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The Blame Game - Part 2 - Jan 27, 2013 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: So he makes this ointment, this mud pie, this clay pack,
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  Speaker 1: and puts it on the blind man's eye and says
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  Speaker 1: to the blind man, go. Wait a minute. I still
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  Speaker 1: can't see. And if anything, I'm worse now than I
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  Speaker 1: was before. Because even if I could see, I can't
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  Speaker 1: see through what you put on me. Greetings, brothers and
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  Speaker 1: sisters in Jesus name, grace and peace be multiplied unto
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  Speaker 1: you from God, our father and the Lord. Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so blessed and so honored to be able to
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  Speaker 1: share this series with you. I believe that it is
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  Speaker 1: a secret weapon to the serious soldier who is ready
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  Speaker 1: to go in and take back what the enemy has
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  Speaker 1: stole from them. I'm teaching on blind faith. And particularly today,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about the blame game. So
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  Speaker 1: many people spend so much of their life blaming this
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  Speaker 1: one and that one and the other one for what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in their life. Shake it off. Move into
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  Speaker 1: your destiny. The blame game. This is the word for you.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that God could be glorified through
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  Speaker 1: something that was not beautiful. To something that was not perfect.
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  Speaker 1: He said, this man is like this, not because of
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  Speaker 1: what his mother did, not because of what his father did,
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  Speaker 1: but I planned his blindness for my glory. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you're single. So I could be glorified in your singleness.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you're married. So I could be glorified in
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  Speaker 1: your marriage. That's why your home isn't perfect. So I
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  Speaker 1: could be glorified in the imperfection. I made it what
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  Speaker 1: it is so you could see glory in a way
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't see it. Don't fix it. Be glorified in it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't want to talk to me. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: had some help this morning. I wish I had some help.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had some help. The only reason we
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  Speaker 1: have a need to blame is because we're disappointed in
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  Speaker 1: the outcome. And the disappointment in the outcome suggests there's
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  Speaker 1: something wrong with where you are. So the way you
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  Speaker 1: cope with the disappointment with you Is by blaming me.
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  Speaker 1: So you make me your scapegoat. But Christ already is.
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  Speaker 1: That's too theological. I'm not going to bother that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to drop over into that.
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  Speaker 2: Christ says.
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  Speaker 1: Don't blame his mother. Don't blame his father. Whatever was
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  Speaker 1: wrong with them. I could have made that work. He said,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to blame anybody, blame me. Because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to use his blindness for my glory. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to use her brokenness for my glory. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: use his emptiness for my glory. I'm going to use
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  Speaker 1: her thirstiness for my glory. Don't make them over. Leave
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  Speaker 1: them alone. Stop trying to fix them. That's my child.
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  Speaker 2: Leave her alone.
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  Speaker 1: I made her this way because I have an appointment
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  Speaker 1: with her. And when the time is right and the
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  Speaker 1: stage is set, I'm going to heal her where I
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  Speaker 1: can get the most glory. Somebody help me pray them
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  Speaker 1: just 10 seconds. Touch five people and say, you have
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  Speaker 1: an appointment, you have an appointment, you have an appointment.
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  Speaker 1: You have an appointment. You have an appointment. You have
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  Speaker 1: an appointment. You have an appointment. You have an appointment.
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  Speaker 1: You have an appointment. You don't even know it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't even know it. You don't even know it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't even know it. You're just sitting on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road, minding your own business, not even realizing
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  Speaker 1: that you have an appointment with destiny. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to fast for it. You don't have to pray for it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to beg for it. All you got
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  Speaker 1: to do is do you. And while you do you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to meet you in the middle of the road. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who this is for, but this is
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  Speaker 1: for somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Sit down, sit down. We just talked about it. We
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  Speaker 2: just talked about it. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all keep jumping up, but I feel the anointing of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. I feel the spirit of the living God.
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  Speaker 1: I feel the glory of the Lord. The blind man
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  Speaker 1: said nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And the miracle came to him.
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  Speaker 1: Be still. And see the salvation. See the salvation coming.
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  Speaker 3: Of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Stand still blind man.
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  Speaker 1: Don't scream.
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  Speaker 2: Don't holler.
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  Speaker 1: Don't cry out. I'm going to get the glory. All
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  Speaker 1: you got to do. Is be there when I get there.
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  Speaker 1: So this is what happened. I'm still in the first verse.
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  Speaker 1: I got to get out of that first verse.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus. Passes by. Sees the blind man.
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  Speaker 1: They have a discussion about the blind man. The blind
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  Speaker 1: man says nothing at all. Jesus of his own volition
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  Speaker 1: says this man is blind for my glory.
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  Speaker 2: That means there's nothing wrong with him. He is doing
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  Speaker 2: What I created him. To do. So you think.
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  Speaker 1: That in order for him to be right. He has
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  Speaker 1: to be like you. And that's why you blame people.
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  Speaker 1: Because you think that you are the standard of right.
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  Speaker 1: When for him. Being blind is right. I need him
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  Speaker 1: to be blind. Because I'm going to show. Oh y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Watch this. So Jesus says, can I go a
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  Speaker 2: little bit further?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, he doesn't do like the other man. Remember a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks ago about the blind man? He spat in
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  Speaker 1: his eye. He doesn't spit in the guy's eye, no.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to fall in love with the
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  Speaker 1: method of his last miracles. So he doesn't allow you
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  Speaker 1: to synchronize five steps to be healed. Because every time
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  Speaker 1: he does it different so that you don't fall in
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  Speaker 1: love with the process. But fall in love with the
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  Speaker 1: God of the process. Just because he brought you out
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  Speaker 1: through him last time doesn't mean he's going to use
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  Speaker 1: him next time. He may use her. Because God wants
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  Speaker 1: you to know that it's really not him, him or her.
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  Speaker 2: It's God. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you.
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  Speaker 1: So watch this, watch this, watch this. Can I think
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  Speaker 1: this text on out? Can I think this text on out?
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus says, neither have done this. It's been done
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  Speaker 1: for the glory of God. And then he spits on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, not in the eye, on the ground, takes
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  Speaker 1: his water and puts it in this dirt This fallen stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And makes an ointment. And puts it on the.
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  Speaker 2: Blind man's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Blind man still ain't said nothing. Just standing where he's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to stand. Doing what he's supposed to do. The
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  Speaker 1: miracle is coming to him. If you just stand where
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to stand and do what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: The miracle... Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: So he makes this ointment, this mud pie, this clay pack,
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  Speaker 1: and puts it.
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  Speaker 2: On the blind man's eye. And says to.
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  Speaker 1: The blind man, go. Wait a minute. I still can't see.
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  Speaker 1: And if anything, I'm worse now than I was before.
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  Speaker 1: Because even if I could see, I can't see through
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  Speaker 1: what you put on me. Have you ever had God
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  Speaker 1: put something on you. And you say Lord with all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff you put on me. I couldn't get up
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  Speaker 1: even if I wanted to. And the Lord said to me.
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  Speaker 1: He and I were talking about the scripture. He said,
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  Speaker 1: watch the blind man go with more on him than
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  Speaker 1: he had before he met me. Watch him go weighted
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  Speaker 1: down with stuff I put on him. Watch the blind
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  Speaker 1: man experience my touch without my healings. Watch the blind
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  Speaker 1: man that I touched and he still can't see. And
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  Speaker 1: yet I told him to go blind. Watch the blind
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  Speaker 1: man find his way to the pool in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: He said, because what I want you to do is
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  Speaker 1: preach this. Because I'm going to have my children there
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  Speaker 1: who are going through a season in your life. that
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  Speaker 1: you have more on you than you had before you
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  Speaker 1: met me. And you're trying to walk out your faith,
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  Speaker 1: but you really can't see. He said, I want them
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  Speaker 1: to understand that in order to get your miracle, you
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  Speaker 1: have to take your first few steps in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: For the just shall walk by faith, not by.
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  Speaker 1: So whenever God tells you to do something, You can't
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  Speaker 1: see your way clear. Because if you could see your
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  Speaker 1: way clear, it wouldn't be by faith. That's how you
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  Speaker 1: know it's by faith. When you're walking it out in
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  Speaker 1: the dark. Somebody say, I'm walking it out in the dark, baby.
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking it out in the dark. I'm walking through
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  Speaker 1: this marriage in the dark. I'm walking through this job
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  Speaker 1: in the dark. I'm walking it out in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: I can't see, but I'm walking it out.
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  Speaker 4: Still to come. On the Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: Still don't have extra money, but praise it. Still not married,
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  Speaker 1: but praise it. Still got problems in the house, but
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  Speaker 1: praise it. Haven't got the test results back, but praise it.
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  Speaker 1: Going through a storm, but praise it. What you don't
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  Speaker 1: realize is while you're praising him, you're dipping in the water.
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  Speaker 1: And the more you dip in the water, the more
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  Speaker 1: you can see. The emptiness of an open heart creates
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  Speaker 1: a cavity for God to fill, but a closed mind
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  Speaker 1: never receives anything from God. The only difference between you
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  Speaker 1: and the person you admire is the perspective they have
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  Speaker 1: on life.
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  Speaker 4: When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
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  Speaker 4: let me lead the way, it's time for blind faith.
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  Speaker 1: Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
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  Speaker 1: around your neck and leave you limited so that they
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  Speaker 1: can have fellowship. and you can have failure. If you
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  Speaker 1: are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
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  Speaker 1: your outcome.
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  Speaker 4: For helping us reach others with your best gift, we
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  Speaker 4: would like to give you Blind Faith, four insightful messages
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  Speaker 4: on DVD, and as a bonus, receive pecking orders on
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  Speaker 4: DVD with a 2013 photo calendar reminding you that God
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  Speaker 4: wants to position you for impact, expose you to powerful experiences,
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: give the courage to step out in faith, and the
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  Speaker 4: knowledge to make a difference. Just visit our website or
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  Speaker 4: call 1-800-BISHOP-2 today.
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  Speaker 1: I think the perspective is critical in order for you
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  Speaker 1: to be an overcomer, to be victorious. It's not what
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  Speaker 1: happens to you. It's how you feel about what happens
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  Speaker 1: to you. The ability to manage problems and situations is
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  Speaker 1: what determines the CEO from the janitor.
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  Speaker 2: I've been both.
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  Speaker 1: And I can clearly tell you, the higher up you go,
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  Speaker 1: the more problems you encounter. And your ability... To have
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  Speaker 1: the proper perspective under fire is critical. And frankly, it
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  Speaker 1: takes discipline. Because no matter who you are, where you are,
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  Speaker 1: the heart trembles with fear. Your mind races with possibilities.
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  Speaker 1: But if you can discipline yourself to hold on to
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  Speaker 1: your perspective while you are under fire, you can overcome anything.
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  Speaker 1: That takes discipline, not emotionalism. You can't dance your way
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  Speaker 1: into this. You have to be sober and be vigilant.
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  Speaker 1: because you're under fire your perspective is being attacked the
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  Speaker 1: enemy is trying to make you think that you are
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  Speaker 1: not coming out or that you don't have what it
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  Speaker 1: takes or that you can't do it or that you
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  Speaker 1: can't you can't you can't but if you can hold
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  Speaker 1: on to your perspective and be disciplined enough to keep
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  Speaker 1: the car in the middle of the road even though
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  Speaker 1: the wind is rocking from side to side you'll drive
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  Speaker 1: through the storm and when the storm is over you'll
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  Speaker 1: still be standing somebody help me preach will you help
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  Speaker 1: me preach Slap your neighbor and holler, go!
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  Speaker 2: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Go blind. Go broke. Go without backup. Go without support.
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  Speaker 1: Go without recognition. Go in the middle of controversy. Go
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  Speaker 1: while they're still blaming people. Go while they're still talking
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  Speaker 1: about you. Go while you can't see your way clear.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever you do, slap your name and holler, go.
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  Speaker 1: Your healing is in the going. Your healing is in
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  Speaker 1: the doing. Your healing is in the stretching out. most
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  Speaker 1: of my life it's been like this just walking it
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  Speaker 1: out I know you touched me I know you said
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  Speaker 1: go I know you're from me but I'm walking it
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  Speaker 1: out in the dark. I don't know who to trust.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who to open up to. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who to talk to. I don't know who my
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  Speaker 1: friends are. I'm not sure that he's really my enemy,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm dealing with them all the same way because
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  Speaker 1: I can't see, I can't see. I can't see, I
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  Speaker 1: can't see, I can't see. All I know is that
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  Speaker 1: he that hath began a good work in me shall
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  Speaker 1: perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. You got
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  Speaker 1: to walk it out in the dark. Abraham, where are
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  Speaker 1: you going? He said, I don't know, but I'll know
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  Speaker 1: when I get there. Whenever God gets ready to use anybody,
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  Speaker 1: there is a certain amount of blindness that goes along
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  Speaker 1: with faith.
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  Speaker 2: So he says, oh, I ain't going to get finished, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, he says, go wash in the pool
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  Speaker 1: of Siloam, which the Bible says is interpreted to mean sin.
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  Speaker 2: You sent me like this.
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  Speaker 1: You sent me all broken. You sent me bleeding. You
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  Speaker 1: sent me blind? Yeah, you sent me? You mean you
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  Speaker 1: can use me?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: But Lord, I'm still feeling my own way.
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  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The miracle's in the process. You got to make your
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  Speaker 1: first few steps in the dark. Joshua had to set
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  Speaker 1: his foot.
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  Speaker 2: In the waters before the waters parted.
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  Speaker 1: Naaman had to dip seven times before he could see
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  Speaker 1: a change. Don't be frustrated because you don't see immediate results.
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  Speaker 1: Keep on walking out the process. Keep on walking it out.
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  Speaker 1: Keep on walking it out. I told the women, keep pecking.
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  Speaker 1: Keep pecking. Keep pecking.
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  Speaker 2: Keep pecking.
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  Speaker 1: You'll get out if you keep pecking. And so he
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  Speaker 1: comes to the pool First of all, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: We missed it. We need to praise God because he
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  Speaker 2: made it.
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  Speaker 1: When, now if anybody else would have come to the pool,
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  Speaker 1: we wouldn't have praised God because they could see. But
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  Speaker 1: because of his liabilities, His success is somebody else's normal.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knows how hard it was for you to get
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  Speaker 1: to where you are. So you can't wait on anybody
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  Speaker 1: else to celebrate because they don't know what you had
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  Speaker 1: to go through to get where you are. But when
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  Speaker 1: you made it with your blind self, when you made
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  Speaker 1: it with your lonely self, when you made it with
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  Speaker 1: your broke self, don't forget to praise God just because
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  Speaker 1: you made it. Give him a praise. Praise him. Praise
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  Speaker 1: him because you are there. Pray them because you're in
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  Speaker 1: the right spot at the right time to get the
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  Speaker 1: miracle you need. Pray them.
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  Speaker 2: Praise him.
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  Speaker 1: Still can't see, but praise him. Still don't have extra money,
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  Speaker 1: but praise him. Still not married, but praising. Still got
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  Speaker 1: problems in the house, but praising. Hadn't got the test
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  Speaker 1: results back, but praising. Going through a storm, but praising.
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  Speaker 1: What you don't realize is while you're praising him, you're
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  Speaker 1: dipping in the water. And the more you dip in
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  Speaker 1: the water, the more you can see. Touch your neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: Say neighbor. Excuse me. While I praise him. The more
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  Speaker 1: I praise him. I'm washing this stuff. Out of my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: For when praises go up.
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  Speaker 2: I said when.
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  Speaker 1: I'm praising God. I don't have no time to blame anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I'm praising God. For this is the day, the day,
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  Speaker 1: the day, the day that the Lord has made.
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  Speaker 2: I will.
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  Speaker 1: When, stand up, stand up. Well, y'all already standing. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: you get your exercise in this church. I can't finish it.
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  Speaker 1: But when this man started sin, he went back to
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  Speaker 1: his neighbor's The same people who had seen him blind
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  Speaker 1: convinced that he was blind. And then when he got
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  Speaker 1: his sight, there was a dispute over whether he was
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  Speaker 1: the same person or not. Because God can deliver you
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  Speaker 1: so well that people don't believe your testimony.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I'm going to say that again.
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  Speaker 1: God can deliver you so well that people don't believe
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  Speaker 1: your testimony.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this.
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  Speaker 1: The emptiness of an open heart creates a cavity for
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  Speaker 1: God to fill. But a closed mind never receives anything
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  Speaker 1: from God. The only difference between you and the person
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  Speaker 1: you admire is the perspective they have on life.
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  Speaker 4: When the one who gave you sight says, follow me.
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  Speaker 4: Let me lead the way. It's time for Blind Faith.
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  Speaker 1: Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
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  Speaker 1: around your neck and leave you limited so that they
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: can have fellowship and you can have failure. If you
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: your outcome.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: For helping us reach others with your best gift, we
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: would like to give you Blind Faith, four insightful messages
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: on DVD. And as a bonus, receive pecking orders on DVD.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: With a 2013 photo calendar reminding you that God wants
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: to position you for impact, expose you to powerful experiences,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: give the courage to step out in faith, and the
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: knowledge to make a difference. Just visit our website or
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: call 1-800-BISHOP-2 today.
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  Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready, get ready.
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  Speaker 1: I am so excited to be able to offer something
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  Speaker 1: for your entire family. Yes, woman dollar loose and man
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  Speaker 1: power are going to converge in the city of Dallas
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. But not only that, we are
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  Speaker 1: planning all kinds of activities for your children, for your grandchildren,
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  Speaker 1: activities for your family.
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  Speaker 2: Come to Dallas, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: God's been good to you. God has sustained you He's
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  Speaker 1: touched you. It's undeniable. He's been there for you or
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't be here this morning. But he wants to
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  Speaker 1: know you. He wants to have a relationship with you,
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  Speaker 1: a relationship that is not based on your blindness. He
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  Speaker 1: wants you to come into an eye-opening experience And he
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  Speaker 1: told me to tell you that he's been there all
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  Speaker 1: the time. All while you were stumbling around in the dark,
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  Speaker 1: trying to find your way to the pool, trying to
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  Speaker 1: get yourself together, trying to get yourself up. He's been
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  Speaker 1: there all the time. He's there when you got your blessing,
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  Speaker 1: when you got your big job, when your eyes popped open,
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  Speaker 1: when you found one. He was there all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But just because you've been blessed by him doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that you know him. He wants to reveal himself to
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  Speaker 1: you in a more intimate way. He wants you To
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  Speaker 1: allow his goodness to bring you to the cross. He's
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  Speaker 1: been good to you. This Sunday is your Sunday. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who you are. I may not ever have
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  Speaker 1: another Sunday to reach you. But the Lord gave me
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  Speaker 1: this message for you. He wants to know you. He
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  Speaker 1: wants you to know him. He's brought you through some
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  Speaker 1: close calls and some dangerous places. And through some accusers
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  Speaker 1: that threaten to destroy you, he's brought.
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  Speaker 2: You through some tough stuff. It's time.
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  Speaker 1: This is the time. This Sunday morning is your time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's just one person. Whoever you are,
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  Speaker 1: you are important enough to God that he's been talking
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  Speaker 1: to me all week about you.
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  Speaker 2: This is your Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of time, but it's been delightful to share
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  Speaker 1: the principles and concepts and to use the biblical messages
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  Speaker 1: to kind of set you on course for what God
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  Speaker 1: is going to do in your life and in your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot spend another year waiting for everything to line
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  Speaker 1: up for you to go forward. You can't blame your
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  Speaker 1: history for not grabbing your destiny. The blame game is over.
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  Speaker 1: Walk by faith, not by sight. Let's get to stepping.
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  Speaker 1: You and I, we got some stuff to do this year.
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  Speaker 1: This is the potter's touch.