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T.D. Jakes Sermons Favor Ain't Fair Part 1 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in the room who knows what it
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  Speaker 1: is to just stumble up on some blessings that almost
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  Speaker 1: look like they were waiting on you? See, you're living
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  Speaker 1: in the second chapter of Ruth. You know you're in
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  Speaker 1: the second chapter of Ruth when all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: you're just walking along minding your own business and boom,
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  Speaker 1: here comes a blessing. And you're walking over, boom, here
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  Speaker 1: comes another blessing. Boom, here comes another blessing. You see,
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  Speaker 1: they had already pulled the wheat. She didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: to pull it. It was just laying on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: All she had to do was pick up what was
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  Speaker 1: being laid on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things....
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  Speaker 1: That God can bring into your life. That you didn't
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  Speaker 1: even work for it. He said, I'll give you houses
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  Speaker 1: you didn't build. I'll give you vineyards you didn't grow.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just let you stumble into things. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, all you got to do is have enough
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  Speaker 1: faith to receive what I've released in your life.
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  Speaker 2: I could tailor the.
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  Speaker 1: Continuity of my thought process into a linguistical form that
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  Speaker 1: would cost me To be heralded for my massive ability
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  Speaker 1: to articulate the concept of God.
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  Speaker 2: But I choose to go beyond all of that.
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  Speaker 1: And just tell you like my grandmama would tell you.
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  Speaker 1: The reason that people have an attitude. When that begins
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  Speaker 1: to happen in your life. Is that God has given
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  Speaker 1: you favor.
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  Speaker 3: Favor.
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  Speaker 1: Favor. Favor now is preferential treatment. It is preferential treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Favor is distinctive treatment whereby you have reached an elite
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  Speaker 1: status that you don't even deserve. And the reason they're
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  Speaker 1: upset is that favor ain't fair.
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  Speaker 2: Favor isn't. ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: If you're taking notes, be sure you get that. Favor
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  Speaker 1: ain't fair. God may be just, but he's not fair.
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  Speaker 1: When God gets ready to bless you, he doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: bless you because you deserve to be blessed, but God
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  Speaker 1: has a way of just choosing to bless you and saying,
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  Speaker 1: that lady right there, I'm going to leave that house
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  Speaker 1: for her. Can't nobody buy the house but her. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: else that tries to buy it, everything's going to be
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  Speaker 1: tied up.
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  Speaker 2: That's her house.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's Greetings in the name of Christ our King, our
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  Speaker 1: risen Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am excited. I'm fired up. I'm motivated.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the process of getting ready for what is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the most explosive meeting that we have
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  Speaker 1: ever done. Megafest is the meeting everybody's talking about. They're
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  Speaker 1: coming to Dallas on trains to be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: of this great meeting and I'm excited about all the
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  Speaker 1: response I'm hearing from you. And today, today, today, we
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  Speaker 1: get to share a message that has become for me
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  Speaker 1: in many ways the alma mater through which we walk
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  Speaker 1: and live and move. The message is called Favor Ain't Fair.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we've entitled the whole series like that. If
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  Speaker 1: you know anything about walking in the favor of God,
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  Speaker 1: You understand that God's favor and God's grace over your
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  Speaker 1: life has nothing to do with your background, your past,
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  Speaker 1: where you came from, or what your haters have to
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  Speaker 1: say about it. If God be for you, he's more
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  Speaker 1: than the world against you. Sit back, get you a
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee, check this out. Favor, maybe it ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: We believe that nothing just happens. That God, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: orchestrates our lives. Puts us at the right place at
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  Speaker 1: the right time around the right people to receive what
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  Speaker 1: we need.
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  Speaker 2: To go to the next level of life.
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  Speaker 1: That is important because sometimes life seems chaotic and painful
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  Speaker 1: and uncertain. And it helps me to know that God
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  Speaker 1: has some master plan, that there is some method to
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  Speaker 1: the madness, that ultimately there's going to be some purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Even out of painful situations, there will be purpose. And
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  Speaker 1: so we've been taking a good look at Ruth and
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  Speaker 1: how God ordered her steps and how she is a
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  Speaker 1: Moabite woman, in case you're not familiar with her. She is,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, a Moabitess, a Moabite woman coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the land of Moab, an idolatrous and perverse nationality of
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  Speaker 1: people who did not recognize God as God. But because
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  Speaker 1: Bethlehem and Israel in particular were going through a famine,
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  Speaker 1: Naomi took her two sons and her husband and they
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  Speaker 1: went down into Moab and met these two girls. And
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  Speaker 1: we talked about Ruth and Orpah. who married Naomi's two sons.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got to understand these characters because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't understand these characters, you won't understand the metaphor of
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  Speaker 1: what it means to you. The two sons that these
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  Speaker 1: two girls married died and Naomi's husband died. And we
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  Speaker 1: talked about how these three women who were engulfed in
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  Speaker 1: the grief and the sadistic pain of losing their companions
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  Speaker 1: engulfed each other in tears and wept. Orpah goes back
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  Speaker 1: to Moab because she can't. And she's released to go.
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  Speaker 1: Naomi says she's going to Bethlehem where she came from.
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  Speaker 1: She's wilted and withered. Ruth standing in between Naomi, who
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  Speaker 1: represents where she wants to go, and Opa, who represents
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  Speaker 1: where she came from. turns toward Naomi and says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going with you. Thy God shall be my God. Thy
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  Speaker 1: people shall be my people. Where thou lodgest, I shall lodge.
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  Speaker 1: Where thou diest, I shall die. But the cost of
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  Speaker 1: her decision is quite painful because now she is in Bethlehem,
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  Speaker 1: a Moabite woman, a minority woman, A woman who is
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  Speaker 1: considered a second class citizen, not a legitimate citizen of Bethlehem.
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  Speaker 1: She is impoverished and she's widowed. She has an economic
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  Speaker 1: issue as well as a spiritual issue. But she is
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  Speaker 1: willing to go through the adversity because she has been
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  Speaker 1: so impressed with Naomi and her God that she wants
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  Speaker 1: to be widowed. where Naomi is experiencing Naomi's God, walking
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  Speaker 1: into the abundance that Naomi has decreed possible. And so
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  Speaker 1: she is in Bethlehem. Bethlehem is translated to mean the
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  Speaker 1: house of bread. And yet she's starving for bread. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: it funny how you can be in the right place
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  Speaker 1: and still have a great need? Isn't it funny how
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  Speaker 1: you can be in the place where blessings are flowing
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  Speaker 1: and because of your situation, you are unable to enter
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  Speaker 1: into the blessing that other people have? But she knew
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  Speaker 1: she was in the right place and that is imperative
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  Speaker 1: for you to be able to do what God has
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  Speaker 1: called you to do. Theologically, Naomi represents the nation of
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  Speaker 1: Israel who through the death of her husband typifies the
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  Speaker 1: separation that Israel experienced from the wholesome worship of Jehovah
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  Speaker 1: their God. Her two sons and the death of her
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  Speaker 1: two sons, the birthing of her two sons, represent Israel
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  Speaker 1: dividing into two kingdoms. The death of her two sons
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  Speaker 1: represents the end of the era where Israel has divided
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  Speaker 1: into two kingdoms.
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  Speaker 2: And the ending of.
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  Speaker 1: That era is signified by Ruth making up her mind
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  Speaker 1: to follow Naomi back home. Now, Ruth following Naomi back
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  Speaker 1: home is a type of the church. whose umbilical cord
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  Speaker 1: to God comes through the rich soil of Judaism. We
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  Speaker 1: have a Judeo-Christian society. There is a cord between Judaism
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  Speaker 1: and Christianity. What we call the Old Testament teaches us
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  Speaker 1: the identity and the personality of our God.
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  Speaker 2: And so Ruth goes back with Naomi.
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  Speaker 1: Representing the church now coming into a covenant relationship with
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  Speaker 1: God through her association with this older woman named Naomi
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  Speaker 1: who incidentally happens to be her mother-in-law. Now when we
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  Speaker 1: look at Ruth then we see that she is a
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  Speaker 1: metaphor for the church. Her life, her struggles, her acquisition
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  Speaker 1: of land become the picture or a template as it
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  Speaker 1: were for the church.
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  Speaker 2: Now I've got you totally confused. Good. You'll be all right.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth now is coming into Bethlehem. She's gleaning over in
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  Speaker 1: the corners of the field. There's a famine.
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  Speaker 2: The woman is hungry. She's gleaning. Gleaning is to gather wheat.
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  Speaker 1: She's gathering whatever wheat she can, wherever she can, over
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  Speaker 1: in the corners of the field. She hopped up on
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  Speaker 1: Boaz's field. Boaz is rich. He's loaded. He has influence
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  Speaker 1: and affluence. And he sees her gleaning in the corner
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  Speaker 1: of the field. Now you ought to be ready to
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  Speaker 1: catch hold to me and go forward. Boaz is talking
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  Speaker 1: to some women who are gleaning. And he looks over
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  Speaker 1: there and says, who is that over in the field?
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  Speaker 1: And they said, that's Ruth, the Moabitess. And he says,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I want you to do. I want you,
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  Speaker 1: she's going to be coming this way. And when she
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  Speaker 1: follows this direction. I want you to leave some handfuls.
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  Speaker 2: Of what you have harvested. Just drop them on the
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  Speaker 2: ground for her to find. Now watch this.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes Ruth from the background to the forefront, from
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  Speaker 1: obscurity to the notoriety. Isn't it nice to be in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction? You haven't gotten there yet, but you
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  Speaker 1: know that you're moving in the right direction. If you
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  Speaker 1: as a church as a Christian begin to move in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction there's a certain little signs that are
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  Speaker 1: indicative of the fact that you are in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Little signs such as this. When I look back over
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  Speaker 1: my shoulder and see where I came from I might
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  Speaker 1: not look successful to you but when I realize that
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  Speaker 1: I came out of a famine and I'm glad that
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  Speaker 1: I'm just here so And so she survived it. And
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  Speaker 1: then she went from being survival into a place of
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  Speaker 1: being sustained. And now she's coming into a place that
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  Speaker 1: she notices increase.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody say increase. All of a sudden she's gathering up
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  Speaker 2: and she.
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  Speaker 1: Said, look at this extra wheat. Look at this extra.
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  Speaker 1: We're just laying on the ground. What Ruth doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: is that Boaz has had a conversation about her that
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  Speaker 1: she didn't even hear. He has commanded the release of blessings.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody say release. He has commanded the release of blessings.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't even hear the conversation. But she is a
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  Speaker 1: recipient of something. that he has said about her that
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  Speaker 1: caused her to start receiving things that had been released
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  Speaker 1: for her that she doesn't even.
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  Speaker 2: Know how it happened.
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  Speaker 1: There are a few people in this room who have
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  Speaker 1: just in an attempt to follow God have noticed increase.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't hear the conversation. We don't know what was
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  Speaker 1: said in heaven. We don't know how the blessing started,
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  Speaker 1: but we just noticed that as we attempted to walk
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  Speaker 1: with God, that there were some things that just worked
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  Speaker 1: out that had never worked out before as if somebody
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  Speaker 1: had just left some things around for us and we
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  Speaker 1: started coming into things that didn't make it. Is there
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  Speaker 1: anybody in the room who knows what it is to
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  Speaker 1: just stumble up on some blessings that almost looked like
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  Speaker 1: they were waiting on you. See, you're living in the
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  Speaker 1: second chapter of Ruth. You know you're in the second
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  Speaker 1: chapter of Ruth when all of a sudden you're just
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  Speaker 1: walking along minding your own business and boom, here comes
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. And you're walking over, boom, here comes another blessing. Boom,
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  Speaker 1: here comes another blessing. You see, they had already pulled
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  Speaker 1: the wheat. She didn't even have to pull it. It
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  Speaker 1: was just laying on the ground. All she had to
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  Speaker 1: do was pick up what was being laid on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things....
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  Speaker 1: That God can bring into your life that you didn't
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  Speaker 1: even work for it. He said, I'll give you houses
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  Speaker 1: you didn't build. I'll give you vineyards you didn't grow.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just let you stumble into things. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, all you got to do is have enough
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  Speaker 1: faith to receive what I've released in your life. Still
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  Speaker 1: to come on The Potter's Touch. And of course, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be upset. Of course, they're going to roll
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  Speaker 1: their eyes when you walk in the room. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have an attitude. Of course, they don't
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  Speaker 1: like you. Of course, they resent you. They're frustrated because
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  Speaker 1: God preferred you, gave you preferential treatment. And the next
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  Speaker 1: time you run up on somebody who's looking at you
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  Speaker 1: all funny and God.
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  Speaker 2: Is blessing himself. Yeah, I know what it is. It's okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and have all the attitude you need to.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is favor. And favor ain't fair. It's not fair,
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  Speaker 1: is it? Put it on the back of your car
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  Speaker 1: and say, it ain't fair, is it? Put it on
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  Speaker 1: your house, right on the mailbox.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't fair. When you get that new job, put
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  Speaker 2: it right there on your computer. It ain't fair. It
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  Speaker 2: ain't fair. It ain't favor. It ain't fair.
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  Speaker 3: When God blesses you, What arose in America as the
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  Speaker 3: biggest event of its kind is back.
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  Speaker 2: And now the stage is set. You have never seen
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  Speaker 2: a meeting like this.
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  Speaker 3: Together again at Megafest 2013.
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  Speaker 2: We're taking over Dallas. You're going to catch abundance. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to catch God's blessing. Encouraging women.
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  Speaker 1: Peacemaker is somebody who declares war on anything that disturbs
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  Speaker 1: their peace. That is a principle that will cause a
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  Speaker 1: shift in your situation.
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  Speaker 2: If he can deliver me, he can deliver you. Equipping men.
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  Speaker 3: We have peace.
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  Speaker 1: More fear in running out than we do faith in
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  Speaker 1: running over this is going to be big elevated to
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  Speaker 1: walk in that destination.
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  Speaker 2: We do it big in texas.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'll give you houses you didn't build. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you vineyards you didn't grow. I'll just let you
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  Speaker 1: stumble into things. And all of a sudden, all you
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  Speaker 1: got to do is have enough faith to receive what
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  Speaker 1: I've released in your life. Now, the people who are
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  Speaker 1: responsive to that are people who have experienced that. There
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  Speaker 1: are people who are living in the book of Ruth
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  Speaker 1: right now. They're just seeing some things. All the work
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  Speaker 1: was taken out of it. It was just there. It
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  Speaker 1: was just available to you. And you started receiving the
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  Speaker 1: blessings of the Lord. When it happens like that, you
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  Speaker 1: have to understand, because some of you are not used
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  Speaker 1: to the way that we worship. And you have to understand,
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  Speaker 1: when you see people who explode into clamorous, bodacious praise,
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  Speaker 1: and you sit back and you conclude, oh, isn't that interesting? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at those people. Oh, they're so animated and so emotional,
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  Speaker 1: you know. That's nice.
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  Speaker 2: It is not that we're emotional.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that it's very difficult to be in a
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  Speaker 1: burning building and find a fire escape and remain aloof.
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  Speaker 1: It's very difficult to be at the end of your
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  Speaker 1: rope and something just drops on your plate out of
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  Speaker 1: nowhere just.
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  Speaker 2: In the nick of time. And if God hadn't have.
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  Speaker 1: Done what he did when he did it, you would
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  Speaker 1: have never been able to survive what you went through.
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  Speaker 1: Just when your enemy thought he had you, boom, God
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  Speaker 1: just trots a blessing up. It will make you have
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  Speaker 1: to praise him. It will make you have to thank him.
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  Speaker 1: It will make you have to rejoice. It will make you,
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  Speaker 1: even if you have to do it in your house
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  Speaker 1: and lock the door and pull the blind and throw
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  Speaker 1: your hands up and say, Lord, I thank you for what.
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  Speaker 2: You did for me. God has a way of making
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  Speaker 2: you excited.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to say something to you because you
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  Speaker 1: have to understand this. All these women are out here
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  Speaker 1: working in the hot sun, harvesting wheat. And Ruth, because
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  Speaker 1: she responds to the beckoning of Boaz, comes along without
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  Speaker 1: half the work, receives just as much harvest.
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  Speaker 2: As if she had pulled it, plucked it, cleaned it,
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  Speaker 2: and prepared it.
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  Speaker 1: It was just laying there waiting on her. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to some people. Is there anybody in
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  Speaker 1: here who's had some blessings just fall on you? You
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  Speaker 1: came on the right Sunday. This sermon is for you.
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  Speaker 1: You need to understand because when this starts to happen,
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  Speaker 1: people react strangely to you. They react strangely to you
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  Speaker 1: because I can say it eloquently and articulately. I can
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  Speaker 1: say it prolifically and profoundly. But I choose to avoid
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  Speaker 1: that and just to break right down into Ebonics. I
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  Speaker 1: could tailor the continuity of my thought process into a
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  Speaker 1: linguistical form that would cause me to be heralded for
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  Speaker 1: my massive ability to articulate the concept of God.
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  Speaker 2: But I choose to go beyond all of that.
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  Speaker 1: And just tell you like my grandmama would tell you.
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  Speaker 1: The reason that people have an attitude when that begins
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  Speaker 1: to happen in your life is that God has given
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  Speaker 1: you favor. I know. Favor, favor now is preferential treatment.
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  Speaker 1: It is preferential treatment. Favor is distinctive treatment whereby you
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  Speaker 1: have reached an elite status that you don't even deserve.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason they're upset is that favor ain't fair.
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  Speaker 2: Favor ain't fair. If you're taking notes, be sure you
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  Speaker 2: get that. Favor ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: God may be just, but he's not fair. When God
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  Speaker 1: gets ready to bless you, he doesn't just bless you
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  Speaker 1: because you deserve to be blessed, but God has a
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  Speaker 1: way of just choosing to bless you and saying, That
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  Speaker 1: lady right there, I'm going to leave that.
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  Speaker 2: House for her.
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  Speaker 1: Can't nobody buy the house but her. Everybody else that
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  Speaker 1: tries to buy it, everything's going to be tied up.
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  Speaker 2: That's her house. Nobody's going to get it but her. Favor!
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  Speaker 1: And of course they're going to be upset. Of course
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  Speaker 1: they're going to roll their eyes when you walk in
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  Speaker 1: the room. Of course they're going to have an attitude.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they don't like you. Of course they resent you.
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  Speaker 1: They're frustrated because God preferred you, gave you preferential treatment.
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  Speaker 1: And the next time you run up on somebody who's
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  Speaker 1: looking at you all funny and God is blessing you,
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  Speaker 1: you just want to say, uh-huh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what it is. It's okay. It's okay.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and have all the attitude you need to.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is favor. And favor ain't fair. It's not fair,
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  Speaker 1: is it?
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  Speaker 2: Put it on the back of your car and say,
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  Speaker 2: it ain't fair, is it? Put it on your house,
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  Speaker 2: right on the mailbox. It ain't fair. When you get
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  Speaker 2: that new job, put it right there on your computer.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't fair. It ain't fair. It ain't, favor ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: When God blesses you, You do understand that many of
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  Speaker 1: the things you got aren't even fair. You're not even
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  Speaker 1: qualified to have the position, but you got it. You're
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  Speaker 1: living in a house and it don't even work out
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  Speaker 1: on paper how you got the house. Favor Ain't fair.
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  Speaker 2: Ruth just started being blessed. It wasn't even fair.
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  Speaker 1: Just, the Bible said that, please sit down. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: said that Boaz had spoken to the reapers and said,
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  Speaker 1: just leave our handfuls on purpose. Handfuls provision on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: There is an umbilical cord between provisions and purpose. God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't give you provisions just for your own personal gain.
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  Speaker 1: God gives you provisions for purpose. Everything you've got, your talent,
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  Speaker 1: your singing, your speaking, your ability, your charisma, your articulation,
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  Speaker 1: your IQ, your financial dexterity, it makes no difference what
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  Speaker 1: it is. God gave you those favors. For his divine purpose.
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  Speaker 1: So the statement reads in the Bible, drop some handfuls
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  Speaker 1: on purpose. If you know your purpose, God said I'll
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  Speaker 1: leave stuff just laying around for you. If you know
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  Speaker 1: it's not for you, I'll just leave some handfuls.
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  Speaker 2: On your purpose. If you know your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't allow people to manipulate you and control
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  Speaker 1: you and have them move you into their agenda. If
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  Speaker 1: you know who you are and stand your ground and
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  Speaker 1: stay on your purpose, your provision is in your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: When you find your purpose, you'll find your provision.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, do you hear? Your provision is in your purpose.
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  Speaker 2: When you find your purpose, you'll find your provision. And
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  Speaker 2: he dropped it.
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  Speaker 1: And so what happens to you is you get to
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  Speaker 1: this stage where God just starts leaving you blessings.
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  Speaker 2: And the first reaction you have, you want to tell people. Child,
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  Speaker 2: you will not believe.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever called somebody and you said, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: What you doing? What's going on? You didn't really want
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  Speaker 1: them to answer. You want them to hurry up so
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  Speaker 1: you could tell them You would not believe what just
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  Speaker 1: happened to me. I was just, I'm telling you, I
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  Speaker 1: just stopped by the grocery store, didn't even know. I
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  Speaker 1: was over there by the chicken wings. I was getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to pick me up some chicken wings because I
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  Speaker 1: had to rush back home. ran into the president of Texaco.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting some chicken wings. If I hadn't have gone
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  Speaker 1: to get the chicken wings, I never would have met him.
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  Speaker 1: Found out there's a position right over there. Now that
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  Speaker 1: they're phasing out my job, had they not phased out
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  Speaker 1: my job, had I not gone to get the chicken wings,
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  Speaker 1: or had not he gone to get the chicken wings,
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  Speaker 1: we never would have had this conversation. And without having
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  Speaker 1: to go through all the red tape and all the technology,
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  Speaker 1: you would never believe how God just.
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  Speaker 2: God just....
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  Speaker 1: Give me a second, I'll be back. After this, there
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  Speaker 1: is an umbilical cord between provisions and purpose. God doesn't
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  Speaker 1: give you provisions just for your own personal gain.
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  Speaker 3: God has taken special care of you every step along
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  Speaker 3: the way. Ever wonder why? Because favor ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you've got, your talent, your charisma, God gave you
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  Speaker 1: those favors.
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  Speaker 2: For his divine purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be blessed and everybody just sit back and
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  Speaker 1: fold their arms.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't going to happen. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot. I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: But in spite of the chatter, if God has blessed you.
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  Speaker 3: of the Lord. Isn't it time you walked in it?
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  Speaker 2: It's coming.
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  Speaker 2: People are asking me, what is Megafest all about? Is
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  Speaker 2: it a conference? Yes, it's a conference. But my God,
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  Speaker 2: it's so much more. And it's festivity. It's fun. It's restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: It's shopping. It's People of God, relaxing. We've been through
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  Speaker 2: the fire. We've been through the flood. We made it.
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  Speaker 2: It's time to celebrate.
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  Speaker 3: Bigger, better, grander than before. Three event-packed days for the
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  Speaker 1: The woman, our Lucy, you already know.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to put your family first. in a
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  Speaker 1: a Christian.
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  Speaker 2: We're throwing a party in Texas. You know what? We
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  Speaker 1: Every time I reached after something that didn't work out,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out why. But I waited patiently on
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and in due time, He began to make
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  Speaker 1: me see that He wasn't hurting me. He was blessing me.
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  Speaker 1: He was blessing me by saying no. And my direction
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: came through my rejection. If I had not had rejection,
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  Speaker 1: I would have never gotten clear direction. It was the
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  Speaker 1: doors he shut that showed me the doors he opened.
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  Speaker 1: So the trick to it is, It's not to wait
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  Speaker 1: on the Lord. The truth is not to wait because
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  Speaker 1: you really have no choice.
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  Speaker 2: You have to wait. You have to wait. You can't
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  Speaker 2: get there until you get there. You got to wait.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth to it is while you're waiting to
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  Speaker 1: renew your strength, to mount up on wings, to run
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  Speaker 1: and not be weary.
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  Speaker 2: If you can deal with the no's in life.
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  Speaker 1: And the rejection and still remain positive and centered and
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  Speaker 1: focused You're a person of faith. If you can go
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  Speaker 1: through adversity and know that God has a master plan,
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  Speaker 1: you're a person of discipline. I've got to stop there,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: but it's been a real joy and a real blessing
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  Speaker 1: to share the word of the Lord with you. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to encourage you to just embrace the idea
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  Speaker 1: of walking in God's favor.
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  Speaker 2: Breathe it in. Pray in it. Walk in it. Think
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 1: Expect in it. Favor is yours for the taking. And
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  Speaker 1: God is distributing out to his children favor. That just
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  Speaker 1: boggles the mind. I thank God for you. I'm praying
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  Speaker 1: for you. I hope to see you at Megafest. And
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  Speaker 1: know that our hearts are toward God. And toward you.