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Stop Hiding Your Weakness — God Put It There On Purpose TD Jakes 2025 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: And it's something to be a strong person. To be
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  Speaker 1: a strong person. It frustrates the devil when you're a
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  Speaker 1: strong person. Because what should have broke you didn't break you.
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  Speaker 1: What should have killed you didn't kill you. What should
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  Speaker 1: have made you collapse didn't make you collapse. What should
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  Speaker 1: have made you an alcoholic didn't make you an alcoholic.
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  Speaker 1: What should have made you blow your brains out didn't
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  Speaker 1: make you blow your brains out. It's something about being
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  Speaker 1: a strong person. That's the prescription. But let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you about the side effects. Get your Bible and turn
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  Speaker 1: to Judges chapter 13, verse 1 through 8. The book
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  Speaker 1: of Judges chapter 13, verse 1 through 8. And when
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  Speaker 1: you have it, say amen. And I want you to
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  Speaker 1: listen very closely, attentively to what is being said here.
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  Speaker 1: Because it recognizes and acknowledges the end of an era
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  Speaker 1: and the beginning of another one. And we're standing right
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  Speaker 1: at the hinge of a door of a great shift
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  Speaker 1: as we are now. As we are right now. And again,
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Philistines 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: I got to stop there and thank God that God
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  Speaker 1: has a beginning and an end of trouble. That trouble
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  Speaker 1: don't last always. That if you had a going in date,
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  Speaker 1: you got a coming out date. Come on with me, somebody. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe
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  Speaker 1: of the Danites, and his name was Manoah. His wife
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  Speaker 1: was infertile and did not bear children. And an angel
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  Speaker 1: of Yahweh appeared to the woman and he said to her, behold,
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  Speaker 1: you are infertile and have not born children, but Oh,
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  Speaker 1: God will put that bud in there in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But you will conceive and bear a son. So then
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  Speaker 1: be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink
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  Speaker 1: and do not eat anything unclean because you will conceive
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  Speaker 1: and bear a son. No razor will touch his head
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  Speaker 1: because the boy will be a Nazarite of God from birth.
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  Speaker 1: And it is he who will begin to deliver Israel
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  Speaker 1: from the hand of the Philistines. And the woman came
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  Speaker 1: and told her husband saying, a man of God came
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  Speaker 1: to me and his appearance was like the appearance of
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  Speaker 1: an angel of God. Very awesome. I believe it's a theophany.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime it looks like a man of God, yet she
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  Speaker 1: calls it an angel. A theophany is just a manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. I did not
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  Speaker 1: ask him from where he came, and he did not
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  Speaker 1: tell me his name. Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: to something. And he said to me, look, you will
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  Speaker 1: conceive and bear a son, so then do not drink
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  Speaker 1: wine or strong drink and do not eat anything unclean,
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  Speaker 1: for the boy will be a Nazarite of God from
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  Speaker 1: birth until the day of his death. good God then
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  Speaker 1: Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said excuse me my Lord
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  Speaker 1: please let the man of God whom you sent again
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  Speaker 1: come to us and teach us what we should do
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  Speaker 1: concerning the boy who will be born can you say
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  Speaker 1: amen now I'm going to preach from a subject that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even seem relative to the text but when I
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  Speaker 1: finish with it it's going to make sense I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to preach side effects side effects Let's pray together while
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  Speaker 1: we're standing. Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on
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  Speaker 1: us now as we delve into the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you, Lord, for what you have prescribed for us,
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  Speaker 1: for what you have designated for us will shortly come
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  Speaker 1: to pass. You are God and guarded all by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You need no one to vote you in and can't
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  Speaker 1: nobody put you out. They cannot impeach you. You are sovereign.
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  Speaker 1: You are Yahweh. You are the absolute God. You are
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  Speaker 1: before there was where or when or this or that
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  Speaker 1: or alpha or omega. You alone are God. Nobody can
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  Speaker 1: take you. Nobody can move you. Nobody can break you.
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  Speaker 1: You are our God and you dwell amongst us. Have
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  Speaker 1: your way as we tabernacle up under the tent of
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  Speaker 1: your word that we might hear what the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is saying. in the church because we need
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  Speaker 1: a word for you. We wrestle with unreasonable men. We
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  Speaker 1: live in unreasonable times. We live in times Lord where
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines are upon us and we need the anointing
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  Speaker 1: to break the yoke. Step in great God that you
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  Speaker 1: are and move in the midst of your people. We
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  Speaker 1: have no other God to call on but you. If
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  Speaker 1: there be any ratification, if there be any justice, if
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  Speaker 1: there be any righteousness it must come down from heaven above.
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  Speaker 1: And so therefore God we commend our future into your hands.
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  Speaker 1: Have your way God, in the name of Jesus, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you in advance for what you're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Do it. Do it like nobody else can do it
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  Speaker 1: but you. Do it till we're praising God all the
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  Speaker 1: way home. Do it till we've got tears running down
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  Speaker 1: our face. Do it until yokes are broken and demons
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  Speaker 1: are defeated. Do it until witches are pulling their hair out.
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  Speaker 1: Do it until curses are broken. Do it in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus. I thank you for it. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 1: somebody shout amen. You may be seated. Ah. Great God,
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  Speaker 1: great God, great God, great God, great God. There's been
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  Speaker 1: something on me lately I just can't hardly control it.
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  Speaker 1: I've been feeling God pushing me in the back. My God,
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  Speaker 1: I feel the anointing of the Lord in here right now,
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  Speaker 1: right now. I want you to notice first of all
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  Speaker 1: that this presence of this man that she said appeared
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  Speaker 1: as an angel of God reminds us and is reminiscent
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  Speaker 1: of the theophonic manifestation of Jesus Christ himself. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: but I want you to know that not only is
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  Speaker 1: a messenger a theophonic representation of Jesus Christ himself, the
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  Speaker 1: situation reminds us of something that will later be acted
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  Speaker 1: out in Jesus Christ because the woman that he's talking
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  Speaker 1: to is barren and she has not been able to
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  Speaker 1: produce a child and God overrules the barrenness. And you
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  Speaker 1: will notice the story repeated over and over in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible with Abraham and Sarah and various characters in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible where God opens up that which is shut down.
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  Speaker 1: With Hannah, God opened up that which is shut down.
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  Speaker 1: With you, God opens up that which is shut down
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  Speaker 1: and causes the unfruitful to become fruitful. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the signs of the presence of God is that when
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  Speaker 1: an area of your life that is unfruitful suddenly becomes
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  Speaker 1: fruitful and you can give nobody credit for it but God,
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  Speaker 1: you have a different kind of praise. You have a
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  Speaker 1: different kind of praise. Penina couldn't praise God like Hannah
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  Speaker 1: did because Hannah knew that that that was in her
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  Speaker 1: was there by the power of God. And when you
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  Speaker 1: know it was there, but when you know God did it,
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  Speaker 1: when you know God did it. When you know God
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  Speaker 1: didn't come hell or high water, you will stand on
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  Speaker 1: the integrity of God's word and watch him perform it
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  Speaker 1: in your life. And like Jesus' mother who encountered an
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  Speaker 1: angel alone, this woman encounters the angel alone and receives
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  Speaker 1: the word and brings it back to her husband. And
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  Speaker 1: she tells him, there's something that God does with women
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  Speaker 1: that are willing to be alone. I know y'all like
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  Speaker 1: to run in packs, but I noticed something throughout the
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  Speaker 1: Bible that when God catches you by yourself and you're
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  Speaker 1: not influenced by the voices of other people and other
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  Speaker 1: women in your life, there's a way that God will
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  Speaker 1: speak to you. He'll speak to you while you're driving
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  Speaker 1: the car. He'll speak to you after everybody's gone to bed.
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  Speaker 1: He'll speak to you early in the morning and talk
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  Speaker 1: to you. He has a way of showing up with
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  Speaker 1: women alone. Like he did when he said, Hail Mary,
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  Speaker 1: you have been highly favored amongst women. You shall bring
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  Speaker 1: forth a son and his name shall be called Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: He speaks to you in a way that causes other
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  Speaker 1: people not to believe that he spoke to you. But
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  Speaker 1: their unbelief does not make God's word of no effect.
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  Speaker 1: If God has spoken to you, he's spoken to you.
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  Speaker 1: Manoah came along and said, speak once again. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to hear. But what God has for you is for you.
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  Speaker 1: And God has a way of speaking to you. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're smiling at a man and a woman speaks something,
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  Speaker 1: especially if she's a praying woman, you pay her some attention.
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  Speaker 1: You pay her some attention even if you act like
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  Speaker 1: you're not paying attention. You pay her some attention because
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  Speaker 1: she's been right so many times. That you at least
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  Speaker 1: give some consideration to her perspective because she's a praying woman.
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  Speaker 1: If you got a praying woman, give her a hug
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  Speaker 1: right now. Because a praying woman is a treasure. A
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  Speaker 1: praying woman is something special. A praying woman can produce
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  Speaker 1: things that couldn't be produced any other kind of way.
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  Speaker 1: A praying woman can have doors open up for her
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  Speaker 1: by herself. Because she's a praying woman. If you got
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  Speaker 1: a praying woman, you could be sick in your body
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  Speaker 1: and God will heal you. When I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: my wife, her knee didn't get healed until I collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: And the moment I collapsed, she got healed right on
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  Speaker 1: the spot. When you got a praying woman, God will
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  Speaker 1: give you a miracle immediately, suddenly, without reservation. She's been
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  Speaker 1: walking ever since, wearing heels ever since, doing what she
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do ever since. When you got a praying woman...
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  Speaker 1: And the odds are all against you. If you got
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  Speaker 1: a praying woman, she'll turn that thing around. And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, God will do a new thing in you. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the power, the power, the power. The power, the power,
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  Speaker 1: the power. The power, the power, the power of a
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  Speaker 1: praying woman. I use the term side effects because I
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  Speaker 1: was watching TV. And it used to be when you
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  Speaker 1: watched TV, they would advertise the medicine. But not the
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  Speaker 1: side effects. But they start getting sued so much that
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  Speaker 1: now at the end, even if they have to speed
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  Speaker 1: up the voice and talk real fast, they make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you understand that with the prescription comes sin. side effects.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad they do it because sometimes the side
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  Speaker 1: effects are worse than the problem. They say if you
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  Speaker 1: got dry eyes and a runny nose, you take this pill,
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  Speaker 1: you may experience bleeding. You may have insomnia. You may
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  Speaker 1: break out in sweats in the middle of the day.
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  Speaker 1: You may not be able to walk. You may only
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  Speaker 1: have two toes. And I started thinking I'd rather go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and have the dry eye than to deal with
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  Speaker 1: the side effects. My God, maybe it's just me. But
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  Speaker 1: them side effects, the side effects are the things that
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  Speaker 1: people try to leave out. They go along with the prescription.
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  Speaker 1: Prescription is a term that is used to where the
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  Speaker 1: doctor has written out in advance something that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to take that's going to change your tomorrow. You take
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  Speaker 1: it today, it changes your tomorrow. It is a prescription.
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  Speaker 1: In theology, we would call it a prophecy. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: word that over time it begins to work in your life.
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  Speaker 1: But even with the prophecy, understand that God doesn't always
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  Speaker 1: give detail. Even God didn't tell you about the side effects. Abraham, Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: take now thy only son to a place that I
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  Speaker 1: will show you. And he didn't tell him about the
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  Speaker 1: side effects. He didn't tell him about the trouble he
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  Speaker 1: would run into. He didn't tell him that the servants
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  Speaker 1: would leave him halfway up the mountain. He didn't tell
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  Speaker 1: him that he'd have to tie him down and raise
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  Speaker 1: his knife to slay his son. He didn't tell him
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  Speaker 1: about the ram in the bush because the trying of
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  Speaker 1: your faith doesn't give you details. The trying of your
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  Speaker 1: faith doesn't give you details. He just gives you the purview,
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  Speaker 1: but he just gives you the preview, but he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: give you the details, the prescriptions, the side effects, the
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  Speaker 1: circumstance and the situation. And I read this text and
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  Speaker 1: I said, Lord, you didn't tell him about the side effects.
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  Speaker 1: You told this barren woman that she would bring forth
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  Speaker 1: a son and that her son would save his people
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  Speaker 1: from 40 years of Philistinian domination. But you didn't tell
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  Speaker 1: them that they were going to have all kind of
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  Speaker 1: trouble out of that son. You didn't tell them that
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  Speaker 1: that son was going to have to fight for it,
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  Speaker 1: that he was going to have to prove himself, that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to be tested. You didn't tell them.
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  Speaker 1: And so we are so preoccupied with the prescription that
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  Speaker 1: we don't notice the side effects. I went to Sunday school.
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  Speaker 1: They taught me about Samson when I was a little boy.
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  Speaker 1: And they had this big burly guy standing up there
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  Speaker 1: in the picture. He had triceps and biceps and muscles
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  Speaker 1: and everything. And he looked all muscular. And they showed
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  Speaker 1: him lifting up gates and throwing gates on people and
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  Speaker 1: taking the jawbone of an ass and killing 10,000 Philistines.
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  Speaker 1: And they showed him like he was a superhero. Like
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  Speaker 1: he was a Marvel character. But that diminishes the power
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  Speaker 1: of the text. Because if Samson had been powerful outwardly,
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  Speaker 1: then Delilah would have never had to ask him, where
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  Speaker 1: does your strength come from? That means that there is
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  Speaker 1: a strength that you can't see. That means that he
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  Speaker 1: might have been tiny and scrawny because she couldn't figure
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  Speaker 1: out how a man that looked like him could do
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  Speaker 1: what he did. Just like your haters can't figure out
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  Speaker 1: how a person like you can do what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is not obvious to people that you have
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  Speaker 1: as much as you have. You don't walk in arrogance.
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  Speaker 1: Your nose is not up in the air. You don't
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  Speaker 1: flaunt your ability in front of anybody. But when it
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  Speaker 1: is needed, you have a way of rising to the
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  Speaker 1: occasion and the enemy doesn't understand you. shame on you
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  Speaker 1: for confusing the devil shame on you for shocking the
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  Speaker 1: devil shame on you for coming up just when he
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  Speaker 1: thought he had you down and you fooled him you
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  Speaker 1: popped back up again just when he thought you was
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  Speaker 1: going to die you jumped up and lived again just
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  Speaker 1: when he thought he had you truly depressed you got
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  Speaker 1: joy and started laughing didn't even know what you was
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  Speaker 1: laughing about but the joy of the Lord is your
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  Speaker 1: strength and he doesn't understand why you're happy hallelujah because
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  Speaker 1: God has a way of doing things that bothers It
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  Speaker 1: boggles the human mind. It leaves speechless the most talkative person.
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  Speaker 1: It has a way of shocking people how you can
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  Speaker 1: find strength in strange places. And it's something to be
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  Speaker 1: a strong person. To be a strong person. It frustrates
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  Speaker 1: the devil when you're a strong person. Because what should
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  Speaker 1: have broke you didn't break you. What should have killed
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  Speaker 1: you didn't kill you. What should have made you collapse
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  Speaker 1: didn't make you collapse. What should have made you an
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  Speaker 1: alcoholic didn't make you an alcoholic. What should have made
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  Speaker 1: you blow your brains out didn't make you blow your
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  Speaker 1: brains out. It's something about being a strong person. That's
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  Speaker 1: the prescription. But let me tell you about the side effects.
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  Speaker 1: There are side effects to being a strong person. People
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  Speaker 1: take you for granted when you're a strong person. People
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  Speaker 1: put more weight on you when you're a strong person.
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  Speaker 1: People bring you your problems and their problems and somebody
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  Speaker 1: else's problem when you're a strong person. People don't comfort
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  Speaker 1: you when you're a strong person. Oh, you just made
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  Speaker 1: like that. Oh, you just can handle it. That's just
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  Speaker 1: how you are. The side effects of being a strong
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  Speaker 1: person means that many times you have to encourage yourself
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord because you're a strong person. Are there
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  Speaker 1: any strong people in the room? You're the one the
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  Speaker 1: whole family calls on. I don't care what goes wrong.
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  Speaker 1: When things go bad, they call you because you're the
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  Speaker 1: one that comes in with the sobriety of mind and
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  Speaker 1: a stillness of spirit. And you make decisions and you
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  Speaker 1: execute judgment because you're a strong person. They don't think
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  Speaker 1: that the weight bothers you. They don't think that the
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  Speaker 1: weight intimidates you. They don't think that the weight is
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  Speaker 1: powerfully important. applied to your shoulders. They don't think that
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  Speaker 1: you have any pain. They don't think that you have
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  Speaker 1: any problem. They don't know that you stay up at
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  Speaker 1: night at two and three o'clock in the morning. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know the things that you endure because you make
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  Speaker 1: hell look easy. I'm going to say it again since
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  Speaker 1: I'm out there. You make hell look easy. You make
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  Speaker 1: it look like it doesn't matter. Well, it's the side
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  Speaker 1: effects of being a strong person. They don't ever cuddle you.
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  Speaker 1: They don't ever comfort you. They call you and start
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  Speaker 1: immediately telling you about their problem. They don't even ask
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  Speaker 1: you how you are. How do you feel? What's going
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  Speaker 1: on in your life? These are the side effects of
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  Speaker 1: being a strong person. To him who much is given,
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  Speaker 1: much is required because you are a strong person. Are
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  Speaker 1: there any strong people in here? The problem with being
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  Speaker 1: a strong person is strong people get tired too. Strong
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  Speaker 1: people hurt too. Strong people bleed too. You can be
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  Speaker 1: strong and sensitive. You can be strong and be wearied.
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  Speaker 1: You can be strong and be empty. You can be
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  Speaker 1: strong and be isolated. You can be strong and be
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  Speaker 1: in a struggle that nobody even understands that you have
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  Speaker 1: a struggle because they're so busy getting you to take
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  Speaker 1: care of their struggle that they don't even worry about
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  Speaker 1: your struggle. Samson did not ask for this fight with
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines. He wasn't even asking for it when he
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  Speaker 1: got born and it was decided before he got there.
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  Speaker 1: It was pre-scripted. For this cause he came into the world.
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  Speaker 1: The fight was picked out for him before he made
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  Speaker 1: his first sound. Some of you, the fight was picked
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  Speaker 1: out for you before you made the first sound. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick your mama. You didn't pick your daddy. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick the age you were born into. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: pick the city you were in. You didn't pick the rape.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't pick the trauma. You didn't pick the situation.
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  Speaker 1: You were chosen for adversity. God told Jeremiah before I
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  Speaker 1: formed thee in the belly I knew thee and I
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  Speaker 1: ordained thee to be a prophet unto the nations before
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  Speaker 1: you cried your first I cried before you took your
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  Speaker 1: first step before you took your first swallow of milk
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  Speaker 1: I had already ordained your step I had already chosen
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  Speaker 1: you I had set you aside in that same way
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  Speaker 1: Samson was chosen and his enemy was chosen and the
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  Speaker 1: fight had started before they ever met my God There
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  Speaker 1: was a fight that was picked out for you before
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  Speaker 1: you ever even came here. You don't understand why you
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  Speaker 1: go through what you go through, why you feel what
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  Speaker 1: you feel, why you endure what you endure. It was
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  Speaker 1: picked out for you before you got there. The Philistines
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  Speaker 1: were waiting for you to be born. You were born
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  Speaker 1: into a struggle. You were born into a test. You
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  Speaker 1: were born into a dilemma. You were born into a crisis.
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  Speaker 1: It was set aside for you, but God equipped you
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  Speaker 1: before he birthed you. God equipped you Before he birthed you.
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  Speaker 1: And you can walk through hell and not get burned.
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  Speaker 1: You can stand in the fiery furnace and not be sinned.
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  Speaker 1: You can lay down and go to bed with lions.
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  Speaker 1: And wake up in the morning yawning. And you don't
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  Speaker 1: even understand how you can do it yourself. But God
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  Speaker 1: equipped you for it. He built you for it. He
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  Speaker 1: built you to raise that child. He built you to
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  Speaker 1: handle that circumstance. He built you to handle that situation.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're a strong person. But the side effect is...
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  Speaker 1: Just because you're strong, don't mean you don't get tired.
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  Speaker 1: Silence is often perceived as weakness. People who talk a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot, and they talk a lot of stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: learned a long time ago, I didn't learn this in
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  Speaker 1: the church, I learned this in the street. Don't watch
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  Speaker 1: the guy. Who keep talking, talking about if you walk
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  Speaker 1: over here, you're going to limp back. You want some
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of this? You come over here, you're going to run
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  Speaker 1: in there. Don't watch that guy that's putting on a
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  Speaker 1: big show and breaks a beer bottle in the club
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  Speaker 1: and says, I wish you would. Don't watch him. Watch
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  Speaker 1: the guy who's sitting over there calm. and he ain't
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  Speaker 1: saying nothing that's the one you need to watch out
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  Speaker 1: for because even though silence is often perceived as a
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  Speaker 1: weakness actually it takes great strength to hold your peace
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  Speaker 1: it takes a great deal of strength not to speak
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  Speaker 1: your mind I listen to people talk to me sometimes
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  Speaker 1: and I thought of a thousand things to say back
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  Speaker 1: while they were saying their 10. And it took all
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  Speaker 1: of my strength just to sit there and go. Because
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  Speaker 1: if I let that thing rip, you'd be crying for
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  Speaker 1: two years. If I told you what I thought, if
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  Speaker 1: I told you what I came across my mind, if
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  Speaker 1: I told you what I really thought, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: me to open my mouth. You don't want me to
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  Speaker 1: open my mouth. Because while you was drawing your breath,
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  Speaker 1: I had already thought of a hundred things I could
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  Speaker 1: have said. Silence does not mean weakness. It does not
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: mean ignorance. It does not mean intimidation. It takes great
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  Speaker 1: power to be silent. It takes great power to hold
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  Speaker 1: your peace. It takes great power to go through a
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  Speaker 1: storm and not retaliate. It takes great power not to
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  Speaker 1: defend yourself when you go to war. Silence is a
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  Speaker 1: great strength. Silence. Silence. The Bible said in quietness and
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  Speaker 1: in confidence shall be your strength. In quietness and in
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  Speaker 1: confidence shall be your strength. When you are quiet and
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  Speaker 1: you are confident, you have strength. You know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: I went into a building. They were trying to make
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  Speaker 1: a seat for me on the stage. I said, that's
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  Speaker 1: all right. I said, I can sit anywhere. Because I
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  Speaker 1: am no more sitting on the stage than I am
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the floor. I can sit anywhere. Because I
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  Speaker 1: knew who I was when I came here. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to give me a certain seat in order for
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  Speaker 1: me to be what I already am. I know who
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  Speaker 1: I am. And if you don't call my name, my
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  Speaker 1: name still got power in it. It's still got authority
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  Speaker 1: in it. Y'all want to hear what I'm saying? Silence
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  Speaker 1: is a great strength. Don't let people make you, because
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  Speaker 1: if you let people make you, they'll turn around and
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  Speaker 1: break you. But you got to know when you walk
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  Speaker 1: in the door who you are. You got to know
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  Speaker 1: you bad before they ever start talking. you got to
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  Speaker 1: know you strong before they ever start talking and I
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  Speaker 1: need not the commendations of men to define what God
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  Speaker 1: has already declared if God declared it it is so
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  Speaker 1: if God declared it it is what it is hallelujah
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  Speaker 1: to God I went one place to preach years ago
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  Speaker 1: and I preached I didn't do that good because I
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  Speaker 1: was nervous because they had all these titles that made
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  Speaker 1: me kind of nervous I didn't do that good I
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  Speaker 1: came back about several years later I said when I
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  Speaker 1: came the first time I was nervous because I thought
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  Speaker 1: I needed you I said, but now I'm ready for
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  Speaker 1: you because I realize you need me. Once you start
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  Speaker 1: to understand who you are and you understand your place,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about arrogance. I'm quoting scripture, in silence
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  Speaker 1: and quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't scared of none of you. In quietness and in
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: confidence shall be your strength. You got an opinion, I
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  Speaker 1: got one too. You think this, I think that. I
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  Speaker 1: got just as much right to think that as you
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  Speaker 1: got to think this. Glory to God, I'm a grown man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm as grown as I ever going to be. I
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  Speaker 1: know exactly who I am. And I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: tell you who I am. I can show you who
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  Speaker 1: I am. And I don't have to prove who I am.
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  Speaker 1: Because that is doesn't have to be proven. It just is.
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  Speaker 1: It just is. Can I get a witness in here?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Y'all can't handle this kind of preaching. But some of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: y'all need this kind of preaching. Because you're always trying
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: to prove something to people that don't even matter. Always
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: trying to impress people that don't even matter. Always trying
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  Speaker 1: to move people who aren't going to help you one
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: way or the other. They're not going to be there
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  Speaker 1: one way or the other. And ain't going to need
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  Speaker 1: you saying nothing because they're not going to do nothing anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Hold your peace and let the Lord fight your battle.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. The
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  Speaker 1: enemies that you see today, you shall see them no more.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to, but I feel
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: like I'm preaching to somebody. Oh my God, my God,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: my God. High five somebody and say, you ain't got
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to say nothing. It is what it is. You ain't
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  Speaker 1: got to say nothing. It is what it is. You
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  Speaker 1: ain't got to say a word. The truth is going
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  Speaker 1: to stand when the world's on fire. It is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. Hold your peace and watch God work it out.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't got to say nothing. High five somebody else
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  Speaker 1: and say, you ain't got to say nothing. Don't write
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  Speaker 1: no note. Don't send no email. Don't send no text.
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  Speaker 1: Just stand still. You ain't got to say nothing. Now,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Samson was prescribed a battle he didn't cause. In fact,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the Bible said the Lord had sent the Philistines to
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: attack Israel. I'm not going to say a lot about this.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't say nothing. But it is not true
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  Speaker 1: that just because Israel is God's chosen people that God
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: didn't ever punish them. He was always for them, but
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  Speaker 1: that didn't mean he didn't punish them. That didn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't send armies to chastise them. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that he doesn't send armies to chastise us. Just
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  Speaker 1: because you got the favor of God doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: God won't correct you sometime. Where are my real people at?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Where are my real people at? You know you belong
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  Speaker 1: to God. You know you've been washed in his blood.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're chosen of God. But won't he get
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  Speaker 1: you together? Won't he humble you and bring you to
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  Speaker 1: your knees? Won't he bring you down to the floor
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  Speaker 1: and make you call on his name? Just because you
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: have his favor doesn't mean you don't have correction. In fact,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the Bible says, spare the rod and you'll spoil the child.
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  Speaker 1: And the more you belong to God, the more God
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: will get you together. Other people can do it and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: it's just fine. But when you do it, you have
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  Speaker 1: to pay for it. You can't figure out why. It's
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: because you are God's. and the chastening of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: proves that you are his. He will get you together.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: That's how you know you're saved. It's not your tongues.
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  Speaker 1: It's not your dance. It's not your clothes. It's not
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  Speaker 1: your outfit. It's not your jerking and shaking. It's how
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  Speaker 1: he corrects you. It's how he pulls you in. It's
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: how he gets you together. It's how he brings you
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  Speaker 1: to your knees. That's how you know you've been chosen.
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  Speaker 1: I better hold it. I feel something. I feel something.
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  Speaker 1: I feel something. I feel something. I feel something. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: feel something. I feel something. Now Samson was chosen to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: deliver the Israelites, to start the deliverance of the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: from the Philistines. He was chosen for that. The problem
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: is Samson also is attracted to Y'all don't want to
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: hear the truth. Let me give you the Sunday school class.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I can give you the Sunday school class. The problem is,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Samson is attracted to the people he's supposed to defeat.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: This conflict is the issues of life. Because on one hand,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: he's supposed to destroy them, but he thinks they're kind
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  Speaker 1: of cute. There was a woman from Timna and he
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  Speaker 1: saw her and he came home and told his parents,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I met this girl from Timna and I
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  Speaker 1: want to marry her and I want to make her
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  Speaker 1: my wife. And they said, of all the daughters of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't you find one of your own people? He said, no. Now,
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  Speaker 1: look at the conflict. The conflict. I am created to
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  Speaker 1: destroy what I am also attracted to. See, It's easy
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: to kill what you don't like. But when God calls
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: you to kill what you are attracted to, it creates
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  Speaker 1: a dilemma. I ain't going to bother you because I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: know you can't act real. I know you got to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: fake and be phony and act like you don't understand
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  Speaker 1: when you get confused and you don't know whether to
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  Speaker 1: slam or hug them. You're in a situation. You're in
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a dilemma. You're in a situation. You're in a dilemma.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I'm attracted to a Philistinian woman. And the Bible doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even give her name because her name is not important.
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  Speaker 1: Her ethnicity is important because it proves a point that
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  Speaker 1: we can have mixed feelings about any situation. I love
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the job. I hate the job. Come on, come on,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: real people, real people talk to me. Real people talk
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  Speaker 1: to me. Real people talk to me. You get on
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  Speaker 1: my nerves, but I feel sorry for you. And I'm
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in a conflict. I'm in a strait. I don't know
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: how I feel about it because I'm supposed to be,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I was prescribed to attack, but I'm trying to attack
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  Speaker 1: what I am attracted to. And he was going to
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: marry her, save but for the riddle he would have
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: married her. He was going to make her his. In
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: spite of his parents' dissent, he was going to still
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  Speaker 1: marry her, but he gave a riddle, and a riddle
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: caused a rift to break out amongst the Philistines because
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Samson gave them a riddle about the honey and the
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  Speaker 1: lion that brought them into a place of confusion, and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: it broke up the whole thing. Look at the things
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  Speaker 1: that almost happened to you. Can I talk to somebody?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Can I talk to anybody about the stuff that almost
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: happened to you? The decisions you almost made? If it
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't for the grace of God, you wouldn't even be
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: sitting by who you're sitting beside. You wouldn't even be
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: standing where you're standing. You almost, you almost, you almost fainted.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: You almost collapsed. You almost gave in. That's why I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: don't understand why you're looking down your nose at other people.
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  Speaker 1: Because they're but for the grace of God. There but
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: for the grace of God. There but for the grace.
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  Speaker 1: There but for the grace. There but for the grace.
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  Speaker 1: There but for the grace. There but for the grace, girl,
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  Speaker 1: you and I. Because you were drawn to a girl
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  Speaker 1: from Timnah, a Philistine. You were born to destroy what
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  Speaker 1: you were drawn to keep. In between that, we keep
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: showing his strength. He's throwing gates on Philistines. Y'all didn't
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: get it. He likes a Philistine girl and yet he's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: throwing gates on Philistines. He crazy. He took a jawbone
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  Speaker 1: of an ass and destroyed thousands of Philistines. But he
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: was drawn to the Philistines. Y'all don't hear me. He
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was crazy. He was strong, but he was weak. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all not saying much to me now. When I was
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: asking who was strong, y'all was jumping up, y'all was hollering.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all was making all kinds of noise. You was doing
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: jumping jacks. You did a flip in a cartwheel and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: landed in the middle of the floor. But every person,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: every Superman got kryptonite. Every superman got kryptonite and if
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: they find out what the kryptonite is, it puts you
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in a dilemma because you can be strong with a
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  Speaker 1: gate and turn around and be weak as water in
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: another situation. The paradoxical reality of the psychological existence of
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  Speaker 1: humanity creates complications that makes you hard to know. Because
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: if I catch you throwing gates, all I think you
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  Speaker 1: are is strong. But if I see you peeking over
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  Speaker 1: the fence at Tinder, all I think you are is weak.
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  Speaker 1: And both assessments are wrong. Because you're not as strong
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  Speaker 1: as they think you are. And you're not as weak
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  Speaker 1: as they think you are. You are somewhere between strong
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  Speaker 1: and weak. And how can you live in your strength
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  Speaker 1: and deal with your weakness because they both exist in
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  Speaker 1: the same person at the same time? Can I go deeper?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Can I go a little bit deeper? Because the truth
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  Speaker 1: of the matter is the reason you didn't get quiet
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: is because I hit you right in the gut. I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: hit you right in the belly because when I was
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: talking about strength, you was proud to stand up. But
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: when I exposed that strong people have weaknesses, you sit
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  Speaker 1: up and sat down because you don't want to acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: to anybody because half of your strength is used trying
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to prove to them that you ain't nothing but strong.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: But in reality, you're looking for somebody, not who can
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: deal with your strength, who can deal with your weakness.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Because everybody's drawn to your strength, but not everybody's drawn
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  Speaker 1: to your struggle. And you don't want anybody to know
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: that there's a soft spot in you. There's a spot
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  Speaker 1: in you that cries at night. There's a spot in
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you that wants to give up. There's a spot in
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you that wants to collapse. There's a spot in you
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  Speaker 1: that wants to cry. There's a spot in you that
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: does dumb stuff, makes foolish decisions, trusts bad people, has
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  Speaker 1: bad ideas. Get yourself in trouble. And you show me
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  Speaker 1: how strong you are. But a friend of somebody, you
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  Speaker 1: can show how weak you are. How unsure you are.
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  Speaker 1: How tired you are. How scared you are. How worried
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you are. I didn't go to bed until 3 o'clock
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: in the morning. And you think I got it all together.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: You think I got all the answers. And there I
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: am at 2.30 trying to figure out which way to go.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Which door do I move in? Which direction should I take?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not as strong as I think I am. As
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you think I am. But we are spending our strength
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: trying to prove something that ain't true we're spending our
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: strength trying to show everybody that we can handle everything
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and you're exhausted because the camouflage of your strength only
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: serves as a conduit to hide your frailty and the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: person who can deal with both sides is the person
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  Speaker 1: you talk to the most Because if I got to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: always be strong, I'm going to get tired of talking
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to you. And if I got to always be weak,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be tired of talking to you. But
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: if I could give you three strong sentences and two
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: weak sentences, we can make a paragraph. Come on, come on, somebody.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: We can make a paragraph. Because I ain't lying about
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: neither one of them. Sometimes I know exactly what to do.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: And I wish you would. If you come over here,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I wish you would. But on the other hand, I
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: don't know what to do. I don't know where to go.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: And it's much easier to find somebody who can deal
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: with the strength in you than it is to find
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: somebody who can deal with the weakness in you. Because
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: as soon as they find the weakness in you, they
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: drop you like you trash. The Philistines sent their army
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  Speaker 1: against Samson. And he ate their lunch. He tied the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: tails of the foxes together and set them on fire
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and burned their fields. He lifted up gates and threw
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: it on them. See, if you throw the right thing
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: on me, I'll tear you up. I'll tear you up.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I'll tear you up. And then they got together and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: had a meeting. And said, none of that strong stuff
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: is working. And they hired Delilah. He laughing at me.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: He made me laugh. I hear Delilah come switching in.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Everybody else come in. They got all kind of armor.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: They got swords. They got shields. Delilah coming in. And
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden the strong man has to admit
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that his strength has side effects. Did you know that
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: your strength has side In fact, you cannot find intimacy
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: until you can show your side effects. As long as
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: you can only handle my camouflage, then I have to
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: be a hero 24 hours a day. You know what's
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: wrong with most of our women? They've had to be
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: heroes 24 hours a day. They are so tired of
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: being heroes that they have lost their ability to be vulnerable.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: They don't even respect vulnerability. You're only respected the more
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: you don't need nobody. The more you can do it
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: for yourself. The more you can buy your own car,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: your own house, your own stuff. The more you can
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: do it, the more you are respected. When you don't
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: understand that sometimes your strongest strength is in your vulnerability.
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  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? If Christ would have came as
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  Speaker 1: the lion from the tribe of Judah, he wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: redeemed anybody. But because he knew that his greatest strength
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  Speaker 1: was in his greatest weakness, he became the lamb of God.
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  Speaker 1: And when he became the lamb of God, he delivered
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  Speaker 1: more people as a lamb than he could as a lion.
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  Speaker 1: And what's wrong with our men is that all we
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  Speaker 1: want to do is roar. And we don't know that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes a soft answer turneth away wrath. And we don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to understand how to be vulnerable sometimes and say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired. Ooh, they quiet on me, Jesus. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell me that one of the side effects of preaching
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: this message was going to make people get quiet. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care. Because you're not balanced
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: until you can operate in both graces. Until you can
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: operate in both graces. When you can still be strong
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  Speaker 1: and that's true. And on the other hand, you can
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: be vulnerable and that's still true and you don't think
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  Speaker 1: any less of yourself because you understand that sometimes it
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: takes more power to be vulnerable than it does to
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  Speaker 1: be powerful. And you never learned that because nobody modeled
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  Speaker 1: it in front of you. They either were extremely powerful
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  Speaker 1: and showed no mercy or extremely merciful and showed no power.
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  Speaker 1: And now you got a lopsided fight You're not using
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of what you got. So they hired Delilah
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  Speaker 1: because they knew that he couldn't handle the side effect.
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  Speaker 1: Can I preach this text? I feel like preaching this text.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking to somebody. I'm talking to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: The strong display of power. Was in the prescription. His
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  Speaker 1: ability to be vulnerable. The character weakness. His side effects.
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  Speaker 1: The great deception. Is that it wasn't the big stuff.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: It was the little things. The things. Isn't it funny
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  Speaker 1: how you can get in an argument. They can cuss
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  Speaker 1: you out and you can handle it. But if they
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: said you wasn't a good mama. You would rather them
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: call you a tramp than you come right back at them.
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  Speaker 1: Your mammy was a tramp. Your grandmama was a tramp.
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  Speaker 1: But when they said you wasn't a good mama, it
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  Speaker 1: hit a soft spot. Come on, come on, it hit
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  Speaker 1: a soft spot. And all of a sudden, a teenager
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  Speaker 1: over in the corner, what do you mean I'm not
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a good mama? I was always a good mama. Side effects.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: And they hired Delilah to be a side effect. And
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: it brought him to his knees. Now here's the killer part.
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  Speaker 1: I assume that the coming of Delilah was about sex.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: But I cannot find in the scriptures where Samson and
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Delilah had sex. Maybe they did, but they didn't tell us.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I see Samson with Delilah, he is laying
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  Speaker 1: his head Come on, I know this word. I know
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  Speaker 1: this word. He is laying his head in her lap.
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  Speaker 1: So he compromised all that he was as a judge
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  Speaker 1: for now. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying. See, he found some place. She
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: could have took all that switching back home. He found
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  Speaker 1: the place where he could lay his head. And I
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking to, but I'm after somebody
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: that your real problem is not your carnality. It's your weariness.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: You don't have a safe place. to lay your head.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have a place that won't criticize you and
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: tell you you just need to man up. You don't
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: have a place where you can be a girl again.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: You're scared to death to be a girl again because
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  Speaker 1: you don't trust anybody else to take care of you
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: but you because you've always had to take care of
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: you and it's the only role that you've learned the
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: script to. And if you learn the script for one role,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you can only play one part. You have never had
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the luxury of being scared. The luxury of being tired.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: The luxury of being vulnerable. And you do good with
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: God because you can't see him. But to make yourself
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: vulnerable to somebody you can see, you can't, you just,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: you ain't hearing it. Because you never were scripted to
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: be human. And you know what the problem is? You're tired.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't understand being tired is a side effect
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  Speaker 1: of being strong. When you've been strong too long, When
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you've been tough all your life. Where every morning you
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: had to fight. You don't know how to just relax
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: and say I'm tired. He knew, watch this, I'm almost done.
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  Speaker 1: He knew she was trying to kill him. Still he
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  Speaker 1: laid his head in her lap. She asked him where
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: his strength was. He lied to her over and over again. Now,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: once I find out you're trying to kill me, all
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: attraction goes. Okay? All attraction goes. As long as I
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: don't think you're trying to kill me, I'm good. But
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: when I find out that you're really trying to hurt
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: me for real, you ain't nearly as cute as you
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: was a minute ago. You're not, no, no. All of
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: that goes away. All of that dries up because you're
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: trying to kill me. But he was so desperate. Y'all
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: don't hear. God, make them hear it because I can't
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: do it without you. Make them hear it. You don't
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: hear how desperate he was for a place to lay
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: his head. And my assignment this morning, what God called
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: me to preach to you this morning, is that there
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: would be many people in this room and watching on
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: stream right now who do not have a safe place
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: to lay your head. And it's been so long since
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: you've had it. You convince yourself you don't need it.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: And even if you got it, you don't know how
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: to treat it. And now you push away what you
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: could rest in. Because you don't know how to be tired.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know how to be tired. You know how
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to fight. You know how to kill. You know how
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: to destroy. You know how to attack. You don't know
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: how to be tired. And for a moment of laying
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: his head, he risked his life to lay his head.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: He lost his eyes to lay his head. He went
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: blind and lost his vision. to lay his head. And
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering how many people in here are praying for
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: vision but you can't get vision because you are so
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: desperate to find a place to lay your head that
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: you've lost your vision. And I'm wondering how many people
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: in here are treading at the mill with the oxus
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: when you are a judge over Israel. You are the
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: end of an era. You are the last judge before
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: we see kings. And you cannot be the judge that
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: brings us into kings because you've lost your vision. And
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  Speaker 1: when Hollywood does it, they try to make it lurid
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  Speaker 1: and sexual and vivacious and all of these kinds of things.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: They try to make it salacious. They try to appeal
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  Speaker 1: to our human lust when they don't realize that this
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  Speaker 1: is about not lust, This is about a lingering tiredness
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: that will not go away. And the Lord told me,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: if I would preach this, that he would crack through
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  Speaker 1: your camouflage. And he said, if you would open up
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: and admit that you're tired, Delilah would not be your
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: side effect. Delilah would not be your side effect. Delilah
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: is more than a woman. Don't think about her as
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  Speaker 1: a woman. She's a woman, but she's more than a woman.
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  Speaker 1: She's a spirit. She's a spirit. She's anything you have
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  Speaker 1: to lay in to lay in. She's anything you got
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  Speaker 1: to rest in. She's anything that you're willing to give
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  Speaker 1: up everything Just for a moment of rest. And you
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: know it's killing you. She's a drug. She's an addiction.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: She's a high. She's anything you go to. To lay
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: your head. She's the kryptonite. You go to. when life
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: is killing you. And that's why church is not working
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: for you. Because when you get ready for church, the
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: last thing you put on before you leave is your camouflage.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: And you know why we can't have real worship? Because
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: real worship will strip you. Real worship will bring you
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: down to your knees. Real worship will make you lay
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: prostrate on the floor. Real worship will bring tears gushing
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: out of your eyes. Real worship will make you cry
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: out before God. Real worship will make you open your
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: mouth and scream. Real worship will make you expose the
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: thing that you hide from everybody else. Real worship will
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: make you say, I don't know which way to go.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to fix it. Real worship. will make elders collapse on
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the floor like sinners. There won't be anybody to pray
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: for anybody because the elders will collapse just like a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: Real worship will bring you down to your knees until
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: the singers sit down beside the prostitutes and the prostitutes
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  Speaker 1: start sitting down beside the deacons and they're all laying
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: out on the floor because real worship will get down
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  Speaker 1: in you. But you can't take off. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: you right now. You can't come out of your Superman
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: suit I'm challenging you this morning to find your phone
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: booth so you can stop being Superman. I came to
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: preach to Clark Kent. I didn't come to preach to Superman.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I came to preach to somebody who's tired. I came
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: to preach to somebody who's dry. I came to preach
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: to somebody who's empty. I came to preach to somebody
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: who's frustrated. I came to preach to somebody who's tired
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: of acting like you got it all together when you
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: ain't got nothing together. You can handle scriptures, but you
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: can't handle money. You can handle money, but you can't
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: handle your own kids. You can handle your kids, but
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: you can't handle your job. I came to preach in
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  Speaker 1: a phone booth. I didn't come to preach at the
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  Speaker 1: potter's house. I came to preach in a phone booth.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to find a safe place where you
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  Speaker 1: can change out of your boots and leave your cape
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  Speaker 1: off and come before God. God just as I am.
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  Speaker 1: I came to preach till you're naked and not ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: I came to preach until tears are flushing down your face.
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  Speaker 1: I came to preach till you find some place you
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: can lay your head. I came to preach till you
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: feel the glory of God fill up a room. I
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: came to preach till something gets down in your spirit
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: and makes you fall on your knees I came to
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: preach till you don't care who's looking at you and
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: you don't care what they think about you and you
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: don't care what they call you. I came to preach
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: till you don't care about your title. I came to
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: preach till you don't care about your position. I came
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: to preach till you don't care what your husband thinks.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I came to preach till you don't care what your
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: wife thinks. I came to preach till something in your
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: belly opens up and cries out before God. I came
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  Speaker 1: to preach until you say, I won't let you go.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Till you bless my soul. I won't let you go
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  Speaker 1: till you fix me. I won't let you go till
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: you heal me. I won't let you go until you
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  Speaker 1: touch me. I came to preach till something opens up
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  Speaker 1: in your belly. I came to preach until you feel
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  Speaker 1: the power of God fall. I came to preach until
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: the anointing falls in your severe. I came to preach
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: until the Holy Ghost touches you from the crown of
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: your head. to the soles of your feet. I came
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  Speaker 1: to preach. I came to preach until glory hits you.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: I came to preach until the anointing of God begins
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: to fall. I came to preach until you come out
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: of all of this hard stuff, this tough stuff, this
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: stony stuff, this vicious stuff, this angry stuff. I came
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: to preach until anger goes away. I came to preach
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: until Until you lose your anger and you lay on
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: your face and say, God, I need you like I've
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: never needed you before. I came to preach. Hallelujah. Until
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: your side effects get out of your way. I came
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  Speaker 1: to preach so you can find at least one place,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: one day of the week, one hour where you can
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: lay before God and say, before I go to work Monday,
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  Speaker 1: I got to have this moment where I can lay
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: my head. I came to preach. Hallelujah. I left my
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: house so I could lay my head. I left my
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: car so I could lay my head. I left my
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: job so I could lay my head. I left my
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: business so I could lay my head. The truth is...
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I'm tired, God. I'm tired, God. I'm tired, God. I'm
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: tired of everybody calling me. I'm tired of everybody pulling
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: on me. I'm tired of everybody needing me. And I
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: came to preach until something gets down in your belly
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: and you say, I'm going to get the blessing. I
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: don't care what it costs. I'm going to get the blessing.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Are you in this place today? I'm going to count
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: to three and you got to decide either I'm going
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: home like Superman or I'm coming to the altar like
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Clark Kent. One, you got a few minutes to make
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: up in your mind. Either I'm going to get what
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: God has for me. I'm going to stand here and
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: be cute and walk around in my high heels and
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: try to be important and try to impress people. Two,
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  Speaker 1: either I'm going to open up my spirit and cry
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  Speaker 1: out to God until he blesses my soul, blesses my mind,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: blesses my spirit, until sleep comes back, until rest comes back,
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  Speaker 1: until joy comes back. Truth is, I'm not happy. Truth
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  Speaker 1: is I'm not happy. Truth is I'm not happy. Truth
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  Speaker 1: is I got joy, but I'm not happy. Truth is
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I don't have peace. Truth is I need a touch
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  Speaker 1: from God. Truth is I need a move from God.
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  Speaker 1: Truth is I need a move from God. Truth is
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I need a move from God. Truth is I need
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  Speaker 1: a move from God. And I'm going to stand here
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  Speaker 1: until I get a touch from God. I'm going to
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: stand right here until he blesses my soul. I'm going
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: to stand right here If I got to lay on
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  Speaker 1: the floor, if I got to get on my knees,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: if I got to lay prostrate, I'm going to stand
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  Speaker 1: right here until heaven opens up above my head. I'm
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: going to stand right here until I walk into my
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: promised land. I'm going to stand right here until heaven moves,
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  Speaker 1: until hell shakes, until demons tremble. I'm going to stand
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  Speaker 1: right here until the power of God moves all over
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  Speaker 1: my body. I want my anointing back. I want my
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: power back. I want my glory back. I want a
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: touch from God. Just touch me. If you touch me
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  Speaker 1: one time, if you touch me one time, if you
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  Speaker 1: touch me, you'll heal me. If you touch me, you'll
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: bless me. If you touch me, you'll deliver me. God,
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  Speaker 1: if you just touch me, I'll be all right. One
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  Speaker 1: touch from you. One touch from your Lord. One touch
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  Speaker 1: from the Lord. I'm down to the last one. One touch.
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  Speaker 1: How bad do you want it? How bad do you
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: want it? Do you want it bad enough to move?
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Do you want it bad enough to come out the balcony?
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Do you really want it? Here it is. Three. Everything
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: in here that wants something from God, come out wherever
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  Speaker 1: you are. Come out with your hands up. Come out
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: in total surrender. Come out saying yes to God. Come
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: out saying yes to God. Come out saying yes. Come
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: out saying yes. Come out saying yes. Come out saying yes.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Come out saying yes. Come out saying yes. Come out
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: saying yes. You're watching online. The anointing is in this house.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: It's in your house. It's in your living room. It's
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: in your car. It's in your spirit. Glory to God.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: I want every tough guy. to fall out on his face.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I want every hard woman to break down on your knees.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I came to preach to Samson. I came to preach
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: to Samson. Come out wherever you are. Come out wherever
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: you are. Come out wherever you are. Come out. If
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: you come out, the Philistines will die. The Bible said
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: that he killed more Philistines in his death than he
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: did in his life. And it's just like Jesus. Jesus
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: was at his greatest hour when they hung him high
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: and they stretched him wide and his flesh died. If
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: your flesh dies right now, you're going to kill every
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: demon in your house. If your flesh dies, every yoke
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: will be destroyed. If your flesh dies, every disease is
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: going to leap out your body. If your flesh dies,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: God's going to do a new thing in you. I
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: want you to open your mouth and holler like you
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: lost your mouth. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Help me holler. Help me holler. Help me holler.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Help me holler. Help me holler. Help me holler. I
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: gotta break out of this. I gotta break out of this.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I gotta break out of this. I gotta get out.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of being a prisoner. I'm tired of being
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: an inmate. I'm tired. I'm coming out. I'm coming out.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I'm coming out. And it'd be nice... All that silence
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: prayed and suddenly there was a noise and suddenly there
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: was a shaking. Come out, come out, wherever you are.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Come out, come out with your hands up. Come out
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  Speaker 1: with a surrender. Come out with a praise. Come out,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: shout unto God with the voice of triumph. Go clap
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: your hands, all ye people. Challenge God with the voice
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: of triumph. I feel victory. Victory is coming in this place.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: I feel victory coming in this place. I feel victory
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: coming in this place. I feel victory. If you shout,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: victory is coming. If you shout, victory is coming. Open
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: your mouth and shout. Stop being cute and shout. Stop
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: being fancy and shout. Shout till the walls come down.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Shout till the walls come down. Shout till the walls
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: come down. Shout till the walls come down. Shout. Shout.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: I said shout. I said shout. Shout to the wall.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Shout to the wall. Shout to the wall. I can't
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: hear you. I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Shout in your living room. Shout
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: in your car. Shout in your house. Shout in your bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Get in your kitchen and shout. Get in your car
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  Speaker 1: and shout. Open up your mouth and begin to shout.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Shout. Demons
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  Speaker 1: are trembling. Shout. Hell is leaving. Shout. Depression is headed
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  Speaker 1: out of here. Shout. Shout, I say. Shout, I say. Shout. Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout till it breaks. Shout till it cracks. Shout till
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  Speaker 1: it rips open. Shout till it rips open. Shout. Shout
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  Speaker 1: till it rips. I'm going to shout till it rips.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to shout till it rips. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: shout till it rips. Till it rips. Shout till it rips.
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  Speaker 1: Shout till it rips. Shout till your roof comes off.
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  Speaker 1: Shout till your living room flies open. Shout till your
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  Speaker 1: kids come home. Open your mouth and shout. Open your
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  Speaker 1: mouth and shout. Open your mouth and shout. Open your...
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. I can't... Shout it out. Shout
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  Speaker 1: it out. Shout it out. Shout it out. Shout it out.
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  Speaker 1: Every stain. Shout it out. Every pain. Shout it out.
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  Speaker 1: Every bit of trouble. Shout it out. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Shout it out. out.
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  Speaker 1: Shout it out. Shout it out. Something is leaving your body.
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  Speaker 1: Something is leaving your mind. Something is leaving your heart.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Shout it. Don't let it go.
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  Speaker 1: Shout it. Don't let it go. Fall out by your couch.
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  Speaker 1: Fall out of your bed. Shout it. slide out of
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  Speaker 1: the floor, lay down in the kitchen and shout it out.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody that believes God all the way in the balcony. Shout, shout, shout, shout, shout.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody help me. Somebody help me. Somebody help me. The
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  Speaker 1: walls are coming down. The walls are coming down. The
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  Speaker 1: walls are coming down. The walls are coming down. Shout choir. Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout church. Shout deacons. Shout preachers. Shout pastors. Shout.
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  Speaker 2: Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout. Shout. Shout. Shout! Shout! The devil don't like it!
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  Speaker 1: But shout! The devil don't like it! But shout! Shout
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  Speaker 1: in this place! I feel victory! I feel victory! I
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  Speaker 1: feel victory! I feel victory. I dare you to shout.
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  Speaker 1: I dare you to shout. I dare you to shout.
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  Speaker 1: I dare you. I dare you. I dare you. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta quit. But I feel the power of the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost in this place. Holy Ghost said shout. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Shout! Shout! Shout!
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah! Yes, you won't get loose. You won't get loose.
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  Speaker 1: You won't get loose. You won't get loose today. You
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  Speaker 1: won't get loose today. You won't get some help today.
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  Speaker 1: You won't get deliverance today. You won't get a breakthrough today.
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  Speaker 1: You won't get involved with today. You won't get it.
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  Speaker 1: You won't get it. You won't get it. You won't
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  Speaker 1: get it. This is for you. God did this for you.
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  Speaker 1: This is your Sunday. This is your Sunday. This is
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  Speaker 1: your Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: My God, my.
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  Speaker 1: God, my God. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My God, my God, my God.
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  Speaker 1: What I want you to understand is that you've been predestined, predetermined,
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  Speaker 1: prescripted to to drive out the philistines that are in
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  Speaker 1: your life but you can't drive it out till you
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  Speaker 1: get honest you can't help what you're trying to kill
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  Speaker 1: you either gotta be hot or you gotta be cold
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  Speaker 1: you gotta make up in your mind do you love
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  Speaker 1: your image Or do you want to be changed? Lift
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  Speaker 1: your hands up right where you are. Lift them up.
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  Speaker 1: This is a moment of surrender. You're watching on television.
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  Speaker 1: This is a moment of surrender. It's a moment of
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  Speaker 1: complete surrender. It's a moment of complete surrender. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize you had side effects. But the very thing, it's
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  Speaker 1: good to be strong. It's wonderful to be strong with you.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't OD'd. You OD'd. And you lost part of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Because Christ is just as much lamb as he is lion.
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  Speaker 1: And he wasn't afraid of his lamb. and he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: afraid of his lion and you gotta be good with
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  Speaker 1: opening up your heart when the bible says none but
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  Speaker 1: the pure in heart shall see God the word pure
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  Speaker 1: there is where we get the word catheter it means
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  Speaker 1: that God wants to clean out your heart so you
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  Speaker 1: can see God none but the pure in heart shall
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  Speaker 1: see God you hear me Oh, tell me, do you
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  Speaker 1: hear me? On your phone, do you hear me? On
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  Speaker 1: your iPad, do you hear me? On your computer, do
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  Speaker 1: you hear me? Remember the pure in heart. And hell
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  Speaker 1: is doing everything it can to take away your purity.
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  Speaker 1: Because you used to be pure. You used to know
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  Speaker 1: how to be sorry. You used to know how to
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  Speaker 1: say yes. You used to know how to open up.
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  Speaker 1: And you could see God. But your vision is coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I prophesy to you right now that your vision is
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  Speaker 1: coming back. It's coming back. It's coming back. You hear me?
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  Speaker 1: It's coming back. It's coming back. It's coming back. The
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  Speaker 1: thing is real. It's coming back. It's coming back. These
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  Speaker 1: things that keep coming up in you, this stress, this anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: this insomnia, these bouts of anger, these mood swings, these
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  Speaker 1: depressions are nothing but side effects. All you got to
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  Speaker 1: be is who you really are. That's all you got
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  Speaker 1: to do is what you really do. That's all you
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  Speaker 1: got to do is open up your heart to God
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  Speaker 1: and say, I'm going to rest in you. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to rest in you. If you don't do it, it
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  Speaker 1: can't be done. I'm going to rest in you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to rest in you. Do you feel that peace
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  Speaker 1: coming in this room right now? There's a peace. There's
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: a peace coming in this room right now. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: I wish you was in here. I don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: you can feel it where you are, but there's a
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  Speaker 1: peace coming in here. There's a peace coming in here.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: There's a peace coming. There's a peace coming. For you,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming right now. It's coming for you. Lift your hands,
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  Speaker 1: my Father and my God. It is in the invincible, all-powerful, eternal, everlasting, immutable,
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  Speaker 1: unchanging name of Jesus Christ we pray. We all, like sheep,
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  Speaker 1: have gone astray. We've gotten turned out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: We've forgotten what matters most. We've turned into what we
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  Speaker 1: thought we had to be. Because of the onslaught of
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  Speaker 1: what we've been through. But today we shake it off.
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  Speaker 1: Today we shake off the side effects of being who
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  Speaker 1: we were called to be. And today, right now, we
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  Speaker 1: receive your peace. We receive your power. We receive your love.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a Sunday we don't ever forget.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is going to be the Sunday that I
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  Speaker 1: dropped my camouflage and I came to Jesus just like
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was weary. I was worn. And to
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, Lord, I was sad. I was sad.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't know how to get out of it.
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  Speaker 1: But I found in you a resting place. It's not
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  Speaker 1: in my delilah. It's not in my coping mechanisms. It's
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  Speaker 1: not in the pseudo things that I take on to
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  Speaker 1: help me get through the moment. I found in you
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  Speaker 1: a resting place. I found in you a resting place.
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  Speaker 1: There's somebody in the balcony. God is touching you right
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  Speaker 1: in the balcony right now in a special way. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't even come down in the prayer, but God is
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  Speaker 1: touching you right where you are. I found in you
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  Speaker 1: a resting place. This stuff I've been carrying is too heavy.
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  Speaker 1: It's too hard. It's too much.
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  Speaker 2: I cast my cares on you because you care for me.
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  Speaker 1: I will rest. I will rest, Lord. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: my rest. Thank you for my rest. Thank you for
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: my rest. Thank you for my rest. Right in your
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  Speaker 1: living room, right where you're watching, I'm going to rest.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to rest. I'm going to rest. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to practice it. I'm going to practice it. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to work on it. I'm going to practice it until
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  Speaker 1: I get good at it. I will rest. in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord if you're around this altar or out in the
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  Speaker 1: pews and you don't know Jesus Jesus said come unto
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  Speaker 1: me all ye that are weak and heavy laden and
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  Speaker 1: he said I will give you rest not worry I
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  Speaker 1: will give you rest and if you want Christ to
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  Speaker 1: come into your life right now I don't care whether
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  Speaker 1: you're backslidden I don't care if your back broken. If
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  Speaker 1: you raise your hand, I'll pray for you that Christ
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  Speaker 1: will come into your heart right now, right now, right now. Father,
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  Speaker 1: hold that hand up right now. Father, I'm tired of
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  Speaker 1: being my own savior, being my own doctor, being my
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  Speaker 1: own lawyer. I'm going to rest in you. I will rest.
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  Speaker 1: I will rest. I pray salvation would fall on every
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  Speaker 1: raised hand. That the blood of Jesus would wash away
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  Speaker 1: all sins. We confess our sins. We forsake them. And
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  Speaker 1: we open up our heart to you. Leave your hand up.
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  Speaker 1: We open up our heart to you. Come in, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't do it, it can't be done. Come in, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Come in, Jesus. That spirit that encamps about me. That
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  Speaker 1: angry spirit. That bitter spirit. That distrusting spirit. That jilted spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going home with that today. I will rest.
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  Speaker 2: I will rest.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm yours. I'm yours. I'm yours. Before I close
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  Speaker 1: this service, I want to ask you, do you have
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  Speaker 1: a church home where you can come and get the word?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not asking you were you ever baptized somewhere when
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  Speaker 1: you were 12. I'm asking you, do you have a
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  Speaker 1: place where your soul can rest in the Lord? where
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  Speaker 1: you can come in heavy and leave out light the
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  Speaker 1: doors of this church are open if you make your
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  Speaker 1: way to my left to your right you will find
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  Speaker 1: a lap you can rest in go right now make
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  Speaker 1: your way through the crowd and come to my left
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  Speaker 1: the doors of this church are open I will I
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  Speaker 1: will rest I'm coming home, Lord. Come on. I will rest.
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  Speaker 1: I want everybody to clap your hands and say, come on.
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  Speaker 1: I will rest. How many people are glad you came
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  Speaker 1: to church this morning? Lift your hands up because I
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  Speaker 1: want you to go home with this anointing on. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to go home with this annoying on you.
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  Speaker 1: You that are walking, can you wait one second for
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  Speaker 1: me to pray over you before you go? Just one second.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My Lord God, it's
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  Speaker 1: so much easier to live for you in here than
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  Speaker 1: it is out there. The phone isn't ringing. The people
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: aren't talking. The bills aren't coming. Life isn't life. But
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  Speaker 1: I pray that as we walk out of this place,
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  Speaker 1: that we will take this with us. In the car,
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  Speaker 1: to the house, to the restaurant, to the grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: We will take this rest. We're going to leave Delilah alone.
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  Speaker 1: At the altar. We're going to leave her at the altar.
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  Speaker 1: In whatever storm she comes in. And let the rest
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  Speaker 1: of God. And the peace. Which passes all understanding. Rest
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  Speaker 1: room and abide. Now henceforth and forevermore. Until we meet again.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus name. Amen. I love you, Apollos House. Love you.