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T.D. Jakes Sermons Favor Ain't Fair Part 2 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I appreciate any help you give me, anything you do
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  Speaker 1: to reinforce me. I thank you for giving me a
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  Speaker 1: ride to church, but I'm a grown man and I
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  Speaker 1: want my own car. You got to get to the
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  Speaker 1: point that you don't want somebody else's stuff and you're
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  Speaker 1: ready to go to the next level. You are not
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  Speaker 1: want somebody else's husband. You're not want somebody else's wife.
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  Speaker 1: Give me my stuff. This is the Potter's Touch. I've
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  Speaker 1: been busy running to and fro, getting ready for Megafest. Busy, busy, busy, running, running, running.
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  Speaker 1: But I had to stop and share this word with you.
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  Speaker 1: Our series is called Favor Ain't Fair. And you're walking
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  Speaker 1: in divine favor. I know you are. I hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: I get your letters and I see you on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: and I see you on Facebook. And I know that
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  Speaker 1: God is doing some things in your life that are
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  Speaker 1: totally unexplainable. That's why the haters hate you like they
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  Speaker 1: do because you're walking. In supernatural favor. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: explain it for you in just a minute. Because favor.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't fair. God gives you provisions for purpose. Everything
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  Speaker 1: you've got. Your talent. Your singing. Your speaking. Your ability.
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  Speaker 1: Your charisma. Your articulation. Your IQ. Your financial dexterity. It
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  Speaker 1: makes no difference what it is. God gave you those favors.
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  Speaker 1: For his divine purpose. So the statement reads in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: drop some handfuls on purpose. If you know your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: God said, I'll leave stuff just laying around for you.
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  Speaker 1: If you know it's not for you, I'll just leave
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  Speaker 1: some handfuls. 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. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: do you hear? Your provision is in your purpose. When
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  Speaker 1: you find your purpose, you'll find your provision. And he
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  Speaker 1: dropped it. And so what happens to you is you
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  Speaker 1: get to this stage where God just starts leaving you blessings.
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  Speaker 1: And the first reaction you have, you want to tell people. Child,
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  Speaker 1: you will not believe. Have you ever called somebody and
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  Speaker 1: you said, how you doing? What you doing? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: You didn't really want them to answer. You want them
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  Speaker 1: to hurry up so you could tell them You would
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  Speaker 1: not believe what just happened to me. I was just,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I just stopped by the grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't even know I was over there by the chicken wings.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting ready to pick me up some chicken
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  Speaker 1: wings because I had to rush back home. ran into
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  Speaker 1: the president of Texaco. They're getting some chicken wings. If
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't have gone to get the chicken wings, I
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  Speaker 1: never would have met him. Found out there's a position
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  Speaker 1: right over there. Now that they're phasing out my job,
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  Speaker 1: had they not phased out my job, had I not
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  Speaker 1: gone to get the chicken wings, had not he gone
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  Speaker 1: to get the chicken wings, we never would have had
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  Speaker 1: this conversation. And without having to go through all the
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  Speaker 1: red tape and all the technology, you would never believe
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  Speaker 1: how God just... God just... You find yourself in this situation...
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  Speaker 1: Where it's difficult to find anybody who understands the level
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  Speaker 1: of favor that God, and it is a level, it
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  Speaker 1: is a level. See, all of these steps, all of
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  Speaker 1: these steps are the same size, but they're on different levels. See,
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  Speaker 1: there's different levels of blessings. The pauper who was homeless
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  Speaker 1: found a shelter. And he says, my God is the provider.
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  Speaker 1: The guy standing beside him just bought a $ 2. 5 million home.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, my God is the provider. And both
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  Speaker 1: of them are thankful and both of them are right.
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  Speaker 1: And both of them receive provisions, but it's just different levels.
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  Speaker 1: There are different levels of joy, different levels of peace,
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  Speaker 1: different levels of victory, different levels of anointing. Everybody has
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  Speaker 1: an anointing, but it's not on the same level. Every
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  Speaker 1: minister has a ministry, but it's not on the same level.
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  Speaker 1: Every teacher can teach, but it's... And so periodically God
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  Speaker 1: wants to take you from faith to faith, from glory
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  Speaker 1: to glory. He wants to take you to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where the church gets stuck because we
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  Speaker 1: get stuck on one level of blessings as if God
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  Speaker 1: were finished. Now I'm in the tough part of this sermon.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me. This is the tough part. Because once you've
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  Speaker 1: had some handfuls dropped on purpose, you get hooked on
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  Speaker 1: the handfuls. And if you're not careful, you'll become satisfied
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  Speaker 1: and complacent to remain on that level of living when
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  Speaker 1: all the while God has some more. And inevitably... People
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  Speaker 1: get frustrated in life because what they do is they
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  Speaker 1: fool around and get stuck on the steps and fail
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  Speaker 1: to move into the next level of blessings. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to give an illustration, a biblical illustration, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you an application, and then I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to holler, and I'm going to get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: The biblical illustration is Israel in the wilderness. God does
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  Speaker 1: everything for them. They say, we're thirsty. He makes water
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  Speaker 1: come out of the rock. We're hot. He becomes a
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  Speaker 1: cloud above them by day. At night, they say, we're
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  Speaker 1: in the desert. It's cold. He becomes a pillar of
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  Speaker 1: fire by night. They say, we want some bread. He
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  Speaker 1: becomes manna falling from heaven. They say, we're sick of bread.
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  Speaker 1: We want some meat. He sends some quail. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: give them pheasant under glass. Everything comes easy like the
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  Speaker 1: handfuls on purpose. It is in essence welfare. Let me
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  Speaker 1: show you why welfare doesn't work. Welfare is meant to
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  Speaker 1: be a temporary blessing for a particular predicament so that
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  Speaker 1: you can get the fortitude to rise to the next step.
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  Speaker 1: And if you stay on that level too long, it
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  Speaker 1: frustrates your development because it is just enough. And you
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  Speaker 1: got it because you didn't have not enough. But where
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  Speaker 1: God is trying to take you is to more than enough.
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  Speaker 1: And if you get stuck at just enough, you'll never
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  Speaker 1: get more than enough. And if you never get more
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  Speaker 1: than enough, you'll never become what God has for you
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  Speaker 1: to be. and what happens to most people is that
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  Speaker 1: they become satisfied we're still complacent complacent to live off
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  Speaker 1: of what somebody else dropped I thank God for the
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  Speaker 1: droppings but I didn't go through everything I went through
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  Speaker 1: Just to wait on you to drop me some. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate any help you give me. Anything you do to
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  Speaker 1: reinforce me. I thank you for giving me a ride
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  Speaker 1: to church. But I'm a grown man. And I want
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  Speaker 1: my own car. You got to get to the point
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  Speaker 1: that you don't want somebody else's stuff and you're ready
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  Speaker 1: to go to the next level. You are not want
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's husband. You're not want somebody else's wife. Give
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  Speaker 1: me my stuff. I wish I had a witness up
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  Speaker 1: in here. And so what happens is you got to
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  Speaker 1: get to the point that you're ready to go to
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  Speaker 1: the next level. Touch your neighbor and say, I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to go to the next level. You might not
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  Speaker 1: be able to handle this, but I'm going to the
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  Speaker 1: next level. I know you want me to stay gleaning
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  Speaker 1: behind you so that we can become codependent so that
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  Speaker 1: you can feel good about yourself because you need to
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  Speaker 1: be needed. But I'm getting ready to go to the
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  Speaker 1: next level. Let me show you how this is applicable
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  Speaker 1: to the text. Ruth is gleaning behind the repose in
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  Speaker 1: a field that God meant for her to own. And
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  Speaker 1: if you read the book of Ruth from cover to cover,
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  Speaker 1: she ends up owning the field that she was working in.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to today. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why you had to come to church this morning,
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  Speaker 1: but I came to tell you that where you're working now,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to own tomorrow. God, I... Somebody's getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to go to another level. Touch your neighbor and say,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me. I got to go to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine how this must have tripped these women out?
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  Speaker 1: Because here these women were leaving something for a poor old,
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  Speaker 1: poor old roof. Poor old broke down roof. I guess
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  Speaker 1: we'll leave something for her. We're for a broke self
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  Speaker 1: and a no dressing self and she can't even get
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  Speaker 1: her hair done and dresses on sideways. I guess we'll
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  Speaker 1: help her sister out. And by the time we get
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  Speaker 1: to the fourth chapter, the one who was behind them
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  Speaker 1: had switched around and was in front of them. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know how the story is going to end up.
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  Speaker 1: God has a way. Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: One of the first things God's going to let you
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  Speaker 1: see is that favor ain't fair. When people first start
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  Speaker 1: helping you, they want to see why God favored you.
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  Speaker 1: So they want to get close to you so they
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  Speaker 1: can see if there's something special about you. Then when
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  Speaker 1: they find out there's nothing special about you, they get mad.
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  Speaker 1: But they don't understand that favor ain't fair. It's just
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  Speaker 1: that God sovereignly chooses to bless you. And anytime you
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  Speaker 1: bless whoever God is blessing, the blessing boomerangs back.
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  Speaker 1: their peace there is a principle that will cause a
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  Speaker 2: Deliver me he can deliver you equipping men we have More.
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  Speaker 1: Fear in running out than we do faith in running over.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere my foot treads. To claim dominion over it and
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  Speaker 1: We do it big in Texas. I'll give you my
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  Speaker 1: little testimony. We were looking for a house. It was
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  Speaker 1: the first house we were to own. We had rented
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  Speaker 1: a few houses and assumed a house. We never owned
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  Speaker 1: a house and I didn't own a house because at
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  Speaker 1: first my credit was so bad. I like to tell
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  Speaker 1: the truth. People call things the devil. Anyway. Anyway. So
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  Speaker 1: I started saving money so that when God blessed me,
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  Speaker 1: we'd get a house. Every time we tried to get
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  Speaker 1: a house, something went wrong. So I went back to
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  Speaker 1: saving more money, tried again, something went wrong. Every time
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  Speaker 1: I kept looking for a house, I kept losing the deal.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize then that God was closing doors because
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  Speaker 1: I was aiming too low. I was aiming low because
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  Speaker 1: I knew what it was to have nothing. And I'd
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  Speaker 1: have been glad to have anything. But God wasn't glad
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  Speaker 1: for me to have just anything. It is the Father's
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  Speaker 1: good pleasure to give unto you the kingdom. And so
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  Speaker 1: everything that I would have been satisfied with that was
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  Speaker 1: less than what he wanted me to have, he closed
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  Speaker 1: the door. So, I said that for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who can't figure out why that door just closed. The
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  Speaker 1: reason that door on the thing that you was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get just closed is because you were aiming too low.
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  Speaker 1: If you would set your sights up where the word
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  Speaker 1: of God says you're going to live, that's when God
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  Speaker 1: is going. And so let me tell you what it is.
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  Speaker 1: So Ruthie, the realtor, Back up there in West Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: she's a realtor. She said, well, Mr. Jake, she says,
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  Speaker 1: there is another house. I'll just drive you over there
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  Speaker 1: and let you take a look at it and see
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  Speaker 1: what you think about that house. That's the way she talked,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I said, all right. So she drove
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  Speaker 1: me over there. We drove up through a little underground
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  Speaker 1: railroad or something and came up on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the ground. And we came around the corner and
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  Speaker 1: there was this And you know how you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to let the person know that this is ridiculous. Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even if I couldn't pay for it, there
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  Speaker 1: was no need in embarrassing myself. So I tried to
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  Speaker 1: sit there and be cool. I said, okay. There was
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  Speaker 1: no for sale sign on the lot because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: those kind of houses, you don't have to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And there was no for sale sign out there. And
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  Speaker 1: she knocked on the door and the lady opened up
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  Speaker 1: the door, you know. She came to the door and
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  Speaker 1: opened up the door. And we came in and they
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to show me the house. Halfway through the house,
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  Speaker 1: I looked up. They didn't even hear me. I looked
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the hallway of the house. I said, God.
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  Speaker 1: You mean I can have it? See, it was hard
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  Speaker 1: for me to understand that all of this other stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I was snatching for, the reason it didn't work
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  Speaker 1: is that he had something better. Sometimes things don't work
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  Speaker 1: out because God has something better. And if you will
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  Speaker 1: allow him to shut the door on what he doesn't want,
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  Speaker 1: then he can open the door on what he does want.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to today, but touch
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor and tell them God's got something better. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. I'm not trying to finish because I figured
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  Speaker 1: out at 8 o'clock I couldn't finish it. In between
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  Speaker 1: the second chapter where she's gleaning behind the reapers and
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  Speaker 1: the fourth chapter where she ends moving from stewardship into ownership,
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  Speaker 1: she encounters the ministry of Naomi, an older woman who
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  Speaker 1: becomes a mentor and a coach to her. You need
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  Speaker 1: a coach. If you ever get in the bodybuilding and
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  Speaker 1: you're in the gym and you're working out and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden you plateau, you need a trainer. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have to lift the weight. You just need somebody
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  Speaker 1: to get in you and say, come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on. Give me
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  Speaker 1: five more, come on. Come on, you got it in you.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, you got it in you. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, reach out. Come on, come on, it's in you.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, reach for it, reach. Without a coach, you'll
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  Speaker 1: plateau on this level when you really have the potential
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  Speaker 1: to come up to that level. And what Naomi did,
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  Speaker 1: for Ruth was teach her how to make it happen
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  Speaker 1: whatever God did in Ruth was so strong that Naomi
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  Speaker 1: who was an old wrinkled up mother-in-law who was getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to die, depressed, came on back and Naomi got
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  Speaker 1: a new lease on life trying to help Ruth fulfill
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  Speaker 1: her dream. I want to say something to older women
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  Speaker 1: and older men and not just older in age but
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  Speaker 1: more seasoned in experience because some people get older but
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  Speaker 1: they don't get wiser. Listen to this, just because your
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  Speaker 1: purpose changes And you're no longer needed to serve in
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  Speaker 1: the capacity that you once did. Doesn't mean that God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a new assignment for you. Naomi was no
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  Speaker 1: longer required to be a wife or a mother. She
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  Speaker 1: was now called to be a mentor. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't make that transition, you'll go through frustration. They'll think
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  Speaker 1: it's menopause, but it's a purpose pause. Naomi started just
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  Speaker 1: wanting to bless Ruth to see her reach her goal
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  Speaker 1: and And what happened anytime you help somebody that God
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  Speaker 1: has favored? Now understand when you start helping them one
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  Speaker 1: of the first things God's gonna let you see is
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  Speaker 1: that favor ain't fair and When people first start helping you,
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  Speaker 1: they want to see why God favored you. So they
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  Speaker 1: want to get close to you so they can see
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  Speaker 1: if there's something special about you. Then when they find
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  Speaker 1: out there's nothing special about you, they get mad. But
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  Speaker 1: they don't understand that favor ain't fair. It's just that
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  Speaker 1: God sovereignly chooses to bless you. And anytime you bless
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  Speaker 1: whoever God is blessing, the blessing boomerangs back. Naomi didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know that she was being healed while she was
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  Speaker 1: helping Ruth. She was being redirected while she was helping Ruth.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says that when Ruth, see Ruth married
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  Speaker 1: Boaz and begat Obed. And Obed begat Jesse. And Jesse
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  Speaker 1: begat David. And out of David came Jesus. Which basically
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  Speaker 1: means Jesus' great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grand-grandmama came out to projects. That's basically what
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  Speaker 1: that means. Ruth come from the hood. But God does
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  Speaker 1: the almighty through the least likely, doesn't he? And what
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  Speaker 1: happened was when Naomi started blessing Ruth, the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: when Ruth had her baby, Naomi took that baby and
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  Speaker 1: that old, leathery, wrinkled up woman, her breasts became filled
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  Speaker 1: with milk. And she, who was past childbearing age, started
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  Speaker 1: nursing a baby that she didn't even have. Because there
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  Speaker 1: was so much life in the person she blessed. That
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  Speaker 1: Naomi spent the rest of her life nursing Ruth's baby.
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  Speaker 1: If you bless somebody, that God is blessing. God will
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  Speaker 1: give you a job nursing what they had. And the
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  Speaker 1: miracle is... When God puts you in that position, he'll
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  Speaker 1: give you milk when you weren't even supposed to have none.
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  Speaker 1: He'll release blessings in your life that are mind-boggling. And
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  Speaker 1: people will look at you and say, what you doing
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  Speaker 1: nursing with your old self? And you tell them, if
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  Speaker 1: it had not been for the Lord that was on
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  Speaker 1: my side, I would have been swallowed up. But look
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord has done. Hey! Remember, it ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: It's just favor. Give me a second. I'll be back
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  Speaker 1: after this. There's an umbilical cord between provisions and purpose.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't 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. For his divine purpose.
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  Speaker 3: just for helping us reach others with your best gift.
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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. It ain't going to happen. It's going
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to be a whole lot. I don't believe it. But
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the chatter, if God has blessed you.
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  Speaker 3: And when your gift is $ 89 or more, you will
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  Speaker 3: also receive your own Psalms 90 tote bag, the Favor
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  Speaker 3: Ain't Fair journal set, and T.D. Jakes Classics Volume 5
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  Speaker 3: DVD series full of timeless wisdom. You are highly favored
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: of the Lord. Isn't it time you walked in it?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: It's coming. The biggest family-friendly festival is back. Megafest 2013.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: People are asking me, what is Megafest all about? Is
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  Speaker 1: it a conference? Yes, it's a conference, but my God,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: it's so much more. It's festivity. It's fun. It's restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: It's shopping. It's People of God relaxing. We've been through
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the fire. We've been through the flood. We made it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: 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 3: whole family.
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  Speaker 1: All types of entertainment for your family, for your kids.
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  Speaker 1: We've got material that men are going to need to
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  Speaker 1: cause you to stand up and be powerful, to be
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  Speaker 1: the man that God has called you to be at manpower.
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  Speaker 1: The woman down in Luce, you already know, it's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to put your family together. in a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual environment and show them that it's fun to be
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a Christian.
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  Speaker 3: Megafest 2013. Get your tickets now. Visit mega-fest.com or call 1-800-BISHOP-2.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: We're at a party in Texas. You know what? We
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: do it big in Texas. I want to challenge those
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: of you who've been frustrated because you're trying to stay
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: on one level and God's trying to take you to another.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: He's just weaning you. He's just weaning you. He's just
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: taking you off welfare. You don't need a handout. You
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: need a hand up. God's going to do something awesome
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in you. And you will win if you don't quit. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to close right now, but before we do,
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  Speaker 1: I want to give a special shout out to all
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  Speaker 1: the fathers, all the dads, all the stepdads, all the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual fathers, all the mentors, all the mentees, all of
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: us who have really been standing in the gap and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: making up the hedge and being there for our kids,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual or natural or adoptive. It doesn't even matter as
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  Speaker 1: long as you stand as a man in the gap
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  Speaker 1: and do the best you can. You don't have to
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: be a perfect man. You just have to be a
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: focused man, happy man. Father's Day to every last one
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: of you. May God bless you and may heaven smile
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  Speaker 1: upon you. Listen, dads, I'm excited to have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be having Manpower as a part of Megafest.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to take some time off. It's Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to be off anyway. Chill out. Come on
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  Speaker 1: down and let us strengthen the man in you. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you. Happy Father's Day. This is the Father's Day.