you don't preach things from the pulpit that won't fix anything.
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  And let me just tell you, you as a Christian, you don't have to get involved
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  with things that don't fix anything.
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  I don't know how to explain it to you, but it's like the devil is constantly
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  distracting people and constantly making you look at this and that and this
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  problem and that problem.
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  And then your family's falling apart or your marriage is falling apart or you're
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  a sucky mother because you're scrolling and you're worried. I get involved sometimes
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  with stuff that annoy me online. But, you know, if you've got a young daughter,
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  if you've got a kid, if you've got a family, just all that stuff is a distraction.
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  And then it hinders you. You can't be a great parent like that.
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  You can't be a great husband or wife like that.
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  And so when he said, like, you know, if you're putting something out from the
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  pulpit, if it doesn't fix something, it shouldn't go out.
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  Well, that's how your Christian life should be. If something you're getting
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  involved with or you're drawn away, whatever, if it's not helping you in your
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  life and you as a Christian to fulfill the will and plan of God for your life, then you don't need it.
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  So I thought that was awesome. Here you go. Such a good one.
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  Oral Roberts, I think it was, had a man come up to him and he,
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  after the service, he said, who were all those straw people that you were preaching
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  to today? And he said, well, you mean those straw people?
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  He said, you were preaching a message to a bunch of people that weren't there.
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  He said, you have thousands of people that wake up every Sunday and drive past
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  a hundred churches to get to your churches.
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  And the message you preach today were to people that weren't there.
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  So preach to the people. Come on. Just because, watch it. How many people are
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  in here today? 120 maybe in the room right now.
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  If I had an issue with you and all I did was preach mine and your issue,
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  I have 119 people that got nothing because I was so focused on you.
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  So you need to understand that there's people in the room that aren't in that
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  position and aren't, they're not like that.
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  So just because one person is offended and is an idiot doesn't mean everyone
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  in the room is offended and is an idiot.
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  There's some people that are hungry for God. There's some people that are thirsty
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  for God. There's some people that are longing for God.
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  So the Holy Ghost will never have you nitpicking.
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  That is also very good. The Holy Ghost wants there to be a move of his spirit in the room.
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  And watch this. The Bible says
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  God resists the proud, but he gives more grace and power to the humble.
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  That means when you're in an atmosphere of humility, the power of God has the ability to move.
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  And a lot of times when you're dealing with things you're not dealing with it
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  in humility especially from a pulpit it's like you're trying to address.
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  There's a minister that had a church of like 3 000 people
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  now he's down to like 300 you want to know why because all of his messages are
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  combative it's all rebuke correction going after people and so you just have
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  to learn how to not bring that into the pulpit,
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  so this is for you just so you might be thinking well i'm not a preacher?
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  How does this serve me? Well, the people in your family, they're the people
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  you're supposed to help, your friends, your neighbors, your loved ones.
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  If you're constantly just attacking people, nobody wants to listen to you.
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  Nobody wants to be around you. And like he said, it's a discipline to learn not to do that.
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  And I've been in a situation, just like he said, where I've done those things.
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  I have been frustrated at people that have come against me, but it doesn't help.
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  Now, you do have to confront things sometimes, but for the most part,
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  you just preach Jesus to people, and that's what's going to help.
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  All right, Stephanie. So I got your friend on you and Marissa.
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  I got a little something to say to you guys after this. Okay.
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  How many ever heard this? Don't bring your work back home.
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  Don't let your work life spill into your marriage. It's the same thing.
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  You know, you can't take out on your wife because your boss is being a jerk to you.
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  You have to learn to leave it at work because if not, you're going to be fired and divorced.
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  I'd rather be fired and still have a marriage than be fired and divorced Because
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  just because this guy's being one way doesn't mean that my wife deserves for
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  me to take all that out on her,
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  You don't deserve for me to come in here And pour out my problems on you When
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  you're here with your faith stirred to do something great for god You don't
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  deserve that And if I don't have the ability to do that someone else needs to
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  come take the microphone Does that make sense?
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  I can't remember who asked me the question i'm looking around but does that make sense?
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  Yeah, where we at right here? I've seen someone with a mic,
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  I should have eaten one of those breakfast sandwiches before I came up here.
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  So as a minister, when you're going evangelistically into a church and you can
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  tell that there's something that you're preaching on, whether it's healing or
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  prosperity, you can feel the pushback from the crowd.
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  Do you attempt to get them on your side with something that they agree with
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  you on? Or do you attack that? I'm going to fast forward some of this.
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  I'm a pit bull in the spirit at the end, but it's because I'm giving you something.
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  I'm not just asking for money for the sake of asking for money.
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  Here's what I've seen disappoint a lot of people. They think if they make a
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  Facebook graphic that they're having a revival that a bunch of people are going to show up.
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  Holly, and now I'm doing it. That's how you end up sadly disappointed,
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  right? And so don't just use social media as a means of bringing in money.
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  Use social media as a way to show people what you're doing. Ultimately,
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  that's what I do, everything I do.
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  Now, if we're hitting something very big, I may, like on a crusade,
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  I may offer people to give. On our new building, I may put something out for people to give.
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  But I don't even like doing that, to be honest with you. I just hate every part
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  of it. I don't like doing it. If I'm going to ask for money to receive an offering,
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  I want to be in a live service. I do not like it.
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  Or if I'm going to broadcast because I taught you something.
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  I taught you the Lord of God. So therefore in return, we're going to receive
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  an offering. It's a very good message today.
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  So yeah, I think on the road, he's teaching the Bible. If it's just you,
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  here's what you can do. This is what I used to do.
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  After I left the prison, brother Chuck does this. When I left the prison,
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  I would stand out in front of it and I would take a selfie in front of the jail.
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  And I would say, just left the prison today. This many people came and we had
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  a powerful meeting. God's real. Now, please don't do this either.
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  I know some evangelists, every time they post on social media.
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  We had so many people saved. Countless miracles.
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  Healings beyond counting. And it's not just one time. It's literally every time
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  they preach. And I'm thinking, buddy, there was like 80 people there.
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  How did you have countless miracles? You could only have 80.
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  They're not countless. There's 80 people. Don't over-exaggerate your meeting.
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  You know, and just put on there, like, hey, I'm just super, like,
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  I don't like putting on numbers either. I think that it's like,
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  who are you, McDonald's? 99 billion served? Thank you.
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  I'm going to put, like, for instance, you have to learn how to switch it up.
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  Let's say I go to the jail, right?
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  I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to say, man, I've been going to this
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  jail for four and a half years. It's very humbling to realize this is where
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  I started. And I'm just thankful that I get to do this every week. Post.
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  Sometimes you don't need the attendance number, the salvation number,
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  the healing number, the baptism in the Holy Spirit number, the miracles in the deliverance number.
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  You don't need all that for every single post. Nothing wrong with it,
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  but you don't have to be, you want to know what that becomes?
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  It just becomes repetitive and people turn it off.
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  That's true. Go look at Pastor John's Instagram. Look how different his posts
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  are day to day. He's always like, one day he's doing a reel of him in his house.
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  The next day he's posting saying like.
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  What it's going to do to your church. The next day it's him and Camila.
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  I really love my kid. So, so I wanted to play some of this because even though
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  like, and I put the link, even though this is really for preachers,
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  cause he's, he's teaching at the Bible school.
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  There's so many things in here that if you listen is happening in your life.
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  Like he said when somebody really irritates you and stuff, how you,
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  you, you don't realize that there's a whole group of people that do want to
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  hear you. You're focused on the one that doesn't.
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  And so it makes me think like when you've got family members that they're happy
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  to hear you talk about Christ, but you got that one or two family members that
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  don't want to hear it throws your whole mood off and then you get frustrated
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  and then you take that out on people. So there's just a lot in here.
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  No, I wasn't. Oh, I was on his live. Yeah, don't tell.
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  Stephanie, you're not supposed to tell. Anyway, so I just thought you guys would
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  like some of it. Post a picture of you and your wife, of you just kissing her.
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  This is all ministry stuff. Not making out at the pulpit, but just on the cheek.
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  I wouldn't be where I'm at today without this woman. She has stood by me in
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  the ministry. She's helped me become who I am. Oh, I didn't see that happening.
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  Does that make sense? Because watch this.
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  I'll say this. Anybody that's going into evangelism, I would tell you,
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  name your ministry after you.
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  Cody Jones Ministries. That's what mine is. I used to get told,
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  that's arrogant, who would name their own ministry after themselves.
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  People aren't following a name. They're following you.
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  Amen. They're following you. So, and so put your name out there.
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  This is Cody. I was going to make me laugh. And he said, don't do that.
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  And I said, okay, why not?
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  Like, I'll give you an example. Even with revival today, if pastor Jonathan
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  is traveling and someone hears revival today, who is the first person they think of? Jonathan.
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  Jonathan Shettlesworth. Yeah. And so that's why even he still has his own Instagram
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  and he still has his own YouTube channel.
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  It's not that one is greater than the other. It's what do people remember?
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  They remember you. They want to fall. and watch this when people like you that
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  you guys you guys want to follow me like you they start liking your kids they're,
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  like you're basically a free reality tv show especially if you're pastor donathan
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  it's like this is free reality right here mean men especially if you go on x so,
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  you know when people are impacted by your ministry they don't just like you
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  now they're interested man you know that's like that guy walked up to me he
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  didn't give me money he gave me three grand for my kids hey this is for your
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  kids your ministry is so impacted me and i watch what you do i want and bless your children.
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  Thank you. And you want to know how he knows I have children?
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  Because I take pictures with him and post them on social media.
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  It's not just, hey, me holding a microphone.
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  Oh, I forgot to put that one. Next question.
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  Everyone good. I'm not in a hurry. Going back to Liv's question about learned
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  behaviors, when you are at a meeting and then church congregants,
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  like somebody's getting a touch, and then they go up and they start laying hands
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  on them, how do you set the standard of you want them to not do that so they
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  can also proceed? The Pentecostal dogpile. Yeah.
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  So this stuff is important. I know you're thinking, well, it's for ministers,
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  but when you go to a church, the only person that should be laying hands on
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  you is the person speaking or the preacher.
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  But if you come to big meetings, sometimes random people come touch you.
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  So this is for you as well. Don't let people do it. I don't let people do that.
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  I stop people, but not everyone knows how to do that. Sometimes I deal with
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  it. Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I'm just like, these people are nutcases.
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  I'm not even fooling with you people.
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  At my own meetings, like if I have a camp meeting, we have slides.
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  Do not lay hands on people. Here's the easiest way to deal with it.
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  I have this lady in my church. She's probably watching Sister Christy.
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  I've been at places and she'll come far to hear me speak. I'll be doing a meeting
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  and someone will fall out under the spirit and someone from the church will
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  just get up and go start laying hands and she'll just walk over and say, get off of them.
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  I kind of think it's funny, so I don't really care. So here's the reason. Okay.
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  And this is how I tell, I have to tell people this as a pastor.
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  Let's say you come to my church, right? And you're, you're a great guy.
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  You can go up, go up to the altar, kneel down. Give me like,
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  give me like seven old school Pentecostals.
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  I'm glad you did something. I'm going to do a Pentecostal dog pile.
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  Go. I need like seven people. Go ahead.
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  This is funny. This is going to help you guys out if you go to meetings too.
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  You don't want everybody catching you and I'll tell you why.
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  Me's praying. All right. All right. You guys know exactly what I was talking
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  about. Praise God. Okay. So for instance,
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  Stanley Cup, Damon. Found him.
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  You are, Sam? When you go there, tell him hi from me. He knows who I am.
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  When people are around the anointing, it makes them want to do something.
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  So this is what I tell people a lot of times. Tell him I said hi.
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  It's like, how come you... I asked him, I said, when the anointing's moving,
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  you want to lay hands on people in my service? I said, how many people have
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  you laid hands on today before you got here?
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  Because it's like, I get it. The anointing starts moving and you want to touch
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  people. But I feel like you're weird when you touch people.
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  But if you want to deal with it nicely, like this is what I would tell someone.
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  Like if he came and like, like he prayed for somebody and, you know, he was just like.
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  So why is it important to you? You guys aren't preachers. Well,
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  because I know for a fact, if you come up in a prayer line, especially if you're with me.
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  And I go to pray for you and somebody touches you from behind,
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  it's totally distracting because like I'm in front of you, I'm about to pray
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  and someone puts their hand on you.
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  It messes you up. Plus, if that person isn't in the same line of faith that
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  I am, if that person isn't full of the Holy Ghost, when they go to lay hands
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  on you, it actually, in my opinion and what I've experienced,
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  it messes with the anointing. So there you go.
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  Bobby said he'll go too. Girl, you're going to like it. You guys are going to
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  have a good time there. We'll tell him I said hi.
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  But so you don't want random people touching you. I'll give you,
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  for example, there was a homeless guy at one of my events and I knew he was
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  homeless because he told me he was homeless. I actually came to church.
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  So then I was watching this tent revival locally and I thought they were weird
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  anyway. And that guy was catching the women.
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  The women fought. He was all over them. And I'm like, Like, how is it that you
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  let this homeless crazy person just touch these ladies?
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  Plus, also, it's a liability. Just so y'all know, for example,
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  say I got a bunch of women up front and random men are touching them.
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  You know, they could go to their husbands and say, this man was grabbing me
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  and touched me inappropriately. And then the next thing, you know,
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  someone's coming to me and you got a big situation.
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  So it's a liability. But when you go, don't let everybody touch you.
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  That's a side note. It's like feeling the anointing and pray for someone.
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  I just walked up and said, hey, like, you can't lay hands on somebody.
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  He's like, I'm a Christian.
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  Yeah, I do that. I tell people don't tell me I can't pray. Yeah,
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  that's what I'm telling you. You can't pray. And I'll say, listen,
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  here's why I said, listen, I'm not saying that you're a bad person.
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  Like I can tell you're a good person, but there's other people in the room that aren't like you.
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  And when they see you doing it, guess what they're going to do?
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  They're going to do it. And I can't have some lunatic laying hands on people.
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  Does that make sense? And most likely they're like, yeah, I never thought of
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  that before. So yeah. So don't lay hands on anybody.
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  So you can deal with it nicely. Now, what I'll do a lot of times is this.
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  I don't do it every time, but I've done it. Like if, if it starts getting out
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  of whack like that, haven't I done it before where I'll say,
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  hey, everybody quit laying hands on everybody. I need everyone to say,
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  I don't want anyone to lay hands on people.
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  I say, listen, I said, I'm here this week for you to receive.
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  I don't need you praying for people.
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  Some people will get offended, but it's almost like the way that I recognize
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  it, you can feel when it starts happening. It's like the flow of the spirit stops moving.
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  And I know if I don't deal with it, I'm losing the service.
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  So you just have to deal with it. And I think the best way is just try to be
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  compassionate. And can I just tell you something too, when you're in public
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  or somebody to, exactly.
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  So, but when you're out there or whatever, it's meant, honestly,
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  to stop people from receiving or stop you from receiving.
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  And the devil knows it. It's distracting.
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  So there you go. So don't touch people, even if you're annoyed.
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  But bold at the same time. I'm not asking you. I'm telling you nicely.
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  Like there's a guy that I know. He's so nice that he could tell you to go to
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  hell and you couldn't wait to get there.
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  Not this girl. So basically tell people to go to hell in a way that they can't
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  wait to get there. It's like, all right, yeah. He told me that's so nice.
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  I can't wait to get to hell.
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  This is part of wisdom. It's like knowing how, because you can just flat out
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  just get crazy and rebuke people and like, but for me, I got to understand,
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  I have to deal with this, but I also don't want to lose the rest of the crowd.
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  Okay, I'll give you an example. This just happened a few weeks ago.
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  I prayed for people with bitterness in their heart, something they went through
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  when they were younger and they're dealing with bitterness in their heart.
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  This lady comes up, right? I pray for her.
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  She gets touched by the power of God. She's crying, like she is overwhelmed.
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  Well, I'm just moving through the service. Well, next thing I know,
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  I look over and there's about six people surrounding her. she's manifesting
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  a demon and her eyes are rolled in the back of their head.
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  They've already caught, they're already on the phone with the ambulance.
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  They're like, this girl's from like a rehab. So they are freaking plum out.
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  And I just, I just went over and I said, Hey, everybody just,
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  just back up. I said, she's all right. She's good. And I just get down.
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  I command the devil and I don't yell. I just said, I command you devil to come
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  out of this woman right now.
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  And then here's what I do because she's in a rehab.
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  I understand that in their mind, they're probably like, we have a protocol.
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  We can't let her die right here.
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  So I'm not going to say like, you know, no, this is revival.
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  Don't call the ambulance. I'm saying, listen, she's fine.
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  The ambulance is going to come and they're going to check her out and she's
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  going to be perfectly fine. Don't worry about it. And then I got the service right back. Correct.
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  But a lot of those people didn't know what to do because they never seen a demon
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  manifest before. So what I had to do is just say, Hey, everyone back up.
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  And this is what I said. All of us standing around her is not helping.
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  So sometimes you have to teach people why you're doing something while you're
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  doing it. Because a lot of people don't know, because unfortunately a lot of churches just suck.
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  They don't have security. They don't understand why you can't touch random people.
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  They don't understand why you can't dogpile people. They literally think most
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  churches are a free-for-all.
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  And you're going to have to learn how to navigate that and deal with it with
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  wisdom, compassion, and boldness.
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  So you can watch the whole thing. It's really good. I know y'all want to watch
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  him, but too bad. You're watching me.
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  Only for a minute. But he was just sharing some great stuff.
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  And I thought, man, this is like gold for just any Christian.
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  Because when he talked about like, don't get mad at people, don't let them drag
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  your whole attention off. And I thought this is for preachers, but this is for life.
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  When you are trying to serve God, there's always people that try to pull you
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  off course. When you're trying to do something great for Jesus,
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  there's always gonna be people in your family that misunderstand you, that whatever.
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  And you have to learn to not get distracted. So real quick, I just wanna go
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  through this and tell you one thing.
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  Your life has a purpose. And so when you see this, you can see that you're distracted.
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  Sometimes people distract you.
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  The Bible says Ephesians 2.10, you're his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works.
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  Come on, you're created to do something good and you can't do something good
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  if you're getting distracted every minute or weirdos come around or whatever.
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  So you have to learn to discipline yourself. And that's something that he's
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  teaching a lot, discipline.
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  In other words, if someone does something quirky, you don't have to give that
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  your attention every minute.
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  And you'll notice there's stuff vying for your attention all the time,
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  every time, you understand that.
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  So your purpose is to become like Jesus. Okay.
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  You know, you know, if you've watched me, I've taught on being offended.
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  I've taught on patience, mercy, kindness, generosity, but everything I've taught
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  comes back to one person, Christ.
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  Everything I tell you, when I tell you to walk in love, Jesus walks in love.
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  When I tell you to not be offended, he doesn't get offended as far as like his
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  feelings personally hurt.
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  That's what I mean. He doesn't like fake religion and stuff like that,
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  but he loves people right where they're at. And we can do the same thing.
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  God gave you something to give. your gifts, your testimony, your resources,
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  as each one has received a gift, minister it one to another.
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  Your purpose is to include people.
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  Somebody needs what God put inside of you. That's why you shouldn't isolate
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  yourself because you're funny or you're happy or you're full of power or whatever.
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  And people need what you've got.
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  You know, look, how would it look if I was preaching the gospel and somebody
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  really upset me? And for three weeks, I never came on here to talk to you guys.
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  Like it would not be good.
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  Your purpose includes people and people are messy, but love them anyway,
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  because Jesus loves them.
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  There'd be a dark world if you just didn't get around people.
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  Hey, Carla, lay aside every weight and let us run with endurance the race that
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  set before us. Hebrews 12.1. Finish what God gave you to do.
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  I fought the good fight. I finished the race. 2 Timothy 4.7.
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  This is part of what these distractions are doing. The devil doesn't care really
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  if he takes you out because he knows he's gonna take you out anyway.
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  But what he cares about is if you're effective. So each of you in life have
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  a purpose. There's something that God wants you to do. He loves you.
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  You're called. Well, I'm not called to preach. It doesn't matter.
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  You're called to do something. You're called to pray for your family or benefit
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  your marriage or help your husband feel like a true man of God or be a blessing
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  to people or you're called to help kids or whatever. you're called for something.
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  And so don't let distractions and problems and rude people pull you aside.
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  Amen. Because there's always going to be people that will misunderstand you.
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  There's always going to be people that don't want to help you.
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  There's always going to be people that actually come against you.
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  And you want to just set your face like a flint to Jesus Christ.
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  And he said this statement when he was preaching. It was really cool.
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  He said, if it doesn't help, don't do it from the pulpit, right?
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  But that should be for your life. If there's something that doesn't help your
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  purpose, your plan, you to become more like Christ, don't do it.
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  Whether it's a TV program or an attitude, if there's an attitude you have and
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  it does not help you to get closer to Christ and Christians, you shouldn't do it.
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  You need to let it go because your life, y'all, I got to get this hourglass.
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  I know right where it is. I saw it at Hobby Lobby.
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  I'm going to get one next time. I'm going to get it. and then when I'm preaching,
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  I'm just gonna put it beside me. That's what I'm gonna start doing.
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  It's just a reminder. That's your life pouring out. Every day it's pouring out.
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  And what are you gonna spend your life on today? What are you gonna fix your
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  heart and your mind on today?
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  Because every single day, your life is being poured out of you.
• 24:49
  Paul the Apostle said, my life is like a drink offering. Your life,
• 24:53
  your gifts, your talents is being poured literally out of you.
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  And what are you gonna do?
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  Are you gonna be distracted by weirdos or bad things or frustration or all that
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  stuff is a waste of your precious time. I'm not saying in life we don't get frustrated.
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  I'm not saying there aren't hard times, but I'm saying you're called for a divine purpose.
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  God loves you. He wants to do something great through you.
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  He wants to bless you. He wants to multiply you. He wants you to be a powerhouse in the kingdom of God.
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  He wants your family at peace. He wants you to lift heavy burdens off other people.
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  He wants you to be healthy. He wants you to be generous every day.
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  You should wake up. And according to Psalm 91, say, Father, I thank you.
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  You are my Lord, my refuge, my safe place, because I set my love upon you.
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  You will give me long life. The snare of the fowler won't trap me. I will be healthy.
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  Nothing will come near me. You should out of your mouth. You should say this
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  every day and know that God's on your side, that he loves you and he's got a good plan for you. Amen.
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  And so you should go back and watch that message. It's really cool.
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  It's really for preachers, but there's a lot in it that's good.
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  There you go. I know y'all loved Cody, so I thought I'd play a little bit of him for you today.
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  So you could just love on him a little bit more today. And then you should watch
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  the message. I put it in the thing. Also, let me do a quick...
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  That's whale talk, for those of you that don't know. I'm speaking like a whale.
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  Okay. You're like, what the crap is this girl doing? I don't know.
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  I don't even know myself.
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  Uh-oh. Can you guys hear that? I can't hear that. I don't know why it does that.
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  I got to show you something. I need to show you something. Hold on.
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  Okay. You know. I'm going to show you something. Wait, where is it?
• 26:37
  Hold on, the wagon train. Ah, there we go. Okay. Let me show you this before I go.
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  Our ways and the byways, compel them to come.
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  Michigan Fest, lots of people registered.
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  Pray for me. Depression has to go, anxiety. Jesus isn't coming in.
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  So there you go. You know. You know all the stuff. You can find that on my YouTube
• 27:43
  channel. You could share it with somebody you know. That'd be a blessing.
• 27:47
  You're invited to the Michigan Fest 2026. It's October 9th. If you want to proceed,
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  go to preachatheath.com.
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  It will be at the open-air pavilion on Party Road. The address is at the end.
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  But you must register to come along. It's totally free.
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  There will be prizes for your family, your friends. There will be bill pays.
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  There's going to be gift giveaways all kinds of stuff music it's just a great night of fun
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  for the family there won't be any alcohol it will be safe for your family so
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  why don't you come out it's time for peace joy unity happiness and some fun
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  with your family you must rsvp to come the,
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  link will be in the bio and you can just click the link but michigan fest 2026.
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  Go to Eventbrite. Yep, all the stuff. Y'all know.
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  So I love you. Let's pray. Father, if there's anyone on here and they don't
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  know Jesus, you need to repent. Say this. Say, God, I'm so sorry.
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  Please forgive me. Come into my heart and be the Lord of my life.
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  I believe you died on a cross for me, that you were buried, and that you were
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  raised again on the third day.
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  That's loud. So come into my heart and help me and rescue me. Amen. Amen. And amens.
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  Jesus loves you. I love you. Come on. You know, let's preach it. Shall we?
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  We're going to preach in the highways and the byways.
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  You're going to help me. You're anointed. You're called.
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  You're a blessing going somewhere to happen. You're going to do great things
• 29:19
  today in Jesus name. Go look at godly hats.
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  Go to preach at Lisa.
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  Sow a seed for Michigan today. Go give something. Go to preach at Lisa.com and sow.
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  I love y'all.
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  Come on. I'm going to preach,
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  it. I am going to preach it.
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  I love y'all. I'll see you later. Peace out, homies.