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How to Manifest God’s Blessings in Your Life · The Curt Landry Podcast

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Hey, everyone, you're listening to the Curt Landry podcast, where we're going to help
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you discover your kingdom destiny.
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My name is Darrell and sitting right beside me is Rabbi Curt Landry.
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And in this episode, we're going to discuss how to manifest blessings in your life.
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But before we jump into this topic and more, Rabbi, did you do anything interesting over
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the weekend or did you just kind of enjoy yourself?
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Yeah, this weekend, probably the most interesting thing we did was really have a time to be
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able to, Christy and I, to be able to review.
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I know it's taken a while, but to review our trip to Israel and kind of download and
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talk about what were the takeaways spiritually for she and I, not looking at the humanitarian
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aid side, not looking at the trauma of the terror, not looking at the needs and, you
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know, like our staff there, but just she and I, you know, as a couple and as a family,
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what did we learn?
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What should we learn?
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What do we need to change and adjust?
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Because anytime you have a defining moment in your life, you need to take time to kind
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of mine out the nuggets and you need to do it before the, so to say, before the information
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gets old.
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So anyway, that's what we did.
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We just mined out the nuggets of what the Lord's trying to do with us.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I guess on another note, you know, I mean, 2024 has really started pretty much on fire
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with getting like a lot of different requests to do some speaking engagements and, you know,
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I mean, very typical to have a good random rotation of requests.
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When I got here like two years ago, it was pretty out of control.
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Like you just had so many and they were so random.
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And so I think we've done a good job at trying to not condense, but get it more organized
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into a workflow for you.
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But is it still fun doing all these requests and, you know, all these speaking engagements?
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Yeah, listen, I, what I do is I really pray for seriously, I really pray over everyone.
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And sometimes I know there might be people listening and saying, well, we asked them
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to come, he didn't speak.
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I don't, boy, you're asking a real loaded question here.
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I don't-
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Is it fun?
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Is it fun?
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Fun.
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It's always fun when it's really the Lord sending you out, even in difficult speaking
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places.
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Okay.
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I mean, the Lord may like send you into like some of the places we went into in Nicaragua,
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dangerous, difficult, difficult accommodations.
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You can't drink the water, the food, all the stuff.
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But they, yeah, they, I don't know if fun's the right word, but they're very fulfilling.
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But with us, what we do is if we, if we feel led that what we're carrying the people need,
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it's fun.
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You can't just take the speaking engagement because you're trying to fill a calendar.
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I guess that's what I'm trying to say, Darrell.
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Yeah, yeah.
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No, completely out of left field.
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You had no idea I was going to ask that.
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And you know, I think that's what's cool about a platform and like a show like this is that
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it's very sometimes out of left field.
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And that's when you get the best responses, the most organic responses.
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I feel like that the Holy Spirit works through you a little bit different when you get these
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random questions from me or, you know, questions from the listeners.
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And anyways, I guess, I guess it's a good segue to say, hey, if you've got questions
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All right.
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So in this episode, Rabbi, we're really discussing the topic of manifesting blessings or I guess
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the question how to manifest blessing.
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So I guess when you get that question or over your lifespan of preaching and just spreading
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the word, how do you really respond to that when someone's saying, hey, I'm trying to
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figure this out.
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I'm trying to activate that.
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Where do you start?
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Let's try to really take baby steps into this.
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Okay.
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Blessings flow.
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Okay, they flow.
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So let's imagine a river, okay?
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Rivers flow and they go to the lowest spot, they follow that low spot, which is symbolic
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of humility and they flow.
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A lot of the ways the Lord refers to us as trees.
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And when we're in right alignment with the flow, He says, you shall be a tree planted
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by the river of living water, meaning that your destiny for blessings comes from your
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root system, not from your branches.
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So it's what's underneath you, not what's above that everybody sees.
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So it's character, it's integrity, it's values that the roots underneath is what's really
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important.
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And so there's really two types of blessings and if you want, I can kind of unpack those
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because to understand how blessings flow in that river, then it will help people to…I'm
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one of the ones that I have spent the majority of my life trying to flow with God and His
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blessings and not have to go chase it.
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I'm not a chaser.
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And so I think people need to understand how blessings work and how do you attract them
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or receive them into your life to where there's actually deliverables in your life.
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Yeah, yeah.
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One thing before we jump really into that and you break it down and let the listeners
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So Rabbi, break down the different variations of blessings for us.
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Okay, so let's go with the first one.
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The first one is blessing of obedience, where if you do this, I call it, for me, I call
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it cause and effect.
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So if you do this, then God does that.
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And so, and you people say, well, is that biblical or theologically correct?
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And it is.
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If you go to Deuteronomy 28, it says, Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey
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my voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully His commandments, which I have commanded
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you today, that the Lord God will set you high above all the nations.
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And then it goes through 16 verses of, I'll bless you in the city, I'll bless you in the
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country, I'll bless, bless, bless.
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But then if you go into Deuteronomy 28, you get to the verse, actually it was 14 verses,
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you get to the 15th verse and it talks about cursing of disobedience.
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So there's quite, that's a blessing of, if you do this, then I'll do that.
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So that's a blessing of obedience.
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But the second type of blessing, and I don't think people realize is what I call is a
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commanded blessing.
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So what your commanded blessing would be like Psalm 133, where the scripture says how good
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and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
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Then it goes on, it talks about the unity of down the head and the beard and the garment
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of Aaron, but it ends with, and I will command a commanded blessing.
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Meaning if you stay in unity, I command a blessing.
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And one of the ones that we have done for at House of David for 22 years, just I'll
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read this to you, Psalm 122.
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And it's one of the reasons that every time we come together on Shabbat at House of David,
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we've prayed this.
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It says, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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May they prosper who love you.
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Peace be within their walls, prosperity within their palaces.
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For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say peace be within you.
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Because of the house of the Lord God, I will seek your good.
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So the Lord is not a request.
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He's commanding you to speak and pray peace over Jerusalem.
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And then you get prosperity comes to you.
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So that's a commanded blessing, a commanded prayer and a commanded blessing.
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So this is kind of new in Western culture.
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Passover, if you go to Exodus 15, there's actually nine commanded blessings for putting
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your feet under the Lord's table.
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Nine blessings.
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And so that's one of the reasons we do that every year.
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So there's blessings of obedience and there's blessings of commanded blessings.
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And you can go into Malachi 3, if you bring tithes and offerings, there's commanded blessings
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of open heaven, health, rebuke the devour, and favor with the nations.
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So blessings aren't luck.
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Blessings aren't even favor.
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Blessings are something that flows when you do things God's way.
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I guess what if someone is dealing with a sin, right?
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I mean, it can be whatever.
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I think the one that's probably used the most for men would be like pornography or something,
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right?
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Or it could be, you know, gluttony, which is a big problem in this country where people
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just overeat, right?
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And like that can become a thing too.
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But let's say somebody's been working really hard, right?
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They've even downloaded Goals to Grow this year and they're trying to work through this
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stuff and they're trying to figure it out.
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But like Dan Goumet, you know, they just keep sinning, you know?
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Like what it says in Scripture, we love to sin.
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And we do.
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And so where is the different type of blessings you just walk through?
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Let's put it into a listener's perspective and be super relational and practical, is
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that if someone's dealing with a sin that's just reoccurring, man, and like they're just
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struggling with this and they do good for a month or two and then they come back to
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it, right?
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And they just beat themselves up about it.
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But it's that thought because I mean, you know, I've gone through sins to where like
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I could see the blessings in the season or like, you know, I didn't do that one sin and
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I felt like I defeated it, right?
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And then as soon as you mess up, the thought comes to you and super overwhelming that is,
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man, you know, I just lost all that favor.
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I just lost the blessing, you know?
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Like am I going to be able, like I just wish I could go back 15 seconds ago and not do
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that.
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What would your advice be for someone that's in that sin to blessing area to where like
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it's really hard to like forgive themselves or figure out how to pivot over that moment?
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You know, Paul says it in Romans, he talks about there's nothing good in man.
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So what happens is you have to get to a place where you get into, now this is how I manage
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it in my own life.
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And I've been blessed because I wasn't raised religious and I'm not legalistic.
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And so I'm just going to share the whole purpose of this podcast is personal.
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And then I'm going to tell a funny story.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So first of all, you need to have a repentive lifestyle.
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You're not going to, you can overcome sins, sexual sins, whatever it may be.
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And even if you're overcoming them, when you fail, you need to be able to be quick to repent
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and not just apologize to God, but with godly sorrow and then ask the Lord to strengthen
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you so the next time that the temptation comes that he'll empower you to do it.
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But understand that once you start, and I'm going to use the sexual sin because I got
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a really great story for it.
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Once you come to the terms with it, you need to know once you overcome it at one level,
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he's going to come back and hit you at another level and he's going to hit you at a higher
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level because he's going to try to get you back into that bondage.
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Okay.
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But you also need to understand, so I'm going to share with you, when I was in business,
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in the fruit business, one of my business partners, now listen, we really strive to
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be holy.
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We prayed five days a week every morning for an hour and a half before we went on the phones
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to sell fruit.
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Okay.
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We sowed 35% of the income of our fruit business to Israel.
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So this isn't like a normal business.
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I mean, we're godly men.
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We're all married.
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We have children.
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And we're in our late 30s and 40s and we're making a lot of money.
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And so when you're in that atmosphere in your late 30s, the thing about having finance is
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it gives you the freedom to do things that people that don't have finance, they don't
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have to battle the temptations of what they're doing with us.
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We have enough resources.
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We can go and do whatever we want.
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And so at a young age, and so what happens is you have to learn how to manage your character
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and your values along with the finances because the finances, you know, it can be an answer,
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but it can also bring you down if you don't know how to do it.
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So I'm going to give you a funny story about this.
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So we go to a, we go, we used to go to marketing produce shows.
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And so, so we were at this one and it was Fleming Foods.
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So big food distributor.
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So there's everything there from produce to fish to meat to everything.
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And one of the, one of the greatest things is we had our fruit booth and it was next
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to one of my favorite cooking show hosts and it's Justin Williams, William.
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So I don't, a lot of people may not know who that is, but he was the Cajun chef from New
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Orleans and he was the one that used to say, ah, gone, gee, you know, that guy, you know,
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and he was a comedian.
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He was a comedian and he's really good.
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But the thing is, is that he drinks through the whole show, the whole show he's drinking
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and he could tell us why he, I'm just on Wilson and I'm, you know, and he, and so anyway,
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so he had the Justin Wilson booth set up next to us and right.
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And of course he's drinking in the, in the booth, you know, he's, you know, happy and,
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and all this stuff.
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And I got to talk to him and, and spend, you know, there are three days.
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So anyway, one morning we're there and my business partners are there.
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There's three of us and two other guys that are in, in the grocery business like us.
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Now you have to understand the grocery business is pretty corrupt.
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Okay.
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That's all I want to say about that.
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It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a worldly corrupt.
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A lot of stuff goes on.
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Okay.
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So to have the Christian guys, we're like the, we're, we're ostracized by all the other
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guys who are at the convention that are partying and running around and getting friendly with
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people that they have to pay for.
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So I'll just say it that way.
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Okay.
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So, so that's tracking.
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That's the atmosphere.
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Right.
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And then you got the Jesus freaks.
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It's us.
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So the five Jesus freaks are in our booth and we're sitting there and one of my business
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partners dealing with this issue.
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And he says, you know what?
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He says, I really have had victory all this time.
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I'm feeling great.
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I'm overcoming the spiritual lusts in the women and I'm good.
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And I haven't had a temptation and I'm, and the Lord's really, and he's really kind of
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just telling us and encouraging like, Hey, I'm doing great with this thing like this.
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So meanwhile, I'm in my back to the booth.
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He's got his back to the traffic area.
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Right.
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And he's talking about it.
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And I look and off in the distance, here comes the Budweiser girl.
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Okay.
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Oh, the Lord has a sense of humor.
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Okay.
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This is a true story too.
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So here comes the Budweiser girl and basically she's wearing a spandex beer can that is shaped
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to her body.
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Yeah.
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Is this like the eighties, nineties?
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What's the reference?
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This would be the nineties.
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Nineties.
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Okay.
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This is the nineties.
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Okay.
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So, and, and she has a lot of artificial intelligence into her body.
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Okay.
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So we'll call it that way.
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Okay.
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So, so, so, so her figure that she's wearing, she's had a lot of hamburger helper.
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Okay.
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This isn't like a norm.
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No one has a normal body like this.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So she's in the spandex.
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I'm not trying to drag you guys all down and go, man, look, he's on the podcast.
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He's making me sin.
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No, I'm not.
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I'm making my point, but she's, I see her off in the distance and here she's coming.
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And of course there's Justin Wilson in the next booth.
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And of course he's like, you know, he's, you know, Caesar coming, he wants to visit.
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And so here she's coming up from behind us and here's my partner talking about how he's
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just had this great victory.
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And, and so, and I'm telling him, I said, listen, it's great to rejoice in this, but
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it's not your perfection.
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It's your ability to, and I'm the youngest Christian there.
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I'm saying it's your ability to repent because what happens is, you know, once you think
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you've overcome something, a temptation will come and it's like Paul said, I do the things
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I don't want to do.
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I said, so you can't take your identity and go down into the ditch because you sin.
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You just have to repent and sincerely repent to the Lord because temptations will come.
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So I'm telling them this.
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This is the convert.
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You can't make this stuff up.
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I'm telling them this.
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And meanwhile, around the corner going to Justin Wilson, who's very loud, Justin says,
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oh, my dear or whatever like that, and here's my business partner.
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He turns around after I just gave this thing and there's the Budweiser girl standing there.
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And he goes, and he was a funny guy, a great sense of humor.
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He turned around and he went with his face and he said, well, my victory's over.
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My victory's over.
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I fell back to sin again.
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And that's kind of what I'm sharing.
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That's real life.
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That's how things go.
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So you see what I'm saying?
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The point is you have to resist the sin, draw an eye onto God.
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But when you fall, don't condemn yourself.
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There's no condemnation.
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But you do have to repent.
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And you need people you can talk to about it.
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The word says confess your faults one to another.
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And so you need to be careful who you repent to because they don't use it against you.
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But my point is, is yes, you sin and you're going to sin, your identity of who you are
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in Christ is who you are being covered in the blood of Jesus with the full armor of
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God.
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I don't know if that helps or not.
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Yeah, no, a great story.
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It brings this thought to mind of how intense and just like the question and different stuff
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that we started off this episode that kind of took you out of left field, right?
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It's so intense and so random of how the enemy attacks and tries to block blessings.
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I mean, he's sitting there in the story, right?
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So you're telling it.
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I'm trying to play a movie in my head and try to draw what's happening.
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That's just the type of learner I am.
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And he's sitting there just doing his thing.
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And yeah, he's bragging.
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But he's feeling good about himself.
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And then the enemy just like that out of nowhere gets him.
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And it's such a humbling experience.
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And Paul, in that scripture that you're reading, I mean, that's the scripture for men.
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I feel like that they go to because of that.
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Just walking around nowadays in 2024.
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It's harder and harder to be a godly man to get away from that lust because it's just
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everywhere.
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And so is it just not wild though?
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Other than that topic, any other sin that when you're at the edge of feeling, hey, I'm
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on this, not that you put yourself on that pedestal, but you're feeling good.
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You are kind of giving yourself a pat on the back and he just comes in and gets you.
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Okay.
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Well, listen, you know this.
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I did a spiritual warfare prayer, urgent prayer against Leviathan and against Python the other
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night where we had the sound issue thing.
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My mic was, who knows what that is.
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But anyway, and what I explained is when the enemy attacks, there's two times the enemy
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attacks, okay, he attacks you right after you have a victory.
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I mean, you have a breakthrough and a victory and that Python spirit is going to come like
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a constrictor and try to steal the joy.
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I mean, think about it.
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How many times have you had this where you've had something that was great that happens
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to you?
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I mean, it's the greatest thing.
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And you go to one of your family members and you say, oh man, this is the greatest thing.
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I mean, you're on top of the world.
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You had this victory, you're telling the story and then they respond negatively against what
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you've said.
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And it's like all of a sudden, all the gas goes out of the tank.
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You're on the side of the road going, man, and why did I share that with them?
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I mean, everyone's had that experience.
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Well, in the spirit, the same thing happens.
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What happens is what I said the other night was when you have victory, you're vulnerable.
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You see, the thing is when the scripture says that when the thief comes to steal, if you
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knew he was going to steal, so what you have to do is prepare your mind after you have
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a victory to stay humble and know I'm going to shut down the attack for the attack comes.
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Another time it comes is when you're being promoted.
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So the biggest attack, I can tell you this in this season, 2024.
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Those who are willing to fill out their goals to grow, add their dream goals to it, feed
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their spirit, man.
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And I used to tell people this back during that time when like when we were in business,
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I used to say, listen, all of us go into a room with two birds.
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You got a crow on one shoulder and a dove on the other.
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Feed the dove, starve the crow.
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And so what happens is when promotion comes, anytime there's a promotion, and that's
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where we are right now, you're at the beginning of this year and God is wanting to promote
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people who will be obedient to do what he asked them to do.
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That's why I have the goals to grow.
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Those people are being attacked.
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And one of the things that happens in the attack is old past iniquitous structures.
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So whatever it is that you got delivered from or got set free from, all of a sudden, wham,
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wham, crazy thoughts and these things start to come back.
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And it could be, you know, being critical, judgmental, it can be poverty, or like, you
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know, it can be sexual, it can be all over the place.
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It doesn't make any difference.
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But anytime there's a promotion, the enemy always tries to dig up trash on you and bring
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it into your head to try to make you feel unworthy for the promotion.
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What's the first level practical step that someone can do after a sin or a series of
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sins trying to correct that?
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What's that base level thing that they can do to create, manifest blessings from the
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sin?
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Godly sorrow with repentance.
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And I've got my Bible here, I'm going to try to find it.
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But anyway, what David used to pray, you know, and David had the same challenges we just
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talked about.
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And he said, Lord, I don't have to go find it because I pray it every day.
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Father God in Yeshua's name, search me and know me for I desire truth in my inward parts.
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Lord, wherever this root of this sin is coming from, I repent.
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And I ask Lord that in Jesus name, I choose to uproot.
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I uproot this inequitous structure and it says right here, you have set our iniquities
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before you, our secret sins in the light of your continent.
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So Lord, that's Psalm 90 verse eight.
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So Lord, I'm bringing my sin and my weakness into the light.
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I repent of it.
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And Lord, I ask you by your strength to set me free from the snare of the Fowler in Jesus
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name.
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So that's what I do.
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And that's what works.
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keep perspective on that we feel like we...
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I mean, it's a fact, we all sin, right?
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And we can all get stuck in that.
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That being repentive quickly, I think is maybe one of the big takeaways that I've taken from
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this episode with you.
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Just being able to, when it happens, recognize it quickly and have a game plan.
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And so what would your advice game plan, other than what you've just shared a few seconds
32:14
ago, what's something even simpler, right?
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Maybe is there a passage or something that like something happens, you sin, hey, I recognize
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it very quickly.
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Where can I go and jump to my Bible to just meditate in and to pray and to try to break
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what the enemy has just put on me?
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Well, one of the things you might want to do is fast and pray.
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Usually generational curses and things that have deep roots, generational curses are in
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equidist structures that you inherit through your DNA and your family, spiritual and physical
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DNA.
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So when you have those fasting, the scripture says some of those only come out with prayer
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and fasting.
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The other thing that I recommend, and a lot of it has to do with the anointing that's
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here at House of David, is water immersion or water baptism.
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So I'm going to read this scripture.
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I think this is probably, so for me, I don't miss an immersion service at House of David,
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and one of the reasons I don't, let's listen to this scripture in 2nd Colossians chapter
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2 verse 11.
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It says, and in him you are the circumcision with the circumcision made without hands by
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the putting off of the body of sin.
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So that's the key.
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What we're talking about is when we're battling sin, we want to put it off so it doesn't torment
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us.
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Say, putting off the body of sin of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, buried with
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him in baptism and water immersion, in which you also were raised with him through the
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faith of the working of God who raised him from the dead, and you being dead in trespasses.
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That's the thing is the continual sin keeps killing the blessing.
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That's what you're asking me, like, how do we maintain blessing?
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You know, you can get the blessing of the fish, but if you take it home, put it in the
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wrong tank, the fish is going to die.
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So it goes on to say that, and you being dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your
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flesh having been made alive together with him, having been forgiven, so that's the key,
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being forgiven of your trespasses.
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Verse 14, having wiped out the handwriting or the requirements that are against us, which
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is contrary to us, and he has taken out of the way, having nailed it to the cross, having,
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here's the key, water baptism, having disarmed the principalities and the power, and he says
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he made a public spectacle of them triumphing over them in that.
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That's the reason we have an immersion pool at House of David, is because it's not double
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baptism or, you baptize once into salvation, but the power of water immersion, what it
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does is it buries iniquitous structures.
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So to answer your question simply is, I would have a lifestyle of fasting and I would have
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a lifestyle of immersion to keep you, I know that's me, I've been in the immersion, well,
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I don't know how many times, but we've had literally tens of thousands of people here.
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But the reason that that's part of the lifestyle is there has to be a understanding that there's
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some times where you have to be transparent, the scripture says, confess your faults one
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to another.
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It's also important to confess your faults to God.
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Even though God sees them, I say, Lord, I failed, I've sinned, and Lord, I bring my sin before
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you, and Lord, I ask you to bury it in this water, I ask you to cut it off in this fasting,
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I ask you to remove it from me as I repent and my repentance.
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One of the things, there's two keys to revival.
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People always want revival.
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Pastors come to me and say, revival.
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I want revival in my church.
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Okay?
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If you want revival in your church, align your church with the Word of God, teach your people
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to repent, and immerse them into the revival.
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That's the steps.
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So, but the key is, most people in the West particularly take repentance as shame and
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guilt.
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Paul said there is no condemnation.
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Everybody sins.
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Everybody sins except Jesus.
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So what happens is we have to have a lifestyle of repentance.
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So fasting, water immersion, those are two things that highlight where a person, me,
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what I do is I say, Lord, I'm fasting, I confess, I can't battle this evil on my own.
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I need your help.
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I'm fasting, trusting you.
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The other one, water immersion.
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I'm going to be obedient to go into the water.
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I don't care what anybody else sees.
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It's a public immersion, but I need your help.
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I'm a sinner, and I need to bury this stuff.
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You nailed it to the cross.
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I need you to disarm the principalities and powers in this public spectacle in this water
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so I can triumph over them.
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That's why I do it.
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That's, I'm giving you the formula in which I live by.
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Do I sin again?
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Yes.
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But I can tell you one thing about me.
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I am a holy man in the sense that I try to stay away from the things that trigger my
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sin.
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I just stay away from it.
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And so one of the things in the Goals to Grow By, you know, one of the questions is, let
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me read it to you because it's so important.
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What says, what do I need to shift my mind away from so that I'm seeking His kingdom
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first?
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So I have a personal list.
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It's not written down here.
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I stay away from certain things that I know that trigger me into a sin.
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So I'm going to use an example like anger.
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I'll be personal about this one.
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I have tried, listen, I was raised in a house with sports.
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I mean my house, TV tray, sports, why were those sports?
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Football, baseball, we're in Los Angeles, went to the Rams, Angels, Dodgers, all that.
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Okay.
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We are, my family are sports fanatics.
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That's how I was raised.
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But what happened is I got upset with it when in the NFL, when they started changing this,
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just me, I don't care what people think.
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Listen, sports is an escape.
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It's entertainment.
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Okay.
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That's what it's for.
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And you need that in your life.
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But when they started doing the kneeling thing, you got to realize I'm a patriot.
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You know, I'm as Yankee doodle as they get.
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When they started doing the kneeling thing, I said, that's it for me.
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I'm not, I'm not.
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So why should I care if they kneel?
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But I had to quit watching the football because the kneeling was bringing a spirit of anger
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to which I got delivered from.
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And I didn't want to have to go back into it.
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So I just quit watching it.
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And I hated it because I used to like Sunday.
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All right, we'll, you know, fix some hot dogs.
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That was my thing.
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Hot dogs and beans, some Fritos.
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And man, we're going to watch the game.
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Okay.
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And we'd have friends come over.
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I quit doing it.
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I just said, listen, I can't do it because of that.
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So now we got past the kneeling.
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I start watching the NFL again.
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This is recent this year.
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And I just started watching again.
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And for me personally, because I'm a person of justice.
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Okay.
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Justice is a big thing.
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All this stuff with these referees, with these bad calls affecting the games.
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That's it.
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I'm not watching anymore.
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What?
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It makes me mad.
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It makes me mad.
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Okay.
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These calls.
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I mean, when Christie and I met, we worked at Harris casino.
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I know how this stuff works.
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Okay.
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So, I mean, I come out of the casino.
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I was in a casino for three years.
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I understand gambling and the stuff.
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I mean, at a deep level.
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So I'm just saying that I had to quit watching it because once I saw the call, a couple of
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these calls, and I'm thinking, just let them play, you know?
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And when games were being determined, key games because of bad calls, it made me mad
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again.
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So I'm just giving you an example.
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I'm not watching because of that.
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So I don't watch enough football anymore.
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I'm done with it.
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But that's because of me.
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Some people wouldn't get mad over it, but it really frustrates me.
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So listen, I'm want, what's my purpose of watching football?
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Entertainment, relaxation.
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When those things happen, it wasn't entertained.
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So I'm just using that.
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You can go through many, many different things.
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I don't have patience with things with long lines.
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Okay?
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So what happens is when I travel, I have to have TSA, right?
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I just like I do the TSA so I can go through the line pretty quick.
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It's a planned thing.
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There's other stuff I do when I travel because I know that it frustrates me.
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So what happens is, what am I telling you?
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I'm telling you make adjustments in your life to keep you away from the areas that trigger
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you to sin.
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Does that make sense or am I like just a cranky old man?
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No, no.
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Now, like the refs thing, I get it because I get the origin of this leads to that.
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I heard a person put it one way that when you sin, that you can't ever really break
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it.
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I mean, good chances are that you'll probably do that sin again if it's like a lower, mid,
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it's not like you did something you couldn't take back.
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But he put it this way that you have to be able to find something to replace the sin.
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Absolutely.
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Right?
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And so I guess my question is, so if it's not NFL football on Sunday for you because
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it just gets you upset, what did you replace with that time because you did enjoy getting
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hot dogs and doing that stuff with the family, what did you replace in order to get past
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that?
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Good movies.
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So like Sunday are just good movie days?
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Yeah.
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Most of the time in the winter, not in the summer.
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In the summer, obviously, in the summer we're in the pool, but no, it just, yeah, replaced
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it with movies.
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Yeah.
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Is that a pretty good practice to think of it like a smoker would chew gum instead to
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find something that's going to pivot, replace the-
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Absolutely.
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And the guy that doesn't like to stand in line gets the TSA or buys the different ways
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to enter in.
43:31
There's ways you could upgrade the way you travel.
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And so I just do that.
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And it's because, listen, like when we flew to Israel this last time, I literally got
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off the plane, had my first meeting with the CEO of the foreign ministry.
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I was off the plane five minutes and I'm meeting.
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That's my first meeting.
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So I can't be like going into the meeting all haggard and-
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I get it.
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It was-
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It's an important meeting.
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I mean, I've had 15 minutes with one of the most important people in Israel.
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He's third in command of all of Israel and I'm meeting with him and it's like, I need
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to be at the top of my game.
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And he's the one we partnered with, with the Kenya outreach and all that.
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And listen, he's a super nice guy and he loves Christie and I, and I love him and I don't
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want him getting the leftovers.
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So what I did is I made arrangements so that when I got off the plane that I didn't have
44:25
to go through the customs and the line and the stuff.
44:29
We just went in, I went into a VIP lounge, let somebody else take my passport, get my
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bags so that I could meet with this guy.
44:37
So what happened in that is literally the relationship between Kenya, this minister,
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us, Curt Landry Ministries, fulfilling what Netanyahu asked me to do.
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All that got done and it wouldn't have got done if I would have just gone the other way.
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You see what I'm saying?
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So it's like, you just have to, I don't know, there's always what, the way you said, I like
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that a replacement.
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So my replacement was, is I had a VIP pickup, met with him at actually the meeting actually
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went half an hour.
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But the point is that was the only time I could meet with him.
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That was the, and what got done is the ambassador in Kenya that we work with actually represents
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five countries in Africa battling antisemitism.
45:28
So I mean, how important is like this, this is like serious stuff, but I can tell you
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if I wouldn't have learned how to maintain, because I know my weakness.
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The other thing is I just came off what, an 18 hour flight, you know?
45:41
So I had to go into the bathroom and I had to shave.
45:44
I had to change shirts, you know, wet my hair, do the whole thing.
45:47
I have to be fresh for this guy.
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It's like, I just, and that's what we did.
45:50
Chris did the same thing.
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Listen, we're used to this.
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We've done this.
45:54
When we hit, we hit the ground running.
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But the point is, is that I can't do it with anger and be standing in a giant line.
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You see what I'm saying?
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It's like, I know that I'm just using it as an example that I'm not patient in those
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lines.
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So I'd stay away from them.
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Oh, well, Rabbi, this episode's been good.
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Hopefully people have been able to get some different perspective, you know, from the
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topic of how to manifest blessings, but also deal with sin.
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I wasn't really intentionally pushing the conversation that way, but I really feel like
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there's going to be a lot of value that people listen to that because it's so practical.
46:38
It's so relational.
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And everyone deals with it.
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I think it's just part of understanding, you know, the different types of blessings and
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what everybody goes through in order to be in that favor.
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So we did a podcast the other day and I talked about like golden seeds, like there's a hundred
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golden seeds.
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So and I use the anger.
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It doesn't make any difference, whatever it is.
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Listen, everybody sins.
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What I do in my mind is I kind of like visualize the hundred seeds, knowing that if I'm going
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to lust, anger or whatever, taking offense, not repent, go into unforgiveness, that basically
47:14
if I just kind of visualize this way, Satan's hand comes and goes, all right, I'm taking
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25 seeds from Kurt.
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Oh, there he goes again.
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There's 50.
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Listen, I need a hundred and more seeds to do.
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So what happens is I make a choice and I literally say in my own head, you know what, I can't
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afford this.
47:32
And you know, like one of the things like we always joke about, it's not so much a
47:35
big deal anymore.
47:36
We've gotten over it, but I used to get really angry at the airport.
47:41
Like when they would, when they start messing around with it, you know, they canceled the
47:44
flight.
47:45
They do this.
47:46
They do what, whatever, you know, like, like they close the door, the plane's still there.
47:52
You know, you're flying business class and they won't let you get on the plane and you're
47:56
going, wait a minute.
47:57
Yeah.
47:58
Well, no, we've shut the door and, and, and, and they're still there.
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They can open the door.
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You go in, turn left and oh no, all that crazy.
48:05
No, you're going to have to wait till you know, whatever.
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And so I'll give you an example.
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My spirit, which I call the spirit of murder, because literally, listen, I was raised in
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Los Angeles in the fifties and the sixties.
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And I came from a angry, violent community.
48:29
Okay.
48:30
And so I had to be delivered from all that.
48:33
But I really don't like people disrespecting, dishonoring, like over, like the power because
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the person's at the counter and it's like, I am going to exercise my power over you.
48:45
And I have no compassion to try of what's going to happen on the other side that when
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you miss this flight.
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Okay.
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So the way I dealt with this was I don't travel alone.
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Always travel with Christie.
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Christie is the most merciful, long suffering, peaceful.
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Very nice.
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I go and sit down over there.
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Lord, I repent because I want to kill them.
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I repent.
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I close my eyes, Lord, I'm praying for her.
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She can do it.
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Lord, please forgive me.
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Don't let my sin of wanting to kill the entire Delta airlines, you know, right now.
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I mean, I'm just like, Lord, I know me.
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I know how I am.
49:25
I know where I come from.
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So I repent.
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But what I do is I let her intercede.
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She goes up and almost every time they get with her, it's like, oh, yes, Mrs. Landry.
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Oh, come on.
49:34
And then she's over here like going, come on, baby.
49:36
And I'm like, all right, here we go.
49:37
But if it was me, it was like, it's not going to happen.
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And so not so much anymore.
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Actually, she'll tell you, she says, I actually do good right now.
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I'm kind of past it.
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I guess I got old enough.
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I'm doesn't bother me as much.
49:48
But my point is you have to make plans to say, I can't afford to get angry, particularly
49:56
now for me at an airport.
49:58
When I'm in an airport, I'm a public enough figure that people see me and I can't be acting
50:03
stupid.
50:04
So Christi goes up, that's our plan.
50:07
She takes care of it.
50:09
And so that I don't commit the sin of anger, so to say, and all the hundred seeds of blessing,
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Satan doesn't come and say, oh, Kurt blew it again at the counter.
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Here's 50 seeds gone for you.
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Christi go up and then the Lord says, oh, she's so good at it.
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Let's add 150 seeds.
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But that's pretty much my advice with find out what Christi and I do.
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I know my strengths.
50:30
She knows her strengths.
50:31
My weaknesses.
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We're very real.
50:34
And like she says, we make one good Christian together.
50:38
My weaknesses, I do what she and literally we're at a space right now.
50:45
We can't travel separate.
50:47
We have to be together.
50:48
Well, first of all, we want to be together.
50:50
We're a team.
50:52
But the thing is, is that we know she knows that I take care of like there's details I
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handle that don't bother me like with parking the car, getting the thing over at fine parking.
51:02
I mean, we travel enough.
51:03
Everybody knows us in the airport.
51:05
So everything we do, everything we get, everything.
51:07
And they're so happy and they're very kind to us.
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I'm not talking about Tulsa Airport.
51:11
But when you're okay, when you're outside of that, like let's say you're, you know,
51:17
in I won't mention names.
51:19
But anyway, there's other countries that aren't so great when you come up.
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But that's why I just as soon as as soon as I start seeing it going sideways, I literally
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just step back two or three steps, turn my face, don't make eye contact.
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And then she goes, well, sweetheart, this is what we need to do.
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And they do it.
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It's like she's like, it's like she's an angel.
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She goes up and then I sit back and I say, Lord, thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Lord.
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I had the thought, but I didn't engage it with my mouth.
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I don't know if that helps anybody.
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No, I think that's great.
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Yeah, I mean, like everybody needs to to to figure that out.
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And it's great if you have someone, if you're married, that you can lean on someone like
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that.
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And if you're not, that's that's that's also very different.
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But you can take a lot of the things that we've talked about in this episode to try
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to help create those barriers and those pivot moments and have a game plan and have a strategy
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on how to handle this type of thing and how to manifest blessings.
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And don't lose them.
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And don't lose them.
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That's the key is you don't want to lose your blessing.
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And if you can mentally take anything from this podcast is imagine the Lord giving you
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something and then you sin and it's taken away.
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So like when you choose, like you're going to go in to do something to think, you know
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what, I I've worked so hard to get this blessing, I'm not going to let the enemy steal it.
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If you can get that mental thing is like what I say in my head, I say I can't afford this.
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And I listen, I take I have fun with myself.
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I say, you know what?
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You're so good at getting angry.
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You're good at you perfected it.
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Listen, you're like third generation angry.
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My dad got angry.
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Good.
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My god, you know, and you know, my biological because I got reconnected.
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It's like, listen, we are good at it.
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We are good at being frustrated, angry and saying stupid stuff to people when we're angry.
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We're good.
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I would and actually feels good for about five seconds when you're actually doing it.
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You're like, man, I get to let I get to let the steam out of the teapot.
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You know, but all it does if you close with this, if you think of a teapot, what is it
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does when it boils, it whistles.
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And as soon as that whistle goes off, the enemy hears the whistle like a dog and he
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comes and steals your blessing.
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So guess what?
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Repent, go to your stove, turn off the heat and let the teapot settle.
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Don't let it whistle because once it whistles, the enemies come in with all he's got to steal
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your blessings.
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It's so good.
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