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T_D_Jakes_What_to_Do_When_Facing_FEAR_of_Uncertain_Times_TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I know you're scared, but keep it moving. I know
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  Speaker 1: you don't know the outcome of this situation, but keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving. What do you do when things aren't turning
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  Speaker 1: out the way you had in mind? Keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that's been holding you back from completing your assignment
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  Speaker 1: is a scarecrow. No life in it. It's just straw
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  Speaker 1: and fabric standing over top of your promise. Wherever you
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  Speaker 1: see a scarecrow, there is a harvest. Fear does stuff
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  Speaker 1: to the body. Living under constant fear, though it is
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  Speaker 1: an emotion, it actually takes toll on the body. It
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  Speaker 1: affects your physical health. It even weakens your immune system.
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  Speaker 1: Affects your digestive tract. Does damage to your cardiovascular system.
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  Speaker 1: Fear does stuff that doctors can detect in the body
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  Speaker 1: that you have no reason to be sick, and yet
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  Speaker 1: your body is responding to something that the doctor cannot detect.
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  Speaker 1: They're just seeing the effects of fear on the body.
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  Speaker 1: Irritable bowel syndrome, all kinds of stuff happening to you.
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  Speaker 1: Decreased fertility because you're afraid, because your body is taking
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  Speaker 1: all of your blood and directing it toward fight or flight.
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  Speaker 1: increasing your sight so you can see and your legs
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  Speaker 1: so you can run, the blood that normally feeds your
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  Speaker 1: body and your functions is fleeing because you are in
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  Speaker 1: fight or flight mode. So fear takes a toll on
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  Speaker 1: you because our primal instinct is to flee or fight.
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  Speaker 1: But fear doesn't just take a toll on your body,
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  Speaker 1: it also takes a toll on your mind. They call
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  Speaker 1: it amygdala hijack. It affects your mind. It hijacks everything.
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  Speaker 1: Your brain perceives everything differently when you're afraid. You can't
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  Speaker 1: trust your judgment when you're afraid. You see everything as
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  Speaker 1: negative when you're afraid. It affects everything about your decisions
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  Speaker 1: when you're afraid. We used to call it paranoia. You're
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  Speaker 1: just paranoid. Is there anybody in here that's ever just
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  Speaker 1: been paranoid? The phone rings and you jump. Or you
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  Speaker 1: just feel like something is about to happen. My wife
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  Speaker 1: describes it as feeling like a balloon is full of
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  Speaker 1: water and it's about to bust up over your head
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  Speaker 1: and you don't know who's got the pin. Anxiety. It
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  Speaker 1: affects everything. And if you're up under it long enough,
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  Speaker 1: it causes the brain, now hijacked, to remember certain things
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  Speaker 1: like how something smelt or sight or sound will take
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  Speaker 1: you right back to that spot. So you end up
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  Speaker 1: with post-traumatic stress disorder. It's over, but it's not over
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  Speaker 1: for you. And there are triggers that can take you
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  Speaker 1: right back to that space and you will react off
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  Speaker 1: a trigger though the problem is gone. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to think about that because I think what I'm teaching
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  Speaker 1: right now has destroyed more marriages and more ministries than
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  Speaker 1: anything we could talk about. It's not what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: It's that what is going on is triggered something that
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  Speaker 1: went on. Nobody ever got destroyed by hoofbeats. But the
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  Speaker 1: sound of the hoofbeats is a trigger. and reminds them
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  Speaker 1: of the abuse of 400 years. And Pharaoh has actually
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  Speaker 1: hurt nobody, but they heard him coming and they were
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  Speaker 1: struck with terror. You have to be careful. We were
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  Speaker 1: singing a minute ago, the devil is a liar and
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  Speaker 1: he is, but the lie can be a trigger. And
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  Speaker 1: when he brings up what could happen and you remember
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  Speaker 1: something that did happen, it's almost as if it is happening. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden you overreact in this situation
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  Speaker 1: and people who haven't been through what you've been through
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  Speaker 1: don't understand why you are flipping out over this situation.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a trigger. And you're horrified. And it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: always have to be a horse coming. It can be
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  Speaker 1: a heartbreak. It can be a disappointment. It can be
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  Speaker 1: a lost job. It can be a lost opportunity. And
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, instead of being rational and saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: I have to find me another job, you want to
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  Speaker 1: kill yourself. Oh God, my life is over. I'm cursed.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing goes right. You're just... And you just spasm out.
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  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh hadn't even touched you. You just heard hoof prints.
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  Speaker 1: And your life, your joy, your peace, your amygdala has
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  Speaker 1: hijacked the opportunity you have to be happy right now.
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  Speaker 1: Because it keeps dragging you back into something that you
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  Speaker 1: are actually out of. Oh, y'all missed that. Y'all missed that. See,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible said the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things he will do is steal
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  Speaker 1: the peace of where you are with the threat of
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  Speaker 1: where you've been. And all of a sudden, when you
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  Speaker 1: hear the footprints coming, it's not like he got you,
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  Speaker 1: but it reminds you that he used to have you.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, it's as if you're already dead.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're cursing where they're at and wishing for where
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  Speaker 1: they've been and saying, why didn't you leave us in Egypt?
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you leave us where we just got through
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  Speaker 1: praying to get out of? Because if you're not careful,
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  Speaker 1: fear will cause you to be stuck at 10 rather
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  Speaker 1: than risk going to 11. Amen. Oh God, who am
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  Speaker 1: I talking to? I'm talking to somebody. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to. Somebody's getting ready to step into
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  Speaker 1: the next dimension. And God is getting you ready for something.
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  Speaker 1: And he needed you to hear this message. Nudge your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor and say, don't get stuck. Because fear can paralyze you.
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  Speaker 1: Fear can shut you down. Fear can immobilize you. Fear
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  Speaker 1: can make you run everybody away, even people who are
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  Speaker 1: going to help you. But the fear that you might
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  Speaker 1: get hurt again, just get out. Pack your stuff and
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  Speaker 1: get out of here. Just like my daddy. Go on,
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  Speaker 1: get out. I'm not going through this again. I already
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  Speaker 1: been through this. And fear can make you drive away
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  Speaker 1: people who are trying to help you. And so there
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites are mad at Moses. Because your perception of
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  Speaker 1: who's with you and who's against you can be disrupted
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  Speaker 1: by fear. Fear of rejection. Fear of disappointment. Fear of
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  Speaker 1: failure can make you not try. Fear of falling can
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  Speaker 1: make you not climb. Fear of being defeated can make
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  Speaker 1: you not fight. There are a lot of you, you're
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  Speaker 1: not as passive as everybody thinks you are, and you're
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  Speaker 1: not as apathetical as they define you to be. It's
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  Speaker 1: just that you're afraid you'll fall. So maybe I shouldn't climb.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't climb, I don't fall. If I don't go,
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  Speaker 1: I won't have to go back. If I'm a slave,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have to deal with this. Take me back.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, the sights, the sounds, the
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  Speaker 1: smells become triggers that make us forfeit what God has
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  Speaker 1: in front of us. And yet in spite of all
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  Speaker 1: of this, in spite of what fear has done to
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  Speaker 1: the mind, in spite of what fear does to the body,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of all of these circumstances, the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: that God is going to get some glory out of this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to say that with me. God is
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  Speaker 1: going to get some glory out of this. It's about
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  Speaker 1: to sink in. Let's do it again. God is going
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  Speaker 1: to get some glory out of this. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to think about whatever your this is, whatever your catfish are,
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  Speaker 1: whatever your Pharaoh is, whatever that thing that kept you
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  Speaker 1: up at night. Say it again. God is going to
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  Speaker 1: get some glory. glory out of this. Now give him
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  Speaker 1: 30 seconds of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Praise.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
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  Speaker 2: Yeah!
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  Speaker 1: Yeah! Yeah! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! See, the reason
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  Speaker 1: I got you praising him, I'm trying to break that paralysis.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to break that paralysis that's got you stuck
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  Speaker 1: in the same spot, buffering, buffering, buffering, buffering, buffering, worrying, worrying, worrying, upset, upset, upset,
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  Speaker 1: mood swings, mood swings, mood swings. If you praise him,
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  Speaker 1: you'll break that paralysis. I'm going to praise him until
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  Speaker 1: I get my family back. I'm going to praise him
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  Speaker 1: until I get my courage back. I'm going to praise
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  Speaker 1: him until I get my strength back. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: praise him until I get my fight back. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to praise him until I get a sense of direction back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to praise him until I get up off
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  Speaker 1: the floor. I'm going to praise him until I stand
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  Speaker 1: up and start walking. Somebody help me praise him. So
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  Speaker 1: Moses said, I'm just talking to you. I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to get up no more. Moses. Moses
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  Speaker 1: is talking to God because sometimes you don't have nobody
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  Speaker 1: else to talk to. He can't talk to Pharaoh. Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: is chasing him. And he can't talk to Israel. Cause
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  Speaker 1: they're mad at him.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: In the fearful place, the worst part of the fear
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  Speaker 1: is that there's nobody to talk to. And maybe I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be so afraid if I could just talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: And Moses has nobody to talk to. So he cries
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  Speaker 1: out to God. The best prayer meetings come out of
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  Speaker 1: the worst situations. You don't have a great prayer meeting
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  Speaker 1: because it's Wednesday. You have a great prayer meeting because
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  Speaker 1: all hell is breaking loose. You have a great prayer
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  Speaker 1: meeting because the catfish are in your tent. You have
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  Speaker 1: a great prayer meeting because Pharaoh is after your high
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  Speaker 1: and the end. It will make you get there. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're conservative and you're quiet and you're just not
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  Speaker 1: that kind of person. But if you get in enough trouble,
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  Speaker 1: if you get enough trouble going after you, trouble will
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  Speaker 1: make you act like you're Pentecostal whether you are or not.
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  Speaker 1: It'll have you running around your house talking in tongues.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had a witness.
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  Speaker 2: In this place.
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  Speaker 1: And Moses is looking up to God like, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: sign up for this. Have you ever told God, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't sign up for this? I didn't ask for this
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's happening in my life right now. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell me I was going to get in school. My
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  Speaker 1: parents were going to get a divorce. I didn't sign
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  Speaker 1: up for this. You didn't tell me my husband was
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  Speaker 1: going to cheat on me. I didn't sign up for this.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't tell me my baby was going to be
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  Speaker 1: born deformed. What do you do when you find yourself
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  Speaker 1: in something that you didn't sign up for? Because you
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  Speaker 1: know something I found out about God? God is weak
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  Speaker 1: on details. He don't tell you all the details. Just
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  Speaker 1: go down there and tell Pharaoh to let my people go.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't mention he gonna try to kill you when
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  Speaker 1: you do it. Them little details kind of help a
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  Speaker 1: brother out. I would kind of like to know if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to assign 600 hit men to come kill
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  Speaker 1: me before I get started. I didn't sign up for this.
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  Speaker 1: And he looks up to God and he He says,
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  Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? The people you sent
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  Speaker 1: me to help, they don't even like me. The people
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to help don't like me. My own child
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  Speaker 1: don't like me. My mama don't like me, my dad,
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  Speaker 1: the people who are supposed to be on my team.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind having to fight the devils, but the
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  Speaker 1: people that are, oh no, no, y'all ain't ready for me.
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  Speaker 1: I thought y'all wanted me to come home. What do
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  Speaker 1: you do when the very people that you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: help don't even appreciate you? I don't mind fighting my enemies,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't expect to have to fight you too.
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  Speaker 1: And then God says the strangest thing here. He calls
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  Speaker 1: on God to help and God does absolutely nothing. Now
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  Speaker 1: preachers don't preach about that. They preach the sermons where
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  Speaker 1: you called on the Lord and the Lord moved. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really need you to tell me what to do
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  Speaker 1: when I call on the Lord and the Lord moves.
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  Speaker 1: I need somebody to tell me what to do when
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  Speaker 1: I call on the Lord. I want to take series
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  Speaker 1: on that. What do you do when you ask him
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  Speaker 1: to heal and he doesn't? And you're asking for prosperity
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  Speaker 1: and they take your call. What do you do when
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  Speaker 1: things aren't turning out the way you had in mind?
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you do. Keep it moving. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You don't hear the
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  Speaker 1: power of what I'm saying. You don't understand that some
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  Speaker 1: of the release of the power of God can only
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  Speaker 1: be released if you... Yeah, if you don't keep it moving,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to work. The enemy's trying to shut
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  Speaker 1: you down and leave you paralyzed. But the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what triggers you hear. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what sound you heard. So God says to Moses, tell
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  Speaker 1: the people to keep it moving. And God said to me,
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  Speaker 1: to tell you. Keep it moving. I know you're scared,
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  Speaker 1: but keep it moving. I know the enemy is playing
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  Speaker 1: your triggers, but keep it moving. I know you don't
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  Speaker 1: know the outcome of this situation, but keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: I know you wish I would clear the tank of
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  Speaker 1: all the catfish, but keep it moving. I'm God, and
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  Speaker 1: I know what you need, and I know what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to keep you fresh, and I know what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to get the glory out of your life, and
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  Speaker 1: it's my job to be God, and it's your job to.
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  Speaker 1: I made it all the way. I started preaching when
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  Speaker 1: I was 19. And they said I wouldn't last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And I made it all the way to 62. I'm
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  Speaker 1: chasing you. I ain't got there yet, but I'm on
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  Speaker 1: your heels, buddy. I'm coming after you. Because you can't
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  Speaker 1: go ahead if you don't keep it moving. So I
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  Speaker 1: kept it moving. when I was broke. And I kept
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  Speaker 1: it moving when I had some money. And I kept
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  Speaker 1: it moving when things were going right. And I kept
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  Speaker 1: it moving when things were going bad. And I kept
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  Speaker 1: it moving when I had the faith. And I kept
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  Speaker 1: it moving when I was scared out of my mind.
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  Speaker 1: To all of it, I know you scared, but keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving. Keep it moving. What I got planned will
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  Speaker 1: only work if you See, I got something set up
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  Speaker 1: down the road that's going to fix this whole problem.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to be in the right place in
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  Speaker 1: order for my plan to activate. If you stop right here,
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  Speaker 1: I can't get no glory out of your life. But
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  Speaker 1: if you just keep it moving right down the road,
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  Speaker 1: I got a setup for everything that's trying to attack
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  Speaker 1: you right now. Who am I preaching to? You see,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm trying to get you to understand is that
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  Speaker 1: if they would have stopped right there, Pharaoh would have
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  Speaker 1: overtook them. He would have destroyed them. The miracle was
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  Speaker 1: in the movement. The miracle was in the movements. The
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  Speaker 1: miracle was in the movement. The miracle was in the movement.
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  Speaker 1: The miracle is in the movement. And there's somebody this
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  Speaker 1: morning that the enemy's trying to paralyze you with fear
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  Speaker 1: and he's causing all your triggers to go off. And
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said, if you just keep it moving, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to walk right into the power of God and
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  Speaker 1: God's going to get the glory. See, we always preach
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  Speaker 1: about what happened at the Red Sea, but you got
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  Speaker 1: to get to the Red Sea in order for that
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  Speaker 1: to happen. And the enemy doesn't even want you to
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  Speaker 1: make it to the Red Sea. Another thing, the other
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  Speaker 1: reason God didn't say anything is is that he wanted
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  Speaker 1: Moses to discover what was in his hand. God didn't
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  Speaker 1: need to do anything else because he had already equipped
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  Speaker 1: Moses for where he was at this stage in his life.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know who I'm preaching to, but God
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  Speaker 1: has already equipped you And His grace is sufficient. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever noticed how the attacks against you are synchronized?
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  Speaker 1: That they drop at certain times. Just when you're on
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  Speaker 1: the verge of possessing what God has promised you, all
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  Speaker 1: hell breaks loose to destroy you. And it doesn't hit
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  Speaker 1: what you don't care about. It hits what you love.
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  Speaker 1: It hits what demands your attention. It hits what gets
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  Speaker 1: you off kilter. It has studied you. It has researched you.
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  Speaker 1: There's been meetings about you. There's an organized attack out
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  Speaker 1: to bring you down. And the Lord brought you here
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  Speaker 1: so that you could put on the whole armor of God.
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  Speaker 1: That you might be able to stand against the wiles
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. And having done all. to stand, stand
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  Speaker 1: therefore with your Lord's good. Who am I preaching to? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care whether you believe in hell or not.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you believe. I don't care whether
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  Speaker 1: you believe in demons or not. I don't care whether
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  Speaker 1: you believe in devils or not. Your belief will not
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  Speaker 1: disarm Satan's kingdom. In fact, the devil doesn't want you
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  Speaker 1: to believe in him. The biggest trick the devil ever
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  Speaker 1: did was to make you not believe that there was
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  Speaker 1: a devil to fight. You have got a devil to fight.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about your enemy this morning. You're
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  Speaker 1: not wrestling against flesh and blood, but powers. And principality
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  Speaker 1: speaks to magistrates. The word principalities is magistrates. The word
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  Speaker 1: magistrates means regions. There are demons that are assigned to territories.
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  Speaker 1: Help me preach this in here. There are demons that
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  Speaker 1: are assigned to territories. That's why you can't always imitate
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  Speaker 1: everything you see in another church. Because the devil over
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  Speaker 1: Texas is not the devil over the UK. You have
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  Speaker 1: to understand the principalities over the region that you're in
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  Speaker 1: because you have to fight. The devil I fought in
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia is not the devil I fight in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: There's another principality that is assigned to this region. Book
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  Speaker 1: of Job chapter 1, when the sons of God came
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  Speaker 1: around the throne, among them was Satan also. God said
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  Speaker 1: to Satan, have you considered my servant Job, who is
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  Speaker 1: faithful and upright? Here comes the strategy. Yeah, I saw him,
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  Speaker 1: but you got a hedge around it. The reason you
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  Speaker 1: have been able to withstand what the other person fell
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  Speaker 1: into is not because you're stronger than them, but God
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  Speaker 1: got a hedge. So stop being high-minded and self-righteous and
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  Speaker 1: talking about if you was really saved. The only reason
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  Speaker 1: you didn't fall, God had to. We ought to take
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  Speaker 1: a minute and thank God for the things he didn't
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  Speaker 1: let happen. for the doors that he didn't open to us,
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  Speaker 1: for the demons that he blocked from attacking us. He
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  Speaker 1: kept you even when you were a child. Some things
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  Speaker 1: that happened to this child didn't happen to that child,
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus was a fence all around them. Who knows,
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  Speaker 1: if you had gone through what he had gone through,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you wouldn't be as strong in that area as
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  Speaker 1: you are. And that's why you ought to praise God
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  Speaker 1: in a spirit of humility. I need some folks here
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  Speaker 1: to thank God for what didn't happen. Lord, I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for who didn't touch me. Lord, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for who didn't rape me. Lord, I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: who didn't destroy me. I thank you for the disease
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get. I thank you for the pain I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to bear. I thank you for the emptiness
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go through. I thank you how you kept
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  Speaker 1: my mind from having a nervous breakdown. Can I get
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  Speaker 1: a Holy Ghost praise in this place? You have to
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  Speaker 1: understand what I'm trying to teach you. I'm only teaching
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  Speaker 1: it to you because you're reapers. If you were just sowing,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to deal with this. But because you're
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  Speaker 1: stepping into harvest time, wherever there's a harvest, there's a scarecrow.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said that Simon had spent years convincing them
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  Speaker 1: that he was some great one. A scarecrow is not real,
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  Speaker 1: but it's trying to scare off anybody that's after their harvest.
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  Speaker 1: It looks real. When the wind blows, it moves real.
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  Speaker 1: And wherever you see a scarecrow, there is a harvest.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord told me to tell you, that thing
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  Speaker 1: you've been scared of is a scarecrow hanging over your city.
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  Speaker 1: But the devil is a liar. You're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a breakthrough. Say it! Say it!
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  Speaker 2: Say it!
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  Speaker 1: Touch tree people, tell them it's a scarecrow. Trying to
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  Speaker 1: scare you out of the blessing. Scare you out of
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  Speaker 1: the money. Scare you out of the business. Scare you
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  Speaker 1: out of your testimony. Scare you out of writing your book.
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  Speaker 1: scare you out of singing your song, scare you out
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  Speaker 1: of telling your story. And the Lord told me to preach.
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  Speaker 2: To you.
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  Speaker 1: About scarecrows. They stand over the place you're gonna harvest.
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  Speaker 1: So when Philip went down to Samaria, he started healing
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  Speaker 1: the sick and casting out devils. And the enemy said,
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  Speaker 1: didn't you see the scarecrow? Simon, the sorcerer, is a scarecrow.
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  Speaker 1: But what the devil didn't know is that Philip wasn't
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  Speaker 1: scared of no crow. Touch your neighbor and say, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not scared of no crow. I've been at the conference
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  Speaker 1: all week long. I've been getting teaching all week long.
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  Speaker 1: I've been getting built up all week long. I've been
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  Speaker 1: laying out my plan all week long. And the moment
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  Speaker 1: you get ready to get on the plane, the devil
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  Speaker 1: going to try to show you a scarecrow. Trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell you that it won't work for you. But the
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  Speaker 1: Lord told me to tell you that the devil is
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  Speaker 1: a lie. thing hanging over your church ain't nothing but
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  Speaker 1: a scarecrow. Behind the scarecrow is the money. Behind the
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  Speaker 1: scarecrow is your harvest. Behind the scarecrow is that property.
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  Speaker 1: Every pastor in here, shout increase. Shout increase. Shout increase.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you shout increase, you're declaring harvest over your life,
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  Speaker 1: over your city, over your marriage, over your business. I'll
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  Speaker 1: prove to you that Simon was a scarecrow. He had
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  Speaker 1: convinced the people that he was a great man of God.
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  Speaker 1: A scarecrow is always a phony. Pretending to be something
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  Speaker 1: that it is not. At a distance, it looks real.
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  Speaker 1: But the closer you get to it, the more you
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  Speaker 1: begin to say, I don't know, I don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: real or not. The enemy wanted to stop you before
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  Speaker 1: you got this close. But this week, the Lord has
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  Speaker 1: opened up your ass. You don't have to be afraid
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  Speaker 1: of no scarecrow. You can't do it in this city.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody ever done it here before. You can't do
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  Speaker 1: it because you a woman. You can't do it because
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  Speaker 1: you too old. You can't do it because you're too young.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have enough money to do that. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have a degree in that. Touch your neighbor's hand. It's
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  Speaker 1: a scarecrow. Everything that's been holding you back from completing
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  Speaker 1: your assignment is a scarecrow. No life in it. It's
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  Speaker 1: just straw and fabric standing over top of your promise.
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  Speaker 1: Grab your neighbor and shake them. Say, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: shake that thing. I'm going to shake that thing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to shake it until it breaks loose. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to shake it until it falls apart. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: shake it until it comes down. I'm going to shake
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  Speaker 1: it until it loses its grip. So the Bible said
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  Speaker 1: that Philip not only did he heal the sick, Not
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  Speaker 1: only did he rebuke the enemy, not only did he
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  Speaker 1: cast out devils, but he baptized the scarecrow. Somebody run
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  Speaker 1: me some water. Because we're going to have a baptism.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to baptize your scarecrow in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I said in the name of Jesus. In the name
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  Speaker 1: that's exalted above everything, in the name that makes demons tremble,
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  Speaker 1: I do indeed baptize you with water. So this here,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going home with scarecrows. Everybody in here has
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  Speaker 1: a scarecrow. You know people don't like you. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have that kind of personality. You don't have the resources.
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  Speaker 1: You know you dropped out of school. You know you
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  Speaker 1: don't have what you need. You know somebody on the
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  Speaker 1: board trying to fight you. You know you don't raise
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  Speaker 1: money well. You know you don't teach well. You know
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  Speaker 1: you're too old. You know you're too young. You know
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  Speaker 1: black folks don't do that. You know white folks don't
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  Speaker 1: do that. You can't get that kind of glory in
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  Speaker 1: your church. Your people are not going to praise God
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  Speaker 1: like that. That's a cultural thing. You can't have it.
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  Speaker 1: It is a scare. Watch this. The Lord brought you here.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot drive the scarecrow out of the region until
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  Speaker 1: you drive him out of you. You cannot rebuke an
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  Speaker 1: enemy you sleeping with. Samaria would never reach its potential
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  Speaker 1: if Simon was allowed to still shake. When Philip baptized Simon,
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  Speaker 1: he shut it down. Now some of us got scarecrows
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  Speaker 1: over our ministries. And some of us have them over
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  Speaker 1: our marriage. It's not that you're not married again. You're married.
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  Speaker 1: But the scarecrow's saying it ain't going to last. Don't
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  Speaker 1: nobody love you. Ain't nobody going to stay with you.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that. Don't get comfortable in his arms
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  Speaker 1: because he's going to do you like... Don't open up
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  Speaker 1: to her because she don't really get you. Y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying to you. You're never going to
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  Speaker 1: be the man of God or the woman of God
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  Speaker 1: that you saw on that stage. It's a scarecrow. It's
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  Speaker 1: a scarecrow. You will always be dysfunctional. You will never
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  Speaker 1: be happy. You will never be free. You will always
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  Speaker 1: be miserable. You will always be incomplete. It's a scarecrow.
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  Speaker 1: You never see a scarecrow on a highway because it
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  Speaker 1: ain't no fruit there. Wherever there is a scarecrow, there
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  Speaker 1: is fruit there. There is something to be gained. There
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  Speaker 1: is something to be gotten. There is something to be received.