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The Hidden Cost Of Being Strong Bishop T.D. Jakes (1) · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: The book of Judges, chapter 13, verse one through eight.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have it, say amen. And I want
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  Speaker 1: you to listen very closely, attentively to what is being
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  Speaker 1: said here, because it recognizes and acknowledges the end of
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  Speaker 1: an era and the beginning of another one. And we're
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  Speaker 1: standing right at the hinge of a door of a
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  Speaker 1: great shift.
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  Speaker 2: As we are now. As we are right now.
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  Speaker 1: And again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: and Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Philistines
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  Speaker 1: 40 years. I gotta stop there and thank God that
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  Speaker 1: God has a beginning and an end of trouble. That
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  Speaker 1: trouble don't last always. That if you had a going
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  Speaker 1: in date, you got a coming out date. Come on
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  Speaker 1: with me, somebody. Okay, there was a certain man from Zorah,
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  Speaker 1: from the tribe of the Danites, and his name was Manoah.
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  Speaker 1: His wife was infertile, and did not bear children. And
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  Speaker 1: an angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman and he
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  Speaker 1: said to her, behold, you are infertile and have not
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  Speaker 1: born children. But, oh, God will put that but in
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  Speaker 1: there in a minute. But you will conceive and bear
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  Speaker 1: a son. So then be careful and do not drink
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  Speaker 1: wine or strong drink and do not eat anything unclean
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  Speaker 1: because you will conceive and bear a son. No razor
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  Speaker 1: will touch his head because the boy will be a
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  Speaker 1: Nazarite of God from birth. And it is he who
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  Speaker 1: will begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.
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  Speaker 2: And the woman.
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  Speaker 1: Came and told her husband saying, a man of God
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  Speaker 1: came to me and his appearance was like the appearance
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  Speaker 1: of an angel of God. Very awesome. I believe it's
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  Speaker 1: a theophany. Anytime it looks like a man of God,
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  Speaker 1: yet she calls it an angel. A theophany is just
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  Speaker 1: a manifestation of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. I
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  Speaker 1: did not ask him from where he came, and he
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  Speaker 1: did not tell.
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  Speaker 2: Me his name. Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah. Yeah, I'm on to something.
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  Speaker 1: And he said to me, look, you will conceive and
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  Speaker 1: bear a son. So then do not drink wine or
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  Speaker 1: strong drink and do not eat anything unclean. For the
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  Speaker 1: boy will be a Nazarite of God from birth until
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  Speaker 1: the day of his death.
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  Speaker 2: Good God.
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  Speaker 1: Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said, excuse me, my Lord,
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  Speaker 1: please let the man of God whom you sent again
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  Speaker 1: come to us and teach us what we should do
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  Speaker 1: concerning the boy who will be born. Can you say amen?
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to preach from a subject that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even seem relative to the text, but when I finish
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  Speaker 1: with it, it's going to make sense. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: preach side effects. side effects let's pray together while we're
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  Speaker 1: standing spirit of the living God fall fresh on us
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  Speaker 1: now as we delve into the word of God we
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  Speaker 1: thank you Lord for what you have prescribed for us
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  Speaker 1: for what you have designated for us will shortly come
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  Speaker 1: to pass you are God and God all by yourself
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  Speaker 1: you need no one to vote you in and can't
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  Speaker 1: nobody put you out they cannot impeach you you are
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  Speaker 1: sovereign you are Yahweh you are the absolute God You
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  Speaker 1: are before there was where or when or this or
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  Speaker 1: that or alpha or omega. You alone are God. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: can take you. Nobody can move you. Nobody can break you.
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  Speaker 1: You are our God and you dwell amongst us. Have
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  Speaker 1: your way as we tabernacle up under the tent of
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  Speaker 1: your word. that we might hear what the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is saying to the church, because we need
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  Speaker 1: a word for you. We wrestle with unreasonable men. We
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  Speaker 1: live in unreasonable times. We live in times, Lord, where
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines are upon us, and we need the anointing
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  Speaker 1: to break the yoke. Step in, great God that you are.
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  Speaker 1: and move in the midst of your people. We have
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  Speaker 1: no other God to call on but you. If there
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  Speaker 1: be any ratification, if there be any justice, if there
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  Speaker 1: be any righteousness, it must come down from heaven above.
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  Speaker 1: And so therefore, God, we commend our future into your hands.
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  Speaker 1: Have your way, God, in the name of Jesus. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you in advance for what you're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Do it, do it like nobody else can do it
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  Speaker 1: but you. Do it till we're praising God all the
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  Speaker 1: way home. Do it till we've got tears running down
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  Speaker 1: our face. Do it until yokes are broken and demons
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  Speaker 1: are defeated. Do it until witches are pulling their hair out.
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  Speaker 1: Do it until curses are broken. Do it in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus. I thank you for it. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 1: somebody shout amen.
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  Speaker 2: You may be seated.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, great God, great God, great God, great God, great God.
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  Speaker 1: There's been something on me lately I just can't hardly
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  Speaker 1: control it. I've been feeling God pushing me in the back.
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  Speaker 1: My God, I feel the anointing of the Lord in
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  Speaker 1: here right now, right now. I want you to notice
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  Speaker 1: first of all that this presence of This man that
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  Speaker 1: she said appeared as an angel of God reminds us
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  Speaker 1: and is reminiscent of the theophonic manifestation of Jesus Christ himself.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, but I want you to know that
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  Speaker 1: not only is the messenger a theophonic representation of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ himself, the situation reminds us of something that will
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  Speaker 1: later be acted out in Jesus Christ. Because the woman
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  Speaker 1: that he's talking to is barren. And she has not
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  Speaker 1: been able to produce a child. And God overrules the barrenness.
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  Speaker 1: And you will notice this story repeated over and over
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible with Abraham and Sarah and various characters
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible where God opens up that which is
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  Speaker 1: shut down. With Hannah, God opened up that which is
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  Speaker 1: shut down. With you, God opens up that which is
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  Speaker 1: shut down and causes the unfruitful to become fruitful. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the signs of the presence of God is
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  Speaker 1: that when an area of your life that is unfruitful
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  Speaker 1: suddenly becomes fruitful and you can give nobody credit for
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  Speaker 1: it but God, you have a different kind of praise.
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  Speaker 1: You have a different kind of praise. Peninnah couldn't praise
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  Speaker 1: God like Hannah did because Hannah knew that that that
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  Speaker 1: was in her was there by the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: And when you know it was there, when you know
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  Speaker 1: God did it, when you know God did it, When
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  Speaker 1: you know God didn't come hell or high water, you
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  Speaker 1: will stand on the integrity of God's word and watch
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  Speaker 1: him perform.
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  Speaker 2: It in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And like Jesus' mother who encountered an angel alone, this
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  Speaker 1: woman encounters the angel alone and receives the word and
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  Speaker 1: brings it back to her husband. And she tells him,
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  Speaker 1: there's something that God does with women that are willing
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  Speaker 1: to be alone. I know y'all like to run in packs,
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  Speaker 1: but I noticed something throughout the Bible that when God
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  Speaker 1: catches you by yourself and you're not influenced by the
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  Speaker 1: voices of other people and other women in your life,
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  Speaker 1: there's a way that God will speak to you. He'll
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  Speaker 1: speak to you while you're driving the car. He'll speak
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  Speaker 1: to you after everybody's gone to bed. He'll speak to
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  Speaker 1: you early in the morning and talk to you. He
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  Speaker 1: has a way of showing up with women alone like
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  Speaker 1: he did when he said, hell Mary, you have been highly.
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  Speaker 2: Favored amongst women.
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  Speaker 1: You shall bring forth a son and his name shall
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  Speaker 1: be called Jesus. He speaks to you in a way
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  Speaker 1: that causes other people not to believe that he spoke
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  Speaker 1: to you. But their unbelief does not make God's Word
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  Speaker 1: of no effect. If God has spoken to you, He's
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  Speaker 1: spoken to you. Manoah came along and said, speak once again.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to hear, but what God has for you
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  Speaker 1: is for you. And God has a way of speaking
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  Speaker 1: to you. And if you're smart in a man, and
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  Speaker 1: a woman speaks something, especially if she's a praying woman,
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  Speaker 1: you pay her some attention. You pay her some attention
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  Speaker 1: even if you act like you're not paying attention. You
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  Speaker 1: pay her some attention because she's been right so many
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  Speaker 1: times that you at least give some consideration to her
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  Speaker 1: perspective because she's a praying woman. If you got a
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  Speaker 1: praying woman, give her a hug right now because a
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  Speaker 1: praying woman is a treasure. A praying woman is something special.
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  Speaker 1: A praying woman can produce things that couldn't be produced
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  Speaker 1: any other kind of way. A praying woman can have
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  Speaker 1: doors open up for her by herself because she's a
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  Speaker 1: praying woman. If you got a praying woman, You can
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  Speaker 1: be sick in your body and God will heal you.
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  Speaker 1: When I was talking to my wife, her knee didn't
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  Speaker 1: get healed till I collapsed. And the moment I collapsed,
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  Speaker 1: she got healed right on the spot. When you got
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  Speaker 1: a praying woman, God will give you a miracle immediately.
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  Speaker 1: suddenly without reservation she been walking ever since wearing heels
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  Speaker 1: ever since doing what she wanted to do ever since
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  Speaker 1: when you got a praying woman and the odds are
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  Speaker 1: all against you if you got a praying woman she'll
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  Speaker 1: turn that thing around and all of a sudden God
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  Speaker 1: will do a new thing in you oh the power
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  Speaker 1: the power the power the power the power the power
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  Speaker 1: The power, the power, the power of a praying woman.
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  Speaker 1: I use the term side effects because I was watching
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  Speaker 1: TV and it used to be when you watch TV,
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  Speaker 1: they would advertise the medicine, but not the side effects.
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  Speaker 1: But they started getting sued so much. that now at
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  Speaker 1: the end, even if they have to speed up the
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  Speaker 1: voice and talk real fast, they make sure that you
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  Speaker 1: understand that with the prescription comes side effects. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad they do it because sometimes the side effects are
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  Speaker 1: worse than the problems. They said, if you got dry
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  Speaker 1: eyes and a runny nose, you take this pill, you
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  Speaker 1: may experience bleeding. You may have insomnia. You may break
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  Speaker 1: out in sweats in the middle of the day. You
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  Speaker 1: may not be able to walk. You may only have
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  Speaker 1: two toes. And I started thinking, I'd rather go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and have the dry eye than to deal with the
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  Speaker 1: side effects. My God, maybe it's just me. But them
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  Speaker 1: side effects, the side effects of the things that people
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  Speaker 1: try to leave out, they go along with the prescription.
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  Speaker 1: Prescription is a term that is used to where the
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  Speaker 1: doctor has written out in advance something that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to take that's gonna change your tomorrow. You take it today,
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  Speaker 1: it changes your tomorrow. It is a prescription. In theology,
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  Speaker 1: we would call it a prophecy. Yeah, a word that
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  Speaker 1: over time, it begins to work in your life. But
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  Speaker 1: even with the prophecy, understand that God doesn't always give detail.
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  Speaker 1: Even God didn't tell you about the side effects. Abraham, Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: take now thy only son to a place that I
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  Speaker 1: will show you. He didn't tell him about the side effects.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't tell him about the trouble he would run into.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't tell him that the servants would leave him
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  Speaker 1: halfway up the mountain. He didn't tell him that he'd
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  Speaker 1: have to tie him down and raise his knife to
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  Speaker 1: slay his son. He didn't tell him about the ram
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  Speaker 1: in the bush because the trying of your faith doesn't
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  Speaker 1: give you details. The trying of your faith doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: you details. He just gives you the purview. But he
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  Speaker 1: just gives you the preview. But he doesn't give you
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  Speaker 1: the details, the prescriptions, the side effects, the circumstances, and
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  Speaker 1: the situation.
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  Speaker 2: And I read this text and I said, Lord, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't tell them about the side effects.
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  Speaker 1: You told this barren woman that she would bring forth
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  Speaker 1: a son.
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  Speaker 2: And that her son.
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  Speaker 1: Would save his people from 40 years.
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  Speaker 2: Of Philistinian domination.
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  Speaker 1: But you didn't tell him, you didn't tell them that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to have all kind of trouble out
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  Speaker 1: of that son. You didn't tell him that that son
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  Speaker 1: was going to have to fight for it, that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to have to prove himself, that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be tested.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't tell him. And so we are so.
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  Speaker 1: Preoccupied with the prescription that we don't notice the side effects.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Sunday school, they taught me about Samson
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  Speaker 1: when I was a little boy. And they had this
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  Speaker 1: big burly guy standing up there as a picture. He
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  Speaker 1: had triceps and biceps and muscles and everything. And he
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  Speaker 1: looked all muscular. And they showed him doing, lifting up
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  Speaker 1: gates and throwing gates on people and taking the jawbone
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  Speaker 1: of an ass and killing 10,000 Philistines. And they showed
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  Speaker 1: him like he was a superhero. like he was a
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  Speaker 1: Marvel character. But that diminishes the power of the text.
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  Speaker 1: Because if Samson had been powerful outwardly, then Delilah would
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  Speaker 1: have never had to ask him, where does your strength
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  Speaker 1: come from? That means that there is a strength that
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  Speaker 1: you can't see. That means that he might have been
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  Speaker 1: tiny and scrawny because she couldn't figure out how a
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  Speaker 1: man that looked like him could do what he did.
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  Speaker 1: Just like your haters can't figure out how a person.
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  Speaker 2: Like you can do what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is not obvious to people That you have
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  Speaker 1: as much as you have. You don't walk in arrogance.
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  Speaker 1: Your nose is not up in the air. You don't
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  Speaker 1: flaunt your ability in front of anybody. But when it
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  Speaker 1: is needed, you have a way of rising to the
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  Speaker 1: occasion and the enemy doesn't understand you. Shame on you
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  Speaker 1: for confusing the devil. Shame on you for shocking the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on you for coming up just when he thought
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  Speaker 1: he had you down and you fooled him, you popped
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  Speaker 1: back up again. Just when he thought you was going
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  Speaker 1: to die, you jumped up and lived again. Just when
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  Speaker 1: he thought he had you truly depressed, you got joy
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  Speaker 1: and started laughing, didn't even know what you was laughing about,
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  Speaker 1: But the joy of the Lord is your strength.
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  Speaker 2: And he doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Understand why you're happy. Hallelujah, because God has a way
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  Speaker 1: of doing things that boggles. It boggles the human mind.
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  Speaker 1: It leaves speechless the most talkative person. It has a
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  Speaker 1: way of shocking people how you can find strength in
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  Speaker 1: strange places. And it's something to be a strong person.
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  Speaker 1: To be a strong person. It frustrates the devil when
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  Speaker 1: you're a strong person. Because what should have broke you
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  Speaker 1: didn't break you. What should have killed you didn't kill you.
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  Speaker 1: What should have made you collapse didn't make you collapse.
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  Speaker 1: What should have made you an alcoholic didn't make you
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  Speaker 1: an alcoholic. What should have made you blow your brains
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  Speaker 1: out didn't make you blow your brains out. It's something
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  Speaker 1: about being a strong person. That's the prescription. But let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you about the side effects. There are side
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  Speaker 1: effects to being a strong person. People take you for
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  Speaker 1: granted when you're a strong person. People put more weight
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  Speaker 1: on you when you're a strong person. People bring you
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  Speaker 1: your problems and their problems and somebody else's problems when
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  Speaker 1: you're a strong person. People don't comfort you when you're
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  Speaker 1: a strong person. Oh, you just made like that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you just can handle it. That's just how you are.
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  Speaker 1: The side effects of being a strong person means that
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  Speaker 1: many times you have to encourage yourself in the Lord
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  Speaker 1: because you're a strong person. Are there any strong people
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  Speaker 1: in the room? You're the one the whole family calls on.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what goes wrong. When things go bad,
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  Speaker 1: they call you because you're the one that comes in
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  Speaker 1: with the sobriety of mind and a stillness of spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And you make decisions and you execute judgment because you're
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  Speaker 1: a strong person. They don't think that the weight bothers you.
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  Speaker 1: They don't think that the weight intimidates you. They don't
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  Speaker 1: think that the weight... is powerfully applied to your shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: They don't think that you have any pain. They don't
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  Speaker 1: think that you have any problem. They don't know that
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  Speaker 1: you stay up at night at two and three o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. They don't know the things that you
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  Speaker 1: endure because you make hell look easy. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say it again since I'm out there. You make hell
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  Speaker 1: look easy. You make it look like it doesn't bother you.
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  Speaker 1: It's the side effects of being a strong person. They
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  Speaker 1: don't ever cuddle you. They don't ever comfort you. They
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  Speaker 1: call you and start immediately telling you about their problem.
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  Speaker 2: They don't even.
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  Speaker 1: Ask you how you are. How do you feel? What's
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  Speaker 1: going on in your life? These are the side effects
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  Speaker 1: of being a strong person. To him who much is given,
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  Speaker 1: much is required because you are.
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  Speaker 2: A strong person.
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  Speaker 1: Are there any strong people in here? The problem with
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  Speaker 1: being a strong person is strong people get tired too.
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  Speaker 1: Strong people hurt too. Strong people bleed too. You can
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  Speaker 1: be strong and sensitive. You can be strong and be weary.
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  Speaker 1: You can be strong and be empty. You can be
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  Speaker 1: strong and be isolated. You can be strong and be
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  Speaker 1: in a struggle that nobody even understands that you have
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  Speaker 1: a struggle because they're so busy getting you to take
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  Speaker 1: care of their struggle. That they don't even worry about
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  Speaker 1: your struggle. Samson did not ask for this fight with
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines. He wasn't even asking for it when he
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  Speaker 1: got born and it was decided before he got there.
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  Speaker 1: It was pre-scripted. For this cause he came into the world.
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  Speaker 1: The fight was picked out for him before he made
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  Speaker 1: his first sound. Some of you, the fight was picked
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  Speaker 1: out for you before you made the first sound. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick your mama. You didn't pick your daddy. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick the age you were born into. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: pick the city.
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  Speaker 2: You were in.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't pick the rate. You didn't pick the trauma.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't pick the situation. You were chosen for adversity.
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  Speaker 1: God told Jeremiah, before I formed thee in the belly,
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  Speaker 1: I knew thee and I ordained thee to be a
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  Speaker 1: prophet unto the nation. Before you cried your first, I cried.
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  Speaker 1: Before you took your first step, before you took your
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  Speaker 1: first swallow of milk, I had already ordained your step.
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  Speaker 1: I had already chosen you. I had set you aside.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: In that same way, Samson was chosen and his enemy
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  Speaker 1: was chosen. And the fight had started before they ever met.
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  Speaker 1: My God, there was a fight that was picked out
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  Speaker 1: for you before you ever even came here. You don't
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  Speaker 1: understand why you go through what you go through, why
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  Speaker 1: you feel what you feel, why you endure what you endure.
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  Speaker 1: It was picked out for you before you got there.
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  Speaker 1: The Philistines were waiting for you to be born. You
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  Speaker 1: were born into a struggle. You were born into a test.
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  Speaker 1: You were born into a dilemma. You were born into
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  Speaker 1: a crisis. It was set aside for you, but God
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  Speaker 1: equipped you before he birthed you. God equipped you before
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  Speaker 1: he birthed you. And you can walk through hell and
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  Speaker 1: not get burned. You can stand in the fiery furnace
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  Speaker 1: and not be singed. You can lay down and go
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  Speaker 1: to bed with lions and wake up in the morning yawning.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't even understand how you can do it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But God equips you for it. He built you for it.
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  Speaker 1: He built you to raise that child. He built you
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  Speaker 1: to handle that circumstance. He built you to handle that situation.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're a strong person. But the side effect is
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  Speaker 1: just because you're strong don't mean you don't get tired.
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  Speaker 1: Silence is often perceived as weakness. People who talk a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot and they talk a lot of stuff I
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: learned a long time ago. I didn't learn this in
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the church. I learned this in the street. Don't watch
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the guy. Who keep talking, talking about if you walk
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  Speaker 1: over here, you're going to limp back. You want some
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: of this? You come over here, you're going to run
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  Speaker 1: into something. Don't watch that guy that's putting on a
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  Speaker 1: big show and breaks a beer bottle in the club
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  Speaker 1: and says, I wish you would. Don't watch him. Watch
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  Speaker 1: the guy who's sitting over there calm. And he ain't
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  Speaker 1: saying nothing. That's the one you need to watch out for.
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  Speaker 1: Because even though silence is often perceived as a weakness,
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  Speaker 1: actually it takes great strength to hold your peace. It
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: takes a great deal of strength not to speak your mind.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I listen to people talk to me sometimes and I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: thought of a thousand things to say back while they
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: were saying their 10. And it took all of my
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  Speaker 1: strength just to sit there and go, Because if I
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  Speaker 1: let that thing rip, you'd be crying for two years.
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  Speaker 1: If I told you what I thought, if I told
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  Speaker 1: you what came across my mind, if I told you
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  Speaker 1: what I really thought, you don't want me to open
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. You don't want me to open my mouth
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: because while you was drawing your breath I had already
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: thought of a hundred things I could have said back.
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  Speaker 1: Silence does not mean weakness. It does not mean ignorance.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It does not mean intimidation. It takes great power. To
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  Speaker 1: be silent. It takes great power to hold your peace.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It takes great power to go through a storm and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: not retaliate. It takes great power not to defend yourself
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  Speaker 1: when you go to war. Silence is a great strength.
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  Speaker 2: Silence. Silence.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said in quietness and in confidence should be
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  Speaker 1: your strength. In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
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  Speaker 1: When you are quiet and you are confident, you have strength.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are. I went into a building.
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  Speaker 1: They were trying to make a seat for me on
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  Speaker 1: the stage. I said, that's all right. I said, I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: can sit anywhere. Because I am no more sitting on
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the stage than I am sitting on the floor.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I can sit anywhere.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I can sit anywhere. Because I knew who I was
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  Speaker 1: when I came here. You don't have to give me
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a certain seat in order for me to be what
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  Speaker 1: I already am.
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  Speaker 2: I know who I am.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't call my name, my name still
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  Speaker 1: got power in it. It still got authority in it.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Silence is a great strength.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let people make you. Because if you let people
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  Speaker 1: make you, they'll turn around and break you. But you
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  Speaker 1: got to know when you walk in the door who
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  Speaker 1: you are. You got to know you bad before they
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  Speaker 1: ever start talking. You got to know you strong before
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  Speaker 1: they ever start talking. And I need not the commendations
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of men to define what God has already declared. If
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: God declared it, it is so. If God declared it,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: it is what it is. Hallelujah to God. I went
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: one place to preach years ago and I preached. I
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: didn't do that good because I was nervous because they
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: had all these titles and made me kind of nervous.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't do that good. I came back about several
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: years later. I said, when I came the first time,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I was nervous because I thought I needed you. I said,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: but now I'm ready for you because I realize you
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  Speaker 1: need me. Once you start to understand who you are
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  Speaker 1: and you understand your place, I'm not talking about arrogance.
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  Speaker 1: I'm quoting scripture in silence and quietness and in confidence.
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  Speaker 1: shall be your strength. I ain't scared of.
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  Speaker 2: None of you.
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  Speaker 1: In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You
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  Speaker 1: got an opinion, I got one too. You think this,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I think that. I got just as much right to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: think that as you got to think this. Glory to God,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'm a grown man I'm as grown as I ever
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be I know exactly who I am And I
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: don't have to tell you who I am. I can
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: show you who I am. And I don't have to prove.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Who I am.
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  Speaker 1: Because that is doesn't have.
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  Speaker 2: To be proven. It just is. It just is.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Can I get a witness in here? Y'all can't handle
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: this kind of preaching. But some of y'all need this
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: kind of preaching. Because you're always trying to prove something
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to people that don't even matter. Always trying to impress
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: people that don't even matter. Always trying to move people
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  Speaker 1: who aren't going to help you one way or the other.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: They're not going to be there one way or the other.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: And ain't no need in you saying nothing because they're
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: not going to do nothing anyway. Hold your peace and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: let the Lord fight your battle.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Stand still.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: And see the salvation of the Lord. The enemies that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: you see today. You shall see them no more. I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm preaching to. But I feel like
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody. Oh my God, my God, my God.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: High five somebody and say you ain't got to say nothing.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: It is what it is. You ain't got to say nothing.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: It is what it is. You ain't got to say
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  Speaker 1: a word. The truth is going to stand when the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: world's on fire. It is what it is. Hold your
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: peace and watch God work it out. You ain't got
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  Speaker 1: to say nothing. High five somebody else and say you
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: ain't got to say nothing. Don't write no note. Don't
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: send no email. Don't send no text. Just stand still.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't got to say nothing. Now Samson was prescribed
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: a battle he didn't cause. In fact, the Bible said
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the Lord had sent the Philistines to attack Israel. I'm
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: not going to say a lot about this. Maybe I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: shouldn't say nothing. But it is not true that just
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  Speaker 1: because Israel is God's chosen people that God didn't ever
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: punish them. He was always for them, but that didn't
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: mean He didn't punish them. That didn't mean that He
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: didn't send armies.
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  Speaker 2: To chastise them.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't mean that He didn't send armies to chastise us.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you got the favor of God doesn't mean
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: that God won't correct you sometime. Where are my real
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: people at? Where are my real people at? You know
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: you belong to God. You know you've been washed in
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: his blood. You know you're chosen of God. But won't
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: he get you together? Won't He humble you and bring
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: you to your knees? Won't He bring you down to
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the floor and make you call on His name? Just
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  Speaker 1: because you have His favor doesn't mean you don't have correction.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says, and you'll spoil the child.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: And the more you belong to God, the more God
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: will get you together. Other people can do it, and
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: it's just fine. But when you do it, you have
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: to pay for it. You can't figure out why. It's
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: because you are God's. and the chastening of the Lord
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: proves that you are His. He will get you together.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: That's how you know you're saved. It's not your tongues.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: It's not your dance. It's not your clothes. It's not
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: your outfit. It's not your jerking and shaking. It's how
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: He corrects you. It's how He pulls you in. It's
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: how He gets you together. It's how He brings you
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to your knees. That's how you know you've been chosen God!
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I better hold it because I feel something. I feel something.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I feel something. I feel something. I feel something. I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: feel something. I feel something. Now Samson was chosen to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: deliver the Israelites, to start the deliverance of the Israelites
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: from the Philistines. He was chosen for that. The problem is,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Samson also is attracted to... Y'all don't want to hear
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the truth. Let me give you the Sunday school class.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I can give you the Sunday school class, you can
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: have it. The problem is, Samson is attracted to the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: people he's supposed to defeat. This conflict is the issues
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of life. Because on one hand, he's supposed to destroy them,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: but he think they're kind of cute. There was a
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: woman from Timnah. And he saw her and he came
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: home and told his parents. He said, I met this
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: girl from Timnah and I want to marry her and
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I want to make her my wife. And they said,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: of all the daughters of Israel, couldn't you find one
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: of your own people?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: He said, no. Now look at the conflict. The conflict.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I am created to destroy what I am also created
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: attracted to.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: It's easy to.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Kill what you don't like, but when God calls you
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: to kill what you are attracted to, it creates a dilemma.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I ain't going to bother you because I know you
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: can't act real. I know you got to fake and
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: be phony and act like you don't understand when you
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: get confused and you don't know whether to slam or
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: hug them. You're in a situation. You're in a dilemma.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: You're in a situation. You're in a dilemma. I'm attracted
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: to a Philistine woman. The Bible doesn't even give her name.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Because her name is not important. Her ethnicity is important.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Because it proves a point that we can have mixed
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: feelings about any situation. I love the job, I hate
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the job. Come on, come on real people, real people
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: talk to me. Real people talk to me. Real people
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: talk to me. You get on my nerves, but I
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: feel sorry for you.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: And I'm in a conflict. I'm in a strait.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about it because I'm
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: supposed to be, I was prescribed to attack, but I'm
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: trying to attack what I am attracted to. And he
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: was going to marry her. Say, but for the riddle,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: he would have married her. He was going to make
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: her his. In spite of his parents' dissent, he was
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: going to still marry her. But he gave a riddle.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: And a riddle caused a rift to break out amongst
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the Philistines because Samson gave them a riddle about the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: honey and the lions. that brought them into a place
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: of confusion and it broke up the whole thing. Look
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: at the things that almost happened to you. Can I
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: talk to somebody? Can I talk to anybody about the
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: stuff that almost happened to you? The decisions you almost made.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: If it wasn't for the grace of God, you wouldn't
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: even be sitting by who you sitting beside. You wouldn't
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: even be standing where you're standing. You almost, you almost,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: you almost fainted. You almost collapsed. You almost gave in.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: That's why I don't understand why you looking down your
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: nose at other people. Because they're but for the grace
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: of God. There but for the grace of God. There
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: but for the grace. There but for the grace. There
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: but for the grace. There but for the grace. There
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: but for the grace go you and I. Because you
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: were drawn to a girl from Timnah, a Philistine. You
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: were born to destroy what you were drawn to keep.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: In between that, we keep showing his strength. He's throwing
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: gates on Philistines. Y'all didn't get it. He likes a
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Philistine girl and yet he's throwing gates on Philistines.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: He crazy. He took a jawbone of an ass and.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Destroyed thousands of Philistines. But he was drawn to the Philistines.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear me. He was crazy. He was strong
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: but he was weak. Oh, y'all not saying much to
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: me now. When I was asking who was strong, y'all
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: was jumping up, y'all was hollering. Y'all was making all
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: kind of noise. You was doing jumping jacks. You did
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a flip and a cartwheel and landed in the middle
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: of the floor. But every person, every Superman got kryptonite.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Every Superman got kryptonite and if they find out what
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the kryptonite is, it puts you in a dilemma because
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: you can be strong with a gate and turn around
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: and be weak as water in another situation. The paradoxical
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: reality of the psychological existence of humanity is creates complications
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: that makes you hard to know. Because if I catch
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: you throwing gates, all I think you are is strong.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: But if I see you peeking over the fence at Timnah,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: all I think you are is weak. And both assessments
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: are wrong because you're not as strong as they think
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: you are. and you're not as weak as they think
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: you are. You are somewhere between strong and weak. And
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: how can you live in your strength and deal with
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: your weakness because they both exist in the same person
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: at the same time. Can I go deeper? Can I
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: go a little bit deeper? Because the truth of the matter,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the reason you done got quiet, because I hit you
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: right in the gut. I hit you right in the belly.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Because when I was talking about strength, you was proud
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to stand up. But when I expose that strong people
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: have weaknesses, you sit up and sit down because you
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: don't want to acknowledge to anybody. Because half of your
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: strength is used trying to prove to them that you
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: ain't nothing but strong. But in reality, you're looking for somebody,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: not who can deal with your strength, who can deal
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: with your weakness. Because everybody's drawn to your strength, but
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: not everybody's drawn to your struggle. And you don't want
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: anybody to know that there's a soft spot in you.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: There's a spot in you that cries at night. There's
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: a spot in you that wants to give up. There's
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: a spot in you that wants to collapse. There's a
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: spot in you that wants to crash. There's a spot
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: in you that does dumb stuff, makes foolish decisions, trusts
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: bad people, has bad ideas, gets yourself in trouble, and
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: you show me how strong you are. But a friend
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of somebody, you can show how weak you are, how
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: unsure you are, how tired you are, how scared you are,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: how worried you are. I didn't go to bed till
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: 3 o'clock in the morning. You think I got it
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: all together. You think I got all the answers. And
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: there I am at 2.30 trying to figure out which
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: way to go. Which door do I move in? Which
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: direction should I take? I'm not as strong as I
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: think I am, as you think I am. But we
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: are spending our strength trying to prove something that ain't true.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: We're spending our strength trying to show everybody that we
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: can handle everything.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: And you're exhausted.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Because the camouflage of your strength only serves as a
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: conduit to hide your frailty. And the person who can
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: deal with both sides is the person you talk to
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: the most. Because if I got to always be strong,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get tired of talking to you. And
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: if I got to always be weak, I'm going to
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: be tired of talking to you.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: But if I could give.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: You three strong sentences and two weak sentences, we can
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: make a paragraph.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Come on, come on somebody.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: We can make a paragraph. Because I ain't lying about
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: neither one of them. Sometimes I know exactly what to do.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: And I wish you would. If you come over here,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I wish you would. But on the other hand, I
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: don't know what to do. I don't know where to go.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: And it's much easier to find somebody who can deal
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: with the strength in you than it is to find
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: somebody who can deal with the weakness in you. Because
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: as soon as they find the weakness in you, they
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: drop you like you trash. The Philistines sent their army
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: against Samson. And he ate their lunch. He tied the
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: tails of the foxes together and set them on fire
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and burned their fields. He lifted up gates and threw
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: it on them. See, if you throw the right thing
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: on me, I'll tear you up. I'll tear you up.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I'll tear you up. And then they got together and
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: they had a meeting. And said, none of that strong
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: stuff is working. And they hired Delilah. He laughing at me.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: He made me laugh. Here Delilah comes switching in. Everybody
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: else come in. They got all kind of armor. They
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: got swords. They got shields. Delilah, come in. And all
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, a strong man has to admit that
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: his strength has side effects. Did you know that your
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: strength has side effects? In fact, you cannot find intimacy
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: until you can show your side effects. As long as
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: you can only handle my camouflage, then I have to
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: be a hero 24 hours a day. You know what's
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: wrong with most of our women? They've had to be
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: heroes 24 hours a day. They are so tired of
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  Speaker 1: being heroes that they have lost their ability to be vulnerable.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even respect vulnerability. You're only respected the more
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  Speaker 1: you don't need nobody. the more you can do it
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  Speaker 1: for yourself, the more you can buy your own car,
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  Speaker 1: your own house, your own stuff, the more you can
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  Speaker 1: do it, the more you are respected when you don't
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  Speaker 1: understand that sometimes your strongest strength is in your vulnerability.
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  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? If Christ would have came as
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  Speaker 1: the lion from the tribe of Judah, he wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: redeemed anybody. But because he knew that his greatest strength
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  Speaker 1: was in his greatest weakness, he became the Lamb of God.
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  Speaker 1: And when he became the Lamb of God, he delivered
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  Speaker 1: more people as a lamb than he could as a lion.
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  Speaker 1: And what's wrong with our men is that all we
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  Speaker 1: want to do is roar. And we don't know that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes a soft answer turneth away wrath. And we don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to understand how to be vulnerable sometimes and say.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, they quiet on me, Jesus. You didn't tell me
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  Speaker 1: that one of the side effects of preaching this message
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  Speaker 1: was going to make people get quiet but I don't
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  Speaker 1: care I don't care because you're not balanced until you
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  Speaker 1: can operate in both graces until you can operate in
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  Speaker 1: both graces when you can still be strong and that's
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  Speaker 1: true And on the other hand, you can be vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: and that's still true and you don't think any less
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  Speaker 1: of yourself because you understand that sometimes it takes more
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  Speaker 1: power to be vulnerable than it does to be powerful.
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  Speaker 1: And you never learned that because nobody modeled it in
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  Speaker 1: front of you. They either were extremely powerful and showed
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  Speaker 1: no mercy or extremely merciful and showed no power. And
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  Speaker 1: now you got a lopsided fight. You're not using the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of what you got. So they hired Delilah because
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  Speaker 1: they knew that he couldn't handle the side effect. Can
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  Speaker 1: I preach this text? I feel like preaching this text.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking to somebody. I'm talking to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: The strong display of power was in the prescription, his
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  Speaker 1: ability to be vulnerable, the character weakness, his side effects.
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  Speaker 1: The great deception is that it wasn't the big stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was the little things. The thing is, isn't it
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  Speaker 1: funny how you can get in an argument, they can
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  Speaker 1: cuss you out and you can handle it? But if
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  Speaker 1: they said you wasn't a good mama? You would rather
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  Speaker 1: them call you a tramp and you come right back
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  Speaker 1: at them. Your mammy was a tramp. Your grandmama was
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  Speaker 1: a surgeon. But when they said you wasn't a good mama,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: it hit a soft spot. Come on, come on, it
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  Speaker 1: hit a soft spot. And all of a sudden, a
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  Speaker 1: tear's over in the corner. What do you mean I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a good mother? I was always a good mother.
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  Speaker 1: I had side effects. And they hired Delilah to be
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  Speaker 1: a side effect. And it brought him to his knees.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the killer part. I assumed that the coming
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  Speaker 1: of Delilah was about sex, but I cannot find in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures where Samson and Delilah had sex. Maybe they did,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't tell us. Every time I see Samson
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  Speaker 1: with Delilah, He is laying his head.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, I know this word. I know this word.
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  Speaker 1: He is laying his head in her lap. So he
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  Speaker 1: compromised all that he was as a judge for a nap.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Y'all don't hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. See, he found some place. She could have
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  Speaker 1: took all that switching back home. He found the place
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  Speaker 1: where he could lay his head. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to, but I'm after somebody that your
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  Speaker 1: real problem is not your carnality. It's your weariness. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have a safe place to lay your head. You
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: don't have a place... that won't criticize you and tell
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  Speaker 1: you you just need to man up. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: a place where you can be a girl again. You're
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  Speaker 1: scared to death to be a girl again because you
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  Speaker 1: don't trust anybody else to take care of you but
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  Speaker 1: you because you've always had to take care of you.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the only role that you've learned the script to.
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  Speaker 1: And if you've learned the script for one role, you
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  Speaker 1: can only play one part. You have never had the
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  Speaker 1: luxury of being scared. The luxury of being tired. The
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  Speaker 1: luxury of being vulnerable. And you do good with God
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  Speaker 1: because you can't see him. But to make yourself vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: to somebody you can see, you can't, you just, you
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  Speaker 1: ain't hearing it. Because you never were scripted to be human.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what the problem is? You're tired. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't understand being tired is a side effect of
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  Speaker 1: being strong. When you've been strong too long. When you've
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  Speaker 1: been tough all your life. When every morning you had
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: to fight, you don't know how to just relax.
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  Speaker 2: And say, I'm tired.
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  Speaker 1: He knew, watch this, I'm almost done. He knew she
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  Speaker 1: was trying to kill him. Still, he laid his head
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  Speaker 1: in her lap. She asked him where his strength was.
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  Speaker 1: He lied to her over and over again. Now, once
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  Speaker 1: I find out you're trying to kill me, all attraction goes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: All attraction goes. As long as I don't think you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to kill me, I'm good. But when I find
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  Speaker 1: out that you're really trying to hurt me for real,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: you ain't nearly as cute as you was a minute ago.
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  Speaker 1: You're not, no, no. All of that goes away. All
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  Speaker 1: of that dries up because you're trying to kill me.
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  Speaker 1: But he was so desperate. Y'all don't hear. God, make
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: them hear it because I can't do it without you.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Make them hear it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't hear how desperate he was for a place
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  Speaker 1: to lay his head. And my assignment this morning What
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: God called me to preach to you this morning is
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: that there would be many people in this room and
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  Speaker 1: watching on stream right now who do not have a
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  Speaker 1: safe place.
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  Speaker 2: To lay your head.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been so long since you've had it, you
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  Speaker 1: convince yourself you don't need it. And even if you
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: got it, you don't know how to treat it. And
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: now you push away what you could rest in. Because
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: you don't know how to be tired. You don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to be tired. You know how to fight. You
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  Speaker 1: know how to kill. You know how to destroy. You
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  Speaker 1: know how to attack. You don't know how to be tired.
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  Speaker 1: And for a moment of laying his head, he risked
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  Speaker 1: his life to lay his head. He lost his eyes
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  Speaker 1: to lay his head. He went blind and lost his
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  Speaker 1: vision to lay his head. And I'm wondering how many
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: people in here are praying for vision but you can't
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: get vision because you are so desperate to find a
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  Speaker 1: place to lay your head that you've.
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  Speaker 2: Lost your vision.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: And I'm wondering how many people in here are treading
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: at the mill with the oxus When you are a
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: judge over Israel, you are the end of an era.
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  Speaker 1: You are the last judge before we see King. And
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  Speaker 1: you cannot be the judge that brings us into kings
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  Speaker 1: because you've lost your vision. And when Hollywood does it,
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  Speaker 1: They try to make it lurid and sexual and vivacious
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: and all of these kinds of things. They try to
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: make it salacious. They try to appeal to our human
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: lust when they don't realize that this is about not lust.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: This is about a lingering tiredness that will not go
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: away and the Lord told me if I would preach
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: this that he would crack through your camouflage and he
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: said if you would open up and admit that you're
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: tired Delilah would not be your side effect Delilah would
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: not be your side effect. Delilah is more than a woman.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Don't think about her as a woman. She's a woman,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: but she's more than a woman. She's a spirit. She's
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: a spirit. She's anything you have to lay in to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: lay in. She's anything you got to rest in. She's
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: anything that you're willing to give up everything just for
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: a moment of rest. And you know it's killing you.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: She's a drug. She can't buy. She's an addiction. She's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: a high. She's anything you.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Go to.
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  Speaker 1: To lay your head. She's the kryptonite you go to
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: when life is killing you. And that's why church is
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: not working for you. Because when you get ready for church,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: The last thing you put on before you leave is
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: your camouflage. And you know why we can't have real worship?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Because real worship will strip you. Real worship will bring
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: you down to your knees. Real worship will make you
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: lay prostrate on the floor. Real worship will bring tears
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: gushing out of your eyes. Real worship will make you
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: cry out before God. Real worship will make you open
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: your mouth and scream. Real worship will make you expose
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: the thing that you hide from everybody else. Real worship
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: will make you say, I don't know which way to go.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I don't know how
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: to fix it. Real worship will make elders collapse on
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: the floor like sinners. There won't be anybody to pray
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: for anybody because the elders will collapse just like a sinner.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: Real worship will bring you down to your knees until
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: the singer's sit down beside the prostitutes and the prostitutes
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: start sitting down beside the deacons and they're all laying
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: out on the floor because real worship will get down
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: in you. But you can't take off. Watch it. I'm
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: looking at you right now. You can't come out of
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: your Superman suit. I'm challenging you this morning to find
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: your phone booth. so you can stop being Superman. I
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: came to preach to Clark Kent. I didn't come to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: preach to Superman. I came to preach to somebody who's tired.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: I came to preach to somebody who's dry. I came
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: to preach to somebody who's empty. I came to preach
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: to somebody who's frustrated. I came to preach to somebody
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: who's tired of acting like you got it all together
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: when you ain't got nothing together. You can handle scriptures,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: but you can't handle money. You can handle money, but
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: you can't handle your own kids. You can handle your kids,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: but you can't handle your job. I came to preach
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: in a phone booth. I didn't come to preach at
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: the potter's house. I came to preach.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: In a phone booth.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: I want you to find a safe place where you
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: can change. out of your boots and leave your cape
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: off and come before God just as I am. I
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: came to preach till you're naked and not ashamed. I
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: came to preach until tears are flushing down your face.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: I came to preach till you find someplace you can
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: lay your head. I came to preach till you feel
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: the glory of God. Fill up a room. I came
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: to preach till something gets down in your spirit and
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: makes you fall on your knees. I came to preach
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: till you don't care who's looking at you and you
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: don't care what they think about you and you don't
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: care what.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: They call you.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: I came to preach till you don't care about your title.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: I came to preach till you don't care about your position.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: I came to preach till you don't care what your
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: husband thinks. I came to preach till you don't care
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: what your wife thinks. I came to preach till something
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: in your belly opens up and cries out before God.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I came to preach until you say, I won't let
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: you go till you bless my soul. I won't let
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: you go till you fix me. I won't let you
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: go till you heal me. I won't let you go
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: until you touch me. I came to preach till something
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: opens up in your belly. I came to preach until
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: you feel the power of God fall. I came to
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: preach until the anointing falls in your severe. I came
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: to preach until the Holy Ghost touches you from the
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: crown of your head. to the soles of your feet.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: I came to preach. I came to preach until glory
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: hits you. I came to preach till the anointing of
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: God begins to fall. I came to preach until you
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: come out of all of this hard stuff, this tough stuff,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: this stony stuff, this vicious stuff, this angry stuff. I
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: came to preach until anger goes away. I came to
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: preach until you lose your anger and you lay on
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: your face and say, God, I need you like I
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: never needed you before. I came to preach, hallelujah, until
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: your side effects get out of your way.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: I came to preach.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: So you can find at least one place, one day
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: out the week, one hour where you can lay before
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: God and say, before I go to work Monday, I
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: got to have this moment where I can lay my head.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: I came to preach. I left my house. so I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: could lay my head. I left my car, so I
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: could lay my head. I left my job, so I
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: could lay my head. I left my business, so I
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: could lay my head. The truth is... I'm tired, God.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: I'm tired, God. I'm tired, God. I'm tired of everybody
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: calling me. I'm tired of everybody pulling on me. I'm
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: tired of everybody needing me. I came to preach until
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: something gets down in your belly and you say, I'm
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: going to get the blessing. I don't care what it costs.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get the blessing. Are you in this
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: place today? I'm gonna count to three and you gotta
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: decide either I'm going home like Superman or I'm coming
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: to the altar like Clark Kent. One. You got a
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: few minutes to make up in your mind. Either I'm
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: gonna get what God has for me or I'm gonna
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: stand here and be cute and walk around in my
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: high heels and try to be important and try to
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: impress people two. Either I'm going to open up my
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: spirit and cry out to God until he blesses my soul,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: blesses my mind, blesses my spirit, until sleep comes back,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: until rest comes back, until joy comes back. Truth is,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not happy. Truth is, I'm not happy truth is
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not happy truth is I got joy but I'm
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: not happy truth is I don't have peace Truth is
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: I need a touch from God. Truth is I need
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: a move from God. Truth is I need a move
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: from God. Truth is I need a move from God.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Truth is I need.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: A move from God.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to stand here. until I get a
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: touch from God. I'm going to stand right here until
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  Speaker 1: he blesses my soul.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: I'm going to stand.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Right here if I got to lay on the floor,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: if I got to get on my knees, if I
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: got to lay prostrate. I'm going to stand right here
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: until heaven opens up above my head. I'm going to
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: stand right here until I walk into my promised land.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: I'm going to stand right here until heaven moves, until
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: hell shakes, until demons tremble. I'm going to stand right
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: here until the power of God moves all over my body.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: I want my anointing back. I want my power back.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: I want my glory back. I want a touch from God.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Just touch me.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: If you touch me one time, if you touch me
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: one time, if you touch me, you'll heal me. If
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: you touch me, you'll bless me. If you touch me,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: you'll deliver me. God, if you just touch me, I'll
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: be all right. One touch from you. One touch from
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: your Lord. One touch from the Lord. I'm down to
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: my last one.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: One touch.
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  Speaker 1: How bad do you want it? How bad do you
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: want it? Do you want it bad enough to move?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Do you want it bad enough to come out the balcony?
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Do you really want it? Here it is, three. Everything
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: in here that wants something from God, come out wherever
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: you are. Come out with your hands up. Come out
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: in total surrender. Come out saying yes to God. Come
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: out saying yes to God. Come out saying yes. Come
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: out saying yes. Come out saying yes. Come out saying yes.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: Come out saying yes. Come out saying yes. Come out
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: saying yes. You're watching online. The anointing is in this house.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: It's in your house. It's in your living room. It's
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: in your car. It's in your spirit. Glory to God.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: I want every tough guy. to fall out on his face.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: I want every hard woman to break down on your knees.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: I came to preach to Samson. I came to preach
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: to Samson. Come out wherever you are. Come out wherever
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: you are. Come out wherever you are. Come out.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: If you come out, the Philistines will die.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: The Bible said that he killed more Philistines in his death.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: than he did in his life. And it's just like Jesus.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: Jesus was at his greatest hour when they hung him
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: high and they stretched him wide and his flesh died.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: If your flesh dies right now, you're gonna kill every
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: demon in your house. If your flesh dies, every yoke
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: will be destroyed.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: If your flesh dies.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: Every disease is going to leap out your body. If
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: your flesh dies, God's going to do a new thing
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  Speaker 1: in you. I want you to open your mouth and
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  Speaker 1: holler like you lost your mind. Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. Help me holler. Help me holler. Help me holler.
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  Speaker 2: Help me holler. Help me holler. Help me holler.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta break out of this. I gotta break out
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  Speaker 1: of this. I gotta break out of this. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: get out. I'm tired of being a prisoner. I'm tired
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  Speaker 1: of being an inmate.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired. I'm coming out. I'm coming out. I'm coming out.
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  Speaker 1: And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed. And suddenly there
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: was a noise. And suddenly there was a shaking. Come out.
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  Speaker 2: Come out. Wherever you are, come out. Come out with.
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  Speaker 1: Your hands up. Come out with a surrender. Come out
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  Speaker 1: with a praise.
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  Speaker 2: Come out.
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  Speaker 1: Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, clap your hands.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, ye people, shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
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  Speaker 1: I feel victory. Victory is coming in this place. I
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  Speaker 1: feel victory coming in this place. I feel victory coming
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  Speaker 1: in this place. I feel victory coming in this place.
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  Speaker 1: If you shout, victory is coming. If you shout, Victory
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Open your mouth and shout. Stop being cute
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  Speaker 1: and shout. Stop being fancy and shout. Shout till the
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  Speaker 1: walls come down. Shout till the walls come down. Shout
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  Speaker 1: till the walls come down. Shout till the walls come down.
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  Speaker 2: Shout. Shout.
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  Speaker 1: I said shout. I said shout. Shout to the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Shout to the wall. Shout to the wall.
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't
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  Speaker 1: hear you. Shout in your living room. Shout in your car.
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  Speaker 1: Shout in your house. Shout in your bathroom. Get in
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  Speaker 1: your kitchen and shout. Get in your car and shout.
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  Speaker 1: Open up your mouth and begin to shout.
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Shout.
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  Speaker 2: Demons are trembling.
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  Speaker 1: Shout.
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  Speaker 2: Hell is leaving. Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout.
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  Speaker 2: Depression is headed out of here. Shout. Shout, I say. Shout,
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  Speaker 2: I say.
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  Speaker 1: Shout.
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  Speaker 2: Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout till it breaks. Shout till it cracks. Shout till
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: it rips open. Shout till it rips open. Shout. Shout
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  Speaker 1: till it rips. I'm going to shout till it rips.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to shout till it rips. I'm gonna shout
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  Speaker 1: till it rips. Shout till it rips. Shout till it rips.
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  Speaker 1: Shout till your roof comes off. Shout till your living
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  Speaker 1: room flies open. Shout till your kids come home. Open
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  Speaker 1: your mouth and shout. Open your mouth and shout. Open
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: your mouth and shout. I can't hear you. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: Shout it out. Shout it out. Shout it out. Shout
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  Speaker 1: it out. Shout it out. Every stain, shout it out.
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  Speaker 1: Every pain, shout it out. Every bit of trouble, shout
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  Speaker 1: it out.
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't
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  Speaker 2: hear you. Shout it out.
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  Speaker 1: Shout it out. Shout it out. Something is leaving your body.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: Something is leaving your mind. Something is leaving your heart.
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Shout in your living room. Shout in your living room.
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  Speaker 1: Fall out by your couch. Fall out of your bed.
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  Speaker 1: Slide out in the floor. Lay down in the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: and shout it out. Somebody that believes God. All the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: way in the balcony. Shout.
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  Speaker 2: Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: Shout. Shout. Somebody help me. Somebody help me.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody help me.
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  Speaker 2: The walls are coming down.
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  Speaker 1: The walls are coming down. The walls are coming down.
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  Speaker 1: are coming down. The walls are coming down. Shout choir.
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  Speaker 1: Shout church. Shout deacons. Shout preachers. Shout pastors. Shout.
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  Speaker 2: Shout. Shout. Shout!
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  Speaker 1: Shout!
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  Speaker 2: Shout!
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  Speaker 1: Shout! The devil don't like it, but shout. The devil
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: don't like it, but shout. Shout in this place. I
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: feel victory. I feel victory. I feel victory. I feel victory.
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  Speaker 1: I dare you to shout. I dare you to shout.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: I dare you to shout. I dare you. I dare you.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: I dare you. I gotta quit.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel the power of the Holy Ghost in
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  Speaker 1: this place.
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost said shout.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus!
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus! Thank you! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Shout! Shout!
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: Shout!
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  Speaker 1: Yes! You gonna get loose. You gonna get loose. You
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: gonna get loose. You gonna get loose today. You gonna
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: get loose today. You gonna get some help today. You
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: gonna get deliverance today. You gonna get a breakthrough today.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: You gonna get a call today. You gonna get it.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: You gonna get it. You gonna get it. You gonna
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: get it. This is for you. God did this for you.
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  Speaker 1: This is your Sunday. This is your Sunday. This is
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: your Sunday.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: Shout hallelujah. Shout hallelujah. Hallelujah. My God, my God, my God,
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  Speaker 2: who can I tell?
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  Speaker 1: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Jesus!
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, oh Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: My God, my God, my God.
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  Speaker 1: What I want you to understand is that you've been predestined, predetermined,
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  Speaker 1: prescripted to drive out the philistines that are in your life.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: But you can't drive it out till you get honest.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: You can't help what you're trying to kill. You either
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: gotta be hot Or you gotta be cold? You got
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: a makeup in your mind? Do you love your image?
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: Or do you wanna be changed? Lift your hands up
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  Speaker 1: right where you are. Lift them up. This is a
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: moment of surrender. You're watching on television, this is a
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: moment of surrender. It's a moment of complete surrender. It's
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: a moment of complete surrender. You didn't realize you had
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: side effects. But the very thing, it's good to be strong.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: It's wonderful to be strong. But you didn't OD'd. You OD'd.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: And you lost part of yourself. Because Christ is just
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: as much lamb as he is lion. And he wasn't
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: afraid of his lamb. And he wasn't afraid of his lions.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: And you got to be good with opening up your heart.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: When the Bible says, none but the pure in heart
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: shall see God, the word pure there is where we
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: get the word catheter. It means that God wants to
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: clean out your heart so you can see God. None
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: but the pure in heart shall see God. You hear me?
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: On television, you hear me? On your phone, do you
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: hear me? On your iPad, do you hear me? On
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: your computer, do you hear me? Number the pure in heart.
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  Speaker 1: And hell is doing everything it can to take away
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: your purity. Because you used to be pure. You used
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: to know how to be sorry. You used to know
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: how to say yes. You used to know how to
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: open up and you could see God. But your vision
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: is coming back. I prophesy to you right now that
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: your vision is coming back. It's coming back. It's coming back,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: you hear me? It's coming back. It's coming back. It's
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: coming back. This thing is real, it's coming back. It's
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: coming back. These things that keep coming up in you, distress,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: This anxiety, this insomnia, these bouts of anger, these mood swings,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: these depressions are nothing.
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  Speaker 2: But side effects.
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  Speaker 1: All you got to be is who you really are.
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  Speaker 1: That's all you got to do is what you really do.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: That's all you got to do is open up your
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: heart to God. And say, I'm going to rest in you.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going to rest in you. If you don't do it,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: it can't be done. I'm going to rest in you.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: I'm going to rest in you. Do you feel that
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: peace coming in this room right now? There's a peace.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: There's a peace coming in this room right now. Oh
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: my God, I wish you was in here. I don't
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: know whether you can feel it where you are, but
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: there's a peace coming in here. There's a peace coming
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: in here. There's a peace coming. There's a peace coming.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: For you, it's coming right now. It's coming for you.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: Lift your hands, my Father and my God. It is
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  Speaker 1: in the invincible, all-powerful, eternal, everlasting, immutable, unchanging name of
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ we pray. We all like sheep have gone astray.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: We've gotten turned out of the way. We've forgotten what
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: matters most. We've turned into what we thought we had
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: to be because of the onslaught of what we've been through.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: But today we shake it off. Today we shake off
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  Speaker 1: the side effects of being who we were called to be.
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  Speaker 1: And today, right now, We receive your peace. We receive
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: your power. We receive your love. This is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a Sunday we don't ever forget. Because this is
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: going to be the Sunday that I drop my camouflage
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: And I came to Jesus just like I was. I
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: was weary. I was worn. And to be honest with you, Lord,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: I was sad. I was sad. And I didn't know
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: how to get out of it. But I found in
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: you a resting place. It's not in my Delilah. It's
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: not in my coping mechanisms. It's not in the pseudo
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: things that I take on to help me get through
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  Speaker 1: the moment.
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  Speaker 2: I found in.
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  Speaker 1: You a resting place. I found in you a resting place.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: There's somebody in the balcony. God is touching you right
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: in the balcony right now. in a special way. You
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: didn't even come down in the prayer, but God is
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: touching you right where you are. I found in you
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: a resting place. This stuff I've been carrying is too heavy.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: It's too hard.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: It's too much. I cast my cares on you. Because
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: you care for me. I will rest, Lord.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you for my rest. Thank you for my rest.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you for my rest. Thank you for my rest.
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  Speaker 1: Right in your living room, right where you're watching, I'm
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: going to rest. I'm going to rest. I'm going to rest.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going.
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  Speaker 1: To practice it. I'm going to practice it. I'm going
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: to work on it. I'm going to.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: Practice it until I get good at it.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: I will rest in the Lord. If you're around this
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: altar or out in the pews and you don't know Jesus,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: Jesus said, come unto me all ye that are weak
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: and heavy laden. And he said, I will give you rest.
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  Speaker 1: Not worry. I will give you rest. And if you
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: want Christ to come into your life right now, I
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: don't care whether your back's slid. I don't care if
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: your back's broken. If you raise your hand, I'll pray
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: for you that Christ will come into your heart right now,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: right now, right now. Father, hold that hand up right now. Father,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of being my own savior. being my own doctor,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: being my own lawyer, I'm going to rest in you.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: I will rest.
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  Speaker 2: I will rest.
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  Speaker 1: I pray salvation would fall on every raised hand, that
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus would wash away all sins. We
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: confess our sins. We forsake them and we open up
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: our heart to you. Leave your hand up. We open
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: up our heart to you. Come in, Jesus. If you
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: don't do it, it can't be done. Come in, Jesus.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: Come in, Jesus. That spirit that encamps about me, that
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: angry spirit, that bitter spirit, that distrusting spirit, that jilted spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going home with that today. I will rest.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: I will rest. Now I'm yours. I'm yours. I'm yours.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: Before I close this service, I want to ask you,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: do you have a church home where you can come
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: and get the word? I'm not asking you were you
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: ever baptized somewhere when you were 12. I'm asking you
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: Do you have a place where your soul can rest
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: in the Lord? Where you can come in heavy and
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: leave out light? The doors of this church are open.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: If you make your way to my left, your right,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: you will find a lap you can rest in. Go
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  Speaker 1: right now Make your way through the crowds.