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Your restoration is coming BISHOP TD JAKES · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God in the highest. I
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Speaker 1: want you to reach for your Bibles as we prepare
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Speaker 1: to go into the word of God. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: your patience tonight. Pastor Ashley, he's such a blessing. Give
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Speaker 1: God a praise once more for him. And my brother,
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Speaker 1: the fishers there in Adelaide, we love you. Amen. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to Megafest. Hallelujah. Not only they are rejoicing with us,
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Speaker 1: but people around the world, the inmates are watching us.
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Speaker 1: They're going to be blessed tonight. People around the world
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Speaker 1: are watching us tonight. as we do the things that
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Speaker 1: God has called us to do. I want to appreciate, again,
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Speaker 1: I get in trouble with names, but I've got some
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Speaker 1: friends of mine that are here tonight. I asked them
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Speaker 1: to come. I had the privilege of preaching at their
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Speaker 1: conference and their group of Messianic rabbis that have come tonight.
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Speaker 1: I just want to welcome you to Megafest. I am
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Speaker 1: so honored that you would come to be with me tonight.
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Speaker 1: I love you with my whole heart. Come on, make
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Speaker 1: them welcome. They treated me so good. Amen. And we're
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Speaker 1: just glad about the fellowship. I want you to get
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Speaker 1: your Bibles and go with me to the fourth chapter
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Speaker 1: of the book of Genesis. Genesis 4, verse 25 and 26. Hallelujah.
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Speaker 1: When you have it, say amen. If you haven't found
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Speaker 1: Genesis by now, come to the altar. There's something bad wrong.
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Speaker 1: I do want to take just a second and say
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Speaker 1: to you a housekeeping detail that I overlooked. In the morning,
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Speaker 1: in the morning glory for manpower, Bishop Paul Morton is
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Speaker 1: going to be here in the main sanctuary. We're happy
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Speaker 1: about that. Right after him from Lagos, Nigeria, my son
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Speaker 1: and the gospel pastor Paul Adam Ferrison is going to
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Speaker 1: be ministering. You will not want to miss him. The
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Speaker 1: ladies are going to enjoy Pastor Darlene Bishop, who's on
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Speaker 1: the stage. Elder Deborah Morton, who's on the stage, and
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Speaker 1: Pastor Susie Owens. And then at 2 o'clock, we're all
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Speaker 1: coming together in this house with me for our parting
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Speaker 1: fellowship service. You won't want to miss that. And we're
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Speaker 1: just excited about all that God is doing here. Can
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Speaker 1: you say amen? The scripture says, and Adam... knew his
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Speaker 1: wife again, and she bare a son, and called his
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Speaker 1: name Seth. For God, said she, hath appointed me another
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Speaker 1: seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth,
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Speaker 1: to him also there was born a son, and he
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Speaker 1: called his name Enos. Then began men to call upon
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Speaker 1: the name of the Lord. And Adam knew his wife again,
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Speaker 1: and she bare a son. I don't know that this
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Speaker 1: is so much a sermon as it is a message.
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Speaker 1: More than just a message in the traditional sense of
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Speaker 1: the word, I believe it to be prophetically relevant to
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Speaker 1: someone in this room. And so as I spend a
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Speaker 1: few moments sharing with you out of the word of God,
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Speaker 1: I want you to claim this as your word from God.
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Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, this is my word from
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Remain standing. We're going to pray, but I'm
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Speaker 1: going to be talking from the subject tonight, teaching from
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Speaker 1: sharing from the subject tonight. You are going to get
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Speaker 1: it back again. Let me say that again, because I
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Speaker 1: want that to sink way down into your guts and
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Speaker 1: into your soul and into your spirit as a prophetic
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Speaker 1: utterance from the Lord, not from T.D. Jakes, not from
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Speaker 1: the preacher, not from the man, but whoever it was,
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Speaker 1: you came here with an expectation in your spirit, seeking
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Speaker 1: God for a definite word about some issues in your life.
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Speaker 1: Tonight is the night that God confirms in your spirit
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Speaker 1: your time is not wasted. What you went through was
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Speaker 1: not for nothing. Before it is all over, you are
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Speaker 1: going to get it back again. And when you get
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Speaker 1: it back, it's going to be pressed down. Shaken together.
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Speaker 1: and running over. Touch somebody and say you're going to
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Speaker 1: get it back again. I don't know for somebody it
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Speaker 1: may be a job, for somebody it may be a position,
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Speaker 1: for an inmate it might be a second chance, but
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Speaker 1: you're going to get it back again. For somebody it's
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Speaker 1: restoration in your marriage, for somebody it's a second chance
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Speaker 1: to go back to school, but whatever it is that
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Speaker 1: the enemy's been laughing in your face and telling you
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Speaker 1: it was too late and you've been through too much
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Speaker 1: and you can't get it back again, the Lord meant
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Speaker 1: for you to be here tonight you can't be at
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Speaker 1: the comedy show you couldn't be at the mall you
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Speaker 1: had to be here tonight for thus saith the Lord
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Speaker 1: to you you are going to get it touch somebody
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Speaker 1: and tell them it's coming back again Father, in the
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus, I thank you for the anointing that's
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Speaker 1: in this house. Thank you for the prevailing preeminent power
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Speaker 1: of your grace and word. Manifest yourself in the midst
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Speaker 1: of your people tonight. I thank you in advance for
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Speaker 1: what you're about to do. Have your way in this
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Speaker 1: place in the mighty, invincible, irrevocable, eternal, everlasting name of
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Speaker 1: the Lord, we pray. Let the blessed ones in Christ
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Speaker 1: shout amen. You may be seated in the presence of
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Good God, I almost feel like I don't
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Speaker 1: have to preach it tonight. It's already swept down in
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Speaker 1: your spirits. See, people who stand outside of the church
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Speaker 1: and watch a move like this, they don't understand it
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Speaker 1: because nobody said anything yet. They normally say you're emotional,
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Speaker 1: but nobody said anything for you to be emotional. They
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Speaker 1: don't understand this is not emotional. This is spiritual. Something
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Speaker 1: is happening in the Holy Ghost. And unless you have
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Speaker 1: the connection, you don't understand what it is. You are
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Speaker 1: going to get it back. Again. My God, my God,
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Speaker 1: my God, my God. You must understand that many of
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Speaker 1: us are taught about church and we're taught about religion
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Speaker 1: and we're taught about theology and we're taught about creeds
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Speaker 1: and Bible history and church history and church doctrine. We're
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Speaker 1: taught about protocol and things like that, but we're often
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Speaker 1: not taught about God. And so we reduce God down
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Speaker 1: to some human earthly carnal thing that can be manipulated
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Speaker 1: this way or that way according to our own dictates, desires,
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Speaker 1: and passions. But the God that we serve according to
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Speaker 1: scriptures is high and lifted up. Isaiah said his train
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Speaker 1: filled the temple. You must understand in Isaiah's day that
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Speaker 1: every king had a train. And the longer the train,
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Speaker 1: the greater the kingdom. And when Isaiah said that his
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Speaker 1: train filled the temple, he's saying that your God is
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Speaker 1: so auspicious, so authoritative, so absolute, so sovereign, so divine.
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Speaker 1: so auspicious that his train was so long that it
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Speaker 1: filled the temple He's not a God. He's not a choice.
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Speaker 1: He's not an option. He's not one in a collection
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Speaker 1: of a group of gods contending for a position. He
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Speaker 1: is the absolute Yahweh, eternal, immutable, everlasting Yeshua, mighty God
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Speaker 1: and everlasting Father. His name shall be called Wonderful. He
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Speaker 1: is wonderful. Elohim, the creator of the universe. He didn't
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Speaker 1: meet with a board or a committee. He didn't assign
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Speaker 1: a task force to create the human race. But God
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Speaker 1: all by himself stepped out on absolutely nothing and said,
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Speaker 1: I will make something. And the power of life came
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Speaker 1: shooting out of his mouth. When he said, let there be,
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Speaker 1: it became whatever he said it was because he's God.
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Speaker 1: I know it's very popular that people are teaching today
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Speaker 1: that God can't do anything save we praise him. And
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Speaker 1: God can't do anything save we tell him to do it.
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Speaker 1: And God can't do anything save we touch and agree.
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Speaker 1: But I beg to differ with you tonight. God doesn't
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Speaker 1: need you to agree, to praise, to nod, to shout,
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Speaker 1: to clap or anything else. Before there was a where
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Speaker 1: or a when or a this or a that. Before
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Speaker 1: there was a choir, an instrument. Before there was a preacher,
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Speaker 1: a book to be written, a tape series to be done.
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Speaker 1: God all by himself said, let there be. And it
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Speaker 1: became whatever he said because he is sovereign. Nobody voted
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Speaker 1: him in and nobody can take him out. He is sovereign.
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Speaker 1: He is the mighty God, the invincible one. He speaks
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Speaker 1: it and it comes to pass. He declares it and
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Speaker 1: it is so. He is God, not a governor, not
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Speaker 1: a lieutenant, not a mayor. He is God all by himself.
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Speaker 1: And when he moves, everything has got to get out
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Speaker 1: of his way. And when he speaks, even nature is subject.
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Speaker 1: What manner of man is this that even the winds
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Speaker 1: and waves obey his will? He's gone. Every effort that
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Speaker 1: we've ever made to explain him is futile. Ezekiel attempts
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Speaker 1: it and says he's a wheel in the middle of
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Speaker 1: a wheel. Daniel says he's a stone hewed out the mountain.
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Speaker 1: Isaiah said, he sitteth on the circle of the earth.
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Speaker 1: All of these illustrations are just human attempts to describe
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Speaker 1: the abstract power of a God who so supersedes our
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Speaker 1: linguistical abilities that any vernacular that we may capture is
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Speaker 1: crippled by the infinite power of God. communicated through a
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Speaker 1: finite mind and so we're trying to describe something that
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Speaker 1: is beyond human comprehension we ought to just break down
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Speaker 1: and give up and say he's God he's all of
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Speaker 1: that in a bag of chips he's whatever you need
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Speaker 1: him to be whenever you need him to be and
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Speaker 1: he's God It is suggested, some say that God made
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Speaker 1: man because he was lonely, but I disagree. God was lonely,
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Speaker 1: then he needed something outside of himself to fulfill himself.
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Speaker 1: But the Bible said he is complete within himself. He
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Speaker 1: is the all-sufficient one, lacking absolutely nothing to make him whole.
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Speaker 1: He is absolutely complete. God has never asked a question
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Speaker 1: that he couldn't answer. God has never needed anything that
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Speaker 1: he couldn't supply. That's why Ezekiel said he's a wheel
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Speaker 1: within a wheel. It means he's complete within himself. There
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Speaker 1: are no gaps in him from end to end, from
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Speaker 1: everlasting to everlasting. Thou art God and besides you there
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Speaker 1: is no other. You're God all by yourself. I read
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Speaker 1: with some degree of humor on my face recent article
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Speaker 1: that Reverend Dr. Billy Graham came to the conclusion of
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Speaker 1: his career. And many, many journalists began to write articles
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Speaker 1: trying to decide amongst who they say are contenders, who
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Speaker 1: is apt to be the next Billy Graham. And they
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Speaker 1: were giving reasons why they thought this one or that
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Speaker 1: one might be the next Billy Graham. And I laughed
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Speaker 1: to myself and said, you didn't pick the first one.
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Speaker 1: I wonder why in the world, since a man didn't
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Speaker 1: pick the first one, why we now think that we
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Speaker 1: can get together and have a meeting and write an
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Speaker 1: article and pick the next one. God picks whoever he will.
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Speaker 1: He raises up whoever he wants to. He brings down
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Speaker 1: whoever he chooses. He said, I have power over the clay.
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Speaker 1: I'm God. I move up one. I move out another.
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Speaker 1: I'm God. I don't have to ask you how you
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Speaker 1: feel about it when I get ready to move. I
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Speaker 1: just move. You don't need money. You don't need help.
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Speaker 1: You don't need friends. You don't need anything. If God
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Speaker 1: gets ready to do it, it shall come to pass.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I am convinced that occasionally God uses the
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Speaker 1: least likely people just to confuse all the statisticians. He
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Speaker 1: just gets somebody out of nowhere that nobody ever heard
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Speaker 1: about that has no skills and nothing that looks like
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Speaker 1: they can do the job, and he raises them up.
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Speaker 1: He gets a little boy with two fish and five
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Speaker 1: loaves of bread and says, I'm going to make you
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Speaker 1: a smorgasbord. He gets a woman with the issue of
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Speaker 1: blood and says, I'm going to heal you. He takes
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Speaker 1: a woman who's had five divorces in a situation and says,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to make you an evangelist. Sometimes God will
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Speaker 1: make a fool out of the world. just to say
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Speaker 1: I'm God and I can do whatever I want to do.
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Speaker 1: You see, my brothers and sisters, If we are going
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Speaker 1: to be effective, we have to take God at his word.
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Speaker 1: Not our feelings. Not how it looks like it's gonna be.
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Speaker 1: Not because things are starting to line up and if
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Speaker 1: everything goes well, perhaps by Wednesday, I'm fairly sure things
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Speaker 1: will be all right because it's working in my favor. No,
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Speaker 1: nothing has to be working in your favor. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to look like it's going to get any better.
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Speaker 1: But if God gave you a promise. Tell somebody, say,
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Speaker 1: he gave me a promise. He says to Eve at
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Speaker 1: a particularly vulnerable time in her life that the seed
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Speaker 1: of the woman would rise up and bruise the head
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Speaker 1: of the seed of the serpent and the serpent would
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Speaker 1: bruise his heel. Eve immediately understood that the promise was
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Speaker 1: within her. It is a great deal of difference. Pastor
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Speaker 1: Ashley jokingly was talking about his wife having a child
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Speaker 1: when she was 40. And me and the rabbi looked
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Speaker 1: at each other with a grimace on our face because
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Speaker 1: the idea of having a child now. I mean, it's wonderful.
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Speaker 1: You go ahead. I have made my contribution to the planet.
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Speaker 1: When I get lonely, I will get a puppy at
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Speaker 1: this point. But the early Bible women understood that every
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Speaker 1: time they birthed a child, they were looking for the Messiah.
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Speaker 1: The seed of the woman. A woman doesn't naturally even
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Speaker 1: have a seed. It's talking about her offspring, her child.
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Speaker 1: It's a messianic prophecy of what Christ ultimately would fulfill
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Speaker 1: in his return. And every woman from Eve forward was
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Speaker 1: invited into the creatorial process of a divine God who
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Speaker 1: collaborated with the human woman and allowed her to live.
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Speaker 1: her body to be the portals of life and the
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Speaker 1: entrance of access from eternity into time every woman in
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Speaker 1: here ought to shout off of that if you're a
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Speaker 1: woman touch somebody and tell them i'm a partner with
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Speaker 1: god God gives life, but it passes through me. I'm
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Speaker 1: a partner with God. He uses my womb as an
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Speaker 1: oven to bake his bread. I'm a partner with God.
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Speaker 1: I'm a bank with God. He plants a seed in
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Speaker 1: me and trusts me to carry life, and he'll never
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Speaker 1: go bankrupt because I'm a partner with God. The Bible says...
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Speaker 1: And Adam knew his wife Eve, and she bare a
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Speaker 1: son and called his name Cain. And then it says,
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Speaker 1: and again she bare a son, and he called his
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Speaker 1: name Abel. It doesn't say that he knew her again,
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Speaker 1: and some theologians use that as an indication to suggest
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Speaker 1: that perhaps Cain and Abel may have been twins. I
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Speaker 1: am not certain whether they were twins or not. but
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Speaker 1: it does imply that he knew her one time and
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Speaker 1: she had two sons, Cain and Abel. What is significant
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Speaker 1: to me is not whether they are twins or not,
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Speaker 1: but the order of their birth is incredibly significant. He
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Speaker 1: knew his wife Eve, she bare a son, she called
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Speaker 1: his name Abe, and Eve, she called his name, my
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Speaker 1: mind went blank. I've been doing too much today. Pray
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Speaker 1: for me. She called his name Cain. Thank you, Lord.
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Speaker 1: And again, she bore a son and she called his
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Speaker 1: name Abel. The order of the birth is what's important.
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Speaker 1: You would have thought it would have been the first
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Speaker 1: son that had the promise. But the promise was actually
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Speaker 1: on the second son. It is significant that you understand
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Speaker 1: that process because God is teaching us the power of
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Speaker 1: the second son. Just when you think it's Cain, it's Abel.
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Speaker 1: Just when you think it's Phares, it's Zerah. Just when
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Speaker 1: you think it's Esau, it's Jacob. Just when you think
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Speaker 1: it's Adam, it's Jesus. There's something about the second... Oh,
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Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. It's something about...
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Speaker 1: The second son. The blessing was on Abel. And it's
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Speaker 1: something that when the blessing is on you, everybody can
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Speaker 1: tell it readily. Even people who are not happy about
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Speaker 1: it know that the blessing is on you. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I have become convinced that that is why many people
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Speaker 1: are not happy because the blessing of the Lord is
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Speaker 1: on you. Do you understand that when God's blessing is
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Speaker 1: on you, everybody doesn't celebrate that blessing? That some people
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Speaker 1: are antagonistic just because God is blessing you and you
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Speaker 1: keep trying to figure out why they don't support you.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you said something wrong. Maybe you wear your hair
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Speaker 1: the wrong way. Maybe you're not gracious enough. It's none
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Speaker 1: of that. When God has blessed you, people just hate
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Speaker 1: you because the hand of the Lord is on your life.
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Speaker 1: That's why I wrote a book years ago, Can You
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Speaker 1: Stand to Be Blessed? Because it takes stamina to be blessed.
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Speaker 1: It takes fortitude to be blessed. You've got to swim
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Speaker 1: against the current to be blessed. You can't be sensitive
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Speaker 1: and be blessed, crying about who doesn't support you, worried
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Speaker 1: about who doesn't like you. When you know that the
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Speaker 1: Lord is on your side, the Bible said that if
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Speaker 1: God be for you, he is more than the world
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Speaker 1: against you. Your enemies become his enemies. Your friends become
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Speaker 1: his friends because the favor of the Lord is on
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Speaker 1: your life. Abel was blessed. He brought before God what
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Speaker 1: God required. Hebrews 11 and 3 says, by faith, Abel
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Speaker 1: offered up a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. He did
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Speaker 1: it by faith. How do we get faith? The Bible
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Speaker 1: says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word
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Speaker 1: of God. We don't fast for it. We don't get
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Speaker 1: hands laid on us for us. We don't put little
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Speaker 1: dots of oil on our head to get faith. We
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Speaker 1: don't walk around chanting Jesus, Jesus, Jesus to get faith.
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Speaker 1: Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
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Speaker 1: That's why some of you purpose in your heart. You
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Speaker 1: had to get some word in you tonight because you
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Speaker 1: know that when you get back home, you've got a
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Speaker 1: devil to fight. You've got some demons to deal with,
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Speaker 1: and you've got to fill your tank up with fuel
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Speaker 1: so that when you get back, you can be self-contained
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Speaker 1: and self-sustaining and not dependent nor codependent on anybody to
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Speaker 1: lift you up. I mean the kind of faith where
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Speaker 1: you lay hands on your own head, rebuke the devil
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Speaker 1: in your own body. I mean the kind of faith
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Speaker 1: where you're standing in the shower preaching to yourself, saying,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe God brought me this far to lead me,
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Speaker 1: to thank God that brought me through this is going
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Speaker 1: to bring me through that. I'm talking about radical faith.
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Speaker 1: Radical faith. Touch somebody and tell them, I believe God.
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Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about the kind of faith that
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Speaker 1: heals from cancer and the kind of faith that heals
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Speaker 1: from leukemia and I know there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: people that's been healed and blessed and delivered and this
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Speaker 1: might not sound like a great testimony but for some
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Speaker 1: of us it took faith to get to Atlanta. Some
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Speaker 1: of us registered by faith. We came by faith. We
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Speaker 1: got on the bus by faith. We climbed on the
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Speaker 1: plane by faith. And while other folk took it for granted,
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Speaker 1: it's a miracle for us to be here. The money
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Speaker 1: was funny. Couldn't get off work. Couldn't get a babysitter.
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Speaker 1: But God just started opening up doors and making ways
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Speaker 1: out of no ways. And when God opens up a door...
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Speaker 1: My God, I feel the Holy Ghost about to take
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Speaker 1: this place over to my, when God opens up a door.
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Speaker 2: Look at somebody and say, I'm here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm here. I've been through hell, but I'm here.
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Speaker 1: I came through storms, but I'm here. I've been in
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Speaker 1: the furnace of affliction, but I'm here. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what I got to deal with when I get back home,
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Speaker 1: but I'm here. My God. She watched Cain grow up
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Speaker 1: and Abel grow up. Our focus this week is it's
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Speaker 1: a family affair. Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel are
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Speaker 1: the first family. And the Bible is not timid nor
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Speaker 1: shy about exposing the dysfunctions in the first family. This
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Speaker 1: is not an Ozzie and Harriet situation. You will not
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Speaker 1: see Gomer Powell in this story. Aunt Bea is not
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Speaker 1: baking pies in this story. The first family was crazy.
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Speaker 1: They had issues. They had problems. They had arguments. They
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Speaker 1: had stress. They didn't agree. And they were church folk too.
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Speaker 1: And they still didn't agree. They fought about how to worship.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how people think that if you're church
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Speaker 1: folks and you're in the family, you don't have any problem.
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Speaker 1: But let me tell you something. The more there's a
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Speaker 1: destiny call on your life, the more you come up
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Speaker 1: under attack. If it wasn't for how God was going
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Speaker 1: to bless you, you wouldn't be going through what you're
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Speaker 1: going through right now. And of all things for the
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Speaker 1: brothers to start fighting about, they started fighting about worship.
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Speaker 1: And there's nothing worse than when brothers fight. The conflict
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Speaker 1: of being attacked by somebody you love is almost unbearable.
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Speaker 1: If you haven't been through it, you don't understand what
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Isn't it hard to be trying to
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Speaker 1: defend yourself from somebody while your heart is hurt that
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Speaker 1: they hit you in the first place? You're just standing
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Speaker 1: up there and bouncing around and the tears in the
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Speaker 1: corner of your eye because you don't even want to
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Speaker 1: have to fight them in the first place. It's amazing
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Speaker 1: how the enemy will often use people that you care
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Speaker 1: about or admire or respect differently. to persecute you the
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Speaker 1: most God asked Cain a very revealing question he said
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Speaker 1: why is thy countenance fallen Why are you wroth? Why
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Speaker 1: are you angry? If thou doest not well, will I
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Speaker 1: not receive you? And if thou doest not well, sin
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Speaker 1: lieth at the door. God says, why are you acting
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Speaker 1: like I won't bless you? If you do what your
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Speaker 1: brother did, you can get what your brother has. People
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Speaker 1: don't understand God is no respecter of persons. If you
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Speaker 1: see God bless him, God will bless you. If you
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Speaker 1: see God bless her, he'll bless you over here. If
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Speaker 1: God touch this one, he'll touch this one over here.
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Speaker 1: God is not a respecter of persons, but he is
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Speaker 1: a respecter of principles. And until you start operating in
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Speaker 1: divine principles and come out of your flesh, You will
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Speaker 1: never be effective at what God called you to do
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Speaker 1: because you're trying to do it in your own strength.
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Speaker 1: But the Bible said it's not by might nor by power,
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Speaker 1: but by my spirit, say of the Lord. It's amazing
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Speaker 1: to me how people will make God's word harder than
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Speaker 1: it has to be. Instead of simply obeying him and
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Speaker 1: giving him a blood sacrifice for the scripture says without
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Speaker 1: the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin.
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Speaker 1: Cain is out there working in the ground, trying to
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Speaker 1: work up on something that God already had made available. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you, are you trying to work
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Speaker 1: up something that God has already made available to you?
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Speaker 1: And if you would just believe it and receive it,
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Speaker 1: it would happen without sweat. Abel, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: believes God operates in the principles of the word of God,
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Speaker 1: offers up what God asks for. And if you give
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Speaker 1: God what he wants, he will give you what you need. Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's good. I may have to get this tape myself.
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Speaker 1: If you give God what he wants, he will give
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Speaker 1: you what he needs, what you need. And God blessed him.
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Speaker 1: And Cain rose up to kill him because he was blessed.
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Speaker 1: And he slew him. And Abel died and his blood
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Speaker 1: fell into the ground. It's amazing. This has been an
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Speaker 1: amazing week for me. As I prepared to come to Megafest,
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Speaker 1: I got a call from one of my closest adjutants
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Speaker 1: and my executive coordinator that his son was murdered. He
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Speaker 1: was on his way here and got the call his
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Speaker 1: son was murdered and had to rush off to where
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Speaker 1: his son was. And I had to change my plans
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Speaker 1: and meet him there to pick out a casket and
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Speaker 1: burial ground for his son as this meeting started. And
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Speaker 1: then I came to the meeting and had to leave
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Speaker 1: the meeting and rush back to preach a funeral all
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Speaker 1: day Tuesday and comfort a grieving family before I came
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Speaker 1: to meet with the press and do what I had
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Speaker 1: to do here on Wednesday. And it has been an
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Speaker 1: amazing week. Because the enemy knows when God is about
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Speaker 1: to bless, he'll always send some mess to stop you
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Speaker 1: from getting to what God wants you to have. I'm
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Speaker 1: wondering if there's anybody that had to go through something
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Speaker 1: to get here. I mean, things that make no sense,
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Speaker 1: things that are totally ridiculous, things that are painful, and
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Speaker 1: you had to just say, Lord, I'm going anyway. See,
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Speaker 1: you got to be an anyway child of God. You
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Speaker 1: can't be a good weather, fair weather child of God.
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Speaker 1: You have to make up in your mind, I'm going anyway.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to serve him anyway. I'm going to trust
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Speaker 1: him anyway. I'm going to praise him anyway. Broke, busted,
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Speaker 1: and disgusted, but I'm still going to praise him. Have
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Speaker 1: to eat out the grocery store, but I'm still going
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Speaker 1: to praise him. I'm going to praise him anyway. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to praise him anyway. For those of you that
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Speaker 1: don't praise or don't worship, you think that the people
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Speaker 1: who are praising God are praising God because they got
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Speaker 1: new Porsches and Mercedes and Cadillacs. You think they're praising
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Speaker 1: God because they just eloped and got married. You think
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Speaker 1: they're praising God because all their kids are making straight A's.
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Speaker 1: ain't wrong. They're praising God anyway. Through the storm, through
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Speaker 1: the rain, through the struggle, through the test, through injustice,
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Speaker 1: through pain, through malfunctions, through aggravation, they're anyway saying they're
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Speaker 1: going to pray God anyway. See, when it all boils down,
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Speaker 1: every fight you're in is really a faith fight. You
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Speaker 1: think it's a financial fight, but it's not a financial fight.
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Speaker 1: It's a faith fight. You think it's a fight with
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Speaker 1: the car dealer. It's not about the car. It's a
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Speaker 1: faith fight. You think it's a fight for a position
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Speaker 1: on your job. It's not about the position on your job.
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Speaker 1: It's a faith fight. Ultimately, you don't even have to
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Speaker 1: open your mouth to fight this fight. You just got
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Speaker 1: to grit your teeth, calm your resolve, stand on the
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Speaker 1: promise and say, devil come hell or high water. I
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Speaker 1: know that God said he's going to blow I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just me that had to go through something
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Speaker 1: to get here. But if anybody else is in a
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Speaker 1: faith fight, touch somebody and tell them I'm in a
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Speaker 1: fight right now. I'm in a fight right now. I'm
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Speaker 1: in a fight right now. I'm shouting in a fight.
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Speaker 1: I got dressed in a fight. I drove my car
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Speaker 1: in a fight. I was shaving in a fight. I
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Speaker 1: came in the world fighting. I'll fight till I leave.
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Speaker 1: I need some radical person in this room. Is there
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Speaker 1: anybody radical in this room? Talk to somebody and tell
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Speaker 1: them I'm coming out of this. It may not look
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Speaker 1: like I'm coming out. It may not sound like I'm
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Speaker 1: coming out. My situation may not reflect that I'm coming out,
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Speaker 1: but I'm coming out of this. Oh, you got to
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Speaker 1: preach to yourself. You can't wait on those TDJs. You
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Speaker 1: got to preach yourself out. creature all of that sounds
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Speaker 1: good sit down sit down sit down why y'all jump
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Speaker 1: up like that see i would act dignified if y'all
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Speaker 1: would act dignified but you all are the ones that
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Speaker 1: keep messing me up You know, I'm trying to act intelligent.
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Speaker 1: We got all these important people here tonight. The rabbi
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Speaker 1: over here, Dr. Jesse Jackson is here. I'm supposed to
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Speaker 1: act like I got some shit. I'm trying not to
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Speaker 1: run up and down the aisle, but when I think.
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Speaker 3: Oh!
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Speaker 1: You know you're not supposed to run in no crowd
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Speaker 1: like this.
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Speaker 3: You're about to mess me up tonight.
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Speaker 1: See, some folks have faith as long as things are
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Speaker 1: looking okay. But things were not looking okay for Eve,
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Speaker 1: the woman of faith who was looking for the seed
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Speaker 1: to come through her. She said, well, I think it's
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Speaker 1: going to be Cain. He was acting like he was crazy.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever thought God was going to bless you
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Speaker 1: from this place and it shut down on you? And
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Speaker 1: you had to turn your faith over here and say, well,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's coming from over here. and it shut down
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Speaker 1: on you you said maybe it's coming from over here
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Speaker 1: and it shut down oh I need to talk to
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Speaker 1: somebody that's had some doors slammed in your face some
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Speaker 1: folks that's been fired and rejected and the loan was
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Speaker 1: denied and the grant wasn't approved and the board resigned
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Speaker 1: right in the middle of the building project I need
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Speaker 1: to talk to somebody who had everything shut down been
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Speaker 1: there and done that Now she has lost two sons.
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Speaker 1: One of them is dead. And the other one is
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Speaker 1: a murderer on the run. The whole family is shocked.
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Speaker 1: Depression has set in. Bereavement has taken over. Disappointment is overwhelming.
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Speaker 1: frustration is imminent. Stress is overtaking her. Fatigue is wearing
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Speaker 1: her down. It's hard when things get really low to
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Speaker 1: act like it didn't bother you. I don't know whether
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Speaker 1: you ever had anything that bothered you so bad that
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Speaker 1: you couldn't smile over top of it. I can grin
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Speaker 1: over hell and high water, but after you shoot me
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Speaker 1: enough times, even I have to break down and.
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Speaker 3: Say, oh!
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the kind of pain that disrupts intimacy.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it hard to be intimate when you're hurting? Hard
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Speaker 1: to be affectionate when you're hurting. Hard to be relational
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Speaker 1: when you're disappointed. When you've been hurt bad enough, you
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Speaker 1: don't even feel like smiling anymore. I'm talking about the
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Speaker 1: kind of pain where you don't even comb your head.
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Speaker 1: You just come out just hair all just. You don't
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Speaker 1: say hello. You open the door and say, what do
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Speaker 1: you want? Oh, somebody in here has got to know
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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Where all protocol goes out the
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Speaker 1: window and you don't care what anybody thinks. She was disappointed.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I've had life mock me,
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Speaker 1: belittle me and make fun of me and says, where
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Speaker 1: is your God now? Thought you had a promise. I
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Speaker 1: thought you was going to be blessed. I thought God
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Speaker 1: was about to open the door. Look at you. Where
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Speaker 1: is your God? Have you ever had to search for God?
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Speaker 1: People think you're not speaking and you're rude. You're not rude.
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Speaker 1: You're busy. You're trying to find. Job said, I looked
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Speaker 1: for him on the right. He was not there. I
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Speaker 1: looked for him on the left. Though he worketh on
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Speaker 1: the left side, I perceived him not. Have you ever
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Speaker 1: had trouble finding God in your trouble? The Bible says
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Speaker 1: that the pain of childbirth was designed to be so
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Speaker 1: severe that God says with great travail shall you bring
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Speaker 1: forth children. Bringing forth anything hurts. I got to stop
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Speaker 1: there and get happy myself. Bringing forth anything hurts. a building,
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Speaker 1: a church, a ministry, a business, bringing forth anything valuable
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Speaker 1: is painful. So painful that sometimes you wonder, was it
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Speaker 1: worth it? But then right after it says, with great
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Speaker 1: travail shall you bring forth children, then it says, but
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Speaker 1: her desire... shall be to her husband. See, God puts
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Speaker 1: this thing down inside of you called desire to neutralize
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Speaker 1: the pain so that when pain has reached its optimum
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Speaker 1: capacity and the human will is frayed and the mind
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Speaker 1: is shattered and something inside of the human says, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to go through this anymore. If you give
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Speaker 1: them a little time, passion will return. I never will
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Speaker 1: forget the first time I was with my wife and
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Speaker 1: she was in delivery and I was having a good time.
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Speaker 1: I was getting sermons while she was in labor. I
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Speaker 1: was getting, oh, bless God, look at this. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: could preach about that. I was holding her hand. I
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Speaker 1: was doing the nice stuff. I was even telling her,
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Speaker 1: I was watching the machine to tell her when the
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Speaker 1: next pain was coming. I'm saying, get ready, it's another
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Speaker 1: one coming. And the machine go, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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Speaker 1: And when it started, I said, get ready, another one's coming.
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Speaker 1: And at first, she kind of went along with it.
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Speaker 1: But after a while, the pain got so great, she said,
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 2: Another one's coming.
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Speaker 1: I don't need a machine to tell me that another
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Speaker 1: one's coming. I'm the one to take you there. And
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Speaker 1: I thought, oh, excuse me. And when the pain got
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Speaker 1: real bad, I started to say, I started to walk
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Speaker 1: over to her and say, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And
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Speaker 1: I almost would have said, it won't happen. But given
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Speaker 1: a little time. giving a little time passion somebody was
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Speaker 1: doing something for God but you got in trouble and
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Speaker 1: you got hurt and you said I'm never going through
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Speaker 1: that again but giving a little time passion Abel was dead.
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Speaker 1: Cain was on the run. Eve said this, having babies
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Speaker 1: and stuff, I'm sick of this. But given a little time,
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Speaker 1: passion returned. I don't know who this is for, but
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Speaker 1: when you came here, you were burned out You were
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Speaker 1: just sick of it. Just tired and empty. Tired of
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Speaker 1: encouraging other people. Wish I had somebody to encourage me.
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Speaker 1: Tired of time. I deal with this. Here comes something else.
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Speaker 1: As soon as you straighten out this, here comes that
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Speaker 1: over there. And you said, I'm just not opening myself up.
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Speaker 1: I'm not making myself available. I'm not volunteering anymore. You
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Speaker 1: don't even answer the phone when it rings. But since
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Speaker 1: you've been here at MegaFest... Parson, if that's you touch
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Speaker 1: somebody and say, I feel something coming back. You got
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Speaker 1: here on Wednesday, you're just kind of skipping. But have
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Speaker 1: you noticed that every day you praise God this week,
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Speaker 1: the praise has gotten stronger and stronger and stronger and
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Speaker 1: stronger and stronger? It's really not that the service is
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Speaker 1: getting better. It's not that we're preaching better. It's that
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Speaker 1: you're getting closer to a restoration of everything that the
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Speaker 1: enemy took out of you. The Lord brought you here
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Speaker 1: to revive you. I need a thousand radical folks to
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Speaker 1: break into a spontaneous praise right now. Thank you. See,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you can't get this kind of breakthrough at home
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Speaker 1: because everybody's standing up looking at you, reminding you of
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Speaker 1: what you've been through and reminding you of what you lost.
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Speaker 1: They don't understand why you can praise him going through
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Speaker 1: everything that you've been through. They don't understand that you're
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Speaker 1: not praising God over what you lost. You're praising God
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Speaker 1: over what you're about to get back. Walk over to
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Speaker 1: somebody and tell them you should see what God's about
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Speaker 1: to do in my life. This isn't my first time
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Speaker 1: around the block. I've been through this, that, and the other,
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Speaker 1: but having gone through all of that, look what the
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Speaker 1: Lord is about to do. I'll tell you the power.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to start nothing, but I wish somebody
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Speaker 1: would praise God for the invisible. for the impossible, for
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Speaker 1: the supernatural, for the miraculous, for the spontaneous. Whoever I'm
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Speaker 1: preaching to, the enemy thought he had you. He came
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Speaker 1: to kill, steal, and destroy. But the Lord sent me
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Speaker 1: here to tell you, he's about to give it back
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Speaker 1: to you. Touch seven people and say again! Again! Again! Again! Again! Again! Again! Again! Again! Again! Yes,
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Speaker 1: he'll do it again. He'll do it again. He's gonna
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Speaker 1: do it again. The devil don't like it.
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Speaker 4: But the Lord said.
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Speaker 1: I'm God. I'll bless you over and over and over. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Shall we? Shall we?
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Speaker 4: Shall we?
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Speaker 1: Lift your voice and praise him. Yes, I feel a breakthrough,
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Speaker 1: a breakthrough, a deliverance, a supernatural, Holy Ghost revival. God said,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do it again. New jobs, new doors,
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Speaker 1: new friends, again. Give God a 60-second spree. I dare you.
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Speaker 1: I dare you. I dare you to get intimate. I
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Speaker 1: dare you to get personal. I dare you to open
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Speaker 1: up and allow God to do it again. I'm dead.
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Speaker 1: I'm dead. I'm dead. Restore me. I'm dead. Refound me.
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Speaker 1: I'm dead.
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Speaker 3: Use me.
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Speaker 4: I'm dead.
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Speaker 2: Bless me.
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Speaker 4: He said.
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Speaker 3: I will.
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Speaker 1: Restore unto you The years. Somebody shout years. That the
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Speaker 1: canker worm, the palmer worm, and the locusts devoured. God said,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give it back to you again. The
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Speaker 1: thing you've been crying about, depressed about, thought you messed
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Speaker 1: it up and you'd never get it back again. Restoration. Restoration.
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Speaker 1: Comes through relationship. Restoration. comes through relationship. So the Bible says,
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Speaker 1: and Adam knew his wife Eve again. Relationship. And again,
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Speaker 1: she bear a son. Restoration. I don't know whether you
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Speaker 1: can handle this or not, but some of you are
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Speaker 1: going home pregnant. With new dreams and new visions and
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Speaker 1: new ideas and new concepts, new businesses, new family plans,
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Speaker 1: new ambitions, new goals, new directions. She says, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to call his name Seth. For God hath appointed me
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Speaker 1: another son in the stead of the one whom Cain slew.
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Speaker 1: And I was instructed of the Lord to preach to
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Speaker 1: those of you that are in here and those of
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Speaker 1: you that are watching by television that you have an
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Speaker 1: appointment with God for mighty restoration to break out in
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Speaker 1: your life and though the enemy tried to destroy you
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Speaker 1: you are still here because God meant for you to
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Speaker 1: keep this appointment with destiny this is more than a
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Speaker 1: good service and a big meeting this is going to
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Speaker 1: be a turning point In your life. All over the building,
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Speaker 1: all over television, all in the prisons, all in the churches,
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Speaker 1: all around the world. I want you to lift up
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Speaker 1: your hands and open your mouth and let praises fill
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Speaker 1: this room as we get in relationship with God. Come on,
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Speaker 1: come on. Yes, you. Yes, you. Yes, you. Come on,
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Speaker 1: get in relationship. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.