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T.D. Jakes These Bumps in the Road Mean That You're Close to Your BREAKTHROUGH! TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people that are doing better
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  Speaker 1: than me, but none of them got there without a
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  Speaker 1: bumpy road. The road to better is bumpy. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're on a bumpy road, I'm telling you, you're headed
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  Speaker 1: to better. There's some things that God created you for
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  Speaker 1: that you had some delays and some setbacks and some
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  Speaker 1: mistakes and some mishaps. And God wants you to come
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  Speaker 1: back to the place of that there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a night shift. Jacob has told his sons, you will
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  Speaker 1: not defeat the famine looking at each other. Did you
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying? Watch how Jacob handles the famine.
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  Speaker 1: Because my first point is the famine. And until you
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  Speaker 1: can deal with the famine, you will never get to better.
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  Speaker 1: Because the famine is a part of your journey. How
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  Speaker 1: you react to the famine determines whether you make it
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  Speaker 1: to the food. You've got to be aggressive. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just pray against the famine. You've got to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob says, you can't just pray against it. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just look at each other. You can't stay in the
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  Speaker 1: same spot and do the same things that you've always
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  Speaker 1: done and expect to get a different result because we're
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  Speaker 1: in a famine and you've got to take action. And
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  Speaker 1: we don't understand that today. We don't understand the human
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  Speaker 1: requirement in the miracles of God. As much as we
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  Speaker 1: have read about the miracles of God, we walk away
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  Speaker 1: with praise to God but absolve ourselves of human responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: As if God were going to act outside of human
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  Speaker 1: effort when God has created us to be collaborative in
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  Speaker 1: the miraculous. Oh, I'm talking already. He wants us to
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  Speaker 1: be collaborative in the miraculous, that we have a responsibility
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  Speaker 1: to take action and to be aggressive about resolving issues.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you're spiritual doesn't mean you get to pray
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  Speaker 1: for a job and stay at home. I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to pray if the Lord wants me to have the job,
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  Speaker 1: he'll give me a job. I'm just going to watch
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  Speaker 1: TV and hit the remote control and believe God for better.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never get to better if you don't get on
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  Speaker 1: the road. You got to get on the road in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of famine. They're traveling in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a famine. Now traveling is not fun anytime but traveling
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a famine is a very difficult
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  Speaker 1: time because the famine is so severe that Jacob says
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  Speaker 1: if you don't move you're going to die. Now I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking to tonight but there are
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  Speaker 1: some pressures that come so strong that if you don't
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  Speaker 1: move you're going to die. How could you let me
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  Speaker 1: die and I'm a child of God? You didn't move.
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  Speaker 1: I told you to move. And when God tells you
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  Speaker 1: to move, you got to move. And don't act like
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  Speaker 1: God has failed you when you have failed to move.
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  Speaker 1: When God says move, you have to take action, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're the prodigal son who came to himself, but he
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  Speaker 1: still had to go home. Or whether you're the woman
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  Speaker 1: with the issue of blood who believed that Jesus could
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  Speaker 1: heal her but she still had to crawl. Or whether
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  Speaker 1: you're blind bottom man standing by the highway side begging
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  Speaker 1: he still had to come out of his coat and
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  Speaker 1: go toward Jesus. There is a human responsibility in spite
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  Speaker 1: of the famine. So you got to move in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a famine, in the middle of a need,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a storm, in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a crisis. And he sends his boys to go from
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  Speaker 1: Canaan to Egypt because Jacob heard where there was food.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hate on people who have even when you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: Because he didn't hate on Egypt. He said, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to Egypt. See, we sit back and hate on people
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  Speaker 1: as if them having is our demise when it's not
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  Speaker 1: them having that is our enemy. It's us not moving
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  Speaker 1: that is our enemy. And the Bible says that though
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have any corn, they had money. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: people don't quote it too much, but the Bible also
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  Speaker 1: says that money is the answer to all things. It's
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  Speaker 1: the answer to all things. If it's a thing, money
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  Speaker 1: can buy it. There are some issues that cannot be
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  Speaker 1: resolved by things, but money answers all things. So Jacob
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  Speaker 1: told the boys, he gave them some money and said,
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  Speaker 1: go down to Egypt and don't go down there begging.
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  Speaker 1: We came down here to do business. Yeah, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: spiritual people, but we know how to do business. We
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  Speaker 1: praise Jehovah, but we still know how to do business.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all not saying nothing to me tonight. See, the church
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  Speaker 1: has failed its parishioners because we have been real heavy
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  Speaker 1: on the praise and real light on the business. So
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  Speaker 1: we told them to praise your way out and dance
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  Speaker 1: your way out and spin around three times and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to come out and sow a seed and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get out. But we don't tell them that
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  Speaker 1: blessings are transactional, that there's a business element required in it.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to go back and lay some foundation
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  Speaker 1: to understand that Jacob does not go down to Egypt
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  Speaker 1: to beg. He goes down there to do business. And
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  Speaker 1: he sends his sons down there to do business. But
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, you have to realize as we begin
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the famine, we have to understand that
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  Speaker 1: the famine is so severe that it pushes them to Egypt. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the second thing I want you to see about the
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  Speaker 1: famine is that God will use a famine to move you.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a famine for food. It
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  Speaker 1: can be a famine for love. It can be a
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  Speaker 1: famine for peace. But in everybody's life listening at me,
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  Speaker 1: whether online or in the room, you have experienced some
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  Speaker 1: kind of famine. The famine of fatherhood. The famine of family.
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  Speaker 1: The famine of a mother's affection. The famine of a
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  Speaker 1: good job. The famine of a nice house. All of
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  Speaker 1: us have our famines. You might not be able to
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  Speaker 1: see it because we might dress nice and spray cologne
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  Speaker 1: over top of it. But all of us live with
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  Speaker 1: some level of famine in our lives. Famine makes you
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  Speaker 1: pray and famine makes you seek God and famine makes
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  Speaker 1: you cry out and famine will make you move. And
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes God will use famine as an instrument to force
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  Speaker 1: you out of your comfort zone. It is more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: to stay in Canaan, but the famine will drive you out.
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  Speaker 1: It'll make you move. It'll make you get outside of
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  Speaker 1: your comfort zone. It'll make you travel. It'll put you
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  Speaker 1: on the road. Somebody say I'm on the road. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not on the road for a field trip. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: on the road joy riding. I'm on the road to better.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the road to better. There's something I'm after.
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  Speaker 1: There's something I want to see done in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm tired of sitting around assessing the same old
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  Speaker 1: troubles and crying about the same old problems and going
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  Speaker 1: through the same old things. I'm tired of complaining one
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  Speaker 1: to another back and forth. Oh, ain't it bad? Yeah, child.
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  Speaker 1: It's real bad. It's so bad. I got to move
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  Speaker 1: from here. Deliver me from people who will not take
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  Speaker 1: action in the famine. And God says action is required
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  Speaker 1: on you. You got to get on the road. And
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  Speaker 1: that's anytime you can't rebuke it with a prayer. Anytime
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  Speaker 1: you plead the blood and it doesn't go away. Anytime
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  Speaker 1: you call on God and it still stays there. Then
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  Speaker 1: God is using the famine as an instrument to move
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  Speaker 1: you from one place to the other. If it was
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  Speaker 1: the devil, I could rebuke it. If it were demonic warfare,
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  Speaker 1: I could overcome it. But when God sends a famine
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  Speaker 1: to make you move, it is something in his providence
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  Speaker 1: that cannot be performed where you are. And you've got
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  Speaker 1: to move in order to get it. And God knows
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  Speaker 1: that some of us won't move if we're too comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all aren't going to talk to me tonight. And so
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  Speaker 1: God uses the famine to force them to move and
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  Speaker 1: they go down to Egypt to do business. Now it
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  Speaker 1: is interesting to note that though there is a famine
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  Speaker 1: in Canaan, there is also a famine in this family.
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  Speaker 1: So my second point deals with the family. You have
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  Speaker 1: to understand that this text brings out subtly, ever so
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  Speaker 1: subtly in the text that I want to point it
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  Speaker 1: out to you. First thing that it tells us about
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  Speaker 1: Jacob is that Jacob sent his sons down to Egypt
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  Speaker 1: to buy. But then it mentions that he did not
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  Speaker 1: send Benjamin, lest he fall into mischief. And this is
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  Speaker 1: just a hidden, subtle reminder that Jacob doesn't totally trust
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  Speaker 1: his own sons. Now, where did this distrust come up
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  Speaker 1: in the culture of this family? This distrust comes up
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  Speaker 1: into the culture of the family. And you can act
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  Speaker 1: like you don't know what I'm talking about. But all
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  Speaker 1: of us have little things that we know about our family.
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  Speaker 1: That when cousin so and so comes over. You kind
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  Speaker 1: of look at him out the corner of your eye.
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  Speaker 1: Because you've been through some things. Where you've learned some things.
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  Speaker 1: And this culture has risen up in the family. That
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  Speaker 1: the family is not fruitful. And Canaan is not fruitful.
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  Speaker 1: And there is not the comfortable loving environment around. Of
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  Speaker 1: trust that would cause the family to be a nurturing
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  Speaker 1: place because Jacob remembers what happened to Joseph. The last
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  Speaker 1: time Jacob sent one of his sons out with the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the sons, he turned up missing. and there's
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  Speaker 1: a residue of distrust in the old man with his
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  Speaker 1: sons that he says I'm going to keep Benjamin now
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  Speaker 1: the reason he's holding on to Benjamin and he let
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  Speaker 1: the rest of them go is that Joseph and Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: were born to him by Rachel and Rachel was the
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  Speaker 1: love of his life And the reason he's holding on
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  Speaker 1: to Benjamin is because that's all he's got left of Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, if I lose Benjamin, I'll lose all
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  Speaker 1: I have left of the best days in my life.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes we hold on to things because we've been
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  Speaker 1: through so much pain that we become possessive. Oh, y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying. There's a reason you hold
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  Speaker 1: on to what you hold on. Whether it's money or
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  Speaker 1: people or things, there's a reason you hold on to.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason that certain things make you mad. There's
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  Speaker 1: a reason that you overreact in certain ways. There's a reason.
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  Speaker 1: That if we hit certain pulse points, you respond differently
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  Speaker 1: than other people. Because until you understand what I've been
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  Speaker 1: through back here, you won't understand why I'm holding on
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  Speaker 1: to this right here. What do you hold on to
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  Speaker 1: because of what you've been through? What do you hold
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  Speaker 1: on to because of what you've been through? For Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: the old man is holding on to the last smell
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  Speaker 1: of Rachel. When he holds Benjamin, it's the last reminder
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  Speaker 1: of a happier moment in his life. And he is
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  Speaker 1: so afraid of losing Benjamin because Rachel, the barren woman,
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  Speaker 1: has birthed two sons unto him. And one of them, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: thinks is dead. And Benjamin is all he got left.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you think this is all you got left, you
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  Speaker 1: will hold on real tightly. Whether it is true or not,
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  Speaker 1: you will hold on real tight. If you think that
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  Speaker 1: this is the last person that will ever love you,
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  Speaker 1: you will take stuff that you wouldn't normally take. You
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  Speaker 1: will go through things you wouldn't normally go through. And
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  Speaker 1: your girlfriends will tell you, if I was you, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't take that. And your mama told you, you need
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  Speaker 1: to get away from there. But you keep holding on
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  Speaker 1: to it because you've been hurt before. And anytime you've
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  Speaker 1: been hurt before, you hold on to something when you
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  Speaker 1: think you won't get anymore. I wonder tonight how many
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  Speaker 1: people are holding on to some sort of Benjamin in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Holding on to it out of fear, not
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  Speaker 1: out of love. He's not clutching him out of love.
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  Speaker 1: He's clutching him out of fear. Be careful what fear
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  Speaker 1: will make you do. And I'm looking at it. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: is an old man. And the older you get, the
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  Speaker 1: more precious everything becomes. And Jacob is holding on to Benjamin.
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  Speaker 1: And he's saying, Joseph is not. And now Simeon is not.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't taking my Benjamin. I'm wondering what you're squeezing
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  Speaker 1: too tight. What are you squeezing out of fear? See,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob isn't squeezing Benjamin out of faith. He's squeezing him
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  Speaker 1: Out of fear. He's squeezing him like it's the last
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  Speaker 1: thing he's going to ever get. You can't grow when
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  Speaker 1: you squeeze something like it's the last thing you're going
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  Speaker 1: to ever get. Even if it's squeezing money. Like it's
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  Speaker 1: the last you'll ever get. Then you have prophesied against yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You have used faith in reverse. Fear is faith in
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  Speaker 1: reverse to have confidence that that thing that you don't
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  Speaker 1: want is going to happen to you. He's holding the
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  Speaker 1: boy out of fear. And God is manipulating all of
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  Speaker 1: these circumstances to bring this family back together. He is
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  Speaker 1: wooing them back to a place so he can heal them.
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  Speaker 1: And wouldn't it be better to be healed than to
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  Speaker 1: be mad? And Jacob says to him, if I lose Benjamin,
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  Speaker 1: let me quote it just like he said it. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, my son shall not go down with you
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  Speaker 1: for his brother is dead and he is left alone.
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  Speaker 1: And if mischief befall him by the way, see how
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  Speaker 1: Jacob is still in a place where he don't trust them.
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  Speaker 1: They're his children. And he don't trust him. And he
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  Speaker 1: has good reason not to trust him. He said, you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to get him. Let's mischief befall him, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, in the which he go. He says, if
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  Speaker 1: I go through with Benjamin what I went through with Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: my gray hairs are going to turn into sorrow and
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  Speaker 1: bring me to the grave. See, you get to a
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  Speaker 1: point in life that you've reached an age that you
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  Speaker 1: can't take no more pain. And he says, I can't
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  Speaker 1: afford to live through this again. And God is really
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  Speaker 1: behind it all, trying to pry Benjamin out of Jacob's hands.
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  Speaker 1: Because what Jacob doesn't understand, yes, the road's been bumpy.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, the road's been tough. And yes, the road's
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  Speaker 1: been difficult. And yes, you've shed some tears. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: you've endured some pain. But it is the bumpy road
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  Speaker 1: to better. It is the bumpy road to better. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people that are doing better than
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  Speaker 1: me and have more stuff and more money and more
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  Speaker 1: recognition and more fame and more whatever you want to
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  Speaker 1: count it by than me. But none of them that
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  Speaker 1: I know have got there without a bumpy road. The
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  Speaker 1: road to better is bumpy. So if you're on a
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  Speaker 1: bumpy road, I'm telling you, you're headed to better. Do
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  Speaker 1: you hear the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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  Speaker 1: You can't get to better without bumping. You can't get
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  Speaker 1: to better without pain. You can't get to better without tears.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be all buff if you don't work out.
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  Speaker 1: You can't lose weight if you don't push the food away.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get to better without bumpy. There is no
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  Speaker 1: pill you can take. There is no simple solution. It
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  Speaker 1: is the bumpiness of the road that leads you to better. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob will end up having to go to Egypt. And
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  Speaker 1: when Joseph sees his father, When Joseph sees his father
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  Speaker 1: all of these years, he's been living without the touch
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  Speaker 1: of his father. And all of a sudden, he reveals himself.
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  Speaker 1: And he shows him who he is. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: that one day, those who rejected Jesus Are going to
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  Speaker 1: look on him whom they have pierced. And a nation
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  Speaker 1: shall be saved in a day. This day in the
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  Speaker 1: life of Joseph. Is a prophetic prediction. Of what will
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  Speaker 1: happen between Jesus and Israel. When all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: they will look on him whom they have pierced. And
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  Speaker 1: finally recognize. He was the Messiah. He is the Lamb
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  Speaker 1: of God. He is the I Am. He is the
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  Speaker 1: true vine. He is the living bread. He is the
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  Speaker 1: manna that came down out of heaven. He is. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a lie. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't a fallacy.
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  Speaker 1: And the family will be reunited again. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden they beheld him whom they had thrown away.
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  Speaker 1: And they fell down and said, oh, Joseph. And they
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  Speaker 1: now realize that Joseph, everything he went through was to
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  Speaker 1: position him to bless them. Are y'all hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: The reason God doesn't bless some people because you're selfish.
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  Speaker 1: The reason God doesn't bless some people is because you're
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  Speaker 1: only interested in you. Because you hate too long and
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  Speaker 1: you're too angry and you're too bitter to be trusted
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  Speaker 1: with that much power. God blesses people whose hearts are tender.
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  Speaker 1: And it was only when I saw Joseph's heart that
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  Speaker 1: I understood Joseph's blessing. Because Joseph was the son that
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  Speaker 1: could be trusted with favor. Because he would not use
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  Speaker 1: his favor to get even. He would not use his
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  Speaker 1: favor for revenge. He would use his favor to bring
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  Speaker 1: them into better. And so Joseph brings the family to better.
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  Speaker 1: The whole family dwells together in better. And not only
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  Speaker 1: does he bring them to better, he releases the guilt
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  Speaker 1: from the guilty. It's one thing to absolve the innocent,
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  Speaker 1: but it's another thing to acquit the guilty. He absolved
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  Speaker 1: the guilty because he was big enough. To be blessed
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  Speaker 1: like that. He was big enough. To be blessed like that.
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  Speaker 1: He was strong enough. To be blessed like that. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why he was chosen. From the very beginning. God
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  Speaker 1: trusted him with trouble. God trusted him with rejection. God
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  Speaker 1: trusted him with pain. God trusted him with agony. Because
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  Speaker 1: God knew his heart. That when push came to shove.
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  Speaker 1: That love would always. Went out over revenge. God knew
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  Speaker 1: his heart that there was something down inside of him
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  Speaker 1: that was better than that. And if you want the
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  Speaker 1: favor of God in your life, you have to be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to ask yourself, can God trust you with favor?
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  Speaker 1: Can God trust you with power? Can God trust you
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  Speaker 1: with honor? Because until that answer is a resounding yes,
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  Speaker 1: The doors of your blessing will be closed. They're closed
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  Speaker 1: because you are too angry and too bitter and too vindictive.
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  Speaker 1: And God can't give you favor because you'll use it
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  Speaker 1: like witchcraft to bring curses on those who hurt you.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll know you're getting bigger when you start getting better.
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  Speaker 1: You've been praying to be bigger. You should have been
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  Speaker 1: praying to be better. There's somebody watching me right now.
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  Speaker 1: There's no reason in the world that somebody as talented
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  Speaker 1: to you as you are shouldn't be further than you are.
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  Speaker 1: You have the talent to go all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the top. But every time you try to go to
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  Speaker 1: the top, something blocks you. And God sent me to
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  Speaker 1: tell you it's not what's on the outside that's blocking you.
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  Speaker 1: It's the stuff you carry on the inside that always
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  Speaker 1: blocks you because you're so slick. And God has to
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  Speaker 1: keep showing you that you ain't as slick as you
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  Speaker 1: think you are. And your blessing has been delayed. And
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  Speaker 1: you wandered in the wilderness. Of almost getting there. And
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  Speaker 1: never being able to get there. Because you've never been
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  Speaker 1: able to get your heart to the place. That you
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  Speaker 1: could be trusted. God gives favor. To people.
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  Speaker 2: He can trust. But you are so transactional. Everything is
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  Speaker 2: a way for you to manipulate. And so you never
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  Speaker 2: get better. The Bible says none but the pure in
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  Speaker 2: heart shall see God. The word pure in the Greek
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  Speaker 2: is where we get the word catheter. And there is
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  Speaker 2: no way for you to see God until you put
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  Speaker 2: a catheter into your heart and get rid of the
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  Speaker 2: bitterness that is blocking you from your blessing. I'm still
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  Speaker 2: talking about the bumpy road.
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  Speaker 1: To better. As I close tonight, I challenge you to
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  Speaker 1: look at Genesis 42. And even go on into Genesis
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  Speaker 1: 43 and watch God bring Jacob and his boys into
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  Speaker 1: a state of blessings that does not fade away. Samuel
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  Speaker 1: served under Eli and that there was, the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord was scarce or rare and there was no
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  Speaker 1: open space Vision, it's a hint. It's a preview. See,
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  Speaker 1: Samuel is not so much Eli's successor. You don't use
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  Speaker 1: Samuel as Eli's successor like Elijah and Elijah, like Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Timothy. Not only are they not in the same chain,
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  Speaker 1: they're not of the same order. Eli is a priest.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel is a prophet. Perhaps one of the greatest prophets
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  Speaker 1: of the Old Testament is Samuel. And what God has done,
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  Speaker 1: he has forced... a prophet into the house of a priest.
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  Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the formation of the Messiah
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  Speaker 1: who is prophet. You see, see, so, so, so, so we,
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  Speaker 1: all we have up until now is priests. But out
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  Speaker 1: of the barrenness of Hannah's womb doesn't come Eli's successor.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes Eli's prophet. And the reason the prophet had
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  Speaker 1: to come next is that the prophet is the one
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  Speaker 1: who anoints the king. God got an order he don't
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  Speaker 1: even explain to you. He does stuff for his own reason.
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  Speaker 1: He's got his own methodology. He works all things according
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  Speaker 1: to the purpose of his own will. Say amen. So
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  Speaker 1: we are watching the shift between the priest to the prophet.
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  Speaker 1: The prophet is under the priest. Amen. Before it's over,
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  Speaker 1: the priest is going to be under the prophets. See,
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  Speaker 1: when we worship, when we praise, when we give offerings,
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  Speaker 1: we're working like priests. When I get up to preach,
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  Speaker 1: I'm working like a prophet. Hallelujah. So all while you're worshiping,
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  Speaker 1: I'm up under you. Hallelujah. but when I get up
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  Speaker 1: to preach you're up under this anointing we just acted
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  Speaker 1: out what the text is all about if the priest
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  Speaker 1: comes first here comes the prophet you provoke the word
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  Speaker 1: of God by how you worship you provoke the word
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  Speaker 1: of God by how you lift him up you provoke
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  Speaker 1: the word of God by how you lift your hands
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  Speaker 1: and raise your hand the priest comes before the prophet
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  Speaker 1: is released This is not just a succession. This is
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  Speaker 1: a transformation. This is a revolution. This is a move.
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  Speaker 1: And the irony of it is, they said the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord was scarce in those days and there
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  Speaker 1: was no open vision. And yet the prophet was growing
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  Speaker 1: in the scarcity of Y'all can't handle this. Prosperity grows
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  Speaker 1: in poverty. That's why the Bible said, let the poor
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  Speaker 1: say that I'm. Let the weak say that I'm. You
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  Speaker 1: can be weak on top and be strong underneath. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying. You can be poor on
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  Speaker 1: top and have prosperity growing up under you. It does
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  Speaker 1: not yet appear what you shall be, but it's still
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  Speaker 1: growing up. That's why I use the NIV. Because the
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  Speaker 1: prophet is still a boy, but he's coming, he's coming,
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  Speaker 1: he's coming, he's coming, he's coming. Your prophecy is still
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  Speaker 1: a boy, but it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. it's
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  Speaker 1: up under your priesthood that's why i'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: you to worship because when you worship you're getting closer
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  Speaker 1: to releasing that prophetic utterance that exists in your life
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  Speaker 1: and that's why the devil doesn't want you to worship
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  Speaker 1: Because worship makes the water break. It makes the baby
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  Speaker 1: give birth. It releases a prophetic utterance. Somebody shout yes!
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  Speaker 1: And then I want to point out the extreme generational change.
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  Speaker 1: It is not that Samuel and Eli changed. just represent
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  Speaker 1: two generations. The truth of the matter is Eli is
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  Speaker 1: a boy. I mean Samuel is a boy when Eli
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  Speaker 1: is an old man. Samuel is young enough to be
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  Speaker 1: Hophni's son. So you got this grandfather character who is
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  Speaker 1: old and the other extreme is a boy is in
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  Speaker 1: the house. And it is an extreme shift. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to skip a generation. You don't see it where you
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  Speaker 1: thought you would see it. But here it comes from
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  Speaker 1: the place you didn't expect to see it. From a
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  Speaker 1: person you didn't expect to see it from. From a
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  Speaker 1: woman that you thought was drunk. Here comes the change
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  Speaker 1: that God's going to bring in your life. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you got to stop looking down your nose at people
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  Speaker 1: and calling people out their name. Because sometimes God will
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  Speaker 1: use somebody you thought was drunk to be the next
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  Speaker 1: level of blessing in your life. Somebody holler for me.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like hollering this morning. I feel like screaming
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  Speaker 1: this morning. And then when I was praying about it,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said, I want you to tell them in
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  Speaker 1: the night shift, the light shimmers. In the night shift,
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  Speaker 1: the light shimmers. Night doesn't mean total blackout. It says,
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  Speaker 1: and ere the lamp of God went out. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: all were raised with electric lights, and I was too.
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  Speaker 1: But when I went to my grandmother's house, they would
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  Speaker 1: have candle lights and oil lamps. And when the lamps
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  Speaker 1: were going out, as they start to go out, they flicker. Flickering.
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  Speaker 1: The night has shimmering light, moments of illumination, glimpses, shadows,
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  Speaker 1: moments of revelation, moments of insight. You can't see it
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  Speaker 1: clearly because it's shimmering, but you've got glimpses. you would
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  Speaker 1: have fainted but you got shimmers of light every time
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  Speaker 1: the devil thought he had you God let the light
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  Speaker 1: shimmer you're still in a nice season but you got
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  Speaker 1: a flicker of light you got a flicker of light
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes a flicker is all you need if you
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  Speaker 1: get a flicker of light you can hold on a
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  Speaker 1: little while longer some of y'all came out with a
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  Speaker 1: flicker of light You're like the woman who said, I
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  Speaker 1: don't need the loaf. If I get a crumb, I'll
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  Speaker 1: come out on a crumb. I wish I had some
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  Speaker 1: crummy people who'll come out on a crumb. If you
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  Speaker 1: give me a half a chance, I'll scratch myself out
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the way. I may not have daylight,
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  Speaker 1: but if I got shimmering light, if I know two scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: if I know one and a half scriptures, if I
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  Speaker 1: can sing a little bit... I may not be on
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  Speaker 1: the praise team, but if I can sing while I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing my dishes, I can break a yoke over my house.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people that are standing
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  Speaker 1: in shimmering light. Make some noise. The old man couldn't
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  Speaker 1: hear him. Now the Bible said he couldn't see, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't say nothing about his ears. But he cannot hear.
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  Speaker 1: What the young man can hear, the young man can
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  Speaker 1: hear God and he can hear God to the point
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  Speaker 1: that he's disruptive, anxious, irritating, disturbs his sleep, keeps getting
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  Speaker 1: up again. Some of you can hear God so clear.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you try to act on what God
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  Speaker 1: told you to do, they send you back. And when
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  Speaker 1: they send you back, it plays into your rejection issues.
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  Speaker 1: It plays into your abandonment issues. And you think they
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in you because they send you back. But
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  Speaker 1: they're sending you back because they don't hear what you hear.
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  Speaker 1: All they can do is send you back because they
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard what you heard. Somebody holler, I hear it.
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  Speaker 1: My money's not right, but I hear it. My friends
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  Speaker 1: are not right, but I hear it. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: no building for it, but I hear it. Somebody holler,
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  Speaker 1: I hear it. I'm preaching to somebody online, I hear it.
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  Speaker 1: It won't let me rest. It won't let me rest.
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  Speaker 1: It won't let me lay down. It won't let me
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  Speaker 1: sleep because I keep hearing it. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to do it, but I hear it. Now watch this.
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  Speaker 1: This is why we can't throw either extremes away. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about you and your parents. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: from grandparent on down. Eli can't hear it, but he
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  Speaker 1: can interpret it. Samuel can hear it, but he don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do with it. So when Eli perceived
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord had called him, not only did he
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  Speaker 1: perceive that God had called him, he told him what
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  Speaker 1: to say. See, some of us, God has kept us
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  Speaker 1: in the earth just to tell you what to do
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  Speaker 1: with what you got. We're not trying to control you.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to stop the vicious cycle of going back
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  Speaker 1: and forth and back and forth and back and forth
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  Speaker 1: and back and forth. So we're going to script you.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be your job, your anointing. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: giving you the script. So Eli told him, Eli said,
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  Speaker 1: go back and lay down in your place. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: go back and be where God expects you to be. Adam,
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  Speaker 1: where art thou? You're not in the meeting place. Moses
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  Speaker 1: built a tabernacle in the wilderness. What is tabernacle? It's a...
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  Speaker 1: When God sent Jesus, he sent divinity to humanity because
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Jesus is a... I am the way, the truth, and
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  Speaker 1: the life. No man cometh unto the Father, save he
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  Speaker 1: come by me. Go back to the meeting place and
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  Speaker 1: lay down. And if he calls you again, this is
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  Speaker 1: the humility of the text. I cannot assume that I
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  Speaker 1: have endless opportunities to go back and forth I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you're going to call me again. But if
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  Speaker 1: you call me again, I know what to say now.
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  Speaker 1: Because I have served under Eli. So there's this big
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  Speaker 1: argument going on in the world, in some parts of
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the world today, a generational argument between the former and
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  Speaker 1: the latter. And they're arguing over who's relevant and who isn't.
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  Speaker 1: They both are. The reason they both are, he called
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  Speaker 1: the young because they're strong. He called the old because
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  Speaker 1: they know the way. They know the way. Eli was old,
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  Speaker 1: but he knew the way. He couldn't run the plays,
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  Speaker 1: but he knew the way. You understand what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 1: So one doesn't operate independent of the other. So the
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  Speaker 1: day shift can't go home before the night shift comes
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  Speaker 1: on the night shift can't go home until the day
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  Speaker 1: shift comes back And God said, until you learn how
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  Speaker 1: to work interdependently, you will never be effective. Because I
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  Speaker 1: can't run the plays anymore, but I know how to
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  Speaker 1: play the game. The challenge of the older generation is
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  Speaker 1: to not be jealous of the younger generation to the
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  Speaker 1: point that you won't give them the benefit of what
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  Speaker 1: you learn. The challenge of the younger generation is to
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  Speaker 1: understand that some old systems still work. And in your
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  Speaker 1: desire to be innovative, there are still some laws you
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  Speaker 1: can't break. And one of them is to lay down
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  Speaker 1: in the right place and wait on the Lord. And
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  Speaker 1: if I can't make him call you, I can't make
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  Speaker 1: him call you. I can't make him speak. I can't
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  Speaker 1: even make you go to the place, but if you
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  Speaker 1: go back to the place. See, see, see, see. I
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  Speaker 1: got to stop. The powerful thing to me about watching
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  Speaker 1: you run around the stage and preach is I remember
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  Speaker 1: you as a little girl sitting right over there in
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  Speaker 1: the corner with your head down To come back full circle.
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  Speaker 1: To the place. God said, I'm going to bless you
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  Speaker 1: right now. Right in the place where you felt rejection.
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  Speaker 1: Right in the place where you felt disgrace. Right in
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  Speaker 1: the place where you felt shame. Right in the place
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  Speaker 1: where you thought nobody would ever accept you. Right in
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  Speaker 1: the place where you thought you'd never be anybody. God said,
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  Speaker 1: that's still the place. And I'm going to bring you
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  Speaker 1: back to the place. I'm going to bring you right
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  Speaker 1: back to the spot. To the spot. To the very spot.
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  Speaker 1: Show me where you laid him down. Show me where
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  Speaker 1: you gave up. Show me where you wanted to quit.
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  Speaker 1: Show me where you wanted to run from. Show me
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  Speaker 1: where you tried to hide from. I'm going to bring
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  Speaker 1: you right back to the blaze. Samuel. See, they shout
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  Speaker 1: because they see the woman preaching. I'm over here shouting
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  Speaker 1: because I see the little girl preacher. I see the
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  Speaker 1: little girl preacher who thought her life was over. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm shouting about. Because you'll always be my baby.
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  Speaker 1: So I see you like you're still a child sitting
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  Speaker 1: over the corner with a big belly holding Malachi in
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  Speaker 1: your arms. Now I'm what you're holding. And it ain't
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  Speaker 1: just for her, it's for you too. Some of you,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: God's getting ready to do something in your life. He's
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: going to break every curse, every bondage, every shame, every
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: struggle on your life. If I'm preaching to you, give
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: him 60 seconds of crazy. I mean, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy praise. Curse-breaking praise. Yoke-breaking praise. Thirst-quenching praise. Praising like
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  Speaker 1: you lost your mind. Praise him like you just heard
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  Speaker 1: from God. Praise him like you got another chance. Praise
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  Speaker 1: him like he opened up a door. The Lord said
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  Speaker 1: to me, The Lord said to me, there are some
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  Speaker 1: people in this room that he's trying to call you
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: back to the place of your confusion, of your chaos,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: that there's going to be a night shift. Wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 1: Let me give you this prophecy. The Lord said to Samuel,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do things through you. that causes both
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  Speaker 1: ears of them that hear it to tingle. I am
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  Speaker 1: going to use you like no other prophet has ever
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  Speaker 1: been used in the scriptures. I'm going to use you
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  Speaker 1: in life. I'm going to use you after your life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to use you to anoint kings. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bring you before princes. I'm going to bring you
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  Speaker 1: into positions of power. And I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: got faith enough to believe it. And God said all
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  Speaker 1: of that when Samuel had not yet known the Lord. Now,
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  Speaker 1: This is not just about churches. This is about your life,
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  Speaker 1: your business, your career, your degree. your entrepreneurship, whatever your
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: calling in the earth is, whatever your call, everybody ain't
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: called to the pulpit. Everybody's not supposed to do this.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's not created to do this. Don't be one dimensional.
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  Speaker 1: There's some things that God created you for that you
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: had some delays and some setbacks and some mistakes and
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: some mishaps. And God wants you to come back to
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: the place. Yes, shut that. Okay. God said, go back
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  Speaker 1: to the place where you heard my voice. Speak, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: for thy servant hears.